ANY Fed that advocates falsely that Canada is an open border are wrong and Canada is not open for consultants to attack Canadians for wanting a proper system that is NOT full of fraud like it IS.


As far as a reasonable premise goes, if things were "good" for Native children getting fostered, then why would these children-now-adults create a class action lawsuit against the Crown for said fostering?  Obviously the homes that they went into weren't as "nurturing" as you feel they were.


No voice?
Conservatives are always complaining that the Dispatch has a liberal voice.


Where are they.  I have yet to see any chargers.


I doubt that anyone cares whether you believe it or not.


I love your handle "corporate media lies to YOU". You should start your own blog to keeps us all informed. I'll read it, but please don't lie to  me.


How noble of you to shoulder that heavy burden.


"when the masses come for our oil"?   That's a bit absurd isn't it?  We have a hu-uge trade surplus in oil with our neighbours to the south at deflated prices.  Why shouldn't we sell energy to other partners at potentially preferential terms.  Slamming the door in the face of one customer (China) and bending over for another (the USA) is simple foolishness.  Let's at least talk to them about it.


Lynn I have a serious question for you. I'm an independent that leans conservative, how in the world with the passion you write with do YOU stomach being among the democrats? Seriously I'd like to hear your answer.

Clinton organizers admitted on video tape to paying protesters to incite violence at Trump rallies. Some of those protestors democrats picked to incite violence were among the mentally ill in this country.

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/

“No, I’m saying that we have mentally ill people that we pay to do s***, make no mistake. Over the last twenty years. I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do crazy stuff, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel.”


You're right about that.  Such good Catholics, they're as tribal as the Bundys.


The arrogance of those retrospective socialist crystal ball gazers, such as Radwanski, knows no bounds. Mr. Radwanski would not know up from down so please, we have no interest in your advice so keep it to yourself.


Lets solve this problem the only way it can be done. Thunderdome.

On Washington mall grounds a complete Thunderdome as in the 1985 Mel Gibson movie, Beyond Thunderdome will be built, stocked with the same weapons.  Tina Turner will reprise her role of Aunty Entity.

Rules are simple. There are no rules. Two men enter, one man leaves. Biggest event on PPV ever.

My money is on former FBI director Comey. Let the battle begin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JKZKjFjHDM


Well, when you say "a Catholic perspective", if you mean there may be other "Catholic perspectives" ... then yes.

Otherwise, then probably no ...


Until their son, daughter or significant other is dead for no good reason. Always amusing (and frightening) how citizens make the assumption that you can win a conflict simply because the other fella is commie and has a different complexation. I was given the same message in 1972. We all know how that turned out.


If you are looking for a personally delivered, regular update from Mueller on the investigation, as The Wolf (Harvey Keitel) says, you should just ask "pretty please, with sugar on top":

https://youtu.be/-ZRUaDGW7WQ


Trump didn't mince his words. Take note junior - I mean Butts.


My perspective -- her role was to make it easier for the black, female lawyers who followed after her. Trail blazing isn't easy. But, enjoyable read.


If you are a landlord, and can't raise the rent to cover your increases in costs, one might suggest that the units won't be taken care of all that well, in short you might get what you pay for.

If you are considering becoming a landlord, you might re think that strategy and not renovate your home or purchase a second house or condo which results in less choice for the tenants.


A really informed opinion , Allie! FYI, police everywhere do this same thing every day.


So your point is... "to heck with the poor, they will always be among us... given the choice, mass attendance is more important in the eyes of Christ?"

That about sums up the complete and utter calamity of a doctrinal purist... i.e., cant see the forest through the trees!


you are not a factor in this type of scenerio


Actually, money is even now buying more and more destruction of our environment.


Mr. Stevenson was a security guard at the Burnside Freddie's back in the day and he was a cool cat. When my partner and I found out he was the victim, we were stunned. I hope his family is doing all right altho to my shame now I realize that kind of thought would have been more helpful 31 years ago.


Right. Good plan. Let even more business flee the Province rather than do something to stop them. That is the Liberals business plan in a nut-shell: We don't care, so stuff it! Good work.


I don't know if you have noticed, but in a democracy we support all aspects of society through our taxes. I might resent money spent on the military industrial complex or on English/Vietnamese translators who don't understand the language they are expected to translate, but I pay my taxes none the less.It becomes far less controversial on concepts that benefit all of the commons, such as moving toward non-polluting energy sources that will decrease health concerns and will cause far fewer disruptions to communities by oil spills or extraction methods which destroy entire ecosystems such as coal extraction. Even if you don't believe CO2 is a pollutant, there are plenty of other pollutants and health threats associated with fossil fuel production and consumption.


Any time you regulate an industry, you are converting that industry into a never ending source of campaign donations, as the incumbents will use the political process to create regulations that limit or eliminate competition and new entries into the industry.  Think of it as the functional equivalent of a protection racket.  An extreme example would be Chicago, a one party operation for over a century.  With this regulation, we travel down that path a bit.  Cheers -


I know many good people who care for the poor! You know what? I never stopped to ask what their political preference is.  We are all called to help the poor. You know what else? I've yet to have a poor person ask me who I voted for. I have sadly run into people who shamelessly exploit the poor to serve their own agenda.


Hillary would have sworn in with one hand on "the book" (which variation would have depended on what faith paid the most) and the other hand hiding a price gun behind her back. The nation would have been for sale; cash or favors. The reason she's more dangerous than Trump is because she actually has a brain and she USES it. She'd have gotten away with everything.


Michael, I really don't want to hear you sing. I don't want to watch different members of the laity "expressing" themselves and "performing" at the altar. You accuse any and everybody who favors the Tridentine Mass of being ideologues and elitists who "look down their noses" at the supposed majority of supposedly real Catholics clamoring for the Novus Ordo Mass. Michael, if you want to find ideologues and elitists, perhaps you should read your own "opinions" in your own blog, and the comments of the approximately two dozen faithful readers of your posts.


How intolerant of you.


Why is an American union controlling Toronto's transit?? This is not seem like  a good thing.


It makes their humor even funnier since it becomes forbidden fruit.  Total comedy gold.


Personally I would prefer less PFD to a income tax.


Ha ha! -  Carleton!
What a joke!
Last Chance U.


The only thing I'll remember about you, is you're an idiot. Spam the Inquirer


oldgit i believe he is correct.  The total of the cpp survivor and his cpp pension cannot exceed the max.


Clearly the loquacious Mr. Petrows thinks they don't.


OK, so how are they going to know who voted and how? You're assuming that it won't be a secret ballot, which suggests you've given up all hope of 'democracy', and this benighted country is veritably on it's way to being Zim 2.0.


Change America?  Yes, he wants to make us just like Russia s h can be ore like his idol Putin.


Hey James, it was your hero, Bernie Sanders, that first mentioned it and made it a big part of his campaign. Poor guy didn't stand a chance with the DNC trying to find ways to defeat him. Pesky superdelegates!


Still waiting.
What was the purpose?
Or will you dodge yet again?


Don't get me started


That depends.  Would you give up something you are in control of but enjoy for the greater good? (I don't know..you're favourite sport, or red meat, or internet...) The question is meaningless.  The government can do what they have done with cigarette smoking to try to curb people away from drinking and work to make it socially unacceptable to drink to excess, but I don't think prohibition is feasible.  It's been tried before. Those with an addiction problem -any addiction- problem need help to break the addiction. I don't stay up gaming all night, but that too is a destructive addiction.


"Legitimate, law-abiding citizens don't carry pistols in their waist bands or pockets; they carry them in holsters."  Not true.  After getting the money to get the gun, didn't have the money for a holster.  Keep dreaming of it, though.  ;)


If the nominee were a Democrat who argued the same points, e.g. personal beliefs do not supersede precedent but was "pro-choice" the bishops would not make the same arguments. The bishops would argue the candidate should not be confirmed because his/her personal beliefs are not shared by the bishops.


The one I heard ...  God "  Will there be women priests ? "
                                JP II   "  Not in my lifetime "
                                JP II   " Will there be another Polish Pope ?
                                     God  " Not in my lifetime ."


I'm trying to follow your logic here... anti-racist professors attempting to establish a community standard and self-police their colleague's ignorance are "the soul of the KKK"? Calling someone out in a public forum is NOT the same as intimidating, exiling, and lynching people on the basis of their race/religion/etc.


LOL, I think I'll listen to the chorus of economists and business leaders on why Transcanada backed out vs. that of a Justin partisan.

Too funny.


Fish again?  I fail to see the connect to anything.  Could you elaborate?


If you show up to protest against Nazis and white supremacists you're now part of something called the alt-left? How dare they provoke armed Trump supporters who are merely exercising their right to hate.
I think we can remain confident that no one will ever tear down a statue of Trump because there will never be one.


This Russian collusion thing isn't working out how the dems envisioned.


Sounds to me , the treatment for true pain patients will go back to the stone age. I m in a wheelchair, have a spinal cord injury, & Ehlers Danlos, That has left me with 40 years of more than 15 surgeries and a life of horrible nerve pain . Like hot ants biting me from my toes to mid back, and a knife stabbing me every time I move. with a life of  one medicine or another. now have a intrathecal pain pump. have also tried therapy, and ways of relaxing. but its pain patients rights, to medicine and doses over that of 4 ibuprofen that keep taking a hit.


Gillibrand has probably forgotten that some of the votes for Trump were actually votes against liberals like her and Hillary.


Joffrey; You made a lot of money playing hockey. Your future is rosy, it's just not going to be with the Maple Leafs. Bye bye.


If one wants to learn more about how our state government works and has worked in the past a good read is Land & Power in Hawaii.  Is was published in 1985.  I think it is still used in some political science classes at UH.  Broken Trust is another one too.  In one of these books, Hawaii's government procurement system is rated as one of the worst in the nation.  Legislators are able to earmark/hide funds from the general fund so it looks like there is no money in the general fund.   Thanks to investigative reporting by Civil Beat, things might become more transparent.


