Is it 2017? I will have to admit, I bought a case of wine in Salisbury, New Brunswick at the 'discount' New Brunswick Liquor outlet and then left for Nova Scotia. Not one New Brunswick official tried to stop me....not one. I was expecting Premier Gallant to be at Au Lac (the border crossing) with a possee there to stop me from crossing the border. I will admit, I cross border shopped for liquor in New Brunswick.


But if the school district has to pay (deserved) damages from the local taxpayer base, then those local taxpayers would hardly be a fair and impartial jury.


I knew the Rams fans would come crying in the masses once the Buffs won.. You were all so confident after that OSU game and now you are all laden in excuses.  Funny stuff


This is fantastic news.  I have visited the The High Line in New York and found the concept and the execution brilliant.  I am very eager to see the concept drawings and hope it doesn’t take as long as some may think to complete this final stretch of park around False Creek!


"Little Potato" was actually coined by the Chinese government.


Clinton wants to shoot the messenger.


agreed  just look at her previous writings


And I can bet what church they went to as well.


I don't think "antifa" consists of a majority of "people of color".   They're a confusing bunch and don't exactly seem well organized but at least they don't seem racist.

They seem angry and they are often violent.   They are also ill-defined.  I'd probably be called "antifa" if I had shown up in Charlottesville with a sign that said "It belongs in a museum" (referring to the statue of R.E. Lee).

I think many are anarchists.  Can you even vote Democrat and claim to be "antifa"?  I think hardcore antifas would disagree.

They've existed for years and have never had a clear message except they hate those with wealth and power so they burn things in the street and smash the windows of their local Starbucks but they'll probably buy coffee there again as soon as it re-opens.

BLM is NOT "antifa".  "Antifa" are extremists.   They are violent.  And they are confused.  And not everyone who protests is "antifa".


Idiot.


this story is about a wind turbine dud story.There was a wind farm that had 4 turbines in Denmark that produced 63 gwh in the month of june 2010.That could produce power for like 30,000 plus American homes for that month.I will add them turbines were as extraordinary as the above story was less than ordinary..My point is wind is a viable form of energy,and should be treated as such


$130 trespassing fines seem really puny when they are prone to suing the park service and the state if they so much as stub their toe, and illegal tour guides make more than $5000 in a couple of days so that seems very inadequate also. The six month incarceration sounds like more of a deterrent for illegal tour guides, if they are actually held for six months. Otherwise, it's just a joke.


The building is named after Police Chief Robert E. Lee and you are saying that the building should not be named after Police Chief Robert E. Lee.  That is, absolutely "denying something" for Police Chief Robert E. Lee.   Claiming otherwise has no basis in logic or language usage.   Even for you, that is remarkable.   You are saying Police Chief Robert E. Lee's memory  as a public servant should be erased because he has the same name as someone you despise.   Perhaps you have heard the saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but naming a Police Department Headquarters Building after a Chief of Police will never harm me."


I cannot fathom what the Republicans in both houses are hoping for with this bad and cruel bill on health care. How will people flock to their party when their neighbors go untreated and die, when their own elderly family members cannot remain in a rest home, and how care givers and medical providers have to explain why nothing can be done. In reality the costs of both assistance in premium payments and the continuation of an expanded Medicaid coverage are both cheap and widely effective. Why such cruel peony and who really benefits?


Just now that happened? Lol.
Not over the last 7 years when deductibles increased 500%?

The middle class does not receive the mortgage interest deduction. Stop with the lies.


He is not confusing anyone.  He is simply being gentle in repealing the counter-revolution attempted by St. John Paul II.  Benedict, who had been a friend of Fr. Kung and likely still is was less strong in restoring the directions of the Council. He could not handle Vox Clara.  Francis can.  A Pope who called himself after two counsel fathers and then tried to undo the thing was the one who sewed confusion.


Well the "Eucharist" at the Episcopal Church isn't valid unless the (male) priest got orders from an Old Catholic or Orthodox bishop, so there's that for starters.


Well what about the health cards....they play that game regularly?


A weather buoy near the North Pole just hit melting point
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-weather-buoy-near-the-north-pole-just-hit-melting-point?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1


They will also be benefiting. It's for their future that we invest in. The long term benefits are priceless. Nomu is penny-wise and pound-foolish.


If Donald were my daddy, I'd hang my head down and go far, far away.  I'm sure others would take advantage of the situation, make zillions of dollars off Daddy's coattails and unethical overseas deals.  But I have to look at myself in the mirror every morning...


No matter the language used in the government's press release and in this article, the program is clearly discriminatory, but since it is the type of discrimination which all left wingers support, the mainstream media would never consider calling it discrimination.


So much for being neutral !


Option #1:  Let the old goat fall asleep and drag him out, or
Option #2: Antagonize him until he responds in a manner that will allow you to shoot him.
At 69 years old it's not like he's going to stay awake for more than a couple days, max.  Waiting a couple then harassing him until he responded in a manner that allowed a legal basis for lethal force was odd.


"Goluf", a sport for non-athletes.


THE MEDIA CAN’T QUIT CHASING REPUBLICAN SNIPE HUNTS

Republican House investigators are participating in a demonstrable propaganda campaign for the protection of their scandal-plagued president.

The fabrication of the scandal, not the scandal being fabricated, is the scandal itself.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/10/media-cant-quit-chasing-republican-snipe-hunts


Maybe she will get a breathalyzer machine attached to her bike for a year.


All this Saunders bashing is a bit odd considering that he's correct. The idea that Britain can simply re-join the EU market almost instantly, and on its own terms, is an absurd fantasy. A bit like thinking your ex-wife will give you the keys to the Bentley a month after a nasty divorce. Highly unlikely.


voting against the no development party is in the best interest!


Legit people who are in line to get PR card, who are highly qualified, are held back for years. Lesson learned, NEVER ever do anything the right way!


I think "as well as those who abhor anything to do with firearms," covers a lot of 'anti-gun nuts'.

If 'common sense' were more common, I might tend to go along with you on portion of your comment.


Ah yes, the old, “I am rubber, you are glue.”
That is favored by the 12 and under crowd. Appropriate for you.


It was two legislators - Sen. Kouchi (who is now Senate President) and House Rep. Scott Nishimoto quietly put through a resolution "asking" the Hawaii DOT - Airports to look into possibly changing the name. What happened next was completely out of the public realm as DOT-A employees put through a name change request to the FAA, and had it approved - again completely out of the realm of the public. Not to say that this is universally loved or not loved, but the only time the public could have even made a peep on this was when the resolution was going through the legislature in the last days of the (2016 I believe) session.


I agree with that. Asia is organized into viable states. Africa is not - which is a major cause of civil wars.

Also, a critical element is the presence of prosperous neighbours. Spain and Italy were helped into becoming high income countries because of their prosperous neighbours, who they could easily trade with. A rising tide lifts all boats.


There is a fundraiser started for the landowners legal fees
https://www.gofundme.com/fund-against-eminent-domanin


Someone looking in on his cats? Clear Creek folks?

Hope these asshats get turned in.


Sadly, in a democracy, people get exactly the government they deserve.


Bannon wasn't the Chief of Staff. Nor is he "strong" and "capable".

And Trump's presidency is the farthest thing from "success[ful]" as it's possible to get. Nor does he have a "top notch team" or a "top notch cabinet".

Your delusions are very entertaining, but they're not based in any observable reality.

Odd that you ignore Trump's own "temperament and [lack of] talent".


"The sun will rise, the sun will set.  That is what we call it. But the sun isn't moving, its the rotation of the earth that makes the sun "appear to rise and set"   This is an example of a "fact" that really isn't.  Even though we will all continue to call it a sunrise or sunset, we know it's  not. Similarly, we know that although Mr. Schwab says things that have an "appearance" of  fact, we know the reality is sometimes  much different. But saying the sun set is much more poetic than saying the earth has rotated...


Don Young is in the oil companies pockets deep and is taking YOUR money, yet you keep re-electing that p.o.s.


If you think all donald has done is "hurt some feelings", you've raised obliviousness to an art form.


Changing the rotors and pads at 100K is not bad, especially if the rotors are scored. It's quite possible that machining the rotors would reduce the allowable thickness below the minimum. Buy OEM pads and rotors, as not all aftermarket pads are created equal. The last thing you need is cheap pads and rotors increasing your stopping distance by 10 metres.


When armed  White Supremacists and Neo Nazi hate groups descended on Charlottesville Trump didn’t immediately  call them out as bigots and racists. He was essentially silent because these people are part of his base.  Time went by and at the prodding of his advisors he gave a half hearted condemnation from a teleprompter. Later,  when given the opportunity to speak his mind on the subject he  basically undercut his previous remarks by stating that there were “very fine people” among the racists. He didn’t call these hate mongers “sons of bitches” or call for their employers to “fire” them.


"How Capitalism Saved the Bees"

"A decade after colony collapse disorder began, pollination entrepreneurs have staved off the beepocalypse."

http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/19/how-capitalism-saved-the-bees-new-at-rea


My oldest was very colicky.  I couldn't put him down without him crying.  I finally put him in a baby carrier and carried him next to me for 4 months before I could put him down by himself.  It was a life saving realization.  Today many moms use baby wraps that keep their babies right up against them.  It takes a lot of pressure off your shoulders. I wish I had had that when my oldest was a baby.

That baby is now 22 and a great kid.


Ooh, the dreaded rogue DemLibs. When I want my nieces to quit being rambunctious, I just mention the rogue DemLibs and they calm right down.


And the first person to leak after he started was himself...


All a driving test will show is that you know how to be careful when an instructor is around.  People generally KNOW the rules, they just disregard them.  Mandatory tests are a bad, bad idea that won't do anything.

And I would say that if you have driven regularly (day-to-day basis) and have no tickets or collisions for 5+ years I would definitely class you as a better driver.


