You mean the woman instrumental in demolishing a decade of detente and rapprochement, for seemingly no other reason than getting a good job for Hunter Biden and poking Putin in the eye for helping Obama out of Syria?  Trump fired her.


What's in the briefcase?


SteelTown2017:  The difference being of course that when Trudeau is finished his um's, he either reads well, from well-written pre-prepared notes, or improvises coherently. Trump blusters like one of those inebriated, boastful, business louts you see sometimes who have lingered on past happy hour, offering unrelated blurts, WWF-style facial expressions, and non-sequiturs that accumulate, until a pattern family does emerge: each comment is designed to prove how amazing he is.  The styles could not be further from "being on par."


First, I don't appreciate the name-calling.  Had you read my notes they and most others have nothing to do with who won.  Winning is about  the electoral college and I accept that.  But it is not up to us to prove your far fetched theories wrong.  It is up to you to prove them right.  We have 50 states' certifications of vote counts on our side.  What do you have?
My concern was never about who won, which you would understand if you read my comments.  It's about the use of wildly inaccurate illegal voting accusations as a pretext for restricting voting rights by eligible citizens in the future.


In the summer, when illegal camping is at its worst and there are an excess of "travelers" in our town, The Mission typically has beds available and does not operate at capacity.


forcing all car buyers to pay for manufacturer installed backseat alarms is overkill and would take a few years to implement.
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right now, parents can purchase proximity alarms. the transmitter can be attached to a baby's clothing and the parent can carry the receiver or sync to a smart phone. if the predetermined distance is exceeded between the two units the parent's alarm sounds. works for kids in the car, in a store or out in a park.
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much more economical for parents to purchase proximity alarms than to force the installation costs onto all car buyers.


Have we as Canadians yet accepted the reality that the Crimeans wanted to join the Russian Fed?

1. Autonomous Republic of Crimea - Join Russian Federation - 96.77% - Voter turnout: 83.1%
2. Sevastopol - Join Russian Federation - 95.60% - Voter turnout: 89.5%

Just asking.


"Speaking objectively, all those who have sexual relations outside of valid marriage, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, should not receive Holy Communion unless they repent, go to confession and amend their lives.  This includes the divorced and remarried without an annulment, as is well known from all the recent media attention on that issue.” (Bishop Paprocki)

Why not read the article?


it was her normal janus (two faced) session in her hotel room. i heard they had to grab her and get a shot to calm her down to call trump! lol


there are many public officials that abhor walking in a Pride parade but because the fear of being called a homophobic or even losing their job they hold their noses and smile.


Send some Punahou kids to patrol the area. They LOVE outdoor activities...


Is anyone surprised?
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Have we all not learned by now:
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--If its a Liberal interest and if its championed by Trudeau- it's ill advised , inappropriate and bad for Canada and Canadians--
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 "In the past election campaign, the Liberals made many irredeemable promises to Indigenous voters, such as adopting the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights. Now, instead of impossible legal changes, they are offering words – and words matter in the long run. As the great philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote,
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“Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.”
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The modern take home circa 2017?
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The Liberals have no wise men to offer anyone value  - and all who have placed their trust in them have had their money squandered and been made to look like fools-
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The wise men it seems left Ottawa with Mr Harper


Your 'plain fact' misses the point.
Christie Clarke will be Premier until the next election, and the NDP is still in the political hinterland.


WATCH: Seth Meyers Explains How The Mercers Really Control Trump
Remember when Trump kept telling us he would "drain the swamp" because he was so rich, he wasn't beholden to donors? Ha ha, good times!
Seth Meyers did a little primer last night about the money connections between Steve Bannon, hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and his daughter Rebecca.
react-text: 568 He described how Bannon used wealthy donors like Robert and Rebekah Mercer (who fund /react-text Breitbart.com react-text: 570 ) to support extremist congressional and Senate candidates across the country. /react-text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQBPNs584LY


Mr. Cunningham, I'm glad the state is finally dealing with one of the drugs that Alaskans abuse to the point of addiction. However, stating that opioids have the same pain killing effectiveness as acetaminophen and ibruprofen is ludicrous.  While I agree that both generics are powerful drugs there is no comparison with opiates if any strength. If you truly believe they're comparable, then opiates should be available over the counter, as Tylenol and Advil are.


So for Judaism we want tolerance but for Islam we want to exclude them all!

Me thinks the fox is in the hen house.


yes it is; if you claim special services, you need to back it up. i am like so tired of these morons taking their dogs in to the grocery store, buying fake vests/certificates. that should be a crime.


Could it be...

...."The Liberals have decided they have taken enough heat from the progressive left for backing Trans Mountain and they have no intention of risking seats in a province where a majority oppose Energy East, and where the next election will be won or lost — namely Quebec."

Ah, the old double standard, alive and well in Canada.


I believe what you are referring to is a period of inquiry by the older observant Carmelite order involving Teresa, her friends, and reforms. A body of resolutions was adopted at the general chapter at Piacenza forbidding all further founding of convents and retirement to one of her institutions. She obeyed and retired to St. Joseph's at Toledo.

The general chapter at Piacenza was not one of the inquisitions.

Nor was it particularly surprising to leave alive - death penalties were rare even among the harshest of the inquisitions.

One of the biggest differences between her and some of the better-liked "heroes" by some on this blog is that she was obedient and quiet.


Toast Millions of people flee and not all from war zones but all not willing to fight for their rights. There was sufficiant support by western countries if these people had stood up united instead of forming untold groups each wanting to take their turn at the trough.


All Americans including the FBI demanded to see Hillary's 33.000 emails as required by Law, and private citizens tax returns are private, and remember, the President trump is a private citizen at Law.


From my experience of 3 Chrysler products I would never touch one again, my Toyota lives up to their reputation of quality. The Dodge van was a disaster, shuddering transmission, engine knock unless you put premium gas in it, Chrysler dealer would alternate between "they can't hear the knocking" and "that's normal knocking" air conditioner that whistled and blew out mist. SE trim badge were not attached to vehicle on delivery. Spark plug failure going up Hamilton mountain leaving the vehicle crawling at 20 kph.


Will they now prosecute this rotten cop for his false report? Will EPD now fire the cops who witnessed the beating and did not step in to protect the citizen who was being beaten? Will they be prosecuted?

We all know the answers to these questions. The corruption at EPD will continue. Let's not forget that Chief Kerns was one of the people who attempted, unsuccessfully, to cover up the rapes committed by two of his cops just prior to becoming chief.


Don't ask such difficult questions.  We have a totalitarian science minister who will not tolerate dissent.  How liberal of her.


Bob,
This is absolutely about the wolf- and the bear, and the wolverine. It is not only tourists or businesses that want these animals to thrive in Denali, other Alaskans beleive this is important, as well. It's great that you live in the borough, I'm surprised someone who lives so close to a National treasure like Denali NP does not take more pride in it.
I am an Alaskan, and a conservationist, and a hunter. The wolves in Denali National Park have been reduced by hunting and trapping- not by development. They didn't relocate, arial surveys confirm the reduction in the number of wolves. Like hunting, wolves and bears are part of the heritage of Alaska. We need to ensure that wolves remain visible and viable, this is especially important within Denali National Park. What is Alaska without these predators? It is no longer wild, it is a farm for ungulates.


The numbers prove just one thing.
It is impossible to drive responsibly and safely while high, on anything that is!

But who knew ..... jk !


I think so, but I don't really know and I don't know how to find out. In fact, I don't want to find out.  I suppose I could have said "have our female and male leaders stopping beating their husbands/wives yet" in order to be inclusive.  And I do believe in being inclusive.  I am glad my German ancestors were welcomed in this land many generations ago, so many generations ago that we had lost our Germanic accent by the time I was born.  So we survived World War II without incident.  And we should welcome those whose presence motivated the 3 Homer City Council members to make a political statement, appropriate or not.  We human beings seem prone to use whatever political platform is available.  But labels don't always work.  Years ago I knew a woman who loved to take conservative stands on this or that issue, but I learned that when we put good Japanese persons (who happened to be citizens) in concentration camps, this woman was on the front lines of providing help for them.


Witness the Vancouver School Board.  A refuge for NDP hacks, it was fired after the BC government investigation into harassment complaints from staff.  It sounds as dysfunctional as those mentioned in the article, perhaps more so.


What about the kids that are poor and don't have rich parents to support them financially all through school? You're just leaving that entire group out and acting as if it doesn't exist. When the reality is, that is like 45% of kids in N.B


Seems moderately interesting but affordable only every Wednesday! R180 per person entry fee other days is European charges... and maybe that is their defined visitor! I will go next cold winter Wednesday!

That it cost R500 million is worrying.... even if the V&A picked up the cost... we all paid for it one way or other.


No, I missed that one.  That's something else to follow up on.


Sorry TheWorkFarce, I really am... I''m sorry that we have these, for lack of a better term - left leaning Liberal types, who bloviate for ages on how we need to respect other people/cultures/beliefs/religions... trying to get some kind of sentimental credit for looking out for the 'disadvantaged' of the world, and yet they show no quarter when it comes to someone who wants to voice incisive criticism of that 'left/Liberal' agenda and world view. They want to let dogs bark all night in the backyards, but lest some human should stick a neck out a window to say anything about it, they've got their hatchets ready to chop that off... it's hypocrisy to the ninth.


"Islamophobia is anti-Moslem bigotry, and anti-Moslem bigotry is Islamophobia."

Then why are the Liberals refusing to clarify this in the motion?


You are in the minority politically.   I am really appalled at the fascist streak in American politics revealed by the trumpkin coalition.  Do you think it is just a coincidence that the head pumpkin is the candidate of choice for the kkk?  Step out of the fox news echo chamber.   Trump is a national embarrassment and his followers are only highlighting their own ignorance.  Trump is peak GOP, own it.


Oh boy,  let's  hope he gets Rex Butler. He doesn't stand a chance then!
He's a gonner....


