Of course the fact that the necessary fiber optic cable expansion into every neighborhood, could be easily augmented to carry internet into every household in the city at almost no extra cost, will not be a consideration under the Big Telecom supported regime of Mayor Murray. Santa Clara's and numerous other munipower operations under more enlightened administrations used smart meters to as a vehicle for low cost broadband expansion using modern 802.11 ac mesh standards instead of the obsolete AMI standard.


Did you ever play sports or just watch and drool over these overpaid  bums


Every southern Democrat, those who supported segregation, voted against the 1964 Civil Rights bill and Strom Thrumond left the party. The only southern Democrat who supported it was Ralph Yarborough of Texas who supported all civil rights bills from 1957 to 1970 (including the Voting Rights Act of 1965). Sanders isn't a "D". He's an Independent. Try to pay attention. The KKK collapsed by 1870, disappearing for 50 years. The Republicans abandoned Reconstruction in 1876 and are now doing their best to void the 15th Amendment by sending Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach around the country to teach Republican officials how to keep blacks and Hispanics (and even students, the poor and women) from voting.


One can envision a scenario in which the offender, having confessed and then re-offended, is finally apprehended and then blames the priest: "Well, I confessed to Fr. X and he could have stopped me."  The offender might try to mitigate his own responsibility in that way apart from whether or not he was denied absolution; and again, the priest would not be permitted to affirm or deny whether he gave absolution.

I tend to think, though, that none of this is likely: I don't think serial sex offenders are getting in line to go to confession.


I guess it's your right to back a corrupt career politician who appears to think it's ok to "drone" someone who has damaging information about you...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/03/will-wikileaks-assange-delay-october-surprise-announcement.html


99% of the cases they see aren't this clear cut.
Trump shot himself in the foot and admitted his reasoning was based on bigotry.


It depends on what type of "faith" you are looking up.  If it is religious faith, it is exactly the same.

(Religious) faith: "strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof."

Superstition: "excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings" and "a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief."

There is no difference.


For certain crimes naturalized US citizens can be deported to country of origin.


Does covering up your face make you violent?
What would that say about the tiny trick-or-treaters
who knock on your door every year?
Do they frighten you that badly?


Cassie's an Ottawa Press Gallery Journalist doing his thing for the Trudashians. A careful reading will show you who. Safely ignored.


Brads is from Montana. Address the same complaints to him.

If no one in Hawai'i wanted assisted suicide, you wouldn't have it now, would you?


Some might say Mary became a New Age guru.  Not me though.


yes, or post the docs on line etc, this is just more old obama people making bs up yet again


"The proposed measure could cause the price at Waikiki metered stalls to go to $3 an hour between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. in areas where it is now $1.50 an hour, and to $1.50 an hour where it is now 75 cents an hour. Parking for 10 minutes would cost 50 cents. The proposal also could double designated metered parking rates downtown to $3 an hour from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m."

THIS is how they respond to Honolulu's high cost of living problems.  The same problems they preach and preach about in their supposed compassion for same?  THIS is the result of that compassion?


Most people see the arrangement you describe as a win-win deal and good for business.  Trump sees equality as an opportunity.  He can destroy that balance, and re-build it entirely one sided, Pence is his 'spy', and "part time" adviser on who to cripple.  You've been playing Monopoly by the rules.  Welcome to New Jersey rules.


Excellent news for RBC,BMO and TD.

Have a long ride. A great ride.


Sustained irony imitating a moron who has learned a few long words is not easy to write. I took it straight, and then ended with a query about possible sarcasm. Nic2 doubled down without a hitch. Yeah, it's either Nic or his twin sister. ;-}


Incorrect. It is the "wealthy" who want a free ride on everyone's existence.


Just because you have money enough from whatever/wherever - it is no defense against having zero taste, because there plenty of zero taste here, more than enough for several homes.

Who has been putting out their Kools on my floor?


"the funding of the rail should not be contingent on any audit results of past experience."

That's the same as saying if a crime was committed in the past, those involved in the criminal activity, can't be prosecuted because the crime has already been committed.

Mr. Yamachika, you are right - we would certainly appreciate seeing a Federal audit triggered by issuing construction bonds!


Why not go back to the Ottomans as the basis for middle East turmoil?

Why not suggest our involvement was to mitigate the problems caused by the Crusades?


Certainly you must understand that historic, naturally-caused climate change doesn't preclude anthropogenic climate change any more than historic, naturally-caused forest fires preclude arson. Things can, and do, happen for different reasons.

The reference to the "half a degree" rise is given the impossible context of all GHG emissions stopping now. That increase is simply the lagged response of the climate equilibrating to GHGs already having been emitted. A "business as usual" emissions scenario will likely result in an increase of near 4ºC (7ºF).


Yep. No system is perfect, and this one has flaws that probably allow a motivated, agenda-driven person or group to get acceptable comments removed that they don't agree with.

I noticed yesterday, while going through the posting process, an earlier comment of mine appeared for review. A few seconds later, I got a notification that someone had just replied to the same comment. So I assume the poster flagged the comment prior to replying. If that's the case, the flagging was done just because the replier disagreed with the anti-Trump comment, which had already been adjudicated as meeting civility standards.


This is how a rich country like Canada is in shambkes.   Cons, Libs or whomever.    We are being duped.   And bad.


Schmelter..  you're smegma.


Waste of money


Since the press is in lock step with the Democrats, i hope the hate carries over. Can't wait for the midterms.


NW Lynn,
Conspiracies are difficult to prove or rebut. For instance, Lincoln's and JFK's assassinations. Unfortunately, Trumpet is a master of conspiracy theories and his worshipers still do not believe Obama was born in the USA. so it is easy to convince them that California's voter security laws are allowing illegal voting by the millions. FOX news ignites their delusions regularly.
Facts and truth really get in their way. Again, your input is appreciated.


i wouldn't presume anything in such a complicated, rare condition.  pregnancy is the same in that it involves another life in a host mother.  different ways that ends and even in the category of live births,  it's not the same even for one woman having 2 or more pregnancies.


We are the Democrats. We can control the weather!


Really people?  A dog known by animal control and "it's owners" to be excessively aggressive.  A yard with no fence visible.  A man and his 3 year old, new to the street with no knowledge of the dog.  Premeditated,  Really?

The average dog runs at about 25 MPH.  That means it would take 1.3 seconds for the dog to cross the 50 foot yard.  How fast are your reflexes and how much do you desire to protect your children and self?

Losing a dog is not fun, been there!   However once the blood lust of the offended neighborhood cools, life will go on and the former dog owner can get another dog to train to be a guard dog.  Hopefully he will keep it better restrained or better trained!  Perhaps in a few years the new neighbors will find a better and smarter neighborhood to move to anyway.


Learn from Vegas.  Because of the freedom to sell it, the demand FOR it has gone up and suppliers are raising prices according and the users are now REGRETTING how much they now have to pay while the govt is laughing all the way to the bank.  Don't be puppets.


I thought and hoped that he'd drifted away from the public life.  He lied for years, hurt people by denigrating them for speaking the truth and has never fully taken responsibility for his deceitful and outrageous conduct. Anyone who thinks otherwise has simply not followed the story.


Well, you may want to adjust your suspect "assessment".....

As I sad to Caiside....Do you NOT know my opinion on abortion?  Fake women priests?   Ssm?  Marriage?

If you don't, I think perhaps you ought to read my comments before posting.


There's plenty of fraud to go around in Canada.  Plenty.


The dictionary definition of the adjective racist is: "showing or feeling discrimination or prejudice against people of other races".  Trump has demonstrated this behavior on numerous occasions.  So, if Paula White insists that Trump is not racist, then, either she does not know the meaning of the word, or she is lying.  Either way ....


You are question begging.  You assume what you want to prove, namely that the SCOTUS ruled on the constitutionality of existing law.

The decision was 5-4.  The decision was not even close to unanimous.  Four justices dissented.  One made many of the same arguments I made by his question "When did this become unconstitutional?"  A question the lawyer could not answer.

The only answer he could have given was "Sometime after 2008---when gay marriage stated to catch on and be the next trendy sensation to grip pop-culture." I think Roberts even argued something along those lines, namely that this institution is so new, the court should not be wading into the debate at this time.

In the end, four justices believed that the decision was wrong, perhaps for different reasons.  The point is that the decision is not so obviously based on existing law as you want to lead me to believe.


"Trump supporters are fed up with being used. They are fed up with being conned." -- Just plain "Tired"

Waaahhh!  Waaaahhh! Poor babies are fed up, so start throwing food around -- that's going to make your life better?


Dale Patrick, Hillary did not kill anyone, yours is a slanderous statement. If she did kill someone she would have been charged. Even the republican congressional hearings of 11 hours straight did not find a criminal act. Freedom of speach is a wonderful thing.


What you expect from a tax and spend party . They will give with one hand and take from the other while a smiling  Singh makes promises of looking out for you  but in the end you find   less money in your pocket.
Oh, and they will  justify  trying to sell this to support one of their social engineering schemes  where you find yourself fleeced again a victim of the self  righteous left that forgot about you.


All the more reason for McCain to retire. If he veers "off-course" so easily why is he entrusted with
being a Senator.


What about Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8 ?  What about "I am the Alpha and the Omega".   Your statement contradicts.


the "organic" industry is one of the greatest consumer frauds committed in America today, but down at LCFM they have had a history of illegal price fixing, and until last year LCFM mandated all vendors engage in illegal price fixing. Any vendor that honors "buy direct from the grower and save" is ran off through a gauntlet of criminal behavior our county board and city council has protected from criminal prosecution.


I was there, 1956-59, a product of BIA.


