Five Archbishops are being examined (as of 11:25 pm New York time on Wednesday 22 February) by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The public hearing may continue at 6pm New York time on Thursday 23 February. Go here: www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au

There is a choice between watching a webcast and listening to the audio.


Some morning we are going to wake up and realize we no longer have a Country.
We already have no leadership in Washington and haven't since Obama was elected 8 years ago.
No one wanted any of the others running for office, like Bush, etc.
NO ONE WANTED EITHER HILLERY OR TRUMP
Our military is at its weakest in a World hostile to us and all Washington can do because of Obama politics
Is to flood our nation with Drugs,Gangs and refugee's who won't assimilate with our ways.
Neither Trump or Hillery Clinton where fit or qualified for the job both are idiots.
Ok so we got Trump,
Our Constitution is used against us and laws written to get around the Constitution.
AND OUR NATION FLOODED WITH STANGERS WE DONT KNOW FORCED ON US BY WASHINGTON POLITICS.


Wasn't going to vote for Murkowski anyway but the last time I voted for Sullivan is the last time I will vote for him.


You are absolutely right. My main concern is how much worse will it get before anyone does anything about it? And how will it affect those kids long term? Glad we agree.
Being insured against Zombies, now giving it some thought suddenly that insurance advertisement does not seem that far fetched....


muck, like I say they'd be better off with no union because the defined benefit members who control the sorry union say "If you don't like the benefits your getting just don't take the job". If you need the job and take the job you have accepted the fact that you will always be a second class member of our union. No support from the elite first class members running the union.


No worries, Cottage Grove, those really hot days are probably here to stay, but the DEQ will be going away soon.


Islamic Holocaust in on the horizon......


Generally, the rest of the world views the United States as the biggest blockade to peace on earth.


Mr Ruse is as foolish as Fr Martin.  My point was that Martin called out those that disagree with him as latent homosexuals, but now plays the victim when he received negative comments in return.  It is all nonsense.


O bomba won a Nobel peace prize


"Unquestionable"?  Look at the official Catholic encyclopedia, and read what it says about the origins of the rosary.  It completely dismisses that hagiography of St. Dominic.  It dismisses other fables as well.


John500AF . Thanks for serving. You sir, however, are in a small minority of vets that believe as you do, and i'm betting you know that. We all have different opinions for different reasons based on our service and the breaks that did or did not come our way.


Since December 22nd the Leafs have the 4th highest winning percentage in the NHL. 1st Washington, 2nd Pittsburgh, 3rd San Jose, 4th Toronto!


To contrast the point with focus, now ask McCain if the KKK and other like minded groups are afforded the same equal right to Freedom of expression, (Freedom of speech).

What most snow flakes don't get and what fuels their intollerence is that they do have the undisputed right to IGNORE what is said by certain groups.  If the media didn't cover the event, it didn't exist.  Note, the media practices this on their sworn enemies, all conservatives.

check out the 1924 Democratic convention.  Guess what group marched in their opening parade, none other than the Klan.


So, is all dissent calculated disrespect?
Why can't people who engage in a peaceful protest also love their country?


It sure makes him look that way...


Welly well well.

The level of discourse here is about the bottom half of 3-7th grade detention. PM can play a round or two with whomever he wants. But doesn't his partner cheat at golf?

The tone and content of those tweets regarding the mayor of London were appalling.


Are you suggesting that the whole league is competing for a top five draft pick?


If the problem were access to guns violence would be evenly distributed among people with legal access and concentrated among those with the most money to buy yhem. That isn't thr case. Instead, violence is concentrated in areas with the hardest legal access among prohibited possessors.

It's a problem of a subculture of violence, preying primarily on itself, who are accessing guns via already illegal means that no proposed legislation can be shown to have a chance of effecting. Blaming guns, much less legal access to them, is both puerile -and- distracts from addressing the actual root social and cultural causes of violence.


71% of Canadians oppose giving Khadr and his child abusing, gay bashing, terrorist family 10.5 million dollars.


Duh!


Lots of neighborhoods have FB groups, pages on NextDoor, etc.


I doubt she had any idea she was doing it. I think what likely happened is she asked somebody to write her a speech and didn't scrutinize the finished product. She strikes me as somebody who doesn't care about U.S. politics, so she was probably clueless about Michelle's speech. But none of us really knows the whole story.

I don't dismiss Melania Trump as an innocent victim, but I do feel sorry for her. She's been made an object of national ridicule and been publicly humiliated by her husband's adulteries, all while being dragged into a political freak show she clearly doesn't like or understand.

When I think of her, the Eagles classic "Lyin' Eyes" comes to mind, about a young woman who marries a rich older man and winds up in lonely despair. Sometimes the choices people make for their own comfort and security end up backfiring. It might be their own fault (or it might not, we don't know), but either way they still deserve compassion.


It seems you like to make a lot of assumptions. I don't want to shield the unethical trappers because they give trappers a bad reputation. If you think about how many traps and snares are in the woods right now it is a tiny fraction of a percent that have caught domestic animals.


And the only Americans too, as many here tell us.


I was merely pointing out how ridiculous it is for a Harper superfan, (i.e.  people who cheered over every dumb move Harper made), to pretend he/she has anything to teach anybody on negotiations.     Seriously, save your lectures for somebody else.


Right no evidence at all....

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/03/report-finds-alumni-giving-among-other-areas-correlated-football-success

I understand you're against the stadium for whatever personal reasons, but atleast acknowledge the facts.


Why WE ALL, hard working people of Canada have to put up with this NONSENSE! Senate needs to be abolished and size of the government cut by half. The system is totally corrupted.


more like a quarter of Americans.  only around half of Americans vote and you also have to remember that nearly 3 million for voted for Hillary than voted for Trump.  that is a lot of American voters!


I would love to get a hold of this P.O.S. and teach him some manners.


Roy Tanouye,

Rail would be worth it if we got what was sold.   We were sold on traffic relief and some other feel good concepts like "affordable housing".   Now we find that rail will not help relieve traffic and affordable housing is a minimum and the jobs that rail was supposed to create aren't there.

Rail was a bait and switch scam and Oahu taxpayers fell for it.

Not to mention the massive cost overruns and a complete lack of accountability.    FYI, it's not only the half cent GET, it is also gas taxes, and now hotel taxes (no more staycations  for me) and soon enough, massive property tax increases when the next cost overrun occurs and another massive property tax increase when the rail is running for O&M costs.


I live in New Hampshire, never been to Hawaii ... yet even out here on the other side of the country, I find Sessions' dismissive comments about Hawaii disturbing.  Not being connected to the mainland does not make Hawaii a state of second-class citizens whose opinions mean less than those from any other state.


It's a shame many good people are leaving and one twitter king is staying


Ok, I will.  I still think that you are seeing capabilities in Donald J. Trump that don't exist.  Tesa Ann, how did you come to read Original Intent?


You have your facts incorrect, which I find to be typical of Trump supporters. In the case of North Carolina, the Obama administration checked the enabling statute to see if there were grounds to withhold federal funding because of the state-sanctioned discrimination against certain students. The education funding law allows withholding of funds to states that illegally discriminate. After federal government attorneys researched the legal basis, they determined they would NOT withhold federal funds while the issue played out in courts. So Obama did the right thing, as usual.

In Trump's case with immigration, there is zero authority in the law passed by Congress for him to withhold funds to Denver or Colorado on the basis of Denver's refusal to violate the Constitution as requested by Sessions. What DOJ is asking cities and counties to do, hold people for up to 48 hours past their release time so ICE can come pick them up, is blatantly unconstitutional.


I can not believe the level of ignorance.


Andrew Who?

13 years as an MP, 10 in power, 4 as Speaker - a man who has spent his entire adult life in politics, sucking at the public teat with no accomplishments other than consistently doing what he was told by the Party elders.

This is supposed to get the CPC back in power?        6 years from now people will be looking back at this like Liberals look back at Dion.


5 DAYS UNTIL PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON


As someone who has taught undergraduate university courses, I value the input I receive from students on course evaluations, but the current system of online system often has significant problems.

I often receive very valuable feedback on from an anonymous, mid-term student survey (where students receive a very small participation mark for providing input). On the other hand, the end-of-course evaluations are now done online during the busiest time of year for students. Since this is done outside classtime, there is a tendency for only those who either love or hate the course to participate.

The course evaluation system worked much better when it was done on paper during the final class which encouraged everyone to give input. Obviously, collecting the results from a paper evaluation is more labour-intensive, but perhaps using scantron or some similar technology would overcome that problem.


The kind of life we live in the Republic of S.A......where the government doesn't give a damn.....taxi bosses want your money and nothing else


The other side of it is that Mayweather is one of the greatest boxers ever, and undefeated.  McGregor was in first professional boxing match, and out of his element.

McGregor acquitted himself well. Lack of experience is what cost him the fight.  A rematch would be very interesting, McGregor would have a great chance to win.

In the end, It was a very entertaining fight.


If you are able to sacrifice a little, there could be a chance. We did not buy fancy coffees, had no expensive cell phone or car, we took the bus, did not purchase expensive clothing, we cut the kids' hair, we were thrifty on food and eating out. I know this is not very trendy, but it worked, we were able to buy a house at interest rate of 16.5 %.


Roy, All of them.


Exceptionally well put!

The referenced royal commission on taxation was an extensive, comprehensive exercise in its scope and research and input from a broad cross section of Canadians - in particular groups most affected by potential changes - but the More Dough Morneau effort seems as you say to have been hurried along and written on the back of a napkin.

Rumour has it Lincoln wrote his immortal Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope but surely even the trust fund twins would agree that our tax system is rather more complex than the Gettysburg Address which was essentially poetry not prose.

The arrogance of this PM and his finance minister seems to know no bounds as evidenced by this rushed exercise in the most complex and sensitive area of government and its interface with citizens.

If a comprehensive and independent royal commission on taxation was required in those simpler tax days of 1966, it is even more required now instead of a partisan tax scavenger hunt.


I have no sympathy for criminals.


