If it were $2000 it would sell itself, since I can casually pull it out in public and show I have money to burn. Remember Blackberry's Porsche branded phones? Features don't even need to work. In the primitive brain, money=status.


That's why I said stiggin it to Obama, but nice of you to project.


<No, when I use that term ["person with same sex attraction"], I'm being sympathetic.>
I have no way of knowing if you really believe that.  What I do know is this: it's pure drivel -- nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.


What cardinals seem not yet to understand is that Godhead consciousness is about dialogical truth - which in human and divine consciousness is 'dialogic', in supposition of female/male wisdom.
The monologue of male hierarchy talking to itself is absent dialogical Godhead-sense.


Mr. Craske, judges know the police lie under oath all the time, yet, as one told a lawyer friend of mine, they allow it to go on "because the system wouldn't work without it." In my opinion, that statement demonstrates the "just us" system is already broken and hasn't worked in some time.


Mr Doyle thinks it’s America falling apart when it’s more like the American Left having a conniption fit over Donald Trump and the fact that they have little to no actual power outside academia and the media. All they can do at this point is disrupt. Oh, and exactly no one outside the media bubble thinks a late night talk show host is the ‘conscience of America.’ Jeez...


Itsme:, I do not feel that every religion is calling on same GOD. Majority don't have a clue. One GOD. One Savior. The rest are all immitations man thought up to justify their culture!


it is very strange how comments can just disappear from here..  no word.. nothing.. poof


We must try


If she can bring Trumps attitude to Canada,
I'll vote for her. It's what we need.


I have lived on the ocean on the West Coast all my life,58 years minus 3 years in Prince George and found most Indian villages are the worst for dumping in the ocean and very poor environmentalists .This makes me as mad as when DFO brought biologists out from Ottawa to cook the books for Alcan to divert 92% of the Nechako spawning river for a power plant to sell electricity.This is why I want BC to separate from Canada so we can manage our resources using something called a brain


Number one city to live in Canada is Ottawa Mr Calgarian.  Combination of high tech and government paves the way to prosperity and clean living.  LRTs, bike lanes and Teslas are ruling.    Funny Dirty old Alberta(second dirtiest jruisdiction in all of North America, proudly standing just behind good ole Texas...LOL....) was hardly mentioned. I believe one or two places outside of the national parks was mentioned for posterity reasons.  JT didnt forget ALTA for a reason....smelly oily tarsands will be over soon.   Revert ALTA back to Ag and toursim and the quality of life in your province will improve exponentially. The big cities will have to be decommisioned and have enough people to support the above mentioned businesses.  Calgary and the egreggious subdivisions that are so pervasive across your landscape will have to be torn down......MAKE ALTA GREAT AGAIN!!! This is from an Ontarian who worked in Banff during my schooling summers and who loved ALberta back then....no so much now.


What would be fair is if the monster went to jail where he belongs.  If the monster is no longer alive--I likely would not punish those who had nothing to do with the abuse--unless the actual person was responsible for covering it up or enabling it in some way. Then I would want that person or persons to go to jail.

If I was at all inclined to sue, I would obviously go after the religious order.

In answer to your question: there is nothing that would make up for the abuse--even if the monster went to jail and all those who enabled him, even if I sued and received a huge payout.


Well, there you go, if Don Jr says it isn't true then it's settled!


Maybe it was brake failure eh Ross. Or more likely it was....................


Of course they do! Catholics like any other religious group have a constitutional right to raise their children in accordance with their respective faith. If you do not think sex as taught in public schools is not based in a particularly ideology, you are not paying attention.


...because invoking children always makes for a better spin on any topic.


Fewer than three million at this point.


There are people who don't think the current taxes are high enough because "marijuana is bad."
Worse are the people and organizations (Smart Colorado) who want to return to the failed prohibition and black market.


But it is ok to lie on your immigration forms


Lightly , I do too.  As they are churning around under my tires .


And the CPC membership paused briefly to digest this latest turn of events, reloaded and took careful aim at the other foot.


So, why is nobody investing in Chinese real estate ?  Besides being very difficult to do but it seems the West is wide open to Chinese buyers.


Of course my above comment is just a philosophical gripe. Taxation is a balance between not enough, and too much. However, the argument of the legislature being bought and paid for is a tired diatribe. If you are an expert in the economics of lift cost specific to the arctic environment, perhaps you should testify before the group you disparage. With a plentiful resource, the producers can manage an immorally high tax rate, grudgingly. What they cannot withstand is uncertainty and an entitled state government spending beyond reason.
Drilling budgets alone account for close to a billion dollars per year, in greater prudhoe. That is, until the commodity crashed. Then drilling was slashed, thousands of jobs were lost. Their profits are still paltry, de-insentivising drilling, increasing production, and creating jobs for Americans.


Trade the L for a P commonly, or L can be Load. It seems as if garycrum was trying to get around the censors in his/her interminable effort to belittle people and call them names.


HRC is 100 times worse than Trump.


So happy to see the real definition of fulsome explicated for all. So tired of lazy language.


Actually they accurately reported what the polls said at the time

Look at the final predictions - Hillary was up by 3%.  Which is what she won by.


Best comment of the night!!


Trump Attacks Democrats For Not Helping Repeal Obamacare

Trump lives in a truth-free bubble.

He's trying to pull the rest of us in.

I guess he was standing too far away from the teleprompter he never uses to see the script he never read with his aging eyes, which are in the best shape of any President's eyes, ever, in America's past 1241 years.


The article mentioned is:

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-burke-on-amoris-laetitia-dubia-tremendous-division-warrants-action

Your assertion that a "parallel magisterium has reared its head" has reared its head is unsupported by the interview, the cardinal correctly states that nothing can contradict Tradition (or Scripture) upon which the entire teaching rests, nor has “Neo Lefebvrism” any currency in the discussion as, unlike Marcel Lefebvre, the cardinal has not rejected a teaching of the Church, has not consecrated successors without mandate, nor challenged the authority of the Pope.

The relevant Scripture is Galatians 2:11-21.


In Colorado, despite legal weed, most people do not partake. Sure, a majority of adults will have tried it at some point in their lives, but a majority of adults have also tried alcohol at some point as well. Our society has not become "more interested in taking [a] substance to check out of life." Fewer than 1 in 10 people have some kind of substance use disorder and that remains more or less constant throughout history.


Tell that to my relatives who were killed at Salem.


Is the count able to be displayed on a map? That would be pretty interesting to see how the homeless population is dispersed throughout the area...


So you're saying that black lives don't matter. We know how you feel. We know that it's the white racists on one side and blacks and their friends on the other.


Bob...You are carrying a very heavy  load. Honor yourself by not adding more to its weight here. Rest. Recover. Renew. Posting here may not provide that kind of care or comforting.

 I think they call them "dog whistles" these days to refer to those whose ears are tuned to react to particular words no matter who uses them or in what context. The practice is to determine what "dog whistles" will set someone off.  Like a dog is trained to attack with no regard for who, or what or why.

If you want to practice keeping a still pond while people toss rocks in the pond with the goal of disturbing your peace... then that means not responding - in either thought, word, or -- comment.
This from Henri Nouwen - just heard in this last Sunday's homily -- No one who is shot with a bullet is not first shot with a word. No one who is shot with a word is not first shot with a thought. http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/videos


"Elders have advised everyone to stick together and support each other if troopers come."

Wonder if that's "code" to hinder an investigation?


Thier prices are twice as high as their competitiors.


"At a time when Speaker Ryan has bailed on Trump, why is the president of the U.S. bishops reading a script that sounds like it was crafted in Trump Tower?"

If the last two decades have shown anything, many Catholic bishops are among the most inept actors on the American political stage.


My goodness "Climategate" - cherry-picked data from hacked sources, especially chosen and presented to appear as if a conspiracy was in place!


Boss, boss! De planes! De planes!


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I saw that post before it was eradicated and it had nothing uncivil in it.  This comment system is corrupt.


I fail to see the great importance of this story.


I suspect that the word "Jingoism" is no longer taught in the public schools.

 If so, the Trump rhetoric would have produced it by now.

And it is such a useful word when you have the likes of Putin, the North Korean regime, the Chinese and so forth running amok and Trump pursuing his international agenda.

I also believe that the internal US focus on multi-culturalism as opposed to international concerns after the fall of the USSR accounts for that.  Then, when you get a Putin or a Kim or even a Trump, you have no context for evaluation.


Prayers, oh my god


Trump could have just pardoned Flynn (as it is his right to do), and the investigation into Flynn would have ended. Trump didn't do this, thus allowing the investigation to continue. Which it still does, with or without Comey.


Happy new year to you Niagara.... May 2017 bring you nothing but good heath.  The rest will fall into place if we have health at the top of the list.... Stay warm,  Be safe.


Well...first off I dont see it as disrespect, these are the freedoms vets like me fought for.

But leave them in the locker room and just remove them from thier stage, issue no longer there.


I suppose this kind of naivete, narrow-mindedness and myopia should no longer come as a surprise.  I mean, really, where exactly do you propose America goes next with the Senate, Congress and presidency controlled by Republicans?   Would impeachment really amount to anything?  The fact that Donald Trump is not 'presidential material' is patently obvious - any fool can see that.  Would Mike Pence be better at acting the part?  Theater it is, and so it seems every president finishes their term a better golfer.  Honeyed rhetoric and appropriate behaviour is convincing, mind you.

To pretend that Donald Trump makes all US decisions and that the enormous military, judicial and other civic bureaucracies have nothing to do to with countless US policy decisions, many of which are dangerous, reckless and represent endemic corporate corruption, and for this to pass as journalism or opinion today, explains why other news and opinion sources are sought.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “chop off the heads” of traitors during a speech in Istanbul commemorating the victims of last year’s botched coup attempt and celebrating the government’s victory.
“First of all, we will chop off the heads of those traitors,” the Turkish leaders said, addressing tens of thousands of people in Istanbul on Saturday evening, as cited by AFP.
Now to get Turkey to admit to its Genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. Justin is silent, Trump, Bibi, Putin and Macron. Imagine if Germany (government) denied the holocaust the world would be in an uproar!


