Very informative article.  I am a bit surprised the legislature wants to take such a drastic reduction of the amount of Hawaiian needed to acquire housing.  From 1/2 to 1/32 really seems a bit much!


oh  what is a living wage? there is no such thing. its all relevent to the market and location.


"Sidewalks are low on the priority list."

And that's why I sometimes simply think of wintertime Anchorage as one big ADA lawsuit just waiting to happen.


Labeling sounds simple until you consider all the things that will have to be done down the road from the product arriving on the shelf.  Farmers who grow genetically engineered foods also grow non-GMO foods.  They harvest these foods at different times of the year and use the same equipment and storage silos.  In order to keep GMOs separate from non-GMOs they will have to build new silos at a cost of about $500,000 each.  They will have to clean equipment more often.  Trucks that pick these crops up will be washed more often as they take them to storage in new expensive buildings at the grainery, whose equiupment will have to be washed more often.  These expensive steps will drive up the costs of all products more than the printing of a label, because you have the right to know that your food contains ingredients Nobel Prize winners say are safe.  How much sense does that make?


Spain should have said it doesn't recognize the election under the conditions it was run.  Instead, its shotgun marriage approach doesn't leave Catalan secessionists with much in the way of peaceful options.

If the EU was smart, it would lay out a standard path to succession within a member nation and from the EU.  A census followed by election by 50%+1 of eligible voters (not votes cast) would be achievable if the region had a strong consensus, but not easy enough to do it on a whim.


The teaser video doesn't look promising. The best advice in the older guidelines was to eat organ meat at least once per week. Traditional cultures universally figured this out from time immemorial. Watch pack predators and see what the alphas (who eat first) choose. For wolves its liver and heart. For Harris hawks its brain, heart and liver. Organ meats are inexpensive, giving the highest nutrition value of all foods, as they have the highest mitochondrial density.

For "Meatless" Monday I have liver, sweetbreads or brain, and save heart (meat) for later in the week.


True, that isn't fair. It isn't fair that half of Alaskans cannot make enough wages to qualify for paying federal income taxes. The problem is not having enough jobs and then not having enough good paying jobs. Quit complaining because you make too much money. Work less or take a pay cut. Or get mega rich and pay the lowest percentage on your income taxes in the country.


Your name...is it...Cree?


Yeah, I realized that. I was over reacting to the non-uncommon contrast of Centering and Ignatian Prayer as apo/kataphatic.


I used the OBSI office once and found them to be next to useless.


The Big Bang theory, like many technical and scientific advances, was something whose time had come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesto_Slipher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Wirtz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann

Einstein's General Relativity does not support a static universe. Lemaitre followed up on that, after others did.


It is too bad that race, sex, religion and language competency are now the standards by which  judges are selected in Canada.  Whatever happened to judicial accomplishment, skill and proficientness?

So, a question: would indigenous Supreme Court Justices have to recuse themselves on issue of land claims, etc?


Omg you are SO WRONG. I personally know around 30 people who have had cars stolen in the last 6 mo. Criminals are getting away with everything and continue to do so because there are no repercussions now. I live in Spenard so I see the patterns. Get a clue dude.


I like to remind people of the letter, signed by 150 professional wildlife biologists and wildlife managers from Alaska and around North America, which was sent to Gov. Palin. All those years back they told her predator control was a poor method for management and urged her to end it as the voters had already said they wished to happen. Shortly thereafter a dozen former members of the Board of Game sent her a similar letter which went on to say the BOG needed to be made up of professional wildlife scientists rather than by people who profit from wildlife.
The voters voted against predator control but a small group of "wildlife users" hijacked the system a decade ago with the help and support of elected officials. And the peoples will was ignored. When it comes to our wildlife the majority does not rule and that should not be the case in a democracy.


The SABC Board should not be appointed by the president nor for that matter any other state or  chapter 9 institutions. As Frans Cronje has stated in his latest book. Don't for one minute believe that our constitution or chapter nine institutions are safe from the barbarians. In fact I'm convinced none of them have even read past the first page.


Really you have to nerve to talk shit about a family when their is a family member on there death bed and you call it DRAMA! Maybe you should find a new line of work.


LGen Romeo Dallaire, former senator and now head of the Child Soldiers Initiative at Dalhousie University has stated without equivocation that Khadr was a child soldier. Your opinions are personal and not based on facts or the UN Protocol that was signed by Canada on child soldiers.  https://www.childsoldiers.org/finally-seen-light/

Your other opinions are not supported by laws of war, international Geneva Conventions, our Constitution, Charter of Rights and Human Rights.

As a military man, your leaders, like Romeo Dallaire have made this case very clearly both on the floor of the senate and in speeches across the country.


Probably something like Gays for Trump or Act for America.


A trumpster of deplorables


BSPN seldom gets anything right. This is the network that broadcast false PSI readings which triggered the whole deflategate affair. To this date, BSPN has never retracted the false report nor apologized to the New England Patriots.


Looks like Climate B is getting flack on both sides: eco-warriors and carbon tax opponents.  Should contribute to getting rid of Trudeau of 2019.


I am glad and proud to be leading the charge against this madness in my F-350.


Citation please.


>>>and allows fishermen to continue using lead tackle

Why? What's with these anti-environmentalists. Why would anyone even consider allowing lead tackle? Insane!


losing a load is always an unfortunate incident.


Indians are the people on the reserves . They must face up to the problem . Perhaps their culture needs to change, it does not seem to be working.


You're talking about EMT work, not firefighting.


The word holocaust means a burnt offering.i.e.nothing left.


"...what he's done at the foreign policy level is take a politically-strong position."

So strong that it will change as soon as the next advisor he speaks with tells him something different.


A lot of the really wealthy foreign buyers can just pay in cash.


The best part of a Trump win will be the comfortable silence as the paid trolls go back to the welfare rolls.


The author has a good point, but not enough. Let's cut the chase and go right to the source: The British Monarch. I can help to sanitize all the Canadian currency notes that bear the image of the Queen, for free. Just send those toxic money to me and I will do the rest.


I don't know.  Ask progressive "Don From Kansas"  and all the others  here who use the ridicule emojis on every post from a non-progressive  poster.


You pat my back Ill pat yours.......Welcome to the "good ol' boy" club!  Never mind what would be best for the state.


Not sure I understand what any of what the author says has to do with NAFTA renegotiation. She seems ignorant about fundamentals. If marketing boards for dairy products are a concern then the governments of Canada can easily change that, NAFTA or no NAFTA. But remember, while we subsidize our farmers through price management, the U.S. helps farmers through direct subsidies, which annually cost taxpayers about US$20 billion.  So one way or another, the taxpayer pays. As for energy, the US already has a sweetheart deal that basically guarantees that country as much oil and gas as they can buy even if it is detrimental to Canadian interests. Now the author wants to open the energy valve even wider. Given that the valves are already fully open, what's to negotiate? As for lumber, well, given that most of Canada's industry is owned by US companies, we should be increasing stumpage costs. Bigger royalties for Canada.


And Saudi Arabia can afford some Churches too.


No such thing as non-partisan when the NYTs is involved.


I guess you be out of bullets. Have a blessed day!


Situations like this made the department the laughing stock o the nation.  Sad... to think HPD is in such bad shape.


Yet again we have a very double standard, trooper its o.k regular person would be seriously  investigated ...Not just in sitka butelse where seems our police  and troopers are above  the law ...there lot person can do to prevent animal death ,like fenced yard  trash etc haveing livedin bear country for 60  years ,bears just don't attack small dogs . Do believe part of this was likely human errer .


Jesus knew nothing of "Holy Orders".  That's an institutional church construct.  Jesus was familiar with His own Jewish religion's priesthood and when He was incarnated rejected being born of the priestly tribe.  He was a layman all His life.  Jesus never discriminated and never excluded.  He affirmed that we all, male and female, are made in God's image and likeness.  If the vocation of priesthood (servant-leadership) is to justly exist, then it must be open to all who hear God's call.


I think its ridiculous that drivers want to get paid what finishers get paid. All they do is drive a mixer. No physical labor. If i wanted Dr.$ I'd become a Dr.  If they get the raise they want i will quit doing hard work and become a driver and get fat.


The depressing thing about this, in my view, is that no matter how low we set the bar for expectations of our politicians, they find a way to slide under it.


This is a terrible tragedy no doubt.  No financial reward will ever replace a lost daughter.  I can also understand that there is tremendous anger at the health care system in general.  It is dysfunctional - perhaps beyond repair.  We need to be very careful where we point fingers though.

Mom's quote makes me very sad, "a mistake was made and justice was served."

Human life is incredibly fragile.  It is amazing that it works at all.  We have grown spoiled to think that the medical system can fix everything.  Tragedy happens daily.    Doctors and nurses work in this terrible system trying to do the best they can (most the time).  Are they to pay out millions of dollars whenever mistakes result in bad outcomes?  They are human.  No physician can be right all the time.  I expect patients everywhere would be a lot happier with their care if their physicians didn't fear that any new patient encounter could ruin them financially. One life ended, another seriously wounded. Is that justice?


Revelation or hysteria ???
Truly how much egg on your face can you handle ???
When are the little green aliens coming.???


Both  Bee and John Oliver provide comedic commentaries that are just too energetic at times and they  offer Canadian/British ironic, sometimes moronic,  humour,  which finds a very enthusiastic, but rather narrow appreciation in the US.
They and their ilk preach to very small, "nichey" choirs,  never unfortunately, resonating in the mainstream.

Trump and his GOP world, as successful as they may be  right now, are  completely devoid of any humour.  In fact,  are there any conservative comedic commentators, ie right wing versions, of Bee, Bill Maher or John Stewart etc. ?

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I have no problem with "non whites standing up for themselves" if this is what this appropriation fuss is all about, but how does that happen if the conversation is shut down?


Are you a moderator for the Globe or Libs..... ? I understand the public can pretty well ask anything.
No need for concern.


Suggest a long term wealth forecasting approach. One low cost but effective solution is the software developed by Strategic Capital Finance.


