As of March 31, 2016, of the 10,501 children in care of Manitoba Child and Family Services, 9,205 — or 88 per cent — were Inuit, Métis or First Nations and there are currently dozens of aboriginal agencies paid to protect aboriginal children in today's world.

Please enlighten us with your reasons why provinces such as Manitoba have some of the highest apprehension rates in the western world.


Lets get this straight. The US has an immigration problem and Trump is taking heat for trying fix it. Trump is cruel, its not fair, how can he do this! ect.
The US has 11 million illegal immigrants! Canada has nothing compared to that.


Trump is an admitted white supremacist and eugenicist.

His 'base', and I do mean 'base', loves them some racism.

It's what attracted them to Trump.


ZUMA has done right. No one support such kind of person.


Given that climate has been changing for millions of years they would look as stupid as Trudeau and Obama if they failed to know about climate change 40 yeas ago.


He's a fu----g liar and he's the president. Say no more.


discussion is manning up, and admitting when you are wrong. In this case wrong on you statement about division. Discussion is manning up and admitting you are posting a shameless double standards, such as with Clinton. You are incapable of addressing the facts I call you out on. That is not a discussion, crum, It is why I am brutal frank with you now. I loathe and despise the intellectually bankrupt who do not have the character to man up, and will treat all of you with the contempt you so aptly deserve. If you want a discussion, crum, you need to attain intellectual honesty, character, and man up when corrected,


I do not begrudge people who drive compact trucks their choice.  I would never choose one myself.  I have personally known too many people who have died in them when they collide with larger trucks.  The passengers in the larger trucks invariably survive.


and a good time was had by all


Have you heard the comments directed at MR. Bill Bellichick and his attire?  Google him then explain why this is double standard?  There are many real issues that females and minorities need to overcome.  You don't do them any favors by just blindly yelling "double standard" at every opportunity.


the dems are like vampires caught outside just before sunrise...........lie, cheat, steal anything is acceptable to them. slander, libel and delusional drivel. the leftys own the MSM.  Trump has done nothing illegal,...........the left is livid.


OK, Wombat! I guess we agree. :)


"...wave of populism, and drift to the far right, that helped to propel Donald Trump into the White House "
Only in the feeble mind of a far left Liberal like Reguly would the mainstream, who voted for Trump, be considered the far right.


The National Anthem honors the country. The flag is the symbol, like the symbol every player wear and their helmets, that represents the team the play for. By doing this in uniform, these players are as much, if not more, disrespecting that uniform they'll wearing. How are these protest reported, Bronco player Brandon Marshall took a knee, 49's quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee. Not only are players identified, but so is their team. And how has these protest shot police violence, or inter-cities violence. This action is selfishness on the part of the players, they got their's so the hell with where they came from, so they'll take a knee in protest of?


money managers  and IT  workers ...couple AI  with a super computer and you will get a program that instantly corrects  all the coding defects in your software ...instantly  , no need for all those IT  folks who are presently required to keep any  operating  system running .


The PET Foundation is nothing more than the Clinton Foundation under a different name.

Both specialize in donations in exchange for political favours otherwise known as bribery and influence peddling.

Once again we are seeing the slimey under belly of the Liberal Party that was so evident under Chrétien.

Having perfected bribery under Wynne , it is now being openly practised in Ottawa under JT.

Our politicians are turning Canada into a third world banana republic..


The new lineup, with Bautista batting lead-off and the absurd decision to hit Russell Martin in the 2-hole--when he was healthy enough to play--since that decision, Your Js have played .389 baseball.  7-11, outscored over those 18 games by +40 runs, or more than 2 runs/game.

So, to all those who insisted that batting order really, really mattered, yeah, guess it did--Your Js got worse.

Anyway, posted several times back then that who batted where, that was hardly this team's most pressing problem.  And was right.  Again.  Sorry, I was.  Got some blowback from 1 poster who shoulda known better, but for some reason felt he had to argue the toss with me, and 1 poster who doesn't know better, never did and never will.


It was a jesuit run conference.

the jesuits have little sway in the USCCB

it was a loud side show.


Why can't we just relax? Who cares? Female privates go in the women's room and male privates go in the men's! This was a girl that wants to be a boy.


Oh my goodness, he thinks on his own for the betterment of all Alaska! Call Scotland Yard!

//runs around flapping arms//

Does anyone remember when the Republicans or the Democrats in the state got along? I do! And the state was doing extremely well! It wasn't just because we had money with the oil, it was because the two sides worked together. They respected each other! What a concept!


A victim of Quatro described Tambo as "brilliant and ruthless".


I would think it difficult making a living as a writer for Catholic publications.
Winter is probably under the gun to produce a lot of articles to obtain minimal financial compensation.
And writing  for other non RC publication, where possibly better money, is extremely difficult given the competition of excellent writers and dwindling subscribers.
Possibly MW doesn't have time to check source in effort to churn out bulk number of pieces?!
Apologia - explanation, not an excuse.


The investigations of Archbishop Nienstedt and Cardinal Keith O'Brien have played out ... and we're STILL WAITING FOR THE FACTS ... church-led investigations try to hide the facts from the laity as if we're children who need to be "protected" from the truth. I will follow the secular press on this one ... they'll get to the truth and won't be shy to reveal it to us all! So far it appears Burke has been a very naughty boy, who is in very hot water.

Your feigned Pandoric indignation is all about protecting conservative clergy from being exposed for the unscrupulous machiavellis many of them are.


Good work Jim.  Thank you.  Say "Hi" to Terry for me.


Trump acts on impulse. He doesn't know what the term strategy means. Gott mit uns.


I don't know.  That's why I asked who you were referring to......


"In response, some parents are circulating a petition demanding that the school tell parents before any provocative material is presented to their children. The school district has changed its policy, and now controversial books such as “I am Jazz” must be submitted for approval to the school board, but they still have not conceded that it is the parents’ right to know ahead of time when their children might be exposed to such a hotly debated topic."

http://www.libertyheadlines.com/kindergarten-boy-instantly-turns-girl-school/

Thanks Barack.  Appreciate!


So tradesmen from Italy or Portugal can speak English? That is news to me. I thought they spoke Italian or Portuguese respectively!

As for suspicious degrees, it is harder to get into medical or engineering school in Asia, than it is in Canada. I would say a lot of small universities in Canada don't cut it either, because any half wit can get a degree from there.


Did you bother to read the article what was discussed?  Sounds like a pretty constructive meeting, with human rights, adhering to the rule of the law, fighting ISIS, and what to do with N. Korea.  You realize that Asia diplomacy is Gardner's responsibility, right?

And what the heck is this "liberal democracy" you keep talking about?  Our democracy is defined by the Constitution.


But you just did.


Yes, but it suits the G&M narrative of BLM support by muslims.  Therefore, it is national news.  This allows them to collect another merit badge from the multicultural scout league.  As a gay man, I am sick and tired of seeing these stories about Pride, particularly when it comes to a hate group like BLM trying to take it over.


Eck from Melville


All the "great offshore talent" supposedly flocking to Canada due to a Trump "ban" should read this article about what life in Canada under Trudeau is really like. Trudeau is a profligate spender and has serious spending issues. Trudeau and the CRA are going to come after you for every cent possible. Trudeau will confiscate as much of your hard earned money as possible by analyzing your social media pages and running your data through new Government Mainframe Algorithms.  Trudeau will make you work well into your old age when you have painful arthritic joints and hurt all the time so that he can spend it on His Caribbean holiday vacations and party in Davos.


No muzungu, if you were honest you'd see that's exactly what Chugiak and her buddies are doing. I haven't gotten anyone banned, threatened to get them banned or bragged about doing so.


thank you Dennis!!!!!!!!!


So the created a top limit that they can choose to offer or not.  There should also be a bottom line that no one is asked to consider less than.  I suggest $10,000.


Actually, the world population was 2.5B after WW2.  Today it's 7.5B.  The real problem is too many people trying to eat and stay warm.  So now what do u suggest?  LOL!


The hypocrisy of this writer is breathtaking. Now its normalizing fascist behaviours.

We don't need any lectures on Fascism from you today thank you. The creeping fascism by the left-wing and supported by large segments of the media has been going on for decades now. Not a peep from Denise. A visit to any major campus in this country is all one needs to be reminded of this fact....where left-wing fascist behaviour is most often tolerated or even supported by University administrators of their minions.Even deeply racist fascism. Not a peep from Denise....because the people doing it are largely of colour...you see they are allowed to do it.

So please...stop the lecture....because you are guilty of exactly the sort of behaviour you are condemning.


I love your column Rob, but there are problems with this article.  The examples used, whether shopping at Ikea or fixing up the baby's room apply to rentals as well.  The only way it's any different is if by buying, you're acquiring more space, which may often be the case but isn't necessarily.  Of course a roof has to be replaced, but in markets other than TO and Vancouver, a purchaser usually considers this in the offer they make on the home.
None of this changes the fact that a new purchaser in the market these days should not look to a purchased property to finance their retirement but we should stick to the costs that are unique to buying rather than renting.


Good for our PM.  The apology is long overdue and if the Pope has any morals he will apologize and beg forgiveness for the terror and horrific abuses inflicted on innocent children by the Catholic church.


Absolutely.  So many blind, stupid, p.c. fools.  It's their (and our) funeral.  Idiots.


The legal actions will not be decided by who donated to whom, but rather by the facts and law.

So, your comment is pretty irrelevant.


Multiple spouses at one time versus multiple spouses in succession. It's an apt comparison.

Hiding the Church's teaching because it's difficult is not pastoral, and it's not what Jesus did in His ministry.


Way to go.  Bring in politics with a rude label for liberals after someone saying how civil we are.  Please stop.


how dare you, sir, to label the noble class of arachnids as common spiders?

the class is comprised of wingless, carnivorous arthropods including spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks and daddy long-legs.


scary drivers on that island


Yes!!!
Thank you, Orange County!


