Danielle Crittenden

In all the preparations that have been taking place for the celebration of HuffPost Canada's first birthday -- among them collecting stats such as "How many bloggers do we have now?" and "How many comments have we posted?" -- one seemingly unanswerable question kept popping up:

How many original Canadian...

I've found the quickest way to bore my young colleagues (and the majority of them are all young, as in 20- and barely-30-somethings) is to tell them about the "olden days" of Canadian newspapers, the world in which I grew up.

Gather around, kiddies, while I tell ye a story...

Happy Mother's Day! Or as it may be, Happy Mothers Day! When Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to endorse gay marriage on Wednesday, his newly announced stance changed the gay-rights debate overnight -- and not just in the States.

Many progressive Canadians expressed pride that same-sex...

On Friday afternoon -- just a few hours after his Lordship had landed back at his boyhood home in Toronto -- I found myself discussing his return to Canada with my fellow VIA rail passengers.

I was headed out of the city for the weekend, and had...

Happy Earth Day! I hope to spend today, ideally, puttering about my garden. Yes, we can all aspire to do something more high-minded (and Barry Dennis, sitting right below me in the blog rail, will tell you how), but even just beautifying your own patch of soil contributes...

While Rick Santorum was dropping out of the GOP political race for personal reasons, and Hilary Rosen was making personal attacks on Anne Romney for political reasons, AOL/HuffingtonPost office politics became big personal news (at least for those of us working here): Microsoft agreed...

I am writing this while gazing out upon a farmer's field that has just had 1,500 baby red pines planted upon it. There's no doubt they look rather fetal at the moment. You have to squint to notice that the rows of little green tufts are anything other than early...

Two major government budgets were released this week, by Ontario and the Feds respectively; as widely anticipated, both will balance spending and eliminate debt by the end of the year with no cuts to any social services. Critics from the left and right applauded the leaders for showing such fiscal...

Welcome to our Change My Mind debate series, in which we challenge leading voices to debate an issue -- and allow you, the reader, to determine who wins.

Today's topic is based on Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's decision to ban Muslim face coverings from citizenship ceremonies. In...

Since it's spring -- or at least, feeling spring-like -- I'm going to start today's roundup with the announcement of a new feature you'll see sprouting in our blog rail this coming week. It's called "Change My Mind": Two bloggers will debate a topical subject and readers will be able...

Yes, here I am! Late start this morning because someone changed the clocks on me. Must have been my teenage son, the prankster. Funny!

So the week that was: I hope you all joined us last Monday morning for the long awaited announcement of the winner of the...

Congratulations to Andrew Westoll, author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, who won the $25,000 in cash and admiration of Canadians at the ceremony this afternoon. He has also be invited to read at the International Festival of Authors in October.

Meanwhile, we did a straw poll amongst our...

Well, there are quite a number of things to get through for this week, but if you'll indulge me for a moment, I'd first like to address an article that appeared in the Globe. Entitled "Is the Huffington Post the Future of Journalism?" writer Simon Houpt described our...

For the past month, we've been posting excerpts from the five finalists vying for the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction: Wade Davis, Charlotte Gill, JJ Lee, Madeline Sonik and Andrew Westoll. The 2012 winner will receive $25,000 in cash, plus all the glory that goes along...

Well, it was an exciting week here at HuffPost Canada. It's not often you get an environment minister sitting down with a bunch of reporters and editorial staff to a no-holds-barred question-and-answer session, let alone a minister who has become as controversial as Peter Kent. Yet that's what happened on...

Happy Family Day weekend to those Canadians lucky enough to have tomorrow off. The Internet never sleeps, so those of us living in Blogtown and the urban center of NetNews rarely have more than a few hours away from a computer. I hope readers will forgive me if I run...

I have come to dread, and even fear, Valentine's Day -- and not just because of Eve Ensler (for the record I am not, and never will be, a "vagina warrior" -- except when it comes to vodka).

The reason I dread and fear it...

Aww just kidding folks. How YouTube-adorable are those pandas we are going to be hosting for the next 10 years? Apparently panda fur is not soft and fluffy as you'd expect, but tough and bristly like a shoe brush (or so someone once told me who'd actually pet...

Before I say this, I know many of the commenters -- especially those who are fans of Madonna -- will immediately accuse me of jealousy. Fine. It's an easy way out of facing the truth I am about to impart. (And for the record, I am not jealous of Madonna....

Hey there! Over here! Actually, right behind you. Sorry to interrupt The Game. Or rather, the pre-game. Or the pre-game game.

You are just dying to catch up aren't you? What, this isn't a good moment? That's so silly! I mean, it's just a game right? A bunch of men...