here's the honesty

Clark appointed a panel to study the project. It came back that the project was completely unnecessary, and the power could only be sold to the US at rates so cheap as to be uneconomical.

"The whole story, Mr. Swain said, would have included a look at alternatives. He noted that, under the Columbia River Treaty, British Columbia sells about the same amount of energy to the United States each year that Site C will produce.

Under the treaty, British Columbia manages the flow of the Columbia River to reduce the risk of flooding in the United States. In exchange, it is entitled to a share of the U.S. power and flood-control benefits. Currently, British Columbia is selling most of its share of the power back to the United States.

“It is entirely open to British Columbia to say, ‘Yes, we’ll take the power.’” At current prices, the electricity is being sold for less than half of the cost of Site C power."


Another Allu Akbar Islamic Terrorist! In a Sanctuary City! In one of the most firearm restricted cities in America! Yet... he simply rents a truck and causes chaos, confusion, mayhem and murder. Folks... it's  Islamic Terrorism! There's No denying it! 🙄


I don't think Maple Ridge is as white as that. Regardless it is still Asian money producing that effect in Maple Ridge and further out. As the property in Vancouver is bought up it drives what would otherwise be local buyers out to Maple Ridge and further. That in turn raises Maple Ridge prices and generates FMO leading to people scraping every nickle that isn't for food clothing etc. and putting it into a soul crushing mortgage they will be saddled with for 25 years. I know people who commute every day from eastern Maple Ridge and Squamish... because that's how far they had to go to be able to purchase a decent home.


If you love them so much you pay for them


RangerMC appears to be on the side of the white supremacists because he does not condemn white supremacy.


There are companies that are unofficially blacklisted by tech people. External recruiters know this as well and a number of them don't bother trying to find candidates.

Once a company gets that reputation it's almost impossible to turn it around. Tech people talk to each other just like most other industries and those recommendations are taken seriously.


No. they're just old people.


Interim leaders always get an easy ride. She would have been savaged by the Globe and other such outlets if she had been permanent leader. Could she have withstood the onslaught? Nobody will know.

Can anyone think of one thing she did as leader that actually stands out? Anything? Buehler?


Sharp satire in Canada? What would Stephen Colbert have to ridicule if he was in Canada? There is so little news in Canada that the CBC news is forced to recycle old documentaries to fill the time. The Canadian icon is Anne of Green Gables, so Rick Mercer, 22 Minutes, Kim's Convenience and Corner gas all fit this kinder, gentler nation. We have serious warts, but who is going to satirize missing Native women, residential schools, city shootings and such? Rick Mercer is fine with me - it shows me part of  Canada I don't know, and I feel better for it. No need for fake attack dogs here!


I could not afford to eat there.


Science duck, I do not regard cherry picked interviews to convey useful information.  Do you?  Seriously?  Did he give any balance as a good journalist must to why people vote for Trump?  Do you doubt for a second that EJ hates Trump?


Yet you still misrepresented M103. Funny that.

Or is it that people us M103 as an excuse to try and absolve themselves or others of responsibility for their posts?

And I said "likely" didn't I? The comment was already gone by the time I posted. I also never claimed that the system was perfect. There are certainly plenty of objectionable commments that get through and seemingly civil ones that get deleted. And no, I'm not talked by about ones I disagree with. I'm talking about ones that are truly contrary to the G&M rules.


I wish i could trust you.. but with a name like that, its hard.

I voted yes on ballot measure 2, legalizing marijuana. I also voted for President Donald J Trump.. Part of the reason for that is due to wikileaks exposing Hillary Clinton working with the DEA to make sure that marijuana stays on Schedule 1. (youre probably thinking- "not my candidate! thats impossible!" to that i say "pffff..") Im sure you know but it seems you dont care- schedule 1 means no medical benefits..... Will Trump crack down on marijuana? Possibly, but i highly doubt it. (why you ask? I'm glad you did..) Trump is a businessman and if it makes money, why not? I feel like the lowest of his priorities will be marijuana and he will keep it as a state issue.


The 'invisible knapsack' is called society.
Can I go to a store and find my 'culturally appropriate' food?
All that is advocating is for Balkanizing society.
If I am in a Canadian town that is 95% white, I'm guessing the food will be too.
I live in San Diego, so I can find any food I want.
I wonder how that questionnaire would fly in Saigon, Bogata, Damascus, Shanghai, Nairobi, or New Dehli?
I'm guessing that access to hot dogs and apple pie is not a big priority in those parts of the world, yet I am not offended.


The buffoon sounds more like an amateur stand up comedian,at an assisted living facility,than a functional member of Congress..


and no real world experience.  I don't like professional politicians nor those with no political experience.  More of the extremes that the Cons are offering a middle of the road country


Willful blindness coupled with intellectual timidity.


Now that the public has been informed we know how to act if confronted with this situation.
1) Vehemently refuse
2) Wait till the 'ante' approaches the max $1350 payout
3) Bargain for tickets to other countries including hotel/food
4) Make sure someone records your encounter
5) Know a good lawyer
6) Realize that airline employees may have been having a 'Bad Hair' day


Unfortunately, there is no way Trudope can get in tune with the average Canadian, taxpayer or other wise.
He has never wanted for anything, never had to work for anything, how can he honestly know what it is like to miss a payment on a mortgage  because you have to pay the gas bill or actually feed your family KD.

He will do nothing for the average taxpayer in the next 3 years but make them poorer!


My first thought when I saw this video was that dog is about to get eaten. So I kept quiet and allowed the uninitiated to think he was Just being cute and kind. Of course the dog got ate. It's a freaking polar bear! They're NEVER nice!!! Doh!


It's hard to believe there are people disagreeing with this statement.... The first part is factual. This  means those who disagree know of men boasting of sexual assaulting women? Wow... It's worse than I thought.


Excellent article.  It was  heartwarming to see how many Alaskans were touched by the story and still remember it.  Here's hoping...


It was an intentional overstatement. It is a small fringe group, just as the people who do not recognize the V2 reforms are a small fringe group. Neither is a coherent understanding of the liturgy or the Church.

Why shouldn't statues, communion rails, and tabernacles be moved back into the sanctuary? The tabernacle holds the Eucharist, the center of the the liturgy. Why should it not occupy a central place? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know V2 never called for their removal. The communion rail is a matter of preference and allows for easier reception kneeling and on the tongue, which many prefer, but does not preclude receiving standing and in the hand. I think an equally good question is why were these things removed in the first place? To compare these things to confederate statues is to ignore context entirely. The statues are inexorably linked to a history of racism, violence, and rebellion. One can make no such claims about the tabernacle or statues of saints.


And moon howler can 'disagree' even with this reasonably-amusing comment??
MH, you have problems.


"Her exit from politics was messy and unseemly, however, and sullied her legacy unnecessarily."

Her legacy IS messy and unseemly.  She has operated at the low end of the ethics scale since her days at Simon Fraser University, where she was disqualified from Student Council office for cheating in her election to office.  The people and her surroundings changed over the years but her ethics didn't improve.


Hum, 20 trillion and counting..  Saved What?  Keep drinking the koolaid wavie...


Didn't you say at Christmas time you were never going to post here again?


the only 'pattern' Americans are seeing is the twisting of every little word Trump says. It begins and ends with that. There is nothing more, nothing less to this whole campaign now....it is to destroy Trump, by hook and by crook. Won't work, though, as people are not buying the preaching and scolding of the media and pundits.


Because your body needs carbs.  Carbs are fuel.  I invite Gary Taubes and all his low carber buddies to go for a ride with me, or a run or a swim and see how you all do.  Your all going to get dropped like a bad habit while I munch on bananas - as many as I can possibly shove in without hurling.  Wait - look at all those Kenyan marathon runners.  They live on corn.  Look at how fat they are!


Guam has Military installation just as big Pearl Harbor.


Gallery - nice. But let's go further. Let's put Terry - a truly inspiring hero - on our currency in place of a foreign monarch. Hi courage and determination are an example for all of us. Who would you rather your kids admire?


Kinda like your stupid remark!


The Nuggets got out of the 1st round only once with Melo, and it was memorable. Yet, I feel like he mostly failed to rise to the occasion in the playoffs. Early in his career it was excusable, the Nuggets were rebuilding from a bad team. Later on here, with talent around him... Iverson and Billups, Camby, K-Mart, it was a letdown considering how he paved his way out of here. He didn't elevate the Knicks either. He would've been an excellent second or third option, like he is with the Olympic teams.


I listened to one congressman recounting the incident and talking about the fear and terror he felt and 'when was someone coming to help' and I could not help but think about those 6 graders at Sandyhook and the terror they must have felt.


If ever there was an indication the rot in FIFA is not cured, this is it. There is no logical reason to expand the tournament. The qualifying is cheapened, and the quality of the group matches will be poorer. Pure money grab by FIFA and the corporate sponsors, for the ill of the game.


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Aren't there some really clueless citizens out there who want to kill  all the predators ,thus upsetting the balance of nature, thus causing over population and death of
Caribou?


As soon as there was mention that Kennewick man had possible European origins, natives wanted to keep this skeleton and not let scientists touch because they were scared of the possibilities.


ADA has to do with mental and/or physical handicap and employment, transportation, public accommodation. Someone who knows, how does ADA enter into this?

Why are the neighbors afraid? The patients are already living in their neighborhoods. It's not riffraff off Denver mean streets seeking treatment in this place.


You can keep saying that until you are blue in the face even though you know it is not true. Repeating what the Church teaches from its papal and conciliar documents is not offering a personal opinion.


you tip your hand when you call them maniacs

of course if they shared your interests and goals - you'd be calling them brave, noble and valiant fighting against the odds

no credibility


"There is a solution, one that would restore competition and its benefits, including innovation and job creation, quickly. Bring back the trust busters to break up industries with obscene corporate concentration." Of course, I agree with this, but it is unlikely with the crop of ignorant politicians and, an electorate that do not have the foggiest idea what competition is. They actually think oligopolies compete in and economic sense. It goes hand in hand with the fact that psychopathic behavior is actually admired in western culture today when it comes to business and political leaders. Just watch anything from Hollywood, it tends to lionize the people that display these characteristics. The business world certainly does lionize them. The is the part of the argument that terrorists have right, though their actions in response cannot be condoned--the dominant philosophy of the west is a debauched form of freedom. It is "Slap a freedom label" on anything and it is all good.