Thank you also, Dennis, for your response above.   Sounds like you are a wonderful student, and a reliable classmate!  And it appears, at least to me, that you're getting a good grasp on what EQUITY is all about.  Our British forebears were instrumental in establishing a court system which mitigated the frequently harsh application of the law, which is why, even today, we speak of PRINCIPLES of equity which would, among other things, prevent a plaintiff, in a law court, from being unjustly enriched by a law court.  Plaintiffs in chancery courts are still called "petitioners," and His Majesty the King appointed his chancellor to oversee, preside and tweak as necessary.  Hence the name chancery courts.  Because certain nobles feared that the chancellor was acquiring too much power, the courts of law and equity were ultimately combined.  "Epikeia" is a sort of ecclesiastical counterpart in the Eastern Churches, which do NOT apply the "divine laws" of marriage with Western harshness.


Obviously you have failed to do any research on Johnson. He is as crazy as Trump, possibly more so. Do you believe his idea to cut the military budget by 43% in his first term along with cutting all military bases overseas, uniformed and civilian personnel, research & development, intelligence and nuclear weapons programs, would be a good thing for Alaska?


Time to have the Flame org to put more cards on the table. They better, because while I thing Calgary City Council has come off as smug, it now appears the Flames are getting smug.  I think there is alot on the table for both sides.  The NHL Canadian teams seem to be offsetting revenue failures in US southern locations...that matters.  If the Flames leave the public will lose as will all parties.  Myself I will get used to it, but if there is an attempt to bring some tooly money losing Southern US team up here again, can't say I would support it.    Hope we get the new Arena, hope the Flames stay and hope these clowns negotiate in good faith.  Time to show your cards king.


I like this part.  Bernie Sanders: "Stop free trade agreements that destroy American jobs!"  Trump: "If Ford builds a plant in Mexico and tries to reimport the cars to sell in America, I will tax them at 35%. They will not be rewarded for building somewhere else and outsourcing our jobs!"  Bernie Sanders: "We need to get Wall Street and billionaire corruption out of our political system!"  Trump: "We are going to stop un-American government waste that endangers our soldiers by ending preferences to defense contractors that build inferior products because the manufacturers bought the politicians involved in the decision. How do I know this happens?  I used to pay the same guys myself!"  Interesting consenus here yes? (!)  All that aside, I have *never* said that government could not be managed more intelligently or that government here was cost effective. In fact, I'm running to change that: https://www.facebook.com/d4m2016/  Trump's idea that we need to vote for good managers I like.


So, to put it another way, you don't have any clue.


If it's government screwing you, like the Republicans say Obamacare did, that's socialism. If it's a corporation screwing you, and profiting in the process, well that's 'Freedom.'

Republican politicians are nothing more than hacks who are paid to keep the money flowing uphill while they clutter up the minds of gullible voters with empty promises of fixing the American dream.


You only put out these sanctimonious, disingenuous  statements after a tragedy happens.  Until the next one, you and your dummy dem lords try everything you can to undermine the President which weakens our country.  A president legally elected by the people of this country.


I think Hillary sponsored 10 bills that got passed and successfully amended 67 others. Either you're misinformed or lying. You need to better check your sources and/or moderate your behavior.


He's clearly not talking about Chinese-Canadians. He's talking about the people who move money to Canada and pay inflated prices so the communist party can't take away their wealth.


25 million North Koreans might not want a Chinese puppet.  If the people around him want him dead why is he still running things? Better the devil you know than a foreign devil.


If you can't make it to the museum, you might find the book - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - by Isabel Wilkerson to be quite informative.   It was an eye opener for me.


Why is this a surprise?  The same bankers owned shares in all the other MJ companies they took public as well.  Where was the outrage then?


Is he just auditioning for a job?


So, it appears that we are at a point of disagreement as to what the disease is.  Is it neo-liberalism or progressivism.  You are right about a few things.  1.  Wealth that is used to buy influence is concentrated in a few people.  2. Good people are deluded and indoctrinated into despising fellow Americans.  3. A lot of what is being reported by the media is a distraction.  You are wrong about the progressive agenda.  Progressives have spent years moving our country in a direction opposite of the way our Founders intended.  Barack Obama was able to advance their agenda when he signed Obamacare.  The election of Trump put a halt to their plans, but Trump is no white hope.  All of the rage being played out is rage at the agenda being thwarted for now.


testing


I think they mostly do.


Trust the parents to deal with this? They're too busy playing with their smart phones to bother with trivial issues like raising their children....really. Go to a restaurant and watch. Oh, wait, you can't, you'll be too busy......playing with your smart phone.
If it were up to me, they'd call them dumb phones.... ;)


It's the new economy.  In the old economy, people got paid for making things.  Now there's jobs for professional protestors, paid for by billionaires like Soros. I wonder what the job duties include? And how do the protest supervisors do a job evaluation of their "worker" protestors? --- and this is NOT a hobby for Soros.
He has some way of making money from the chaos.


The bad news, he is serious. The good news is that his rhetoric is degrading to grunts and becomes easier to not take seriously. RG, please publish thoughtful opinions from Trump supporters. I for one, would love to know what they are 'thinking'.


So tell me, Trid, about your claim that "Pope Francis has been punishing good, orthodox Catholics" ... and your concern for this group calling itself the heralds of the gospel.

Especially in the light of the founder and now ex-leader of this Brazilian traddie movement relaying Satan's alleged words (from the mouth of a herald of the gospel priest), "saying that the devil had told the Heralds priest that Francis was “my man”. Satan said Francis is “stupid” and does “everything I want”"

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/7367/0/vatican-investigates-catholic-group-after-exorcism-claim-that-francis-is-devil-s-man

Apparently they're under apostolic investigation! And the leader has hastily resigned! This delightful little group that you venerate.

Imagine your meltdown had the leader of a more centrist Catholic group spouted off against JPII or BXVI in such a manner.


"if you hate everything the Church has stood for"

Nice overkill.


Bildergergers, Illuminati and their plans for a one-world government.


fakenose: You have it exactly the wrong way around. Transgenders have integrated just fine into the US military. You didn't even know they were there until trump raised the issue, now did you?
It's trump who is embarking an a dumb social experiment - denigrating and cutting out members of the armed forces who have served well. For no purpose. But then most of trump's actions serve no real purpose and certainly do no good to the US population.


Why doesn't html have a sarcasm font?


The soldier retracted his statement..... and I'm sure that Khadr knows whether or not he threw a grenade..... now he's just not ..... really to sure about anything, except that he got some money for killing someone.


Saudi Arabia and the USA are moving closer together in their shared values every day.

Girl Guides should avoid the USA/Canada border hassles and send their members to discover  parts of Canada or go abroad.


Do these people really believe that everyone who has been in space is actually lying about their experience there?
I have met astronauts, one of which walked on the Moon.
I assure you, the earth is a globe.


Real Conservatives can manage an economy - the Liberals cannot.


"... never received a nickel from the Koch's..." Didn't the Alaska Policy Forum receive most of its initial funding from Donors Capital Fund which has direct ties to the Kochs? So, if you're the Bob Griffin: Education Research Fellow at APF, then ...????


How do you know it's a "commercial" class?  How do you know it's not a free class?  Have you asked the instructor?  Have you queried the participants?


I'd like to see someone step forward and admit they voted Liberal in the last provincial election.  Any takers?


The problem isn't who is in charge, it is funding the VA. However, funding may not be a problem in the near future as Trumps' administration appears to be targeting VA benefits for outsourcing to the private sector. Once they get that accomplished service should improve dramatically.


Lock the ass up for life. He probably has no idea, nor does he care, all the financial grief (getting new back account numbers, new credit card numbers, many notifications to change direct deposits) he has caused. Have him write 1 + 1 = 2, one thousand times each day he is locked up (for life).


Dear Tax and Spend Lawmakers of Oregon,
I think the tax payers of this state have made it clear, we do not believe you when you constantly yell "FIRE!" It's time to live within your means like the rest of us do. If the average taxpayer has an unexpected expense, they find something they can do without.
We DO NOT want, nor will we put up with an additional $1.3B per year in additional taxes, fees, surcharges, or whatever fancy name you put on it.
If you can't find a way to do it, we will elect someone that can!


Western woods: At least when it comes to goods, it would seem that the Supremes could easily say that sec. 121 means that if a good can be legally sold in one province or territory, then it can be legally sold in any other province and territory.  What would have been the point of sec. 121 in 1867 if one province, wanting to block inter-provincial trade,  could simply say that a product from another province did not meet its standards and hence couldn't be sold in its territory?

Professional standards might be more of challenge for the Supremes, but if they have the will, they could also find that if you are licensed in one province or territory, you are, in effect, licensed in all.


I am sure that Morgan and her child appreciate your nuance.
Meanwhile, this is an area of gun safety law that needs to be addressed ASAP
with new legislation in states where it does not already exist.
Do you agree?


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…and the moon is made of green cheese, Matthew.
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The  uncomfortable truth we have been lied to, and everybody knows it.  Bailing out when the depth of deception got to hard to live with took courage.


Your call for "citizen vigilante action only as a last resort" is anything but 'Democratic',

At least I home that is not the new definition.


Great for him. Funny they mentioned Tua in this article. I think Tua made a wrong choice going to Bama. He won't play very much. Also heard the number 1 high school QB also leaning to Bama. Anyway this article is about Milton. I like this him as well. UCF should do good this year.


He has to follow the votes of 22 AD's and 22 Principals.  Why should the OIA help the ILH.  Too bad Kamehameha, Punahou and StLouis play each other over and over.


She stated that "many people still believe "taking a sugar pill will cure cancer if you will it good enough"...  So another words she doesn't believe in naturopathic medicine and thinks that the people that believe in it are as batty as those that believe in divine intervention and horoscopes.  I wonder if she thinks medicinal marijuana works since the science isn't settled on its merits and could be likened to taking a sugar pill.


It's not just a homeless project; it's a way of both helping people who have been homeless secure housing (no one rents to people without a current rental history) and provide housing for people at risk of becoming homeless.

