I see the usual "US milk is full of hormones/chemicals" crowd is out posting their fear-mongering rumors...planted no doubt, originally by the dairy cartel. (myth started in the 1980's, and relates to what is standard practice in all animal husbandry. Without these various antibiotics, etc., you would have herds dying off regularly - and making the news.)

Ask someone from a cattle operation - dairy or otherwise  - in Canada. Antibiotics, etc., are standard practice. Perhaps the USA has approved/uses different products, but by no means are Canadian operations "all natural" or "organic" by any stretch of the imagination.

It is the same as the rumors planted by the US healthcare industry about "single payer"...

Funny how when you are outside, you can easily see the errors in belief about what is going on elsewhere, totally oblivious to the  falsehoods you hold true...


A woman gets into a cab and is so drunk she starts being intimate with him ...

How's that?  Or how about...

A woman gets into a cab and is so drunk that she's flattered by his attentions and doesn't "fight the feeling"..

Or maybe,

A woman gets into a dab and is so drunk she can't remember the driver taking advantage of her and assaulting her.

Take your pick. Because none of us knows.  SHE doesn't even remember.

Next case.


Conservatives love to make fun of wage slaves - is teaching not manly enough for you? What is an acceptable job for a politician to have in his/her background? I believe a diversity of backgrounds probably serves the country well. Not all politicians should be lawyers and economists.


Please leave His Honor the Mayor out of this. He is still busy trying to locate funds for soap for the public restrooms...


I like the word " badly ' because that is how we are doing compared to the US.

Theirs is much better form of democracy than we have in Canada.
They have a powerful , elected and representative Senate plus an elected Congress.

We have neither and even worse we get stuck with Govts that exercise majority control with just 40 % of the votes.

Americans also have unfettered freedom of speech, unlike here in Canada.

American SC Judges are freely selected regardless of States.

Here in Canada, we have 9 SC judges, at least 3 of which must come from Quebec.

And, their executive Branch ( our cabinet )  are selected for  experience and skills, unlike here in canada where they are selected by the PM based on neither of these but merely allocated by sex race and color.

And H, we depend on the US for the defence of our nation


So when the weatherman is telling you that we're expecting 30-50cm of snow next Tuesday, you're going to say that it's too far on the horizon and lots can change.  On Wednesday, you're also the only one crying about not having a shovel or food in your house.  Let me guess....you're voted for the Lieberals last election.


She's simply saying that there is no political cost to the Liberal's for dismissing the decisions of the previous chair, because he was a Harper appointee. If he'd been a Liberal appointee, reversing his decisions could be perceived as flip-flopping, indecisiveness, etc. The comment is not a judgement of the decisions themselves.


Mr. Trudeau is beginning to look more and more like a one-term Prime Minister.  He seems to leave mental terra-firma quite often.


Because she is doing a great job, trying to create the regulations for an industry that is illegal under federal law.

Only junkies are trying to get her removed.


For the "hipster gym rat" its mostly not even about the exercise I suspect...
Its mostly about scouting for singles...buying fab new sweatspants etc etc

Its about calling yourself a "gym rat" and thinking its cool....like those lunatics with the full "Tour de France" outfit on' and the bike strapped to the roof racks...

a bit of a grumpy old man


Nope.  Not going to feed you anymore today.


Demand for products derived from oil will keep growing for several more decades. If products from our oil sands are competitive (which they are), why not let the market make the final decision on the pipelines?


That is the problem. Most of Anchorage was great. Drive around ER and down Eagle River road it was sheets of ice which led to school bus getting stuck across the road and multiple cars in the guard rail.


Farmers are heavily subsidised/protected by govt. programs.


I would like to see any example that you have.  And Gabby Giffords does not count as that was not done by a republican nor anyone with real political motivations.


Great job on such an important part of Alaska history.


"Her and I...." Ugh. Guess he didn't attend Reed.


Up is down
Black is white
popular is unpopular.
got it.
the trump playbook; all alternative facts.


Remember for the Mass  to "count", you have to be there when the priest uncovers the chalice at the offertory and stay until he covers it up again after communion!


None of this matters.  Twitter has already said it has no intention of doing anything about Trump's tweets or retweets, so he, apparently, is free to be as inappropriate as he likes.  The rest of us, who have to follow the rules, just have to get over it.  When someone retweets or forwards, most people consider it the same as if the person himself had composed it.


i can say without a doubt in my mind, that the Contractors and different groups that I am able to observe up there, are disproportionately non residents.

Suffice to say that if certain groups were to loose their contracts I can see  financial blows for communities in Northern Idaho, areas of Montana and Oregon. Nothing against the people that commute from these areas as they are hard working good people. But I would prefer to see more of my neighbors employed up there.

 The actual ratio I would say for non resident employees is closer to 2/3. It has been that way for all of my 20 years up there, regardless of whom I worked for or around.  At one point a few years ago I saw those numbers pushing 3/4. I'm only speaking for myself and my observations.


If you have ever reviewed the US Citizenship Test, I think you must acknowledge that the facts tested there are indeed facts.  How many Supreme Court Justices there are or the difference between the three branches of government aren't exactly controversial issues.  Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?  What is the capital of the US?  Who was President during the Great Depression and WWII? Name an American Indian Tribe.  Why do some States have more Representatives than other States?  If these are too tough for you, there are study guides.  Even phone applications for the kids to use.  If a foreigner with English as a second language can pass these tests, even an Oregon teacher should be able to pass on the information if the students are actually in his/her class.  If they can't, that might explain the Oregon abysmal graduation rates.


Really Donald, you need to grow some thick skin if you want to sit in the Big House for the next four years. Let the small stuff slide.


the only way to keep these jobs in America is to lower the prices, which requires innovation in the sats, along with innovation in production.

Look at SpaceX. They have made space cheap which is what is causing this sat boom. They have restored numerous jobs to America, that companies like L-Mart purposely screwed up on (for profits).
Do note that in the 60s and 70s, that America OWNED space launch and sats, esp for commercial sats. If L-Mart will automate the day lights out of this, it will actually bring back MORE jobs than if they choose to not automate.


I actually think it's great Obamacare will die and not be replaced. That's what we want anyway. Yay!


If you're referring to Coventree Inc., they were not a bank. Coventree assembled Asset-Backed Commercial Paper and sold it as a "safe" investment but it became a casualty of the financial crisis even though there was still value in the assets. Investors with $1 Million or less all got their money back, larger institutional investors had to wait for a restructuring but in the end got most of their money. Litigation would have just been counterproductive and time consuming, all-in-all it was the best of a bad situation and it didn't cost taxpayers a dime.


Elizabeth "Faux-cahontas" Warren.  After being outed, who in their right mind can take this hag seriously?


"Groking". Bot that was a good book, timeless! As for Obama's 2 V 8 years, that's true enough. And to date Trump has the mirror image of that. Obama, in his first 2 years did a tremendous amount of damage. Trump in his first 2 years will be hard pressed to undo very much of it but he can try and maybe have some great success. And, at this point, there is no reason to believe that he won't get a 2nd 2 years in 100% control.

One problem I do have with Trump is that he, like Obama seem to think they have to use tax money to make private business thrive.


Not OP's fault that racist white men won't stop being racist white men. If old racist white men don't want to be called racist white men they should stop being racist white men.

#HitDogsHoller


There are serious injuries in a test evacuation, therefore, don't do more actual tests. In a real evacuation, with the inevitable panic of at least some of the hundreds of sard, I mean people, there will be more than some serious injuries.


"Well regulated" in the late 1700's meant 'well armed and properly trained.'


You'd think the blockhead would know that...


You have the right handle, No You're Wrong.  Murkowski never endorsed Trump.


Boots:  Actually, the mutant humans worshipped the bomb not the apes.  At the end of the film Charlton Heston triggers the bomb wiping out all life on the planet.  I suppose you were attempting to compare the Trump administration to the apes.  A more accurate comparison would be substituting totalitarian progressives for the mutant humans.


I didn't realize that's how it works.


Clinton certainly ain't no piece of cake but compared to Trump who lies every time he opens his mouth . He refuses to disclose his taxes so we do not know if he is lying.


Great, unlike you, I am not talking about ethnic origin of immigrants, racial achievements or who studies best. I am merely pointing out that immigration tends to affect GDP and NOT the wealth of individual Canadians nor their standard of living. Beyond a certain point immigration to a region actually results in a NET decrease in quality of life as the resource slices get thinner and thinner with each additional resident.


Keep your nose out of the MRI business as if Saskatchewan has not had a two tier system over the years with workmen compensation, or sports teams being the first in line.  Now that there are private clinics
shortening the waiting list I would suggest it benefits everybody.  Previously people went out of the province being too ill to wait a year to get diagnosed.  It is our right to get looked after in the fastest way possible.  I am sure our Health Minister and her family would find it unacceptable to wait months for an MRI.


FT:  Yes, it is a complex problem with many factors that are involved and there is no "magic bullet" solution but at some point you have to actually do something other than talking about it and hoping to get consensus.  What has been done to this point has done little to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.  What President Trump is doing is just another step in addressing the issue.  Is it perfect, no, but it does get the ball rolling.


That was some crowd. The NHL is in a lot of trouble, and fleecing billionaires for franchise money in North America is pretty much coming to an end. Probably why The Count is learning Cantonese.


This may not be strictly religious issue but one of the major underlying problems that results in very negative thinking and behavior such as racism, abortion, and the list goes, is solutions to the change in the economy to a post industrial service economy. If we keep harping on the change without offering suggestions we get reactionary retribution thinking where the blame is everybody and it makes some vulnerable to manipulation.  I would suggest people think about how to create service occupations other than the military. We are going through a profound change in the way people make a living and many are very scrared and angry about it and feel powerless to do anything.  This is a worldwide problem where people pour into cities where they cannot find adequate work so the move somewhere else. I will let the reader finish it. We need ideas that are positive and not the usual how bad things are and blame ......... . Filling in the blank does work.