If Patrick Brown has a different more private minded approach as far as selling pot it's a complete mystery to the voters in Ontario due to his usual silence on any issue.


I agree with a lot of what your saying, but I also know if any effort were made to curtail the growth in income for those 'highest paid civil servants' you would be the first and loudest protesting it

Sorta like all the posters on these boards who trash the Conservatives for running deficits post 2008, yet it was the political parties they support who pushed for, and wanted larger deficits...


As long as the Liberals control Ontario, there will always be boondoggles akin to the Pan Am games that he can profit from.


You think the Petroleum Broadcast System is too left-leaning? LOL!

Oh and when I see someone griping about "political correctness" (the fake kind), I just assume they are bleating about someone either being civil and/or actually correct.


And reversal surgery/hormonal fixup.


My wife and I paid off our 1982 1st mortgage (16%) in 5 years, 9 months, at age 34. We found not having a mortgage made our lives less stressful and gave us more options about spending post mortgage.

Oh, we also bought a minivan without a loan while paying off the mortgage. They would only let us pay 10% of the Principle, once a year,  in addition to the regular mortgage payments. That 1986 van lasted us until the oil pump broke in 2006, although we bought a 2nd mini-van in 1992. Buying a new vehicle every 3 years or less is insanity, despite it being a common bad financial habit. I used transit from 1985 on, when I didn't bike to work.

One employer even let me expense my monthly transit pass, as a cheaper alternative to subsidising a parking spot by $100 per month plus tax. My kids and wife could also use the pass, when they didn't have a youth pass or College Student Card as Bus Pass of their own. An Express bus stops next block, something we considered when buying our home.


janey, we are the most inclusive society on the planet.  Anywhere.
.
We are not perfect, but equal rights are here for everyone.  Application is not perfectly even, but we require relatively small modifications to be better, not wholesale changes.


So your identity as a Christian has nothing to do with Christ or his teachings, the, and is just some throw away tribal affinity you label yourself with.  Got it.


The state should not get involved in business - period.  This applies in almost any country and many countries have effectively followed this practice to their great benefit.
There are several reasons.  1. The people in government are politicians and are usually not good business people. We are seeing this too often in SA.
2. The sale of SOE's to the private sector will bring in huge amounts of money to the fiscus.
3. In SA the ANC cadre deployment has resulted in incompetents being placed in positions of high responsibility - with disastrous results,
4.  Many in these positions see $ signs from all the money involved and cannot resist enriching themselves via a host of dodgy processes.
5. Many large SOEs could be sold to a number of private companies so that competition could bring down prices. SOEs  tend to be monopolistic and because of this prices rise.  Eskom is a case in point.
6. Tax money that could be far more effectively used gets channelled to propping up failing SOEs.


Define ugly.  Is 2-4 ugly?


It's the FBI's fault for not allowing the militia time to clean the place up.


You don't have a "right to mass murder."  Your paranoia does not justify your infringing on the 2nd Amendment.


Since there is no meh button I use funny.


A two syllable first name is simple enough for even dogs to understand. That is why dog owner's are advised to keep their pet's names down to two syllables. A human who can't handle a two syllable first name either has a mental deficiency or is being deliberately rude which is the case with the hostess described in this article.


When Trump launches into a spittle-flecked tirade against those #BlackLivesMatter radicals who think police should shoot fewer unarmed black men, the racism is so obvious it might as well have been written in the sky by the Blue Angels.


Being gay -- and sexually active -- does not necessarily entail engaging in immoral  activities, though as with straight sexual activity, it can be immoral.

You and I have been here before.  I remember how vile your thinking is and I know where you will go if I engage you. I choose not to provide the occasion for you to re-post that filth. I don't want to be the proximate occasion for your sin.


No doubt the NDP coming into power was the last straw. This is terrible news for the entire county and a whole industry has been killed in its infancy.

We should expect more from our politicians.


Thank you Globe and Mail for publishing this article describing just how dire the situation is for animals in Canada. The transportation laws are just one issue; the treatment they endure on factory farms are another issue it would be good to see more coverage on.  It is embarrassing that Canada lags so far behind Europe and other western countries as far as the treatment of farmed animals goes. I'm very thankful  to organizations like Animal Justice for speaking up and trying to improve animals' lives.


Better to utilize the VA system and get him the best mental health available. This Veteran Hero needs all the help he can get. Soldier loses all his limbs and USA is there. Soldier loses all mental control and fellow soldiers want to abandon him? Cmon man.


Yes becouse Crooked Kathleen and the largest sub sovereign debt in world are of NO concern to Ontario's futures .
Nothing to see hear folks, move along flippers.
Ya, nice try lefty !


It appears the OMA leadership is in a difficult position. They have some Doctors who are happy with their high incomes and preferential tax treatment, and others who are unhappy because they want the big pay increases that other public sector unions have received over the past 12 years.
      Unfortunately for Doctors, they don't run and finance the Liberals election campaigns like the teachers and other unions do, so they don't get the paybacks. And the OMA has some specialists who refuse to have their pay lowered, even though they have had huge pay increases because of technology, and their ability to perform more procedures in a much shorter amount of time
     Either way, the pay increases the public sector unions have been receiving are unsustainable with a $300+ Billion deficit and $1 Billion dollars going out the door each month in interest. So the government has to clamp down on costs, especially on health care and Doctor's salary's are a significant component of this expense.


If they cut overpaid administrators, they wouldn't need to cut as many jobs.  But then, the administrators are the ones making decisions so that's not going to happen.

The largest cost driver to education is not the salaries of employees, but the health care costs.
When my husband worked for the school district, a full half of his salary went into a health care fund.
Who is managing that and where is all of that money going?  I always felt is was a bit insulting that some health insurance fund got the same pay as my husband for doing absolutely nothing and people go on complaining about the salaries of teachers?

Is there a teacher in the comment section that can post their pay stub information for all the people here that think teachers are making $100,000 per year?

If the state really wanted to save money on education, as well as other state employees...they would set up a state system of not for profit health care.


Amen -Jay is rolling in his grave


Well, Just a Normal Person, thanks for the exposition of why you're not college material.


Any thoughts about the number of black on black killings??  Or black on white attacks??  Or the huge number of Hispanic gangs, most illegal alien felons, that run huge areas of LA, Oakland??  How about the number of honor killings in this country?? Any thoughts on the liberal run cities like Chicago, Detroit, DC, etc. No!!  Why??  Because they are all liberal run cities, many for the past 50+ years, and liberals are no going to say a word to challenge minorities to get their act together-FACT!!  What about these parents??  Or do you what to blame that on the CBF, Repubs, G. Bush, or G. Washington!!  Dishonest, lazy and clueless liberals.


Gov. Walker, Pres Obama to meet new Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia this Month.


I thought you were an informed voter Stevenson.  Apparently you've been in a coma for the past eight years.  Otherwise you'd have realized that it was your Republican brethren in Congress that brainstormed  a Just Say No campaign against President Obama.  Furthermore, the president can't spend a dime.  It's Congress that's charged with the responsibility to produce an national budget.  And let's not forget that it was Dubya's two administrations that dragged our military into the two bogus wars that you're talking about, which produced the first $7 trillion.  And let's not forget that it's the Republicans that have generated the so-called Patriots Act which spawned an annual Trillion and another Trillion for the nation's Defense budget.  So much for trying to wipe your uninformed hands  clean.


Last paragraph  of this article -  your top priorities aren't moving fast enough it seems like a slow boat to China!! Move faster and it'll be a win win situation for the caregivers and patients!


First convince me that ANY new building is needed when we already own one.


I disagree that it is complex or an issue.  Just IGNORE any mention of cultural appropriation.  Easy peasy.


Or not teaching anything!


Yup, I'd admit publicly that I would shoot a person. On a forum, in a nationally published newspaper. Good move. Let us know how you 'make out' with your new roommate. Literally.


There are some difficulties in this column, first Are Monastries so willing to receive clergy who have sexually offended? This idea is based on the old "Penitential monasteries", which do not exists anymore. In some countries in Europe Monastic major superiors have voices their worries with having those men among them. To have work for many years as a psychotherapist for sex offenders, I know that some of them are very difficult to monitor, and first of all need more therapy than penances. How can you ask a community with an average age of let say 70 to monitor such problematic personalities? Secondly, though the procedure for bishops or superiors mishandling cases is in place on paper, it has not yet being put in practice, and apparently there are some resistances to it. So there are the official talks, but as Marie Collins point out there are different stories behind the closed doors. But otherwise I have no objection for mercy as long as justice for the victims is not sacrificed.


AR, too bad you don't know the law.


We won't have to wait that long to see the effects. Those young boys will grow into disillusioned, "alienated" young men pretty fast...


Way to go Ige. And they'll be right back by Friday.  No vision, no permanent remedy, just more ring around the rosies by Ige and company. Not to mention the waste of thousands of tax payer dollars goin through this big public relations charade.  Anyone but Ige


Tesla probably thought that pickups were cheap low-margin practical work vehicles. Tesla misjudged the market now that pickups are simply luxury toys for the rich costing 50, 60, 70 even $80,000.

However, they did realize that 3-row SUVs with stadium seating are neither sport nor utility and sell lots of their enormously popular and ridiculously expensive Model X.


I don't have a car. I usually walk, sometimes even if it's an hour. I don't feel safe on a bike with cars. If it's a longer distance, time critical or bad weather, I call Uber or Lyft. Riding a bike like the author described almost requires a GPS phone to not get lost in the non-euclidean maze some of the bike paths are.