Wouldn't it be nice if the city would stop doing things like spending $4M on a faster internet connection for a handful of businesses, $30M on a city hall, $8M on a rail quiet zone, $20M on a cop shop, $10 on "improving downtown's business environment" and such and put some focus, and money, on remedying our deficit of affordable housing?

Budgets are priorities. I'd be interested to see some polling on how the residents of Eugene would allocate our city's general fund and slush funds (renewal districts). I suspect Jon Ruiz's priorities don't align well with the citizens.


Shouldn't protecting American's be our highest priority ?  We don't have enough food or jobs for our own people .  We shouldn't allow anyone into America until we get our own people taken care of first.  Obama and Hillary Clinton's decisions over sea's is why humans are fleeing the region and wrecking all the surrounding countries . Ask Germany , France , and England how well this influx of people is working for them.  And Hillary thinks the result will be different in America ?  All she wants is more votes from people fresh off the boat who don't know about her past.


The anti-gun types obsess over schemes to disarm the American People.


Why did you glare at the man with your fixed stare? Why did you verbally confront him? Why did you then physically confront him, escalating your verbal confrontation? What good did that do you, or that man, whom you infuriated for no good reason, only to prove yourself stronger? Now you are obviously contemplating shooting someone over a confrontation like the one you describe, which you could have avoided entirely. Let me repeat, you could, and should have, avoided that confrontation entirely. If you shoot someone whom you could have easily avoided, you will go to jail and lose your privilege to own firearms forever, and you would deserve it.


Two thoughts, Kag.

Cupich is a very decent Francis appointment..the "silent bishops" aren't!

Trump is in my view more dangerous when he sounds even remotely reasonable...better he should just rant on than go vaguely appropriate...however, expect weird tweets/behavior  soon.....the leopard and his spots....


Born and bred South African my friend...Why do you feel it necessary to label people alt-right when not in agreement with them. MSM is a common and universal term used by the left and right. I read many different publications including the MSM and yes even Breitbart to get a general and all round perspective of world affairs. For your information I don't have much time for Trump however facts are facts whether you agree with him or not.


Glaciers are advancing in Chile & Argentina. Time for the climate scientits to dig a little deeper, since they don't "get it" yet.


still lame and hateful


"You can't correct history..."

This is not at all about correcting history.  It is about not celebrating treason any longer.  History is what it is.  Let's just not celebrate treasonous acts with monuments.


Mercifully, we in Western Canada have not had to endure much of Rogers:  they have minimal presence here.  Instead we are saddled with Telus and Shaw primarily.  Of the two, Telus (Natale's former bonus machine) is the least worst of the worst.  Shaw's service, both technical and customer service, is so deplorable as to almost defy description: bald faced lies piled on top of gross incompetence.


Takes a real low life to shoot an animal that is used to eating out of a persons hand. Gentle giants.


Local style, granfada brah.


Lower fares would result in more revenue if ridership increased. Somehow the Europeans manage to provide inexpensive and reliable rail service.


They were spying on China.  If you find a peeping Tom in your backyard, you have every right to seize his spy gear along with his trenchcoat and call the Police - which is what China did.


Muslims all over the world speak out against the Da'esh.  And many have died for doing so.  Would you like some names of these martyrs?


Seems like a fair enough decision.


Optics are one thing, but perspective is important. From the Financial Post:

"The federal ethics watchdog says she advised Morneau there was no need to put his assets in a blind trust.

Mary Dawson says that since the former businessman’s shares are held through a private holding company — and not directly controlled [by] Morneau — he didn’t technically need to divest or put them in a blind trust."

So Mr Morneau disclosed his holdings to Ms Dawson, and acted in accordance with her advice.

As for changing the current law, I'd like to hear arguments on both sides before jumping to conclusions. More than ever we need our politics to be governed by rational discussion.


Jeffrey Lord needs to be dismissed from CNN, and hired by Trump as the White House Counselor for Fawning Propaganda.


[It never ceases to amaze me how conservatives and idiots like Eastman can call for smaller and less intrusive government]
It takes a certain kind of mindset to call for less intrusive government "except when it comes to my issues" as it functions upon an unquestionable belief of righteousness.  Strangely enough, it's has a striking similarity to those claiming to be deeply religious.


As Enoch Godongwana has lamented, the ANC discussions seem to ignore the fact that South Africa is in serious trouble: massive corruption, flaky governance and the economy that is on an unhindered free-fall.


Looks like somebody was sick the day they taught sarcasm class.


What the governments don't seem to realize is that most small businesses are already struggling to adapt and compete against online retailers. Increasing one of their largest expenses will simply cause many businesses to close.


From article: "America is in for a turbulent four years..."

How would continuing the US  foreign and economic policy inertia of the past 15-years lead to anything other than:

- continued global geopolitical chaos?;

- new and worsened middle east wars;

- many 10s of  millions of more displaced war refugees;

- the economic destruction of the United States and Canada?

NAFTA SHOULD BE CANCELLED ASAP

- Afterwards, Canada + U.S. should revert to 1987 Canada-United States FTA:

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-10.6/page-1.html

http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/us-eu.aspx?lang=eng

Roderick V. Louis,
Vancouver, BC, Canada;

** such as those producing automobiles, fridges, hardware, washing machines, dryers, TV's and other home appliances, et cetera


Agree. Robertson and his party have viewed Vancouver as some form of lab experiment and it's time that Vancouverites toss aside these ersatz social scientists to reclaim control of their city. He and Vision have been a disaster with their preoccupation with density over liveability. There never has been anything 'great' about this regime and they deserve the boot.


Well, well, are we shocked?  This American can't help but notice that the P.M. arrived at the White House in a perfectly tailored suit, tie at proper length and suit jacket buttoned.  Trump, on the other hand, had his usual "tie as potential napkin" length, unbuttoned suit jacket and paunch.  A real slob!  Hopefully, something will come out of this that is positive.  Still no boxing gloves in evidence and that's too bad.  Better start on that wall , Canada.  Millions of us down here have had it.


Can someone say, Randy Quad?


I hope the Canary Islands are awarded the TMT.  They certainly deserved the world-class distinction and financial rewards that goes with it.
Don't believe they have idol-fearing natives living there.


And there are always so many of them, aren't there, Lynn.


You've answered your question... what make you think that it's about any real construction costs.


illegals taking over the town and shes concerned with cats claws, cmon man 😀


Thanks to the Liberals and their M103, Canada is now vulnerable to further infiltration by Islamists.


Canada needs to keep control of its agriculture industry in the hands of Canadians. A country that loses control of its ability to feed itself has also lost its sovereignty. For a more prosaic reason take a look at the rising cost of imported food.
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Globalization's ugly cracks have been showing for some time now. Canada would be better off expanding its internal economy to provide better and more secure lives for its citizens.


Can't believe this has happened to fellow neighbor and FB friend...


R: You are cherry picking selective comments and taking them out of context. The PF was created to offset difficult financial times for the state, period. The PFD was/is a nice to have, that's all. Rationalize the PFD however you want but it never was designed to be the entitlement many think it is today.


This sort of thing is precisely so many Canadians don;t want more immigration from Islamic countries.  We will be importing to Canada  our own destruction


They need to have all the cash in that payment seized and turned over to small businesses in Ferguson that were looted, burned, and destroyed.

There's no way in this great county that producing a violent criminal should get you paid.

Shame on the people that decided to pay these scum.


Many of the 'losses' you cite are government-imposed.  The rest make huge assumptions about the community and customers' willingness to support this business, as well as the motivations of financial backers -- if any.  The only objective point you make is that the *government* will impose its own standards on what should be a decision for the individual business owner, which I think is Chuck's point.

If the business would suffer from all of the maladies you describe -- no financial backing and no support from the market or community -- then it will wither and die on the vine.  If it will succeed because people either support the business' viewpoint or don't care one way or the other and just love quality baked goods, then it should have that opportunity as well.


And that ultimately is what it is all about.

Every week the financial tune up piece in the G&M has some couple hoping to die, leaving the kids an estate worth a couple - three million dollars.

In this case, the offspring is just ahead of the game.

It is all the same deal..hurry up and die, so I can get the money....


Exactly. I have a car and wouldn't think of not having one, but also understand that some people choose not to have one and that's ok. In fact, it actually benefits me because it means less traffic.


The fact that Canada has these 'Human Rights Tribunals' in the first place is truly bizarre. The reason is that Canada, unlike US and Australia, is a second rate democracy and lacks any 'Freedom of Speech' provisions. The draconian Canadian Government can prosecute citizens for stating their beliefs as Canadian 'Freedom of Expression' provide no protections.


Well, and the ones we sell to them at the border!


no.... because I wouldn't be so stupid as to go to back to Syria if I'd managed to get out in the first place. Again I ask.. how is the amount calculated.. show me that 10 million dollar's worth of harm has been inflicted?


There is no constitutional right to employment when you act like a disrespectful jerk.


Your educational pedigree is?


I am so glad.  I'm sure she is a nice person but also a 'know it all' that talks way too much and talks over Everybody.


There have been some advocates for much greater cuts to state services.  I don't agree with all of their proposed cuts, but I respect their position.  However, I almost never hear them going after our oil tax giveaway.  So are they simply arguing for more cuts in order to prop up the giveaway?  When I see them going after the tax giveaway as aggressively as I see them going for cuts in services, then I'll take them seriously.  Otherwise, they're just agents of Kelly, Micciche, and Meyer.


It's especially amazing when you realize the Democratic Party loved Weinstein, Anthony Weiner and Bill Clinton while declaring Mitt Romney, the squeaky-clean boy scout, was waging a war on women.


"The Italian proposal on migration, refugees and hunger was nuanced. It recognized that migration could not be stopped, nor should it be stopped, given that European economies are depopulating and aging rapidly. "

So, let's just invite every African who wants to come to Europe into Europe.

I have never heard anything so stupid in a long time.


