Yep. Same pollsters that said Trump had Zero chance at being elected. Polling is not what it used to be. I stand by my belief that the companies that do the polling are making sure by their methods that they get the results they want. Not just liberal pollsters. Right side also.


Thank you Hilcorp LLC for your recognizing future risk and potential threat to your tank farm if and when Redoubt does erupt again, your responsibility to your personal and good environmental planning is very welcome in South Central Alaska.. Keep up the GOOD work...  Thanks,KEE CONSTRUCTION LLC , Cooper Landing  AK


I'm no fan of North Korea, but the abusive treatment of Warmbier is not terrorism. If they do support terrorist activity then the designation is appropriate, but the two should not be linked.


Jeffrey Ryle: a warped legal sense of impacts have created a law that disallows dogs to sniff, romp and run like hell off leash, and at the same time, a law that allows trappers to plant deadly land mines anywhere they want.

Your claim about trails originally made by trappers is BS. Do you have any evidence?


Why do Greenpeace, Tides, Sierra Cult, Forest Ethics, STAND, WWF and all these foreigh funded eco groups ONLY protest Canada? We produce Carbon Neutral! Why are they not protesting the Middle East? How much CO2 do the Great Saudi Forests convert to O2 for the World? NONE!!! now compare that to Canada... Canada is Carbon Neutral.... where is Trudeau standing up for Canada with facts!!!???

We do NOT need a Carbon Tax! We demand a Carbon Credit Justin Trudeau!!!!

The only negative effect of a 1 part per MILLION yearly CO2 increase in the last 100 years is the MASSIVE reduction in the IQ of our Greedy Government and that of the FAILED ideology driven Eco Movement!


It is indeed dated but it's one of DChris' favorites.  I am employing referential commenting.  ;-)


If my back lawn  is anything to go by dandelions have the capability to survive any onslaught.  When the earth is destroyed by a meteorite dandelions, rats and cockroaches will survive.


What a bunch of nonsense. These juvenile attacks on Trump are poor form, especially when there is so much substance that could be criticized instead.


You are like a broken record, time has moved  on yet you keep playing that same scratchy song


Here's another example.  UH got a grant to scan, digitize, and post on the internet all major documents regarding the Annexation.  They were specifically told to include the Morgan Report.  They paid students to do the work.  They completed the Blount Report and the anti-annexation petitions.  But somehow they never got around to the Morgan Report before running out of money.  Imagine that! And of course nobody would do it without pay.  So my friend Jere Krischel and I got an original of the 808-page Morgan Report, did all the scanning, digitizing, editing, etc. and created a webpage to display photos of every page along with digitized, searchable text.  It took us many months, and we did it without pay to ensure documents from both sides of the controversy would be available to everyone.  Nobody at UH helped with anything.  They would have liked the Morgan Report to stay buried in a dusty archive somewhere, and Tom Dye would then say "students are free to read it whenever they want."


The objective of a hate crime is to target not just the immediate victim, but also others of the same race, religion, sexuality, etc. In other words, if Corporon's father and nephew, as well as the other victims, were killed specifically because they were Christians, it absolutely was a hate crime and needed to be prosecuted as such. Was the perpetrator's objective simply a mass killing (something already far too common in our society), or was there an additional motive of terrorizing Christians? Since he reportedly intended to kill Jews, there's already good evidence that he was targeting a specific group, so the implication is there.

Hate crimes can be pretty hard to pin down, but they should be investigated where evidence exists because often there is an underlying wish to inspire others to engage in the same sort of actions. What perpetrators want is the targeted group to live in fear. No one should fear for their lives because of their race, religion, sexuality, etc.


Big surprise. It's no wonder the inmate's acted up in the first place. One can only take so much. Alaska' "correctional" officers rarely follow regs. Why? Because they're backed by their superiors and have gotten away with it for decades. To look at the DOC website, you'd think inmates were living the good life. Of course, most of the programs they cite don't exist. And just try to look up the refs-they changed the website to offer only extremely limited information. Ive been dealing with the DOC for decades: investigating their own complaints and conducting hearings by the CO that wrote the Infraction which you deny are commonplace. Happens all the time and the Commissioner and all the higher ups know it. I guess they just assume the gullible Alaska public will believe every lie they tell, as usual.


US workers won't directly benefit.  Trump will court US CEO's to return manufacturing jobs to the US (one possible means of averting increased tariffs).

Why did US corporations leave?  Higher costs of manufacturing.

But, higher manufacturing costs will be passed on to US consumers (who are workers, not necessarily in the same manufacturing sector, but workers nonetheless.)

So Henry Ford's ideal of "my workers can afford a Ford" may work.  But they'll be immense re-structuring of the US economy prior to that occurring.

Can the US afford that in such global, economic conditions, where economic power is concentrated in a few individuals?


I didn't catch the name of the defense attorney.
Since the purpose of prison is to protect us from criminals and to teach the criminal that there are consequences, I'd much prefer that Heney, who perhaps is an exception to the rule, spend his time as a contributor instead of as another expense to the state.


If given a chance Hill of Beans will turn us into a 3rd world backward basket case where most are poor, disease is rampant, crime is legal, and government rules.
But, you will be able to call folks bigots all you want to.


Nasty little "belittle thy neighbour" commentary. Isn't it?


Bond Street writes:

"Same thing. South Korea is USA puppet state. Just like North Korea is China's."

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Not quite the same thing.

South Korea and the USA are functioning democracies.

North Korea and China are dictatorships.

Happy to explain the differences between functioning democracies and dictatorships if you need help.


Imagine the number that slip through by people who are not targeted for a search.


Respect? Are you effing kidding?


Now, lissen up, Victimitis!  If you're gonna make assumptions, ("The American voter doesn't care about sexually abused women,") choose the right one, eh?

Try this one on for size: "...the American woman voter cares more about getting along with her husband/boyfriend than she cares about sexually abused women.  If he votes Republican, so will she."


You are in denial about socialism: It doesn't work.


I "get" the Christian perspective on this story, but these teens need to learn birth control, not abstinence, and parents who place their sons and daughters in abstinence-only environments such as Heritage Academy's are setting their children up for possible tragedy.   Sure -- many, many teens will abstain.   But the reality is that more than a few will not.  Across the planet, among all religions, "social conservatives" who couch their views in terms of religious doctrine usually end up twisting that doctrine beyond recognition.  Christianity is about forgiveness, judgment by the Holy Father, not man, and helping others in the times of their greatest need.   See any of that doctrine in this sad story?


The purpose of Civil Comments seems to be to fly on automatic pilot and minimize the amount of actual judgment that must be exercised by its moderators.

And gamed by some of its users, it can easily degenerate into a political popularity contest.


I watched the whole session; concise answers to concise questions and telling it like it is. No long winded this or that, straight forward and very well prepared.

As far as Trump goes, he had a lack of credibility before he started his presidential run, that is before the media started to do more than scratch the surface and it has been a  steady downward slope ever since.


Funny how so many that advocate or operate an illegally LOUD motor vehicle on our roadways respond to adversity with "there are more important things to worry about" - or - if you're a loud biker bully, "My loud pipes save lives."  Let me ask you Leyton, when we get down to where the rubber meets the road, our everyday quality of life...what's more important than a good standard of living, a good quality of life and an environment that is conducive to our health and welfare?

Let me ask you another question...why do you think the US EPA has gone through all of the trouble to regulate motorcycle NOISE to 80 dB(A) and required specific labeling and tampering prohibitions for motorcycles operated on our public roadways?

Answer: The Truth about Loud Motorcycles the Police Won't or Can't Tell You: https://rickeyholtsclaw.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/the-truth-about-loud-motorcycles-the-police-wont-or-cant-tell-you/

Rick Holtsclaw, Houston PD/Retired
C-CALM FB


Buffalo is not a bad team?

OK, let's go with that, just for sake of argument, certainly a convenient self-serving 1 for Your Leafs zombies such as....well, you know whom.  Lose to a rag-tag collection like Buf?  Hey, doncha know, they're not half-bad, eh?  No shame losing to them.

Well, if Buf ain't bad, then neither is Car.  Nor Phi.  Nor Fla.  Nor TB.

NJ and Det have some very good players.  And that covers all the teams in the East, they are all not bad.

So, if teams have hardly any injuries, and get the breaks, none of them are bad teams?

Your Leafs, they are a match for all these teams, so by association, Your Leafs belong in that heap of also-rans who aren't very good, but if everything goes their way, they're not bad.

Lovely convoluted loaded inductive logic, as only lovers can conjure.

You did not even realize you just slagged Your Leafs as just lucky they never had anybody get hurt this season?

Wow.


"But the fact that only a few reporters decided to print these rumours in their entirety PROVES [capitals = my emphasis] just the opposite: that the vast majority of American publications – even ones Mr. Trump usually dislikes! – aren’t out to get him, but that they’re simply out to tell the truth, when they can verify it."

Actually, this one incident does not PROVE anything.  It simply represents evidence on one side of the case for journalists being interested in telling the truth.  The completely illegitimate use of the word "proves", in that context, constitutes evidence on the other side of that case.


I love Alaska because in two years the unity party (what a misnomer) will come to an end. I cannot think of any legislation pushed by Walker that was passed into law that has done much to better Alaskan lives. His, perhaps, but not ours! Total # of words: 50.


Her parish workshops and retreats are sure to end the Syria war very soon.


'
yeah, you got that wrong Kelly,

…it's thanks to Obama that they can afford it in Washington,

Washington chose to participate.
.

it's no thanks to Parnell and the Republican Majority that it's overpriced in Alaska.

You must have forgotten that Parnell and the Republicans chose not to participate.

Our higher rates are a result of that mindless obstruction.
.

When you seek to tell other people where to lay blame,

…it is a big help if you first learn who really is to blame.

Send your thanks to Parnell and the Republicans.


I am really starting to believe he wants to be forced out of the race so he can blame someone else for his failure of a campaign.


That's right, only the Government should have weapons, not the peasants right?