In this, I agree with you.  Bill Clinton was the one with power.  He was the one who should have said, "Stop."  Although this may not have been assault from the legal perspective (and I want' there, so cannot know for sure what really happened), what he did was reprehensible.


If you stop ALL oil subsidies you still need the PFD to pay for this bloated government. Oil breaks are $750 billion. PFD endowment brings in $2 billion. There is no other practical way to do this. Income or sales tax bring in $100-$300 Million, nothing like the PFD restructure

Take a deep breath. Oil is $51 and climbing. The guv’s budget is based on $30 something

Reducing the PFD attracts less “Pilgrims”


Again, Sanders is not a communist. That is a blatant lie.


France compensates vaccine injuries, Canada is the only G7 country that does not. Odd the writer doesn’t note this glaring difference.


So you see the Eucharist as a reward for being good?


An excellent statement of why we need to have some realistic controls on who gets guns.


scary


Let them hold his CO responsible for the proper leadership and management of his unit and accountable for its failings, and certainly, let us all hold the commander-in-chief responsible for all war crimes and crimes against humanity that resulted from the illegal US 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. Round up all the relevant parties in public and private organizations and send them to the International Criminal Court at the Hague for prosecution, along with a boatload of hard evidence and documentation of their culpability in these crimes against the US Constitution, The People, and indeed, against all the civilized world. They have authored for us all a completely unlivable and intolerable world, and it is so sickly that it cannot stand even one more year, can it?


Actually, the BC NDP's proposal is the CLOSEST thing any government or party in Canada has come to actually dealing muscularly with overseas money, and that is the NDP plan to increase property tax on folks who do not have BC income tax histories.

Look, dislike the NDP all you want, but that one policy proposal is WAY more aggressive than anything Ottawa or the BC Liberals have come up with for dealing with overseas money. The NDP's plan is a torpedo at overseas-working millionaires, regardless of whether they bought a Canadian passport or not and regardless of whether their Vancouver house is empty or filled with a parachute family. No other party has touched that target.


Is that what you "thought" Jimmy?


Now this is REAL vision! I agree with all that is said here!


"The Left"...

...in Douglas County...
...where Republicans outnumber Democrats by a ratio of well over two to one...

Thanks for the laugh, bro...


Critics of the program, however, argue DACA recipients take jobs that should go to unemployed Americans. What do you say to that issue?


Make SHOPO pay for new lawyers


wish i had said that...


Trump literally turned this into a Hitler youth rally.


Have you considered the alternative?  An increase in desertification?


We voted no on this for several reasons:

1: It doesn't go all to the jails;
2: Fear mongering tactics are being used on voters;
3: Want more beds? Give ICE the illegal ones taking up those beds;
4: Current budget is not being allocated responsibly


Golly, Trid ... you sound like a notorious, craven Liberrralll! ;-)

I, for one, never obeyed Ratty's command that I view myself as inclined to an objective disorder or in a love relationship that is intrinsically evil. I'm so glad that we see eye to eye.


Wow, this is how corruption is dealt with in a civilized society. I do hope their reach will ensnare the GuptaANC crime syndicate.
We are totally powerless with a vice grip like state capture over our investigative and prosecutorial state agencies. The "no confidence vote" rescue plan in parliament will also fail because the ANC majority do not have 50 moral and incorruptible members to help us save our country.


Another brown blouse.


Every vote matters , some more then others and your vote may or may not be counted for who you vote for.
Its hard to call that democracy.  No matter who you voted for don't you want your vote to go to whom you voted for??? I bet a recount would be a disaster when it uncovers voter fraud etc. I personally think we need to audit all the votes to ensure that the voting system is working properly.


I love how now that you have been exposed as someone that doesn't actually know anything, just copying and pasting from articles that serve your purpose you are trying to deflect and tell me what my job's policies are to try and prove a point. I am actually off today, thank you, sitting at the VA for an appointment as I am a Disabled Veteran as well as a state worker, the latter of which you seem to try malign as some sort of demons almost every time you get a chance. But keep on trying to deflect, it just makes you look more desperate.


Bad news....


cont.
... people who are punished with higher rates.  However, if you're a heavy smoker or an HIV-positive party animal, an alcoholic ne'er-do-well or a drug-raddled slacker, a single mom with no job skills and 5 kids by four different dads,  and lo and behold you're paying the unavoidable health costs of poor choices and impulsive, self-destructive behaviors - you probably qualify for a government subsidy.  :-/  Not surprisingly under this scenario, lots and lots of responsible people feel like they're being screwed by the system.   O-care seems less an insurance program than it is another redistribution mechanism, setting up yet another entitlement to buy more reliable Democratic  votes.

The problem is, James, what the government rewards, it gets more of.  What the government punishes, it gets less of.   When a society consciously *punishes* personal responsibility and instead rewards all the screwheads, what do you think happens in the long run?  0_x


This sounds like a great compromise! Nix the unrealistic and divisive wall but purge the nation of illegal criminals (although, in reality, anyone in this country illegall has already broken the law and qualifies as a criminal). That's a solid start anyways.


Pravda apologizes.


I'm not going to dumb it down for you.  Sorry.


Kid is another Herbert: stationary, pro-style. Why we went after him is a mystery. Now, it'll be hard to find a QB with a sensational upside.


Or as our politicians would say: "the system is working perfectly!"


Didn't they just this week allow women into some sporting event they were banned from?  Great country to chair human rights.......such a farce.


I'll wager that one stump anywhere is one too many for you.


This epitomizes the type of straightforward issue that should be resolved under a royal commission. There is definite criminal liability here as well as government incompetence that allowed these tainted batches of cannabis to be sold to the public. This is right up there with the tainted blood scandal that saw thousands of Canadians getting HIV and Hep-C through blood transfusions! All these cannabis companies need to be stripped of their government licenses, right now! The RCMP need to raid and lock down the premises, a criminal forensic audit needs to be launched of its books (especially of inventory). Liberals should not pass legislation to legalize marijuana until new federal rules governing the production and distribution of cannabis are written to protect the public. Especially, sending samples of every batch of cannabis to be tested by federally approved labs before the cannabis can be deemed safe for human consumption. People need to go to jail for selling bad WEED!!


Facts do not require common sense to validate them.

The sky is blue. Fact.

Water is wet. Fact.

Life begins at conception. Opinion.

If you really can’t see the day difference maybe you should put down the koolaid of your religion and take some basic logic courses.


Obviously you're no stranger to shame.


Interesting. I never vote "not civil" on even obvious lies, if they are civilly presented. I get what you're saying but I think the civility thing relates to being adult and not name-calling. I have voted "not civil" on posts i deeply agree with but which call the other person "idiot" or some such.


He was a thief !


Institutionalized ongoing criminality.  There is no valid visa, not for work, not for school, not for an individual with a specialty with an advanced degree, not a sports team, not for arts or science or any other visa that would foreign temporarily allow individuals into the United States.  It is simply outrageous and disheartening to think that the scammers are so greedy that they even risk jail and fines.  There have been admissions, there has been continued deception and now the auction states that they are against slavery and trafficking but are willing to accept an I-95.  This very form is for an alien seeking temporary landing in the United States. And this alien must leave in the same fashion that he arrived.  Temporary..... not a work permit.  Not the right to obtain a fishing license.
The same people, look at their faces, that said the monument expansion would take away Hawaiian fishing rights.  They lied so that they could continue to exploit trafficked for labor. Failed..


The argument isn't a Canard, and your list of examples shows many ways our system could adapt and make itself better.

What evidence do you have that Drs in Canada would revolt at a contracted 40 hour week? I suspect a lot of them might quite like the idea

"That is clearly not the Dutch model." It is clearly closer to the Dutch Model, or even the UK model that the current system.


Well said.   Sad but true from my own personal experience.   Human nature.


While we're at it, put the wholly unfunded OAS on the balance sheet. Add in an estimate of the extra medical costs, which will increase as the seniors age.


Alberta would welcome a sane conservative government. It would be a pleasant change from the government we've had for the last 15 years or so. The Frankenstein creation of Unite the Right wants to return us to those good old fiscal days that never were.


This bill is a small step in shutting down what has become government theft of folk's assets. Of course law enforcement opposes it - stealing from suspects has become a major source of funding. And that is what it is - theft. If law enforcement officers want the respect and trust of the public they should stop stealing assets and prove that what they seize was in fact gained through illegal activity.


So in saying that we shouldn't hold John A. Macdonald to 2017 values, I guess, following that vein of thinking we shouldn't hold Hitler and the Nazis to 2017 values.


3 yrs $65M isnt bad coin.  More than the Blown Jays were offering in terms of per year dollars... Good for Edwin, he can come back into the death hole in the Nation and blast a few out of there for the Tribe.


The Bloomberg liberals are attacking the First Amendment again, look for FOX cable ratings to go up.


Bronson Kaahui, You say that the well regulated Militia was designed as a check against a standing army.  The Second Amendment gives them the right to keep and bear arms.  You also say that a well regulated Militia no longer exists.  The inescapable conclusion is that nobody today has the right to keep and bear arms.


Golf guy3: Well said.  I not sure why there are so many entitled people in the GTA.  People don't DESERVE to be home owners, they work toward it.


The Catholic Church has always been paranoid...Let it's Dogma sink into antiquity,and tax them for their political involvement ...


When you put something in "quotes", it should be a "quote", not a summary of your memory.

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

"Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."

"The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians—and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse."

"I propose that it shall be no longer malum in se for a citizen to pummel, cowhide, kick, gouge, cut, wound, bruise, maim, burn, club, bastinado, flay, or even lynch a [government] jobholder, and that it shall be malum prohibitum only to the extent that the punishment exceeds the jobholder’s deserts."


