| The French and British governments have summoned the Israeli ambassadors to protest the decision to approve 3,000 new homes on Israeli-occupied territory. BLOG POSTS  | Cameron Fenton: The Human Cost of Climate Change Is Too High
Developed countries, when they put 30 per cent emissions reductions or less on the table are effectively putting death, displacement and devastation on the table. To call current targets enough, is to effectively announce that on this planet there are acceptable losses in those regions least responsible for causing climate change. People are connecting the dots between extreme weather, droughts and famine, desertification, deforestation, rising sea levels, flooding, wildfires, and a range of devastating impacts the result of a changed climate. They are connecting these dots to a history of the fossil fuel industry and wealthy, developed nations having free reign pollute. |  | Shahla Khan Salter: Religious Rights Don't Trump Human Ones in Canada
In Toronto, this past June, Faith McGregor, walked into the Terminal Barber shop owned by Omar Mahrouk and asked for a haircut. Mahrouk said his barber shop did not serve women. McGregor's decision to file a complaint against Mahrouk was the right one. This is something that should not happen here in Canada. |  | Sharon Vinderine: How My ADD Made me a Better Business Owner
I am a case where ADD just works. Don't get me wrong, I am not here to argue that this is not a serious condition, I am simply here to tell you how I think ADD has possibly helped countless entrepreneurs get to where they are today, including myself. |  | Cathy Vakil: The Power Source Threatening Public Health
Health risks of the nuclear industry go very much under the radar of governments, policy-makers, and the public. Each stage of nuclear power generation, from uranium mining, refining and day-to-day activity of nuclear reactors, releases small amounts of radioactivity into the environment on an ongoing basis. As physicians, we see nuclear power as a serious threat to public health. |  | JD Halperin: This Man Wants a List of Hungary's Jews -- Sound Familiar?
Recently, Márton Gyöngyösi, the foreign policy critic of Hungary's ultra-far-right Jobbik party said publicly that he wants to catalogue Hungary's Jews in a database simply for being Jewish. Of course, he claims he was misquoted, but his backpedaling cleared up nothing. Disturbingly, the Hungarian government failed to immediately condemn this statement. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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