Life of the Lay, I wish I could send this comment to you without other posters reading it as I wish to respond not to embarrass you but to speak the truth in charity.  You ask why people get personal with you.  I don't like it when people get snarky with you (or anyone else) as it diminishes the quality of the comments board.  However, I will respond to your objection to "going personal" by stating that the real is the personal.  A truth is not meaningful on paper (or computer screen), a truth is meaningful when it is lived.  Your posts are long on didactics and piety, and short on any personal story of God's grace manifest in your life, being surprised by joy, or specific, real experiences of personal transformation.  The gist of your ideas often have merit, but I think they would be better received if you could show some vulnerability and share your concrete human experience.


Pierre,
I believe that one of the pre-conditions for being granted a pardon, other than having been tried and convicted of an offence, is that the person being pardonned must make a full and detailed discloure of all his or her unlawful acts.
This is a very important element.
This as you well know is why an accused thief for example will ask for 2 or 3 other crimes to be taken into consideration at sentencing - he does not ant to do a stretch for stealing jewellery, only to be prosecuted again later for other crimes that the prosecuting authorities were not aware of at the time.

Please comment on the position and logic of the NPA OPPOSING the re-instatement of charges against Zuma.
Surely this is the job of defence counsel, not the prosecuting authority?
How many other matters does the NPA oppose and refuse to prosecute when private individuals, not ANC politicians are involved?

What were the reasons for opposing the re-instatment of charges, and is there any merit in them at all?


U.S. resources are unlimited for military ventures the world over. Why aren't they for PR?


The "head scarf" is called a hijab. I'm interested to hear the full story here.


Firstly - What I don't understand is how the system allows for individual votes at all if they need to be beholden to the party.  The argument that MP's are not free agents falls flat when we know they are entitled to individual votes.

Secondly - if we accept that they must be free agents or to choose to be free agents then we do need to have a systematic way to cater for real issues of intimidation and threat that would prevent MPs exercising their free vote.  To use an extreme example to make a point - if the MPs were under threat of death surely we would need a way to prevent or attempt to mitigate this risk... if agreed then where is the point where it is an unacceptable threat... is party intimidation not unacceptable?


Abortion is legal in the United States of America.  Over 90 percent of abortions are performed in the first trimester where there are no skulls to crush, no limbs to sever, and pain killers are not necessary because the nervous system is undeveloped to the extent that the fetus would feel no pain.


Dear Terrence

You are probably right that I missed the point of the essay.  My loss.


"It's properly scheduled under Schedule I"

And with that statement, Rosenstein proves that he's as ill informed, and incompetent as the rest of the Trumpster administration.


There will be no place for him in an enlightened Canada.  She might just destroy her child's future.


Wow, who would of expected the Millennial Generation would want to spend their lives breathing smog and being herded like animals.  Canada is a big beautiful country out there, I pity those without the courage to live in it.


1 in 100 men or women suffer from mental defects, borderline psychiatric disorders. This is genetic fact that will never change. They are toxic in relationship, people you must avoid.
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Listen to this excellent interview with Dr. Tara  Palmatier and learn how to identify borderline people.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUzRgu7Z0hU


"Knock knock"
   "Who's there?"
"Brian Molefe!"
   "Brian Molefe who?"

That's politics for you.


Lazy old people, man.  Glad to see they're getting back to work, though - times are tough, everyone needs to contribute.


Do not worry about bears. Just arm yourselves and enjoy your life. Locking up your trashcan will not do anything, but the waste management utilities see cash rolling from your pocket to theirs. They will be trying to buy legislation to force you to do so.  (and we know how that turns out). If we ban together and not listen to the professional PR firms, we can keep our liberty free.


Reply to rcbeattle:  What you are describing (inaccessible to the web) is part of the requirement for a secure backup.  Other parts of the requirement include:  Completeness of the records.   An ability to actually restore from the backup (surprise, some backups don't work when you go to use them to restore).


How did  this comment get through the thought police ?   So are you writing your MP letting your views be know?   cause obviously the same thing is happening in the here and now.


DISILLUSIONING   that Suzuki Foundation does not even mention ANIMAL AGRICULTURE as the largest cause of: GREENHOUSE GASES, WATER POLLUTION,WATER DEPLETION, DEFORESTATION, SPECIES EXTINCTION, AND OCEAN DEAD ZONES in the world today. Want to make a huge difference today? CHANGE HOW YOU EAT. Also phone Suzuki Foundation and ask why they don't address the LARGEST CAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION/DESTRUCTION in the planet today. 51% all greenhouse gas production attributable to Animal Agriculture (World Bank 2009). Man and his livestock now 98% OF TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL BIOMASS.  PHD CORNEL UNIV. NUTRITIONIST  " NO MEDICALLY DOCUMENTED CASE OF PROTEIN DEFICIENCY IN ANY HUMAN GETTING ADEQUATE CALORIES, IE WE DO NOT NEED ANIMAL PROTEIN (MILK, MEAT, EGGS) THERE IS ENOUGH PROTEIN IN GRAINS, VEGGIES, ETC TO MEET OUR NEEDS.
Sure methane is a problem but we should focus on the change we can all make that would have a huge immediate impact - stop eating animal protein


Just take the money and resources that were directed towards this proposed Peacekeeping mission and put it into addressing the multitude of problems with Veterans Affairs and compensating those on the current waiting list.


We are repeating the same conversation on different threads.

See my reply on the other one.


Warrants must generally specify in at least some detail what is being sought, however, many different things may be specified in a single warrant.


Fat getting fatter? I understand that pot makes you fat, even more so than alcohol.


Nonsense. Go back to "scanning school". I suggest you brush up on metre and rhythm while you're at it. Of course you can always respond with a Limerick of your own.


Good article.  Good data.  But we'll never know the economic impact of the high-achieving students who chose to stay in Alaska because the legislature adopted a budget amendment to forbid accepting any more federal funding (not state funding, mind you) for the ANSWERS database, which was built to provide educators and policymakers data from schools, the university, and job/wages data so they can make informed decisions.  I suppose the legislators who proposed this amendment, and those who voted for it, don't really want to make informed decisions.


To the RINO's, some lyrics from Steppenwolf for the Steppenfetchits' in Congress.
Who needs ya?
Think about it baby, who needs you?
Now you can save your lip, just pack your grip
And leave a trail of smoke behind you
Who needs ya?
Can you tell me baby, who needs you?
Who needs you?
Think about it baby
Who needs you?
Can you tell me please?


What's her term, she may be around longer than Mr.Selfie


Reads like sponsored content.


Let me try it this way; had they been trying to abort their twins without the benefit of modern medicine they would have failed - one baby survived their efforts. An abortion clinic would have made sure both died. By failing to get competent medical attention one child is still alive.
With what  crime should the DA charge the couple for failing to properly provide medical care to the surviving twin?


Every day, Trump proves what an incompetent buffoon and clown he is. How much longer, and how many more insults to our country, will it take before honorable Republicans step up and remove this idiot from office?


Kingwell has consistently demonstrated an authoritarian streak, and it's clearly on display here.  He'd have done well in Pol Pot's regime.


His 3 wives


Rick do you drive a car or heat a home?


If this is supposed to be some kind of 'gotcha' moment to offset what the Liberals did, it is feeble and a complete failure.   The comparison is laughable.


That alone seems to speak loudly for socialization and relationship education programs in school that these parents failed to provide at home - even though everyone says it was their responsibility .. If high school boys and girls don't get this from parents, where else should they go for this as they grow toward adulthood? One might not be dead and the other not locked up for life if they had had  some earlier preventative education that taught them effective, reasonable ways to address difficult, hormone-raging situations .


47 successful years shows if there is any nefarious government intent, it's not oppressive. That local liberals can get along. That local sells, and in fact, it represents the best in capitalism that Adam Smith proposed. Let's celebrate success.


Except better in a few important areas like Climate Change and social issues.
Exedus
------------------------
Dear Exedus

same goal as Tories

"In opposition, Liberals objected to how low the Conservatives were setting climate-change targets."
"On the weekend, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said the target for her government would be the same as the Tory goal."

"Why the Liberals risk a drop in public trust" - Lawrence Martin  - Globe and Mail - Sept 21, 2016


the usual each level of government wants the other to pay for it.  When that happens, the one paying gets criticized and the one benefiting takes credit for keeping taxes down.  It is a little game we play.


This guy's going to get hammered for telling the truth.


Oohh, so sad! I was hoping he might have survived... condolences to his family!


Testing for the presence of the chemicals is only the first step. Let the test evidence,  amount present, local , distance from test site to possible soureces, local records etc. Lead to an undeniable RIGHT source for this contamination.
Source guessing on a public stage is counterproductive unless your a pitchfork and torch salesperson.
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen"........ on the bottom of an upper bunk.  DaNang Republic of South Vietnam


Are you implying that commenters on this site are similar to murderous ISIS?  Don asked me a question and I gave him an answer.   Are you a  member of the religious?  Do you believe in Christ's resurrection and Divinity?  Do you believe in God, Satan and Hell?   If you answered no to any of these basic tenets of the Faith, then I think it is my duty to  respond with the truth.   Happy New Year!


Since all humans are fallible, we need to limit their opportunity to screw things up.  Once the pipeline is in the ground, it's a lot harder to screw up than a huge supertanker moving crude from Mexico or Venezuela or a 100 car train running down the Gorge than a pipeline in a wheat field in Nebraska somewhere.   A screw up there is multiple risk factors safer to people or the environment than the other options.

The oil will be moved.  The oil is not going to quit being moved unless it is forbidden by the government or uneconomical.  Those things may happen someday.  For the foreseeable future (25-50 years) the oil is going to be moved, refined, and used around the world.


