if a white student or professor had said the exact same words except substituting - muslim - black - palestinian - latino.... you better believe there would have been a human rights trial and conviction and dismissal.
So, I call bs on this as the progressive, left wing racist baiting thugs like this woman and the staff who support her pull this hypocritical baloney.
She should suffer the same fate as anyone who was white and Christian would for saying these hateful things.


Drew
Thanks. My mistake.


Happiness is a Texan leaving Alaska with a Californian under each arm.


18000 state employees.  Oil goes from $100 to $50.  Now there should be 9000 state employees.


I think the term " have your cake and eat it too" is English. Too bad they don't know what it means.
Leaving the EU with only what they want, and leaving what they don't want simply won't cut it. Using another phrase, they're done like dinner.


Thanks Stuart,

Yes, I was aware of your background in philosophy. I look forward to such discussions at some point in the future.

Regards,

Sean


Most developers would cut down the last tree in a neighbourhood if it allowed them to build another house to pad their pockets and you know it.   The government most certainly needs to be involved.   Just because immigrants come here does not mean we need to rip down the green-spaces to accommodate them despite your rightie rhetoric.


Liar, like Trump, Huckabee-Sanders, and Kelly.


Politics is changing really fast.  In my district, people want either a Bernie-type candidate or a Trump-Type candidate in 2018,  the good old boy Democrats (Pelosi) and Republican(McCain) are now totally out of favor because they cannot be trusted.  The Democrats are destroying the party with protests, violence, and hate.   Many blame Senator Ron Wyden and Nancy Pelosi.


The embarrassment over the baring one's dirty underwear....


As you wrote this (' "100% Fact" - Rural are not as educated as Urban,')  post a citation for it please.


I just discovered that the Electronic R-G publishes "Fake Advertising"!

There is  link today that says "Dr Mehmet Oz killed in Traffic Accident at 58"

When you click on the link it's actually a way to go to his website to buy something!

It turns out that he is still alive and well.

Fake Advertising!


And whoever said it was?


You do know that Tibet is a province of China, and most UN and UN members agree to it.


but not a SINGLE issue has been solved. In fact, a number of the rollbacks have actually hurt us badly and even refutes what T/GOP claim they support.


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Mike Harcourt former NDP premiere, chair True Leaf Cannabis
John Reynolds former Conservative MP Advisor to Vodis Innovative Pharmaceuticals
Barry Daniel former Abbotsford police chief, head of security for Wildflower Cannabis, on record saying he opposes cannabis legalization and self described as law enforcement "traditionalist"
Would you like to qualify your claims?


You're not interested in "outrage and calls for immediate action" against the Vegas shooter (which should have been 'what,' by the way?) -- No, you're much more interested in evidence-free attacks against the President and those who rightfully want to end the vile and Leftist-created program that let this monster into our country in the first place. If they had made such "calls for action," ("action" which again you don't even articulate) against the Vegas shooter-- you would STILL attack the President on his reaction to this terrorist, so stop lying and being so disingenuous.


I doubt there is one gun enthusiast out there that can give a legitimate reason why a person on the no fly list should be able to purchase a firearm. It's really sad that the NRA Republican Do Nothing Congress couldn't at the very least get a law passed to close this loop hole. Maybe some level headed person will reintroduce the bill tomorrow.


I presume that they were wearing albs and stoles to symbolize their belief that God calls women to the priesthood and diaconate, too.


Slowest economic recovery since 1949? 1.2% GDP growth, check Friday's  business news. Skyrocketing healthcare costs due to Obamacare? Record number of people on food Stamps? Hundreds of thousands of people leaving the workforce due to no jobs or low paying part time jobs (see food stamps)? This is success? A Republican with this record would be pilloried.


I agree.


Shoulda used Linux.  It's not plagued with viruses, it's free to modify or fix, one doesn't have to agree to abide by any company's privacy agreement and it doesn't cost anything to use it, either.


The second time I read the article is even worse than the first. Please don't make the same mistake as me. Just read it once and then put your phone into a blender and set on high. ADN writes "Havens and Somerville fired shots at Justin Smith before 4 a.m. Sunday after he ignored their commands and tried to flee, troopers said". I PROMISE you they didn't shoot at him for ignoring commands and trying to flee and I promise that Troopers didn't say that. I don't have a journalism degree but try this out instead "Havens and Somerville fired shots at Justin Smith before 4 a.m. Sunday after he fired a gun at them and their K-9."  But that is a little too factual for ADN and doesn't really have the desired negative connotation. Maybe I'll finish grade school and go git me a dugree and become one of them fancy big city reporters!


Your full of crap


Amen, Mr. Smith.


The nation paid mind to "Eddie."  As you well know, the candidate whose entire platform was to continue the Obama Way was soundly defeated by democratic process.

But as we all know from that candidate, those who differ belong in a special basket.

Still hard to believe she said that!  Wow,  so glad she's gone....


Legal abortion isn't murder.


He's not telling the police everything. Or he is & they're not releasing it. Doubtful it was random.


We all thought that about Milo Yiannopoulos after his scandal. And after Mel Gibson's scandal. And Charlie Sheen's scandal.

There are those who promote the idea that what's going on today will last. It won't. It never does.


This really hits the nail on the head:

thefederalist.com/2017/08/13/notes-charlottesville-state-emergency


With the players returning the talent is there to be a contender again. The wildcard is the new coach. The new coach is not coming into rebuild, but rather is inheriting the team that posted the best record in the Western Conference. The heat will be on Davidson to hire a coach capable of maintaining and building on what Constantine established over the past 3 seasons.


Kelty is always in control, one way or another.


Same old nonsense from JSB1.
The areas surrounding Chicago have lax gun laws, so they nullify Chicago's "draconian" laws.
Why is that so hard to understand?


Like to know where the public money went?


Brett, in your opinion-editorial of "White House Uses A 9-Year-Old To Avoid Real Questions" what exactly are your "REAL QUESTIONS"?


Unicorns and fairy dust


$700K would go a long way to help the needy when all it takes to prevent getting that rat lung worm in your system is wash very well or cook until done.  You don't need research to know those facts.

Oh, $700K would do all the good for those who do the unnecessary research to have a good salary and a very nice glass of wine with their Kobe beef steak.


No subsidized rates . Pay market value or move to Mt. View .  Everyone needs to pay their share.  If your going to live in a new building downtown you should be willing to pay the fair price and not hold your hand out expecting taxpayers to pay your share for you.


"Oregon can and should help reduce U.S. emissions by adopting a statewide carbon tax in which polluters pay proportionately."  Exactly who are these polluters in a state of only 3.8 million people?  Is it 80% of us who work at grocery stores, fast food places, waitresses and waiters,  the  one who changes the sheets in the hotels,  the  mechanic who fixes your car?   Can it be that these people are the polluters  who should be taxed on their income because they work and live?  I like to know, where people learn this kind of idiocy.


I don't know, but having lived in the Prairies for 14 years I can't see that 'hugging is a Canadian thing', and certainly not in the workplace.

I have friends in the same job as myself (university professor) who are huggers (and 1 is from Alberta, the other though is from Nova Scotia), but hugging in the workplace still seems to me an anomaly in AB, MB and SK, at least based on my experience. Ditto interior BC.

If anything, Prairie folk seem to like their personal space and want to avoid coming that close! Too many times I've walked into a Tim Hortons, in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Calgary, or Brandon and anywhere along the Trans Canada and seen a gaggle of folks about 2 meters from the counter, and walked forward to be stopped by a stern 'Heh! The queue starts here!' ... essentially at the entrance door.

So is hugging acceptable in the workplace? Seems so in Vancouver and Toronto, but you'll be frogmarched to HR in the Prairies ... or at least banned from the workplace curling teams.


I am really not sure why Price was fired but I do know kosinin is still at the IRS and no one has been charged or even investigated for what the IRS. Lerner did. Obama was just the mouthpiece. He didn't run anything. Either that or he was the most ignorant President ever. Maybe they need to investigate him and his team. For some reason they all seem to be above the law. Not one single person was held accountable for the many crimes committed under him. When a Democrat wants to go after Trump it is usually to hide w their crimes. Turn the tables and start investigating. Starting with Mueller.


That 'orse has long since lift the bahn.

Does it apply to Australians?  They've been playing 'second class' with our Kiwi expats this last wee while.

Kia Ora, eh?


Aaawwww, Russ- are you upset that the ADN has the unmitigated gaul to post views that are different than yours? I guess the Alice Rogoff days of posting 99% Leftist crud are over, and that makes you sad.  That feeling you have is called "Cognitive Dissonance," but don't worry- the side effects include a broader perspective.  You'll be fine.


Irrespective of the trade framework, Canada needs to diversify the markets for its products.  If it takes some sort of free trade agreement with China to gain a foothold there, then that's what it takes.  The same is true for the EU or the Mercosur countries.  There will always be a quid pro quo.  Today, close to 80% of our exports go to the U.S. - having that door shut on us through tariffs will be a disaster - the solution is obvious - seek the best deal possible with the U.S. - they will always be our largest trading partner, but reduce our dependence on that market with a target of growing our exports to the rest of the world so that our share to the U.S. drops below 50%.  Canada's economy can no longer afford to be at the mercy of a U.S. that has no interest in pursuing trade agreements on the basis of shared benefit.  As far as Trump and the GOP are concerned, our weaker currency and social safety net (including health care) are unfair trade practices.  There is no win to be had.


You assume way too much from the information available. No wonder it's all wrong. You did get your sermon in though.


Time to institute a work program in jail so that inmates actually pay for their food and lodgings with productive work. Then they can stay as long as they want or as often. Going to jail shold not mean free food and housing on the taxpayer loonie.


Apparently you haven't been paying attention to what's happening at the Canadian senate these days.


Yes, Mike, it's a BFD, especially considering Oregon's long and less than admirable history in race relations. Please, not another pusher of the silly "I'm colorblind-ness from the conservative race-debate menu. Platitudes like "Can't we all just get along" are actually demeaning, and have something to say about racial attitudes, IMO.


