Appealing to a Republicans “ true self” and “ideals”  is not only redundant but counter productive:  Trumpism IS their true identity and expression of what passes for ideals in the GOP. Please don’t encourage them to express it more fully. It’s already killing the country.


"So was the MIT physicist experienced in care and maintenance of anything beyond his house ?"

Let's see what Ernest Moniz's Wikepedia bio says...

"Moniz joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973, serving as head of the Department of Physics from 1991 to 1995 and as director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. He co-chairs the MIT research council. He served in the Clinton administration as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President from 1995 to 1997. Moniz worked in the United States Department of Energy, serving as Under Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 2001."

And you, g.d.?


Imagine that the US Supreme Court didn't decide (5-4) that 'money is speech' in Citizens United so that corporations and PACs and Unions can spend unlimited and uncontrolled amounts of money.

Just like gay marriage, five Supreme Court Justices changed the law for the entire country even though voters throughout the entire United States and in many States had voted the other way.

Sometimes those five Justices rule the ways you like, sometimes they don't.

Either way, those five people decide for 300 million other people.


Trump is the type that would sacrifice Alaska to N. Korea over this. He's that petty.


The post"ers about stopping the race really have no clue about dogs. I raced greyhounds 30 yrs. ago and I still remember how excited they where came race time. Everyone of the 60 would jump up and down and go crazy at that time of day, they lived for it. So without the race most would not even be born. The question is live and be excited or to not have lived at all. Bleeding hearts mean well, but really are clueless


Hello Franklin Galvin,

Thank you for beaming your comment from way back there in 1998.

Let us know when you reach 2017, where the computer age has long been a part of health care.


I encourage you to sign the petition!


The Affordable Care Act was headed in the right direction, and you should pay closer attention to what your Republicants brethren are doing rather than what they're saying.  The Republicants in congress NEVER cared diddly about the nation's healthcare system.  All they want to do is dismantle Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the EPA, and the DOE.


Since we're on the subject, let's have DOT Harbors replace their rusting fireboat that was taken out of service in 2014. Earlier this year, Harbors' said there was "no need" for a fire boat since sprinklers were common. Not so on the 100+ wooden boats; the wooden piers; or waterfront where fuel and chemicals are transferred. Time to get serious on the subject before tragedy strikes. The legislature gives DOT $500K annually, but DOT diverts it elsewhere.


"Nicholas prefers they, them and their." Those are plural pronouns. A person doesn't get to change the meaning of words just because he has some mental or emotional issues and feels like a victim.


If you hate living in a country ruled by the "masses", go live in North Korea.  Yes?


Too many out of control cars out here.


The two news agencies, Reuters (today) and Associated Press (yesterday) are getting REALLY STRANGE in their reporting of events in the USA.

Ever since Trump was elected, they keep calling EVERYBODY new in America as "immigrants".

NOT as "illegal immigrants". NOT as "undocumented immigrants". NOT as "undocumented aliens", NOT as "illegal aliens".

Nope. The press agencies are just calling them all "immigrants". You snuck into America from Mexico without documentation and committed felony crime in America? Voila, the media calls you an "immigrant".

Hello, media, including the Globe and Mail? You do realize, right, that what you are doing is pouring gallons of fuel into the fuels tank of the Trump supporters and hard right supporters, doing their work for them? Your propagandist and manipulative and agenda-driven wording in your journalism makes it all that much easier for them to persuade people to their side, be it in Cleveland or Dallas or Windsor or Edmonton.

Stop it.


While this sucks and is a huge black eye to UA, at the same time I'm equally as disgusted with UA itself. UAF and UAA building tens of millions of dollars in competing engineering buildings, UAA building a ridiculous sports center, UAF having two campuses, one just for all the administrators (at least that's what it feels like whenever I visit it). All the while moving more and more classes online where all you do is read the book, take a test, and get a grade, the exact kind of lack of engagement (and yet charging you even more for the class due to added technology fees) that is making a college degree more and more worthless everyday. It's amazing how we've come so far as a society without everyone needing an advanced degree and now there is the perception that you have to have a PhD just to look at and identify poop in the woods. We would be a lot better off focusing on fast-track, technical training that a lot of community campuses offer. I doubt this cut will fix that, though.


Wow...I can't believe that the Washington Post, from whom tis story is syndicated, is still talking about the "potty Dossier".  Wow. They are grasping at straws. Bezos is the devil.


BC residents enjoy some of the cheapest electricity in North America thanks to hydro.  This is a great advantage to potential investors.  Further, BC Hydro does not generate enough energy today to cover consumption.  They import from other jurisdictions, primarily Alberta and Washington.  We need more cheap power today and in the future.

I respect indigenous rights, but I also respect the Supreme Court that has said time and again that those rights can be infringed for the greater social good.  I don't know of a greater good than energy security, and no...it can't be replaced with wind or solar.  Google an Ontario Hydro site called Sygration to see how OPG can only use about 10% of their wind capacity.


The professor fails to make a case that debt is a frightening concern. While corporate debt has risen, one big reasons--share buy-back--and the fact that overall, business has significant cash reserves, it's more a good news/bad news scenario.  Meanwhile...

"The rapid growth of household debt is of much greater concern since borrowing is concentrated among younger households taking on large mortgages as well as student and credit-card debt, while the level of net debt is low among many older and more affluent households. Further, the largest chunk of household assets, housing, is not very liquid."

Well, amount aside, hasn't this always been the case?  30s-something households buying up tons of consumer goods partly because there are two little kids to house, feed, clothe and entertain. What's new? Large mortgages?  Mine seemed pretty large in 1980, too.  My parents had virtually no debt a few years later. Now that we're retired seniors, gee, my wife and I have no debt, either.


Cannabis social club is as oxymoronic as they come: I quit smoking dope decades ago because I didn't like being rendered catatonic. The wisdom coming from partakers was, likewise, less than illumination.  No wonder folk under 35 see pot as a drug for losers.


Or to be even more historically correct, what about "No Colored, No Dogs, No Irish."


Good governments take the best of liberalism with the best of conservatism, and work things out among themselves (the voters). When elections are subverted that chi is imbalanced.  Organized crime strengthens and you pay the price. United we stand!  Divided we fall!


Accountability should always be measured.  It's a part of life!


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"Wildlife officials were asked to bring their tranquilizing guns to the scene but refused to show up, citing risk to their officers."

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Why are we employing these guys?

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OK kids, pay attention now.  Eyes on the road.  While everyone is fascinated by the ongoing Dumpster Fire, this is when the shady deals take place.  Never let a crisis go to waste. Legislative session will be starting soon.  It's irresistible looking at a flaming wreck on the side of the road, but you can drive into the ditch while you're distracted.


Good. They should ban them. For life.


Yes, and I’m finding it way up my keister...


what's the tadoo?  The reality was stated quite clearly halfway through the article:
"The blade plant is situated in Tillsonburg’s southwestern corner and five minutes from its core. It was never meant to last forever. After opening in 2011, local partners were told it would operate until 2016"


An NDP gov't would tax something? No, really?

Oh man, can't these Liberal or NDP nincompoops do anything other than tax? Tragic.


No you aren't,
and,
No they don't.


I can't help but have the same reaction when I see your fantasy in print.

Your exploits as Deep Commando Agent of Covert Overt Operations Desert Toppings Nuts & Creme Code Silence are a living memorial to your physical & moral strength only surpassed by your truly great mind!
God bless you!


The DNC pays people to write letters to editors and troll message boards (and riot at Trump rallies). The incessant partisan spewing from garycrum can be explained by the fact that he's paid. But perhaps it's you.


Low oil prices does not affect the oil industry, because the Chief Executive Officer of BP, Bob Dudley, give himself a pay package of $20 million and the CEO of Tesoro, Gregory Goff, received $23 million in salary in 2015.


Hello Willamette Week, perhaps you would like to hire someone to read the articles before they are posted...
then you won't be saying one thing in the subhead: "The last anti-government militants have surrendered the federal buildings they held for nearly a month."
and another in the article: "The final holdouts have surrendered to the FBI at the federal bird sanctuary, 41 days after anti-government militant Ammon Bundy led a takeover of the refuge's empty headquarters."

Because... how many days do you think are in a month?


Paul Manafort owed 17 million dollars to pro-Russia interests before he became President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman last year.
Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin; according to the report, he alleged in 2015 that Manafort and his partners owed him $19 million in connection with a failed investment.
The news reported that Manafort closed several bank accounts with the Cyprus Popular Bank after it launched an internal investigation into possible money laundering.
Can you say indictment?


Northern Gateway would steer away the screams from Vancouver to a largely  uninhabited wilderness to Kitimat-yes a risk of spills but good management means this can be controlled. The Lower Mainland will now protest and try to stop Kinder Morgan- and drive to rallies in SUVs and bring sandwiches wrapped in plastic made from oil. Now what about Energy East--has Montreal ruined it ? Well the rail cars are still heading to Saint John- a pipeline is safer.  Can  Canadians ever agree on anything ?  Thanks Justin for a decision- now please get it done so there is money for David Suzuki's hip replacement  and Elizabeth May's prison costs !


Doyle is disturbed about an American woman being killed in Charlottesville in what may have been an act of white supremacist terror and quite unfazed that a Canadian man and at least a dozen other people were slain in Barcelona in what was undoubtedly an Islamist terrrorist atrocity, committed by an organized gang with allegiance to ISIS. He's the one who doesn't seem to be following the news cycle. Rob Ford is dead and can't defend himself. Quite revealing that Doyle would rather attack Ford's veracity than Trudeau's, even after what should have been Trudeau's career-ending slander of the Conservatives: saying that they had promised a headscarf ban in the 2015 election.


But Obamacare was sold to the sheep as a fix to the ER problem. So why has Obamacare not solved the issue allie?


