| There could soon be less spring in the step of those at National Defence as the department considers halting the decade-long practice of distributing free Viagra to the troops. BLOG POSTS | Farah Mawani: Muslims Do What?! The cover of Foreign Policy's May/June 2012 issue is raising controversy for it's photo depicting a nude woman with a niqab painted on her body, with the title "Why Do They Hate Us?" I am thrilled to see the Muslim debate raised to a level I have been longing for. I immediately thought of Asif Rehman, a photographer I met in Ottawa last year, whose latest exhibit, "Muslims?!" captures "Canadian Muslims engaged in the ordinary and not-so-ordinary activities that are part of their daily lives." | | David Frum: "Patriots," The Novel -- Part Five Huffpost readers have an advance, exclusive peek inside David Frum's much-buzzed-about new Washington political satire, Patriots, which will be serialized this week. In today's excerpt, our hero Walter discovers that friendships and even cocktails are political in Washington -- and meets the lushly funded lush, Frederick Catesby, for lunch at his exclusive club. | | Tim Knight: Watching the Watchdog: Is Huffpost Killing Democracy? A former CBC colleague-turned-journalism professor very politely questions the ethics of my writing this column for HuffPost. Surely, he suggests delicately, the internet in general -- and aggregators like HuffPost in particular -- are killing traditional mainstream, general-interest journalism. And, in the process, seriously damaging democracy. My reply...? | | Peter Worthington: Harper, Where's Bev Oda's Pink Slip? Whatever her other talents, cabinet minister Bev Oda has a casual, socialistic preference to spend public money -- and to apologize only when caught. She is so prone to stumble into scandals that you'd think a politician with judgement as shrewd as the Prime Minister would have relegated her to the back benches long ago. | | Rick Mele: Are You Really Safe With Jason Statham? Since Jason Statham's ends-justify-the-means methods often trend towards large-scale mayhem and wanton destruction, it got me thinking: Would you really be appreciably safer under Jason Statham's care? As a public service, we broke down who might want to seek out Statham's help, and who might want to seek cover. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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