If someone voted for Trump, it is probably because they believe everything Breibart tells them


Police never have and never will make a "City Safer". Police do not prevent crime. They investigate crimes. People are responsible for the City they want. It's up to parents to raise law abiding adults. If your parents are thugs, then chances are they will raise thugs. "Birds of a feather, flock together".  It is up to us as citizens to build  great city. Teachers are not the reason your kid failed High School. Cops are not the reason your kid is in jail. It's most likely your fault ----because it's trailer people raising trailer family members.


Actually the MOA has some weird things, hence why it's the "municipality of" rather than the "city and borough of". The problem remains though that the Metro area doesn't cover Girdwood and APD can't, by law, force Girdwood to accept APD officers and costs. APDs hands are tied.


Shades of Boston's Cardinal Law ... when Law went to the Vatican to explain what would happen during the discovery phase in an American courtroom, the Vatican decided to pull the plug on Law.  This maybe the death knell for Pell?


Trump would kick his A$$!
Don't underestimate Trump....he was a first class athlete in his day....WATCH THIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I


Surely a man of your advanced intellect understands what I meant, but then again.....


And what do all the thousands of drivers who were sorely inconvenienced by reducing Ala Moana Blvd by at least one lane during the building get?  Squat.


The issue first was rumored in the eighties, got sparse but regular media coverage in the nineties, broke wide open in Boston in 2002 and has continued weekly trail of world wide involvement in the media up to  today.  Now this open letter by someone who has lived with the issue for almost its entire existence.  It is  tragic that Cardinal O'Malley has a letter in the same issue of NCR to say that PF still is focused on the issue of accountability of bishops. One cannot look at 40 years of scandal, recrimination, excuses, bankruptcy, lawyering up and a commission that in years of existence has zero results except the resignation of members as anything other than  a slow dance allow the guilty to retire and die without more publicity and legal expense for the Church.  Reminds me of the years it took to negotiate the shape of the table to end the Vietnam war.


If power corrupts...then the power of being continuously re-elected corrupts absolutely.


Frank,

You are a bully. I did not burn my bra and I breast fed my children. Keep your serpent tongue in your mouth.


Thank you!


No he is not. Letting people keep their own money is the opposite of stealing. Trump is slashing regulations.  If you are worried about spending more than you have (deficits) then spend less.  Taxes have been called legalized stealing. How can reducing taxes be corrupt?  The government does not dictate a quota for children nor where you must live. Do you wish to try again?


Great article in National Geographic September issue on how Netherlands is using this method very successfully on a huge scale.


Kelly Ellard is still in jail for murdering Rheena Virk when Ellard was 15.  Yes, fully culpable.


What bills?  Bills have to get through both houses of congress, and those fools don't seem to be able to manage to pass something they have been promising for 7 years.


well except the angry abuser knows where his victim is and awaits her return to the street where he will abuse her again.  Lax courts out here do not aggressively put abusers in prison and some seem to condone it.  And why on earth are so many "men" out here so angry with women.  It is sickening.


Sure ain't like the old Wein-y Birds, where, truly, the sky was the limit! Lotza fun on those flights. The co-pilot even played the harmonica once while the whole plane sang. Went aboard with a couple gallons of pickled clams, a box full of smoked salmon and razor clams, plus some king crab legs. Left the plane with two empty gallon jars and an empty box. The whole plane partook! Those were the days...


The agenda of trump and sessions to increase criminalization to fill prisons for non-violent offenses is really their version stimulus for the building, maintaining and managing of prisons for profit.  And doing so all on the tax payers' dime.  It's actually a genius money laundering scheme of taking public money and turning into to private money to run away with that sessions is trying to orchestrate with things like messing with sentencing.  Plus this should in turn increase the number of minorities and poor people in prison who turn to the drug game because of limited opportunities.  So it's a perfect set up for the American people to willingly allow the agenda trump and sessions to rob them blind.  But this is the America that Americans wanted and voted for in making America great again.


Why the sad sad comments from obamma and Hillary supporters??? Complaints about costs, you didn't complain when Bill launched hundreds and hundreds of them to deflect against his infadelity.


Ya, you are right ANC elections are based on the democratic process so that branches can choose their best candidate.


“It’s not for me to tell you what’s in the president’s mind,” Miller said.

I'm sure Mr. Miller is not the only one in that position. I wonder if the president knows himself.


Pretty much your usual profile of western converts to religious sects. Islam is just the "religion du jour" these days, in the past it has been the Hare Krishnas, the Children of God, the Maharishi...

Young people with disordered lives but usually some strong religious background they reject as not demanding enough. Have read of many Catholics rejecting Catholicism and Christianity in general as too complex a faith, it demands too much nuanced thinking, Islam is so much simpler and straightforward.

So said Lawrence of Arabia of the Arab Muslims: "They were a people of primary colours, or rather of black and white, who saw the world always in contour. They were a dogmatic people, despising doubt, our modern crown of thorns. They did not understand our metaphysical difficulties, our introspective questionings. They knew only truth and untruth, belief and unbelief, without our hesitating retinue of finer shades."

A very appealing view of the world to some people...


Aloha Pono,

It's pretty apparent that no treaty of annexation exists.  We wouldn't be referring to the Newlands Resolution ( a joint reso) if a treaty existed.  It was an illegal annexation, plain and simple.  If this happened ten years ago, there might be legal remedy.

However, this happened over 116 years ago and the great many circumstances in between the day it happened and now have to be taken into account.  I included the passage from int'l law jurist James Crawford because that's how the situation is weighed.  As far as the world is concerned, the Hawaiian Islands are a part of the United States - you won't find a court on Earth that will hear that case.

We have to move forward and not hang on to these kinds of claims, where no forum will provide remedy.  We can use fed-rec and its greater political authority to have standing to assert other claims.

"No treaty," "belligerent occupation," "war crimes" - these are claims that will take us around in circles.


It's a song now? Well, ok…still better than our crappy national anthem, I guess…


while i generally find your articles thoughtful i think this one falls into the north american fallacy of equating density of population accommodated with height of towers.  however, if you look at some of the most livable cities these are predominantly low rise; paris, barcelona and even new york once you get to the areas around central park.

the city of paris has an area of 41 sq mi and a population of 2.2 millions compared to the city of toronto with 240 sq mi and 2.7 million.

these numbers are achieved because most streets a lined with five or six story buildings with shops on the ground floors and accommodation above. this is the classic paris streetscape.

by comparison there are long stretches of king, queen, dundas and bloor streets and eglinton and lawrence avenues  that have buildings of only two or three stories. if slightly higher buildings replaced the present structures density would rise and livability maintained.  there are two examples on bloor just west of jane.


Bill Walker lies to Alaskans again.

http://mustreadalaska.com/new-direction-alaska-gasline-ends-questions/

...the Alaska Legislature’s consultant, Nikos Tsafos of enalytica, gave a strong closing presentation, during which he raised questions for members of the House and Senate Natural Resources Committees to consider.

He raised a red flag about risk, and stated that the direction that Gov. Bill Walker is taking the gasline project puts all the risk on the State of Alaska. “How far are you willing to for to get this project? How badly do you want it? If you are willing to lose $50 billion it’s very easy to build a $50 billion project.”

“I would be a lot more worried than I feel folks are worried,” he said of the governor’s plans for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation. “There is a whole other world of what you are getting into. One should be a little skeptical.” He kept apologizing for his candid remarks, but he seemed to want to indicate that this project is bad.


LOL he read Forbes but clearly he doesn't comprehend it.  Here's a link:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviergarret/2017/03/18/raising-the-minimum-wage-is-a-jobs-killing-move/#11e0f03b58fe

Of course you don't understand it either but you just don't really want to hear anything that interferes with your preconceived ideas. Do you?  Just block the truth out.  Easier that way.


It's predictable that most of the comments would be from men (who could use a dollbot or two) sneering at women, or from women (who are sick of the men going after them instead of the dollbots) sneering at men.  Most of the dollbots in the discussion are fake-female, either way.

But the first s.f. to deal with human/robotic copulation I ever came across, three or more decades ago, Asimov's Robots of Dawn, had a woman cohabit with an anatomically correct male robot.

I think both sexes would benefit equally if they had access to dollbots, whatever preference they may choose to add to the acronym.


The fervent christian conservative masses, believe anything spoonfed to them, denigrating anything connected to progressives, democrats and critical thinkers. Lying is the norm, and is unbelievably accepted in politics, used by republicans, denounced by democrats,  who gain control of the media, then go on to lie, denounced by the republicans, who go on to win with lies, denounced by the democrats and so it goes.
America's ideals today, are no different than Imperial Roman Empire back when todays Christians jesus, was murdered at the request of the jewish temple priests who were in bed with the money changers and money lenders, as the jesus was a danger to the temple priests corrupt practices. Today America invades and occupies, other countries, so the capitalist system of corporations can go in and legally steal their resources, using our government to slaughter the Natives in the civilized manner of theft and murder. And as a result of our corrupt politicians, we are where we are


Agree, quite refreshing make me feel proud to be a Canadian.


The Arab world is not the problem. The muslims are.


Dumping Wonder Woman is a horrible capitulation to the patriarchy.


Everyone needs something in which to believe.  Right now I believe I will have another beer.


Sad to see American values go down the drain, thanks to clueless liberals .


Hugh...I think you've been reading too many misinformation comments about Israel.  I taught Palestinians for two years in Jordan and visited Israel a number of times.  What you are saying just doesn't exist. I remind you that a few miles away is Jordan, which is about 70% Palestinian and open to receiving Palestinians from the West Bank.  The reality is that Jordan lost the Six Day War and Israel has survived, no thanks to the Arabs.   The Palestinians have a homeland...it is called Jordan.  It's a totally different situation and history than South Africa.  And...I am no fan of Netanyahu.  Do you think we should give back New Mexico or Texas to Mexico?


Perhaps i should read again, but nowhere in this article was the current operating budget for the Pioneer Home listed.  How many reside there?  What is the cost per individual?  Staffing?  How much do residents contribute from their own resources?