He didn't just show up a few days before his 16th birthday and start fighting.  The brainwashing started with his father and others working on his young mind years earlier.  He stood no chance of cultivating an independant thought about this.  The KKK does the same to their young children, they begin indoctrination as early as possible.  Our reasoning and other higher functioning skills are not fully developed until age 25 and only if we have been free of childhood trauma.  This child was denied his rights and is owed all the rehabilitative support that we can provide by both governments.  Harper should be billed directly.


The bait will NOT be taken.


>>We recognize the right of people to think and believe what they will.

Well, like it or not -  that includes the right to question, criticize... and believe it or not - offend.
.
>>Because in Canada, we don't write stupid laws.

But stupid motions are OK?


Not "entirely from the perspective of social science", but more importantly from a growing consensus and public consciousness. You seem to acknowledge this yourself as "generally considers equal treatment of LGBT people in terms of justice". This is somewhat distinct from a more esoteric or academic "social science".
You also give too much credit to the church. To adopt your terminology they don't "entirely"  "approach the subject in terms of scripture and tradition". Rationalize yes, but also upon the more recent defensive construct that still refuses to de-link homosexuality from clerical sex abuse, maintaining and capitalizing upon the debunked myth. This in addition to what you rightly identify as tradition:  the sexual complementarity model revived by Pope John Paul, which in turn supports the "spousal" argument for the exclusion  of women, not to mention the reproductive politics of sex, etc. Too much vulnerability to seek common language with LGBT let alone honest discussion.


The NBA doesn't disrupt,their season, soccer doesn't either. The Olympics can stick it.


Was she on a cliff at the coast?


Way less.  Over eight years, the Obama vacation / weekend travel cost $97 million.  Trump will exceed that in less than six months.

It's a scandal and a disgrace.  Trump supporters who whined about every dollar spent on Obama are silent on the fantastic costs being racked up by Trump.  So much for his pledge to not travel and work in the White House.


A dirty tag-team hit.


It was quite civil. As well as correct. Tridentinus has said, in as many words, that his opinions are congruent with the teachings of the magisterium, and also that anyone who disagrees with the magisterium in any jot or tittle is ipso facto not a true Catholic. Hence: Anyone who disagrees with him is not a Catholic.


Galchenyuk looks lost out there.  Not used to playing the wing, doesn't want to play the wing, probably should be @ centre.

Not out of the question Vos Canadiens move him at some point once their season ends.


Which one of Obama's moles leaked the information out about the meeting.


"they pay".  Probably a lot if they don't have a license, what is the fine?  Undoubtedly more than a license or three.
As to RV parking, have you tried to book something in the summer?   Last time the wife and I did, had guests coming up for a couple of weeks and wanted them to see Homer so we took the RV down, we booked that about 6 months in advance and were lucky to find a spot.  WallyWorld is about all that's available, and they're starting to shutdown that option, insurance I suspect.  It cost us about $2K to get across Canada, and takes about a week, did it down in the fall and back in the summer.  The RV type tourists probably will spend the summer up here, and sometimes they even buy stuff here.


Aren't we so smug? Your "obviouslys" are not so obvious at all, at all. That's why trust is needed in pastoral discretion so that someone with some education can sort things out with people.


And yet you can't provide a link or citation for that alleged USCG official position.

Even the age of long gone fossil Oceans, such as the Tethy's Sea, are well known.  Continents move during geological time. Oceans open and close as that happens.

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

https://www.britannica.com/place/Tethys-Sea

USA Navy Chief Navigator / Oceanographer Tilly, appearing in uniform and identifying himself by name, Rank and Assignment, describing his transition from Climate Change Skeptic to accepting the observed fact of climate change and sea level rise.

He gets questions from Denier Doofuses asking what the big deal is, won't USA Navy ships just float higher on the rising seal levels. -)

https://climatecrocks.com/2011/03/05/admiral-david-titley-us-navy-chief-oceanographer-i-used-to-be-a-climate-skeptic/

https://climatecrocks.com/2011/03/05/climate-change-impacts-on-us-naval-operations-admiral-david-titley/


One study two years ago observed a relationship between vaping and the LIKELIHOOD of starting smoking.  To achieve that relationship, it had to count every answer except "definitely not" (i.e., Yes, Maybe Yes, Probably Not) as affirmation that the teen would go on to smoke.  Really scientific!  There have been several longish-term studies showing that the percentage of adolescents who start by vaping and go on to smoking tobacco is less than 1%.  It makes no sense -- who would go from something that tastes good and is relatively cheap to something dirty, smelly and ridiculously expensive?  Give adolescents credit for some sense!


Ok I get it, you can't understand it so you just dismiss it as nonsense and ignore the actual science that supports it. Your claim about the "onus of treatment" is absurd. Dealing with people respectfully and compassionately isn't treatment, it's simply decent human behaviour. Your claim about  the "threat of government imposed penalty" is nothing more than an attempt to make you look like the victim and is simply paranoid fear mongering.

You can google the National Geographic article yourself. But be careful you may find that it, and other google results, will challenge your rather baseless convictions. Psychiatrists in Canada aren't licensed by the government but by the professional association in each province. You can google that too. You can also look up Peterson's research, writings, and videos. None of which are focussed on gender dysphoria or gender identity. I would hardly call his refusal to use different pronouns an offer of "open debate". Nor is he an expert on the subject


Great job by Nolan on the defensive, offensive and crowd control fronts.  A great game only slightly diminished by the heckling clown.  You always know you're going to have a long day at the park when having to sit near some other dum bass fan that won't put a lid on it.  Some buy tickets only to behave in a way that is otherwise socially unacceptable. Yer a buncha bums, I tell ya!

Definitely a tension-filled game all the way through.  It shows how important just making the playoffs would be, because that's what the Rox would likely face...Greinke in a one-game series in AZ, and at least for one night the club showed such a game is winnable.  Holland is still very shaky, but patch the sails and shine the rails and move on to the next challenge.


2016 will be remebered for Usain Bolt.


Well that aint bad, but you want to talk about impeding, you need to look at Clinton and Comey.  His so called "bragging" was just shmoozing the Ruskies. But he's several steps ahead of everyone else, so relax, every little thing is gonna be alright.


Good article. Thanks.


Well as I said it's terrible terrible problem, but that's different than having a very large problem (from the perspective of having a large % of the priesthood as abusers, which we thankfully don't!).

Public schools face a "larger volume" of teachers problem.

There are clear 'pattern' differences that shouldn't be swept under the rug (or deleted by NCR censors).  As I pointed out the USCCB just released a report showing that more than 80% of the cases are priests abusing same-sex victims (that's not so in public schools) and more than 90% of the victims are post-pubescent (this is in the case of public schools the same).

So there are differences in the comparisons.

These differences are crucial for us to know about and study if we're going to make headway in solving the problem.

Scientists don't sweep details under the rug...or engage in selective censorship.

Cheers.


Apparently you didn't live here before the Pipeline era, Wavemaker. Alaska used to be much wiser when it came to matters of self-protection and justice ... before folks like you showed up to change justice into criminal law that enriches state workers to house criminals while the victims bear the cost of the crimes committed against them.


I think Chicagoland, a little bit outside of Chicago, is a real possibility.    Transportation hub, relatively cheap for the US, and some interesting spots.   Lots of strong schools in that area.  The housing market article today mentioned that prices in Chicago lag other major world centres, so definitely a possibility.


"Having boys focus on dance isn't a good idea."  Yes, they might want to jump into leotards and even consider ballet!  GASP!  We know what THAT means!!  You are a freaking idjit.


I looked at reverse mortgages. The younger the borrower the less money advanced( 33% to a 65 year old ). The  reverse mortgage is a good option for the 80 year old looking to live out their days in the family home. The loan advanced is never more than 50 to 60 % and is likely to be paid out within 10 to 15 years.  I advocate that CMHC backstop all lenders so as to provide reverse mortgages as an option for older 75+ seniors. Surely it makes sense to lend money to seniors to allow them to stay in their own home instead of warehousing them in expensive facilities. If more lenders offered this kind of mortgage perhaps the interest rate could come down. What is needed is a complete rethink of risk management for reverse mortgage portfolios. The property taxes should be paid by the lender and tagged onto the loan . Also the loan need not be paid out in one sum, it could go out as annuity payments .


Thank goodness that my husband and I can both live with a bit of clutter. okay, a lot of clutter. Although I am given to spending the last hour of the day in tender putter mode, putting the newspapers in piles. At some point, I decided I could have gleaming floors and counters or finish the book I was writing. We don't live in filth (thank you, Rosa)  and most of the clutter is books.  Those austere minimalist houses aren't zen, anyway; they are crazy making. Leave one set of keys on the counter and the effect is ruined.
I did roll up all my socks into balls and color code them, Marie kondo-style.  It makes me happy every time I open the sock drawer. I think the socks like it too, since many of the missing socks returned from wherever they were gadding about.


Why does your Hypocrisy Radar only work on the Dems, didn't it go off as you were writing your comment?


"(Just imagine the recriminations if any public sector agency ever blew through its budget by a similar margin.)"

Geez, I expected better effort and intellectual honesty from a renowned economist like Sanford.  Public sector examples are easy to find.  Muskrat Falls is more than 50% over budget.  Ontario's eHealth project.  Just about any military procurement project.

A cost overrun for a major, capital-intensive project is pretty much expected.  The Sydney Opera House was ten years over-due and cost 14x the original budget.  (Oh those Ozzies!)  Montreal's Olympic Stadium was budgeted at $134m but cost $264m by the time it opened. A 50% cost over-run seems tame in comparison.

Just imagine if...indeed.   You undermined your credibility with this gratuitous (but unfounded) shot.


Fine but at some point reality needs to sink in for all.  I remember being hassled by police as a young teen of color.  Now I look back with shame because much of it was my fault - staying out late, doing drugs, hanging out with wannabe thugs, and having an attitude.  What I see (on all sides) are good intentions with no real understanding.  If you want to make a difference, stop
complaining and do something to keep our kids in school and out of jail.


