The point is he falls within the definition of "Law abiding citizen".   So what if he does not follow the rules.  Who does?  Look at all the people who exceed the speed limit on the roads.

So you are against the second Amendment?  Come on, what is the problem with you?  He is entitled to a gun is he not?  Does the NRA know about you?  lol


Emily Jashinsky is a moron


Let me tell you: I watched Maher's appearance on Van Jones' show, 'The Messy Truth,' last week. Maher was amazingly concise on the Western-Islamic divide, as usual. I wonder what he'd have to say about M-103? My guess is that he'd metaphorically slice-and-dice it as effectively as he did Freeland's twaddle during her now infamous appearance on his show.


We have to have faith in out good citizenry. Our good girls demonizing our good guys has led to the resurgence of the bad guy.


Scary describes what the environmental policies did to Ontario.


Thank you for posting this link, "Senator". It's unfortunate that it won't reach a wider readership. I I would never condone it, nor wish it on his loved ones, but I fear the best hope for America is a quick and painless head shot.


This isn't just an foreigner issue. It's also a domestic greed issue. The real fix, is a speculation tax for people who own more than one or two properties. A 25% tax Canada wide would flatten out the market and not be challengeable under NAFTA or WTO so long as all Canadians are affected.


I think he's talking out of the other end of his digestive tract


A traditionalist performance piece by a nearly 70 year old man who likes playing dress up and having people bow and scrap before him is NOT the Lourve.


Women are being sent to male correctional institutions with mental health facilities - not mental health care centres.


His statement about the meetings he had with the Russians illustrated this picture of him: incompetent, in over his head, out of his depth, naive and oblivious.  The Russians are playing him, just like they played Trump Jr., exploiting the vulnerability of their ignorance in this kind of affairs.  That's the peril of Trump's relying on family loyalty over experience.


You're quoting the Sun???  LOL.  BTW, Stats Can and Rev Canada are not the same animal.


At a minimum the article should have named the HR firm and mentioned some companies where these employees would have been sent. Total lack of context in this article.


They don't listen or care.


Wait, why is the Oregon State Police Captain Fugate speculating on the cause of the crash even as he also states, as quoted, that they are still conducting the investigation? That's not appropriate.


Donald Trump and a Turd Sandwich walk into restaurant. Donald orders prime rib, a bottle of ketchup, and a beautiful slice of chocolate cake. He leaves a yuge tip. The turd sandwich orders coffee and a donut and leaves a 50 cent tip. Their waitress says, "I hope that orange buffoon never comes here again."


At this point there is no simple solution - the contracts have been signed and the money spent.
Enjoy  .-)


I wonder if the terrorists will leave us alone while we continue to arm the Israelis.


As a card carrying libertarian, I find this initiative appalling. Any regressive democrat with a preschool level understanding of economics would know that artificially limiting growth in the housing market will only drive housing costs higher, further driving out the poor by making it more unaffordable to live in Colorado. It's called supply and demand. If the supply of a highly demanded product goes down, the cost for that product goes up, especially if that supply is artificially limited.

All the policies that have been passed in the last 20 years by so-called progressives have created the perfect storm in the Colorado housing crisis we have today: increased property taxes, inordinately high and unnecessary construction standards which drive up insurance costs for developers, and now artificially capping growth. If anything, this initiative is an attack on the poor. Funny how democrats attempts to help are actually making the housing situation worse for those on the bottom.


Republicans in City and County of Denver government? What's that?


where do these illegals come from?? I think that a country of our size with a relatively small population should be able to locate these people appropriately (not major towns) help them find work/ open business etc. if they are legitimate. We are not Donald Trumps USA. I think some of Trumps ideas have credibility , but we cannot be anti- immigration.


I think this opinion piece scores very low in terms of evaluating Trump's overall science policy.  Hager confuses global-warming-related studies with all of science.  Lot's of federal money is being wasted on global-warming-related pseudo science.  Hager could have made a stronger argument for his point if, for example, he had identified just one concrete result produced during the ARPA-E energy summit meeting whose demise he laments.   Yeah, Hager (like Bob Doppelt) likes to burn jet fuel to attend big hoola climate-change-related conferences, but what good do they do.  Hager should rethink his argument.  Focus on the concrete.  I expect that Trump is a great supporter of all science related to opening new horizons, to improving products, computers, etc.  Trump may be opposed to spending endless billions on quixotic climate change research.  Doesn't mean he doesn't support science more generally.


Mil-Spec Psychological Warfare upon US civilians by the lowest bidder? I hear Russian currency's been on a fire sale for quite some time. Why do we keep trying to put the spotlight on the place and not the actors far closer to home who were involved, engaged, and highly motivated in these brave new anti-democratic campaign tactics? If the Incumbent Establishment goes on talking about this farcically for much longer, why wouldn't we begin to conclude that they necessarily must themselves be somehow 'in' on these attacks against our liberal democratic and free way of life? This has degraded our dignity as Enlightened citizens and it has made us an International laughing stock. That's not on Russia. That's on wealthy English-speaking beast-clowns whose contempt for our Constitution is now completely unbound and dancing mockingly before us all. ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy )


" I just think he would make the situation here even worse."

If Jay Cutler  can work in uniform on Sunday, there is more to Kaepeernick's not working than ability or lack thereof.


I'm surprised some rabid Third Wavers have not labelled Bev a gender-traitor and reported her to the CJC.


It's a joke. Maybe a bad joke. But don't start censoring humor.


Totally agree.  That is why I continue to call him red. Oddly, until this article printed, I could not recall his name, which was good.

BTW, we need to get together sometime, hopefully with erudite.


Where is the referenced study indicating that banning tobacco use is detrimental to health? Where was the ban? How are pipes and cigars safer than cigarettes? Sorry, I guess I found a lot in your brief comment to question ;-)


Sanders is right. It's a new brand but the same party composed of the same people.
I spend a lot of time in France, and even have friends who support LePen, but I find even in them one common characteristic, xenophobia, or more simply, irrational fear of others who are not like them.
Most admit it openly.
I just remind them that it was foreigners who fought and died to save the cowardly derrieres of their ancestors from the Nazis. They have no good response to that fact.


I made that claim to you at the time and you denied it at the time. You just claim the priest is innocent. Maybe it is your strong support for clericalism that comes across. Look at Disqus yourself.
Donald Trump used fear and anger of minorities to win the election. Racial intolerance to blacks. Religious intolerance to Muslims. Nationalist intolerance to Mexicans. This has resulted in some incidents reported on the news where these minorities have been verbally or physically attacked. These lives matter as well. Trump is responsible for his divisive hate campaign. How will this make America great again? How will he be president for all the people by without surrounding himself with a diverse group of people.
The Catholic Bishops support for Trump is designed to collect funds from their rich republicans. The minorities are ignored. Quoting Burke generally show support for his point of view.
The country is deeply divided and it is time to stop the fear and anger. Not support it.


You have the freedom to hate America all you want Danny.  Hate on bro.


how about 0 tax breaks for everyone, and a flat 30% income tax.
raise the GST if we need to, but let people keep what they earn.


Stop using the word "rebel"!

These Islamic terrorists are just looking to create the "Islamic Republic of Syria" (with the added bonus of Sharia Law and its caveman mentality)


No matter how many times this is explained to people like you you don't get it.


Keeping it classy at the GM.


The only Trump supporter in Canada's tactics :

1/Use multiple anonymous names.

2/Post lies over and over again in ECHO chamber style.

3/Villify minorities and the poor.

4/When confronted with the inconvenient truth that Americans are far more likely to die as a result of their own gun or the gun of another American than a terrorist attack, go back to point #1

You always were a bother and a bore, Sweeney.

Do get lost


Minor tweaks will not work.  The system needs a total body off restoration.


It's been seven years the since the purchase, have they identified anything linked to the Iraqi museum yet?


Not that it matters.


Sorry that wasn't my point.  I was only stating that the negative goal differential would have concerned me more had the team been a high scoring one, which they were not.


Once again, B20 is the "Official" game changer!

The end of the credit bubble = The end of the RE bubble.

The RE industry will pump out more propaganda that nothing has changed, keep buying, nothing to see here. Yeah right! Think of "B20" as a gigantic pin heading straight into an inflated bubble.


"Claire Syrett, meet the Black Market, Black Market, Claire Syrett and the tens of thousands of people who buy and use cannabis in Eugene." Do you really think people are going to consistently pay 20% more or go to the source they've used for years?


That extreme disparity in income and assets is a bad thing is an idea that goes back at least to Adam Smith.


Regardless of the Congressional disapproval of Trump's executive orders, the Republicans won't lift a finger to counter them - yet. The new president is very popular with the members of Mr. Trump's "movement" and a Republican Congress will be unwilling to rock the boat at this stage. Trump put the Republicans back in power by his sheer populist message. This occurred in the same vein as the Liberal Party's beholden gratitude to Justin Trudeau for bringing them back from third party status to government.


Cannabis can be cheaply and easily extracted and concentrated. A 100% THC product can be produced for under $100.00 a kilo. I do it all the time with other plants that we extract and concentrate - have done for decades.

Need specific levels and kinds of cannabinols? That'll be an extra ten or twenty dollars a kilo.

No chemicals are used in the process, just carbon dioxide. This process is used everyday, all over the world, to produce millions of tonnes of concentrated plant extracts. It's old tech - cheap simple and effective.

Yet this global fully functional, multi billion dollar industry, has been shut out of the cannabis "legalisation" process in favour of connected insiders and greedy security industry types.

100:1 Astragalus root extract concentrate, is priced today at $90.00 a Kilo. It takes 2-4 years to grow the roots. the yield from cannabis is TEN TIMES that of Astragalus!

We're all being snowed by these people "forming" this industry. It's a complete and utter scam!


Did you read the article Grady? Apparently not. Both republican and democratic officials in virtually every state are refusing to comply fully with the request.


Meanwhile Labour's Corbyn campaigned to Remain but privately sided with Leave.