Questions for Gov. Walker
Gov.: What is the penalty for violation of a written public policy “order” established by the voters in 1999 when 83% of us said don’t use the earnings of the PF to run state government?

Gov: Have you ever fired an employee for violating a written order or taking money from the till?

Do you reminder, you campaigned for “Rejecting the notion that Juneau politicians need to look at stealing money from your PFD or instituting a state income or sales tax in order to pay for their growing appetite to spend money we don’t have.”

Political comment: if all 60 legislators fail to overturn your PFD veto - those legislators who vote “NO” will summarily be punished in Nov.

Those voting “YES” to overturn will be come heroes and campaign for your impeachment.

In my opinion: Sir, you have earned impeachment: (A)For THREATENING 644,000 of us with a $4,000 [per house of 4] dollar PFD tax and/or (B) for IMPOSING the $4,000 PFD tax without a vote of the people.


they most likely were drinking buddies with the D/A or judge in this case..


Thanks. I hope you're right at Pence. Any ideas about how Trump's personal lawyer is paid? The Bar Association says Kasowitz is billed at $1500/hour and this week Trump's other personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has retained his own counsel. A good time to be a lawyer in DC, eh?


My bad. Filed.


he is on videotape saying he wanted to Russia to leak info on Clinton?  I didnt think someone could be this dumb until I read your post.


Fewer cattle - less Methane
Isn't that supposed to be a win?


The first part of the plan is easy: stop using the Presidency as a bully pulpit to favor some groups over others.  Statesmanlike approach?  You mean you want him to put on an act and pander to political correctness and how leftists and globalists think he should act?  Forget that.  Being a non-conformist, not aligning with any one group - even political party - is probably the most American thing about Trump and his plan to make the country great again.  .


Didn’t say he wasn’t working for the campaign...the charges however are totally unrelated to said campaign. The fake Trump dossier and the lies contained in it that the Clintons and Obama campaigns paid to foreign spy’s and Russian contacts (over $12,000,000) for were used as the premise to obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump and his campaign. THAT is a crime and a very big one and will be very bad for those involved mark my words...


So much for "inclusion".


"In the United States, immigration has increasingly become a question of national security." I don't think so. In the sense politicians on the stump express it this way, perhaps, but that is a mask. Visiting friends tonight from Upper Michigan, really nice folks.. It is clear that ordinary folks, including others we have talked to recently, are wanting to restrict immigration because they are racially bigoted, , full of hatred of others, fearful of other religions and colors. They have bought the classic Koolaid. Also voted form Trump because they could not vote for Hillary because of abortion, even abortions as late as nine months. Practicing Catholics, most generous, caring, genuine folks one could meet..

No N-words in this conversation but several folks used it at a meeting spouse was at, all US northerners down south.


I stopped shopping there because of being overcharged at the register so often due to their scanning "errors." (Not really errors, of course). I have since switched to Trader Joe's and Costco.  No need to go back to WF. They are not much more than a fashion statement.  You can buy organic and good foods anywhere, now.  Why bother with them?


Exactly! These people calling Lynch a bust might be right...but honestly, before you call a buy a bust don't you think he should be allowed to play in more than two games?

He was a known project out of college. He has had to learn his third offense in three years. He has NOT been able to practice with the first team guys on a regular basis like Siemian has.

He needs a chance to play and make mistakes and learn from them. He was not good last year when he did play, but he was not nearly as bad as everyone says he was.

I cannot think of a QB in recent history that was drafted in the 1st round that did not get a chance to play into his second year unless he was behind a really good QB. Lynch is NOT behind a really good QB.

I said at the time that Siemian was announced the starter that he won the QB competition fair and square but that did NOT mean that starting Siemian was the best idea. Denver needs to find out if Lynch can play. They will not find out if he sits behind a bad QB.


The Scottish Anthem "Flower of Scotland"" says it all"

Dump England and go it alone or with the EU.


Still due to < user deleted >.

Define winner.


What a typical leftie comment. Its not my fault, sniffle, society made me this way, sniffle, those damned right wingers they MADE me shoot them, sniffle.


So were "your people", Motley. Enslavement of one kind or another has been an element of human civilization in every culture since at least the Bronze age. Cities required intensive agriculture which required slaves. Mining and quarrying required slaves. Monumental architecture required slaves. Navigation required slaves.

Furthermore, since you can't know whether anyone's remote ancestor sold humans into slavery (and that includes any of your remote ancestors) there is no purpose in making that unprovable accusation except as an insult.


You said "the highest in the country." Still waiting for that proof.


Good strong gal this Loretta Sheehan. Hopefully she can succeed where Jeff Portnoy tried. Welcome to Hawaii, Supergirl.


Yes, and I hate them. They make it very difficult to see down the block and determine whether or not a car is coming. They are the same wave lengths as modern bike lights, so we get lost in the glare, and even on the bike paths they are blinding. (Add in the fact that some idiot put them in what should be the clear-zone of the bike path so that they present a substantial additional hazard in the event of a mishap, and I'm really, really not a fan.)

As far as cyclists being especially vulnerable, when all things are considered, being in a car is equally dangerous as being on a bike on a per hour basis, and much more dangerous from the standpoint of traumatic brain injuries. Crashes can kill or maim no matter one's mode, but cyclists have better ability to avoid them than motorists. We all have an interest in safe roads, but for some reason many motorists resist the low-hanging fruit of removing dangerous drivers by increasing patrols.


You guys should get a room.  Sounds like two kids playing the rubber and glue game.


Populism has negative connotations because it's often based upon ill considered viewpoints.

There's nothing wrong with a sense of pride in your country, however when you start to think you're better than others, that's an issue.

Populism is the politics of Rob Ford, uneducated, inarticulate, ineffective and counter productive to society.

The biggest issues facing Canadians is climate change, and unemployment due to lack of skills and education.

The old high pay, low skill jobs have been absorbed by automation, the government needs to get going on re-training workers and providing more STEM education, at lower cost to a wider group of Canadians.


Why?  Somebody is stupid enough to pay you tonnes of dosh, take the $ and run, laugh your head off.


duped, hornswaggled, intellectually defrauded, .....there are many phrases which describe the process Trump used to convince voters he was the "savior" of the country.....I think they're all quite accurate.  People actually accepted Trump as a "populist".....in fact he's about as far from a true populist as possible.  Trump was born into the wealthy, elite class and has never actually "worked" for a living in his life.  He's used selective bankruptcy as a tool which has bilked small businesspersons and workers out of millions of dollars.  Indeed, he's "fooled" and continues to fool many Americans.  (cont)


When I lived up in those regions, I learned that many if not most of the lakes have ice-covered deepest parts all year.  I heard of drownings that happened when an otherwise strong swimmer entered one of these frigid-water areas carelessly.  It only took moments, I was told, for hypothermia to begin to weaken muscles.


You haven't told a fact yet. I'm not sure you can recognize one.

It is disturbing that you can't admit that. Your blind persecution (proven in this string alone) of me is both childish and frightening. The hatred drips from every remark you make to me. I am actually becoming worried about you.


Keela Kaanui - sea level has been rising at an increasing rate before Trump and has nothing to do with Trump's presidency.
Hawaii does not produce coal.
Moreover, coal production in the 21st Century involves "Clean Coal Technology" which generally involve capturing the CO2 and other pollutants before, during or after, combustion.


Great article.


FireFox -

If you don't recognize that Tabatha Southey is a columnist, not a reporter, then you've failed in your role as a consumer of media.  You have a role too - to consider the source of anything you read.  Before we blame 'fake news', perhaps we should consider 'idiotic readers' whom don't bother to check the source and nature of whatever he or she is reading.

Southey's writings are commentary.  Clearly and plainly.

Do you also mistake the comics as journalism?  Are you upset with Dilbert, Andy Cap, and Garfield too?


The deputy WILL have a plausible and believable "story", regardless of what happened.  That you can bet on.


Almost all these incumbents are getting exactly what they deserve.  Alaskans are right to be worried about our economic future.  The people FIRED by voters created a $3.5 billion dollar deficit by giving away our oil and growing spending un-sustainably.  These incumbents paid themselves lavish per diem and behaved so arrogantly and incompetently that they are making Alaska political "leadership" look like something one might expect in some sort of third world banana republic.

Thank you voters!  And thanks to the reporters of the Alaska Dispatch who made Alaskans well acquainted with the bad behavior of these legislators.

Come November, there will be even more firings!


62% of Snowflakes wouldn't give more than $10 to toward a climate change cause and think Bill Nye the Science Guy is real according to Rush Limbaugh who lives only yards from the rising ocean and enjoys a spectacular carbon footprint although not as big as Leo DiCaprio's.


Love you Walker! Not always but you have just earned my vote of confidence and it won't be forgotten.  Now you incompetent people that voted to buy that illegitimate monstrous shrine,  I won't forget your names either and I hope you never get to serve the great people of Alaska ever again.


Unlike your hero Trump, who's tremendously altruistic.


i can tell there is no orignal thought in that guys comment


Okay, so you and all the people who feel that way... make it happen.

You might find that the "Good People of Eugene" won't show up. But PLEASE, by all means, prove me wrong. Take my advice and schedule it on a weekend, since you folks are always so busy "at your jobs." lol


"I share this because I doubt that I'm the only overachieving activist who is vulnerable to being both discouraged, and mean-spirited toward my political opposites."

I appreciate that. I've been thinking a lot lately about how unsettled my spirit is with what's going on in Washington and the world. I hate that President Trump and his caustic way of dealing with reality has become so much a part of my consciousness, and I hate even more that my impulse has become to respond in kind. I know that's a downward spiral of futility.

Knowing how to confront all this negativity without being consumed by it is a challenge and, at the moment, I have no answers, other than to retreat more conscientiously into personal prayer. At least within my own spirit it is quiet, and that's a commodity in short supply these days.