I love to see all of the "experts" and the adn assigning motives to people who don't support an income tax that insinuate that it is because they are  greedy, corrupt, etc...while ignoring the main reason shown in polls and stated in public testimony - the state budget has not been reduced enough. The house increased the size of government.  If legislators ae unwilling to reduce even the simple things that don't result in layoffs or a reduction of services - like funded, unfilled positons - why would we give them more money?   Its interesting that Keithley only attacks the Senate majority, when the house is proposing to do the same thing - and add a myriad of new taxes?


The comparison is laughable.

Obama - like him or not - is a respected Constitutional scholar, author and statesman.

Trump is a thin-skinned narcissist, TV entertainer with zero domestic or foreign policy experience and a spotty (at best) business record.

Oh, and Obama's tax returns are available for anyone to see. Where are Trump's?


I see it now............ she lost control of her car when she dropped her meth.  Now that she's tested positive a couple of times, it explains a lot about her irrational behavior.


Fair enough, I said this merely based on the information included in the article and could be very wrong as a result. I suppose we are all so desperate for justice in our sick sick world. The ANC culture was slowly created by all involved in the party  though by those who recruited, voted and allowed behaviour that now torment us. Andrew isn't even here to live through the consequences of his policies and culture created whilst he was in the ANC which are now in full swing.


"Obviously he cares more about possible immigrants than our own mothers, sisters, aunties, wives and daughters. It is time for a new attorney general."

Truth hurts.


"In the end I hope the truth comes out and let the chips fall where they may."

That's all I want as well. This is obviously going to take longer than I had hoped, hopefully a lot if heads roll, Flynn as well, those generals always get off when they do bad.


Proving a negative is technical term in logic.  It refers to attempting to prove (for example) that there are no human beings who have ever existed who are 20 feet tall.  It is logically impossible to prove that.  Or proving that there are no extra-terrestrial beings on earth.  Those statements cannot be proven.  So generally, logicians would say that the only proof would be to prove that there is a human 20 ft tall, or that there is an extra-terrestrial being by producing one.  As a logical exercise, please prove that Mickey Mouse doesn't exist as a sentient being.

The math equation you produced is not a negative by the definition commonly accepted for proving a negative.

I have produced reasons to believe but not proof.  You on the other hand have produced no reason to believe that ICE could enforce local laws.  I cannot prove a negative.  But you have not even attempted to give a reason to believe that ICE agents could enforce local laws.


Julius Malema is a racist, plain and simple. He believes standards are good and double standards are twice as good. Incitement to violence - tick. Hate speech - tick. Blatant racism - tick. Legal action against him - not even a box to tick.


So, trump has proof that the election is rigged, yet he'll accept the results if he wins......hmmm.


I would like to see Meuller subpeona them. Force Trump to either turn them over or admit that it was an empty schoolyard threat.


you gotta be kidding


Yeah. As it's reported in the Atlantic, at least, it seems like they settled for a low threshold of proof on this one. Worrisomely low.


A fantastic success story for Canada  WITHOUT government involvement,  thank goodness,   they would have screwed it up.   Please note Bombardier


Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump  6h6 hours ago
 If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 60...
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump  6h6 hours ago
 ...Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes...

So now the realDonald wants to change Senate rules to shove through his ideals. Threaten his staff, threaten congress with "repercussions will be far greater than any of them understand!"
What's the definition of tyranny? Cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control, oppressive power.
“I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”  — Thomas Jefferson


Bravo! Some posters also demonstrate a complete lack of a sense of humor.  Civility among citizens is laudable, but satirizing and mocking public figures is as American as apple pie.


American political rhetoric has always been close to blood sport. That is why the founders created the electoral college. Oops.

In Europe, families with Downs Children recieve support, indeed all families recieve support that they don’t get here. Their value added taxes raise the revenue necessary for this, which is why the GOP resists such a tax so vehemently. The pain capable argument is valid as the fetus reacts to the procedure, which is rare, even if it cannot perceive the pain. This argues for requiring anasthesia or maybe induction, not a mandate to continue the pregnancy. Few have an abortion that late because they simply decide that they don’t want a child.

I suspect the hierarchy is on the wrong side of the gerrymandering case because of right to life movement coalition politics. Sadly, that does not include passing a VAT and a higher child tax credit.


I'm a lifelong Alaskan who lived in Vegas for a few years and I can tell you, our Child Protective Services are ruthless up here. Vegas is nothing like it. Nothing!


What are the ages for the kids? Maybe the community can help?


Any time. Now fetch my latte.


You must be in some strange position because the subsidies are huge and the federal poverty rate for AK is much higher than the lower 48.

With Medicare for all you would be fine. Look at what the Canadians have. Republicans like to say millions of Canadians stream across the border for healthcare they can't get in Canada, but actually it is well under .1% of them who do that. They are all pleased with their healthcare plan. We should follow their lead.

With a national health plan we could put some brakes on doctors and dentists prices. You'll note how many docs in AK will not take Medicare or Medicaid. I guess their afraid they can't afford that second airplane and the bigger yacht in Hawaii.


No. No. No.   According to the Michael Babad  article, ADJUSTED earnings went from $1.14 to $1.22.   Actual reported earnings were different. It is very important that the Globe and Mail report the actuals, and not mislead the readers with corporate wish list numbers.


Awww...you're killing the cute little PIKE?  Why don't you just trap-neuter-and-release them like the 'no-kill' animal welfare imbeciles say we should do for feral cats, so they can live out their lives in 'nature' (where they don't belong)?


Utter rubbish....


Well I'm glad you have opened this to an actual conversation. Common sense gun laws? Well first we have to agree that the open ban and confiscation for all Americans  is unconstitutional and off the table. But, as gun owners we need to admit that we need to be able to prove that we are legally qualified and trained to own and possess firearms. I'm a supporter of mandatory gun safety training. Mandatory background checks and registration of any and all purchases and transfers. (not favored by most gun owners) I'm opposed to the right to conceal carry or open carry any type of firearm in public place without all of the above (unlike Alaska's Constitutional Carry Law). I'm for mandatory waiting periods. I'm for fingerprinting. I'm for new regulations on Bump Fire stocks and similar devices. I'm for laws that require guns to be locked up and unloaded whenever not in use or under direct adult supervision by a "responsible and qualified gun owners". I'm have more but out of Character space.


In the end, Trump cares about people, but he cares the most about The Constitution, and American people first as he should.

The Dream Act can be handled like any visa, for a set time frame. It should not include any new applicants, and it should include mandatory deportation of the Dream Act recipients parents or guardian illegally here, who brought them here just as soon as the Dreamer turns age 21. Then remove, expedited, the adults responsible. With no chance of them ever re-entering the US, even sponsored.


Restaurants are not considered 'dangerous work'.


What a biased article, even the title starts with "Facing tumult at home". I would say the Democratic Party has a much worse week if anyone opens an eye to look. But that's not happening.


The foreign fleets were a minor factor - our very own made in Canada mismanagement nailed that coffin shut !


Long Bob, is your comment is based on deep military procurement experience and an understanding of the roles and needs of these aircraft when deployed? Or are you just thinking out loud?


Out of 10 new comments 6 are all from just one person.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffTGnHuMHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPjBW7Q-x4


But Christ did not say, "This is my male body".

To understand Inter Insigniores, you need to understand that the author was bringing in every argument against the ordination of women without reallyy considering them or their honesty. For example of his dishonesty, he admits that the argument that women are inferior to men is not acceptable (indeed, he tries to pretend that it was never taken seriously), and then he drags it back in, without really admitting he is doing so.

In particular, you have to understand the deeply ingrained sexism of the hierarchy.


The minute the FBI entered the Honolulu Prosecutor's office was probably the exact point In time when Nick Grube mused, "What should the title of my new best selling book be?", followed by, "Hmm, I think I'll search for a good screen writing program online while I'm at it"

That's just mere speculation on my part of course, and I am unable to corroborate my suspicions at this time.

I also feel as though this could make up a future season of "Off Shore" - a joint podcast production of Civil Beat and PRI International.


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LV police didn't detain or subdue him for 'no reason'. Didn't happen. I don't have to have been there. If he's in an area where a perceived threat is, he's going to be detained and held. What time of morning was it, what was he up to and did he resist detainment? Yup, sure he did. Here we go again.


Get out the shovels boys and dig that hole deeper...


Wow, just, wow. Would not have guessed this in a million years.


Do any of them have the ability to download the information to Quicken? This helps for managing total portfolio which may include real estate or other accounts and manage the total portfolio.


He's proven he's a liar, so now has butts orders to shut-up.
A disgrace to Canada.


Save your eye rolls - they put the sign up for a reason.


Wiliki, I am also very happy to see this moving along. Granted, there cannot be one person who might be happy with the cost and the way in which our politicians and people managing the construction have handled this. BUT, for those who say this train will not benefit our traffic problems are sorely either misinformed or short-sighted.


No, my future is tied to the continuing progress to make a freer, more democratic, more safe and peaceful and prosperous and healthy world which rules out my future being China on several counts.

Do you have anything relevant and cogent to say about this latest measure to seal off the Chinese people from the rest of the world?   Is this Great Cyber-wall of China on balance a good or a bad thing and why?


It all depends on how many drinks or drugs they had before. Some may even jump from towers thinking they are Superman.


Shipboard - The oil industry is in fact necessary to our national economy. And this is not as you suggest about the greed of a small handful of people. The oil industry impacts on almost every Canadian. I realize that the same can be said about the environment. And of course, Pipelines are the most environmentally safe means for transporting oil over any large distance. However, if you refuse to accept the premise that the oil industry is an imperative and significant aspect of or economy, then you are too naïve to even participate in the discussion.


