MONTREAL - For the first time this week, Quebecers won't be waiting anxiously to see if negotiations between the government and protesting students can end a crisis that's gripped the province for months. BLOG POSTS  | Kevin Grandia: If the Tar Sands Were a Teen, I Would Ground Them For Life
Just yesterday we saw a huge pipeline spill in northwest Alberta dumping 22,000 barrels of oil and water into the surrounding wilderness. And how could we forget that 19,500 barrels of oil our little baby spilled into Michigan's Kalamazoo River? Now, of course the tar sands have a long way to go -- in many ways he is still just a clumsy teenager, tripping over himself. |  | Peter Worthington: Is Obama the New Sarah Palin?
"Polish death camps," isn't the first embarrassing "misspeak" by President Obama. But for some reason, when Palin makes a gaffe about Russia, it gets parodied by comedians. When Obama makes a gaffe about the Holocaust or concentration camps, all that ensues is an apology. Like warfare, politics isn't fair. |  | Trudo Lemmens: Anglophone Media Using Protest to Attack All Things Quebec
The distorted media coverage in the anglophone press of the Quebec student protest movement is perplexing. Some media pundits in the anglophone press not only fail to accurately present what is happening, but also use the occasion to express public disdain of Quebec social programs and of much of what Quebec society arguably stands for. |  | Irwin Cotler: Since When Did the Right to Protect Become the Right to Protect Syria's Massacres?
Tragically, we have not yet done what needed to be done despite our knowing the cruel, desperate reality of the situation on the ground in Syria. Indeed, after all this time -- after all this killing -- we still do not have a UN Security Council resolution. Clearly, the deployment of 290 unarmed UN monitors, not unlike the initial deployment of Arab League monitors, has ended up with the monitors being observers to the killing rather than a protection force to prevent the killing to begin with. |  | J.J. McCullough: Quebec Protesters Are Putting the Media to Sleep
 The Quebec protests are now boring the media; nothing new has been said for quite some time. One must be watchful for columnists who break out the "but these tuition protests have really evolved into something bigger" line. This is just journalist code for "I'm tired of trying to understand what comes out of [student leader] Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois' pie-hole." | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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