That's it in a nutshell. In a city of 200,000 people, there are 4000 empty homes and thousands more with parachute families. All those townhouses built on No 3 road for families but no elementary school nor are there any plans for one. No one really complains about this because a large number of these townhouses are empty and being used for speculation.  As a recent study showed, local families are leaving Richmond in droves for good reason.


Duffy raised millions for the CPC while he travelled the country on the taxpayer's dime.   So yes, the $90K was trivial compared to the payoff to the CPC.    Why do you think Wright (in charge of the CPC fund) was so quick to write a personal cheque in an attempt to make the entire issue go away?


Obama was not qualified to make a cup of coffee and still isn't.


Straight from the horses mouth. Ontario budget 2005 Page 159

https://www.poltext.org/sites/poltext.org/files/discours/ON/ON_2005_B_38_01.pdf

"PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
In 2001, the right to incorporate was extended to all regulated professionals. Under existing provisions, non-members of a profession cannot own shares in a professional corporation. Recent negotiations with the Ontario Medical Association have resulted in the government’s commitment to extend the share structure of physician professional corporations to include non-voting shares for family members. The government is also proposing to implement this change for dentists who operate their practices through a professional corporation."

Thanks to the poster who alerted me to this.


Don appears sad that the number is only 40.


Even attempting to use the word 'factual' in a theological discussion is ludicrous!

The Catholics will be surprised to discover that they are not Christians.  You would think that the guy buried in the Vatican would have some slight claim to be a follower of Christ, at least.  Not to mention the one supposedly buried in St. Mark's in Venice.

All the "Pieces of the True Cross" and most of the other Saints' relics scattered about Europe are most likely bogus, but there seems to be at least some contemporary history for those two.

Whether Catholics are Christian illustrates the problem.

Theology and doctrine define a 'Christian'.   Then you kill eight million people in the Thirty Years War to make sure that your definition is followed.

380 years later, you want to reopen those wounds and kill off the Catholics because they are not Christians, I guess.


How do you even prevent this, or minimize the risk as a pedestrian? I've had so many close calls that I never cross the street until cars have come to a full stop and I make eye contact with the driver so I know they know I am there. But the victim here was just standing on the sidewalk.

How does the killer even get her license back, ever? She should never be allowed to drive again. The $1000 fine is just a slap in the face to the victim's family. That's insulting.


I could be wrong here but Steph Curry had only said he was considering not going to the whitehouse when president Trump rescinded the offer. Apparently an editorial gives you the right to change considering not going, to already had flat out refused the offer before it was taken away. There are so many things you can easily argue against what the POTUS does, why do you have to mislead about all these extra little things? It makes everything else written suspect when you start changing what happened just because it gives you a few extra jabs at Trump for your own satisfaction.


Kudos to the undertaker that did Hillary's make up tonight, she looks VERY life like.


The wife has an official title of First Lady.  The children do not. Nor are they given offices in the West Wing and the job to create peace in the Middle East, for which they're entirely unqualified.

But I agree with your 'successors' point. Are you suggesting that because the Bushes and Clintons did it, it's now OK for the Trumps?


Go Bears!


Natives should commit less crime then.  A week does not go by that someone in the village does not murder or rape, they don't get a pass.


Your difficulty is that you're correct, ANCSA is a disaster ... but pre ANCSA was a disaster ... before statehood was a disaster ... before "Seward's Folly" was a disaster.  We're left with trying to salvage something out of practically nothing.  Like Tic-Tac-Toe, the only winning move is to not play.  Rock and a hard spot! ... Can't win for losing! ...  Life is not fair!  But at least someone, you and many others, are looking at the situation, and trying to make things better.  The disagreements are in causation and cure, but the hearts are in the right place.


"I can walk, Mein Fuehrer!  I can walk!"


Maybe you're new to this but there is an entire history.


How are the media lying about being shut out?


The USPS  had previously ASKED congress to approve going down to a 5 day delivery week before and congress said no.  That suggestion was made by them to address this very problem.  Do THAT instead.


"Enabling" in this case as in encouraging, however unintended, through act or omission, negative and self-harmful behavior?

I'd say Robin is using it properly. Would you like to proffer another definition?


Okay, I missed something here. How does expansion target China and does monument designation authorize China to enter the monument, or expansion thereof?


The event was billed as a panel discussion with Palin, Nye, Lamar Smith and Brent Bozell.  They forgot to invite Nye, so Palin could just attack him when he wasn't there, instead of having to actually debate.  And the part about being as much a scientist as he is?    Bizarre.


Gov. Kate Brown said earlier this year that the state’s low graduation rates are due in part to decades of the state’s “under investment” in public schools.

Coincidence that the state has been controlled by democrats during the time of under investment? Nope. This is on you democrats! Votes matter people!


"...criticizing Nate Turner, a well-respected member of the Alaska Board of Game"

Sorry.  He can't be respected if he's a member of the BOG.


I have been preaching this for the last 30 years. I firmly believe that sales people and teachers should be the highest paid in the country, because then they will attract the best people. It is also interesting to know what criteria employers use in hiring sales people. A hunch maybe....


While I generally support what the writer seems to be talking about, this piece is so long on polemic and so short on facts that I am left more mystified than enlightened.  Start by telling me what is being proposed.  Then I can make evidence-based judgment on it.

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What a sleazebag.  Kent's lunacy has transformed to active harmful treachery.


I would rather see it completed.  Hydro power in BC is absolutely the best power you can get.  The most reliable, longest lasting method of generating power.  When we all switch to electric cars in a few decades we are going to need a lot more power.  I would rather replace the gasoline with electricity from renewable resources.  In Kelowna, the sun is not going to shine any more in the winter, so solar is out.  Wind is out, as BC is not a great wind location.  The worst solution is to spend 7.3Billion (as stated above) and get absolutely nothing.  That would make me anti-NDP for the rest of my life!  Completing the project is not about the 2,000 workers, it is really about the 4 million people in this province who will be using power for the life of this project - many decades. The other two dams on this river have been powering homes for a long time.  Where would we be without them?


Disagree, she had time to raise her arms to the side and communicate with the group about the threat, which was very selfless and heroic in its own right, thinking of the group before her self and using what little time she had to insure their safety instead of her own.

Heck she could have turned on her heel and ran back down the group leaving somebody else to deal with the bear.

Point in fact however she could (note I did not say should) have used that time to deploy spray or firearm. And for what it's worth firearms are easier to deploy quickly than spray in such situations.


And folks wonder why Alaska is broke.. I wonder who and how much these "Deciders" get paid? California Madness! Here we come!


Part 2: Israel needs to explain the Jordanian "occupation" and the whole story, instead of pleading for peace and understanding. Arafat and the PLO didn't murder thousands in Lebanon and Jordan, then in Israel, plus American diplomats in Khartoum, attacks elsewhere, planes blown up, in order to have peace with Israel. When will Israel leave Peres's ideas behind? Today on TV Brooke Goldstein started telling the whole story about 1948 and plenty more, about no Palestinian people having existed, about that word being used as a pejorative term for Jews. But it must come from Israel, too. Over and over. Can you help, here and behind the scene? Tell the truth Mr. Ambassador. Thanks.


The truck driver was a madman but not a terrorist.  ISIS is lying just like our politicians.
From the Dailymail:  He added: 'My brother is not a terrorist.'
His father also insisted that Bouhlel was mentally ill and not a radicalised soldier as claimed today by ISIS.
Mohamed Mondher Lahouaiej Bouhlel, whose son killed at least 84 people on Bastille Day, told how he suffered from severe depression in an interview with French TV BMF.
'From 2002 to 2004 he had problems that led to a nervous breakdown.
'He'd get angry and shout and broke everything in front of him. He was violent and very ill. We took him to the doctor and he was put on drugs.


The presidential election was never run by the popular vote.   It was always run by the electoral college.   The Senate also was not originally done with popular vote.   Senators were originally chosen by the state legislatures.  The only part of the government that the people voted in were House Reps.    So what is this 'returning elections to the popular vote' idiocy?


Who are we to dictate to the North Koreans? If I recall, the USA has a sizable collection of its own nuclear weapons. The North Koreans have every right to run their country their own way so long as they do not act irresponsibly by extending their violence beyond their borders. If the North Koreans begin making serious acts of aggression, only then do we have the right to intervene with our military. Trump must stop provoking them with his veiled threats, and they will leave the rest of us alone. Trump is a dangerous psychopath who is emotionally unstable. Trump could easily trigger a global thermonuclear war.


You misunderstand the concept as usual.


I prefer to see a variety of editorial viewpoints when reading news and opinion, unlike some right wing sheep I have known.


and christianity?


On Star could conceivably do that, also.


The Newman Society should have been up in arms about Milo being invited to Catholic colleges even before his latest YouTube video.  The fact that they aren't and someone as obsessed with NFP and Theology of the Body as Janet Smith is praised the guy is telling.  It is all about tribalism and not values.  They aren't even consistent with their own soc con values.


This is all from what progressives say is "America's insatiable desire for drugs."

Those poor Mexican drug cartels are only trying to keep up with the demand we impose upon them.


"You're wrong. ... I have a Masters in English. Trust me on this"

Do you want to know what you can do with your masters in English? You can be as pedantic as you like but it will not change the fact that "self entitled" is not the same as "entitled".


psst hey idiot there is not one cap it that post you replied to,, wow you really are a nut job of stupidity.


UBI stands for "universal basic income". "Universal"  means you give it to everybody, including people making $85,000, just like OAS, which is also universal in the sense that eligibility is not means-tested.


"Another adjustment for the homeless campers will be complying with the Eugene Mission’s rules for staying on its property."

Indeed. Complying with rules (or even basic property rights of others) is certainly a constant adjustment for these nature-loving "campers."


As real scientists know there are always edges to real theories.

Only in sociology are their theories boundless and unfazed by real data (that is, data with an absolute zero reference value).  Likert scales need not apply.

The problem is that sociologists have to over compensate and so they play pretend with other domain's theories, not understanding much about them at all, but this doesn't diminish their air of "me too want to play intellect"

What school of sociology would you consider yourself part of?