Hope all you want Douchebag. The only way the whore gets prosecuted is to Drain, baby Drain.


Your numbers are mostly accurate but 2006 and 2007 were actually surpluses of 13.8 and 9.6 billion. I'm sure you remember that those deficits were tied to the global economic meltdown - and that the NDP wanted Harper to spend MORE and the Liberals wanted to spend it FASTER. NO ONE said they should spend LESS. Harper promised to get back to a balanced budget - and he did. Now take a look at where we are today - deficits three times as large as promised with the AG saying there is no end in sight until 2050 - and no plan to get there. And you're happy about that?


That is very true Naidoo; it is the poor who pay in the short and medium term but sooner or later even the fat cats pay. The financial crash of 2008 has affected us all including the bankers who caused it!


You are ignoring the fact that Trump has appointed a staunch conservative defender of the Israeli illegal settlements as ambassador to Israel and flirted with the idea of moving the embassy to Jerusalem.....not a recipe for peace in the region.


actually, Trump has no proof .... he is full of hot air


(1) We can not condemn Islamophobia without condemning Infidelphobia.  In fact, Infidelphobia is the cause, and islamophobia is the effect.


How can we fix this? According to James' review, Francis makes a laudable start by exposing the sad history of our "predator-friendly" state and focusing on the institutions with the most culpability. Thank you to Desa Jacobsson for her thoughtful commentary on this topic in the Dispatch and elsewhere. She is her sisters' champion, including mine. Her viewpoint, experience, and education are invaluable to understanding what our ignorance of others' lives really costs us.


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View sports as entertainment ?

Sports are anything but entertainment... they are "strictly business."

Just ask 666 and his fifteen million monikers here.


Even though I upped you for part of your comment, Nader DID cause the loss. Just do the math.


That's the point. Americans, probably more than most, live in the "as if" world of (fairy tale) myth. Maybe its the movie culture that dominates so deeply. The icon stars are not so much the problem as the producers, directors, purses who "panderize" so broadly, deeply and for so long that the "image" becomes the "as if" reality. What was the Jim Carry movie...?
The "flag" is sufficient; the "tear" at the "Spangled Banner" does it; the "cavalry" will not only come over the hill to save us but John Wayne "IS".


You can't know your mind since you don't have one . Go smoke some more crack and shop lift somebody


Walker's 2 years running line item veto of oil tax credits shut down new oil sites that were under construction. The total estimated NEW OIL that would be right now flowing through the pipeline and bringing in NEW TAXES is about 15% of current flow. These credits whether you agree with them or not have to be paid by law, all Walker did was kick the can down the road....I repeat, they will be paid. We the taxpayer will pay them, but not reap any benefit.

Mustang, Repsol and Apache laid off hundreds of highly paid oil workers within weeks of Walker's reckless stunt, further damaging Alaska's fragile economy.


the usmc taught Oswald the Russian language.....


The liberal news media rags on your BFF because at minimum he says stupid things on a regular basis. The reality: He's not qualified to be president.  The conspiracy: He's really a stooge of Vladimir Putin. Take your pick.


The sad truth is that Canada's political class is a collection of second raters.  Freeland may be smart by comparison to, say, Scott Brison, but I'd say the same thing about my pet mastiff.

I'd like to see Melanie Joly get a promotion.  Not so much because she has anything substantive to offer, but just because.  You know.


>>Zuglo9, what is your educational background?

Most likely a Dipper.

Look for his i...c post earlier - he gloats at the fact that Liberals used dead boy washed up on a Turkish shore for political gains.

Oh, well - the end justify the means.

Most of these folks have no clue, they'd blindly support anything "liberal" as it guaranties cozy existence at taxpayers expense.


Yes, exactly correct.  However, that gun you buy on line will be shipped to a gun store and you will be required to pass a federal (and maybe state) background check as well as the gun will be verified to be legal in the location of your residence.


" ... remind the alliance that '23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying,' and that they owe 'massive amounts' from past years."

Since Trump is a shameless and self-serving liar and a cheat in his business dealings, we should assume this is a false charge until such time that he provides valid evidence of such non-payment.


Thank you so much for doing this.  As a parent with a daughter with special needs I always appreciate inclusion for all.  As a BHS grad, it makes me proud of my school!


No FBI agents, new one tend to be arrogant and dis-interested. Worked with them BEFORE they got an SABT-Special Agent Bomb Tech. They don't listen tend to waste time and money. They also expect professional courtesy when ever they get stopped by patrol for a traffic violation. They always pull out their Fed Badge, "do you know who I am ?" Friend of mine, former HPD, now retired FBI agent eats his tags just like anybody else and he don't complain. Say's same thing about FBI where he spent 20 years.


This has been discussed on numerous Bothell Facebook pages for some time, and nearly 100% of the comments are positive.  There's also an online petition with 113 supporters who have signed it.  Making the name Pop Keeney Memorial Stadium has nearly everyone's approval.

However, it's very sad to hear that the Pop Keeney family doesn't want to be associated with the Northshore students who gave their lives to our country.  The grandson of Pop Keeney says he wasn't a Veteran, and the wife of the grandson is worried that the name will be totally changed.

Nobody wants to eliminate the name, we in fact would like to honor Pop Keeney in a way he has never been honored before.  We're proposing that the name be Pop Keeney Memorial Stadium, honoring both the Northshore students who went through the school system, as well as Pop Keeney himself.

A gorgeous monument could be constructed just outside the gates with two granite plaques, one for Pop Keeney, and one for our fallen classmates.


Can't afford.  Things still work.  No replacement.  Another extravagance.  They can ask.


PART???? Hell that part is getting larger and larger everyday. Our welfare state has become a career choice for far too many individuals. Here is a news flash there is no common good in ceding more and more rights to central government.
The role of the government is to provide for it's citizenry that which they can not be reasonably expected to provide for themselves.


Hey if Trump is starting a war with NK and congress is killing higher ed this is a good piece of advice.  Sign up before you get drafted to fight in Trump's new war.


"The immigrants were pretty obvious. They were well dressed -- perhaps in the same special outfit worn to their naturalization service."

Whoa!  That is one heckuva denigrating, insensitive, and inconsiderate assumption/comment!


Mr. Trump has a reputation of telling-it-like-is??  Guffaw, gaff, He tells people what they want to hear in order to get what he wants.  And, truth from Trump is very often like the image in a double warped mirror, which is reflected distortion.


Perhaps 43 states should "intervene"... and try to stop Hawaii.


Ummmm ... didn't she criticize Hillary for campaigning in a bar on a Sunday?


Look at Gray's stats at the end of this article.  Of course he had a better W-L record and ERA at home.  The Coors Field factor strikes again...Oh wait, that's just for Rockies hitters, but you never hear about the good pitching from our pitchers at home from the 'East Coast' (biased) media.  Already looking forward to 2018 Rox!


Well that's a good start. Next they need to do away with most of the bureaucracy that exist to provide employment to the otherwise unemployable. Reading, writing, math and real history/science. Everything else is government employee welfare at the expense of people that work for a living.


Lemme see.
Bill Cosby was a great friend of the Clintons and was invited to Bills inauguration.

Bush gave Cosby the Medal of Freedom and Obama refused to take it away.

That defines the bottom for me..


The Trudeau Liberals should award Ms. Khan $10.5 M for the pain and suffering she suffered at the hands of the Dalhousie administration.


Obscene,immoral,outrageous we have become a rudderless nation. This military political oligarchy is the beginning of the end of the US.


Could it have anything to do with the unhinged hysteria of the Coastal Party?


Trump also lost the US popular vote by almost 3 Million votes in the process proving without a doubt that :

"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy."

- Donald Trump
8:45 PM - 6 Nov 2012


Ugh!  This is NOT a partisan issue.  This is a common sense issue!  Lisa needs to remember that the Independents re-elected her - we can also un-elect her.


Maybe EPD should have called in the Sheriff after they retreated. Looks like the Sheriff isn't afraid to use his full military police force to arrest people with bats. They might have responded with a tank and an F-16 for a suspect with a gun.


So, human feces on someone's doorstep is an appropriate escalation from verbal discussion of explicit racism. Got it.


Not buying it ☺


>But, compared to the other 7,000 or so chemicals in tobacco smoke, nicotine is relatively benign.
So, how about reducing the most harmful chemicals first?


Federal lobbying commissioner Karen Shepherd said last week she is investigating what she called the “pay-for-access” fundraisers, which Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson has called “very unsavoury.”- G&M


Ok, now lets get the other Tobin to respond.


Kind of risky to reveal who you have found to be hacked. Russians can tell which ones you didn't pick up. Why does the press want to reveal this kind of hacking?

Or is the govt hiding the really successful hacks?


Since I can't find a way to respond to the editor's cover page in support of journalism, I'll try it here.

There was nothing mentioned about the responsibilities of an editor and how he can justify an editorial position that recommends that we vote for a Conservative party while rejecting their leader. This illogical position was rightly ridiculed everywhere else, but never defended by the editor.

 Surely this was a misuse of journalistic power.


And what does the view of a few Canadians regarding the US have to do with immigration to Canada? Just another forum to bash the US.


yes, they're smart.  wait until the stock to go on sale, and buy 'um up again, because the prices WILL return to normal later on.


I never understood the need for hate crimes.

But please tell me more about the right's fight for transgender equality...


Tickets are $40 plus. That is far from a sports value for NCAA hockey. Yes, the team is ranked #1 but I am not dropping that much to see a college game.


Twain and other writers have used satire to influence others in a very political way.


The German experience of treating minorities? Like the Jews?

To be fair, all western countries refused to give Jews asylum in the 1930s.


Isn't it ironic, and very sad, that the vast majority of those commenting here who say that they "served their Country" haven't got the FIRST clue what Constitutional Rights and Freedom of Speech are all about?   Does "serving your county" make you a Fascist?