Good cause;  Paul Allen is a quiet force for many good things.


"laughed loudly throughout the entire trial"  That is a serious accusation.  Can you show evidence to this?  I'm really very curious.


Maybe you should move to San Fran and go live in a box with the other human trash.  Alaska has lots of hard working people (including natives) which don't want to support these lazy people.


No that is not why churches are exempt for taxation.

We made them exempt as a courtesy but we require them to remain out of politics in order to keep that exemption.

And tax exemptions for churches, or anyone else for that matter, have not always existed in our country.


Hey Wa Po - you LOST.  your 95% negative articles didn't work to defeat Trump.  Your smear machine - guess what no one CARES what Washington Post thinks!!  You ignore Clintons getting filthy rich off of their foundation...


Abortion is legal because Harry Blackmun thought he was the smartest man on the Court and jury-rigged a decision which threw a wrench into reaching a democratic consensus and has led to decades of conflict and an intractable divide in American politics and opinion.

Assuming for a moment that a human life amendment were passed, abortion would be as illegal for those who want people to stay out of their lives and don’t have to justify themselves to anyone.

And whether that amendment were passed by “the ultra-Republican right” or people who believed their next neighbors were Venusians would be irrelevant.

Like the Dredd Scott decision, this hare-brained judicial edict laid the seeds of its own destruction.


When does an investigation stop turning into a Stalin inquisition? At some point you have to stop.


This Vancouver housing bubble should have never got so out of hand. Those receiving huge Government salaries, VIP benefits and massive government pensions in all three levels of government have been inept and willfully ignorant about the situation causing massive economic and demographic changes many for the worse.
Those who are to blame have been involved and elected for over 10 years and knew or should have known what it going on as that is why their benefit package is so generous. To this very day any questions or being held to account is met by silence and obfuscation. In Vancouver Federal Liberal MP's Joyce Murray , Hedy Fry and Mayor Gregor are all guilty for doing NOTHING and not even being concerned about the plight of their constituents.


ADN and it's ilk will not let up on Trump at all.  Even though the election is over, everything said and done by Trump will be spun to be a contradiction of what he has said.  The hatred the media has for this man knows no bounds, and they will show it every time they can.
The irony is that people like Sara Fredericks (see comment below) want the media to call Trump whenever they can but are willing to give HRC a pass on all of her LIES.
At least let the guy put forth some definite proposals and plans, Sara and others.  Ignore the mud-slinging and pot-stirring by the ADN, Washington Post, New York Times, etc. until we actually see what's going on.  HRC had every chance to win this election, but she has no one to blame but herself, her ego, and her attitude.  Deal with it!


Yeah, right.  I was born in Yokohama during the occupation in 1947, and my dad showed up at the hospital with his Red Cross girlfriend to show me off to her.  That went over like a turd in a punchbowl with my mom, who got on a boat back to the states with me and my older sister as soon as she could.  I was brought up by a single mom in her 20's in the 1950's when the was no welfare, and got passed around to friends and family for several years.  Ended up leaving home at 17 and working my way through my senior year of high school sleeping on my older sister's couch.  I was born and raised poor, and I was never lazy because I didn't want to stay poor.  I graduated near the top of my class, got 99th percentile SATS, and got a scholarship to college.  First home I ever lived in that wasn't a rental was my own, which I bought with a VA loan when I was 29.  Went to 16 different schools in 7 different states growing up.

http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/tenplanks.html


Enjoy this photo of Cory Gardner, who's now big pals with Mitch McConnell, who thought he could replace national health care insurance rules with a nothingburger.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/us/politics/republicans-health-care-legislation-gridlock.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news


Lol!


The Fairbanks 4? They got lucky!


"It is not a matter of religion...This is about our nations safety."
Let me see if I understand your position correctly.  We should ignore one aspect of American ideology, ie. the separation of church and state, and only focus on another aspect of American interest, ie. national safety?  Nor should anyone consider the possible violation of the Constitution by a guy who just swore a little over a week ago to "preserve, defend and protect" the Constitution because of his alleged good intent?


We already have a monarchy. Why would we want to add Mad King Donald?


What is disrespectful is lying to the Canadian public about the true nature of these fundraisers.


This is great!  It'll only mean that the best and brightest need apply.  At least Podesta is not in there.  Seems that there are a lot of hidden Obama/Clinton radicals lurking amongst the new Pres. WH staff.  But if Doug Chin were trying to look for anti-muslimists, then he should focus on Geert Wilders.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-election-campaign-idUSKBN15W2GT

The left is just supporting the 'ole Patsy Mink playbook of "just oppose everything" tactics.  When oh when will there be a positive story about the new administration?

Causal engineering.  Causal repetition.  Just saying.


I'll rely on scientifically reviewed and locally sourced facts, other that Wikipedia - and you see a lot of detail in that map you reference?  Wow!
http://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/WildlifeSpecies/Mammals/MooseReintroductionFactSheet.pdf


"In 2009, Pope Benedict offered a personal apology to Phil Fontaine, a residential school survivor and Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. That apology was not accepted by the commission because it was not offered to all victims of residential schools."

Read the article next time.


It's not fair!

Why can't we just mindlessly support just one side?

I thought there were only winners and losers? Black and white? Even Ronald Reagan told us that the world could be comprehended as a battle between good and evil . . . which was freakin' awesome because not only did he capitalize on the rise of non-relative adventure storytelling movies in the 1980s where there was ALWAYS good vs. evil, Reagan just made the world a simpler place.

Please put this neverending, historically-rich and vaulting history of the Middle East into easy-to-understand paradigms such as Good vs. Evil.

Moral relativity?
Intellectualism?
Context?
History?

Pfft! . . . boring! . . . choose a side. The Good Guys. And let's win this thing against the Evil Empire.


Air pollution is one of the leading causes of death on the planet. The World Health Organization's 2014 study of mortality from air pollution found that about 3,000,000 people a year die from effects of "ambient" (outdoor) air pollution.

Skepticat makes an excellent point, below, when he calls the AQI a "death index". Science probably knows about how much the mortality rate increases per percent of beta scatter, although this would vary given differing populations and geography.

I wonder if anyone has correlated local emergency room admissions and the AQI.

http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/en/


No, I'm saying, based on previous comments you've made at NCR, that you're a Nazi apologist. Don't bother responding to my comments. My reply will always be a big "f*** you."


Do the math people. These people don't work, they are homeless! Yet you see them smoking and drinking. Where does that money come from?? It isn't coming from handouts!! I don't want them anywhere near my kids or my home. The park by my kids school had such a problem with homeless they came in and cut down a bunch of trees. They moved to the other side. They cut those trees out. The team that cleaned the park said they took out over 200 needles, condemns, drug paraphernalia, and bags of biohazard garbage. This park is behind a big church, on the side of a busy street and next to a good neighborhood. Their street corners are disgusting, imagine their camps!! They choose drugs & drink. They aren't trying to get a job.
I agree getting teens off the street is important. They are easy prey & they don't have safe places to go. Most don't have safe homes. They need shelter, food, school and a support network. Kids don't necessarily have a choice, adult homeless CHOOSE to stay homeless.


A sad day for the families of the missing sailors.


The Difference Between Donald Trump & Pope Francis

King Herod sent his men to kill the baby Jesus. Joseph was warned in a dream to flee with Mary and Jesus and go to Egypt. When Herod's men were in hot pursuit, they approached the Egyptian border. Standing at the border were Donald Trump and Pope Francis. Donald Trump yelled, "You terrorists can't come across the border!!" Pope Francis protested by saying, "Heh! Herod's men are refugees, too! Let's welcome them. It's the Christian thing to do!"


Gee, I wonder if this person is a bias social justice warrior, lol

She reminds me of Jessica...lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XARMbTEGVDk


If Muslims were to ever acknowledge that the Koran and Islam are at the core of all the terrorism and brutality  done by Muslims in the name of Allah, we may  find peace.


Good, this is really good. The more time Turdeau spends outside of Canada, the less likely he is to continue in his failing ways, talk about out-of-touch!!

Tell Justin Turdeau to take a few extra months off this year and to ensure his holiday is booked outside of North America. I've heard Damascus is quite nice this time of year, arrange a trip for his entire support staff too, including his diaper..


Like a jewelry store owner, I'm wondering why his weapons aren't locked up at the end of the day. It may be expensive, but his display cases could be transformed into a "lock box" type of case each day at closing. It wouldn't take long to secure them, and a thief attempting to open them would also give the police more time to respond (assuming he has an alarm).


Quadruple the fines and use the money to fund the police necessary to address the criminals who are trespassing.  Make the people who are causing the problem (by allowing crack/heroin/spice buildings to flourish) to manage their properties.


Article 22
1 The premises of the mission shall be inviolable. The agents of the receiving State may not enter them, except with the consent of the head of the mission.
2 The receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.
Article 39
1 Every person entitled to privileges and immunities shall enjoy them from the moment he enters the territory of the receiving State on proceeding to take up his post or, if already in its territory, from the moment when his appointment is notified to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs or such other ministry as may be agreed.


It ain’t over till it’s over.


Wow! Jughead figured this all by himself.  Not to mention that he is the boss and should have been paying attention.  Guess he was too busy traveling with his buds.  Deciding whom to give the cash to.


Hey, pseudo--"anomie" doesn't mean what you think it does.  The primary meaning is breakdown of customary social and ethical norms.  It also sometimes refers to personal alienation from society that results from such breakdown.  It doesn't mean "the absence of any emotion at all"; the word for that is "alexithymia."  And it doesn't mean "depression". Both of these are clinical entities.  "Anomie" is strictly a sociological concept.

Not one penny of federal money is used for abortions.  Federal money that goes to Planned Parenthood is reserved for women's health needs such as gynecological screening and contraception, of which PP is one of the major providers to poor women.  Of course the government doesn't want states to accept money designated for those needs and then simply deny it to PP because a religious clique controls their legislatures and wants to make a grandstand play for their fans.

Reread Schopenhauer, idiot.  And stay away from Pound--he's too hard for you.