Clinton says she “kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off.”
The "Most Difficult Man", being her husband, the rapist.


I agree!  Christy and her gang are solely focused from a policy perspective on helping those who already own or want to buy a home in the Metro Vancouver area, and are utterly ignoring and doing nothing from a policy perspective, as described in the article, to help the 34% of Metro Vancouverites like myself and others who just happen to be renters, eh!!??  And here I mistakenly thought governments are suppose to take a "balanced" approach - not a lopsided one - when it comes to the actual work of governing on behalf of all its citizens.  Boy was I ever wrong here in BC, eh!!!


No, dogs are not part of nature.  They're domesticated animals.  Doesn't take a biologist to see that--they've been subjected to generations of selective breeding (this involves extensive culling of 'nonconforming' pups, BTW).  All it takes is a set of eyes.

Dogs are definitely NOT 'non-GMO', unless you're prepared to argue that Chihuahuas are conspecific with timber wolves.  Mammalogists don't think so.  That's why they classify the former (and similar strains) as Canis familiaris and the latter as C. lupis.

What's REALLY interesting is that the drastic physical and physiological modifications to C. familiaris could initially have been accomplished in as little as half a century.  Consider the Russians' work with gray foxes--Urocyon cinereoargenteus:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/biol/5090/boyd/Captivity_effects.pdf


from Berig in Rochester, N.Y.
We're expecting up to 50 centimetres here, just cycled on on my trike, great in snow, to get kitty litter and milk, wind gusts are pretty strong but not like our storm last Wednesday.  Enjoy the storm, hopefully the last of the season, well, for us down here anyways.


Wow. Liar and desperate eh. Care to mention the last time some liberal kook took office and dudes with AR's stormed the streets? Yea didnt think so


I watched her read her budget with all her forced followers clapping and feigning joy and good tidings while she added more billions to our dept to ensure her continued  reign of terror .   Ontario is paying 11 billion dollars just to carry her debt.  Sickening.


Self interest is the name of the game in politics. If it's not we wouldn't be 20 TRILLION dollars in debt. We wouldn't be a divided country.

After a politician gets elected their first priority is to get re-elected, ie self interest.

"The purpose of government is to allow for safe and peaceful co-existence..." Sorry, that maybe your view of what government should be about, but it's not what those in government believe. The purpose of government is to; 1) get re-elected, 2) acquire power, and 3) get re-elected.


Do you really want teachers in the classroom at age 80?  Get your facts straight.  Teachers currently entering the system no longer have a fixed retirement.......very few teachers currently working are tier I.  That is one of the problems since new teachers no longer fund TRS.  No new money goes into the fund and it is harder to find new teachers to even teach.  Who wants to teacher until age 65 and retire without a fixed retirement?  You get what you pay for.


Amen!!! To the last.


Trump's moral compass is 100%.

Did you forget already? Trump condemned the Nazi's yesterday and again today he condemned bigotry and hate.

Today Trump refused to let the Fake News and elites bully him.  He spoke the truth.  There were agitators on the Left who came to cause trouble.  Are they immune from criticism?  All violence needs to be condemned.


Sadly, some of the first dead to be identified are turning out to be young girls that had their whole lives ahead of them.   Teens, and even pre-teens as young as 8 are among the dead.

The suicide bomber has been identified as being 22 year old Salman Abedi.   Abedi is the British born son of immigrants from Libya.  The rest of his family recently returned to Libya to live, but Abedi stayed behind in the UK.   His parents have been quoted as saying that they did not want to live in a non-Islamic nation any longer.

British police have already arrested another man as being an accomplice in the attack, but he has yet to be identified.

The death toll has now risen to 22.


You're as petty and childish as your hero trump, aren't you?

And did I say anything about trump's collusion with the russians?  I'm willing to wait for the conclusions of robert mueller's investigation.


Taiwan has lost its chance to get independence, back in 1950s. After Chinese got nukes, it is simply impossible. And also it has lost the chance to negotiate back in 1980s, when it has the economic bargain chips (its GDP used to be 1/3 China's GDP), now with a few percentage of Chinese GDP, it hardly can ask for anything.
Waiting to be annexed by peace or force is the only consequence, like it or not.


My plan A is to see this collection of fools and their bedfellows in the other party dumped and replaced by people who appreciate the needs of working Alaskans in the cities and villages and have a different priority than protecting the Alaskan tax haven and giveaways to the oil companies.


Like back in the 90s, eh? When the NDP caused the rental prices to spike and the availability to evaporate into the thin air. It became so ridiculous that the owners used to do group showings of the rental units and the rental construction came to a complete halt. I guess we've forgotten the "good old days".


Obama and the Dems reached across the aisle and were willing to work with the GOP.

The GOP refused to work together to help make legislation for the benefit of all Americans then and they're refusing to work together now.


This article makes abundantly clear that Sen. Chuck Schumer is a prevaricating scoundrel. Lying to the American people about their democratically elected president is far worse than falsely yelling fire in a crowded theatre. He should be removed from office immediately and placed behind bars to await prosecution.


Queue the lefties and the tree huggers. Giddy up.


Hey Thomas, are you sure it isn't a squirrel? ;)


Let's all remember that Nik Nanos is the Liberal's go-to pollster.

As such, we can only hope that the numbers are even worse than with his skewed pro-Liberal polling.


They will change the name and continue on.
There's big bucks to be made after all.
Purveying the fake news ...
Just don't call them liberals.


Mark...do you agree or not with a professor being pressured into resigning and being called a racist and a misogynist for walking out of a meeting...or for another being threatened and called a threat to the LGBT community for not agreeing to use made up preferential pronouns ?

as for Engineering and science and mathematics....when the professors and students in those programs  come to demand that 2 be called 3 and that a lever be shortened to move a heavier rock, then you might have a point.


wow you do live is a different universe...I'll take one thin book.  What little I've read about the real TTP, not the fantasy inverse version, is the same issue with all "free" trade, we tend to be a country of laws.  And Obamacare is the step in the right direction, if we can stop paying the vampires their trillion, we might actually have something akin to the very good system they have in Canada. The biggest tax increase on the middle class was R. Reagan's.


Kim Reu what you are suggesting makes way too much sense. Away with you and your common sense! PS. I'd vote for you for mayor...


I've never seen anyone conflate issues on the other side of the world from each other. What the hell does addiction have to do with "needles in the park" or "no gun laws" or "paved roads and build schools"?  You must be a Bernie "the burn" Voter.


If they're anything like my teenagers this would just give them an excuse to stay up until 3am, instead of midnight, playing video games.


Watching "Intelligence" on Netflix.   Best Canadian drama ever produced, in my opinion.  Very dense and very tight.   CBC had to end it after two series because was unflattering to our police and security services -  Watch it and you will believe it.

$100,000 a year chump change for our industry and Netflix.  Laughable actually.


He should give that money to the family of Christopher Speer.
-
who is "he"?
Trudeau or Khadr?
in either case don't count on it
now both of them are millionaires


The Star War has a Millennium Falcon, which is 1) a thousand, which is cool 2) a spaceship that is also a bird?!?! NO CONTEST


Technically, there are other inferences to a HIGHER POWERS.   But only four times is there any reference at all — “Laws of Nature and of NATURE'S God,” “Supreme Judge of the world,” “their Creator,” and “divine Providence” — and in all four cases the references to a higher power appeal to the idea of human dignity, never implying a role for a god in government.

There are NUMEROUS references to what they also believed and put forth: FREEDOM to choose, NOT ONE RELIGION.

Thomas Jefferson, "Christian establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."

 George Washington, "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

Our constitution was written to give FREEDOM, not Christianity.


If you expect adoring God 'to do something for you' then it is not adoration, it is a form of self-gratification.


The $70 billion figure cited by Hughes is as bogus as they come. But when you've staked your bet on an inherently polluting non-renewable resource with a vanishing long-term future, grasping at straws is an understandable reaction.


66 million preferred Clinton. 3 million more than Trump.


My point simply is that regardless of who won what, stores should cater to their customers. Catering to the loudest who may not be your customers, defeat the entire purpose of staying in business.


The only sucking sound in this article was when asked whether the president would use his “Made in America” week to commit the Trump organization and his daughter’s brand to make more of their products in America, rather than overseas, Ferre was non-committal.

“We’ll get back to you on that,” she said.
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Did you hear it! That sucking sound.
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How's Trump's acclamation's about Ford, Boeing, and Carrier? Did you hear the sucking sound as Ford announced it is building a Focus plant in China, adding to the two in Thailand, Boeing who is building an assembly plant for 737's in China, and Carrier of the 1100 jobs he claimed to have saved 400 were management never intended to be laid off, 632 workers were laid off and Carrier is using the tax incentives to automate it's plants leading to more layoffs. Right under the nose of Trump the businessman.
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I don't have to go back 25 years to witness hypocrisy, I can wake up in the morning a read the news.


They already have 280%


These sales, going on for several months, are just a way to get more money for the creditors. I don't blame them, as they are already getting squeezed, but for the shopper these "sales" are really just a rouse. They aren't just selling existing inventory, they will be restocking all the way past Christmas.


Hahahahahahahaha. You're funnier than Louis C.K.


I wonder how the Galic speakers feel?


The actual problem is lack of emergency shelter beds and affordable housing.  Until those deficits are effectively addressed, people who are unhoused will be in the streets and the sidewalks will be their living rooms.


The AHCA mirrors the PPACA in requiring that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions, continue coverage for children until age 26, and retain the 10 Essential Health Benefits of the ACA. Those were all identified as high priorities by the Obama Administration.


An interesting column.  However, has anyone noticed that it is based upon presumption, apparently without factual basis, that Trump has not already read the documents suggested.  This being the case the opinion is simply an exercise in arrogance.