Another biased article to elicit knee-jerk reactions against ANY ak.gov fiscal sanity.


Exactly. More than 50 groups in the march supported by globalist George Soros. http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2017/01/20/billionaire-george-soros-has-ties-to-more-than-50-partners-of-the-womens-march-on-washington/


Heh heh, rf9 - here you are bragging about violating Ontario law.  Good example of Canadian values.


Someone inviting you up to their room (for sex or not) does not constitute sexual harassment. From your description he didn't pressure you, and he never became aggressive but rather embarrassed after you declined his poorly planned invitation.

Conflating your experience with so many other women just belittles the real issue of harassment.


“. . . although not with taxpayers’ money.”  Please note there is no prohibition in the bill that government money would not be used for this association.  In fact, the appendix to the bill states, “The Board . . . may accept . . . donations from private institutions, the City, State government, Federal government . . . .”


Canadians do something with their extractions, mining or oil, Alaskans don't. Trump doesn't need anyone from Alaska. Nothing to fight for. So he's doesn't care what Alaska hands him...


I disagree with the idea that we have to fix tertiary education first.  So many students simply are not equipped when they get there, meaning that no matter how much money we throw in, we will not see much of an improvement.
1.Lets start with Early Childhood Development
2.Then focus on Primary and High Schools - with proper career counselling in place
3.Then Universities.
4.Get rid of the "degree or death" mentality. (Corporates could help here by not insisting on degrees as minimum requirements for jobs that do not need a degree).
If we do the above properly, scholars leaving high school will know what they would like to do for their next qualification, and will be equipped to succeed in it.   We have too many people with degrees in useless, dated fields and not enough welders and bricklayers.


Perhaps there is a support group nearby for sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome.


What matters - REAL NEWS or hysterical FAKE NEWS trying to undermine a legally elected President?


Rob, usually I'm a fan, but this situation is more complicated than your article suggests.  Bait and switch is illegal.  Look at the name of the program.  Look at the card.  Look at the logo.  Many of the early adopters of Air Miles signed up with the promise of 1 point = to 1 mile of Air Travel.  Few people want "Small Appliance Rewards".  If Air Miles suddenly came to the conclusion that their own system was no longer viable as a business, then they should have changed the name of the program to reflect that fact at that time.

In this case the government does have a role to play in consumer protection.  It is much closer to the (basically successful) gift card expiry problem than the (questionable) skinny bundle problem.  The ironically named parent, LoyaltyOne, always sold the dream trip to Hawaii ... not the blender.  And the only way to get the dream trip was to save up miles for many years.  My father wasted gas to buy gas from Shell.  He died without going on his dream trip.


Go ahead and scream night and day about how this commission is a waist of tax payers money. Everyone knows that the elections are full of illegal actions, payoffs and fraud. They stopped recounts in Michigan after the election because the fraud was so bad in most cities the recounts would have been worthless. I believe this commission will find that 11 to 20 million votes for Clinton were fraudulent as in illegal aliens, dead people etc. That is why Democrats don't want our voting system looked into and fixed so that only real American citizens can vote. America is turning back to the Constitution and again pushing the individual rights our founding documents guarantee. All of the manufactured racism and hate that you watch on the news doesn't seem to exist in real life, as most of us interact with each other peacefully and respectfully each and every day. Tiny groups of individuals and the main stream media try pushing the hate, but the people aren't buying it. Shine light on truth.


Groundwork for what?  For telling women tat they need to be patient?  Or for telling women that they are valued, so that they don't need to be treated as equal human beings?


CUE has never posted a positive comment. he is the most classic internet troll i've run into. wait until he responds to this - he is crippled by ignorance and his fear of anyone not just like him.. and yet, when that is pointed out -  he still doesn't get it. if his comment is to simply slam someone,  as in the other day, when he threw in a snarky comment at  jade,  by name,  and she hadn't even been involved in that story.  flag him..enough and he'll be out of here. he does it on a regular basis...


Stop, there's no real news here! Go watch the Little League World Series! (Must sweep this news story under the rug!!!) Go hear some music!  Avoid this news!   Hillary was no Rusky! Podesta is an honest American................name!


Or you must be saying temporarily lowering hydro costs resulting in 2 times more payment is good math.


The wealth of Vancouver dwarfs that of these cities.

Immigration is an indicator of economic success. There is a reason most people don't try to immigrate into the Maritimes.


Except that didn't happen, and rarely does, right?


You admit Russia didn't hack the election!  Good. Progress at last!
.
  California is about as south as you can get on the west coast, so yeah, I agree, they have some pretty bad   racist down there...almost as bad as Sen. Robert Byrd (D) of West Virginia and Gov. George Wallace (D) of Alabama, both strong segregationist. They'd fit in well with 'modern' day California and their clumsy attempts at 'secession'.


Great move Mr President! Keep the winning coming! Let the socialists figure out out to pay their own way!!


Yeah, it's a weird tension between Trump energizing his group but also being saddled with high negatives from the rest of the GOP (and energizing a small group of some Dems but even higher negatives for the rest). Is the turnout for Trump or also against him? He polled mostly around 40% on Super Tuesday. But Clinton has high negatives as well, so people that might vote "anti-Trump" might not be willing to do that by voting for Clinton and vice versa.


Trump tweets.  The Anti-Trump Faction freaks.  Every time.  Right on time.  Just like they've been  trained to do.  Any day that starts out like that you know is going to be a good day.


I don't understand why rollerblading popularity went down.  I brought mine to Kauai 2 years ago and they have an excellent bike path right on the ocean that goes for about 8 miles.  I rollerbladed on it 3 times while watching whales.  I did not see another rollerblader at all.  I rollerbladed on the Knowles coastal trail(tricky around Earthquake park), Palmer/Wasilla highway and am looking forward to the new Bogard Rd ext. in Palmer.  Fun, fun, FUN!


Nah, it is just plain old racist.


You have turned your own assumptions into specious claims and made it clear in the process that you lack the necessary knowledge to make such claims. You can avoid this if you begin your statements with qualifiers like, "I believe..." or "It appears to me..." You can also use quantifiers like "Too many..." or "Some..."


I am starting a business in BC manufacturing flak jackets aimed at protecting bear gall bladders.  When BC becomes completely Chineseafied, they will be going after our beloved four legged friends for paws, gall bladders and whatever else they find for their appetite.
Shark fin soup anyone???

RIP Vancouver......it was nice knowing you.


The opinion essay being commented on brought politics into the discussion.
Who cares?  When our president uses the vocabulary of an 6th grader its challenging to avoid.  Even his Twitter rants are rittled with gramatical errors.  It's embarrassing when political allies across the Atlantic communicate with better English when it's their second (or thirds) language.


Worst headline since "Dewey Defeats Truman". Commercial MJ was NOT defeated ... Commercial MJ BAN was defeated ... the accuracy we've come to expect from ADN.


Knowing how much it usually thrills the Toronto-Ottawa chatterati to get noticed by the Americans, it will drive them crazy to see the editorial in today's New York Times, entitled "Failing Quebec's Muslims".


Previous surveys used different sampling methods that had nothing to do with the two publications and had similar findings. Adventists have a full range of political views, but are somewhat more likely to have progressive views. See "Citizen of Two Worlds" by Dudley (AU Press).


Well, get out and vote. Get your family and friends to get out and vote. If, by some miracle, you get a change in government, the policy results won't change much.


It is alarming to read "duck our heads" (bury in sand and hope the problem goes away, because we are used to being US patsies), "give Trump publicity wins",  help the middle class, "just in a different way" and many other comments in this article.
The Trade Minister needs to go, she's terrible. Ridiculous that Trudeau is using Brian Mulroney. Monstrously terrible Canadian PM. Sickening that he would draw another Canadian dollar to sell out the country once again. It sounds like Canada's bureaucrats are the same type of cowards we've had since the 60s.
Canadian companies do not own the means of production. We are owned by the multinationals.  A high priced banana republic. You think global oligarchs didn't pick up some lessons from Marx? Business is a way for OWNERS  to make money, not create jobs.  We should have been developing our domestic economy when we had the chance
Jean Chretien might be in his 80s, but he refused to let Bush bully him into the Iraq War. He's our guy.


Anyone notice that the past two years rural Alaska schools have been reporting child sex predators in their school system?  This isn't an accident.  Predators do their research too.


You say Trump is "strong" on all those things, yet he's literally done nothing on any of them. Not a thing. Yes, you need to go on and explain how merely saying stuff makes Trump strong. He is, after all, an inveterate liar.


The devil.


Its nice to hear a staunch democrat admit that the governor is providing lousy  leadership.


Dead?  Yes, of course.  Maybe your aluminum foil hat is too tight.


What do you bet the Weinstein scandal will reveal that there's been funny business going on with the Academy Awards and Emmys?  Think of all the actresses and crappy movies connected with Harvey that have been nominated and/or won.  "Oscar Rigging" is my prediction for the next chapter in this saga.


Not only did these criminals hurt the environment bad, they also responsible for dropping off many illegals.  Most anybody can see this is a human smuggling operation and they burned the evidence to try and cover. Next time dont go so close to the reef when you drop off your cargo.


Hardly.


Blessings. It's very much been a pleasure joining in pointing out things to certain others, as well as to those who might put too much faith in rampant lies.
I looked up sophistry, and its root Sophist, to make sure I knew what it meant. Others should as well. Some words, while they evoke the correct feeling, are best researched for the full effect.
You know what the word means, so, for others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist
There are both blatant and subtle practitioners among commenters here.
I thought myself done a few months ago too, but was brought back, though one wouldn't think for here only.
And, your characterization of the "first casualty is truth" in "our" state rings true from every mountaintop, and shouts from the hilltops, our current DA exemplifying that in his temporary power buttressed up by others desire to make him governor, or more. Some people think that pursuit afflicts only those they hate.
Best wishes with your better use of time as those things go.