Liberals are bound and determined to restore Oregon to Tax Hell, USA, and what caused our state to stay in permanent recession in the 1980's.


I've generally seen it written as Quebeckers.
I think that Quebecers would be pronounced "Quebesers"


Trudeau and the liberals are traitors to Canada and western democracy. Shame on them. With all their other lies they can never be given power again.


The Quebec lieutenant is not Maxime Bernier. Bernier had the leadership stolen (ref. Corcoran article in N.P.) by the milk and hen people getting together to support Scheer, and now the cost is the loss of one of ten Consrvative held seats in Quebec. This is what is going to put Mr. Trudeau back in power next election: no loss of Quebec seats, possibly gains, whereas with Mad Max there would have been losses for sure.


Shills for certain industries like to use arguments to prevent people from seeing that most of the things that will benefit them environmentally will also benefit them economically. There is an attempt to distort the message and accuse the messengers of hypocrisy which implies the message they are delivering is not valid.
For example, the simplistic assumptions about using AC misrepresent what is to be accomplished through a number of processes to reach goals that will give people a more comfortable environment, for a reduced cost to people and the society.  Housing should be built using well know principles to reduce the heating and cooling needs.  Those needs should be meet efficiently to reduce the need of things like fossil fuels.
I find this article that is based on ignorance and false simplistic assumptions with all the conclusions false to be contemptable because it endangers our future.


Yes - You go Jaded ! Let's eliminate all the babies who might grow up in difficult circumstances, that's the answer, but wait, how about these old people who are just as miserable, let's eliminate them as well. We can't do it overtly, but we can cut off their insurance and coerce them to do it themselves. Yes, that;s the answer - Go Pete Go...


Indeed.  But I was responding to a suggestion that Poland should refund the EU.


It means to be injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others. Petards were explosive devices used to blow holes in gates or walls during the sixteenth century. In Shakespeare's Hamlet it was originally written as follows: "For tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar."


Exactly correct. Nate sets up a false dilemma. There are many other options. Thanks for pointing them out.


Repeat after me: "Opus Dei, qui tollis pecuniam mundi, dona nobis partem".


It's the Democrats who ought to be shaking in their boots. They are a lost party and headed the way of the Whigs if they keep failing to learn from their mistakes.


Wow, and you're just coming to that eureka moment now?

Aren't you just way ahead of the curve....


See this is exactly why I don't let my husband do any tree maintenance on our property! It's not worth the risk! Our tree service in Salem, Oregon (Oregon Woodsmen - http://oregonwoodsmen.com/) always utilizes solid and upgraded equipment so they get the job (trimming, pruning, removing, etc) done efficiently. I'd question whether this arborist was using out of date equipment like some contractors/DIY'ers tend to do..?


Yes everyone claims they have had these huge increase in premiums. Yet when they come to my office to file their federal taxes they don't have the receipts to show me what they paid.


I was appalled at a CBC interview given by Mr. O'Leary perhaps 6 weeks back. He laid into Rachel Notley with a real junk yard dog-style attack. That might be great for TV ratings in a fragmented entertainment universe, but it is no way to build a society. The man doesn't know the first thing about what would qualify him for political leadership, and if Conservatives are smart about the future of a great party, they need to show this guy the door. When he leaves to return south, it would be great if he could only find a slot among his minions for Ezra Lavant. The party could well do without such divisiveness.


That was a disgraceful reMark.


Not really, Bill. The ACA is Obamacare. I hope you're not the 1/3 who didn't know they  were the same thing: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/upshot/one-third-dont-know-obamacare-and-affordable-care-act-are-the-same.html

I also calls em as I sees em.


Goodness Patricia.  I think you nailed that one down.  Thanks for the reality check.


The left is finally realizing people are tired of their way of thinking.


what does your comment have to do with what he posted? aren't you doing the same thing as what you are saying? two cents worth?


Paddling classes?  Is that legal?  Does it hurt?


Its a non-issue. The ethics commissioner has already said this is all legal and above-board.

Its not sticking on Trudeau (his numbers are still way up) because people in Canada don't just believe what the opposition says.


That would be relevant information.  The state may be counting benefits as part of total retirement amount.


Except for the alleged airport closures, I'm basically OK with the rest.


Yes a Canadian is a Canadian " unless you live in Justin's Provence of the chosen ones !!!
Remember when he stated the French are naturally better leaders than the West, yes all those ignorant Westerns allowing women to ware what they want - shame on them.
Truly the Liberals are the gift that keeps giving, yes Justin anthimg for a vote.


This should never have happened. There should be no gaps in law enforcement procedures. Sometimes I believe our government officials remove their heads and place them on their chairs before being seated.


Very nice of an ANC member to be "appalled", all your so-called leaders you've thrown onto society have caused the ruin of our country, you very well ought to be appalled and ashamed. Anyone who voted for Zuma, who disrespected our Constitution by voting in a known rapist and criminal into power, is complicit, and you deserve nothing from this Country, nothing!


if you are a hipster, Old Portland started 10 years ago.


Ummmmm, and so Rhyner is suggesting we look at their faces to... what?  What other aspect of their diversity is he suggesting we ascertain by doing this? The sizes of their noses maybe?

I'd say this was thinly-veiled, dog-whistle, white supremacist, racial cleansing talk, but actually Rhyner didn't attempt to veil it at all, even with a thin one. And Josieaka, you should be ashamed of yourself for defending it.


Trudeau actually re-posted this on his Twitter account four hours ago:

"Sara E. MayhewVerified account @saramayhew  4h4 hours ago
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 Today the US President can no longer claim to be leader of the free world—that now belongs to Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau #WelcometoCanada"

"Jen Ivette
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The title "Leader of the free world" is no longer held by the US President. That title now goes to Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau #MuslimBan"

Does Trudeau really think that he is now the leader of the free world?


Look at that dirty Willamette Valley air.


Hi Kevin, Sorry that I do not write back immediately. I do not own a cell phone/Laptop/Ipad/ Tablet/Blackberry, etc. - just a basic Apple Computer at home. Kevin, the organist (Evelyn) in our Parish Church did not go up to the Altar to receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist because she knew she was living in sin and did not want to offend Jesus further, but she was attached to the sin of impurity until she realized that she was indeed offending Him by choosing to continue having sexual relations with her boyfriend. She needed to hear in a loving (not judgmental) way that she has to choose between God and sin. What I always found humbling about Evelyn was the fact that she used to go up to the Altar and cross her arms over her chest. In this way, the Priest knew she was there to receive a blessing but not to desecrate the body of Christ because she was not in the State of Grace. I believe your example of Joe and other remarried Catholics who have not obtained an annulment (continued)


I don't know but it was one of Harper's Senate leaders who told newly-appointed Conservative Senators "Remember who gave you the job!"


Your low end Civics and Corollas are made in US and Canada which contradicts your point that they cannot be made competitively here.


The left are the only ones allowed to coin phrases and make up words like homophobia, micro aggression, trigger, etc.  When anyone on the right does the same, they ask why (eye roll).  They are the Ministry of Information and will control what we see, hear, say and believe.  Welcome to 1984.


DP, your credibility is shot. The problems in DougCo schools are BECAUSE of reformist school board members. Shame on you for perpetuating lies.


To be fair, I don't really think getting laughed at counts as legitimate persecution, especially when the same article says they are laughing at the rest of us... "believers invite fellow adherents to open discussions in which the like-minded confirm one another’s hunches and laugh at the folly of those still stuck in the Enlightenment." I'm not advocating meanness and name-calling, but if they're dishing it out, they better be prepared to take it.


Quite the story.  Trial will make headlines.  Not the first time this has happened


The CIP makes my mouth water. Where can I go to eat their delicious creations? At their Diamond Head school grounds? And when will they be open to the public?


It's about the economy, stupid!

How long will it take to understand that.


It is totally relevant because it is not wise to make a country that does not respect human rights wealthy and powerful. If they treat their citizen so badly, how do you think they will treat non-Chinese.
Not to mention this is a regime that continues to murder respectable Chinese citizens and essentially sentenced Liu Xiaobo who won the nobel peace price and whose only "crime" is to advocate democracy to a death sentence by failing to properly treat his cancer at the early stages. Shame on you for defending such a inhuman regime.


None of that makes a difference. I don't like to draw hyperbolic comparisons, but Hitler won by a landslide, so did Mussolini, and Pol Pot, and most of the men that knew what people wanted, could read and exploit their weaknesses, and wreaked havoc on the 20th Century. Trump is a menace.

And rest assured he does not play chess. Putin plays chess. Trump does not have the temperament for the finesse and subtlety of chess. If you played chess you would know this.


Wanna bet Clinton wins Alaska?


What absolute nonsense!  Coming from this mutt and his leanings as a Dimmocrat, it's 'par for the course'.  First, Colorado drivers licenses, now, 'a fund for legal aid for 'illegal aliens' to fight deportation'  Here Illegally, broke the laws of our nation, and this 'mayor' sets up a 'fund' for their legal plight, what absolute nonsense.  Has anyone ever debated this 'mayor'?  He's a real dope, and the embarrassment would be entertaining.


Didn't this happen once in Girdwood?


Ah, too bad your Donald guy doesn't receive praise. Sometimes you just need to do some good to be worthy.


Returning control of health insurance back to the states would be a great idea, if this is what they are proposing. Keep in mind a couple of things:
1) If your state had high premiums before Obamacare that was the fault of your state government being in the pockets of the special interest groups. Change your state government and stop with the buying across state lines!
2) The whole cost of the unemployed ill and the unemployed with pre-existing conditions fell solely on the shoulders of people who buy their own insurance out of their own pockets. Time to get the other 270 million people to shoulder some of that cost.