Well she didn't.  If she had given them something other than water charges would be appropriate.


A cite to support this Russian Money Laundering claim please.


Hypocrite, pretender, dissembler, deceiver, liar, pietist, sanctimonious person, plaster saint;
-
sounds like (and I am being kind)
Justin TRUDEAU and Kathleen WYNNE
does it make them "social conservatives" ?


Over two centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson and certain other founding fathers in our "Christian" nation actually debated whether a Muslim could be president. The answer was "yes." See Denise A. Spellberg's THOMAS JEFFERSON'S QUR'AN: ISLAM AND THE FOUNDERS.


There is much more that just those categories you mentioned...local or Washington....There are local Tribes which I don't think you are referring to...and people from all over the country who want less public land used for extraction or development. There are also developers of all kinds, from all over the world even, that will be looking for mineral and other resources to extract from public lands, so putting some aside now is of interest to many.


Your extreme vetting will only show us that the great majority of  killers are liberal democrats.


There was a really awful scree gully on the route above Willow Lake that was steep and very loose.  IMO it was pretty dangerous when there were hikers above you causing loose rocks to slide.  A different route is definitely a good idea.


"He left the seminary and a few years later married. "

He turned out better than many who stayed (from his generation that gave us scandal).


..."That is a lot of trust to place in a young man who spent his formative years following his father around terrorist training camps and living cheek by jowl with some of the most crazed jihadis on the planet."

Mr. McDougall - you address just one part of Omar Khadr's ordeal when you don't mention that he also spent part of  his formative years in Guantanamo Bay prison, purposely established by the Bush administration to evade American law and justice. Mr. Khadr was handled by "patriotic" American  security agents  who tortured him mercilessly and with impunity for 10 long years,  with complete disregard for the rule of law. He was 15 when his imprisonment started.   A government gone rogue while, simultaneously, claiming to be a beacon of hope and defender of democratic values worldwide.  Enough said.


The writer of this article is obviously still upset over his precious Hillary's loss in the election.  As for the NFL, Sunday marked the end of my support for them.  Yesterday, instead of watching football, my wife and i took a nice stroll through downtown Raleigh and later a bicycle ride--a far more enjoyable way to spend a Sunday afternoon than watching NFL. Next Sunday, we're going to attend a festival! We can't wait!


Says the man (or woman?) who voted for Hillary Clinton the most corrupt politician in American history


Odds are excellent he'll be Trump's running mate.


School district builds multiple schools. These guys didn't even build the original building. You really should just give up


I'm a woman and I would have interrupted her too. She was being ridiculously rude.


It seems like the service times chosen were ill-suited to the location.  The busses started too late in the morning and ended too early at night.   Any sophomore-level college business student could have come up with a better plan.


I certainly don't hate my job.......it's just that there are a lot of other interesting things that I haven't time for.  I will be retiring within the next two years max, and am thankful that I did the financial planning  and still have good health  so that I will be able to pursue those other things.

I know many people count work as one of the sources of self-worth and identity.  I am hopeful that the activities I plan for retirement will more than fill those potential holes.


"illegal" migrant? not wanting to get deported


To the author: Please do not confuse your opinion with fact. When offering your opinion, please state that it is opinion and offer arguments to support it.  Consider this statement - ".... he cancelled the census to starve the government of data that could be used to justify programs that Conservatives oppose. It truly was an act of political vandalism." You state that as a fact when it is only your unsubstantiated opinion. Here is another explanation; Countries like Australia force citizens to vote, they take the view that this is a civic duty. Canada takes a different view. Some in Canada believe that the government should force its citizens to complete the census, that it is a civic duty. The Harper government felt that this infringed upon Canadian's civil liberties. I don't know if this explanation is any more true than the nefarious one that you have advanced, but your statement that, "There was no reasonable case for cancelling the census." is patently wrong.


Were they wearing helmets or not?  More weak and incomplete reporting from the SA...


The UN just released a report condemning Canada for anti-African racisim so ingrained in Canadian society that it's considered 'normal' and not even noticed by the majority. They call for apologies, reparations and memorials.
It permeates every Canadian institution and found a direct link between a history of anti-black racism and the deplorable conditions that blacks in Canada find themselves in today with everything from an over representation in police homicides to poverty to inadequate food to poor education opportunities.


Isn't that the truth!


Proper Gonja: What is MSM?   I hardly watch tv at all, AND,   I am NOT living in FEAR.


This is getting ridiculous.


Something About This Russia Story Stinks
Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious intelligence assessment
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/something-about-this-russia-story-stinks-w458439

Why, well Ann Coulter sums it nicely.
" Democrats REALLY hate Russia. They've never forgiven Russia for giving up communism.,"
20 days until the end of a error.
It's the most wonderful time in 8 years !!!


...and the Liberals have a leader who considers those not "pro-choice" persona non grata. Chretien allowed pro-life Liberals to vote their conscience and speak on pro-life issues. Political PUNDITS  and those media scribes and electronic town criers write and voice  "opinions".


Using material written by Dan lvey, like in Schitts Creek?


OK, you don't like Trump and his behavior, but at least have some consistency in your protests.

How, for instance, does feminist icon Gloria Steinem keep a straight face while she's voicing her solidarity with Muslims? Let me get this straight: She's outraged by Trump, but has no beef with a religion that dresses women in ghost costumes and practices honor killings and FGM?


Yup, it's just a twitter thing. Don't mean nuffin.
Ask trump about that. Isn't he a hero of yours?


https://www.facebook.com/events/410753199280659/.

here is a FB event I am hosting to raise awareness about the issue in our community....I'll be performing please attend to continue the conversation.......thank you

rodger p

https://youtu.be/I2KeQxAjL6M
http://iamhomelessinseattle.blogspot.com/


Kurgan, do you have any intention of responding to what I actually say, or do you insist on continually lying?


They line these poor kids up like they are a heard of cattle. Sad.


Respectful comments won't come about someone you don't respect.


The Shanaplan has been near perfect from the management team to great drafts and great FA signings. 100% agree..in Shanny we trust!


You are right, Ranger Granger, the age of consent is 16.  Unless it's a person of authority over her  such as a school teacher or counselor, that sort of thing.


Please proclaim how the Perverse Prevaricator produces the propensity for palpations from the pith to the periphery in the body politic.


BC's carbon tax ceased being revenue neutral in 2013/14.

http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/how-b-c-s-formerly-revenue-neutral-carbon-tax-turned-into-another-government-cash-grab

"According to data from the government’s own projections, the carbon tax will result in a cumulative $865 million tax increase on British Columbians between 2013/14 and 2018/19. So much for revenue neutrality."


Thanks, Casper, for that reminder.  Called to mind something Hamlet said:
"That it should come to this! . . . .
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr . . . ."


And that's a complement....


I wouldn't hold my breath - it will cost a lot of money to buyout the Federal Employees.


So competence, civility, and compassion are less important than an alleged ability to annoy a fantasy group? I'm sure the people of Puerto Rico appreciate your sentiments ...


You should probably ask the school that mace question instead of asking randoms on the Internet.

And FYI, that's what bears do. A big ole huff and and a charge. In bear talk that means go away. If it wanted to hurt that other woman it would have.


Dump Sessions.


"Canada needs to play hardball"
         --- Gregor The Terrible
No Gregor TT. Canada has to play a fair ball by stopping the hidden subsidy that would behooves our Economy in the long-run rather than being humiliatingly forced to accept crashing quotas. And what Canada really need is competitive actions rather than affirmative actions for us to get ahead.


We need an eye roll, here we go again emoji reaction.


The science isn't about Google, it is about how males and females have different distributions of various attributes related to job preferences.

That is perfectly relevant to the discussion at hand.

Discussion of how they might apply differently to the Google case  are legitimate however, but that is speculation.


I'll root for any Canadian based team, as long as it isn't Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, Ottawa, and Montreal.  Especially Montreal, and especially Ottawa....


You seem to be confusing the Fundamentalists with the Catholics. You make excuses as to why baby killing is simply more viable for the Western world. No Catholic would think that Catholic doctrine could ever conflict with the truth, I think you have unmasked yourself as a simple-minded troll playing the part of a liberal cafeteria Catholic. I don't think you know anything about the Church.


"Funny, when the USA was at their apex they taxed the rich at 85%"

And they allowed unlimited deduction of mortgage interest and dozens of additional allowances against that - which is why the Middle Classes payed so much more tax back then.

BTW, It was Kennedy who cut those exorbitant rates, not Reagan


The whole "medic" label is a crock. It was Delta Force that went into the compound. No one is going to send a soldier into a battle completely unarmed with the idea that that person is a "medic" and the other side will not shoot. Complete baloney that the US Government has been milking since Khadr was captured.


A good friend that I have known since the 6th grade grew up in a very strict Mormon household in a very strict Mormon community. I always knew that he was gay. He did, too. In fealty to his parents and church, he did everything they wanted him to do in order to not be gay. He served on a mission. He went to special camps. He prayed about it. I believed he prayed sincerely and with dedication. He went to BYU. At the age of 25 or so, he decided that either God had made a mistake or that the LDS church was wrong about homosexuality. He left the church at no small cost. I've never seen him happier or healthier.

Best of luck to young Savannah.


I don't fault children for the misdeeds of parents. But to him who is given much, much is expected. And in that I concur with Denise: Harry is indistinguishable from the rest of British royalty in terms of his contributions to the betterment of humanity. Whether their impact on tourism and the economy justifies the riches heaped on them by taxpayers is for economists to sort out.

They are nothing if not a contradiction - an anachronism that continues to defy the egalitarian instincts of modern society. At worst, the embodiment of a condescending, indifferent if not arrogant culture of privilege. If the one-percent were a hive, royalty would be their queen. At best, as much victims of that entrenched culture as the great unwashed who crane their necks for a glimpse. Birds in a gilded cage lacking the sense to leave when the door is left open.