Given the semi-surreptitious release of this “document,” it may have been intended as one of the Trump mis-administration’s trial ballons; they may have wanted to see how bad the pushback is. Or it could just be intended as a sop to their “economically anxious” basket of deplorables, even if many in that group would bitterly reject any of their own kids who betrayed Heartland values by so much as applying to an institution full of soft-handed globalists and probable sexual deviants…


The people who are so noble as to be willing to fork over 10 million dollars to a Canadian terrorist who may have fought against Canadians because the charter says his rights were violated are to be laughed at.
This has nothing to do with the charter or the rule of law and everything to do with killing an American and blinding another.
And now the noble among you are being thrown under the bus because Trudeau is saying it would cost a lot more money to fight the Canadian terrorist in court.
So are the people who support paying the terrorist 10 million dollars going to continue to say its the right thing to do or do they go with the more believable it's cheaper to just pay the guy off.
What a fiasco. I hope someday the U.S. can respond in kind.


Perhaps I should have said "Your statement, while true *today* is not accurate....".


"Sadly, the vile hatred of the Le Pen family is already manifested in yet another generation, as the granddaughter of Jean-Marie, and niece of Marine, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, is active in the party and has been hailed by Steve Bannon as a "rising star." This last point is vital: For all the particularities of French politics and culture, the Le Pens are part of a global movement in which the chief strategist to the President of the United States is a principal. If that doesn't scare you, it should."

It does scare us.  France was instrumental in the United States becoming a country.  The thought that both of these countries that have given so much to the world culturally and politically could, in the twenty-first century, be run by two racist regimes allied in hate should frighten everyone.


starting safeties are lame as heck, so is the entire defensive line,
converting Lovet to CB is a total bust,  Amadi does not break up passes,

the entire defense is in the tank except for Dye, and Daniels/Swain had mixed success

ducks need a big name coach and time to clean house - let the new coach bring in all his assistants

old time duck assistant coaches all made a lot of money over  the decades - don't feel sorry for them

this losing is good - it will bring in a new era to Eugene and the great state of Oregon


Merkel smart and progressive. Trump not in the least bit smart and utterly regressive. The US will be the unconditional loser as the world turns away, in everything from trade and tourism to science and collaboration. What an utter and avoidable waste. aMErica.


_"Actually, I don’t think that your point (b) is accurate."_ -- 12AB34CD

Actually the point is correct, and your explanation indicates a lack of understanding the difference between wishful thinking and market realities.

First, a substantial number of single-family homes _would_ have been rezoned to allow conventional apartments and similar condos.

Second. the market doesn't support redevelopment with family-friendly, workforce housing in close-in residential areas. The market drives higher-cost housing, regardless of form, including single-family redevelopment, so-called "missing middle" and apartments and condos. (Note that "condos" can include forms other than "apartment-like.")

Third. R-1 already allows ADUs on R-1 lots, as well as duplexes (some of which already exist) in the current single-family area.

This kind of well-intentioned, but woefully disconnected from reality, representation of the actual code provisions and effects of SW-SAZ has been a real problem.

-- Paul


while I support Caldwell, believe he is wrong on this issue.  people in law enforcement are always held to a higher standard, the appearance of impropriety is very important.  hence, the fact that he is being investigated should trigger some kind of action.  he should be temporarily suspended with pay, this should be the same for his wife.   believe that taketa too has been negligent is doing what is right.  he really should have been the one to act, not necessarily Caldwell because of the law as to whom the chief is responsible to.  even, kaneshiro the prosecutor is negligent.


Don't paraphrase my content with your myopic degenerative ignorance. Keep your hatred to yourself. Try breathing some fresh air and find something beneficial to humanity for your disinformation crusade.


What a wonderful gift to a great institution. I truly believe the gift would have been better spent on medical research rather than 'retail research'. I find it slightly ironic that the retail world, where there are no tenured jobs, no pensions, usually no benefits other than working for minimum wage, are being 'studied' by people with all those things. I hope we see some benefits to the retail sector, not just the professorial sector.


Hey, Gail, I'd like to help you get some of that garbage out of there for you. I've seen this before first-hand and know how nasty it can get. I have a truck, strong back, plenty of trash bags, gloves and an open weekend. Just need to know where to show up at to start getting this disaster under control!!!


They illegally hacked trumps rivals emails and released them to the media, causing her support to fall. And that is just for starters.


They sound like Planned Parenthood,  "We don't SELL dismembered aborted human babies to the research  and cosmetic  companies"   we are "COMPENSATED"


this is a lot of bs. Why? because you can't flood proof a city when 24 inches of rain falls in 48 hours, its not possible. A sea wall doesn't protect from rain, and it is the flooding that will do 90 % of the damages. You would need to have massive canals and biyous built


Perhaps.  You've very good questions.  Whatever the truths, surely greed is a principle reason.  Greed for profit underlying both the lessee and lessor for their own private agenda.  Whether bad or good, greed naturally exists in a capitalistic chess game.   This is why the US is a great nation and has led the world since it was young.  Only in church can you separate greed from commerce.  Our society separates church from government.


You have got to be kidding, it is now more "En Vogue" and acceptable for media attack on anything labeled "Trump" than to denounce Terrorists and/or Terrorism.  And that folks is why this democrat will fully support Trump because I am getting tired of the obvious one-sided reporting of the news media.


that seems to be the curse of the rider....not age related


Nonsense.


Cargo is having a hardtime right now, maybe they should send him to the minors to get his swing back and play tapia who is playing well go rox! 😀


Best wishes for his recovery.


I would hate to see Waikiki residents park at Ala Wai park to the detriment of the park users.  Plus, what is the "need" that is being addressd?  Is it a "want" or a "need."  Because if it is for bikes, those bike lanes aren't heavily used and do nothing to eliminate vehicle traffic.


The Adventist identity may be less sterile than it once was, but go to any Adventist institutional community and you will find it. It has a bit more money now, especially where there's a hospital, and so it revolves not around the congregation but around the administrator and his court. But it is still very much there. I talked to a family just recently that wants to move to Kettering "because there I can have an Adventist doctor."

I think William is so used to objecting to everything that he can't find a way to affirm anything that's written here.


OSHA regulations require the employer to provide fall protection equipment & training. If an accident happens, it is determined employer "willfully" failed to provide either or both, cost of the fine can be very high.

This on top of lawsuits can shut a contractor down. Sad to say way to many utterly incompetent contractors.

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/fallprotection/


Then you are in the minority......I know many whose insurance covers less and costs much more. My health insurance covers the same but deductibles are higher and monthly premiums nearly triple. My guess is you get your insurance through Obamacare and get great benefits subsidized by the rest of us. I for one am tired of paying higher costs so that you can have insurance......Was much better before Obama.


......obama never worked, period!


Good Lord, "run man run"......come to my place......I'll hide you!


As the article points out, history is rarely as simple as "he won, they lost, get over it." The winners write history, often to the detriment of the truth.
These statues represent significant events in the development of our country and shouldn't be destroyed. But they belong in a learning environment, not displayed prominently in front of municipal buildings, which implies the local government supports the negative things they did as well as the positive.


But first they'll have to finish up their PhDs at the Charlie Sheen School of Winning and take a refresher Defense Against the Dark Arts course at Trump University.


Yes, I want gay priests and journalists to come out of the closet -- the closet that they say is hiding something that doesn't need hiding.


Money Coaches does not appear to be a registered firm. How does that work?


Care to tell us what you do for a living?    I compare most cops (certainly not all) as construction workers with guns.   They have this infantile macho entitled attitude.  Higher education levels and in-house courses in professionalism and psychology are needed.


I buy milk in the US every time I take a cross boarder trip, it is half the price in Canada even with the dollar being so poorly treated. It would be good for Canada to put Canada first and sell our milk, oil, gas, wood et all at the international price it would be great for us all. US will not be happy but they never are always looking for better ways to rip us off.


Walker how about you just go away? Maybe the Pipeline job you are trying get will hire you early. This is what you get when you elect a sheep in wolf's clothing. Independent my tail. Liberal Dem..  get out of the process where the Senate is trying to save Alaska. Senate stay strong, this guy will never see another term.


"overtly identifying yourself abroad as Canadian had become unwise "

LOL. Take it from someone who actually travels abroad frequently and widely, no-one outside of diplomatic circles cares about Canada's position on anything.


Leftist ideology? Do you mean like being against racism? Rightist ideology being like for racism and slavery? Yes.


In my experience private sector defined pension schemes have offered  totally voluntary buy outs to those in the pension scheme.  They are given a lump sum which they may use, invest, or roll over into a tax deferred IRA which they OWN and can manage as they see fit.   If they do not consume all the assets they can be passed on to heirs thus giving them a start in a retirement scheme.   The companies off load pension liability and provide the retiree the ability to manage and grow the funds themselves going forward.   Has PERS considered this arrangement to reduce its liability?


The WSJ, Bloomberg, etc., have all pointed out a few things:

1. Trump is an individual businessman/entrepreneur, (the most self-reliant kind - a developer) but has never had a boss, answered to shareholders, etc.

2. The LAST thing the CEO of a publicly traded company wants is to wake up to a 3AM tweet from the president/elect threatening tariffs (taxes) on your company based upon a simplistic assessment of but one action of your organization (opening a production facility in another country)...several companies have seen their share prices decline because of this...

All in all, the business community's belief that "one of theirs'" is now president is turning out to be not such a good thing...


Here's a thought. A $50,000 fine - and loss of their license. Suddenly what was the cost of doing business becomes the loss of that business, period.


It seems that Mr. Manning and perhaps his closest Conservative friends are trying to ride on the coattails of Pres. Donald Trump.  Do they think that if they rant and point fingers at all non-Conservatives they'll get the angry non-political people to jump on their bandwagon?  I think they are trying to tap into the disappointment that so many feel and are hoping they'll easily buy into being saved by a political party.  It's a dangerous game.

Rona Ambrose's comment that a government's role is to serve the people who pay the bills, not the well-heeled interests that talk the loudest is ridiculous.    She and many of her Conservative friends are pretty well-heeled and they speak loudly.  If hers isn't an attempt to create an "us and them" environment, I don't know what is.