And yet NFL ratings kept soaring for decades... right up until this protest crap started last year.  Kinda gives you an idea of how many viewers didn't like the national anthem being aired as versus how many viewers don't like the national anthem being disrespected.


In another post, you indicate, wrongly, that I diminish the conversation by referring to racial stereotypes, which I did not do. However, I think that calling people names does diminish the civility and conversation.


More paid vacation. Right to discipline children even with corporal punishment and banish people from class or school.  No appeals; no reviews; no rights; teacher makes the decision.  Right to keep a loaded pistol and hand cuffs on their desk and threaten undisciplined children.  Only kidding.  Well, sort of.


Feel free to send him your life savings...


Art you nailed it with 'and wasn't a snob or smartass'... that particular trait is lacking in college grads that I have interviewed in the last five years.

A lot of them had an almost eerie sense of entitlement as well.


They believe the Western World is evil.


Some Canadian must have really hurt Mrs. Dressder in an ugly way.
This piece is entirely misleading and untrue. I'm Mexican, I lived and worked in Canada, been married to a Canadian for over 30 years, and what she is saying here is bias and false.
And please stop using the pronoun "we," as in "we are disappointed and with good reason."
Who the heck are we?
And when did Canada wrapped themselves in the flag of moral self-righteousness? As a Mexican, I feel emarassed at this piece.


Notice the passive "the Associated Press has learned" third person twice removed removed source for this revelation. Democrats and their friends in the Trump hating media must be getting desperate to float this latest smear.


Whatever his last name is, this was not a good teaching moment to be proud.  Attacking Ms Wimmer is not finding any  answers, what we should be asking is what the hell is going on if this is going on  there needs to be more information asked of all involved, especially those that are accountable for  running this program and managing staff at this school.


Should've kept your mouth shut about your former place of work, Rhyner.  By confirming that you have a union retirement only added fuel to your fire of union bashing and criticizing.  I can tell you that I never snooped around in yours or anyone else personal background.  I only comment based on what YOU have confirmed.


What world do you live in in which any of us support Anthony Weiner? He's disgusting.


Yes, but they still have to ensure the way is clear when coming to an intersection facing a RED light.
Any traffic infraction they incur while driving goes against their personal driving record as well.


Could not agree more.  If the left didn't have "double standards", they wouldn't have standards at all.
 I would hope the Herald would  endorse   the very common sense  abhorrence of hate, intolerance and more importantly, violent acts, from either side. That is the only  'correct' position to have, that I can see.


A Kiszla column that's calm, reasonable, and insightful.

Who knew?


Another Islamic Republic, the Sunni version like the Kingdom.  I know how Ataturk would see this, a return to the dark ages they covet so much, like turnip trump supporters.


For all of the defenders of this "race" and my own "why?", the question doesn't concern the act of doing it.  My question is why the non-event is being broadcast in the news media as some astounding feat setting up an artificial "race".  The intent, to me, is massaging egos, self-gratification, public notoriety and acclaim.  It lacks respect for the moutains and their environment.  The doing it isn't the problem.  If they had done it and shut up about it, I could understand.  Racing around the planet and loudly proclaiming the time factors contributes nothing except the personal glory of the participants and their "sport" idolators.  Walking and observing the flora and fauna of the beautiful area has much more importance for self-enrichment than any race against time and the elements.  Just another "race" like the Iron Dog roaring and distubing the land purely for human egomania.


Men (and women) are not thieves either. And yet things keep getting stolen. Perhaps the best thing to do is to stop looking for a solution that covers every single imaginable possibility and work on what produces the most benefit most rapidly, which would be avoiding risk. If people then want to keep on working on reducing risk that is fine but first help stop people doing dangerous things until you achieve that.


The first step in solving a problem, is identifying the problem.
To find out what has been behind Vancouver's housing market since 2001 and what has been hollowing this city out for the past 15 years, all the mayor has to do is ask his 'roommate'. I'm sure she has insider information.
BTW...no news on her mother for 8 months now...nothing since before her corruption trial...


Civil Beat's Editorial Board has hit the nail on the head with its conclusion:  "The public deserves a full airing of the troubles within one of its most important public agencies — in an open forum where officials on all sides are held publicly accountable for their decisions in this matter."  We all should support this action by our Police Commission.


If Executive Orders immediately became law, Guantanamo would have been decommissioned eight years ago, when Obama signed the order.
No matter how much you and he might wish it, Trump cannot unilaterally create law. He requires Congress for that. Congress shut down government, rather than cooperate with Obama. Trump may be running from the same party that has control of that house, but he has few real friends there, and the Republicans have their own agenda.
His Executive Orders are not much more than 'memos' to Congress on what he'd like to be discussed and acted on. Whether they comply is up to them.


Caribou Stew ~ !


I was with you all the way, utilitas, until I reached your third paragraph when you rolled over into your usual rant against progressives, and your so foolish claim of "Hillary was utterly defeated."  Read your own first line, and then explain how you can (like Mr. Trump) hold opposite positions at the same time.  And your line of "Hillary was utterly defeated," and Trump won!" is also in opposition with your opening statement.  Talk about 'hard to dialogue" when trads talk out of both sides of their mouth, if you get my meaning.  A little restraint goes a long, long way in being heard.  Now, I've forgotten what I was agreeing with you on.......


Right, giving a front page to the Moreau schedule was just a head fake.  Like the Globe's endorsement of the CPC the last few elections.  Do you only see what confirms your biases?


Here's a stat Doc, courtesy of a recent article in Post Media.

.

..."In 2015 alone, the National Bank of Canada estimated buyers from China poured $13 billion into Metro Vancouver real estate, one third of the total. Vancouver Sun and Province reporter Sam Cooper follows the flow of such money, a portion of which is illicit and often ignored by Canadian officials"...

.

One year.  13 billion.


"Oh WOW, mann....That's the biggest one I've ever seen!"
"Play jump-rope with it too!"


The sooner you move to Wasilla the better


If Warsaw Uprising Polish resistance fighters could build working STEN-like submachine guns under the watchful eyes of the Nazis over 70 years ago, then I suppose even a Hawaii-born shade tree gunsmith could do at least as well.

As I've pointed out (in vain) to six readers here who staunchly support the fantasy that an official prohibition of firearms can always be equated with increased safety for all, then our major U.S. prisons should all be havens of tranquility, with little or no chance of murder, physical assault, intimidation or rape.  But are they?  For those who care about such things, there was a celebrated case of an American prison inmate who managed to build himself an electrically primed and repeating handgun using homemade metallic cartridges, all while under the supervision of prison staff.  I would guess had he been so inclined, a prison-made late medieval style longsword (as popularized by Aragorn, son of Arathorn in the LotR movies) would have been child's play too.


Before we determine that the Angus Reid poll is an accurate depiction of how Canadians feel; we might want to examine the poll. As it states, it is the opinion of selected members of the Angus Reid Institute. The Institute often appears to be pretty right wing. Perhaps it would be a wise decision to take a deep breath and not be overly influenced by limited polls.
From the poll:
"METHODOLOGY:
The Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey from July 7-10
among a representative randomized sample of 1521 Canadian
adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum. For comparison
purposes only, a probability sample of this size would carry a margin
of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding. The survey
was self-commissioned and paid for by ARI. Detailed tables are
found at the end of this release."


No one ever mentions we may run out of money for welfare or housing give-a-ways, just Social Security.


We need some creative diplomacy.  Alas, Trump is so weak he is just not capable of anything except the usual phony "let us get tough" rhetoric.


This is the cleaning up of the mess.  Of course it's going to "look bad", because finally someone is doing something about it.

It's just like the debt: it's all fun and games until you start paying it off like a responsible adult.


And your point is?


"Canada and China do not have a formal extradition treaty, and the Trudeau government has signalled that it may not complete such a deal out of concern about abuses in the Chinese justice system."

"Complete" is a poor choice of word; better would be "do," or "who initiated..." There was no such treaty or even the thought of one before Trudeau. It would have been unthinkable under Harper, Martin or Chretien. Only a Trudeau, who "admires the Chinese... form of government," could possibly think that an extradition treaty with a totalitarian, Communist regime would be a good idea. Only someone lacking any understanding of history would think that justice is served by handing over people to the Communist Party kangaroo courts. Justice requires an independent judiciary; when outcomes are decided before the trial begins by Communists, that is not a real trial or justice.

It is truly bizarre that these decisions are being made by someone with a grade 7 level understanding of history.


I have made this argument many times only to be shouted down by angry women who tell me I have no clue what I'm talking about. Thank you for such a spot on, well written article.


Seems to me every time we do a 'major' project 'we' have to bail it out.  If you're going to raise all of the above, but the money to good use not 'bad' use, so to speak.  Yes, I agree to 'tomuchpilikia'.  Last, but not least, the same mismanagement people keep getting elected, how come?  Aw, I know, we're the blind and their our guide dogs.  Makes sense to me!!!  Have a nice day.


.... and you, ThDMcG, come to the G&M forum from the CBC forum.... where you monitor the G&M from your CBC desk .... soooo obvious ....!!!!


It's the guards. Simple.


It's St. John's!
Much different story in Toronto, I think.


She's the one who brought up the hotel reneging on its own reservation.


After the match Allistair Coetzee said he was pleased with the 5-pointer. Of course, the rules changed 2 seasons ago and we didn't actually earn the bonus point. A few logs, including the one on sarugby's official website (!), even incorrectly tallied the Boks with 5 points.

It's possible the Boks left a bonus point on the field (we needed one more try) because they didn't know the rules. That is a disgrace! Why the press isn't picking up on this is pretty strange too... sometimes they can't help but drink the kool-ade I guess.


