I think it's time for new blood and I think it's time for new players and I think this is an opportunity for the Liberal party to renew itself and, in the process, to heal itself a little bit as well.

It really wasn't a hard decision.

He made the decision. It's his. It's wasn't David Emerson's decision to cross the floor, it was Stephen Harper's decision to invite him to.

It's unusual for someone to commit that many crimes in that short period of time.

It's high time U.S. college administrators, who receive billions in federal and state taxpayer dollars, defend all students against harassment and discrimination. Going to college should involve learning, not getting through being called a Nazi.

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.