I want leadership that cares about every single citizen--the Conservatives don't seem able to comprehend such leadership in their current mindset.


Bingo....


Most non-US people don't have the Puritan hangups about nudity.


there is another article written by a harada which states that unregulated care homes should be legalized and everything will be fine.  that is wishful and naïve thinking.  if regulated care homes have deficiencies than it is quite obvious the unregulated ones will have more.  patient safety and welfare should be the first priority, trying to avoid regulation.  bringing down costs may be good but we cannot compromise quality care for cheap care.  many of these patients are in the last few years of their life, we have to treat them with dignity and respect and not like animals.


I love it !  Jagmeet wouldn't be the first to utter those famous last words.


Sorry Michael but they are not INDEPENDENT of jobs and it's foolish to think so. Let's see how it works. The Navy is here. The have service families living here that need local services. Local businesses hire people as employees to meet that demand for service and the goods and services provided are taxed as they are for non-military citizens living here. Additionally those local employees have to live somewhere and also generate demand for services for their own families and pay sales taxes and property taxes as well. Net result business increases more taxes get paid as a result and, supposedly, everyone benefits. Now take the military away. No need for those local employees so you get rid of them. They no longer pay sales tax,  income or property tax and if they stay in the area become a burden on the tax base instead of a benefit to it. A lot of housing goes vacant with an accompanying rise in crime like everywhere else there was a base closure. The NAVY pays more than it's share.


That may be the case with the local chapter where you live. I'm in Fairbanks; the Tanana Valley chapter has run a booth for many years at the fair where they conduct a straw poll. We've caught them doing exactly what I described numerous times spanning over a decade.

I mentioned elsewhere that I've been on a hunt this summer for old images of Alaska which have fallen out of copyright for various reasons or were never under copyright (read: works of the federal government). One shows an Alaska Railroad box car with a banner announcing "Alaska's New Voting Machines" from 1962. This came about after Warren Taylor championed ridding Alaska of its blanket primary, or decades before anyone ever heard of Jim Zawacki or other Republican sockpuppets. Or back when Diebold as a manufacturer wasn't quite known for specialties such as voting machines.  Anyway, Taylor's objective was to allow people to basically cast a straight party vote without having to give it any thought.  Sound familiar?


Even if Amazon was intending to build in the Eastern Time Zone, they had no reason to tell anyone that. Instead, they let all these cities know that the competition was fierce and everyone needed to bring their best offer to the table.


Heyyyyyyyy man!I have no women.I have to butcher my own!


You can keep dissing my posts, troll, but you can't hide. Chump lover.


But he is only doing it for the middle (Kingdom) class.


They call it Thomas Square.


As a parent, I will reserve and protect my right to instill values in my children. No school or government has a right to impose moral values on my children and I will protest when they presume to do so.


The belligerent, aggressive, ungrateful insolence of Israel is truly breathtaking and mindblowing.

For reasons extending through millenia, the Israelites never were able to settle down on and hold a piece of land in the ME. Then came the 20th century and the world community, through the UN, said "Here ya go.  Here's your very own, brand new country.  Enjoy!"

The Israeli response?  "It's not big enough and anyway it's not the one that Abraham's imaginary friend promised us so we're grabbing as much more as we like".

They sure must have a lot of faith in Donald Trump because the United States' support through the decades is the only reason that Israel has continued in existence.  An unconcerned United States, or worse, a United States concerned enough to do something about Israel's illegal behaviour would not go well for Israel.


Like when He said, "Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's?"  He lost me with that one.


What's next, not having an Extraordinary Minister during a daily Mass even if there's only 20 people in attendance?


Best comment I’ve heard yet, by far!


Perhaps he has enough sense to keep his internet profile low so he doesn't receive countless life threats from the alt right just because of his name.  People have a right to what he chooses to publish and nothing else.  I will take this comment of yours much more seriously when you stop changing your user name.


Very few towns in Canada don't have access to fiber. Most that don't reside in the far north. Most Canadians also have access to LTE .... many to LTE enhanced.


Lying Liberal.


Definitely not a pussy like your guy.


I don't entirely agree with your post but I will grant you that the idea that this situation has been boiled down to if you support the players your'e un-patriotic and if you support the flag you're a racist, cop lover.  It was never that simple.  It is however why I think it was a colossally bad idea to protest with the anthem in the first place.  Yes, it drew attention but it also drew away from the message.

I'm a 26 year veteran and I went to work every day because doing so made me feel good and made me feel a part of something bigger than myself.  Did I appreciate someone saying thank you when I was out at lunch in my uniform?  Of course.  Did I need someone to say thank you to validate my decision to serve?  Absolutely not.  Players kneeling or standing changes nothing for me.  Can I have the opinion that they should stand?  Of course.  Does that make me a racist?  No, it doesn't and on the flip side, you can love America and be a patriot without wearing a flag pin on your lapel.


Guns owners are responsible for most murders.


O my god, the pictures of this barn - both inside and outside - are incredible. Seriously, breathtakingly, beautiful!
By: Lighting


The reason "progressives" never complain when Obama and the elitist Democrats send THEIR children to private schools, is because Obama and the elitist Democrats are paying the tuition. They aren't asking the taxpayers  to foot the bill.

You want to take my tax dollars and give them to your Christian school.
Why should I have to pay taxes to support your religion?


Yes. You will see the end of it if you Vote NO on Prop 2, and if the City Council doesn't try to commit suicide by going against that vote again.

If not, buckle up.


Born & grown in Canada, and never heard of Rick Mercer until this article.  Watched his YouTube videos, and now I know who he is.  A bit dull, something different.


Once again, the Chinese pretend they were first.
The Koreans were first to mention  toilet paper, flushing toilet invented by the English, Toilet paper on rolls invented in America.
http://www.toiletpaperhistory.net/invented-toilet-paper/who-invented-toilet-paper/


Recipe for a boondoggle.
Step one: get government approval for your sketchy project.
Step two: complain loud and long about poor "market conditions".
Step three: assert how your project is long term nation building.
Step four: dump as much risk on the public as you can extort from frightened politicians.
Step five: postpone and delay the project until markets improve.
Step six: demand extension of timelines ad infinitum.
Step seven: complain loudly about lack of government support.
Step eight: borrow as much against the value of the project as the banks will allow.
Step nine: never admit that the dog won't hunt.
Step ten: return to step two and repeat yourself.

If the investors in this project have to assume 100% of the risk, it will never be built.


Agreed. I listened to him on the TV this morning as he announced his candidacy .. his voice gradually got louder and louder as he tried to talk over the interviewer, getting more and more excited about "the mess" Canada was and how he could straighten it all out. Despite his denials... he sounds just like Trump; leave it to me, Im so clever I can fix anything! Duh


I've never heard anyone who I considered a real Alaskan say this tired, trite phrase.  And I've been here lots longer than you, bub.


You are free to believe what you like. However there is a burden of rationality inherent in conversation particularly public ones. Advancing arguments of a god should require that you engage with the following:

1. Posit a set of axioms that exclude sought proof.
2. Define god.
3. Define existence.
4. Show objective evidence that a god meets that criteria.
5. Show that the result is significant!

IMO.  Morality, just like god is likely a construct. It is an very important one, but a construct none the less. Arguments that rely on the most good, or the absoluteness of good are flawed. Humans certainly do not seem to be divine or special in any sense. It seems likely that we are simply cleverer animals. The initial formation of the universe is outside the boundaries of concrete knowledge. However the formation of the universe while including randomness, is not random.


"Last month, it was revealed that U.S. President Donald Trump had quietly ended his government’s four-year-old program to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime."
Correction: Trump ended funding to terrorist extremists who seek to impose a sharia law theocracy, and who torture and kill anyone who is not of their faith, and who kidnap and behead little children.
Syria is a mess because of the West's actions - just like Iraq is a mess because of the West's actions. The West was never in Syria for Syria, but to oppose Syria. Desisting creating and supporting terrorists in Syria is the first thing that the West has done for Syria since before the conflict began.


Gee another bimbo who forgets how much " experience" odumbo had before collapsing the country.


Most Canadians would not spend 20 on the clown car evs that I have seen to date listed at double that price.


We need to step away from principles and just use common sense. Of course, it would be disastrous to say any woman who gets drunk, has sex and can't remember was raped.
But in this case, a drunk woman decides to have sex with a middle aged taxi drive in the back seat of a cab....there is no reasonable doubt here.


Write-in your favorite VP candidate for President.  The top three VP candidates each have more class and integrity than do the persons above them on their respective tickets.


I can't find the right to the safe work place, can you direct me to it in the Constitution, I've been looking, and where exactly do you see it?


part of the rise  may be  people "disclosing"  now that they partake, where as before they did the same thing - just kept mum. and there is probably the novelty factor that will wear off.    personally i am very disappointed in the marijuana veg offerings at the dispensaries. i don't want some "altered" product that may have remnants of some nasty chemical still present.  and   for some reason, none of the bud looks like good old fashioned bud and it doesn't have the impact either  - regardless of some number claiming to be the quality of either the recreational or medicinal component in the plant.  smells good - looks funny and is meh quality. i'll stick with the old fogey's that seem to still grow the best... my best advice to a young whippersnapper - go buy from an old fogey...


So much for the smug progressives who claimed Canadians superior to Americans.  Turns out your just as insane.


"Increasingly he revealed himself — and confessed to being — a man who put the institutional church first, second and third. He also revealed a man deeply deficient in compassion and empathy."

In other words he is an Australian version of Bernard Law.  We need clergy who live gospel values and not company men who put the institution first and the Gospel way down the line.


"The value of that 401(k) today is near historic highs."
Thanks, Obama.


I've also heard this characterized as "your freedom stops where my freedom starts".


It's "buried", as you put it, because nobody was expecting a different result.  It was a low-turnout by-election in a super-Tory riding.