I stand corrected. Thanks for the honest insight.


I love poking the hornets nest!  LOl


Trid, for once I am in complete agreement. Dan Brown should not be taken seriously in a discussion of Christianity.


Nor is there anything saying the opposite.


"Joe, despite your usual ravings"

That sure sounds like a personal attack to me.


Uh-oh, a very nasty parasitic infection!


He did a good job of it too. I tell you, all those code words that fly over my head. I really have to read more widely, even if it is distasteful.


Actually that's a topic many on the left don't fully grasp. Obama is a president, not a king. He has done nothing at all but hurt oil development on federal holdings. Anything that has occurred happened on private lands that typically don't have split-estate issues. Because it was all on private lands (Texas and the Dakotas) President Obama, or King Barry as the liberals know him, couldn't do much of anything one way or another. He can't unilaterally make a decree that there will be no more oil and gas developments or extraction on private lands. Likewise he cannot say that all oil and gas development from henceforth must occur on private lands. I know it's a difficult concept for liberals to grasp, ......which might explain why they keep electing the totalitarian types.


The police would like to bury these criminals under the jail.  These criminals are put in jail initially with no bail on felony charges, you can thank the liberal judges and magistrates for setting low bail at arraignment letting these clowns out right away.  You need to vote these people out or nothing will change.


The one above says it was deleted, but is still there.  It actually says it was rejected.  Go figure.......


Greg, Let's turn your statements around to reflect the truth. If Josh and groups like his didn't block forest management for profit at every turn, but instead support and encourage sound forest management, only then would this be a non-issue. They have actually aided in creating ecosystems that /are/ in balance and healthy, as opposed to those that have been clear cut, allowing erosion of healthy soils and sediment to clog otherwise clear streams. Fire is Nature's mechanism to manage and propagate healthy forests; allowed to do so naturally, there wouldn't be the out-of-control wildfire situation we have today. While I can't speak for Josh, I suspect many members of wildlife organizations do not oppose hunting for sustenance (but certainly not for just the pure sport of it). The hypocrisy is in your mirror, Greg.


There are a TONNE of these folks around in Toronto...  all cash flow negative - hoping and praying for capital gains...  now that Ontario has tightened the screws on rent control and interest rates are rising...  the cash flow numbers are gonna look a LOT worse in the next business cycle.  We'll see if that leads a flood of "for sale" listings for typical investor condos (500-700 square feet  $400-$550K price range)


Chenault, Larry, Curley or Moe.Take your pick.


Ms. Burke, you trumpet the need for PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY while failing to mention that Ashley N. Bashore, Madison M. Gross and Alexandra Ellis weren't held responsible by our courts for killing HUMAN BEINGS.  And you get all weepy over DOGS?


What did anyone expect?

Walker is a Republican.

Damage is what they do.

It's who they are.

Damage our environment.

Damage our schools.

Damage our public policies.

Etc Etc Etc.

Elect another Republican, expect more damage.


If a white entertainer wrapped a noose around, and hung a little black kid in a video you and your "ilk" would be singing a different tune.

LMAO


standing up for what's right has been the best parts of our history


George Will is NOT switching parties. He is now an independent. He has left the republican party due to the things Trump said about the judge in his Trump U case. I think Trump was way out of line about that too.


Alternate facts? Yes he did.  As all PMs forced to travel on gov't aircraft, he reimbursed equivalent of economy fare. Only fight to the island itself which doesn't have commercial flights.


If others don't meet quotas, there's drops the next year.  When we purchase quotas that money is directly used to help those fisheries.  How is it dangerous?  We catch 3% of the annual poundage in the Pacific Ocean.
Were importing fish because the demand is increasing. People that don't know the difference and dangers of consuming foreign product will buy based off price.  Some locals don't want to pay the going rate for fresh fish.  It's already hard and expensive to do business in Hawaii and the US and others outside of Hawaii are willing to pay.  If the market/consumers don't want or don't buy imported product wholesalers won't bring it in.  It's simple economics.
Taking away fishing grounds by the federal government is exactly my point.  The demand is only going up and wholesalers will be forced to bring in even MORE imported product.  You just stated 5% of the total longline effort comes out of the expanded area, you now have 5% more imported product possibly contaminated.


Ha, proof that the antiTrumpers take everything just so seriously.

But seriously my post is uncivil? But wishing Trump be murdered is civil?! Fun CivilBot indeed.

"Golf is just so much fun to bring up though :)
Look at the emotional responses it generates among the left side."

We are laughing folks.


It makes a good point, Doug.


What conflict?


Thanks for your story, Larry. I had that same lesson a long time ago. I am interested to see if any women comment here and whether they would make any revisions or add a page or two.


Ruth,

Don't be fooled by the official sounding name, The American College of Pediatricians is not a "large body", it is a fringe group of about 200 arch conservatives that split off from the 66,000 member American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP).

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/11/13/meet-anti-lgbt-hate-group-filed-amicus-brief-alabama-supreme-court

The AAP has a much more reasonable, thoughtful, and appropriate viewpoint regarding transgendered youth.

https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Statement-on-Protecting-Transgender-Youth.aspx

So back to you then.....


You keep repeating this nonsense that only "creedal statements" are dogma, which is simply not true. Just who taught you this?


"Keep electing horrible judges back to the bench..."

See that word "back"?

Bingo!

Want to keep trying?


I'd say the majority on disability are slackers and whiners, especially the ones with subjective self-diagnosed ailments such as mood disorder, sleep disorder, sore back, so-called chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc.


Nope not him. Wolfe is always ready to ball. Love that guy.


I live in an area where a lot of houses are bought, then demolished and rebuilt. Of course, they are sold at a much higher price than for the original home. I see this happening all over the city. This also impacts the supply of homes available because these homes are unavailable while they are being rebuilt over perhaps a year's time. Of course, these homes come back on the market eventually, but, in the meantime, other homes are purchased by re-builders so that there is always an ongoing reduced inventory. I wonder if these are the "unoccupied homes" that they're referring to.


To quote the article, "The central bank and governor Stephen Poloz are in wait-and-see mode".

Well, nothing has changed in the shaded and jaded offices at the BOC.   For the sake of our country, couldn't we ask Poloz to step aside and bring in new blood from outside the BOC that has fresh ideas to lift Canada out of the economic gutter?     We need a governor with a backbone to step forward and advise the current government that gross over spending and astronomical deficits are not helping one iota.    All we have is continuous and relentless erosion of our economy here.     As we sink, Liberals are taxing more with bogus cap and trade scams, making the downward spiral gain speed and momentum.     Perhaps a BOC governor could bring these failings forward before it's too late.


I wonder if they even Know About THIS.   https://youtu.be/xONYrtJ6ZlM


No, it isn't.


I think you present a false dichotomy.

Those who sat in judgement of those they accused of dissent are now guilty of the very "dissent" they claimed to abhor.

Whereas those who applied their minds to careful consideration of each particular "church teaching", using their God-given faculties (the very ones which cause us to be labelled Homo Sapiens), and came to reasoned conclusions about any given matter ... well, they simply continue to utilize this scientific method with each individual case which presents itself (be it use of artificial contraception as a means of family planning, be it support of married gay couples, be it reception of communion for the divorced and remarried, etc).

That they might derive a little schadenfreude out of seeing self-proclaimed loyalists engaging in acts that they would under a previous pontificate have labelled as flagrant dissent might count as a mere venial sin, no?


Omfg...this dated argument again?  We all know that the modern day GOP and Democratic Party switched platforms on many issues...this includes issues of civil rights, the role of government in scientific research and advancement, and fiscal policy.  Yes, Southern slave holders started the Democratic Party...but you don't see modern day Social conservatives flocking to the Democratic Party or modern day Democrats praising Stonewall Jackson.  At least come up with a new myth to bust.


Hillary is not a quitter.  She will fight for her causes, kids and women, until the day she dies.  It is the way she is.


I keep wondering where people find a basis for this "right" on the part of sovereign nations.  The rights inherent in individuals are based on natural law, but whence "national" "rights?"  BTW,  Pandora doesn't respond to questions when she is using this persona.  Probably concerned her unique idioms will give away the subterfuge.


Bye Bye Poppa Bear !


I know many people who smoked marijuana when their brains were developing, and most of them can write better than the author of this article.


I have never noticed a reduction in traction until you drive on ice.


You are my go-to guy for science, Woody from Cheers.


Maggie...another brilliant commentary on the Trump phenomena


You need to stop listening to Fox and Breitbart and find out what's happening in the real world.
Mueller is an American patriot whose sacrifices and service to his country are well known to literate adults.


Obviously not. These comments prove otherwise.


Politicians are used to jumping the queue by calling up a doctor and explaining how busy they are, and how important their work is.  All physicians should make politicians wait like the rest of the citizenry has to from now on. No more favours to politicians.  They are busy destroying this country - let's make them wait in a doctor's office where they can't do more harm.


Ha.
Ha.
Ha.
Look, I hate Wynne like anyone else, but where was the funny part there?


Personnel matters are not everyone's business.


That's a similar argument to "Better to get stabbed in the leg than shot in the stomach".

There's no justification for either one.


Your sarcasm ias a little too subtle for most of us here...


True, but Saudi Arabia treats all 'foreign workers' as guest workers.  Since the Saudi economy has taken a downturn, it has been deporting foreign workers. 39,000 Pakistanis were deported in the past four months alone, but thousands of workers from the Philippines, Ethiopia, Yemen and other nations are being deported because there are no jobs for them anymore.  Saudi Arabia has no 'social assistance' programs to maintain unemployed workers, and it NEVER signed the UN Convention on Refugees when it became a member state of the UN. Similarly, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand are NOT signatories, nor are the Gulf States. With the UNHCR claiming there were 65-million refugees as of Oct 2016, up from 45.2-million on Oct 2014, the 1951 Convention (designed for much smaller numbers) is failing and needs revision. Instead of spending $billions on refugee transportation, assessment & hearings, while trying to stop people-smuggling, programs must be supported in 'refugee homelands'.