Most of these illegal border crossers will be deported and those that stay will not be citizens in time to vote in 2019. I suspect that Somalis, for example, don't all vote the same way.


Frankly, I doubt that freedom has ever strengthened religion. Religions typically come into existence and become strong and resilient in times of of oppression, loss of infrastructure, loss of land, etc. Religions like western Christianity certainly grew and established themselves along with the rise of western nations, but they have become religions that cannot really survive without protection.

Religions are what bring people hope when nothing else brings hope. When government and other forms of power are on your side, your religious community will tend toward a social club or worship club or what have you.


If I understand you correctly, what you are talking about is a government similar to what we have today in terms of "basic safety net", but which will be less "social conservative" and will abolish things like drug prohibition and alcohol over-regulation.


The left has spent years attacking and harrassing Conservatives on campus.  When the right fights back they all feign victimhood.  They started this.  It's past time Conservatives started playing by their rules.


AT,  If the "conspiracy" is true, Trump has done nothing illegal or unethical, just plain ol' great politics.  If it isn't true, even better.  It is a win/win for Trump and his supporters.  While it has taken a few exchanges, SD is acknowledging this.  Sometimes one just has to accept the victory and prepare for the next battle.


This technique can be done without the stock.


From the findings of the Center for Security Policy’s survey of Muslims in America - *a majority (51%) agreed that “Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.”
And: *Nearly one-fifth of Muslim respondents said that the use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make shariah the law of the land in this country.


Polanski's charge was a bum rap.


By the way, "involuntarily" is defined under the original native Hawaiian contact with white folks like you.  The procedure is to prepare an imu and to consume the offending party.  Captain James Cook was the first to experience this type of deportation order.  Much like the episode of the Twilight Zone, "To Serve Man", the Hawaiians were the first to publish the "Cook Book". You sound so delicious. LOL!!!!!!


Use Electricity?  You're Getting the Bill For Trump's Coal Scam.

How great is that?

The Trump administration wants to force electricity customers to pay for a $10.6 billion annual bailout of the failing coal industry through surcharges on their monthly energy bills.

The quietly announced proposal will require electricity ratepayers to fully underwrite the coal scam.

 How lucky is that ?, …you lucky winners.

Praise Trump.


These provocations can only go so far and for only so long.  Push the Japanese hard against the wall with a clear and looming risk of nuclear annihilation, then Kim Jong-un will regret it should Japan - constitutional renunciation of war or not - commit to a crash program to field a nuclear warhead in the megaton range.  Unlike North Korea's best efforts so far, a Japanese nuclear weapon, whether delivered to Pyongyang by aircraft or missile, is not likely to miss or prove a dud.


What puzzles me most is this racist notion that science is tainted by the prejudice of pale white males. The history of science is replete with scientists who risked their reputations on giving women and other races a shot at a time when it was considered taboo. They knew that the scientific endeavours of their protégés would stand up to ruthless scrutiny, and they did.

It's precisely because science transcends cultural prejudice that Raju is welcome to publish is corrections of Einstein's work. Einstein is noted for having been wrong empirically very few times. Notably once when he thought he was wrong on the cosmological constant.

There seems to be a distinction between scientific literates who reject Raju's pipe dreams, and literary intellectuals who are not equipped to verify his claims who want to fix something that isn't broken with what amounts to Lysenkoism. Understanding science requires thinking, so the path of least resistance is opting for the ideologically expedient.


When will the perjury trial begin?


Nicolas,you bring up some very interesting & plausible thoughts. Uncontradicted evidence at trial showed that Rudy was continually extremely abusive to Della & a police recording of Della at the hospital (also at trial) just prior to her death demonstrated that she said if she was ever found dead that "Rudy killed me".  Lets not forget about that serial rapist Greg Poindexter that was preying & raping Alaska Native females immediately around that timeframe. He was eventually convicted & shown to have homicidal ideations by trained professionals. May I add that he attacked & beat a DOC guard while in custody shortly after they arrested him, & the guard couldn't return to work due to extensive injuries. Poindexter lived on the next block over from where Della's body was discovered. Both were considered alternative suspects at trial after extensive evidence was presented showing their propensity of committing the murder.  These other "petty criminals" were in fact very dangerous people!


Yeah, guess it feels good not being the only one eliciting the giggles.

Actually, in your case we simply point and laugh out loud...


Disagree. It is making real Jesus drinking the wine on the cross, thus marking our entrance into the Father's kingdom.


lol, you mean expand the swamp ten times.


it would not be a bubble if recent foreign buyers are in for the long term.  If they exit the market in the near to mid term you would be incorrect and would see a correction


Serious question: How do you tell the difference between an autistic mouse and a regular mouse?


Everyone keeps criticizing the number of initial stores the LCBO will open. The real constraint will be the production of the product. Why open stores that will have no product?

Its unrealistic to expect that the black market will be shut down overnight. It will take years and even then,  just as we have a black market in tobacco and liquor, a residual market will remain.

We would be better to focus our attention on the safety of the legal supply. Use of harmful pesticides, herbicides and other products used in production should be a major concern.


And what about this point of view?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-climate-change-war


I agree with the part about reading and trying to learn everything you can about where to invest your money, but not everyone wants/ enjoys learning about investing, any more than I would enjoy learning how to fix my car or do my own plumbing.  The investment advisor at the big banks, you suggest, has a more accurate title, namely salesman & are only going to pitch their higher cost funds, and limited to what their bank sells.  I enjoy holding stocks & etfs but for those that don't understand them, I would use the John Bogle approach and simple buy the index with the broadest diversification & cheapest price.


The usual "pot calling the kettle black" response from the Tween trolling the comments using his tech toys from his bedroom to attack the adults with his juvenile nonsense from an undeveloped brain.


dude.. put the opium down...


Once the states can no longer regulate the Insurance companies, who is going to provide protection from fraud and insufficient reserves, etc. - Trump ?  He would be awfully busy.
The nationalization of health insurance regulation does not sound like movement in a conservative direction.   This will end up like the Clintonian savings & loan debacle with anyone and everyone starting "insurance" companies, then absconding with the assets.


The Bishops as a whole took the same approach on key issues in 2016 as they did with segregation and civil rights in 1960 and 1964.


Wrong... they found the alright... Talk to some Iraq war veterans. They still don't understand why the MSM wouldn't report the WMDs that they found.

The MSM is as guilty of censoring by omission as they are of fake news.


I have seen this energy plan work.  My compliments and hat's off to all of the individuals that work for Copper Valley Electric (and contractors) for their efforts.  I can only hope for their continued success.  For those of you that are interested, take a close look at Kodiak Electric Association (KEA).  They are 98% green energy.  That does not happen by accident, it takes dedication and work by individuals to achieve that goal.  They accomplished that goal.  The people of the State of Alaska should be proud of these dedicated teams of Alaskan's that made it happen.  They have done a tremendous job for all of us.


So G&M, no mention of your false stories yesterday that immigration levels were going to be drastically increased today?


I was simply quoting the article, but you made my point: plenty of room left to cut, cut, cut.


Well people that is how the game rolls when you don't ( can't) play the game at 100% or close to it every night.  Whether Leafs fans want to accept it or not, their team was off and Bisons did everything they could to keep them that way.  The Bisons played the game hard and right. That's how stuff happens in this game; Buds played a little  too  soft, at both ends of the rink.     In any event, they have a few games left and they must get on with playing and working hard (er) and up to their own expectations if they want to win consistently after that one. They are still a verging team and far from great, despite their cheering section.  Right now they are good enough to make these playoffs, but perhaps not that much more in this season's run  They are too easily pulled away from solid defensive play, Andersen's condition doesn't make their push  easier.


She also denied on live TV she gave Clinton debate questions in advance till wiki leaks showed otherwise. Clintons have owned that party for 25 yrs(including Obama ones). Nothing new


I agree with everything you said...


Don't forget the next two...

5. It's too late to do anything now.
6. Why didn't anyone warn us?


Order of Friendship probably not really  a bit deal.  Our own Cretien had the same "honour" bestowed on him.  No doubt many others were as well.


Fascinating to watch our government scrambling to find a couple of billion to save Dudu. This in a country where annual tax revenue exceeded a trillion. The cupboard is bare. Treasury simply has no reserves. That is what happens if you alienate your taxpayers and steal their taxes. And it will get worse Minister Gigaba.


Criminal bishops prosecuted, convicted and imprionsed with others of their kind. May the day soon come.


No one ran anyone down.  Unless you were a case of beer.


That's true, so if you really think about it. Then its more of a trust fund, minus the full withdrawal.  Anyways, its the only gov program where you see direct benefits. Cash wise, back to my point is that its not a tax.


I was resisting the urge to pile on, but what the heck! I have no problem with fans being critical, but when the comments turn from complaining about the team you root for, to seemingly wanting them to lose so you can pontificate about the owners, the party deck, stealing from the masses, etc., it *might* be time to reassess your true motivations?


Of course the Russians meddled in the US election as did virtually every other country through control of announcements and other information designed to influence American voters.  This is normal and the US does this as well in other countries by controlling information to influence voters to support candidates friendly to US objectives.  What is hilarious here is the notion that foreign influence is unusual.  An "act of war?"  What are those dudes drunk?


In the Good News department, the retired children’s librarian who laughed at Jeff Sessions in public will not be charged a second time.


Totally misleading editorial and headline, hardly surprising from these jokers pretending to be reporters.


I hope Ontarioans arent that stupid to fall for this one..

Ohh wait a minute..they elected here in the first place..along with the Selfie Boy PM and her main man, Butts..

I guess they are that stupid...


Would be a good follow up story, I hope the G&M can do additional research on this and the outcomes.


You simply ignore the potential severe consequences of letting the auto industry fail in your effort to grind your political ax.  I can understand why conservatives want to live in the past, when all they had to do was slag Obama.

