If Canada had a shred of integrity it would drop all the 'human rights stuff' from its brand and carry on its trade agreements with China without the weight of enormous hypocrisy hanging over its head. There is no need to defend, deflect or spin this as this is just part of Chinese society. The bar for Chinese behavior is set so low that people just expect this type of thing. As the champion of human rights everywhere Canada has to be in a constant state of embarrassment and denial over its mother country but always looking ridiculous in its much promoted stand on human rights.


a country's population is overrated; Brazil far less influential in many ways and certainly less happy than the Netherlands


It is downright scary how far the left is willing to go to silence dissenting opinion and to try and organize the mob to enforce their edicts. It is why I have always resisted any infringement on free speech - because I am utterly convinced that sooner or later it will always be used to oppress people.


“When I walk the hallways of my college, the young men generally look less mature than the women. With their baseball caps and baggy pants, they look like overgrown 12-year-old boys, not 18- to 24-year-old men,” Shelley said.  The counterpoint would be “When I walk the hallways of my college, the young women generally look more mature than the men. With their form-fitting tops and yoga pants, they look like wannabe models, not 18- to 24-year-old women” . . .


Protestantism - horrors.   Really - and after John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council for the express purpose of ecumenism and addressing the *SCANDAL* of separated and divided Christian Churches.
From the opening address of VII by John XXIII:
Catholic church "desires to show herself to be a loving mother of all, benign, patient, full of mercy and goodness toward children separated from her," and "she spreads everywhere the fullness of Christian charity, than which nothing is more effective in eradicating the seeds of discord, nothing more efficacious in promoting concord, just peace and the brotherly unity of all."
"In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to our regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much of discretion or measure." ..
"prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world was at hand."

Cottage Industry - yep, Fr. Z, EWTN, the prophets of gloom


Not an apology. Let's save the big moments of apology for the lies Trumpsters tell as easily as they breathe.

But it sure looks like Romney understood that his own party was greedy, gullible, and power-hungry well beyond the good of our country.


'History in the Beginning is all Geography: The Geography pf the Past is all History'...... the title subject of my first tutorial set at University nearly 50 years ago!

Shall we say it was 'challenging' to an 18 year old!


"Have they abdicated their responsibility ?" Nope.

They are arresting and detaining them under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and turning them over to Canada Immigration for processing.

There is a very good legal reason why refugee claimants (not asylum seekers which are a completely different class of persons) are not being charged in respect of their entry to Canada.

Under Article 31 of the 1951 Convention on Refugees Canada has undertaken to not prosecute refugee claimants for illegal entry into Canada including any issues of false documents or fraud relating to that entry.

Canada has enacted that exemption into our domestic law as required by the Convention in various iterations of our immigration legislation over the years. Currently that exemption is contained at s. 133 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

So no charges because the law exempts refugees recognizing that refugees who are fleeing persecution are different from other migrants.


Try to stay on topic , your talking infrastructure used by everybody.


Smell my finger....


At one time, an extensive branch network was considered a bank' strength.

But the times are changing.

Branches may continue to exist, but the kinds of services offered will be different.

Speaking from my own personal banking, for example, if I need cash, I am more likely to an ATM machine.  The exception is when I need something like foreign currency when I travel.  Back in the days, if I wanted t withdraw cash, I had to line up and wait for a teller.


Dental care? Day care? Maybe if you are on social assistance. For those communism worked indeed.


Well goody for you.  Since I believe no animal products should be available at all due to the fact that producing them harms my environment and eating them promotes bad health and raises medical costs, thereby affecting me, I think they should be outlawed.  Same with smoking. Alcohol. Sugar (makes candy, y'know) and all refined foods. Cooking times should be set by law, so as to ensure the maximum nutrition is retained. Other regulations and laws regarding exercise should be enacted.  Booted government storm troopers should be able to conduct surprise inspections to see that the population is conforming to the law.


Thank goodness the social fabric wasn't permanently shredded by this controversial issue.  One sign that all is well---Lana`i drivers wave as you pass by!


This article is right on...the Obama Administration is compulsively secretive. Obama is a corporate president. The corporations he represents own every aspect of our society including the media...and the corporations don't want people to know much of anything...so they keep everything secret just in case some truth might leak through.


And weirdly, we always seem to have endless funding for a huge military and unfunded foreign "adventures". It seems that most conversations in the Washington beltway never seem to say how "politically difficult" it might be to find money to conduct state terrorism on brown people in other countries, but it practically rolls off their tongue in nearly every conversation about universal healthcare, free secondary education, or guaranteed basic income, etc.


Please.  Whether or not swimming lessons are available, whether they are perceived as only being easily accessible to the "privileged", whatever your feelings are about a parent's responsibility to make sure their child can swim - about half the kids on this trip were not qualified to be there and well-defined rules were ignored. Somebody needs to be accountable for this entirely avoidable tragedy. My heart aches for this family.


Foreign policy?  How about dealing first of all with real problems, like court delays and health care, to name a few?


The mentally ill account for a fairly small number of gun homicides. This is the usual malarkey.


I agree. I am all for income tax across the board for everyone if it comes to it.  The agriculture tax goes to the state as well as borough and city tax that the fish are processed at. 2% is not such a heartache nor is any other tax that goes to the communities. But whatever that is paid from selling fish(not including licenses, entry permit costs, boat registrations...) goes back to the people of Alaska. This isn't a noble job, it's to make money catching fish. But there are payments to the state for it.  It's we need have this tendency to look at whose not paying into the state. We should look further back to those who built this state into what it is and tighten our boots and get to work.


Marty Wilde is a city of Eugene "insider".  Wilde was one of the last remaining members of the mayor's fizzled-out independent city auditor "review" committee. Look for Wilde to attempt to persuade the city council to undermine the ballot initiative for an elected independent city auditor, by proposing a competing ballot measure.  That's the way Wilde operates; can't be trusted.


The Bundys and their Tumbleweed Terrorist friends were the real criminals. They are where they belong now.


Which Facebook (?), I'd  love to read it.


"With the confirmation of Trump’s Supreme Court pick earlier this year, the court retains a 5-4 conservative majority, while the lower courts that have ruled thus far have been more liberal-leaning."

Especially if Trump wanted the tougher Executive Order to be the one put before the Supreme Court, I wonder if he expects the SC to rubber stamp his EO, rather than actually dealing with legalities.


I completely agree.  I don't understand why the promoters of a plan divorcing the dividend from any relation to the performance of the Permanent Fund have failed to explain why they think it is good policy. Is it because they know that, once the dividend has no relation to the Permanent Fund, Alaskans will pay less and less attention to it, and then the real raid on the Permanent Fund can begin in earnest?

If this was all about budget math, why wouldn't "Alaska's Future (except mine)" promote a plan that continues to use today's methodology for calculating the Permanent Fund dividend and provides for it to be capped annually by an act of the Legislature?  This approach would yield the same bottom line with respect to the amount of excess Permanent Fund earnings being spent on state services and dividends, while maintaining Alaskans' interest in the Permanent Fund, and a desire to keep it permanent.


It's probably a wise decision. Since 'false' Trump supporters have already gotten
 into his rallies, the danger of One pretending to be a Trump (and 2ed Amendment ) supporter, and carrying a gun, is an unacceptable risk.

But Whom are these "angry people" of which you speak? That would be the Trump Protesters, not the (true) Trump Supporters. IIRC, there were only two incidences when a Trump Supporter was 'inappropriately physical' in interacting with a Protester, yet  innumerable incidents of angry, violent Protesters.


Looking forward to the next prov election in ON!  wow oh wow.  Libs: 2 seats


Canada will be fine...  Have no fear, Canada will be fine...   Trust me,, for the 3rd time.. Canada will be fine.


" Plus we are not saying that all employees do this, just that there is a portion who do and people have heard about it"
Yes, the old "people have heard about it."

"Ask anybody who knows".....  Well, that would be me and abuse is rare, but I understand that facts do not serve your narrative.  Sorry.


Small potatoes, Trump is only trying to save the US, our boy is trying to save the world. Gas your car up lately?


Well Said!


Many of us in BC saw this BC Liberal decision and its timing in the offing for many months.

Arguably, the catalyst confirming the dramatic recovery of BC Liberal fortunes during the 2015 election was the announcement by then NDP leader Dix that an NDP Government would block both Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipelines.  This widened and made front and centre the gap between many of the NDP's (a) private vs public sector unions, (b) working class vs middle class, and (c) Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island vs Interior and Northern supporters over the jobs vs environment issue.  This faultline over the environment was highlighted during last years national NDP convention and, most recently, by the Federal Liberal Government approval of Kinder Morgan.

It was therefore blindingly obvious that Clark would endorse Kinder Morgan in the run-up to the 2017 election and thereby hope to hide the Government's failed economic and social agenda.


Lock the door and don't let anyone leave until they come to a conclusion. Enough is enough.


I guess they're only inclusive if you happen to be their kind of people. The irony of it...


It is getting so that we cannot call the police when we want to protect a loved one who may be acting erratically. They will just shoot him. Happens all over the country, it seems.


It wasn't ten (though it should have been) who got "jail."  Cowdery got house arrest due to his age and health. Kott, Kohring and Anderson, got prison time. Masek just got six months. Jerry Ward and Ben Stevens, who should have gotten a bunch of time, got off scot free. It was a regular Republican parade. Bruce Weyhrauch, who had very minimal involvement, won at the Supreme Court and 9th Circuit, and got probation for a state offense.  I'd hoped that Robin Taylor and Eldon Mulder, and maybe Loren Lehman, would get prosecuted, but didn't.


The purpose of all advertising is to influence and persuade.  But virtually nobody admits it worked on them.

"No one wants to talk about" the fact the media was pro-Clinton?

I don't know who you're trying to kid, but it's not working on me.