Totally agree, and we seem to have a Congress of fools, except for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and a very few others not bought by AIPAC & corporations.


Hillary lost. Get over it.


AGREE!   Wow, I even remember when Babers was still playing!  Wishing much success with Syracuse!  Another UH alum that will soon be a head coach is Ivin Jasper, currently on Niumatalolo's staff at Navy.


Name calling is all you have?  Maybe you're impervious to factual evidence?


Uberalles:  It is not media spin.  Whether it is accurate or not is to be seen, but a congressional source told this to reporters.


First Female Mayor of Montreal.


Not unless they are planning to castrate the boys. You need to meet the powerful women I know. Most farm wives could beat any city guy and female athletes are
amazing.. Quit stereotyping genders. Scouting is as much about brains as brawn in today's world. See what develops. Scouting unfortunately is dying now due to the lack of adults willing to donate their time.


The bridge does carry bicyclists and pedestrians, but so do the many other Bridges. Those uses alone certainly didn't justify building another expensive bridge. I don't question that you're more in tune with the Oregon biking community that I am, but I do know that when I'm at OHSU every now and then looking down on that bridge, it is so empty and the other bridges are so full.


The $2,700,000 cottage that he claims as the sales office for his lumber and firewood business?

Man, I hope that Revenue Quebec is reading this.


True but I have to use the appropriate response to each reply. Bringing it down to their level, something they can understand. If only I could use a coloring book for some them, easier to understand.


Nobody deserves it but it was made for the people to be able to survive how insanely expensive it is to live up here. Now I dont know all the laws by any means but ak has always been expensive to live and has only gotten worse. I don't like how they are lying to us that the pfd money is running out when it's the highest it's ever been (again don't know all the technicalities but I even been paying enough attention) despite that our greedy government has a HUGE spending problem and need to be voted out and I personally feel a sales tax will handle the rest. I know everyone hates tax and hates it but if we are being honest here. The government isn't going to stop spending and we have to many idiots with lined pockets up here for them to be voted out for example murkowski who has constantly screwed us and don young?really people do you research do just fill it in clause it works for you. Leave it blank if you don't know. Anyways my point I don't think walker  so much deserve governor as


But that Coors factory right down the road, that's OK, no problem cause alcohol is OK.  Oh and if its prescribed, then it is OK, so basically you are OK with prescription marijuana?


Oh Rochy give it a rest will ya.  First off you have never read Marx or Gramsci and the fact you keep devoting words to a thinker from 150 years ago is tiring.  Marx helped usher in a lot of the rights you as a worker enjoy today.  And a lot of it is very dated for sure.  But what I don't get with you low effort types is the anger and hostility and the child like arguments.
Now just what did Thomas say that was wrong rochy?  Is he increasing military spending?  I heard he was, so that increases debt; is he cutting taxes on the wealthy?  I heard he was so that is also increasing debt.  And the wall rochy the wall.... he says he is going to pay for it up front and bill them later...will that add to the debt rochy?   Trump has gone bankrupt 5x and stiffed people for large sums of money and could care less.  What are your thoughts on that debt rochy?  Is that a good way to do business?  You can do it rochy you angry man-child.  Where are the cost cuts coming from rochy?


Imagine churches becoming just another tool in the political propagandist toolbox. Hundreds of millions can be donated to far right churches, so millionaire preachers can become billionaires and...
Hurts my head to look at that possibility.
Until America gets rid of Putin's stooge in the White House, who is intent on strengthening factions that will divide us for generations, America is just a very loud confusing mess of far right factions, being played by someone who hates the American Constitution.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon


Actually, the better community-level services are, the less need there is for more locked-ward placement.  Yes, there will always be some need for secure forensic placement.  However, many of those individuals, had they received adequate community-level treatment and support would not have committed the crimes which led to their commitment.  The best mental health care is timely, proactive care and support provided before the mental illness progresses to the behavior leading to commitment.  That's the "missing piece" in our mental health care system.  We need to recognize it and be willing to provide it.  We're doing neither and we've got hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individuals "on our streets" who need and deserve our care and support.  Gary Crum


See Donald, even April is releasing her return on Tax Day.
What are you afraid we might see?


Two pea in the same pod!


Denver acquired most of its mountain parks through donations of land from the owners. It acquired its reservoirs through purchases. I'm not aware of any condemnations. I could be wrong, I just am unaware of any.


Every time some hikers get lost or hurt and need to be rescued there's the usual complaining about the cost to taxpayers.  But nobody ever whines about all the swimmers, fishermen, boaters and surfers who have to get plucked out of the ocean on a regular basis.  Going out in the water is so dangerous there's even a permanent safety force dedicated to saving those people - the City and County lifeguards.   Yes, some of these hikers are nincompoops who are reckless or clueless.  But there are plenty of other people who do dumb things - like eat too much or drive carelessly - and then have to get government help.   The amount of your tax money spent rescuing hikers is a tiny fraction of the money spent on helping people with health problems due to poor eating habits, for example.


Worse than Watergate, oh, yes.


.... “He’s getting into legislative business,” said MacKinnon, who put the $32.5 million purchase in the Senate’s proposed capital budget " ... No, I can hear him politely saying -" This is the Alaska People's business, and your lack of fiscal ethics and warped fiscal priorities will not continue to be tolerated:..


Maybe your more of a hotdog person?


Huh?  Are you sane ?


and a note stating why you are not giving more or anything at all.  I knew several in KC did that after the revelations of Finn's crimes and failings.


Follow the code? I think I've read that somewhere before: http://www.civilbeat.org/author/brett-oppegaard/


Nitro, Las Vegas doesn't take state income taxes from their residents.


We in Hawaii  don't have any type of legalized gambling because of Las Vegas gaming lobbyists paying off our politicians to keep it illegal. It's so obvious.


How about you move to Detroit or the Bronx or some other inner city and see what the death toll is there.  Baltimore couldn't hold a cease fiire for more than 2 days. Wake up Libertarian and drop your rose colored glasses.  You are in make pretend land with your righteous talk.  And how many did we kill in Vietnam?  Don't give me your libertarian BS talk and make like you know more than everyone else.  N Korea should be a parking lot but we keep talking and talking and now look where we are at?  We got a scary okole president running us straight into oblivion as Mike Tyson would say.  So save your bull crap for the rest of your lala land idiots


The Ontariowe Liberals lying and incompetence has cost us >>$Billions,
Trump ?
Nothing so far ......
Might the media please return to real Canadian problems - PLEASE !!!


Thomas, perhaps they know more about finance than you.


I saw the article as focusing on gun control, albeit which party is pushing for gun control? And which party has been hijacked by liberalism and socialist philosophy?  And what is socialist philosophy?  'Gun control' is about far more that guns.  Emphasis on word 'control'.  If it truly were about saving lives then we would be giving serious attention to our lax driving laws and drivers licensing requirements.  In my pretty long life, over 50, I have personally known almost 20 people killed in vehicular accidents.  I know not one killed by someone else discharging a firearm.


Of the 4 different sources what one in your view biased?

As for the Fact Checker link - again, it doesn't seem to be very relevant to my comment. What do Kay Hagan & Mark Udall have to do with the decline in greenhouse gas emissions?

As for cherry-picking, perhaps you ought to re-read my original comment. I said simply that Democrats oppose any reform of entitlements; you were the one who lept to the conclusion that I was defending or asserting Paul Ryan's plan. I am not. In fact I had in mind the proposals that emerged from the bipartisan Breaux Commission, which was constituted by Bill Clinton in mind-1990s. Alice Rivlin has championed these, among others.

Your other links are to an partisan advocacy group - the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & MEdicare. Fine, but please drop the pretense that you are not presenting a biased argument when you're relying on an advocacy group. I suspect you would demand the same of someone relying on a Heritage Foundation report.


They are no more important than any other citizen.


The changes make sense to me, dealing with Trump and undoing all the damage Harper did to the  Immigration dept  need strong players.


Wow, my mild and inoffensive comment gets deleted and this piece of drivel stays up? Something is seriously wrong with the censors on this comment board.


Don't worry.

We sacrificed a chicken this morning and read the entrails.  Everything is going to be just fine.


Bill was impeached over the Lewinsky scandal .. he settled out of court with Paula Jones.  To deny he is a sexual predator is self-delusional.  By your logic Trump isn't a sexual predator either because he has never been in jail.... so don't feign outrage at Trump if that is what you believe.


Umm no, they were not evil because the "judged others"  They were evil because they killed people and practiced genocide.


Since when has common sense and truth had anything to do with left-wing voting blocs?


Imho, Brown's death was suicide-by-cop.  I wish the writers who have blogged about Michael Brown repeatedly would have spent some time and energy looking into the facts of Brown's life.  Why was he so eager to throw it away?  McGivern wrote a blog claiming that the video from the store was fake.  She has never retracted or apologized.  Another writer for NCR said Brown was "executed" for jaywalking.  She has never retracted or apologized.  McGivern boasted of chanting HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT.  She has never explained.

Now she claims Brown "was set to start community college the next week."  Where does she get that idea?  At the time it was said Brown was enrolled at Vatterott, a for-profit school, not a community college, but that school has never confirmed it.  Maybe he had not enrolled, and part of the misery that caused him to throw away his life was the fear that his grandmother would find out.

McGivern says Brown was "unarmed."  Not because he didn't try to get Wilson's gun.


My hometown let's people have chickens in town. I was against it. They have  brought  bring all kinds of critters to town. I watched a guy fire about twenty pellets at a skunk in a trap that was caught near his coop. It was brutal. He told me he has had skunk problems all year. They like the eggs. I suggested a quicker way to kill the skunk, but he thought it was too inhumane. Oh well.


And today, the PCLU, made up of zuptoids, does all Zuma's dirty work in hunting down dangerous people like Gordhan, Breytenbach, Booysens, McBride, Dramat, O'Sullivan
Its a damn disgrace, and the tax-payer is footing the bill for it
Good story Kevin, pity it will fall on deaf ears


Everyone has different experiences, and those experiences cannot be denied. My own nephew had a bad roommate assignment at the UO and left because of that. Since, objectively, the UO has a vast and far-reaching and expensive system of student support, I'd be interested in hearing, more specifically, about what you've found lacking. The amount of student support  at the UO is overwhelmingly greater than what existed years ago when I was a student. And the people I've met who are involved in that support system are first-rate in heart and mind.