Not an environment in which free-spirited Diana could - or would be allowed to - survive. Hence Harry's anger and the empathy perhaps due.


Never buy a dodge , especially second hand as you will have a lot of bills to pay.


Because a homosexual orientation is supposed to not be acted upon whether or not one enters the priesthood?  Since a priest sacrifices having a wife and family, how does one sacrifice something they don't desire to begin with?


Still need someone???


There's a part of me that hopes the GOP actually does get their bill through the Senate.  Then when the profit margins for Big Pharma, for profit hospital chains, and the AMA start nosediving bigly, these giants of the financial markets might see some benefit in a single payer system.  It's obvious the health of the constituents the GOP is supposed to represent is way down the priority list when it comes to health care.


The problem is that there is no equivalent to a PATRIOTIC  party, that TRULY would FIGHT for this Country. It is sold, owned by scavengers, rotten corrupted politicians who only think in their shit-soiled pockets. It is the same all over the world. This world is dominated by EVIL.


Oh do explain.

How does the US "allow" China to pollute?


All is not well where assisted suicide is legal. The foundation of assisted suicide movement is crumbling under the weight of pitfalls. There is documented abuse see Thomas Middleton Fed case where he was killed via the OR policy for his assets. A public policy failure.
I was my wife's 24/7 caregiver during her last 18 months of declining autonomy.
Pitfalls in assisted suicide laws need attention. We already have the right to refuse treatment. Many who believe in the concept under the choice banner have second-thoughts org when they read the language of the actual bill and realize our choice is Ignored and certainly not assured.


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  No.

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Being an assistant coach in a low- level team makes sense I think. His system might work there.  It has become outmoded in the US.  Say what you will but Rolo is a decent man with ethics and high expectations for his players.


Where is the candidate Republican or Democrat who has a program  to beat him next time?  Being "Not Trump" wasn't enough this time, after all.

Will I Hate Trump be enough for 2018 or 2020?


I guess I missed the part where it says "standing militia"?


I've always preferred to give money directly to the charity of my choice.


Yup, your partisan desires were not upheld, Jack. Clearly a crime has been committed…again, ha, ha, ha.


Thats what we need. Incompetent mentally challenged doctors. Go progressives go!


Oh no, the author and the feminists she quotes don't hate men - just masculine men.


" What he is saying is that if we give these employees a raise they will be happy and not try to improve themselves."
-Thats not what he is saying at all. In fact, its the opposite. When employees are happy and motivated they strive to do better. Thus, they are more valuable to the company and in return increases revenue. These happy motivated employees are the ones who get promoted.

"A populace that stagnates and gives up on any improvement. This is exactly what is wrong with the Progressive Liberal Democrat Party"
-It's literally called PROGRESSive. Progress is in the name. It is furthest from stagnation that you can get...

"How about cutting taxes so people to keep more of what they make now?"
-Trickle down economics has been proven not to work for a LONG time now. Time to update our thought processes. You realize if we 'cut taxes' then we the state will have even less $$ to pay for things like police officers, firefighters, national guard, state employees, etc?


PLEASE- it's going to be legal in less than a year- let's keep the "medical" pretense out of this. No prescriptions for marijuana PLEASE- just go and buy whatever you want and leave the doctors out of it!


That's a contradiction in terms.


If you read the investigative news article that the Register Guard published on deconstructing this shooting, you would know that there were no other witnesses to the shooting, other than the police marksman.   And that no video of any kind was recorded that showed the shooting, or what the police officer saw.

There is no way to know if Babb really pointed the rifle, or if the officer mistakenly thought that he was pointing the rifle at him.

The article also points out that Babb's hunting rifle was not loaded.   He had retrieved the rifle, but had failed to get any ammunition for it.

You should take the time to read that article.   Babb's VA counselor, who was initially on the phone with him during the incident, is highly critical of the Eugene Police.   Her testimony in court could potentially be very damning to the city.


Horrific. And Trump wants to dismantle the EPA.


It's a big problem, but any intervention targeted at the Chinese tours would be unconstitutional, wouldn't it?


What you so bitter about, another bitter lamb fan tired of getting their arse kicked by the Buffs?


University faculty have academic freedom, which means that they are allowed to study anything within their discipline. The University of Alaska Fairbanks is not entertaining "truther drivel" when it supports the right of faculty to pursue their own line of research.


No, they haven't been cited, or clearly stated, or posted anywhere.  What is it you think you're seeing, and where?


My preference is a form of secularism meaning all govt employees refrain from showing any religious identity. This means, for example, an elementary school teacher cannot wear a burqa in her classroom. This is also in-line with the idea of separation of church and state. Next. I would say it is unacceptable to have one's face completely covered in public; so I would also be in favour of a burqa and niqab ban, such as in many European, and even in some majority-Muslim, countries. This is also recognizing, I think, the fact that the burqa is basically the dress-code of Islamic fundamentalists and hard-line Islamists.


"Nones" is a colloquial term for U ofT students who don't have a religion? Better to call religious students faithers.


The property owner obviously doesn't have a problem with it (since it's either the energy company, or someone that struck a deal with the energy company to drill there).

You're talking about people nearby that DON'T own the property where the drilling is taking place.


Blessed are the meek (those so wait for the lord) they shall inherit the earth.

10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Life is about the sheep and the goats (snakes and wolves).


Let's hope Mudiay isn't traded and becomes another Chauncey Billups. Coming into his own after several years, and winning titles. Steph Curry didn't light it up his first few years either. Not to say Mudiay will have a career like them, but it's too soon to give up.

The trade with Portland was bad. No doubt.


It almost seems like the author of the report knew what he wanted the results to say and defined "remedial" accordingly. Hmmm, why would he do that? Wait a minute. Isn't this the same guy that attempted a hostile takeover of Mt. Edgecumbe a year ago and was rebuffed? https://www.adn.com/education/article/university-program-proposes-taking-over-state-run-mount-edgecumbe/2016/02/02/
Was this report peer reviewed by anyone?


I was at the beach last week and a 4 ounce piece of fish with a few chips was $12.95, then $2.50 for a drink and then tax on top of this. I suspect this is where the economic growth is coming from. It is unsustainable in my opinion. Lunch for a family of 6 was $100. I think a lot of families will be packing their lunch from now on. You can buy a whole cooked chicken at Safeway for $12.


We aren't a country if we don't have borders, and don't respect them.


You'll note that Dunleavy has offered no credible plan for climbing us out of the $3 billion hole.  Clearly he believes that voters won't notice that either they solve the problem this year or there won't be a PFD for anyone.  Period.


...And 1st amendment rights...


Could someone please tell me what is so wrong with the Saddledome? Renovated twice, sound is fine (for concerts), great views of the ice etc.
No one has touched on this fact. Any idea' why?


For crying out loud, wake up!  They are not "investment advisors".  They are commission salespeople.  Until they are definitively prohibited from flogging any financial product or service in which they have a direct or indirect interest, there will be no ethics.

And notice that I did not add a qualifier about it being OK so long as they disclose their interest.  They will find a way to weasel past that.  Absolute prohibition.

And by playing along using the polite euphemism "advisor" this author is enabling them.


Totally agree with this article. Google the story of Dr. Peter Watts, a (white) Canadian sci-fi writer. In 2009, he was leaving (not entering) the US from Port Huron, over the Blue Water Bridge. US Customs stopped him for some unknown reason. He apparently questioned his treatment, and didn't respond to their orders quickly enough. As a result, he was roughed up, charged with a felony, and dumped on the Canadian side of the bridge without his car or jacket, in winter, in the middle of the night. The US Attorney's office refused to prosecute him, so Customs went through the Port Huron PD to press charges. He was subsequently fined $1600 by a US judge, and lectured on the importance of obeying US law-enforcement. He mercifully avoided jail.

Ask yourself if you really want to take a chance on being treated like this, and for what? Entering the US is like a negative lottery. Most of the time, you'll be okay, but if your number comes up, you can have a very, very bad day.


"You liberty loathing leftist conclude that unless we live in a federal police state, we will all perish."

I like to not be food poisoned.

"A deep love of individual liberty, & our constitution,"

While you voted for and hero worship Trump, a man known to hold and proudly declare beliefs that are completely opposed to the constitution.  Well done, buddy, well done! ;)


Wow, you're quite the violent thug, aren't you?  As far as I can tell, you're the "human failure" not the homeless.


Kathleen Wynne should be very concerned after seeing what happened to the Christy Clark Liberals.   The two governed from the same failed playbook.

Very unpopular

Former education ministers turned leader after long term previous leaders had to resign

Unpopular carbon tax that did nothing

A hugely unpopular clean energy program that only raised hydro rates and did nothing to clean the environment

Repeated scandals over lack of transpsparancy

Privacy Commissioner condemnation over repeated barriers to freedom of information

Deleted email scandals where staff charged

Rejecting calls to limit political contributions

Condoning and promoting pay for access

Imposing a band aid solution on real estate that will not work

Oh wait, Justin is guilty of many of these as well.

Maybe we can see Kathleen and his ouster  in the next election.

One can only hope.


There is no way to either "take" or refuse a pardon. It's an official act of the pardoning authority and doesn't need the permission or agreement of the person pardoned.


She has no case and her reputation is already destroyed so this another act of trickery on her part


I think you mean a Maui surcharge would go to Maui, correct?  I’m not sure where “.05%” is coming from (I also saw it on one of the conference committee drafts), but the rate is .5%.


she's no beauty queen eh

if you say that about her now only a yer into your relationship when love is supposed to be blind  I give your relationship  5 maybe 7 years tops


If Trump ever has to answer under oath he will need to resign very quickly.


Break??!!! WTH!!!! Get back to work and get it done!!!!