And so, you've partially discussed internal Indigenous history, which would literally be their own history and nothing to do with 'Canada', however, you left out the part that they fought with and for the French. Do you recall who the Wendat and French were fighting against and for what? Talk about your revisionist history.


The best analysis in a 14ers.com thread was 1 in 30,000 chance of dying climbing a 14er, while 1 in 400,000 chance driving to a 14er trailhead. About a factor of ten difference.

CFI estimated 319,000 summits of 14ers in 2016 with 11 dying so far in 2017. That gives the 1 in 30,000.

NTSA says the recent US auto death rate is 1.25 in 100 million miles. Assuming the average 14er drive is around 200 miles (between Denver and Buena Vista, the most frequently climbed 14ers) gives 1 in 400,000.


Maybe it's fatigue, but to me it looks like he just refuses to pitch to contact. No matter how good your stuff is, you're going to pay the price for going 2-0 or 3-1 to nearly every hitter.


I would welcome all the illegals if they don't need support of any way, shape or form from taxpayers. That means they just live here, and we treat them as if they were self-reliant strangers that don't help from us.  That is how liberal I am.

But since these illegals do need help from us in terms of housing, food, education, medical care and so on and so forth, it is very expensive to just let any tom, dick and harry to come into this country and deprive needy Canadians of the support that they deserve from the government. I say seal the border and shut out the illegals. That is how conservative I am.

You bleeding-heart liberals and religious fanatics, go ahead and sponsor your illegals. But don't expect me and the other taxpayers contribute one dime to your liberal cause. And please open your own houses to these illegals, and feed them and house them. And do not complain if they rob your blind.


Let's stop calling them "homeless".
They are mentally ill, alcoholics, drug addicts. Being "homeless" is just a symptom.


After Tesla let the genie out of the bottle, GM and others struggle to catch up. Train is gone... Terrible designs, ugly cars ... unqualified managers... Wait when Giga factory take over the world...


Not true if you are able to establish that money was sent there from before tax money in Canada, you can bring it back and pay tax and penalty.If its legal after tax money you still have to declare gains on your tax returns etc poorly informed people are what got liberals elected


@ PoiDoggy
That is your interpretation of which I disagree.


Magnificent....

The ending of this performance was masterful. A tribute to those who suffered and died. A tribute to prisoner Rafael Schachter, who organized and led a 150 person Jewish choir which performed Verdi's Requiem 16 times between 1943 and 1944. A tribute to good over evil. A tribute to hope.

To all those on stage, behind the scenes, and the patrons...you made me proud to be an a member of this community. Bravo.

To Murry Sidlin, creator and conductor, thank you!!


"...Saudi Arabia, another Islamic State foe.."

Oh, that's cute.


ROTY and COTY!


Having spent years supporting a government that virulently opposed same-sex marriage, I suppose Ibbitson has some making up to do.


Hi, again, Harold.  Re; your comment on Haiti and, essentially, your question about why Canada is accepting these migrants when "last time I looked Haiti was not war torn..."

Got kids, Harold?  This might interest you.
"Approximately one in two Haitians age 15 and older is illiterate" (another way of saying 50%) And, "More than 200,000 children remain out of primary school in the country. The quality of education is generally low, and 90 percent of schools are run by private entities that charge school fees that can be prohibitively expensive for low-income families."

You can "look" at Haiti again, in the extensive 2016 World Report from Human Rights Watch.  It's as close as your internet connection.  USE IT.


I agree killing 6 of your own teams from State tourney participation just to keep out the second ILH team in the open does not make sense.  Like you mentioned, too bad for all those players and fans.
Wow Dave, you learned a lot from Miss Tsugawa's class at PC, I must have been sleeping during that session.


Yeah, sorry, but you're regurgitating bullshit. You want to be a pawn for the rich, fine, but why add to the misinformation?


I'm guessing you're upset with the municipality of Anchorage, or wherever you are from, having smokefree workplace laws. Tobacco products are known carcinogens.. pot has shown to inhibit growth or even trigger cell death of cancerous tumors yet do not affect their nontransformed counterparts and may even protect them from cell death.

The purpose of this vote was to allow marijuana use at pot stores across the state, not only in alcohol serving bars/establishments within Anchorage. Local governments would still have the option of curtailing such use.


Do you have to pay income tax on compensation?


To paraphrase Tina Fey: "Who drove the car into the crowd? Hillary's emails?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvpXZxXWZU


Sounds like a good idea.


Good riddance.  A laugh track couldn't save his painfully unfunny schtick.


oh i get it, he went to the supremes and THEN backed off. how civil of him. LOL


so what , mr trump was not running for president then


The photo, if of indisputable provenance, would go a long way to answering what became of the celebrated aviatrix and her navigator in 1937.

But the story of Amelia Earhart as a real or imagined spy for the U.S. government, who crashed and was captured by the Japanese, and then perishing of natural causes or by eventual summary execution, is a very old tale that can be traced to well before America's entry into World War II.  It even made it into a TV dramatization at least once:  fans of Star Trek:  Voyager will remember Sharon Lawrence playing Amelia Earhart in the episode "The 37's" from season 2, episode 1, way back in 1995.

I myself would find it fascinating if indeed Earhart and Noonan had been captured by the Japanese and had been allowed to languish in captivity in part due to the action or inaction of their own government, and by implication, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.


Just to add to my comment, I totally agree with Amaroq Weiss and his findings from research done through the Center for Biological Diversity. He is among the experts on the topic and his findings must be respected and believed as Facts on said subject.


Actually, not that desperate really.

Mr. Soros isn't under criminal investigation by the FBI, as Mr. Trump is.


Michael, a lot of "I" in your article


This country has become a spineless joke.


Shame on the Ulupono Initiative - this financing scheme assumes there is some public good or need for this project - and there is neither.  Rail is not green and will never be - rail is not fast - rail is not high capacity.  TODs do not need rail.  Low cost housing as part of the TOD package does not need rail.  Each person on Oahu is paying $200.00 per year per person for this project.  The mayor wants us to pay this tax ($800.00 per family of four per year) forever.  There is no ridership plan for rail - the city has admitted it only has estimates.  There is no basis for these estimates - therefore moving these estimates to the world of "Guesstimates".  Asking a mainland financing think tank to comment on rail is like asking an A/C contractor to comment on education.


I hate one way streets ...but would that actually help .?


If all that happens is that political donations become restricted that will have been worth the effort.
BTW people over 45 looking to make life here long term don't count with you?


Ham for everyone, I have no immediate objection to him, although I question if he's had enough time to learn French or familiarize himself with the various First Nations and their cultures.

To allow him time to play catchup, I nominate any of the following:

David Suzuki
Judy Rebick
Naomi Klein
Sunera Thobani
Maude Barlow
Linda MacQuaig
Harsha Walia


Only 5 US Presidents have ever lost the popular vote.

1824 - John Quincy Adams (lost by a margin of 38,221 votes)
1888 - Benjamin Harrson (lost by a margin of 94,530 votes)
1876 - Rutherford B. Hayes (lost by a margin of 252,666 votes)
2000 - George W. Bush (lost by a margin of 543,816 votes
2016 - Donald J. Trump (lost by a margin of 2,864,974 votes)

The Donald is by far the biggest loser in US history, however.

In fact, he's more than 5 times the loser that Dubya was !

Betcha that he also resigns the Presidency before he can be impeached just like Tricky Dick did in 1974.


"Because they have only been around since 2009 and yearly contribution room is limited, TFSAs won’t typically have enough money in them to meet an individual’s entire retirement-income needs."

For someone in their late thirties or older this may be true (although it could be a significant part of a retirement plan), but for someone just turning eighteen a TFSA is a viable retirement strategy.

As a numbers guy I built a spreadsheet to run the numbers myself.  Using a 1% inflation rate (to adjust the contribution limit as it is indexed to inflation and rounded to the nearest $500), I found that someone turning 18 this year would be able to contribute a total of $330,000 by the time they turn 65.

I, like Sniktaw and Ancientalso, believe in individual securities so I also allowed for 10 trades/year per $500K of portfolio value.

Here is what I found.

At a 5% annual return at age 65 one would have $1,126,514.

At 6%, $1,502,223.

At 7%, $2,024,275.

Continued......


The Protesters? Like this one? I agree.

"Suddenly an individual in a green hoodie punched Furniss in the face, before quickly disappearing into the crowd. Furniss recoiled, but carried on walking. Blood trickled from his lip down his chin."

Or this?
"Further from the center, a few members of the crowd members were encouraging people to punch him. “"No one will know it’s you,” one male protester in a gray hoodie said."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article179680501.html

Again I agree. Hateful behaviors from them.


I am so so sorry for your loss. I'll be climbing Bird Ridge when it reopens in Jack's memory. Grace and peace to you.


What is wrong with abandoning Mexico to its fate? Who do we owe Mexico? What is your problem with that? Don't just utter claims. Defend them too.


All forms of hate need to be eliminated!


"Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend."
Simpson was convicted of a robbery, sentenced, served time, and now has satisfied requirements for parole.
Some of us may feel smug that Simpson was in prison for a time, but I think the reporter is showing bias.
His robbery conviction should have been the sole reason for the determination of the length of his sentence.


We can ruminate over all of these possibilities but the sad fact is, no matter who wins the December contest, the ANC will win the 2019 elections. And the elections after that and the ones after that too. SA is no different to the rest of southern Africa when it comes to party allegiance and voting. People in this part of the world support a political party for reasons that have very little to do with practicality or common sense. It will take a life time for traditional allegiances to change.


No, but I'm sure the military who uses them know...(as do the enemy! IE: The Taliban in Afghanistan removed with the MOAB!)  SSI (Special SKill Identifier) of 3R(omeo)....NBC Defense, US Army.  (There are still areas in France contaminated from WWI from chemical weapons use..Nasty AND persistent!)


in addition hundred of thousand supporters.  go rail go.


Well geez, Sasse is from the state that gave the ACA the swing vote. Hmmm.


Or at least a very long cat nap....please!