As for the quality of instruction, that variable usually depends more on the individual instructor or department than it does on the institution, although the workload of the instructor is a  factor, too.

OSU is a great school. They've had a great president at the helm for many years.


Lots of hypotheticals...


Yeah she was horrible.  Just a grating voice.  And next to a windbag.


With the thought that the Dr. Dao incident on United initiated waves of discontent, irritation, and a sense on entitlement, I prefer the airlines remain strict in managing every flight.  It is okay that I don't have any rights when I board an airplane.  I want to get to my destination safely.  People complain about the leg room.  Well, we all have the option to purchase seats in business and first class if we wanted more leg room.  Deregulation gave us lower fares, but it also meant fewer services that are not profitable, and a charge for services that are profitable.


Ya right, so I guess you also think that is someone is a racist conservative that it's ok?


I think he changed his name to Godot


What heresy did Fr. Curran teach? Please be specific.


Hannah, I don't know you but I prayed for your safe return, thank you for letting the police know you're ok and what your intentions are. Only you know why you left but I hope in time you can make peace with your family.  Again I am thankful this was a good outcome.


All of those programs affect me (negatively) If you want some that don't affect me much either way we could toss most of the governors office 'programs', cut some of DNR, Some out of Agriculture, Take an AX to DORA and DOLA and a chainsaw to CDE and Higher ED.


Mr. Phoenix followed the letter of the law.  The legislature and the author of this opinion piece don't like the laws in this area and know that Mr. Phoenix will follow the law, and they have actively advocated to insure the law is rendered useless by a fanatic Christian influence in government.  No different than Islamic extremists.  Just a different country, and different circumstances.  You are extremist religious fanatics wielding undeserved power due to your co=opting of money worshipping and leveraging of ignorance through media. I find it, and you, disgusting.


Ducks:  You are not BUYING a Tanker.  They charge PER DAY, when the fire is out, they go to their home base and wait for the next call.


The film producer, Marc Morano, has his far-right bona fides. He studied under Rush Limbaugh, and was the first to publish the Swiftboat Veterans lies against John Kerry. That got him a job in the Bush administration, and a job with climate denier Sen. James Inhofe. Who knows who is paying for his organization, and film, and his website which posts articles like, "There Was No Fukushima Nuclear Disaster", and "Alarmist sea level data may raise flood insurance". Lamar Smith, Sara Palin, and Marc Morano, any or all of this triumvirate of in-your-face-stupidity debating Bill Nye - one can only hope.


so what's the reason you did not get allocated capacity at draft plan approval stage?


China's response was the best...we are on the side of whoever doesn't launch nukes first. Joining the escalation of words or "side picking" isn't going to help.  I've seen plenty of videos where two idiots pick a fight with each other. The people who choose sides don't come off looking any brighter. It is the wise soul that tells them to smarten-up and shake hands that comes off as the better of them all.


they're only concerned with ,how much gold they get.


Leftist racism for calling out a white supremacist (allegedly, if that is what he was doing)?  You have an unusual take on that comment.  Maybe a bigot toward white supremacists would be more appropriate.  In that case, I am extremely bigoted to white supremacists?  And you?


A simple possession conviction equals never being able to find a job and subsequently a life on welfare?

Is this an attempt at comedy?


So, who is the most intolerant? A group protesting the removal of statues or the counter protesters arriving with helmets, clubs and baseball bats......?? Two wrongs don't make a right.....


RIP Mr Peters and condolences to his family. To be a Navy Seal requires the utmost in bravery and dedication to fellow warriors. it is an honor that most can not achieve.


Good for Trudeau! Leitch should continue to be "disparaged" (I would say challenged) on her nasty views. Since right wingers treated us to daily does of "Trudeau will choose a system that most benefits the Liberals", he is quite right to have dropped the ranked ballot system although I like that system - it does not guarantee the Liberals permanent presence in second pale votes on ballots because there is nothing stopping the Conservatives from making themselves more palatable to centrist voters!


I thought our country was broke?


Silly me - when I first starting seeing the side guards a few years ago, I thought they were for aerodynamic purposes ...
A good idea, mandating them, but they don't look as if they are substantial enough to stop a car moving at highway speeds from going under a jack-knifed truck - I thought they were designed to push cars away from the rear trailer wheels in the event of an accident where both vehicles are traveling roughly in the same direction ...


Speak for yourself, you are an embarrassment to Canada.


Insecurity is not a good trait for a 'president'. And unfortunately we need to take him somewhat seriously.


You must be disconnected from reality to imply that people's fear is somehow irrational and unjustified.  Of course it is a suicide bombers goal to kill as many innocent people as possible with their homicidal bombs.  Of course it is to instill fear.   The State Department issued a travel warning to all Americans about traveling to European  destinations.  They didn't issue that warning to instill irrational fear.  It is in response to reality.  If people are experiencing fear it is not because they are paranoid or irrational,  it is because they are perceptive and aware that ISIS and other non State actors have declared War on them.


What does the pope have against cardinals from Africa?


Yep, and it has darker overtones.


Dave63 wins the generic pro-gun garbage comment of the day award! Yippee!

Nothing like downplaying a pandemic with snarky faux-logic. Nothing like equating the repeated, mass slaughter of innocents with anecdotal punchlines about other methods of hurting people. People like you would never win in a debate, and typically hide from them.


"The Greater Fool" has been predicted  a housing crash since 2008!
>
He has ruined many people's lives with his bad advice. He still to this day is predicting a crash. Well, even a broken clock shows the correct time twice per day...


A deep ecologist lying about their koolaide.  The devil you say.


Because only tech matters, right?


See reply to comrade Guilbert above.


Trump is ill-mannered, erratic and loves "alternative facts". The leaders of other countries, both America's friends and America's enemies, have recognized this. There is very little chance that Trump will now ever be treated seriously on the world stage. The Trump administration is rapidly diminishing America's standing in the world. It's difficult to see things improving over the course of the next three years.


And we all know Trudeau's tax and spend won't work either.


What's a medical consultant?

' make hay while the sun shines'. Hasn't he heard that Ottawa is slashing health care spending and that Canada's economy is crashing in 2017? Fill up the savings vehicles as the good times won't last much longer.


Elderly patient with a hip surgery after a fall.... that's routine!?


The ones who built the swamp are rich, white people who largely tend to vote Republican. And using terms like LibTard or Lefty, only goes to demonstrate your level of maturity, or rather immaturity. Are you too dumb to realize that people like Trump couldn't care less about the little guy and is only interested in increasing his own wealth at any cost. Trump will not last one term, guaranteed.


Not if you were one of the people she called a "deplorable".


Russia did work to influence the out come of what was a very close election. Whether they succeed or not can never be proven one way or another. The only sure thing is that they will do it again.


Her total lack of class is consistent with the other jerks at Fox News. The sad thing is that the conservative base probably thinks she looks fantastic and is incredibly patriotic. It's easy to see why Trump is so successful pandering to the ignorant.

For the GOP:
Taking a knee - evil

Bastardizing the flag into some 1980's exercise cape - wonderful
Waving the Confederate flag - wonderful
Marching with torches in the street shouting, "Blood and Soil!" - wonderful


...and what a gem this one is. It's filled with standards that have yet to be discovered by the likes of Midler, Streisand and Aretha! Can't Wait. "Here Without You" is extraordinary!


So sorry to hear of this what a great man! He will be so missed!!


I thought the Darwinists would be all over this one by claiming it's evolution.


Good  for Ken Darling for speaking up.  Lets' hear more about  his family connection, as his  Great-great grandparents Eugene and Mary Skinner were excellent folks who lack the controversy swirling around such other local leaders as Mathew Deady, Joe Lane and John Whiteaker.


He was complaining about the communications and consultation strategy, not the contents.


Congratulations ! Kudos to the exceptional gifted teachers!


Well said. It is remarkable that so many here by their votes have signified that protecting the lives of the unborn means so little to them or find it 'funny'.


You are NOT a tax professional. A "real" tax professional would be enraged at these changes. Nice try :)
I suspect you are a public service employee afraid of losing their DB  pension.


The question, Mr. Duterte, is very simple: Were the people you killed convicted by and sentenced to death by your country's judiciary?

There's a word for people who kill other people without judicial warrant--it's "murderer". And, if you've murdered several people without judicial warrant, it's "mass murderer".


If these demonstrators are opposed to Sharia law, they should be protesting a President whose first foreign trip was to Saudi Arabia, which is the world's greatest funder of extremist Islam —Wahabism. If they knew anything about how the Saudis have spent 100s of billions of $ spreading Wahabism and how they continue to spend their fortune to radicalize moderate Muslim communities around the world, they would have been outraged at Trump doing the Sharia Shuffle Sword Dance and being played for a fool by the Saudis.


No need for job action. Wynne will give away Ontario's inheritance just to keep her job in 2018!


Fake news? If it's fake, debunk it. But you can't because if you were intellectually honest and even remotely curious you would find out there is a whole trove of evidence linking Epstein and Trump as there is linking Clinton and Epstein.

But that's the difference between you and me. I accept the all the evidence to make an informed opinion and you only accept half.


"I still recommend taking out the North Korean missiles, nuclear weapons and leadership but use conventional weapons. An FAE and a few bunker busters would work."

I'm sure that's been considered, but there are problems or it would have already been done. For one, Seoul would likely be turned into a sea of fire from the roughly 20 thousand artillery pieces targeting it. A whole lot of unhappy and dead Southerners the result. For another, China would likely go ape with unknown consequences. And then there's the likely possibility that you don't get all the nukes and/or the brain-trust that builds them( are you also prepared for an all out invasion of the North too track them down?). Too many things to go wrong in  a high risk action for relatively little gain. Better to work on striking a deal of some kind, like say a final peace treaty.