When Mr. Garratt took the trouble to be carefully polite to all who might have helped, why did you feel the need to be nasty and partisan??


And Joni Mitchell was not an "unknown singer" in Canada by Summer 1967. She appeared on the very popular CBC national show, Take 30, in May (and many others already knew her from appearances as Joni Anderson on CTV back in 1965.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR86OFB4EiA

Perhaps not a household name and far from the level of fame would she would achieve in a few short years, but not unknown.


Ciao, Padre. Buona Quaresima. I think the problem in our day is that we as a society have stopped believing in God. There are plenty of people who believe in the church and think that's what it means to believe in God. There are others who believe in a cause and pretend that's what it means to believe in God. And there are a growing number who act like God should believe in them and be grateful for the opportunity.
I think the challenge for modern people is the same as it was for the people of Jesus' time: to make a leap of faith, believe in God, and hope in the resurrection. I think Lent is the time when the gospel challenges us to realize how far we have strayed from that faith, and to come back to God again.  We don't need more priests. We need more faith. Pace - monica.


Re-calculating......


No, they were thinking clearly, they don't want crooked Hilary


So why? To back up my point that she is way mo' better than the dreck running for leader of the CPC.

Diefenbaker was a great Prime Minister, lawyer politician, civil libertarian and international leader and racked up the largest Parliamentary victory in Canadian history.  He is recognized as one of the pre-eminent House of Commons debaters of all time.

Harper managed the Canadian economy adroitlyduring the worldwide recession and better than his peers in other G-7 countries.  Under Harper the Canadian middle class became number 1 in the world as the massive 2104 joint New York Times/LIS study found.

Now the tax and spend Liberals are running wild,  I would take Harper any day over Trudeau.

Harper could not get rid of the right wingnuts given that the party is open to a range of opinions.  And unlike the Liberals the Conservatives do not dictate constituency level nominations  All he could do was marginalize them and keep them from the levers of power.


..."Laicized priests are not permitted to distribute holy Communion"....

Admit I'm not sure about what 'the rules' are about that. Though I know that in many parishes the local pastor uses 'laicized' priests as catechetical teachers, communion ministers, and many other roles. The parish priests seem glad for any help they can get.


I can provide a two page study on womens ordination that speaks against it and properly understood is unrebuttable.


"It's time for Alaskans to let lawmakers and the governor know that the right call is the call for smaller government, not the grab for our hard-earned cash." Cut spending, do NOT institute taxes is what he says here. Our income is $1 billion, spending around $5 billion, so...hmmm, yep that IS the cut being demanded, or at least implied. Read the article, do the math--you'll see you are incorrect, and Mr. Josephson is correct. Sorry--next time do your homework.


And the vast majority of murders in the US are family on family.  Your point is what?  I can continue to enjoy unfettered white privilege because blacks kill blacks in their own neighborhoods and whites kill whites during white supremacy demonstrations?


No, Doctor Demento, nothing is learned by the passage of time.  Worse,the powers of feminist hate have seized control and university administrations have quailed before them because they have been inundated by the politically correctness.    It no longer matters who tells the truth; rather it is what makes them look good or bad on a given day.   Time was that if the headline of a particular newspapers said 'A", a day or so later cooler heads would prevail.  Now, a tweet sends everyone into a tizzy. Truth, or context, is compromised by CYA.

So far, and we should all be totally ashamed, the only journalists in Canada who have the gumption to speak the truth on a national basis  are both women, because men would be pilloried.  Christie Blatchford and Margaret Wente need to be given kudos for having the jam to stand up the bullies that hide behind the shield of academia.


I can't count the number of times they've screwed up a simple coffee order....it should be quite the spectacle watching this chaos...

Let me know when this starts so that I can avoid their places...


Squiggs>  If you haven't noticed the "jokes on you!"  Who cares about Vietnam?  You?  Did you serve in 'Nam??  Did you serve in Iraq or Afghanistan????  This is no joke and no time for your silly absolutely ridiculous remarks.  Go watch your CNN and MSNBC news and make yourself happy with your "friends."


What about all the Obama officials like Eric Holder who used GOV planes for personal business? This is just more pile on by the left and Never Trumpers.

Every day it is another nit pick against something this admin is doing or is not doing. Enough!


Dimbulb Donnie sure is doing a great job, isn't he? Who knew "electing" a game show host would turn out badly?


Mr Kelly - don't try to blame the public for a "renaissance".  It's the media that will make movies, made for TV movies, mini-series and documentaries about OJ.  That has nothing to do with the president, or OJ.  It has to do with, as Trump puts it, fake news.  If the media didn't try to make this news, it wouldn't be.  The media needs to start reporting actual stories instead of trying to create their own.


The Republican Traitor Party owns Trump, lock, stock, and barrel of lies.  Trump is the epitome of every aspect of Republican ideology.  An ideology traitorous to human and civil rights contained within the Constitution.  The basic premise of the Republican philosophy is to reward the rich while saddling everyone else paying for the government functions to preserve and protect the freedoms for individual humans.  Trump is the ultimate Republican wallowing in government largesse while dedicated to destroying all government efforts to provide access to the basic needs for life for the individual human.  Republican philosophy demands establishment of a the old European class structure for the benefit of the few over the many.  Everything Republican is Anti-American and Anti-human.  Republican is just another name for English Tory with Monarchy and/or Dictatorship as the ideal.  The current and recent Democratic Party has joined the Republicans in philosophy and action.  Revolution, Now.


While it is true that many Legislators have found reduced costs in their personal affairs by simply being an elected Legislator, it has NEVER been possible for Legislators to legislate lower costs. Lower costs come from innovation and volume.

Obamacare stifles innovation and legislates inefficiency. The solution is to scrap this foolishness and deal with specific problems.

Regretfully, when our Senators believe they alone are smart enough to change economic reality we are doomed. Only when we elect individuals without a God Complex will we see good governance


I run with your careless talk
Get drunk  on your smile,
I will take you away to a country where there is room,
In the country of my dreams.
There rocky coast surf
With us will wash away all traces of lies.
You're here alone, and I'll take you with me
In a distant fairy Crimea.
`````````````````````````````````````````````
By the shores, where the day ends on the ground, on the ground,
There, where everything is in reality, as in a dream, as in a dream
Recognized stars in the mirror water.
Rather, to the coast, where it ends the day on the ground, on the ground,
There, where everything is in reality, as in a dream, as in a dream
At night, the sun hides in the depths of the sea - believe me.
``````
Waves carry us along with the boat still faster
Only to those distant shores.
Let us go back very many days,
But we are sailing to their dreams.
We'll be there under the palm trees in the rocks,
After all, we dream of her drunk.
Here came the long-awaited our dock.
Only here we will be happy.


I'll let you decide.  You seem pretty good at it.


It's not terrorism. It's tribal warfare


No, no extension.....trump can't make a decision if he's locked up in a Leavenworth, KS prison, and the dufus republicans are going to lose all around.......less than two years to go to throw the repubs' out!....Hooray!


The SPLC is a hate group because it hate those and promotes hatred of those  who disagree with them. Who cares what they think anyway?


If only K could do so quietly.  Fat chance of that.


You're preaching to the choir on the merit raises, David. I have only worked for the state since last year, and being my first union job, I see the chaff around the office complain more than anyone about those "merit raises" than anyone.


"I never wrote that the UN funds our military."

No, but you certainly clearly suggested that we (the US) were somehow in violation of UN treaties because we fund our military and use it, and that was clearly my point (to anyone with a modicum of reading comprehension).

"to the extent of posting with your real name instead of a fictitious one"

Why should I? This is much more entertaining!

Since you now feel the need to accuse me of somehow being "crooked" (whilst knowing nothing about me in reality), I suggest you have nothing further of real value to contribute here (as was also the case with this LTE in the first place, an LTE to which you seem especially wed).


That display of subservience by Trump and Tillerson makes my stomach turn. Our country was attacked! We need a real president.


Think of Cardinal O'Brien. The abuser probably had total control over him. He was probably deeply traumatized. Who would have believed him?


If it isn't a full repeal and prohibition of government from ever meddling in insurance markets again, it isn't worth supporting.


Where were these people when the DNC rigged the primary and stole it from Bernie and gave it to Clinton? Now that's something worth protesting about.


It will when the U-1 investigation begins and Mueller is made a person of interest.


Yet another person who doesn't know that BCLibs are really Social Credit? Not associated with the federal libs in any way, shape, or form.


In addition, there is the question of how representative the Perry population is of the general African-American population. Those who advocate access to universal early childhood programs often appeal to the evidence from the Perry study, even though the project only targeted a disadvantaged segment of the population.

We present some suggestive evidence that the limited effect of the Perry program on the education of males was due to the peculiarities of the Michigan economy. High school degrees were not required to work in well-paying manufacturing jobs. Perry treatment males appear to have adjusted to the decline in manufacturing that occurred in Michigan better than the controls. This accounts for the statistically significant treatment effects in employment and earnings found formales at age 40.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3524308/


It depends on how the rule of law is applied, not the rule of law itself.   For example, following the financial crash of 2008 none of the fraudsters on Wall St. were even indicted with a crime let alone prosecuted.


Well, if the shoe fits.........


We have a law that says Felons aren't allowed to possess firearms and when we convict one of that crime we put them on parole.

And gollee we are then shocked, shocked, I say, when he does it again!


As yet another in a long line of Muslim Homicidal Maniacs... At least he was a failure in his twisted endeavour!


Just one comment for Exxon.  I would also like fiscal certainty that the state corporate income tax on my small business won't go up.  Grow up, we all want fiscal certainty.  Good luck getting it.


You've just hit bottom. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.


Mad dog howls at the moon...film at 11...


Finally ...

This issue has been (goofily) going on for so long (for so many decades) that the current decade's plaintiffs (and their government-funded boutique lawyers) have seem to have lost touch. Or been Disney-fied.

At least Tony Soprano was mostly wink-and-nod and up-front about his fund-raising efforts ...

Like ... the Supreme Court of Canada is starting to sense the mood of our nation?