Hunting is for men who a lacking in any number of areas.  The planet is in massive decline and animal and plant populations are being decimated.   Humans truly are viruses that consume without consideration and it will be our undoing.  As a small but huge example, the honey bees are in decline due to chemical/pesticides and if the bees where to go extinct, the fruit and vegetable industry would collapse leading to mass starvation.   The root cause of all the world's ills is overpopulation.  Stop having children indiscriminately.


the "system" may be well but thanks to it, you can watch the economy now crash over this alt left wing government that will shut down all development, the heart of the economy


I'd have a lot less of a problem with Trump's attitude if he either was an intelligence analyst himself or employed fewer partisan nutcase conspiracy whackjobs to advise him about intelligence and how it's collected.

Senators McCain and Graham's judgment has been wrong in the past, but they do have the backgrounds to deal with these kinds of issues.

Trump does not.


Another excellent cabinet pick and a YUGE U turn back to pragmatism and economic growth. Economic growth will pump wages up in a more sustainable way  than artificial minimum wage increases. Trump's hittin' it outa da park!


With the number of individuals recieving the healthcare being the primary weighted number. Yes a higher percentage of individual might be receiving lesser quality healthcare and with longer wait time than individuals in the US but there is no way in hell they are receiving higher quality health care.


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this applies to all except places like vancouver where half of the people go to the USofA to by there gas and groceries


Would you white folks please use your real names? What do you have to fear? hodad, GFN55, Tell the Truth, recovering homeroid, watching alaska die,Woozer11, Geezerly, jabbers, cheechako, nativegal, come on. Be truthful.


True but as a company we are now looking to move out of the city as the cost of living is too high for employees as are the company operating costs. 4 hours a day of commuting for an employee from affordable housing to work doesn't work. If you are senior management and you can live in the Beach then great but to the rest of the world not a chance.  Time to move


Absolutely right carpachio. Poetry is so complex a concept, with so many layers, there are many, many attempts by writers and non-writers throughout history to define it. In addition, you are correct that human emotion, human experience and personal, as well as intellectual, insight are essential to poetry. Coding is certainly communication, but not poetry.


Loren,

Well said. I appreciate that you were honest and generous in your apology, actions that arose from a deep love for God that has given you a sense of fairness and respect.

Like you, I was raised being taught and believing all those things you remembered from your youth. Then I discovered how disconnected those things were from the Gospel that Jesus taught and practiced and my faith collapsed. It is only by the amazing grace of God that I am still a believer because God had to rebuild my faith from the ashes of that destruction. That was such a traumatic experience that I fear for the faith of the anti-WO faction when they realize the damage they are doing and how many souls they are turning away from God. So I am waiting with sympathy for them to nurture the rebuilding of their faith so the energies they now are devoting to fighting God can be put to building the Kingdom of God.


They have already conquered British  Columbia without firing a shot.


If Mr. Kaepernick and Mr.Pitts are truly sincere about their protest they have to advocate for the complete destruction and renaming of the Democratic Party. It has been the Democratic Party that had their collective foot on minorities and the people of color in the United States. It was the Democratic Party founded by Democrat Andrew Jackson who owned the 300 slave Heritage Plantation and the Tennessee Iron Works which picked up men in the south on vagrancy charges and marched them into mines at gunpoint. It was the Democratic Party and Andrew Jackson again who initiated the Indian Trail of Tears expulsion. It was the Democratic Party who fought for slavery in the Civil War, It was the Democratic Party which created the KKK, keeping African Americans in bondage with Jim Crow policies for 100 years. It was the Democratic Party that ushered minorities into barrios, ghettos and projects showing up only on election time to steal votes, pander and use the race card when threatened...


The lion's share of opium grown in Afghanistan goes to Europe.  America's opium is coming from the Cali Cartel and friends.  1994 Oxycontin being pushed by Big Pharma with the complicity of physicians created the Mexican cartels' demand.  Legalize Cannabis and the Mexican cartels move to something easier.  Meth and Heroin is easier to transport into the country.


EN, sorry, but by personal experience I know some of your comments are incorrect.  I consult for an American based high tech manufacturing company.  State of the art high speed optical and electronic devices.  Over the past decade, 40 percent of its high tech manufacturing jobs have gone to China and 45 percent to another Asian country.  Now 90-odd percent of employment is off shore.  With a few exceptions, high tech manufacturing is indeed leaving.  Only a few companies like Intel who are desperate to prevent technology "leakage" keep a large share of production in the usa.  Out here in the trenches, one can really see what is happening.  Forget the political commentaries.  This country would be on its knees in months if China withheld shipments.


It's not a health care bill.  It's a giant tax cut for the richest Americans paid for by taking health care access from citizens.


Well no matter how much you think the State of Alaska will overrule the Feds you are wrong.  This is just on of the ultra conservative things to come under the new administration.  Don, Dan and Lisa may give some lip service but they will march with the GOP madness like always when it time to vote.


No we didn't.  We want people who have been successful, not academic leftists


Tom Cotton should have been dragged out of Congress after his cute little letter to Iran telling them the US could not be trusted. The fact that someone like him still has a seat makes me SICK to my stomach. I don't know what happened to the GOP in the last decade but these people at NOT republicans.


Correction: he doesn't answer stupid questions.


This old boy is a piece of work. He didn't cut anything, he just put it off until 2017. The only thing he did cut was our dividends. What a wanker!


The road to justice is a thin line to walk.


Comprehensive sex education is the best way, nay, the ONLY way, to reduce the total number of abortions. If you don't agree with that, you're willfully ignorant, which is even worse than being openly deceptive, which you also are. People like Jim Minnery are an embarrassment to Alaska.


Yes, we are miles apart. We want to help the poor, you do not. I suggest that if you get this crap from your guru in Opus Dei, then you had better quite that cult, since it does not teach Christianity. If this is your political ideology speaking, then it is similarly not Christian, but rather morally bankrupt.


Thanks so much for your input, and for giving us a chance! We do have user following (and blocking!) as well as more notifications in the works for future versions. I hope you'll stick around and let us know what you think!
And yes, the software architect, Aja, is a Foucault fan.


Oh, please!


If God thought of us as you do, as 'dust," Jesus would have never come to dwell among us---to be one with us.  The gospels all tell us that Jesus loves and saves us in spite of our sins.

This theology of yours is a sad mix of Gnosticism and Jansenism.

Jesus tells us "I came that they might have life and have it to the full" [John 10:10].
As I place ashes on the foreheads of Catholics [and any other Christian who comes on Ash Wednesday], I will state 'Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel' [Gos pel-----the Good News from God.


The debt is in the trillions, so "George W. Bush returned the rate to 28 percent and added $10.6 billion" adding billions would be a laudable achievement.


Actually, Spicer is correct this one time.

Despite the fact that the Nazis had tons of nerve gas like Sarin stockpiled, Hitler never actually used chemical weapons in WW2 (The Zyklon-B used in the gas chambers was a commercial pesticide and never used in actual warfare) because after being gassed in WWI, chem. warfare was a line that even Hitler wouldn't cross.


So they elected somebody with gender identity disorder, in other words somebody with a mental disorder to be mayor.  I am sorry for that town.


LOL at you again.  You just don't get it.  American "capitalism" is every bit a "planned economy."

Talk about muddled logic.  Phew!

The very idea that we can purely let the market decide our government, social and economic policies is addle-brained and ignorant of reality.  You keep on working on that manifesto, though.  I'm sure you'll find some other idiotic ideologues to join you in the compound.


Gangerine, you say?


.

George Soros is a great worker for human rights and is a great humanitarian.

You can measure how effective he is by the squealing chorus of objection to the very mention of his name by the extremists who rail against active social good for all and against the idea of every human as being equal and deserving of respect.

.


Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on!

People are somehow under the impression that this mayoral administration is both local and liberal when it's actually neither!

The money leveled by the regressive excise tax increase doesn't stay in the state. It doesn't even stay in the public sector, lol. It goes straight into the bank accounts of private mainland contractors - friends of that creep Grabauskas who dropped in here just long enough to take a nice fat slice our pie and hook his buddies up with the same. All of course under the watchful eyes of our idiotically over-ambitious mayoral tag team: Mufi and Caldwell. Meanwhile our police department has gone to crap, our prosecutor no longer prosecutes, the homeless problem has basicly gone untouched, there is zero affordable housing and everyone down to the poorest of the poor pays basically the same freaking flat tax to keep these fools and their friends afloat. Cmon now, snap out of it Honolulu!


Thats because Alberta happened to be sitting on the oil deposits.. just dumb luck really that you, out of all the parts of Canada happened to be sitting in the lucky seat... however as a part of Canada, as I'm sure you are glad to be as we help you get through your hard times, you must be happy to share your good luck at other times.


Fold up the tent...............the Liberals are the NDP


her problem


Time for the doping half senile bag lady to be brought up on treason and inciting hatred charges. Vile, dithering cow ,of the pantsuit cabal that can't get her panties unknoted from all the hatred. Putrid Clinton legacy and no one should let their kids get near these freaks never mind your country!


We have spent months trying to gain favour with the Trump administration in the hopes that they will go easy on us when the talks on NAFTA begin. Now the Liberals effectively thumb their nose at the States and enter into a disastrous deal with the Chinese, that will cost us far more then we will ever gain. This government deserves everything that happens to it, unfortunately we all get to pay for the Liberal mistakes.


No, Demento.  Law is not what you think it is.

Of course judges interpret laws, but they also make law and clarify law.

