Blizzard: Hudak ready for a mulligan
The Flying Wallendas aren’t the only ones looking at performing a high-wire act over Niagara Falls.

Macleod: McGuinty can't ignore the NDP
If Premier Dalton McGuinty forces NDP members to hold their noses and vote for March's budget without addressing leader Andrea Horwath's priorities, his government may well be shorter than the expected two years.

Harper: Mulcair knows Quebec support for NDP is no ‘long-term lease’
The NDP leadership candidates have all heard it.

De-coding the Liberals’ so-called bounce
G&M Silver Powers: Recent polls showing the Liberals on the uptick isn’t reason to celebrate. In fact, they show the party has its work cut out for them. 2:34pm

Armstrong: China mining Canadian resources
In February, Prime Minister Harper will revisit China, a nation that The New Yorker’s Henrik Hertzberg has accurately labelled “a fearsome engine of capitalist commerce.” What are the goals, and the prospects for achieving them?

Chambers: Beware! Google is going to start Googling you
Imagine being followed. Everywhere you go, you are watched.

Lilley: Canada: Our home and UN land
Earlier this week Canada kicked out a Rwandan man accused of helping instigate the genocide in his homeland almost 20 years ago, but if were up to the mandarins at the United Nations, Leon Mugesera would still be on Canadian soil.

Gladstone: My eggsperience raising chickens
A motion hatched by Councillors Joe Mihevc and Mary-Margaret McMahon to allow Toronto residents to keep backyard chickens has been plucked for now at City Hall.

Fiorito: The ashes are cold; the lawsuit is hot
The law is a tortoise and time is a hare, by which I mean it has been 17 months since the fire at 200 Wellesley.

Vander Doelen: Expect Major Change: Harper
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has dropped a number of bombshells in his speech to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. You can read the whole thing yourself right here.

Gillespie: Big pay tough pill to swallow
A lot of us are angry about the pay package Cliff Nordal pocketed while heading two London hospitals. And we have every right to be.

Jarvis: Half a million for what?
There's a new public health service in Windsor. It doesn't actually treat patients. It doesn't have any real authority to do anything at all. But it still siphons off close to half a million precious health care dollars a year.

Globe Editorial: Provincial nominee program for immigrants on the right track
Jason Kenney, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, is right to be tightening the standards for the provincial nominee program, under which provincial governments can take part in choosing immigrants, drawing upon their knowledge of local and regional needs.

Globe Editorial: Really, an increase in household debt isn’t all bad
The growing household debt of Canadians who should be in their prime savings years reflects demographic changes that will alter the nature of retirement, in ways that have some surprisingly positive sides.

TorStar Editorial: World’s media have been captured by a Lego space man, thanks to two Toronto teens.
Starfleet, take note. Two Toronto teenagers have engineered the most visible Canadian presence in space since the Canadarm — and on a $400 budget.

TorStar Editorial: Stephen Harper got it right in Davos: businesses aren't investing enough in innovation
Canadians may be jittery about what Prime Minister Stephen Harper describes as “instability” in the global economy and its capacity to side-swipe us.

TorSun Editorial: Hydro scare tactics shocking
Apparently the lights are on at Toronto Hydro, but nobody’s home.

OttSun Editorial: Be wary of ‘big and bold’ ideas
The NCC must be sure its Horizon 2067 vision doesn’t broaden its mandate and load a great burden on the taxpayer.

Windsor Star Editorial: Via's future
A ministerial briefing note last April that talked about privatizing or reducing some routes along the Windsor-Quebec City Corridor has people here jumping to conclusions - even though Transport Canada says there's no plan to sell off Via Rail, and Windsor's in no danger.