| OTTAWA -- Young New Democrat MPs who likely once would have been among the thousands of Quebec students hoisting placards in opposition to higher tuition are instead being forced to sit on their hands. BLOG POSTS  | David Frum: Quebec Students Should Be Protesting the Elderly
Whatever we think of the student protesters in Quebec, the protests point to a real and true problem. Throughout the Western world, politicians are confronting the question: Who will bear how much of the burden of adjusting budgets to grim new post-2008 realities? |  | Jordan Bateman: The Dirty Secret About MP Pensions
Earlier this year, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released a report showing that taxpayers put in $23.30 for every one dollar parliamentarians contribute to their pension plans. Politicians are reluctant to step away from the machine multiplying their money.
The governing Conservatives have promised action, but the federal budget came and went with no specifics on MP pension reform. So the taxpayer keeps on paying. Here are some dirty little secrets about those pensions. |  | Benjamin Trister: A Fix for Gerrymandering? Real Electoral Reform
The answer to the problem of majority rule by the minority is to achieve electoral reform so that the electoral system is sound enough to itself produce a truly representative government. In the last election, the electoral system awarded 53.9 per cent of the seats to a party that won only 39.6 per cent of the votes cast, and allowed that party to form the government. |  | Peter Worthington: The Dalai Lama and Me
When I left to catch the train back to New Delhi, I thought the Dalai Lama was a bit wistful. He had a hunger for outside opinions, a curiosity about what was happening in the world (the Cuban missile crisis was on), and his last words were again to express interest about possibly living in the Canadian Rockies. I wonder if he still thinks of the Rockies? |  | Megan Yarema: Canada's Poor Have Just Become Poorer
The shock of the 2012 federal budget is just setting in, but the repercussions will be felt for years to come. A particularly unsettling decision was to dismantle the National Council of Welfare (NCW). What other organization has the resources to produce an annual, detailed analysis of social assistance, as well as regular reports on the root causes of poverty? | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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