The image of a harp seal bleeding to death is apparently too graphic for Canadian television. BLOG POSTS | Diane Francis: Greece Must Go -- and Quebec's Students Too Quebec's unruly students are no different than the Greeks. Both have enjoyed free rides for years, both are being asked to pay their share of the tab and both are refusing to do so. The Greeks are going to fall behind the Romanians in living standards in short order while the students are making a fuss over a pittance. That makes the Quebec students, in a sense, even more irresponsible. | | Supriya Dwivedi: Charest's Death by Bill 78 The Charest government brought the students to the negotiating table and made concessions to their cause, while simultaneously and ineffectively enforcing the majority non-protesting students' right to go to class. So, they turned around and tabled legislation that limits one's right to peaceful assembly, grants an excess of powers to the executive branch of government and employs vague language throughout. In essence, the Parti Libéral du Québec (PLQ) effectively failed every conceivable voting constituency. | | Daniel D. Veniez: Are Canadian Politics Getting as Ugly as U.S. Politics? For some politicians, smearing an opponent and telling lies is just another day at the office. Until the Canadian public declares that this kind of cheap and gutter politics is unworthy of those that offer to stand for office, it will continue. There is something that we need to do, and it's up to us, not politicians, to enact this change. | | Peter Worthington: How to Avoid G20 Violence Again? Let the Police do Their Jobs Even those who are sick of the subject have difficulty escaping the regurgitations of last year's G20 demonstrations that went horribly wrong. Mistakes were made, force was over-used and misdirected, blah, blah, blah. Get over it. Everyone in authority has acknowledged error, and (one hopes) lessons have been learned; the same mistakes will not be repeated next time. | | Omar Alghabra: Mulcair's Misdiagnosis of Dutch "Disease" Won't Help our Economy Thomas Mulcair's prescription is to make "polluters pay" and that the natural resources industry should fully account for its pollution. And then what? How is that going to reduce pressure on the dollar? How does that help other industries? Does he want to implement a selective "polluter pays" policy that target only the natural resources sector and exclude the manufacturing sector? | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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