Life was so much simpler back in the 70s - I recall as a student at UWO going to the Mustang football games (when students were still allowed to drink in the stands and the stadium was packed) - girls would use the stalls in guy's washroom since their lineup was huge.  As guys we didn't care much as there was just a long trough vs individual urinals to stand at (and with my "bashful bladder" it was a waste of time anyway) Mind you liberal use of alcohol broke down a lot of social concerns.


White people have been immigrating to this continent for over 200 years, and look at all the damage and death they have brought. Ban all immigrants the the New World! Send everyone back to their country of origin and let the indigenous have their lands back!


At the end of the day Democrat support of the DACA people is wishy washy.


Good idea, but I would take it a step further.
END the PFD for EVERYBODY and use ALL the money to close the budget gap.
That way, EVERY citizen would be contributing something to funding state government.


why would they need to wiretap?  Please explain.  Still requires a warrant.  Sorry to pop your delusional bubble.  Please go back to the ties Manfort has/had to Putin's oligarch which now no longer can be denied.


what needs to be done is enforcement of all the existing laws,regulations, and ordinances that we have currently and this would not even be an issue.


If Trump had put all of the money that he inherited from his father in a stock index fund, he would be richer today than he claims to be.


And what about those militias we used to hear about, are they gone do you think?


Just how vulnerable is Canada right now without having the most advanced (on paper) attack jet?  Is it that Canadian forces might not be able to attack the latest third world country on America's "axis of evil" to do list?


Niagara, you are a stereotypical Welland loser...there's no otherway to state it.


We need a foreign buyers tax in Ontario effective March 1, 2017 to cool the market like it did in Vancouver. No ifs or buts; just do it And forget about paving over our greenland to building more houses.


joseppi,  its much worse than anyone imagines. charter communications, which owns time warner only has 825 stockholders, the same guys that own all or controlling interest in the forbes 2000. itrs crazy, about a thousand guys on this planet, through ten thousand subsidiaries, that own everything. governments, you and me, even your dog. you think mcgraw-hill publishes books, think again. hedge fund managers control through money put up by the thousand really, really rich guys. here are the top hedge funds out of thousands world wide.
MANAGER	       COMPANY	ASSETS MANAGED
CEO	                  NAME	          TRILLIONS
laurance fink	   blackrock	                       $4.6
jiang jiaqnqingt ind & commbank of china	$3.4
jamie dimon	   jp morgan chase	$2.4
brian moynihan bank of america	$2.2
total		$12.6

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/chtr/ownership-summary
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brendancoffey/2011/10/26/the-four-companies-that-control-the-147-companies-that-own-everything/#7f8202f3685b


The problem I have with what you are saying is addiction is the problem , not casinos, not bars, not drugs, not grocery stores. I know someone who has at various different times been addicted to sports. Food (Serious gluttony), alcohol, shopping, pot, coke, speed, selling drugs, golf, sex and I am leaving a couple of things out. Usually they were cross addicted to more then one thing at a time.. None of these things were the problem. The problem  was they did not know how to identify and manage their mental illness.


This is absolutely disgusting. Of course this garbage has an attached emergency clause. Kate Brown and her liberal cronies who proposed this nonsense need to be deported along with all the damn illegals who they want to support with our money. Screw them!


Stupid analysis on Scotland. Not accurate at all and PM May won the election in which Scots voted in many Conservative MPs.


I own a few General Electric, and I'm hanging on to mine too.
Now I just have to figure out where I am going to get some money to buy some more.  After all, I've been loading up on Cenovus this past summer.


how do you know
I lived under marxist governments you moron


Assad will be in power longer than junior is.


If I were to subscribe to conspiracy theories, I would suspect that somehow Trump has orchestrated the  election win of Trudeau, Notley, and now Horgan in an effort to destroy Canada's economy and to seize our resources at bargain basement prices.


Your putting underscores between your words makes your post unreadable.


To Buck and Lamborn: WWJD?

Not what you did.


Looking forward to a time when Republican candidates feel okay with identifying themselves as Republicans again.  Maybe when they're not okay with ideas like shutting mental hospitals to avoid some form of tax increase they can again find dignity.


The fact you even say 'enough' means you miss the point. A principle of neutrality for the Lt. Governor is violated. Its not the amount of money that matters but the fact she donated and is partisan bringing her decision into sharp scrutiny. If she opts for a snap election as christy hopes I think that will backfire on the Liberals big time. If they didn't listen the first time in the first election what will make them listen a second time? ...Nothing but a desperate cling to power.


From the article: "a statistic that wasn’t foreseen when the system was set up in 1971"
=========

That line pretty much sums up every economic decision made by Pierre Trudeau (and indeed by Lester Pearson before him).

What we really need is to transform EI into an Employment Insurance program, which it most certainly is not today.  Right now EI is a tax that goes into general government revenue and nominally has a bunch of loosely related programs associated with it through line-items on a budget, albeit with no guarantee or even expectation that the revenue and expenditures will match.

Parental benefits are one of the many programs that maybe shouldn't be included in EI but handled through a separate, dedicated program.


Greetings.....beyond the religious hatred, homosexuals have been persecuted,
 hunted and murdered by the thousands in our so called civil countries for centuries!  By Paprocki calling gay lives immoral he is adding fuel to this hideous anti gay adgenda!  Stop the Hatred!!


It is not in governments interest to make anything they run work properly. Except maybe tax collecting, and they do that with a lot of threats and coercion. There are are a lot of well paying careers being sustained by keeping medical systems organized scarcity.  What is the wait time for elected official and their families for medical procedures compared to those who pay for them with their taxes. It's a suckers game.


The sickness of the left is deafening. Crude verbal assaults against the President and his family has passed the 'free speech' threshold, some calling for Trump's assassination, other want to bomb the White House, baseless accusations of incest, the list is long and crude. Time to fight fire with fire, let's make Colbert a sample of how is better to be civil, respect the will of millions of citizens who elected a new manly president.
It seems attacks, as long as it isn't directed to Obama or Hillary, all is well with the liberal-regressive crowd.


ADN writes: "Congressmen hear pitches on how to open up Alaska’s natural resources "
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Nice to see that Don Young is keeping our colonial status intact, so outsiders can rape and pillage the environment and the people that live here.  Sad to see that some of the native corporations are willing to trash the places where they live for money - but hey, that's what colonialism is all about - it worked!   History will not treat Don well I suspect.  Don makes it clear, on a regular basis, that he does not care about history and his legacy is immaterial to him  :)


I really don't care about the Americans' feelings.


The Southern Poverty Law Center points out ties between Kessler, the Occupy movement and even past support for Obama. Did he change his politics or is something else at play?

In Kessler's own words, "I can't think of any occupation that I admire more than professional provocateur..."


You beat me to it!!!  I don't own Mawer funds, but have owned EdgePoint since inception (and Cymbria).  But to your main point -- totally flawed "analysis".  Another excellent fund is PH&N Hi Yield Bond for those looking for a fixed income position.  I fully understand that it's returns last year were an aberration, but I think the 10 year return is around 6.5% -- net of fees, of course.


Got news for you Bucko.  The Republicants own the titles:  Just Say No to America, and Corrupt Bastards Club.  No all Republicans are rotten, but a fair amount are.  It's one thing to have opposing sides, but the so-called TEA Partiers and CBC Republicans don't deserve to be in control of any American government.


Ding dong, you are wrong.  Since obama took office, how many donkeys lost their seat to the better party (GOP)? Too many to count. So when you want to talk about losers take a look at a pic of HRC, or better yet, take a look in the mirror.


Women empower yourself and leave the mysogonist discriminatory institutional church to men-folk. Guess what will then happen? It will implode! #womenpower


Build a wall, they will build a tunnel.
Sounds like the Berlin Wall,shoot those who try to climb over it.


There is no doubt that something needs to be done. However this exact project was scrapped many years ago because it cost too much and it didn't resolve the issue fully. (Alternative 3)
http://www.i-70east.com/meetingminutes/CorMtng5-17_18-06/CorMtng_5-17_18-06_AltA1andAltA3.pdf

The city spending billions on a highway just after spending on light rail. Then when it's all finished there will be toll lanes to charge the tax payers even more money to use the extra lanes. It goes into the drainage issue and affecting City Park. There are way too many cons to even spend the time writing right now. I don't support this plan at all and I live right near City Park and often use the affected part of i70.


and there is nothing that John Paul the great enabler of abusers has done that another pope can't undo.   he made no infallible declarations about anything.


My point is you appear to be frantically deflecting from the charge that your preferred source of "news" is a fever swamp of neo-fascist invective and conspiracy theory.

Got anything at all, RD?


You are not he first person to suspect that RD is a complete fraud.


Did you catch the point of the comment : "Erasmus of Rotterdam, responding to Martin Luther's question, "Why do you remain in the church?", is supposed to have replied, "I put up with this church in the hope that it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better." that it is Erasmus making the comment, not Luther.
Luther left, true enough. Erasmus stayed. And the reason he gives is a good one: ""I put up with this church in the hope that it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better."


But have the Cardinals really "found their rhythm" or are they just a .500 team on a season-high win streak? Two weeks ago everybody was saying that the Cubs had woken up and everybody better watch out for them, and today they've lost 7 of their last 10. I just don't see a wild card team coming out of the NL Central, it looks to me like a division that's going to be won by a team with 85 wins.

Rockies and D-backs can't exactly coast in, but I'm going to have to see the Cards play more than a week of good baseball before getting too worried about them.


There are enough people in Venezuela who think as you do to keep the country starving.

Keep it up.


Oh I don't know...  I was hit by a car while crossing the street and the driver was polite enough to roll down his window and apologize. Didn't make me feel any better.


I'm not really sure how it is that you're equating the idea of "civility" as being "progressive" as opposed to "conservative." I've seen plenty of uncivil discourse from progressive/liberal people, just as much as from conservative people. I don't care what political ideology one believes in: namecalling is ugly & counterproductive.


Why is it up to the gubbermint.  They would run out of sand if they were in charge if the desert.  Let the market be the market.