Notably, Hawaiians with no government careers and pensions, grants dependent compensation,  or government contracts mostly seem unwilling to "play ball."  Meanwhile those other Hawaiians, including the ranks of uninformed, mostly seem willing to "play ball."  Hmmnn,  I wonder how it is that society can never rid itself of the "Black n blue and White" vs. the "Grey" wars?


It's 'President Obama' and as a journalist you should know this.
What's the deal?
Please correct this and let us know when you've made the correction.


This article ends by noting two bills, Dunleavy's SB 89 that affects sex education in public schools and Kelly's SB 174 allowing concealed guns on campus.  These bills display legislative dithering when we least need it, as well as good examples of legislation beyond the bounds of  common sense.  Enough of this nonsense.  Focus, get back to work, and at least try to make rational decisions to hoist ourselves out of our fiscal mess.  Legislators, please show us something other than perpetual circus acts, if you can.


Merrill Field is full of maybe 30 or 40 security cameras everywhere,what did they all of a suddrn quit working?


This management is a JOKE. With fish counts at 30k and then 15k they double the limit for sports fishermen when most people can't catch 1. They think this will pacify things since now hey people are allowed to catch more fish. Just ignoring that MOST people can't. Go back and look at the numbers and we have had MULTIPLE 100k days each of the last couple of years so don't tell me that all of a sudden it would be a huge problem. The management is destroying the runs - look at the Russian River run which has now been pushed by 1-2 weeks due to these rules and management


I am not a friend or even a supporter of Kara, but that comment is uncalled for.  Her politics are fair game. Calling someone a jerk or jackass is juvenile, but its your opinion and everyone is allowed to express theirs.  Implying she is bribing people without proof is liable.


Fail!


Yep he was a juvenile delinquent who cheated and lied his way through life. How people can continue make excuses for the idiotic liar in chief is mind boggling.


Did Trudeau even try to ask?

He said he was entitled, before, during , and after the fact.


I guess you really have to consider the source, R Perry.


Great time to be a Leaf fan...Very frustrating to be a hater now. The vitriol seems to be targeted at the fans now, not the team.

Brown and Kapanen  really stepped up last night. McIlhinney played great under the circumstances. One more point tonight and they get the Sens. That would be great. The Caps will rag doll them if it goes to a wild card...


"They" are the right wing racist mysogynistic fascists mentioned in the comment that I was commenting on with my comment. But you knew that already wot ?


Wow the war room hacks are really reaching today. I mean really blaming this on Harris and Harper?

It's simple, stupid... Create scope of work, solicit bids, hire competent contractor, finalize the contract, monitor the work that is being done, ensure the work has been done as per the contract upon completion, pay the contractor. Ontario Liberals version, simple and stupid: Hire friends, overpay friends for sub-standard work, next.....


I'm sure he will do every bit of as good a job as Bush did with Katrina.....
:-)


More lies, more of the same from the Liberals.....so typical.


So which deity am I "worshipping" in a downward dog pose?  What about warrior 1 or 2?


So, according to Trump, the U.S. "must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes."

Right, because proliferation always works. Welcome to the Alice in Wonderland administration, folks.

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”


The EU would welcome them back, but the Daily Mail would crucify any Government that failed to follow through at this stage.

Iacta est!


If Franken is involved, it can be nothing serious.


Only in your own mind are a "great majority of citizens"  appalled.  I'm sure you're 'appalled', but you don't represent the majority.  Trump is working hard  on restoring order and prosperity to a country ravaged by 8 years of neglect of almost  everything  to  outright sabotage at times.
.
  Like a comedian who tries so hard, but fails  to make people laugh, the former President left the stage in a huff, blaming his 'audience' for his poor performance. His cohort , Hillary Clinton, has blamed the Democrat Party, the media and women, of all things, for her failure.  Shaking my head, again.


10111 won't be answered. Lol.


"We are also protecting our electoral system which places the political authority to deploy members of parliament in the respective political parties who contested elections". This sums up exactly what is wrong with the electoral system. Once the "the party" are voted for we, the electorate, have no way to get rid of the crooks, fools, and incompetents that "the party" deploys as part of the patronage system so central to their modus operandi. It is not only the ANC that loves the PR closed list electoral system, the DA, EFF et al would be horrified if they were required to be directly accountable to the electorate. It is time for change and a change must be made before the 2019 elections or it will be another 5 years of divisive political rhetoric!


Can't we just get rid of the Mall Ride?


Burn every bridge. Rather than confine yourselves to countless articles and thousands of angry posts complaining about how the U.S. has cheated Canada out of every agreement ever signed between the two countries that no one outside of Canada ever sees, make overt moves and send a signal to Washington in true Duarte style.
Sooner or latter there will be an incident between the U.S. and China with Canada in an awkward position.
You're more dependent on the U.S. than is any other country in the world. You cannot have that relationship and embrace China to the obscene extent that Canada has,  abandoning what little of your Canadian values that actually exist as reality and not myth and think  you're not going to end up between a rock and a hard place.


hmmm, if the South agreed and completes the THAAD installations it's a done deal taking out the North's nuke.
1) US travel ban to the North
2) THAAD installation complete
3) Kim Un ain't backing down
5) it's reported China has upped it's military border personnel to deter the North's refugees
4) theDonald/both Gov. Houses ain't letting the North join the Nuke Club

So complex wanting to protect the US homeland and the S.Koreans/Japanese may/will pay a price for it. Question I have, how many N.Korean artillery/rockets/missiles could the US and Allies knock out to start with? The THAAD system is part of that answer


When Gretchen Carlson and Megan Kelly and a dozen others accused Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, and Eric Bolling of sexual harassment, we learned that for decades it was an open secret at Fox News that they were predators.  The sanctimonious right kept quiet.  Even when these whales were harpooned, they stayed silent.
When an anti-abortion Republican congressman was caught demanding his mistress have an abortion, Caldera was dumb as a post.
When Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was accused of sexually abusing 3 underage male students, Caldera was dumb as a post.
When Trump was accused by 17 women of sexual harassment during the campaign and bragged that because he was rich, he was entitled to sexual assault any woman he wanted, Caldera was dumb as a post.
Could it be that Caldera and the right have a double standard on acceptance of sexual harassment?


So you're saying that Republicans don't over spend? Republicans run a tight and fiscally responsible ship? Then how did we get in the situation we're in right now with Republicans at the helm? Don't get me wrong because I don't think much of Democrats either. Politics is a corrupt game no matter what label you put on it.


No, mental midgets think we're going back to pre 1492, and are too stupid to grasp those days are long gone, and are never going to return. mental midgets are too stupid to grasp we need to thin forests we overplanted, and have allowed fuels to build up on the forest floor that is now causing severe forest fires. But I don't expect mental midgets to grasp these facts.


Rome was allowed to appoint the High Priest and there is nothing to indicate that Jesus criticized the practice.


the "alleged" dirt bag. hopefully ms hart will show up healthy and happy.


Yes, "antifa" was used before WWII, specifically by mass murderer Vladimir Lenin (before bigger mass murderer Stalin used it). It was used to define anyone not on board with not only Soviets but soviet expansion. Lenin had the goal of expaniding across europe and the world spreading his brand of murderous enslaving  communism. The "Communist International" fomented communist revolution and they used the IDENTICAL flag, motto, and mission statement as "Antifa". Don't believe me? Search for "Communist international" and hit images. Make sure to read the goals of "Communist International" while you're at it.

The left has been using the ploy of characterizing everyone but themselves as "antifascists" for almost 100 years. They, of course, have a far bigger death count and a far longer reign of terror.

These "antifa" are the same.


Mobile dumpster fire. The Gillespie/Trump campaign detritus.


Why do we need any immigration at all?  Seriously.  Why?

We can't afford to pay for the services necessary to support the people who are here already.  Put another way, the people here now consume more in services than they pay in taxes, hence deficit financing.  That won't improve with more immigrants and their attendant family reunification.

Upward pressure on housing prices by the people here already is making ownership increasingly out of reach..  We don't need more McDonald's and Walmarts.

So how will things improve with more immigration?  I think we're being had.


There is no justification or legitimacy to attack either former President Obama's or President Trump's children.
Frankly,  FLOTUSes also should be left alone unless they insinuate themselves into policy as happened in the mid 90s.


Well said!

It is the epitome of hubris to believe that we have the power of God and can control the climate of a system upon which, we are little more  than an irritation.

Get over yourselves!


Yup, the politicians made an agreement. And Canadian voters installed those politicians in free votes.  What's your point?


Vancouver is not a "Global scale city" (roll eyes).

Vancouver is a safe deposit box for millionaires who worked in China or who are working in China.

Drive through Richmond and the West Side of Vancouver and South Surrey, my dear.

That influx ain't global, unless your definition of global is anyone with roots, of the past 30 years, being within a thousand miles of Shanghai...

... and it is the money from those folks that has driven house prices in Vancouver to dozens of times the average annual local income.

But you go on dreaming that Vancouver is a world class global scale city like New York and Paris and London if it makes you fell good...


Dress up like his daughter.


Systemic racism is the stuff you can't identify, can't name, can't see, can't point to, can't quote, can't take a picture of, can't even say what it is, but damn it you know you are surrounded by it  every minute of every day by every white person regardless of what they say or do even if the don't say or do anything at all.


"They must think that the people of Hawaii are stupid".

So give the Devil his due: they are dead right in that assessment - - as we the sheeple have demonstrated to them over and over again.


More garbage from California.


Sorry Rene.  The comment was meant for FAHED3!


It was a funny.


So you are actually claiming that Barack Obama took a TOUGH STAND on terror?   This is truly hilarious inasmuch as Obama wouldn`t even utter the word terror, went around apologizing to the Arab world for imagined American sins against Arabs and Muslims thereby further recruiting, motivating and validating the terrorists and enabler states, drew red lines in the sand when everyone knew he was a poser who would never enforce them, did the minimum possible in terms of sorties and strikes on ISIS,  prematurely withdrew American troops from Iraq against the advice of all of his field generals, etc., etc.