Maybe the Republicans will wait two years and see if  they can beat the 10 Democratic Senators who are up for re-election and where Trump took the popular vote.

They would then have 62 to 38 and couldn't be subject to a filibuster.


Outlined in: Apartheid, Guns and Money, by Hennie Van Vuuren, Jacana, 2017, suggests very deep structures of criminality in South Africa today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow; he is Director of Open Secrets and previously of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) and has also published together with  Paul Holden, The Devil in the Detail: How the Arms Deal Changed Everything, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, http://www.jonathanball.co.za/index.php/component/virtuemart/the-devil-in-the-detail-ebook-detail?Itemid=6http:  ANDREW FEINSTEIN, PAUL HOLDEN AND HENNIE VAN VUUREN have written, @ www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/seritis-findings-tantamount-to-a-coverup--feinstei. Yes, and Jacob, the brothers    Shaik, et al (see: @ http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-arms-deal-ten-years-on) are all implicated.  So now the hunt is on: People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime, First Hearing 8 - 12 Nov – Call for Information @  https//www.opensecrets.org.za/peoplestribunal/


She stole the money, (so what if she has paid half of it back, good luck getting the other half),  she forged a legal document, she lied, she betrayed.................Sounds to me  like a recipe for at least a couple of years in prison.

And you think her husband did not know what was going on?????  Also, she still works as McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center’s volunteer manager.  I would not allow her on the premises, GEEEZE.


Robotics, automation and a 50% increase in immigration rates over the next 5 years will ensure there will be no shortage of labour.


Dog owner: What is it with people who can't board their dogs?  I like pets.  I've always had pets.  But even when I had a dog, I couldn't have allowed visitors to bring their dogs: My yard is small, it only has a 4-foot chain link fences (plenty for my dog but not enough to contain a larger or more determined one), and my dog didn't like other dogs.  There is no way on Earth I would assume my pets were included in an invitation to visit unless my hosts had specifically requested me to bring them.  There are lots of good kennels in my area (I've kept my own pets at two of them and even my undersocialized dog didn't seem to mind going); people have options.


I have personally worked with about a dozen of these wonderful young people.  They are humble, gracious, appreciative, family-centered and hard working.  They are some of the finest people I know.  I have also contributed to help with some of their expensive costs in applying for DACA.


Good on Justin for stepping up to the plate and highlighting challenges Indigenous communities face.


This is what I predicted when the new House Majority assembled. Taking an even more left-wing stance against the Senate was not going to make things better - in fact it made it worse. The left has hoisted itself by its own petard. Not just losing 1000 seats in state legislatures and governorships around the country. They have shown they have no understanding or respect for the free enterprise system. We have noticed. Here in Alaska, the Left's obsession with taxing working Alaskans while paying out a senseless giveaway (dividend) is their Achilles heel.


Hmmm. Protests in every major city across the US within 2 weeks of inauguration... not off to a good start.


Voters are angry at egotistical "globalist" leaders who are more interested in taking care of everyone but the people within their own country who elected them.

I'm wondering if Trudeau can think of anyone who fits this description?


tRump and Putin, root for each other, hand-in-hand as they go merrily down the yellow brick road.


you realize that the reformers wanted you to have MORE of your money via smaller government? seems you need to get your vote right for once


Yeah, it is.  Look through the international frequency of radical Islam terrorist attacks...you'll see nothing basically before the 1980's (I think there was one in the late 1970's).  Then, Iran overthrew the puppet we forced into power on them, and it ticked them off.  So, the attacks started...a little at first...then grew in frequency slightly until guess when?  Our Iraq invasion.  That's when we pulled the lid off that can of worms, and it really uncorked since.

Again, like I said in another post to you....we wanted this war on terrorism.  Guess what?  We got it.


What do zip codes have to do with the names we use to determine cities.


If Mueller has any sense of propriety he would recuse himself. The fact his bias toward Mr. Comey may only be perceived, his friendship and associations with him are not.


Those poor MS-13 thugs...they're just misunderstood.  If only we, as a society, were more enlightened, we'd understand they're just trying to help the communities they terrorize, not hurt them.


I'd feel the same if I had Stalin's autograph; and his death count seriously approached that of Hitler!


The fact that tips are simply expected as part of a normal transaction is the problem.  I only tip if it's my regular place and I know them, or if if they went out of their way, something above and beyond, then I'll find they deserve something more.  Otherwise, don't expect me to slide you a dollar every time you pass me a beer. For anything run of the mill, I'll leave 10% and judge the reaction, if they're ungrateful, I make sure they see the 0% next time.


so you cant refute my facts but you can attack the meessanger,typical left winger,no substance,no facts, always wrong


BA:  That don't float.  The current administration has had 8 years to get of Iraq and Afghanistan.  In fact that was a campaign promise and not only are we still there but the administration has expanded the conflict into Syria.  More than doubling the national debt over an eight year period is unconscionable but someone had to pay for the ACA.  So stow the self-righteousness and hope the next 8 years are better.


Amazon will catch wind of the Liberals anti-business rhetoric and look elsewhere.  Who would move a business to Canada when the wealthy PM is attacking small business owners as being rich?  This government is clearly anti-business in general.


I would like to see what the traffic death rate is per miles driven. Then we could accurately compare Denver with cities that are more densely populated and more transit dependent. This study is much less an indictment of driving ability and habits as it is a commentary of how we meet their definition of sustainability.


As 2016 drew closer to its second half, the signs and symptoms that the fix was in at the DNC became clearer.  The smell of collusion and complicity was in the air.  We knew who the obvious beneficiary was, but not how the deal had gone down.

Now that the details are coming out, they're not really that surprising.  Clinton expected a cakewalk to the coronation, but Sanders was the one who attracted everyone's interest.  Caught flatfooted, Clinton resorted to old-school backroom politics.  My, how naive and innocent those days seem now, faced with America's own Big Orange Duterte.

I'd love a do-over, but between Trump and Sanders this time.  Auwe, that'd be sweet!  May the best septuagenarian win!


This story has been updated since it was first posted (which seemed to be from the wire service).
Yet despite all the added text they still have not corrected the erroneous 1-in-10 figure (actually 1-in-8 based on their own figures) or properly defined the nebulous term "substantiated."


This looks really good!


I think alt- left is actually far right. But to most anything they fear or dont understand is labeled 'left'. Are you what I see and what I call you or are you what you think you are?


Good grief, does the Denver Post actually write anything themselves anymore? 80%+ of the articles I read are from other papers and I have to click through to read the whole thing. Granted, that's not a huge inconvenience, it's just crazy that the DP has become little more than a news aggregator.


How apropos, the timing of the picture of Snowden, Margaret, and the Aga Khan, and the recent tribulation of Trudeau chumming it up with the jet setter crowd.


We didn't let in 1 millino immigrants the past 3 years to ALL of Canada let alone to BC dude


Yeah...I'm sure these people were worth $250k a year in the marketplace, but settled to work as teachers.  Come on, you should live in reality, it is much better.

I would love it if teachers were paid $100k plus a year.  The reality is that there are so many people willing to do it for $40k, that wages won't rise.  Supply and demand.


It is a deep, deep mystery how the Shippens could be so confused.

How could they have missed the Party of No's eight years of solid opposition to every one of Obama proposals, their complete refusal to negotiate despite many entreaties to do so, and that everything Obama did manage to accomplish is now due to be dismantled.

Stephen J. Remington


Mr. Arpaio was charged with a misdemeanor , a petty offense and yet was denied a Jury Trial as is his right under the Sixth Amendment which states , in part:
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed,"   US Constitution , Bill of Rights.    There are no exceptions to this .

It seems as if the judge who found him guilty needs a lesson in following the Rule of Law and so does Senator McCain


... 'christian' sheeples gotta be sheep ...


A couple of years ago I remember posting here that I thought Chatwood from a career standpoint would benefit by moving into the pen and could eventually land a closer role. He has a small stature, been through 2 TJ's and has the demeanor for a closer position. It just screams to make sense.

I hope he embraces the role as I'd like to see how he does with consistent work in the pen. Unfortunately for him, this is his contract year and obviously starter money is alot better but a longer career would more than make up for it.


Yeah, George Bush, George W Bush and Jeb Bush wouldn't do anything like that on the Republican side.


Great story. This is first class journalism.


This is the sisterhood short list of women candidates from which Trudeau is expected to draw his administrative personnel.  It draws the line as to who is to be hired, in preference to men.


How different are Public Relations from Advertising Companies.... one pumps up unduly the Company / Individuals, the other, its Products.


Glad to see my beloved Canadiens can still thump a crap team playing the second night of back to back road games.  But Buffalo?


Obama has not been a great president.  But he has not gotten us involved in foreign wars while at the same time lowering taxes, like Bush Jr.  He has not embarassed the nation with a ridiculous plan like the Iran/Contra scheme, ala Ronnie Reagan.  The economy has actually improved under his watch, though not as much as we want. All things considered, Obama has been the best president this nation has had since LBJ.  And unlike LBJ, he hasn't gotten us emersed in a messy foreign adventure.  So I'd rate him as a very good president, similar to LBJ and Eisenhower.  That's reason enough to vote for Hillary as his successor and the person to continue his legacy of achievements.  This is especially true when the alternative is an absolutely absurd baffoon named 'the donald.'


I want so badly to go look at these murderers n the face just to show them my anger and tosee what young murderers look like. I doubt that they would have the courage to look me n the eyes. I want to go every day to their trial. I want a real presence there n support David and his family anf friends.


I have no problem with Canadian troops providing non-lethal training to Ukraine's new army, but we shouldn't do anything that helps them continue to kill eastern Ukrainian civilians or perpetuate the conflict there.

While I think Chrystia Freeland is an excellent cabinet member, she, and the PM, should not allow her personal loyalties to Ukraine to colour Canada's foreign policy; her first and only responsibility is the interests of Canada.