This is great reporting, but the real criminals are the suits who sent Sgt. Rodriguez to war in Iraq in the first place. Probably a million people are dead because of prodigious lying, cherry picking, incompetence and fear mongering  by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and company.

The Iraq War itself is a disgrace, a blot on the national character as bad as anything the US has ever done, no matter how well, or badly, individual soldiers performed their duty. We will never see the end of its ramifications.

Maybe the worst is the betrayal of America's young soldiers' fervent commitment to duty, fraternity and the nation. All of that was wasted, at best. At worst, they were betrayed for short term political advantage and corporate profits. And there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and maimed as well, a war crime of epic dimensions, one for which no atonement is possible.


To confront rising global temperatures is hopeless without a reduction of population.


It never ceases to amaze me how Canadians would always rather blame ourselves (it's the media, it's the debates, etc) rather than the actual nut who committed the murders.


just as bad is ford dealer wanted to charge me for security etched window glass and a ridiculous amount for nitrogen in tires and special wheel hub locks.  None of the items i would pick from an options list but they do automatically to jack up the profits.


FAT and OBESE is an epidemic of mass proportions...literally.  This is as bad and probably worse than what cigarettes and their attack was.  Where is the federal and state action about this massive impact to our healthcare costs and our economies and of course to save our children as is so often cried.  I'm sorry, but fat and obese is UNHEALTHY and needs treatment.  While processed foods, GMO's and other such bad foods are complicit in this, the person on the end of the spoon is very largely to blame.


This result was predictable by some of us who saw that these projects would be so politicized that rational analysis was impossible.   The time line was simply too long to survive ever changing political influence. The actual death knell to this concept goes back at least to AGIA when two of the three producers refused to participate in AGIA and launched the Denali (more properly described as "denial") project. Now calling for an audit (that can't even be started for at least a year) is typical legislative strategy to do nothing by confusing motion with progress.  This is a story waiting to be written.


“we all are unlike unto God”
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My personal nomination for Most Awkward Sentence by a Religious Nut Spoken award.


Canada's greatest asset is oil. Canada should be building pipelines coast to coast so the oil can be exported east and west. It should also be refined before export. The resulting infrastructure work, value added and export income would go a long way to getting our economy moving again. That's what we need a leaders to do, not just sit back and wait for the US to act.


Money pit and passe`.


No argument there. Boosters have been and always will be the driving force, much like meddling owners in pro sports like Steinbrenner and Jones and Cuban. Oregon's problem was that Helfrich as face of the franchise just wasn't going to sell next season, and Mullens needs to max out his limited stadium capacity, despite his denial last night. Plus, the PKs love only one thing more than money, which they have enough of, and that's winning, which they can't get enough of. And they'll never stop trying to buy more of it. The AD is just the middle man, counting the beans, but the charade holds some entertainment value. Can't wait to see the next coach's contract . . . sticker shock, anyone?


According to Ontario's education system there are six distinct genders.  Are they all being fairly represented?


The Duffy scandal was a myth created by the media. The ultimate in fake news. Someone should sue the media for the cost to tax payers of Duffy's prosecution and that wasteful audit of Senators expenses.


One for you - Name the defunct fox farm a skiff-ride away from Petersburg!


Funny you suggest the scenario of young children "armed to say back to a teacher."  Kid tried that on a (disturbing) TV series we're watching called Ozark.  Kid in question: the son of a guy laundering millions for a Mexican drug cartel.  Well-spoken, neat kid refuses to sign the classroom pledge to avoid drugs. Off to the Principal's Office!  Still refuses. He appears every bit as bright as Noa appears, and wow, the arguments he gives for NOT signing on are absolutely fascinating. And quite convincing.

Of course, you might draw the conclusion that his particular "home schooling" is much more persuasive than the public school kind. I mean, if the family doesn't make the grade, it doesn't "fail."  It's just wiped out by the cartel.


you want local kids to come to eat breakfasts?  dump the American style food, how about local style food?  how about poke and poi?  forget the eggs and bacon.


they let him out of jail then he murdered somebody


So the garage won't be needed until some way is found to fund the $43 million hotel/convention center and may cost between $14-20 million to build if it were built today, also from money not currently in sight,  right?

And the City Council authorized spending $700 thousand dollars on this project last week.

Is this anything like the planning and spending that the Eugene City Council has been using on their Taj City Hall?

Seems similar to me.


If it is only 300 metres wide- why don't they just build a bridge over it?


"White millennials exhibit about as much racial prejudice, as measured by explicit bias, as white Gen Xers and boomers."

"Millennials overall are more racially tolerant than earlier generations — but that’s because young people today are less likely to be white."

All ages of Whites racist; millennials less likely to be white therefore "more racially tolerant".


"Too funny, you think I was relating the Harvey volunteer effort with any issues in the mass effort of DACA citizens toward US citizenship? I must have given you more credit than you are worth."
Amazing when your feeble efforts come crashing down you resort attempt to make this about me. Funny stuff. By the way - your comment is indicative of an uninformed Canadian and VERY easy to believe.
BTW - "Under what rational, humane approach could an administration force adults to leave a country for which they had no knowledge or capability of making a decision to stay?"
Really? They're adults, as evidenced by work permits and university attendance. Trying to portray all of them as innocent six year old children cracks me up. You people are a riot.


Probably  all locals. Case is a perfect example on how Feds and local authorities  work together.  Case actually  started at street level then went inter-state same way CBP and ICE want  to work with local authorities to target criminals that are in Hawaii and United States illegally.


"passing local ordinance on vacation rentals"

No need to pass a new one, the ordinance we have in place is fine. Besides, you want to put thousands of hotel employees out of work as hotels lose out on tourists? What will you propose next, nightly AirBnB-Flotilla's to save more money to bypass everyone while hobo's legally sleep on rafts anchored by the beach?


I understand what you mean Napartaq. In not saying don't vote for an R or a D. I'm saying vote for the best of the two based only on their position on things that matter to you and not just because they are an R or D and you've always voted for all R's or all D's. The name of the party is not important. The character and quality of the candidate is what to look at not what party they run with. But as you said independents/unaffiliateds (like me) already need to do that so I'm really taking to the party faithful on both sides.


Sorry ricko if everyone doesn't want to support you for the rest of your life, try getting a job other than min wage and come back and then tell everyone to fork over more.


Check out the end game if socialism in Venezuela


The rest of it's all the boilerplate Krauthammer conjecture, hyperbole, and conspiracy theory.


Yours is one of the most idiotic and hateful comments I've ever seen published in the G&M.


"Early on, RCMP can't ..."
Actually that isn't the case, the Globe later published a retraction saying they hadn't accurately reported on the RCMP's response. It's worth reading it to see how it got so wrong.


my wage growth for the last 3 years is 0....so its even worse.


I dated someone who was repeatedly molested and raped by the town preacher. His own daughters, who had also been molested by him, testified in support of their dad. I don't give any weight to others who support guys like this - many people will line up to support the worst offenders because they can't bring themselves to admit the truth.


Poor Barbara Wong.  She's a whipping boy for SHOPO because SHOPO wants to make it difficult to file domestic violence complaints against police officers.


Now's a good time to visit Paris. Nobody's there. Lots of beefed up  security. Cheaper hotel and Lido de Paree and Moulin Rouge show rates. Lots of vacancies and no long lines to the Eiffel Tower and museums. Might wait a little longer and airfares will plummet. If they still act rude you can just hop onto the Chunnel Train and visit wonderful London. They are so much nicer there, wonderful pub food, beer, and atmosphere. Check out Expedia for air fares and Agoda.com for hotels or hostels. Profit from a disaster.


White Supremacists Praise Trump

Some of them do it right here.


Marty, I didn't like you then, I don't like you now. I will not flag your comment for incivility, although you are insulting me.


I didn't realize that members of the Liberal party take the time to defend their leader on these comment boards....interesting.


"Deaths by terrorists born in the banned countries: 0"

The Somali who plowed into 11 people on the Ohio State campus in Nov 2016 and was subsequently shot wasn't trying to kill anyone?


Depends on the definition of  patriotic don't ya think?  I happen to think Trump is treasonous in his butt kissing of Putin.  I'm sure Trump would have a very different definition from mine.


"Single-ride bus fares are slated to soon go up to $2.75 from $2.50;"  Remember, these are without transfers.  If a transfer is needed, the fare is $5 (and will apparently be going up to $5.50).


Wow, you sure a quite the detective. I would call 911 or the District Attorney's office and tell them of your evidence. In the meantime, thieves are after your banking information from a check that you may have put in your mailbox. They are not interested in your love letters, your wife might be though. One further thing, the ballots went out at the end of last week but the thefts have been consistent since MARCH.


"For example, Obama's order applied to people who were under the age of 16 when they came to the United States. In the Dream Act, the age is 18."

Hmm. So someone who illegally entered the US at the age of 17 would be eligible for legalization?

Even if unaccompanied by parents? (Unless there is some "brought by parents" requirement not mentioned in the article.)


Kenney and Jean are both Harper era professional politicians.  I'm sure they're both enjoying geeking out on the minutiae of merging Wildrose and Con ... but as a voter they need to tell us what they are going to do in government.

PCs got us into this mess and Wildrose are often just rude & provocative in the Legislature.  Didn't even come up with a shadow budget.

Policy please.


(from before) I am not optimistic that the world will solve its global warming problem when many of its inhabitants still believe in the mantra "Be fruitful and multiply."


Of course they are part of the statistic because You have ABSOLUTELY NO CASE without them being included.


The funniest comment I have read on here in a long time. You, like me, must also be in retail.


Yes, a quasi - government institution has stepped in to risk average Canadians money in saving a corrupt institution.    It was either that or the CHMC, this is the beginning of the RE meltdown, the Lehman Brothers moment has arrived to Canada.   Watch out, cause the pooh is about to hit  the fan.