I have a client with a family trust that is sitting on less than a million bucks. It's for his 6 grandchildren, three adult children and his spouse.Is he rich? No. CCPCs and family trusts are there for hard working middle class people too. AKA Trudeau's electoral base...or former electoral base I should say.


Are these people delusional or just trying to paint the pig a different colour? AI is not going to limit itself to killing blue collar jobs. The world of bonus billing is not exempt. Once a techie smells the opportunity to eliminate the cost factor from legal proceedings, the lawyer and his firm, you will be using Amazon Legal Services. Could be a good thing.


Meanwhile professional staff and care providers are underpaid in this field.  Services to those the fund was designed are limited, in some cases non-existent, and the disabled (and their families) endure limited services and high staff turnover.


Ontario put in Trudeau and Wynn numbskull.


This is just another of MANY reasons why ticket prices at the Hult Center are always HALF-PRICE or even FREE................


Asking for someone's phone number is not a crime. Had he threatened her because she said no, then it would have been an issue but merely asking for contact information should not be a fireable offense.


What tape?


This will cost $1 mil/year to administer when we have a $3,000 mil/year deficit. Signing up voters is not a necessary government function, we need to downsize government, not increase it!


Who better than a naval officer to know to avoid getting on board a sinking ship.


Boy Oh boy!  JBS1 ( does this stand for Just Bullshit #1)


How IS the weather there in Elbonia?


Is it not interesting that the PM's greatest accomplishments take place when he backs away from Liberal policies and disreputable behaviours.


Unless if you are a member of the First Nations, you are making your (racist and ignorant) claims from a glass house.


2 minute fact check: The operation that Trump approved had been in the planning stages for months under former President Obama.

The soldier that died was a member of SEAL team 6.

Remember SEAL team 6?

 the same team Barry O handed over in exchange for Bin Laden. They were all put on one helicopter, the slowest helicopter (Extortion 17) , sent to an extraction point where a Jihad was waiting with an RPG, took them all down. Pentagon sealed records and said it was a lucky shot under the Hussein administration.)


Yuck!!


Mahalo to Ms. Leed for sharing.  Aloha and peace to aunty Didi.   More Alzheimer's research and funds have to be poured into this disease.  On its current course and without a foreseeable cure this disease will bankrupt our healthcare system.  Early onset Alzheimer's especially weighs heavily on family members and the medicare/medicaid system.  Foster care, home care costs skyrocket for families personal finances.  Cancer and heart disease have millions of dollars in research funding.  So should Alzheimers and dementia.


My thoughts exactly! This stinks like a rotten egg.


One thing to keep in mind is that median age of the audience for 22 Minutes and the Mercer Report is probably 15 years higher than the late-night shows in the U.S. Bob and Mary in Sarnia, he an administrator with the municipality and she a teacher who took early retirement, probably aren't up for caustic attacks on Canadian leaders and institutions.


Alceste - as a supporter of one of the most fiscally reckless Prime Ministers in a generation, you are now are arguing it is about the money?  Convenient.


After a decade and a half of Liberal rule, we still suffer under the NDP's ICBC and our young people can't buy a house because of the NDP's Agricultural Land reserve.  With 'right wing' friends like the Liberals, we don't need enemies, so give the real NDP a chance.  Maybe they've had a change of heart or come to their senses and will reverse such policies - we know for sure that the BC Liberals are useless for any practical outcome.


Where does it say 8% decline in business investment?  I've read the entire article & statscan report and don't see this anywhere.

The actual statscan report is one of the best GDP reports I've seen.  Virtually everything is up including investments in Canada.


Wow, teach heresy for almost 20 years after Humanae vitae, like Charlie Curran did from a perch at a pontifical university, and you're OK.  Undermine Church teaching, like the late Tony Kosnik did as seminary dean in Orchard Lake, Michigan, for five years, and it's OK.  Bishops challenge those guys, and the academics will be fired up about "intellectual freedom" and the dissidents about "conscience."  But question whether what is being pushed actually comports with Church teaching, and the "dialogue driven" smiling, back-slapping, baby-kissing episkopoi will cut your head off fast.


Even with a DNR or living will, that does not allow one the choice to say "enough".  I had a grandfather who lost his larynx and esophagus to cancer.  Near the end, he was draining out whatever food was injected into his feeding tube so he would die sooner.  Could not talk, could not breath normally, and could not eat normally.  Please, show me anyone in that condition who would want to live another year.  Thankfully, he did not live much longer than a year.


This is great news for the environment!  Maybe the gas-guzzlin' 5 ton pickup truck owners commuting  from Milton to Oshawa will think twice about adding an AWD SUV to the mix.


This isn't the first time that Wente has used the privileged position of a column in a national newspaper to personally attack a young woman in a position of far less power. Some readers may recall Wente's disgraceful attacks on Amanda Lindhout four years ago.


Your guy is the one who denied us "affordable" healthcare. With a pack of lies about keeping your doctor and your plan. You toss around lots of name calling. Bet your not man enough to back any of them up. Typical cowardly liberal. Punks like you dare to call our president, elected fair and square a traitor? You're all hot air I would wager.


While it might be a good idea in theory, you forgot about the bars where you can do a little 'pre-partying' before boarding. You can't hold the airlines solely responsible for that, short of the CSA denying some slob his/her boarding pass at the podium. Too bad they didn't cut off your seat partner when they had the chance.


And neither will happen as long as the Lobbyists own the Congress of the United States of America.

The American Medical Association, BigPharma, Health Insurance, Medical equipment manufacturers; the list goes on and on.

Those Senators and Congresscritters are bought and paid for or at least on a long-term lease basis with or by all those Lobbyists.

The direct recipients also cut 'deals' with other politicians who aren't on that particular gravy train to help out on other issues  those politicians are making money from.


Its amazing how many people hate wildlife.  Its not about hunting, its about sustaining a healthy wild population of sheep for generations to come.  While there are lots of people who have domestics who are very unlikley to have contact with wild sheep or goats, they do escape. I might remind you in the last couple years we've had a goat in downtown Palmer, and downtown Seward, a sheep on Moose Run golf course. Wild animals end up in populated areas often. There are domestic sheep or goats right across the highway from Sheep Mountain, some in Cooper Landing, Indian, Bear Valley, etc. They live in wild sheep and goat habitat already. We've been extremely fortunate to not have a die off already.  I'm very encouraged to hear that the amount of infection by domestics is that low, that would explain why we've been lucky thus far.  Why would a domestic owner be against protecting wildlife if it means getting a FREE test?


Seriously??  She is in a public forum, she knows that, do you really think people need to ask her is her picture can be taken?  You people are really getting to be too much already.


Bottom Line:

What these two academic dumbos want to do is take your money and give it to someone else.


I'm certainly not going to believe some Globe poster who thinks Obama is a Communist.

Lol.


Low productivity levels present an enormous challenge for Canada’s future economic prosperity. In 2012, Canada’s level of labour productivity was US$42, much lower than that of the United States, at US$52. This earned Canada a disappointing 13th place among its 16 peer countries on the level of labour productivity. Only Finland, Switzerland, and Japan were lower. Worse still, Canada’s labour productivity level has fallen to 80 per cent of the U.S. level from a high of 91 per cent in the mid-1980s. Despite a broad and growing consensus that Canadian productivity needs to be improved, the gap with the U.S. is widening, not narrowing.


Since there is only 25% of Vancouver left being born and raised here, they have created a silent genocide and called it "economy" in order to cover up the atrocities for their offshore money laundering rings/affiliations and lobby.


This never happened right after 9/11


Sure, the rest of BC ( yes, BC does exist outside of Vancouver), will quietly go along with that.

Do you not wonder why the Island went Green?  Perhaps just a little too much of what you suggest.

Why do the people in Christy's riding not have to pay a toll on the Kelowna Bridge when all of BC pays the toll with their taxes?


If the woman refuses to testify and there is no physical injury, the prosecutor basically just has to walk away.

When there is actual physical injury and 'domestic violence' what the woman said happened is admissible in a trial.  If not, what she said is 'hearsay' and can't be used.

Just the way it is.


Nauseating conceit.


Why do you assume he or other Latinos are only capable of doing field work?


One problem: Petrus never said anything about presuming God's mercy.


Look a Squirrel!


Trump's a narcissist jerk, and STILL a better choice than crooked, lying Hillary.


Coming from whitey I presume.....


Seems like there should be a lot more of those if that's the case.


Bribery and collusion.


There are huge barriers to entry. An independent surgeon can't just set up shop and compete against what the existing practices have: broad referral relationships, millions of dollars in imaging equipment and other infrastructure, big marketing budgets, large groups of surgeons that cover for each other and represent a wide range of specialties, and many other advantages that every smart practice has strategically built up over multiple decades.


condolences to the family.


The Bush family did business with Nazi Germany and Saudi Arabia. How is Trump paying millions in income tax a problem? Consider that this information is provided by a publication that recommended that we all vote for Stephen Harper. Trump may be a loose cannon but he doesn't appear to be another puppet.


No you can up with this, an odd statement considering how many intelligent people were "burned alive" by "extremists" in the following years?
Like 76, in 93? Vote cheese head, Arkansas finest.
Ramsey Clark—a former U.S. Attorney General, who represented several Branch Davidian survivors and relatives in a civil lawsuit—said that the report "failed to address the obvious": "History will clearly record, I believe, that these assaults on the Mt. Carmel church center remain the greatest domestic law enforcement tragedy in the history of the United States."


The Skinny repeal that was voted on would have jeopardized two of the most important features of the Affordable Care Act. The irony of KellyAnne Conway blathering on about " just get a job that offers insurance" while the repeal bill would have purged the requirement that businesses provide insurance would be laughable if not so sad. And, the ACA requirement that individuals carry insurance makes everyone responsible for themselves. In the 1980's Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Treatment and Labor Act which requires hospital emergency rooms treat all that walk through their doors regardless of ability to pay, nationality legal/illegal alien status. Mitt Romney callously referred to this bill when he implied people don't need insurance...they can go to the emergency room. Hospitals are offered tax breaks for their charity...recently hospital charity levels have dropped off due to the ACA. We tax payers should renegotiate the tax breaks they receive to better even the playing field.