The U.S. provoked Russia over Ukraine by continuing its Cold War policy of military encirclement. We all know from history how the U.S. would react to a pro-Russia coup in Mexico or Canada. It would be at least as severe as Russia's reaction to the CIA supported coup that threatened to put NATO missiles on its Ukraine border and threatened the loss of its Black Sea naval base in Crimea.

Canada needs to play its traditional role of de-fusing tensions and bringing nations together, rather than separating them and encouraging war.


Great article, much  insight, so much narrative.


Buy local.


Absolutely false. The damage done to City streets by placement of any facility in the right of way contributes significantly to the deterioration of streets; in fact moreso than the damage occasioned by the typical passenger vehicle. As someone once told me, imagine the following:
Someone offers to slice you brand new car in half, and then put it back together. Good deal? Street cuts are how water gets into and under the street, creating potholes and leading to failure. Image what you would expect Comcast to pay you if they wanted an easement to put something in you property, that might limit where you could landscape, or build. That's the price Comcast avoids by using the rights of way you own. Like paying you for an easement, they should pay rent for the use.


We need to extreme vet these pythons...Put a travel ban on all pythons from Indonesia...A lot of dangerous things out there that could kill Americans...#MAGA


Just creepy to think about.


An obnoxious response.  Please review your Civil Comments policy kids.


The MSM like all Religious leaders hate criticism and support anything that can reduce criticism of themselves.
This is a ridiculous editorial calling for censorship - WHERE IS THE EDITORIAL DEMANDING MUSLIMS STOP HATING JEWS, CHRISTIANS, ZOROASTRIANS, ATHEISTS, WOMEN, GAYS?
It is just crazy what is going on here, a total tyranny is being put nto place and we must fight it to the death!


"... in what police are calling a horrific case of immigrant smuggling."
Call it what it is: A coyote was paid by illegal invaders to get them into the US.


To argue that Scheer is Harper lite, misses the total picture. With Scheer's social conservatism, he is Harper on steroids.


Oh, I read it alright WM, he can certainly get in line for med school here in the USA...just have to take the MCAT and have a recognized under-grad degree.  As long as the AMA controls the number of seats in our med schools, admissions will remain very competitive. If he's that well trained and knowledgable, he should be able to breeze through a nursing program though.  The sky's the limit now that he's in the USA.


Problem is that her goal with education reforms is to "advance god's kingdom" and has nothing to do with improving the quality of education.

For her charter schools are just a means of introducing religion into the publicly funded school system.  Nothing more.


Is it indeed? Or is it an example of corruption at the corporate level? Let's see... how many ex-cops, ex-MPs, ex-MLAs, etc. are on boards of, or investors in, Canada's Licensed Producer industry? Just look at Anne McLellan, a government mule and an advisor in a private equity firm, serving as consultant on the cannabis industry. Double-dipping? Shucks, no. It's just a fine libertarin criticism!


This is an opinion forum. You're basically saying that civil violations can be selectively ignored in order to make a point, or when it's simply inconvenient.


Goodbye, Marvin Hadenfeldt.  Don't let the doggy door hit you on the way out.


Large corporations are spending millions to keep immigration high. NumberUSA (representing millions of ordinary Americans) is outspent 100:1
Nothing has done more damage to the American middle class than excessive immigration driven population increase.


That hasn't changed.  The only thing that's changed so far is that those who can't afford health insurance will now not be fined for being too poor to afford it.


This season is going to be a barn burner of whiplash band wagon jumping in Montreal, better get a Hercules full of neck braces sent to la belle province stat.
It always looks darkest before the storm. You will endure take it from a seasoned leaf fan who has come from rock bottom.
I do feel vindicated in my call to remove the rotten stench in Montreal years ago by firing everyone and gut and rebuild, I was mocked as an unknowledgable leaf fan.
Well I know my enemies as you keep them closer than ones friends.


It is more accurate to indicate the target in the room is the PFD there are far more elephants in the ongoing plans for sacred cows; roads that serve special interest, pipelines, oil company incentives and, bridges.   Once the PFD history there will be a new targets and they still will not consider the sacred cow projects as items to cut.


The more women opt for abortion and no babies, the more third world migrants this country will need.  No babies=no Canadians.


Freedom of speech is being killed off in Canada. It's time for Canadians who believe in freedom of speech to consider emigrating to the United States of America. By electing Trump, Americans have guaranteed themselves freedom of speech for at least four years.


G and M by allowing these comments you are asking the lowest of low to bash anything and anyone with common decency. You just ask the red necks to say BS just to be heard.


MR GB

The NDP will stop all infrastructure upgrades in my area of the province.  No more desperately needed highway upgrades. No new hospitals or schools like have already been built.

Can you drive to work unhampered by trucks spun out on a hill that is the only road out?  Read HILL, not mountain pass, just a hill.  A hill that has been ingnored by all governments for the past 50 years save the Liberals.

Is your industry under attack by the NDP government?  Page 62 of their platform shows me they are at war with my industry.

There in NOTHING in the NDP platform for me or my neighbors.

Boatguy

The Tyee is a biased source of information. I do not consider anything published by them to be credible.  Try again.


Can you say Madoff?


Do you know what causes gravity?  What you know about gravity is that when you drop something it falls to the ground.  What you know about spreading germs is that if you touch someone who is sick, you get sick.  What personal experience do you have that you are so sure that climate change was caused by man-made burning of fluorocarbons?  Your only "experience" is what some government-funded scientists have hypothesized.  You know nothing.

Did you know that consuming saturated fats cause arterial disease?  It doesn't.  Did you know that eggs are also harmful because of their cholesterol content?  They're not.


I see that another reason some are saying this is a good hire is that Mr Sarkar will bring technical investment to Canada, as well as act as a conduit for Bay-area Canadian I.T. Practitioners to return to the country

Can anyone provide a single example of where a consul general been the prime driver in bringing investment to Canada?

Take your time....


who made the biggest sacrifices building our Canadian railways?


Interesting theory, Im curious, if they are the type to do such things why not keep him and continue milking the cow?


Sure hope we have a back up plan for jets.  We'll need duct tape for the CF-18s soon.


Many here recognize the value of open discussions, so naturally it is disappointing to see someone attempting to mobilize posters to attack another poster, merely because the poster disagrees with the organizer's positions.  One cannot help but be surprised the poster in question has thrown out the oft-used threat of going to the "CC" and seek censorship...sigh....but really, how many are sick of the snarky, nasty, harassing...etc....postings from well, you know who?  Interesting how those with a frequently demonstrated lack of regard for the truth are so often quick to question the truthfulness of others...


Since my wife & I decided not to have children, we see no reason to help raise yours.  Don't forget, it takes two to tango.


I sympathize with your misconceptions on the issue.  I too spent time growing up in the south.  You are faced with northerners, many who's roots don't really have a part in the issue, who treat all the southern past as evil. You react defensively with what you've been taught.

Now we have the modern age of google and legitimate historical references. You've probably been told slaves were treated well as valued property, a common line, but not true.  You've probably been taught that slavery would die out, but the laws were moving in the south to insure its survival.

Believing Dred Scott is believing that black people weren't human.  The VP of the confederacy said its cornerstone was:  "the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."

I will agree that slavery was not the total cause of the civil war, but it was totally an evil institution with no merits or positive end game.


and yet here you are....


Let's go 'Bows...


Ex-FBI Official: Mueller Probe 'Has Penetrated The White House'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3h50mhmqgw


you hit the nail on the head. From criminal court to family court.


Nome was destroyed? No more Bering Sea Gold? GREAT. See: Good News for a Change.  {UAF '81, '85}


Spot on, Mr. Roegner! Thank you for elaborating on this subject and so eloquently pointing out current Mayor Ferrell's continuing lack of leadership and back door politics. The fact that Republican Senator Mark Milocia spoke, AND made an incredibly repugnant statement, yet no one from the Health Department was even invited, speaks volumes as to the ongoing closed-door decisions made by the city's current administration. Their 'keep 'em in the dark' way of conducting city business is, hopefully, coming to an end soon.


Nay...#MAGA


Ok, so spill the beans Gov.


Somewhat frighteningly, Ontario HAS been living under austerity for the past 7 years.  Ok, not 10, I'm not sure where they got that number, but starting in the 2011/12 fiscal the government has been trying to contain costs.

... the problem was that in the PREVIOUS 8 years costs had exploded!

In 2010/11 total program expenditures in Ontario were $111,706M.  By 2016/17 those had only increased to an estimated $122,139M, or an annualized rate of increase of 1.6%, which is quite small.

On the flip side from 2001/02 through to 20010/11 program expenditures increased from about $62,000M to $111,706M, or an annualized rate of increase of 6.8%.  That is what put this Province into such bad shape.

As for fastest growth, Ontario is up there with B.C. and Manitoba thanks to a low dollar and strong U.S. economy.  Growth everywhere is pretty slow though.


Time of day and day of the week for marijuana impaired fatalities compared to alcohol deaths is very interesting. Alcohol driving fatalities 11 to 3 am. - marijuana 4-8 p.m. If the cops are not out looking at the right time of day they will miss the majority of stoned drivers - average age of death is 16-34 for marijuana impaired drivers who die - but that only accounts for less than one third - of deaths - the rest are pedestrians, passengers, cyclists - innocent people in the wrong place at the wrong time.


Why should anyone be "gracious" enough to accept physical contact they do not want?


Wade Araki's willingness to open doors to Cushman-Patz and her students is praiseworthy. Too bad it took so long for someone/anyone visionary in the DOE to be agreeable toward new ideas that work.
Araki, SEEQS, and KHS are breaking new ground!


The GTA Liberal crew simply flag every comment from posters they know don't hold the same views as them, knowing that probably half will get deleted.


Mr. Ibbitson, you sound absolutely desperate. Rightly so, but you should acknowledge it.


You weren't at his campaign rallies.

You relied on excerpts which did not fairly present entire messages in context.

And you'll selectively pick and choose what to read or listen to from here on.

And you call that being a "mindful citizen" ....