In 9 provinces and 3 territories of Canada, we live in a Common Law regime.  That means, by definition, judge-made law.  Of course there is also legislation, but it doesn't mean judges don't still make law. They do.  They've been doing it for almost a thousand years, and are still doing it.

You may be surprised to find out that during three years at law school, students spend little time reading legislation, but many hours reading case law: judicial decisions in which judges have made law and sometimes (we hope) clarified it.

In the case under discussion, the Charter is involved to aid judges in making law, but there will be no legislation overturned or invalidated.  That isn't what it's about.

By the way, judges are still engaged in clarifying the law in Quebec's civil law system, but that's a different story.


High Tech in Hawaii is dead, and this project is proof of it.  Please politicians, do not waste any more tax credits or tax dollars subsidizing "high technology" in Hawaii with incubators, venture capital funds, robotics, space programs, or hackathons, because this monstrosity in Mililani is proof there is no legitimate market for any real high technology industry in Hawaii.

If there were a legitimate market in Hawaii, there would be real hi-tech buyers lining up to occupy this new HTDC campus instead of politicians have to stretch incredulity just to build and spend on something - anything.  The opportunity cost of these non-high technology businesses crowds out any chance of a real high technology business being able to use the resources that were intended for them.

I'm glad politicians have finally admitted their wasteful spending of our tax dollars on high tech pipe dreams is a failed idea, so instead of diverting more tax dollars on phony projects, just bring in more tourists!


"...Should every person that wasn’t born here stay out of Portland and the rest of Oregon so that you can keep your pristine childhood memories?..."

Ever read the 'Ugly American' or studied the theories behind culture shock?  You can choose to have your 'opinions' of long-time Portlanders, but you are merging into the 'ugly Oregonian'  when you appear to preach to many who have welcomed you.  Might be a symptom of culture shock; or you may just have that 'superior' attitude because you really don't want to assimilate the culture...but create your own.


Yea, Interesting about Cumberland - many of those Chinese worked in the old coal mines......


And Kasim Edebali did the grunt work...pressured the QB to make a bad throw, battling through a blatant hold to do it...


Condescending Large Print Readers Digest


As Obama said right after he took office, "elections have consequences."

Anyway, I'm as worried about this issue as I am about all the other progressive Catholic issues.  That is, not at all.


Oh please.
Haven't we ramped up the rhetoric and hyperbole enough?
White supremacist kooks have been an infinitesimal collection of losers for generations.
Every once in a while they put on their Halloween costumes and make a news splash but most of us have the good sense to ignore their brainless stupidity.
Like it or not that's called Freedom of Speech.
They have no political traction.
They haven't wrested control of our public institutions and schools.
The fact that one (as in 1) of their followers committed murder doesn't change any of that.

Oh!  But the Party has 13,000 twitter followers!
Gasp!
There is a twitter account for Kale - as in the vegetable - that has 15,000.

Meanwhile, it seems Voldemort and friends (who have many more Twitter followers BTW) were busy again in Barcelona.
Comments Closed.
Might attract too much rhetoric and hyperbole.


Population Density of Canadian Provinces per square km.

PEI        24.8
NS         17.3
ON        14.0
NB        10.5
PQ          5.8
Alta       5.7
BC         4.8
Man      2.2
Sask      1.7
Nfld      1.4

A sampling:

Alberta would have to increase its population to 16,400,000 to equal PEI's density or to 11,450,000 to
equal Nova Scotia's.
Saskatchewan would have to grow to  16,000,000 to equal PEI's density, 11,280,000 to equal Nova Scotia's, or to 6,840,000 to equal New Brunswick's.
Even big population Ontario would have get to 22,760,000 to equal PEI's density or to 15,875,000 to get to where Nova Scotia is.

Lots of room for everybody Western Canada. Do you have good jobs for them? Are you sure you want the density of PEI or NS?


Who's number one? Will the comments section be "White Christians only"?


I'm reminded of the "bucket of crabs" analogy.  Right now, the media community doesn't need an internal dispute.  I will be relieved when we do.


Too right.  But I choose when to do it and who does it.  I also have a better idea of what's coming, so I can be prepared.


Oh wow, you've moved on from exclamation points to question marks.  I guess that was from your third grade lesson.  You can't hide from the fact that you remain a highly uneducated, whiney, white male who screams at the world for having no accomplishments.   White males like you are a total embarrassment to the county.  Given everything to be successful and you squander it by quitting school, joining nazi and racist groups, standing behind Trump in West Virginia, carrying torches in Virginia and all the while complaining about your plight.  Real Americans don't whine, the achieve.  Didn't the military instill you with any pride or guts?  Or do you still blame mommy and daddy for not giving you enough.  You hate that I know exactly who you are.  Of course you want me to be nice, but I'm not nice to racists and nazis like you.  White males who complain about the world being unfair are really pathetic losers.  So keep on complaining and I'll keep pointing out to the world who you are.


Taking the federal funds means supporting Trump's vision of a racist, authoritarian society that disrespects the courts and the rule of law, that ridicules journalism, that doesn't care about poor and marginalized people, and encourages staggering wealth inequality.  All states that subscribe to that vision are kowtowing to Trump.


Try to stay in touch.  The Liberals announced this morning that they are banning union and corporate donations.

Well done Green / NDP.


This problem CANNOT be addressed from the angle of mental illness.  There is no way to tell which very small percentage of the mentally ill will become violent.  It MUST be addressed with gun control. I believe my right not to be shot in a public place, and my children's right not to be shot on the way to school, or at school, is more important than insuring that everyone, no matter how insane, has easy access to firearms.


Guys, I think a lot of people don't know what the goal really is behind all of the refugees and immigrants coming in, and why there is such a strong push for them to be in the US, and not helped in their home countries or country adjacent to theirs. The UN's Sustainable Development Goal No. 10 is implementing migration from 3rd world poor countries into 1st world rich nations, of which the USA is deemed the "richest" They are doing anything and everything they can to complete this goal. From the UN's own site "Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies" there is more, and it states quite plainly, their goal is to ERASE INCOME INEQUALITY. The UN does not take into effect why they are poor or whether it's fair and ethical to take your money to pay for it. Read the UN's own site for yourself to read all they have planned.


We lefties will always support Civil Rights and the laws that protect the minority populations.  Can the Republicans say the same?


We need to understand where the Liberals are coming from?
They are coming from Adscam via Shawinigate.


Agreed. Taking a percentage of your employment income as the required income assumes you spend all of your income today. If your employment income exceeds your needs, then, obviously, you will not need to replace all of it. The approach I used is to figure out my expected income needs and then throw in assumptions about inflation and taxation. But I have not retired yet so I may be wrong here. I love to hear actual retirees experiences.


Go away, shill.


CNN has not had this much enjoyment since the O.J. trial.
This is better.


Despite 214's : "no, certainly not", the answer is YES.

Christian intervenors were on the original list, and also among the extra groups allowed in yesterday's revised decision.

See the full list of additions in my comment above.


Glad to see they got rid of 2 bumbling incompetents. Who hired them anyways?


The feminists are strangely quiet about that particular topic.


What does the Post have to do with a NYT story?
Is English your second or third language?


The insecticides you are thinking of are applied before flowering and after the nectar has dried up. The hives are trucked in and then out. Otherwise, the honey bees would be killed. BTW, honey bees are not native to North America. They are packed into hives and moved around from farm to farm. Most places in the states, the hives are not allowed to over-winter. They live very stressful lives here. Back during the 2005 bee die-off, it was found a batch of diseased queens had been shipped in from Australia.

But we do have bumble bees. A real study would check the native populations for effects.


"The standard had been sent by the Arar decision and 10.5 million would have been the bare minimum awarded, more likely the full 20 million plus the 10 million or so court costs.".  Confused again Cassandra.  Arar was not a combatant for al-qaeda. Arar did not attend terrorist training camps with his brother in Afghanistan. Arar did happily assemble IED's to kill our soldiers.

Keep posting though,  as more Canadians read the folly that you and other Liberals post, it becomes clear that Trudeau is truly on the wrong side of the law and the wrong side of history. Hopefully he will be back in Opposition next election where he firmly belongs.


If the Canadian government cuts business taxes then there needs to be serious consideration given to raising the G.S.T. back to 6% or even 7%.  Consumption taxes are more fair than income taxes anyway. Cutting the G.S.T. was Stephen Harper's biggest failing.


Neither would he have committed suicide.  Yes, remember this posting.


https://www.newclimateforpeace.org

“A New Climate for Peace: Taking Action on Climate and Fragility Risks”,

an independent report commissioned by members of the G7, identifies seven compound climate-fragility risks that pose serious threats to the stability of states and societies in the decades ahead.

 Based on a thorough assessment of existing policies on climate change adaptation, development cooperation and humanitarian aid, and peacebuilding, the report recommends that the G7 take concrete action, both as individual members and jointly, to tackle climate-fragility risks and increase the resilience of states and societies to them.


It's lucky Saint Paul managed to get into Heaven before these Latter Day Jesuits arrived on the scene and re-imagined God's mercy. Shame for Judas though.


Good comment, but I think you are very naive.  The G&M has settled upon this narrative, and will not rest until the rest of us have wearied of the fight and given in.


And in the meantime for Coffman to spend money to win the primary.  And right now the RNC is hurting for money.


klastri sometimes your so full of it when nerobama became president he got rid of bushes prosecutors  that were good and put his own in and yet you and others on this comment page did not grumble but when trump gets rid of them you sit there and complain so stop being a hypocrite all presidents can get rid of who they want so stop complaining.


https://thinkprogress.org/mcconnell-would-break-senate-rules-to-change-senate-rules-because-clarence-thomas-wasnt-65012bfcd0d2
McConnell threatens to ‘break the rules to change the rules’ to confirm Gorsuch
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Sunday that he would make sure that Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is confirmed this week, even if he has to break Senate rules to do so.