Do you understand what "critical thinking" means? It's evident that it's way over your abilities.


Not that you - a small Alaskan oil company owner who actually lives in Florida - has a dog in this fight eh, Donkel?
Why don't you be honest when you're on here shilling for yourself as an oil company owner?


Congratulations to Dean Hansen and Mitch Hagstrom and the Continental Bank Staff.
I only wish I had purchased the stock many years ago when it was privately held.  Now, it has gone through several variations.  A great local bank that has made good and gone on to statewide status.  Bravo!


Yes I read the article, but it's not very informative. It says the average price of milk went up 3 cents between 2014 and 2015, but never says what the average price is. It only gave Canada's highest price and lowest price, which doesn't really tell you a whole lot. Sorry but the fact that you can find reasonably priced milk at three Ontario Costcos doesn't equate to milk prices being "about that same" as they are in the U.S. Nor does $8/gallon milk being sold in downtown Toronto prove that prices are way higher.


I challenge Paul Conte to answer these questions.

Describe the organization entrusted to use the roughly $250K settlement money from the LUBA appeal of Capstone in the interest of neighborhoods...

* Where can we read your organization's structure and processes (e.g., bylaws, incorporation as a nonprofit)?

* Is this group TrustTheNeighbors.org or some other entity?

* Who are your officers and how are they elected?

* When and where are your meetings?

* Are your meetings open to the public?

* What is the process to decide how to use these funds for further appeals?

* How many individuals actively participate?

* Are any city staff or councilors involved in these decisions?

* Are any members of city boards and commissions members of your group?

Any group that expects to be treated seriously by City Council in public processes needs to be transparent.

Yet you have refused to be forthright in your role feeding Councilors Brown and Clark the proposal you now support in this op-ed.


Sorry, her words require actual punishment. It's a Fed crime to threaten POTUS which she did.  No one is above the law.


Outsider: Stop worrying about them, and focus on the other outsiders. Become friends with *them*. Don’t try to copy the clique-y ones to get back at them. Just use the opportunity you have to make new friends with the other ones who are open to it. Heck, those guys could be your friends, too. It doesn’t have to be divided into men in one group, women in the other.

Also, like someone else said, they were friends already. They may not be doing it on purpose, they just have a history together. Sure, they could be more inclusive, but, like with the bachelorette party - why would anyone invite acquaintances to an event that’s meant to be for your closest friends?

You can’t force a close bond with a group of people whose main thing - or only thing - in common is that their significant others are friends. If it happens naturally, great, if it doesn’t, oh well, don’t take it personally. Make friends with those you can - girl or guy!


If the protesters at a sit-in have guns, and they've  made it clear that they're willing to use them, then there is no difference.


As Americans, we must feel bit dismay even if it is expected that our institutions ranked so low among all people of this land. This isn't about political parties or who is president. Decline began long before Trump....more like from Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter days. Of course, that note will fall on deaf ears to those who will continue the blame game.


Kathryn Bigelow took similar "poetic license" with "Zero Dark Thirty," to the point of making it seem as though torture is what got Bin Laden captured. Since that premise was strongly disputed by those who actually knew something about it, I refused to see that movie. To my mind there's a difference between poetic license and historical revisionism, especially as it relates the highly controversial issue of torturing  human beings. The question for me with "Detroit" is whether or not Bigelow's "poetic license" ventures into the realm of historical revisionism to such a disturbing degree as it does with "Zero Dark Thirty." I'll do a little more research before I see the movie, which I'd like to do, since it's gotten such good reviews and also because I'm a big fan of the young English actor John Boyega.


Freddie: I live in the middle of this nonsense and often wondered the same thing.  The franchise overworks things and takes itself too seriously, in doing that, they lose the greater picture and actually accomplish little.  With all that money, I guess they don't have to worry about winning anything?


Would giving you my name make your world a better place? It is sad that you attempt to point your dirty little finger at others and cast a label upon them like a child while saying they are not adults. The freedom this website allows to choose any name for myself appears to be keeping you awake at night. Just to cause you no more distress and pain, you may call me Rik. Now, you may resume your infantile ways.


If I hire someone to kill people for me, why would I care if they are male, female or the the sex of their choosing? Nobody asked me too many questions 45 years ago when I signed up and I was about as worthless as they come. I could, however, be trained to walk long distances and shoot people.


Have you been to Harrison Park? Do you have children there? What do you know about the "changes"  that need to be made regarding our neighborhood with 40 different languages in it?

Our students are SEVERELY BEHIND! How could you comprise their future for a field trip or how to make a circle? What kind of future are you slating for our children?

This is a desperate situation for children who are YEARS behind instruction. How can we allow this to happen? We live in a global society. Our students will be contending for jobs they will barely comprehend while fed pipe dreams by the upper class that foundations don't matter. Only those prepared will

Targeting our neighborhood because someone wants to do the same thing that they do in SW is insane. When did hard work become a luxury? These families of ours want support so their children will make it.  When is a child who is failing given a free pass? Our parents see this very clearly. Why doesn't anyone else? This is an atrocity.


Steven MacBride I guess you were sleeping or on another planet. You missed the smear campaign the Republicans put on during Obama's presidency for 8 years. And Obama treated everyone with respect and dignity something our present has never had.


Khadr never fought against Canada.


Somehow this level of cray only seems to be found among state senators. Though the House does also have more than its share of nuts too. At least the Democratic Party, of a red state, is willing to call her out on it.


Nothing to do with concerns about Russia? So what's the threat? The Swedes are going to invade because the Norwegians are kicking their butts in cross country?


I expect Granny Mao's speaking fees will be much lower now. :)


"Jamming through"...seriously?? It took just at 1 year to do the ACA. Plenty of meetings, some even televised. By comparison, It has been 6 months and the GOP has tried twice to come up with something. The secret Senate work by the 13 Guys was a highlight.
If you'll note, the taxes involved to keep the ACA funded fall on the highest income groups. Further, the insurance is not "free" but it is subsidized IN PART. So no, you didn't end up paying in any realistic sense for somebody's insurance.

To claim both parties are equally disinterested in the lower and middle class, you might want to examine just who will suffer the most under the GOP plan.


Canadian taxpayers are used to people making it on our money.  Usually politicians and their cronies.


It certainly seems to be true that many people are troubled by the changing world. In the US election, they voted for Trump, when it should be obvious to them that he is a fraud who will never (yes, never) do anything to help them. The times, they are a changin'. If you don't want to evolve with them, best get out of the way. My biggest fear is that Trump, in his childlike stupidity and obstinacy, will blow up the world.


Graduated in 2004; so not too long ago as I'd like to think that my experience is still relevant. I'm rather critical of your statement that what I said was "dumb" when let's see... if your daughters came along, say in the 1970s, that putting them now around 40 years of age they'd know a thing or two themselves and *might* just agree that many Alaskans have their heads in the sand about these types of crimes. Bear attacks and moose tramplings make headlines for days every time one happens. Yet hundreds of rapes a year don't get enough coverage to make it clear to this generation that the risk factors are real and people get horribly hurt and traumatized, it's beyond sad. Just saying!


Shameful ! With no more federal money, the legislature should just end this disaster at Middle Street. But our legislature is weak and
have not been able to make strong and principled decisions in the past. Their solutions have been to raise taxes , fees and anything else that they can think of.


S. Seybert, you think that's bad, you should see the load of crap the legislature is dropping this year.


Tax people's health insurance plans as compensation and provide a tax credit up to the amount to cover a normal plan.  Of course, Obama demagogued the heck out of that in 2008.  Also, allow everyone to have HSAs.


They should ask Trumps to build a hotel.


This question and attendant headline are utterly ridiculous!  Has no one ever heard of a virgin Caesar?  Gin and tonic without the gin?  A Cuba Libre without the rum?

If this is the level of thinking and ingenuity of this person, perhaps they shouldn't even bother attempting to network.


"And there often seems a kind of willful blindness to the supernatural and evidence-free underpinnings of many of the increasingly popular (and, too frequently, government-sanctioned) alternative health practices."

Mr Caulfield is hardly a proponent on what is the truth, he has no academic credentials in science of any kind and as voiced his opposition to alternative medicine, another talking head who never met a column or microphone he didn't like.


This is what summer in Oregon sometimes looks like, particularly in the southern end of the valley. Winters here can be weird, too. Being new to the area, you aren't expected to know that.


That driver needs to go to jail and stay there for a while. What was he thinking? and why is he not in jail this morning. If this little special needs child had been killed then he is arrested. WOW this is pretty sad.


Erdogan is one of the world's thugs.  In the company of Putin, Trump,  and Orban.


Like Christy Natsis who caused the death of a father of three. Her breathalyzer readings of 209 (the limit is 80) were excluded by the judge due to charter violations.  And then of course there was Justin's mom.


Just up the street was Jack Kostenich's barber shop. Think my folks drug me in the for my first haircut!


Obama was the original birther with his bio stating he was born in Kenya. Hillary said Obama wasn't eligible during their campaigns in 2008. Obama's grandmother says he was born in Kenya.


I think the author needs to reread Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine".


The church presents celibacy as a charism, a gift, given to certain members of the believing community as a witness oriented to the kingdom of God in which women and men will neither marry nor be given in marriage.
The Sacrament of Orders celebrates and confirms the call of certain members of the community to celebrate the sacraments of the church with and for their sisters and brothers.
There is no logical or necessary connection between the two.  A person gifted with the charism of celibacy may or may not be called to Orders; a person called to Orders may or may not also be entrusted with the charism of celibacy.
The discipline that links the two -- that requires celibacy as a condition for orders -- artificially shrinks the pool of candidates for orders, and it disfigures the charism of celibacy. "Mandatory celibacy" is an oxymoron, if celibacy is understood as a charism.
Enforcing celibacy on a widowed deacon is simply, incredibly stupid. The bishop ought to be ashamed.