"U.S. Declares Bank and Auto Bailouts Over, and Profitable

Although the overall bailout efforts turned a profit, the auto rescue did not. With Friday’s announcement, taxpayers were left with a $9.5 billion loss. Most of that came from General Motors, which paid back about $39 billion of the $49.5 billion invested.

But with auto sales booming and the Big Three Detroit automakers recovered, the Obama administration now points to the Detroit rescue as one of its biggest triumphs.

'The American auto industry is on track for its strongest year since 2005,” Mr. Obama said. “And we’ve created about half a million new jobs in the auto industry alone.'"
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/business/us-signals-end-of-bailouts-of-automakers-and-wall-street.html


Term limits.


Here is what I do not understand. We are over regulated with silly things but when it comes to life-saving winter tires (that could save the OTHER drivers); nothing. I think I am more likely to hurt someone when not using winter tires than when not in my seatbelt. Likewise, those horrible halogen lights other drivers use BLIND me but if I try to buy incandescent for my bathroom in 100 watts...banned. Please explain. Somebody...


Trump extended an olive branch in an effort to help heal the country by not having Hillary investigated. The election is over. The Democrats should just shut the f up and accept their defeat.


Have you ever worked as a baby sitter??? Whose to say it's an easy job??? And there are more and more women working jobs as firemen and construction workers every day. They weren't working those jobs before because it wasn't socially acceptable and they faced unwelcoming/borderline hostile work environments.


I honestly do not think I would, the EC is the way we have always determined winners and in all honesty, I did not vote until the Bush/Gore election, and never even heard about or considered the popular results, because it did not serve a purpose. Perhaps if I had voted democratic I might be more sensitive to it, but as we all say, it is what it is, and I don't see the EC ever going away. Thomas Jefferson placed a high priority on populating and governing the entire country, not just the population centers. He was the one who sent out Lewis and Clark.


You are a fine example of not knowing your *** from a hole in the ground.


more qualifications than our current high school drama teacher


I actually don't care either way - I'll never use it due to my bad knees, but I have no objection to others using it as long as they assume all of the risk.  In other words, the state should be immune to any lawsuits that result from an individual's decision to climb the stairs.  Hikers needing rescue should also be liable for the full cost of such.


Democrats want to politicize this issue so the "obstacle" will remain as long as they can politicize it.   They want to be able to say they are the party that saves the planet.  This annoying partisan attitude they push further polarizes the issue.


ah check that one. I did not elect them.  You did but me no.


Our national defense is no place to showcase sexual deviants.  If they insist, send them to fight ISIS.... without hijabs.


So right Richard , Creation of New Wealth is an independent Sport!


What will “God” do if religions have to obey the same laws as everyone else by, say, uniting a pair of homosexuals in holy matrimony? Cause more warming of the Planet?
Every single one of God’s alleged “laws” came to us…and come to us now in some of these comments…from the mouths and pens of Humans. It’s all hearsay (along with the rest of it). Nevertheless, seeing as how many Humans are residually superstitious, religion still gets all kinds of grandfathered special treatment from the government, including freedom from paying taxes.
In America, the religious are mostly “just in case” religionists---they suspect it’s probably all bull…and that dead people never actually show up again…but hey, “just in case.”
So why would gays want to get married in a Church that doesn’t approve of their marriage? Oh, they’re Catholic…or they believe in some church. In that case go back and read the first paragraph above.


"Willamette Week brings word..."???

I presume what the editor means is that a rival newspaper, "Willamette Week," published a story about strawberries.

Might have been nice to give them more proper credit. Or even hint at how to read the story. (wweek.com)


Collapsing roads, collapsing dams, and all the fresh water you can drink, as long as it comes from the another state. Sounds like Nirvana.


Obama was elected by a big majority and was a highly popular president among the majority. Obama is an objectively admirable person who acts through his Christian morality. tRump appeals to a shrinking minority and it baffles me how people who are probably not horrible people, like tRump is and has always been, support him.  I don't agree that most of his supporters are deplorable so that I wonder how you can look past his immorality, racism, constant lying, blaming, inflaming hate, division and incompetence. He is an embarrassment to our country.  You seem like a good person, Como, so why do you insist on looking the other way from the truth of who tRump really is and unfairly (and stupidly) vilifying Obama or Hillary.


Yup.  Trump has carved out a clear position that is anti-muslim, anti-jew, anti-black, and anti-hispanic.  We need only wait,, I think, for the anti-asian, anti-native American, and anti-polynesian shoes to drop.

Follow his lead or don't.  That is the naked proposition.

Trump is posing what may end up being an existential question:  "what is in the heart of an American caucasian?"

The answer to that question implicates questions that go to America's ability to continue to exist as a democracy.


Does our "outdated" and incompetent city even know about this technology?  When it comes to "state of the art" Hawaii is like "state of the stone age."  We need this kind of thing today, for cars let alone mass transit.  This should be another hard question put before Crooked Kirk as traffic in the urban core is ridiculous.  The city can't even get one way streets, like King and Beretania, timed right.


Add the FBI to that critique.


Even if Aurora had the authority they lack to forcibly take land against the owners' wills outside their jurisdiction, which, once again, they do not have, are you refuting that CRS 29-20-101 grants Park County "broad authority to regulate the use of land" and to ... "8. Regulate land use on the basis of the impact thereof on the community or surrounding areas;" ?

Stealing someone's home is a community impact, and on that basis alone, this can be stopped before it even starts. Aurora needs to stop cutting corners. This aspiration of theirs to force someone to give up their home in Park County will require an act with the full authority of the actual state government of Colorado, full stop. Otherwise, it __lacks legitimacy__ in the eyes of the public.


Fascism is but one BRANCH of the far left. One of several extremist factions (another being Communism). Also not all Lefties like each other - Antifa and Fa (the white supremacists) are a good example. Remember who defeated the Nazis and fascists in WWII. It was young, generally CONSERVATIVE men who are now part of the "Greatest Generation". Not liberal-progressive boys or whatever you want to call them.


I hate to admit it, Art, but you're right for once.


it would be considered "cruel and unusual " punishment...for the people.  and before this "sentencing," the people must leave 10k in their will to the pet rescue....  and we'll just see if it works out for the "people" before making any more changes....


What shall we wager?

My suggestion is that the loser post that he was "completely wrong about Donald Trump's request to Comey to end the investigation".


The only thing that we Canadians can count on Justin Trudeau doing for us is the wrong thing.


Me too. He might have gotten away, but it wouldn't be with my cat or all his body parts. I would have scratched his eyes out and pummeled his testicles into mush!


Ken Buck for anything?? He has selected the wrong path as a die-hard supporter of Donald Trump, and with that failure, he now looks to escape national politics.  He is at high risk and won't be re-elected to the House, even in a conservative district...If you  wonder re his effectiveness, check out his website. He is a career politician and a very small voice in the grand scheme. Who needs extremists on either end of the spectrum??? Get rid of them and elect moderates of both parties and even new parties who can play with others in the DC sandbox...


I don't believe that, MJ. Young people are flocking to the Latin Mass because they are attracted to your warm, open, gentle nature.


The teen who is charged SAID that his motive for killing was the other kid smoked his pot.  But this same teen also SAID he took a cab into Anchorage that night, and SAID he was not the one who shot him…etc.  Very possible he is not telling the truth about too much of anything, so why believe at this point that pot was the motive?


Or when the Isareli leader is openly saying that he will never allow a Palestinian state:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/16/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-palestinian-state/

Or when Israel continues to build illegal settlements on Palestinian law, in violation of multiple UN resolutions and multiple international laws...


We do more than "refer" people to Buffalo, we actively transport them there. When working in a Toronto hospital emergency department it was a common occurrence to ask help from the excellent Criticall service for a patient in urgent need of specialist surgical care, only to be told that although there were surgeons and staffed operating rooms available elsewhere in Toronto there were no ICU beds for post-op care. The patient did not go without treatment, but it was received in Buffalo which always had necessary services available. The real problem came when there was deep snow blocking transportation.
Yes, our service has many advantages, but anyone working in it knows its defects and there is nothing to suggest these are getting addressed. The Federal Minister of Health has a personal record of genuine service to humanity, but that may not render her tough enough to fight the smugness of "Canada's wonderful system."


Boots>  If hat's what you think????


We have one of the highest costs of living out of any state in the country.  We also have some of the highest fuel prices in the country.  Take your tax proposal and shove it.    If we want to be average how about we lower the overall cost to live instead of increase it.


No, the comments are directed at the infantile remnants of the BC Liberals.
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You still seem to be fighting the last lost election, and perhaps should grow up as well.


NO it's not the only thing we can do.  Instead of focusing on long range commuters, the focus should be more local.  Leave light rail and express buses for people to commute downtown and to the tech center.

Focus on biking, bus, walking and metro shuttles for getting around downtown.  It's too wasteful for each suburban commuter to drive themselves in their own car alone to work.  You also have to build the alternative infrastructure first to get people to use it.  It's like field of dreams, if you build it they will come.

Development and planing should also focus on using existing light rail infrastructure.

To say all the front can do is add more lanes for cars is ignorant.  Read any credible traffic study and they all agree that traffic will always fill up the number of highway and street lanes to capacity.  That's what LA and Houston did and now they are massive sprawling metropolises.   You have to make it easy for people to get around without their only option being to drive.


What happened to Krispy Kreme?


Trump followers, like their Dear Leader, can easily make claims that are total horse manure. Unlike the article on which we are commenting, they rarely offer anything in the way of substantiation.


At the heart of it, I smell a corporate medical industry trying to eliminate competition from independent practitioners by every (underhanded) means available and necessary.


<<Stop taking what I have said to you and trying to turn it against me.>>

Bwa ha ha. Right out of the trad troll playbook.

