Trudeau Attacks Coming?.. Mercer On Pandas.. Ford Bro's Ambitions

April 3, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Trudeau: 'There Are No Terrific Scandals Out There' Justin Trudeau, who chats easily through an interview that runs twice as long as promised, is prepared, open, knowledgeable and yet, on some subjects, somehow unreachable.  Continue reading... WATCH: Mercer Talks Harper, Pandas Ex-Tory Staffer Charged In Robocall Scandal Doug Ford For MPP? WATCH: Sh*t Harper Did Is Back With A Vengeance 'Trudeau Effect' Already Helping Liberals Brazeau: 'I Played The Media' WATCH: Sh*t Harper Did Is Back With A Vengeance WATCH: Mercer Blasts Harper And Tories On Water WATCH: Mercer Blasts Harper And Tories On Water WATCH: Sh*t Harper Did Is Back With A Vengeance 'Trudeau Effect' Already Helping Liberals DAVID SUZUKI Sneaking Out of the Desertification Convention Sends the Wrong Message By abandoning the UN Desertification Convention, as well as other important international agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol, Canada is sending the wrong message to the world community. We're saying that exporting resources like oil and timber matter more to us than contributing to dialogue and partnership on global issues. Continue reading... ELIZABETH MAY My Critics Favour "Truthiness" Over Fact I don't know Mr. McCullough, but in reviewing his blogs he seems to have embraced the weary cynic style of punditry. The strange attack on me as a pointless entity, "The Stonehenge of Canadian politics" as he would have it, is riddled with the kind of errors that favour "truthiness" over accuracy. Contrary to McCullough's uninformed rant, Green principles actually reject the leader-as-boss model of other parties. We need a Green Party in Canada precisely because none of the other parties are consistent in raising the spectre of the climate crisis, nor in advancing solutions to avert its most serious threats. Continue reading... MARNI SOUPCOFF Change My Mind: Should There Be an Age Limit For Fertility Treatments? How old is too old to be a new mother? In the latest installment of our "Change My Mind" series, HuffPost asked two experts in the field of the bioethics of fertility to debate the statement: It's time to drop upper age limits on fertility treatments. Arguing for the "agree" side is Sara Cohen, a fertility law lawyer based in Toronto. Her practice focuses on legal issues surrounding fertility treatments including IVF, egg donation and embryo donation. Arguing for the "disagree" side is Francoise Baylis, Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University. What do you think? Continue reading... MARNI SOUPCOFF Why Are We Paying Parking Cops $100,000 a Year? I look at the sunshine list and worry that we're not just paying public sector employees eye-popping salaries that no private sector employer would dream of offering for comparable positions. If the province is going broke, why are parking enforcement officers making over $100,000 a year? Continue reading... JOSH D. SCHEINERT How Rob Ford Turned Toronto into the Biggest Loser When Toronto's history is written, the chapter on the present era should be titled "The Lost Years". The world is changing rapidly. Around the globe cities are being built, reinvented and redefined. Except in Toronto. Here, we have other things on our mind, a result of the city's current ailment: Rob Ford syndrome. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.