Habitat for Humanity has this warehouse/store where folks can search through construction type stuff. For a fraction of what it would cost to by new, significant savings can be had. The place was certainly busy. Folks across the economic spectrum were there doing their thing. Is the economy winding down? If so, what's causing the slow down? Who can I point the finger at. As I'm writing this, I'm listening to a nearly forgotten 80's tune by The Police.

When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZU-gp2J1mI


I see what you are saying, but right now they have moved beyond the "yep, it is Far Left meltdown in full mode", to violence. We have watched it brew for quite a while, (and finally finally the violent aggressive counter protesters are getting arrested, which is good) but civil Unrest morphing into Civil War.  A whole different ball game.


Maybe RD has PTSD. Something is amiss.


The eight investigations into the tragedy that happened in Benghazi, Libya and the year long investigation by the FBI into the faux emailgate non-scandal were hardly just an act of "pretending that nothing happened" Wes. They were Republican led witch hunts whose sole purpose was to expose Hillary Clinton as an evildoer for the sake of destroying her chances of becoming the first female POTUS. The Republican controlled House Intelligence Committee found no evidence of Clinton wrong doing after they raked through all the real intelligence available. But you better believe they didn't reach that conclusion willingly. The Republican party out of sheer desperation has kept these witch hunts going for a couple of years now because they know the people of America do not want what they are selling. Taking down the competition via repetitious investigations is all they have. Gross slander all to no avail as Clinton emerges victorious and vindicated of all charges. Find a new "scandal" yet Wes?


Thank you Mr. Luchs for your suggestion of handrails on those Spencer Butte stone steps!!!!
Having been climbing Spencer Butte since the 1960s, I've loved that experience-- until a while back when I experienced those new stairs.
The combination of "balance problems, " stiff knees and bifocals made the descent on those steep stone steps  so precarious I've never been back to the top of our beloved butte.
The city is fortunate  no one has taken a nasty tumble there.  Yet.


I hate to break it to you Tom, but you are not a Republican. The only thing you have in common with the present crop of GOP politicians is your opposition to abortion. And most of them really don't give a damn about abortion, it's just a handy tool to get nice guys like you to vote for them!


How does this weaken unions. Please explain.


they only mean it for the evangelical "christians", and I am using the term christian very loosely.  once they get control, the Catholics won't be any better off than the gays and Muslims.


Sullivan showed his political ignorance by going on MSMBC thinking he would get a fair shot.


Looks like Trump is setting the groundwork for the invasion of Iran and Syria. The old testament predictions may just happen. We may get global warming and it won't be caused by carbon.


Isn't it sad that the GOP led legislature slashed funding for APOC
What were they thinking... Whispers corruption


Actually that's not a bad idea for an additional tax, unless you're an over weight ammosexual.


It's time to move on. Try a positive attitude - it helps!


Just as I thought, you have no cogent reasoning to make the connection......Have a Nice Day.


The Constitution has three branches. Not one, not two but three.


He said HE had no tapes.


Kathleen Parker is a conservative Republican, given highest grade for conservative punditry in 2012...


I'll give you the feminist part (or is that opportunistic.. hmm.. anyway)

What makes you think he's an environmentalist? The LPC has always been keen on implementing a new tax but.. to date I haven't seen any motivation in cleaning our waterways, recycling initiatives, reforestation, animal conservation, or even highly vetted initiatives in R&D on the green front.. all i ve seen is lip service akin to the 90s LPC.

As to being a Native rights activist..  uh .. no.  And Visiting Teresa Spence during a hunger vigil (cough..) doesn't count as that was a misstep politically and again.. opportunistic.


at the risk of being uncivil I will award you the dumbest comment of the day award


Author Bill Tammeus asks a question of "Why does it require a seminary degree and ordination to be able to baptize people and to oversee the Eucharist?"  It doesn't; In the Catholic Church anyway. According to Catholic.com, baptism does not require an ordained priest nor a degree to baptize.  The quote:  The minister of this sacrament is the priest, to whom it belongs to baptize, by reason of his office. In case of necessity, however, not only a priest or deacon, but even a layman or woman, nay, even a pagan or heretic can baptize, provided he observes the form used by the Church, and intends to perform what the Church performs.   The link:  https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/baptism

As a metaphor, whereas, generally one would prefer a licensed Doctor to save a life, in the case of emergency, CPR and Heimlich maneuvers ought to be performed to save a life.  Therefore a death bed baptism with no priest, I would argue as being legitimate.


Connery
Craig
Brosnan
Moore
Dalton
Lazenby

That's my ranking. Rip Sir Moore.


John Kelly, Poodle of the week.


As Rome burned.....


Hee hee, cupcake!


so NOW if one does Not deny all lies and fake news.....you are automatically guilty!
Great new standards of guilt in America


Interesting article....nice job Charles


AN:  You do realize we are in a budget crunch, don't you?


AK Res-

Note that in the recent case on Bird Ridge, the "experts" called in to kill the bear (A) hit it in the face with a slug and (B) did not kill it until 3 days later when the found it by helicopter and fired upon it again.  So I ask you, if you were alone and hit the bear in the same fashion with your first shot I'd say your odds of survival would be 50/50.  If you do not kill the bear nearly instantly there is a good chance you will be messed up/killed.

 I would never tell someone NOT to bring a gun into the woods but I tend to find that people who do fail to take additional precautions more often than not (making noise, carrying a non-lethal option, etc) and likely have not practiced shooting at a moving target.  And just as spray can have limitations (mainly based on the wind) so can firearms.  I say all of this as a former professional who has worked many years at one of the most popular bear viewing areas in the state.


Sophomoric corporatism run amok.


Meanwhile Justin Trudeau  seems to think that several thousand random migrants crossing our borders in the last merit no attention or concern.


I think we need to praise Trumps (self admitted) humanitarianism, instead of criticizing this as a security gaff.
Think of this as something akin to famine relief in Somalia.


Wrong.  The Church can be persuasive to reasonable people.


The huge loving family just increased their goal amount...again, on GoFundMe.

They are using Nancy to cash in. Have not seen anywhere one of them pooling money or airline miles to come here to support her.

I wager next they'll want a free cruise too.


Great news.  Mahalo for your efforts.  Job well done.


You_were_serious_with_the_Superman_reference?_Egad!


The trooper chief says "Budget cuts eliminated six patrol POSITIONS here in the past two years." The bigger question is "How many TROOPERS have been cut, NOT POSITIONS?".


*It's not uncommon for someone unfamiliar with riding motorcycles in Anchorage to encounter our poorly designed and installed roads that develop ruts deeper than a bike tire's sidewall is tall less than 12 months after installation. These same ruts can cause massive control issues for riders, especially while accelerating. Sooner than later our poorly built roads catch-up to new to the area riders.

*corrected for just as plausible, if not more likely, causation.

our roads suck, and this guy could have only possibly had one season under his belt here. RIP Maurice O. Tucker, condolences to his family and friends.


They are very popular with homeless, I wonder if they participated in the rating.


I would support the proposed lower limit.
 While your thinking is most likely accurate, I suspect many who are moderately above the limit (say in the .09 to .15 range) thought they were OK to drive.  I believe that with a lower limit, that group who think they are OK to drive but are not, would eventually fall within a lower range, perhaps .06 to .12. Obviously these numbers are just examples to illustrate my point rather actual predictions, but I think my point is clear.


The excuse that they're taking our jobs is for losers.  Period.
The unemployment rate for the US in May 2017 was 4.3%.  4% is incredibly low.  What jobs exactly are the dreamers taking from you?  What, low paid gardeners?  Nannies?  If you are losing out on job competitions, its not because you went up against a dreamer, its because YOU WEREN'T QUALIFIED!!!
I'd wager that the vast majority of these people are hard working and honest.  They pay taxes and contribute in a positive way to our country, yet we would send them back to a country they probably cant even remember and have zero bonds with.  We would take away there lives.  Why?  Because a bunch of losers who cant be bothered to become either adequately educated or trained to meet the requirements of a new employment era have decided that, as per Trump, THEY are the reasons things aren't working out so well.
If the above reasons aren't enough, we'll need every tax payer we can get to help dig us out of our debt.


Ms. McGowan goes on and on about Affleck knowing what Weinstein was doing.... But she Knew also... And Affleck didn't take the rapists money to stay quiet.

Who's the real bad guy here?


Now, if I had authored your post, using the same name-calling techniques you so generously employed, there is no doubt my post would have been rejected. I know of what I speak. But, for some reason, perhaps it's a certain  political bias by which the DP is then able to discern who is speaking the certifiable truth from those who are not? So, let's give them the benefit of the doubt...the DP has discovered the Vulcan mind meld ability. On the other hand, maybe it's just a bunch of ____________.


Those who climb the stairs will find they can continue their journey.


I haven't lived in any, but have visited several. I know first-hand the difference between those countries where  women are visible everywhere in public space, and those where they are practically invisible.  Indonesia was generally fine, but it has one problematic fundamentalist region.

Muslim countries vary a lot in how secular or conservative they are, of course. Most were on a secularising, liberalising course, until some decided that was "westernizing" and reversed course...

Having a female leader has little to do with how most women live.

No argument about single motherhood from me, but if the alternatives are the chance of single motherhood, or the "zero chance" which requires the drastic measures of Muslim society, I'll pick the former, thank you.


There's a world of difference between sexual content, even vulgar sexual content, and sexual assault. I may or may not enjoy a movie with graphic sexual content, but I find nothing harmless in sexual assault, which is what Donald Trump has been accused of and admitted. Consent matters. I believe the main characters in the fictional Fifty Shades of Grey engaged in consensual activities, which makes the book and movie irrelevant to any discussion of Mr. Trump's habit of sexually assaulting women.

And your racist dig didn't go unnoticed,  Ms. Duggan.


Yea Trump!  Finally going to get rid of the senseless leftist liberals!!


I guess Moyane forgot that when you point a finger at someone else, four are pointing back at you!


Hey North Dakota, mine your own business!