Kurgan is on it.


Well, lets see what this fine upstanding gentleman does after his release. My guess is Court View will have a few more entries.  More criminals back on the streets, while more law abiding citizens rights are violated.


hahahahaha!!
POST OF THE YEAR!!


Fads come and go. It's best to just let them run their course.


It seems ridiculous to be selling alcohol and Pot through government stores. The public sector is already too large in this country. Government can easily tax and regulate these sin industries without having tax payers bear the cost of capital to build the costly infrastructure and pay the high cost for employees.   I'm sure others, like super markets and drug stores, which are already built and staffed, could run it far better then the government.


I haven't spoken to my brother in 12 years.  Last time I did talk to him, he seemed normal.  If he went off the edge I would have the same comments as this guy.


that's tRump's job.


But heeeeeey, these Lefties are all so sad they wont be getting free stuff. ;(


If he doesn't win it will be blamed on the racist white....I mean racist right.


Maybe the legislators pursuing this questionable lawsuit, without proper authority,  should pay the legal costs from their own pockets?


spoken by a true right wing user of government services.


Uh, even the alt-left New York Times had to admit the play was about Trump-
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/theater/donald-trump-julius-caesar-public-theater-oskar-eustis.html

Here's a pic of the lead character, does he look like Caesar or Trump?
https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/julius-caesar-trump.jpg?w=1800

Whoops!


we have seen the dead salmon floating down the river. That was due to a low flow and the river baked in the heat. That's with the dam holding back reserves. Take the dam out and that's going to happen every other year. As for replacing bulbs, done that. These bulbs do not remotely last as long as they claim and are like low flow toilets. You flush 5 times wasting water. Now I throw away 3 light bulbs replacing 1. Like low flow toilets, will be another 20 years before they have this down. The reality is these dams are at the end of their life and need replaced. This isn't about hydro power, it's about reservoirs holding back water for irrigation, and to keep the flow up on the river in late summer months. They need to rebuild the dam, regardless of hydro and put a fish ladder in. Restoring this river to the wild will backfire. It was overfishing salmon that did them in. Not dams.


Those countries are sinkholes of crap.
We have our own problems. Stop looking outward!!!
Fix your neighborhoods first!!
You globalists lay waste everywhere you go.
You stick your noses into everyone's business and get your heads shot off. Then you use up valuable local resources to feed your monstrous self righteous egos that you are saving a world that can''t be saved.
Stop moving, slow down, focus in your neighborhood.
You are like crows- shiny shiny new new


Re: "there IS an investigation into alleged Russian hacking"

Sadly, not one backed by the Trumpster Himself.


I suggest you first report this doctor to the CPSO, then, transfer your chart to another doctor.


What do you mean "It’s simple: no money, no rail"?  We will just borrow billions and some of you will lose your houses because of the taxes to pay the bonds back, BUT WE YOUR LEADERS NO CARE!


Valid point, $31,200 a year is a living wage in much of the USA.


Home inspections can not tell you if there is mold or asbestos behind the wall. It is only what they can see. Home inspectors have no liability, good luck on suing them. Many times they work hand in glove with the realtors as do the RE lawyers. Sometime the realtors will get home inspection done and present it to the potential buyers (this scam actually works!)
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Naah! The recent hurricanes wrought more destruction than a Hiroshima bomb. Just less concentrated. Were that nut-job in Korea actually to fire a nuke (at south Korea, Japan or even Gaum), he would be annihilated within days. Probably by the Chinese who are getting increasingly pissed off by his lunatic antics. It wouldn't even require the Orange Tweetiot to do anything.


The Republican Party has met its Armageddon.  The end is here.


Because I'm curious.


Let's not forget this gals little stint in Syria.  She has shown everyone her total naiveté, but her PR firm is in overdrive.


Violence is the answer.


And they wonder why we hate them.


Unwanted pregnancy is correlated with increased crime, poverty, need for medical and psychiatric services and the use of public assistance.

Programs like this support core conservative (and liberal) values, improve our communities and save taxpayers money.  Like the kerfuffles about Planned Parenthood, this is just another stupid, wrongheaded appeasement to the religious right.

Isn't it high time we stop allowing bad policy decisions based on some group's idea of morality?  This was an evidence-based program.  We need more of those, not less.


because our membership is diverse. we have members across the world.


ZW, thank you for your honesty. Let's hope your view of the current awful mess facing your party and the country is acted upon.


Our legal system only allows people to be convicted of crimes if they are proven guilty. We don't have cameras watching everyone every minute of the day, so sometimes a crime can be committed without it being possible to prove the person who committed it guilty. So we protect the identity of rape victims even if their attackers escape punishment because the crime can't be proven to have happened - because that, rather than a false accusation, is what has happened in the overwhelming majority of the cases. Innocent women should not be labelled as unchaste because the legal system let them down.


And Pence went the other way, yet they are pretty much two of a kind, religiously and ideologically


Since this is supposedly an adult discussion we need to take into account two factors involved--sexual arousal involves two parts of the brain--the brain stem-vagal nervous system over which we have no direct voluntary control--and the neo-cortex, our higher brain that is involved in our ability to love, our social behavior and our rational decisions.  Men are more quickly aroused and also, as a group, give each other facile permission to act on that arousal--and this has been true for thousands of years.   Men don't get pregnant, carry a baby for nine months and form a bond to their babies even before birth.  And this is especially true if a man isn't in a loving, committed relationship.
The question is--why haven't our religious/moral leaders--bishops in this case--never held laymen accountable?  Maybe sex isn't society's business, but children without fathers and a healthy support system are society's business because we all suffer the consequences.


Some are said to be due high positions because they have been there for a while. Some are said to be dealmakers

The question is what do they stand for? What are their views and vision on issues affecting SA

That is the problem I have.


He has taken a page from Trump's book or should I say webpage from Trump's Twitter account.


But since it is credible and growing, what say you about that?


It was a woman, and knowing several stunt performers personally I can guarantee you that she would not want filming to stop. Finish the movie, dedicate it to her memory, use revenue to set up a scholarship or safety training fund in her name.


That's what they're saying, but we don't need a $10+ billion rail system in order to have affordable housing.


When NAFTA was implemented, not only was it destructive to the U.S. working middle class, it also decimated the Mexican family farm. Millions of farming livlihoods were destroyed, overswept by a neofeudalist wave of 'free' trade. The jobless went north.

Mexico is seen as a slave labor colony to be exploited by the global elite. The peoples of Mexico are oppressed by a ruthlessly corrupt narco-government which serves as suzerain for  U.S. based industrialists, who in return grant limited autonomy and protection to certain compliant drug racketeers who subjugate public and labor.

It's unrealistic to believe in an incorruptable government, because the temptations of power and lucre have always overwhelmed corrupt people to abuse their control throughout the ages. Nowadays, their ill intent for others is magnified by cutting edge technologies which allow bad people to do great harm with insane efficiency.

The global elite live by their own rules. They have abrogated the social compact.


Something like 80% of WalMart employees are on food stamps. I have friends who work at Costco. They make a decent living and love the company. They don't collect food stamps.


They aren't given a choice.  The DNC shut down Sanders so Goldmann Clinton could keep the barriers in place.


so if you have lost 5 years=500% and receive 42% more per year more thereafter ,it takes 12 years(500/42) to equalize at age 82 by which time most men are dead and women have a few more years in general


trying to get boats to evacuate 11,000 people could take that long.


NITRO08, please state your views as obviously you disagree with many posters.  Maybe you do not because you cannot present an intelligent dialogue?  Hence, I hereby excuse you of all your negative reactions because of that and laugh it off.


“this is how I get paid? girl scout money and a monkey?” Sorry, but the guinea pigs had fleas.


This headline reads like something off the LPC website, not a national newspaper that should be holding our leaders to account.


Well Shannyn, at least on the national level we would all be in much, much, much better shape if all those who couldn't accept that Hillary was an imperfect human being would have voted for her anyway right? How about in 2018 we all get together and vote like it really matters to make the big changes to the congress that are needed to keep this country from devolving into third world status no matter how imperfect the Democratic Parties candidates may be. We don't get to have perfect in life and we have to accept that or more trumps will be in our future. Damn the speeches and damn the emails or whatever other else  the opposition conjures up to attack any candidate that is not perfectly left or perfectly right. We deserve better as a nation than what the current congress and president are delivering but conditions will only improve if we can move away from the quest for that state of imaginary perfection that no one has in reality. Accept that we can change this situation via voting.


Yes, the lesson learned in this case is  that privilege, money and connections can prevent  a person from being held accountable for heinous crimes that they commit in our society.


Who cares, let them implode. We need to oust the Temp foreign workers and american-owned companies extorting Canada anyways.


One of greatest successes at the University of Oregon was the development of the zebrafish model organism. It is now considered one of the best systems for studying many aspects of development and disease, and Oregon gets a large amount of cachet for being the source of it. Interestingly, George Streisinger took many years to make the system work, and was considered by any outside metrics to be unproductive during that time. He would have been first on the chopping block if his employment was in the hands of a bean-counting Dean and he did not have tenure to protect him.

Now, how to discern the unproductive from the temporarily unproductive future game-changers and protect only the latter? That I don't know. Maybe protecting game-changers is too much to ask of a university in dire financial straits and too much to ask of students in debt. But I think many people think of tenure as a way to protect just the political faculty; it affects the sciences as well.


The few times I watched "The Apprentice",  never saw it start with the playing of the National Anthem.

Same with the few FoxNews shows I've ever watched.  Those traitor hosts NEVER start with the National Anthem.

Rush Limbaugh does play it.  But he does it in the middle of his show, without warning.  Surprised there are not traffic accidents and gridlock as drivers jam on their brakes to stop, get out of their cars, and stand.

Come to think of it, Limbaugh only plays part of it.