Twice today I have been asked if a tart reply to an obnoxious or trolling comment is civil.  What is meant by civil?  Those are the times when a tart reply is VERY appropriate--even if it's not particularly civil.  Yes or No questions can be vey annoying.


Reagan was the last Republican president.  These two were always RINOs.


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Had a similar experience at one of the big mall stores specializing in undergarments...featuring pouting silken-haired young women falling out of undersized underwear in the display window and on posters.

I'm not fat, but am well-endowed enough to require some engineering help in the brassiere dept.

The gum-snapping young sales associate told me there was nothing in the store to fit me. Apparently if your bosoms are of a certain generous size, manufacturers seem to think the rest of you is large as well, hence no bra to fit big boobs attached to a small back. A DD-cup was not to be found in a 34 band size. At least not in that store.

Try online, I was told. And the virtual fitting room was where?? This isn't like buying a pair of socks.

Ageing boomers have money to spend...but where are the pretty undergarments that fit us??  Thanks for this article!


Cat says "its not just TD that is running out of people to lend money to."

I highly doubt that, especially in TD's case.  They have more branches in the US then they do in Canada.  Plus, their clients in the US won't listen to CBC.


Nope. Nope. Quote unquote men and Quote unquote women are absolutely totally 100% identical in every way, and any differences observed in them is DISCRIMINATION! (breathes into paper bag)


A nice thought, PI, but not according to most observers of what is happening on the ground.  Trump has inflamed - dangerously so - a core albeit small group of revolutionists who will continue the scorched earth policies right along with DJT, as he is not one to accept defeat, period.  We are in for a continued polarized country with a select group of dangerous home-grown would-be terrorists (remember Timothy McVeigh?) that a highly vindictive Trump will support.  There are a few politicians who also feed the hysteria in various ways, sadly including John McCain (its time he is voted out of office) and Marco Rubio (who should be inoculated against rabies).  So to concede and then recede is not in the genetic makeup of Donald Trump.  He will not go away until he is no longer able to speak.


All varieties of foods can be enjoyed without destroying the national fabric of a country.
I live in the east coast. There is Acadian and other old time East Coast Canadian nationalities here.
It would be a real shame to see that just uprooted and destroyed in the name of sushi and pizza; which we have here by the way!
Menu choices are not an excuse to destroy a nationality and it's sad that Canadians are so complicit that within 40 years people in the centre and elsewhere don't even know what Canada was. No army or invasion necessary. Just some platitudes, virtue signalling and of course, pointing out that the immigrants and foreigners are the real victims; and that's that. Nothing to see here folks; so many menu choices tonight!


who cares ...the man has been in office for 3 weeks ... you guys are never going to make it for 8 years if you don't relax an assume your position on the back benches, the market is grossly overvalued and has alot of correction waiting to be squeezed out of it. The market is only up because Obama's out of control deficit spending bought it up to these levels with borrowed money.


Why yes, they're wealthy, progressive democracies in Europe and all of them have Western-based law. Why do you ask?


Mr. Whitehouse and Mr. Durbin both knew that Mr. Browder could not link Fusion GPS and Russian funding. As attorneys, they both knew not to ask a witness a question to which they didn't already know the answer. Both gentlemen were attempting to have a witness on the record admit that there was no link between Russia and Fusion GPS and the Trump dossier. Therefore, this is one more reason to prevent the special counsel, Mr. Mueller, from looking into Fusion GPS funding, which could prove very embarrassing to Democratic interests. I think Mr. York is somewhat naive to attribute anything other than partisan motives to these gentlemen's actions.


"Be afraid, be very afraid..."

Afraid of what - you and all your snowflake friends?

Wow.

I'll call your bluff.

Show me what ya got...


the pro cyclists don't seem to have a problem


"The Confederacy was not so much about slavery as it was about the desire to be a separate country ..."

They didn't want to be a separate country just for giggles. They wanted to be a separate country (actually, 11 separate countries bound together in a "confederacy") so they could continue to legally own other human beings. That was the whole impetus for secession.

It doesn't do anybody any good to pretend. The Confederate states were not the good guys in the Civil War.


What class and style...........


The Trudeau government has set aside $348.6 million over the next three years for the deployment of a Canadian battle group in the Baltic States and ongoing air and sea patrols to counter the threat of Russian aggression on Europe's eastern flank.Here is your money.Canada is sending soldiers on expensive vacation to Europe.


Tory is the greatest coward to ever hold an office. His prime directive is to not be offensive, which oddly enough - I find incredibly offensive.

Pride, BLM - it's all just fluffed up, nonsensical division politics of our times.


Instead of offering solutions and action, we’ll just keep saying “prayers”. If automotive engineers had just said “prayers” every time someone died in a car accident we would never have crumple zones, airbags and collision avoidance systems. Prayers don’t do a damn thing.


They were just discussing adoptions.


This guy is young experienced and bilingual...

The liberals won with a guy who is several steps below the 'clueless' you ascribe to Scheer.

This is the age of image, policy is secondary. Unless the conservatives can convince Ryan Reynolds to run, this is the deal


Always believed that if a team built their offense from the o-line out,  they could be contenders.  Hec, you could put generous George at QB and he wouldn't even smudge his eyeliner.


To Hawaii's elected officials and ilk - With all due respect,  "skin in the game" has nothing to do with taxing current and future Hawaii's taxpayers more (raising taxes to new record high levels). ''Skin in the game" would be for you and your ilk to fess up and realize tax money is limited in our already cash strapped small state and rail is unaffordable even if it were completely built and paid for. ''Skin in the game" is when you and your ilk stop being beholden to other politicians, business leaders and unions, and for the stake of our current and future taxpayers, make for once make right decision regarding rail.


The unemployment rate is relative to the number of people in a state without jobs.  Who in their right mind would go to North Dakota for any reason other than a job - and one they desperately need at that.  Colorado, on the other hand, attracts people just because it is Colorado and they want to be here and hope to find a way to make enough money to stay.  The fact that our unemployment rate is so low is a tribute to our booming economy since many many people come here without jobs "just because".


Actually , it is the imams that preach hatred in mosques all around the world is what we care about.

Easy to "not provide service" now, happened to catch an interview on TV, where it was stated that an imam had noticed  one of the terrorists had reacted angrily over Al Qaeda negative remarks (imams own interview to another media outlet).  Why didn't he notify the authorities then?

If i was to give "kudos" - it would be that Australian imam that spoke about the flaws and need of reformation, not swiping under the rug and sugarcoating with  platitudes.


These must be the only two people in America who couldn't get a gun.


Why is it that Americans have become our worst enemies?  Black segregation occurred many years ago.  Japanese internment camps occurred many years ago.  And so on....  but it seems that many generations later, after the wrong has been corrected, the grandchildren/great grandchildren seems to act as if it happened to them, so they feel it is their right to protest, throw tantrums, threaten lawsuits/persecute and so on...  Is that really how we want our children to be raised?  With a sense of entitlement in all that they do?  If they fail, cry foul and pout, and pass the blame on their bosses.  If that doesn't work, blame what happened 40-60 years ago or longer?  This is not how I want my children and grand children to be raised and taught.!  Cmon and let's move on people!  Stop with the nonsense.  Even as I write this, I thread lightly so not to hurt any feelings.  So much for freedom of speech huh!


More accurately, its the kids who want you to stick around to babysit the grandkids


Miss him.


Poor Boeing will be stuck in the US market only..


What! No references to fake news and deniers? Surely you and your iwi robbing colleagues can come up with some better insults. Give it another shot you've got lots of idle time between gave desecrations.


Interesting information.  Thanks for posting. Of course this information flies in the face of the feel good folks who want to celebrate the indigenous people, without realizing who the indigenous people really were.


News flash:  No one in English Canada cares that Quebec didn't sign the 1982 constitution because it's law and has been since it came into force.  It may be an embarassment to Quebec but no one else cares, because again - news flash - the SCC determined Quebec doesn't have a veto.  This is a waste of time, stop talking about it and move on already.


John McDowell, How can Alaskans finally drill for oil and sell it at a profit, it has never been done yet?

Do you think things will change so Alaskans can prosper from oil and gas exploration and production?


Spicey showed the world how a Good Catholic conducts himself during his tenure in the Trump administration.  Truly an inspiration to everyone who espouses the teachings of the One True Church.  Maybe not so much those who espouse the teachings of Jesus, but He's really no longer relevant, is He?


But how is this bad News? They aren't investigating Trump, they are looking for "ties" to his campaign... But it turns out Mueller worked with Hillary! Lucky Hillary and Obama and Comey are all under DIRECT investigation.


French only for Federal government? You're a bit outdated. In Montreal, 73% of the businesses now operate in French. There are very few CEOs that cannot speak to the media (and share holders such as the Caisse des Dépôts) in French. French is ranked the sixth most widely spoken language after Mandarin Chinese (over a billion speakers), English, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic. There are currently over 220 million French speakers worldwide, including 72 million so-called partial French speakers. After Brexit, it remains to be seen what language will predominate in Europe.


Typical pampered millennials that haven't a clue about life skills or too lazy to even care.  Yes, chores!  Teach kids at a young age how to do laundry, cooking, cleaning, maintenance and money management and maybe we will finally get a generation of hard working, smart, hands-on kids not afraid to get their fingernails dirty like my generation.


kag - who is to pay if they get sick, if anyone gets sick with a life threatening illness?  the point of insurance is the spread the risk.  If we spread the risk among all people, then the average any one pays is no more than the fair share of all the expenses.  In other words, rather than one person being financially ruined by ill health - the point of insurance - the cost is spread among everyone.  Break this down into smaller groups and the risk of catastrophic costs hitting someone in that group rises; when that happens that groups premiums skyrocket.  More, put "healthy" people in one group and "unhealthy" people in another group, and it is a foregone conclusion which group will have higher expenses.