New elections.  You can't shove proportional representation down the electorate's throat without a referendum.


Look at his age,  He wont come out of prison alive.


Yes, Frank, I do understand and feel deep concern that The EPA somehow can't find anyone to blame, prosecute and fine.  An obvious failing that surely will be corrected when an activist Sanders presidency taken the reins.  Whether or not volcanoes can be changed is immaterial so long as there is blame to be properly allocated and fined collected.


AMEN!


If I were the democrats, I would be careful to take a measured response to this until they know what flynn is going to say.  It might be nothing new and he simply wants immunity to ensure he does not get into trouble for lying.  The nunes fiasco suggests this white house belongs in an episode of inspector gadget but one never knows, this could be another attempt to derail the investigation.


Maybe it was the Russians?


"“They’re paying exorbitantly high rent. And once you’re settled, it’s really hard to move.” "
-
I take it the Canadian tax payer's are flipping the bill for their rent?


Agar Continued:
In my culture:
-Regardless of a politician’s popularity rating, he or she must stand for re-election on a regular basis
-We do not fear our military, in fact most of us are proud of it and support
- We won’t force you to stay in our country if you don’t want to do so.
-The grievance a gay couple may have against a baker who doesn’t wish to fill their order for a wedding cake may be a legitimate complain
===
Tragic examples of racism, homophobia, misogyny and other evils can be found on a regular basis.
But those are perpetrated by individuals and likely to be against the law, not sanctioned by the state and the law, as they are in so many other cultures in the world.
We have a terrific culture if not a perfect society.
So take my culture, please.
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/15/appropriate-my-culture-please


OK snowflake.


Always popular with guys who come to Alaska to hunt is the Great Alaska Bush Company. Get yourself a roll of $20 bills for lap dances and grab a chair right up front.


The guys are just as terrible muz. The little boys in the big rigs will be up your arse in a NY minute.

You can always tell who's dicking around with their phones too; they're the ones you leave about 2-3 car lengths behind when the light turns green. Hah.


Canada needs Brian Mulroney in a court, in front of a judge, on trial for perjury and taking 2 million dollars from Canadian taxpayers on false pretenses.


Hopefully she will be found safe as I am sure her daughter misses her mother.

However, it is difficult to read the story and not see the contradictions if you will i.e. back to back sentences:

"Goodright has been working hard to get her life back on track and be reunited with her children, Gribling added.
At the time that the missing person’s report was filed this week, Goodright’s boyfriend was an inmate in the Lane County Jail, Gribling said, on unrelated charges."

While "anything can happen to anyone at anytime" I would think trying to get your life back on track, coming from a background of drug addiction and trying to be reunited with your children would include being VERY selective on the people you choose to associate with...I will bet this is not the first time her boyfriend has been in jail too. Once again, kids are put in the middle of situations out of their control.


If we are to fall back on our history as an argument for supporting something, we should also display the shackles of slavery, post a few anti-Chinese signs and perhaps a slogan or two against giving women the vote.
I agree with Duck below. Everyone has the right to practice their religion - however they wish a don their own time. There's something in the Bible about praying in private and not being a hypocrite....


It's time to put forth a foreign policy in the middle east that serves US interests and not Israels


It's not the feds being greedy. The idea in 42 US Code is that the federal lands are public lands, and the federal government has a responsibility to fairly use those lands as long as they administer them. In this case the law says the Feds must not favor someone with a no-cost lease, though this is an obvious oversight in the manner in which the law was written. That said, this oversight is a pretty special case considering the use of it as a park and it's APZ-1 designation.


I was not even  thinking of John 21 when I wrote my comment.


"...The most important thing to remember in all of this is that the federal government pays for equalization, and it does it out of the same general revenue pool used to fund all of its programs and services. In other words, every Canadian that pays federal taxes contributes to equalization payments on the exact same basis. A rich person in Quebec or New Brunswick will contribute more to equalization than a less wealthy person in Alberta or Saskatchewan. And because there are more Ontarians paying federal taxes than Albertans, more dollars for equalization actually come from Ontario than Alberta." - http://www.vueweekly.com/alberta-doesnt-send-oil-money-to-have-nots-and-ontario-contributes-more-than-alberta/


No.  The non-Jewish UNers brought this on themselves with their poor timing in bring  this on
at a time when Jews would be preoccupied in preparing for their religious festival and celebrating thereafter for 8 days. Ruining  Xmas for them is a joy forever.


My daughter recently turned down Microsoft in Seattle to work for Shopify in Toronto. The pull to work in the US is not as great as it was before. Tech is growing in Canada.


Someone else just posted this link. Maybe the alt-right should coordinate its propaganda.


For me, a Vietnam combat veteran, the actions of libertarian republicans and moderate democrats are just funny.   And, yet so sad.  I would guess they had never faced adversity, such as death.


So true.


Equal protection under the law means the bail for a poor man should  be the same for a rich one committing the same offense.  And it wouldn't matter if the bail were $1 million for this guy - it would be just as easy to write the check. Bail is not intended or useful for punishment since it gets refunded when they appear for court.

Sadly, only the prison system is likely to impact this child in a man's body, as I imagine the trust that finances his shenanigans has no provision to allow his family to discipline him by shutting down the money.


Conversely, this can be dealt with through non-externalities anchored premises, E.G.: Moving Toward a Prosperous Future: The Case for Stewardship Logging as a Viable Economic Development Alternative's "...staunch the bleeding of a variety of manufacturing & other jobs. Evidence based rebuttals follow: 1. "...Forestry and silviculture have a much longer history than most people realize...The early European settlers were mainly agriculturists, who viewed forests as obstacles to be removed...It was the policy of both colonial governments and the later government of the United States to transfer public lands into private ownership as rapidly as possible, in the belief that agricultural development would naturally follow..."etc. (https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/publications/pnw_gtr696/GTR696a.pdf), 2. "...Research ecologist Dede Olson has studied amphibians and their habitats for 35 years. She has substantially advanced understanding of amphibian ecology, the need for conservation measures,..."


If I understand correctly, the figures given in the sales report are actual figures, not estimates based on a sample.  In this case, the percentages are exact and do not have variance or standard deviation.  They are actual statistics, not estimates.

@Keala R. Kaanui's point is that 27% and 30% are both "a high percentage."

You can agree or disagree with that characterization, just not on the stated basis.


Panhandling is 'Free Speech' just like nude dancing is 'Free Speech'; and found to be so by the same people---at least five Judges of the Oregon Supreme Court.   The rest of us, maybe not so much.


Agreed. Dog had been reported before. Barking, snarling vicious dog runs at you with your three year old son...no fence, no restraint....a parents natural instinct..would be to put down the predator


It should be the long-term state per diem rate. All free/reduced meals should be reported to the public.


What's done is done. Move forward. World history is a never-ending story of people taking over other people. It can't be undone.


Depends on what you're advocating...


You have to do a lot of reading here to learn anything new.  Lot's of vague obvious statements and links to past "water is wet" articles with a dollop of post-vote "Trumpocalypse" diatribes from the usual suspects.

Recommend pass.


Evidence-based fact is the pinnacle of neutrality and those that attempt to criticize and obfuscate this truth, like John Ibbitson and Andrew Scheer, deserve unrelenting scorn.


Could you list the harm to our national security that Hillary has done? Should they also investigate Flynn, Manafort, Page too? I agree they should revisit the Hillary situation and if there is violations then prosecute but investigate everyone.


Come now, the Liberal government has successfully managed to cut my hydro bill in HALF!  Yes, that's right, they reduced my bill by exactly 50%!

.... of course I now get twice as many bills because the government mandated a switch from bi-monthly to monthly bills, but each bill is half as big so they're saving me money right?!?!
</sarcasm>


I've actually been reading a lot of rants (yes, rants) from both sides here. I do think that you're correct in saying the posts here don't reflect the thoughts and feelings of most Alaskans, but I would argue that that's because most Alaskans are somewhere in the middle. It's no accident that our senior senator is one of the most (by some measures, simply the most) liberal Republicans in that body, and our most recent Democratic senator was one of the most conservative Democrats of the bunch.

TL;DR: Most Alaskans are actually pretty moderate, and don't have time for the sort of petty partisan point-scoring you often see in forums like this one.


Things Kim Jong-un would say.


A lease to a worthy organization without a financial track record????  Given the offers that were received, the forest work camp has obvious negative value and should have been sold to get rid of this burden.  Looks like three commissioners fell in love with a mission and not financial reality.


I'm sure he will.


What the hell are you talking about?


Dance, dance, dance.
No.
Snopes was not completely wrong but it was wrong enough
to let you cherrypick what you wanted and dupe yourself again.
But here, again, is a more concrete report
(yes, MSM just like your link to snopes
cuz you won't find this on Faux or breitbart):
In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/


The film office was a slush fund for the Democrats to use with their rich Hollywood supporters. And you will also notice that Aspen, Vail, and Telluride mansions being listed as agricultural land to not pay fair property taxes because the owners have goats brought in for about 3 weeks each year.


What is so amusing about this process, is how quickly it has happened (a relative term). With the Tax Queen's approval ratings in the toilet and an unhappy party, her renewed sense of urgency is, well, surprising.
What this says, is that we need to provide deadwood politicians like her and her Deputy of Nothing with low approval ratings on a regular basis - it just seems to spur action.

Saying that, she still should resign. Her province would love her for it.


I am anti-war except in legitimate self-defense.  That having been said, advantage in war is pretty much universal. The writer bases her entire premise on the notion that seeing dead chemical weapons victims induces more fear and terror than seeing the shredded mutilated bodies of those killed by high explosives.  That notion is very American.   Those who really see the carnage of bombings likely have a very different opinion. No compelling motivation for Assad to use CW has been identified.


He is facing his own RICO trial for Trump University. 87% of the funds raised by the Clinton Foundation actually goes to help others. It is one of the highest rated charities on charity watch. Trump's charity gave money to the Florida AG and bought Trump an portrait of himself for his mansion in Florida


Great take away line, Margaret: "People figure he's just a crony politician like everybody else. And they're not wrong."