All the pumped up warmongers who are posting here about attacking North Korea don't seem to realize a basic fact about this situation. Seoul, South Korea's capital - with a metro population of 25 million people - is only 35 miles from the border with North Korea. Along that border is a huge arsenal of missiles and artillery aimed directly at Seoul. Any attack on North Korea would be devastating for Seoul. This is why the North has never been attacked, and despite the Trump/Tillerson bluster is unlikely to be attacked any time soon.


Used to be most cops were imposing and respected figures. In many of the deadly cop killings lately, seems the cops aren't tough, but act tough. They are so strapped down in SWAT gear they are unable to handle a guy in handcuffs, thug threatening them with a knife or a hammer standing on a porch. They just kill because that's what they are trained to do, not wait, or tackle and subdue.  Shooting a guy with a gun, but a knife? Why I are you a cop? Cops used to just go after the guy, wrestle him to the ground, maybe get a black-eye or worse a stab wound. But that was the accepted risk of life as a cop. Now they just shoot.

There was that little skinny little college kid with a knife a few days ago surrounded by three cops. None of them had the guts or the training to simple go the kid and risk injury, probably minor. At my age, I think I could have taken the kid. No, they just shot him 8 times. That's what modern day cops do today if your black or by chance, white.


So are you implying that the 9th Circuit is left-wing Democratic biased? I thought the law/courts are suppose to be blind/fair/unbiased to all points of view.


from the article: "Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Renee Oistad said in a subsequent email that detectives found Hall "through their investigative efforts," but refused to provide additional details."

Wow, it seems we are not supposed to know anything about police activity beyond what APD chooses to share with us.  APD, public servants? I don't think so - not any more - APD is telling us what to do and think. As citizens we are no longer entitled to information from the police (or other justice related government entities) supposedly for our own good. Get used to this I suspect. It will be "their way" or the highway for a while.  I think some heavy handed push back is in order if we really expect to retain our freedom.


and then there is Alberta -
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with Canadas highest incomes , highest labor force participation . greatest per capita GDP and with no sales tax................


30% drop? Like, from 3 to 2?


What about the need to fight against Trudeau and Liberal lying to Canadian voters?


It is an opinion piece. It is the opinion of an author who looks at something, has an ideology etc and creates a thought of it and decides to write an article about it. DM is providing a platform for that person to air their view, as long as it does not infringe grossly on another persons rights. Whether it is right or wrong depends on the reader. If the reader chooses to believe it, it is up to them.
What a person sees as wrong, may seem right to you. What is a lie to you, another sees it as truth.
So, if DM were to place a disclaimer, what would or should its wording be so as not to make the reader of the piece be made biased for or against it before they have read it, that it does not appear that DM is interfering in the authors ability to express freedom of speech, or is not appearing to censor by putting off potential readers?


Your dealing with a government bottom feeders here. The more taxpayer dollars poured into the hands of these parasites, the better. It's always interesting that they call themselves conservatives until you mess with their personal rice bowl. The analogy that they always use that their job is more dangerous than any other is, of course nonsense. In addition to being overpaid, they also want there behinds massaged by the public on a daily bsis.


sounds like 2 season tickets being dumped


I have lived in Alaska 44 years and never seen a emperor goose. Guess they don't get down our way in Southern Southeast. I found the article very interesting and informative and the photos were outstanding ! Thank you !


To answer one question that seems to trouble people:

Under section 28 (2) of Bill C-33, expats will vote in the riding where " the elector’s last place of ordinary residence in Canada before he or she left Canada" is located.

Same as they do now from year 1-5 of their absence from Canada.  Same as any Canadian employed overseas in government work or international NGOs.


Exactly.
And thats what great about our country, we have rights and freedoms.
However, whats not so great is a president who refuses to acknowledge these rights.
Myself, I wouldn't take a knee.  But who am I to say that someone else shouldn't?
Having said that, I can think of much more pressing issues to get worked up about than whether some football players are disrespecting our flag or not....


you wil decimate the wildlife this way. Very dumb decision.   l live in a subsistence community and let me tell you, ive lived in ones in southeast also that were predominately native, they killed everything that moved. there was no wildlife left, not even a rabbit, no porcupines, nothing, you've made a very serious stupid stupid STUPID decision and it will cost you as well as all Alaskans.


Do you really think AL is going to be used to help abused women remarry as opposed to their abusers?

Whom will the average Catholic priest find more sympathetic in the secrecy of the "interior forum," Newt or his ex? Seriously.

AL is basically just a free annulment coupon for guys like Newt.


This Bombardier is a poster company for crony capitalism whose controlling shareholders, the Bombardier-Beaudoin family, have gotten fabulously rich intimidating politicians while putting little of their own skin in the game.

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Trudeau explain if "crony capitalism" and "shareholders"  are part of the Middle class you claim to love


Klastri, lawyers take oaths to support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States.  I should not have to tell you that because you are or were a lawyer, according to your claims.  The President has no authority to spend money that has not been appropriated by Congress and he is simply trying to follow the Constitution, so why are you attacking and bashing Trump for stopping the subsidies payments which have not been appropriated?


home schooled ?


If all Mr. Trump's statements truly did "stand on their own" there would be no need for the media to do anything but dutifully report them. Instead, they pluck them out of context, reinterpret what they "really" mean, and spin them for one, two, or three days depending on how long they think they can gain political advantage from it. In Mr. Trump's case, this is being done by the liberal media supporting Mrs. Clinton, as well as by much of the conservative media who support the old guard GOP who fear losing power in their own party. This is not to imply that Mr. Trump does not say some stunningly uninformed things from time to time, but not the steady stream spoon fed to us by the media, and not every comment on every topic as they would lead us to believe. As for unfitness to be president, Hillary lies nonstop, puts our national security at risk, fails to secure our mission in Benghazi, uses inside information to make money, uses her political position to make money...it never stops.


You were talking, about God not having ultimate ownership over our souls and bodies, so I thought it was relevant to lay out how the final judgement indicates God's ownership, why else would he be fit to judge.


Every US intelligence agency has been unequivocal and unanimous on the subject of Russian interference.

And yet, rather than give them any consideration, Trump just rolls over and accepts Putin's 'firm' statement that Russia had nothing to do with it.

Wow, that's quite a vote of confidence for American security agencies. What a morale booster!


WOW! if some of the Hawks  go to the Worlds, Canada is going to have a very good team.  Out in the first round, who would have predicted that one?  Oh I know, Saullie probably did.


It was ONLY AFTER seeing director Lezlie Wade's exciting and exuberant production of "HMS Pinafore" FOR MY SECOND TIME, that I finally read Kelly Nestruck's mean-spirited review ... and I fully agree with the posted comments from both "marychap" and "MunroeBrian".  Nestruck's bizarre criticisms of the production are THE DIRECT OPPOSITE of the appreciative reactions which this clever and imaginative staging have received from the full-house audiences seeing the show.  The first time I saw this joyous production, I was convinced that it was THE VERY BEST PRODUCTION of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta which I have seen ANYWHERE IN THE LAST 35 YEARS ... ever since Brian Macdonald's glorious G & S productions at Stratford more than three decades ago.  I've already bought a ticket to see this wonderful production FOR A THIRD TIME ... and I STRONGLY URGE anyone who is hesitant to buy tickets because of Nestruck's review ... IGNORE Nestruck's ill-founded criticisms, and RUN to see this show !!!


What next are we going to apologise for Vimy Ridge and compensate Germany, it`s interesting no Prime minister has apologised for Canadas role in slavery, neither has any first nation band apologised for slavery in their past. Bad things happened in everyone's past, acknowledge it and move on. The Germans don`t keep apologising for Hitler and no one would expect them to. This is a step too far, where`s Donald Trump when you need him he should sue the Canadian Government , surprised he hasn`t tweeted about this one he must be livid.


One wonders what we are trying to accomplish. At home we stand for diversity but in Eastern Europe we are ready to go to war in support of governments in Latvia and Ukraine that openly and proudly discriminate against ethnic minorities. Are we ready to start a war in support of governments that stand against diversity? Or is this all about getting support for the Liberal party from ethnic voting blocks in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Etobicoke and Stoney Creek? Before this gets out of hand, we need a debate in Parliament on our deepening military involvement in Eastern Europe.


Something tells me there is some financial "lobbying" going on. Its not going to go our way until we end the corruption folks.


Does Shiers even understand what Wannacry does?


I'm sorry, but if you don't know that "sitting her next to him at lunch" was an attempt to pressure her into voting the way he wants, you are not as smart as you think you are.  As she said, her team is Alaska not the Republicans.  Thank you, Lisa Murkowski, for taking one for your real team.


So he coddles child rapers.  No matter. Dan Sullivan will vote for his confirmation. Lisa Murkowski?  Most likely. Politics, baby.


I'm sorry but that's not the way Troopers and local PDs operate in the Interior.  Boundary battles can be argued out afterward but when in doubt both should respond and search.


well, that was swift. after all, four ships damaged. discipline was expected.


Great move guys !  And we're wondering why our auto sector is shrinking and Mexico gets all the investment ?


Well, I live a stones throw from St. Pats, and I too followed the case closely. You got many details wrong. A very simple timeline of events can fix that.

The images on the infamous laptop were copied to a separate drive and were turned over. The images from the laptop are not what landed Ratigan in prison, nor are they what got Finn in trouble.....although popular opinion likes to think that is the case. But your claim that "nobody in law enforcement ever did" (see the images) is just plain false.

Ratigan was sent to a psychiatrist for evaluation and assessment, not to a therapist for rehabilitation......huge difference.

I never claimed that Finn acted responsibly, but I maintain that Finn did everything that he could with the information he had. I agreed with the judge's ruling. The judge dismissed the 1st charge, making the infamous laptop irrelevant. A bench trial is a glorified plea bargain. When agreeing to a bench trial, Bakers allowed people with real knowledge to walk.


