As you read this on Sunday morning, I am most likely stumbling around in my bathrobe, ice pack on head, recovering from the annual holiday party my husband and I throw for colleagues and friends. It's traditional for us to serve a blue cocktail in celebration of Hanukkah. Why we started this, I don't know, because blue drinks are unfailingly disgusting. The key ingredient in a blue drink is Curacao liqueur and this year we mixed the Curacao with vodka and lemonade. For once, the result wasn't too bad. In any case, it doesn't really matter what the cocktail tastes like, I've found. At a party, people will toss back anything if they are having fun. Which makes a somewhat long preamble to the launch of our newest section, HuffPost Canada Style. Style will show you how to look fabulous even while holding a blue drink.

Whether or not veiling is a political or cultural statement, we in the West have to ask: Is this a statement that is tolerable in a free and equal society?

Now that Christopher Hitchens is gone, his memory must necessarily live through his friends and admirers. His example of intellectual courage, his willingness to debate any idea, his intolerance towards charlatans and fools--this is what I regard as Hitchens' greatest legacy, at least for me. WWHD.I can also attest that Christopher would have applauded Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's brave stance against new Canadians wearing the niqab (face veil) during the citizenship ceremony. Hitchens became an U.S. citizen shortly after 9/11. As with everything he did, he took its meaning seriously, and in attendance when he swore the oath was the courageous anti-Islam activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali--there at his personal invitation. Freedom to him meant, among other things, standing up against demagoguery, especially that which masked itself (quite literally) in the guise of religious "tradition."