By the way, I am also on Medicare and find it good.  I do have a Medicare Supplement plan; I have to hope my finances hold up so I can keep it.  If I can't it would not take long for a serious illness to deplete the rest of my assets.


Now pocho is using the black racist and white racist card.lol. Funny. In Charlottesville, one side was ALL white and the other side was.majority whites with specks of color. Folks, I did not see BLM or Hillary there. Funny.


Good idea to stand.  Kneel, puts your fists up, heck you can play with yourself prior to the anthem..........who cares....


Two-timer. Cad.


CPC.."reliable"...really?   A constant barrage of:
a. Anti - Trump nonsense ( comes with eyebrow raising and smirking ), and
b. feminist & "inclusiveness" stories  ( the agenda of their master )

Its simply a cheerleader of "progressive" social fringe groups


But that is "discrimination" and not "diverse"enough. One must "embrace" everybody. Perhaps the USA should change its flag to the new symbol of inclusivity and welcome - the Rainbow Flag. What could go wrong?


Same with my Dad; a WWII vet.


I'm sure your next victim will understand too.


You pay for all of that in your rent.  Over and over again.


Ollie North took the fall only after Casey suddenly died.


Khadr killed a US military medic both Micheal Rempel and Peter Kent had every right to inform Americans of this deal that Trudeau authorized.


There is a huge and very old Oak tree near the existing bike trail that is adjacent to where this planned apartment complex is going in.  I really hope the building developer can keep from cutting that tree down, and for that matter, saving as many of the existing trees as possible.

http://www.ahrmanw.com/SAVE_THIS_TREE.jpg


Before ACLU stepped in a couple years ago, APD was sending in officers to bust up the camps and hauling people's personal property away to the dump.  I don't think these people need a 30-day notice.  Maybe 5-7 day notice.


With each missile test, North Korea gets closer to its goal of threatening the United States with a nuclear or biological weapon strike. The sands of the hourglass are quickly running out and difficult decisions regarding possible military action against this rogue nation will have to make soon. Obviously, any miscalculation by the US could precipitate another Korean war with the possible eventual involvement of China and Japan. Thoughtful actions and not more tweets are what the world needs now.


Medicare is not going away any time soon. More fear mongering from the left.


Yup, that just shows the baker is full of BS. He runs a business, end of story. He doesn't have to approve of interracial marriages either, but he dang sure has to sell them a cake.


I think a lot of your facts are slightly exaggerated and incorrect,


I drove a pickup truck for 4 years - it was great, but my needs have changed.    For my needs, an SUV is FAR more practical.    I can tow my boat, have 6 passengers (5 if they're adults) AND carry all their luggage (with a roof box).     Try that in your pickup.     When I'm using it as my daily driver, it handles like a large sedan and gets sub 8.5L/100 km fuel mileage.

With regards to the mattress - if that's the first example that comes to mind, I have to ask how many times you haul a mattress?     If I saw you with a King sized mattress in the open bed of your F-series, I would say out loud:  There goes somebody who needs free delivery.     Especially if it was raining.


might as well build room for some monetary policy as fiscal policy appears to be stalled for awhile


But not by shaming them and make them feel "intrinsically disordered." As the CCC says, gays (like ALL people) should be treated with ‘respect, compassion and sensitivity.’


This is disgusting stuff. Trump is causing an existential crisis for billions of people.  That crisis is of no interest for the stock market crowd.  The only question for them is whether there is a buck in it.  Healing drugs,  hanging rope, or crematoriums. It's all just investment opportunities.


This is disturbing at so many levels it's hard to come to terms with it. So many victims of injustice here in Canada and abroad but this Liberal government decided to pick this guy to help? Unbelievable.


Caldwell talks,  but the taxpayers are the one's who do the paying.  Overall,  something has to be worked out meaning:  break down rail and it goes to the landfill.  and our cars make a parking lot of the roadways.  lol.  So far,  and then after in case rail gets done to Ala Moana Center,  'operations costs'  hasn't been brought up yet.   It was said that,  and just talk too,  fares won't cover costs of operation.   ?????????????????


Just look at the weather in Alberta right now - looks like Notley's policies metered things back a bit too far.


At least he's got something to fall back on. What a relief.


Blanchfield talking about Trudeau and his cabinet leading a full court press on US-Canada trade is way too flattering to the lethargic, weak-minded efforts we have seen. Trump hasn't even had his USTR approved yet but the US is first out of the gate with its plans to renegotiate NAFTA and the Liberal government has absolutely nothing to propose as a counter. Since he loves to tweet, Trudeau could surely at least have tweeted that we wanted softwood lumber covered in a revised NAFTA.


You may be right. But the question here is whether they should be allowed to provide that advice on the eve of an election.


Very much like this first pass at more civil content in the RG comment sections.  I for one have been turned off from commenting in the past, or reading what others say, by the narrow minded overly negative stuff that's been the norm. Here's hoping a more elevated and civil discourse will follow. The ability to comment on stories and commentary is a great move forward in journalism, imo. But needs to have some guardrails, so to speak.


I'm judging my sister's divorce.  It was a decision like any other in her life, weighing the pluses and the minuses.  But if she took her marriage and her faith more seriously, she and her husband would be working it out.  I'm pretty sure that's how most divorces go these days, and I have witnessed others.

Now ask me how many times I would have left my wife had I not taken seriously my vow to love her in the presence of God.  There were times that it seemed irreparable, yet here we are over 20 years together.  I know my grandparents (50+ years wed) and my parents (50+ years wed) had their issues, as well.

My brother's wife is bi-polar, manic depressive: married 25 years.  My sister used to show up with unexplained bruises in the earlier years of her marriage (married 30 years, happy, and the bruises stopped).

A 20-page booklet is too much to bear?  No wonder that marriage didn't last; I'd go for the lack of capacity annulment.


Just not ready. It's too bad Harper ran such an awful xenophobic campaign.


And Real Housewives and Duck Dynasty get great ratings.  And the Kardashians are still famous.  There is no limit to societal stupidity.


Loan or equity, it doesn't matter how you label the start up capital.

If you're like most family start ups, if your business fails you would have  lost your house or at the very least a good portion of your family savings.  The new tax proposals don't recognize that there is risk in starting a new business that is borne by the whole family.

This is bad policy.


They always throw everything they have against the wall and settle with what sticks.


Take Back Your Power is a fluff propaganda piece full of misinformation, exaggeration and outright lies. My favorite part was an old ex premier of British Columbia saying the utility even knows what you are having for breakfast. There are hundreds of millions of smart meters installed world wide, so where are all the health impacts? Smart meters are a simple safe technology upgrade to utility owned equipment


Spend it all on some more condoms and pregnancy test kits in the midtown bars. The legislators are moving into  Spenard after all.


Doping is just another nail in Iditarod's coffin. It's time for the Cruelest Race on Earth to be relegated to the past where it belongs.


Shall not be infringed.

The ONLY right in the Bill of Rights, so annotated.


Your definition of racist is pathetic and I reject it. Marty simply stated a factual demographic.


Anyone except Hannity, O'Reilly and Judge Jeanine.


So what makes the GOP really not support them? The republicans wish for smaller gov't. So these 3 push for a budget...which republicans want. Where's the problem? I searched ledoux and she doesn't vote on much according to the sites. The most recent bill she pushed for was in connection with school/abortion. Where are her fiscal constraints on the budget? I just don't see how this state with less than a million people can have a government $4 billion in the black. Spending has to be curbed.


Good luck, clear skies.


Unfortunately a driver (even incoherent) and their family in this kind of a situation, are probably in significant trouble over this.  It is unlikely that driver's insurance (if shopping center sued, will subrogate) will cover the liability of serious and/or permanent injury (hopefully, no eventual deaths) to patrons, damage to a restaurant, and any cars involved.  Even if auto insurance has a liability umbrella rider, the damages may involve potentially millions of dollars in damages and exceed this, resulting in loss of the insured's assets, such as housing, etc. This raises the issue of elderly and/or incapacitated drivers and the risk their relatives run for not intervening  before serious accidents, which can cause irreversible guilt and moral disasters, not to mention potentially significant financial loss.  Shopping centers and businesses may be required to install barriers  to prevent this from happening again at considerable expense, as a future incident would not look good.


Maybe a few classes on comparative religion in high school geography, but that's it.  Students need to be aware of the dramatic negative impact on rights, living standards, economic activity and longevity that dogmatic religious regimes have, where they still exist.


High taxes and stifling bureaucracy at every level of Government #Wynning - Canada is a great place to invest for career activists like Tides or Greenpeace as there is a bountiful crop of  naive idealists willing to sabotage the economy to prove their #progressive bonafides. Canada's growth industries are protesting and public sector unions.


Siding up with the head-choppers, Layla?


"Statues" of whatever/whomever are not people, not even of Mary. You sound like an "idolator".
So, women as idols, as "beads" of glass or whatever, or as sanctuary cleaners.
Gee...!


I'm really pretty cool with that.


The education system is where a lot of people go to make very nice livings, end of story.


In a city like Honolulu, that changes ever so slowly, some of the most significant and quickest changes have come recently with Kakaako development that caters to the rich.  Similar to tourism, where money and new development caters to the tourists.  Yet, locals are being forgotten.  A few blocks away from the fancy areas you see rundown, outdated buildings and homes.  Outside the touristy, expensive or new areas, the city looks old and rough, including infrastructure and public areas.  The State is welcoming to Big Money, but locals see little benefit.  Friends working good professional jobs are underpaid and can't get ahead.  They continue to live with their parents or rent, with no hope of owning a home.  Yet non-locals continue to arrive, slowly eroding our local culture, and tourism runs rampant, affecting locals everyday quality of life.  Things must change, the future doesn't look great for Hawaii.


It is gradually dawning on Europeans that their worst enemies are Muslims (immigrants, legal or illegal, students, refugees)  and the American government.

I would also say that America's worst enemy is its near-monopolistic mainstream media.  Acting on behalf of what its half dozen closely-related controllers think is dangerous to the wealth and power of those for whom it was created or purchased, it set out to remove the President democratically elected by Americans.