Liberal Progressives are a threat the to American way of life that the Majority of America believes in.  Country, Flag, Borders, Language, Culture, Military, Guns, God, Morals, Economy.


corbluo:

just pushing that special interest group aren't you, at everyone else's expense. Again, pay for it yourself if it is so important to you, and get out of my wallet.


Three of the bothersome essential benefits Trump and the House Republicans want to remove from their health care plan are in-patient care, out-patient care, and emergency room care. Oh, medications too. But other than that, your health insurance will be great.


your information is as week as your post.


Terrorists not anarchists....and that's the silliest things I've ever heard.


The problem with linking their compensation to your success is how do you measure success and when does the meter shut off.

In my opinion the only way an investor can really control their fees is by using the fixed rate per transaction.  You know what the total fee is upfront and you have full discretion over how much or little you incur in a year.  Any investor who is put in a position of feeling like they are being pushed to make trades should find another adviser (or gain the knowledge to manage their own affairs).

Percentage based models usually mean the meter is continually running - win or lose and regardless of how much or little work the adviser is actually doing.


muckamuck,  Putin is Trump's ventriloquist.


He was video-taped building IED's - the same IED's that killed Canadian troops. The entire Khadr family is a disgrace to Canada - their continued presence is a stain on this country. The Khadr family is one of traitors and cowards, they fought against Canada with the likes of rabid dogs in the Taliban - Khadr owes his life to the mercy of US troops. There is a $134 million civil ruling against Khadr in the US, $10 million will be a start. Any Canadian who sympathizes with Khadr is a disgrace to Canada - sympathy with traitors and cowards who fought alongside the Taliban. Have you no shame?


Comments are more helpful when they're based on fact.  Like this: http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=0856CFE3-D3FA-4E4E-99AD-1FF537180161


Just very glad I don't live in Hawaii anymore.  We'll see all you sensible people who pay taxes over here soon enough and then there won't be enough taxpayers to pay for these peoples cigarettes and drugs and I think it's safe to say that is going to be a problem.


Don't give price money and see how many Americans will win.


The land didn't belong to Israel and a state should never have been established in PALESTINE.


"Alaskans need a well rested & better informed legislature!"

Agreed. Let's give them their well-deserved rest in November.


Yep, you're an a hole


Wavemaker, Because I'm a genius I happen to know that none of the employee's involved are 'Alaskan'.


The Chinese are supplying the demand for elephant tusks, shark fins, rhino horns.....this is known worldwide.  This is not racist or biased or anti Chinese.....this is the absolute truth.  Just like N americans like their fentanyl......I dont deny this.   But to hide behind the truth that the CHinese not NOT wiping out nature due to there strange superstitious notions that tiger penis will make their penis bigger is bullcrap


You should check out a pizza joint where Hillary is running a child prostitution ring.


Trump loves enemies of liberal, democratic, true global multilateralism and doesn't have the time of day for natural allies.

Who wants to partner with a domineering, thin skinned, irrational and pernicious partner?


True. But bringing Uber and Lyft to Anchorage is the next step.
Taxi permit holders are terrified of losing their racket.


This stuff gets weirder by the day.  The mighty U.S. government cowed by a handful of hicks.  Bet ISIS, Russia, China, al Qaeda, N. Korea, etc. are having a ball planning their next strategy against Fortress America.


Clear sign the progressive indoctrinators have infested their schools.


With narrow and specific exceptions for people working for foreign governments, being born in Canada make you Canadian.


Using and dealing are the same because they're both equal parts of the same violent and dangerous lifestyle. Otherwise, I don't find anything in your comment, except perhaps your analogy to bank robbery, to dispute.


"Pay far too much"? Compared to what? Where do you think we are on the Laffer Curve? And why do you think that?


Big bummer. Gonna watch The Postman again. The words "you don't have to live like a refugee" spurred me on during a major life crisis in 2015. Love Tom Petty. Great guitar riffs!


Yup, it's tilting the ugly meter towards the hideous scale.


Just to clarify - this was written by me (Ken Smith) when I was NOT on the School Board. This, the title should just be "Kenmore resident".


U elected him....  The rest of the world is laughing at you...  But so what....  I have more to say but will refrain not to hurt 300 million of my southern neighbors.


I wonder if Bennie's wife will take this all the way to SCOTUS now?


Thank you.  I was able to find a lot about him on the internet. I also read some "conservative" criticisms of Howard Zinn and now understand your response to my recommendation of his lecture. I found a lot of fault with the analysis, but that's a different story.  All analyses are inadequate. Even the best marine biologists in the world testifying on both sides of the Exxon Valdez spill trial couldn't agree on the science.

I was already aware of the many relationships between the US and Nazi Germany, and the mutual admiration. I think bankers in the US supported both Germany and the US, and I also believe that many Nazis were assisted in relocation to the US after the war. They were seen as assets in the cold war and in fighting communism.  I don't divide reality, not even political reality, into right/left, liberal/conservative.   I don't blame things on the "right" or the "left."  I'm a-political but I have to admit that this election is interesting, and I can't read enough.


Here are some of the attorneys Mueller has hired:

Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on detail from U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York.
Rush Atkinson, an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division's Fraud Section at the Department of Justice.
Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts of the past two generations.
Andrew Goldstein, a public corruption prosecutor on detail from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York.
Adam Jed, an appellate attorney on detail from DOJ's Civil Division.
Lisa Page, an attorney on detail from the FBI's Office of the General Counsel and a former trial attorney with the Criminal Division's Organized Crime and Gang Section.


I would describe the proposed regulation as "over", WAY over.


Thank you for the Council breakdown, but as you say "nice try."

1.  Conservatives in London (metropolitan, not City of) are very liberal.  There would be no expectation at all that a Conservative member would have voted to  cut housing and social services in K&C.
2.  Net spending on Housing 2016/17 to 2016/17 has increased in the Burrough (based on budget) from £15,152,000 to £16,886,000.  (Check it out on the Council Website)
3.  You have not provided anything to back up your assertion that Conservatives voted to decrease funding for housing; you are just towing the liberal party line that says conservatives vote to defund, but clearly as the budget numbers above state, funding is going up.

Check your facts and check your privilege my friend!


None that are currently on the books.


Well, obviously UH football needs to be eliminated. What an obscene salary!


Perhaps you should read the article.  It's about Alaska.  Not Trump.
But as we've seen in the past, with our legislators, especially the group of republican CBC members, the lobbyists could toss a few fifties on the floor and they went groveling.


It's not about the union. It's about the kids, and the hack Donald found for education secretary with no credentials, no credibility, and ignorant ideas.


if they make a judgment based on the laws and society rights of that time and find in favour of those wronged, great, lets deal with those actually who had this happen and move on. BUT lets not judge the actions then on standards we set today.


Cut off their hands and feet just to make sure.


With all the vagrants living on our streets, drunk and shirtless is getting more common everyday. I sat at the traffic light at SE Barrington and 20 and watched a homeless couple smoke a joint while holding their beggar's sign. Classy.


Yes, let the government fund the media (and thereby the salaries of those in the media).

You only have to look at the CBC's constant fawning over Trudeau/inability to let the Duffy thing go to see which political party promises the most goodies to them.


I'm surprised there haven't been more comments about the attraction of getting instant pot.

Oh, wait ...

;{O)


This is why we need to make Alaska a Right to Work State. The unions don't need to run the State of Alaska anymore.
" hey Joe, don't work so fast. If you slow down we can pou 2 men on the job instead of one"


Catholic morality ought to respect the actual outcomes of children since it harps on the notion that two straight parents are always superior to anything else. What is the proof except the outcome of the kids?


I think the DP editorial board barely knows what's involved with changing out a flat tire on a car. That's how out of touch they are with normal Americans and that's why they don't know the difference. Either that or they are a bunch of deceptive schleps.


I dont know (re 'bad form'); every now and then I think I had such a great thought or a funny comeback I WANT to like myself!  Ok, so I usually resist but still, I'm tempted.


Better odds than Vegas.


Excellent, truly excellent.


This is a BS piece of made up DNC propaganda being spoon fed to the willful idiots that refuse to do their own research.


So in Canada when the Senate stands in the way of a an elected Parliament and thwarts the will of the people we call for the abolition of the unelected and unaccountable body, but the Globe feels that In Britain Parliament must listen to a similar unelected body.


And you, of course, were all ready-teddy in support of our last REAL president, no?


As soon as Trump and Devoss do away with the establishment clause of the first amendment, I'm sure our friends at the Anchorage Baptist Temple will be itching for some good old state money to fund their anti science, anti evolution, anti-climate change "madrassa" school.

Speaking of "madrassas", what would stop an ardent Muslim from starting one using state money?

Be careful what you wish for, Trump supporters.


Time to blow this team up and start over. The overpaid, brittle, injury prone players they have are only going to get worse. Their only half decent reliever Osuna now has an "anxiety" issue? Give me a break. Why doesn't he talk to real people that have real issues and don't play a game earning millions .
Put a fork in them.


"... the media are merely representing us ... ie the whole world...."

Speak for yourself. Many of the world's people do not approve of justice by lynch mob.


I'm not attempting to tell you for whom you should vote. Just attempting to even the playing field.  I totally understand why many good, sincere, honest and honorable people don't seek elected office.


The Holy Spirit was speaking especially strongly and boldy and confidently in small font footnote #351!!


And the best part is Obama and Bush carried out basically the same foreign policy of disastrous misadventures in the Middle East. Obama spent more and racked up more debt than all previous presidents combined. Race relations are worse than they were since the 1960's. His only legacy other than destruction of our influence and stature is a failed healthcare law which no one likes save a few true believers. All propped up by a dishonest and complicit media who can't criticize the first "black" president. These guys are still blaming Bush, who was also a nightmare.