Apparently no one got the memo that dna ancenstry tests are as far from accurate as you can get.


Sanford W. Friedman, you want the ERS to fund public housing?  The ERS’s main function is funding the pension for retired government employees.   Is that something you overlooked or did not know?


Just say "Napoleon"


Do you not understand the phrase "like too many"?


I apologize for being the bearer of bad news for you.  This is an ice berg, and there will be more than enough evidence, but it will be slow to melt out.  The tip of the ice berg, BTW, was the firing of Flynn for misleading the VP.  Notice how the VP doesn't say anything anymore, so he cannot appear to be mislead.  Anyway, don't kid yourself.  You know as well as anyone that in every rumor their is a grain of truth, and if you put together 1000 rumors, you have a whole chunk of truth.  I just really hope the truth comes out soon, and we can move on.  There is too much good work that really needs to be done.  All of this is just sidetracking us.


The price of some stocks is held artificially low thanks to stock splitting. For example, a $100 stock is divided into two $50 stocks. I'm not disputing that some $1000.+ stocks are extremely good investments but so too are many mature equities that keep stocks priced at a retail consumer level.


He want's to send our children to die in africa to get his coveted UN seat.  It's not worth ONE CANADIAN LIVE!


"My daddy owns the Broncos" isn't enough to beat a traffic ticket anymore?  What is the world coming to?


Wait - I thought you had no connection to SCF.  So how do you know what she does all day?  (Mostly she is travelling and giving speeches to conference worldwide and spending money.) LMAO.


I agree for this season it doesn't make sense UNLESS you can get a 4th rounder or better, or a potential starter back in the trade.

I think this signals Ward is gone after this season though - why bring him back given other needs? And given what it would cost to re-sign him?

He's a great player but we have the depth to live on without him in 2018.


Yes, this is the place for your tirade . . . It's people like you that make more reasonable 2nd amendment supporters like myself look stupid.


Cutting the budget doesn't mean pass the liability on to local government. It means to cut the budget.As is to be expected, the Republican majority continues to give oil companies the breaks they want, yet they are willing to continue cutting the education of our future. Our Children and Grandchildren deserve better treatment than what this groups continues to do. They will force local governments to pay the cost. They in turn will have no choice but to raise your property taxes, and lower levels of service. Is this what Alaskans really want? If not, get on the phone, or send an e-mail to your lawmakers. Some may listen, but I highly doubt that the majority will care. They belong to big oil.


If there was ever a comment that sounded like a Trump type outlandish, intolerant attack on those he disagreed with it is this.


I think it is an insult to the Lord to say the mass is deficient.


What you expect is hardly representative of a normal person,


The spelling mistake in this article headline is driving me insane.  Is there no copy-edit at The Globe and Mail?


Putin played Trump, his chief suckee, like a balalaika and the mentally impoverished sociopath fell for the Russian lullaby.


The new leadership in both the house and senate are also a seriuos concern.


Some people might not catch what I can only assume is irony!

So many customs and traditions brought over from many "home countries" are mostly pious superstitions and second generations do well to lose them! They may have given identity as being "Polish" or "German" or "Italian" or whatever other Nationality , but one learns to be "Catholic" when one  learns to just look at them as cultural nostalgia rather than as essential to "True Religion".

Some might not hurt, but they aren't "the Faith". They are rather like the various National cuisines -- Mexican food, and Italian dishes, and Polish sausage, or whatever, are all good. Everything adds to the American experience. But one does not limit oneself to the old country diet of one's origen.


Perhaps you should be even more accurate and refer to your claim as a theory.  The interesting thing is that the study (which I haven't read but for now I'll accept your description) doesn't sound like it supports your theory at all.  How does it demonstrate "...the left's desire to silence any and all who disagree with them"?  That ascribed motivation is very theoretical methinks, but handy if you are trying to come up with a way to deal with the reality that academics tend to have big, smart, critically-thinking problem-solving brains and as a result they often do not tolerate the emotional stupidity that is rampant in the Trump age.

If conservatives can't handle being bombarded by reason & logic, that's sad, but let's not blame it on some drive of academics to make stupid people feel stupid.  Stupid people should naturally feel stupid when called out, but we live in a new age where people believe every thought is equally valid.  It's been a disaster for dialog in America.


I'm only a fantasy in your head.  No hero here. Only someone that wants to go home to his family.  It'd be pretty hard to deny me a gun. I'm a FFL dealer, have taken courses and received my concealed carry permit, and am prior law enforcement. I think I'm trained enough to be able to take care of myself without it being considered a fantasy.

Are you really that judgemental about people that you have no clue about?  No reason to even comment about you because your remarks speak clearer than I could ever say to expose you.


I have no words.................


Mike Klix, you are absolutely right--the ASD Board has no clue re fiscal responsibility. Why should it when the state gives them everything it wants with no accountability for the funds.


your point is moot.


CHIN- shut up and sit down!


The Broncos team has multiple problems. It's very simplistic to try to lay it all on 1 player or position. The team is not as good as they think they are... and that includes fans. It's up to the coaches and brass to correct the problems with the team and IMO, it won't be a quick fix or anything as simplistic as replacing 1 player. Those who believe otherwise will be very disappointed, IMO.


That's a pretty sad statement, jangm.

Suppose that's why you now believe that two wrongs make a right, but you would be wrong about that too.


If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around...citation needed.


I'll tell you what's funny ..... the "claim" that Layla4 made all through Trudeau's election campaign anytime he/she didn't like something that "the left" was saying, and I'm sure all the regulars on here will remember it as it was absolutely relentless, was the ridiculous claim that:

"The whole world is watching"

Well, Layla4, now the whole world IS watching, and by the numbers that came out across the entire world yesterday, things aren't looking too great for your boy
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With this President's ego, and his dislike of any and all criticism, this is not going to end well for The Donald.

And the end is going to look SO good on him, IMHO.

Tick, tick, tick ......


Ok. then you might BE the other bar owner, posting here, trying to make him look bad, regardless of what you may or may not know about bernie or his place. This post makes YOU look bad, not him.


It was organized by John Chambliss, a UW philosophy professor and others from the Blue Moon tavern in the U-District who were anti-war and anti-US imperialism.
Weren't Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin also there?  Maybe Merrilee Rush?  It happened at Betty Nelson's raspberry farm just off the Ben Howard Road.  !968 was an historic year.  LBJ quit when he knew the Vietnam War was unwinnable.  King and Kennedy were assassinated and then the police riot at the DNC convention in Chicago.  SDS and the Black Panthers were active.  Nixon came back after an humiliating defeat by Pat Brown in California.


In reading the judgement, I could not find any reference that would indicate the ASA having the legal right to publish their ruling on a non-member for consumption by the wider public. The order expressly states that the ruling may be shared to the ASA members only, which would be the 12 institutions listed on the ASA website.


Dog On it, Be Nice!

I don't know anyone in Florida blocking Alaskans from reasonable and profitable oil production it seems like you know these "FAT cats" in Florida!  Who are these Fat cats can you ID them?

Strong Silence from you because it is really you that hates oil workers in Alaska and want them all to lose their jobs!

Why stop the flow of oil in Alaska and stop Alaskans from getting PFD money! Alaskans are too smart to be fooled by a DOG on it MASK!

It is people like you that run oil and gas workers out of Alaska so others Alaskans will lose their PFD but in Alaska people know you hate oil and wish all oil workers would lose their jobs and leave Alaska so you can get paid to stop oil production!

You seem like are someone who hates oil and works hard to the kill Alaska's oil and gas business? Who are you?.

Show yourself unless you're ashamed of who you are and what you do for a living. You are not a coward are you?  If not, then reveal yourself, DOG ON IT, okay? Be nice!


Tax the rich? When is that going to happen. Stock options and DSU taxed too? At the income tax rates of working people?
Never happen.


No shortage of "anonymous" sources for the WaPo and NYT - which the Globe follows along like an obedient puppy. You can guarantee Obama never said anything bordering controversial in private settings, he was the perfect President.


Trump will make it very easy for his next presidential adversary to campaign using the slogan  'Make America Great *Again*' in 2020 after all that Trump has wrecked.

What a disaster.


HAHAHA LOL


Coaches do get fired frequently (too frequently). I have little sympathy for the job security argument though. Normal folks also get fired and don't continue to be paid for the length of their contract. Wasn't Charlie Weiss being paid by Notre Dame two jobs later? Those kind of guarantees should decrease their salary, not increase!

Competitive pay is a reasonable argument. Capping pay will undoubtedly cause some of the best coaches to seek jobs in the NFL. But how many could really make that move? We are talking about 1-2 coaches a year at most. So to stop that we instead have a system where 90% of the schools transfer money directly from student tuition to athletic departments when they transfer money for subsidies. For athletic departments to take hundreds of dollars per year from 20,000 students taking loans to attend school should require extraordinary need and extraordinary benefits.


First world problems.  Most of the world worries about whether or not it will have enough to eat.  We worry about whether other people should be allowed to discuss our "culture", whatever that is.  Culture is just the way people live.  It changes over time.  Often, what we take for "culture" is just the archaic remnants of beliefs and practices that long ago ceased to have any validity, and which are sometimes the source of conflict and "inappropriate cultural practices" (e.g. genital mutilation--in both females and males ((although we condemn the former as abuse, but continue to allow the latter under the banner of "religious freedom")).  The issue of "cultural appropriation" is just another form of censorship, and is based primarily on our paternalistic telescoping of our preconceptions on those we magnanimously deem worthy of our support.


"This erosion of civility and undermining of public trust in our democratic institutions is reprehensible."

So, I guess you're not getting the news stories as to just why this all has come about?  Public trust kinda went out the window when Snowden got on a plane with the reasons why.


So are immigrants guests? Are they supposed to go back one day, like guests do?


The link for every story (which includes the byline) is above the comment....