This is pretty ridiculous. You have the option to refuse care and die the slow and painful way, at much more public expense. My Kidney docs discuss the conservative care at least once a year. Translation, you can refuse dialysis and they will try to make you as comfortable as possible until you die from toxic levels of potassium, sodium, phosphate, urea ... and from fluid bloat.

When docs were trying convincing me to go along with 24x7 IVs in both arms, double digit multiple transfusions and exotic injection antibiotics to deal with the bacterial infection on my first dialysis perm catheter one tried the "what about spirituality and religion".  I laughed at her, but perhaps she was serious, not just checking off an item on the list. Some docs may have personal reservations about AD.

People think of military, police, firefighting, prison guards as high stress occupations. Front line ambulance, ER, and other health care workers see people dying, maimed, and diseased more often.


Sadly we are now stuck with the world cup of hockey, which is what Bettman wanted all along. sad!


Amen, Roman.


"Sources say" Yep lets run with that!


Must be those white working class voters that the Dems discarded.


Liberals are behind the sad specter of Bio D iversity and Natural Diversity which scratch the back of anti-harvest participants who want to stop hunting of predators, just for one example.  They would love to see the land locked up to anyone except those who want to simply view or hike into the state and federal lands.  Many libs are  on state and fed fish and wildlife payrolls and carry out the mandates of anti-hunting zealots and animals rights dictatorial activist.  Get involved to stop this misguided, Disney mentality madness!


Rail is an investment in a future with adequate mass transit along the urban core of Honolulu where much future growth will take place. It will also prevent urban sprawl which is not a solution to traffic congestion.

We are already short of housing so development along the rail route will fill that need. Another need is economic growth through investment that will increase city revenue and help pay for rail operations and construction. The increase in the surcharge revenue will pay for construction as well.

With economic growth comes economic diversification, and will also bring in more revenue through the surcharge for construction needs.

Finally not having urban sprawl.... priceless


" It is clear that she deliberately breached her oath to tell the truth."

Which is a polite way of saying she's a liar.


I don't agree with your analogy.  White supremacists have been an issue in America it's true, but Trumps election has emboldened them to rally in public more often and in greater numbers.  That is what I meant by coming out of their hiding places.   Very few people have suddenly decided to despised the white supremacist "mom".  Most have always despised them but it was a minor issue until they became emboldened and began marching in greater numbers.  Then good people had to respond to their views.


A commentator at the National Post suggested that the new deal should be called the North American Trade Protection Act. The discussions by all three countries are about protecting their own turf not expanding trade for the benefit of all.


Marching with millions? I don't think so.


Paper bags take far more energy to produce, causing more harm to the environment than the basic plastic bag.  Just because it "feels" right doesn't mean it's a better alternative.


The item has probably been 'picked up' from the Vatican website for today, February 7th, 2017. Only the English language version seems to carry the older date which you have spotted. Perhaps it is one of those 'cut and paste' typos.
However, you are right to wonder why we are thinking about Lent, when Ash Wednesday is still three weeks away.
That said, our supermarkets here in the UK have had Easter eggs on display for at least a fortnight now.


Yea really Jay I agree. Who cares if the fascist obamas hand picked girl is coming to town? And 55 bucks to listen to her speak? And dont forget to pay your 600 dollar fine for not having the fascist mandated health insurance.


Wow those are some facts (i.e. parroted uninformed talking points) you have there. Keep up the critical thinking!


This might work for a feudal society with bows and arrows and catapults.  It won't work with nuclear weapons and ICBM's with hydrogen bombs on them.  This little blob is all about power.  So was Hitler.  They know no bounds until it is too late.  This guy is going down that path.  He wants it, and he is going to get it and very very soon.


It is a good idea to listen to professional reporters while there are still a few around. Unfortunately, newsrooms are being cut to the bone and good investigative journalism is fading fast.


So, reporters for two liberal rags attempted to bury a Democratic scandal.  Yeah, there's journalistic professionalism for you.


The candidates campaigned for electoral college votes, not for overall popular vote.  Do you also want to change the rules from the last Super Bowl after the fact and say the team that had the most penalties won?


You are correct!


This is from the parents in Iowa during Dr. Glass's tenure.
http://www.iowalive.net/dedirectorglassfailedtoserve.htm


Get a life ... moron.


The whole world knows that CIA stage-managed the 9/11, and lied on WMD.  Who would believe them except Hussein Obama, and sycophants?


Zumas tentacles are everywhere. The only solution is jai for him, the Guptas and all the ANC top brass. All the eggs in Zuma's basket are rotten. And now he is off to the Security Council to represent a country that he has ruined. He should be seated outside where he cannot contaminate anyone else.


save yourself allie. go back to whichever Dakota you came from. soon.


Luke, can you not disagree with someone without using such an ugly tone?


Every time rail has been an issue or on the ballot its passed - go figure


Hey, relocating goats don't come cheap. What's the current rate on the ONP goat herd up to these days? $5,000 per goat or higher? Bet they can work that up over $10,000 per head by the time they get the last one.


The real problem  is that one of the legislators was drunk and not ready for a cogent discussion.  The mayor was right to cut off the discussion.

When they are ready to do their jobs, they need to again meet and figure out how to rise the 3 billion.


Yummy food AND eco-friendly containers?  Awesome!


This really isn't all that far off from Palin's remarks of "Targeting for removal" a list of Democratic Congresspeople, of which, Gabby Giffords was one...and guess who got shot shortly thereafter? Of course Palin meant "removal at the next election," even though her info graphic had a rifle scope, er, "survey marker," on Giffords. As far as the author's desire to see Trump lose all 50 states? Never happen. He will at least carry Alaska.


Ah yes, we love the Globe & Mail, the wonderful newspaper which editorially told us to give Harper's Conservatives a majority government.  Oh yes, let us harken to every word they utter, urging us along the right path.  Hmmm.  A bit ambiguous, that.  But leave it.  It's correct either way.


What an apostle ! A true follower of Christ! I hope he receives more support from Lgbt folks like myself and True Catholics who believe in non judgementalAcceptance.


your town sucks


You're saying that all of the Alaskan Natives supported SB-91? And they were calling anyone who opposed SB-91 a racist? People often sub-consciously formulate their word-strings in a way which reflects their inner natures, even when consciously trying to appear civil.  And to add; "Non-Natives" is more correctly "non-Natives". With a lower-case "n" in non.


Has there ever been an administration in American history where a Russian ambassador's word is believed over our attorney general? That in itself speaks to the dysfunction of this in ministration.


Agree -- there was never much of a "shine."

Of the three turds to choose from, he had the best hair of the three.


In 1941,  the US president was a Democrat. Congress comprised 66 Democrat Senators and 28 Republicans, 267 Democrat representatives and 62 Republicans.
Democrats of this island were easily and completely fooled by the media into building Honolulu's rail. And most likely they also were all easily fooled or brainwashed to hate Trump by the hate-Trump campaign by the media, Clinton, Obama, Warren and the DNC.  Excluding California, most voted for Trump by over 1.4 million


Japanese beer (Asahi, Kirin, etc.) tastes much better when they're made and drunk in Japan.  I guess the quality of the water and other ingredients is different due to climate, soil, etc.  Most of the Japanese beer you get locally is brewed in California.  Whenever they ship in the real stuff made in Japan, you pay a higher price but get it a little stale.  But at least it's easier to tell because there's more Japanese writing on the label.


Why my son refused to recite the 'pledge' in middle-school.  Got sent to the office for it.  When he was asked why, said "When there's liberty and justice for all, I'll stand and say it."  I was proud of him then.  Still am.


Trudeau is still the Liberal Party leader, despite the attacks (still continuing) which started in 2013.    That's the relevance.

Trudeau was not even in politics in 2006.   In fact, that was 3 Liberal Party leaders ago.     That's the irrelevance.   And I stand by my statement that it was kept alive by the CPC's faux outrage.    It ran on a Quebec party website for a couple days at most before being pulled.    Yet the CPC use that one example as their excuse du jour whenever they are called out on their never-ending smear tactics.       You pretty much demonstrate this.     Oh, and find your anecdote about your "card carrying Liberal friends" very sketchy and convenient.     Whenever somebody mentions their "card carrying friends" - you can pretty much discount the anecdote.

Any other questions?


margaret. its exactly what I expected from. Fawning and gushing about a President in a foreign country that did SFA for 8 years and even less for the last 4. Great orator but nothing else!!  A bigger lame duck than George W!! The USA is sick of presidents that are useless. So are we in Canada


So then they'll pay taxes and just use her as a deduction? You sound simple.


Your malice is noted..


So, when a new drug is developed and marketed, and the the developer markets the drug as "safe" "non-addictive" etc. - knowing full well it is neither - and doctors use this info when deciding when and who to prescribe to, what is the libertarian response to this? Is it the patients fault when their lives are turned upside down simply because they trusted their doctors advice? Does the developer have no responsibility? And should those whose lives have bee ruined through job loss, relationship breakdowns etc have no legal remedy when drug makers are making billions in profits based on incomplete or partial disclosure? I simply do not understand your reasoning. Do you seriously expect every patient across a broad spectrum of intellectual capabilities and educational backgrounds to research every medication prescribed to ensure they are safe? And what about "new" meds with limited track records?


The American system of check and balance works so well that Trump administration almost couldn't get anything done and every its step is hampered.
This author just talks nonsense.


The fact that a terrorist is loyal to his terrorist brothers and resisting arrest might impress you. It doesn't impress me. I guess you were also impressed by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev putting up a fight before being arrested and after killing innocents and injuring hundreds. There was no valour in Khadr fighting the attacking yanks - he did so to survive: there was no way out. Look up valour in the dictionary.

Child or not at that time he is a murderer.


If accepting payment for one's efforts disengages one from any moral implications that would otherwise apply to those efforts - which is implied by more than one of the commenters below - then wouldn't that principle apply to all "business" activities, including those that might harm, say, the environment?


Hawaii should be like Washington and Colorado and just legalize it totally.  Come on Democrats, stand up for freedom.  Obviously republicans won't since they have abandoned republican values,  but just remember we were one of the first states to legalize abortion and the equal rights amendment.  Shame Hawaii democrats have fallen so far. Legalizing pot totally would probably take some of the pressure off the train.