At a Republican retreat, at the Library of Congress, right before Obama's 2009 inauguration, Mitch McConnell said:

"There are enough of us to block the Democratic agenda-as long as they all marched in lockstep." "As long as Republicans refused to follow President Obama's lead, Americans would see partisan food fights and conclude that Obama had failed to produce change."

January 20, 2009 Republican leaders in congress literally plotted to sabotage and undermine the U.S. economy during President Obama's inauguration. 12 republican senators, Frank Luntz and Newt Gingrich plotted to destroy America's Economy.

Since 2007, "the GOPs willingness to say not to everything, they have filibustered 500 pieces of legislation that would have helped the middle class.

Examples:
Student Loan Affordability Act
Bring Jobs Home Act
Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act
Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012
Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act
Paycheck Fairness Act


I don't understand Grantham's point. The lawmakers will have been called to Denver, the session will already have started, the money to have the session will already have been spent ... so why not finish the job then instead of saying we're going to adjourn the special session and wait until January? Seems like that would be more wasteful!


"...and having contentious issues raised by constituents in her recent Arizona district where she has been superintendent for less than three years, "

That's our formula for continuing accountability via chaos.  Keeps hiring the rejects of other States.   You DO remember the warning flags raised/ignored with the early HART head, right?


Donald Trump's tweets continue to show what a clueless, childish, and completely unqualified individual he is. In no way whatsoever should Trump be allowed to make any decisions regarding the well being of any of the citizens of our country. Any support of his policies will continue to be undermined by his lack of knowledge, intelligence, and common sense, and cannot be taken seriously as a way to improve our country. We're being led by a person with the mental capacity of a ten-year-old child and the vast majority of our country is well aware of this fact.


How about a $50 million gazebo - courtesy of the Federal Conservatives?  I think I'd rather have a rubber duck - it's a heck of a lot cheaper and a lot cuter!


"Not that you know about the particulars of a region a half a world away. "

Well, you seem not to know about the particulars of Canada, or the right of its citizens.

You wouldn't be able to do to aboriginal Canadians, what Israelis do to Palestinians. Neither Canadian law, nor the First Nations themselves, would permit such treatment.


Expectations met.


Excellent  exposure ,however  they never end with a conviction


Judging by the scars on her face she's had a rough life. That doesn't excuse her from first degree murder, though. Hope she's caught.


'I didn't see any females at any of our the Pride parades wearing a hijab, niqab or burqa.'

And none of the drag queen queens either, presumably. Clearly, the gay community hasn't adopted a diversity approach.


Of the population that kills cops, 99.8% are men?


1000 bags! a major drug bust! Someone had WAY too much time on their hands. Of course there was the great concern about alligator clips sold at Radio Shack (remember them?) being used as roach clips, so this is consistent.


SWAT across this nation are under trained thugs who think they are elite military. Any fool knows you never point a gun at a target until they are a threat and your finger never goes near the trigger until you are ready to fire. They had no right to detain the couple whatsoever. A lot and i mean a LOT of cops are going to find themselves burning in hell for being thugs and thieves who hide behind a badge to bully assault and steal with impunity. I have long since lost all respect for the police because even if you are "one of the good ones" you sit idle while the rest run roughshod over this country and steal from people daily.


that's outsider talking......you're absolutely right.


Confusing SJSJ5 with documented facts could have dire consequences e.g. he could mull them over, take a day or two to absorb, then take the rest of six weeks — like Trump — to announce "it's all a conspiracy" i.e. back to square one. ;)


Exactly! VOTE NO ON PROP B1! We need the jobs and all the economic gain that we can get in the Mat Su.


Jack,
You have more faith in 'human' perfection than I do. What does the Bible say about the condition of the human heart, Jack?  If my close friend had been fired by the guy I was now investigating, I think I'd have to  recuse myself out of 'appearance' of impropriety, if nothing else.


When you see all the notices of lost dogs and cats, remember it is the coyotes and wolves are eating fine.


From some of the comments, looks like a fair number of the left-inclined have been joining the tinfoil hat club lately.  Same advice as to the right inclined...you may want to loosen up the foil a quarter turn.


I suppose what you’re doing here IS easier than trying to rebut points that people actually make about:
- A de-diversifying BC economy focused to a record degree on real estate/construction (>25% of GDP and growing).
- A growing net loss of young people (and essential skills) from BC’s most expensive areas (and the service fee/ tax increases that will follow to actually retain people like doctors in the future).
- Record household debt at a time of record low rates (and when rate increases might happen [or the CAD will plunge relative to the USD and purchasing power takes a larger hit]).
- Growing evidence of systemic gaming by foreign $ that is being sheltered in BC real estate (condoned by governments to maintain the status quo of inflated real estate values).

Despite self-interest from government and the majority of people, in the last year I’ve seen movements that acknowledge the truth in a lot of these points. Guess we’ll see what 2017 holds.


Like the  teacher that allowed a Trump piñata right here in Colo. That's ok according if you're liberal.


How is seeing the truth stereotyping?  Also, why the derogative "little man"?


That's what they were trying to do. Read the report on Facebook.

The cops were several blocks behind the SUV, not racing along with it at high speed. When they got thru downtown, they found the trashed guardrail which led them to the vehicle, where they found the driver in danger of drowning as he was trapped half in the vehicle. Thankfully it was low tide or they would have all drowned given several people could not get out of the car on their own. They cut the drowning driver free to save his life, and then helped others until Fire Rescue and others arrived.

Sounds like some excellent police work to me.


For those that decry the above post check out the  CBC story from today about organized crime already embedding itself in the medical marijuana market.

Not going to be as easy and uncomplicated as you would  like my young pot heads friends...


PNW Mike, Your wild speculatory assertions about my employment status reveals defects in your thought process.

I raised the Cruikshank case only to show that there is solid legal grounds for the idea that the Constitution does not grant the right to bear arms.  Heller reverses the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment, showing that Heller can also be reversed.


Gee Mr. Ballgame, I look back on the dazzling bright lights that were the Harper cabinet and it is like a Trump ego sized diamond has blinded me.

That was sarcasm btw, and your curiously specific issue with one member of the federal cabinet in Canada has nothing to do with the point I was making.


Dear AG Chin,Thank you for standing up for the constitution and the people who live on these beautiful island and elsewhere. You are fighting the good fight and as MS Winternitz said , it makes me proud to be a citizen of Hawaii.


As a kanaka in the world of birth (I gave birth to my children under "dangerous", "high-risk" cultural circumstances, and assist in other wahine to  birth in a cultural manner), I appreciate Ms. Compehos' mana'o greatly. Her central point is extremely important: how is it that sailing a dangerous ocean or surfing dangerous waves is understood as vital and important to continuation of culture, but revitalizing our ancient birthing traditions is judged as irresponsible?  Is this not the classic colonial problem wherein the body of the wahine is deemed the purview of others than herself, precisely because that body has the power to give life?  I stand firmly for body sovereignty, reproductive choice (including birth choices) and the re-invigoration of our oldest cultural practice. Mahalo Tara!


I suspect that the "wage gap" is primarily a creation of comparing non-identical work.  To determine whether there is a real wage gap, double blind studies where researchers see job descriptions, separate them into equal work categories without knowing the gender of the employee and then only after gender free identification of job categories, employee tenure, and employee experience has been completed, reveal the gender of the employees.  Double blind studies are often utilized in order to eliminate bias in those who perform the study.  It creeps in in many ways.


Flake and Corker aren't leaders, they are quitters. Not many are in a better position to oppose Trump so if they disagree with him they should fight to stay in office and lead the change.

These guys are more likely sore losers who were going to lose anyway but made themselves more well known and scored some cheap points. They will attempt a come back in some fashion.


Gerald, the ACLU is an organization devoted to protecting everyone's rights under the Constitution of the United States.  Why wouldn't the Alaska DOC join forces?  Is the Alaska DOC against the laws and protections under the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights?


Leave it to Bautista to "choke" in the 9th inning--this coming from the same guy who prior to last season was demanding a 5 year $150 million contract ("there won't be any negotiation--they know what I want and that's it")--the sooner management starts jettisoning these overpaid/underachieving players (and Bautista is a big example of this) the sooner the rebuild can begin


MA:  You mean old "One Term" Begich the guy who voted for the ACA because he was told to and didn't even read it before voting?


Why not just come out and admit that you came up with a system to insure that conservatives will never again have a voice on the DP. With as far left as the paper is every conservative comment will be down voted until they just never show up anymore. Way to drive everyone outside of the 470 loop away.


Moving is just another example of wasteful spending. Time and effort and cost to pass this unimportant legislation another waste.  They should knuckle down and get their jobs done now where they are.  I am tired of the cost of "special sessions" when they are not special at all but are routine every year.


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


I would rather slit my throat than be a racist.


It can't possibly happen soon enough.  Quebec is a different society - so why does the rest of Canada let it dictate to us?


Joe Miller thinks Ted Cruz is the greatest Senator because he wants to obstruct everything that doesn't go his way.  So voting for Joe Miller because you're concerned about obstruction is illogical.


"Les only will do the bidding of those that give him campaign contributions"

Right recoveringhomeroid, because so many low income seniors, foster children, and pre-schoolers are contributing huge $$$ to his campaign. I'm sure the huge contributions the oil industry makes to him is the reason he is trying limit tax credits that the SOA is paying them too!

Try watching Gavel to Gavel, so you at least have some basic understanding of what he attempts to get accomplished on their behalf.