You mean professional leftist of course!


Flagging all your posts.

Every one.  The racist ones, the fake accounts, all of them.

You should be banned.


Lead, follow, or get out of the way.  Reichert lead as sheriff and I appreciate that.  As a Representative, he follows - and that means it's time for him to get out of the way.


Before you leave get a copy of  The Citizen's guide to Alaska's Constitution and read it before you return!


"Alec Baldwin for President 2016" , funnier, smarter & he can probably name at least 2 branches of government.  The only thing that makes this election season worth paying attention to is SNL's skits. Alec Baldwin should win an emmy for his portrayal of the Donald, its spot on.


Indeed. On July 4th, not during the OCF, and at a nearby campground. In addition, this was reported by the LCSO but they can't confirm an "overdose" occurred.


What is most puzzling: how does Trump know that all the dead voters went against him? :)


Great post.   Its quite puzzling how certain mundane things are studied and debated for eons but things as large as this proposal seem to slip through into the fast lane.


Our faith teaches us that humankind is in God-likeness, female/ male. (?)
So, are we not, in fidelity to consciousness and conscience, obliged to enlarge human consciousness and grow in understanding our "godself"?


We could be on to something here. Why not use one of the roof tops as an area for all the street drunks to hang out ?  One roof would be enough for all of them.  Have an open bar so they can stay there all day long  , until the evenings hotel stay at Brother Francis.  This would clean up our streets and make life enjoyable for those choosing the street lifestyle. Those who currently enable the homeless with their donations could cover the bar tab.  The only possible downside is that a few people might get thrown off the roof during disagreements. This is a win , win situation.   Just imagine what Anchorage could accomplished had we elected Halcro mayor.


Seneca owns the property so they can do as they please with it, also, where was your "tree preservation plan" when they were cutting down all the trees on 7th to make way for the emx?


It's camp, neither is lighting the world on fire. I'm ignoring the rest of the chatter til' the preseason games. I do like how they have made the QB's test themselves in practice with throws, also like how NFZ is giving them no breaks. Those small windows against the NFZ will be much larger against other teams.

I like the QB battle and all, but I would like to hear more about the O Line.


Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, will Justin be making friends with the PRNK next?

Liberals believe the military industrial complex is more important then human rights and democracy.

Sickening.


Overseas Chinese will very likely be the ones who help overthrow the unelected power crazed Communist Party of China. Most of those who left China did so to get away from the system. 23 million of the 50 million overseas Chinese are in Taiwan and are  mainly Nationalists anti-communists. The people of Hong Kong in their millions detest the PRC commies.


Apparently you never listened to Obama's speeches.


Syllogistic encounters and discourse are fine contests but the living, breathing, messy social and political worlds we live in have never reflected such intellectual problem-solving! In the US alone we can go back to the revolution, the Civil War, our participation in the inane WW One, the flag-fueled. left-right encounters during and since Viet Nam, the Civil Rights era marches murders snd bearings -
It takes activism, toleranance and sacrifice to build a more cohesive world that improves opportunities for all of us, in the now and for those coming along in the future.


Bigly.


Great find.


American emissions have fallen 20% since the 2005. Meanwhile Chinese emissions have DOUBLED in that same time period.

Under international agreement China has not committed to lowering their emissions by even 1%.

Who is being duped here?


The entire CPC could fit under your tinfoil hat.


So Trump should trust the mainstream media to report the truth? Really? Now I'm laughing out loud.

So why is the RG just repeating WPost articles written for a paper (Bezos owned) that has an agenda? Do they not have the ability in a college town with a journalism school to ferret out real reporting?  Instead, the continual Trump bashing by an often paid segment of the population hosted from the East to the West coast wears so thin that it almost smacks of  yellow journalism.

No wonder the drive for alt news sources are skyrocketing. How dumb do they think we are? Here's to the news!


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Frank Bruni writes to say he was surprised Trump appeared as if he never really thought any of this through.
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Hey, Frank Bruni,

…ever read anything about Trump or ever even heard of Trump before he sat down with you?

If you had, you'd know he hasn't really thought anything through.


Thought you were being weirdly creative in your storytelling. You are serious?


I've always maintained that it's not up to the Republican Party to maintain control of our Legislature.  It's up to the non-partisan and independent voters that allegedly out number the registered Republican and Democrat voters.  So whats 's going to be; continue stirring the state off the fiscal cliff under Republican control, or elect a new bipartisan Legislature that won't lock-step vote or throw their own members under the clown bus?


When most of the police shootings occurred, it was a "he said, she said" scenario where it was unclear what happened, there was often no certainty where truth sat in the first hours and days, with multiple contradictory claims being made about events, the truth being elusive.

Sorry, but that REALLY is not the same thing as a racist, out-of-state terrorist ramming his car into a crowd of activists he disagrees with.

Meaning that any reasonable president would have a LOT more of a loud, muscular and judgmental tone immediately after that second scenario, and any reasonable president would be far more measured in the first scenario.


There are several problems with "natural law". There are multiple definitions of the term. One is "the law written in human hearts" (see Aquinas' Summa Theologica, I-II, q 94, art 6.) Another is "what is found in nature". (There is a third, having to do with legal theories.)

In practice, "natural law" can be misused in several ways:

It can mean nothing more than "this is what is written in my heart", which is the same as "in my opinion". Personal opinion is not a good basis for moral or dogmatic teachings.

It can be invoked when the person does not have an actual argument. A good example is in Humanae Vitae 4, which says essentially "we know the natural law, and you will just have to take our word for it". That's not an argument, that's blather.

When it does not actually describe how nature works. Humanae Vitae says that in nature, sexual intercourse is used for procreation. In fact, many of the great apes use it for pair bonding. So the author of HV got it wrong.


Time to leverage C Series engines to drive peakers.


Obviously no "grammar checker" for your headline writer...


why aren't the trumps using internet parental controls


My experience seems to be that Cassy is always over the top (and has a serious case of HDS) whereas Chris sometimes (albeit rarely) will actually criticize the Liberals himself.


Oops. I had alternative information.
I thought that wheat was an annually harvested crop. I thought that trees, which take several minutes to fell, had been growing for decades. So I reckoned that 40 years of growing/a few days of unchecked harvesting = unable to meet demand.


If you're thinking to call The ACLU about this please be patient.  Their phones are extra busy booking flights to Anchorage just now.


Father Reese forgets: Just as Francis was appointed a cardinal by a conservative pope, the next pope may very well be a conservative cardinal appointed by Francis.  Someone from the Third World who will, "with a stroke of his pen," abolish Francis' teachings, as Francis is doing to his two predecessors.

How very soon libs, like Father Reese, forget reality!

That's the way it goes.


I wonder if it had something to do with the drug bust


Wealthy ? I may be able to scrape up enough to swing that, but I am far from wealthy, and some kids deserve a better education, by way of the HARD work of their parents. I am not going to feel guilt for wanting the best for my child, save it for the campaign trail Gary.


Agreed, national search.  Appointing an insider undermines integrity and transparency.


And a concerted effort to eliminate vegetables in our diets.

93% of dead people had eaten vegetables at some time in their life.

Coincidence?

Not likely.


Very surprising that the sentence, "He/she were also charged with possession of methamphetamine," was not in this story. It's in just about every other crime account in the Register-Guard.


I don't know you guys - somehow, I think he's never going to "pivot" into being "presidential", and will always need adult supervision at all times.


They had their chance to give their reasons. They are quoted in the story. Sounds pretty flimsy. Bottom line: the government can do whatever it wants and there's not a thing you can do about it, except take it and hope you aren't physically injured during the interrogation process.


Please elaborate on what there is to reassess .
That is a pretty broad , and therefore meaningless, comment.


Yeah, that's how journalism works. A reporter or columnist who writes from a position of "affection" is doing it wrong.


I am surprised that G&M has not closed comments on this.

Turning it over to the RCMP is no guarantee of prosecution or of a meaningful penalty in BC.

Glen Clark was found "not proved" in casinogate, even though Dimitrios Pilarinos was convicted of providing the benefit that Clark was found "not proved" of accepting. The Conflict of Interest Commissioner concluded that Clark was in a Conflict, and that Clark influenced Farnworth to approve the Casino Licence for the North Burnaby Inn.

Under the SoCreds a rushed prosecution of Doman and the Bennett Bros under feeble BC statutes was often described as a way to prevent them from being prosecuted and convicted in Ontario. BC Prosecutors seemed to have a wilful ignorance of BC Tel recording local call metadata between the Bennetts and their stock brokers.

David Stupich got off lightly for stealing from charities, with a mansion built on a former Provincial Beach Access Park the NDP let him buy.


that's a little harsh.
the molten gold gargle would be more humane.


Amazing you feel trolled... Are you upset when someone actually exposes your shallow thought and tepid conviction? Drain the swamp; includes both parties and snowflake apologists... Great to converse


The people have spoken. More jobs and tax revenue for Alaska!


I noticed it right away and I am not even what one would call financially literate.


He_read_the_pro-life_script._Doubt_he_is_truly_pro-life


So now Republicans don't like business success?


Wow I though Sarah Palin gave a hateful, blood, guts and gore speech but the dim bulb that's Trump was beyond the pale! He is a terrorist maker, the kind on Imam that riles his flock to action. He only has one tone, spitting, and his plan is to take down our president Ms. Clinton. Why? Because there is not plan, no reality, no there there. He is ill prepared to lead a diverse country, he has no real skills, as he demonstrated over the last four days, and he leads from the example of some of the worst tyrants this world has ever seen...a little gas, my God! Did you hear this quote, he throws a little gas and people overreact. Throws a little gas was the largest civilian murder by chemical weapons since like ever. 5000 die in the marshes of Iraq, more children maimed...a little gas. This one statement makes him unqualified for anything, ever, anywhere!


Oh stop. That's just crazy talk. And by the way I didn't vote for Trump either.