Why do you think that the reception for Trump was so much more fulsome and friendly and enthusiastic and complimentary than for Obama on his state visits to the ME countries if he was considered interchangeable with BO?

With you, Thomas, denial is not just a river in Egypt!


Globe and MAil, look outside your own bubble and do some better research ("The surcharge proposal, which was developed by B.C. researchers")... here in FLorida, non residents pay much more in property tax and have for YEARS... should have been Canada-wide a long time ago. But, obviously at the very least in large metro centres.


But those people can just continue dating their own....democrats.


I don't want to be between a woman and her doctor. Or, more importantly, I don't want my money to be between a woman and her doctor. Let her get there on her own (or simply use her mandated ACA-compliant insurance).


Congratulations, Walt! You will do a great job. ~ Teresa A.


I said this before and I will say it again. The income inequality story is largely a blown up myth.

Fact
Canada
Base to get into the 1% 227,100 CDN
Average income of the 1% $466.700 CDN
Median income (50% above and 50% ) below 313,200 CDN
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/william-watson-heres-what-canadas-one-per-centers-now-earn-and-pay-in-taxes-they-aint-what-they-used-to-be

US
Base to get into the 1% $465,626 USD
Average income of the 1% $1,260,508 USD
http://www.investopedia.com/news/how-much-income-puts-you-top-1-5-10/

This means that the US 1% make THREE times what the 1% in Canada make.

An equal tax rate of 45% means that over the 250,000 1% in Canada, the US figure would generate roughly $90 billion more in tax revenue.

If the 1% is not paying these taxes, then guess who does , middle class?


I thought the usual goal of museum expansions was to keep showing all the artifacts previously on display, plus make room for more that may have had to of been stored out of sight before. This is the first time I have heard a museum do a giant expensive expansion and have room for only 1/3 of the artifacts that were displayed before.


If you had stopped after the first sentence I would have said great post, But you couldn't resist the personal attacks.


It's not JOE Sukki, but it is part of the nepotism rife, inbred Dem "keep em employed in government for life" mantra Joe is well known for.


I haven't seen anywhere that the President specifically called out Ms Heyer as antifa, BLM, or similar.  If her mother assumed Trump was talking about her daughter when he pointed out that there were violent counter protesters present, maybe there's a reason.  I have no idea one way or the other.


We have some new, hopefully hard working & honest blood in the Leg., but too many of the old bought-&-paid-for clowns are still there, & like mud on our boots, they sully any effort toward cleaning house & setting things straight.
I agree with Michael Albertson, I'd like to see Mr. Cole's take on the clear presentation of Robin Brena.


The exact opposite. We are our brother's keeper. If he is sinning, unless we make an effort to have him amend his ways, we become complicit. I hope all at this site want every other one of us to get to Heaven.


The APD checks no-one's background. Ever study their Union? The Teamsters, for Tag Teams on Patrol!

http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/former-police-officer-rollins-guilty-sexual-assaults/2011/02/23/

When your too stupid to breed, become an Anchorage Police Chief.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/06/illegal-immigrant-works-years-as-police-officer/


"just as Donald Trump is heading into the White House on an anti-environmental agenda."
Not bringing any type of CO2 pricing mechanisms (solutions in search of a problem) hardly qualifies as a
'anti-environmental agenda'


Because all faith is nonsense and we should not be setting laws based on complete nonsense and fairy tails. It's pretty straight forward.


Money talks the loudest.

Now we will see if these sanctuary cities are actually about the care of these illegal immigrants themselves, or if they are all about the money.
(My vote is the later but we shall!)

GOOD job! GOOD news!


When you get done beating the strawman and fishing with red herrings we can have a real discussion.   (Google those two argumentation fallacies and learn something).

The tax proposed is illegal under state law so the courts will strike it down.   There is no argument made one way or the other about 'cutting taxes'.  There is an argument made about getting better results on less money which is also known as being more efficient with the money used.   There is an implied argument that additional money doesn't continue to generate results with the same efficiency as current funding does.   That's also known as spending more does not necessarily improve the product (education in this case).   Come back with some numbers on what is a good amount to spend on education with some actual support and we can discuss your numbers.


I didn’t see a break down of white racists in your data. Can you pry it out of your data? Oh, wait that isn’t tracked. But the ignorant are usually uneducated and the uneducated is usually poor.


Shouldn't need a new chief to nuture future department leaders. Just get a warm bottle of milk and tuck them into bed each night. That'll do the trick.


"It isn’t just “Conservative Christians.” Any such ruling would apply equally to Orthodox Jews, Fundamentalist Muslims, and any others who do not like being forced to sacrifice their faith-based principles in order to conduct business."
===========
The ironic thing is that if I went into a bakery and asked for a "traditional husband and wife wedding cake" and the baker said, "You do realize that I am gay and this bakery only makes wedding cakes for same-sex couples".....I would have thanked him for his time and gone elsewhere.
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Now the SCOTUS will rule with regards to Masterpiece Bakery....and the ruling on "the principle of it." Be prepared. I was. I am. I'm not sure how the vote will go....but I will be shocked if it is not another 5-4 one.


My goodness, do the Koch Brothers also reside under your bed at night?  I am sure you do not care about all the liberal cash "ruling our government".  Lutheran Medical Center has a cancer treatment wing financed by the Koch family.  It seems odd that such evil devils would help so many.


And they would like you to believe that they would intervene "quickly" if there was a leaking pipeline!


Move!!!


Sure let's reverse 8 years of Obama. The economy was in the worst shape since the depression. Unemployment was at 10%. The car companies were failing. The market was tanking. People were losing their houses. Bankruptcies were spiking.

But you miss those days, do you?


I've never mentioned God or religion, probably because I have stepped foot in a church in over 30 years. I'm not a member of the NRA either. You do know that semi-automatic rifles and pistols (including those with high capacity magazines) have been easily accessible for nearly 100 years in this country. Fully automatic rifles and submachine guns were not only accessible but were able to be purchased without any registration or back ground check until the mid 1930's. They were advertised and marketed to Ranchers for their ease and ability to shoot a running coyote. I could go on with many more examples of how much easier and readily accessible guns were up to 30-40 years ago but my point is that guns haven't changed, gun laws are much more restrictive now than ever and yet these mass shootings are on the rise. I.E. it's not a gun issue!


I don't see how AK49er is blaming anybody for anything.  I do believe AK49er is lamenting the loss of brain cells that occurs when one earns a degree in something that ends in "... Studies".  And let's not overlook the repulsive behavior of screaming children that need "safe spaces" when someone dares utter a different opinion in their presence.

As a recent meme put it:  In 1944, 18 yr olds were storming the beaches of Normandy, facing near certain death.  In 2016, 18 yr olds need safe spaces because someone hurt their f*****g feelings.

Yeah... a hundred thousand bucks to produce an educated idiot.  My stomach is queasy...


Wow!

The hypocrisy of the LPC and PM Trudeau makes one weep.

Pauvre Canada


Be careful what you wish for. I believe it was Lord Denning who said, "Without religion, no morality; without morality, no law." He wasn't speaking about Islam and Sharia law either.


Sullivan sold out Alaskans for the Republican Party. Is that the sort of senator we want?


Please look up the Supreme Court of Canada case that unanimously dismissed the Lax Kw'alaams' Claim for a Commercial Fishing Right back in 2011.


Is a Clerks position the position of the Mayor?  The SA article was remiss on researching this.  One rogue low level Louie should not define Hawaii's position.  Also, what is there to hide?  We have a one party state and the lowest voter turnout.  Perhaps no fraud here, but shameful none the less.


At 15 an hour a machine will be making your lunch and it won't be free. Lefties have no understanding of simple economic principles and they prove it every time they advocate for the government artificially raising the min wage


Try to avoid getting too hysterical, Dick.


sjsj, you are truly amazing. Glad to know there's a very small number of Canadians rooting for agent orange, however, still surprised there would be any at all.


CBC senior management should come out and apologize for this uneducated and misleading show. Thinking that this twisted and untrue show is viewed by millions of newly arrived immigrants and other English speaking Canadians makes my blood boil... Or maybe was it the plan all along: To rewrite history and erase 150 years of history of the Acadians as a full fledge colony until they were deported in the great ethnic cleansing operation of 1755-58. 14,000 Acadians were deported of which 1/3 perished, not a word on that? What about that Port Royal was established in 1605, three years before Quebec? Shame on you CBC, I have always been proud of our national broadcaster, but this time, you have just lost a ton of credibility.


But ....But.....the UN says we must do more....snivel........annually we get our UN shaming......we most pay...oops...DO more!


I have to thank Ms. McKenna for bringing this up and standing up to the Rebel reporter. I had never been on their site but after visiting it today, because of her mentioning them so strongly, I have added it to my Favorites bar.

Thank you,


Longtime employees at three of the agencies — including some career environmental regulators who conceded that they remained worried about what President Trump might do on policy matters — said such orders were not much different from those delivered by the Obama administration as it shifted policies from the departing White House of George W. Bush. They called reactions to the agency memos overblown. On Wednesday, Douglas Ericksen, a spokesman for the E.P.A., said that grants had been only briefly frozen for review, and that they would be restarted by Friday.

I’ve lived through many transitions, and I don’t think this is a story,” said a senior E.P.A. career official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media on the matter. “I don’t think it’s fair to call it a gag order. This is standard practice.”

Source - google: Federal Agencies Told to Halt External Communications The New York Times


Because repubs sign the front of checks and you sign the back. Get it?


Can you imagine, taking out an ISIS insurgent with a single bullet!  If the insurgent had lived he might have taken out dozens of lives with an IED or other explosives somewhere in the world. Our military did not have to "carpet bomb" and possibly kill dozens of innocent people, just to take out this ISIS insurgent out. Bravo Canadian military!


You must be a legislator.


My guess is that both parties are right.  The worst thing is all the stuff that goes on in these jails that only rarely makes it into the news.  The only reason this is getting out is because of a messy power struggle.


note to poster, how about posting mature comments on the story over this drivel.