Justin Trudeau's entire existence is based on the crony principle of its not what you know, its who you know.

Nobody able to read without benefit of lips and fingers or not nose deep in the Ottawa trough tries to make a case for Trudeau as PM of a G 7 country as a consequence of his superior intellect and relevant education, experience, accomplishments and talents.

He has the most anorexic resume of anyone who has become Liberal leader and is the 1st Liberal PM never to have sat in cabinet.

He has made such absolutely ridiculous, ignorant and bizarre remarks that an entire website is devoted to them and some like me have had posts deleted here as uncivil insults when actually quoting Trudeau himself.

Everything he has done has been a function of his famous name and concomitant political contacts.

Butts even "helped" him with his famous eulogy to PET.


Posted way back in 2015 that trading away all your prospects for a shot @ glory, it rarely works out.  Couldn't blame them though, chances like that come along so infrequently, going for it is a natural 1st instinct.

Your Js, with better managing of both games and personnel, I mean, it was there for the taking, but inexperience cost them.

Now, well, apres-moi le deluge.  Even getting to 70 wins, which is only 9 more, even that could be a challenge.  Nothing stopping this team from just going through the motions.  That booing you heard last night, not what ownership wants to hear.  Only so much the lapdog media can do to hold back the fans' anger if the team gives up.


Simply put, Trump people?  Here's what you get in "fair" taxation...absolutely nothing!  Then there is the "AHCA?"  Again, you get less than what you had!  Now what else was promised?  Better, fair foreign trading?  Well, China is here to buy Hawaii.  In the process, the "holy words is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  Oh Boy...we are sure getting it!


Newsflash: MOST husbands stray.


I read that he is  a legendary inspiration in the black community.
I wish him well in bringing his genius and leadership into this new chapter in his life.


What improvements would make the biggest difference to frequent travelers? Let's get an express train to DIA with just a stop or two after Union Station. Let's get an alternate way to get people to the B and C Concourses if the train is out of service. Let's get faster security lines (maybe that's achieved with these renovations). Let's get more electrical outlets to use while waiting at gates. Let's get some play areas for kids in each of the concourses. How about doing things that actually matter to travelers?


Canada is not a ridiculous concept for millions and millions of immigrants and their descendants who have made this country a success. Everybody is entitled to their opinions and they can hate this country if they want - just don't except the rest of us do the same. Also, there won't be any reconciliation if people are treated as residential school abusers. Direct the anger to those directly responsible and stop insulting those who had nothing to do with it. How many future generations are expected to feel guilt by a different era, where they weren't even alive? Do First Nations today feel ashamed about slavery and other horrific acts within their own culture? I'm not expecting them to, and I don't feel ashamed either. Today, they are well supported and as a taxpayer I take part in that.


Perhaps Vance should concentrate on ensuring that Canada's troops have the basic equipment they require for combat. Obviously a more modest goal, but having a helmet and winter kit would be nice for the reservist who currently lack such luxuries.


Trump knows he cannot bring manufacturing jobs back to the rust belt for a whole host of reasons like automation and the changing demands of the global economy.  But he can certainly give his supporters a target, like immigrants and Muslims, to blame for all their problems and that is what he is doing.  It is populist authoritarianism 101.

The most important thing that we can do is keep protesting and make it uncomfortable as possible for the people who voted for Trump.  Don't let them, especially suburbanites who voted because of the Supreme Court or they didn't like Hillary, ignore what is happening.  Make sure they are reminded of people like the little refugee children who were harmed by Trump's orders.


The site is "unavailable" at the present time.

Must be millions of Canadians that can't wait to answer the questions. But the question on a referendum was strangely left out for some reason......


Based on what cities?  Can you avoid the broad generalities and point to specifics?  Run the average price/average income ratios for those cities and provide examples of comparable cities where prices are higher than Toronto (and no, NY, Hong Kong and London are not comparable cities).

Having speculators run up prices with limited volumes does not mean that houses are worth those prices, and it certainly doesn't mean that those prices are sustainable.


Yes, she is anti-vaccine because of course she is.


This is utter nonsense. I've cleaned public bathrooms. I suspect Kenneth has not. Kenny, do please go clean a restroom facility down the street at Burger King, then get back to us about cleanliness of public restrooms.


Ya gotta love how original Trump was in his retort to Kim. Fight fire with fire. LOL.


And I’m sure that Pink Floyd Prozanski and his dope lobby friends in Salem will accept the liability when a pothead coworker my employer was forced to retain causes a workplace fatality. These politicians, mostly employed in government work or other nonhazardous professions where mental lapses aren’t life threatening, have no clue.

 The research is undeniable – frequent marijuana use causes long term if not permanent cognitive impairment.


OMG, people holding secret meetings, probably saying things to which you disagree.  But they won't show us how racist they actually are 'cuz they keep it to themselves.  Oh the humanity; they must be stopped.

I wish violent anti-protesters would meet in secret too and keep their intolerant views to themselves as well!

That's how I like my extremist groups on either end of the spectrum...secluded, and keeping their toxic ideas to themselves.


For some, Trump presents opportunities.


Trump, always the equal opportunity offender.


Speak for yourself.


Xplornet needs to have competition in rural Canada to keep their rates in line with what urban Canada pays for internet.  The CRTC's stated goal to bring affordable (whatever that means) broadband to ALL Canada by 2021 is sorely lacking.  Why does rural Canada need to wait yet another 5-odd years to get decent price & performance internet from anybody except Xplornet after having waited for 15 years already?  Does anyone really believe that the CRTC's goal will be met?  What if it isn't?  Another public inquiry that results in nothing?  It's not like Bell/Telus/Rogers are losing money, and why wouldn't they want a piece of the CRTC's M$750 pot of free money to expand into rural Canada?

Lots of questions.  Very few answers.


I like Trevor's glove better but Valaika's bat with fewer strike-outs is worth the trade off.


Bridget Smith- you need to learn about the electoral college. Hillary got all the electoral votes she earned, but she didn't earn enough to win.  Most of her lead in the popular vote came from California. You're wrong if you think one state should decide the election.


François Jourdan, French islamologue et théologien eudiste;
“...Islam is very frozen for many centuries and basically lack of freedom - today, it must be said clearly that we cannot build a society of one religion, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist... or atheist.
This phase of human history is now overtaken by religious freedom and human rights. Secularism requires not the ban but the discretion of all religions in the public space as other citizens have the right to have another way of life. This isn't the Koranic trend where Islam does not consider itself
as other religions and must...DOMINATE !...”


I don't know where you live, but where I live in Alaska no pet is legally allowed to "run free," although people routinely allow both dogs and cats to do so. Do you even live in Alaska Bounty Hunter?


Yuppers....Comey, Donna Brasil, Jon Podesta, Debbie Shultz,  Lorretta Lynch, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton to name a few.


As one of the dispicable few, I was wondering if all of us conservatives fall into the category of......"coal roller preacher grandkids hoodlums in Homer". I think you would better serve your point of view, or your perception of reality by following your own advise to us and spend some time in Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, for example. I have, and your pie in the sky idea of "live and let live" absolutely doesn't exist in those and other Muslim locations. I know.... I've worked and lived there.......


How can this be allowed when the planet is close to doom from C02? (sarc)


The AOGCC seems to be running oil and gas jobs out of Alaska, are they being looked into as a source of many problems Alaska has with attracting new production into the state's oil patch? I think they have issues, see report..https://www.adn.com/energy/article/us-leads-oil-investment-appeal-not-alaska/2011/06/27/


Give Toronto the power to raise revenue and the take it away!  Makes sense to me?  But Toronto should bite the political bullet and raise its property taxes which are low compared to other jurisdictions.


Grazie. La Festa dei Sette Pesci is more important than a tree. For one thing, most Catholics can't eat trees.


Uh huh.  Can you post a quote from the article to that effect?


goodness, the US is doing so much for them and this kind of critical whining? you never heard that from texas or florida. go to hell puerto rico for all i care now.


Calling them glasses is false advertising, since there's no glass in them.

I'm suing!


PRE-PFD era--with income taxes in place---the state did fine---then the influx of people came to benefit from the pfd---think that government IS FREE ?    PAY theincome TAX and quit crying----


WAAAH! cries the butthurt commie LOSER. HILLARY LOST. Deal, comrade. Just deal.


what I am seeing is the tribes wiping out all the fish, it's about time for the NETS to be PULLED for GOOD, and they (the special ones) can go by a fishing rod.


Stay on topic Johann...
There are things happening around the world that Trump doesn't actually have anything to do with.


Trump certainly gave every benefit of the doubt to Nazis and KKK, but when it comes to black athletes...not so much.


Looks like they did their selling Aug 3rd, and it's increased  4ish % since then if my calculations are correct.  I "own" this stock in a simulation and wonder if I should stick around.


Schiffty and Mark Warner are married to the camera and the false Russian narrative. It is a ploy to keep anyone from looking at the Clinton Foundation and it pay for play with foreign governments.


'
The state adopted SB21.  They are drilling, they are exploring.

We are paying them to drill, and we're paying them to explore.

They cut jobs.

How's your belief working?  Has SB21 been a good thing?

(..that's a purely rhetorical question, I know the answer.)
.


Ford has been gone for some time, so why the article about politics NOW?

The point of the article is politics in the USA. SAD you did not pick up on this on this.


Thanks, Larry. We're not in agreement on some things, but I think we're in agreement on this: that it's good to be able to have thoughtful, civil debate.

I'm so tired of how polarized things get, & how turns people into enemies who shouldn't be. I just wish that people who were used to being polarized would calm down, & not automatically rate comments as being "not good" and/or "uncivil" just because they disagree with the opinion expressed.

Good to have this discussion with  you.


Good for Sam. In spite of Murray's ailments I've never enjoyed watching all his grimacing and ranting on the court. Good riddance. Now the Brits will turn their attention to Joanne Konta to carry the flag.