Hi
You are right - I cannot argue with your logic and Buthelezi is academically quite well qualified for the position, plus has some relevant experience.

It just boggles the mind that any sane logical decent person could think that getting rid of two competent people with decency and integrity - Gordhan and Jonas, and replacing them with Gigaba and Buthelezi would be an improvement and good for the country.


Why don't reporters probe deeper? Deadline pressure? Inability to think on their feet? (i.e.: lack of experience?) Another question: aren't they taught this in journalism classes/lectures?  Yeah, I know: Ms. Doolittle spent 20 months on this "file," Lots of experience! (A "learning" experience, I suspect, missed opportunities all along the way.) Another question: where were her senior editors' "oversight" on this particular "file"? The tone of many pieces was "Aha!  And what does THIS nugget suggest to you, dear readers?"  Suggest it's the reporter's job to investigate that, not readers'.

So: the Minister of Justice thinks the Philly third-party "external advocates" is terrific and Canada should adopt it-- the unfounded rate went from 18 per cent to 4 per cent.  To what effect? Are complainants happier? Anybody check with prosecutors?  Judges?  Are courtrooms clogged with unwinnable cases?  What's the CONVICTION rate now?

There you go, Ms. Doolittle...onward, please.  Thanks.


I second that Pocho. God Bless The Donald!  Todays quote: The Democrats have Nothing left. All they Have left is  stirring fear to their supporters and provoking Character Assassnination".


I'm very surprised this hasn't already happened.
IMO, the BCLibs  political donations stance was a major reason for them losing so many seats.
h11: You are correct - the NDP best not forget this. And best move soon, or earlier.


As long as no one get's hurt, that's good for me too.


According to RD, the statement, "Without a doubt, the use of chemical weapons is morally reprehensible." means "gassing people is OK".


Think about making less than 100K a year, no inheritance, no free trips from mommy & daddy and then write this piece again with that in mind.  Do only people that can afford $500.00 per night rooms read the travel section of the G&M?


Call me cynical, or conspiratorial, but Trump's Syrian missile attack does not pass the smell test.  Too many coincidences. This is all about optics: sending a timely message to multiple listeners.  First, China and North Korea: President Xi Jinxing is informed of US attack over Floridian dinner? We saw that scene on TV's West Wing. The most urgent US-China issue is North Korea with Trump wanting China's cooperation - but claiming he might act alone if necessary? FBI and Senate/House: Russia-Trump ties under investigation and seen - at best - as too friendly? Suddenly not anymore.  Baby-lovers: why was Trump emotionally moved now, but not by previous photos? Everybody else: why would Syria drop just one single Saran WMD when an entire squad of jets attacked? And why now, just when Trump needs a symbolic win both at home and abroad? Can we rule out the possibility that Russia did this to aid Trump?  Heaven forbid - might the US have done this?


That's probably the best compromise we can expect.  A bandaid over a gushing amputation.  We need universal care, not more giveaways to the insurance companies and for-profit medical predators.


That's what happens when dope is legalized.   From alcohol to dope to pills we have too many messed up people in Anchorage .   Unless we vote to criminalize dope , crack down on other drugs an alcohol , the death toll will continue to rise unchecked.


I don't think you're getting the point. You are contradicting the teaching of the Church, imputing to it the content of a divine command, and simply repeating the same spiel over and over without providing the slightest evidence in support of your positions except noting that keeping the commandments is difficult. There is nowhere to go with that in a Catholic discussion.


Shapiro is just setting the stage for another of his blistering attacks on government officials, no matter what they do.  That's how he makes his living.


I budget roughly $25/month for my church food bank.

I try to maximize value by buying non-perishables on-sale.

Last week it was cans of tuna and Chef Boyardee pasta for $0.98.

This week Heinz pastas for $0.88 and 12-pak cases of Kraft Dinner for $5.99.

Keep you eyes open to deals in the weekly flyers - Food Basics and Fresh Co are particularly good for this.


Here is more of the "white man's burden" and the resultant hypocrisy of the left.  You see, they say they're "for" "free speech" by pointing out how wrong the speech of another is.  Head scratcher ain't it?!  The left is accusing others of what it is doing itself.  Too funny.  Even all the voices in my head are saying Hmmmm.

http://www.libertyheadlines.com/boston-free-speech-rally-ends-abruptly-27-arrested/?AID=7236

What if...if...the march was about....oh...I don't know...lets say abortion.  And only 30 showed up, w/ permit, signs, and are peaceful and then 10,000 counter protestors started to drown out the smaller one.  I guess that would be okay w/ you.  But it's cool because you can absolutely have that point of view in the greatest country on earth.  Inalienably.


Because there may have been court proceedings, doesn't mean the parents or children actually benefited from "due process." I retired from DFYS, the OCS predecessor, and due process was often found more in the breach than the observance.

The biggest problems I saw at the agency were frequent disrespect for the performance and ability of those who were capable of doing a good job, workloads driven by chronic failures to provide mandated "active efforts," huge turnover both created by impossible workloads and persistently poor recruiting and supervision, and a cultural milieu that treated responsible Native organizations as adversaries, instead recognition of them as indispensable partners. All the time I worked in the Northern Region, the only professional and competent director I ever saw was Rod Caskey, run out early by the Hickel administration which appointed a host of losers. The only supervisors I saw with a whit of common sense were long-retired Linden Staciokas and Tim Stewart.


No thanks. This the time to avoid the insanity by either getting out of town or staying home until it all blows over.


I agree, Fantino was not good for the Veterans. It also appears that Harper was tough on our veterans. That was then. What is Trudeau doing now? Appointing his friend.


Got under your skin eh, John Kawamoto?


Your delusions are getting the better of you.

Or I should say they already have.


I enjoy McKenna Granato's hitting.  With those legs, she can jump and hit with power.  So she gets blocked a few times.  Just need an opposite threat to force an adjustment in the defense.   And an adjustment to where the sets are made.


Point noted. Refugees vs. refugee claimants. And agreed, Canada has been doing a far better job than the US and IMHO many other countries, at least for the past year or so certainly.


Bottom line for me is that Mr. Trump is a US Citizen and has no legal obligation to disclose any personal information, including his tax records.  By the way, any Trump hating reporter can easily stamp anything on an illegally obtained piece of paper (e.g. Client Copy).


"So it appears Mr. Trump has actually moved past collusion and is now acting as an assett of Russia's intelligence services."

What is his rank in Russian's intelligence services? Which ones?
'Collusion' has been alleged by hundreds of Democratic party people.

Provide your 'proof'; not your opinion or wishful thinking.


30 years ago, I worked on the rigs in the Yukon.  It was routinely close to 30C.

That said, Whithorse is in the capital of Yukon Territory. Yellowknife is the capital of the North West Territories.


Why do you want growth. The economy does not do anything for living conditions.


And in fact the article mentions a Research Chair in "Social Justice"


You sound like a broken record.


Most of these people came here as refugees. They claimed asylum to escape the dire poverty, war or general unpleasantness of wherever it is they came from. And now they complain about not being treated fairly? Canadians have done more than their fair share of giving to the disadvantaged people of the world. Maybe it’s time for Canadians to look after their own interests for a change?


IRT Rod B. Catiggay:  Rod, stock-up on tinfoil! Think "hats".


Obama was too busy promoting transgender issues and hating on white Christians to actually help Americans.


How is he wrong??


A good article ruined by his last comment.

What impact does EIA's forecast of demand have to do with the market?  What is material to the market is actual data, and that data of late has been pointing to increasing builds in inventories, arguing that supply remains greater than demand, despite OPEC's attempted manipulation.

One other comment...

The large build in speculative length in crude is associated with a large net short position among commercial traders [read:  producers].  This is consistent with the net sum zero makeup of futures markets, and makes sense as shale producers hedge prices to lock in margins on new drilling.  The thing is, for producers to perfect their hedge, all they need do is produce the necessary barrels.  That is, producers have no reason to close their net short position... Not true for speculators.

Think $42/b.

C'est la guerre!


disgusting people. LIFE IN PRISON: NO PAROLE!


i guess no rights of rescission ???


... took care of the dog, murderers with COMPASSION ...


One of the more unreliable sources of information known to humans is the White House, where the concept of "alternative facts" was invented.

Stephen J. Remington


Surprised blacks are even part of SBC as there YUGE numbers of black Baptist church not affiliated. Probably most white SBC would prefer blacks leave altogether.
White persons need to press for change.  Should not be incumbent upon black persons who often lack any power and historically are the victims of institutional racism.
But whites continue to balk at providing leadership for change.
Change will come from outside the churches.
As MLK said, paraphrase, churches should be headlight, not tail lights.


God, the pettiness of this man sinks lower every day. How degrading it is for the country to be led by someone so small of mind and heart.


I am a conservative, but I am not a big fan of O'Leary.  Having said that, I love watching him eviscerate the governance of Wynne, Notley and Jr T ... the 'Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse'.


I agree. I also think NCR should cut back on its essays to the number that can be well-written, edited, and fact-checked.


If you've been knocked or rendered unconscious, it's a bad idea not to go to the hospital.


"Witches" used to be burned or stoned in Salem and yet the west has evolved into the most advanced societies in the world. Just because the West has civilized doesn't mean certain countries should be afforded a 600 year grace period to do the same. Women can't drive in Saudi Arabia, teenage girls are pummelled by Iran's morality police for wearing ripped jeans, FGM is still common across much of north Africa and the ME. Of course we can't talk about a certain religion in terms of modern female subjugation - that wouldn't be PC and after all - it's 2017....


Selfish is expecting someone else to pay your way.....


I urge all businesses to refuse to serve any NFL player who took or takes a knee during the national anthem.


The Noel Wien Library instituted a security position not because of real security concerns, but because of certain patrons who walked around constantly with their noses turned up towards the idea of having to share the library with certain other patrons.  So on the one hand, you have Fairbanks Police justifying this dude's existence with statements like "You know, we have a real problem in this town with drunk Natives", while on the other hand I see him tonight playing as Marc Brown's drummer during the street fair.  Talk about playing both sides against the middle.