Trump wants bilateral trade deals because he is the big dog in such deals. He can win on each such deal.
It is important then for Canada and the rest of the world to work together and go only for multilateral deals that are of equal benefit to all countries. That means, for example, no more TPPs which disproportionately benefit US companies.
Trump is a bully and a loudmouth. While it is best not to antagonize him, it is important to work with other like minded countries to build trade that does not involve the US.


Well  maybe but it's difficult to "go solar" in a rainy climate.


Turn down the volume Margaret...really? In other words - be ladylike, shut up and take it.


It is good that the Conservatives (unlike the Liberals) get to elect their own riding representatives though isn't it ?


First of all, the facts: as far as we know at this time, all the disturbed man's firearms were purchased legally and FBI database background checks were done.  Next, regardless of any claims, a legal semi-auto can only fire 1 bullet per trigger pull, so there was no illegal modification to "fully automatic".  A person, with a little practice, can fire any gun quicker. Has anyone observed pro-pistol shooting competitions?  Has anyone seen a Wild West re-enactment, where the single-action Colt Peacemaker is "fanned" and 6 shots sound like a machine gun?  Next, it is also illegal for a mentally ill person to buy a firearm, the same as it is illegal for someone who uses marijuana or drugs to buy a firearm. Have any of these laws prevented any such mass shootings? A little research show a big NO on that. Laws are to punish the lawbreaker and that seems to be where there is some confusion on the left-leaning. Laws don't prevent crime, otherwise pot smokers would give up or not purchase guns.


If they will happen, how come they haven't happened yet (despite decades of fracking in the inlet)?


Richard Painter, who served two and a half years as the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bushfiled, has filed a complaint against the F.B.I. with the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates Hatch Act violations, and with the Office of Government Ethics.

Painter stated in a NY Times opinion piece:

"[Comey's] letter was sent in violation of a longstanding Justice Department policy of not discussing specifics about pending investigations ....

"[A] public communication about a pending F.B.I. investigation involving a candidate for public office that is made on the eve of an election is thus very likely to be a violation of the Hatch Act and a misuse of an official position.

"We cannot allow F.B.I. or Justice Department officials to unnecessarily publicize pending investigations concerning candidates of either party while an election is underway."


Hear hear!


I wanted to say I'm very sorry to hear about Phillis my mother sally was her roommate in the nursing home there at canaberry for awhile they became friends and my family were there visiting on a daily basis so we got to no Phillis  my mother past away march 1st as well and never got the chance to let her know . we feel bad about we would have like to attend her serves but just found out again we are so sorry for your loss the Metcalf family


The complacent and pablum-press in the USofA have no difficulty using the term "alt-rt" After all, America is far too sophisticated a nation to have one of its own called a fascist - especially if that person or persons have earned the "respectability" and deification that celebrity bestows. Other gentle euphemisms they delight in deploying is "he walked it back" which is code for he lied or reversed himself, or "he fudged the facts," a euphemism for "he can't distinguish between fact and fiction. Have you noticed that many in the media had the courage to vilify the narcissism and sociopatholgy of the President-elect, but now "out of respect for the office", Trump has become the new normal as the swamp gets deeper and Animal Farm slips gently into the non-fiction section of public libraries - assuming there are any left !


He's done?
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2016/white_house_watch_oct14


lol, yes people like to criticize and that is why the Donald was elected.  He did nothing but criticize Obama, Hillary all the other republicans who ran.  So now that he is president, we are not supposed to criticize him?  Fact of the matter is that the Donald has offered nothing of substance.  He even chickened out of releasing his tax returns.  What a bum!


We've kneeled to many over the last 50 yrs, Ho Chi Min, the terrorist in Mogadishu, the terrorist at Kobar Towers and now the terrorist in N Korea. I know we talk tough but has anything slowed them down.\? Also the terrorist in Iran, again tough talk. Do any of them act afraid. Tell me when is the last time we won.
 You are an academic who taught in the lower third of universities. Basically you were the guy the community colleges didn't want because you couldn't think for your self.
  It's like my daddy used to say, if you want to build houses be great at it, if you want to dig ditches just work your a$$ off. But if you want to be worthless, go to some 3rd rate institution and teach, but make sure you get tenure so they can't fire you


Hmmm, I wonder what she will do now?  She's been coddled by the Democrat party with jobs in liberal non-profits and politics her whole career.  Think she'll get a real job?


So what do you suggest - we freeze our population?

Not sure that's even possible


If John really thinks Melanda really wrote that speech , he didn't go to any university.


Thank You, Rep. Seaton.  Finally the adults in the room have presented a plan.  A real starting point for solving the mess caused by the do nothings you have to work with.  Everybody has to have skin in the game, otherwise they have no standing to complain.  Next let's throw out BS21, and only allow tax credits to be applied when taxes are actually paid.


You took this course in university. It is too bad you didn't learn how to proofread the difference between then and than, probably something you should have learned in public school or when you learned English.

"This states simply if a rich, successful fund manager says a stock will go up than it’s basically a guarantee."

That' where you lost me.


who gives a sh%%,, it does not justify deals that give away our jobs and wealth to china.. and that is exactly what justin wants


Our responsibility in the courtroom is to seek truth beyond a reasonable doubt, but the article is not about criminal trials.

Our responsibility in society is to listen to people when they allege to have been harmed and to believe, at the very least, that something happened that left them feeling violated.  That's not the same thing as assuming what the other person did was criminal.  It's to accept that not all unethical behavior is criminalized, that some people are nasty, and that they too leave a trail of victims and are worth keeping an eye on, albeit informally.


The fact that he committed a crime with a gun and fired several rounds justifies anything that happens to the thug.


Those "death panels" are looking better all the time...true patriots 'check out' early.


There is so much misinformation or no information with this story that it blows your mind...99% is assumptions and who said the workouts were like 'boot camp'?


"Wimps" is Russian for liberal men.
That analogy makes perfect sense.


Cry me a river.  What happened to the Syrian Christian refugees?


It's ludicrous to compare Trump with Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, or Burr. But leave it to you...


Hello Kevin:  According to all I've read the man was accused of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm which he had used to threaten the life of his girlfriend.  This reads like a serious situation.  The police had him isolated in the deplex with no "hostage" or direct and imminent threat to anyone.  They wisely (IMO) chose to not "storm" the apartment and force a possible armed conflict.  I certainly agree with that decision.  However, if I'm understanding things correctly, they left the scene with the intent of "arresting him later."  That makes no sense to me.  It may have taken time to negotiate his surrender, but it would have been time well-spent.  If, in fact, he had a gun and had threatened the girlfriend, it makes no sense to me to say, in essence, "Hey, we're leaving now....see you later."  It seems there's a lot of "middle ground" between "killing the guy" and walking away from the scene.......What do you think?  thanks, Gary


If the protesters outside Saffron Colonial really wanted to make amends for past colonialism, they would get their hands dirty and join the Peace Corps. That way they could do something about CURRENT sufferings in African nations and in India. The young fascists I encountered outside Saffron Colonial were more interested in grandstanding.

http://www.heldtoanswer.com/2016/03/young-fascists-colonize-portland/


The purpose of political correctness was? To quell free speech. While allowing the left to redefine the language.


Cross her and you might kill yourself


Just doing what they have to do when forced to share the infrastructure with cars. If cyclists had their own protected lanes and protected intersections, things would be better for them and motorists alike.


The whole country is a dump, Donnie. You're not helping.


Bill, I'm part of your we. And have voted different ways over the years - not married to any party. Notley's conversations with the oil companies re royalties seemed to go better than Stelmach's. And over the 40 year Conservative dynasty, the government ran deficits in half those years, depending on oil fortunes.

The days of "standing up for Alberta" with belligerence instead of reason are yesterday's tactics, employed by politicians like Trump who aren't getting anything done.


Unfortunately, the majority of these Mexicans are Roman Catholic.  If they could renounce Catholicism and convert to Islam, Justin would appreciate it.  We only support and protect certain religions in Canada.


You can't submit any proposals: You're on paid leave!


wonder which one was on their phone?


The story makes it sound like the older man just, out of the blue, decided to attack the student simply because he was black.  It's possible it played out that way, but I doubt it.  More likely the older man was provoked in some way.

And no, I'm not defending the actions of the older man.  I'm simply saying there was probably more going on than the article would indicate.


Sorry to hear of your loss.
The armchair cops and warriors here love to make anonymous assumptions about others to show how tough and masculine they are. It's sad.


The way we prepare young people for the work force is completely wrong and we should not pay people to sit at home doing nothing. Employers should be subsidized to hire and train young people not just give the unemployed cash. Same thing for refugees - the employer would help assimilate the newcomer into the economy and society after the obligatory language classes. As a small employer who works 55+ hours a week, if I could add a staff member to my business at a small cost, I would hire and train this person.


If PM Jean Chretien had not leaned on the government of Pakistan to release Khadr Sr from their jail perhaps Khadr Jr & Canada would have been better off.


All I can say for our citation is LMAO. My statement stands. BTW, I've been involved in science research and education for 35 years, which I am pretty sure at least equals your qualifications.


The Islamic Jesus will in the last days will appear in Syria near Damascus and take his rightful place BEHIND Imam Mahdi, he will help spread Islam. He will then abolish the tax leaving the only 2 options for non Muslims being submit to Islam or die .


Innuendo about aggressive tactics does not make it true. It was politics by the so-called 'centrists' that wanted the lime light and figured they'd be a reincarnation of Alison Redford.


If hemp can pull toxins out of the soil at Chernobyl, why not in Portland?


Are you kidding me ?  No president so far has worked longer and harder than Trump .  When Trump takes a break it's a short one and then he's back to work.  When a U.S. military member was killed Trump was at the airport when the body arrived . When someone had they're head cut off , Obama was at the golf course one hour later.  When there was another major issue , Obama was out on the dance floor . Poor optics to say the least .  trump has America headed in the right direction . He deserves a round of golf .  This story is nothing more than the liberal bias press working 24 / 7 to trash Trump because he kicked they're rear ends in the election.