Americans should disregard the algebraic legal crap, fake analyses and fake experts and see what is happening as what it actually is, which is the removal of the democratically-elected president.   They should insist that the ownership/controllership of the American mainstream media to be investigated and set out to have leaks on the people who are providing the "leaks"


He was South African


what blows me away is that he isn't even addressing his stance on healthcare. Instead he is just posting about meetings with prospective fbi directors that trump likes. Gardner has no spine.


Cash is fun to look at and it smells good too. ( $100 bills )


Intervened how? You mean the UNITED NATIONS intervention in Kuwait or the UNITED NATIONS measures leading to Israel?


We must cut the bloated state government first; cut the number of state workers drastically and cut the overly generous public union pay and benefits.


Isn't illegal entry THE proper channel for a majority of  asylum seekers?  What other channel they have?  Write a letter to Trudeau while in the US?


Mr. Dubrall,
I don't doubt there have been "rulers" with integrity, conscience, and compassion.  However, I'm more of the belief that those in authority simply had an easier time covering up the truth.  The advent of social media and the digital age of information has really made it difficult to keep things under wraps.  The voice of one can be heard by the masses.

80-100 years ago it was much easier for the opinion of the population to be controlled.  Imagine - one newspaper that everyone reads vs the multitude of news "sources" on the internet.

On the other extreme, what we are seeing today is the phenomenon of people living in digital "echo boxes," where they can seek out like-minded individuals and opinions and then live in their false world.

I posted a comment above, essentially describing the justice system and the reason for the secrecy of grand jury hearings.  I believe i have the most "disbelief" reactions.  People refuse to seek truth if it isn't agreeable.


Just wondering who owns all of the gas that is being wasted?  If it is our gas, is Hillcorp paying for all the gas they are using?  Just wondering.  No mention in this article either of the "heat trapping" effects of methane compared to CO2.*
.
*leakage of methane, primary component of natural gas is 34 times stronger than CO2 at trapping heat over a 100-year period and 86 times stronger over 20 years.  <http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fuels/environmental-impacts-of-natural-gas>


The 12% of the US economy that is exported says you are wrong - but I notice facts aren't your strong point


Disgusting!  More so if it was to accommodate the airline's employees.


Good thoughts.  Thanks for sharing them.


Of course they do. You need pipelines to get oil to market. Where does the public sector unions think government revenues come from. Resource revenues of course, not taxes.
The NDP, turning have provinces into have not provinces for over 60 years.


Only if Maywether would display old age decrepitude could McGregor have a chance.


You're going to hate to hear this, but Trudeau's salary comes from taxpayers' money and so does Obama's pension.

On the other hand, Trump is still getting profitability reports on his businesses from Eric and Donald Jr.  So there's that.


That does seem to be the narrative since it was determined that those who commit crimes and break the law are not responsible for their actions if they are a minority or under-privileged. They were forced to by circumstance.


My people won the states it took to elect a President and yours did not.  So sorry!  See you in 8 years.


Manufacturing palace intrigue isn't a mature action....it's just gossip and drama.


America is under attack by foreign terrorists, foreign political agents and Trump hating corrupt liberal leftists. Trump is fighting back and he will certainly win against the forces of evil in America.


Yeah - do you notice how 'Islamphobia' sticks out? Systemic?

"develop a whole-of-government approach "

What is it - racism and hate crimes in general, or about 'Islamophobia'?

"Studies", "findings", "recommendations" - why single out a religion?

Wasn't a motion passed in Nov 2016?

Not "non-binding enough"?


I knew your reference.  EPBenedict had quite the treatise on love.  I would agree that is the position taken for sure in John's Gospel.  I just happen to believe love in it's purest form transcends a lot of things and one of those things is sexual taboos.


No laws broken, and all financial activities approved - nay ENCOURAGED - by the government of the day. But never mind the details...


UPI.com
"UPI was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications, a media conglomerate founded by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International


No real answer.  You must be so disappointed in your candidate.


Brown made most people happy when he refused to apologise to Wynne. That would be like apologising to the person who just lied to get into your home, then robbed you while accusing you of being a homophobe for not agreeing with their actions. It just does not seem right to apologise to such an arrogant individual.


"...brought up to date with informed faith's science-sense of reason."

I've seen this point made many times, here and elsewhere. Can you give me an example of a faith or religious movement that you think excels in being "up to date with informed faith's science-sense of reason"? That would be helpful, don't you think, to have an example of what that looks like? I'm just not clear on what would fit that description.


Are you laughing and replying to yourself?


Do you mean a very high price like you would pay on any other ev for example.


god your world is dull


Outta sight man!


Bring back ACES and the progressive surcharge. It put $2 billion per year into Alaska's coffers. Alaskans own the oil.


You were a civil servant your whole life? You collected a pay cheque and gold-plated pension from govt. But now that you have your golden nest egg,  the public sector is to be scorned?
Brings to mind a quote
'Hypocrite: the kind of person who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.'  Adlai E. Stevenson


Speaking from his retreat in Costa Rica, the Premier also criticized where the PM takes his vacations.


You go Amy. We don't want fundamentalist Islamic communes thank you very much. Apart from the ADiots in te comments section, most people are with you on this.


Jesus provides an escape for him and all of us  from hell if we embrace Him as Our personal Lord and Savior.


But the characteristics being profiled are not causative of crime. And, voila, you have what is known as racism and racial profiling. You're a slow learner.


9/11 comes to mind.


Taking mediocrity is a Laugh position.   Anything Nation means being a loser.   Wait till next Sunday and the FC get smashed by Seattle.... Ouch,  not another day without a parade.


273 words to roughly a dozen, the last two posts consisting of "leave me alone", is not giving anyone a taste of his or her medicine.

Of course she doesn't like it.

As for "She has accused many of us, me included, on various occasions of needlessly and unfairly attacking her", as President Truman said "If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen."


Very little that is human is really alien to me. As much as anything else, I pity the "alt-right" in the same way I feel about most insane people, including many of the homeless miscreants who so haunt you.  They're sick. They need help.

The Anti-fa have the right idea, but they don't understand how power works, mainly because they are young. They need a teacher. They need to do some reading. They are also right in assuming that the fascists and K need a good thrashing.  They just have the wrong idea about how to do it.

 But they are as sane as you or me. And they are on the right side of history. The K and the Nazis are not.


et tu Thomas - Is that Kool-aid stains I see on your lips?


Der TrumpenFuhrer, making Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Nixon, look good in comparison.

Maybe the POTUS can order the SCROTUS and ROTUSES on the HOTUS to investigate the former POTUS.

The US news is starting to look more like the funny papers.


I just wonder if this EMP  group that is warning Congress are the same people that where telling Bush about all these WMD that where stacked to the roof in Iraq. Having worked in the nuclear weapons for the 11 years I just happened to had to learn something about nukes. This nonsense about a EMP killing 90 of the population is so stupid it isn't even worth talking about. As far as the actually number of nukes in NK is only known by the NK. Unlike the US if you are suspected of leaking classified information in NK you don't get a bi line on CNN you get a bullet in the head. Don't get me wrong. I am all for a direct military confrontation with NK. I am 65 years old now. The US should have pulled out if Korea decades ago. Let the NK and SK slug it out. That is exactly what all that Vietnam out come was.The commies won that one. Yet the only time you hear about Vietnam today is when of their leaders comes to American soil hat in hand wanting some trade deal or a flat out hand out.


This is just a sad state of affairs.  She should be ashamed of herself.


you can not comment about blacks and its bs.they do more crime than other races but if you say this then the libs call you a racists


Hey, I'm sitting here watching Bernie at Springfield live on KVAL.
He looks and sounds great as do all those cheering Oregonians behind him.
Look, he probably can't get the nomination, we know that, and some of his plans are a little dreamy,  but the key is he has taken on the biggest problem facing America: the outrageous  and increasing inequality of  income, wealth, and power.  Facing a Republican rich enough to buy himself the nomination all by himself, Sanders' clean and clear support of greater equality is vital-- and that's why the polls show him easily beating Trump, the cream of the 1%.


In lab animals, high doses applied over a long time can cause cancers, but that is true for half of all chemicals ever tested. Remember, the dose makes the poison.
There is your problem - build up in the environment and the organisms exposed to them gives you your harmful dose...


A few weeks ago we hashed over pre-existing conditions being genetic. I posted a link to GINA, the law that prohibits genetic testing but now check out this new development. It's in a diary at DailyKos..

"A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.

Giving employers such power is now prohibited by legislation including the 2008 genetic privacy and nondiscrimination law known as GINA. The new bill gets around that landmark law by stating explicitly that GINA and other protections do not apply when genetic tests are part of a “workplace wellness” program.

The bill, HR 1313, was approved by a House committee on Wednesday, with all 22 Republicans supporting it and all 17 Democrats oppose"


Yes republicans by all means pay no attention to poll numbers.  Just give us the best medical care imaginable, and stop Obama's war policies.  But no, the Donald failed on this.  Will you continue to fail?

The economy may be changing.  See the last job report?  While it probably will bounde back, what will republicans do if it doesn't?  Tick toc tick toc tick tock.  Time is running out.  I will never vote republican outside of Cynthia Thielen because they have abandoned republican principles and today would hang Eisenhower.  How shortsighted and stupid republicans have become.


I can't say for sure because McGee's comment was deleted for lack of civility, but it looks like a whole hour has passed and he hasn't blamed in on Putin himself. New record!


What you are really saying is that neighbours should have a veto - basically an arbitrary property right - over your ability to sell your property to the highest bidder.
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Have they purchased that property right?  No.
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Is there any basis in law for such a right? No.
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The idea is NIMBYism run wild.  The same basic arguments were used two generations ago to try to enforce "covenants" not to sell to black people or Jews.
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Have we learned nothing from that experience?
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If you don't like your new neighbours, or you don't like that they have received planning permission to adapt the property to a higher valued use, you are free to sell your property to the highest bidder, accordingly.
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What your neighbour has done, most likely, is to make your property more valuable.
If the neighbour were imposing a negative externality on you, you might have grounds for complaint.  But you're gaining a windfall - and still complaining!


