Ottawa has a problem with guns and gangs. Several problems actually. But the biggest one, as usual, is conceptual, because if you don’t realize what you’re doing wrong you can’t change it. Click here to read the rest.

Here’s an amazing story. Amazing as in dreadful. A South Carolina mom just got arrested for letting her kid go play in a park. Click here to read the rest.

We face a multiple choice question on prostitution: Criminalize it for both parties, legalize it, or pursue the “Nordic model” where it’s illegal to buy sex but not to sell it. All have drawbacks but you must pick one. Click here to read the rest.

Apparently it’s not safe to send naked pictures of yourself to strangers even if you use the Snapchat feature that supposedly deletes them afterward. Who saw that coming? Or needed to? Click here to read the rest.

Heartbleed scares me. Internet weaknesses really are big news, unlike a lot of things that get headlines. So our reaction scares me even more. Click here to read the rest.

Nelson Mandela was a great man. But he is not gone too soon; he had a long, full life. Nor is the world poorer without him. His deeds and example remain and if we cannot profit from them after so long the flaw lies not with him but with us. Click here to read the rest.

Court rulings are not carrots and should not make donkeys bray. But when the Court of Appeal for Ontario agreed with striking down mandatory minimum sentences for some gun crimes the barnyard erupted. Click here to read the rest.

The tragedy of Rob Ford is horrible to watch. He must resign, for our sakes and his own. But he deserves our sympathy too, for his sake and ours. Click here to read the rest.