"The final national electoral vote count would not reflect how the nation voted. That’s bad accounting and makes for inaccurate history." This is only true if you look to the details of the electoral vote for history or accuracy. If the NPVIC passes that would be a pointless exercise since the electoral college will have been effectively circumvented. For history and accuracy you will look at the public voting data for the country and see that the final result does indeed reflect how the nation voted. Just because some obsolete intermediate step doesn't show the whole picture doesn't matter at all, just like you don't know how many steps your computer goes through to calculate any particular number. No one cares what votes the Oregonian senator submits as long as the right person is elected. If Oregon and some other state were to agree to always switch, that wouldn't matter at all since there would be no difference.


In six years living in a stable historic black neighborhood in Philadelphia, a neighborhood going back to free black people in the 1830's (my rental two-story brick row house was three blocks from the house where the opera star Marian Anderson grew up) there were two active criminal youth gangs nearby, but on my block there was a solid neighborhood committed to resistance to crime. The kids on my block talked to me and told me everything about who was doing what. Most of the folks stayed out of crime and drugs; the men mostly worked, and a lot of the women. There were a lot of retirees, they all knew me by name, and they greeted me daily. There was crime, but more than in Eugene/Springfield? I don't think so.

In other poor neighborhoods there was considerable crime, without regard to skin color. The correlating factor was poverty. Of course, the very big crime dollars are stolen in the corporate sector.


There's no law against being crude and stupid.


Is there a point where you would say that rail is costing too much?


My reply to Beckster was to dispute his claim of 1/2 million registering to vote on a single day was ridiculous and citing a Youtube video to support his statement was even more ridiculous. This was about voter registration not turnout. From the Website of Steve Simon, MN Secretary of State, between 2013 and June 2016 approx 51,000 new voters were registered. This does not include a slightly less #that updated their voter info. That 10x that number would register on a single day is a real stretch.
  My statement about a herculean task was not meant to be derogatory but rather that you have set a lofty goal for yourself. Particularly with posters like the afore mentioned. I enjoy and generally with your posts. If you have better luck finding voter registration numbers for election day please let me know and if I'm wrong will delete my post.


The sad thing about this comment mocking the author's hyphenated name and calling him an "eastern latte sipping elitist" is that (so far) 3 people liked it.

It goes some distance to answering whether the Trump phenomenon could happen here.


The real enemy. N. Korea is just the excuse. Also the reason why they sold N. Korea their old junk that barely works.


But Mr.Hire did bring ideas to the conversation, standard liberal ones. You can do nothing to stop it, and anything you do will be wrong.
Liberal things that are off the list to stop terrorism
Identify who terrorist are by region/race/color/religion/other.
Deny any or all of the above access to places they want to terrorize.

Now clearly, they don't do this because they want terrorist attacks to take place. They do this, because is is not fair non-terrorists who want to come here. I understand where their position. I just don't agree with it.


He made, as Alex jones reported months ago, about $35M last year alone.  He has massive holdings of prime real estate all over the world.  His real estate in NY is actually in a recession as the prices of luxury apartments is in decline after a long upturn that has run it's course.  No big deal.  Who wants to live in NY anyway with all that traffic, the lousy weather, and taxes that are the highest in the nation.  Trump has no worries when it comes to money, he is largely liquid and free and clear on lots of properties.  The MSM is jealous of everything he does so he is smart to keep his taxes between himself and the IRS.  Trump also put out his statement of net worth to everyone when he ran, and he was the first one who did it.  They hardly even published it or challenged it it was so huge.  Haha!!....typical!

The MSM has nothing else on Trump, nor does Mueller.  They will lie whenever they can though, and then it all goes away two days later.  lol!


IRT Nitro08: I'm curious, do you disagree with the first sentence, the second sentence, or both?


Ah  yes,  the  lib  neo  nazis  never rest,  do  they?  Lie  after  lie  after  lie, typical.


Not true..
Nosotros no estamos con trump


We already aren't free. Some of us are simply more comfortable in our velvet chains.

We are increasingly told which thoughts, speech and actions are allowed and which will result in some form of persecution.

Our carefully crafted propaganda encourages our compliance and even directs us how to hate.

How we react when we learn our decisions are based on lies indicates our relationship with virtue. Do we accept our velvet chains, or do we reject all lies and modify our behaviour accordingly?

The Muslim travel restrictions have exposed the conflict, hatred, between those who think allowing refugees represents an acceptable risk of terrorism, and those who don't. Both cannot be correct so one or both positions is based on a lie.

Our propagandists welcome our conflict and debate over acceptable risk until replaced by the next issue. We are not encouraged to discuss why we are at risk in the first place.


The TMX pipeline is a stupid idea in the first place, because there is no equipment to clean-up a dirty, tar sands spill.  This stupid idea is an insult to the intelligence of the British Columbian people. The dilbit is riddled with cancer-causing benzene. A spill down into the Fraser River will kill most of BC's sport and commercial salmon industries.


Uh...Boeing is providing a service that was priced on the free market.
Do you think that the airplanes used by our military shouldn't be maintained or serviced?


Fighting against your own country (which Omar Khadr did not do) is treason, fighting against another country is not. Perhaps you should re-read the Criminal Code.


Thank you for your service, and for being one of the NASA astronauts to circle the moon.  You seem to have a great sense of humor, which Conrad and Bean must have enjoyed along with you in the transit to the moon and return. May you rest in peace.


"Home prices, especially in Toronto, continue to have many financial leaders and industry observers on alert."

In Toronto?

Hello?

House prices in Vancouver are more expensive than house prices in Toronto.

Does that mean the financial leaders and industry observers have given up on Vancouver?

Or does it mean that bad developments only hit the radar screen, and matter, if they hit Toronto?


?? There is nothing obfuscated in the headline. What are you talking about? The headline is quite descriptive of what happened. Do you understand what "obfuscation" is?


"the weekend endured by the men of Montclair, N.J., an affluent suburb of New York. After the women left for the Women’s March on Washington"

Yawn. Not just First World Problem, but a problem of the First World Affluent.


Non-ethical because the sequence changed?


Note that it says "male AND female," not male OR female!!!!


The name is Ann.  Stop thinking about my location.  Your fantasy is off topic and you are aggressively and abusively publishing false information.


Kiwis aren't Aussies.


There are probably advantages to being part of any majority group.  See Rwanda for example.


Spicer has to say dTrumpo has an open mind since he is being paid for it..then again an open mind can also mean VACANT which would not be beyond the realm of reason based upon a shrink's assessment of them both!

It would not be out of the question for the USA intelligence community to refuse sdTrumpo access to highly classified info based upon his spastic and stupid off the cuff comments all along. The guy;s a walking time bomb exhibiting zero logic or perception of reality...and cannot be trusted with the NUKE CODES....heck North Korea's insane leader has more self-control than dTrumpo ever did or ever will...until the SYSTEM puts Bully-Boy in his place with IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS hopegully 10 seconds after innauguration!


Google "Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement".  The FDA approved the procedure in 2009 and Oregon Sports Medicine (Dr. Schroeder) in Tigard does them also.


It's okay to come out of the closet and say you're a racist.


"“Everyone is absolutely committed to climate action,” she added, ignoring the prospect of a dramatically different approach in the United States after Mr. Trump’s inauguration in January."

That pretty well says it all, doesn't it?  As long as we have a prime minister who glibly ignores reality, our Canadian economy is destined for collapse.


Your all a bunch of loosers, your loosing your Country to drugs and are to damn dumb to care.
Or you would demand the US Government exicute anyone bringing hard drugs into the US.
Because those drugs are DISTROYING your kids, government and Country


My point exactly.  They are a niche product with no broad market.


Chad, I agree totally that what we do each day to one another is the key whatever it is. I do believe & would not pretend to speak for the Sihks, but I
Think they felt it good to see the number of everyday neighbors show up & say we support you by just attending. Silence is powerful, Chad.
I also agree that we as individuals....in general....not just political beliefs..need to treat each other with more civility. Listen, and be respectful of all beliefs & ideas. Are we so fragile in our beliefs, we cannot listen to others?  Personally Chad for me, often I need special events to reinforce I need to do better. Hope you have a terrific day !


One sailed East!
One sailed West!
One Scud flew over
Da @RealDumbOldTrump's nest!


Is the "fat" lady singing yet?


I have complete confidence that don the con will not allow sanity to penetrate his internal wall of dishonesty, extreme hubris, hatred, and ignorance no matter the source.


I wish the Rockies could have done more.  The Cubs, Washington, and LA all improved their chances of winning the World Series, meanwhile, the Rockies are only looking to make the Wild Card.


At the same time, if this article is true, Canada has no intention of using it's domestic talent. Canadian youth do not get rewarded and will leave for the very countries the Canadian government hopes to steal from.

This is a failure in the making. The reason why the United States became a scientific powerhouse was because during the late 20th century, the Americans sent their young and brightest to countries of science like Germany to learn and obtain knowledge.

Those students would come back and promote the very well named universities we know today. Those students brought new methods of science, equipment and ideas.

It was only after the Second World War during operation paper clip did the Americans further bolster their scientific community with the in flux of physicists from Germany.

But without the strong rich domestic talent of Americans scientists, there was no way the US would have succeed. It was those scientists who planted the seeds of science in the US.

Stupid.


Montreal is very affordable and is about as liberal as you get. Many fine vintage rental buildings, condos going up in older neighbourhoods, plenty of pedestrian-friendly boulevards, bike lanes, a metro system, and friendly street life minus phones and Starbucks on every block. The problem is not liberalism, it's a city's basic definition of what constitutes quality of life.


Because eagles and shit.


Don, my previous question has been answered.   I am surprised he didn't say the same to me at multiple previous points.


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Glad to see you commenting again Mark.

I feared the rising ocean level had caused you to drown.