"Why do you have to wait for an outsider’s input before reforming your sales culture?" - because it's working!

This is probably just another odious example  of plausible deniability on the part of the president which is not unusual amongst corporations seeking competitive advantage.  Of course all of the banks are doing it and so their respective boards of directors are unlikely to stop the practice or to penalize or terminate those responsible.

It's time the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada intervened in these practices although as usual they are missing in action.


Of course Walker voted for Trump.

Every working American did.


From ADN reader Edgar Bennet today replied to your comment "Lisa Bloom is a Legal analyst for NBC News and Avvo, atto...":

“You don't have to post it THREE times. Try putting down the fire water before posting next time.”
That’s about the 3rd “firewater” comment this month so far.

My email to Alice Rogoff, ADN owner, last month.

...I got into this fray some time back after I read in your newspaper a comment from a young Native girl who said her friend had committed suicide after reading, day after day, words of hate and bigotry by Alaska's non-Native residents. At that time I sent an email to David Hulen to put a stop to the falsehoods being bandied about by cruel people in this town.”

It never stops and has been this way ever since I can remember, from the "NO Eskimos and Dogs Allowed" signs I used to see in Nome in the 1950s to todays almost daily slamming of our people by your readers. It's a shame. It's and outrage and it can and should be dealt with.”


Maybe this would be a good time for me to participate, June 10, and expose my 10..........................


all good points.  UHPA is an embarrassment to the profession.  Faculty at U of North Dakota don't need a union.  Most faculty worth their salt do not.


Force people to pay for everyones contraception and reduce the Police and Military's capability. Not only do you support Bad Behavior, you want the government to do as well.


By whose analysis?  The FBIs? Yours? (and you question me about authority - other shoe, meet Trident's foot).


I loath these incompetent, self satisfied,  supercilious politicians, treating us Ordinary Canadians as Ordinary Fools.

Only the Liberals, Federal or Provincial, breed such mealy mouthed talking heads that spew drivel Gerry Butts has dreamed up over a taxpayer paid dinner and drinks.


Since no part of my comment was about Trump or his golf game, but was about Milbank's brand of journalism, you and those who liked your comment seem to have entirely missed the point. There are no lies in my comment, only fact and opinion based on the content of Milbank's column. Please reread my comment point by point. Every item you pointed to as a lie was not even mentioned in my comment. Right? Are you big enough to apologize? Or will you double down or leave it to the crickets?


I have read;
“At this moment in time the
church has two sails that are blowing in the opposite direction causing great
discord within the Church. On the Right: an extreme conservative wind wanting
to blow our boat back to the becalming out-of-date swamp of pre-1962. On the
Left: an extreme liberal wind wanting to blow our boat into rapids where faith
and morals are thrown overboard”.
.
But we can go forward in UNITY OF PURPOSE by hoisting a third sail one
of Humility, the true (only) sail that the Holy Spirit blows upon, bringing
arrogance to its knees and folly does not have to be appeased.
Please consider continuing see my post in the link

https://acireland.ie/amoris-laetitia-the-joy-of-love-reviewed-by-aidan-hart/#comment-10034

kevin your brother
In Christ


It's interesting that on this labor day, a union holiday no less, all the union can do is whine and complain that the people just don't understand how "great" the union is because if they did, there'd be a lot more unions out there.  In reality, the people understand what the union is all about and THAT'S why unions are no longer relevant.


So how long does it take for training to get so bad that this starts happening? Is this possible to get this bad in 8 months or was it 8 years (Trump/Obama)?  I know I saw the USAF radar techs go from component level maintenance abilities to not being able to find a bad circuit card. That was over a 23 year period.


"Selling to Trump" as the columnist concludes---is putting it rather simplistically --This  is the time for much more nimble diplomacy and avoidance of what would be surely perceived as personal insults. Don't forget the
saying ---flattery will get you far---seems to work with some "actors" on the geo political arena.

 Was it not Pierre Elliot Trudeau who said that we are like a mouse sleeping next to elephant. At least the moves of the past elephants were predictable.  Much is at stake. This is the time to emphasize our values at every opportunity--Tolerance, humanity, open arms---- minds and hearts at home and abroad to those in distress ----This is consistent with our national interest and "Canada First" approach.  Lead by example. Avoid
the personal insults.


Implied in the article: The land was part of a larger parcel purchased by a Catholic cemetery for future expansion. The whole parcel was rezoned for burial purposes, but the cemetery paid its city taxes by giving the city a piece of the land, which the city has now sold to the Muslims.

So while no new Catholic cemeteries are being built, the old ones are still expanding.


The "criminals" you refer to are, point of fact, Mom and Pop producers, not gangsters. See Susan C. Boyd & Connie I. Carter's Killer Weed: Grow-ops, Media, and Justice (UofT Press, 2014) for a refutation of law enforcement claims that MJ producers are gangsters; see my own research (A Cellar Tropic: Elision & the MJ Worker, UBC 2014); or see Dept. of Justice 2011 report, gleaned from over 500 Crown Prosecutor & RCMP case history files, showing that ops associated with org. crime were barely 6%, and ops associated with firearms were 6%, barely higher than the national average of licensed gun owners at 5.5%.

The real "criminals" are Canada's Licensed Producers, who are permitted by Health Canada to spray the following: actinovate, BIOPROTEC CAF & PLUS, Botanigard 22 WP & ES, MilStop Foliar Fungicide, Rootshield(R) WP Biological Fungicide, Vegol Crop Oil, Bio-Ceres G WP, Influence LC, prestop, Sirocco, Agrotek Ascend Vaporized Sulphur, Neudosan Commercial, and others. See CLN page


Reagan biographer: Trump, like Gipper, 'tempted to bomb Capitol'

Gosh, I sure wish somebody would!


He screamed, "I want a beer, NOW!"


I hope the author is able to tell us just what the fences were installed for.

The sentence "the Oregon Department of Transportation installed the fences to people away from the adjacent Interstate..." seems to be missing something.


Rik

The effects of fluoride are both topical and systemic.  Systemic effects are  shown in the mild to very mild dental fluorosis.  This level of dental fluorosis is barely detectable and causes no adverse effect on cosmetics, form, function, or health of teeth.  As Kumar, et al. have demonstrated mildly fluorosed teeth to be more decay resistant, many consider this effect to not even be undesirable, much less adverse.  Dental fluorosis can only occur systemically.

—-The Association Between Enamel Fluorosis and Dental Caries in U.S. Schoolchildren Hiroko Iida, DDS, MPH and Jayanth V. Kumar, DDS, MPH

Additionally, saliva with fluoride incorporated, constantly bathes  the teeth in a low concentration of fluoride all throughout the day, a very effective means of dental decay prevention. Incorporation of fluoride into saliva occurs systemically.

If you have any valid evidence of "harm" from optimal level fluoride, feel free to present it at any time.

Steven D. Slott, DDS


..." You just have new players in the real estate market with loads of money and native Canadian can't compete."...

Exactly.

We also have a new way of doing real estate business.

Here in metro Vancouver, entire condo projects are marketed overseas and sold in pre-sales.  Appetite for housing units as a commodity is so high in China that they have 60 million sold and empty homes.

A quote from a recent G+M story from a RE agent states that "demand is unlimited" for Vancouver condos sold overseas.

This commodification of housing is so entrenched here in metro Vancouver, that it is estimated that 47% of the condos in Richmond city centre are sold and empty, and about 25% of the new condos built at metro Vancouver rapid transit hubs are sold and empty.

New players, new money, and  a new view of what residential real estate should be.


Why do we have a fragmented medical system? Why do patients in different provinces receive different levels of care or have different drugs covered?
Time for one excellent national system; get rid of the fiefdoms!


Michael, you can be the first one to "chip in" by writing a check to the Department of Revenue. To help you, I looked up their contact information, including mailing address for your check. It is available at this site: http://tax.alaska.gov/programs/about/contacts.aspx


I laugh at all this emphasis in requiring English speaking candidates to also speak good French. Why, does that make them a better leader? Not likely. Chretien was PM for quite a while and his English wasn't exactly stellar. What does it matter?


There is no new evidence. The lunatics in PiS have been throwing conspiracy theories around for years. Macierowicz at one point even spoke of cloud/fog making machines. It was a tragic accident which PiS are politicising. Your headline is misleading at best and fake news at worst.


Theft and piracy is not within their rights.


Another crooked Republican, lol


So, is Rexius getting this valuable stuff delivered to them for free, Mr. Hill?


No surprises here.  Studies have always shown that those with college degrees fare better economically than those without.  More interesting was the stat that those who went to college out of state rarely returned.  But again no surprise as there are more diverse job opportunities out of state.


It was quality of life vs. high profile career.  Good choice coach!


On what?

My answer would not pass muster......

And really, Neko - after all this time?  NOW you're going to call me a troll?  I am desolate.  Polite, but desolate.

:-)


"work with ICE" is not the same as "seize local police departments and force them to enforce federal law".  It is YOU who has  "facts are all mixed up".  You are making things up to make things appear worse than the administration is proposing - that is because you hate Trump for some reason.  The election is over, get over it, and work for the common good.

What is wrong with local police departments cooperating with federal officers?  They should be doing so all along.


This anti-military attitude has become a minority position.  Time to get out of the 60's mentality......


A permanent tax hike for only one event, that is strictly for entertainment purposes.
Oh, but its "once-in-a-lifetime"!  So, the private sports industry should be the ones paying!


http://www.civilbeat.org/2015/06/did-kirk-caldwell-mislead-the-legislature-on-rail-taxes/

Caldwell is so full of contradictions! And he came all dressed the part - palaka shirt.


I think he's thinking bigger than the 900 jobs at HCG. Hes drawing attention to fraudulent behavior which leads to events like the 08 Housing Crisis in the US where a few more than 900 people lost their jobs


Thank you, Judge Saxby.  And kudos to the prosecutor's office, especially Ms.Gruenstein.

