New rules in US colleges say students are to be treated as rapists if they don't get "affirmative consent" for sex. At the same time, you can get kicked out of school and lose your job just for asking.

How Palestinian teenagers now in prison in Israel are being tortured.

Here, as in general, I decline to use the term "children" to refer to teenagers. For many issues, what's right for children is different from what's right for teenagers. However, that doesn't affect the substance of this issue: torture like this is wrong for teenagers, for children, and for adults too.

Everyone: call on Suncor to stop polluting Canadian democracy and Canadian rivers.

US citizens: call on the Senate to give Obama's judicial nominees consideration (and a vote).

US citizens: call on Obama to cut the big new nuclear weapons spending proposal.