W. suffered brutal attacks from lefties the entire time he was in office.  He never said a word in his defense leaving those of us who supported him wondering why.  Obama blamed everything on W. for eight years and again W remained silent.  Now he emerges with these senseless attacks on President Trump.  There really isn’t much difference between Republican and Democrat elites and perhaps that’s been the problem all along.


Yes Liberal is JT's party--gets confusing as they are not linked. Maybe Social Conservative Party.


I'll send a check to Jeremy Polk c/o Eugene Animal Hospital? Or if HE opens a gofundme (they skim 5%)


Wonderful tale Amy that brightened my day...thank you!


"Iakio is one of about 200 people who line up around the corner from Ching’s restaurant along Pauahi Street three times every weekday for free meals from River of Life Mission....."  3 free meals/day???????

Why bother contributing to society when there's no incentive to do so?


If you haven't yet learned that the "babies in a septic tank" thing was a hoax you should check it out.  Associated Press retracted the claim.  Forbes, New Republic, and (the Jesuits') America Magazine, and others, gave more detail.  E.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/06/09/that-story-about-irish-babies-in-a-septic-tank-is-a-media-hoax/#723d7e453637


I'll try to post my comment in a more civil manner for those that found it too much....

Thank you Tabatha for the strong and nutty column addressing important issues.....the alt-right is trying to work its way into modern conservatism in my opinion.

"Where you goin' guys?"


I will get ready to raise my rent when current tenant goes. Works great for me.


They in essence become their own municipalities and residents lose their tax free status.


i only stand up to pee and pledge allegence to our flag- what do u's stan fo mista chris sir maser


Inauguration of America's first Russian Dictator.
Watch the last presidential transition of power.  The conman will never leave power.


The word vacuum is not mentioned once yet is the most important factor for the viability of this technology.

Creating a vacuum tube over hundreds of kilometers including difficult terrain that is not only safe for human travel but commercially viable has never even been close to a reality. The SpaceX competition just showed how flimsy this idea is yet governments are spending money on it.

A viable tech already exists - high speed rail. The issue is cost which hyperloop does nothing to address.


The Sultan of Oman is gay, and had ruled for 50 odd years.


Trudeau is absolutely right in seeking a papal apology for the Catholic Church's role in the residential school fiasco;  and perhaps after the Pope apologizes, there can be some redemption.   That's the only route forward.   The Church should understand this, even though many (making irresponsible comments around here) certainly don't.   I think Francis will do the right thing and apologize.


Intellectual integrity please EFC!  My comment - and I quote - included "...for the most part".  Does that not mean something within a CIVIL discussion. How can a dialogue be genuine when one misrepresents?
By the way you seem to confuse "ideas" with acts of cruelty and barbarism. Those are not "ideas" they are acts of those who have renounced real ideas.


East Jerusalem is not Israel's "own land" and you can't forget about the people who were living there for about a thousand years before the modern State of Israel was plonked down there!


How can there be homosexual and transgender clubs in Catholic schools when the Catholic Church condemns their behaviour as gravely sinful and intrinsically disordered?


Guessing wavy is calling out rhyner for being a hypocrite.  He's a retired union garbage collector yet frequently spouts off anti labor nonesense.
Either way great this punk is off the street.  Glad our mayor is making increased staffing of law enforcement a priority.


That would be a more convincing argument if there were not so many absent and/or abusive parents. There always have been but at least now abused kids have some chance of protection through schools and social agencies. Agreed it doesn't always work well but it's better that the "good old days" when kids ended up traumatised or dead.


Denver fans are the best and they didn't deserve the shameful disrespectful kneeling down by 32 members of their favorite team. My favorite 3 players, Thomas, Sanders and Miller posing in the front row among the other idiots, was just enough for me to want to change the channel, which I actually did. Yes, you overpaid, oppressed divas deserved to lose big time. Karma has a way of coming back and biting you in the butt. It'll be a cold day in hell before I ever watch such a bunch of anti American values  punks again.


All of this only goes to demonstrate how hopelessly naive Trump is about the ways of the political world. Yet, instead of educating himself, he finds time to watch the Golden Globes and tweet about the ratings of his successor on The Apprentice! we're in for scary times, despite what Obama said last night.


No thank you please.
  There are two important lessons we should teach kids about WWI: 1) It was a disaster that directly led to the worse catastrophe of WWII, and 2) After the war, the British and French Empires betrayed the Arabs who were instrumental in defeating the Turks, keeping Iraq , Lebanon and Syria for themselves, predominantly for the oil, leading directly to 100 years of opposition and bombing Arab nations.


The author may not, as she states, understand James Damores point - however she sure as heck then rattles on and seems to prove his point.


Your quantitative "mind" lacks initiative. The standard drink measurement on myriad websites is a 12 oz. beer = 5 oz. wine = 1.5 oz. liquor (80 proof). This is true for the Alcohol Help Center’s online “blood alcohol calculator" referenced in the article. A standard drink is defined the same way on the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism website, also referenced in the article. The answer can be found by clicking on the link labeled "What Is A Standard Drink?"
Ergo, the unit of "a drink" is well-defined. Reporters aren't required nor expected to account for each reader's laziness quotient, especially one with a doctorate in physics. Purportedly. That claim has not been well-defined.


I'm afraid you are right......We might need to make a trade for one, maybe around our bi week.....week 5. I think the trade deadline isn't until closer to the end of October.


Almost?! We are there...jussayin'.


Weinstein gets a complete pass because everything he did was with liberal compassion.


It looks like you like to read into what you think is hidden meanings....

I said you had a fair point (about US data) and I meant it.

But it does happen here as well.  I clearly didn't say that Canada and the USA were the same in this.   Religious and so-called "moral" objections to books that they don't like is much worse in the USA.


Are you allowed to be a federal judge if you're not a citizen?

But if he's a citizen he can't be deported.  He's a Canadian then.


Longbob: How do you feel about the $1million donation to the Trudeau charity?


A priest in a confessional is like a Maytag repairman awaiting a call for service.
In over 1500 parishes I've visited the confessional and utility closet viewed for interest.


Trudeau is a somewhat difficult persona for Trump to assault and Justin plays the NAFTA cards reasonably well.
 His political persona must have given the Washington politicians a pause as well reminding them of days gone by. Whatever his substantial domestic shortcomings, Trudeau currently seems unexcelled as a front man on the international stage and these days, a lot of countries, including the US envy Canada for such.


No it isn't - you have to be severely brain damaged or severely illiterate.


BS headline.  He put them on notice that things can change.  He ceded nothing that wasn't already policy.  To do otherwise would have the G&M headline read, Trump inches closer to deadly conflict with China.

I like'm.


I lost the argument, but you quiver in fear with showing the evidence thereof?  Pure trump type fake news + comedy.


It was never banned.


Why don't the Conservatives put up a statue of Mike Duffy to honour CPC  ethics, integrity and honesty?


While on its face your plan seems simple, you're omitting a few challenges.
Poor people have fewer options to increase their efficiency.  They live in cheap, shabby apartments with abysmal energy efficiency, but that's all they can afford.  Wealthier people weatherize their homes and buy LED lightbulbs.
They drive 1993 pickup trucks with 130,000 miles that get 9 mpg, because that's all they can afford.  Wealthier people buy latest energy efficient cars.
As energy conservation goes up, tax revenues go down, and the government is forced to raise the tax higher.
Taxing BTUs is fine, but the revenue shouldn't go into the general fund.  It should be reinvested in helping people become more efficient.


It will be darn interesting to see what James Kallstram and Giuliani have to do with leaks out of the NY Bureau.  The declination of prosecution in the James Garner case and the civil rights division in DC's protest of that situation further splits the bureau.  Giuliani is a sniveling butt hurt reptile.


You are confusing sex and gender, in this context they are not synonyms. Also the fact that you think its ok to talk about another persons genitals is absolutely disgusting, whats in her pants is none of your business.


Maybe Pocho THINKS he unsubscribed but his credit card is still getting hit.

Pocho, check your credit card statement.  QUICK.  Follow your principles.  Completely unsubscribe from the SA.  Do it!!  Hit 'em where it hurts.  Don't access this fake news dribble.


This was the Crappiest Law to ever come into existence...

They are reaping profits, we cant even afford a prozac to tolerate our crappy healthcare, and the dems get to laugh all the way home on their Yacht paid for by big pharma and big insurance.

I bet Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are beyond overjoyed they don't have to ever buy one of these terrible pieces of crud


Are you feeling okay, Schlosser, ol' chap? You sound a little under the weather. Despite your misgivings, I do assure you that ONLY English has appeared in the many postings from myself and the other distinguished subscribers, excluding the occasional foreign language expression, such as "au contraire." Surely, that cannot be the cause of your exasperation. Anyhows, Schlosser auf Deutsch heisst "locksmith", so chin up ol' man, things could be much worse. You could be Ricky Dickie Locksmith..
Damn chilly out tonight. Awful, awful weather. Quite inclement. Jolly hockey sticks. Right on. Best fooot forward and bombs away. Truthfully, I can't get more English than that.
Toodle-ooo.


Right on Don....my kids always ask how I can Vote for Don Young and I tell em "because he votes the way I would if I were in Congress" and NOW I can tell them "and because he's a 'down stoner' ".  Congressman for ALL Alaskans.


You need to go back and read the text of M103 again. While it does refer to Islamophobia specifically it is also clear in that it is to address discrimination as a whole.


In a struggle between little Mr Potato Head and the Jaffa cake I rate My Potato the looser.


Taxation is the only FAIR way to do it.  Otherwise, the poor pay the most.


Support for a national popular vote has been strong in rural states

None of the 10 most rural states (VT, ME, WV, MS, SD, AR, MT, ND, AL, and KY) is a battleground state.
The current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes does not enhance the influence of rural states, because the most rural states are not battleground states, and they are ignored.  Their states’ votes were conceded months before by the minority parties in the states, taken for granted by the dominant party in the states, and ignored by all parties in presidential campaigns. When and where voters are ignored, then so are the issues they care about most.


