A peaceful evening march that began with people banging pots and pans in support of protesting students ended in the early morning hours with police kettling demonstrators and arresting 400 of them after officers were pelted with projectiles. BLOG POSTS | Tim Hudak: "Maple Revolutionaries" Should Invest in Ontario Hydro What if, for example, Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One were opened up to investment, in the form of a partial sale to a consortium of Canadian pension funds? The pensions will provide a strong push for OPG and Hydro One to be managed more efficiently. Right now, there are more than 11,000 people at OPG and Hydro One making more than $100,000 per year -- more than double the number in 2003. A dose of scrutiny from outside investors on labour costs like these will go a long way to improving how these enterprises are run. | | Peter Worthington: Canada, Afghanistan Doesn't Need Your Guilt Money Harper pledging $110 million in 2015 and beyond -- rather than soldiers training Afghanis -- is more like guilty conscience money than a lifeline for a secure future. So much has already been invested in Afghanistan during the past decade that the country cannot return into the primitive, isolated state it once was. The world doesn't work that way. | | Arianna Huffington: The Moment I Knew I Needed More Sleep The moment I knew I needed more sleep was four years ago, when I learned the value of sleep -- the hard way. What was the moment you knew you needed to get more sleep? I want to hear your story. | | Conrad Black: Depend on Facebook For Smutty Photos, Not Economic Prosperity I'm not on Facebook and I accept the circumscription of my qualifications to be too declarative about its use and content, but as far as I can see, it is essentially the recording and transmission of utterly mindless reflections, mainly between boring and under-occupied people. | | Susan Inman: How to Learn About Schizophrenia Even though Schizophrenia Awareness Day is limited to May 24th, Canadians are exposed to education about schizophrenia all year long. Every time they read a gruesome news article about it, or have a difficult encounter with someone with an untreated psychosis, they receive confusing knowledge. It creates the kind of image of severe mental illnesses that crusaders against stigma would like them to forget. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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