Da man its always da man just like selling the free tickets to the arizona memorial or milking the zoo fund for zoo society dinner parties. bunch of old crooks suckin the life out of hawaii


And it most likely will be tapped when reserves run low in the future and people will have a need for plastics, lubricants and the many other uses of petroleum.


Pretty sure you can YouTube how to make steel, not very technical.  But yes we are going to have a very hard time ever catching up with China.  Especially when our president already is invested in Chinese steel.


Every Person gets the benefit. Ever read the Fourteenth Amendment? William H. Seward did, and the democrats tried to kill him on Good Friday too.
https://www.ssa.gov/survivors/


Banks make 5 or 10 billion dollars profit each year. Paying for tuition would be a small inconvenience for them. It should not affect your pension fund at all.And the bankers should be happy knowing Canadians will be well educated, paying big dividends in better health care, lower unemployment, less crime, a happier work force.
  Chambers of commerce are complaining there's a big shortage of skilled workers.This is an excellent way to address that shortage - without needing to plunder Bangladesh, India and The Phillippines of their small number of educated professionals they badly need.


This was a court decision not a political decision.
In any case he was a child at the time and his treatment was disgraceful, that Canada played along with this for so long was aslo disgraceful

It is more useful to see what Romeo Dollare. a true Canadian hero  has to say about this, not all the armchair warriors.


"Ignoring others questions is an old debating tactic which provides little of value." And you are very good at it motely and just as unimpressive.


This will cause D.J. Trump to have a fit of envy.  He will begin attacking Trudeau (and Canada) with his tweets.


Best news of the week.


The "ontologically changed" Father Gil Gustafson is so convinced that public accountability helps the pedophile recover, that he refuses to tell us how many children he abused. Legal considerations.

There is within Buddhist teaching a difference between compassion and what is known as idiot compassion. If Father Gustafson is recovering  nicely from acting upon his temptation to sexually assault children perhaps he can take his recovery to a monastery cell to pray for all  his unnamed struggling victims, their struggling families  and the countless child victims of his countless colleagues who engage in his level of ontological narcissism.

Next, will there will be discussions of recovering ontologically changed serial killers grateful for their graced recoveries?

AW


In talking about the restaurant stocks, I am curious what fellow investors think about how the upcoming raise in minimum wages will affect these stocks, since it will affect much of their staff, and therefore the bottom line?


Not one Alaskan has ever drilled for oil and found it and sold it for a profit because they made the rules so harsh and confusing that keep everyone but the majors out so when you shoot at the majors you kill the Alaskans oil workers and keeps smaller explorers and small producers broke!

Fix this broken oil and gas system that favors big oil or the the Trans Alaska Pipeline will shut down and Alaska will have nothing but the Permanent fund to live off of.


I never had Professor Pothier as an instructor, but you couldn't attend Dalhousie Law School and not be in her presence.  She was the most excellent of us, from her legal brilliance to her monocle to her crammed office with the articles she had read - and those that were on the list.  She will be missed.


At the risk of generalization, let me give my own experience of nursing homes. My family has visited various nursing homes in Montreal and Toronto to see family friends there. An old family friend with dementia was placed in a Montreal nursing home. It was terrible place run by Haitian nurses who didn't care and were lazy. The place stank of urine and was dirty.

Our friend was transferred to a Chinese nursing home in Montreal's Chinatown. I can't recall the name. It was like night and day. The place was clean and filled with sunshine that came through large windows. The Chinese nurses were young, cheerful and hard working. They interacted with the seniors with a great level of service.

In the end, I doubt anything will change at Retirement Concepts. It has to meet the standards set by the BC Health authorities.


I generally enjoy Midday Report but Grootes I find is too full of himself, especially when his left-wing bias takes over . He is also very poor with data and statistics, hence his frequent use of the phrase' not necessarily'.
I hate Grootes comments on Boris Johnson, calling him a racist and worse.... would he dream of doing same in SA. Boris was Editor of The Spectator, wrote a great weekly column in the Daily Telegraph (£250,000 annual payment) until his appointment as Foreign Secretary and was Mayor of London 2x... with 60% not born in London and millions immigrants!!


aa the socialist loving high taxing lover left are out again with the stupidity of government run anything


Negative. It is 90/10 now, then drops to 10/90.


Let's bygones be bygones and move ahead without stirring an aged-old hornets nest . We have enough present day problems to attend to and unless these documents endanger our national security let's put it at rest!


Taxing DIRTY natural gas to heat your house is a good idea.!  As "nothing" will ever replace it  the government wins a guaranteed revenue stream.  The proceeds can go to Government to build  heating stations for the middle class. Coast to Coast ... Meanwhile we will double ship our oil exports
Co2 free. to the USA to make America Great again.    Canada or the Canadians that live here remain Food and Energy poor.  Time for an Election, We tossed aside a Liberal for his carbon tax ideas now its the kid Trudeau's turn.


Do you think Kansas or Alabama put State secrets on an unsecured server in a bathroom?


you are very kind.

really, the credit goes to don marquis and his wonderful characters archy the cockroach and mehitabel the cat.

if there are any of you who haven't read 'archy and mehitabel' get the edition illustrated by george harriman, of 'krazy kat' fame.

i've had that book on my shelves, through thick and thin, since 1963 and it never fails to make me laugh out loud.


It was probably a crayon


I think it is fair to say that in all provinces people take government services for granted. Why this should be so is odd, but it exists even in Alberta.


WHY IN THE HELL WOULD THEY DROP THE MOST SERIOUS OF CHARGES??!!!??? If this isn't a perfect example of the perversion of our judicial system I don't know what is. This man deserved to be hung the first time he was found out. How about holding the hospital responsible for not reporting to the authorities, but just suspending him! OMG. I'm so pissed. Innocent children are nothing to our courts.


These ratings agencies depend on crooks who are protected by public officials like Gov. Walker.

Why hasn't Walker removed Marc Pfeffer from the AK Municipal Bond Bank Authority after emails between Rep. Hawker and Pfeffer that relate to the Anchorage LIO clearly showed that Pfeffer does not have the integrity to be in charge of our public finances?

As chair of the AMBBA, Deven Mitchell carries out what Pfeffer and his gang @ the AMBBA cook up.

'Deven Mitchell, the state's debt manager...who communicates with the ratings agencies before bond sales, said their analysts realize Alaska is spending its readily accessible savings at unsustainable levels.'
http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/fitch-warns-alaska-potential-credit-downgrade-if-fiscal-ship-not-righted/2016/02/29/

Pfeffer's questionable collaboration with Hawker to take care of his own interests before the public interests was a red flag to all and he should have been ousted off the board.

This all stinks to high heaven.


At the end of the season's salvaging we might just to be satisfied with UH football team showing up each game, regardless if its is a losing season.  winning and losing really doesn't mean anything just so as to not bring us down in life in Hawaii.  We will know then more of Rolovich's  head coaching abilities.  compared to JJ's years at UH,  I thought it would be similar and winning season on till the epitome we had.  reality no more JJ and no more da kine.  no more exhuberations.  Warriors were also OUT-COACHED.


Somedays I look at it and like it , and other days I don't . I definitely don't think it's anywhere near as ugly as the Honda though.


He needs to go to heaven to get re-educated on why health care for all american's is a right not a privilege.  He is a very hard right guy who choses corporations "rights" over people's basic rights. He gets all him medical paid for but supports a republican "health" care plan that will exclude 24 million americans.

If he doesn't go to heaven and he recovers.. he will just continue his hateful anti-human behaviour.


This will upset most people in the country..


The federal government can withhold health care transfers to ensure provincial co-operation.

They just don't want to face the political fallout both from the provinces and from the pharmaceutical lobby.


Perhaps the slogan should read "For then many, not the Jew". His 'friends in Hamas and Hizbollah' would be so proud!!!


What you don't seem to KNOW is that the HART Rail serving the Joint Bases is ACROSS the highway requiring massive busing and causing major traffic issues for military commuters. Rail does NOTHING to serve JBPHH workers. It just makes their commutes three times longer.


Nice try. Totally incorrect


Careful there!  Disclose too much personal data and "pono (jonnie austen) keali'i" and has ohana will be on your lawn chanting and lighting tiki torches to protest your denial of the Kingdom's existence.


Jesus did mention that the 10 could be boiled down to 2  .
He also gave us the 8 Beatitudes  .  Not that much attention is paid to them !
Seeing how little we truly loved ourselves he added  "  love one another as I have loved  you  !
Why we forget Paul's lengthy discourse on the powerlessness of the 10 commandments to do anything but convict us of sin   ( letter to the Romans ).   is beyond me  .


I doubt it's logistically possible to give 3 quarterbacks enough reps to adequately prepare them for games and to compete for the top job. It's hard to do it with 2, and the delay in figuring out the starting quarterback is going to show when the season starts. An NFL quarterback needs lots of reps with his team to truly be effective. Splitting practices, which are already strictly limited, into 3 groupings, would be irresponsible.


Yeah those Brazilians and Aussies just can't compare to the ultra unbeatable, super powerful 'MURIKKKANS!!!


I would be inclined to agree MK, but I think Dr. Milner was comparing the public approval ratings of these three far from wise men--NOT their degrees of apparent psychopathology.

By this I mean the first comparison is "apples to apples", while the second would be more "apples to oranges" as you perceived.  Aloha!


Kind of strange when the defense for Communion in mortal sin is, well, Judas received in mortal sin too.


Aloha Richard,

Thanks for informing me on the program you described.  I was unaware of it.  However, I was hoping to keep these exchanges on a professional level.  Are you implying I live in La-La Land?  If so, I don't believe your comment was necessary in making your point.  I believe this is one of the things Civil Beat is trying to promote.  An exchange of ideas, not finger pointing or taunting.


"Sticks and stones, bombs and drones, will break my bones, but words and gestures will never hurt me." While both parties of the US duopoly continue to wage illegal wars and daily visit death on other countries, we discuss whether 'the bird' was inappropriate.  Jeez, like Doonesbury said, "I have seen the enemy and he is US.