Given 26% of our GDP is because of the U.S. and only 2% of the American GDP is because of us, that is the only way to go.
No drama.


And why exactly do we want to embrace a country with no human rights laws in place, they are communists and devious conniving criminals. We will only lose jobs and end up buying inferior products at high prices. I say ignore them altogether. If we can't make it here we don't need it.


"Officials in Texas said the contested provisions were needed to protect women’s health,..."

Sure, and a return to back-alley abortions would do wonders for women's health. If the State of ( yes by all means please do secede ) Texas  cared about making abortions healthier it would have funded the unfunded mandate it was foisting on the clinics. Kudos to SCOTUS for seeing through the charade.


I can't imagine that there would be a valid Constitutional claim against the business for enforcing a dress code, save for if the dress code itself was per-se discriminatory. If, and it's a big if, the dress code was put in place because the intent of the dress code was to keep a specific class or demographic group, who is protected under the 14th Amendment, out of the establishment, then that's a different story. Either way, if the APD used the language, as the article purports, and it was the officers' intent to remove him based on his ethnic, religious, etc... status, then it could be an interesting case. If the proprietor actually did ask the officers to remove him, and based their rationale on his dress code alone, then they were likely performing a trespass removal, under the color of law, and aren't liable for those actions. The fact that the establishment denies asking for assistance in removing an 'unwanted patron,' doesn't put the APD in a good spot.


And the CO2 is only a portion of the picture.   Yes, a great deal of CO2 was pumped into the atmosphere previously during the Permian extinction, and that was due to nature.   We have now done the same, more CO2 than has been in the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years.   But we haven't merely pumped catastrophic amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, we've also deforested a great deal of the planet and damaged remaining forests with encroachments, we have eradicated wildlife, sealife, fisheries, arable land; we've dumped tons of radioactive waste into the environment and much of it is leaking, and we have around 440 active nuclear power plants that all need constant energy and half a century to shut down; we've polluted the oceans beyond description with giant gyres of plastic and dead zones and sewage and agricultural runoff, and so on.

This is not going to end well, and it's later than most people think.


Paul O'Neill? Really, War planning for Iraq began in 1998, under Bill Clinton, so what? Almost every country practices "What if" and creates contingency plans for a lot of different scenarios. Again, so what? Weapons inspectors? Are you serious? they were continually shut out of sites or delayed more than long enough to move the evidence. There were even sites they were denied access to. Are you also telling me the intelligence services of France, Britain, Russia, China, Germany, Italy and others cooked their information too?


Think of all those that have and are getting away with this, because the City of Mililani, Population over 60,000 does not have a Police Station, HPD must come from Wahiawa (population under 20,000) about 15 minutes too late (depending on traffic).

Yes, the City and County is dicking the Residents of Mililani City by not having a Police Station and City and County of Honolulu Satellite City Hall or Hale.   Kapolei the Lie "Second City" population 19,000.


Dumb is a good posting name for you IMO


Pot offers zero healing properties . Any time heated smoke is put into one's lungs , it isn't good for the human body .  When people are impaired on pot they will make poor choices---women are especially at risk .  The real danger is when kids get into and use their parents dope . The developing human brain can recover from alcohol abuse ---but can be damaged forever with a lot of pot use.  Then there's the little kids getting into their parents pot cookies .   People are fools to smoke tobacco and pot . There is no up side for the human body.


Says the troll.


If the PCs had elected  a rational, clear-thinking leader  instead of Hudak, the outcome might have been very different.

But no. They - the PCs - went full-court press right-wing nutjob, and a Wynne government was the result.

Will Patrick Brown be able to wrestle the PCs back from the extremist elements in his own party? Might be too early to say, but at this point it doesn't look good.


Well, figure it out, or get over it. Whatever could be on that phone, pales in comparison to the security of all other phones of that kind. Deal with it, it's called, FREEDOM.


If 80 per cent are out of towners then the cost is too low charge more so those who play can pay
Kent does not have a golf demogtaphic golf and Kent do not go together.
To reflect the cultur of the city they should host cockfighting and dog fighting.
Marshawns Lynch, Michael Vick and do centro dela raza can host


She has 3 criminal convictions...


Throwing more and more dollars to fund the plan is not the solution.  Benefit level and method of determining the benefits are not working.  Benefits based on high three years of wages, employee contribution level, etc must be re-examined.  However, to do so would be political suicide.  Our politicians must realize that they cannot be accountable only to the pensioners, but also the other taxpayers of the State of Hawaii.  I have not heard of businesses contributing 17% to 41% of payroll to fund pension contributions.


I saw literally dozens of women who were impregnated by their rapists. Yes, it doesn't happen all the time, but we saw forty or so women on a bad week, and ten to fifteen on a good week. Over seventeen years, that adds up.

THE VICTIMS were the ones who wanted the abortions.  A group which you make quite clear you have zero sympathy for.

Your "many people born of rape that have gone on to amazing things" is undoubtedly one more example of your tendency to spin things. I wonder how much love their mothers had for them, given how they were conceived.


Socialist economies are also built on fiat currencies and the fractional reserving banking system.  This is not the exclusive domain of capitalism.


One would think that since this issue has vexed the church for the better part of two millennia they would have come to better resolution, n'est pas?

What does it take our hierarchs to understand that the teaching is based on chiefly misunderstanding of human sexuality and the political hegemony of patriarchy?

If the church repeatedly clings to a teaching that is demonstrably against the very nature of  even the men who constitute the priesthood [both historically and currently], that someone along the line would have gotten the idea that maybe this teaching is a form of idolatry?  Dontcha' think?

Why would a hierarchy of a church that follows the teachings of the Beatitudes continually ask men to lie everyday about the fundamental truth of their being, their person?


What?


We have a massive epidemic of rape at the hands of men, but let's make sure all of our language is carefully couched so that men don't get their feelings hurt over it.


Of course.  And you know more about the business than the commissioner and the owners?

Well that makes perfect sense!


Congrats young man.


Oily Dung going away.


I concur. The problem is that the Republic party's been at this for more than 20 years. The Democrats are racing to catch up.
How about amending the First Amendment to ban all political parties?


Many feel these four should still be in prison .


You think maybe he just joined Hair Club for Men and he's got the plugs happening?


That's a very Godophbic comment


The National Popular Vote bill would replace state winner-take-all laws that award all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who get the most popular votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), in the enacting states, to a system guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes for, and the Presidency to, the candidate getting the most popular votes in the entire United States.

The bill retains the constitutionally mandated Electoral College and state control of elections, and uses the built-in method that the Constitution provides for states to make changes. It ensures that every voter is equal, every voter will matter, in every state, in every presidential election, and the candidate with the most votes wins, as in virtually every other election in the country.


Shouting down and disrupting is free speech, too.  It's not opposition to speech.  It's opposition to the message.  Big difference.


"Sta-Phon"? Shouldn't you be having your afternoon nap?


Salmond is now a Westminster MP, again. Don't think he isn't feeding nippy her lines.


Okay so if the oil industry up here in Alaska is dying. Why not start slowly investing into newer found resources. Would the mining industry help uplift this debt we are currently facing and help it keep the PFD if we Alaskans along with the Legislature draft up a amendment and a contract with each big mine that is currently in the state and set aside a percentage that could benefit Alaskans and for the mine (workers and such). Would this plan work theoretically?


"We" most certainly did not create this problem. The feral cat problem, and the mongoose problem, pre-existed the birth of anyone alive today. The cat problem is continued by the large number of people whose goal is to feel good about themselves by being nice to anthropomorphised feral cats. They are predators which destroy incredible numbers of birds and pollute the environment as well. Feral cats are in fact a form of biological pollution. We probably cannot wipe them out but we could dramatically reduce their numbers by all out hunting.


You are amazing.  You and your buddy Outsider77 would have had a fit if the JUDGE (not the DA or the police) sentenced him to years in prison for those crimes.  This is a tragedy, plain and simple, and to place blame on the piloce and the DA lacks both credibility and knowldege.  It is easy to criticize from the cheap seats.  Funny how we never see you or 77 out in front.


Lets start by privatizing the Seward Highway, The Genn Highway, the Parks Highway, and the Dalton Highway.  We pay fuel taxes for all of those and never get to use them when you live in South East Alaska.


Yours, too!!

And I too hope one day you will not feel it necessary to offer nothing but criticism...."but obviously not today...."


Yes, your quote from Galatians is often used as well by those who urge caution re: Marian apparitions; however, you might check out the following from Luke 9:49-50 in regard to tolerance of those who  preach the gospel of Jesus, are self proclaimed Christians, but not Catholic-Christians.
"It was John who said, "Master, we saw a man using your name to expel demons, and we tried to stop him because he is not of our company." Jesus told him in reply, "Do not stop him, for anyone who is not against you is on your side."


Thanks for your service to Alaska's young patients. I'm also a former patient. When you worked in the YK Delta area about 35 years ago. My family and I are thankful you were my pediatrician. We wish you the best in your retirement.

Lilly


900 less drug users to worry about.


Sounds like another corrupt politician who will take dirty money and ruin her good name.


The problem is Trump is not honest either


You're a bit out of date. At one time the Olympics were for amateurs but that is not longer the case in almost every sport. They're all pros now one way or another.


We're a wounded family living in a broken home.   amen...

Advent is feeling more like an extended Ash Wednesday this year. More like Kaddish or sitting Shiva...a very Old Testament Advent that seems more connected to sorrow than to the Coming of Christ. Maybe its the inseparable nature of Christmas and Easter, of Advent and Lent... vivified. I am grateful to have Advent brought to the fore... here. More please.


"If he accepted Jesus, he's in Heaven."

An interesting assertion.  And, yet, there is no evidence to support such a claim.


Senator Campbell is paid over a hundred grand a year, since 2008, as a director for Great Canadian, and has amassed over a million dollars worth of shares.

He seems to have declined all comment over his involvement.


BellyPottymind is gone, but Raymond Suttner remains. While citing him as "a scholar and political analyst … part-time … and an Emeritus Professor … ", Daily Manc — this is an "OpEd", after all — omits his ZANC membership. . .

