"He would have turned 18 this month."
Instead, he killed someone in a crash and, later, died of his injuries.
Don't you think he paid for his action, whatever it was?
This wasn't his 2nd or 3rd DUI. He wasn't an experienced driver. He didn't walk away to be on his merry way. He did not live to see 18.
Tragic for everyone. Hard to fathom.
I take it that you have never run a red light, had a close call behind the wheel. I know I have. I've also avoided crashes because of other driver's carelessness or whatever.
It boggles my mind that you can be so resentful of a dead boy - of the friends who wish to honor him.


That's why the airlines overbook, because many people have the attitude you have, that it's a win-win deal for you and the airline. The happy outcomes vastly outnumber the bad outcomes, like the one in the article.


The Mike and Merry Fix are neighbors of ours, living a couple of miles "down the road."  They're the very kind of folks you want for friends and neighbors and in your community.  Mike recounts their experiences over the last few months and rejects the "fear and loathing" campaign message from Mr. Trump.  He shares a positive, uplifting view of the world.

Mr. Trump and his supporters present a very different world:  dark, foreboding, and very dangerous.  They are promoting a fearful view.   Once you believe that promotion, have they ever  "got a deal for you."  His name is Donald Trump and he's here to save the day.

I hope we can see the sunshine and light of Mr. Fix's comments and reject the dark, cynical world view Mr. Trump presents.  Mr. Fix offers us hope and faith in our fellow Americans.  Mr. Trump and his followers offer hate, division, mistrust and fear.  For me, it's not a difficujlt choice....... regards, Gary


So did Islam!


Why not?


Internet monikers aren't identities.  I treat them like jerseys.

Odd....

one gets a whole lot of grief around here for changing a jersey...but trying to change one's gender....that should be celebrated!


While all of you are all hyped up about Trumps order, the president of Syria openly admitted during an interview that some refugees are definitely terrorists and he also makes a great point that it only took a handful of terrorists to fly planes into the WTC.
Oh! Lest we not forget that the head of the FBI said a few years ago that we can't properly vet a large number of refugees into this country. But sure, let them all in... have you seen the innocent women and children, after all?!?!
They will use the PC culture as their Trojan horse.


It seems as though every year a team that goes all the way gets by with winning a game where they stunk it up, and if Oregon didn't stink it up on Sunday they came darn close.  Those shooting percentages were so bad it really is a testament to defense strategy and effort that Ducks came out on top...just don't shoot like that on Thursday cause we used up the freebie last night.


I don't have statistics about how much offshore money is coming into my Toronto neighbourhood but nobody else does either. What I can say is that in Willowdale I know of dozen upon dozens of examples personally. Here's a couple: An international student in my building complex owns a million dollar townhouse and a 265 thousand dollar car. She has no job, and according to current tax treaties does not have to pay income tax on 'her' funds coming into Canada. Another permament resident owns another million dollar townhouse and has no job here. Her husband is a non-resident so does not pay income tax here. Talk to any realtor or banker and they will tell this phenomena is dominating home sales in the area. What will happen to homes prices as more newly arrived residents come to place family members while not contributing to the income tax collection? Meanwhile average income earners (of all backgrounds) are increasingly excluded from the market while increasingly paying more income taxes.


Google things people.     http://www.profitguide.com/microsite/profit500/2015
28	Cue Digital Media	2,546 % revenue growth	Marketing & Media	CAD	5–9.9 million	12
35	Équation Humaine	2,102 % revenue growth    Marketing & Media	CAD	2–4.9 million	63
43	Samba Connects	        1,647 % revenue growth  	Marketing & Media	CAD	2–4.9 million	11
70	Promo-Staff Group	1,043  % revenue growth  Marketing & Media	CAD	2–4.9 million	2,515
91	Fresh Intelligence	739     % revenue growth  Marketing & Media	CAD	2–4.9 million	14
105	D2C Media	                679     % revenue growth	Marketing & Media	CAD	2–4.9 million	26
112	Le Site	                        637     % revenue growth	Marketing & Media	CAD	5–9.9 million	42


Will someone tell the G&M reporter/editor that, despite Mr. Trump's belief,  dairy is not part of NAFTA, primarily because of the difficulty of each county's different methodologies in subsidizing their agriculture sectors.   Further that ultra filitered milk is a product created specifically to get around existing Canadian tariff laws, that the U.S. enjoys a$400m trade surplus in dairy today, and finally U.S. milk products contain growth hormones, barred from Canadian  milk products.


For police, tasers are a compliance tool, they are not appropriate as a response to an immediate lethal threat situation unless there is a physical barrier and a weapon that cannot cross the barrier.  You might Tase a guy with a knife on the other side of a reasonably high fence who refused to drop the weapon, for instance. Tasers fail, when it is a gun at close range and a non-compliant suspect, they are not the tool for the job.


You can still go to the library and look for free.  Having this convenient option 24x7 at home for a fee is great.  And no, I don't work for the newspaper.


Exacty - poor rich NFL players have it rough, don't they.


Will someone please tell these students "No". No crayons, no Playdoh, no safe rooms...just simply "No".


Comments closed  on Denis    Quel surprise.


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"Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s real gross domestic product jumped 0.6 per cent in May from April, on a seasonally adjusted basis – triple the solid 0.2-per-cent growth that economists had predicted.

That matched the strongest single-month growth that the economy has posted in the past six years.

Compared with 12 months ago, real GDP was up 4.6 per cent – the fastest year-over-year growth in nearly 17 years."

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This is all Trudeau's fault!

