| Only days after the Jean Charest government passed an emergency law aimed at stopping the ongoing student protests in Quebec, it appears residents of the province are losing hope the impasse will be coming to an end any time soon. BLOG POSTS  | Rev. Richard L. Killmer: An Apology to Maher Arar -- Moving Beyond the Season of Fear
On Monday, May 21, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture joins with Amnesty International USA and the Center for Constitutional Rights in delivering more than 60,000 names of people who have signed statements urging President Obama to issue a formal apology to Arar. |  | 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? |  | 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. |  | Tim Hudak: Ontario's Ring of Fire Will Fuel Our Economy
The Ring of Fire should be a cause for optimism with the ongoing jobs crisis in Ontario. The economic impact of this discovery on the Ontario economy will probably run into the hundreds of billions of dollars over time. Let's take advantage of it. |  | Patrick Luciani: Tax Junk Science, Not Junk Food
The media has jumped on a paper that has supposedly found a link between taxing "junk food" and a reduction in obesity. News flash: this is old news. We know that simplistic top-down approaches such as taxation or public announcements telling us to exercise and eat our vegetables don't work. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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