Have you ever walked (perhaps with a walker) to mail a letter?  Nine-tenths of a mile is very different than in a car.


Look at CBC News. It receives $1.4-billion a year, and is profoundly biased. What is so sad is that the CBC's "code of ethics" states that the news agency is supposed to be ideologically neutral. But only a fool or a liar would claim that this is true. The CBC is profoundly corrupt, and the billion-plus subsidy helps drive the corruption.


Driven by Islamic sectarianism, Somalis made Somalia the anti country it is.


Bravo Mr Trudeau. It is never too late to take a step in the right direction.


I agree that Eugene has become a ""homeless mecca.""


Pit cultist getting his bait on the street and proving the study that found criminality common in pitheads.


I am sick of hearing about this issue. Please give them the all the of the pfd money, tell them it's the last time for free money. Let's get on with the state income tax, of which there will be no more money given for houses built on sand bars. This is one of those pointless topics of conversations because there is no logical problem  for which there are no logical solutions. Just an opportunity to name call and be angry with each other.

Big Hugs & Kisses


So absolutely all of Texas is a war zone, huh?

Top to bottom, including River Oaks in Houston, or the Park Cities area in Dallas?

I am not sure if I have ever set foot outside of my auto in places like Jane-Finch in Toronto, let alone been through there more than once or twice in the last decade... I am not even sure it is the worst area of Toronto any more...I am sure if you speak to anyone who lives in Texas will tell you the same thing - bad areas? just don't go there....


Bruce Kimura: YOU going write da kine check fo rebuilding da stadium??

Plus...our wise government already has plans fo TOD and RETAIL(!) outlets to be built there wit lots of "public/private" cooperation input (ha ha!)


This why prostitution should be made legal.  When I went to the UAF we had Ruthy's in south Fairbanks where a male could get laid for $10.  But the do gooders shut that down after about 25 years.


You keep calling for a revolution. Are you going to be the first to take up arms? Or are you just "venting"?


Unfortunately, far too many deplorables still tune into fake news outlets that deliberately keep them ignorant and stupid. Give it time and such outlets will have the deplorables believing that Obama/Hillary/$DEMOCRAT is to blame.


I know it's a serious thing but that was my first thought too lol.


Wait till Trudeau is called out for breaking his promises on helping out the middle class, through stealth taxation that affects more than just the 1%.


Perhaps it is the Patriot Act of 2001 that you are ascribing to Vice Pres. Cheney? The House voted 357 to 95 in favor (Democrats voted 145-62) and the Senate voted 98 to 1 in favor.  Seems you might want to spread some of your rancor around to more than one individual.


Dissed the CIA first week in office , fired FBI director for not playing ball, and now outed a Mossad intelligence operation to the Russians , and you wonder why they are so many whistle blowers.


An antisemitic businessman in NYC wouldn't last long as a businessman in NYC.


Actually MUSLIM American (often originally refugees or immigrants, or first generation of) support Sharia Law in the United States of America. And Jihad too.

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.

Americans, non-Muslim, do not.
[...] * broader U.S. population, the overwhelming majority held that shariah should not displace the U.S. Constitution (86% to 2%).

*More than half (51%) of U.S. Muslims polled also believe either that they should have the choice of American or shariah courts, or that they should have their own tribunals to apply shariah.


The article points out " a disturbing level of excuse-making and willful blindness".  I agree, but on the part of whom.

"Let’s not forget that there are three times as many Indigenous children in foster care today as there were First Nations, Inuit and Métis children in residential schools at their peak.".  This fact is stated as an accusation, but who should it be directed at?

Most of these problems could and should be solved at root causes.  With local leadership.


? This is related to the shootings how?


Being nimble and able to react to opportunities and obstacles, is a main reason small businesses can thrive.  The key is to innovate, stay relevant and take calculated risks to out move the giants like Walmart and Amazon.
If you do not change, adapt and think big picture, you will die quickly.


I heard there's a job opening for Amy in Macedonia.


The polls use both cell phones and land lines.
That said -- I think the various polls the ADN is showing are very interesting and give a glimpse of how Alaskans are thinking. Thanks!


"..the world has been feeding off us for decades."  And then of course there's the $20 trillion IOU to China


Aside from threatening eco-Marxist sensibilities, just how are they " menacing"?


And Obama won via computers, a great organizing network.  Did we forget all this?  Was there no transfer of proven procedures from the previous campaign?  Obviously not. Good grief.  Lord help us and the nation.


So...what's "indoctrinated"?  A good case could be made that TV sitcoms and Fox News qualify as "indoctrination" just as Father Knows Best, the Ozzsie and Harriet Show and Leave It To Beaver once did.


"Your priest is deliberately excluding the congregation from what he is doing."

I'm sorry, but this makes no sense. Why does the priest need to *face* the assembly for the assembly to be included? Does the assembly have to *see* the priest's *face* to be included? Why?

Does this mean that people who cannot see -- at all -- are excluded? What about people who are sitting behind a pillar? Or who -- regardless of which way the priest is facing -- aren't even looking at the priest? If someone attends Mass, and follows along in the missallette, or prays with eyes closed, or is attending to a child -- is that person "excluded" -- because s/he isn't looking at the priest's face?

Why do you consider which way the priest *faces* so terribly important?


The media needs to stop referring to these illegal businesses as "ride-sharing." The Associated Press has already stopped because it's dishonest reporting and does not meet their journalistic integrity standards. The Globe should consider this.


And in a parallel universe a young German teen goes off to a foreign country, has a baby, fights for that baby, and then is sent to Guantanimo Bay where she and her baby are tortured. The Germans are called in and say go ahead torture her and her baby and then we might take her back.


My fingers choose what is easiest/fastest. Fewer letters, less distance.  At the end of the day, communication is what matters, not perfect grammar, spelling and punctuation.


If Trump doesn't get us WW3 and a quick ending, he will give us decades of misery with a Supreme Court that is loaded with ultra-conservatives who will promote corporations and the rich, over the rest of us.


A couple of marks of fascists:

1.  Declare that the free press is an enemy of the people, and only the fascist leader can be trusted to tell you what is going on.

2.  Tell the same lies over and over and over, despite the evidence.  Repetition wears out the public and they'll believe any lie.

Trump is not merely a mentally unhinged narcissist on a power trip.  He is not merely feathering his own bed off the Presidency of the United States.  He has taken directions toward having an authoritarian government.  And yet people like Valantas still buy into Trump's crap.  Democracy has failed and failed hard when we have a population that is this gullible.  Valantas should never vote again.  Valantas has proved himself too stupid to vote responibly.


Here is the problem with your position. If you insist on ignoring the 'will' of a substantial portion of the population of a region, then you often end up in civil war. The US is perhaps the most famous example of that. Lincoln had absolutely zero business insisting that the 'union' remain in tact. In fact, the war of independence had been fought on exactly that principle - the enduring 'right' of people to choose their own path, if that is the only way they can find the freedom they seek.


Ah seez Commonists everywhere I look!

LOL


We don't have to tolerate it and we shouldn't. At the moment the only past promises I can think of that rank with this one are:
Liberals - we will kill the GST
Conservatives - Free trade is a dead issue
Justin - deficits of no more than $10B for at most 3 years
All promises that *could* have been kept put the part of the day decided Canadians weren't entitled to have them keep their word. Canadians need to make our politicians pay a steep price for lying to us.
"Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!"


Seems to be a little over-reacting on Kiszla's part. Just sayin'.


I'm not sure I owe you or anyone else a resume but I do have a BS and MS in the Sciences, plus 50 yrs working the sciences.  So as to my "bold statement" about the words used in the article, any statement that is completely inclusive, ie. some act of nature being "totally driven by man" is on face value an error.  Nature is too chaotic, almost nothing in nature is totally driven by one force.  If an exotic like a mammoth walked the north slope today, would we consider this exotic to be totally caused by man, just because it is at this date an exotic? Exotic species is a relative term. Milankovitch Cycle theory describes the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements over geologic time periods and these movements effects on Earth's paleoclimate, perhaps this bit of science might have some validity too.


Truck was loaded with guns and grenades too. Driver jumped out of truck with gun and fired into crowd as well. Stop being an idiot. Children, mothers, families were killed celebrating freedom, fraternity.


Territory captured in a war (1967) provoked by Arab perpetrators is always permissible as an act of self-defense.


Their "theory" is that the mom and GF helped conceal evidence. I guess people can be charged and arrested now on a "theory"; evidence not needed. What BS.


Yes Dela Cruz and Inouye were strangely absent for this very seemingly important vote. Very strange as both Dela Cruz and Inouye
were sponsors of  this bill.  Does that mean that what happened yesterday was a dog and pony show and they already knew
what was going to happen.  This would seem to be the case as the bill passed easily even with Dela Cruz and Inouye not even
showing up to vote for it.
This does line up with what I was told recently by someone on the inside at the legislature.  This person stated that these
hearings are just for show and that the decision has already been made prior to any testimony and the hearing itself.


You mean sanity.  Gerson, a Republican operative and GW Bush war enabler, has succumbed to sanity.


The Trump fan knows from Nazi...


"which saw its support quadruple to 14 seats"
They had 3.5 seats before?


I knew I was going to regret asking you why you are here...I was hoping perhaps you could offer a honest response.

But now you're spreading false stories?  I am not restricted like you were - if you can count, you would see I have posted many comments today.  Why lie?  what possible enjoyment can you get from that?


Women can be very horrible users and abusers themselves,


I'm wondering where the civil checks that tried to get rid of me are for you all.  Pretty mean, guys.  Although I may not agree with Representative Eastman, as many of you note, his efforts may not be appealing to you, but you probably have neighbors who are cheering him on.  Did that thought sober you up?


Only in the bizarro world of political rhetoric and "logic" is not collecting tax a government "expense".


warbirds
18 hours ago
"I'm done with the Stanley Cup finals..."