"last year’s … elections the ANC…lost three major metros, in addition to Cape Town, …no opposition party obtained 50% … in any metro "  a minor Freudian slip (the DA won 66% in CT) but showing Red Raymond's wish projection.

"… the strongest party that leads the coalition, … will do everything in its power to hold the coalition together." Again, the learned part-time & emeritus Prof reveals more about himself and his ZANC-think that about the DA:  the DA has made it clear that they have learned the lesson of their bad marriage with a NP splinter: they would rather be in opposition that compromise principles; Suttner's prescription is about power at all cost (and under the ZANC it's the poor paying the most).


Any dealing with a Russian bank that was under U.S. and European sanctions would be clearly illegal under U.S. law. Therefore, why would Kushner meet with them? Something is very fishy.


Whats going on in Florida?


Another fascist ...


You're right about your descriptor.


Once again that eeeee-vee-ill merrywanna has hypnotized good people and turned them into criminals. There's no doubt that but for the existence of cannabis that the culprits in this case would have instead been singing in the church choir on Sundays, working as full time volunteers at the soup kitchen feeding the hungry and helping diminutive, elderly women negotiate busy traffic intersections in their spare time.There's no doubt whatever that were it not for the existence of merrywanna that there would be no crime in our society!


Really our market is driven by foreign investors and withup  the dollar moving 12 cents in the past few months I would not be jumping in yet. The rise has hurt my investments, I sold a third of my US when we hit 72 cents, but the rest which I bought when a dollar was a dollar are doing great, I was hoping to make 15% more when I sold but Sunny Ways has pressured the BOC to raise rates and as a result my gain will be reduced. I do not see a roaring economy, I see no work for me and my friends, a few part time jobs but nothing really, like a good old civil servant job for life and big fat pension. Taxes are killing us, overstated economy is killing us, understated inflation is killing us, all while we give out Canada Energy to the US with a big discount because as JT thinks the Americans are our friends.


Plus, it could keep Washington State pot from undermining BC's most profitable domestic industry.


Still enabling Erick I see. Somethings never change. Btw- check out Rodney almandinger on courtview.


Well said CJM.  The fact that the Liberals are keeping the details of the infrastructure bank from the public yet have already "pitched" their ideas to several big global institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds is very unsettling.
How is the gov't going to pay interest to the investors and at what rate, for me, is a very important question.  I haven't seen the media asking many questions and yet are allowing the Gov't to stonewall them unlike anything I have seen in the past 15 years.


Violence must be denounced, period.
Dry Liberal
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in Charlottesville violence was denounced with violence
The counter protesters attacked first
The march was peaceful until they arrived
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Racism was denounced by anti-white racists (ironically some of them were  white themselves, the moral preening kind)


"Syllabus of Errors" was written by Pope Pius IX in 1864.  Actually "Mirari Vos" written by Pope Gregory XVI in 1832---condemned liberalism as "this false and absurd maxim, or better this madness, that everyone should have and practice freedom of conscience,"

Citation:
"Acts of Gregory XVI,' p. 168, in Hubert Jedin, ed. HISTORY OF THE CHURCH [New York: Crossroad, 1982], vol. VII, p. 287.


Fine, but there is always root cause to everything.

Our Society has lost it's way. People, families, communities and countries fail and crumble without strong values, morals, ethics and principles.

As such, the stresses, anxiety, depression and their side effects can be partly attributed to what Canada has now become - a "grey" society.

From the outside looking in, it appears that no one has anything to believe in or aspire to anymore. All they see/hear is dread, self-pity, entitlement, staggering debt and victimhood.

Our children are showing the symptoms


He only takes selfies of a pretty girl is in it with him.


Dang, I seem to have touched an ignorant troll. I did read the article but was and am unclear on who shot the kid. Obviously you know who did it because you are truth masquerading as evil.


The best part of this story is when the Clinton camp admitted the emails constituted a "national security" issue.


Clearly, Joshua is exhibiting his hatred for President Trump and all who support him.


Not to go to far afield here, but it was Mr. Bruce who also advocated using, let's just say, what later became George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say On The Radio", and to use them "over and over and over until they mean nothing and can't hurt some poor little kid anymore . . ."


Simple solution.. Vote the bums out. From a former born and raised Ontarian now living in a fiscally responsible western province.


The example of  Emily Maitlis that Elizabeth mentions reminds me of Canadian law. In Canada you cannot pay a woman less than a man for doing the same job.

As co-hosts would seem to imply same job, doesn't Britain have an equivalent of our law?


Not another "Feel Good" law please!
Typical City Council with the coconut head in the sand. Do you think they gave any discussion on how to enforce this law? Pupule all the way with this one!!


I thought you were an independent.


Actually Doyle, you're part of the Fake news system but you can't see it.

I think of all the possible shows that Canadian TV could have made over the years, all the channels we could have had and quality news services we could have had, if Canadian TV ever had a chance to compete against the government.

The CBC pays the most to any news anchor, journalist and TV celebrity, not because the CBC is that good, no actually, because they receive billions-tax money. No matter how good, bad or mediocre, the CBC keeps going and all other Canadian TV just can't compete with the billion dollar advantage that the CBC has on everyone else.

I then think of the narratives, messages and picked stories that the CBC tells us and then think of the ones that so many Canadians won't hear...because the CBC is an extension of the Liberal party. We've already seen how stories are buried or hidden because of the topic or how some continue  way too long...cause of politics.

The CBC ultimately is wrong


I didn't take her to be trashing the Gates foundation. I thought her primary criticism was of the disparity between the supports available to wealthier women, to have whatever families they like on whatever terms they like, and the resources available to poor women. She points out how the deck is stacked against the poor, and particularly women of color.  I didn't get that she thought they shouldn't have access to birth control. Rather, it seemed that she thought they should have access to humane employment, child care, health care, housing, educational opportunities, and the whole range of social goods that women of greater means enjoy, as they build and nurture their own families. Access to birth control alone is insufficient. The idea that the greatest impediment to the well-being of the poor is their own fertility is a falsehood that lets the privileged off the hook. There is a lot more than birth control that everyone should have access to. At least, that's how I read it.


Traddies aside (they're not who I've had in mind), the parishes that have at long last gone not pre-V2 or post-V2 but exactly V2--the ones at long last doing exactly what Vatican II called for in sacred art, architecture, liturgy, and lay involvement / common priesthood of the faithful--seem to be doing better than congregations still stuck with the disorders and wreckage Eugene Walsh, Rembert Weakland, Virgil Funk, and countless others imposed in defiance of the plain letter of Vatican II.

I have in mind congregations like OLOP, the cathedral parish in Santa Rosa, Cantius, or Sacred Heart in Grand Rapids.

These congregations produce vocations, keep their 20-somethings,  have a much more even ratio of men to women in the pews, and they evangelize.  Of course, one would need some hard data to rule out a self-selection effect, and bishops are reluctant to collect such data for the obvious reasons.


Any update on this story ADN?


Don't you have a better argument than setting up a straw man ? Is humor and sarcasm really that difficult for you to understand ? I thought you and Icon were kidding when you would take things literally (through your own misinterpretation), but you are obviously not. I am flabbergasted, Icon can't even understand what violate means, or the mechanics (or methods) of sex...you two are two peas in a pod, that's for sure.


the usa has every moral right to change it's immigration rules any dam time they want regardless of circumstances. in case you missed it ISIS has said they will take advantage of lack us immigration laws to infiltrate into the usa.  nothing is imaginary.


Trudeau Derangement Syndrome? At least you're admitting your problem. It's the first step, son.


The dying out generation ... your interest is becoming irrelevant day by day. People are more concerned about economy, income, house price, etc, not ideology stupidity.


Finally someone realizes what the Holy Father is really revealing about his mindset.

Smiles, cheerful, "Who am I to judge?", right up to the moment of the pounce.

The NCR and some of the commenters are missing the precedents he is setting.


I've been subjected to racial abuse (especially growing up-- less so now, thankfully).  I have never felt humiliated by a racist (angry, sure, but not humiliated).  Why would I? I did nothing wrong.  The racist is the one who humiliates himself by his conduct.


I didn't say he was kindly.
He was, in fact, known for firmness, if not harshness:
This is the guy who sent Pickett's division uphill in a suicidal charge against the center of the Union line at Gettysburg in one last, desperate throw.
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But he had no tolerance for cowardice as seen at Charlottesville.
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He was also firm in his determination that the war was over, and nothing good would come from perpetuating it.
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That was not "kindliness".  It was driven by his experience, his sanguine assessment of the situation, and his professional judgment.
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The quality of his judgment was why he was offered command of the Union armies at the start of the war.  He turned down the offer as a matter of personal duty to Virginia.
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That decision - not one taken lightly - led to the war lasting four years, instead of (perhaps) one, and to hundreds of thousands of additional deaths.
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Nonetheless, he was an outstanding military commander by any standard.


When the cartoonist wasn't watching the proceedings either...


You would be serving your country Allie, not politicians, and if you enlist and choose to serve your country. you don't get to pick and choose what war you wish to fight in. You raise your right hand, you read the big print, and you are free to do as you are told. It's a grown-up thing.


Travel ban! Travel ban!!


Actually those folks had good reason to riot as did those in the 60's.  It changed America for the good.  Rioting because of  the results of an election anywhere in American history is rare.
But the reaction to the recent election does not show burned businesses and riot torn streets such as you mention.  Again American are not rioting.  Upset?...yes.

With that said, I despise Trump based on the campaign, But.. I am willing to take a "wait and see" approach. His bravado will change dramatically once he has to attend a mass shooting service or welcome a dead soldier home from a mission he ordered. He will be dealing with the lives of people every second of the day,  not people's money.  Trump's change will be profound, more so for his supporters.  Trump has seen "The Book" of secrecy concerning US security since the election and he has already changes his rhetoric.  What ever you think of him it must be overwhelming for him.  I pity anyone who becomes President.