Was it his own money, or was it from the Trump Foundation which is money other people have donated?


Canada is becoming the new 3rd World.  Compare the returns of the US Stock Market to that of Canada.  There is no business investment confidence in this country as our government is focused on environmental and social issues, catering to special interest groups, opening the door to refugees and illegal border crossers, basically we are importing poverty.


You really want to direct people to Heller, Dog?

You risk folks coming to the realization that the internet representations of the Second Amendment have been liberally (or conservatively as the case may be) edited and bastardized to support NRA-speak.

Never understood how the SCOTUS took concept that "a well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state" (which is what the 2nd actually says) and extended to a right not to be required to have trigger locks on home kept weapons.   An additional low point for the same basic Court that gave us Citizens United.

Both good examples of how constitutional provisions, and their interpretation are subject to political winds as much as legal ones.   Which is why I agree that as currently configured, the SCOTUS takes the side of gun likers to use the 2nd to knockout any attempt to legislate gun restrictions.

But, that doesn't stop constitutional amendment, nor future changes to the make up of the Supreme Court.


Warner's right.  The investigation needs to be allowed to go where it goes.  This will either clear Trump or implicate him but firing Mueller or pardoning those indicted would be seen by the world as motivated by guilt and as obstruction of justice.  For the future of the GOP, the American justice system and the Trump administration, this controversy must be brought to a legitimate conclusion. Obfuscation, accusations and disproven denials won't do, we need to establish what happened, whether, or which, people were involved and stop Russian meddling in our future elections


The charges do not fit the crime. If she woke up and he was having sex with her, while she was sleeping, that's RAPE not molestation.


you feel that jews are suicidal and immoral unless Jews are prepared to vote that Jews are illegal at the wailing wall.  Why?

What do you suppose the reaction of Arabs to such a vote would be?  Recall that Arabs aren't Quakers.  Indeed, if they had been Quakers they probably wouldn't have cleansed  Jews from the Wall in the first place, not to mention from various Arab countries.


Having to resort to personal insults, Rmiller?

Really?

You lose...


$ 60 Billion? I feel the reasons Alaska's laws are pro monopoly is that they are written by the wealthy majors to bring Alaska's oil wealth to London and Houston not to Alaskans!
It was sad in 2009 they only raised lawmakers' salaries from $24,012 to $50,000, now they want higher quality leaders so the think it is time to decrease it, why?
This seems to be the same reasoning the DNR uses for lease sales, the state offers many millions of acres but could only get bids on less than 5% and sometimes no bids so the DNR reasoned if they increase the oil & gas lease rentals 1,000 to 8,000% the DNR DOG would get more but they got no bids! They increased the Minimum bid from $10.00 to $25,00 in CI 15 and got no bids!
I feel they buy leaders, this may lead to another FBI investigation and maybe we will see more oil & gas bribes and maybe 20% of the state leader may go to jail not lust 10% like last time when VECO, Bill Allen, Vic Kohring and many more legislators were on top of Alaska CBC list.


Really skyline, you feel the left engages in more name calling then you far right types.  Objectively was trump or hillary more into the name calling?  Is jackbauer or retireefinally heavier on the name calling then say, The workfarce or Chris in Ottawa?   BTW Merkel does not belong to a left wing party, nor did Obama and Hillary...nor does Trudeau.  You  just detest the centre as well so like to 'label them as left wing.  As a person who is left wing I find that labeling old.   You know me skyline I believe that finance capitalists like yourself are the root of the problem despite your deflections that it is the government and everyone else...


Lovely Island!  I have not been able to afford any trips off of Oahu though.


I agree with half of that but Walker has not been fiscally responsible with the state's money.  He has hired unnecessary executives with super salaries, opened $10 Million marketing offices in Texas and Japan.

He used state money to hire a political consultant for his next campaign running as a Republican in the Democratic party again.  Looks like Democrats are stuck with him again running against an even worse Republican.  Wonderful.  How is that even fair?  Get out of our party!

When Walker came into office, he admitted SB21 was a failure.  He stated for the first time in state history we are making less than zero on our oil.

Instead of raising awareness and lobbying for change, Walker traveled the state pushing for an income tax and theft of our PFD, the exact opposite of what he promised before he was elected.

What we should be discussing right now is how to get our fair share of oil revenue. If we were taking our fair share of 1/3=+$3 Billion...there would be no crisis.


oh please bush had nothing to do with the crash, you can though thank clinton for it since it was he who forced the banks to give sup prime loans that created the mess


Yep we'd all love to see the "evidence".  Why doesn't Donny disclose the evidence?  May be it is just a minor detail.


Hold on. The article states that 80% of the University's revenue comes from tuition. My argument is that without easy student loans, that percentage would be much, much smaller, because students would just choose not to go if they couldn't afford it (like in the old days). It is impossible to deny that student loans are enabling the University to charge more and the state to provide less, when the amount of loans nationally is $1.3 trillion and on the rise. If that's not taking advantage of indebted students, I don't know what is.


You like that line, you use it so often.


Faith and science are intermingled everyday in the field of healthcare.  From brain surgery to childbirth to cancer treatment to saving lives from accidents to intentional harm from criminal activity.  Surgeons, nurses, orthopedists, cardiologists all do their humanly best with the skills and advancements and treatments and techniques and pharmaceuticals available.  Once their job is done,  faith, hope, patience, divine intervention is depended upon by most including the patient, the staff, and the specialists.


I noticed the graphic they just put in this is for renting a 2 bedroom HOME, not an apartment. So now a minimum wage job is supposed to get someone a 2 br house?


It should be obvious that Wynne is not going to hang around to face the electorate. She is going to resign, and the Liberals are going to make some fall guy/girl leader in the hope voters forget that it's not Wynne but the Liberal Party that got Ontario into the mess it is in.

Wynne will retire to run some newly-minted organization with a nebulous purpose but a lower six figure salary and entitling her to another pension after seven years of 'service', funded by guess who.


OK BOB, we agree! My point is, our country needs to export our resources at world market prices until such a time that the world doesn't want them anymore! Anything else would be complete and utter lunacy!...I think you would agree with that!


I see our resident racists have not shied away from supporting their brethren.


See how open-minded and magnanimous the orange-coiffed one is? He is actually, maybe, willing to look at facts and listen to experts. His experts! Of course he won't admit that himself. That's what underlings are for. There are important tweets to attend to, action heroes to disparage, boasts to be made.

Oh, and the sad, horrible, lying media, still conspiring with Hilary and the Dems to make the Donald look immature and unpresidential. Too bad. Such a shame. But NO WAY, not after the 20th!


Seeing as how she wasn't attacked by the homeless guy, I'm not sure what your point is.


Lineups would be too long. But what you suggest would be very good for pharmacists - who'd be looking for their own slice of the "marijuana pie."


Fraser served as a Brigadier General, not as  a Major General, in Afghanistan.....


I was asking the same question yesterday.

Given their bromance, how was Trudeau not able to succeed with Obama on this.


Maybe to that land out by the airport? I'm assuming, though, that the county owns the fairgrounds. If so, moving it would involve some complexity like a land swap and/or a big chunk of cash, even if the county does agree.


Exactly.  The top combined provincial + federal tax rate is 47.7% in BC so there isn't a lot of room to raise it much further without crossing the 50% barrier which most have said is the psychological barrier and tends to have negative impacts.  Sure the NDP might just raise the top rate from 14.7% to 16.8% which would give a combined rate of 49.8% thus staying under 50%, but this wouldn't bring nearly enough revenue to cover their costs.  They have to raise taxes on the middle class or PST to cover them and good luck selling that politically, thus they won't do this.


John:  tut, tut.  We all know that a celibate priesthood is without problems.


Do you think "that fascism serves the interest of capital more efficiently"?    Does fascism not breed discontent and therefore become self-defeating?   Are there valid indicators of fascism improving the interests of capital in the long-term?  Is there any real difference in the improved economic conditions of eg China vs South Korea?


I wonder if commander fancy socks gave Gord an update on how this Liberal government has been solving the clean drinking water issue on aboriginal reserves. I suspect no update was given because no progress has been made despite all the commander's belly aching. RIP Gord.


NOt always a cut and dry situation so the courts will have to judge each accident on their own.


I look forward to seeing how well this works!


Read Alicja Baranowska's comment.


Kind of like "the less Kiszla writes, the better the Denver Post Bronco coverage becomes."


Does anyone proof read these at the DP?
"The vast majority of drivers who survived and tested positive for marijuana use — last year it was 100 percent — were found to have the drug at levels that indicated use within a few hours of being tested . . . "

So you are saying that EVERY driver who survives a crash is positive for MJ?  That's what "100 percent" means.


'
Thanks Harry,


At the podium;
"Bonjour Washington;
Je suis tres joyuex de parlez avec nous,est  mon tres bonne amis, President Trump...."
etc etc
"We have TWO languages...dig it folks,we are uber cool."
What a weak attempt at "statesmanship"...


Why apply for citizenship? Just move there. That's what the Trumpophobes say is OK to do here. But when you do, make sure you pay your taxes, because that excuses being an illegal.


Sick hobby. People trying to live acting like it's 1890.  I hope that soon Alaska can come into the 21st century but it seems unlikely.


What?


The resolution to automation is not to discourage it. It is going to happen regardless  what we do. If we ignore it our trading partners will eat our manufacturers' lunch.

One solution is to encourage a lot more small businesses serving local markets  However, this is old school and unlikely to put everyone who looses their job to automation back to work. Equally important is a change in attitude by ordinary people.

Workers must adapt to the new jobs of the future rather than expect job to be tailored to their needs. Unfortunately the jobs of the future have not yet been created so workers cannot train for them until they arrive.

Our government should commit to more retraining programs as well as support to selective economic sectors that are showing success in this turbulent environment.