Not only did this guy's cowardly  behavior changed the lives of his family but the victim's family as well! Sad and great losses to everyone. Heartfelt condolences to all especially to the Kishida's family.


we just want a one year extension to find an appropriate solution that can keep our great teachers and pre-school alive, and continue it, without having to scrap it and risk not see it come-back! (very hard to do as a project for parents on their own free time with no promise we can even get space / funding / licensing etc...when we need a pre-school that works while we are looking!) we would need Federal and / or provincial help down the line anyway, so they may as well help us now and avoid the massive headache and potential disruption of our children's education this is causing


...and all the racists come out of the woodwork. Nice job, WW. Civil comments, indeed.


Why are you accusing the "fake news" MSM as being alt-right.
After all, most of their "fake news" was about how great Hillary was and how she couldn't lose.
They are definitely not alt-right!


Yes .................. Do not to go there, case closed.


Riiight. There are like, NO men in the government, and certainly not in positions of power.

You know, guys like you don't succeed for a reason, and it ain't because of women.


Gotta stay and keep an eye on you guys.


St Damian nailed it..."forget their identity".

How true that is today on so many levels.


Finally, you're showing your true colors, Ryan.  Absolutely disgusting.


Marvelous achievement by Da Guv. All those junkets to Japan have paid off. His reelection slogan: "He gave Honolulu the Honu".


Obama was the fool


that's a question for the game warden. the limit should be 3 then call it a day.


Ontario will not be doing carbon tax for very long. Once the witch is booted and if Patrick Brown has a hope he had better start listening. This is nothing but a blatant tax grab, and the Australia experiment proved that. But they were smart and booted the government responsible and their tax.

It is nothing but a tax grab and creates a massive hiring of more government workers, which doing nothing for the climate.


Money buys access so party does not matter.


Fantastic!


I thought the same thing...until I realized this was "big news"...an example of a law that was passed and finally an officer enforcing the law and lo and behold...a stolen moped that will find it's way back to its owner!  I wonder if stopping and checking those mopeds that are not licensed may uncover more that have discrepancy in registered / licensed ownership?  Just saying.


Russia has failed to accomplish the goal we made up and projected on them!!!!


Ebola is a devastating disease, polio in the 50s didn’t harm, according to CDC data (Vital Statistics publications) 99.999% of the population. Hard to define something that harmed less than 0.001% of the population as “devastating”


Pauline Marois.  Richard Henry Bain charged.


It's far MORE ghastly to have an 'uptown klansman' leave his sheet at home in the closet so he can smile benignly while awaiting appointment to head the US Dept. of Justice.

I've lived in Missouri, Mississippi and North Carolina.  My ex-wife and her siblings grew up in Jim Crow Arkansas.  Her late mother (rah'matullahi alayha--may God have Mercy on her) told me how it was during WWII, living in a town in which she and her family had FAR less rights than Nazi POW's quartered in camps outside that town.

In my own lifetime I've seen first-hand how easy it is for guys like this to utterly destroy peoples' lives and get clean away with it--because they had names like "Beauregard" and were descended from pampered, well-connected people who used to "own" the ancestors of those they still walk on today.  Lannatullahi alayhim alf-mura'at: God-d@mn them a thousands times.


It's sickening that Trudeau allows Canada to be exploited by a bogus refugee industry, yet he turns around and gores small businesses with new taxes and in doing so risks economic activity, job growth and even doctor capacity.


I believe in capitalism.. and accountability. If shareholders of companies that exploit these public , shared resources get a windfall benefit , by avoiding cleanup responsibilites, it strikes me that it is an appropriate role of government to strongly safeguard subsequent users of those public resources.
Is there a compelling argument against this? And what would that argument be?


I'll wait till isis,  is  killing you off.
then ask if you would like us men
on the right to help. seeing as how
men on the left, think a hug will stop
that stuff.


I thought the lame duck part was just the last year of their service.  Trump just entered office and you call him a lame duck until 2020?  really?  did you have some extra "Sauce" in your coffee?
I'm out.


I'm going to cite terrible pizza as the reason his sales are down


There are few gentlemen in sports these days. Class act and always polite. Serena....not!


Real “beautiful men” don’t eat quiche.


It's not that the finding "will" generate debate but it already has. Much of it is quite dismissive. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/05/22/ape-that-lived-in-europe-7-million-years-ago-could-be-human-ancestor-controversial-study-suggests/?utm_term=.b7b9eb5f27d2


Because as the poster a few comments above said it, telescopes are fake.


You're doing a fine job all by yourself.


As a Mandan , I am proud of him.  Trump will punish him horribly but that is his way


LMAO...guess he is the assistant chief to the chief assistant.
So basically the Liberals get voted in and now have to pay someone to tell them how to do the job they were elected to do?...Only a Liberal...
Maybe L. Ron Hubbard is for hire.


"I’m saying that it’s not my place to say how or when he should be able to express himself. Nor is it yours. Nor is it the NFL’s."

I wonder if professor Crisp said the same thing about Tim Tebow.


Perfectly logical and predictable result.

Wouldn't surprise me if their tips (for tip jobs) went down as well.  When a customer knows that the price for their meal and drinks went up to give the employees higher pay, it's logical to think that 20% tips should no longer be the norm, and back them down to maybe 10%.

In fact, I remember reading last year that some restaurants are purposely taking that all the way at once -- jumping their employees to $15/hr and making it a "no tip" establishment.  Same exact principle.

Now that Colorado has enacted a significantly higher minimum wage, perhaps the normal tip% should be coming down here too.  I saw a number of menu price increases after that law took effect here on January 1.


I could NOT be more angry and pissed-off with Canada's official Tory opposition on the eve of very important and sensitive NAFTA renegotiations for Canada with the US, for its reckless and irresponsible "bashing" of the Canadian government in the US media, for settling a $20 million dollar lawsuit for $10.5 million dollars, that by my reckoning, ONLY happened at all because a former Tory Canadian government deliberately chose to violate the legal Canadian citizenship rights of one Omar Khadr!!!!


HE built me...that is enough


Still waiting for the bubble to burst, as every so-called expert has been predicting each year since about 2000.


If an income tax is implemented then the PFD becomes welfare. Plain and simple.


2 down, 1 to go.  I guess those SHOPO t-shirts neva help much, eh?


The way I see it, the white man should be thanking the Alaska Natives for the rich bounty of natural resources they so freely enjoy.  Alaska wouldn't have been successful against Soviet rule without the Alaska Native villages defending American interest and serving in the armed forces in the Arctic.  I haven't forgot the ongoing tragedies of imperialism around the world.   Don't forget the Indigenous guides and whalers that provided the backbone of the young Americans fighting against the British imperialist in what is called the American Revolution.  When the British controlled the Atlantic whaling fleets of oil, colonial dependency on the Pacific and Arctic whaling fleets helped the American colonies overcome the embargo and seized whaling ships in the Atlantic.  Honor Native Americans for there is no America without their ongoing presence.  There is no such thing as white supremacy anyway.  Hitler tried and failed.


"A good portion of this skepticism is based on a myth – that advisers are a mob of unscrupulous salespeople who charge too much, and engage in obvious conflicts of interest by receiving commissions for pushing clients into expensive investments they don’t need."

The only part of that description that is mythical is the unscrupulous salespeople part.  I agree that the majority of sales people are decent and honest people with no intention of harming clients.

The majority of sales people are trained to sell proprietary investment product rather than to provide client specific advice - i.e. your typical sales person has a controlled inventory of investment product to sell with considerably higher fees than alternative but comparable investment options.  In many or even most cases the sales person really doesn't even understand the fee structure much less whether it is expensive.  Odds are the salesperson was convinced to buy the same product by the firm to perpetuate the "myth".


I gave you an "agree" emoji...because there was really nothing to add to your statement!

I feel the same way about the silly things though...maybe just an "agree" and "disagree" icon would be sufficient.  The rest are unnecessary, and are used for varying degrees of sarcasm and bullying.

As far as the "slash-and-run" insults?  Your remarks are spot-on.  Thank you for voicing so succinctly what I think!


The armchair ex-spurts are out in force tonight.


I love instant experts. First Ladies live on. Blogs are just some electrons in one form today and gone tomorrow. Deal with your own shortcomings before making up pseudo history Professor.


Those who deny science, logic, and reason in defense of a made-up victim group is beyond evil.  A person with a bona fide mental disorder such as sexual dysmorphia and gender identity disorder can believe they are the incorrect sex as much as they want-- that doesn't mean you get to dictate to anyone that they should go along with their specious belief.
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What never occurs to people like Elvi Gray-Jackson or to you is that you don't represent the transgender "community."  You never have- and you never will.  In fact- Dr. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian at the forefront of Leftist Canadian government coercion to force people into not saying incorrect genders, has received many letters from those with the disorder, who say they don't want attention, and that they don't want the "bathroom issue" being brought up at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZmPwuuj88


Donna Brazile will be seen as the hero and her complicity in the Clinton Takeover will be ignored.

She is being vetted as the Patron Saint of Political Bravery in the First Church of Intersectionality.  It remains to be seen who her competitors will be.


Well J.T.'s Puppet Master Gerald Butts was advisor to the McGuinty/Wynne crowd who have reduced Ontario to the most indebted sub-sovereign jurisdiction in the world., so it's no surprise.


M,
As much as I love Pope Francis I have to admit that you make an important point in your post.
Unfortunately, the case may be that the church structure just may be the problem. Please recall that all bishops are considered to be brother bishops and thus are equals. Pope Francis is the Bishop of Rome thus also one bishop among many. I'm thinking that is why he cannot simply order all of the other bishops to do as he says. Francis must do his teaching in an artful and Catholic way.
My dear friend, a Catholic bishop once said that many in his diocese were against abortion. So I said isn't that what you want and a good thing. He said" yes, but. The but was because they were against abortion for some very wrong reasons like racial hatred, hatred towards the poor and just plain hatred. He pointed out that it was up to him to stop their hatred and TEACH them the real reasons why they should be against abortion. The Christ-like way to be against abortion. Many said he was soft on abortion."


