In both her poetry and her relationship with Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett understood love as an abstraction beyond everyday matters. But there are some things a girl reading the Brownings alone in her room could not have known about their life together.

It takes an utterly confident leader to wear a black cowboy hat when he takes to the stage. Luckily for all Canadians, Prime Minister Harper is exactly that man. Here's why we should celebrate his admirable support of the resource development industries and our country's exciting new direction.