Trump broke official US administrative protocol by not having another US official, at least his own interpreter, present during the meeting. But when you're committing treason, you tend to not worry about protocol.


F to M trans individuals are hugely overrepresented in the military, it's almost a default career choice. What better way to express your newfound masculinity than by joining the army?


Keala is fumbling...I never said it is not possible.  Keala is a rumor monger and says things that is not true or remotely inaccurate.  Read my comment, again, and comprehend...Keala.

Now you , Kerala, admit that the rumor is entirely yours.  I guess it is your currently circulating story or report, Keala, based on uncertain or doubtful truth.

You are doing a disservice to CB readers who cannot think for themselves and base their beliefs on posts like your rumor momherimf comments.


Birth rates in Eastern Europe are lower than Canada's.

Asian immigrants have propelled Silicon Valley. 40 percent of startups are founded by them. Indian Americans are the richest immigrant group in the US.

The time for your type of thinking has gone by. Adieu.


R and D is not a production subsidy like the money that is remitted to bombardier.


Any money taken out of our PFDs should get put back into our PFDs.  That was a sudden and bogus move.  Suddenly, most Alaskans had to scramble to rebudget again because the State can't seem to do one in a matter of years.  They've had much more notice than the rest of us have had.


Paul J. Kushner is a disgrace to the Department of Physics and sullies the reputation of UoT with his climate cult junk science..


The confusion seems to be in not seeing that Christ had the supper only with His disciples and after His discourse in John where He distinguishes between His followers and "the world".  When Christ ate with the tax collectors He did no give them Eucharist.  When he ate at the Pharisees home He did not give them Eucharist.  Only those who were faithful to Him were present and that was about 130 people.  The gift of His body and His blood is not for the uninitiated or those who have transgressed but remain in sin like an adulterous relationship or an embrace of a homosexual identity.  It is a statement of faith in ALL Christ's teaching and for disciples who will pray and live to embrace Christ's teaching.  The Church has always taught that to receive unworthily is to crucify Christ again.  There are people responding based on "feelings" and not on knowledge of Christ's teaching and the understanding of the Church for millennia.


What made America great was rugged individualism, risk-taking, and capitalism.  There was no  welfare system and no income tax for the first 125 years as capitalists improved the qualify of life ten-fold with domestic water systems and plumbing, electric lighting, the telephone, electric power with refrigeration and stoves, and fossil fuels for home heating and powering automobiles.  All because of who you call "The Robber Barrons." No good deed ever goes unpunished.  When we started to redistribute wealth  from those who earn it to those who don't, our progress regressed.  The only transfer of wealth that should happen is a good day's pay for a good day's work.


Roth is a fools game. When Social Security goes bust in 10 to 15 years, Roth savings accounts will be one of the first items subject to heavy taxation that will be imposed to pay off the improvident millions who live off of Social Security and who have no other savings. Don't believe the government when they say you will get dessert later.


"Just when the sports world thought it had heard it all in doping — someone spiked my toothpaste, a masseur rubbed me with tainted ointment, those unexplained stem cells in my blood came, of course, from my unborn twin in utero..."
Given the beginning of this "story" it's clear the author has no intent to keep it unbiased. Then again, what's to be expected from the New York Times. What is expected, however, is that an Alaska newspaper use Alaska sources to discussion Alaska topics.


Hypocrites indeed.  I would add:
- Support for Alberta's industry that produces oil and gas:  BAD
- Support for Ontario's auto industry that burns oil and gas: GOOD

The anti-Alberta venting in the G&M comments over the past year or more has been difficult to understand.  The province has paid tens of billions of extra dollars in equalization payments  which have subsidized social programs in other provinces, yet the response has been "Make them pay PST too".   What's up with the visceral hate of the goose that's been laying golden eggs?


Margaret, another great article.  Well said!


Oh no! Tear it down, and build new; like the old city hall.


Better yet...get to know the guy well, then set a good example and get married before living with him.


Well TDW, I'm no greenie environmentalist, I drive trucks and cars and have toys that run on fossil fuels but Energy East is a no-go for me. Much of the pipe that they plan to use is an old natural gas pipeline that is still in use. It was never designed to carry oil. It  will run right along the drinking water sources for millions of people. If it were to rupture and leak for just one hour before being shut off it would dump 1.6 million gallons of toxic muck into the environment. Imagine that going into the Ottawa or St. Lawrence River or one of the many lakes that the pipeline would run close to. If  TransCanada were intending to install an all new state of the art pipeline system for this project then perhaps it could be approved eventually but as it stands now there will be vocal opposition to it. You can add my voice to those who want no part of it.


Comparatively, yes.


You have a pay_pal account.www.fbmoney4.com


If someone is foolish enough to drive on an icy street should the resulting damage to their vehicle really be considered an accident by ICBC? I don't think so.


Yes, I am "fearful" of Donald Trump becoming president. I want gay people to continue to be able to get married, I want women to be able to continue to get abortions, and most importantly, I want climate change to be addressed. The official Republican platform would ban gay marriages, ban abortion, and do absolutely nothing about climate change. Climate change is by far the greatest threat to the world and will negatively affection hundreds of millions of people if we do not start acting. Millions of women and homosexuals will be negatively affected by marriage bans and abortion bans.

So yes you are absolutely correct, I "fear" that the official Republican platform would be implemented, which in turn would have a very negative, very real effect on millions of people's everyday lives. In my opinion, Obama has done a fairly excellent job, implementing near universal health care, granting civil rights to homosexuals, and turning around the economy. I'm fine with more of that.


I love Whittier. They hate you and ain't afraid to say so.


Mo' free stuff for black peoples


I understand.  The abuse is not that they can't vote however they want.  The abuse is that there is absolutely NO, ZERO evidence that the Russians did anything. They have no evidence of anything, and are now going after anyone who ever met Trump out of desperation. LOL! How do you change an election if you do not change the voting results, machines, hacking the software, etc.  Are they not allowed to have an opinion one way of the other?  They had one show IN RUSSIA on our election.  I don't think even one American voter saw it, so how did this change the election in trump's favor?  The fact is, it didn't.  And Wikileaks was not given anything by Russia.  That is a fact. The dems have to have an excuse why Hillary, the worst candidate in history, who cheated, lied, stole, did everything you can do to wipe out Bernie, and then she stole 6 states, and was about to steal 5 others when the NSA stepped in and took control in the election between she and Trump.
Sorry, but it is all a ruse.


It's not harmless if it's going to cost big $$$ that could be spent elsewhere like for example after school programs for vulnerable disadvantaged youth, who might end up HARMing themselves or others in lieu of better social support.


I just travelled from Toronto to Las Vegas to Vancouver.  The customs line was short and quick, in fact the TSA security procedure was much relaxed from the last time I flew.  No shoes or belts off going in or coming back


Every time a mass killing occurs we get the anti gun nuts spewing venom about guns.  But you see how easy it is to kill.  Just driving a truck on a sidewalk takes out 80.  All we need is the media to tell everyone about the idea and then presto American mass killers will start driving cars and trucks into crowds.


Hahahahaha !! "Live Work and Play" the Kakaako tag line is alive and well. I happen to pass by one of the stations and swear I saw a developers logo on the back bike tire fender. More propaganda .....


Easy on smoking crack this early in the morning.  That is like saying, "since the guy already drank the 12 beers, let him drive home".  A lot of bad decisions were made, and need to be corrected.

Did the gov employees really think the following, and if so, they need to share in the responsibility  / results / corrections:

- I'll take a job paying $40,000 a year.  I won't have a likelihood of ever getting fired.  If I stay there, I can retire at 60, and make 95% of my salary for the rest of my life.

Too good to be true, and that needs to be fixed.


It's clear that some readers have not seen Dinesh D'Souza's "Hillary's America".  Whether you're liberal, conservative, or whatever, it really is educational in an entertaining way.  I've even heard D'Souza dare anyone to name one Republican slave owner.  The point being, Democrats were the slave owners, and Lincoln's Republican Party fought the Democrats to free the slaves.  In addition, it was Democrats Robert Byrd and Al Gore's father who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act in 1964.  Republicans favored the Civil Rights Act by a far greater margin than Democrats did.


I totally agree.  They already know the "big Magnet", the Sun is slowly pulling  Venus in on our system. Over centuries it is slowly getting hotter on our planet earth too.  Yup, climate change is here; and not for the reasons they are saying. The political powers to be will not be able to change it.


"I will build a wall, and Mexico will pay for it!"

"Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary for President Donald Trump, told reporters on Thursday that the administration is pushing for a 20% border tax on Mexican imports."

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The very suckers that voted for Trump because he would make Mexico pay for "the wall" will be paying extra taxes to pay for "the wall".

Gong Show!!


One of the constants of history are regional wars by The Great Powers.
How democratic are the US & Great Britain?


Wig writes:

"No, Canadian kids did not influence musicians of future generations."

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The late, great Leonard Cohen, the guys in The Band and lots of others certainly influenced later generations around the world..


Seems those disagreeing with your comment think police brutality  and blue coverups are  a good thing.


Trudeau's so called good looks aren't going to cut it . Wake up new generation !!


"why a number of Quebec women between the ages of 17 and 19 decided to leave for Syria. Many felt that it was difficult to live as a Muslim in a hostile environment that left them feeling stigmatized and/or marginalized. The Western feminist model of emancipation seemed to clash with their desire to stay home and raise a family. In contrast, calls to build and join a utopian state where one can live as a “true” Muslim without harassment, seemed like a panacea for some. "

Don't believe it. The vast majority of the Hundreds of thousands of ISIS fighters and their 'brides' who go to Syria come from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Iran, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi, UAE, Yemen....all these countries follow the superstitious fundamentalist views of these Quebec women. There is no 'hostile environment' , 'Islamophobia' or 'western women' in those Muslim majority countries . It's the BELIEF system.


That was my thought; this might well elect Stock.   Since Miller is nothing more than a grifter, I wonder who's ponying up the money for this little adventure.