I need Funny and Sad!!!!


The country would be better off if he had abandoned ALL of his pledges.


The pundits are going to get egg all over their faces again.

This is a ranked ballot, not a winner takes all ballot.

Michael Chong will win.  I'm not even a Conservative supporter, I am in no way a Chong supporter.

As a second choice candidate for all the "front runners", he will clean house like Dion did at the last minute in the first Ignatieff/Rae "front runner run.

Chong is a Conservative, he is moderate, and he (quite politely, I might add) is the antidote for the reason that everyone hated Harper with a passion (many in his own party, I might add).  The original Reform movement was all about bringing power back to the MPs, and allowing free votes, so he will garner the Reform vote.  He is also not a Christian right zealot, so the red Tories will find him attractive, far more so than mad Max or Leitch.

Leitch is also a lesbian, which while I wouldn't care about her sexual orientation, the Christian right wing certainly will object to.


Yup.
Emmanuel Sanders isn't who he thinks he is.
His body language, as you say, needs to change.
Denver is a team from the top down.
As for receiving, DeMaryius Thomas has already made his one play of the season: an 8-yard catch on a third-and-7.
Don't expect anything else from Denver's truculent, overpaid, mediocre receiver who makes $14 million a year.
He injured his groin, probably from sucking in his breath too hard. Pansy.
Paxton Lynch? Vell, maybe it was a stroke of good fortune for Lynch to have a face-saving, make-believe injury.
This lets Denver put Kyle Sloter, a rookie quarterback, on the roster while putting Lynch, the skittish Bronco, back in the manure-filled pen where he belongs.
Lynch is a clod/buster, sod/busted Clydesdale dud.
Meanwhile, Shelby Harris, defensive lineman, is looking good.
Two sacks tonight, not to mention his tackles, and two fumble recoveries last week and Denver needs a defensive lineman.
Vow! Denver needs Harris and Harris needs a job.
Keep Harris.


I understand you prefer chocolate cake with two scoops of ice cream.
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I see, Do you also believe it is OK for the NSA, FBI, CIA to wire tap your phone whenever they want, what do you have to be afraid of if you have done nothing wrong!
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Oh! It's against your constitutional rights!
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I thought those on the right were against more government in everyone's business. Except Harry.
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Should we toss the Constitution when it meets Donald Trumps agenda or the Church of Harry's agenda.
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Cat been getting your tongue.
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Thank you Bellevue Reporter for getting the facts right.


Karma for not being in school.


I would hasten the end date.  Make it June 2017.  After all -- cleansing is cleansing, right?  But the Church should be obligated to give each and every priest beyond a certain age a job and pension and provision for elderly care.  The Church could sell of some of the bishops' mansions to find this.


The French Bishops warned about this and were ignored.


Wow racist much?


No mention of the Pelican or Gigantic pop-up pubs at Lardo? Nice reporting.


The whole issue should be just the facts-once again there are demonstrably two separate and unequal justice systems in America and in this case re-illustrated by Queen Hillary.  The candidate is clearly untrustworthy and by policy unprecedentedly disqualified from the privelage of classified data, which is beyond any presidential nominee in modern history and renders her credibilty worthless.  And tbe Band played on..........


What a waste of column space!


Hey Governor, how about having  the speed limit on KGB lowered. Do you think that might help make it safer?


"With the economy being on the skids the last 8 years, times have been tough in terms of finding and keeping employed long term." He seems just as adept as Trumplethinskin at inventing his own facts.


Pretty much the way I feel about your comments...which, when read in sequence seem to support my position!

We finally agree!  It IS interesting to watch you....and I think you're funny as you try to deny what you posted.  Perhaps we're both missing some subtle inference...but whatever.  Have at it....it's been a long day, and I just don't want to continue this silliness.

Truly - have a gentle night.


My apology.  Regardless of fault or whatever reason, my condolences to his family and friends.  May God Bless.


And guess what?!?  They had help.......from us!

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/russian_collusion_in_democrat_inner_circle.html

I give the article above a 96% thumbs up.  Don't ask me about the other 4%.


So you actually need a by-law on the books?


There is no "wage gap". Women earn less because they make different choices. There are already laws on the books that make it illegal to discriminate against people based on their gender. Move on and find another victim, please.


I can't say that I'm the faintest bit surprised by this.  While Volkswagen was perhaps the most egregious example, I would be shocked if they were the only one to try such a thing.

The reality is that diesel engines tend not to burn very cleanly, especially smaller diesel engines in small cars where there isn't much room for pollution control mechanisms.  Customers buy diesels for their low fuel consumption rates and putting those pollution controls in works against fuel consumption, so there is a strong incentive for manufacturers to "cheat" the rules, polluting too much in order to get better fuel consumption.

We'll see what comes of this but I'm certain VW wasn't the end of the story, and indeed Renault and Fiat probably aren't the end of it either.


How many more are going to cross the boarder illegally until the next elections in 2019?
What is it going to cost the Tax  payers between now and then.They have the right to a hearing which takes an average of 18 month.Welcome to Canada!


Two questions:
1. Why Pope F. become a symbol of light instead of a pitch dark bottomless hole regarding clergy sex abuse of children?
2.  Is Pope F. consider as a Christian since he is hiding condoning his clergies rape children?


See above? First two paragraps I read compliments...classless? Thank you for confirming younger generation fans propensity for quick reactions supported by poor reading and comprehension skills.


Conservative Reagan tripled the deficit and republicans loved him. Conservative Bush doubled the deficit but republicans didn't care. Clinton balanced the budget and was running surpluses and conservatives hated him. Obama reduced the deficit and republicans hated him.

Conservatives don't give a rat's patoody about spending "more than you have" unless they can bash a Democrat over the head with it. Been that way for nearly 40 years.


I agree, and that is why the payment estimators on car websites include a Informational Rate which shows the effective rate when you forgo the cash discount on a finance or lease. In this way you can make an more informed decision of if the rate is right for you.

However, most dealers will still give you the cash discount or more if you shop around.


Repetition without substance.

Again.

Repeating a mantra does not add to its credibility, persuasiveness or actual truth.

Obamacare with all its warts was invented, drafted and passed solely by the Democrats.  They stole the basic idea from Romneycare, but no Republican touched Obamacare  in any way.

No one else is 'responsible' for fixing their incompetence and hubris, even though Chief Justice Roberts tried.

If you buy a car that is a Lemon and give it to a friend, it isn't my job to fix it.

Man up!


'No one can ever be compared to Hitler eh?'

Of course there's other genocidal despots in world history, but there's really not very many with the kind of state-wide compliance and systemic purging that you see in Germany during the war. It took a lot of organization and logistical support to even make the Holocaust happen, so there's really not very many historical corollaries.

But the modern propensity to call everyone you disagree with a Nazi? The 'punch a Nazi' meme that's going around the web?  The fact a Jewish owned and run news agency (Breitbart) routinely gets called neo-Nazis? It's clear that the term is being tossed around willy-nilly, just to smear one's political opponents.  That kind of activity demeans the sacrifice of the real people who died at the hands of the real Nazis, in my opinion.


Trump is a scoundrel.  Conservatives acknowledge that.  Most progressives, however, simply refuse to acknowledge that Clinton has serious faults.  There lies a big reason for division.  Mainstream American culture has been under attack for 50 years now, and those attacking it now have the audacity to bemoan the "culture wars," as if those making culture war on America are those defending it.  I'm surprised that you, Alexandra, would say such things as: "[Trump] does not consider you to be a full human being, because [you are] a woman";  or that his campaign was "based on [lying vitriol."  Apparently you missed Clinton's statement last week that if Trump is elected, it could well be the last free election in America.  What deceit and demagoguery.  As for shutting down news services:  what he said was that he would shut down the web in areas of ISIS controlled Syria and Iraq.  You, lawyer, know what misrepresentation by omission is.  There can be no unity with untruthful progressives.


To be a viable candidate, one needs to have policies and ideas that will actually work in the real world, whether they are the winning party or not. Voting your conscience is fine; it's what I typically do. But the reason the Green, Libertarian, or National Socialist parties never gain any traction is due to their lack of viable platforms.


These are people looking for a free handout, hence they want to go to Germany and Sweden where the welfare is much higher.  Many of these collect welfare, and then go on vacation back to their home countries where  they laugh at the stupidity of Europeans.


Nice article. I especially appreciate the distinction between "gullibility" and "knowing". The non-reaction to Mrs. Trump's plagiarism and Mariah Carey's bad lip-syncing can be attributed to the maturing of our culture, rather than it's growing indifference to substance.  For, if the viewer already understands political discourse and pop performances to be strictly superficial, the crumbling edifice is merely an aesthetic issue - we already know what is underneath.


All that matters is the well being of the energy producers, not the consumers.


The feds have continuously deregulated everything that we pay taxes and vote government to PROTECT US with, to only give control to foreign-owned companies that have direct goals to swindle Canadians of jobs, lands and security.

For 10 years the PMO would insistently riddle news/media with talking points that regulation and such is "protectionism" (as if being protected is a bad thing) and hire PR firms to attack the public and whistle-blowers about the consistent robbery of our livelihoods for lobbyists whose interests are not a benefit to Canadians as a whole. Feds promote Canada as a money laundering hub for the world's criminals.


Charleston loophole? The opinion that Clintons proposals are constitutional are not universally held. There are many who believe that the sum total of her proposals definitely put her on a path to severely restrict or remove the people's rights under the 2nd amendment. Thus abolishing the protections of the 2nd amendments.


It doesn't benefit Le Pen.

The timing here is inopportune to make such a release right before a media publication blackout.

High probability it is an internal leak, carefully vetted, and then anonymously published, allowing the candidate to cry victim, and dominate the headlines.

