| The British cabinet considered denying Canada's proposal to create a Charter of Rights amid concern that Pierre Trudeau was pushing the plan without the desired backing of the provinces, declassified records show. BLOG POSTS  | Noah Richler: Was Canada Lured Into Afghanistan by the Thrill of War?
 Huffpost Canada presents the first of five excerpts from Noah Richler's new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About War. In this opening part, he wonders if Canada's role in Afghanistan wasn't driven as much by journalistic vanity as military necessity:
War makes reporters feel useful, that their job and their broadcasts might actually be helping. War is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that makes careers and reputations. War provides invigorating opportunity for older, established journalists who would otherwise risk growing stale in a repetitive cycle of news -- psychotic killers, cheating celebrities and lying politicians, they all come around -- and the possibility of a breakthrough for neophytes and others wanting to stake a reputation. |  | Charles Kupchan: Why Nobody Will Dominate The 21st Century
The absence of consensus over which country will oversee the coming world is just as it should be. That's because the twenty-first century will not be dominated by any country. |  | Tory Burch: The Art of Sleeping
Dr. Samantha Boardman, a clinical instructor in psychiatry and public health and an assistant attending psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College, wrote a column for "The Tory Blog" on why sleep is so important and how to get more of it. |  | Rory O'Connor: Facebook Is Not Your Friend
Mark Zuckerberg may think that Facebook's recurrent privacy flaps haven't much affected the sometimes anti-social social network, but they represent a huge potential threat to what he has built. |  | Dennis Howlett: Closing Ontario's Income Gap
The gap between rich and poor is growing and that threatens to make us all poorer, in health and quality of life. Governments can take action to help close the gap and their budgets are one of the most important tools they have to do this. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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