Martine St-Victor, 2/8/12

Communication Strategist

Everything about how we live today encourages the breakdown of all barriers. Sticking the colour of their skin to successful people is simply foolish. And that's exactly what Black History Month does. I look forward to the day when all great achievements will be celebrated all year long.

Patrick White, 2/6/12

Éditeur et rédacteur en chef du Huffington Post Québec

Quebec is witnessing a revolution this morning with the launch of Le Huffington Post Québec. We think that, in the current financial times, the launch of a new media player in Quebec provides a breath of fresh air that says the future is indeed online.

Irwin Cotler, 2/8/12

Member of Parliament, Mount Royal

The recent incendiary comments from a Senator about the death penalty reflects an otherwise disturbing trend among Conservatives regarding their approach to capital punishment. Since they came to power in 2006, Canada has not been as steadfast in its traditional abolitionist point of view, either at home or abroad.

Marvin Ross, 2/8/12

Writer, publisher

There is nothing newsworthy, unfortunately, in the stories of the many people with treated mental illness who are coping and accomplishing. There is the old adage that when a dog bites a man that's not news. When a man bites a dog, that is news, so most of the media coverage around the mentally ill has to do with crimes.

Julie Blais Comeau, 2/8/12

Etiquette expert

I will be attending my first cocktail networking event as a solopreneur. Schmoozing does not appeal to me. Although I am quite outgoing I feel uncomfortable and shy about the whole process. Help! I need face-to-face networking tips or tricks for the contemporary professional.

Tony Kondaks, 2/8/12

Writer and entrepreneur

Quebec's school segregation laws, which ensure the children of immigrants from English-speaking countries do not have the right to send their children to English schools, uses language identical in principle to that used under the now defunct apartheid system of South Africa. All it would take to eliminate this inequality is a proclamation by the legislation or government of Quebec.

Lisa Belkin, 2/7/12

Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, Huffington Post

I am not here to chastise parents for "helping" on school projects. To the contrary, I am here to confess that I've done it myself, more than once.

Peter Worthington, 2/8/12

Co-founder of the Toronto Sun

The fact the Sun News TV interview with dancer Margie Gillis was deemed "aggressive" says a hell of a lot about the pathetic state of journalism in this country, where hard questions are deemed mean and unwarranted. There's a difference between a tough interview and a rude interview.

Pega Ren, 2/8/12

Sex educator

I think people are defined by two distinct and diverse anger styles: the shouters and the sulkers. How can a shouter live harmoniously with a sulker? Understanding the different expressive styles helps, as does agreement about how to fight constructively.

Jason Rodi, 2/8/12

Aventurier

We'll be travelling from a cape in South America to Africa, stopping at Bouvet Island, where fewer people have been to than the moon. Both capes represent the toughest seas on Earth, but for me it's much more than that. It's completing the loop from the end of human exploration to the beginning of civilization.

Dr. Marty Klein, 2/8/12

Sex therapist and marriage counselor

While magazines, blogs, and talk shows are full of advice about how to make your lover explode with pleasure, lots of people aren't having sex as much as they wish they were. Here's why.

Michel Martelly, 2/7/12

Président de la République d'Haïti

I am absolutely convinced that potential investors will not be disappointed when investing in Haiti. The corruption of yesterday, which was known to harm both local and foreign investors, is today no longer tolerated. We lead a zero tolerance policy when it comes to corruption.

Dr. Michael J. Breus, 2/8/12

Clinical Psychologist; Board Certified Sleep Specialist

There's still a great deal of information about the effects of sleep on the brain that we don't yet understand, so any research that sheds light on this subject is exciting and potentially important.

Diane Francis, 2/8/12

Editor-at-Large, The National Post

In interviewed Huguette Labelle, former head of the Canadian International Development Agency in Davos last week about her thoughts on the world's number one issue: "Corruption kills," she says. "The World Bank estimates that the cost is $1.3 trillion a year. This is in the form of bribes, tax evasion, money laundering."

Michael Kimber, 1/26/12

Writer

I suffer from intense anxiety. My claim to this glorious tradition is genetic, fuelled by years where I smoked pounds of marijuana and ate poorly combined with one helluva quarter-life crisis.

Dan Collins, 2/8/12

New York Editor-at-Large, The Huffington Post

Do you think there's a celebrity somewhere who'd be interested in taking on legislative redistricting? I know it's quite a lift. But if there was ever a good cause that needed some glamour, this is it.

Glen Pearson, 2/7/12

Director, London Food Bank

When the Caterpillar closure was announced last week there was a lack of attention at the political level, especially from the federal government. In what became something of a sad parody, they spent more time shifting the onus onto other levels of government than in actually speaking directly to community problems.