You keep repeating that line and that is not what  H.J. Res. 40 is about.
 EVERYONE still needs to go through a background check. What was removed was SSA having to give the names to NICS of recipients  who use a representative payee to help manage their benefits due to a mental impairment . A mental impairment doesn't necessarily mean a person is violent. BTW, this has the blessing of the ACLU.

https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-vote-recommendation-social-security-ncis-rule-fair-pay-and-safe-workplaces-eo


I didn't hear about the Christian thing with Shockley is he a member of your church? Wouldn't surprise me that someone of such low character was passing themselves off as a Christian.

Secondly I didn't condemn the D- Party, what I wrote was " Seems the Democrats in Oregon have some real dark horses in their barn yard",  "some real dark horses" speaks to individuals as opposed to saying ALL D-Party members are dark horses. Gee I would hope they not all lairs like Obama, Hillary, Kitzhaber, Bean and Shockley but maybe I'm wrong? I really like Eugene City Councilor George Poling and he is registered democrat.


He who says the least often has the most truth to share. I agree with you George.


Give everyone who did it a day in jail for each email.
Trump's officials will be out in a couple of months and Hillary will be released in 78 years.


Brings to mind Jacques Parizeau's famous comment that he lost the Quebec independence referendum because of "money and the ethnic vote".


Yes, you can easily identify Dittoheads when they repeat Rush's words - Democrat Party.  He and Mike Rosen speak for pretty much all of KOA's "informed" listeners.  I have to get up and change the radio dial after Rockies games because they put the GOP hate propaganda on and it is disrespectful to others like me who wish to just be baseball fans and not political cannon fodder.  KOAs' Rush called me a monkey because I voted for Obama (the former black man in the White House).  I was just finishing up the post game show when the unpatriotic radio blowtorch thrust him on.  Unpatriotic KOA also purposefully cuts to commercials when the National Anthem plays.  It's more important to hear from their advertisers than to just be an American and hear the Star Spangled Banner.  Clear channel is not unbiased and plays programming that divides, not unites.  KOA has a pink elephant in the room (they hate the majority of the voters in the last presidential election) but want their advertising $$$.


Can we get rid of the ages old video/article about Joe Biden thinking he "needs Canada" and  also the one about John Glen on the online version... they've been there since at least January and we don't see that we need some American to give us confidence in our existence day after day!!


Sen. Bill Wielechowski is beginning to impress me. He's more fiscally responsible that many R's!

Regarding new revenues, how many people know that our second largest "state owned" resource--FISH---is not taxed at all? That's right. We get a measly 3% landing "tax", all of which is "walled off" and is used to fund ASMI sales-- the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. FIshermen call it a "self-tax"--more like a "self-serving" tax!

We give fishing permits away; we don't assess the owners based on the value of their haul, as we should. It's "our fish"!

There is no excuse for this resource giveaway, given the wealth this "privatized" resource yields to individuals. Some say "An income tax will hit these people in the same manner it will hit Slopers who live out of State. So pass an income tax!"

That might work, but it's a delay tactic and doesn't address the real issue: Before Alaskans pay an income tax, those who harvest our resources need to pay something to the General Fund.


Neither China nor South Korea wishes NK or the regime to fail in a catastrophic manner. It would mean 26million+ refugees, possibly the largest people movement since ww2, would have to be housed, fed and dealt with. And these are people with few skills and worldview adapted to modern technological societies...

China and South Korea both want controlled, systematic and measured changes to happen to North Korea.


I call dibs on Old Faithful, plus the lodge! Don't get in my way, I will be heavily armed, so as not to be arrested. That'll cost the taxpayers so much money, they'll howl!  Then the jury will find me innocent of all charges, I can go on right wing talk shows and tell everyone how to do it. Yeah! That's the ticket! I will be a True Amurcan Patriot, and get on The Donald Trump News Hour! Yes!  I'm going for it! Manager!


R-I-G-H-T...   Instead of saying what you mean, have a cadre of enablers "explain" your "real" meaning.


It is clear to see that complexity is beyond your grasp. Simple black and white appears to be all that you can see - and you will degrade all comments into this one-bit perception that you purposely foster and cultivate to justify your beliefs.

None of my comments "blamed" anyone - and if your mind was less clouded and rigid you could see this - along with those of us that can. Interestingly enough,  any student of language could point out to you, that defending a misinterpreted point in a discussion, is often a classic indirect acknowledgement of your own acceptance and believe in that point.

Your comment would be unintentionally hilarious, if it wasn't just so tragically sad.


What does hard line religious fundamentalism, whether Islam or Christian, have to do with liberals? That makes no sense. Hard line Islam is the kissing cousin of fundamentalism sharia Christians in the US who want to dictate and control people's lives.


I think you are missing the point. This article speaks to the large number of middle income earners whose main source of income in retirement will come from their RRSP/RRIF.  It does not concern the wealthy. It concerns those who may by withdrawing their retirement savings for other purposes (housing in particular) and winding up in poverty in their senior years as a result. Alexandra Macqueen is a highly reputable writer and teacher on retirement and pensions (co-authored a book with Moshe Milevsky). Yes, there are articles in the G&M that seem like promos for the investment industry, but this is not one of them.


A CERTAIN AMOUNT of isolationism is good, and a CERTAIN AMOUNT of open trade is also good.  It's all about policies that don't allow one or the other to get out of control.

As far as illegal immigration going up, it has nothing to do with NAFTA.  Rather, it's the reality of the increase of populations, which have also increased.


Thank you for taking a stand and your support.


Pellum is a class act. Glad he's still a Duck.


And Hillary couldn't win despite the help of the entire national press corps and millions of illegals with drivers licenses and no voter ID laws.


Say Adios to Murkowski next election  ....What a stupid vote, she is a Democrat skunk vomit hiding within smoke to us voters. God Bless Sullivan !


That the articles are being read is a large assumption.  I just guess most folks read the headline, maybe a few sentences then straight to the comments.  That has to be the case given the idiotic things people post.


Disturbing, so in total, 26 men have been arrested in approximately 1-2 days for sex trafficking in Oregon.  According to the link under 'Latest wire news'  11 men were arrested by Portland police, same tactics were used to arrest the 15 mentioned in this article...


Hello & Thank you Kevin!
I really did not have much complain about RCI (Roman Catholic Institution) before.  It was Christ himself who initiated my relationship with Catholic Church.  I was head over heels in love with Christ/God that all I care was to be united to God or die to see God face to face.  Now I am retired and thought that I will just let go of world affairs. However, I am finding that clergy sex abuse of children is something that I can't let go!  Pope F. will not ignore this like 'snake slide over the wall' - Oriental old saying!
It seems that people are giving up on this criminal conduct of Pope F.
I complain to Christ about this everyday and beg him to take me to himself or
help us to resolve these clergy sex abuse of children scandals!!!!!!!!!!!!


Don't forget some other catch phrases,  Gomery, Carbon taxes, Pay for Play Access, Lying, Breaking Promises.


"This points to another tactic that should be made explicit - the use of Western legal structures, namely constitutional rights, to culturally destroy the West."

You've got it backwards. Western culture affords individuals the maximum amount of personal freedom possible. And typically our courts will uphold those freedoms when governments seek to limit them.

On the other hand, there are westerners who don't value the freedoms we have. They'll try to take them away in an attempt to make everyone 'culturally correct.'


That *phrase* has a history (it is not unique to MSW).  Here is a statement by a professor that uses that phrase:  http://religionandpolitics.org/2013/02/05/we-need-less-religion-in-our-politics-and-less-politics-in-our-religion/
MSW followed that up with this opinion piece - https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/prothero-religion-politics
I agree more with Prothero than Wear.


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"The Conservatives on Monday abruptly put an end to questions about the Liberal government’s ethical woes after it was revealed interim leader Rona Ambrose vacationed in the Caribbean on a billionaire’s yacht at the same time she was blasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his own lavish holiday."

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The sudden silence is deafening.

What is the correct spelling of Ronalee's last name?

H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E

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In May 2015, Tim Cestnik wrote an excellent column in the G&M called "Overtaxing the rich: A cautionary tale". While it focused on how to distribute a tax cut, it could apply equally well to the effect of increasing taxes on the rich.  It is still available on G&M at this location: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/taxes/how-splitting-the-dinner-bill-relates-to-tax-cuts/article24441644/?utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=E-mail:+Newsletters+/+E-Blasts+/+etc.&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links


Two words. Revenue Neutral.


Has President Trump made America great again?  I dunno—but I do know he has somehow managed to make Wall Street great again.   Usually, I can buy stocks because they go down in value here and there.   However, ever since Mr. Trump became Commander-in-Chief, the stock market has seemed to go only one way—UP!        Now, my stocks are doing very well.  But, at the same time  it’s hard to find anything “on sale.”


These crimes were committed well into 2017. Lying is not considered civil.


At the very least, every condo and rental apartment needs a princess balcony, which is a set of patio doors covered by a four-foot railing. They really should replace every main window.


Congress and President Trump should cut off all funding to the FBI until all documents requested are turned over.  Stop the paychecks to all FBI staff, top to bottom.  Power of the purse.


The reality with this issue is that the present day knowledge, shaped by media, has far exceeded the facts. This is a good example of why no one trusts media anymore. Very few people know anything about residential schools. Most of the people who know about residential schools see them as a present source of money from taxpayers. It's difficult to find "truth" in that environment. Money tends to distort truth. No one gets any money if they say they got a good education and a job and moved off the reserve, because of residential schools. I know a lot of these people, and what I read in the media doesn't fit what I know from my personal experience. This wouldn't be the first time in the last few decades that the media line wasn't accurate.


Suck and blow Jeehadee J - time for you to be gone!


Do we have Stasi or KGB in Alaska? Regardless! The secret thought police need to pay old "Lars Thoren" a visit. Am I right chairwoman Wavemaker?