At the end of the day, none of these pipelines are going to get built anytime soon, regardless of what Trudeau/the Liberals (and the NEB) have to say about it

PM Harper (and his constituency/base/Alberta) spent 9 years pushing for pipelines, how many have been started, completed, in progress? Not many...........

Trudeau who's "base" is FAR less enthusiastic (to say the least) about pipelines knows very well that the the First Nations, the environmental lobby, the Supreme Court and BC/Quebec public opinion  is solid block that is, has been and will be working against any and all pipelines. That is reality on the "ground"

There is a VERY simple solution; offer BC/ON/QC billions of dollars per year in in royalties for "land-use", and watch them jump. It is really as simple as that. The respective governments will huff and puff, announce how this $$$$ will go to environmental projects, pocket the $$$$........................never to be heard from again.

Works every time. Sad but true.


Who is the ultimate person/people responsible for all of this corruption?  Please contact the FBI and investigate them and anyone they dealt with.  We have been had and this is criminal.  There is no other explanation given to date on how the cost could double in just 2 years.  Talking to these politicians is a waste of time, and none of them say anything that means anything.  It is just more and more gibberish.  Investigate using the FBI!   Now they are trying to cover it up by raising taxes on all of us.  Investigate by outside, government agencies.  Internal investigations by the State is going to go nowhere!!


I'm sure the FBI will subpoena any doctors' records in an attempt to find out why. In the meantime we wait for the press who will use every sly means to get the same info plus any new ones the FBI will not share with us. Interesting how the CNN press was able to get and show us photos of the Mandalay Bay Hotel's shooter's room with all its arsenal. The cops are pissed about this. Good job you press people. The cops are now investigating every cop who entered that room with a body cam or cell phone. Some dude got a couple grand for his generosity. I think there was a court case forbidding any prosecution of any reporter unwilling to reveal their source of information. Confidentiality rules protects first Amendment rights. Hahahaha!!!!


Great article, well documented and reasoned.

On the barn-door halibut, the canneries/fish buyers pay significantly more for the monster fish. That should be stopped. Maybe a rule to release all halibut of 58" or greater (~100#)- would be a problem for commercial long liners, but the giant spawning females should be let go to spawn their 20,000 or so eggs.

Issue is, can common sense conservatism & stewardship trump the commercial interests?


Roi will be along shortly to defend the honorable gentleman and insist he get top notch lawyers and the finest hotel room with swanky service since his bizarre behavior was rudely interrupted by those silly troopers


Apologies to "Col. Bogey":

Gorka has only got one ball
Bannon has two, but they are small.
Priebus has something grievous
But the Mad King has no balls at all.


I've lots of Rail systems with no riders or very few. I took Rail from the Seattle airport and I think I had it all to myself until a bunch of juveniles(maybe 10)  got on..


It's all very simple.  They ordained Osweiler the heir-apparent to Manning.  And then failed to do what was necessary to keep him here, thinking they could rely on an unproven second-year man or a rookie.  It was all about ego--John Elway's.  He was jilted, and wasn't going to stand for it.


Oh Tim, if only history were so black and white!  As someone who also taught social history at the UO I'd say your remarks, while humorous, reflect quite a one sided view of a man who had a huge impact, good and bad, on Oregon history.  Yes, General Joseph Lane fought in the Mexican War, fought  Indians, supported slavery for a time, was a fanatic supporter of states rights, supported the South's right to Secession, and ran as a VP candidate in the breakaway Southern Democrat party.  Whew.  He was also known as honest, hard working, a great leader in developing Oregon's government , courageous,   so respected by the Takelma (Rogue) Indians that one took the name Chief Joe.

Following the disgrace of his pro-South political debacle he lived in the hills almost as a hermit with only Peter Waldo, a young black man, as company once Polly died.  In his old age he apologized for his youthful extremism, moved to Roseburg and was honored by Republican's from Douglas County to Eugene's OSJ.


People who block the comments of others are not interested in debate or discussion only in what they have to say and to hear what they want to hear.


Anyone who considers Lisa a proponent of anything remotely resembling a "progressive liberal agenda" is utterly brain-dead or a charter member of the tinfoil hat brigade.


A rental contract is not a "lease."  Oregon law, to my knowledge, still allows either party in a month-to-month rental contract to terminate that contract with a 30 day notification.  The conversations I've both read and heard refer to a "no-cause eviction".  To my knowledge, there is no such process.......There is, indeed, a FED (Forcible Entry and Detainer) eviction process for a landlord to regain control of his/her rental - lease property.  This process is separate from a contract termination.  The Portland Ordinance effectively eliminates a landlord's ability to terminate a month-to-month rental agreement/contract. I'm guessing such action will be successfully challenged by landlord/property owners in Portland.  It should be.   Gary (been a landlord for 30 years) Crum


I do read your posts with comprehension, which is why I say what I say. You say things, and then try to pretend that you didn't say them. I shall not say you are dishonest, since that would be uncivil.


More health care choices and lower premiums?  Thanks Mr. President!  You just keep on fixing little Barry's screw-ups while liberal democrats whine and complain and continue to lose elections.  #MAGA


Under Christina Kishimoto's leadership, the Gilbert Public Schools (GPS) overstated student enrollment, resulting in an overpayment of nearly $1 million in State funding, which GPS must return.   The Audit Unit of the Arizona Department of Education recently conducted an audit of the the GPS Average Daily Membership for Fiscal Years 2014, 2015 and 2016. The purpose of the audit was to assess whether the GPS properly reported student enrollment to determine if it received the correct amount of Basic State Aid.  Auditors concluded that GPS inaccurately reported student enrollment.  As a result, GPS was overfunded by $962,767.69, which GPS must repay.  Kishimoto is probably overjoyed to escape from that situation.  One wonders if the Hawaii BOE knew about before it hired her.


It's not just nuclear war that is a life issue that ultimately makes the abortion issue take a back seat. Bad air, polluted water, contaminated soil, poor working conditions all contribute to serious illnesses in adults and increased genetic defects in fetuses.  Climate change deniers will bear responsibility for the lives of an increasing number of people.


And in the 40s we interned Japanese as official policy, and baited people of Germanic origin as an unofficial one.  We also treated the Irish abominably as refugees of the potato famine, and used Chinese as slave labour to build the railroad.  We robbed First Nations people of their land, wilfully gave them smallpox, and tried to disrupt their society with alcohol.  We practiced indentured servitude, a polysyllabic name for slavery.

Canada's past is chock full of shameful deeds.  But in my mind, anyhow, we have tried to make amends, and to a large extent we enjoy one of the most tolerant societies in the Western world.

Assuming the guilt that our forefathers should have helps no one.  We need to remember the past so it isn't repeated.....but we don't need to beat ourselves up over it.


Your "guess" is wrong (again), since I had indeed read Jon82's comment.
No, it's not really a "simple question" for you to ask whether I "agree" with his comment. It was a long comment, containing some good points; others less good. At any event, I didn't agree with it sufficiently to 'Like' it - as you could have seen for yourself easily enough.
But whether I agree with it or not, is irrelevant here.
I replied to your comment (i.e., the one which has been deleted, by CC, as 'not meeting civility standards'), because it called for fraternal correction. For you had accused him of sanctimoniousness, but had then proceeded to use a very great deal of the same against him (hence the deletion, I suppose).
Your odd reaction to my fraternal correction, was to accuse me of the same thing, which made no sense in the context. Just a feeble attempt to deflect.
BTW, your latest reply took a few hours to 'come through', presumably it needed many reviews and/or rewriting. Lesson unlearned, sadly.


Hey...he only wants a year of maintenance money...


Um . . . Khadr was repatriated on the Conservatives' watch. And his settlement is a direct result of Harper's government failing to observe its own rule of law -- accountability of illegal actions, you might say.

Sorry to cut into a quality rant with actual facts.


Red8
How about lets ...... HAVE a BUDGET!!!!!!!


Hah I was about to say the same thing.


Well, of COURSE it has, Portia!

But this time, the failure would not be (1) the RCMP--can't trust those cops! (2)  the white BC study or (3) white federal govt.  It would be the Aboriginals who (mis)managed it. That's the point!

Because a FN inquiry did reach "similar conclusions" (and that's a best-case scenario) who could they blame?

You're welcome!


That's good. Perhaps people can relearn a little self reliance again.


I already do in the summer months. I can't stand the heat. I have health problems that can cause me to be sent to the ER if I get too hot. In Texas, where I live June through August is unbearable. I am retired so I can switch my days and nights. Around the end of September, first of October I switch back to regular daylight hours.


What's the market is telling you?


So he and Kathleen have two things in common: they are both openly homosexual, and, they both played a major role in completely botching the McGuinty green energy
program.

Good that he left the party, as he realized with Wynne at the helm, that his demise as a politician was obvious. Hopefully others will realize how toxic Wynne is now.


True, I also -miss those ancient days when as a kid I could roam safely, even hitchhike;  families seemed to be stable; folks believed in their excellent public schools;  and we all felt like a part of a warm safe community.  Best of all, in a strange way, was WWII, where we ALL pulled together for the sake of America.

At the same time, our town was probably a "sundown" town, as no blacks or other minorities seemed to live there; girls weren't encouraged to finish college or take most jobs; gays and lesbians, if we thought of them at all, were just "queers";  the environment was too often  a place to dump trash;  forests were overcut and not adequately replanted, etc.

So is life better or worse today?  That is a long and complex question.


Actually 50 years ago there was NOT a much higher share of pensions among private sector workers.

Pension plans were largely unheard of prior to WWII, and through the 1950's and 1960's they were more the exception than the norm.

Pensions only really came to be common-place in the 1970's and 1980's before declining again in the 1990's and 2000's.


wrong the DOH will not say how the mumps came about because of privacy act it probably came from an illegal like I said months ago blame Chin and Ige who wants us to become a sanctuary state like I said they should pay everybody's medical bill that caught the mumps its there fault.


Very disappointing to have such a liberal opinion piece be taken seriously. If you believe Hilary is the lesser evil, then you're bias makes you're opinion not worthy of my time.