Don’t squander your time attempting to profit through forex. Because there’s great opportunity and truly you can profit here. Just Google the site Emini S&P Trading Secret and you will see what you’ve been looking for.


"Police said the cyclist didn’t see the vehicle as he was headed to the left-hand turn lane."  Interesting -- how did the police know what the deceased cyclist did not see?
"The cyclist...struck the vehicle in the right front passenger side,"  Based on what is known about the accident, why is it stated that the cyclist struck the vehicle rather than the "vehicle struck the cyclist"?


Liar, liar pants on fire, cut.  There.  I changed your factless stats.


Alaska is in a unique situation unlike any in US history. We have an endowment, the Permanent Fund, that can produce annual income of $2.0-2.5 Billion. Then, we give away $1.0 billion for the Dividend and ask taxpayers to make up the difference! That is so ridiculous! - it is beyond belief it is even a question. The day we need a tax is the day the Dividend must end. My Grand Compromise Plan is the only way out of this mess. $2000 Dividend this year will be last one for a while while we build a sustainable budget model, including re-visiting the "school tax" along with a very modest 1% State income tax. The Left gets their income tax but they have to stop with their wealth re-distribution nonsense. We would also have more funds available for Troopers, Home weatherization, and other popular State services.


Couldn't have been said better.


Take your anti-war hero anti veteran garbage and put it where the sun don't shine.


While these are well informed comments:) the fact remains that cutting state employee contract negotiated pay raises is actually not legal..which tells you how smart the legislators are not..this bill is a blatant breach of contract and will result in a law suit which ultimately will cost the state more then the pay raises themselves..or maybe the legislators know it's illegal and they are doing this on purpose to streangthen their position for future contract negotiations or maybe they know it will result in a law suit and they just want to pay themselves the overtime and perdium to renegotiate 11 union contracts in court...


I have always felt that Ontario is just too wealthy. This will help level things.


Mr Green. Do you want to pay for Gasoline and Energy cost??
Do you hate Obama for NO carbon Tax???


A Federal Way High School Scholar stabbed a fellow scholar Tuesday morning.


Good for you, Bob.

Perhaps call a wildcat strike to "celebrate" and stamp your authority on the situation?


Santa Clexit?


Willy:  I fully agree with you.   The reference to Gomeshi was an error,  since that case did not entail attacks on incapacitated women AND he was found not guilty after an extensive open trial.  The two recent cases are horrid,  not just for the sexual assault aspect but for the fact that the women were abused by men in a position of trust.  I hope that the Crown appeals the Halifax case.


Most horrible.


I'm also quite struck by Winters' insistence on calling the policies of Barack Obama "neo-liberal." It's clear he doesn't quite understand what "neo-liberalism" really means.

If there were any "neo-liberals" involved in the last election, it certainly wasn't Obama and Clinton. I'd like to say it was Trump, but I agree he has no guiding ideological center at all.


Don't forget they turned off his microphone at the Council (to the applause of his brother bishops).  Shame.


I think part of the reason the public refuses to believe in the guilt of anyone convicted of a sex crime has to do with secrecy.

Reports involving minors are protected information and even if released are heavily redacted and often only the criminal conviction, charge, and sentence are revealed with an age range under the claim of protecting victims. However, who does that truly protect? When the victim publicly discloses in the future she or he will likely have no way of authenticating her claims.


The governor was certainly working for both the elite of the Republican and Democratic Party, after the softening up campaign by Alaska's Future. Both parties have elite members of that effort just as both parties have people who oppose stealing the people's money without their consent. People get this no matter what the spin or the necessary focus on the governor in a court of law or in the sideshow of the recall effort. The elite have dirty hands and votes in November will hopefully clean things up.


Philip North served the wishes of the Native Peoples when the state would not. Natives told the state and the Pebble Partnership no over and over and when they refused to listen to us we brought in Philip North the only man who could stop Pebble. The EPA was brought in upon request and concerns from Native residents living in and near the area. How can anyone defend Pebble? Eskimos got the EPA involved. Stop blaming North for doing his job.


politics is a tricky game Canada 1
Mr. Trudeau weighed  the costs benefits of his promise and simply folded knowing in 2 months no one will care,  and to go ahead would have been the fight of his life.... for what?
It was never a clear question put to the electorate with clean hands ( ie this is exactly what I propose , it will work like this, if you like it vote for me)  It was a mushball thrown in beside the deficit predictions.
Those supporters who believed him , and genuinely wanted reform , got jobbed on this one,  but his bet , reasonably , is those supporters will forgive and forget and support him next time round.
He's right!


Just like Robert Dear used the pro-life movement's playbook of words when he shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic. But you overlook that.


Sounds like no guns works best, as most of the survivors did not possess guns. And I'm happy to assist you in making this point.


I did a river Cleanup with Willamette Riverkeeper last fall on this area, and I can assure you that the boater's statement  "You notice there's no garbage on this beach, like every other beach has. We pick up the garbage whenever we see it." is TOTAL CRAP - we pulled out 3 Motorboat loads of trash, and did not even try to tackle the dozen of shore based homeless camps (most abandoned) due to the presence of needles, condoms and worse - the area has been TRASHED...we did pull 200lbs of wire casings out of one spot, where tweakers take stolen copper wire and strip it down to sell.
    I applaud Drone Man for using his "toy" to do what law reinforcement can't or won't - expose this stuff to the light of day. Maybe something can get done to prevent the environmental degradation we see along Rivers and Streams created by people like this. He says "I got a  a sink, a shower. I have a bathroom. That's a home." Where do you think it goes, DUH! Right in the river no doubt


Both the Republicans and Democrats opposed the TPP. It was a child of Obama and destined to fail. Thank god.


While I understand this goes against the RG's  expressed editorial views, I think this is a good agreement.
As I white guy, I don't believe this decision belongs to me or any other group of my fellow white folks.   Indian culture belongs to Native Americans and it is up to Grand Ronde to decide if they want to allow  Banks to do  this.  I support any policy which  Indians feel empowers Oregon's tribes and honors their culture.  Having worked with both Sue Shaffer of the Cow Creeks and Esther Stutzman of the Yoncalla Kalapuya I understand Indians differ on this issue of names, as is their right.  I expect both Banks and Roseburg HSs will develop curricula emphasizing Native culture and history, something  ALL Oregon HSs should adapt.
On the other hand I noticed the Confederated Tribes rejected Reedsport HS's request to also use the "Braves", and wonder if they  failed to work with the local Kalawatset, or Lower Umpqua, on learning about their interesting culture and history.


All of the growth was being driven by the recovery of the resource sector in western Canada. Now that this is mostly complete the economic growth rate will begin to decline rapidly.


The full beds with storage sets with stacked in drawers makes it an ideal choice if people are looking forward to buying a large bed but also trying to save space in a room.https://cheapsupershop.net/discount-full-beds-with-storage-with-drawers-sets-for-sale-bedroom-furniture/


Ron Kodama...are you talking about part-time mayor Krookwell, perhaps?


It is getting old.


Daniel Donke in a resident of Florida. Why not drill in your own back yard Dan boy.


Very gassy, but delicious!


I am with Investorline and am now paying $2/statement. It is not a deal breaker for me. Fact is......I don't have a printer. I think I can pay for lots of statements before I exceed the cost of a printer and all the sundries involved with the printer. I view my account statements online whenever I wish and I store in memory anything that is noteworthy.


So, this 70 year-old guy named Bob Heghmann filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court yesterday against “the Republican National Committe and Virginia’s two national GOP committee members, Morton Blackwell and Cynthia Dunbar, as well as the Republican Party of Virginia and state party Chairman John Whitbeck.” He accused them all of engaging in a fraudulent pattern of racketeering for the purpose of duping Republican voters out of their hard-earned cash with false promises.

By every right, he ought to win that case.  Should be a slam dunk.


The United States defeated two murderous ideologies in the 20th century. So we should all be repulsed by the sight of our fellow Americans carrying the banners of either movement, whether they are waving the red flags of communism or black flags of Nazism. Yet we are not, because the Leftwing media would have you falsely think otherwise; ergo your Leftist links to say the same.


Quote from a letter every week:

Canada is one of the few developed countries that has no national (---------  --------- --------)  strategy.
Fill in the blanks.

That is because we have a constitution that reserves matters of health and education to provincial jurisdiction.


No, not so much.
.
"We the people" are the first words of the Declaration of Independence, not the U.S. Constitution.
.
The framers of the U.S. Constitution had no illusions about it being perfect.  That is why the enduring task is to form a "more perfect union".
.
American presidents are not, in fact, elected by the people.  They are elected by the electoral college.  This is a critically important difference: It is why the winner of the election - by some 3 million votes - is not currently the president, for example.
.
The American highly gerrymandered first-past-the-post electoral system is, in fact, highly susceptible to manipulation, a fact that has been relied upon by the Republican Party for the last 35 years.
.
Last year, however, the Republicans were beaten at their own game by the Russian candidate.  The Republicans displayed the same outrage as a cheater who has been out-cheated by somebody else.
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It would be funny if the consequences were not so disastrous for the world.


Would "like" this all day if I could.  'Eid Milad Sa'eid--Merry Christmas.


How could the Church possibly reject someone trying to live as a faithful Catholic? The Church rejects no one, the Church as tasked by Our Lord tells us what is right and what is wrong, it is we who then accept or reject what the Church teaches.
There are many people who believe that thieving is a legitimate way of making a living. Is not such a mindset intrinsically disordered? Should the Church accommodate them by abolishing the Seventh Commandment?


I know it’s hard for you and a bit less appealing for readers but why not base your critics on science instead show.  Science based policies are required. Let’s see some important facts:
1.	The increase in GHG (Greenhouse Gas)Emission is man-made.
2.	The heat accumulating process is slow, persistent and irreversible.
3.	Measured impacts are the fast disappearance of Arctic ice, the warming of the atmosphere and the warming and increasing level of  oceans,  the desertification of equatorial regions, the increased humidity in other regions.

