| A Berlin court has ordered the suspect in the slaying and dismembering of a Chinese student in Montreal be held in pre-extradition custody as his likely return to Canada edges closer, authorities said Wednesday. BLOG POSTS  | Alison Bass: Hey Sailor! What Canada Can Teach the U.S. About Prostitution
Just as Canada has provided us with a model for affordable health care, our neighbors to the north may also be leading the way on another key issue: reducing the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitting diseases. A few months ago, a federal appeals court in Canada overturned laws against prostitution in the province of Ontario, arguing that criminalizing sex work increased the risks of violence against women and made it harder for them to practice safe sex. In the Netherlands, where prostitution has been legal since 2000 and decriminalized since the 1970s, the spread of HIV is the lowest in the developed world. |  | Mariah Griffin-Angus: Ugandans Are Sticking it To the Man For Women's Rights
People were shocked by the photographs that show Ugandan police brutally grabbing Ingrid Turinawe's breasts as she cried out in pain. Sexual assault is a public taboo in this deeply conservative country. However, the very public and sexualized nature of the attack on Turinawe seems to have been a defining moment for the women's movement of Uganda. |  | Kolby Solinsky: Euro 2012 is Euro 1939, the Sports Edition
When black Dutch players received their Jim Crow-inspired welcome in Krakow last week, we were shocked, stunned, and depressed -- but hardly surprised. This stuff ain't new in that part of the world. Meanwhile a portion of the 10,000 Russian fans who have bought tickets will be holding a march from central Warsaw to the stadium. Poles view it as "provocative." Can you really blame them? |  | Daniel D. Veniez: Why the Liberals Should Not Merge With the NDP
Over the weekend a new poll was published that said a majority of Liberal and NDP supporters are in favour of merging. I'm not one of them. This isn't a matter of political expediency. From where I sit, there are simply far too many very basic and irreconcilable differences. I'm mystified at why so many Liberals appear so ready to fold the tent and call it a day on one of the most impactful institutions in Canadian history. Centrism is alive and well in the Canadian experience. And the notion that the Harper Conservatives or Mulcair's NDP are moving to the centre is a cruel and cynical ruse. |  | Adrian Brijbassi: Travelers, Don't Be Scared of Mexico
Many Americans and Canadians have struck all of Mexico off of their destination list because of an unfortunate string of violence in areas of the country nowhere close to La Paz -- home to what Jacques Cousteau called "the world's aquarium." But travel allows you to understand the rest of the world and lets you shed inaccurate notions you may have held before you arrived. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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