Dude NOBODY reads the newspaper anymore dude. nobody watches tv. get into this century dude, skunks legal in paradise and the steep hill is testing. you really need to get with the program dude. turn off the tube put down the paper and get a life. feel sorry for ya dude yer so out of it.


I don't think they are intentinally trying to reduce the number of people who are eligible.  I do think they may be doing more "random" checks of eligibility of people, and this is how you may have been tagged.  Personally, I like it if that's what they're doing.

I agree with your thoughts on the Alaska Bush People TV Stars getting off too easy.  That was flat out crap!


Tennis anyone?...


No rankings  =  "Everyone's a winner!"

Don't forget to pick up your certificate of participation!


And now the rant against Popery begins! Spare me the United Empire Loyalist nonsense.


Hasn't Don Quiote been sold for future high-rise condos?


wouldn't it be good to show pictures of these folks who go missing?


The electoral college is a brilliant construct that saves America today  All this dufus little Reich wants is to flood States with illegal aliens and give them motor-voter or some other ruse to get them to vote Democrat.   The country needs to continue to push most illegal aliens to California; this will prevent stolen elections by keeping the electoral college count at 55.  The national popular vote would take away States sovereignty/rights...so only Democrats that hate America would want this.


The GOP radical racist core is overjoyed and the GOP in congress is backtracking fast as lightning.  Funny as hell to watch the GOP eat itself.  Ah the pressures of leadership.  Poor babies.


Hey Caitlin. Someone invented a dash-mounted holder for cell phones (or you could rig a holder with a couple of rubber bands in air vents) It is possible to set your destination before heading out, put your phone in a holder and...... wait for it........ Use the nav without holding the phone!


Ceasefire! ceasefire!

War crimes!

Russia should go to UNSC and call for a ceasefire like USA did almost daily when Russia was liberating Aleppo. USA could be deliberately targeting civilians, schools, mosques, hospitals. Where's the White Helmets this time? Where's the media?


Good. I hope NAFTA is ended. The sooner the better.

TPP2 is a non-starter.  The main reason for TPP was to isolate China and force it to accept US leadership in trade policy.  There's no reason for TPP2 without the US.

As usual, Trump is right. Bilateral trade deals are far better. These multi-country deals have been proven to be destructive for everybody except the establishment elites.


Just because the liberals approved Trans mountain does not mean it will get built . The approval will be challenged in court


I have PTSD so that means I am allowed to be an online stalker


Why the gratuitous and irrelevant paragraph about the Galloway case? It should be edited out particularly as the point being made by the "literati" was about the very peculiar way the situation was handled by UBC and not about the truth or veracity of the complaint against Galloway.


https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-did-democratic-south-become-republican

https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/black-millennial-female-and%E2%80%A6-conservative

https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/inconvenient-truth-about-democratic-party

https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/what-fake-news

Which "real history" did you learn?  If it is similar to some of the above, then what are you complaining about?  Don't get mad at me.  Attitude is a choice.  If you're mad that the truth is counter to your narrative of events, then write a textbook.

It's ok.  You don't need to be ashamed that you've been so, so wrong all these years.  The road of life allows U-turns.


This is a tax increase borne mostly by non-residents, yet the revenues will benefit residents. And the tax is a trivial portion of the overall lodging bill, not like taxes on fuel, alcohol, or cigarettes. In some localities where the tax is higher, such as Portland, they certainly need to bring theirs down in line with the rest of us.


Among other things, Ms. McAleer told me she and Ms. Goschen intentionally and systematically did things to drive Jennifer States “crazy” so she would quit. Ms. McAleer also expressed to me highly disparaging remarks about the personal appearance of the Port’s former Property Manager (much too vulgar to write here) and that she “couldn’t stand the sight of her”. Most importantly, Ms. McAleer told me these things with glee in her voice and a grin on her face. To say the least, these actions surely “stink” and I believe are straight up evil! I am convinced I too was subjected to this abhorant behavior at the hands of Ms. McAleer and Ms. Goschen. *Ms. Goshen testified she fired Ms. Kerr for “personal reasons”! I believe those personsal reasons were at the direct instruction of Ms. McAleer. *If they could speak freely without fear of job loss, I believe the majority of Prt staff would confirm Ms. McAleer is responsible for much of the discention and dysfunction at the Port. It must stop!


This government should have done this a year ago. These people should have been first in line instead of choosing members of their oppressors ...although they provided some good photo ops for Trudeau and John McCallum ..


Senators Sonnenberg and Hill, Rep Lawrence, you really don't have to listen to Jon anymore (not that you ever really did).  The Independence Institute is rapidly sinking into irrelevance.  The "we don't need no stinking government" wing of the GOP loves to tell you how evil the government is and how they will liberate you from this overwhelming drag on your liberty by (wait for it) giving GOP members a job.  We hate government; government is the enemy; we need to shrink taxes and government so it can be drowned in the bathtub, and, oh yea, give only GOP branded politicos a tax funded job and a position of influence in that system.  Please stop giving Jon undeserved credibility and influence.  Simply ignore the independence institute altogether.  They aren't your (or Colorado's) ally.


For which the Americans must be quite thankful.


USA WASN'T A WAR WITH QATAR TO STOP THERE NG EXPORTS TRUMP THE SKUNK


(1) Not
(2) going
(3) there


Politics is a sleazy business.

And as we see with Christy, most politicians look up at pond scum.


Government shutdown over incomplete border security would be absolutely appropriate!
I guess most snowflakes don't realize that 13 free nation states united here for the purpose of mutual security. Protection of our borders is why this country exists!


I think you're referring to the jungle gym, kind of an inverted cone or space capsule shaped apparatus which was like a cage.  At the top, you were at least 8-10 feet above ground.  In the picture, the child at the top looks to be about that same height off the ground.  Jungle gyms were banned (along with the big merry-go-round wheel with the handles and the see-saw, remember those?) because of the inherent danger from misuse.  I see the same with the pictured play area.  Too bad because we had lots of fun on those things, but all it takes is one fall, a broken leg, and the lawsuits that follow.  What a litigious society we have today!


Jesus is God. This guy is not. The Bible is clear about being above reproach.


Born yesterday. Sorry you're not old enough to vote.


Have to admit, I had second thoughts about reading Konrad's article but I am happy that I did.  He makes an excellent argument about identity politics and reparations not reconciliation. Well done Konrad.  Quite thoughtful.


Good news.


Match play is a weird format for a regular tournament. I personally don't find it very compelling....(especially the last day with only 2 matches on the course)...pretty boring. Tiger is pretty much done. When he plays, he embarrasses himself. I am not buying the injury excuse. Injuries don't give you the chipping yips and make your putting awful. Tiger has lost it. Can we stop talking about him now? If he ever makes a comeback, then there's a real story.

The tour needs to get past their Tiger obsession and start taking advantage of - and drawing attention to all the great golf being played by the big 4 or 5 young guys on the tour, plus the 5 or 6 older guys like Justin Rose and Martin Kaymer and Dustin Johnson. Golf is way more interesting now, when you have so many really good golfers, instead of 1 or 2 good ones - and then Vijay and Ernie who always seemed to fold and choke when Tiger played. The young guys now all have more likable personalities than Tiger ever had.


The effort by Walker to push for an income tax is putting the cart before the horse. The dividend will need to be phased out before an income tax will be constitutionally permissible. As a lawyer I am sure he understands that but doesn't want to take the heat for it. The Legislature has actually been making progress on oil tax reform and Permanent Fund restructuring - both very difficult and serious issues. Walker has not been helpful by continuing to hype his flawed original plan.


Obviously the Liberals believe they can pander to the ill-informed of this great land when they send out messages blaming Indigenous people for the failures of government. It may seem like they've been inspired by those wily Republicans in this shameless habit, but Canadian political leaders have always behaved this way.


Kevka = classic case of delusional paranoia


Indeed a great and much needed discussion. Living a healthy and balanced life requires care of mind, body, and soul.  Hypnosis  for management of stress, ease fears, weight loss management, and healing support of the wellness and betterment of the whole person. https://www.curo.net


Hoke didn't hold the DC title at Michigan because Lloyd Carr gave him the title Associate Head Coach when he promoted him to the duties of defensive coordinator.

Lubick has been a coach for 20+ years. He's the son of Sonny Lubick, a coach so successful that Colorado State named their field for him.

Your assessment is wrong.


The NEA and unions are not to blame for underperforming schools. People who won't pay $5-10 more per year in property taxes are.


Drink some mag citrate and that feeling will be relieved in just a few short hours.


Because????


Get informed on Levin. He was definitely a Cruz guy but he has grown to appreciate Trump. If I were in charge of US public schools I'd have his books as mandatory reading.


Cool, I was just given the opportunity to reject it, twice.  Spam-be-gone!


Thank you SO much, Elizabeth, for your very informative and entertaining article about the Globe. It's really nice to be invited inside and be shown around the paper we love so much, yet know virtually nothing about.
Greatly appreciated!! :))
Sold to a developer . . . . and . . . . then what???
Thanks very much.  You are a great writer / reporter!!!


From my observations, all of them.  Gary Crum


So what? The Bloc members were democratically elected or voted for and if a per vote subsidy is available there is no reason whatsoever they shouldn't receive it just because you don't like their policies


Yea we cant be getting those jobs back and keeping illegals out. Right on


Silly proposition

Why would the USA trade someone who is bought and paid for by Russian interests for someone bought and paid for by Chinese interests?


I truly feel HORRIBLE for the way our government has treated the Native Americans. It's absolutely heartbreaking. But the question to ask is this. What has improved the lives of Native Americans more: generations of welfare programs, government handouts and generally being treated as wards of the state? Or: the revenue generated from building and operating casinos?

In other words, socialism, or capitalism?


The ACA is not broken; it is imperfect, but then so is everything. It works well enough.

The Republicans are proving that the ACA is the best that we can do, for now. They surely can't do any better.