Did anyone even understand what she SAID?  The majority of the idiots who comment seem to be distracted by something as superficial as what she was wearing but appear to lack the comprehension of what she stated.  No fault can be found with her words so fools choose to attack her clothing demonstrating that her words about bullying do not just apply to children but also to immature adults as well.


Really, columnist? It's notPeters who is out of touch. Have you not heard about Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey? Extremely funny often raunchy but obviously very moral, kind, and feminist women?  Like jokes by those women, the jokes by Peters (sigh...we still need to explain this in 2017?) are winks; they have levels; they have quotation marks around them. We laugh at their inappropriateness. That's the joke. His schtick is (write this down) an act! He (write this down too) plays a frat boy! It's a kind of sarcasm, a kind of satire.  You may prefer a different tone for the show as far as hosts go, that's fine, but don't knock Peters. Unless you also take time to knock 80% of female and male comedians out there today.


Oosterhoff still has his orgaization from his last nomination run, and also his supporters he can call on, given that he has done nothing to alienate his previous supporters. Looks like his opponent has not managed to sell enough new memberships to overtake him.


None of us know enough of what we're talking about on this topic to be able to make that definition with clear certainty. So it's not just difficult. It's impossible.


Ever climb a ladder and have some jerk walk up and shake it?...That's McCain.
Americans have tired of his passive aggressive nonsense, under the guise of "bipartisanship".
He's made a career of throwing stones at anyone in the houses who appeared to be succeeding on any given issue. All to appear relevant and seem somehow "fair".
John McCain is a genuine twerp.


Unable to cut government, legislators go drilling for cash... from the earnings we should have in our pockets.


Bad month of May for Oberg. Maybe he needs to go down to figure things out?


Are you a professional comedy writer?


The urban heat island effect is a direct result of adding concrete ,asphalt , and brick buildings  where they did not exist before, absorbing more solar radiation .Nothing to do with the oceans.
Oceans are warmed by solar radiation ,always have , always will. Nothing to do with man made CO2. Compare solar radiation penetration of sea water to I.R. penetration of sea water.The planet is 70% covered by water, all that  sea water has a 1000x's the heat capacity of the entire atmosphere.About the top 3m of the sea water is the equivalent of the entire atmosphere in heat capacity .Glaciers ,arctic ice , permafrost melting has been happening since the start of this inter glacial started about 10000 years ago. We only started to build a accurate ocean  temperature historical data base with the argo buoys in the last 17 years.
Recently it only started to warm again in the last 150 odd years ending the L.I.A. & every body knows that.


I read that the shooter had dreadlocks.  huh?!


Red lights? When did they start that crap?


I doubt if Khadr was tortured and even if he was he made the choice to get involved in the dirty business that resulted in the death of an American soldier. Many decades ago I killed a young Viet Cong guy while I was serving in Vietnam and I would do it all over again if the circumstances were the same.


I wouldn't sleep well at night if I was one of any number of them.


Comey is supremely unqualified ............... (almost as unqualified as Trump)


What a complete crock!


---and this:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/us/willard-ohio-migrant-workers.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

snip (and note the comment in the parenthesis):

"For decades, the farmers have relied on migrant labor from spring to fall. Depending on how quickly they work, field workers can earn up to $18 an hour, compared with Ohio’s $8.15 minimum hourly wage. Many return year after year to do the strenuous seasonal work, sometimes in temperatures that soar to 100 degrees. (Local residents largely steer clear.)"--


This is how we build bridges, understanding, and cooperation with young people of different counties so they don't follow in the footsteps of those preaching anti-West propaganda. We denied them an opportunity to grow and be voices of change. Malala is only one girl and look at the positive change she has accomplished.


Jess Loban does NOT support this petition to elect the mayor in this manner.  It takes away the voice of the people and reduces the number of districts, giving the mayor 2 votes for his district.  Not ok.  He requested this false information be retracted from their press release and I am asking that this be corrected.  Yes, the people should vote for their mayor.  NOT in the way and with the strings attached this petition states.


Free, arm, and train prisoners to destroy fascism in Colorado!


I'm actually screaming just as loudly about the child benefit.  While I do think taxpayers should fund investment in children (childcare, education, preventative healthcare in the form of subsidized community sports and exercise facilities), I think the Federal Liberals' Canada Child Benefit is a shameless bribe to low and middle-income families.  It's even more ridiculous than Harper's vote-grabbing Universal Child Care Benefit and fitness & arts tax credits.  Even though I received some cash under Harper's boutique credits, they were one of the reasons I didn't vote Conservative in the last election, after having voted so in the past.


Yeah, Ezra Levant made up a bunch of stuff in a really lame article in Breitbart so he could shill for his new book which revolves around the thesis that Trudeau is "setting himself up for a fight against Trump" which is just biased speculation rooted in nothing of substance. The reality is that Trudeau said he would work with whoever was elected President not "fight against them".

What about Bannon? I know who he is and am aware he is an advisor.

Ezra Levant is a used car salesman sleazebag who sees an opportunity to profit from stoking exaggerated conjecture.


It's like trying to argue with a child.


...again...WHAT!?!  how is this guy out on the streets...? released to mom?  ridiculous. insane. irresponsible. ekcetera, ekcetera, ekcetera.  i'll bet the RG didn't get a call back  - they are still scrambling to figure out how to spin this (BTW - you've taken heat,...so, thank you RG for trying to investigate)


The American public have to hold Mr. Comey to account on his "higher loyalty" in his performance as Director of the FBI, the many terrorist "known wolves" who were interviewed by the FBI and let go to kill Americans, the FBI participation and in a car during an ISIS terrorist attack in Texas, the failure to enforce the law repeatedly against dangerous individuals, the disastrous 6 year FBI investigation in Washington DC that allowed a WMATA Police member to stay on police endangering countless numbers of public, while he performed out of country terrorist training and supported ISIS, the Americans repeatedly used as "bait" including a Florida synagogue threatened while FBI "helped" an ISIS supporting terrorist to plan an attack for months, the use of FBI agents threatening to stab families of suspects, FBI paying convicted ISIS terrorists, etc, etc.  Mr. Comey's leadership was a MESS, to be generous.  Worse, Americans died because of such failures.  Mr. Comey is the LAST one to preach.


Margaret Wente is no "freelancer"...she's a full-time employee.  So much for your attempt at denigration.

But, hey! Congratulations to you.  Because in spite of the extreme right's misdeeds being "swept under the carpet," you got the the true goods about all that "violent bullying."  Now, what you might do, is toughen up your hide a bit.  You seem a bit thin-skinned to me...


Two things polluting those waters, diesel and Atlantic salmon. There should be no Atlantic Salmon on the West Coast because of escapement.


eh who asked your opinion on this string?  scram you habitual lying old man. so tired of you north dakota bs story.  now its the salvation army, dont you ever give up?


I believe he was talking about coal trains passing through East-of-the-Sound cities. How does that apply to P.A.?


Man, I'm so tired of all this winning...


I do not know when or in which manner they went. However when I attended for 5 days, I was met with a large crowd every time, especially on the last 3 days. Also, people all around were taking photos and no one was stopped or apprehended.


Much better use of available monies; And a better result for Mr. Downing!


The statement "likely owing to the fact that women no longer had the same access to contraceptives" is self-serving and unsupported.

The American public does not wish to fund contraceptives for other countries based on who it voted for and that party's platform.

That overrides any wishes to the contrary from the WHO or people in other countries or the losing side in the last election.


So, the Democrats are actively encouraging anyone in Government to leak any dirt they can possibly find on Trump and nobody has any objections to this, but let's not have Republicans do the same. Hypocrites anybody?


The World Health Organization says most burn deaths are related to open cooking in undeveloped nations.  How 225,000 Americans die from fossil fuels cannot be true.  Paul Walker was killed by an idiot who couldn't control his sports car.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs365/en/

"...An estimated 265 000 deaths every year are caused by burns – the vast majority occur in low- and middle-income countries.
Non-fatal burn injuries are a leading cause of morbidity.
Burns occur mainly in the home and workplace.
Burns are preventable..."
Too bad these poor people are not blessed with gas fired power plants to power electric stoves.


"He also wore two watches." What are you insinuating? - that he'll do a lot of time?


Are they putting in a drive thru?


Well, I beg to differ, create a forward presence of always on station Aegis equipped ships with the eventual upgraded SM missile that can take out ICBMs in the Sea of Japan off NK. next ask the Japanese with their eventual Aegis on-shore batteries to help if the trajectory is Hawaii, then base the same Aegis and SM equipped ships off of Hawaii, install new tracking and prosecuting radars in Hawaii, activate the on-shore Aegis and SM site at Barking Sands, then beef-up the GBI sites in Alaska and California with more missiles to protect Hawaii, so they can take multiple ripple shots at any in-bound missile or warheads.  If that is not enough to reduce the threat of leak-through to an impossibly low percentage, then rinse and repeat, by beefing up more of the same.  Spending a couple billion dollars to do this to protect just the irreplaceable military infrastructure of at least equal value, makes sense.  If we shoot down every attempt, Kim Jong Un will look impotent and stop.


So the USFWS doesn't trust your white friend either?  Congratulations!  You must be so proud!


The epidemic is with prescription opiates (oxycodone and fentanyl) and heroin, which have sent countless people to the ER and the grave. Marijuana doesn't do either of these.


BC -  "most of our emergency responses are to car crashes,"???  Please provide a credible source for that heavily biased flatulence.


Trump, as insane as he is, is simply a puppet of Steve Bannon who once called Trump "a useful tool" for furthering his extremist agenda.
Fortunately, at least until Trump gets his Supreme Court pick, there is still one institution of government that can retain some sanity in America. The House and Senate with Republican majorities are bought and paid for, so don't expect them to reign in Bannon.


"The only hope for improved relations between President Trump and the Republican Congress might be for Trump to stop criticizing members of his own party..."

Baloney. Republicans can enact the agenda they they promised the American people they would tackle if they were elected. Trump is absolutely right to call them out for the ideological frauds they are.


"40 years ago I read an article..."

It must be entirely true then, because no medical advancements whatsoever have been made in the past 40 years.