We do know that if every person on earth generated no more 3 tons of GHG the problem would disappear. India generates 1,6 tons per capita, China 7,6, Canada 13,5 and the USA 16,4. (World Bank 2013.)
A majority of Canadians want to reduce their GHG emission and are ready to start to pay the real cost of GHG emission. We need to find an equitable and efficient way of doing it. Your article this morning is not helpful. Do you need help?


The statement is good law. The law, for instance, on peace bonds requires that the person on whose behalf the peace bond is sought have objectively reasonable grounds to fear for their safety.  Canadian law on self defence requires that you have objectively reasonable grounds to use force in your own defence. "I felt threatened" is not sufficient. There appears to be a widespread de facto exception to the requirement for objectively reasonable grounds in American law. A police officer can shoot an unarmed victim and justify it on the basis that "I felt threatened" or "I felt that my life was in danger." I am aware of no such exception to the requirement for objective reasonability in Canadian law.

As for Ross, that fits neatly into the exception I noted about employee off-work conduct that reflects adversely on the employer.


I don't know what Monica wrote.  I agree with you that it's hard to know why some comments get deleted. When NCR actually managed to comboxes, there was less randomness involved.  Now, there is no way to tell ho or what gets deleted.
I wish that some of the exchanges that consist of nothing more than attacks back and forth would get deleted, because I find those exchanges to be tiresome.  I also wish that homophobic and xenophobic comments would be removed, because I think that such comments do not contribute to any kind of civilized conversation.


If you check the numbers, dad, there are more acts of terrorism done in the name of Christianity than there is in the name of Islam.’ And factually, that’s the truth.”
_________________________

That's not true. They behead and maim people everyday in Countries that use Islam as law and the slavery of women in burkas is fascism at its highest level. Add further, the word Islam in Arabic means "submission"


Sorry, didn't happen like that.


Yeah, and I'm just another commenter for hire.  Let me know when you find out something useful.


Yes, you've got it right. The goal is to keep the debate, but trim off the worst of the nastiness. We'll see!


Bore or "adore" each other to death...lol...


When you have those stupid thoughts----think first!  Alaska lost money by not expanding Medicaid.  Gov. Walker had a responsibility to use his EO power and our own lawyers said "don't litigate this--we will loss".  Instead we shipped $500K off to DC lawyers.
Now you support spending more money for an appeal?


"Alaska home foreclosure count shows little sign of recession's effects"

Not just yet...


This man is truly disgusting. Miserable immoral cretin.


More green nonsense and anti CO2 propaganda


Based on the first paragraph of the article, I would respectfully suggest that the "reader" referred to possesses a level of intelligence and understanding of the financial system that would suggest going DIY may not end terribly well.


So what?

Did the Obama version of the play continue after the attempted murder of nine Dem politicians?


Yes it is. 1600 new coal plants on the books. 500 to be built this year at an average emissions per plant of 3.5 megatonnes. Let’s see, that’s about 42 per month times 3.5 . That is 147 new megatonnes of of co2 emissions each month. Canada’s target is to reduce emissions by 200 meagatonnes from today’s levels by 2030. McLeans magazine estimated the carbon tax will cost the average household $1200 each year in direct and indirect expenses for the 2020 decade. So in the next SIX WEEKS coal plant construction in Asia and Africa will erase Canadian efforts until 2030. Twelve thousand dollars per household by 2030 for nothing but virtue signalling or a gesture.


WP and CNN  are reporting what their audience does want to hear....Trump smears.  I discount media with an agenda and who are caught in bad reporting, misrepresentations and lies. As any rational person should.


I have never heard so much talk about skin colour as something that distinguishes one human being from another in my life--and it is not a positive thing and it is not all the fault of Trump. Progressives have gone absolutely bonkers and they are sucking a whole bunch of others reasonable people into their negative vortex of putting everything in terms of race, religion, gender and sexual orientation.


I have no doubt that when a coalition replaces the ANC in 2019, one of it's main aims will be to reconfigure the Hawks and NPA and put all the corruptors in jail.


Earth writes:

" Bernier is pro-patriotism, anti-mass migration"

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I'm not familiar with this "anti-mass migration".

What is that?


Not mentioning the gambit makes Rob's article a farce. Most financial institutions will charge approximately 3%. For 15,000 that is 450 USD or about 609 CAD.

Assuming an exchange rate of  20,300 CAD for 15,000 USD. Buy 20,300 worth of BCE shares on TSX in CAD. Cost to do so: 10 CAD.
Sell just purchased shares on the US market, in USD. Cost to do so: 10USD

So: total cost less than 25 CAD.

Compare this with the 609 CAD one needs to spend if one goes through a foreign exchange  house, and you can understand why I call this article a farce.

I like Mr. Carrick, but today... he failed to do a good job.


Couple years from now, people will be voting again for another slate of wannabees, Would people vote out their "sugar daddies", especially those with seniority, those that bring home the bacon.


Roman Diversity: 1) Etruscan contributions include the arch, writing, language elements, sewer system, city planning, religion, art, metal work.  2) Greek contributions include philosophy, education, architecture, religion, culture, military technology, colonization.  3) Egyptian contributions include medicine, religion, construction techniques, agricultural methods, government organization.  4) Jewish contributions include religion.  5) Phoenicians (Carthage incl.) ship technology, trade, phoenetic alphabet.

I hope this list which could easily be added to is illustrative of how a diverse society promotes innovation and progress.


Padawan, the Confirmation Bias is strong in this one!


Yes, your assumption is correct.


According to LTD Trip planner, Commerce Street to Wal-Mart W 11th is
1 hour 47 mins with two transfers (shortest time) or
2 hours 6 mins with two transfers (longest time).
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Definition of R Troll:
-attacks "lefties" and truth news (DP, WaPo, NY Times etc).
-vocal and repeated pledged allegiance for tRump
-No compassion or charity or American ideals
-deflect, finger point and blames Obama and Hillary (and Bill)
-creates false equivalence to normalize immorality
-takes credit where credit is not due (e.g. economy and jobs during 1st year in office) while not taking responsibility for the bad.
- spend money making war instead of taking care of our own
- advocate the dismantling the social safety net, business and environmental regulations protecting us and our quality of life.
- "pro-life"(what a joke) while also taking away access to birth control and abortion and taking away all social supports for the children born.  They are OK if the children live in abject poverty (over 30% of children in the U.S.) and die of starvation.
This isn't American politics. The goals of these R trolls is to divide us, dismantle democracy and create a dystopian society.


Proof?


So you're an advocate of jailhouse justice?  Kind of UnAmerican, don't you think?


Hillary Clinton narrowly won the popular vote only because she won California and New York.  Trump won the majority of States, however.


Yes, Milo Yiannopoulos, for example, has worked out such a lovely, egalitarian sense of self, hasn't he? And dear Andrew Sullivan is so adept at resisting patriarchal attitudes.


3 of the 5 movie cast nominations are for black movies - Fences, Hidden Figures, and Moonlight - with Hidden figures winning. 3 of the 4 individual acting awards went to black actors - Denzel Washington and Viola Davis (Fences) and Mahershala Ali (Moonlight). After #OscarSoWhite, this years seems to have #SAGSoBlack.


The couples'  friendship is shot. There  will abe some awkwardness and mistrust when they socialize, and certainly should the same friends share time alone, say, on a beach..
A shame: One reckless act , a lifetime of damage, unfortunately.


It would be interesting to know how they came to the conclusion that the plastic case was the cause of the accident.


Oil Haters like you are are very few and you don't speak for those that want good paying jobs and more oil to increase the PFD checks for all 738, 000 Alaskans!


All Canadian federal budgets for more than 20 years now have included a fair bit of "sandbagging"; make the numbers worse at the start of the year so you can "surprise" with better numbers at the end of the year.  Even without using lowered expectations on economic growth you can be certain that the government will have other elements in the budget, such as the "Contingency Fund", that exist purely to make the numbers look worse just in case the economy worsens during the year.


The moral high ground just got flooded by hurricane Trump.


The Monsignor seems eminently qualified for OD leadership.
However, I must admit that I still have reservations about OD. For me, it is an almost scary organization. It has always seemed to be an aggressive, volatile and militant group who place them selves above everyone else. They seem to be in the mold of the last two popes, Burke, Dolan, etc. Far Right wingers who despise everyone but themselves.
It seem that some of these 'inside' groups are a threat to EVERYONE else just as Hitler was a threat which materialized into a world destructive group. I am forever WARY of such secretive groups who hate for God. Their idea of God is not just very different from mine it is extremely different from mine which is based on the teachings of the wonderful Ursuline and Dominican sisters of our Catholic school and high school which I will not name as the viciousness of the Right wingers is so dangerous, those Aryan-Catholics who are now totally and tightly aligned with the Aryan Protestants.


They DO refuse refugee claims - less than 0.1% of people who cross from the US are granted refugee status & instead are sent back to the USA.


You live in Thurston, home to meth heads, drop out zombies, poachers, ID thieves,
burglars, sex offenders, and domestic violence. It's all there in the crime maps. I used to go there but no more. It's full of "nasty, obscene, violent slimeballs".
So this is your hood and you complain about Eugene? Thurston used to be so pleasant too.


This should be classed as an Essential Service where nobody is allowed to strike.

Furthermore, if people die because they could not get through to the 10111 call centre during an emergency, then it should be on the members of SAPU's  conscience and the leadership should be charged with culpable homicide.


Congratulations!!!!  Hope that you share your talents with Alaska, would love to see a bakery with your name on it in Anchorage!


So typical of liars and those who support liars to deflect the issue and find something else to put the reason or blame on.


The Canadian government deserves it for bailing out the Beaudion family. Had the insisted on Bombardier Voting shares in exchange for financial aid, as was the case with General Motors, they could have avoided all this.