No, we want to attract people who follow the law.  You will have a hard time trying to enter Canada as a tourist if you have a criminal record or even a DUI.

And how do you know her entry two decades ago didn't delay entry for any alien gaining citizenship?  Are the millions here in the US illegally not taxing the US support system?  Does that not limit the capacity of how many can hence legally come to US?

So if someone steals from a grocery store, are you going to argue it's not making anyone else hungry too, so it's okay?


Paging "John Barron"... your fake President in disguise.

Like most true neocons, say or stand for one thing and do the other.

I'm sure you did read it though, because those statistics cited can not be refuted. They are scientifically gathered and extrapolated...cause & effect. Like you say, street people and begging for alcohol money go together.

Just in time for the "Silencer Bill"... head back in the sand.


Yes, I misread the price for the tiles as $76,700, my mistake, but according to the article, they "would cost about $34,300 after a federal tax credit", so we don't actually know what they would cost. Even using a revised investment of $24,300, after 30 years, you'd still have $139,566.84 in savings based on 6% annual growth.  If you divide $139,566.84 by 30, it is $4,652 per year. I'd still pick this option over the Tesla tiles. I'd also add that you probably could get a 30 year shingle for approx. $10,000, a 6% annual return isn't that hard to achieve (TFSA's could be available for many to use too), and no, the risk profiles are not completely different. Warranty or not, the Tesla tiles have a risk profile. As a new technology, we don't know if their output will remain constant over time, nor do we truly know how they'll handle the weather. We don't even know how solvent TESLA will be in 30 years so that is a risk to your warranty too.  TESLA is a big risk with unknown returns.


That is an interesting opinion.

Can you explain why my Oncologist told me to get the Inactivated version of the Annual Flu shot, rather than the Live Virus version?

Given my Immune Compromised state neither version may generate an immune response, but I don't see any reason to say no, other than a possible waste of Public Health Care money for the dose.

Immune Compromised people are the most common victims of ant-vaxxers. Healthy people can usually be protected by vaccination.


May Cardinal Caffarra rest in peace. I am sure he was greeted with "Well done, good and faithful servant."

I pray for him...and thank him for all he did and all he tried to do.


Combine City Hall and Courthouse on the vacant lot.


I don't care about all the political stuff-boy do some of these people ever get crabby! - But yes, it's true-about 40 percent of our workforce is people helping and teaching each other.
I do not have a problem with that.
 These people that think they are some kind of heroes because they pay taxes-all those people you listed pay taxes too!


I don't think so, kuroiwaj.  At least, I don't think it HAS to be that way.

And, CONGRESS HAS SO FAR REJECTED THE STATES CONTROL OPTION.

But, I think all Americans should have affordable and accessible healthcare.

So, I think the reactive prominence of single payer healthcare has become a necessary part of the discussion.  Perhaps just to show conservatives how far off the tracks things could get for their dogma unless they wise up.

I personally don't have a particularly large problem with an efficient, well functioning single payer system.  Definitely not philosophically, like most conservatives do (for reasons I either do not understand or abhor).

If your instinct was to frame the "either, or" in order to advance (scare up) opposition to ANY federal involvement in healthcare, then, frankly, I have no respect for that.  But, I assume your point was based on genuine analysis, rather than dogma, therefore, the response preceding.


"What the heck is the savings account for if you can’t use it now?"
Vegas Baby!!!


"2. You allude to something that few on these boards who hope for American decline realize..If the USA, or the "american empire" collapses, they think Canada will be totally unaffected, and just continue to motor on, business as usual..."

No offense intended, but you must be yet another know-it-all by-product of Canada's failing post-secondary educational system because there is nothing to this effect even mentioned in my above post.

Learn to read.


a load of crap. qatar's terrorist role is well established.  another of author's 'benefits' of globalization.  and the pigs at the trough boeing [e.g. X-M bank] are only too happy to partake even deeper.


per Misha, "Homelessness for about 60+% of them is a life choice they have made for themselves."

Another interesting fact  --  another one I would dearly love to know the source of.  How do you know this about the homeless, Misha?


vote for Mad Max. he is the only one with the cajones to tackle that hot potato


What a pleasure to see this team heating up and getting it right again. Fantastic outing for Goins by any measure. Now to prove it wasn't just a flash in the pan. The Yankees look dispirited and disoriented at this point in their re-building process. Waiting patiently for the coming Tor/Bos and Tor/Bal matchups as a litmus test for progress.


Meh, could be worse. I've got teenagers and it's hard to keep them from eating and drinking worse things, like Monsters and Red Bulls. Frito Pies twice a month isn't so bad. If this was the 1950s, they could be selling cigarettes. Even if it wasn't the healthiest, at least teens have metabolism on their side. Fast forward a couple decades, it certainly changes.


I think your internal computational unit ( aka your brain) has some processing issues.


But you need to look at incentives.  Misguided government policies created this housing problem.  By allowing governments to tax problems that they themselves create, you give them an incentive to create even more problems.


A promise of tax cuts for the middle class resulted  in increase in hydro rates and a carbon tax. Go Trudeau go!


China numble one!

Me do anything for China, except, live there.


People do that because there are "Christians" who openly advocate violence against gay people, and if you have any grasp of history, it is easy to see where fundamentalist religions take these kinds of issues.  Just as it's easy to see where most extremist/reactionary movements go.

Plus, Jerry's been promoting hate in this city on this topic for a long time.  He more or less built his little Baxter Road empire on anti-gay bigotry and it works for him.  If Christians don't want him to be their spokesman, they should speak up and drown him out.


Seriously? If your going to reference made up stuff at least get the date right. It was a grainy video from 2005 and it's already been debunked. I watched it, how about you?


In 2011, Obama stopped Iraqi refugees for 6 months.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/18/the-obama-administration-stopped-processing-iraq-refugee-requests-for-6-months-in-2011/

Where was the outrage from the media then?


So, most people here believe that politicians should only allow to be interviewed by like-minded?  Why we question politicians not by what they say, but by who they talk to?  Should not politicians talk to anybody, whoever?


Here we go again. Anonymous sources talking to WaPo copied by DP. Give me a break. Anonymous sources making claims about classified information preventing anyone reputable saying what the truth is. This is a direct violation of the US Constitution and DP applauds that. Throw out this section might as well throw out freedom of the press too.

Does anyone trust the FBI anymore? "Leaks" can go both ways you know and the saying is "payback is a ......".

Does anyone trust WaPo or DP anymore? They publish anything that will feed their base and are now sold by the grocery store checkouts.

Does anyone really buy, pay cash money for DP or WaPo?


Does a country get any say in who its ambassador is?  I betcha she doesn't speak French.


She didn't do anything with classified material. It's stated in the article above.

I'm at this point "scratching my head," wondering why you are blind to the part of the article that explains that.

Of course I have my theories.


Why yes thats it. Its a trump conspiracy. Just think, you are the only one who knows about it! Exciting for you.


Racist comments aren't welcome here, correct?


Experienced hunters who have attended special training classes for urban deer hunting can effectively reduce deer populations in a safe and humane manner. Shooting buckshot or slugs from a treestand is very safe and effective. people die every year from vehicle-animal collisions, especially motorcyclists. What's worse, a dead deer or a dead person, perhaps a family member? Attempting to sterilize or administer birth control has been tried many times and failed every time. A clean kill will provide plenty of fresh, healthy meat for homeless shelters and soup kitchens, also. The original, free-range organic meat....Deer. Happy hunting.


I watched the vote with a sad sense of déjà vu.  In 2015, I watched as the Senate debated confirmation of developer Carleton Ching to head DLNR. The gallery was packed then.  The gallery was almost completely empty this time.

The Ching nomination was withdrawn by Ige at the last minute, so there is no vote. But those of us who had lobbied against Ching knew where each Senator stood. The same faultline was obvious last night. Only a few of the players have changed. Senators who led the opposition to Ching two years ago we're supporting Gorak this time. Those who had supported Ching were determined to block Gorak this time. Only the "wafflers" changed sides. In 2015, an aroused public was strong enough to cause some senators to break from the internal discipline of the Senate majority and vote against Ching.

This year, there was nobody paying attention, so weak-willed senators did not find a reason to "do the right thing." Easier to "go along to get along" with the Senate leadership.


The repeal, limited to a few aspects of Obamacare, was yet another ploy in the GOP's seven-year quest to undo the last president's most notable accomplishment. A health care plan needs to have universal participation in order to spread the financial burden among the widest possible population of the insured, lowering premium costs for everyone. Up to 16 million Americans would have been left without insurance by 2026 under this now defeated Republican scheme. The "skinny" repeal was really an obvious attempt to salvage some type of achievement for a political party whose ideas were otherwise light-weight.


My heart goes out to all Gabe's family and friends. He was a good man and will be missed by many! My condolences to his family.


There is no place for a bunch of Ku-Ku-Klowns in Canada.
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century an English
three Canadians was a member of the white supremacist organization Anglo-Saxon, WASP equivalent to the United States ("White Anglo-Saxon Protestants").
Four members have been Prime Ministers of Canada;
Sir John A. Macdonald (father of « Canadian Federation » of 1867
but not « Father of Canada » which is Sir Samuel de Champlain in 1608 ),
Sir John Abbott,
Sir Mackenzie Bowell (a past « Grand Master » (?)),
and John Diefenbaker.
In 1927 the “Orange” movement gave birth to a more intolerant and racist group, the Canadian Ku Klux Klan, which had its deepest roots in small towns in Saskatchewan because of the "yellow peril", but also because of the blacks...Jews...Catholics...
(The “Ku Ku Nest” in the province campaigned against= teaching French + wearing the religious habit + the presence of crucifixes in schools.)


IRS "State lags in building affordable housing"
Okay professor Sanford, now elucidate upon the ERISA planning for doing so as paralleling your expounding virtues for investing pension funds in social utility investments.