Another yuge naive mistake by Comrade tRump. There is an old saying he should heed: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

What the ban will do is send news organizations to other sources within the administration and within the government. Eventually they will be reporting more substantial stories that will not only reveal what is truly happening in the White House, but will really piss Trump off. Not only that, but those ousted media can now report all the rumor and innuendo they want and the administration has no leverage to fight back.

There’s another old saying that is also still true: Never get in a fight with a guy who buys ink by the barrel.


Depends on who is calling the game. And a good rep doesn't hurt either.


I have bled blue my entire life. Born that way. As for the Raptors, anyone who spends just 5 minutes watching DeRozan, Lowry and team do their magic will be hooked. Perhaps these marketers help sell some tshirts, but it is what happens on the ice and the court that builds passionate fans.


Margaret Atwood uses social media to her advantage.  Today she learns it is a sword that can cut both ways.  Boo-hoo.


What a relief!--a moment of humor - and truth.  Thank you Mr. McDaniel.

Many Americans weren't prepared for Donald Trump, and now are in a state of shock and disbelief--not knowing how to confront this disaster.
Our system of government was set up to promote debate and power sharing--that's why we have 3 branches of government and Congress has two chambers.  These were to provide checks and balances that would prevent any one person or group from dominating.  This system has never faced such a crisis--but it's been slowly developing for decades.  We had gone on automatic cruise control and suddenly our car has broken down.  Let me not analyze what happened and why right now--but let's remember that each one of us has a bit of power and together we can find the way, that God has solutions if we're willing to face this as a spiritual challenge and are willing to grow.  And that front-line humor is the first thing that keeps soldiers alive and going.


In 2017 hopefully we can all learn to ignore trolls so they all just disappear into their irrelevant, angry, meaningless lives.  No need to repeat 2016.


Golfing back at Mar-a-Logo eh?  (basically Spanish for sea of lakes, or "swamp").


MMack.  "Fatima Ahmad, a McGill University student who wears a niqab and hopes to become a teacher. In Ms. Ahmad's sworn statement, she says the law has already had repercussions on her life."  So this would be the case u talked about.


He specifically stated "Measure 97 is a sales tax on all of us veiled as a gross receipts sales tax on large corporations, including power companies."

In the interest of full disclosure, I feel compelled to ask if you are a public employee?


Google, Facebook, Netflix.  All not paying Canadian Taxes.

Stop coming after me for more taxes. Go after these US companies.


There's already more than enough there to run Dolt 45 out of office and then arrest him.  If the Republicans weren't so craven and settled on taking away health care from millions of Americans in order to give a tax cut to the wealthy he would be gone already.


Yeah, it kinda was.  I don't need to read that particular bit of history.  I remember.


I'm sure Mr. Mellerstig has similar sentiments about his child. Thank goodness the child was not injured, mutilated, or killed. Dogs are not equal to children. If you think so, I have no frame of reference to deal with you. You are out of your mind.


And what of this so-called loophole when Harper's Cabinet was in place?

And no, we don't follow the new media rule of total innuendo in substitute for facts.


Modern women are in denial of their own sexuality and hormonal state: In times gone by a little harassment and flirting was a sign that the chemistry was AOK.


There you go, making assumptions and accusing others of being Pharisees.


You only say that because you disapprove of anti-miscegenation laws. Those laws were pushed by people who believed that "race mixing" was forbidden by God, and would quote the Bible in support of their views.


But in many respects, Tridentinus, UK is practically the 51st state (but more like Oregon with its unaffiliated majority).


"is that neocons are so determined to tell all the rest of us how to live"
-----------------
it is usually the Puritans of the Left, Marxists, NDP ...that tell people how to live

Thou shalt worship in the church of climate change
Thou shalt spend thy money (not mine) on social programs and be compassionate even if thou go into deficit and debt
Thou shalt be politically correct, diverse, inclusive and not marginalize


Good. Put it in the Criminal Code. Airlines should have to pay the entirety of a bumped passenger's expenses, including rebooking holidays when they miss one or more days and any business losses incurred. This has been going on too long and it has to stop which will mean making it cost airlines big bucks to mess peoples' lives up, let alone cause them to be assaulted!


Very good response to Marianne.


Joni Kamiya, Even with the reduced dosage you apparently still refuse the drink-off challenge.  You originally said chlorpyrifos wasn't very toxic in comparison to other substances, but now you're refusing to show by your actions that you actually believe what you said.


So that's your plan? Well...what is one to do?  We'll all collectively run it up the flagpole, so to speak and see what happens...I guess.  But Jesus isn't our President.  Donald J. Trump is.  For the next 7 yrs.


I wasn't implying anything about how you many interpret scripture, but that  Pope Francis and the majority of bishops do invoke Matt 25's  "welcome the stranger" as Jesus' endorsement of open borders.

One can invoke tradition as the most reliable indicator of correct Catholic social teaching.   But history tells me that  tradition doesn't trump reason and conscience.

An example:  Catholic bishops in the South never admonished the Confederacy for its stance on slavery, and even after the Civil war,  some churches had segregated schools and pews.   My conscience and reason tell me this was an error; yet the Catholic social teachings of those times said it was just.    What would Catholic leaders of those days have said about their fidelity and interpretation of Catholic tradition?  No doubt they'd have been sanguine they were in the right.

By the same token, I feel that Francis and the bishops are not entirely correct, not absolutely right, in views about immigration.


You certainly have it correctly, bycatch.  I'll repeat it for emphasis... " an amoral obligation to stick to the contract."    Mr. Gottstein states that he is in awe of the blatant disregard of the law.   Could it be they (the legislature) are so blinded by their sense of being royals that they don't see such minor details as are found in the law?


Didn't Billary lose more electoral votes that Trump? Just say'n


LOL, they lost by 13, all their receivers left the game hurt, missed chip shot field goal...a lot of blame to spread around.


Forget your local hire comments. Even the governor doesn't believe in that otherwise why is he having the engineering work for his LNG project being done down in CA? The oil companies already hire locally when the workforce can supply the people because it makes sense and it's cheaper. And many of us are now unemployed, or have already left the state in search of work. And the environmental regulations here in AK are very strict, and that's good. The environment for oil exploration and production here in AK has gotten very toxic.


I wonder how 'Basic Income' differs from Welfare.

I suspect that if 'Basic Income' ever gets rolled out generally, it will end up looking remarkably like Welfare does now.  I don't see how our society could afford anything else.


"Hopefully" someone is defying democracy and the law?  Really?  You're comfortable with the idea of unelected bureaucrats appropriating the power of life and death to themselves with no colour of right?

That's deranged.


". . . scores of asylum seekers have made the . . . walk from North Dakota into Manitoba . . . [and it is not] a security risk to Canadians." Doug Saunders

Clearly, this is an 'Opinion' piece.

Did you hear the one about the pet store owner that brought his globalist liberal values into the store? At closing time he opened all the cages. The next morning, all that remained were 3 fat snakes.


Banking expertise from Krook Crapwell??


Let's hear it for Lamda Chi Alpha!


Wow. What is there to disagree with? It's a historical fact. Hitler was elected.


No. It carries on to find the truth--something of which Trump is afraid.


The drug she was using wasn't added to the banned list until 2016.


les, don't forget the biggest and latest nothing:  Donald J Trump.  Or did I miss something in these articles?


"Yahweh" as used in the Old Testament is translated is "I am" which sounds directionally the same as "Godself".  Should we also not take the writers of the Old Testament seriously too?


If true, the PM is on the right track.  I wish he would also discontinue our participation in US led provocative training exercises.  How would our jingoists react if, say Russia, conducted so-called training exercise on our boarder.


As long as the rules are strictly enforced I don't have a problem with it. Some people think that prohibiting legal weapons will somehow make all the illegal ones go away. If you're going to carry know how to use it & know the law.


"White Monopoly Capital" is merely a PR company's catch phrase whereas as "Zupta corruption and capture" is real.


Sometimes (and perhaps most times), the largest benefits of immigration are those due to the second generation (i.e., the children and grandchildren of the original immigrants). I taught for many years and noticed that the most ambitious, hardest working and most engaged students were often the children of immigrants. They often told me of their parents' struggles to be accepted and to have their skills recognized (many of them had degrees in engineering, medicine, pharmacy, etc., but were too busy simply making enough money at low-skill jobs to take the time it would have taken to upgrade their skills). They always had a sense of owing it to their parents to become successful, and they worked hard at it and many of them are now contributing greatly to this country.


Write  the parents a ticket for contributing to truancy.


If anybody is using euthanasia methods that "don't work," they need to call somebody who knows what they're doing.


What the????  Taylors.  That place is trouble and should be off limits to Uof O athletes.  Who owns that place anyway??  This all started IN THE BAR!!!  Based on this and recent news of a bartender ruffying drinks, it's obviously not being well managed.  Making declaratory statements and personnel changes after the fact?? Shut it down if they don't get it together and provide the kind of environment that protects college students from themselves.  Obviously, Heard is one that evidently can't manage himself.


Hmm. I'm a 64-year-old white man, fairly middle-class in appearance. I walk downtown all the time, between the library and the Metro theater and all the streets around and in between. There are loads of people sitting around the streets, yes. I wish they weren't doing that, but it's a free country etc. Yet I've never been "harassed" by any of these people. Generally they tend to themselves and their compatriots. I hardly even get asked for "spare change" much, certainly no more than on the streets of much bigger cities.


God. Democrats are sick, sick people! Why would this pass along party lines? It should have been UNANIMOUS!


People on these boards simply do not realize how large the gap politically there is between Canada and the USA.  There is simply no overlap

As the mayor of Calgary has said a conservative in Canada is a liberal in the USA

These cabinet selections are an example of this. While Canada has far too much government the USA has far too little.

While having people who have no government experience can be an advantage, an entire cabinet without it is bad. And the few who are from the 'government' come from its command and control branch -the military. (I guess they impressed Trump as 'get it done' guys).