DWLR will be an infraction unless it is during the active revocation period.  Let's say someone has a revoked license and never goes to DMV to get it renewed.  Now they get caught driving.  Currently they have to go to court and fix it or face suspended or actual jail time.  This ensures we have licensed drivers without convicting anyone of a crime (because it's reduced to a violation).
After SB 91 they will get a traffic ticket (infraction).  Sections 92 and 93 of the bill if you don't believe me.


You lump the middle class in with the wealthy. The Middle Class does not need an additional tax just to protect the poor.


Prolonging the process, in this case, appears to have very little to do with justice or the rule of law.  It appears to have much more to do with the obstruction of justice.


Justin Trudeau will get along with anyone, for a price. And since there is no reward to get along with Russia, in his mind, we have this new bizarre realpolitiks being played. I just hope that Justin Trudeau's sense of values has nausea because he has to be a "friend" to a mysogist, anti-gay, etc..... man like Donald Trump. I hope when he is old, he will have regrets about doing that.....  Narcissism has it's price M. Trudeau. I guess you are ready to do anything to feed it.


Carter was feckless. His embargo of Iranian oil in response to the kidnapping and imprisonment of the entire US Iranian diplomatic corps resulted in hording, which drove up gas prices and caused shortages. His rescue by helicopter of the embassy staff ran into a sandstorm, grounding the helicopters. The stagflation, a structural problem, was solved by Fed chairman Paul Volcker, but didn't kick in until Reagan took office, after Reagan had promised to sell Ayatollah Komeini banned missiles, the profit from which went to the Nicaraguan Contras from Ollie North's office in the White House basement. Remember that?

Carter was the most decent man in the White House in the last 100 years. As The Donald would say, Nice people are losers. I guess that's the way you feel, Motley, when you're not thinking about how common criminals are losers. So, who's NOT a loser?


"eternal chaos", CSU plays what 5 home games a year?
'That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.'


"Because I don't embrace Socialism? Are you off your rocker?"

I don't know what you think socialism is, but can I have your next dividend check?


Where do I sign up for the Tar or Feathers franchise for the people proposing limiting our Freedom of Speech? I think that is a real money making opportunity. . . although I can't quite figure out which would be more lucrative, tar or feathers. . . or perhaps I should corner the rail market? Every one of those proposing such regulation should be first tarred and feathered, and then run out of town on a rail.


the documents were, as you stated, in english.


True enough no young doctor wants to take over an existing medical medical practice in such unstable times with a crazed dictatorial government acting in such a contemptable manner.

No young doctor is going to sign leases etc., and take the responsibilities onto his/ her shoulders either alone or with their friends....so the ageing doctor is forced to cut back, to slow down...and when the lease comes to an end....to close the practice.


You're giving up already then? And just after I read how scheer will change everything in Canadian politics? hey, give the guy a chance - he may do something with his life yet.


The Oregon Government Ethics Commission said the two may have broken some laws, how else can we keep elected officials accountable?  Don't you think the state needs to be accountable and transparent?


If Trump has any intention of negotiating in good faith it will not be affected by something as minor as a photo on the cover of the Rolling Stone. I honestly doubt Trump has any intention of negotiating in good faith, but that is a different point.


We do not live in a free market economy.  For geesh sakes read a renowned economist and do some research before making such a comment (the list is long who have all diagnosed the disease).  15% of all money ends up in your so called free market where 85% ends up in the financial industry.  Greed and finance has ruined the system, it is not even a capitalistic system we have anymore.


The Mooch is pooched.


Now, if we can just get a bunch of racist Red States to succeed from the union, we might get somewhere.


Trump Canada can't come fast enough !!!


Uh, they were'nt baited genius, call the trooper if you need to understand what you apparently cant read.


As I recall, in her previous column, Renzetti criticized Trump for not taking what she considers "the high road" during his inauguration speech. I wonder what Renzetti thinks about the comments made yesterday by speakers such as Madonna and Ashley Judd? How would those comments rank with respect to "the high road", and why was there no mention of these prominent and incendiary speeches in this column? Is this newspaper still reporting news, or is it increasingly just a forum for strident anti-Trump views? Is balanced coverage and informing readers still a goal, or do we now have to read mainly one-sided opinion pieces  - all tilting heavily in one direction? I can remember a time when the Globe and Mail used to publish in-depth, balanced, informative, and carefully researched articles. Unfortunately, that was a long time ago...


Let's see now.  In power for approx 10 years.  Increased national debt approx $165billion.  That's an average of about $16.5billion of stimulus per year.  But wait, there was no recession in 2006 (Harper and Flaherty swore there wasn't).  And it was all gone by 2014 and they were posting a "surplus" (they sold the silverware to do it, but that's another story).

Still sticking to the "stimulus" story?  Really?  Oh, and you forgot to mention the snitch line.


I bet some of the people complaining here voted for him. Re-elect Mayor Kirkwell!


Come on Gomer, get in there & show us some elbows. While you're there, identify that 87% of Quebecers who support Bill 62 as racists. Go for it big man.


You do not "discuss" you lie and call that a discussion and you are messed up.


Lets be fair here, some folks have their own reality and are able to twist words into what they preferred them to be. Truth be d#$#%$. That is what I believe for what its worth, making a statement , then turning around and saying I didn't say that is the sign of a sick mind. We should be pitying them I guess. They read or hear something and put their own spin on the words and that is their reality. It is quite sad when we think about it, after all, I have, and we should all have, great pity for those unable to discern reality.


There are 1000 moving pieces in the economy and blaming one policy alone for good or bad times is simplistic.  That said, Reagan's deregulation, anti-labor actions and tax cuts created a foundation of fiscal irresponsibility that have led us to our current debt crisis and too great a portion of our economy being financially based.


Careful.

Urine trouble if you post such things.


Excellent essay, Elise.  Nice counter to the Jim Crawford mixture of self-aggrandizing political history claiming divine right of a superior human over all other humans.


"Attack, pause, mourn, carry on: The cycle of terror has become routine".

No, that is not how it goes.

In the Globe and Mail it goes like this:

Attack,
pause,
put "comments closed" labels on all the first news reports,
get a set of Muslim writers to write the first opinion columns,
eventually open up the boards to comments,
hope that the prominent posts are along the lines of "all religions are evil and dangerous, but let me list out and emphasize the awful things Christians have done",
censor away posts that go beyond that pan-religion all-religions-are-evil line,
draw attention to the need for better mental health care in society,
find and publicize some reports of anti-Muslim hate attacks in Canada, the West, anywhere,
print a couple more article about "The Handmaid's Tale" with imagery of Trump leading a fundamentalist Christian war on women,
mourn,
carry on.


My replies to you are predicated on your post of 19 hours ago (and its sequels): "So you want a legal battle to take place in hopes of taking over the property of someone who you disagree with in order to establish an Islamic educational center? Sounds familiar, watered down but familiar."

I stand by my previous objections to what you stated in that post, nor do my criticisms strengthen or validate said post or its arguments (such as they are).  What I advocated is not any different than the highly effective strategy the Southern Poverty Law Center deployed against KKK groups, who like OJ (and I realize the irony in lumping the two) usually through anonymity managed to avoid criminal prosecution for the harm they inflicted, but were found liable for damages to their victims/victims' survivors in civil court.

I'll close with this--if you wanna come correct, I have no problem whatsoever in engaging in mutually respectful exchange of ideas.  But you want respect, you gotta give it.


Can't start em young enough, you never know when you may be needed to shoot another democrat.

"I think the best thing a mite of a chap like you can do is drop that gun” or called him a “damned little Yankee devil,” according to various sources. Rather than surrender, Clem shot the colonel and successfully made his way back to Union lines. For his actions, Clem was promoted to sergeant, the youngest soldier ever to become a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army, and became known as the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga. Clem remained in the army until 1915, when he retired. He was the last Civil War veteran to leave the United States military.

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/john-clem.html


the parking hasn't sold out in a while....


The issue was free expression, not sin. The matter of sin is private (not as secret but as none of society's business).


Enough to heat about 350 homes a day is being dissolved and released. I pay about two hundred a month in the winter for gas alone,.. times 350=$7,000 a dayx30=$210,000 per month.
 Dec-may=6 months@$210,000.   $1,260,000 bucks if they wait till May.
Plus the cost of the replacement gas, the lost taxes, the unknown affects on the whales etc.
This line and the oil line running next to it run across the same rocky outcrop from what I read. They are the same age. How long before that nearby line of the same age, with oil in get a leak?  This is a symptom of what are likely to become systemic problems to the aging oil and gas pipes under our Cook Inlet.  I would say this warrants a closer look at what and when the latest checks were made to the conditions of the OTHER lines running to those old platforms being milked to the failure point?  If these guys can`t even inspect the extent/nature of a leak in just 80 feet of water, at will, at slack tide...well, winters can be pretty long here.


The carpetbagger Senator is a freshman, and I haven't seen him on the speakers' list for the convention on the GOP website. So either the fact his IS speaking is incorrect, or the speakers' list hasn't been updated on the website.


No your wrong - Fake News Again Globe, you guys are so left elititis makes me crazy.


"Don’t we want people who can research and teach, instead of prove how diverse we are? I guess not. We’ve got quotas to fill."
Insultingly assumes the people they are hiring are not capable.  Rome wasn't built in a day & one has to remember that in relative terms it is only recently that girls were encouraged into the Sciences. My daughter is graduating high school with a 94% average heavily focused on maths & sciences.  If she were born when I was in the 1960's she would have been slotted into Nursing for post secondary instead of Applied Science which she is starting at Queens in the Fall.   Biases take years to turn around, it shouldn't have to come down to quotas, but left to their own devices, I doubt we would see much change.


Don't need to - I'm a retired Fed;  been there, done that.


Bottom line...........Its all about bottom dollar.


Ignore her. You'll be better off...


...as if it would be that easy - good luck.


Good luck Neah Bay!!