Mr. Jirran (I truly do not understand why you would include your educational credentials here, but that's another conversation.....):—Alexandra1

My Ph.D. is relevant to this web site and is part of my name, like the initials of a religious order might be.  Before doing it, realizing there are many onboard more learned and educated than me and that “Ph.D” would be singular, I asked my wife what she thought.  She encouraged me to do it and that completes what I do.  Everyone in a while someone excoriates me for my ignorance all the while having that Ph.D.  But that is ok, part of the deal.


May June and July


I would approach Argentina with "cautious optimism" at best in terms of international investment with the new government.

Argentina has a very long history of poor governance and corrupt politicians.  The political landscape in that country could turn on a dime and what was once a promising investment and development opportunity in that country could quickly be nationalized and turn into a nightmare should a new government take over in the future.  The Spanish ran into this a few years back after the previous Argentina government nationalized their oil company.


Be careful what you wish for.

You may get it, good and hard.


No, "reckless disregard for the truth" comes from the Judge in one of the Libel Suits Ezra Levant lost. Do try to keep up.

https://www.google.ca/#q=ezra+levant+reckless+disregard+for+the+truth


#irony


'

…excepting, of course,
…the author was not 'white washing' anything at all.
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You left out streaming videos off Netflix. I really would like to see a solid justification for why gigabit  service is needed. I'll wager 90% of the bandwith is idle most of time or used for unproductive uses.


Picking your teachers is the point with vouchers. And the fixation with religious schools is a little over the top Nero. Private schools serious about reading writing math science and technology could do a much better job without the overhead expense of the out of touch and out of classroom admin that adversely affects the public system. Smaller class sizes, better pay for teachers, parents more involved because they are exercising choice and monitoring progress. All possible with vouchers. If the public system ups their game and becomes viable then parents will take their child and associated funds to the public school. Excellent teachers win students win parents win society wins. Win Win Win Win.


Thank you for your wonderful letter Ursula. You are a model immigrant. Bless you.


Out of curiosity, when you've fired all of these teachers, who replaces them? There aren't legions of teachers to replace them just waiting in the wings, who have a magic wand and turn students around who have failed to perform because of a lazy teacher.

Also, who then would want to work with students with disabilities, English language learners, and schools with a high level of poverty that continually do poorly on testing? Why would any teacher want to subject themselves to that risk of being fired when they inevitably "fail" to meet the standard you've created?

Let's fire a doctor when they have a patient gets sick or dies, and fire lawyers when they lose a case. To hell with the context and other circumstances, or even personal responsibility of students and parents, let's fire everyone! We can raise your taxes to help pay for their welfare since they won't  have jobs any longer.


Better yet, don't even think about it; forget it. Propaganda is an enemy by itself.


The fact that this man wAs a marine and one of the officers he killed was also a marine shows the falling of brotherhood within our military men/women.

I remember when serving your country was a calling and afterwards you regarded the men as your brothers.  "Even though nowadays people try to say capt America and buckey barns R gay because of how close they were, (morons that's called brotherhood because you fought and next to each man and that man covered your ass on the field)".

Now when people serve their country they seem to have forgotten what the core taught them, what they swore an oath to, what they are supposed to believe in.


Actually that's far from true most of these civil suits are sat before a judge not a jury and criminals win more times than you realize because it's not newsworthy


@Taueva, I find it funny that my initial challenge to rail opponents, for them to come up with a realistic solution to what we are really facing, transportation wise, on Oahu, has me now being labeled someone who is "strong supporter of public transit". Let me make clear that notion, I am a person who is a strong supporter of transit solutions. If that includes a public transit element, so be it. What I am looking for is a solution that answers this question - how to move people on this island efficiently, timely and properly with an infrastructure that is designed for a population of 500 - 750,000 when the population of Oahu itself, by 2019 or so, will be one million people with approximately 850,000 registered cars, which will uptick as the population continues to increase.
But to answer your question, my wife and I have one car, and I occasionally use public transit for, among other tasks, going to and from the airport. On the mainland, I use public transit all the time.


take it up with any of the too many Human Rights Commissions in Canada
they love sob stories
i am sure you will be generously compensated
it costs nothing to file a complaint


Leave the first ladies out of it. Trump is President...I feel sorry for anyone who has to deal with him daily on any level.


Roamin' Buffalo near DU is spectacular.


Give it a rest, Moscow.


You know that you can call the police if you have a cell phone and report them.  I have done so on occasion.  I even called when someone was driving down Northern Lights about 5 miles per hour.  I used to drive really slow back in the day when I smoked pot.  That was 40+ years ago. ;-)


Please note this is NOT my comment. Someone thought he/she was being cute by usurping my screenname.  I still plan to vote for Hillary and have no questions about her ethics.


Dear Gus,
It was a normal day, but sunny as you mention.  I don't tend to bottle things up, as may be obvious and I'm not even slightly entitled; more of a Calvinist, actually.  I simply have no respect - not a sliver - for people who make THEIR safety someone else's problem.  That extends to drivers, cyclists - the runners of reds, the wrong-wayers, and the casual cutter-offers of cars, peds, and me (worst of all!), the speedy riders on sidewalks - and peds equally.

Similarly, I don't impose on others' rights of way.  That means i don't blast through a gaggle of peds crossing the street lawfully (at a crossing, the only place it's actually legal for a ped to set foot on a roadway), run through a red like it's not there, go the wrong way up a road, change my positioning in a lane in rush hour without knowing what's beside/behind me, etc.  But i don't tolerate people imposing their will on my rights without saying something about it.  Just like now.


Nothing uncivil there.  If they remove it again I will help you make a complaint to the National NewsMedia Council.


I happen to agree with you in several respects. One thing that might be done is to flood the market with more M.D.'s. One thing that is being done is to shift a lot of work to nurse practitioners. We already have multi-tier health care, and that's OK with me - wealthy people get great medicine, poorer people get poor people clinics. Retail procedure costs and imagery diagnostics vary widely in cost from one region to another. Right now the cost of insurance is increasing double digits over last year because of uncertainty among insurance carriers that the ACA will continue to subsidize payments. Apparently that's not a zero-sum game, and total costs will hit less affluent people disproportionately. The Congressional response appears to be to allow high-deductible policies and higher pricing for those already sick.

The notion that the US can't afford decent health care for all is abhorrent to many liberals, while many conservatives want to shut down health care that requires subsidy.


I unlike others have bought health insurance. I do what is right for my family.


"Drummers for his band ..."
How mature.


There is something unseemly about the intense persistence of Arkansas to execute these people.  As someone else noted on a different thread:  it is high time for the US to join other civilized nations and to stop imposing the death penalty.


0bama was way to much of a weak chickens**t to do anything, thus the problem we are facing now.


Ah, the conversation continues... while the pope speaks on a plane women continue to prepare, study, pray and women continue to be ordained.  Bless women in acknowledging their Calls to priesthood.  Communities are being shepherded by women who sit by the bedside and bake the bread and "bind up the wounds" and bless and break and share.   These women, we women, are priests.  And many are called, and always have been.
If you would like to make more priests who happen to be women a reality, contribute to the Women's Ordination Conference scholarship for women discerning ordination. Check it out!  First scholarship of its kind!
http://www.womensordination.org/programs/scholarship/


I teach in an Eskimo village and Eskimo is how they refer to themselves and they do not find the word derogatory. Apparently the politically correct label is Inuet, but my Eskimo friends will quickly correct you and explain the the Inuit are Canadians and Eskimos are Alaskans and US citizens. The term Alaska Native is more encompassing as not all Alaskan tribes are Eskimo. but the problem with the term Alaska native is that there was litigation in the early years of Alaska's development and it was determined that an Alaskan native is a term that refers to anybody that settled and helped establish the territory and does not designate a race but an Alaskan connection so is applied to more than the  indigenous peoples of Alaska. In some situations a white person is considered an Alaskan native.


[Don’t get me wrong: I am strongly in favour of educating and raising awareness. My mother, Julie Damm, was a teacher. Her mother, Irene Akiwenzie, was a teacher. I have spent a huge amount of my life speaking in schools and universities and working in various ways to live up to my ancestors’ name, Kegedonce, “little orator.”]
There's a bit of a problem here:
[Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is an Anishinaabe writer of mixed ancestry]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateri_Akiwenzie-Damm

Normally, that would be of absolutely no consequence to me...but since Kateri makes it one, then best she judge herself before judging others.

Now, getting back to who can play the Blues...and indigenous bands doing Hip Hop...


You're NOT supposed to remember that.......


I was able to find his highlights on YouTube and watched it over. You are right, the defender brushed by and gave him an elbow looks like. Thanks for the heads up.


The responsibility of the Federal Gov't is to provide for the general welfare and the common defense, nothing more, nothing less.

This budget is a good start.


Pride rears its head in various ways; one glaring way is not listening (in this case reading with a sincere and open heart) to the actual words given in a response.

I did note for instance that the focus on virtues isn't necessarily a "Catholic Church" thing, and I also mentioned that the Cardinal could use his influence to suggest the implementation of a solid virtues program (not the one where people superficially say "I value you" as they sing Kumbaya) in the PUBLIC schools of Chicago.

Pride is of course a vice, and it is countered with cheerful and near constant acts of humility, until it gets put back where it belongs.

A good spiritual director can listen to someone's use of language, and how they interact and help people to tame various evidences of pride, or vanity, and over love of comfort.

Takes work.

This is the sort of work that is done in a real virtues program.

Pride creates a lot of anger, and other unconstructive responses.  Can really damage relationships.


Ah, yes, but the NDP will not be in power for too much longer!


That judge is a racist and all lefties are racist.