STTP...one wonders why Thomas Brandt has assumed a faux persona. The realization that his employer frowns upon proselytizing during working hours using government resources?

As for "tell us in more detail WHY Hawaiian Electric customers would have to pay a dime to convert our for-profit monopoly extortionist utilities into non-profit customer-owned and/or taxpayer-owned entities"

As stated previously "It would be helpful to have a basic knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, the UCC and the concept of eminent domain among other basic commercial concepts prior to positing."

Obviously the gentleman is blissfully ignorant of the United States Constitution. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments each contain a due process clause. Due process deals with the administration of justice and thus the due process clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the Government outside the sanction of law.

Keeping stumbling on Thomas, amuse us with your diatribes.


Where?  I still don't see her.


But only after the fact, correct?


I can get by it on my tricycle!


And remember what happened to Carter.  Eminently sensible and shot right down.  Yes, a buck was a buck, and the buck stopped before any significant amount of it was implemented.  In the end, any tax reform has winners and losers and you hear a lot of bitching from the losers.

And taxes are not just to collect money to run the country (as distinct from paying for government services, which is a classic argument of the rich against paying based on their ability to pay).  The welter of taxes and tax exemptions are there to encourage some behaviours and discourage others.  Every oddity and wrinkle of the tax system was put there for a reason.  For instance, the favourable treatment of dividends from Canadian corporations is there to encourage Canadians to invest in Canadian companies.  Take it away and a lot of money would flow out of the Canadian stock market and into other countries.  And so on.

Simplifying is a great idea until you look at the oxen that would be gored.
.


Wind farms are not reliable means of providing energy. If the wind blows too hard, the blades need to be locked down.
And as reported, they pose a danger to birds and bats.  Locating them a distance off shore may be better than placing them on land.
And there are better clean energy producing options such as solar and tidal powered turbines which would be ideal for Hawaii.
I also wonder what good setting kill limits for bats are when you adjust the number upward and make no effort to research
how the kill rate could be lowered or eliminated all together.


Colin kaepernick is an idiot. You don't see construction workers or nurses kneeling before work every morning. Do your job and shut your mouth. There's other ways to handle the situation. I don't watch football because of its political influences. That's why I watch the news go to lectures and speeches and read. No room for this in sports


Thanks Keiran, I knew you would at least reply. I believe it was indeed both, but the 'systemic' aspect was one which was based not on clericalism or conservatism, but on liberal sexual views about clergy and homosexuality which was and still is to a lesser extent, seeking to be the norm in the Church as opposed to traditional or conservative sexual approaches. And that's my point. Of course many chose not ot offend, but many do. Again, I say it: unless we accept that offending occurs because of errors in both conservative AND liberal thinking, agendas and approaches, the issue of clergy sexual abuse of both children and adults, will not be solved. I must admit that my emphasis is on abuse of adults and while there are definite parallels, there are also differences, especially in the general population of those who offend. Its a sweeping generalization but I have seen a trend in conservative clergy being child abusers, and liberal clergy being adult abusers. We have to address both.


Trying to be restrained, but it's hard, and you're right, there's no reason why I should be.


B. Carfree,

I share your concern with any driver that doesn't obey the laws. I often park on the opposite side of the street to complete my delivery, but I don't drive on the wrong side of the road, don't speed, and am not often distracted. You are correct in that I am a private contractor. This means that I get paid much less than half of what a mail carrier makes, work in the dark, I receive no pension, and I get to pay my car payment, gas, insurance, tires, repairs, bags, and health care.

I put forth extra effort to get my customers their paper during the bad weather. Many in Ms. Newton's neighborhood did not have power or cable for 4-5 days, and they expressed their gratitude for getting their paper. I had to park my car on the few accessible streets, and walk the majority of my route in snow gear. I like to think that I provided great customer service, going "the extra mile". By the way, I was able to drive to Ms. Newton's residence.

I appreciate Ms. Newton's compliment.

Tim


If you present yourself as a moral teacher, while simultaneously acting immorally, why should anyone take you seriously?


Thanks Trump!

Anyone tired of winning yet?


Baloney. You can jigger the numbers all you want, Harper still ends up on the bottom. You must be completely underwater.


I can see both sides of this but if a patient no longer needs the level of care that a hospital provides, why is it the hospital's job to find another facility for the patient?  Isn't that the responsibility of:

- the patient
- the patient's family
- the patient's doctor
- the local health authority


...I guess sometimes there REALLY ARE people in the trees!


Gun manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, removing health coverage for 32 million, should I continue?


Trump will play his "Art of the Steal"

 No matter what - it will be ugly!


Even if one agrees with what you think is the cause, you still have to live with the fact you don't care about the plight of disabled people. Maybe you have no problem living with that, but that is sociopathic.


Because it was 2015!


'
…likely more cultured than the dingbat country you came from James.
.


I suspect that in the end, the US will assume that debt rather than have the Court cancel it. The EU should do the same for Greece.

Alito likely remembers reading the paper in college. It is easy misquote something read years ago. Either that, or he has some very partisan law clerks feeding him this information.

The Anglicans have an Africa problem. So do we if Cardinal Sarah is an example. More than a mileia ago, all of Africa was given to the Copts. Lamberh and Rome should honor that agreement now instead of trying to cope with the traditionalism of the African Church.

The heros of Las Vegas show the Lord is still with us, although it may not be with the NRA, which still wants to let insane people buy guns. Like insisting that there is no global warming, that view could only be supported by a real moron.


Tell that to Tatyana Felgenhauer , Yulia Latynina and Oleg Kashin


You assume I would have voted for a person of name with zero substance like Trudeau. At least I could have voted a Trudeau government had I wanted to whereas how many Trumpsters on G&M's comment page have the right to vote in the US?


Diesel is carcinogenic, it should be banned from domestic use.

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What VW did was completely wrong. Customers should get complete refunds.


Actually, it was time for a change a couple chiefs ago.  The last two were pretty bad!


So we have the options of creating a single payer national system or we can pay for the deadbeats without insurance again.  I hear the single payer thing works great in 37 countries with better care than the USA and it costs a third as much.


Well said. Cue the hashtags about diversity from Trudeau and like-minded champions of #progressive naivety who prefer short-sighted idealism instead of addressing issues staring everyone in the face on a daily basis.  We can't talk about the double standard that affords different religions more "sensitivity" because political correctness and #becauseit's2017 demands as much as if certain religions are beyond reproach in terms of critical analysis or even satire and comedy.
Let's hope for a speedy recovery to those injured, especially the officer. Let's hope the accused is held within the general population of the jail so he can get properly acquainted with his fellow inmates.


"DG: what a load."

The load is what you carry. I hope you let it go.


If you can't afford a good house in TO then  get a job where houses are cheaper.


"The competition in the marketplace, Kennedy said, would “lower costs for all health care consumers.”"
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Is a Democratic candidate for Governor in Colorado advocating that competition in the healthcare market place would lower cost for consumers?
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That would seem to go against the universal single-payer zealotry continually spewed on this forum.


My veracity was not only proven but upheld by SCOTUS.   Yours on the other hand is in tatters and you’re stopping to ad hominem attacks.


Again, don't forget Hawker.


You're missing the point so I'm finished with this conversation


Without a strong, debt payback economy everything that we have the privilege to debate in this country (multiculturalism, immigration, etc) would be fruitless.   If Kevin O'Leary is the person that can deliver this than I want him to be our next PM.  We can no longer afford to live off of the credit cards of our children.


There is no reason to not sell the arms and take the money.
This played out in the G&M as a series of lies, contradictions and denials by Canadian politicians that resulted in finally just changing the "strongest export controls" in the world in a sordid attempt to make the sale less repulsive.
And more importantly, Canadians heap as much praise on themselves as they did before the sale. Article writers continue to write the same holier than thou junk with the same smugness as they ever did. This sale, including the circus that led up to it, made a shambles of a whole host of supposed Canadian values that separate Canada from the rest of the world. And life goes on exactly as if the sale never happened. The monopoly on virtue held by Canada continues exactly as before.


"Notice how Old Soul likes to reveal the names of other posters while hiding behind a moniker himself. It makes him feel big."
Said the man who has hidden behind countless monikers himself.
And god, you quite successfully outed yourself to those here who didn't already know who who you are.
As for Gary Crum, EricNorstrog and Paul Scott, those are the real names of those respective posters. Just as Charlie is my real name.


Such a beautiful example of where we all could be, if only we obediently followed the teachings of the Bishops.


You got to ask yourself why so many of you abuse drugs. It is your problem because nobody are against you for banning the drugs and rounding up the drug users.

Blaming everyone else is a popular western culture, but it only makes you feel good for now, nothing else.


Mark, there's been no published evidence in support of the AGW hypothesis. I can't cite negative (a lack of) evidence, that's the whole point; a lack of evidence. There's just nothing positive, no confirming observation.

Physics, and specifically thermodynamics, are evidence based sciences. If a person advances a hypothesis, they're required to present a repeatable experiment that supports it, or at the very least repeatable observation of the natural world. That hasn't happened.

Can you cite a single published paper that has repeatably shown a causal relation between CO2 and temperature? No. You can't. None exist.

It's not the job of a critique to prove the AGW hypothesis wrong; it's the job of the investigator to prove it right. That's the fundamental mechanism of the scientific method.


"Exercising one's right to freedom of speech is exactly something that the American flag stands for."
So that's why alt left protesters burn it.


"consider the ineffiencies and losses of producing and transporting gasoline from extracted, transported and transformed petroleum."

The same could be said about virtually all electricity generation, be it hydro, wind, solar or coal.  There are inefficiencies is all supply chains, and that was my point.

ICEs and their supply chains are not 100% efficient, but neither are electric.  Supporters of electric cars seem to 'skim over' these facts.


