Thanks to Hallmark, everyone's Mother's Day thoughts are consumed by gifts. (Does breakfast in bed count? Will they one-up last year's handmade card? Should I buy my wife something?)

Luckily, our stable of bloggers have diversified the Mother's Day conversation (though not to worry, there is still some practical advice...

When reports that a suspect in the Boston bombing had been arrested flooded our newsroom Wednesday afternoon, editors scrambled to update our website. I imagine the scene was similar at other news outlets: the mad rush that ensues when trying to publish a story very fast that is...

Instead of being revered as an upcoming star in women's figure skating, for the past few days Kaetlyn Osmond has been known as the girl whose crotch shot was printed in a national newspaper. And that's the real tragedy of this story.

Canadians have been critical of...

By the time Kai Nagata got out of the pool, the iPhone on his towel was vibrating out of control. A half hour earlier, before taking a night swim in July, 2011, at a public park in Kitchener, he had tweeted the following:

After careful reflection,...

In Season 2 of "Girls", the show about four 20-somethings living in New York City, life gets messier for Allison Williams' character, Marnie.

The first half of Season 1 saw Marnie as the uptight, put-together foil to her disheveled best friend Hannah (Lena Dunham), but...

William Lin sits on a stool behind the counter reading about hope. It's early Saturday evening in April 2011, and he has printed out a copy of Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration speech. The white papers with alternating paragraphs of English words and Chinese characters are splayed in front of him,...

Our blog rail often feels like an eclectic dinner party where celebrities, politicians, students and any Canadian with an intelligent opinion gather around the same table.

Almost every day this year we have read about how different people view government, public figures, other cultures and their own lives.

I am an introvert, and thankfully, so is the woman who cuts my hair. It took me a while to find her. For years, questions about my job and love life over the hum of a blowdryer made me feel like I was on an unsolicited first date. With Leslie,...

The fact that Senator Patrick Brazeau took to Twitter to insult Canadian Press journalist Jennifer Ditchburn because of an article she wrote -- suggesting she change the "D" to a "B" in her last name -- says something about the level of discourse on the social media platform....

George looks across the street at the cafe where a cup of java costs $2.75. For that price, he could buy three days’ worth of coffee from the convenience store he’s sitting outside of. It’s Sunday afternoon and from a white plastic chair in the shade he smokes a cigarette...

I know bras can get get people stirred up, but I think we all need to calm down a little over the recent photo of a Muslim woman in a burka holding one up. The story is that a fine...

Budget news came down the Parliamentary stairway with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Stephen Harper sharing in a laugh while reporters furiously thumbed their blackberries, shoved mics in politcians' faces, or yelled, "Tweet that!" in newsrooms (as we did at HuffPostCanada). Feeling a little bombarded with info? We thought you...

If you're one of the 1.8 million people who listen to the weekly radio program This American Life, you know the latest episode was an unusual one. Aired on Friday rather than Sunday, the show's host, Ira Glass, was in full damage-control mode after breaking the first commandment...

I remember the first time he noticed I drew in my eyebrows. We were lying in bed, he was close enough to kiss me, and said something like, "Is that pencil?" Whatever romantic moment I thought we were having was ruined. And while my first high school boyfriend thought he...

I was in a convenience store last weekend, talking to the owners' daughter who can usually be found sitting at a small wooden desk at the foot of aisle two. She's 10 years old but has grown up fast in that little store. My neighborhood in Toronto isn't the safest,...