Muslim countries need a dictator figure and are not nearly ready for democracy or independent thought. Let them have their dictators and hopefully Muslims in this country can see the flaws in this pattern of thinking.


Be patient. BCE is fine... it went up less than Telus because its been over priced all year. Fair value is approx. $53 according to Morningstar.ca and profits are very good.

I will say it one more time. Be patient and keep the stock... don't worry


You signaled your unseriousness at the very outset with the comment that "No-one [sic] who disapproves of same same-sex marriage should be required to enter into one."


This is so funny!  But it's also so sad.  I KNEW when I went to see them that there was something off about it.  It was Alaska Dental Arts then.  I had some discussions with the staff and ended up posting a complaint about them on the website.  Another lady that went there said she would never go back.  I'm so glad I didn't continue to see them.  I feel terribly sorry for all the people that did go there and had bad dental care.  I'm also sorry that we all got rooked by them through our taxes.


Your licence plate is also connected via CPIC to the Canadian Firearms Program, so an officer knows when approaching a vehicle if it is owned by a licensed and background-checked Canadian.

Must put the officer a bit at ease.


I'm surprised a Trump supporter could read enough of the story to comprehend they didn't.


When I need a fair and balanced assessment of the NDP, I always look to Gerald.

He's been predicting the revolution is just around the corner since before I was born.


I enjoy their acceptance of gay people and their ordained female clergy myself.


Republicans are predictable, always finger pointing, NEVER thumb pulling ...


Posting that deceit and fraud are in the LPC's DNA gets you deleted as "uncivil". Their long history of this shows it's the truth.


Stock!


No one should be trading in live creatures.  That's not why they are on this planet.


I agree that the short notice is certainly going to cut down on the number of folks who will show up to voice their opinions. Even more important however, is the location of the sites for comment. If they really want to find out what is keeping people out of downtown, they should go out of downtown to find out. Seems sort of axiomatic. Places like the Oakway Center, Valley River Center, Woodfield Station, and other high foot traffic areas would have been better choices.


Like the article suggests: "decency demands that, even long after the death of innocent people we preserve the truth about what happened" ... while we owe this notion to history ..... in practice .... it seems we have mostly failed. There is some complicity in many Americans ..... to not at least know of our governments role in atrocities in California, Alaska, Hawaii ... to list a few.


Given that the "right" created most of the problem with ISIS and other terrorists, you have either a massive amount of Gaul or you're truly are a fool.


So if a criminal is found out to be an illegal immigrant, what do you suppose is a good course of action in that case?


There is no false information here.  This was true of Pre-Vatican II religious communities in the US.

In many religious communities---the Provincial or Vicar sat in the back of the chapel and saw every one going to Confession.  And those in novitiate HAD to go every week for "the grace of the sacrament".  Unless you deal with as many religious communities as I do [well over 250], you had better check on your statistics before making your claims.

Religious women out on parishes had chapels and the priests [religious] came in to the little confessional in the chapel ONCE a WEEK---and all the religious there went to Confession.


Poor thing, spare me the wailing and drama.

If you dish’em out, you have to take’em.

The Church disagrees with you.


Maybe Trid will bow OUT, too!  Even though Trid considers him/herself to be "orthodox Catholic."


Where does the Constitution say Press must be allowed at all times?


What are you smoking or consuming????


LOL, one born everyday, consider my response outside of the civil comments allowance. Please go away had I wanted your output I would have flushed the toilet


For a long time, Don Young has been one of the least respected members of Congress, including by his fellow Republicans. While admittedly colorful, the guy is an embarrassment, has little influence despite his seniority, and has benn in Congress way too long.


if the Hawaii state law allows such meetings to be private, how would if be an unconstitutional infringement of the press?  the purpose of their meeting is not to determine if the chief committed a crime but whether he should be retained, terminated or something else.  the cause for their action is misconduct, not whether the chief is charged with or convicted of  a crime.  BTW a federal grand jury is a secret process also.  so where are they violating anyone's constitutional rights,  except protecting the chief's right to privacy regarding employment matters.


Well, then play the tapes, Donald. Let's hear what you and Comey said then. It is NOT one man's opinion against anothers if those tapes exist, right?


What's bizarre? A published and self described scientist is left to recite nursery rhymes when confronted with "the crux of the matter". Obama's birth was issue was a lie designed to be repeated. Why is that so difficult for you to understand?


Wouldn't be any worse off. Nice fallacy of logic, BTW. See if you can figure out which one.


2 minutes, you say?


The trouble is, the conscripts would kill us once they were trained and armed.


In reconstructed mythology, Ms. Simonds would be floating atop Sisypusʻ rock.


Just what Washington needs...another college dropout with a drug problem!


.

Nanos Research poll (2015) shows strong support for CBC among Canadians:

89% of Canadians either agree (70%) or somewhat agree (19%) that it is more important than ever to have a strong and vibrant CBC.

3% of Canadians somewhat disagree with the statement, while 7% disagree that a strong CBC is important for Canada.

91% of Canadians also either agree (70%) or somewhat agree (21%) that the CBC plays an important role in strengthening Canadian culture and identity.

6% of Canadians disagree that the CBC plays an important role in Canadian culture, while 2% somewhat disagree.

Much blather here from the far-right who fear any media that is politically neutral and balanced.

The CBC's mandate is:

 "To inform, enlighten and entertain; to contribute to the development of a shared national consciousness and identity; to reflect the regional and cultural diversity of Canada; and to contribute to the development of Canadian talent and culture."

Get used to it.

.


T-rump judges and insults people constantly, and yet he's not supposed to be criticized? Double-standards are for the rich, eh?

Donald Trump sexism tracker: Every offensive comment in one place:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/


think about it Ruben, does HART have enough funding now to finish the rail project at Ala Moana Center on hand?  No, they do not.  Does the City council have enough finances on hand to be able to assist HART in doing so?  Again the answer is no, so they are looking to "milk the Golden Goose" that is the O'ahu tax payer by raising fee's, taxes and other means to generate some cash to toss into the financial black hole that Rail has become.

Face facts already, Ruben; O'ahu has had a transportation problem for more than 40+ years, and it's only gotten worse, instead of being fixed; as rail would not have made much of a dent in the daily traffic mess on the Freeway's in the morning and afternoons! Alleviating traffic congestion, while moving people quickly from one point to another, was one of thebiggest fallacies told to date.  Now it's a lose - lose situation; build it and lose money, or tear it down and lose even more money........

Think about it.


Cassie - I received your following response "If all else fails, call a woman a drama queen who is affected by her hormones."    Do you always play the victim?


A strong military is one thing that we do need, but the reality is that there is a time and a place for things.  A Nazi death camp isn't the time or the place for a speech like that.  Especially since he is calling for an unbeatable military in a place where an unbeatable military committed atrocities on an industrial scale.


Thanks, Max. I appreciate you sharing your experience.

Surveys like this can be good if those who create them sincerely want to learn. But if the idea is to find affirmation for what the Church is already doing, it won't be helpful. Worse, it could create a false sense of security like the one bishops who attend the WYD events often come away with.


I believe the author shows his own bias (which is natural, of course) when he insists that mass attendance "fulfills a divine command." Does he derive this from a protracted understanding of the 3rd commandment? This seems quite silly and archaic to me... did Jesus *invite* us to follow Him or did he "command" us to attend RCC mass? I certainly fit the mold of "skeptic" in terms of his idea of mass being a "sacred obligation," especially where he presents as "fact... that it's offensive to God if they deliberately choose to ignore him"--as if tending to an elderly parent (for one example) would be a poor way to keep holy the Sabbath. To keep holy literally means to "set apart." Other than tradition in the early church (the earliest of whom attended house gatherings--not mass--incidentally), there are no "facts" that command mass attendance and/or that it is offensive to God to honor Him in other ways... not suggesting that mass attendance is bad but "sacred obligation" seems a stretch.


Its easy to sum up. Choose states/cities that are responsible in taxes, spending and balanced(per parties of governance). I could compare HI to Detroit, PR, any Cal city to show you spending and choices over the cliff with Lib-Dem autocracies. Most important, here, if you have a SURPLUS of 1B$ in tax revenues that means you are already totally overtaxed. Give it back and control spending!!


kiragirl, not debating the value of the project for the dollars spent.  Just seemed like you didn't understand what the OP was saying.  That's all - apologies if I misinterpreted.


Are you reading the Globe and Mail?

The average voter does not read the G&M and no other news sources are covering this story, so the majority of Canadians remain oblivious to this.

And Trudeau knows it.


Fr. Orobator needs no education regarding women and the RC Church. He is wise enough to know that the talents of one half of the human race including baptized fully Catholic women, have had those talents hidden under a bushel basket. Time to move toward sharing these talents with all in the Church Community.
If you take a moment to look at our history even in the secular world you would understand the struggle we've had to take our rightful places there. Women were told "they could not......." until they showed THEY COULD. Medicine, law Nobel prizes, service in the armed forces, art, music, ....need I continue? A recent study announced last night, stated that women physicians in hospitals delivered better outcomes in saving lives then male physicians.
To continue in this century to perpetuate the notion of our inferiority in ANY area, secular or religious is foolishness on steroids. Christians need to awaken to see and appreciate the gifts of ALL.
PS..scripture was written by MEN.


A Resistance and Solidarity Vigil.
"No Ban No Wall"This land was made for us all Tshirt:https://viralstyle.com/favorite/no-ban-no-wall-tshirt
We ask everyone to join in solidarity If you're in supporter of #NoBanNoWall
It's a great opportunity to strongly support them.
Resistance & Solidarity campaign we launch only for NoBanNoWall supporter.
Buy Now- Limited Edition
#stopbannon? #MuslimBan #NoBanNoWall


In this case, The Reflex was the technicolour yawn.