Why would anyone argue for destroying the evidence? You can seal it until a person has died (+10 years) and so protect their privacy but also ensure that critical reviews and evaluations of the process can be done by future historians/researchers. Most of the records of Canada's first national internment operations were deliberately destroyed at what was then known as the National Archives of Canada so eliminating critical information about what remains a little-known injustice. Let's not repeat that mistake.


The writers of any legislation riddled with the phrase "... the Secretary may..." because the democrats who wrote it, passed it, and put it into force should have considered the possibility that the next Secretary might not be a democrat.

Turning off the illegal and unconstitutional subsidies to insurance companies, congress, and repealing every single one of the O'BamaCare waivers is one of the best ways to bring down that house of cards.

The best way to force repeal bad legislation (and O'BamaCare is awful legislation) is to enforce it as written, vigorously, with gusto.  Trump should have done this on day one in office, but he tried to play nice.  3 Republicans chose to play otherwise.  Too bad for them.

This one is not over yet.  O'BamaCare is going to get repealed.  This will be a lot of fun to watch.  Personally, I am making popcorn.  Cheers -


I think it would be appropriate for you to offer "thoughts and prayers" as well. It's your go to move with other victims.


The proponents of the monument expansion have it backward. The WPRFMC is using verified information from NOAA and NMFS to set its policies. Meanwhile, the people who are pushing for the expansion continue to make unsubstantiated claims that are mathematically refutable, such as saying the expansion will protect tuna stocks by restricting Hawaii's longline fleet.

The fact is that Hawaii's longline fleet harvests less than 2% of the total amount of bigeye tuna in the Pacific. If protecting the stocks are truly a concern, then the people who want to provide greater protection for bigeye tuna have to go after the countries that take the other 98%.

Making fishing harder for the people who catch less than 2% of the fish will only hurt Hawaii's ability to become less dependent upon imported food. It will do nothing to protect bigeye tuna in the Pacific.

That's simple math.


All of your questions clearly suggest what your motivation is.


Good news- for now. Check out Save The Chuitna on FB. That river system is nothing short of incredible.


If we want to protect our future, we simply need to get rid of all the idiots that are doing us in.  I'm all for idiotocide.


"it took Hollywood to bring him to your attention."

Not in my case, Wig.
I first learned of Clouston in May 1990 while watching CBC's excellent documentary of the 50th anniversary re-enactment. The 40 minute film devoted almost 4 minutes to Clouston.

I was stunned. I considered myself to be quite well-informed about Canada's role in the Second World War yet here was a fellow Montrealer who had done so much during a monumental event... yet I'd never heard of him?

I subsequently contacted our War Museum but they said they could do nothing re. Clouston because he did not serve with a Canadian unit.

Thankfully, I videotaped the documentary ("We Shall Fight on the Beaches!") and showed it my students every November. I wrote to various Canadian media prior to the 70th and 75th anniversaries, asking them to highlight this 'unknown Canadian hero of Dunkirk' but none of them replied.

The recent film has provided an opportunity, perhaps the last, to give Clouston some well-earned recog'n.


Those trails need cleaned up badly.  And I don't mean the litter.  Those woods need to be swept all up and down the system.  Give them all a clean and safe camp to go to.  Just go walk through the woods anywhere in town and witness all the creeps that hide back in there and you'll see just how easy a tragedy like this can happen.


A very unique approach to venting ... myself, I'd PEDAL HARDER AND FURTHER ... throw the book at him.


'NCW' is an abbreviation for the Neocatechumenal Way, a movement within the Church which had gained influence and control in Guam, thanks to Apuron.


If you're hard up for more money, go get another job or stop living beyond your means.  That's what responsible people do when they don't have enough money to live and buy toys.


6 companies control nearly all of the media in the US.

When CNN was made irrelevant this week, the many tentacles of the same sick beast responded defensively, flailing excrement in every direction.

With their millions of dollars in monthly budgets, and combined staffs of thousands, the best they could do was wait for this masterpiece to be handed down from their thought leaders at the Washington Post.

I can just picture the online editor at the Denver Post getting this story in email.

With sweat dripping from his brow he thinks to himself "Oh thank god, finally! This will SURELY end Drumpf!!" before hitting the big "repost" button on his computer to bring to this to our local audience.


So where do you live?
Do you live on acreage covered in trees as I do?
Have you been evacuated 4 of the past 10 years, as I have?
Do you actually attend municipal and provincial meetings regarding fire fuel remediation, as I do?

I didn't think so.

You can not let fires simply burn when they are in close proximity to human habitation.  Sure, in desolate areas, let them burn, as they already do, and have done for decades.  Within 1 km of human habitation, the only preventative action is to remove deadfalls and dead standing wood, as every municipality in BC does, and has done for decades.

The problem is crown land (administered by the provincial government of the day) which is located within municipal limits.  Municipalities across BC have made requests ( and been denied) funding to address this key issue.  No one is suggesting that dead wood should be removed from forests located away from human habitation.

Perhaps you should comment on things you actually know something about.


How about revising that?  Yes, keep the ban on fund raising during a session.  In addition, penalize incumbents 2 for 1.  Meaning each day of overtime is a day in which they can't scrounge for bucks but, in addition, for each day of overtime they must also be restricted from fund raising for another day AFTER the session ends.  Go overtime by 10 days and lose a total of 20 days of............


Yo, Space cadet, I mean low-Earthman_24, if you think the POTUS is clueless, ask yourself this:  How can a clueless businessman who has NEVER run for any political office, snag the POTUS position, first time out of the chute?  Maybe he's NOT clueless?  Wake up, sport.


Not being able to answer that question on the merits of factual events leading to justifiable criticism of Barack Obama and/or either of the Clintons perfectly explains why Hillary lost the election and individuals like yourself voted for her.


her hon..and stop being so mean


Just like Iraq and Libya had been "heading for conflict with the West".


Excellent column John H. Defines the essence of dividend investing, and why I will continue down this path for many more years.


She said that this initiative was about reducing Carbon Pollution, because she believes that CO2, a molecule that is 2/3 oxygen, is causing climate change. Well fair enough, a lot of people believe that. Atmospheric CO2 has passed 400 parts per million, and they proved a long time ago that CO2 traps heat, ( in a bottle, with no outlet) So, as a fraction, 400 ppm is 1 molecule out of 2,500 air molecules. But that's because of humanity right? Humans account for only 4% of the CO2 that naturally enter the atmosphere. Hint. everything that exhales or decomposes releases Carbon, as well as volcanoes and oceans. So,4% of 400 ppm solves to 1/62,500 air molecules from humans. So, her carbon tax, and all other "green" initiatives  will only shave a fraction of that one molecule in 62,500. Will that help the weather? And even if it did, what is the target weather? What we had during the Little Ice age? I wonder if she knows that she is exhaling 40,000 ppm CO2. - we are carbon based life forms :)


And if you don't have what you need at home, you just have to acquire a little Lebensraum. Strong tariffs build strong militaries.


Dear Mr Caplan it was your party the NDP that imploded not the conservatives. Maybe you should pay attention to the NDP leadership race.


"Lee666, too bad that same establishment didn't reign in George W Bush and prevented the aggression of Iraq.

At least the body count under Trump is still lower than GWB."

The Dems all voted for the war as well.


PM Trudeau's track record on campaign promises is abysmal (see link below for all the data). One promise I remember is more pension money for Canada's seniors, haven't heard a whisper about it since he got in. ONE TERM pm for sure!

https://trudeaumetre.polimeter.org/


Trump loves to talk out of both sides of his mouth. "strengthen and expand its nuclear capability." But at the same time reduce arms "very substantially." Or maybe it's coming from another orifice?


You tell us how Canada, even if every single molecule of CO2 is  stopped in this country, could any meaningful impact on GHG's?  It can't.  That said, if you'd read my original post you'd recall that I made clear the greatest thing we can to do mitigate GHG rise is to STOP all coal-fired electricity production and replace it with Natural Gas, hydro, nuclear, wind and solar.

Even your pals at greenpeace say, "Burning coal is the biggest single source of carbon dioxide emissions from human activity". They are correct and there is loads of evidence to back that up.   We could meet world GHG reduction goals faster, cheaper and almost fully if we did that ONE thing. Stop coal fired power generation.

Harming, punishing Canada's oil+gas industry will make no difference to world GHG balance.


True dat.


If you don’t know what I’m talking about by, now you never will.  Too coddled & entitled.


Wrongheaded thinking Mr. Quinn!
1)Most sensible people with families don't want to live in the high density environment - that's just planners nonsense believing that they do ( or should be forced to).
2) Building transit simply encourages job seekers and businesses to use them.  Congestion and travel times cause both businesses and commuters to rethink where they want to work, travel and do business, and they will move to better options for themselves. Doesn't work for government services though, since they locate wherever they want to ( no market discipline there).
3) Elminate the planning and obstructions like the ALR, and zoning and the market will fix the housing affordability problem.


Whatever it is, it won't be enough. The Liberals can't handle this, even they know they're in over their heads.


Funny how you can go to Bathurst and Lawrence and see they have their own schools, their own community even their own hospitals and nobody goes there and say hey you are Supremacists!
Let's face the fact: unity is only possible with division. But this rule seem to be some but not all in Canada.


Never read the last three paragraphs of a Wohlforth article.  They all end the same way.  With the steering wheel abruptly and illogically turned sharply to the left.


I guess the current generation had to rediscover affirmative action and busing and the like.  Such efforts have been underway for many decades.  Maybe if we didn't throw so many minorities in prison they could take care of their kids.


Assimilation, oh yeah, this mess will bite  Justin on the derriere the next go around. Why didn't we just help these poor souls financially where they were. We and they would have been much better for it.


Cuz it was saying from a friend of mine over the years, who wrote it that way.


61 years old and vandalizing private property, this feller needs a good cock punch and a strawberry yoohoo.


Big companies pay high taxes, high prov and fed corp taxes, high land taxes (much much higher than for residential), payroll taxes, regulatory taxes.  And yet Big and small companies are the ONLY engine of the economy.  Folks need to understand that the prosperity of a country does not come from government, government workers, or government social programs.  It comes from the private companies that produce actual goods which multiplies through the economy to all of us.


