Cohn: Playing politics with your hydro bill by cooking the books
The last time Tim Hudak campaigned to be premier, he promised to lower hydro bills in two tantalizing ways:

Blizzard: Lessons in minority houses
With so many parties fracturing the federal political scene, Canadians have become experts in the delicate art of balancing minority governments.

Blizzard: Common touch to help Charles
You often wonder if the Prince of Wales, should take another title: Surely Duke of Sandwich is a better name for Prince Charles.

Robson: McGuinty menu hard to swallow
It’s starting to look as though this school co-parenting thing is more complicated than it looks. Even the bit about eating your veggies. Premier Dad hectors your kids and serves them cardboard and they just won’t bend to his will.

Goldstein: Mulcair talks nonsense
How will we ever seriously address the economic challenges facing Canada — which thankfully aren’t as bad as many other countries — if we can’t talk honestly about them?

Shanoff: First the conviction, then the trial?
There’s a simple legal maxim: Not only must justice be done; it must also be seen to be done. It’s pretty much common sense. Equally, judges must appear to be impartial and keep an open mind until all evidence has been heard.

Mason: Cooler housing market no catastrophe
Swoons in the real-estate market are relative. Take the price plunge making news here on the West Coast.

Brown: A better time: when sex meant love
Sex was the main item on the Ottawa news menu last week when a museum display aimed at children as young as 12 let it all hang out.

Kent: Justice near for murdered Canuck
Justice delayed is justice denied. It’s a legal maxim that gains an acute human quality when applied to the fate of Canadian adventurer Stuart Robert Glass.

Levant: The cost of Charest’s cowardice: Good students are being sold out
What’s going on in Quebec cannot be called protests. The right word is riots.

Kinsella: Angry Tom messenger of his own destruction
What a week newly minted NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has had!

Bonokoski: No real justice in Rafferty verdict, law is in this monster’s corner
After the jury recently delivered its first-degree murder verdict against child-sex killer Michael Rafferty, Sun Media’s flagship newspaper, the Toronto Sun, ran a front-page headline with just one word.

Furey: Equipment program a keeper
Twice a week the Special Needs Equipment Exchange opens its doors and gives out free disability equipment to those in need.

Kent: Why Charles will be king ... someday
The Latin term is facile princeps, obvious leader.

Siddiqui: Foreign policy cheerleading masquerades as analysis
The dictates of journalism can often run counter to the requirements of informed judgment, especially on some of the most nettlesome issues of our age. The declarative pronouncements of reporters and the authoritative tones of pundits can mask the reality that they are passing off speculation as truth.

Sowell: A media-censored race war?
When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly they had to take a week off work — that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper.

Scharper: Toronto shouldn’t gamble its waterfront on a casino
I remember the subway ads for Ontario Place in 1978 during my first visit to Toronto. They depicted happy families slipping down waterslides, gamboling on grassy knolls framed by groovy geodesic domes that appeared to float atop Lake Ontario.

TorSun Editorial: G20 report on police sensible and fair
Despite its 300 pages, the report on Toronto police actions during the G20 by Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, is clear and concise in its conclusions.

OttSun Editorial: Don't segregate bike lanes
This city could likely do with more cycling infrastructure, but increasing segregated lanes isn’t the way to go.