(I hope that no future Alaska legislature ever decides to further "economize" by mandating that
predators like Badillo get their sentences reduced via extra-extra time off for "good behavior".)


Another (daily) RoB plug for HCG GIC's somehow gets thrown in here...
Nice work, if you can get it.


Dan Sullivan is from Ohio and not Alaska. As our senator, his "base" salary is $174,000/year. His term ends January 3, 2021. Dan is going to vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and he not insisting that the GOP have a replacement package ready to go. He is not working for the public, he is working for Corporate America.
  Trump and Dan work for the 1% and they both need to go in 2021


No matter the regularity of these security breaches, no matter the banks and other financial firms compromised, no matter the millions of personal accounts violated and details exposed -- we'll still be advised by the usual corporate players to do our business online, and be scolded by them for not getting with program quickly enough.  And soon they'll leave us no alternative. So much for consumer choice. What a hoax.


KeyStone XL was a no-brainer, but it was lost on the "environmental" President who was in office while 10 new pipelines were built in the U.S.
Obama is a feckless, hypocritical pinhead.


In perhaps 10 to 20 years, self-driving cars might double the capacity of the existing freeways (without adding any lanes).   Small self-driving buses might circulate through neighborhoods more or less continuously, connecting people to the main bus lines.  "Ride-sharing" of self-driving cars (uber, lyft, etc.) may increase transportation services (lower cost, better service) without increasing the number of vehicles.  So, there will be alternatives on about the same time scale as building a giant system.  The giant system is definitely risky.


How exactly, aside from the dozens of kneelings taking place every week in the NFL, are the players themselves addressing the issues they claim to be so passionate about? What initiatives have they begun to promote? What new partnerships have the players, owners, and NFL as a whole formed? Fans just see kneeling - nothing more, so the "protests" are really nothing more than lip service.


diverdave, Obama signed the DACA executive order precisely because Congress didn't fix federal immigration policy.


Thatcher writes:

"LOL @Tommy - odd that the word "sanctions" does not appear on that web page."

--

Wrong link!

My abject apologies!

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-eu-russia-idUSKBN19A1BW

Note the multiple uses of the word "sanctions":

"EU sanctions on Crimea will now remain in place until at least June 23, 2018."

"The bloc's sanctions on Moscow restrict the Russian banking sector's access to international money markets and ban most arms trading with Russia, as well as the sale of some energy-related equipment and technology."

"The bloc's sanctions on Moscow restrict the Russian banking sector's access to international money markets and ban most arms trading with Russia, as well as the sale of some energy-related equipment and technology."

"Despite the divisions, the EU has so far been able to uphold its unity on sanctions."

"Diplomats said they expected the move to extend sanctions to be formally finalised within days after the EU leaders' summit. "

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Israelis developed and built many desalination plants to get drinkable water.

In comparison, Gazans are digging wells anywhere they like and are negligent with sewers.


They should put the horns in the c on the helmet


Gender politics has found an incubator in universities like UBC, and monsters have been spawned in that incubator that are now coming back to bite those who nurtured them.


Unlike her male counterpart, she might have finished early, "Hawai'i women's basketball coach Laura Beeman picked up three additions to her 2017-18 team and beyond with the signing of high school seniors Lauren Rewers (Lake City High School/Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), Mackenzie Clinch Hoycard (John Paul College/Kalgoorlie, Western Australia), and Jayden Alexander (Monroe High School/Monroe, Wash.)."


Calling me ignorant and uninformed is a personal attack. His name is Retread he picked it not me.. You retread a tire when its bald. You figure it out.


Steep learning curve. Glad it didn't cost him his life. The people who get ahead in life take risks and learn from their mistakes and what doesn't kill them makes them stronger.


Hmm, Are you sure all 4,770 employees are corrupt? Then they must all be mindless robots!  Dang, maybe you should get a job there to change the corruption from the inside.


Us "Gruberites" were familiar with the old system which was worse and spiraling out of control.  ACA was an improvement over the insurance companies self regulation.  BELIEVE IT OR NOT!  You may just be too young to have paid those double digit increases every year but us old people with good paying jobs saw it.


I have never met a Trump supporter that could honestly say that Trump Knows what he is doing or saying. I am however glad that there are many people that truly support Trump unconditionally but I ask you in the coming month's please take the time to think for yourself. Both sides have filled us with B.S. And you defending him no-matter what he says or does is dangerous.


But that is the solution to your entire article.  A better approach would have been to investigate and report on the millions of tax money REQUIRED by the state constitution to be spent on artwork and would ensure what CB brings up as a social problem that is not being met (art in public spaces) when a program is all ready in place and money assigned.  Go to one of the many warehouses of art and see what a waste it is.  And the city is REQUIRED to spend $5 Million on new art for the rail stations instead of buying the art from the state's suppositories.


Perhaps while wavimg them through we can offer a gratis cup of Timmies to begin the Canadianization process.


No. Your attempt at false equivalency and exaggeration to substitute for intelligent argument and thought is absurd


For one, that natural gas would requite fracking and the NB government determined the costs outweigh the gains. For another, the cost of extracting natural gas is currently higher than the price one can sell natural gas on the open market. So, had NB gone forward, they would be in a whole heap of economic trouble as a result. It was a sound economic decision.


Just a bargaining chip in upcoming NAFTA talks.


I preferred it when the university itself was fairly traditional but still invited people like Gus Hall of the American Communist Party there to speak.

Now it seems it is politically incorrect to have more than one viewpoint there and censorship or speakers is the new tradition.


"People's reputations are destroyed."

As they should be if they want to write racist stuff and entice hatred.

"That's not really free speech."

To quote a famous Euro-north American saying:  "them's the breaks".  If you play by the keyboard, you die by the keyboard.


Nice try, most meth heads aren't routinely hopping flights to SEATAC. They are selling goods as fast as possible for the next score.


Richard Phillips wrote, in response to my suggestion that a state income tax would have the advantage of getting revenue from those who live out of state but work here, "The courts already ruled against taxing out of state residents."

This is completely wrong. There are many people who live in one state and work in another. If both states have an income tax, then taxes are paid to both states—to simplify somewhat, the state where the individual works but doesn't live is entitled to tax on only the income earned in that state, while the state of residence is entitled to tax on all income earned, but with a credit for income tax paid to other states.

Yes, it can get complicated, but it's a pretty common situation (just look at how many people live in New Jersey or Connecticut but work in New York City, for one example). There is no basis to a claim that out of state residents wouldn't be subject to income taxes here.


If you were to buy or borrow a copy of "The Power to Dissolve," your questions and your dubia would be answered, and more besides.  As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water . . . .


IMHO Mr. Brown was there as the "average wealth" Canadian/American in order to give perspective.


See Gingrich, Newt.


@ Kauai
Any Rusky Trump COLLUSION EVIDENCE yet?
Did your Megan Kelly get anything out of Vladi?
So many questions not enough time!


Well - good questions all - and unfortunately there is no right or universal God given answer. And I certainly do not pretend to have one.
In the meantime this court spent $8B of money without demonstrable outcomes beyond embarrassing itself. Thus it is mere window dressing presenting a false picture about effective international law.

Perhaps it is time to admit that international law is rather ethereal - not reaching much beyond specific ( trade ) contract enforcement. And our future will be built better if we were to actually focus on the future, what it should be - and not drive into it looking at our rear view mirrors.

Lastly given our extensive multiplicity of cultures, legal systems, power politics ...  it is naive to expect short term solutions. A more strategic aproach is called for - probably generational time frames.


Some people love to be offended. It gives them an opportunity to rant and act offended. Tempest in a teapot.


Not me man, not me.


Tired of people with children thinking their efforts and time are more valuable.


I see your point, I translated my earlier post back to English... what a mess.
.
"good to know that I could try to find out. I have a Russian friend who makes fun of my Google translation."


I'm for Trump only because he will probably be one of the most ineffective presidents in America's history.  Our government, our military, our businesses will simply ignore him and do whatever they need to do.  Most Americans aren't all that stupid.  We know how to work around ineffective bosses.
Trump will gather a small army of "flappers" (Gulliver's Travels) around himself, and bumble around the world on ego safaris.  Meanwhile, we will carry on, all the while telling him what a great president he is.
Hillary, on the other hand, is "used goods".  Sorry for the offensive term, but she will do as always, get revenge.  She hates!  That is one of the most uncontrollable passions, and why we should deeply fear her becoming our president.
Hopefully, after the next four years with Trump, a total clown, as president, we will have dealt with our two parties putting party dogma ahead of the needs of the people.
Hopefully, we will also have learned the lesson of no more Trumps or Hillarys.


Actually median income is defined as the middle point of two equal groups, so the author is correct in that half of Alaskans make less than 83K, half more.

If one were computing average income then the average result could be skewed by a few at the top or bottom as all incomes are tallied and then divided by the total number of entries.


People pointing out the racist double standard are the REAL racists, amirite, Chugiak??


Sorry, NO Skunks in my woodpile.


If we white people did to your native totem poles what natives are doing to  white man's statues , you guys would think the world has fallen into racist hell. But you guys are trying to delete  us and call it justice.


Hmmm.  Normally I like McLaren articles.  Big swing and a miss on this one I guess.

I don't think I've received any acknowledgement of anything in my two years of being a dad and that's okay.  It's its own reward.


Do you have a job? You know, a real job,? All you seem to do is babble away the day.


LM - You have no state taxes withheld from your paycheck.  Those taxes are for the federal government.  As an Alaskan you contribute nothing to the state bank account outside of buying gas or alcohol/tobacco.  Alaska is the only state that doesn't have a income tax or sales tax.  That makes you a product of the welfare state as well.


Alaska needs an accessory after the fact law like Florida's. Several years ago there was a high profile case. Several teens who either witnessed the murder or knew about it & didn't come forward got lengthy jail terms. The boy who did the killing got the electric chair. The movie 'Bully' is based on the case.