I can not comprehend the struggles of transgenders, and the need to medically alter one's self to identify as a gender. I don't recognize myself by my gender. I get hungry, not her-ungry, I go shopping, not she-opping.
When I meet someone, I don't feel awkward because they're looking at my womanly features. I just don't understand it. Not at all.
Mostly I hope that the kids feel safe and loved and that the parent's decisions don't have negative impact on them - socially or emotionally. I wonder how many people will gasp about the horrors of this arrangement - while little Luke sleeps under a tarp behind Walmart, or kids get dragged through a revolving door of lovers and apartments and domestic violence....


“The far right has no attractive ideology of its own that extends beyond its own constituency."

Sure doesn't.


"The left alleges" that Putin was deeply involved in aiding Trump?

So now liberals are running 17 or so national security agencies?


OMG!!! I have a feeling the author needs a mental health evaluation. Hopefully he does not own any firearms.


Cheap shot. You'll find similar observations about Noonan in this Commonweal article that's thirteen years old. Straight from the horse's mouth. Not from Curran's.

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/node/30301/30301


Being a racist and a money-launderer for Putin are not mutually exclusive. But you knew that already, didn't ya?


I wonder if these will the type of private investors that Trudeau is lining up to invest in in the Infrastructure Bank that that he and Liberals are planning on starting.


If Hebrews is your defense of a male priesthood, then you don't have one. Garry Wills does a rather too thorough treatment of what is wrong with the book in Why Priests?


Christy1, a poster on this thread is a real little hellcat. Her favorite word seems to  be "regurgitate". she used that word in two recent posts. Must be trying to impress us. I'd like to vomit down her fat ugly neck. I'll be she is a fat girl, ugly and smells really bad on hot days.


What's your point mooseknuckle? White males, muslims, always warning signs and somebody concerned who said nothing and let it happen. Always.


Lol...nice stretch. Tear anything?


It is apparent that either 1) you really enjoy trolling people. There is nothing really wrong with that I suppose. Still, don't you have better things to do? Do you really need to feel superior or the laugh that  badly? For someone who is not a twenty something milli intern ( they are HILARIOUS by the way)  you are pretty sophomoric.  Or is it 2) You  really need affirmation. Seriously none of this is all that intellectually stunning, go smoke through one of those overpriced yuppie asshole vaporizers you review for no discernable reason. Either way,  this is stupid even by your standards


Agree with need for highway.
Harper didn't see it as a priority, couldn't seem to work with the NDP gov't.
MP James Bezan Spent $3M on seasonal toilets, no problem, with his Action Plan.
The NDP spent millions on a road to cottage country trying to get re-elected.... didn't work.
Conservative gov't not interested?


Excellent observation on the obesity rates. CU researchers issued a recent report indicating that the obesity epidemic is playing a critical role in premature deaths. That said, I'm responsible for own health.


And our government and media are actively punishing and denouncing white people for their privilege and colonial crimes. Seems everyone and every organisation has their biases.


A WRX isn't a "station wagon."


So an abused woman in her 20s and 30s who leaves her no good husband is punished by never being allowed to remarry.  Sad.

And please, annulment tribunals are rackets for the wealthy.  Let's call them what they are.


100 percent agree.


Why expand trade with China main supporter of the North Korea regime that puts millions of innocent people at risk?


Exactly!   Don't they understand the difference between a tweet and an order!
The Admiral I'm sure is no stranger to politics and leaves a very convenient out:
"that's the commitment to our people right now."


I suspect R&R is not all that familiar with Baum's theology.  The fact Baum admitted he was in a gay relationship negates anything the man did in his entire life. As mystikali notes, for the conservative Catholic there is no forgiveness for those gay 'disordered acts'.  I pray that when I die, I will find out that God is not a conservative Catholic.


Oh No!  It's those awful cars that use gasoline!  It's those furnaces that use natgas!  It's all manmade mayhem!  We must stop, get a propeller for your house, get a plug for your car, it matters not that others aren't doing so, Americans must bow down to big enviro, must pay more to heat your home with hundreds of roof panels, all paid for by subsidies from the same people, those huge propellers, dotting our landscape must be paid for, look at how efficient they are, why why, they are....aren't they?


According to the oil lobby, they only account for 10% or less of the gdp.  So which one is it?  Make up your darn mind


Hi Paperboy,
I always think about it as a massive project to replace all the children our pill planning spouses will not have, somebody is going to have to pay for all our seniors.
Immigration has become the NEW birthrate project.
I am ok with it, since the planning is easy and the numbers can be tweaked at will or need.
Have a great summer.


What? So the secret of theft is to take it all, then you can't be charged??? I don't get it. What do you mean "let's just get over it"? The government still spends a fortune each year fighting land claim lawsuits and objecting to treaty rights. Seems to me it's the Thief that wants to move on.


The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons in One God.


I noticed the creation of many new jobs for government officials  as well, not to mention the construction of new 'holding" facilities.


Conoco Kevin serves one master, the oil company he works for.


Nice bit of fear mongering here, let's all grab our pitchforks and head out to lynch some accused sex offenders


Can't recall seeing any homeless blacks.  Wonder why that is?  Black privilege?


I agree, the subtle, underlying and growing wind in the West is the rising revolution against the status quo.


If the AkLeg is "confounded by the math", maybe I can help them out...."One and one and one is three"....Jerks


90% of the DNC should be drowned in bucket of shate.


"do those individuals that have illegally settled into our own Nation, enjoy the same protections under our own Constitution, or not?"
As I stated before the Constitution protects them roughly similarly to non-citizens that are here legally.  The fact that they committed a crime does not change the limitations on government action under the Constitution.
"The fact that they are here illegally, first and foremost, does, and should not, afford them said protection within our own Constitution"
You are still thinking about the Constitution in the wrong way.  The Constitution does not grant or bestow protections, ie. produce positive rights.  It limits government action, ie. produces negative restrictions.  For example, there is no right to privacy under the words of the Constitution.  It is not specifically "granted" or "bestowed."  However, the limitations on government actions in other areas, e.g. protection from unreasonable search/seizure, grounds such substantive due process rights.


There are Russians on the West side? LOL


Sessions done most everything theDonald wants except investigating Hillary. Why so?
imo, investigating Hillary will open Pandora's Box and "All" politicians will be exposed, they are in fear not wanting to be exposed themselves from the Politician rats within themselves. There are no party lines within the Corruption in Washington politics.


This is wrong. The woman was on her free time and expressed her opinion of the moron-in-chief, as per her first amendment rights. I likely won't ever get the chance to decide whether or not to do business with this company, but if given the opportunity, I will definitely not send my money their way.


What do all your "sources" have in common?  A couple owned by Bezos, one that proclaimed Hillary President before the election was counted, and some other, very left leaning pundit-papers. Fake news indeed.


It's been a long time since we had a citizen legislature. They are pros all the way. From fund raising to fleecing the citizens. The one thing they aren't is qualified to deal with budgets. They are truly amateurs.


I feel for this guy...big pharma is the problem here..they run the show and have for years. They were pushing these drugs and now we go after the Doctors? People suffer and the drugs are addictive, its a mess...but blaming the Doctor is stupid.


If admitting the inhabitants of a certain country is perceived as constituting a danger to the host nation, does the host have the right to not allow them in?
If so, does the fact that most inhabitants of that country belong to one religion mean that it is the 'religion' that is being banned and not necesssarily the inhabitants of that country?
If that is the case then regardless of the danger posed by that country;  because all the inhabitants are of the same religion they must be allowed to enter the host nation for to bar them would amount to discrimination on religious grounds.
Does this mean that only those countries who have a certain mix of religions among their inhabitants can be barred as immigrants?
Finally, if a majority of other countries composed of the same religious majority are not included in the ban, how can the ban be said to target that religion?
Don't dismiss this summarily.


I agree with you it is to both Mulroney and Trudeau 2.0's credit to work together for the good of our country.

Like you, I am no fan of Trudeau 2.0.  We shall have to agree to disagree on Mulroney whom I consider to be the greatest post WWII PM on economic issues and policy just as I consider Lester Pearson to have been the greatest post WWII PM on social issues and policy.

As for Chretien, he is simply not considered to be in Mulroney's league by political and business movers and shakers and has little to contribute on this file.

As to buckets of sleaze, if Mulroney has a bucket of sleaze then Chretien has an ocean freighter of sleaze from his golf course and hotel deals to his turning a blind eye for years to the Adscam scam going on right under his nose to his campaign lies and broken promises to win the 1993 election.

Indeed, one of Le Petiti Gar de Shawinigan and Palm Beach's greatest sins was that his phony 1993 campaign set the template leading to McGuinty and Trudeau 2.0


Sexual assault can be substantiated from a medical exam... same as for physical, assault. The courts don't substantiate the assault...they substantiate the guilt of the person accused of the assault.


I think you're right, but self-dignity is priceless.


Would you buy a used car from Paul Manafort?


Donald Trump won the electoral college vote which is not truly democratic because in most states it does not represent the one person one vote concept.  It represents a miniscule winner takes all.  Had Trump won the popular vote by almost 3 million and lost the electoral college I doubt seriously you would be confused.  You would be very angry, and you would be right.


Write or call the Ethics Commission I support of Sheehan. Your voice counts!


An interesting speech for a non-RC to consider. Indeed with some basic emendations, some of the themes could flow from the lips of an evangelical pastor. The elect (chosen by God before time ala Calvin?) of faithful people accepting all the dogma in full with no messy disputes, arguments or questioning.

But the speech was mostly about strictly "inter se" RC things and I won't touch those. But Apb. Chaput, be careful what you dream about. As a mainline church member I know all about smaller when it comes to churches. It has meant an end to publishing houses, hospitals, schools, and institutions. It has meant a loss of influence with the secular world, even as they need to hear the Jesus message more than ever. Be careful about much smaller and purer as your model. In closing I see (all too predictably) that only the problems of TEC are mentioned by traditionalists. In truth, with the under 55 crowd we are all in trouble. See Pew, see the other forums studying faith numbers.