Also, changes the channel on the much more damaging foreign bank account issue.

If we recall the real conspiracy against Donald Trump, the tape release occurred right before - what is considered the most crucial second townhall debate - when it was the most damaging.


Ag Helgard, just get off your high horse. Spector was having some fun. You are really going to have to bust a gut to defend Trump's foolishness for at least another 42 months. You are just making yourself unhappy by reacting to every article written about him. In the end, when his term is up, pray he doesn't get re-elected. You will not survive that.

It is OK to defend your ideology, but next time hope your political home picks a more acceptable poster-boy. His politics do not annoy/scare people as much as his personality. The thought that he may just one day decide to vent not by tweeting, but by starting a war, is what scares people. In the end, his inability to govern properly will hopefully restrict him to only one term. Then, hopefully, you can defend a better man.


Comparing Seattle's rail to our debacle suffers from your failure to take real world information into account.
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Seattle is a mainland city with a massive road infrastructure spread out over a larger area versus the Nei's restricted land area and limited main roads, space to build.
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Seattle also has some lower cost construction ground level rail versus none in the Nei.
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Mainland construction costs are lower than in the Nei. They also have competent rail management. Nei does not.
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As for the rest of you post, cherry picked data. Same as HART. Sorry but twice nothing is still nothing.


Annnnd for the most inane post so far today, what do we have for him, Johnny?


Should never have orchestrated such a mess based on psuedo-science alarmism that the Liberals need to bribe its citizens with their own money now.

You're toast Wynne.
Notley is next.
Then the useless failed drama teacher.
All gone!!!!


What exactly don't you  like about it?  You don't think Lee was treasonous?  You think those who died in the Civil war was a good thing?


Isn't the so-called "nuclear option," the same exact tactic the Refublicans used to elect the orange fake hair Twitter Inferno guy?  These guys never stop.


nick, grow a few braincells, and perhaps you will be able to understand Trump's post. He did not criticize the  attempt to gut the ethics office, as I wrote.  Perhaps a remedial reading class might help. Contact your community college for more information.


If all these fine Congress critters want now to address the priories of the American people first in their  immigration reform plans, you would think their first priority would be to at least prevent the same violations from occurring again? Otherwise, we will all find ourselves (or more likely, of children) facing yet another 15 to 20 million illegal aliens of one form or another living, working, and clamoring for amnesty too ten years down the road.


Addressing the need to speed up proceedings for accused murderers and other serious crimes isn't a priority for this government!

The government is more focused on:
- legalizing dope legislation
- running illegal cash for access Liberal party fundraisers
- attending pride parades
- Liberal party elite flying off to lobbyist's private islands
- ramming economy crippling Carbon policies on the provinces
.......... it goes on and on, and on, and on .......


What does David Koch have to do with this article? Next on your list of quotes? The one provided is 3 years old.


So the tiny handed man child turns into a cry baby when the going gets rough.  Shocking.


I agree we need Kevin O'Leary to run. We could use someone that knows what the hell is going on.


You mean like the Trump supporters who invited "Black Lives Matter"  people onto a stage in Washington DC yesterday?  Those Trump supporters and the Black Lives Matter people united to  show support for their President, the right to free speech and condemn  Left wing and Right wing violence and bigotry. Those are the people I am proud to stand with!https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/black-lives-matter-on-stage-at-trump-rally/vi-AAs1lFv


Here!  Here!  And get women to stop having sex with such men!!  Here!  Here!


Harold - don't kid yourself, Trudope wants the big chair, he wants to be the secretary general!
He could care less what it costs Canada or Canadians.


And churches.


We'll never know because he didn't have a chance from the beginning  The courts and the public always favor the celebrity, even if it is one as untalented as Taylor Swift.


Notice he wasn't then but is now?
Fishy.


Nor did Hillary. If she did I sure wouldn't wanted to share a fighting position (fox hole for you civilians ) with her.


Such wise words, Michael! Dropping that rope is great advice. Funny how it takes so long before one realizes it's time to let go.  I think it's time for me - thanks for the validation :)


So you guys in Anchorage buying this? $11 million in new gas taxes, higher fees, $46 million in new bonds (which will be added to your property tax bill) but when the smoke clears you MAY save $360 dollars on your property tax bill?
The way they are playing this game is to increase the residential property tax exemption, perhaps to the state max of $50k (I believe Anchorage has a $20k exemption atm). Problem is that businesses do not qualify for this break. That, plus all the trickle down effects of the transportation industry who will pass on the costs of the gas tax to you, in the form of higher prices for food and everything else = net increase in taxes, hence why this article says City spending is going UP $10 million.
Your Mayor is unable to bypass the tax cap so his plan is to convince you to vote in new taxes and then give you a portion of that back and make you feel as if you are getting a good deal.


This was his community the place he lived, the people who loved him. we chose to honor him how we want.  We could care less if you agree or disagree it was not about you!!!


Against their own best interests?  Who are you to tell others what their best interests are and are not.  The left simply doesn't get that people can think for themselves and make their own decisions.


That's because you don't know them.  And furthermore, I just proved you wrong on Costco's numbers.  Proving that you have no idea what you are talking about.  But please, keep proving to everyone that you are a blowhard that doesn't know anything.


How much of the strong negative reaction was because of the well-funded efforts of the NRA to use scare mongering tactics to increase the sales of guns and ammo?  I have plenty of guns but I think the NRA is a bunch of scammers who are in it for their own jobs and as an arm of the gun manufacturers to make them more money.
I use barnes copper bullets and they work great for me.  No issue whatsoever.  Lead is poison.  no disputing that.  If we can use less, then we should.


Our most severely wounded veterans who fought for Canada may receive $360,000 or a percentage of that amount depending on their injury incurred related to their service. Most Canadian vets don't receive anywhere near $360,000. But this guy fought for Al Qaeda  and receives 10 million. I wonder how our veterans feel about this?


When it's a white christian we call them crazy and a-political, when they're not we call them "terrorists" or "religious fanatics".

The motive here was pretty clear, and also driven by an anti muslim ideology.


The Recall Statutes have not been overturned, yet.

That will be this County Commission's next target.

Between the lack of fiscal responsibility (as evidenced by the exorbitant salary increases)  and this issue,  Recall is starting to look better and better.


He has already been kicked out of the Conservative Senate caucus.


But he was okay with the 8 years of obstruction and gridlock he orchestrated while Obama was President. Snowflake.


Nice to see so many agencies addicted to marijuana tax revenue.  Excellent...


" We also have to come up with punishment that's far quicker "

We have to make sure he is guilty first. Where are Trumps minders to stop him making a pillock of himself?


The cause of this fire isn't known at this time (and may never be). It's premature and inappropriate to blame it on an individual action, let alone ascribe a province of residency to a possibly non-existent person.

That said, ironically enough, by my count three long-time climate change denying posters here and at the National Post have been displaced or threatened by severe record-breaking wildfires since last spring. One of them stopped commenting, but the other two natter on.


Can you explain your mentally deranged diagnosis?


“You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them,” Trump said on the tape, filmed in 2005 when Bush was an Access Hollywood host and Trump was hosting The Apprentice. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.

Well djt did say “it was beautiful.”  Do these clowns REALLY think that folks will send in their tax returns on a post card? For everyone to read?
Sure here’s my SSN, name, DOB-what could go wrong!

Let’s see your tax returns Donald.


Mexico's age  of consent is twelve (12).   Have you no respect for another Nation's culture?


You have quite the crush on Speer. Why don't YOU do the white knight thing and support her?

Speer was in the ARMED FORCES. He wasn't a professional kitten cuddler. Them's the chances you take.


Or Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson or Teddy Roosevelt.

Destroy Mt. Rushmore!  It honors slave-holding founders and a man who believed 'The White Man's Burden' and one who said in 1858 (about the time Deady was establishing Oregon)

 " I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.


Hope they lash him up to a Big Fib Detector, cause he has this tendency.
Like all Trump appointees.


If you could move out of your mom's basement and get a real job maybe you would understand how the economy works. I bet you got a participation trophy for last place in little league too. About to see some real change in the next few months, don't get left behind Kristopher01...


Red light cameras... for all those complaining about them, your probably one of the reasons they are needed. I don't own a car i take the bus or walk everywhere, so I encounter red light runners constantly. They are always in a rush to get some where faster and quicker than the next guy. I have had quite a few close calls by drivers intent on "making" the light. So I totally support the cameras, it makes me feel just a little bit safer crossing the street.


Congrats on getting out, and your new spot!


Sherry, congrads.  You've posted the most ignorant comment yet.


Los Vegas would've been a better fit for Rick.


That pilot should never be in charge of flying a plane again, I don't care what the circumstances were.  There is no excuse for confusing the runway and taxi lanes.


Another four years of The Obamanation and we'd have been toast. Go Trump! MAGA!


absolutely correct.


"Instead, he tried to make the provinces do his dirty work in the name of "provincial choice". Just like with the weed legalization.


...the irony! You don't get to "Critisize" other people's writing.


Everything you typed is BS and proof of your profound ignorance.


Which all leads us to a distinction between elected governments and democracy. They are not the same concept.


"This is another form of heightened repression of activists,” said Zaki Baruti, an activist and community organizer from St. Louis County. “It sends a message to protesters that we better not look at police cross-eyed.”"
No, it means the you cannot shot cops!!  Looking cross-eyed never hurt anybody.  Let get real here, "Zaki."


I find it very IRONIC, that homeless (including minorities, btw) are given the cold shoulder...

Mr. "We couldn't possibly build enough mental health facilities and grocery transport means to fund these people, but we sure as hell need these illegals who pay ZERO TAXES, ZERO DEBT, and can commit crime while evading identification." should never have been the mayor.

Even more embarrassing than London's "mayor."


FFS, when will amateurs stop comparing a province to a country.