If your polls are accurate Sheriff Joe should stay out of it, period.  He is way too old too.  Part of having good judgment is knowing when to hang it up.  He is 85 and it's time for him to hang it up.  He did a great job for all the years he spent in government but he has reached the point where it is time to let go of it and let someone younger, say a 70 year old take over the control.  It's time and it is the right thing to do.  It looks like Kellie is going to win the primary big time.  Let her do it.  Don't split the vote and give it to Flake.  She can win the general too.  Please.  Who wants a senator with the name 'flake'.  It sounds stupid.


Steve you are right, but it is a no brainer to use the blind trust.  Best to err of the side of good governance always, especially when you have a lot to lose.

Wealthy Canadians for the most part want no part of politics and this will keep them away.

Historically the US and UK have both done a better job of taking advantage of successful people from business world.


Thank you for the article.
Dieppe lies between cliffs that totally command the landings.
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To the east, the "beach" at Puys is a 15 yard wide strip of large stones. It stops abruptly at an overhanging cliff.  There is a narrow cleft in the rock.  It was defended by six concrete pill boxes.  That was the objective for the Royal Regiment of Canada.
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Many died before they could get out of the landing craft.  In about 15 minutes the unit had suffered 85% killed, wounded, or captured.
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At Dieppe itself, the tanks couldn't climb the seawall.
There was bitter fighting in the casino.
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West of Dieppe, the South Sask. Regiment landed in a swamp.  With no concern for his own safety, their commander got them across the Rive Scie bridge and saved their lives.  Charles Merritt, VC.
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All day a chaplain carried wounded off the beach to be evacuated.  As the last boat was leaving, he got back into the water and walked ashore, because the captured and wounded needed his care more.  John Foote, VC.


As I said above:

He ought to mandate owners of "historic" homes retrofit sprinkler systems as well....since they're getting such sweet tax breaks and all...


They will likely find their way to Canada where that bottomless pit of public dimes will take care of this.


You would think that ordaining less than six or ten or five seminarians per year, coupled with the deaths and retirement of clergy each year, would give these bishops a clue that there just might be, possibly be, a drastic shortage of clerics.  Add in the closings of parishes, schools and Catholic social service agencies/programs, and it actually is laughable when one of them clams there is no shortage.......unbelievable, yes?


That's "President Trump" to you, and his job is not to "identify problems" with existing vetting- it's the job of the agency bureaucrats who should have had that figured out under President Obama.  Glad we could clarify that for you.


You were 'profiled'. Really?

Hand on the gun. Like that's a bad thing? Really?

Well, Boo Hoo.

My roommate was pulled over while driving. Two officers approached him (from both sides of the vehicle). Guns drawn and pointed directly at his face. He was 'assisted' from the car and placed against the (hot) hood. They eventually determined he did not seem to be an immediate threat. Friend: So why did you stop me officer? Reply: You are driving a stolen vehicle. No front license plate(!), and rear plate does not match your vehicle. We ran the plate before we stopped you. Friend: Florida issues only one license plate. You didn't notice it was an out of state plate? Reply: Oh, um, sorry. You're good to go.

Driver as well as cops were white. Does it matter?

Mistakes happen. Police have a very tough job to do. They have to be tough to protect everyone.Yes they are protecting you too.  Sometimes it hurts. Oh yeah. Rocks your scene. Join the rest of us. Someday maybe?


Suicide by cop?  Try murder by cop.  Disgusting.


This is as much a Trump plan as the ACA was Obama's.  Obama promoted the ACA and Trump is supporting this one.   Trumpcare is the right name to use when it is engraved in the annals of history as another of Trump's colossal failures.


This proves that the Democrats were right to choose the stability of the Hilary, woman candidate, over the violent volatility of the patriarchal Sanders camp.


Gun control is an entirely appropriate religious topic.   The pastors, ministers, priests, and rabbis throughout our community need to speak out against gun ownership this weekend.

To murder is immoral.   It violates the Holy Commandments.    And guns are what are being used to break God's Holy laws.

Do you actually believe that Jesus Christ would be in favor of people owning handguns?   Or Assault Rifles??

Please come to your senses.


SUB-HUMANS are so much easier to deal with. Don't ever have a conversation with one or it might break the 'mold'. Not one of them is worth your time. If it hadn't been for the Negroes and German Jews we might have lost our touch. So how much would you pay to sponsor the disappearance of one you see all the time? Out of sight, out of mind. I'm sure there are a few 'patrons' who think the homeless would make good compost. The 'street herd' word spreads and the panic sets in. Perfect. These statements are of course to shame. Virtually all your information didn't come from your own experiences. "OH but I had one!" You had one. I'd say, read a book on outdoor survival and head up in the forest. Nature would like to introduce how it 'feels' about you. You live in a 'dream world' but it's just not good enough. Good Luck!


Thanks for canceling your return day in Hawaii. Betcha it's an extra day of golf.


Checks and balances in the Constitution
A functional conscience in view of the above
Me

That makes 3


78% of all statistics are made up on the spot!


Maybe because it would invite some examination and comparisons.


Same thing happened here in Denver a few years ago.


Okay. I watched the video too. I empathized with Strickland for a moment too. He obviously has loads of mental health issues and no doubt those issues were being exasperated by the crowd via whatever verbal and or physical threats that began before the filming began. (Side note: I don't go to these rallies even though I support the causes because the masked anarchists with their raw physicality and verbal prowess scare me almost more than the evil-doing being done that we're protesting about). As someone else said up above there somewhere in the comments, toward the end of the video some white folks do try to get verbally aggressive with the camera man, and a couple of other black folk do appear to be physically posturing towards Strickland. These things made me uncomfortable on behalf of Strickland. I wanted everyone to leave him the eff alone, for their sake and his. BUT YOU DONT BRING THAT MUCH AMMO WITHOUT PREMEDITATION! End of story. Everyone--Strickland included--got lucky.


She should recuse herself from this issue.  But then there is no such thing as conflict of interest in Hawaii, is there?


And our illustrious leader, Justin Trudowe says: Canada is the world's first "post-national state." ... 'There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada'. Seriously - and we elected this guy? You don't speak for me Trudope - that's not MY Canada!


Yes, too many fringe parties along the entire political spectrum could ruin the Liberal party's   chances of a majority government under Trudeau's  favoured ranked ballot system, as could proportional representation.


They probably did not like an expletive "A bunch of XX" in your post.

Those two states are Jordan - the Palestinian Arab state and Israel - Palestinian Jewish state.

That leaves no room for the second state of Palestinian Arabs, currently in the making.

US legislators and especially European legislators do not need to tolerate Palestinian Arabs taking them for idiots and insisting that there was no King Solomon Temple in Jerusalem and similar Islamic propaganda nonsense.


Sorry, that pic was from another ANTIFA "peaceful" protest.


Even my sister, still doe eyed and fawning over Justin's toothy grin and general 'hotness', admits we are seeing the most inept government since the final days of  Pierre Trudeau's reign or perhaps bumbling Joe Clark.  Trudeau has gone a fair ways primarily on his dashing looks but there are limits, even in Canada.

Harper, for all his jack boot, tyrannical ways was  vastly more competent than JT and so were most of his cabinet ministers. Jim Flaherty, O where art thou.


"Our sacred spaces and faith lives should remain free of partisan conflict" -  a bit late for that and besides this publication alongside some others no doubt might be in danger of closure.


Edward and 1 Little Bear:  Your emoticons register sadness with what David Lafranchi said.  But where is the error?


LOL at the commie pointing at Zuma and saying 'those that visited this abomination on us' like he wasn't one of the architects and layers of groundwork for the wannabe dictator to happen. Did we not point to Zim hard enough and shouted out the similarities every step of the relentless decline? Kinda ironic too that he claims on his blog to be an analyst examining threats to South African democracy, when he was so blind to this one. Most of all though, and totally predictable that, as many others he only really started to develop real-world goggles and some semblance of conscience once he's left the cult, and (somewhat like Frankenstein) now does battle with the very same monster he was instrumental in creating..


Not specifically. It's the "language of vagueness". It seeks to take the clear focus off the anti-Semitic activity as a manifestation of anti-Semitism, and redirect it anywhere the reader/listener wants to imagine. If the activity isn't truly anti-Semitic, then there is no problem. If there's no problem, he doesn't have to address it in any meaningful way.


Fine Stradivarii don't usually explode. Trump is like three stooges in one.


No-just an evil capitalist who will sell to anyone.  But at the same time cancel pages where firearms are bought and sold.


Drink 3 litres of water?! You'd better know where the washrooms are!

It's funny that while modern junk nutrition "science" misguidedly pushes over-hydration, drinking fountains are a rare sight these days. The result is "health conscious" adults walking about in public carrying sippy bottles like overgrown toddlers.

If we can't quash this particular piece of junk science, perhaps we can use it to demand drinking fountains for public spaces. From there, we can demand the restoration of amenities like washrooms, shaded seating, clocks, etc., so that public space is less of a barren concrete wilderness.


Well said ctheorist.  The prime ministerial attitude you observe is a serious risk for national security and Canadian identity.


I really agree with you ("athletic supporters" - heehee). When I first started college I blithely went to the gym to work out, only to have a coach tell me I couldn't work out there because that was for the "athletes only."  So our mandatory sports fees went to treating athletes like they're special, whilst 4.0 students like me had to take the crumbs left over.

Sorry, I'm just not in support of athletic programs tied to colleges. It's not appropriate.


Keep on spinning in circles.  It gets you nowhere.


"Your hate and bigotry is showing again, John."
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Really?
Perhaps you could point it out to me fedup, cause what I read seems like a pretty accurate assessment of the man/situation.

BTW, just out of general curiosity, how many guns did the government confiscate from you last year?
Must have been a lot to warrant the screen name.


You are projecting once again.  Pretty sure I didn't snivel about how tough I had it...once again, feel free to re-read what I wrote.