The worry I have , is that this was a " bought deal"  augmented and solidified by hefty off shore Chinese money paid in by political access events


she's not likely to ever to be able to put the money into Serenity Lanes accounts to replace what she took, and it will come to them in dribbles... she'll not likely be able to find a job that requires trust or credibility again. not so say she won't as we've seen too often ...  so, who actually gets hurt  by her theft? the paid employees of S.L.?  the people in treatment?  or seeking treatment?  how could they not miss an average of $4000.00+ a month going out of their pocket? for 5 years? no one was even looking at her work? who dropped the ball on supervising her? they are somewhat responsible as well.
    if i were any kind of donor of substance in this town, i'd take a hard look at where i was putting that money. the U and their money trail must be as long as the oregon trail..


I see you're starting 2017 off on the same declining trend you've been on for a while now. Oh, well. Such is life.


It's too bad there are obsessive bullies who won't allow people to live their lives.   It's a disease that seems to be catching.   These people disrupt legal consultations, medical procedures, other professional relationships, personal relationships and so on.

I don't care if you're CSIS or RCMP or whatever,.... you are breaking the law.  You are destroying at least one life and I suspect have done this to others.

Develop some mantra (like what your Landmark Forum buddies advocate)  that you say at least a thousand times a day that goes something like this:

"I enjoy my serene life minding my own business.   I love allowing people to lead their own lives and I celebrate both their successes as well as my own."

Then go to your little buddies in your "worldwide networks" do a mass e-mail, and send them the same message.

Mind your own business, or take the litigation and/or law enforcement consequences -- you, your buddies and this newspaper.


There you go again.


Well if you've never been, I just wondered how you knew or not if it was a risk doing it. I don't need to troll to get my point across.  I was curious.


My 'statement' not only fully reports Trent, it is a verbatim copy of Canon III, regarding the Sacrifice of the Mass issued by that Council.


I would rather read the Washington Post directly instead of finding their articles in the ADN.  If they want subscribers, provide local Anchorage and Alaska news.  Until the bankruptcy, ADN has been just WAPO light.


Nothing more than a land grab, now offered by a representative of the State.  What a joke.  6 million acres and still not enough land for the wolves.


Trump's Labor Day Message To Workers:

 Screw You!

Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, has a miserable history of aligning with right-wing and corporate interests.

Just weeks ago, he appeared before the annual gathering of the militantly anti-labor American Legislative Exchange Council—along with anti-union zealot Betsy DeVos, Trump’s secretary of education.

Trump’s pick to serve as deputy secretary of labor, Patrick Pizzella, has an even more troubling record than Acosta. A former campaign staffer for Ronald Reagan who has served in Republican and Democratic administrations, Pizzella was once employed by the viscerally anti-union National Right to Work Committee and later joined the firm that scandal-plagued lobbyist Jack Abramoff was associated with before his 2006 conviction on federal charges that included attempted bribery.


MS24, You were so intent on making your own point you totally missed one of my points, i.e., "encourage women and minorities to excel." It's a shame what could have been a useful contribution to the discussion was lost in unnecessary ignorant remarks.


I feel sorry for those stunted, racist kids and nothing but contempt for their parents and other awful authority figures in their lives that are turning these children into backwards bigots most of society has been trying to move past for decades.  Go back to your little, small-minded bubble and stay there.  You're not welcome in modern society.  I hope your cold, racist hearts break while more patriotic NFL players TAKE A KNEE today during games.  America is leaving you bigots behind.


"As the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities exclaims, the “Trump Budget gets three-fifths of its cuts from programs for low- and moderate-income people,” for an estimated $2.5 trillion total cuts over the next decade."  This begs the question as to "Why" Congress and the Presidency continue to think they can "take from those with little to nothing left" and use it to pay down the National debt?  Why continue to take from the neediest in Society, a segment of the popluace that seems to be growing, while the middle class eems to continue to shrink.

"They (Americans) just don’t want a party to come in and say, we’re going to take more away from you." Well that seems to be what Republcans continue to do, take, take, take; never seeming to want to give back to the society which they are supposed to be representing.  You never see legislation from the GoP to tax the wealthiest, as it seems they prefer to continue to pile taxes on the middle class and poor, preferentially!


HI:So 20K (incl daycare)per year after tax money.So if you aren't making at least 35K  (more like 40K)its not worth working.
Put in a huge mortgage(with interest rates rising) and I can see money woes on the horizon for many young(and not so young) couples.
Ma and pa could be called upon just at the time where they need those fleeting dollars.
Doesn't this sound like a good time to raise taxes(cap and trade,carbon etc)!


Add to that the obvious increase in doctor fees and virtually all professional fees and the demise of small businesses and total disconnect of Canadians to save $ for retirement.  There is good reason why the TSX has gone nowhere in the last three years while the Dow has gone up by 30% plus. Best strategy for every Canadian will shortly be to blow it all and go on social welfare.


Paul, your 1st sentence is right on.The second I don't really get, who cares if our average age increases? Plus, it's a great thing our birth rate is declining.  In case you haven't noticed overpopulation is a huge problem for the earth.  And ultimately you keep referring to illegal aliens as immigrants.  I love legals  and I love the rule of law.   The Republicans say illegal immigration whenever discussing the issue. IMMIGRATION is good, acceptable, needed, loved and the base of America.  ILLEGAL migrants are  the problem. So let me put it this way. immigration good, illegal immigration bad. As a business man in the Tree Business (3o years), I hired anybody ready to work. Black, brown, yellow, red, white, I didn't care. Performance was everything.  After the first 10 years (1995), I noticed a real uptick in Mexicans beating around the Bush and slacking off when out of sight. I finally quit hiring them. Emotions not involved. I don't hate them, I just don't trust them. They're illegal


i didnt say that clinton wasnt the status quo either.. i said donald trump is the status quo and he is.. you simple cannot call the kettle black with out naming the pot the same.. presuming anything else but that must of been your mouth overloading your feeble brain..


When we get a system where Senators can vote what is best not what the whip tells them, the we will be closer to a better system.  Until then triple E is a lie


It would appear that even our Chief of Defence Staff lives in fear of incurring the tyrannical wrath of the politically correct Trudeau PMO.  How pathetic.

I disagree completely with their misbegotten view of things but they have every right to counter-protest on their own time in civilian attire.


Unfortunately far too many of them don't need t0 see graphic videos or or hear a speaker talking graphically about the horrors. They are surrounded by them, live them, and are all too often the victim of them.


The highest homicide rates are in Latin America, Caribbean, and Southern Africa. World champion is El Salvador with 109 homicides par 100,000 and Honduras second with 64. Not far off are South Africa with 34, Brazil and Mexico each 27.

The USA ranks no. 94 out of 219 countries for global homicide rate in 2015. Homicide rates per 100,000 in the US are 4.9 and Canada 1.7. With 3.2 homicides per 100,000 India is closer to the US than Canada. The UK with 0.9 ranks 183.


THANK YOU GERALD CAPLAN for articulating so well what really happened in this election. The ignorance represented in the American electorate and in many of the comments here is part of what's created our now disastrous reality. One in which a democratically chosen woman - who would have been an imperfect but truly great president - is beaten by an electoral system originally created to appease white slave-owners in the southern United States. Now effectively appeasing fearful white nationalists and internalized hatred.


Do you have any idea as to the raw amount of money those tourists pumped into our economy?

I don't like being stuck behind those buses just like anyone, but those tourists are spending big money and supporting thousands of small businesses.

The benefit far outweighs your crying over imagined air pollution.


I wasn't inclined to inspect the weapons in the photos. Those yahoos are the ones demonizing gun owners, IMO. Did they submit that lovely portrait for the cover of NRA Monthly?


Just think if they tossed the whiskey n weed and actually lived a subsistence lifestyle.


Hanging out with the 1%ers  eh...


My take away from the article is that even the people that write the budget have no idea what they are doing and the budget has been built almost like a money laundering scheme.

They have no ideas if staff are funded, payments come from many different accounts, and there is no solid numbers that encompass each whole office budget. This looks like every case of money laundering I have ever seen.

If your checkbook is so messed up you can't understand how to balance it, then you probably should not be in charge of it anymore.


The problem is a shortage of affordable housing; you know, housing that people with families who live and work in the area can actually afford to buy or rent. It seems to me there is one mechanism that would work to solve this problem: have the City or GTA buy up land, and build co-op housing as in years past. Adding say a thousand units a year onto the market for 10 or 20 years will make an appreciable difference to availability and affordability, and drive rents down in the medium term. Prices will follow, to the extent that they are driven by local market conditions at all.

Much better to use public resources to actually house people rather than to inflate asset values as is presently the case.


Gee.  Didn't you get the memo about the GOP blocking everything for 8 years? Where were their "mid-course" corrections?

Do you GOP/Trumpnuts ever accept any responsibility for what you do and/or refuse to do?

Yeah, the answer is no.


"Covering up trumps exposure."  I'm not sure if that was intentional or...


I wanted to share that image because I found it to be quite powerful to me, the article was pretty good too.


Why not blame Mike Harris as well


Good points, just wait for US tax reform - companies are already preparing to move their headquarters south - from Toronto to Calgary to Vancouver - Finance to Oil and Gas to Film. Canada is hostile to investment and entrepreneurship and we deserve what comes next.


Well it is quite obvious that "talks too much" Gabby fell in with the wrong group or she wouldn't be paying the money back. No one has clean hands here.  She got played, plan and simple.


Blame the fat failure in the WH. Supposedly we are in Afghanistan to hep and encourage young women escape the heavy hand of the Taliban that holds women down and insists they NOT go to school. Supposedly we are there to help and encourage. Then the fat orange terd does this? WTH are we doing as a nation? No wonder the whole world is laughing at us and shaking their heads in amazement at how stupid and ignorant we are as a country. Trump is taking this nation into the twitter/sh!tter and we are, thanks to the obese orange sexist racist clown, the USA is circlin' the drain. And all his trumpanzee supporters are simply too ignorant and hell-bent on some sort of revenge against the black president to see clearly...color-blinded by our national pastime -- racism!