God is the absolute Good, it is therefore impossible for Him to be potentially evil.
'Choice' was your word not mine, I would have used the word 'will'.


Yes, it's a dying art, and I'm proud of you for writing letters even when you might not get a paper and ink reply.


People need to be made aware that your blatant propaganda is in fact politically motivated, and the best way to accomplish that is by repeatedly pointing out your deliberate bias.  You do not publish polls, you publish your political opinions thinly veiled as a legitimate poll.

Do not take it personally, or feel like you are a special case.  You are not the only political propaganda pollster manufacturing lies to push an agenda.  I point out the deliberate bias in other political propaganda polls as well.  Something mainstream media is notorious for doing all the time.  None of you have any credibility, and the more people who become aware of it, the better.


I find Acting Mayor Amemiya’s comments pathetic.  Show some class.  I also find it interesting that after all these years of showing ZERO leadership on the HPD AND Police Commission controversies that the Mayor now wants to sit-down with Chief Ballard.  Leadership that it’s not....


I would like to tell you that I find it highly disrespectful to question anyone's faith.  I think I understand the intent of your question, and that is not my issue with it.  I see it in these blogs fairly often, used by some traditionalists to attack the integrity of others.  It does not belong on this site - or any other Catholic blog, in my opinion.  I hope and ask that you refrain from doing so in the future, and if you can, I offer my sincere thanks.


why the he__ is the Globe closing comments for muslin related articles.  Why can't we have a say. If I can't have a say, then don't print their crap. What the he__ is wrong with you Globe.  I guess it is only a free country if you are muslim.  Bull Sh__


So you are saying that married gays are on the same level as mafiosi. I would say that there is a difference in kind, not degree, between a person in a same-sex marriage and a mafioso. Gays do not harm others, the mafia does.

No, R&R, once again, your fear and loathing of homosexuals is on full display. And to claim that your homophobia -- and that is the correct term -- is based in your religion is a perversion of the Catholic faith.


A story about Carlyle becomes the game story?
All 3 paragraphs at the bottom of the article?

Glad I watched the game.


Ross Douthat is a brittle convert to Catholicism, and like all brittle converts believes that all the pegs that construct his own narrow view of religion must line up in exactly the right order or the whole house of cards comes crashing down. Phooey on him.

Michael Gerson is the former George W. Bush speechwriter who helped Colin Powell write his now infamous speech to the U.N. selling the Iraq War to the world. He later defended the act of water-boarding, aka torture, since his boss ordained its use in war. He is hardly the person who should be lecturing anyone about the supposed ideals of conservatism when his very own work helped to destroy Edmund Burke's ideal of what conservatism should be.

As for the fearful über-conservatives in the Vatican worried about their future: cry me a river. Those of us who've been dealing with the after effects of their work for the past thirty-five years are happy to see the shoe on the other foot. Might I suggest psychotherapy for them - or yoga.


The only poll that matters is the final tally in Election Day...I think there'll be some jaws on the floor on Nov. 9th


Everyone who uses the streets & sidewalks has to pay attention when using said streets, drivers have to put the phone down and learn how to drive, cyclists have to follow the rules of the road like all of us and pedestrians should look both ways before stepping off the curb, it's not complicated.


Canada is far from being competitive. The pressure on the Mexican Peso has so far meant lower prices. ;-) many Americans are also willing to pay more if its made in America.


Good men died because of one man walking always from his duty.  He should go to trial.


OMG, I drank from the fountains at Sheldon in the seventies, I'm suing!


#getnancyhome


Disrupting the meeting with bigoted shouts while ripping up and walking on a holy book is truly disgusting behavior. I hope the names of those who acted that way are publicized.

Schools are secular in that they do not PROMOTE any religious belief. However, religion is obviously a reasonable topic of discussion in a number of different classes: history, social studies, literature and so forth.

Where the available space exists, schools should provide it to students to gather and engage in ANY lawful and appropriate activity they wish. Be it a political club, service group, chess club, hobby, or group based in race, gender/sexuality, ethnicity or religion... they should all be accommodated as space and time permit.


Eight years of despair dude? What country were you living in for the past eight years. Here in America eight years ago the economy had collapsed along with the financial markets and 600,000 people were losing their jobs each and every month. The stock market had crashed to below 6500 and tens of thousands had lost their homes and retirements. Then in the middle of 2009 the economy came out of it's tail spin thanks to President Obama's American Reinvestment and Recovery Act and for the next eight years hundreds of thousands of new jobs were added each and every month. The housing markets recovered as the worst recession since the Great Depression eased off and slowly ended. Could have been even better recovery if the GOP obstructionists had not gone to such seditious lengths to keep President Obama's policies from bearing fruit. Your world of despair comes from watching too much hate TV and listening to too much hate filled right wing radio mr. manning. You really need to turn off TV.


Absolutely right - keep the PFD pay-out directly from the Fund as originally planned.
And P.S., no cap. The govt can ask for money if needed not receive it directly from the Fund. That's called transparency, shine some light on govt spending and the oil tax regime!


I sure hope it works.


Ranchers want a free ride on our land, cattle destroy the land, buy your own land then destroy it.


You know Ms. Bishop, if you're a little short on funding you can always hold a bake sale.


Absolutely correct, we must keep this conversation open.  That's a really tall order and calls for everyone to participate.   'Look in my eyes' is more than an advertising slogan.  Not that simple as a solution, of course, but a beginning, maybe, of conversation and communication.


This statement doesn't make sense, I am sorry can you clarify what you are saying? Maybe I am misunderstanding.
 Most dog owners are responsible. These people seem not to be able to. Responsible owners SHOULD be making the rules.

I don't understand how you are comparing kids to dogs going around killing people, and kids getting away with killing people? Please explain this statement.


The damage Mufi and Caldwell have done to the island of Oahu with the most useless, wasteful, bottomless money pit train to nowhere project that Hawaii has ever known will have an incredible negative impact for many generations in the future.  The term LYING to the public would be an understatement.  I think many would agree with willman that none of us want to hear what Mufi has to say and have a problem with SA reporters in asking Mufi for his opinion on ANYTHING.  Bernie Madoff made BILLIONS but I and everyone else do not want to hear any of his opinions on financial planning or the economy.


Thanks, Kirstin.  From coast to coast we are all one.  From FDR's "New Deal" that united people during challenging times, we still have potential and opportunity.


People should, oh I don't know, maybe educate themselves about this bill before they talk. 1. Nothing went into effect until July. 2. A large portion of the bill don't go into effect until 2017 and 2018 3. Mandatory minimums for murder were INCREASED, that's right INCREASED = harsher punishment. Why you ask? Becuase you could go to jail for rape longer than you could for murder. 4. Arson was also expanded 5. Felony maximums DID NOT CHANGE 6. Robbery and kidnapping are FELONIES SO if they weren't charged one would assume that they didn't have enough evidence but idk I wasn't in the court room and neither were you! The only crimes that SB91 really makes changes to are misdemeanors. Here is a comprehensive and very enlightening review by the department of law. http://law.alaska.gov/pdf/bill-review/2016/002_JU2016200423.pdf


Firstly I do not defend the old flag. There are not enough comment characters available for proper, clear debate. Secondly my problem with this article is the continued attack on anything Afrikaans by mostly libtard journalists and opinionistas. Thirdly my biggest gripe is with the apparent want by these writers to deny history and write certain segments of society who are part of this country and history from history. Fourthly their hypocrisy of pointing out the wrongs of the past but then suggesting same oppressive remedies is sickening. Such as the removal of ANY symbols of a group and their identity or attacking their language and culture CONSTANTLY. How is that any different from past attacks on the dignity and culture of black South Africans? Lastly your example of a Hitler statue in TelAviv is not the same. If you said in Berlin it would be more accurate. There are hardly any non-Jewish Germans living in Tel Aviv or Israel or having played a direct role in the history of Israel.


Exactly!  The "SPIN" that unless the options get exercised it has no value.....you folks have to do better than that.  Not every "Joe Blow" has this same opportunity and there's a REASON why he got those options.


One way to tell if it's affecting the residents would be to monitor the Doritos consumption trend.


I have worked as a civilian within and found all of then to be the most self-entitled lazy greedy people I have ever met  Yes 149 dies from ill support in afganistan and the offficers jump on thier coats tails to call them selves heros.Thye disgust me


I can cite a number of references [by church historians] that refute Voerman's research.  They are:

1) Mary Ann Rossi, "Priesthood, Precedent, and Prejudice: On Recovering the Women Priests of Early Christianity" Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 7 [1991] pp. 72-93

2) Haye van de Meer, WOMEN PRIESTS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: A THEOLOGICAL-HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION [Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1973].

When Benedictine abbesses held episcopal authority until 1873

4] Elizabeth Connor, "The Royal Abbey of Las Huelgas and the Jurisdicton of its Abbesses," Cistercian Studies, 23 [1988] pp. 128-55.

5) F. Donald Logan, A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES [London: Routeledge, 2002].

6) Ida Raming, THE PRIESTLY OFFICE OF WOMEN: GOD'S GIFT TO A RENEWED CHURCH [New York: Scarecrow Press, 2004]

6) Gary Macy, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN [New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.


This was one of the topics on the Mandy Connell  (Colorado) radio show  yesterday. Where a caller said:  "It used to be when People traveling on the airlines used to dress up to catch a plane,but now what we see ,is people catching the plane using T-shirts ,Shorts. "Hot Pants" and even Pajamas".  "priceless or......Classless?
So True! And BTW, like any business,,the Airlines reserves the right to refuse service to anyone,if they cannot comply with a simple dress code.

 But what really gets me, is when you see these "Cheapskates"travelers trying to shove an OVER sized luggage into the overhead compartment!  uuuuuuuggghhh! Really? This one really get's me.IMUA


Why Not Comment??? That is what an Open & Free Society is about.. !!

Sticking one's head into the ground like an ostrich -- is not what intelligent humans do ..

/..


Still standing up for your lying crazy leader who loves himself and nobody else. Wake up anybody home?