Trudeau's government knows what the majority of Canadians believe about this issue and they need to act immediately (regardless of upsetting their base):
1) Amend laws to close the safe 3rd country loophole.
2)Strengthen border controls to turn away illegal migrants at the border (use the military if necessary).
3)Set up detention facilities for illegal migrants (with no chance of public release until a hearing). 4)Strengthen deportation laws to reduce perpetual appeals and streamline deportations.
The cbc and Globe are trying to push a narrative that attempts to legitimize doing nothing under compassionate grounds. That view is completely disconnected from reality.
The vast majority of Canadians want the Government to stop illegal crossings immediately. The mandate to act is there. Trudeau needs to act now otherwise this issue will grow exponentially as the word is getting out that anyone can jump the cue with impunity. Europe's policies have failed, Canada still has time to act.


No comprende


And this relates to the story at hand how?


I can't figure out for the life of me why this article focuses on this madman's personal finances instead of his blatant act of domestic terrorism. He is a thuq, without morals, and a TERRORIST.


Publicity stunt comes to mind.


I would plead guilty even if there were no witnesses. Most would plead not guilty to see it they could get away with it.


It's a shell game, a 3-card-monte scam, it's a "we will give you the crumbs while we steal the whole pie" con and these Trumpkins are too stupid to see it.....


If Alaskans ever drilled an exploration oil well and found oil and sold the oil for a profit that would be a first in the state's history!! Michael Albertson please prove me wrong, you can't do it can you? In Texas is a state the people are allowed to own the mineral rights and the citizens sell oil and make money! Many other states do it also, it happens all the time please if these terms are so good then come on cowboy drill a well and eat the food the state is selling and see if you are happy!!


Hillary isn't an active politician at this point and Bill... well who knows what he's up to?   I lost my attraction to Clintons long ago. I've always resented that Hillary and the Dems, thought she was 'entitled' to the nomination.   It was classic partisan politics and yet another example of how power/wealthy corrupts democratic process that work on the assumption of equality.

*By actively blocking independents (NA) in Oregon from having any say in the selection of candidates, both parties assure that they don't really care for the opinion of over 30% of Oregons registered voters.   If you include those who are not registered, but eligible to vote, The Party is not down to selecting candidates with less something around only 30% of the public having any input at all.

Hillary's character has zero to do with Trumps demeaning comments and bullying, let alone any influence on his foreign or domestic policies.

I understand the double standard/hypocracy.    It's a valid point.


"Whining is such a demeaning quality in a man."
Such a sexist comment. Oh right, you're male bashing so it's ok (by you).


The garbage left around the site after this event is appalling. This "festival" needs to go elsewhere.


Sorry but where have they indicated that they are going to squeeze the middle class with tax increases?

Only in your imagination?


Bonnie Cler  needed to mind her own business. It's none of her business how harsh the world was or who needed to think for them. I think the dad did exactly what he needed to do to raise the children into responsible, self productive adults. Her opinion as a youth leader was not needed or deserved. Good job dad!


Every school in the U.S. should have a garden.  There's tons of lessons that can be derived from gardening, from the actual planting of seeds.. to cooking.. healthy eating...budgetary, and even selling & marketing.


There has been some uncertainty about ultimate authorship, but consensus seems to have formed that it was Gerson's largely, especially given his theological framework. Regardless, the point remains that Gerson himself was a major contributor to the rhetoric used by George Bush that Civilta links with the "ecumenism of hate" it criticizes. On that basis, I think it is a weakness of the article that it doesn't recognize that Gerson's worldview is precisely what causes him to be such a trenchant critic of Trump (not to mention engage other activities such as Bush's work on AIDS with Bono in Africa). There are other examples that could be mentioned as counterpoints: Dr. Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention comes to mind.


Thanks for the source.  First, let's refresh our memories with a quote of the questioned statement.
"They promised to oppose everything Trump wanted regardless of qualifications."
Now let's read closely.
"he'll vote against nearly all of President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees"
So it is not all the appointees but "nearly" all.  If you were talking about appointees its a reasonable mistake.  Equating the statement to oppose all Trump's appointments to "everything Trump wanted" however is an unreasonable extrapolation that applies to more than just the appointees.  I don't see it as supporting a blanket statement of general obstructionism.
However, you also claimed that the opposition is "regardless of qualification."  In fact, Schumer states it is BECAUSE of their qualifications, or lack thereof, that he oppose them.
"The nominees "have repeatedly shown they will not put the American People or the Laws of our nation first, and I will vote against their confirmations," Schumer wrote."


"Why can't we get that kind of "socialists"?"

We would need an entirely new political party to represent such views, or alternatively to have one of our existing parties change their views dramatically.  Currently none of our parties is all that well aligned with the Scandinavian economic models, and it is tough to even judge who might be closest as, on some matters, the Conservatives are most closely aligned while on other matters the NDP would  be most closely aligned.

In any case, when you look at the big picture Canada's in a comparable position to Norway, we just have more of our wealth held in private funds  (RRSPs, pension plans, etc.) and less in a sovereign wealth fund.  Total net worth per capita of Canadians and Norwegians is comparable.


What's oblivious about it?  That you can't provide a response based on fact and logic rather than knee-jerk emotion?

And do you have any integrity around your choices are do you just like to complain about what others do?  They pointed out the hypocrisy evident in society and it sounds like you don't have an answer for it.


not quite Lazeelink....the 2nd Amendment refers to a "well regulated" militia, Chapter 13 refers to the 2 classes of militia in which all able-bodied males between 17 and 45 are classified as members, the organized militia encompassing the National Guard and the Naval Militia , and the "unorganized militia", who are all members of the militia not members of the Guard or the Naval militia.

There is nothing in the 2nd amendment that magically de-links private ownership of firearms from association with membership in a well-regulated or organized militia in time of insurrection or external threat. You are correct...you are not compelled to join the  militia...but the private ownership of weapons was clearly to support their use within the bounds of membership in the militia under regulation in time of threat ...it has nothing to do with self defense from the neighbour or the right to carry a Glock into Wal-Mart


It will always be around as long as you have myopic, spineless leaders that wouldn't recognize a tyrant if they kicked them in the rear!


What a great Series! Total score for the 7 games...Chicago 27....Cleveland 27.


Sounds good on this. If food sources play such a large part in antler size, you could have a legal moose one year, and with less browse available in that area the next year, he could have a smaller set of antlers, even if he had the same number of points as last year. Going with three different markers for a 'legal' moose would help. I've played the game of 'is it legal' only to watch as someone who was closer to the moose determined it was and dropped him just down the slope from me. Very sad hunting trip that year.


An alien who is law abiding is not and can never be confused with an alien criminal.  An alien criminal is an alien who has committed a crime or crimes and can not and can never be confused with all law abiding aliens.


Yep. I actually feel much better about their chances against the Raiders now. Broncos should be humbled and pissed off..instead of smug and self satisfied.


I lost my boyfriend to another Girl, i was so heart broken.. I was in PAINS.. physically hurts in the chest.... emotionally distraught...wish there was a pill or shot to take that would make you feel all better..but today, OMG this is exactly how I feel..I feel so happy, i contact dr.mack in regard of getting my boyfriend back and Dr.mac@yahoo. com reunited i and my boyfriend together with his powers,


"That means housing, by any reasonable interpretation of the law..."

No, that would be an unreasonable interpretation of the law, which is why the DHHL has failed so miserably in its primary mission, explained very well here by DiverDave.


God bless um!


"If there is one institution in the U.S.  that should 'get the money,' it's public education."

Hear hear, Frank!  One of the most on-point articles I've ever read in the ADN.  Nice job.


That is isn't a Muslim ban or that Muslim countries don't allow Israeli citizens to enter.  I've heard both arguments from the Trumpkins.


Thanks, RD.  This is an interesting point of history and theology.  It's not an area in which I read much, but I will pay better attention when I do read about it.

I was wondering why it took so long for your post to appear.  I knew from my  Activity feed (if that's the right term) that you had posted a response, but I checked the board several times without finding it.

I think probably it wasn't NCR that deemed it uncivil, but one of our peers. I think sometimes folks hit the Uncivil button if they don't like the content of a post, sometimes even if the content doesn't bother them, but the poster does. I also think -- here giving the benefit of the doubt -- that sometimes folks hit the Uncivil button in error.

Anyway: thanks for re-posting.
Peace!


GBA- I fail to see how your numbers work for the middle class?? My 60k income is taxed at 30%+ every year.


He finished 15th out of 17. Coverage of the event was a joke. Golf is so desperate to have Tiger back.


Popo hunting season is now officially open in Maryland. 3 bags per person.


"It is unclear how Burnham, a Roman Catholic, has come to the conclusion that Salman Abedi is 'not a Muslim.'

https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/manchester-mayor-muslim-terrorist-not-a-muslim?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=052417crcontentemail&utm_campaign=newslettertraffic

No...I think it is very clear.  Very.

"Andy Burnham was elected Manchester’s mayor on May 5. Less than three weeks later, his city has suffered a massive Islamic terror attack that killed scores of innocent teenage girls. All indications appear to say that Burnham will continue to engage in willful blindness and coddle radical Islamists, much to the detriment and safety of his citizens."


How can you say "cheating and using the law"?  Same rhetoric the government is using.  These issues are part of the current tax system.  No one is "cheating" and these are not "loopholes" regardless of our opinions.


Is there any proof these kids were murdered, and that they were killed because they're Native?
Suicide is terrible, but to accuse "White" society of murder is a bit over the top.


Here's how:

"COMEY: ... I asked a friend of mine to [leak] ... because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel."

Mueller should resign and Trump should replace him with the most credible person he can find.


Funny - for all of us who think this is sad... the problem is not enough of us are spending money in the stores we think are important to have available to us.  This trend will continue if all we do is continue to want the absolute lowest price for everything we buy.


What this town needs is a law against rape in public restrooms.