I believe it was the freakeconomcs guys who pointed out the 3 or 4 US presidents who where pure businessmen where all considered among the worst presidents

I guess the USA will also find out if this is true for cabinet secretaries


Cupich has treated pro-lifers like lepers in three dioceses. Pfleger has ridiculed them from the pulpit. (Not literally from the pulpit, because he preaches while dancing around the altar.) In other words, Cupich and Pfleger have no actual objection to mass killing.

Cupich has declared canon 915 to be a nullity, despite the fact that each and every time a cleric chooses to ignore canon 915, it is grave matter.

This p.r. stunt will make lots of money evaporate, and then be heard of no more.


Please stop with the 'this republican' crap. the deficit is the result of many decades of hot check writing by the state government and both parties share equally in the blame.


we have a problem with governments in a business that they should not be in, something that is not in any way a necessity of life, marking up products so much more than the private sector would to pay gov employees and thier unions more than most make, yes i have a problem with this 100%,, it is not the governments job to hire as much and pay as much as they can,, its to manage and deliver essential services as cost efficiently as possible.


How does the Holy Father reply a "non reply"? How would you know? Does he send it by Holy Smoke to you alone?


Then they are all in for a shock as they transition now to the provincial welfare rates.


Lovely how LRAPA will only put burning bans in place when they are unavailable to enforce them, such that they ever do.


I corroborate the plea to wear your life jacket at all times while in the boat. Without going into details, I performed a very sudden, foolish act two years ago that caused our canoe to capsize. I'm certain that whatever flotation my wife's life jacket provided saved her life and allowed me to carry her to safety. Without it, I'm not confident I could have kept myself afloat and brought her to safety too. Please ... wear your life jackets. It's not a sissy thing to do. It's a lifesaving thing to do.


The Rockefellers divested from investments in fossil fuels, of course.

http://www.rbf.org/about/divestment

Guess that one has to type sl-oooweeeerrrrrr for the Koch-servative spammers here who are so low as to use the story of a man's death to further advance their unprincipled and destructive pro-oil agenda.


Bed and Breakfasts existed long before the greedy Mainland Hotel Corporations demanding that Bed and Breakfasts be made Illegal.    The Mainland Hotel Corporations need their $200 to $1000 per night charges for a concrete box so they can make big Profits for their Investors, Stock Holders while basically f__king the Locals.

At Many Modern 21st Century European Nations their Governments like Bed and Breakfasts as usually a Mom and Pop Operation of "Empty Nesters" that have a Limited Fixed Income, because they can by having a Bed and Breakfast make enough money to pay their Taxes, Property Taxes, and not become a burden by getting kicked out of their Homes of Generations, and becoming Homeless like at Demonrats Hawaii.


Khan has said that terrorism is just life in the big city. Also, the religion of peace is celebrating this fire even though many of the victims were Muslims. I'm not saying that this was a terrorist act. Fact is, we don't know what caused it. However, having watched this building go up, it sure does look as if the fire spread extremely fast. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/flashback-sadiq-khan-vigorously-defended-convicted-terrorists-2002-video/. This is just a little info on the conman Khan.


Donald, are you new to town? Former mayor Dan Sullivan is the guy that cut 90 police officers and specialty teams,  that included gang units and drug interdiction units. Mayor Berkowitz has been doing his best to play catch up since he got in office.


I believe APD and AFD are subject to testing after being involved in traffic accidents that happen in city vehicles.


For fans of Trailer Park Boys, it is on Netflix Canada, which has funded new episodes since the Boys left its cable TV channel in Canada.  More info. available by following the link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_Park_Boys


Fastest growing religion in the world is Islam. Fastest growing religion in Canada is Islam.
Over 1 million people follow the Muslim faith in Canada.
According to the 1966 census less then 1000 people were Muslim in Canada.
It is estimated by 2038 over 5 million Muslims will be in Canada.


If these people hate America and Americans so much, how about moving to a socialist paradise instead of pushing your insanity on us every day?


Millions of women didn't vote, now they are complaining


If you stop them from speaking, yes you are stripping their rights away from them.  Offensive speech is the most protected speech.   If you just protect the speech  you agree with, you have protected nothing.  Yes, they do deserve respect.  You can take the opposing view and still grant respect to the individual.  I think you and I have had a respectful conversation.    If you lower a person or a group, you also lower yourself.
As far the ACLU, that statement of theirs is not go 100%.   There are many times that they have been on the wrong side of issues and groups that they should have been supporting.   There are nicknames for them that conservatives have.  Most are not very respectful.


"Paraphrasing" legal terms to what you think they mean rather than what they actually do mean results in misinformation.

Look up "Intentionally" under ORS 161.085 and you will see that there is a vast difference between the two terms.  And that there is another term called "Gross Negligence" in between those two definitions.


It's $30 billion and counting. Three times over their promise.
Lying Liberals.


I hope the partisan people out there really think about what is best in regards to medical care.  Obamacare does nothing to control medical costs.  This is not sustainable.  The reduction in numbers of uninsured is largely a result of the expansion of medicaid according to a number of media stories I have read.  This has lead to the massive budget shortfall in Oregon predicted.  Unsustainable.  What is the best way forward?  Leave out the partisanship and examine the best path.


Somebody please just call the FBI to have a huge investigation of this entire corrupt BAIT AND SWITCH shibai!


The water level is higher......have you been to Kailua beach lately? or Ala Moana....barriors up to keep water from flooding the road for the first time in my life......not to mention higher air temps.


I have lived all over the world San Francisco ,Oregon , Washington, Mexico City, China traveled all over Europe and currently live in Alaska. I did not graduate from an Ivy league school I did not graduate from college. But I had a desire to see the world and meet people from different cultures and listen and learn from people. My view has always been Democrats seem to have zero tolerance for other peoples thoughts. And that is what sunk this election for the democrats inability to think past themselves. Yes a lot of democrats are very educated but lack of tolerance from opposings views brings on a feeling like you might be a bit better than the little guy. The little guy keeps this country moving and they we became tired of a party looking down your noses at the hard working American. Say what you want but Donald Trump was listening and heard all the people you have put out work . So in the words of Obama I won deal with it!


Airbnb hosts vet their guests way better than a hotel.  I have seen more shady activity happening in the kind of long term rentals that people think b and b s take away from.  It is hard for me to imagine that type being rented to by the ones doing b and b s.  Hey, last month someone booked a room packing guns and ammuntion.  Then shot into the crowd.  I know a b and b operation.  No way would that person be allowed to stay if they unpacked an AR15 and cans of ammo from the trunk of their car.


'Can', 'should', 'clean safe nuclear' ... that all requires liability ceilings so that Joe Taxpayer can foot the bill and suffer the consequences WHEN nuclear goes BONK!!!


How much does North Korea have to do to prove to Mr Lind that no, it hasn't been American foreign policy that created the most recent nuclear threats to our state.  I guess it's going to take a nuclear warhead just 10 minutes inbound on a ballistic trajectory onto Oahu to convince him that his 1960's flower-child view of the world just doesn't protect our islands in the 21st century.   I guess all those concessions and millions of dollars of aid we funneled into North Korea since the 1990s wasn't enough to prove to Mr Lind America is trying to relieve tensions on the Korean pensisula--for South Korea's sake if none other.  I guess our withdrawal of American forces in Korea to a secondary, reserve force, allowing Koreans to defend their own pensiula, wasn't enough to convince our cumbaiyah-signing journalist we're serious about changing our status on the peninsula.  No, when you're lost in the hippy mind set of the 60's, America is always the enemy,


You do not know any cops. That is obvious from your "view point".


My neighbors behind me shoot off  the ILLEGAL, Big Boomer stuff every year.   And every year me and 8-10 of my good neighbors call  the Illegal Fireworks Hotline number, and every year NO response from the Police.  Last year the Police  recommended  calling  in months ahead of time with addresses that violated in the past .  OK, did that.  Same outcome, NO response from the Police.  So, this year I am going to take matters into my own hands.  Just like the loggers who moved the  Cascadia Tree Huggers car blockade from the road leading to the timber sale several  days ago.  I will Grab the Bull by the Horns.  I am going to post a notice  to my neighbor who is shooting ILLEGAL stuff, post it  on their fence.  Of course I will have to remain anonymous.  The notice will tell them that  surrounding neighbors have purchased some of the Indian Reservation ILLEGAL BIG BOOMER stuff.  After you are done firing around1230-130am, we will be FIRING some right over YOUR house.    We will fire (cont.


I hope the Medal of Honor wasn't too munch to handle for his little hands ROTFL!! If they told me I was getting the MoH I would have said wait "no no no." But at 71 it's long overdue. You all know we have MoH recipients not made public with some more than 1 MoH and still alive. Look at Edward Byers when he was on the Colbert show. He was wearing the MoH and MoH ribbon. I haven't read the regs recently but a few years ago that would mean you have two Medal of Honors.


"Sir Joshua-James Kristall- Wagner..."  What a ridiculous name!  HAHAHAHA!!!  And you can't "save" parking spaces like that.  No car, no park.


You know, to steal something one must deprive the rightful owner of its use.  Writing from the vantage point of someone from different cultures/sub-cultures or expressing views with respect to different cultures does not deprive members of such cultures/sub-cultures from expressing their own views.  In any event, the sad reality is that such "appropriation" has also been beneficial to the cultures appropriated.  Non-aboriginal writers writing with an aboriginal voice have made many aware of the systemic abuses against aboriginals.  Just as white musicians--by "appropriating" the music of  the black community--brought attention to that community and were instrumental in ensuring that black musicians were recognized and honoured.  One could argue that it is lamentable that such "appropriation" was required in the first place, but the unfortunate reality is that it was, and that it did have a positive effect on recognition of the cultures appropriated.


So, if some gorgeous dictator with mesmerizing eyes and a virile mustache comes along and promises his followers specifically nothing much but they can be part of the master race, you're going to fall for him?


Another white collar crime that rewards a select few. Why do politicians support a system that does not hold people accountable for criminal actions and results?

OxyContin had a long shelf life after it was launched by deception. "With questions mounting in Canada about OxyContin’s role in the opioid crisis, Purdue pulled the drug from the market in 2012, just a few months before the patent was to expire. Purdue attempted to paint the problem as one of abuse, saying people were intentionally using the pills to get high."