I am pretty sure he was making a joke.  I know it is hard to believe after so many years of Stephen Harper, but conservatives can have a sense of humour.


Margaret Wente employs the lowest possible level of data analysis to support her position. There is privilege in even being listened to under these circumstances.


This is only part of the story.  What are the proposals for fees and miscellaneous charges?  Room and board?  And books.  The UA bookstores are grossly overpriced.


The rich 1 percenters use our young people to advance their global ambitions and forget about them when injured and come home as veterans. We treat our veterans shabbily and that is not how a great nation takes care of our warrior men and women.


...and that's how I feel about the priests/pedophiles


Yes, says the descendant of *Legal* immigrants- who supported and grew America directly- correct.


Canada could reduce corporate tax to zero and it would make squat difference.  The non-tax burden in this country is punitive.  EI, pension plans , maternity leave, extended health, Workers comp etc, not to mention lower per hour worker productivity, immense regulatory burden and higher wages  means that we are competitive in the US market if, and only if our Loonie stays low.   Poloz and crew know this and cannot raise rates in case the loonie strengthens thereby crushing GDP growth.

The irony of course is that the BOC low interest rate policy is a primary driver in Canada's over heated housing market.   So the downtrodden but well paid masses have a cheque to cash but no home to live n.

There's no free lunch, comrades.


"IF" she was smart, Notley would bring in PST now.     Poor management and irresponsibility are usually the  methods used by Liberals, like Ontario,


"He 'blew smoke up our asses'"

Stand in line... There is a lot of that going around and the list is getting longer daily.


The hipocrits will march......


You have a pretty good way of reading your own thoughts in to what other people write.


A Steely Dan reference hidden in there.....


muckamuck wrote: "UAF named its bird lab after this man. Now he’s guilty of bird smuggling."
.
I'm not sure about UAF, but traditionally, in most states, publicly owned buildings and institutions have not been named after living people or active corporations; there was a practical reason for this (made obvious by this case).  Now days though, donors want recognition for their tax deductible contributions so our politicians now allow, in many cases, public property to be named after living people and active private corporations.  Charity has become publicity in our modern world.


Secret Service always go with the Presidents--that is nothing new. I doubt tax money is 'maintaining 2 residents; nor for his son 'to travel around the world on personal business'.  Perhaps you have evidence to provide?


The courts need to get a spine on this one.  If the national government can't set national priorities and approve projects of national importance without interference from every two bit town that is affected, then what kind of country are we?


Everyone should know right now that the only beneficiaries of these " free trade" deals are the multinational businesses that can quickly move their operation to the cheapest source of labor.

The oligarchs who are controling our bought and paid for politicians have by stealth derailed democracy .
Their only interests are profits and dumb compliant politicians.

And we have a real dumb one.


For the first time domestic home buyer in Toronto and Vancouver (especially Toronto), this is probably the single best piece of news they could have received. WAY more impactfull and meaningful then a $4k rebate on land transfer tax or anything of the like.
Should interest rates increase (when, not if) to a level that forces already over leveraged owners to sell, and BAM we will indeed see the correction or bursting of the bubble as many have predicted with an increase of supply and greatly reduced pool of qualified and available demand.


Before this very important article/problem gets put away in the auwe drawer, I'd like to suggest one thing. There must be a substantial charge ($) to all the visitors that come,and  those funds are not to be diverted,but go toward the restoration,and protection of each islands waters,and land. If money is the ruler,then we've been getting the short end of the stick. It's time to charge a "environmental fee",that stays here,and is used only for the purpose of mending the damage.


Good,  only reason these places were slapped with "monument" label was to pacify environmentalists..  these lands should be developed for good of the humankind.


Teddy was a wonderful person. He was always fighting the good fight. I believe no one attended his burial because we didn't know. He was loved by a lot of us. Condolences to his daughters. He loved them very very much! RIP Teddy!


The pro lifers were "allowed" at the march , and that's why their fellow marchers harassed them?   To show them they were welcome?

Pro lifers were allowed, but the organizers declared that "pro choice" was part of the fundamental "platform" of the march?

Just stop.


McCain has become a never ending disappointment.  An elected representative of the U.S. and he trashes President Trump overseas.  McCain hit the quintessential low point when he paid money for the fake dossier on President Trump about golden showers and other sordid jewels.  McCain could not possible reach lower.  However, he may live up to his growing trends and surprise us all.  He should go away before he embarrasses himself, his family, and his former supporters.


Yes!


The choices are either Guantanamo or a trip to the Vermont -Quebec border where he can be turned over to our RCMP valet service.


Great. It will give me something to do besides watch boring traffic while driving.


Trump doesn't pay for anything, including his own bills.   He is, unbelievably, trying to get the republican national committee to pay for the attorneys he has hired to manage the whole russia mess.

In the meantime, even if funding is approved for a wall, it is likely to go nowhere real fast.   Any construction will be held up for years with the more than 90 lawsuits filed opposing federal seizure of private land needed for the wall.   Looks like trump followers will be waiting a long time for any "accomplishments" by their moronic leader.


These "lost" points are never to be gained.   If you are going to try and make the playoffs,  these points like last night are a MUST...  Croaking doesn't make for a professional team.


Yeah, because people like you claim to know something about a total stranger.  Is it to make yourself feel better?  Do you need help with it so badly that you'll make ridiculous assumptions about people you've never met?  If not, what is it?
Please fill us in.


Nothing in particular outside of noting that gay people have a variety of interest and belong to all parties.   In other words they are pretty normal, have diverse opinions and co-exist with a broad range of people sharing similar interest.   Maybe both parties should quit using this particular group of people as a volleyball as if either party has the right to speak for a stereotyped interest group.


I notice any criticism of the black community no matter how civil it is, is being taken down.  Now that's racism!!!!!


The last time a president (G.W.Bush-R) lowered taxes to repatriate money 21,000 thousand American jobs went to robots.
#45  every time he opens his mouth, or signs an E.O. Canada just looks better and better.


If you're charged by the Feds you are done for.

Just reading the complaint, it's insane how much evidence they gather before making an arrest.  They have 8 undercover agents involved.  They have evidence of: him on video doing multiple training sessions for ISIS, saying he wants to meet ISIS, taking top secret data for ISIS, swearing allegiance to ISIS, they even have him admitting he was trying to provide help to ISIS.

I don't even think he's going to have a defense at this point. :/


Yes, I don't agree with many of Trumps policies, therefor I am going to put my trust in a brutal dictatorship with an egregious human rights record, that cyber-attacked Canada, because my left wing partisanship tells me I must protect Justin above all else.

Now let's not remember what I was posting about China when Harper was in power, completely different and suddenly irrelevant.

Great job indeed.


Perhaps I should rephrase:

I do care what God is doing in the world.  I believe that God is active in the Protestant sects. I believe that the fullest avenue of God's activity and the most perfect avenue of God's activity is in the Catholic Church.

If I thought it was in a Protestant sect, I would join that sect.  While I grant that the Protestants are our brothers and sisters in Christ, albeit separated brethren, I believe there are some things they got wrong.  In the end, however, I am not a Protestant, I am a Catholic. For that reason I don't particularly care what practices Protestants have or what is going on or not going on in their respective sects. That is their business--just as what goes on in the Catholic Church is our business.  In short--I mind my business when it comes to the Protestants. If they want to ordain women, that is their affair. If they think sacraments are not appropriate or believe we are saved by Faith alone, again, their business.


By deciding to reject the Paris agreement on climate change, President Trump signals that the US is not serious about combating global warming. A unified stance among these seven countries would show the rest of the world that the future of all our children and their children matters. The science behind the threat of climate change is well established and new data regarding its impact on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is a resounding confirmation. Mr. Trump may not see the issue the way everyone else does but taking off those blinders may be the solution.


Do the math.  300 billion tons of radioactive waste would displace an equal volume of water in the ocean.  This is equivalent to a cube 720 miles on each side.  This would cover an area 4 times the size of Colorado, and reach 720 miles into space, more than 3 times higher than the International Space Station.  Please check your facts!


Fishing.

Hey, don't blame me.  I just picked the definition from a dictionary, which says both are sports, and it says nothing about "both" opponents having fun a requirement to it being a sport.

If you play football, your team has a lousy game (like the Broncos just did), and you're not having fun (like many players on the Broncos are saying they're experiencing those emotions), is football no longer a sport?


Spot on post. In fact as of 2016, Mexico's remittances reach record $26.9 billion ....

Remittances totaled more than Mexico's oil income - Mexico News Daily
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/remittances-totaled-oil-income/


It was pretty clear early on that reconveyance was not going to get this group's support.  The key issues are what to do with the accumulated arrearage and the DNR's lagging effort?  I don't think adding a county employee is the answer to either.  Put a quarterly status report on Jones' plate for the Commissioners to evaluate and direct any subsequent necessary action.  I'd also recommend taking timber money out of all taxing districts' funding.  Most budget without it anyway since unreliable.  Put it into the state's budget as another revenue.


Theft?  Then why was the left railing on Harper for dropping it to 5% and demanding it to be raised back to 7%

Remember Chretien's promise to abolish the GST?

Poof!


In other words, some of same people who helped engineer the 2008 meltdown now advise Trump. Sweet.

Meanwhile, the hens huddled nervously, wondering about the gleaming, foxy smiles of the new henhouse guards.


The LIA wasn't a global and synchronous event, and not for that entire period.


Half of your statement is undoubtedly accurate.

The other half has absolutely nothing to do with reality.

The 'Oregon taxpayers' will have some as-yet-undetermined-number of property tax lots formerly assessed at timber rates converted to $500,000 and up valued individual properties paying Lane County and ESD and other taxes at those much higher rates instead.

More money for Lane County will be the bottom line from this one.