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Please get "done" a little quicker there, sport...

I'll promise not to miss ya'


Please email me directly with any other patients whose cases we could look into.  Of course, we would need those patients to be willing to come forward.  I talked to many more patients than those named - and found it very difficult to get cases on the record, because most people are fearful or reticent about speaking out for one reason or another.


First you bash anyone who has the temerity to call a spade a spade (trump being a liar), then refuse to accept proof of his lies.  You are in denial, which is truly sad.


Well, clearly, writing an essay can lead to someone voting differently, so I'm not sure of the point either.


Give the man a break.  He's too busy with his many dogs, and flying to Europe to attend conferences on the NCR dime.


You people don't even have a kindergarten level understanding of what insurances.

 Does the state require you to purchase "no fault "insurance? You people are unbelievably dumb


That's almost exactly what I said when I came back to the U.S. almost 20 years ago and watched Fox News for the first time!


I am not on the losing side of the Trump discriminates "debate".  I have proof.  If this is a "debate" then rebut with proof that shows I am wrong.   Orders of the court aren't "false allegations":

"“that additional affirmative relief be granted to ensure realistic opportunity of nonwhite citizens to rent dwellings at predominantly white buildings . . .”  AND

"that individual victims of discrimination be compensated for any injury caused by unlawful conduct”  AND

“that Trump be required to continue to report to the Court and to the United States.”

https://www.clearinghouse.net/chDocs/public/FH-NY-0024-0037.pdf

RE your last sentence -- "Losers are desperate to try to play down their losses" -- not quite - in a nutshell:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-percentage-points-makes/


The state sells the oil in the form of lease and royalty agreements. How is that a "theft"?
I think if the referendum election were held today, the outcome would be the same given the electorate were informed. The reason is that with the old system, which the state would have had to revert back to, would have been no better, perhaps worse.


Such discerning skill is utterly missing from the Hawaii DOE's "curriculum."
Let us continue to raise and train our children to wait on tables, greet with lei, dance the hula in the lobby, and clean rooms.


Enjoy the walk when it's -35 and your new play toy is dead as a doornail.


right,  how dare someone hold a corporation accountable for their poor choices!


Let's be clear. During the campaign, Candidate Trump routinely charged that the election outcome would be "rigged." Mr. Obama's measured response to the alleged Russian intrusion was not to serve the ends of any particular candidate but instead to preserve the integrity of our electoral system and to assure the public's faith in the same. It is now up to Mr. Trump's Justice Department to investigate the matter and take appropriate action, providing that action is executed with competency and without the meddling triggered by external political calculations.


AKMILF ??


Have you actually lived in a theocracy, or a totalitarian regime? I have, and I assure you, it is very, very different.

History is always massaged. After all, British kids are not taught that Churchill committed terrible war crimes. Japan glosses over its wartime record. Many Russians revere Stalin. Mao gets the same respect in China.


Let the elite's MSM make up the fake news, you are just too fake!


If there was ever a crime report needing a mug shot, this was it.


Dreamlost please tell us why M&P should be sold. Does it operate at a loss that is being picked up by property taxes?  Please privatize the trash collection as I know the private companies have yet to do the job for less in any community they serve.


Kind of like trying to overhaul the entire immigration system because one DV Visa recipient used a truck to murder in NYC? When a murder is committed by a Muslim, the "patriots" are willing to move heaven and earth, spend endless amounts of blood and treasure, establish new bureaucracies, spy on American citizens, frisk us and inspect our shoes at the airport, invade random countries that had nothing to do with the crime, all to keep us "safe". When yet another mass shooting happens in America, the "patriots" are like, "meh" and resort to whataboutism and deflect to alcohol and act as if we can ONLY address drunk driving or mass murder but not both.


"And it says most of those PR advocates favoured a mixed-member proportional system, in which MPs would be elected in each riding just as they are currently, supplemented by additional regional MPs chosen from party lists and apportioned according to each party’s share of the vote."

How does this differ  from FPTP?  We can still get majorities with a minority of the vote unless the regional MPs are almost the same in number as the riding MPs.


Wow, but that's all spurious.  To begin with, the Government does not publish individual census responses within the lifetime of the respondent.  And the info you mention are held by different levels of government who (thankfully) do not have the authority to link it.

...Being able to compel information on an ad hoc basis with a warrant is nothing at all like collecting it systematically on a population basis, but go ahead if you want to keep saying it is....


Conservative For Life's comments are crude, vile and unacceptable.


And just where did Pope John's utopian, nonsensical preference for a warped notion {in the post Conciliar era} take us?  Into the abyss where only four Cardinals are FINALLY calling out this modernist nonsense.


""slams Mayor Kirk Caldwell and his administration for lacking benchmarks and mismanaging programs aimed at sheltering people.""

Are we surprised at the homeless programs inefficiency, or the rail for that matter?


The reason that there are very different views in the Catholic Church (or in any institutional religion) is that each of us is at a different stage of spiritual growth.  "Stages of Faith" by James Fowler and "Integral Spirituality" by Ken Wilbur are two books that speak extensively on this topic.  Growing our  souls and establishing a personal relationship with the ever present God/Yahweh/Allah/Mohammed/Buddha expands the inclusivity of our souls and widens our circle in regards to all of humankind and creation.  Both of these books explain why some folks cling so tightly to 'their' religion and others are able to move forward.


I'm one of the biggest critics of Robertson -- I can't stand him.  But he is entitled to his vacation afterall and it's not as if it were a 9/11 situation, or a catastrophic earthquake.

Also there is an acting mayor in place while he is away.

What city council and city services should be blamed for is for their lack of preparation and, as usual, making up excuses that they were not prepared, are doing their best, blah, blah, blah....the question is WHY are they constantly not prepared ever five years or so when Vancouver gets walloped by snow?  Where is the lessons learned?  Even when mistakes happen why are they so slow to react?

And here's the hypocrisy of the CUPE union: they want private citizens to line up in the cold, get salt, and salt the sidewalks, alleys, and roads which really should be the city's job.   But back when they were on strike, they implicitly threatened private citizens who were picking up garbage at parks citing they were infringing on CUPE.


I think you will know it when you stand before God on your judgement day.


If we continue to do the oil train thing, we can expect a LOT more of these derailments in Oregon and California. None of our tracks are up to snuff for carrying mile long stretches of tanker cars, which are somewhat unstable under the best of conditions. The only question is do we have a major catastrophe involving a major urban center (Portland, Sacramento) or do we destroy a watershed (Sacramento River, Willamette River, Columbia River, Klamath River).

Since fracked oil is the most expensive to pump, upwards of $40/bbl, it is sensitive to market conditions. If people would return to reducing their driving, as was done from 2004-11, we could dry up the market for this source before the bomb goes off.


Put in a sales tax.


Figured I'd give it a go ...since you don't seem to get it in English 😁


I find it sad that some of the public like yourself keep asking for another pound of flesh from members of a profession that's already worked so hard and sacrificed so much.

Doctors sacrifice and delay their youth, starting a family, becoming financially independent, their freedom and mobility, their family life, missing importance life and family events, and many times their own health and mental wellbeing for years and decades in order to be competent at their craft and serve the public.

And yet people like yourself feel like after all this we should still be treated like indentured servants.

I don't think foreign doctors will treat you with as a customer-friendly attitude as you believe.  Doctors from outside the US tend to work in systems that are more paternalistic and less concerned with quality or patient wishes than our own.


Some lawyer you must be. Assuming facts not in evidence ring a bell? That aside, the administration is perfectly within its rights to question any decision by an executive department. That it did so hardly makes it responsible for either the actions of the police or the protesters.

Funny thing about this pipeline crossing, when it was upriver of a major predominately white city they were made to relocate it downriver from that city. Potentially polluting white people's water source—problem. Doing the same to non-white's water source? Nothing to see here, move along.

Tell us Mr. Lawyer, got any energy sector clients these days?


Thanks for that little tid bit. Really makes me respect your total unbiased insight. I'm glad you are looking at things with a open mind even after you did not get your way. I would tell you hating is not good for the heart. But you surely know that. Keep on keeping on


Under what justification would they attack NK. Methinks China might have a wee problem with that. But attacking NK would just be insane. The guy may be crazy but he is crazy like a fox. He is all bluff and bluster. He also has a huge army and if you do attack him he won't hesitate to hit back and also maybe hit Seoul as well. And then there is China. China will not tolerate it. And then lo you  are also at war with China and WW3 is on with nuclear weapons.


Start reading this drivel from Rebecca and wondered 50% through why bother. She is following her libtard agenda and here i am falling for it again, hoping a more neutral view would be offered.
My biggest problem?
The quick reference in this article to the other side of the story is just not good enough, so is the reaction from Spur. That is to say the black woman is “lily white” in her reaction. Sorry after watching that video i think not. So Spur, own up to the whole story and stop discriminating against one side only, whether it is current populist politics or not to slag off one side of the population. I also did not see one owner saying he would like to see both sides of the story through interviewing both parties. There are clear biased opinions here and because of that the chain is hurting.
Quality of journalism seriously biased and getting another thumbs down from me. Rebecca should go get another forum to publish here libtard drivel please.


Exactly right! The editorial surmises what the term "trade war" means. There is no definitive meaning for the term. In effect, it's 't-it for tat', and that's what most who answered the poll would be thinking, not aggressively provoking a snake before it bites.

To paraphrase the zeitgeist of those polls: "Don't be a victim".


"disturbing".  The drama undercuts your point.

Of course the "order of charity" is related to the Catholic principle of subsidiarity.  You understand neither and you're making statements about both!


"Trees grow here like corn grows in Iowa with comparable acre/revenue yields over 40 yr periods."

I want to see you grow corn on 30% slope out by Mapleton. Where are the comparable yield figures Don?


They couldn't poll the Electoral College- a remnant of the  civil war, and an oddity in a so-called democratic country.
The popular vote was spot-on the polls.