Although there is a lot of talk about elites and elitism, it's rare to find people trying to say exactly what these words mean.  But if people are unable to say what they are talking about they are risking confusion as they accuse one another of elitism.

I suppose that elitism is roughly some form of arrogance or a false sense of superiority in those who have great influence (the elites).  Obviously we should be against arrogance in the powerful, but we should also be wary of people who try to arrogate power to themselves by whipping up resentment and manipulating mass anger.  Strong democratic institutions and a vigourous media are the best defences.

The CBC has its biases, as any thoughtful person must admit.  Nevertheless it still has many intelligent journalists good at raising questions about public policy.  It needs to be supplemented by independent sources, not abolished.


US citizens should not go to North Korea. When they insist on doing so, the US gubmit should not move heaven and earth to get them back; this only incentivises other people to do so.


Wow. The level of your idiocy is truly impressive.


Ends the mandate.  The power of Congress "to regulate commerce" does not include the power to initiate it.  No corporation should be able to use the IRS to force US citizens to buy its products.


Chris -  Why don't you spend some time volunteering at one of Sequim's schools, taking a school tour, or at least talking to your Sequim School District administrators. Inform yourself as it is pretty easy to see that you don't really have an idea of what you're talking about.


Those are all products, not parks.


That is not really a laugh. The state of education, at least at some schools, is obviously inadequate. A masters used to mean something. But then these online schools...sigh.


During this evening's press conference it was revealed that the killer had three gunshot wounds, with one of those to the head as he killed himself. It would appear that he was shot twice by the guy who confronted him and exchanged fire with him. It is impossible to know what might have happened without the actions of the guy who confronted the shooter, including following him as he left the scene. The family members who were not at the church during his rampage may well owe their lives to the actions of the guy who confronted the shooter..... Very true!


I said the same thing.  A lot of the folks here will be upset by your post.  They take the words of marginal entertainers as gospel.  They see them as experts in whatever they babble about.
Their reactions are priceless.


As I middle age white guy working his butt off to raise 2 kids and who also lost the fitness and arts tax credits would have like to discuss this with the Minister but I can't afford the $1500 to have dinner with him.

Tax credits for teachers supplies. Can I get a tax credit for suits and ties for work.


Ok, another racist.  So in Hawaii Japanese and then Caucasians are in charge.  What else is new? Certain races are given more consideration in school and in jobs. I was actually asked in an interview with a major employer for a professional position if I would be able to deal with Japanese.  It was an illegal question.  Besides I lived in Japan for 5 years, I have worked for a Japanese President in another country, I have worked for Blacks and other minorities.  I as a Caucasian have spent very little time working for Caucasians.  Geez, insulting question.  I should have told her off.


So Tommy Tancredo thinks sympathizing with racist groups is a winning strategy that will carry him to the governor's office. He certainly hasn't gotten any smarter in the time he has thankfully been out of the public eye.


This is just more Globalism. First comes the mindset, then the evidence that your Governor (or President ) is a Globalist by the decisions they make! If your Governor (or President) places you, as an American, in a lesser position than non-US Citizens, then the evidence is Clear.


Nothing like a thrice-married misogynist, who brags about the size of his genitals, the number of women he's bedded, and fantasizes about dating his hot daughter, to promote a "sound, pro-family policy, and elevate community dialogue on life, marriage, religious liberty and parental rights."


Yup he is no man, he is a pedophile predator


Name one company that has done so or is about to move to the US. Moving a head office by itself does nothing for corporate taxes payable in Canada, it would take some jobs and demand for office space but in the case of oil and gas the asset will still be in Canada. Films are made whwere they get the best govt assistance and I can just imagine the laughter if the Bank of Nova Scotia moved its "head office" to the US.


I don't think you are right... the problem is one of intent as the 'legalities' given Zuma v Mandela ethos, nor of the ANC telling their MP's what to do was not thought through.
You may be right though that an NEC throwing Zuma out whould defer their decisions to another day irrespective that it remains relevant..


Still holding a grudge against Nader over a false misconception, eh?


I paid my meagre mortgage off.  I drive a 1999 car which is paid for.  I just returned from a one month visit to China which I saved for before I went.  And I retired at 56.
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Life is good if you exercise a little discipline.


:) the yanks are going to get stuck with a lot of useless concrete.


Loretta Sheehan has every right to question and challenge she is trying to do a job. The Chief so concern with her being involved.“I don’t, frankly, think he has a leg to stand on,” Sheehan said., why so scared chief..  Aloha


You forgot the 20 trillion in your speech.  The Iran deal is another disaster you missed also, Oh don't forget about the great job he has done with the race relations. Man what would we have done with out BLM!


They will if they follow  precedent.


In BC when a Premier is found to have breached conflict of interest rules he/she is expected to resign as occurred with Socred Premier Bill Vander Zalm and BC NDP Premier Glen Clark.

For the feds... OOPSY and you have been a bad PM seems to be the penalty.


FYI is net worth is $4.5 Billion.


Go Bears!


Until I started reading articles and comments in the Dispatch, I never imagined that any Alaskan would have a problem with folks who subsidize their life with food hunted, fished or gathered in the wild.
Those objecting are Alaskans who are live surrounded by 24 hour grocery stores and restaurants, with easy access by car or bus and a budget to buy what they need.
They also live in urban and "semi-urban" areas of Alaska with greater economic advantages than rural or bush areas, which affects how they "judge" other Alaskans who do depend on year 'round subsistence to provide for and to meet the needs of their families.
Their attitudes seem shaped, in part, by a lack of knowledge of the Alaska outside of the cities and the "Valley" live hundreds of thousands of Alaskans whose lives are vastly different.
Alaska it's self is diverse in it's terrain, climate, access, wildlife, lifestyles, economies, temperatures, languages, in manners of dress, modes of transportation, even time zones.


No sane person would want to be president.


CSU is where UH should hope to be:  fairly new coach, new campus stadium, good fan base....they know they're not giant killers.  Just play within your conference with the talent you have, execute, play hard every down....


You obviously have a dog in this fight and it is Hillary and even though Trump crossed a line and was a complete idiot, especially at the end of  his speech. In your first sentence you start making your case with your opinion, but I beg to differ (I want to be fair so I will fight opinion with opinion), what he said was not even close to being as viscous, condescending and judgemental as  what the Podesta emails revealed. Then you go on to state Clinton is wrong on abortion but....... There is no but, her stance and that of the DNC are wrong and it really is that simple. You are the worst case scenario of what you accuse others of being, and you use gov't and supreme court decisions as a crutch to justify moral decisions instead of using your free will, your brain and your faith.

Do changes need to be made in the Catholic Church? Many say they do and I can be counted as one of those but those changes should come from within the church and not forced on us from outside,

Rick W


The rest of the country will probably be happy to accomplish that for you.

With 1/8 of the population but 1/3 of the welfare recipients, and a broken budget, it should be interesting to watch Governor Moonbeam attempt to provide for "national" defense.


I agree in general that govt sits on way too much land that amounts to dead capital, but the problem is how to realize value from it, or at least break even on it, rather than generate new long-term liabilities from it. A stretch of unused land can either sit on the books generating no return, or it can be serviced for a new township, none of whose residents can be expected to pay rates or utilities bills for perhaps decades.

It may be though that these liabilities exist whether or not the govt does anything - that's where it starts getting interesting. Govt should perhaps bite the bullet and stop fighting a rear-guard action against the inevitable.


How ironic to died in far off Alaska climbing a mountain overshadow by a taller one in his homeland.


Just ridiculous.


And this festering zombified corpse stirs again.

What is it going to take to put this infested creature down for GOOD?!

NO Pebble, EVER.

Ted Stevens, Republican for Life, nearly Senator for Life - if not for the illegal and unethical actions of Prosecutors who withheld evidence and knowingly presented false evidence at his trial - was Pro-Alaska development, including the Mining Industry. And even HE said,

"Wrong Mine, Wrong place."

Be done with this foul beast. Pebble needs to DIE the final, inglorious death it so richly deserves. How does one start a petition for Redress of the Citizens of Alaska against the representatives in Juneau who are gearing up to poison the entire western salmon spawning grounds?


We will always need people at the bottom rungs. We can't all be doctors and lawyers and such.


Calm down. I'm not going to tell you again.


You reminded me of the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector - at least the taxidermist saves the hide.

The problem in the HK scenario is the more the centralized, top down Chinese communist government interferes with the HK political and economic systems starting with the leadership and market forces, the fewer golden eggs this goose will lay and so the more interference the central government will then impose until HK loses its impressive advantages and economic performance.

This is part of the inherent contradiction between having centralized, closed, top down political control of a jurisdiction while at the same time trying to encourage an open, innovative, productive, market driven economy.

This contradiction is starting to cause cracks in the great economic wall of China and the economy is slowing down and becoming less competitive with other major economies.  Thus it is that India is now passing China as the global superpower of the future.


I hope everyone will read about the people who were massacred in Quebec City by a right wing extremist. Two owned grocery businesses. Three were civil servants for the Quebec government. One was a professor at Laval University. They were all Muslims, and all immigrants. They are the people that haters tell you won't integrate into Canadian society; that tell you how Muslims don't belong here because they're different. Yet what I see is people who came to Canada, went to work, and integrated successfully into Canadian society. What a loss for our country! They above all knew how blessed it is to live in a land of tolerance, prosperity and freedom. Then it was all snuffed out. Does anyone doubt that a home-grown cloud of intolerance and hatred directed at Muslims, in our country and others, played a role in this tragedy? Yet as Muslim immigrants, these people did everything right by Canada. It was our country and its people that failed them.


Yep, that is the last nail in Energy East, to bad really. I have not been a Keystone XL supporter as I see Energy East as the critical national pipeline needed to bring Canada Oil to the east. We in the east, Saint John import 600,000 barrels of oil a day from the Arab states and after working there for 6 years I have seen the damage to our environment, to our security and the damage to the people of the region because of the money we send  the arab states for their oil. Only a nut bar would think this is good. Our political class are of course looking for the easy way forward so they all see their future in supporting XL, of course the payoff will be in. . Needless to say my TCP is up good today, CNQ and US oil, not to mention my US banks.