If you are talking about an economy that is driven by debt to fund it's overconsumption while lining the pockets of our financial institutions... maybe.   But that doesn't have to be what defines capitalism either.

Maybe you should tell me what YOU mean when you think of capitalism.


If they are returned to their home countries by American authorities, they may be in peril. That is the purpose of the Canadian immigration and refugee process: to check out a person's story in the current context of U.S. immigration laws.


I have my family take one breath a minute. We also carpool on a scooter like over in Asia. We got a family of 5 on one scooter. Kind of chilly in our frigid winters but whatever we can do to quell the toxic carbon dioxide. Next year we will demolish our house and live completely off grid in our backyard in the middle of the city. Until of course we get told that’s not only child abuse but a zoning issue as well. What have you done Dante? Sadly though through all this I’m sure the climate will still change. If only there was more we could do.


Govt has made good redress... I think we all can agree to that. What else is missing?

All of us should work within the system that we are now part of. Puerto Ricans have seen the light. They have voted for statehood.

What is left for future generations of Hawaiians is to figure out how they can organise themselves within our country. The desire for revenge will never win out.


Humans are so 1990s.


Did you not follow the case of the UH student who was tried and acquitted when the evidence showed that the female had texted him asking to come to his room and hook up? He should have never been charged.


There is a statue of Che Guevara in central park New York.


I purchased the redesigned 2016 MX 5 and I call it a "Baby Vet" at 50% of the cost and just as fun to drive. The only drawback is the small trunk. Can't even place my golf clubs in it. The 4 banger in it provides  very impressive  power and is more than you need (hint- I'm not 20 something but a more a mature age).  I may even consider trading it in for the RF.


Personally attacking a legislator by harassing him and his family at their home didn't work out well for the Democrats campaigning against Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, and the result will be the same with the thuggish tactics used against Representative Jim Walsh.  If people disagree with proposed legislation, let them debate it openly and civilly.  The Brown Shirt tactic of attempted intimidation should be left to anti-democratic Third World tyrants and their ilk . . .they have no place in America.  Given the sorry state of todays schools and colleges, it is perhaps not surprising to see this kind of anti-democratic behavior rear its ugly head.


Does anyone believe James "Not Wittingly" Clapper?


Why are your unkind comments the topic of all these comments! It sounds like pure hate, not a discussion of facts or even opinions that seem to make any sense. Maybe the comment should be about the article instead of, "change the subject", and say hateful things! Why act like KellyAnne.


Not a defense of these guys at all, but have you noticed that Denver Post LOVES running mugshots of white criminals on their front page, when white criminals are in fact the minority?

It's like they're trying to create this idea that spooky white supremacists are out to get you at every turn, when the data doesn't support that at all.

When there actually WAS a gang attacking people in Denver based on race, it was swept under the rug by both the DP and the City of Denver.

It's just funny.


If the powers that be could actually sit, discuss, and fix that would be great but generations of time and and an unwillingness to compromise suggest otherwise.  With that said, unless the OIA is truly willing to do whats in the best interest of the student athletes they will always be the biggest stake holder because of the sheer numbers hence the bully in the sand box.  Maybe each league should only have one vote - with five votes there will never be a tie.

Sounds like a selection committee should select.  I suppose no selection committee will ever get it right for everyone's taste, hence the same issue and conflict all over again.  It could be as simple as league champions only, but for the parents of the "everyone gets a trophy" generation, even that won't be good enough.  At the end of the day I say let only league champions play for a crown.  Like in the college game, other inconsequential "bowl games" could be played for exposure, etc.


Let's just burn tires


@Ottawa says; "...Their credibility would have immediately been seriously undermined..."
Un autre grand tarlais de ti-cul d’enfoiré  qui se “p(H)ourre” le doigt dans l’œil et volontairement et d’une ignorance crasse affichée
La Presse/ Montréal le 29 octobre 2016;
(Québec Prime Minister) Philippe Couillard, will accompany Sunday, in Brussels, its federal counterpart Justin Trudeau for the signing of the free trade agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union. The Prime Minister Couillard reminds that Québec has been the INITIATOR of this agreement, and that the Government was committed for two years to promote on all forums with European partners.

Got it Anglo Canada ?
“Québec is the “INITIATOR” of this agreement”
Cheers to Québec (again!)


C.S.  let me respond with my post responding to LenG: "

LenG: May I offer agreement. None of our Constitutional rights are "absolute." The limitations on the First Amendment are the clearest example. As you suggest, limitations on the lethality of firearms could easily be enacted. However, it's important to recognize that the firearms industry/NRA lobbying power continues to block any such efforts at the national level. Any congressperson "bucking" the NRA had better represent an extremely "safe" District or he/she will face an extremely well-financed opponent the next election. An unkind, rather harsh person might suggest that some folks prioritize profits over public safety......my regards, Gary Crum"

I'd love to read any defense of 100 round magazines or armor-piercing "cop killer" bullets being sold to the public.  IMO, the strong possible arguments for limitations on any Constitutional Rights are founded on reasonable concern for the public safety.  Is that unreasonable?  GCrum


It's good to read a balanced report of this issue. Compared to many international media outlets the G&M refrains from this hysterical yellow journalism that is the rage at many newspapers since trump won the election.

The guy might be full of hyperbole, an egomaniac and a buffoon, but he's not stupid; nor is he the right wing monster those media make him out to be. Impeach Trump and we get Pence - the end of social security and the final nail in the New Deal.


You certainly are & judging from the number of posts you proliferate, you want the world to know it!


Unfortunately, as I witnessed HART go to the Legislature last year, the truth about rail was not discussed.  The legislators did not ask enough tough questions about rail.  They all assumed the extension would go through and sat there silently.  Only the leaders in the money committees asked a few questions.  When HART lied to them, they did not have enough information to know they were being lied to.  They are busy people and are not up-to-date on rail.  Or they are "True Believers" and only want rail at any cost.  We need CB to ask tough questions - now.  Which tax will be raised to pay the annual operating costs?  What is plan "B" if the ridership is lower than projected?  How will the transit commuters get to work when rail is down for maintenance? If the community demands more security on the platforms, where will the money come from?  Why do our tax payments pay for misinformation on the HART website?  What does improved "Quality of Life" mean?


Were the nurses discussing the vaccination of nurses /
 ................ or the vaccination of kids ?

There is a huge difference.
Nurses are expected to get vaccinations for everything.


" I had a checkered youth; mandatory Bible study for years in several denominations."

"Mandatory Bible study" is unfortunate, as coercion often turns off the very minds they are trying to reach.  I know, Motley, as  I lost many  of my own religious beliefs attending a professed Christian university with required Chapel and Bible classes, more rules than love and more sanctimoniousness than sacredness.  It took years to recover my equilibrium.


It is nice of her. Although I'm sure almost every woman wishes she could marry a multi millionaire with a huge custom home so they could not ever have to work and do things here & there for charity.


Dont break the law or you very well could be citizen 956....but hey...its your choice....go ahead.....pull out your weapon....


Aren't the salmon supposed to be able to 'smell' whatever stream they were hatched in?


Anyone else notice how his staff and supporters look like corpses?  Initially i thought they looked reptilian, but the smell of death seems to follow in their wake.


"... isn't that indicative of a better teacher?"

Funny how when students fail it's not the teachers fault but rather it is genetics, poverty, hunger or lack of school funding.  However when students excel it's always the teachers taking a bow and wanting accolades.
.
For the majority of "teachers" student are merely a means to an end.


A 14 year old black boy was shot dead by 2 policemen w/in 6 secs of their arrival at this child's park where he was playing w/his little sister.   They never called for ER. and they kept his younger sister in the cop car as her brother died.

A call had come into 911 stating that a black MAN was waving a gun around in the neighborhood park.

I just thought I'd mention a real tragedy.


Because AI is simply not there yet, a lot of investors' money is actually going into Mechanical Turk outsourcing piecework , Toronto could create more jobs with a Crowdsourcing Institute than an AI institute. Any AI investor should check that 'talking pig' and look under the hood.


It gets worse. Not only did trump arrange to have rare supporters in Poland bused to his speech, but one of them actually had a large confederate flag.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a56168/poland-confederate-flag-trump/


A few years back, I was doing a lot survey in Fairbanks in an older part of town.  Adjacent to the property that I was working on there was a classic Alaska Quonset Hut;  The middle of the hut was partially collapsed, down a couple of feet, there were at least 6 coats of paint that had mostly weathered off, the plank walk was half buried in  mud and weeds, the windows were broken out and boarded up, and in front of it all was a  sign proclaiming "JUST THINK, IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU WOULD BE HOME BY NOW" from a local real estate broker.  There was some certain perfection about it.


I can't believe some posters who are alright with Trudeau the younger being PM, are suggesting that an offspring of Mulroney would be unacceptable as an elected official simply because of who their father is.

There is simply no comparison academically, or intellectually, how every i will give Trudeau the edge when it comes to all the warm and fuzzies as it relates to new media smarts (tweets, and selfies)

The chutzpah is simply breathtaking...


Ak6x6 please do not attend and embarass the rest of us with your apparent ignorance. This is a great event coming to Alaska.


Hopefully, when Parliament reconvenes, the Ottawa media will shake it lethargy about reporting on Mr. Scheer which has been so obvious during the summer, and treat him with the fairness, if not the adulation, they reserve fror Mr. Trudeau!


Maybe he'll talk to GM and ask them why they put profits before safety, then ask them how many of their atrocious killer Cobalts they've actually fixed.


It very alarming on how narrowly journos view and try to push Cyril faction as having a chance! In reality Cyril's faction was humiliated and walked away with no policy discussion in their favor, this white monopoly which seemingly he won was subject of his backers humiliation in the plenary which led to Gwede apologizing and amended the resolution to read as that although the ANC does not believe that monopoly capital is limited to white people, in South Africa it has a racial character which cannot be ignored or denied. Racial character we cant ignore is white, in a nutshell we extend the scope of monopoly to include all but will primarily focus on white so we will still reflect to its racial connotation. Cyril lost every single policy discussion and that the bottom-line.