So...it's true christian behavior to tell someone they deserved to have their mother murdered?  Here's a direct quote from you:
"Your just full of hate and probably don't have a loving bone in your body. Why you so mean?"
So then in your sadistic world...it is not hateful, it is loving and not mean to tell someone they deserved to have their mother murdered?


Justin Trudeau. Downside is...he'll have to quit his current job...


Tell us about how great blacks had it before the so-called Great Society ruined it for them. Don't forget citations.


Oh joy.  SeaBiscuit, Selfie Boy and crew will offer some sort of tax break for Toronto and the whole country pays


I've officiated with Tom for many years.  A well deserved award.  Congratulations Tom!!


Rep Ward and his GOP colleagues- are fully aware that the federal government has a law that makes it illegal for any grantee to expend one penny of their grant monies on any lobbyist- or on or for any lobbying efforts-   law 101.    All State and the City agencies are too- prohibited in our City Charter and State Constitution from expending one penny on any lobbyist-   it is illegal.   But when HART was created-  the State and City permitted HART to thwart the law- skirt the law-  and  enter into a contract with a federally registered lobbyist-  getting $300k a year to do nothing but funnel that money back into the coffers of candidates for elective office.
Ward and his gang, refused to address this -  they in fact, have never spoke up against this practice-   they could have, if straight shooters -  honest people-  if acting in good faith-  the GOP would have offered an amendment to require the city to stop the paying off of lobbyist with the GET Rail Surcharge monies-


Wow... it's the very same paid Brietbart/Koch bros./Rebel climate change denying poster every single time.

Your counterpoints amount to very little but ad hominem attacks so just stop embarassing yourselves.

Even Drumpf's Interior Secretary nominee knows climate change is real :

https://radio.foxnews.com/2017/01/17/interior-sec-nominee-believes-climate-change-is-real/

Grow up !


'
…yeah, … mebbe not approaching the 'problem' from the right perspective.

Increasing participation isn't a function of the method of recording votes,

….that's a function of the voter.
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Bringing back civics education, stressing citizen responsibilities, stopping voter disenfranchisement, stopping voter suppression.  Destroy gerrymandered districts.

You want to solve your stated 'problem' ?

Fix what caused the problem.

Don't get sidetracked into trying to re-invent the wheel.

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These voting schemes have been looked at and tested.  They create another whole set of problems,

and they don't address the problem.

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You want better outcomes?  More participation?  You want voters to be involved?

Work with and for those voters.

Fix gerrymandered districts.

Work against voter suppression, …work against voter disenfranchisement.

Educate the electorate.
.

Attack the actual problem.

…don't create a whole new set of problems,

…and ignore the real problems.
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And to think hours before the debate and this editorial the available space I could have saved the paper.

"It's very obvious that hard-liners for both candidates already have made up their minds their candidate won the debate and it has even taken place. Although the debates may or may not be a turning point for the undecided voters which remains to be seen."


I do believe that hate and denial of any person's right, is something far less than Liberty! I'm by no means a member of the Borg hive mentality of a Democrat but thoughts further to the extreme right are just as bad. Maybe a bit worse, actually. Free thought and expression is what works, provided a person can put a plan in motion that benefits society. Imprisoning society might work for short term but rebellion will be the ultimate result.


Are you hearing voices?  Because I did NOT say that.


Phil,

Congratulations on taking the first of 12 steps to recovery!


About that...
https://youtu.be/pMRUszqMVM8


You mean people like Donald Trump?


I think everyone should be taxed 100%.  Cassandra and Chris will live forever happily after.


Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Is Pruitt next?

Is there going to be an original member of trumps cabinet left by next year?

So many questions, so little time, for some...


Could do a lot of things Paul but I mostly reflect back at what is directed toward me. This is no walk in the park but I appreciate your comment.


Sounds like a "Jesus" family to me!


Neither you nor the G&M can speak for the Canadian public.  That's what elections are for.  Polls suggest that many Canadians do trust the government, but polls have no official status.  However, if the G&M has, in fact, lost trust in the government, then they should have the courage to say so in print, rather than simply continually sniping.  At least if they came out and said that, their readers would know where they are coming from, and could judge what they write accordingly.


Do you think it's Melania's achieving the American Dream that you like better- or her being a successful and strong woman without Leftists like Hillary telling her she is?  I can't decide.....


I know. I was there back then, sitting through some of those classes. I know I am painting it darker than it was. It is probably just frustration on my part that people come on here and use " modernism" with little idea of how awful the anti-modernist effort became.
I have lived with people who have struggled, who are struggling, to overcome the poor catechesis of the past. There is great faith in many of them that is constrained by people who want to go back to those days.


It is amazing that anyone would vote for a person with absolutely  no political experience.  Why would anyone think anyone could come in with zero experience in politics  and be successful is beyond me.   The Donald is truly an embarrasement.  We will probably lose our leadership role in the world to China and perhaps Russia.  Sad.

I was not a Hillary supporter but I voted for her as at least she knows what she is doing.  The Donald acts like he has no clue most of the time.  What an embarrasement.  A real shame that republicans have no leaders like Eisenhower.  Hell even Nixon and Dole have been rejected.  Pathetic.


Bill, this sounds a lot like a classic case of projecting the characteristics of President "I alone can fix it" onto others - Regards.


Yawn.


AP news feed.

"Lotter said “the comparison is absurd” because Clinton had set up a private server in her home at the start of her tenure at the State Department and, unlike Clinton, Pence did not handle any classified material as Indiana’s governor."

"The vice president’s spokesman, Marc Lotter, said Pence “maintained a state email account and a personal email account” like previous governors in the state. Lotter said at the end of his term Pence directed outside counsel to review all of his communications to ensure that state-related emails were transferred and properly archived by the state."

In my opinion, I believe we can move on. :)


And John01235 - you are the most faithful Disagree poster I have! Tenacity is admirable...

But out of curiousity, do you disagree with my questioning how I know someone who says they know me, or with the White House link to "Signed Legislation"?

Just wondering and thanks!


Get the lardass cops (and there's NO shortage of them) out on FOOT PATROL. Do them AND the community some good.


Well with provinces eliminating the server wage, and minimum wage going up to a "living wage" which will be passed on to the customers, I would say there may be little or no need to tip in Canada soon. No one tips retail workers. Why would the tip a food service worker or a maid? People over tip and shouldn't be tipping for someone to pour them a coffee. In developing countries, set a budget and distribute. Again there is no need to over tip.


Trump played his supporters for uneducated fools.  All of his plans call for weakening and ripping off workign class Americans.  They got taken.


A strong US benefits Canada, Trump is a business guy, let's see what he does. And let's see how the Canadian version turns out.


kpkcrv011:  Are you speculating or do you have a link to provide?

I'm sure there will be some lawyers who disagree, but it is interesting to note that lawyers experienced and knowledgeable enough to present to the SCC and a world-class law school professor likely know more than them, and more than the poster "...censured" to whom I was responding.


In 1974 the gas was more valuable to use to produce oil and that situation remained until October 2015.    The State Agency that determines the highest and best use of our gas for the State's benefit is the AOGCC (Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission).  Until this last October, the AOGCC had never allowed release of the volumes of gas from the slope necessary to support a large gas line project.  Think of that when you reflect on how we spent upwards of $540 million on AGIA and hundreds of millions of more dollars on AKLNG when the State's had not sanctioned the release of the gas.


Well, it's safe to assume she is not a Republican.


Given the city's problems, does Safeway's policy seem sane and responsible? Shouldn't pharmacies be enthusiastically willing to do anything and everything, however seemingly inconsequential, to the keep prescription drugs they sell out of the hands of even *one* kid?

I'm contacting P.A. pharmacies next week to learn their policies. If they take unused drugs back for safe disposal, I'll congratulate and thank them. If not, I'll urge them to reconsider. I'll report my results to Ozias and Downey and press on until I'm happy with the outcome.


Big events hinge on small things said Captain Obvious


I am going to my safe space now.


Any guesses as to why "Civil" has a limit on characters?


Bishops don't attend conferences/courses designed to introduce them to other models of community.  Many of them don't really read anything about this.  And at the USCCB meetings [and I know this for a fact], they don't discuss this in general and few engage even in private discussions about declining numbers of Catholics and other models of either:
1) running parishes
2) alternate communities

They are too tied into "We HAVE to do it this way" [says Who and Why].  Bishops' Synods can come up with alternatives.  Of course, having the laity invited---not as auditors, but as participants is a major KEY.  But the Bishops would have to change their attitudes---sadly, in which it would be easier for leopards to change their spots.


They both admitted Bill Clinton asked her about the "health" of her grandchildren. That is an implied threat. I'm guessing Clinton made the off with their heads gesture at the same time he asked about their health. Wonder if Vince Foster had grandchildren? When someone threatens your family you either do what they say or commit suicide. There are no other options.


When I was a kid they used to claim it caused genetic damage ...


I appreciate that you appear to think media using the pejorative word "cuck" is disgusting.  However....

The Globe ran an article explaining the use of it.

A quick google search shows that Rebel Media has run several columns and a video *using* the word in its pejorative sense.  The latest: "[name omitted] becomes a cuck, apologizes for dressing up as Native at “Lone Ranger” Party."

Breitbart, of course, specialized in it.


This raises an interesting and potentially important question -- are there any tapes? If there are, how many recorders are there, where are they, and are the tapes catalogued and archived?

This is a material issue.


Who is Homer?


So Comey is a liar???...#MAGA


I do NOT understand the statement in this article, "Mail thefts puzzle residents".  The reason thieves steal your mail is for IDENTITY THEFT.
Whats so hard to understand about that???????


Could you be more obtuse? Mueller is going to flip people who will take him straight into the WH, and quite probably to Trump himself. That is why Trump is so freaked.


GIANT BUILDING.! nine stories...really


And so it begins... Are you paying attention Wynnbag and Trudumb?  This is what happens when you make it too expensive to manufacture in Canada (OntariOWE).  More to come, I'm sure of it.


Indeed, all those questions would have to be worked out. Certainly there are plenty of methods for people to work in good faith to assure that Canadians are properly represented. I did not like Harper's 39 per cent majority. I don't like Trudeau's either. I want democracy!