Their sentiment might be clearer if they renamed it BERK, a relevant British epithet: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/berk


Candidate Trump promised to ban all Muslims from entering the US, which is clearly unconstitutional.  His second immigration executive order doesn't go as fast as the first one, but it still intends to get to the same unconstitutional destination.  AG Chin is protecting the constitution from being eroded by the Trump administration.


The one occasion on which the Crown  is most justified in disregarding a first minister's  advice is when that first minister is conflicted between her own political interests and the interests  of the political unit she is in charge of. Yesterday was just such an occasion.


Deplorables popping up all over the place lately.


I have great respect for the Office, however based on his actions over the years which speak louder than words, I have little respect for the man.  That said, I will prepare for the worst and hope for the best.


What exactly makes that statement liberal?


Actually, your usage of inflammable is correct. Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. If you want to say something won't burn then the word to use is noninflammable.


Wake up sheep.  We are entering the perfect storm.  Allow me to elaborate, interest rates are zero, inflation rate is 2, so interest rates are going to have to go to 6% prime to accommodate a 4% return on top of a 2% inflation rate. There is a new car in everybody's driveway so that is going to take 5 years before anybody needs a new one, The stock market dividend yield is roughly  2 to 3% which is based on unsustainable interest rates of 0 to 1%. The housing market as we all know is trading at 13 to 15 times earnings, wherein the historical norm is 3 to 4 times , our combined debt to household income is a dollar 1.69, per dollar earned and we are all convinced that the rainbows and unicorn stories that the government, media and all of our sheep friends are feeding us reinforcing the illusions of greater prosperity to come. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out the only way to unwind this mess is a bone crushing depression, however, the good news sell everything .


rotten tomatoes more fiting than eggs.


Dear Ms. Yellen-Please keep your two eyes on Trump. In Canada we have adopted the "very successful" philosophy things of budgets and economy will look after themselves. We the electors should however have kept our two eyes on Trudeau and before the election.


He has some deficiencies as PM, experience being one of them; however, calling him an embarrassment in a public forum is quite a stretch for a civil debate. I wonder how your life would stack up if it was subject to the same scrutiny.


Cameron's iconic cinema heroes, Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley, were presented without objectification.  Ripley was clearly the equal of all of the men in Ridley Scott's "Alien," but Scott couldn't resist showing Ripley nearly naked taking on the xenomorph.  I think Cameron was speaking to Hollywood's propensity to sauce up female heroes, rather than specifically criticize Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot; perhaps I'm being generous.  Rey and Jyn Erso, the heroes of the most recent Star Wars films were also allowed to kick ass without objectification.  It's high time for a female Doctor Who, and Jodie Whittaker is a brilliant, non-objectified choice.  This genre has fans beyond the vocal minority of Big Gulp-swilling fan boys living in their moms' basements.


That's absolutely true. A couple of years ago, Enstar was talking about importing gas while this state is over a darn ocean of the stuff.


Psychopathic narcissism has its inevitable consequences - for its victims.


Cutting Edge, If rap music desensitized those kids, then what do you say about Madam Butterfly?  It's about a military man sexually exploiting a minor who committed suicide. The musical, Oliver, has a song......."Go out and pick a pocket or two."  The guy who sang it was an "Elder" pickpocket.   After the heroine was brutally battered, extorted and forced to commit other crimes by her live-in boyfriend, she sang,  "As long as he needs me."  The song made famous by Marty Robbins,  El Paso is about shooting a guy over a girl and then getting shot himself.


So KL realized what everyone knows, no other team in the league will pay him as much as the Raps. I'm a Raptors fan and no matter what will cheer the team. But KL does not have my vote for next All Stars Game.


What if adults could just buy the drugs they need from licensed dispensaries?
If they need them for pain, fine.
If they want to get high, fine.
They're adults, after all.
Governments worldwide have proven themselves utterly incompetent in addressing the negative health outcomes associated with prohibition.
How could the health outcomes of legalization possibly be any worse than the 2500+ deaths from street opiate/opioid overdoses in 2016? (And nevermind the awful state of many addicts who nonetheless didn't die...)
We now have decades of proof: prohibition is a failed model.
It creates and encourages violent black markets, costs us untold millions in law enforcement and first response expenses, and .. oh yeah .. hasn't done _a thing_ to reduce the rate of drug use or accessibility in North America or anywhere else not run by a homicidal dictator named Duterte.
We've had decades of this garbage. DECADES.
Time to change course entirely.


How DARE the Eugene City Counsel even CONSIDER renaming Broadway Plaza to Kesey Square.    How DARE anyone consider Kesey a ROLL MODEL or MENTOR, why?????   Ken Kesey was a DRUG ADDICT.   For the folks who can not or do not want to remember, take  a couple of minutes and Google his history.   A month ago there was a documentary on TV that  showed Ken as getting into drugs initially to make money while in college.    He would volunteer for drug studies and get paid while going to college.  One of those was LSD research, and ACID.    They would even let him take the drugs home to use if they wanted. He thought drugs were a key to mind expansion or creativity. DUH.   Of course, he stated he liked the benefits of a good trip.  DRUG ADDICT,  plain and simple.

Being labeled a ROLL MODEL or MENTOR is a very PRESTIGIOUS Award.  How does a DRUG ADDICT figure into this equation??????


Alberta will have a total debt of $45B...Compared this to Ontario's debt of $320B ... Alberta is in much better shape fiscally ..


So let me see if I have this correct, this younger more agile kid was on the run to escape being caught and the senior citizen somehow caught up with him? None of us truly know the facts , but it's hard to imagine the kid wanted to stop and get into any physical confrontation and rather simply wanted to get the hell out of there if the cops where chasing him! Also not sure where imminent  danger comes in if someone was simply running through someone's property? It's extremely difficult not to believe if this school board member was truly assaulted the  first time on his own property that he would not have pulled out his revolver right then or on his pursuit of this kid and not been put himself in a situation of being assaulted a 2nd time. Hmm, story to me doesn't add up? According to the shooter, he stated he couldn't see well without his glasses, maybe he aimed for the heart,but got his leg instead? Doesn't say if he was shot in the front of the leg or back of the leg, big difference!


Again, the capitals of N. and S. Korea are 121 miles apart.  This is where S. Korea stood as of 1 month ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/world/asia/north-korea-south-military-talks.html


Agreed that ANY radioactive waste pouring into the ocean.  BUT, I thought the Murre die-off was solidly linked to malnutrition which is currently thought to have been caused by abnormally warm waters pushing the Murre food deeper and further offshore than normal.  Given the El Nino/Blob we just had this makes sense.
It is not hard to measure radioactivity and there is no conspiracy of scientists trying to hide unusual levels of radioactivity in the oceans (why on earth would they?).  So while I agree radioactive pollution is an issue, I don't believe it has any relevance to the Murre die-off.


Yes, but not in this case.
Khadr deserves compensation.


The most amazing thing about this subject is that there are people that actually believe they have the power to affect hurricanes, if only we give them enough money.

What a farce.


Muslims would absolutely never allow their children to be taught comparative religion That could lead to questions and that could lead to e apostasy which is punishable  by death.


I agree with Taxpayer - so far all Trump has managed to do is wreck everything around him like an impetuous child. Rather ironic for a guy who considers himself a "builder".

The man/child desperately needs a time out.


It does really look like they want to build a bike path to king estates.


I have heard from some that Catholic Biblical scholarship is among the most advanced today, but it doesn't filter down to the laity.
      This means that some will leave the Church and become anti-Catholic Fundamentalists when they feel they have been deceived and they were deliberately kept in ignorance by the clergy.
      There are such riches in Scripture when read with the help of the Holy Spirit and an understanding of how the authors of Revelation thought and the culture of their time. For the Biblical literalist God was giving dictation. For the wise, the authors  were inspired but still human.
      What is important is that the Prophets wrote with the same Spirit that inspires Pope Francis and anyone of good will. Jesus fulfills the Prophets and shows us the Father, who is "full of gentleness and compassion" (from the now "old" liturgy of Vatican II).
      If the Christians of our time fail to give witness to the truth then who will?


Exactly on point. For all we know the worst of the worst is coming here. Those cities should be completely cut off from any funding until the issue is resolved. If they disobey take it to the provinces and cut off funding. They can deal with it amicably through government or through protests of citizens who oppose which I would assume would be a sizeable amount of citizens.


So is that what they call Indigenous protests - a ceremony?


Trudeau said something stupid, that's unsual.


Good on you, Casey and team.  I think it's safe to say that you made all of us local golf fans very proud


several family members work there.......they say it is the easiest best paid gig they ever could possibly get.....and the kids...oh well too bad a lesson in Union bullying 101.


This perp is obviously agitated about the altercation at yesterday's HateFest parade in Anchorage.


Haven't we had Republican Governors and Republican majorities long enough to control reveues and spending??  Have they been THAT inept and powerless? If so, why keep them??


The BC carbon tax will soar beyond Climate Barbie's wildest dreams!


Two wrongs does not make a right.


Quite able, thank you.  It is not all that difficult.

I can also recognize insult, put down, snark, and your intent.  It is ridiculously easy.  😁


Seeding by extraterrestrials is about the only scenario justifying describing humans as 'invasive species'.

I'm not minimizing hideous atrocities we humans perpetrate against our own kind when forcibly annexing territory and displacing its rightful occupants.  The Zionists' crimes against the original Arab and Berber inhabitants of Palestine, and feral Englishmen's crimes against this continent's, Australia's and damned near everywhere else's indigenous peoples are indefensible.  And in terms of survival such crimes against humanity aren't sustainable.

Military 'superiority' and the economic largess derived therefrom doesn't automatically translate into cultural, ethical, moral or spiritual superiority.  It just means being superior at killing.  And that is ALWAYS a temporary situation.