Most doctors are Republican. What's your point again?


"There is also a noted gender bias: Mothers are more often charged than fathers, and among the convicted, women caregivers receive longer prison sentences than men, the study found."
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I am not sure what study the author is referring to.  They reference the Kids and Cars organization so one possibility is:
http://www.kidsandcars.org/files/2014/08/2006-heat-crime-and-parenthood.pdf
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From my reading of the article the major bias is between prosecution of third parties and the parents.
Better reporting would have included this.
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The reported conviction rate for mother's was 92% versus 90% for men.
68% of the women got jail time and 55% of the men.
As for the jail time discrepancy, the reporter's jump-to-conclusions is gender bias.  Another possibility is that the mother's crime was often worse.


The Donkey Party is in bed with Wall Street.


This is paternalistic rubbish, not thoughtful journalism.
Suggesting consumers be forced to pay for things they don't want to watch.  Who is Ms. Taylor shilling for?  The broadcasters in this country are vertically integrated publicly traded entities and they are doing just fine.
If Cancon went away, but they could still collect their subsidies, Mr. Blais would quickly become their BFF. This is not about creativity and nurturing some idea of a national identity - it is about protecting profit.


Funny Michael.

Or are you just refusing to admit that my taxes also paid for my right to use those same roads too?


Troops of the Warsaw Pact would have loved a deployment to the Mexico US border...Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, East German, Hungarian, Polish and Romanian troops would have deserted to the USA in their thousands....not to mention members of the prisoner nations within the USSR, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Byelorussians , Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians and Russians themselves would have taken the opportunity to go for freedom .

As it is, of the ex Warsaw Pact countries many have become members of NATO...the Czechs, Hungary, Poland , Bulgaria and the Baltic nations.


Men like Pell are needed less and less in the world and ought to be needed less, less, and less in the Church.


Actually you quit reading with the first word longer than one syllable.


I saw more cars with California plates than I see when I go to California!


If it's true that the state seized bank accounts, vehicles, real estate, and $200,000 in cash, he will definitely have paid for his crimes, maybe even disproportionate to the harm.  Ouch.


The government employees, politicians, union members, OAS and CPP recipients all depend on the stock market returns ....increasing capital gain taxation will drive TSX down and ensure the early demise of pension fund liquidity. The bottom half of Canadians will suffer the most . Ontario is an excellent example of this.


Ohhh hahahahahahahaha!!!!


Golly, aren't you the bright spark? Of course they're not neutral bystanders. They're 100% on Donald Trump Jr.'s side.

I ask again, how can it be proven that Trump Jr. made some offer on behalf of his father? How can anything be proven about the meeting, short of it being under surveillance by the police? Of the five people present, three were Trump associates. The Russian isn't talking, nor does she have to. Neither does the "publicist," who would probably gnaw his own arm off rather than make trouble for the presidents of the USA and Russia.

It's a dead end. It may have been exactly what DT Jr. said it was, and no one can prove otherwise.


The obvious reason that CIBC"s stock price is stunted compared to to others of the big five is based on its past poor performance during the great recession. They purchased 10 billion in subprime mortgages      at exactly the wrong time that I think went to zero in short order. The level of trust has not yet returned.
 What I find interesting is that the most Canadian bank CIBC makes the highest return due to the big five  monopoly in in this country, while the most American bank TD has returns similar to the lower profits found south of the border.
 I'm sure a case could be made not to expand into the States unless you can get a great asset at a good price.


The Dixie Chicks song "Goodbye Earl" comes to mind, so there are women who would agree with you.


Minimum wage is just a shiny object governments wave around to convince some people they've discovered a magic bullet to solve everyone's problems and it was only a minimum wage increase all along. All actions have consequences, if people think the status quo will continue except a bunch of people have more money, then they flat out don't understand what they're doing and shouldn't be making decisions about anything. You're going to see a rise in youth unemployment, a rise in senior unemployment, a reduction in full time employment, a rise in part time employment with no benefits and an accelerated use of automation for low skill tasks. And that's just the obvious things. But hey, as long as the general job number doesn't decline and the public sector picks up the slack, you'll win your $500 bet. Ever stopped to think why no government has thought to just make the minimum wage $50/hr? Then we'd all be rich right? Nobody would lose their job your studies say so.


Balderdash.


The standard view of the universe explains why you can't see the southern cross from the northern hemisphere, explains why when I fly to New York from California I lose three hours, explains why watching a live show from China it's night time, but day here, it explains the eclipse were going to have this Aug in N America. It explains all that without having to squint and talk about shimmering in photos, it works without having to cliam NASA is a huge conspiracy with thousands of people lying, for no apparent reason. It works when you fly around the globe on a commercial flight.  It works when you flying to the sunset, and the sun sets slower. It works when you fly away from the sunset and it sets faster. It explains why we've never seen a photograph of the edge of the earth. It works to explain the seasons. It works to explain what happens when I go to Alaska on the summer or winter solstice. It does all this without having to squint and look for shimmering on the horizon.


I think the Whidbey Record beat him there.


All this is provides further support for provisional paper registration, paper poll books, and paper ballots.
When I volunteered to support an election many years ago in the basement of the capital building, there were rooms full of people who did nothing more than audit and recount precinct ballots.
Yes, it would be more expensive, but I believe the ability to double check election results with physical ballots is the best way to preclude any unauthorized tampering of the election process.


Our disagreement may hinge on semantics; specifically the difference between doing something "unwise" and the inherent responsibility one may or should take for doing so, and "fault", or the responsibility one takes or is assigned for one's actions.
In the case of the victim there may be some responsibility involved. In the case of the perpetrator there is always full responsibility.
All that having been said, it appears as though we do agree to some extent. Is my perception correct?


No one wants to become a hideout for criminals. I don't think that this proposal is about anything of the kind. There's a big difference between living in a safe and civil society, and turning a blind eye to the evils that can occur in an authoritarian regime. Trump and his supporters seem eager in many instances to walk all over the Constitution and the first amendment with no regard for decency and human dignity, and the Congress is allowing this, and many instances colluding in this. Nazi Germany had plenty of law and order, but no compassion. We must be better than that.
Dr. Cynthia Morrow-Hattal


Correction:  "THIRD world" airport.


The Hawaii Dems challenge is weak.  If they're a party of such great policies that help the working/middle class, it would welcome all challengers and have no fear of upstart contenders taking votes.


So Trump is critical of an agency that helped lie us into the Iraq War, committed a campaign or war crimes and human rights abuses, whose officials have perjured themselves during Congressional hearings, and who were ultimately caught violating US law by spying on members of Congress . . . and we're supposed to rally to the CIA's side?


You are gutless!!  I din't think it's racist one bit!!  I agree with Terry as well.  A Japanese driver winning OUR Indy 500 on OUR memorial day!!  Not very American.  He didn't call him any names nor make any reference to race he just feels that if an American won it would have been a better feel for the day!!  Shame on you liberal lady's


Not that hard - Michael Wilson had it tougher


she is missing something alright, a conscious!


I don't mind you peeing, Brady. I just don't like it when I keep catching you squatting above stream when I'm filling my water bottle.


same Scam Jim Watson pulls in Ottawa.  Your taxes only go up 2% but he moves out lots of other stuff like water, sewer, garbage etc that really are taxes


So you'd prefer them hugging the line on the right shoulder?


Thats because you've been brainwashed for so many years to their propaganda. They LEFT want to keep the money flow going and you want to do the same thing, fraud, deceit, murder is what YOU are  used to.


Ranger at it again! First disparaging education, then neglecting to actually read that only four were at schools.


Yes it is going to get very ugly........ for Rachael Notley and her merry band of wing nuts and kooks


Funny, since Drumpf hasn't shown any respect for Mexico or its people.


Liberals will increase users fees of all types. User fees are a regressive form of taxation. This includes camping fees. But hey, ya know, Junior can't relate to this hiking, camping business. He hob nobs with the Aga Khan on his winter holiday to the tune of $133,000. A completely different league than us working joes


He's the guy, sent that seditious letter to the mullahs in Iran.


... and folks who do you think is more knowledgeable about business law, several longtime CEO's of some of the world's largest companies, or some anonymous commenter prone to faulty premise that lacks the courage to get from behind their nom de plume?


It is upper-class privilege.

Once you have reached that stratum, it is almost impossible to slide back down the social ladder. Your connections will always get you another upper-class job.


As an example, how many large cap US equity funds beat the S&P 500 - especially after fees - over a ten year period?  As the Globe has pointed out on many occasions, in Canada, essentially none. And not much better in the US....

And frankly, not a whole lot of large cap Canadian equity funds beat the TSX over ten years...almost none after fees.


Perhaps relative to T-O, but everyone I know here who lives in a non-stabby neighbourhood is house poor. I think Winnipeg, more than almost any other city in the country, has a vast swath of neighbourhoods you couldn't pay me to live in.

Likewise many of my fellow citizens, because they're not idiots, won't live their either, resulting in depressed housing prices. Which skews the math on median income and house prices. What price a cheap house if you're murdered, mugged or raped while walking from your car?

It used to be affordability kept people here. Not sure what it is now. Familial ties, perhaps? It sure ain't the weather or the abundant opportunities and excellent infrastructure.


The trumpery will cheer and the wealthy who benefit from the cuts, and the corporate interests will laugh at them behind their backs.

They've been played by grifters and con men.

They're being led to slaughter and they want to help in every way they can in the rush to get them there.


Agree. I hope he gets in and changes all of the AS's as well. Clean the swamp in Hawaii's DOE.


An old racist portland urban myth, how charming.


ewwww! not even any soap? and the Health Dept. turns a blind eye?
plus, public rest rooms typically offer only cold water, this is not safe!
now I'm glad I never went there, the crowds make it even worse.