They did apply to the taxpayers bank.


The findings that there are less jobs and lower overall wages reflects the economic reality.  If you raise the price you will sell less.


They had better start reducing their PST to compensate or else.


That tweet about the banks is probably the elephant in the RoB lunch room.


Vos Canadiens, as I pointed out yesterday, they're back to averaging just over 2 goals/game, at least over their last 10 games.  So, I've developed this algorithm which indicates that when a team that doesn't score much loses its leading score, danger Will Robinson.  Tyranny of Big Data, #s don't lie, only people do.

Anyway, le tricolore, now have Mitchell, Plekanac and Desharnais down the middle.  Don't think you could take these 3 guys and make 1 decent centre out of the parts, but others may dissent.

So, Mtl fans, if you thought your team was dull to the point of tedium before losing Galchenyuk, you ain't seen nothing.

Everybody knows what a dour, sour, uninspiring, rigid, unimaginative excuse for a coach Therrien is.  Might as well as adjust to Therrien.2.


Is that dog using the crosswalk?


It's all OK, Hillary gave the Russians an easy button and our uranium rights so we're all good with Russia.


"Entitled" ILLEGALS are now attacking Americans & making Demands.
DACA isn't "enough"..... they want the other 11 Million ILLEGALS to get amnesty too.
Pay attention Americans.  This is scary stuff.


Modern Toronto is garbage, a slave wage cesspool. It used to be a nice place where people lived balanced lives. Now it is a greedy slimy cesspool.


A family of four making under $94,000 per year will be eligible for some help.


On Molokai we have GMO FIELDS across the street of Molokai High School, Kualapu'u Elementary School, CPC and Kualapu'u town and "surrounds" the Molokai Irrigation System which provides public drinking water as well as water for Ag. crops. (see my facebook page for pictures). This announcement does nothing to alleviate these problems, the governor and his departments (DOA, DOH, DOE) needs to do more than just lip service.


You demonstrate your complete lack of history knowledge of the timeframe if you refer to the confederate battle flag as the 'stars and bars'.  http://www.usflag.org/history/confederatestarsandbars.html


Well actually the boycott tactic can be pretty effective. Cultural boycotts hastened the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa and Israel lives in fear of the BDS movement. But fear not. You've still got Toby Keith — and probably Ted Nugent.


He wasn't suspected of murder when the rape occurred. Drug possession, burglary, and harassment were his crimes.


Speaking of fake narratives readers should look behind the National Council of Muslims.
The innocent title may hide ties to unsavoury organizations ....eg Hamas.
That is suggested in the following article
Ihttp://pointdebasculecanada.ca/harper-s-director-of-communications-sharper-s-director-of-communications-nccm-cair-can-documented-ties-to-a-terrorist-organization-such-as-hamas/


So the only "good" parent is a working parent - another unfair proposal for parents that want to stay at home and look after their own children. Let's value all children and come up with a fair proposal.


She_predicted_the_deaths_of_JFK,_RFK_and_the_modern_anti-Christ,_as_well_as_other_things.


Yeah!

Those evil  'developers' are the ones who demanded that there be thousands and thousands of dollars in fees and 'systems development charges' to city and county bureaucrats before they can even pour a foundation!

I posted the $900+ Lane County septic installation application fee in regard to this project just a few days ago!

The 'developers' demanded that fee, too!

And the ones for curbs and gutters and underground electricity hookups, too!


It was American.


It's still a non-issue, because it's non-relevant.  Take any random judge in the US, shy of the SCOTUS, and they wear a hat with Trudeau's "Because it's 2016" on it. Would anyone seriously think that overt support for Trudeau would translate into a ruling in that court room that would be biased?

Before you answer that, look at this:

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/judge-wears-anti-trump-pussy-hat-to-court/

That's an overt anti-Trump statement in a US court room, in Texas, and progressives were falling all over themselves to excuse the action and to justify why she should be allowed to continue doing it, and shouldn't be disciplined for it. If they are already making excuses for opposition on the bench to a US Presidential candidate, then would they care if that judge supported a Canadian politician, overtly?


If you say so, okay. Me, I think throwing away $24,000 per car ($3 billion dollars added to our great grandchildrens debt) is not chump change. But maybe I am just not as rich as the rest. Kudos to them if that is just the cost of a weekend of fun.

Fortunately, other than on this forum, people think like me. They know the truth about The King now dethroned.


Rick-  Trump's executive order wouldn't have kept the 9/11 attackers out of the country.  Why do you hate America?


I can't believe this made it to print in the Globe and Mail. Time to cancel my subscription


'
…randy, ….I couldn't demean you.  No need.

I need only leave you to your own devices.
.


Pebble trying to buy supporters ? Say it ain't  so !   But wait a minute , isn't that what anti-Pebble Gilliam did from the get go so he could keep that region as his private playground ?


from Berig in Rochester, NY

BNA sympathized with the confederates, even allowed them to attack the union at St. Albans, VT.,  Davis and his family lived in Lenoxville, PQ for a time after the war, so maybe the daughters of the confederacy felt a certain gratitude towards PQ.


Who has the power to fire this panel?  This looks so much like a manipulation that the panel has no credibility.  Now it looks to likely that the seemingly silly suggestion of one candidate may have been devilishly clever.  If and only if the Mayor and the City Council are fooled.


Which "consensus" are you talking about Mark as the AGW crowd has changed their angle using a fixed survey by a grad student which was proven to be a sham to then target vague abstracts from reviewed papers that merely mention global warming that only represents 0.3% "consensus" that actually linking AGW to the study in the paper.

John Kerry had to publicly apologize for incorrectly referring to 97% "consensus" as it's a complete sham.

There's a big difference with scientific papers that simply mention AGW (97%) and those that attributed AGW (0.3%)

Every angle of this supposed scientific "consensus" have been proven to be cooked numbers, Mark.

Consensus is used so loosely by so many like yourself without any actual backing most people brush it off like fake news.


I think it's important to keep e-cigarettes mildly regulated, otherwise people might switch back to smoking. I stopped smoking and started vaping after reading an article on how to quit smoking: http://ecig-reviews.net/using-e-cigarettes-quit-smoking/


Beating on children is a crime, regardless of whether or not you dress in blue or wear a badge. When police are guilty of assault, manslaughter, murder or child abuse, they should be arrested, tried and sentenced for their crimes. The rule of law applies, regardless of what a partisan Supreme Court may presume. Hired peace-officers work to protect and serve the people who hired them, and those who enforce the law must also obey and observe the same laws. It's in the book.

When we allow beating on helpless children, we can more easily dismiss murdering unarmed citizens in street executions, and ignore or deny our export of terror, munitions and war, spending trillions to kill millions for billionaires who pay no taxes.  Lesser-evils, wars for profit, unprovoked aggression, trickle-down lies, destruction, debasement, dishonor, avoidable wars, needless drones and presidential murders without due process of law are illegal, unconstitutional and unacceptable.


It comes down to who you trust.

The establishment that brought you claims of weapons of mass destruction?

Or Wiikileaks, Edward Snowden and Trump.


Interesting that you take a word that I made up and interpret it as name calling.  Prior dictionary definitions include those who wish to free people or animals.  Not such a bad thing to say if taken at the dictionary definition.


The manifesto was labelled mysogynistic because it was mysogynistic. I don't think there is a big conspiracy to silence certain topics because people don't want to debate them. For example, this article on the very subject you seem to think people are trying to silence was published in the most widely distributed newspaper in Canada.


If we didn't waste billions on the rail, we could have built luxury condos for all the homeless.


Social interactions should be reciprocal. To those who keep bringing up telephones and email, when on the phone or email, both parties are in a reciprocal, equal relationship as neither can see the other.

When in person, one person wearing a face mask means the relationship is not reciprocal and one person is at a disadvantage.

Facial expressions are so crucial to human communication, even dogs have evolved to understand and use them:

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-facial-expressions-cognition-human-communication-october-2017

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785927/figure/RSBL20150883F1/

That is precisely why extremists enjoin women to wear face masks, to make normal social communication impossible.


BS Alert!


This list almost makes me want to vote for Walker. Note I said almost---Doug


Uh huh. Sure because the timing of the message had nothing at all to do with what Trump did. Nothing at all. Do you really expect people to believe that? Or do you just not care and a facile excuse is as good as the truth in your book?


Since India has declared that they will be moving to all Electric vehicles by 2030 and China is pushing hard to go the EV route will the pipeline really be necessary.  How long will it take to build once they start? An oil glut is coming and demand will fall probably sooner than later.


Dear Localstateofmind, no one is "just a jerk". humans are products of our life experience including the values we are taught to uphold growing up in our society.

The point of my comment is to compare and contrast the values of traditional Hawaiian society in comparison to the values of western/American society. Hawaiians are taught to malama (nurture and sustain) the natural world because to do so insures the survival of our society. westerners and Americans are taught to rape, plunder, pillage, pollute and lay waste to nature in order to exploit natures resources for the wealth they can produce for the wealthy capitalist elite,

as to my "thinking to deeply", that is a part of my job as a Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom and a Policy and Strategy Advisor to the Kingdom. Those who govern have a duty and responsibility to "think deeply" about all matters that effect the people and the nation.

ponokeali'i
Minister of Information and
Policy and Strategy Advisor
to The Hawaiian Kingdom


What kind of tools are thinking about Charles?   I accept that racial discrimination continues, god knows, we've been seeing it every day on the fascist far right, but we also have the unconscious silent discrimination all along the political spectrum.

How do we move forward from here?