This market is imploding as you read these comments. I work in construction and developers are trying to cancel projects as fast as they can. New reporting rule from the fall for CRA is crushing the industry with back taxes and penalties. Current home owners are trying to fix up their properties and unload.  The banks are not ready to value homes for mortgages. They are valuing them 10% below the sales price and deals are falling apart.
next 1-6 months price drop of 10-20%.
After that
1) if they raise interest rates once - Market will stabilize
2)if they raise twice - Additional 5%
3) if they raise three times 10%...etc.
4) if OFSI brings in new mortgage rules and they raise rates, this whole thing is done. 30-40% drop.
I would not buy in the next 6 months as these may be 3 rate hikes and mortgage changes that remove 20% of buyers.

I really just don't want to see young families get hurt.


Rex, you are the master of pointing out the obvious, and the irrelevant!


An X for gender on your passport, who would be that stupid?

In certain countries, you have just painted a giant bullseye on yourself.

I hope we are including a warning (disclaimer) that Canada is not responsible for any discrimination, persecution, assault or murders that may occur in other countries when someone chooses to use the X option.


I like the idea of no homework for young kids as they do get overloaded from a young age. Both students and teachers at public schools would likely benefit from doing a version of this. However, I think children also benefit from being vaccinated, something that the Waldorf school is not known for. In fact, it is 1 of 13 schools in Oregon with non-medical exemption rates over 50%. Data from 2014 put it at a 68% exemption rate.


I hope the city hangs tough on this one. Professional hockey is in no need of subsidies.


but, you're not cool... with personal freedoms and rights?


It's trite but it's true and it needs to be repeated here in response to this comment.  If the legal system, including our Charter and Constitution, doesn't work for criminals and special interest groups, then it can't be relied upon to be there for me when I need the protection, in particular protection from the overreaching power of the state.


And all that may be close to the centerline of truth or not, yet it would be premature for someone to conclude on the basis of your captious comments here that you weren't' at some point an otherwise agreeable guy, and in fact perhaps even a good friend of mine, no?


Here's the core of the issue: it is a lot easier to find a STEM graduate with necessary soft skills like critical thinking and communication than to find a humanities graduate with necessarily skills in STEM.  End of story.


Chris in Ottawa: You're correct both in terms of the discrimination faced by older workers as well as the need to integrate younger workers into the workforce. On the first account, governments could reduce the disincentives applicable to hiring and/or keeping older workers by creating a national pharmacare program. This would help workers who are stuck in the "gig economy" as well. When a friend was laid off from his long-time job along with other older co-workers (and I believe replaced by younger temporary workers) he said there was little doubt among those laid off that the employer was dumping benefits costs. My friend was lucky that after exhausting E.I. benefits he was old enough to start collecting a pension he'd contributed to for decades. Others apparently weren't so fortunate.


The real problem is that CoNgress refuse to do their jobs and phase-in e-verify. If they did this, and would actually solve the issue of who gets amnesty/not, then once e-verify is in place and many go home, it would be trivial to chase these criminals .


I generally think unions are good for workers; but, I have always had a big problem with police unions, and teacher unions, too, when they defend those found guilty of crimes or maleficence. I know, sometimes one needs an advocate; but, to defend at all costs, or when not warranted is not always a good thing, I think.


if you actually had a clue you would see and hear president trump planning on cutting 10% in over all government and 20% in washington fed employees thus reducing government over all.


And even your worst performing students who couldn't get accepted in to any other program can get their teaching credentials. Look at the people teaching today. Can you say most deserve this platinum taxpayer funded package? Absolutely not. The best teachers out there maybe but they might represent 0,001% of all teachers.


I wish our immigration program was exclusively about recruiting skilled people most likely to make a positive contribution to Canada.  The refugees we have been taking lately don’t seem to meet that criterion, and the next wave, for example the Rohynga, seems even less fit for life in a western country.  It’s as if we’re trying to be a materially poorer country so that the Trudeau government can signal its virtue to the world.


A flat tax would be such a relief on so many fronts. Surely we could find a few smart people who could work out something equitable for all of us, especially if the personal exemptions were a little more in line with the cost of living.


Listen Folks, I’ve been a criminal defense attorney for 33 years in the State of Alaska.  I’ve usually lost a client to drugs every year or so for the past 12 years.  Mixing drugs will eventually kill you...  I am all in favor of any drug that helps a person get off heroin or similar drugs. If you were the addicts parents, spouse or children, you constantly are in fear that your family member will die every day.  Once a person is stable and is able to titrate off opiates with the help of their physician  or  if they are in jail and off narcotics for at least 7 days, they should start Vivitrol.  I’ve represented many clients who agreed to start Vivitrol and after their first 30 days, their lives take a turn for the best and they have their lives back...  I have worked with Michael Eldrige and his company is very open to helping people get the medication they need. Medicaid or insurance will currently pay for the drug unless Trump takes that away too.


Thank you for sharing this video.


The forced integration of Southern schools by federal marshals should have put those posse comitatus people on notice that public accommodations have to be open to everyone, so long as they wear shirt and shoes. People like the Bundys and their incompetent "militias" haven't got the picture yet. As for self-described "evangelicals", they seem to believe that Jesus only loves white people. and only a few of those.  May they experience the "rapture" sometime before 2020.  I know it's not politically correct to say so, but I don't think they're a bit better than anyone else, though they might on average have a better credit score.


It can be a painful illness.


weren't known? they wrote a bloody book about it and a movie - True Colors -

  the press chose to not make a big deal of it until he was going to be impeached

yes the same press that casts Trump in a negative light


I too personally know many immigrants who are either professionals or run successful businesses (these include me, my spouse and several friends, and most of us pay more income TAX than the average Canadian INCOME); most of our parents work(ed) blue-collar jobs and also pay income tax.

I'm grateful to be have been welcomed here, and MY life is (most likely) better for having immigrated here.  But that doesn't mean the Canadians (Canadian-born or earlier immigrants) are better off that my family, friends and I immigrated here.

I'm just saying that the purpose of immigration should be to improve the lives of current Canadians, and we should continually monitor its impact to ensure that purpose is met.

It's even OK for Canadians to be selfish and refuse immigration to perfectly wonderful people if additional immigration negatively impacts Canadians (e.g. lower wages; higher housing costs).


Clearly the incredible work Monsef did was to berate  the Parliamentary Committee's work on democratic reform without even reading the report (or, at least not understanding it at all). As Lisa Rait said "This is unbelievable".


You were saying?


Pape replied to the person who asked why be concerned about the relative MER of two funds. Why not just focus on their respective returns.? He answered that it makes sense to accept the higher MER if the fund has a higher return. The problem with this answer is that he is referring to PAST returns. Study the research. They are a very poor predictor of future returns in comparing funds.

Would you pay 1% more for a fund when you have no idea if it will perform better next year? No! My advice: take your portfolio as a whole and look for ways to lower your overall expenses. Shifting from active to index funds will do this; shifting from mutual funds to ETFs will do so too, if you purchase the latter through a discount broker. In the past year, I reworked my entire portfolio and lowered my overall MER by more than 1%. That 1% goes to me, if my fund choices are just as good as they were before --and they are. On a 5% overall gain, that's 20%, and it compounds over time.


A:  Nice try but you are cherry picking your facts.  For example, 36.4 of oil workers are non-residents - True.  But 36% of 11,000 employees is about 4000 workers.  Your comments are not false but are only partial truths, misleading and cherry picked to refute what.....?


As opposed to your being unprofessional at everything?


Odd you don't mention the stock option 'loophole' which apparently benefits CEO's etc. to the tune 0f 800M-1B... As a disinterested and impartial CA you'd think that and other advantages of the 'filthy' rich would merit your attention. Ah well...


IMHO it might be time to evaluate how we understand priesthood in the practical sense. Does it have to be strictly in a parish/rectory setting? Could a priest also be involved in other areas of ministry or livelihood that would provide financial support, e.g., teaching, nursing, military chaplain, etc? In the military chaplains are paid according to their rank. The married priests I served with did a good job providing ministry and presence, and had a pastoral sense that we celibate males will never help. Not everybody is called to rectory living. There is plenty of room for dialogue and study on this. Stating a priori that married priest won't work out is not a good place to begin. The Holy Spirit is full of surprises. Celibacy is not an essential part of serving as a priest, whether male or female. Ministry of priesthood is not about "power" to change the bread and wine. It is about serving, leading, gathering folks together in prayer. Power has nothing to do with it. Its not magic.


Mthembu as ANC Whip obviously does not respect the constitution or the courts like Zuma and the Gupta's. For if he did he would remember the Chief Justice clearly stated an MP's prime obligation is to the people of SA, not a political party. He is insisting that MP must defy the judge and constitution
The NEW ANC is attempting to hijack SA and install a dictator


i COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE ANY HAPPIER with President Trump than I am right now. Go through his list of campaign promises and start checking them off. Democrats take notice that this is what keeping your campaign promises looks like since you have never seen it from any of your candidates in your lifetimes...except for maybe old soul


We had more freedom 40 years ago.


Is that what you look forward to?  Well here's a little tip to help you with a change of plan:  There won't be 4 years.  Four months is beginning to look rather unlikely.  Trump may very well be the most hated man in the world, including the US.  He's playing with fire with the likes of Steve Bannon who views himself as the architect of "the brave new world."  More like "the end of times."  Very dangerous.  You should be afraid, I know I am - and btw, I'm no lib!


Here's the way I look at this:

A parent becomes irate over a science grade, or a science curriculum's lack of including intelligent design.  Get police to guard the science class?  Cancel the science class?

A Band parent becomes irate over choice of songs played, or what instrument a kid is given.  Have police buzz the band practice?  Cancel band for the year?

A parent becomes irate over the choice of discipline handed out by the Vice Principal for whatever violation charged.  Have the police stand by?  Cancel school for the year?

A football parent becomes irate over treatment of their kid.  Or, the plays called.  Have police stand by and buzz practices?  Cancel the season for the year?

All present precisely the same parental concerns and emotions.

We KNOW how Kaiser handles irate parents (police and cancellation).