Don't assume you know what Obama would do, you know what assuming means do you not?  If you back Trump and Obama is your only supporting evidence then you need to do more research.  Trump backers fall on Obama, are you not capable of thinking, because at present it shows you are not.


The LED lighting upgrade was Mark Begichs' idea. Burkowitz was just following through on another phase of the upgrade.

http://www.cree.com/news-media/news/article/anchorage-joins-led-city-initiative-to-improve-light-quality-and-reduce-energy-costs


No one is purposefully surpassing votes in New York.  The law states you must be  registered 6 months before the election and it is public knowledge that Independent voters are not allowed to vote in a primary.  Now you were saying ..?


"Pork for every Councilcritter" Isn't standing up for your constituencies a good thing and part of any political process? You liked how they spent your money before, so what's the beef?


I've been an active volunteer for a non profit and can say that it simply could not function without some full time staff.  At an absolute minimum you  need someone to answer the phone,  coordinate the volunteers, order supplies and pay the bills.  If you are building houses this is like being a general contractor.  You can see the 990 for this branch of Habitat for Humanity at Charity Navigator. The highest paid employee is listed on these forms. That person make a little over $60,000 a year.


@ bsdetection
1. How many GOP voted for it?
2. How many Dems voted against it?
3. What's the current status of your ACA in terms of being successful?


Perhaps they need to go back to non rigid helmets like back in the day which will
discourage tackling/leading with the head.


A well regulated militia travels on its stomach, so he was perfectly within his 2nd Amendment rights.
The McDonald's worker was probably an illegal of some type anyway.


@Wendy Wright, please distinguish the fact reported in the article--that senators Franken and Leahy made statements that Sessions' actions might be grounds for perjury--from the opinions expressed by senators Franken and Leahy.

You appear willing to prejudge Franken's and Leahy's opinions based on some animosity toward Franken.

I don't prejudge their opinions, as you do, or take them as gospel, as you suggest @John Kawamoto is free to do.  Instead, I'm thankful we have democratic institutions that discourage public officials from willfully telling untruths, and am curious to know if Franken's and Leahy's opinions that Sessions may have committed perjury have any truth to them.


And the CEOs of Walmart and Home Depot do?

Here's a better idea - if we are to actually replace "Obamacare", AKA, the original Republican/Heritage plan, then we should look at how other countries achieve the better outcomes that they do, not consult CEOs. CEOs already have way too much input into our government as it is.


The liberal media will guarantee that, I'm just hoping they maintain their rhetoric up that long, people just aren't buying what they are saying, selling, and/or their feeble attempts at reporting any real news whatsoever.


This may be the dumbest and most naive piece of pap I've ever read. As a foreign government, there is little we can do to exercise influence over any other country, let alone the U.S. You may have noticed that nobody cared that Mr. Trudeau was there other than Canadians. We can't control their immigration policy. We can't control their economic agenda. We can't control their view on diversity. We can exercise some influence over trade because we trade with them on a very significant level.

The women's leadership roundtable was brilliant, working through the back door to achieve influence.

We have to live with this guy (Trump) for the next 4 years, at least, so we need to start with small achievements.

If you want to tell Mr. Trump how to behave vis-a-vis the citizens of the country of which he is president, you should feel to exercise your influence over him. I'm sure he'd be interested.


I'm very interested to see the plan.  If it's true that even Brad Wall is set to sign-on, I'll be truly impressed.


Oh my god, please bring back Obama, NOT!


Like surrogate commenting for the oil industry?  You're not related to Daniel Donkel are you Strada?


Guns should be used for hunting (sport), shooting (sport), and self-defense. That's all. Things like scopes help with improving accuracy within those designed uses. Things like a bump-stock attachment,  assault rifles, expanded magazines are not necessary or efficiently helpful for the designed uses. Firearms should not be fun, they should be practical. We should outlaw anything that doesn't logically help with the designed uses.


"Put the boots to him, medium style."


I agree. I cannot understand why the province directed UBC to form policy over an issue that it has no legitimate jurisdiction. Sexual assault, indeed all assault, is a criminal matter in which the person assaulted is obligated to report the alleged crime to the police for criminal investigation and, if the allegation is found to be substantive, to press charges against the alleged assailant. There is no part of this process in which the university has any role to play. Sexual assault is not unique to UBC and there is no reason whatsoever for the institution to be treated any differently than society in general.


"At St. Michael’s College at U of T, a push to integrate faith and intellect." With all due respect to the author of this article, St. Michael's College has always been about integrating faith and intellect. With a quick survey of history she would discover that the concept of university evolved from the Catholic church.. The study of theology and philosophy were part of the dialectic that drew early intellectuals together. A little more historical awareness is needed from the G&M.


Just like Obama did.  No, wait . . . That's not correct.   .


This country needs national healthcare now.


I was there. Tensions are high with Gangsters, antifa gang, and patriots. DP reported bout the Home Depot robbed by gangs of 75 next door, 24 hr fitness next door where we were robbed, keys and wallets taken by gangs, in both cases management had gang members inside jobs. Today search youtube, Antifa organizes strikes this wk and start their civil war, patriots are packing and nervous, gangs had a fight at 24 hr fitness next to walmart last week, gangs arrested at 24 hr-home depot and this was welfare check day at this walmart so it was packed with armed gangsters.

not many ppl shot? shooter walks in cold, calculated and steady, takes aim, Pop 1 down, he does it again Pop 2 down. shooter notices homies taking cover with guns so the shooter lays out some cover fire while he exits like a pro. keeps the homies and under cover cops pinned down while he escapes otherwise I think a bunch of ppl would be injured and dead. antifa is rioting any patriots gathering today, B careful (youTube).


hey mark - try posting something positive, like how You would handle Trump. Come on, give us the benefit of your all encompassing wisdom.


Mr Lee was BROUGHT UP on the reserve, he was adopted by his step-father. His is a very special case and top marks to the band for taking him on as a member. Since he is not a status Indian, he doesn't get the benefits that those who are do. Those benefits were negotiated with the Crown in exchange for relinquishing ancestral lands, etc. so there is nothing more special than any other legally negotiated benefit.


Lucky duck! Flying insects are in decline worldwide. You may one day rue passing on that free protein. Some bars only offer complimentary pretzels, and that's just empty carbs & salt to make you thirsty!
https://e360.yale.edu/features/insect_numbers_declining_why_it_matters


It's all about skin color with you people .....


That's acute reaction!


With 6000 homeless passing through the Mission each year, it would seem a stretch of resources to allow no time limit for staying.  Also, I don't have a problem with the ones that are trying to turn their life around getting better chow than the ones not in the program.  It's good for morale.  So what changes are you suggesting?  And why should they answer to you?


it's the old 'if there's a will, there's a way', but in the case of our officials who are wholly to blame for the crisis from A to Z they've had enuf years to show they actually have the will and have failed miserably. I spoke to candidate Ige who is well aware of modified shipping containers as great starts for quick, cheap, and even permanent housing, but has done nothing more than provide an expensive shed with air mats on the floor. I contend these people with the ways and means just aren't interested in actually taking care of their wards. shameful.


Well he did say that, but after listening to the generals and those who have fought over there he realized we needed to finish the mission.

He also realized that the mission would be a lot harder because of the failed cut and run policy of Obama.

So keep repeating the party line, this is what is actually going on over there and why there was a change of position.


Don't confuse the rubes with facts ..........


Have no fear, the lack of a method to tax will not be an issue for long.


If I were in the shoes of the President, I would count the number of reporters, divide that number by five , the number of days in the week, and each reporter would be assigned a press day and they would be allowed to ask "one" question for the week and that is done. The other four days of the week, they could investigate traffic accidents or whatever menial tasks that the day editor needs to get handled.


Americans were generous in celebrating the election of the first (mostly) black POTUS.  Now that this failed social experiment is over, they have to deal with the new POTUS.  The extreme choice to be was a direct result of the extreme choice just on his way out. Obama left the new administration an awful mess.....both internationally and economically. Not to mention the fact that black Americans are angrier now than when Obama took office......shouldn't he have helped race relations instead of moving them backwards?


Well Doug as one of the great hand wringers of all time its nice to see you deliver on the affliction. Trump has succeeded in focusing the Europeans on something they have taken for granted since the 1950's.The U.S. has led and largely paid for most Western institutions and going forward will not have the ability to do that anymore. A remarkable run of consistency when you think of the last 72 years of peace and prosperity. The Europeans somehow thought the peace dividend would go on forever but as German Army officers have opined . "the Russians are still too close".

 Meanwhile The U.S. Army is running all over Poland, Lithuania and Romania this fall and in to next year.

 It will be very interesting if Justin and company have received the same message and we will all know this Wednesday when Garneau presents the new Defence policy.


Great story. Thanks.


Since he never called my house or anyone I know. Here are our results the airport is a negative not even rates on the scale. Honolulu international airport is a complete and utter  joke and a direct reflection of the terrible condition of our city.
 As one passenger told me recently it's like going back to the 70s. I travel for my job and have for the last 30 years and I have to say our airport is probably the worst I've ever seen. It's very sad for a status says terrorism is so important but weighs $10 billion on the rail that is useless. Just more incompetent political Democrats destroying the state


Not so, President Trump called Trudeau, day afternoon the horrific terrortists attack in Quebec.


Provide proof that casinos have bettered the lot of poor people.


Education is essential in reaching children to explain that sharing intimate images of themselves or others could be both a criminal and a societal offense and harmful to relationships with others. Sharing intimate images seems to be a form of exhibitionism that is widespread due the existence of the technical means to do so. What does this say about the human condition in a modern society?  "The medium is the message"?


You don't even understand your own mythology. Hilarious.


Thank you Jonathan Andrew for your thoughtful letter on why our profit motive health care system fails to provide for a significant segment of the population. Many successful working models around the world do a better job of providing better care for all of their population. The current "innovative" Senate plan proposes to make it more difficult to afford insurance that covers less.  Let's have a ballot initiative to require the Senate to be on whatever they propose for us, instead of their plan to keep their current coverage.