Peaceful pot smokers!


Harsh but funny ...


The mission of the EPA was always to safeguard the public from environmental pollution and toxic contaminants (i.e. a cleaner, healthier air, water and soil).  I’m not sure how the EPA got “tasked with protecting our people and our environment from the impacts of climate change” as Schatz puts it. That sounds more like an executive directive than might not be around much longer. So, is Schatz asking us to use old Obama policy as a qualifier for the new director? Good luck.


Who is asking for special accommodations here? Transgender people who just want to exist and live their life with dignity and respect? Or the ignorant bigots who can't fathom sharing the bathroom with them?

Not even the bathroom - you're not even allowed to serve in the entire military.

Yeah, special accommodations. Grow up.


He has golfed for about 25% of his entire term in office.  At taxpayer expense.

A lazy slob.  I stand by my first comment.


Women's rights groups gave the green light to politicians by looking the other way during the Clinton sexual harassment trials regarding Paula Jones.  The media further empowered politicians when they chose to redirected our attention to Monica Lewinsky and attacked the judge Kenneth Starr.  Bill Clinton was not held accountable even when he said he didn't know that Oral Sex was considered sex and it depends on what the meaning of "is" is.  This BTW had social impact on our teens.  Some teems decided that Oral Sex wasn't considered sex because of what the president said, which coined a new slang word, "Outercourse".  Oprah did a show on it.  There were "rainbow" parties involving lipstick and males.  It's about time that we held people in power to the same standards we are forced to uphold.


Cuts to per diem are inconsequential. Cuts need to be made to the LARGE pieces of pie, like education & social services. There's the bloat.


Nope...you set up thought restrictions


From the Feds and State GET, get a clue.


The Luddites are loose.

Ignore them, they're always wrong.


The US is Canada's umbrella and has been since the late-1940s. Canada knows that and has taken advantage of it by defunding its military to absurd levels.

How can a wealthy and proud Canada starve its brave military to the point at which it can barely assert sovereignty over it vast territory just a few hours flying time north of Toronto?


Surprise, surprise .......................
................ the Canada West Foundation is located in Calgary.


I sure hope he pulls the plug on it and he loses both ways not only with the ego he has but also with Congress.


We should all vote at the same time. I find it astonishing that in 2016 we still have some of the voters eliminating candidates before other citizens even have a chance to vote.


Doesn't sound like "use." The victims were known by thugs to have a large amount of cash. Sounds like an illegal business got raided by its customer base, probably so they could buy coke. These killers want the cocaine, kill thrill, and gangsta reputation more than cash or weed.


It will not happen...“I have seen no evidence of a more communicative and more accountable HPD” during the time she’s been on the commission, she said. “What I’ve encountered thus far is far more a culture of secrecy.”

Sheehan said that from what she understands, new commission members are supposed to receive an orientation with each division of the department to learn about its procedures, protocols and policies. “Despite six months of requests, I’ve never been privileged with an HPD orientation,” she said.

Per the aforementioned,  it's not just Sheehan's opinion/experience, in my opinion, HPD is becoming community with a culture unto itself.  It's either you're in or you're out.  Hence, they conduct themselves in a manner as they find appropriate.  Perhaps we have the creation of a new party in the making or already here.  Sad.


Sad and unnecessary,  the chances are the child did not have a PFD either.   I find that the suspender type PFD to be the easiest to wear.  RIP mother and son.


You’d think that if Trump were as rich as he claims to be that he could pay his own legal bills.
President Donald Trump’s attorneys in the probe of Russian election interference are being funded in part through a Republican Party account with a handful of wealthy donors—including a billionaire investor, a property developer seeking U.S. government visas and a Ukrainian-born American who has made billions of dollars doing business with Russian oligarchs.
☭
The Republican National Committee, through an account typically used for its own legal bills, paid more than $300,000 last month to help cover Mr. Trump’s private legal fees, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.
The fund has also paid another nearly $200,000 to lawyers for the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
If you donated to the Republican Party, ...you're footing the bill for traitors.
Winning.


Protest Report, please!


Nothing has changed with you Banquo over the years has it. Still spouting the Church of Toyota gospel. You need to have the title " Reverend" placed in front of your name.

Tell me Banquo, where is your evidence of this Unreliable garb you keep harping on.


Although John Birch himself pointed out below that "Settler media tends to focus on issues and reports on the problems...", it is apparently considered uncivil to mention that there is no inventive for the media or government commissions tasked with reporting on said "problems" to go out in search of those who feel they DID benefit from getting a residential school education, or from having been rescued from abusive homes and put into better ones.

It is not uncommon for adoptees in "settler society" to have fantasies about their birth parents, to imagine that they would have been better off in their original families. And adoptive families turn out to be not that different from "normal" families, some are better than others, it is the luck of the draw.


He bought the island so he can do whatever he likes. When you buy it from him then go ahead and lower the rates to your desired levels. Until then, you have no voting power. LOL


I don't think you've completely considered what your response suggests.
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it is typically parents who would prevent their kids from doing drugs at home
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wrt saying grace, it would typically be parents who set this example.  Banning religion from children would require the state to monitor the activities at home .... is that what you suggest?


Just remember the growth of the alt-right in the US and Europe is a direct result of huge illegal immigration. Canada has been largely immune from this movement but that will change if we get thousands of illegal refugees.

MSM has a huge egg on its face when Trump talked about an incent in Sweden and the Swedes mocked him only to have migrants rioting the next day.


This person is a nightmare...non-white person buying her work?  Never.  Oh poor me...getting all this commesse from aunties and non-aunties?  And those awful whities and their bah blah blah blah... What a horrible person.  Anyone brown or white who indulges her "art" is a proud member of the sheep.


Since a real 18% jump in any disease in a decade is extremely unlikely, the more likely explanation is that diagnosis is increasing. If people not getting treatment is an issue, then this stat (if accurate) could actually be considered a positive sign.


I had the same thought. That part of the story was kind of buried at the end but I think it's very curious.


They just don't get it.
But wait until the day when Trump is impeached and ousted either with overwhelming evidence against him or after a major scandal. I'll bet my boots that once he is out of the WH NONE of his current defenders will ever admit voting for him or supporting him. C'est la vie.


Friendly amendment: the 'target' date would be PRE-1964 - you know, when all of them 'uppity folks' got assured of rights the majority took for granted.


That he did not cite his other predecessor, Cardinal George, speaks volumes.  Cardinal Bernadine actively resisted the Republican Party's goal of co-opting the pro-life movement without quite saying that this had already occurred.  Today, it should be family wages, not the death penalty or nuclear war, which defines a consistent ethic of life.  This hits the libertarians where it hurts, even though most of us prefer some type of tax credited income (like a negative income tax) to categorical programs.

Making sure all families are financially well is simply more solidarity than some pro-lifers can take, since they are more into forcing conservative sexuality onto women than protecting life.  Theirs is a consistent ethic of moralism, in solidarity with all the moralists before them, rather than with the poor or with sinners.


Or, passionate about the cause.  There are many people who would be willing to take the survey multiple times to skew the results in their favour.  The survey results are useless for any kind of statistical data.


I didn't see anything in the article to support the conjecture that Lamborn bought his stock as a result of insider knowledge,  only that he is one of 495 representatives in Congress and he happened to buy stock in the company.  Pretty thin gruel.


Ed, I agree with you 100%, with both your sentiments and your candidate choices. You yourself are a good example of civil, thoughtful community engagement, even (or especially) when I don't agree with you. You are absolutely right that a change in political tone needs to begin at the local level. Looking forward to seeing you at more community forums.


Start pedalling.........


You should get a quote on what it will cost to swap out for new batteries and factor that into your $2 fill up cost.  Batteries have considerably lower life than a gas engine, so don't be fooled by the relatively low cost of charging.  You have to factor in the life span costs.  Sure the govt gives you a break on the original cost of buying the batteries, but no subsidy exists for the 2nd or subsequent go around.

Currently we have a fleet of battery powered drivers and drills for work.  When the battery goes, which is maybe 2 years, we throw away the tool and buy a new one.  Why the cost of replacement batteries is almost equal to the cost of a replacement tool with new batteries.  It just does not make economic sense to buy replacement batteries.

I see a whole slew of junk electric cars, simply because no one will want to replace the batteries.


"Liberal": is that, like, a conservative who can read?


The focus remains on the original issue too.  The new focus has both highlighted the original and obfuscated it.  If you read the article it is front and centre.

Taking a knee has awakened many.


His lack of judgement and self-control as a politician was breathtaking. I can't imagine how anyone could possibly be inspired to pay heed to whatever he says or recommends going forward.


What a terrible example of corporate entitlement!   Delay these bonuses....ridiculous.......they should be cancelled immediately.  Any managers at Bombardier before the provincial and federal bailouts don't deserve any monies for their poor performance leading up to this situation and any managers brought in subsequent to bailout funds should be realistically rewarded since they decided to join a "chronic bankrupt government charity case".  Pierre Beaudoin being given any money is pathetic, and if it weren't for his family's dual-class share structure, he would have been fired years ago.  This mess is 100% his responsibility.  Unfortunately, this dual-class share structure continues and in turn, the Beaudoin/Bombardier families ability to blackmail our governments, and in turn, taxpayers.  Too bad that Ottawa and/or Quebec cannot "nationalize" this economically important enterprise and end this corporate governance blackmail.


And sadly you have no understanding of the income tax act.


In our civilized society, Khadr, aged 15, would NOT have been allowed to buy tobacco/smoke, buy alcohol/drink, drive/vote etc. ...

Just think on our reaction if, at his young age of 15, an adult had tried to have consensual sex with him... ?

Our law would have deemed him not capable of making such decisions for himself...
Yet  look at the what we let happen to a child... Selective morality?? He deserves the cash... Surely... !


I’m totally amazed to discover that OLCC is not getting any money from the distillery tasting room sales  when they are doing a 100% tax on the wholesale cost of all the other alcohol.

How did that happen?

Didn't all the other distilleries who have to pay that 100% markup complain?