So I was in front of the Hult Center entrance from 4:30pm to 7:00pm holding my SkinnerInDeed.com sign. A well dressed man came out to 'chat' about the conditions if I entered the event, I could not hold up my sign, as it was a City Council Meeting. I told him I had no plans to come in. He said being outside was "fine". Later I see a woman at the top of the steps 'talking into her hand' several times as she looked in my direction. Ahhhh . . . you're talking on your walkie-talkie.  Moments later a rent-a-security guy comes down the steps telling me I could not stand where I was. Out of the way, 'disturbing' no one and out of the rain. He says I have to be on the other side of the curb lights, in the rain. I ask him if I'm on public property. He does not answer, he's just being told to confront me. I tell him I am not moving. I say loud enough for his 'supervisor' to hear that if she wants a "media event" to escalate, I'm a Skinner and would be happy to call Tom Adams/KVAL News. The End.


I hand you the best comment award!!


Why is he down?


I did something I haven't done in 40 plus years, I turned off NFL football and didn't watch any of it.  Not that I support Trump, I don't, at all.  I do support the police officers out there making sure we and these NFL players are safe.  I'm not sure how these players look the officers that are providing security to them in all of theses stadiums in the eye, a disgrace it is.  Congratulations players, you have made a die hard fan disinterested.  Oh well, got some chores done instead.


typical left wing loser, live with less or we will come after you fascist mentality,, and yet you get to vote, thats the real problem,


Amazing that, of all Bernier's ideas, abolishing supply management is considered the craziest. Says a lot about Canada, really -- and not in a good way.


There are several opinions expressing that Hillary is wrong because she supports women's rights to their complete healthcare, and their own life-changing decisions. I believe that the Constitution states that everyone is entitled to their religious beliefs but no one has the right to impose their beliefs on others.


This guy works just like Obama - "we have to come up with an agreement... My agreement.. and if you don't agree I'll take the rest of your Constituents PFD."  There is no compromise with this guy! He's a thug trying to spend as much money that isn't his as possible..


You could begin any sentence with the phrase, "Does Trump not know" ... and be writing the rest  until the universe ends.


So basically, conservatives are happy because they can ignore the suffering and unhappiness around them while liberals want to do something about it so that everyone can be happy.

In that case I'm sure Justice Zabel will be starting each day in court with a 10 minute set of stand up concluding with a recommendation to try the veal.

Or, as has actually happened, he could realize that his "joke" was inappropriate in a court of law.

Thanks for clearing that up Layla. Not that it has anything to do with the subject at hand.


Dave, I can't help but notice that you hastily register a "disagree" with every comment that challenges yours. Is this the behavior that counters "further division" or is it one that adds to it; was there not one thing mentioned that deserved consideration?


I just wonder what kinds of dark secrets OD is hiding behind their walls.  I bet if one were to get into their secret archives we would find things that make the Legionnaries look like Boy Scouts.   I wonder if it came out Escriva was an abuser it would get his canonization reversed?


Scammers spend all day coming up with their nefarious schemes.


Andrew Weaver should say exactly wha  his principles are, stand up for them and get to work.
His one liners to  the media are useless and getting very tiresome.


Canada? That's it man,send them a real estate tax bill.


If they want to make the Seward safe all they have to do is reduce the speed limit to 35 mph and enforce it.


The city's system is down that's why she didn't have a driver's license.


Medical schools in Canada should see their enrollment at least double. The college of Physicians and surgeons is purposefully keeping enrollment low in order to keep supply low. We should be increasing supply such that the supply of young doctors is significantly increased and hence salaries and rates will drop.

There is no reason why medical school should be so elitist. Many other countries open medicine to a far wider socio-economic group with varied backgrounds than just the top % of pre med. This is the issue, it is also what drive many young canadians to pay private universities exhorbitant fees to get into medical schools.


"... the oceans are, in fact, rising ..."  Yes.  They've been rising for about 15,000 years.  Science has known about this for, oh, something like 150 years now.  Oddly, it has never  before been considered a political crisis (or indeed, really a crisis of any sort).  I wonder why the change?  Politics, perhaps?  :-/


Finicum won't be possessing any firearms.


Please explain why I would want to listen to someone spout racist ideology.  I will never accept racism and have no desire to espose myself to it.  You seem to suggest that I, for example, should have simply listened to a gentleman call President Obama a "stupid N#$%$" and continue his racist rant.  I confronted the man's racist comment and will confront every racist comment I hear.  I don't feel I need to "improve and broaden my understanding" by listening to racists.  If I wanted to do that, I'd just Google the past speeches by David Duke. Racism is not a "new thing".  It's as old as mankind and is as vile today as it was thousands of years ago.  Thanks, but I'll pass on listening to a white supremacist extoll the virtues of racism.  Gary Crum


Too bad the pages don't come in a softer paper.


Moore upheld the law in this case as he always does regardless if its a Constitutional law case, a tort case, criminal case or whatever.  He always upholds the Constitution and the law.


Yea I know, whispering hero's whispering to themselves.


He acted like it was Yalta when repeal passed the house. He's still on a reality show playing someone actually accomplished.


I know right its not like the people there know more than you. They probably are saying they told the people to leave them alone sarcastically whereas we know you are both credible and straight... I mean you are commenting online not like those shmucks who show up and stand around in the cold like l0sers!


I hope, Wavemaker, that the ADN shall be brave enough to publish mine own letter that I just submitted, and that YOU shall be brave enough to take up said challenge.


What, Is she still around? One friend thought she moved to Arizona and another thought she was injured when she drove her snowmachine into the drive-in window at Taco Bell.  Whatever. She is now, and always has been, irrelevant and embarrassing.


When one has a choice of where to live, Surrey is close to the bottom. Given the rate of displacement of people from other areas of the lower mainland, however, Surrey will continue to grow as a region of last resort.


"White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.

U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/?tid=pm_national_pop_b&utm_term=.4e3697865bd1


Schatz is doing the job of the people...NOAA does crucial work and should be led by the best and most qualified...very likely that Meyers will be approved but it is important that he be vetted and know he is and will be held accountable for his past and future actions


"Big Brother" will eventually take over the bedroom.


Hahaha! This is a good observation. Sure. Gordhan's in full mood to do that to the country.


I am going to give you a pass on the understanding of your awareness of the magnitude of this issue.


I am so happy you found her! Enjoy your sweet hound.


Of course, we are going to take more money out of your pocket "to protect future generations" when Canada can turn out the lights for 500 years and it won't make a difference to the world anyway, "because it's 2016" but we don't give a darn about shackling the future generations with huge debts they will be paying for until their dead.  That's right. the hypocrisy and ignorance of the public is astounding.  BTW, I didn't agree with debt or deficits with Harper either.  It's a joke. All  the money is borrowed. It's never even considered to reduce the size or cost of government.  They don't care at all about present or future, just votes and how they can raise some more money by selling their souls.


Authoritarianism 101: First, fire the FBI director,
Some people are butt hurt. They can't get the manly president off their minds, they keep writing same thing, different approach, hoping eventually something they say will come true.


Bill Ayers wrote Obama's autobiography. What's your point?


Businesses were closed on Sunday to placate and reflect the values of Christian churches.


And yet you don't "test" the idea behind the word you used ("penalized")?

Doesn't it strike you that perhaps you've swallowed the secular's world's criteria: power, (misunderstood) freedom, position, accolades, money, rights?

The goal in life is self-gift, love.   How you demean motherhood (and of course indirectly fatherhood).

The noblest vocations (I didn't use the secular word "profession") in the world are mother and father.

We have to "give back to them" their noble and holy meanings, sucked out and distorted by secularists.

There is no greater love (and use of freedom) than laying down one'e life (and of course ambitions etc. ) for someone else.

Jesus taught us this.

Your whole schpiel is so utterly temporal, secular. Every bit of it.  You just can't see it.  There's a whole other plane of action.  It's hard even to talk to you, since you don't recognize the supernatural in the ordinary.


keonimay, that's a good point. HART was created to oversee Da Rail as a semi-autonomous, independent agency, and we all know what a fiasco that has been. How would a similar airport entity be any different? But It is out bloated state bureaucracy that's the problem.

“It’s our showcase,” he [Dunkerly] said. “It’s the first place people see on arrival..."

Even the potholed approach roads and sidewalks leading to the airport are a disgrace. How long have the temporary construction barricades been in place? And the weeds along Nimitz constantly encroach upon the sidewalks. When even the little things are ignored, you can be sure that the big things will be as well.


"Exaggerators, overreactors, alarmists, wolf criers." says Larry Martin from the Alt-Left.  Takes one to know one Larry


not just THIS continent.


He is unreasonable and ridiculous.  This should frustrate the right as well (and if it doesn't then there is something fishy going on).


It's pretty fricking funny though, that these guys believe Infowarts and all.


Yeah, that's it.  It's the consumers' fault for being easy marks.


The climate change is a lobby itself,  if you actually take the records of POLLUTION, then you'd get the real figures and that pollution is real. China claims it's combating climate change, however I would not suggest to drink any water from a tap while you are there (or even in Calgary for that matter) and you will have lung problems in their major cities.


YAY!!!.....lets go set them off in the woods.


Well I am glad he is not doing it for the money or notoriety.


Of course health care costs are a factor, but they are not the primary factor; salaries and administrative overhead are the primary factors.


That's OK.  You spent the last 8 years telling us what's best for us.  We'll spending the next 8 years showing you what's best for you.  Unless you happen to be one of those who make their living by gaming the system.

The Democrats are a coalition of bureaucrats, welfare recipients, and unions who use force and coercion to get money from everybody else.  The unions protect their own.

The Republicans are "the Forgotten Man," people who work for a living in the private sector (Small Business), who earn the money they make and who provide most of the jobs, don't benefit from the government programs, but have to pay for them.  You don't have to have a college degree to start or run a small business, but many small business owners make several multiples of what Phds with liberal arts degrees.  Who's smarter?  Only 26% of the jobs in this country require any college at all.  Why run up $200,000 of student loan debt if you're going to end up working for Starbucks?  How smart is that?