How does ANY educational situation get to the point where parents become so irate?  Without administrative intervention?  To at least separate the parents . . .


Dan Sullivan is at least headed in the right direction. If you consider all the land in Alaska and put Federal, State,Borough, City, and Native Corporation holdings together in the UNTAXED category, that leaves only 1% of all the land in Alaska that is Privately owned and TAXED. In my opinion land that is taxed is not actually owned. Now back to Dan Sullivan's 9 acre land deal. Timing is bad because in a few years market value will be much less than 4 million. Also as City owned land it won't be taxed and what ever is built will probably a cost to tax payers for ever. The upside is getting it away from the Feds.


The suggestions in this article are very good.   The Wallace Collection is also wonderful and not too big -- it's near Selfridges and easy to tack on before or after lunch.   It also doesn't tend to be too crowded, whatever the time.


So the graph in that study does not show a 10x multiplier. So in other words like most climate change alarmists you were just spouting what you felt.

Thank you though for confirming.


This is a long and uninteresting rant about not fitting in. Unfortunately fitting in is a two way street - one has to make an effort to conform. From her article, it seems that Ms Roderique was not comfortable with the expectations of the firm and that she appears to believe that because of her race, she should not be expected to comply.
The only interesting thing about the essay is that somehow she manages to blame “White Privilige” for her own attitude problem.


Don't you fools have jobs all you do bash people who do especially well paying union ones.........glad I am retired.
This will end with a deal but unfortunately both sides lose in a strike.
GM knocked 7 grand off the Equinox in Detroit,the car is a dog,this is one I can't figure out at all.


Do you seriously need me to spell it out? The ANC has wasted, misappropriated, squandered or outright stolen hundreds of billions of rands at this point. If we had an honest, competent, conscientious government, we would no longer have a housing problem!


Student:  Buildings and vehicles are well heated and people wear a lot of warm clothing when they go outdoor in the cold part of the winter.  But there is no escaping the fact that the weather can be bitter at times, particularly if you are not used to the cold.  It is a big expanse of country and the weather can be harsh.  A couple of days ago I was walking around in a jacket.  Today I have my down-filled parka and other extra garments.  I will stay in most of today until the bitter wind abates.  It is very comfie indoors.  I hope this is helpful.

Saskatchewan is a beautiful province (like the other ones).


The motion to end all motions???  For example:  "We all stand for motherhood and apple pie (in Canada, today that would be changed to pizza pie) and all things that are goodness and light." ---- Then we could all move on and never have to revisit these symbolic gestures.


He needs to go for trying to convict these people not for his inability to convict them


duckduckgo 'mogilevich trump' for a free education.
yes, it really IS about money and blackmail.


Under Jewish law they were married, not unmarried, and Tradition tells us that Joseph was no teenager.


1. Men are overrepresented  in our criminal justice system.
2. There is not a problem with "overpolicing" based on stereotypes, it is a problem of "underpolicing" in other areas.
3. Police have failed to investigate missing aboriginal men.
4. The justice system is sexist against men.


My trust in CBC was a little bit restored this afternoon after listening to CBC's Cross Country Checkup about Syria and the many problems facing the Syrian people, including non-stop Islamist terrorist attacks against the Syrian people.

Most of the callers clearly had a good idea of the Syria crisis: the real causes, the reality, the problem of western-backed/Saudi-backed Islamist violence/terrorism, etc.

Totally different information from callers to CBC Cross Country Checkup than what we receive in CIA/CBC news/fake-news broadcasts every day.

I think it's time a lot of so-called liberals in Canada and USA admitted that their support for regime-change in Syria, i.e. support for Islamist terrorists such as ISIS and al-Quaida, was based on propaganda...and they (most of them) fell for this propaganda hook, line & sinker. They should be ashamed of that.


Constitutions were written before the age of terrorism so it will be interesting to see if one part of a Constitution can be over-ridden by another part as the Supreme Court has ruled in the Canadian past.  Some parts of a Constitution  could be considered more important than others.


diverdave, A human driver would face the same moral dilemma.


Senator Rubber Stamp


Amazing, just amazing. Respectfully suggest that folks read something beyond the Daily Stormer version of the Vostok Ice Core research. As far as information for the non-scientist, Scientific American as a fairly good summary of the ways in which the data can be interpreted.


Now...it couldn't be this Goldman Sachs could it?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-rigging-idUSKBN14603N


It's a more than valid question... school wasn't out, he's at an age where he's suppose to be attending school. I hit the dog. There's no question bout that and I own up to that. The family need to own up to their part. There's things that could have been done to prevent an incident from even being a possibility. I wrote nothing hurtful or wrong. U need to think with logic not emotion.


Masonic death threats? No, it would be the Illuminati. Granted, the Masons are much more of a powerful bloc in places like Mexico and Italy, but the election of Ratzinger was all about the fact that he seemed the one eyed man in a room of people blind on how to handle clergy sexual abuse. John Paul II is easily explained by people who thought Vatican II had gone to far. As for Bergolio, if the Masons would be agaisnt anyone, it would be him, unless you are saying that his ideas of universal brotherhood in Christ would somehow gel with the masonic outlook. I can see that, but that is also a scriptural outlook. My-grandfather was a Mason, and I assure you, there is no grand conspiracy. Indeed, it would be nice if Fracis lifted the excommunication, since my mother's family has a long history in the Lodge.


"Sherlock"?  That's truly pathetic -- but Trumpian, I suppose.
When I posted to you yesterday, I didn't realize that the list to which I referred had been deemed "uncivil" by some coward (also true to Trump's example) who disagreed with it.  I re-posted it; you'll find it easily enough. (On my display it appears immediately above your most recent post to me.)
Trump's presidency is disintegrating in full view of the whole world, and his personality with it.
Which version of the Comey story do you believe?  Trump made Pence, Sanders, and Conway look like the idiots they are for working for him.  He sent them out to lie for him on one day, and then pulled the rug from under them the next.  These folks (and of course Spicer, too) will never fully re-build their reputations; Trump has ruined them.
Trump has lived a filthy, dishonest life personally, professionally and politically. Why would anyone think he would, or even could, be different as president? Lock him up.


If it is a good plan we'll keep it, when we turf them out of office.


So, I'm proud to have served.


Indeed.   Just think of being in the graduating class, and after years of study, having to listen to such self-absorbed claptrap from the "leader" of the country.
Disgusting.


No, the "obvious solution" is to regularly shame bad parents into teaching and practicing good oral hygiene to their children.  Next would be shaming people into waiting to have children until they have the maturity, finances, and the commitment to actually raise their children.   Fluoride, social workers and welfare programs are the result of being totally unwilling to directly address the underlying cause of so many problems:   horrendous parenting.  But big government, nanny-state advocates would understandably prefer fluoride to shaming bad parents.


Kim says that Trump is “unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country.”
.
I never imagined I would find myself in agreement with a North Korean dictator.


"seven national climate research networks"

I think having strong research programs providing both basic science and informing government policy making is a great idea.  Is there any way to better integrate what these different networks are doing that might be more efficient and get more bang for the buck?


Very scary indeed. I'm already about as conservatively positioned as I could be financially, and I sincerely hope that I will be the loser for this.


Cynthia, If we ever make the mistake of putting rail at-grade, even minor collisions between a car and the train will shut the entire system down temporarily, and one fatal collision between a truck and the train will shut the system down for hours.  About 9% of the vehicles in Hawaii are not even insured.  Keep rail separate from traffic.  Don't mix rail with dumpsters, garbage trucks, emergency vehicles, and shopping carts.


Actually it appears to be you who are obsessed with remarriage.


Go ahead, let him.

He means nothing to me. And, it will confirm that even he has no faith in his policies standing the test of time.


Yes.  Many things can be done that are a lot cheaper.


The lives of "thousands" of transgender people have been thrown into "chaos" because they now can't openly join the military - give me a break.


Ross was right.  You resort to name calling.


What a surprise!


I am sure Trudeau is more concerned about his friends in Arabia than about the effects of killing  pipes line projects on Canadians. By buying their oil we hand them the wealth they kill each other for.


Sure, right you are...and why not beat the hell out of suspects in any and all crimes? Who needs a trial, anyway...we know who's guilty, don't we? And if they say they don't know anything, we assume they're lying and ramp up the pain...that always gets the truth...at least according to your logic.


They, sir, are not me, nor most of us.

Do not assume that one such as that represents the rest of us.


You usually do, and dig yourself in deeper.
This is the FOURTH time you've replied. LOL
Oooops!


Mr. Caplan rails feebly against a man of considerable  capitalist accomplishment, and as with many other  misinformed  writers, prejudices our association with our United States neighbours for the  future
But, as Hugh Winsor, Margaret Gardner and Rosemary attempted to publish and were Doyle/editorially forbidden,        www.maths1951.wordpress.com      Recover $7.3 billions for the Crown
which is far beyond Mr. Caplan's intellect, and, unpublished, manslaughters my associates
RIP P.Tyas,  G.Parry  et al


History is made as Hilary Clinton becomes the first woman presidential candidate of a major party. BBC News here notes that of 50 US newspapers only 19 had photos of Hilary Clinton on the cover.  Why?

The photo for this story is a "cut out" photo of Hilary on a sign;  the front page of the RG has a photo of two Hilary Clinton supporters embracing; and back page A10 has  photos of BILL C. speaking and of CHELSEA C.  smiling with  wealthy hubby Marc M.

But on the day Hilary Clinton broke the political  glass ceiling, THERE WAS NO PHOTO OF HER IN THE RG.*
Why?
(*there was, at least, a sketch of her on the editorial page.)


Maybe, but there are a lot of single, happy widows out there. I am aware of many widowed women who are happy to remain single, yet men seem to feel the need to remarry quickly.

The elderly women will be okay.


Welcome home!


Anderson is the BIG liar in this City Council story.  Obviously Ozawa got some "donations."