MONTREAL - Quebec's months-long conflict over tuition fees shifts to Quebec City today where students and the provincial government will meet for another round of negotiations. BLOG POSTS | David Frum: If it's Dutch Disease, Mulcair, Then Harper has the Cure Thomas Mulcair has taken a deserved media beating over his "Dutch disease" remarks. He's been criticized for bad economics and divisive politics. He's been compelled to travel out West and meet the angry premiers. Not a good month for a new party leader. But as bad as it's been for Mulcair, he hasn't yet been beaten enough. Because here's the bottom-line ironic joke: The more correct Mulcair is about the Canadian dollar, the more appropriate the Harper government's policies look. | | Toula Foscolos: Why The Media Has the Quebec Protests All Wrong Maclean's image of a student on its front page and in our faces, declaring: "How a group of entitled students went to war and shut down a province. Over $325." is not only inaccurate, but downright contemptuous of the next generation. | | Peter Worthington: Black is Back, And (Some of) Canada Loves Him One hesitates to guess what was on Black's mind as he walked up Spadina Avenue to the journalistic offices of HuffPost and AOL, but he must have been slightly uneasy or wary of his reception -- would he be shunned, welcomed or ignored? Whatever concerns he may have had evaporated immediately. He was an instant rock star. | | Peter Worthington: Meet Lawrence Connelly: A Canadian Taxpayer Who's Told He's Not a Canadian Lawrence Connelly was issued a DND birth certificate by the Canadian government when born in Germany. He now lives in Orillia, works in daycare, pays his taxes, and is married with two kids. But when he applied for a passport to go to Disney World in the U.S., the Passport Office told him they needed proof of citizenship, and that has birth certificate wasn't enough. | | Dave Kaufman: I'm Not a Quebec Protester, But Police Assaulted Me Anyway On Tuesday evening, just before midnight, I was assaulted by a police officer. No warning, no explanation, just a swift swing of a nightstick to the back of my leg. The officer chasing after me threw me into a parked van. I am not a student, I don't wear a red square, and I am not on strike. This is Montreal under Bill 78. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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