Wow !  What a class act this man is.  Embarrassing.


your post is the start and proof of the left wing stupidity and hate they live in


Just consider the irony of Sharpton's complaint about using tax dollars to support monuments he disagrees with. When is Sharpton going to pay his taxes?


Munoz should find new work. Many DSHS offices nationwide, are looking for employees of her most famous, and expensive management plans. Munoz, could become director, of Child Protective Services, for the democratic party of Pedophiles on Parade, with free delivery service, from the State Legislative Offices, of any State Capitol. Why do you think the State Ferry sails to Bellingham?
http://www.thenorthernlight.com/2016/02/17/foster-children-placed-with-abuser-in-custer-win-lawsuit/


the last thing any of us ever needs in government action of any kind on any thing.
Go back to the founding era of little to none governemnt, please!


Our faith is not democrat, liberal, progressive, republican, conservative. Our faith is Catholic, it's universal, it's following Jesus. Jesus was not a social worker, he was a miracle worker who loved everyone, rich and poor, male and female, he loved all. He didn't say, "Blessed are those who are called bleeding hearts, for they shall inherit the kingdom of God"' or "Blessed are those who want to punch you in the face for they shall cry tears of joy". No, he said we need to be humble. Humility is not choosing sides of liberal or conservative. Periodicals such as NCR has made people to think that our Church is a political system, but it's not. Our Church is love and this is God's love. He is merciful, but woe to those who continue to sin and encourage the sin of others. That is not conservative thinking, that is what Jesus told us. Follow Jesus, not democrats or republicans, because Jesus was neither.


Ige is saying "whaaat?"


nothing worse than a black delusional monkey


That is true. But there won't be big trade war involved, that is bluffing.

If Trump seeks trade war with Chinese, Canadian will be profiting from it greatly by smuggling cheap computers and big screen TVs into America.


We are in a war, jusris.  It is being waged at us to make us cave.  Don't cave!
Tump is us, he has God on his side, so does Hannity.  Hollywood is going down, and Hannity's movie is going straight UP!  Everybody else is gone.  Think about that.  The left is imploding, the MSM has imploded, Hollywood is over, Hillary is going down everyday, and we need to stand together.  "We need to stand together, or we will surely hang separately", just as Benjamin Franklin said!


"Kevin O’Leary doesn’t have a clue how the country he hopes to govern one day operates. Not a clue."

Pundits like Mason love to revel in errors of logic or fact made public figures, Trump, etc. It gives them something juicy to write about. They feel like they're doing the public a service by pointing these out. They love to scoff at the intellectual short comings of leaders (and honestly, who doesn't, it makes us feel superior). And then act surprised when their voting predictions fall flat, e.g. Trump-vs-Clinton or Brexit.

In my opinion, they neglect to consider that human behavior, including voting, is a combination of logical and emotional elements. To consider only the logical or factual facets is to miss half the story. As a result, the demagogues have been having the last laugh at the polls.


Hopefully the CRTC will step in and block this Neanderthal transaction?


Yes, it was.  Did you read her criminal records? Because I did.


Nothing new in our beloved "republica bananera".  Wonder if Ben can appeal the decision by the AG or
pursue the matter with the Feds.  His civil suit in the discovery process led to the uncovering of the unreported
donations by PRP which when led him to ask the Campaign Spending Commission to refer the matter to the
Attorney General for criminal prosecution.   If this is the "procedural defect" that the Attorney Generals office
is citing as the reason for not filing criminal charges, this does not make any sense.  Is the AG saying that
criminal charges cannot be filed on stuff the Campaign Spending Commission has already ruled on and
imposed fines but then rescinded in favor of pending criminal prosecution??
Attorney William McCorriston, the fixer strikes again it seems.


"The chaos boiled over at what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade…"

Thank you, Donald Trump & Stephen K. Bannon. What a shameful moment in American history Trump is presiding over and, in fact, the catalyst for.


If he can lie about something like that, what else is he capable of?  He needs to resign now.  If he were a conservative, the liberals would be demanding his head on a pike.


Dear What:  Realize that when you get divorced, no one expects you to be even-keeled.  Unburden to your closest friends if you must, then move on to other subjects before you become tiresome.  Return the favor: Listen and sympathize when your pals go through their divorces.


Sure, they are inflationary, but the main point is just the basic idea that housing is so special that taxpayers have to get shafted to subsidize home owners and above all, banks!  Let's carry on further with the CMHC restrictions, and start planning to shut down federal mortgage insurance entirely.


That is the dude that walked on water and rose from the dead?
Religions - designed by men to keep the peons in check....


Talk about over-reacting. The climate deal would have cost the US no jobs.


Pretty much the usual dumping on Obama and the UN here.  The 5 permanent nations on the Security Council (China,  France,  Russia,  United Kingdom and the US) and the Non-permanent members  (Angola, Egypt,  Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela all agreed to this resolution.

The US did not veto it as they usually do to protect Israel.  That is all.

Netanyahu and Trump are the outliers here.  Well, and our own Stephen Joseph Harper, but thankfully he doesn't matter now not being a head of state.

It has always been UN policy since the UN created Israel that lands taken in war are illegally held.  I  hope there is a move now to label goods that are produced in the occupied territories and sold abroad.  Hope we can all do without soda stream.


Awesome.
I thought i recognized that argument, attitude and arrogance. You appear to be using multiple aliases on here huh Richard Johnson Esq.?  Seems you posted that exact comment only a few minutes before and then quickly deleted it, and then re posted it as "RS" At least now i understand why the person i have been talking to appears to be so thick.  We had this conversation multiple times and you flatly ignored all of the information, data and statistics i posted for you over and over. I see nothing has changed with you, Oh, that is except your new alias.
You go ahead and call me what you want, i don't need to HIDE behind multiple aliases so people don't recognize me.
I love it when people like you screw up.
Now i have to go back and review your other attacks on me. Now things are making sense. I was wondering why there are so many people on here that use the same tired arguments and refuse to acknowledge factual data. Hmm, Wonder how many of those "people" are really just you ?


Too bad something purporting to be inclusive and justice-driven was so exclusive and judgmental....


For all the bluster from "conservatives" (they aren't when you look at how much money they spend & how tax cuts for people making millions per year are more important than balancing the budget) about pushing coal the actual facts are clearly going the other way. Red states like Texas, Kansas and Wyoming have a growing percentage of their energy needs coming from solar and wind. Drive the interstate through Wyoming and its especially obvious. Fracking means more oil production which has mean more natural gas which is far cheaper than coal. In 10-15 years I'll bet solar and wind will provide more energy than natural gas. Nat gas, solar and wind are cheaper than coal. What's wrong with consumers paying less for energy?  Heck, even the coal museum in Kentucky recently converted to solar! For people who say they care about coal miners they'd be better off encouraging manufacturing of solar, wind and batteries (electric cars) in former coal areas than saying they're bringing back coal jobs.


I know most of you liberals don't pray but you really need to pray for President Trump's safety.. Pray as if your life depended on it.


We were in a fire at Cannon Beach - large condos on top floor. Cheap date next door was cooking in the bathroom and set the place on fire. Alarms did not work - even when we frantically pulled them. Staff didn't call each room right away. We were banging on doors and yelling. Nobody was hurt - but that's only because we happened to be coming home from a walk and saw the smoke, and took action.


A "bunch of elitists", huh?  What's an example of a former cabinet minister who wasn't an "elite"?

I assume your definition is different than mine since I don't see whats so special about these folks


Centrists? Hah! 65% of Republicans in congress are for big government. Same can be said for the pundit class. They are always telling us why there can't be real cuts due to strategic reasons (excuses). It took an outsider to reveal these frauds.


I don't know what you mean by the "other half." Perhaps you're thinking of the other shrinking 30%.


I don't recall the "community" choosing anything, much like it didn't choose to have this $100 million EMX rammed down our throats.


Soooo true.  Poor CE is a little brainwashed.  Needs to put down the tin foil hat.


Start working at home with Google! It's by-far the best job I've had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this - 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. I work through this link, go to tech tab for work detail.
+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ http://www.22moneybay.com


If  arguments are not to seek purpose, then I'm not sure what purpose arguments have?   I'm also  a bit purplexed as to your desire to end the discussion as you still have much  to say, but alas,  I will simply end with a quick comment and then a question which does not require answering as its merely a tool for thought for anybody else reading this discussion.
Comment:  Compacts(aka contracts)  are to be enterpeted not by modern language, but by the language (words and the definitions of those words) at the time of the writing of the document.  If you find my old English References arcaic, well they were not when the Constitution was formed.  Those words still hold great meaning even today.  Just because within a living language we create new words, does not mean to reject the old.

Question:  If someone signed a 30 year mortage loan, would it be acceptable, legal or otherwise to allow the bank to change the terms of that loan without your concent before the 30 years had expired?


Thank you


For those who conclude that violence is the only option left in a conflict, it's great that a course is offered on how to do that wisely.

But while the Portland attacks show how quickly a conflict can turn to violence, it does not mean all conflicts have to end in violence.
There are many ways to diffuse a conflict so that it doesn't rise to the level of violence.    I would say this is almost always your best first choice of action.   Once a gun is pulled the bar for response is moved to deadly consequences.

Personally I've never been in a live situation where deadly force was in play. (I'm 63)   That doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but lets be realistic about how far we want to go in preparation for such an event.

It also raises the question if training for such a conflict, might bias a persons choice of escalating to a weapon when it may not be needed.    I would suggest pro-active stance of recognizing conflict and a broad range of approaches to diffuse such conflict.