Will the hearing discuss the facts about the DACA program.
A Harvard study on DACAs provided this information -
73% of DACAs live in low income households (defined as qualifying for free lunch in high school
20% have dropped out of high school
20% have no education beyond high school and no plans to attend college


'
…that's just incorrect, michael

There's plenty of revenue for our use, if we weren't giving away more than we're taking in.

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If we stop paying corporate welfare, we would have plenty of revenue to meet our needs and grow the Permanent Fund.
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We can demand fair value and realize it.

Even at 50 dollar a barrel oil.

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You say no one has offered a viable solution?

Baloney.

It's been offered since before we started talking about the current crash.

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People have been offering that solution up, literally, for decades.

The basic tenet behind this solution is the basis for funding our needs on the royalties and taxes gained through the sale of our non-renewable natural resources that we own.

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We don't have a problem if we don't give away more than we take in.

We don't need another new source of revenue.

We need to stop giving away the sources of revenue we already do have.
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Stop paying corporate welfare.

That's the solution.

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It's as simple as that.
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Of course it is ... for the shareholders!  But certainly not for management, with their stock options and "Golden Parachutes".


The evolution goes like this. Tea Party morphs into "T" Party ending in the Trump Party. Executive suites, drinks and valet parking are not included at the Trump Party.


What lies?


Of course Jeff Sessions is not going to resign. Unless fired. And even then, they will have to drag him out screaming.

Sessions, like many free enterprisers--most of the Harper-ists that thankfully are no longer our government...all these rightwingers.... who decry the state, all government programs....have had their mouths grafted onto the teat of public renumeration, fabulous benefits, all expenses paid, occasional celebrity, complete health care at hardly any cost, and cadillac deluxe pensions....all at the taxpayers expense. Pierre Poliviere comes to mind.  And many others.

Free enterprise for the poor. Free enterprise for everyone. But state socialism for them.


I would agree with you if those arguments you cite were reasoned.  Too often the charlatans that make up the right wing media machine will do a multi-show "expose" on some liberal conspiracy, only at the very end say that they found nothing.  Unfortunately the rubes that truly believe this idiocy don't hear the short bit that claims the previous week's shows were all just speculation.  I listened to it with Beck and the FEMA camps, and it happened again and again through the entire Obama administration.

As for the idiots on college campuses, that is a whole other bag of poo, the kids there can't seem to understand free speech.  Bear in mind, though that just because you have a right to say something doesn't mean that you will find an audience that doesn't think you a fool.  The best thing that could be done to folks like Coulter, is when they speak at a college, no protests, but instead, let speak, their foolishness will be enough.


The repeal of prohibition may not have stopped alcoholism, but neither did prohibition.  The repeal did reduce the death from alcohol.  Do you remember learning about the dangers of moonshine and bathtub gin?
This doesn't even touch on the violence of the criminal aspect.  Prohibition has been a failed and costly experiment.  Look at the States.  They have double down on prohibition.  How is that working for them?


Here Helgason... get an education in propaganda BS and how you drank the kool-aid.  But being an oil industry employee we understand.. same with Moriarty..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCL2d8lLYXw


It is hard to believe that this stuff goes on in this day and age. I hope the poor kid sees justice for this assault and succeeds in his quest for citizenship in the UK.  Is the slightest assault against a migrant in the UK international news now? The media is feeding intolerance with this industrial 24hr a day news machine.


Look at the disagrees you have. There is no further point in negotiating with North Korea and the United States has to whack em and whack em good. It won't be much of a war if the Americans flatten them first.


Tabatha Southey: Killing 14 people in Barcelona (August 17, 2017) because they don’t belong to your religion is racism too, don’t you think?


Dude, if you're so concerned about "paying for other people's children" then you should be all for contraception!  As our planet becomes  increasingly polluted and uninhabitable, you chose to rant about other peoples sex lives?Are you this upset over Donald Trump bloated military budget and the great risk of him getting us into war?  Sheesh Dude, get over your pelvic obsession and your priorities straight.


Richard

continued.......

The compound most often used to fluoridate water systems is hydrofluorosilic acid (HFA), a co-product of the process utilized to produce the other co-product, phosphoric acid.  PA is used in soft drinks we consume and in fertilizers which become incorporated into foods that we eat.  To irrationally fear one co-product is to irrationally fear the other.

The mechanism through which HFA delivers fluoride ions into water is not dilution, it is hydrolysis (dissocation).  Once hydrolyzed, HFA no longer exists in that water. It does not reach the tap.  It is not ingested.

The "charlatans" are obviously those such as you who seek to deprive entire populations of the benefits of this initiative through the intentional dissemination of misinformation.

Do yourself a favor, Richard.  Seek to properly educate yourself on fluoridation before furthering embarrassing yourself.'

Steven D. Slott, DDS


Great idea.  Throw $$ Billions at City-managed social  housing operators like TCHC whose current inventory is in worse shape than any slum landlord imaginable.

Why does government think that they alone can deliver the needed solution here in a country with the most robust, creative and nimble private sector residential industry one could hope for?

They'll soon be back begging for $$ Billions more because enough today is just never enough for tomorrow.


Both my mom and brother needed caregivers and they were not trusted.  You're not getting the cream of the crop, you get what you pay for.  Yes they were caught stealing the drugs, especially the pain medications.


http://augustafreepress.com/poll-americans-back-trump-impeachment/

Are the Koch bros. in agreement with this idea ?


It seems that honesty is the most important issue for you, so I'm confused as to your support for Trump, since Trump is an even bigger liar than Clinton.


Change the rules so Alaskans and others can compete, the system is rigged and it is killing Alaska's economy!

Stop the big three monopoly and let Alaskans drill and sell oil for a profit for the first time since statehood!

Alaska can not alway depend on the production tactics of this monopoly, maybe the Governor and the Alaska Legislature better let Alaskans and smaller oil companies compete!

 This concept of fair laws, fair oil and gas agency actions and fair competition can be Alaska's safety net when the majors get the state of Alaska  in a economic choke hold that Alaskans can't escape!


I understand your point, but you did unintentionally bring up the unlikelihood that the dog was charging to attack. The reported circumstances overwhelmingly suggest that the dog was standing and barking, not charging to kill. The odds are very poor that Mellerstig whipped out his gun in a panic and hit his target in a fraction of a second. Possible, yes, but extremely unlikely. It is vastly more likely that the dog stopped and barked, giving Mellerstig plenty of time to think and aim. The widespread assumption of a charging killer dog is the least believable scenario.


And conversely, please be so kind as to point to where and when the Democrats had "The Black Family" all squared away.


If this article had been written on the first of April I might have had more respect for it. Instead I find a mismash of the usual and tired refrain that "all things indigenous good" "all things non-indigenous bad". The author needs to get out more. Has he never heard of Galileo, Werner Heisenberg, Isaac Newton, Claude Monet, Leonhard Euler, or Molière? (and that only includes a few of the geniuses from my own European heritage.) Aboriginal "leaders" in this country have a small window now to figure out how they will join modern Canada and benefit from the opportunities it offers to all its citizens, irrespective of race and cultural background. As immigration changes the ethnic make-up of this country at an accelerating pace, how does the author with this naive narrative think his future will cope with hundreds of thousands of mandarin-speaking immigrants from mainland China? To quote just one example of the forces molding Canada going  forward.


The bomb doesn't kill people directly.  The effect of shutting down the electrical grid and most electronics for an extended period of time (multiple years) does.  Where do you think you'd get your food from?  Do you have a garden that could feed your family?  And could you defend it from those who would steal from you to feed theirs?


To bad antifa isnt non-violent. Provocation and violence is their only tool.


Knows Exactly Nothing.


The problem is with the unhinged psycho leftists.


whiner


Randall Aragon was a Chief of Police in Conway, Arkansas and caused considerable havoc in the force. He fell asleep on duty, and received a vote of no confidence by the police officers that served under him. He led the charge to abolish civil service so he could hire and fire at a whim. His decision making put officers in harms way. He would show up at SWAT calls and try and run the show. There was extremely high turnover on the force (around %40), and morale was in the toilet. My advice is get rid of him. He is a cancer than needs to be cut out of law enforcement. PS. Ask him about the vicious toy poodle that he killed with OC pepper spray. :)


I certainly would have preferred Djou and he did started out fairly well in his run for Mayor
but then he sabotaged himself for reasons I still do not understand by taking a position
supporting rail.  In effect, he left the voters with no reason to vote for him versus Capt Kirk.
Nonetheless, I did vote for "Chuckles" as I could not vote for such a self serving politician
like our illustrious Mayor.  Makes me suspect that a lot of voters ended up voting for neither
candidate which guaranteed the job for Capt Kirk.  Wonder if Djou took a dive or is this just
 my paranoia talking.


Kevin Matthews would be a big hit with the Bernie Sanders crowd but I don't know how many folks in that particular district are socialists.


Hear, hear!


In your mind the only question is appropriate response.  But global warming is not just warming as Mr. Watson likes to point out.  The more recent claims address violent weather, droughts, and other things that have much less evidence associated with them.  Regarding the holocaust, of course the number killed matters.  If it was 200, it would be nothing compared to the Democratic President's war crime of killing hundreds of thousands of non-combatant Japanese via nuclear fire or the comparable numbers of non-combatants killed in the saturation bombing of German cities.  There are many atrocities Mr. Scott.  But the majority cast a blind eye to those outside the popular point of view.  I've read that US support for the Syria rebel killers has killed a hundred thousand or more and made refugees out of million more.  A democrat liberal (who loves everybody and is good) did that.  The number directly killed in Iraq is similar.  Who knows how many the American bombs killed in Syria.


And just to educate you, Trudeau saw fit to promote the guy who played a big role in skyrocketing Ontario hydro rates.  Gerald Butts.


Outrageous. This law discriminates against anyone who, for personal reasons, chooses to wear a nylon stocking over his head when entering a bank.


Mr. Olijar,
Which paragraph or sentence in Mr. Mitchell's LTE leads you to believe he has a lack of knowledge about economics?
Please enlighten us.