Compromise with the devil.  We haven't even got a diaper on him yet.  $10 billion pumped a year and we are paying them  Who pays Senator Kelly?  Big oil is his master and Jay Hammond labeled them "the Devil" not me.


W.E. you're glossing over the time slick Willy had relations in the Oval Office. Just because the recent visitors dress funny and have a political bent different from yours doesn't make their visit disgusting.


I doubt the government would make a 'ton of money' by regulating legal distribution given the costs that will still arise from opioid addiction (the same for alchohol and tobacco) but I do agree that removing the trade from the criminal element would decrease he social costs (theft, violence, policing, etc.)


Ms. Cataluna's wit and wisdom at their best.  Please keep reminding us of the future we face if we all continue to want to live here, but aren't willing to make the contributions (of time, effort and money) that are necessary to keep Hawaii place to be proud of.


I can respect that.

My bigger concern about a dictatorship has to do with our fear of and reaction to terrorism.  We seem to be willing to give up our rights in the name of safety and security, just look at the patriot act and some of the stuff buried in the national defense authorization acts.  We are going to give up our constitutional freedoms in the name of being kept safe, way before we give up the 1st Amendment.  Look at out frankly insane reaction to 9/11, what happens the next time?  Eventually, there will be another one, it is a numbers game.  Our people have to get it right 100% of the time, the bad guys only have to get lucky, once.


This just shows that if you grease the right palms with enough money you can get anything done. The cash for access program of the Liberal has paid big dividends for the Chinese. It will be interesting to see what happens when Trump gets this little Homeland Security memo across his desk. Sad really, many Canadians thought they had put corrupt governance behind them only to have it raise it's ugly head again in the form of the Liberals and Justin Trudeau


I'm quite pleased that Hillary lost. I'm just not pleased that the victor is a senescent, prevaricating, fake businessman who is a self-absorbed lying blubber-butt who is a real threat to the Nation that I love.


Remember, rape isn't about sex.


Interested to know what fish will use this culvert.


Perhaps his tattoo was armed.


We don't need to nuke them.  conventional weapons can do the job.  Just gotta pull our troops out first.


Big timber has made it clear already-nothing matters except maximum profit.  Plants, animals, or people-we are all only in the way of corporate plans.  Of course, once they destroy the planet, the wealthy plan to jet off to another, leaving the rest of us to wait out the million years or so until the Earth regenerates.


The flaw in your logic is that government is never logical. They already tax your passive investment income inside the corporation at the current rate of 50%.  But they are so desperate for cash that they don't want to wait until you take it out to tax it again. They want the cash now to cover their unrestrained spending habit.


The US military spends several hundred million $$ on viagra every year. Maybe the admiral is taking more than his share?


"It requires listening to people and thinking about what they say."

Yes, it does.  I like to think I have.

Do I "think Brown deserved to die because he was imperfect?"  No.

Do I "think his life was not worthy of a protest over his death?"  No.

Do I think bad things are NOT going to happen if I start fighting with a police officer?  No.

Brown was an 18-year-old black male.  Some white males that age do dumb things.  I do not "think" this - I know this.

I'm going to assert that some 18-year-old black males also do dumb things.

At one level, I'll concede EVERYTHING'S about race.  At another level, however, it's all about people, irrespective of race, doing dumb things.  Brown did something dumb.

Your article might have placed more emphasis on stupidity, less on phenotype.


There have been well intentioned calls for unity by every President elect and from those who lost. That makes sense to me because unity is important for sustained progress as a Nation. However, I don't believe the reciprocity for eight years of obstructionism to a popularly elected President by a political party will be mutually beneficial.


A fool and his money are soon parted. If you're going to pay 750 for a 55 ticket, you deserve to be fleeced all the way back to wherever you transplanted from.


There is no inconsistency.  I don't celebrate laws or this law, I support it.  It is wrong to legislate morality because it ends up with greater injustice.  Adultery is a serious wrong and it should not be a crime.  Idolatry is the most serious sin a person can commit but it should not be a crime in the U.S.

We don't prohibit murder, theft, discrimination against blacks and women as a matter of morality but of public equality for all citizens which enables the public peace to be kept more readily.  We don't criminalize adultery because it would not cure the problem any more than illegalizing abortion has lessened abortion rates in any countries where it is illegal - it has in fact given these countries higher rates of abortion in almost every case.

There is a reason to have governmental laws to keep the peace and allow an even playing field for all citizens.  Churches have a higher criteria for morality as to what constitutes sin as this should be based on Gospel to gain salvation.


Read the 12,000+ peer-reviewed scientific journal articles that provide evidence for climate change and then let me know when you are ready to debate.


Jump bail??


And now we have Trumpnadians who are quite comfortable with the racist Alt right.  His disease is spreading.


Also, it is patently untrue that "immigrants" are the solution to low rate of start-ups:

http://smallbiztrends.com/2015/01/immigration-reform-declining-start-rate.html


CETA will become irrelevant when the US and the EU sign their free trade deal. Until then CETA gives Canada first mover advantage for a short period of time after which EU investments will shift from Canada to the US


Am I a racist if I don't believe in Sharia Law?


It is simply about upholding law.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau worded it perfectly, in regards to their border, and unlawful 'migrants' migrating there, I think.

"Canada is an opening and welcoming society, but let me be clear. We are also a country of laws" Trudeau said..."There are rigorous immigration and customs rules that will be followed. Make no mistake."
http://www.dailywire.com/news/20015/canadian-pm-justin-trudeau-would-prefer-you-not-emily-zanotti#exit-modal

In my opinion, that was our mistake years before-failing to enforce our very good immigration rules and laws.  We welcome immigrants as we should of course, but until today, we failed to legally address all who are illegally here.  So here we are now.


Why don't we just give the developer the property, the MUPTE, and have City employees do the construction?


Without the mining company risking millions of dollars and years of hard work "their" gold is worthless rock. Just because they squat out there does not mean the rest of us should fund and support their socialist welfare lifestyle. They deserve a royalty and job opportunities. Nothing less, nothing more.


No threat, just fact.  The survival of the nation, and possibly the world is at stake.  I lead with words to gather the human forces to end this traitorous assault on the very foundations of humanity.


I think betty can handle a regular bus just fine....she's not incapable! and i'm guessing as she transitions thru whatever stage of life she's in  she'll handle it with grace.  she's a pro.


I think your comment is very thoughtful. (Seriously, it made me laugh. I laugh with everything. Even so.)


Oh, her, ROTFLMAO.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Judith_Curry_arg.htm

https://www.desmogblog.com/judith-curry

Global warming stopped in 1995, no wait 1998, no that doesn't work try  2002, oops 2007, reboot 2010,  ...


Well, Oregon is the only State that allows totally nude 'dancing' that I have heard about.


If most people were rational then they'd realize that current EVs already cover 80-90% of people for 8-90% of their daily needs already.  These chargers are also fast-charge systems so they take much less time than your 120v and 240v outlet at home.


COMING TO A NANNY STATE GOVERNMENT IN YOUR NEIGHBOR SOON.........


That's not what I've read....maybe I've missed something. ABC  Why an archbishop [Hart] and priest [Frank Brennan] wouldn't report a confession to police.


And I would add, there are no doubt Trump supporters here who were appalled by Bill and Hillary's behavior in the 90's who now try to minimize Trump's clear predatory nature.


How about Alberta, Sask, and Manitoba, as BC is too left and therefore screwed up ?


Close enough.

http://www.charismanews.com/politics/elections/59135-has-the-communist-party-usa-endorsed-hillary-clinton


Nope.


Sadly you are not wrong.


While I agree that "'Lack of resonance' offers something," I suspect we disagree on what that "something" represents.  If you care to "reason together", I'm open.


In other words, you favor an arrangement where the mineral rights owners can be denied the rightful development of their property.

If surface rights were all that counted, your "leave it to zoning" idea might not be too bad.  But it isn't solely about surface rights.


You are a very sad man, if you think that lust is what motivates all men. And if you think that, then you should be in favor of contraceptives, even at your expense.  And that's your real problem: As a conservative, you object to spending money that will benefit others. You exemplify John Kenneth Galbraith's observation, "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."


I agree, Neko.  It was all down hill after Christianity became the official state religion under Constantine..  In that short period of time from its inception to the next 300 hundred years Christianity moved from the persecuted remnant of believers to the persecutors of those who disagreed in any way..  Regal splendor, authority and legalism have pressed hard against the original simple teachings of Jesus ever since.  Today one would hardly recognize that it is the same religion that Jesus founded.  What in the world have we done?


Ya dog is sad but more important what happened to the firearm


" Sousa stated he didn't want to destroy "investor value". "
That is exactly what the BC Minister of Finance said last year when they were still trying to claim that only 3% of purchases were with foreign money. Of course the Globe reported that he owned, IIRC, 7(!) properties so he wasn't exactly without conflict of interest. For some reason the media didn't want to make a stink about that.


Personally, I wish they would take their energy and go back to Congress and work with all their strength to change America's election laws.

Make federal voting vote by mail across the nation. Eliminate the electoral college. Find a way to let third parties run and have their votes counted. Enter the modern age and have a method that allows voters to express their opinions on matters via computer.

If I were in charge, a simple change would be that all candidates can specify where their votes would go if the candidate didn't get the highest total. Thus Bernie could run as an Independent, and all votes cast for him, if he didn't get the greater total, would go to the Democrat. That would let millions of Americans actually vote for whomever they like, and not worry that their votes really work against their interests.
Won't happen, of course, as each national party has too much at stake to allow a change in the system.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene


State nears FULL employment ? "Oregon has almost fully recovered from the Great Recession..."

this article is so nuts and off kilter from the truth about our tanking economy, I don't even know where to begin the rebuttal...  (stares blankly at a wall, unable to process the outrageousness of this claim)

so yes, it's true that US media is controlled  = um, everything is fine here, go back to grazing sheeple.


Hey.  I smoke.   And this stuff you post is complete nonsense.  Please stop.  It's legal now.  You can stop trying to prove your point.
I'm not here to bag on you but the internet is not always right.