Either everyone can be uninformed or no one can.  Being uninformed is not just a problem for rural but urban voters as well.


we need a new mayer.......he said that he was going to help the homeless .....but he has not......


300 million guns in America. About 1200 gun-related incidents a year. No guns allowed in France and England (not in law abiding hands anyway). Yes French people have been fish in a barrel for several terrorist attacks that used -- unbelievably -- guns.

Meanwhile here in the US it is estimated that Americans use guns to defend themselves from violence about a million times a year. Here in Fairbanks, a guy recently stopped an assault that seemed headed toward the death of the victim by brandishing his firearm. He didn't shoot or kill anyone. The presence of the gun was enough to make the assailant stop sort of murder.

I suggest you statistical data sources a bit. At least then your presuppositions will be based on facts and not half-truths.


Someone should do a study of how many recent accidents were by carriers under medallion AND under the new Polaris CMO boondoggle.  I would bet....all.  Coooncidence?  Nawwww - blame the pilot and the 'safety culture'.  The FAA is all about 'risk transference' anymore- not oversight.  They would prefer to sit in the office and talk hunting camps and collect that 6 figure salary and per diem.

The FAA and Medallion can't help alaska flying but what's the next step?  They are trying to push into spreading to Hawaii....that's the newest coolest thing for them.

Any guesses as to why?


There are a great number of Tour traditions...including even everyone stopping for 5 minutes in a riders home town...the final "parade" laps in Paris,etc etc.
Maybe they would make a good article for the author to read up on.


Modi hugged Trump just to see/heard if President Trump had a heartbeat..........he found one all be it a faint one?

On that third hug, Modi picked Trumps wallet

On another note....can we send our Homeless and Mentally ill to India and give them a 2nd chance? India  speaks English and the cost of living is alot cheaper?....we can make a trade, ....1 Indians for four of our people?


Maybe because the ones that ARE responsible, are working in town, stuck in traffic trying to put food on the table and have a roof over their heads.  Fights occur after school, not after work when most who work for a living don't get back to nearly dark.  Figure it out.


Don't forget 'guns on campus'!


Absolutely...anytime someone tries to get away with wrong doing or being negligent, "they must be dealt with to the extend of the law"...so says leaders of countries when wrong is done to them.

Without any concrete information and/or facts, we can only suppose...but, I can say for one thing, the owner or occupant of the unit where the fire began will most likely be named in all suits.


And how many consecutive surpluses did Chretien and Martin generate? How much debt did Mulroney and Harper add? At least two thirds of Canadian federal debt was created by Mulroney an Harper, Chretien and Martin paid off $100 billion of debt! PET was a long time ago now and the world economic situation was vastly different.


Well now we know why some people are charging $30,000 for a parking space downtown, it can buy you a 160sqft studio with city views!


The VA scandal under Former POTUS Obama never was fixed despite all the media attention to its inefficiencies.  This is but one of many examples of why history will remember Obama for being a charismatic and popular president but perhaps one of the worst managers of the federal government ever.  Let’s hope the new POTUS can quickly correct and fix the VA.


The most arrogant, biased, butt hurt reporter I can think of today.


All that means is that capital is fluid and finite. A company like Statoil has enough assets and prospects that the ones with the highest potential return will be funded first.


I've started an Abrahamic search for 10 just men to save Sodom & G. This case, 11 US priests in solidarity w. the German priests. Harder for hierarchy to crush numbers.  Wouldn't work well in days of the "New Evangelization."
I've started sending out feelers.  If you know any priest who might sign an American ltr of solidarity w. the Germans, let me know.


It's unfortunate that we have a Premier who is so far out of her depth that it's causing havoc and harm to the honest, hard working and good people of Ontario. You think we have a problem with electricity rates now, just wait and see the skyrocketing effect that it will have to all the citizens of Ontario, especially the rural communities,  should we loose our majority stake in this venture. It doesn't matter what your political stripe is, we need to ensure that Wynne and this government stopping making this idiotic decisions and remember, for a long time,  their undoing of a civil Ontario society with their many bad decisions while in office.


You cut costs by eliminating overhead.  Healthcare insurance is 100% overhead costs.


He should be fired for the way failed to "handle it" correctly.  He is going to end up costing the company and it's shareholders millions.


I trust you, Ebes, to figure out what it means to you. You've earned the trust, as have we all.

A Pope who calls us , trusts us, and honors us as adult Catholics to join him in figuring out things deserves our admiration and attention--and "obedient" commitment to the concomitant rigor and work required.

The sin of sloth is so evident in those Catholics who demand ambiguity-free papal rules for compliance rather than accept the obligation to courageously discern, figure out, research, pray, consult, sweat, risk, agonize, and trust.

There is a "false truth" afloat that declares "ambiguity is always a sin and clarity is always a virtue."

Your humble "I'm still trying to figure out..." is not an admission of fault or vice, but of humility and virtue.


These same people who are willing to surrender their privacy for someone else to exercise an enumerated right probably don't want that same state -- which at some point may be their de facto health-care provider -- to know they once had a medical issue that they don't discuss with their neighbors. I certainly don't.

That old saw about trading privacy for security and thus deserving neither comes to mind.


Putin's level of popularity inside Russia, combined with his anti-Western propaganda campaign ensures that any sanctions the West maintains on Russia will ensure his popularity with his people and could lead to bold and dangerous acts.
They will not work.
Trump has a great opportunity to get him to back down and behave.
It may not work, but it's worth a try.


It's incomprehensible to me that Republicans might still actually push this bill through, despite astonishingly low favorability (I think it's 17% according to USA Today...nowhere other than Breitbart is it over 30%).  Are they this desperate to lose their congressional majority in 2018?  Most people see this for what it is:  Wealthcare.


Reporters asked Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)  why, after Republicans held dozens of nearly-unanimous votes to repeal Obamacare under President Obama, they were getting cold feet now that they control the levers of power.

“Sometimes you’re playing Fantasy Football and sometimes you’re in the real game,” he said. “We knew the president, if we could get a repeal bill to his desk, would almost certainly veto it. This time we knew if it got to the president’s desk it would be signed."


great article.  although i'm not sure that sharp-tails are "plentiful" around fairbanks.  more spruce and ruffed than anything, in my experience.  or maybe i'm just looking' in the wrong spot.

there's a local news article from the 20s or 30s, i believe, that tells the story about how there was a mass exodus of sharp-tails out of the fairbanks area; thousands of them left one day.  and nobody knows why they left...?  wish i could find the article.


They don't need security cameras, they are isolated already. That is unless you are a lobbyist or someone trying to buy policy to benefit your own company like GCI.


My heart goes out to the kids. What an unimaginably horrible experience for them.


Trump's ubiquitous lies are fact, not opinion.


again the dictatorship germany nonsense again, you need to get some help on the reality


So will this device be able to tell if passengers in the car were using the drivers phone? Or if the driver pulled over to use their phone?


Are you okay?  Police doing their job is a good thing.


People are missing the opportunity before us.    We need to think beyond this election.    The most positive thing that could come from this election is the elevation of a third-party to equal status with the two that are failing us miserably.    If the Libertarian party can garner 20% of the vote, they can compete in four years on both the debate stage as well as be eligible for federal campaign funds.   This election should underscore, more than any other election, the need for an alternative to the two party system that has paralyzed this country and sold out to the new aristocracy.     A vote for Johnson, is not a wasted vote.   It's a vote against the establishment and a vote for a better choice in 2020.


Phil, the Affordable Care Act was reviewed by the Supreme Court and found to be legal and Constitutionally allowed. That is a done deal. Whatever wheels are grinding in your brain, they are turning out no new or relevant conclusions. As far as forcing anything such as a single payer system or any other dubious conspiracy, well that may be entertainment for you but it is of no consequence to the tens of millions of people who have health insurance for the first time in their lives. Being the lone voice crying in the wilderness is - lonely.


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Canada needs (and can afford) complete national health care
Drug costs
The cost of prescription drugs represents 17.4% of total health care spending in 2014 according to OECD statistics.  The high rate of spending on pharmaceuticals which puts Canada at the top  appears to be linked to pricing, rather than consumption rates, which are close to the OECD average.  This low level in drug coverage is in contrast to Canada's full coverage of doctors and hospital services.

Benchmarking Canada's Health System; International Comparisons
Contrary to the report conclusions by the Commonwealth Fund placing 9th of 11 countries, OECD demonstrates that Canada performs in the middle of the range on most measures.


Bill Stoltze was planning to introduce legislation that would allow Uber and Lyft to operate in Alaska. But then something happened and he decided not to run for office again. I hope a different legislator takes up this issue. It is an important one. I do not use Anchorage cabs because they are sometimes not roadworthy, not well care for, dirty, and the drivers sometimes take the long route to a destination.

I say, break up the taxi cab cartel in Anchorage!


Deeds speak.  Words are mere propaganda


If Israel's evidence, that Kerry and Obama did write the resolution, can be substantiated, this is an amazing act of vengeance by an outgoing lame duck administration --- if the Democratic Party can be tied to this act of sabotage, I suspect they just lost a big chunk of their jewish base for 2018 and 2020.

In any event, the UN has not been very effective in Rwanda, Darfur, and Aleppo.  It's a place where technocrats & politicians plan to land a cushy job after they can no longer work in their own country or can't get elected.   They can't get anything done.

It's basically like the EU bureaucracy, where unelected officials are appointed by a select group of other technocrats can  feel good about pretending to make a difference in the world without doing any real work.

To replace the UN, there should be a new world organization more answerable to the populations of each country beyond the reach of the civil service and world bureaucracies.


Christy and her socreds have little moral compass. It is the money and power that drives them, without care to the hurt it causes to ordinary British Columbians. ABC


Guide to the National Water Act: " The DWAF ..... has the power to regulate the use , flow , and control of ALL WATER in South Africa."
Prior to new 1998 Water Act you would have been correct . I suggest you do some research.


The empty wine bottle isn't even mentioned? Don't drink and hike, kids!