The country is never going to collapse quickly and any person with a half a brain know that.   You believe a lie; that all liberals said the country would collapse (in six months?)    Around here, that's called creating a 'strawman'.     It's also called demonizing your opponent.      I'm sure you can find some who might have thought this, but most certainly did not.    You're attacking a myth and spreading needless spittle on people that don't share your politics.

Feel free to express yourself, but you don't get to tell others what they think.


Any outcome other than Trump is guilty will never be accepted by the left.  The left is crying that Trump did this because the FBI was getting close.  So you put a spotlight on the issue to hide it?  No logic there.  Comey was axed due to his overstepping his position as Director.  He is to collect evidence and turn it over to the DOJ.  That is all.  What may be interesting is what will happen to Clinton now.  Did she sleep well?  Is she thinking about how she will look in jail togs?  Will the FBI now reopen her investigation and turn over the facts to a DOJ that is not controlled by Obama?  Will the actual laws be enforced?  With the facts, as stated by Comey, that no evidence has been shown to link Trump himself to the Russians but evidence showing Clinton's disregard for laws concerning the handling of State secrets will be reviewed and prosecuted.


This is what this forum has stated to me,

"You have 1 of 1 comments remaining for the next 24 hours."

Wow, I feel highly blessed to have the privilege to post one comment every 24 hours.

If I wait 7 days, can I post 7 comments??????

Just  curious to know.......


Earthquakes and tsunamis? Psshaw...the facility is directly across from an active volcano with 3 others nearby. Wheeeee, let's all do the Fraggle Rock!


Hopefully Trump will cut spending on those whore journalists one day


Yes, we know that Gary, but you failed to address my remarks about the Pacifica Forum opposition.


Like Spock would say 'it's logical' when you are confronted with reality and have no solution to a problem the logical thing to do is step back and let someone else deliver.
I hope you were joking about a 'big name' coach, that ain't happening, ever.  OSU needs someone like Leach...someone like the NAVY coach.  Triple option with connections to the Islands.


To say it's "common sense" is asinine when we don't know the facts.  Perhaps the "shooter" was a fraile person fearing for their life.  Common sense is that an instigator ought to know the potential deadly results if they push too far-all per law.


massive immigration runs counter to this goal
I live in Vancouver
we know


You forgot the CBC's hypocrisy  aver the "Q" guy, whose name I have already forgotten.


What about not doing business with companies that provide services to them. Like the security company guarding their compound .


It's good to be pastoral, as long as he never says 2+2=5, or that two contradictory statements both can be true. That would be an invitation to insanity, which is not a pastoral thing to issue.


Since I understand capitalism I happily pay more for things to support the source.  I buy Alaska grown to support my fellow Alaskans...pay a few bucks more to ensure my local grocery & liquor store stay open..and YES I will pay more for US made!  Best of all, we will have jobs to pay for what we need, not more taxes on those of us who do work.  Nice deflection...he is following through on his promise so you had to find some angle.   Hang in there Lefties....some of you have made it out of the Denial stage and are onto anger (destructive protests).  Only 3 stages of grief left before you accept It.


I don't think any measures will do any good unless you address the foreign money which the Liberals are welcoming with open arms.

400,000 10 year visas to China in 2015 and probably close to a million last year all looking to hide money in Canada.  This along with 300k in immigration and 100k in Quebec sales of citizenship.

Canadians at Canadian salaries just cannot compete with this.


I don't agree that it will encourage more hate, (the headline makes the assumption that someone hates theses people at present.)

I think it might encourage more women to break the bonds of mysogyny and stop wearing the burka and the niqab.


Sure hope this congress critter does create a 'back channel'. Prog tears make my day!


1. ...My suggestion to those women who don't approve of abortions is not to have one.'
You can replace "abortion" with "beating a child to death". It's the same result.


Let's just accept reality. We, as a free people must accept whatever anyone else wants to do if we want to stay a free people. They can sleep with whomever they want, dress however they want, eat whatever they want, marry whoever they want, pray to whoever they want. We can however draw the line at bomb whoever they want.
On the other hand, as a free people we can not, dislike whoever we want, disagree with whoever we want, not take pictures of their wedding if we don't want to, not bake them a cake if we don't want to, not tell them to use the bathroom designed for them.... Man, this whole Liberty thing. It sure is tough. No wonder it's concept is fading from our lands.


Some where somehow we need an accurate accounting. One side says they are dramatically underpaid, the other side says they are dramatically overpaid. Does anyone have data to support either claim?


We're still trying to get out from the massive debt that the previous government caused, as they left the current government with an empty bank account.

Give them some time to get things back on track before you cry wolf.


Nobody stole anything, quit being butthurt


Im fine with that. The goal is to reduce taxes and paperwork associated with filing taxes. Who cars what deductions you don't have if the total tax burden is reduced?


Pardoning is what Trump did to that racist ex-sheriff despite his multiple contempt of court actions and lack of remorse. Also, before serving even a day of time. Racists protecting racists. That's what Trump is all about.


To expand on this, it creates a bit of stratification of rents.  Existing rental units, limited by rent control, see potentially lower price, but new units aren't built in sufficient quantity, driving down supply.  What little does get built comes into the market at much higher prices.

So existing tenants get the benefit of lower prices but potentially worsening maintenance.  New tenants, or those forced to move for whatever reason, face much higher prices.

Landlords oppose them because it takes the decision making out of their hands.  It makes it much more difficult for them to adjust to market conditions.  It takes a long time (20+ years typically) to have a rental unit pay for itself.  It is always a risk to guess where demand will be over the next two plus decades, but with rent control that guess entails even more risk.


James, I was posing the question that people often ask. If mountain biking is more dangerous, then why aren't more bikers harmed than hikers? The obvious rebuttal is that if there are many more times the number of hikers than bikers, then even if biking is more dangerous there could still be fewer injured bikers than hikers. And yet the odds of being injured by a bear would be higher for bikers than hikers. As I attempted to point out, there are no national or statewide figures for numbers of people who hike or bike in bear country, so comparisons are difficult, although in one instance reported by Herrero in Banff, it was evident that bikers were more at risk. Your "logic-fail" is you forgot to account for numbers of users.


Given the data on outcomes for immigrants, you definitely have a valid point. Canada is pulling a bait and switch on immigrants - especially legal ones.

The racist dystopian narrative of welfare queens and criminals is false, as is the feel-good nonsense about dreamers and innovators.

The data tells a story of wasted potential, failed dreams, and working poverty.  We need to ask ourselves some hard questions.


Trump will win on this one.  But it was fair to the people already on the way who would be stuck in no mans land.


So your antidote for your lack of interaction with suburban and rural Canada is to go live in the woods with the bears? Instead of say going to rural Saskatchewan and meeting the people you have often written about? Lol

Do you need more proof that the G&M writers are out of touch with the average Canadian? Don't they sound eccentric? Despite her great worldly travels, Balkisoon clearly hasn't seen much of suburban or rural Canada. Based on her self-admitted confinement to life in Canada to urban centers, I doubt she'd be able to point out Saskatchewan on a political map of Canada, let alone know how to spell it.

What a joke.


I think the Globe long ago abandoned the idea of human editors reviewing work before it is published.


If I believed in devils, and souls (and the selling of them), I'd trust Mr. Lucifer before I'd trust minority-elect "President" Trump.


"Would the defenders of Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop call it his First Amendment right if he refused to bake a wedding cake for an interracial couple?"
Spot on, Cheryl Kasson!
"People used religious arguments to support their opposition to interracial marriages" But the US Supreme Court shot down those arguments.
The US Supreme Court also shot down arguments by bakers and flower arrangers and wedding designers who insisted their religious and artistic freedom overrode state laws banning discrimination based on race or religion.
Religious conservatives never had a problems with civil rights laws and court rulings upholding them -- until gay people and couples began being included in state civil rights laws.
This is all about religious conservatives wanting government, through the courts, to protect their right to show superiority over gay people. Religious conservatives want to be protected from discrimination while discriminating against gay people. This is all about power.


it was all done legally
no one has the right to enter any sovereign country

if you don't like the questions, then simple, don't go
everyone knows the border guards are acting legally

I heard an immigration  lawyer on TV today, basically you are at the mercy of the border agents


Russell Raven You Rock! Give that man a PFD!


One more misstep in over 49 years of missteps as the continual expropriation of land continues, executed by Israel to fulfill a bizarre and immoral religious imperative from a barbaric book - with sanction provided by the US.

Hitchens was right - Religion poisons everything..


Combine:

“They’ve been pretty loud up there for the last few months,” he said. “You could hear them at 5 a.m. — gambling, yelling, making noise.”

with

"The man, described in a CrimeStoppers bulletin as a black man about 5 feet 7 inches with dreadlocks"


Just over a year ago is not some years back. You did not write against it, you spoke and voted (the only no vote) against it. Like you do with rail, you completely exaggerate its visual impact. People can view the HARC presentation at http://olelo.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=20&clip_id=53247


I thought the new commissioner was going to fix the inmate death problems at corrections. I guess not.


We still have two refineries in BC - one in Prince George and one in Burnaby. BC has never refused to build or upgrade the existing refineries. That's just another of your fabrications.

The oil company plans to close the refinery in Burnaby rather than upgrade it because they really don't care about the BC market. KMX is intended to ship bitumen to China. We can't process bitumen here.


I am 68-years old.  I use my private group health insurance to provide for my needed health care.  Although I paid into Medicare for much of my adult life, it does not provide for ambulatory care nor medicines.  The polices that are available to provide such coverage cost more than my current plan and have deductibles, which mine does not.  I would oppose putting the rest of the country on a system that has to be subsidized by private coverage after all is said and done.  Even if you changed the system to provide needed care, the administrative cost per patient to provide Medicare is $509.  The cost to provide coverage under private plans is $453 per person.  Where are the savings?  After 35-years in health care management and public affairs, 30-with the Federal government, I know that most people are doing their best, in public and private systems.  Why turn an entire industry on its head for philosophical reasons?  Universal access to care is possible with a public/private system.