I will acknowledge it's possible ancient UFOs flushing their toilets in flight as modern commercial airliners do may account for some of the selfish, screaming idiots with whom we share this planet.


It would help the Delta/Beltline traffic if  Delta northbound traffic would use the left lane to allow vehicles merging from Beltline to - merge.
Those of us who are able to put those roads on our avoid lists will, I hope, do so.
To the current residents in the area: Good luck.


Well, in about a year or so it may turn out to have been 'prophecy' rather than satire.  Are you a betting person?


Need to mention that the advent of 24-hour news cable channels and the Internet is behind most of these changes. That's why the "sensationalism of the daily story" and why much of what you read today is rehash with a new lede.


Good God Motley, you should know the story, the minimum sentence for arson is 5 years in this case, where repeated arson of federal property was proved, along with other charges such as reckless endangerment, hunting out of season, hunting without a license, taking game far beyond the limit, and threatening a witness. Those people were complete jerks, out of control criminals. You couldn't legally do what they did even if you owned the land, which the Hammonds did not. They deserved the five years, and they should no longer be allowed to lease federal land when they get out.


Paul:  So long as insurance companies, dedicated to profits, not providing health care for ailing Americans, are the central player in the health care system, we will continue to have the most expensive and least effective health care system in the industrialized world.  After all, MAXIMUM profits are achieved by providing MINIMUM care.  I would rather someone make money by PROVIDING health care services, not by DENYING those health care services.

Let's be honest here, Paul, you know how the system works.  How on earth can you defend such an immoral system?  I'd be interested in your answer.  Gary Crum


"minority laden"
Racist and hateful much, gofastgo?


Judges are NOT free to express personal political opinions in court! They are expected to show impartiality or the system doesn't work.


Really? Yet OSPE's March 2017 presentation comes to dramatically different conclusions based on a number of changed or updated assumptions. You should read it.

https://www.ospe.on.ca/public/documents/presentations/Ontario_Energy_Dilemma_Mar_2017.pdf


No Clinton will NEVER ever go to jail. They were granted a demonic diplomatic immunity by the devil on Jesus's birthday many years ago. This will sound ludicrous to anyone who is not worthy of the truth thru following my links and info. Did you wipe that server Hillary? What, you mean with cloth as she laughs at us. Trust me, you cant touch a Clinton. This is all true: I was a eyewitness to this and I know you will have hard time in believing me. I live in Northglenn close where the FBI came and took the Devils Bridle that killed that kid and I saw it.
 http://www.writeintoaction.com/Cathy%20O'Brien%20JonBenet.html


Please understand this country has succeeded because of its constitutional government based on freedom of and from religion.  "In God We Trust" was from the 1950's and not the 1790's. Please share who is next on your list after you force Muslim children onto trains to somewhere. Who is next on your list, mein freund?


14 months for not paying taxes for three years. He should have ran over/killed someone while intoxicated and then fled from the scene, he would have only gotten less time.


Trump was elected by "You, the Minority" and hasn't delivered on a single, wretched promise he made to you.
But it's all fine, just fine.


Thanks Lawrence for being another tool to ensure Trump's dominance.  Maybe you should lead the widespread indifference with more letters to editors all over the country.


Who said this was all?  I suggest that you not stand downstream of this dam. When it goes it's going to take out everything in its path.


It would be sweet for Trudeau to escape investigation, you say?

Why? Is he above the law?


No need to be sorry about it.  Did you bother to vote?


The fact is that it is mainly the Indians killing Indians the facts speak for themselves these drama queens are unbelievable......


Sure, the rule of force is a law of nature, but not the only one. Finding and preserving an ecological niche in which to flourish is more the rule than force. Also, other species don't colonize an area, cut down all the trees, slaughter the indigenous animalia into extinction, pollute streams and lakes and the air itself, overpopulate it to the point of exhausting available resources, and then justify the omnicide in the name of "progress".

Civilized humans have always figured human "difference" from the rest of nature in terms of self-knowledge, however. And this difference has been trumpeted by civilized humans as a basis for religion, science, commerce, technology economics . . .    What you're saying is that Europeans can be forgiven for the genocide of the First Nations because they were only acting naturally.

That's a radical idea--perhaps the most radical idea imaginable--albeit perhaps a bit too convenient given the history since Columbus.


" the role of Zionists in the Bolshevik/Communist revolutions"
Veritas, to be clear, Zionists did not play a major role in the Russian  Bolshevik revolution-- they were opposing ideologies, which is what Churchill meant by the struggle for Jewish hearts.  Jewish activists had to choose between the Zionist dream of a happy Jewish homeland in Palestine or the  Marxist vision of heaven on Earth following a Communist/Socialist/Anarchist  revolution in Russia.
Indeed, many Russian  Jews, particular those of a more secular background, chose Bolshevism.  Many others, however, were leaders in more moderate, democratic socialist organizations in Russia, as the Mensheviks. It's ironic that while many of the leading Bolsheviks were Jewish, Stalinist Russia became cruelly anti-Semitic.
Additionally, many of the early Zionist settlers in Palestine were also socialist, resulting in the famous kibbutz communities.


More rank ignorance. People take drugs for a huge variety of reasons, and anyway, who are you to say they shouldn't? Most of the harms you're so concerned about not "enabling" are related to the illegal status of the drugs: overdose on unpredictable product, property crime, health issues, needle sharing... all of these have everything to do with the criminalization of drug use.

Oh, but it's so simple, is it? People should just choose not to use drugs? Well, maybe to start, sure--but are you really going to tell the street-living guy with health issues, no money, and little social support that you expect him to have the strength to wean himself off a masive addiction before you'll give him any help?

Please. If you think that's a realistic approach, you are completely blind to human nature and human suffering. Strength has nothing to do with it. Or, everything, when you consider the strength it takes to continue living like this, day in and day out. Try a little empathy next time.


Ah the Matador!  I used to love that place.  Open till 6:30 a.m. every morning, rock n' roll bands playing, the biker dudes way off  in the corner selling mickeys of hard liquor (surreptitiously since there was no liquor licence here) while the single mothers (or so the urban myth informed me) who ran the place sold soft drinks as you walked in.

What I think I liked best about this place was that at the time I went there it was such a cross-generational hang-out - the very young (let's say 18) to the much older boomer crowd (50s and 60s) all mingled there, dancing and talking and yes, smoking (this was pre-smoking ban in Toronto).  It was just the place to go when everything closed and you weren't yet ready to go home.

If you stuck it out, the place closed at 6:30 a.m. to Leonard Cohen's 'Closing Time'.

It was a unique spot in Toronto, and I really can't imagine how that vibe can ever be recreated.  At best it will likely be a self-conscious effort that goes nowhere.


gat and bangout. now there's a couple of real americans for ya.


Is this a serious comment?


I have no argument with that. It in no way changes my point.


Certainly action is needed in cases of wasteful and corrupt expenditure, but the general designation "unauthorised expenditure", while simplifying things for journalists seeking a headline, is woefully inadequate.
To make up a simplified example,  a municipal roads department has two budget items: one for repairing potholes, and a second for painting white lines down the middle of the road. Part way through the year, the pothole budget is exhausted, while the line-painting budget still has more than adequate funds.  Anyone diverting funds from one item to the other is committing an event of misgovernment, unless the action is sanctioned by innumerable officials, and blame is attributed for "unauthorised expenditure".
It would seem that more clarity and detail in reporting is needed.


As we are moving forward with this President we that tend toward wanting our bigger slice of the pie by way of the Democratic party will have to hang on and hold our ground as best we can. I read a quote the other day about when they(the Republicans) go low we go high. Well that is wonderful in a nice tame game of badminton. I look at the Dems tactics as mostly what weenies do.  When they were dazzling themselves with their intelligence and lobbing nice and high the Republicans came in low and stole the gold. This time will be different though. They aren't going to give it up. I mean really they aren't. Think about that.


Did you poll all the Palestinian people to learn what they will or won't accept? They told me that they all want to live in peace and harmony. So cut the BS.


Any word from tRump about white extremist terrorists in this country? No. Because they are inspired by him.


The Trudeau majority government was elected with only 39% of the voters casting a ballot.

The Trump government was elected with 48% of the voters casting a ballot.

On the basis of the figures (hard facts), the Trump government is more representative of the will of the electorate.


Do you want fair??
The public sector and unions have pensions.

The small business corporation saves a lot of the excess funds in GICs and HISA

So lets look at the 2% GIC
The government taxes me just over 1%
Inflation takes 2%
My corporation gets -1%

How are the union people doing with their taxpayer backed indexed pensions??


Justin is sweating over this,or at least the person who gets paid to sweat for him is sweating.The left is a sell out to the loyal citizens,and so are those who support it.


Dan:

I agree---many people have not studied / researched investment returns and this all too often causes them to miss out and not understand what is available on a risk-reward basis. They often use standard data that is widely available and sometimes a little digging will uncover the realities that provide one with an advantage.

You are correct that 1998 and 2002 were not stellar years for this dividend-growth portfolio. However I would not characterize these years as being "particularly tough" or that these stocks were "hit hard".   The TSX was down in both of those years. Here are dividend-growth portfolio returns for those two years:

1998: +7.2%

2002: +7.5%

The four stocks I listed were for illustrative purposes of the types of companies I own but I do not own all of the ones mentioned.

SFI


What a paradise.   Surprised you're not living there...how come?


Just the ADN trying to perpetuate the AGW propaganda.  Reversion to the mean is likely.  It's going to be cold for the next 4 years.


just because you have a " gun free zone" doesn't mean its gun free. in other words if guns are banned from UAA it doesn't mean people won't  bring  guns.


Are you serious?


Great article, thank you Ms Farha.  Could not have said it better.
Society includes all : the weak and the strong.  It's not about survival of the fittest.
Sad state of affair when government only cares about itself (parks & ttc project)  while housing is sold to the highest international bidders/rich immigrant investors, tax money paid to Hydro ceo, Bombardier ceos.
Canada is a sad place