Ward your posts are emblematic of everything wrong in this country these days......and a perfect example of why there will never again be peace in this country. And you want it that way so you can always have enemies to aim your personal hatred at.
How sad, and how sadly predictable.


Call in 50!  The yakuza is buying up Kakaako. Suitcases full of money to buy condos and shave ice stands.  The HORROR!!


What did you learn, if anything?


Mr. Sherman... Quoted from Patrick J. Buchanan, We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
What more opportunity is it that the White people need to give to help the Blacks?
If the poor white got this much opportunity there would be no poor white or lower class of white trash people!!
The main problem why black people are not progressing is the, "They owe me factor"!! Get it in your head! No Body Owes You Any Thing!

Talk about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Go to Altoona? And Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids?
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America?


There is more to this giveaway than most Alaskans know. To see what we Alaskans get for our oil, compared to what other people in Norway, Iraq, Bahrain Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi, and other oil producing countries get for theirs, Click the link below. Alaska has produced more oil per capita than most of them. If we had retained the same share of profits they retained, and deposited the extra money in the Permanent Fund, your dividends would look a lot more like dividends in Bahrain Kuwait, and Qatar, about $60,000 per year. Click this YouTube link to see what I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCL2d8lLYXw


Hancock knows the Black Community will vote 99% for a black candidate, no matter how little that politician does for them. He can screw them over all he wants to try and get the Hispanic vote. Throw in the 20% of white voters who love to pat themselves on the back for supporting illegals and he is untouchable.


You can claim to offer more, but you and I both know that it isn't going to happen.
It was a deflection because we you deflected to those massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
I'm not the one on here preaching about how people should be helping more.  That's you.  I help every time money comes out of my paycheck.  That appears to not be enough for you.


Those amendments do not disallow everything. You must produce a DL if driving and proof of insurance.


He will with politicians like Trevor Ozawa who say one thing and vote another way. Typical self serving politician.


Loves our saints, thanks to Phyllis McGinley for her Saint-Watching, and Ann Sexton for the poem based on it.


There were 0 buyers between Nov 2008 and Feb 2009.  I went to see an agent and he said "I have never witnessed a time when there were 0 buyers".  A real correction would have occurred if banks and gov allowed it to happen.  It's now much worse.

Sorry but incomes are reported as income from ALL sources.  Unless you deal with cash and are not reporting (this only applies to mobster/mafia/hell's angels crowd).

Supply and Demand is a great text book story but sadly doesn't work in the "real" world.  We know that most people are irrational, which is why you can sell a piece of crap for $1.3M to someone earning 150k.  Unemployment is low because you have hordes of people earning $15/hour... What house are they buying?


The tragedy is that this guy was allowed to influence young minds as a university professor.


If you still trust her now, me posting a thousands links from reputable news sources won't change anything. I'll save my time. Emails conveniently deleted, FBIs deemed her "extremely negligent", DNC emails hacked showing her working rig the nomination and get rid of the Bernie problem. Organizing fake protests... The least of these worries and this is just this weeks revelations. Yep, I wish I was making all that up but you should know by now that I'm not Allen or you having been paying attention.


Condolences to Amy's family, friends and companions


Jesus did NOT conform to the status quo of his culture - ON IMPORTANT ISSUES.
Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman at the well AND asked her for a drink. That was taboo!
Jesus - a spiritual authority - dined with tax collectors and prostitutes. Again - taboo in his Jewish culture.
Jesus' disciples didn't follow the proper cleansing ritual before eating. Taboo too.
 . . . . . . On down the line.

Jesus wore sandals - cause that's all he had -there were no Gucci slippers available.

Jesus DID NOT have to pick only men for his apostles - but He did. Whenever there was an important issue to deal with - Jesus always SET the standard - regardless of what others would think!


Spot on...........home school please I beg you !


Ha, this is hilarious, and shows you just how statistics can be used to paint two very different pictures.
Statement 1 (quote): "statewide robbery rates have decreased over the last 30 years". True.
Statement 2: statewide robbery rates are now at their highest point in almost two decades. Also true.
Statement 3: Alaska rape, assault and robbery all higher now than at turn of century. Also true.
Statement 1 (from the article) might lead you to believe that your personal experience of thefts going up is a hallucination. Statements 2 & 3 sound almost sensational, but no less true than 1 or 2.
Important to put the critical thinking cap on once in a while. I wonder what the value of the 30-year histogram is? Is it telling a story about generational changes? Are there conclusions one can draw from this and are they different than 5, 10 or 15-year views? What do they correlate to?


Meanwhile in other insignificant news, also rated as drivel, rain fell in the Amazon..


Thank you for your contributions to our community, Ms. Kirkland. Your articles always give our family the inspiration and information to get out and enjoy our great land, armed with information, advice and an understanding of the challenges.  Greatly appreciated!


"The difference between willingly risking one’s life and health in service of country and risking one’s life and health for the profits of tobacco companies is vast."

I do not know a single person who smokes for the express benefit of tobacco companies in the same way they serve in the military for the benefit of their country. Usually they smoke because they like to smoke. The RG's comparison is absurdly unhelpful.

I hate smoking, particularly when my neighbor does so on his porch for an hour at dawn, and his smoke drifts in my window as I try to cool my house. Even so, I prefer people have the right to make the decision to smoke for themselves once they are of reasonable age to know the consequences, which they certainly should by 18. However, they should not be able to force others to bear any part of the costs of that decision. Tobacco should be taxed at a rate to cover all health costs for its use. Those taxes should be held in a superfund which would reimburse health providers.


Worth a try! What could go wrong?


I wonder if all the pedophiles are sent to the sex offender prisons in all cases.  I've heard these guys love these special prisons as the same subject of conversation 24/7 reigns. so now we are going to host this manipulative, useless creep for at least 25 years in prison.  if he lives long enough, he gets out in his 70's  and starts hunting all over again with a pent up libido and all kinds of advice as to how to "succeed" this time, as per his inmate peers are concerned.


This is totally false.  It is YOU who is distorting and trying to defuse the impact of the horrible comments trump made about gun owners shooting Hillary Clinton.

It wasn't a joke when he suggested violence against Clinton, and it is more pathetic that people like you try to pretend that's not what he did.  Everyone knows that's what he did, hoping some deranged gun owner would read between HIS lines and shoot Hillary Clinton.  That is what happened, whether you deny it or not.  You just can't handle the fact that your candidate is a nutjob.


Need a citation, indubitably, ALWAYS.


It’s so precious when Republican senators pretend they give a damn about their constituents:


And the homeless per capita in Eugene is about four times that of Portland if you can trust the two cities Homeless websites.


Travel tourism and adherence to the Paris Accord are not compatible. We need to do everything we can to discourage travel tourism that involves plane travel.

1 round trip plane excursion from the East Coast to Colorado creates a larger carbon foot print than the guidelines of the Paris Accord allow for an entire year.


Why is it called 'Stunt Driving'?  Such a stupid term for what is speeding or racing.


The resignation of Festing is evidential, no? Surely F could have pointed out any relevant iniquities by B. Not sure it's wise to cling to the hope that F will be vindicated at this point. But I recognize this news is fresh and there may be more to learn.


As soon as all the leftists are kicked out, which is already happening in the US, UK and other parts of Europe.


PNolan, none of your comment is based upon reality.  The actual economic policies of the Reagan administration were demonstrably favorable to the general population.  Your theory of the function of government is wrong.  There are, of course, cases where governments do control rabble or re-distribute wealth, but those are not primary functions, as the briefest of study of the actual history of government would show you.


Trump and many of his Christian supporters fail to follow the teachings of Christ as laid out in the Bible about the treatment of aliens, immigrants, and refugees. The Bible says that God commands that we treat immigrants and refugees as if they were citizens. There are many Bible pasages you can quote on this. Here are just two of them:  Leviticus 19:33-34 and 24:22 – When the alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien.  The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt:  I am the Lord your God.” Ezekiel 47:21-22 – The aliens shall be to you as citizens, and shall also be allotted an inheritance. There are many more as this was a consistent teaching of Christ.


"You can call it being thin-skinned if you’d like. Then I’ll call you Adolf, and we’ll see how thin-skinned you are."

Using Godwin's law in debate is never a good way to be taken seriously, Patrick.


Makes sense, Michigan is represented by 2 Democrats in the senate.
I'd love to see the debate between one of them and Kid Rock, must see TV.


No one ever wants to 'pay' for anything. However, a majority of Oahu residents want to see rail reach Ala moana. So it is time for the politicians to think beyond their own reelection and provide the funding source needed to do that.
My post above is an objection to the notion this should be an Oahu only issue. The islands are interconnected on so many levels.


The ANC will try to get mileage out of everything forever, whether it fits or not, that is how depserate they are.


An elephant is not mentioned in the article.

Mainstream media has failed (hello CBC, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail) to assure viewers they are receiving reporting that aspires to be balanced and objective.

Look, no kidding, when viewers realize, from everyday observations, the big media outlets are not giving straight goods, they will naturally seek alternative (often dubious) information sources.

Examples of media bias?

1. Selectively reporting protests. I favour liberal abortion access for Canada, but city drivers know anti-abortion activists hold periodic protests. The media ignore them - yet activists from Black Lives Matter (and various minority/gender groups) get covered all the time. Why so SELECTIVE?

2. The South China Morning Post investigating, YEARS before ANY Canadian journalists, the connection between Vancouver house prices and overseas money.

3. CENSORING away race/ethnicity identities with crime, EMPHASIZING them when good works are done.

Other examples, anyone?


Interestingly, under the US constitution those people have their citizenship revoked and could be deported.