So Trump campaigned for deregulation... get the government out of the way of business.  But, he wants to scrap free trade agreements and, now he wants to manipulate prices charged by drug companies.  He has and likely will continue to bully car companies, and other businesses, into keeping or moving their plants to the U.S..  Which is it, Donald?  Free enterprise, or continuing to insert the government into business where you think it's popular to do so?


But Putin's Russia claims the legacy of the farthest left -- USSR.


Funny that Ike didn't ever mention the gas chambers etc


I posit that if every Canadian driver made a commitment to burn one litre less gasoline per week it would do more good for the environment than all the blathering of militant academics.  I do not have a crystal ball so cannot pretend to know the future.  All I have to go on are the facts available to all.  How future people will make steel or fly planes is a mystery to both you and I, if we're honest.  And yes, I know about ostriches but it is a common analogy that even the dimmest protester can readily comprehend(I hope, sigh).


It is possible that they were coming from some kind of dressy meal.  I know that the current students are pictured in jeans.  On other hand, it could be who is replying as to how they are recruiting.  I will pass along your observation.


This isn't the first time that Burke had opposed Pope Francis.  On the eve of the Episcopal Synod of October 2014, he was one of five authors who published a book [Permanere nella virita di Cristo] "To remain in the truth of Christ".  In it they emphasized that they are 'united in firmly maintaining that the new Testament portrays Christ UNAMBIGUOUSLY prohibiting divorce and remarriage.  In plain words----They accord themselves all rights and privileges of their state----but those laity,  who have marital problems aren't to be even given a sympathetic ear.  They fail in the service of the people---no compassion and no mercy.

Burke certainly deserves  to be included in the title of 'bad shepherds who load crushing burdens onto the shoulders of folk without lifting a finger to help them bear it." [Pope Francis' comments at the Inaugural Mass on October 5, 2014].  He is nothing else but an ecclesiastical businessman.


The Democratic Party doesn't control the money donated to individual candidates.  Once again, that is the money I am talking about in Governor Brown's case.


We shall await these jobs to appear then. Great non-sequitur, by the way.


hard to believe but now listen. I was next door at 24 hr fitness. It was crazy but I didnt realize it would be this close to me. I had complained to the Thornton police dept,,, ya you cop guys go thru your records , Im the guy that called to complain TO THE SARGENT that shit was out of control and we got robbed, keys * wallett's jacked and managers might be in on it and that guns and gangs are involved , poss hostage, ya that nut job guy who called you guys.
Cops couldnt catch the gang, cpl hombres robbing club members so we caught him, yup, sh*t broke out and he was arrested , so its been retaliation now on this area. They're tagging, spitting gum everywhere, walmart-24 hr fitness-and local biz have been hit last wk. 24 hr gym members been packing pistol and AK in the trunks.
How do I know it before it happens, photoshop forensic expert, class is rite here in denver. Go to car race each lap get faster, cars start sliding you know a wreck is about to happen.


Maybe Doug Chin will file  a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Porsche drivers!


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"Trump disbands business councils after CEOs exit in protest"

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Crude, ham-fisted censorship from a crude, ham-fisted man.

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Y'all could go to Sweet Home.


It is plain and evident. You have to present facts to argue. Alt right did not invite KKK or Nazis, or Antifa or BLM for that matter. Those groups showed up separately, and Antifa sprayed people with acid, blinding a man.


Blessed are the meek? An you write this article. So puffed up with yourself.  Have mercy. Your lack of understanding of law is evident. You're entitled to your opinion and I AM entitled to my personal security. Get out of politics dear one. You haven't a clue


Dear Emily, how your energetic spirit roused us!  Heaven better be prepared to have things shaken up with you on the job!  Down here we'll try to carry on your example.  The tears in our eyes are because we miss you so.


I confess my post is more Syria oriented than Crimea. Would it have been better to say Ukraine? Perhaps I could replace Crimea with Ukraine. But then, as you say, there are various parties.

Then I read your response concerning Syria. In the midst of the bombing and destruction of 2016, to describe Syria's government as a democratically elected one when al-Assad, himself, ran unopposed and is presiding over the destruction of a whole culture, well, it's is a little like saying to the bombed cities of Germany in 1944-45 that, in the mid-1930s, they democratically elected their ... what is it? Chancellor? Those are facts that become pretty well meaningless truths. Had Hitler not killed himself, I'd say he would not have won re-election in early 1945, and I suspect it's the same with al-Assad today.

I'll stay with my Spanish Civil War comparison. That war was a key component of the  20th Century political history. In my opinion it has more learning value than WW 1&2 combined.


Mr Douglas!  Lovely to have you add your endless knowledge of history.  My heart aches for the Father left behind.  His whole life, gone in a flash.  Bottom line?  You will never experience this kind of crazy loss w/a knife or another instrument.  That kind of killing is much more full of 'reality' .....what a loss.  Lost.souls.rembrd


maintaining the small park as is, is the best plan instead of removing space for $$ blight.


Totally disagree. Junior is the worst we ever had.
Harper brought this country through the worst world recession unscathed with minimal fall out. Trudeau is working at plunging us back into it.


Check out "the Points Guy" and his website..

1. As much as possible, travel on points, not $$$.

2. Book through a partner..

A while back I went to San Diego, and used my Iberia membership (transferred points from a bank credit card), and it was fewer points than the actual plane logo (American), and double bonus - it was business class!

Most of the Airline groups have a few headliner partners, but then some junior ones, that are barely on the radar in North America...but each plane has a floating number of seats assigned to them...

So that AC plane travelling from Toronto to Los Angeles, also has United, etc., seats on it...and very often from a frequent flier perspective, can be had for a fraction of the number of points the actual planes' brand will charge for the exact same seat..

The weird thing? the 10:10 AM flight from YYZ to LAX on AC will be "sold out", or cost an insane amount of cash, with zero reward seats available...but the exact same plane booked though United will.


Men are known to be very fond of hoes.   They have a weakness for them.


Joe,  In my opinion, the $200 million dollars in “speaking fees” was for access to and influence of the federal government.  That was why Hillary used a private email server, and why thousands of emails were deleted.  In my opinion, the "free press" has almost completely ignored their responsibility to report it.  We are all in the same boat, and we are headed for trouble.


When can we move to sue Kathleen Wynne for gross negligence, accounting fraud and malfeasance?


Actually at current pay rates in BC a NP makes the same or more than a family physician.  Wonder why there is a shortage of family physicians?


I've never seen such socialist, anti-American drivel with the exception, I guess, of the flag burning radicals in the 1960's. But its much more widespread and institutionalized now days. Back then almost any member of the NFL, more than likely, would have kicked another  team members rear-end for doing something so disrespectful. They would have been ashamed of that member and  not praising him to the  high hills.  Just another 'sign' of the times and how far we've 'fallen'. And we're still falling...
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Yes, they have the right to disrespect our flag and stomp on everything it stands for. NFL football 'players' have that right unlike at Berkeley, where free speech is only for those who have  similar leftist viewpoints.  If the rest of America decided to 'act' with the same  manner of 'tolerance' as some  students at  Berkeley do, those football players would be in jail right now. They really would.


Well during this period of hesitancy into unknown, there's nothing to stop a little profiting!


Would that actually do anything to reduce PERS liabilities? If you lay off government employees (which could be a fine idea on its own merits) then the next budget would shrink accordingly. That would produce a kicker returned to citizens rather than spare money that could be directed to PERS.


Black and brown males are unjustly targeted by police in general -- we all know this. So wouldn't this happen in schools as well? Schools should feel like safe places for everyone.


I'm not necessarily comfortable with a lot of things. I just don't see that Johnson & Co(or whatever flavor of Libertarianism is being espoused ) is an improvement over the status quo. So to become electable he has to become more mainstream, so what? We've got mainstream.  And to think that the two major parties would work with Johnson so he could be sucessful is rather naive IMO.  I think he could be useful opening up some dialogs on some issues, but beyond that not so much.


I don't believe that some should get faster and better care because they have money. If two people walk in with the same condition they should be treated the same way. The Canadian healthcare system is one of the best in the world. We have excellent health outcomes. No it isn't perfect, but commoditizing health is not a solution.


Deforestation is a main cause of climate change and the Tongass is our last remaining coastal rainforest. Its in the public's best interest to let it stand.    This forest is the most cost effective way to combat our changing climate!  And we have an obligation to pass it on to the next generation - fully functioning - with all life supporting eco-systems fully intact.  It takes hundreds of years (perhaps thousands) to grow a forest. The Tongass is over 2000 years old!


As a student at UAA I'd just like to point out that not everyone at the school supports or agrees with this piece of art as some of you have grouped us. I would also like to say that this is art, maybe not as a whole but the detail and painting itself is really well done. I am not an art student and have never taken a class by this professor but from what his students have told me he doesn't push his political opinions on them. This painting was done outside of class hours and beyond the knowledge of students. A university is supposed to support the difference of opinions and art promotes freedom of expression. I personally don't have a problem with the painting at all. I think people get too wound up about their political affiliations and it creates too much conflict. The painting in itself is just another opinion, just like all of the comments here. If you have a problem with it then don't look at it.


Rottenest. President (illegitimate). Ever.


This was in the past?  Everything that has ever happened is in the past Mr. Lattimer.  Just like your short career with the Broncos.


Which would imply Germany is raising the value of the Euro


Kemalists should not have marginalized "pious" Turks. Kemalists were arrogant and are now paying the price. But I am no fan of Erdogan's either. I spent three years in Turkey, a deeply divided society -- but almost evenly divided, making for continual social friction.


LOL, a "conversation with the Prime Minister".

What a joke. You think Justin actually understands what it's like to try to survive in your own business, not on salary?  You think he cares?  They are all just tax cheats to him, and he needs their money to finance some other Liberal waste.


Letting journalists hide behind a paywall because they don't like being criticized doesn't do much to encourage public trust in traditional media.


Another Coward.