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Right on about sunk costs and too true that we hang on to those, and sometimes make bad decision because we cannot let go. But you seem to conclude that the main objective of an alternate transport system is not needed. You suggest no alternative actions. You seem to leave the commuters in Ewa area without hope. In retrospect we should have only allowed truly affordable housing to be constructed within a reasonable distance from major employment centers (downtown, Waikiki, Ala Moana, etc) and schools (UHM, Iolani, MidPac, Punahou, Chaminade, etc., etc.) but we did not do that and instead created more affordable housing 2 hours away during rush hours which has left people to commute for 4 hours daily. What would you do about that situation of today? Are you suggesting to demolish the HART portion which has been constructed? I wonder what is the economic cost-benefit of demolition of the constructed portion vs. redesign to take it to other locations? Stopping now is not cost-free.


If single payer is done right for our country, that single payer will be mainly used for common visits/procedures, and a market will remain for those with more coin to buy into some of the more elaborate care.  Think of a big Kaiser (which isn't terrible to work at....my girlfriend makes good money working for them), then an additional, albeit smaller, top-quality care market.


The irony is that the left's shameless penchant for political correctness is empowering their opposition. Keep up the good work...


Put doctors on salaries with benefits and a maximum 40 hour work week. See how many more doctors you'll need.


What fraud, Meggsy? Please elaborate with facts from the article.


"What is the next brainless criticism?"

Just an understatement of fact.


I do realize that queers would find it offputting to find a potential partner packing heat, but I feel sure that there must have been some straight persons present.


No Steve it is not as black and white as you are trying to reduce it to. What a responsible, truly independent legislature would have done is come up with a compromise that kept the best of ACES and got rid of the worst in a manner that covered the states revenue stream at both high and low prices. The people that shoved SB21 out were not as concerned about the effects the radical revision of ACES would have on the state as they were eager to show gratitude for the oil industry campaign contributions that would keep them in office for another term. As Kevin Meyers said "It's a crap shoot" and the state has come up snake eyes. Didn't have to be this way Steve but with an illegally gerry wandered super majority in control they got what they wanted regardless of all the warnings to the contrary.


Greetings.......thanks to Daniel Berrigan for calling our government to task for the  bombing...napalming...... and agent oranging of Laos,Cambodia,and Vietnam!  May his soul rest in peace for a mission done well


Interest rates have been going up in the States for a while and finally have started upwards here too. I think that slow but steady rate hikes would be the best medicine as it will not wipe people out quickly and it allows time for habits to change. I'll have a laugh when all those BMWs, Mercs, Audis, etc. start disappearing off our roads but I don't want to see anybody but the truly foolhardy losing their houses.


Thank heaven we don't have to listen to that woman for four years.


Only 25?  They really need to start digging.


Poll reports are fine, but polls are fickle no matter who uses them.   I'm not a populist.   I think truth is self evident and reveals itself over time.

The most frightening thing about the administration, besides its heavy authoritarian/military leadership, (fine but not in these numbers), is the attack on press and the courts.    Like the modern version of these institutions or not, they are foundational pillars of democracy that have to work as a counterbalance to an over reaching political leadership.

These are the characteristics of an administration focused on blind power.    A minority of Americans now  have 'the good King' who will fix everything to fit their world view without  the annoyance of Congress, Press, or the Courts.    That's a bad dream for me.  I pray I'm wrong.

The mind of Bannon is a long way from a conservative federalist design  It's a new beast all together.


Does your City ever go 24 hours without a murder?


If the police treat each other like that, how do you think they treat members of the public? Cops need to learn respect and law-abiding behaviour, toward each other and toward the public.


It's why every Chinese person is desperately trying to get their money out...


“You’re not the boss of me!”


With the new stadium that may have changed.


You all cannot see the forest for the trees.....


Nobody talks about the elephant in the room. That would be the COST for medical care. The cost, that is how much is paid (regardless of whether insurance, government, or patient are the payers) for hospital care, doctors care, clinical care, pharmecuticals, whatever. Multifaceted and complex, why does health care costs so damned much? Until that is addressed, all of the brouhaha about Obamacare, insurance, Medicaid and single payer is just politics.


You're only aware of Republicans committing voter fraud for two reasons: Republicans prosecute it and the media reports it.  When Democrats commit voter fraud, they generally win the elections and are in charge if finding "evidence" of voter fraud and have nothing to gain by finding it and everything to lose.  So there is no evidence.

We need a federal database to be able to cross-check actual votes against eligibility, and cross-check to voters across all of the states.  Approximately 25 million people are registered in more than one state, and with mail-in ballots, it's easy to vote in more than one.  There is no system in place to cross-check.  There needs to be.

It isn't illegal to be registered in more than one state.  A lot of us move to another state and don't think to cancel our previous registration.  But it is illegal to vote in the state you left.  Enough Democrats with out of state ID voted in New Hampshire to swing the election.


Political criticism from the bench of legitimate defense strategies should be the subject of complaints to the Judicial Council.


Jules
You love that auto industry story don't you?
As reprehensible as it was ( I would have let GM go bankrupt )
The loan has been paid back. So its kind of old news Jukes...
Its one time corporate welfare for GM , verses constant , around the clock ,  year over year, constant corporate welfare for Bombardier, a corrupt ,incompetent,  family controlled,  bloated ,  non competitive wasteland of a company.


Disagree.  Checked online and the Canary Islands has  Mount Teide with an elevation of 12,198 ft, just couple thousand feet lower than Mauna Kea, online pictures show that the mountain, like Mauna Kea Mount Teide has a gradual incline, meaning they can use roads to bring up building materials and ferry astronomers in/out of the new TMT telescope on Mt Teide.  Also the year round weather is pretty mild not that much rain, unlike some steep mountain in Nepal or Alaska always covered in snow or in a snowstorm.  Yes, shipping construction materials and workers to Canary to build the 30m TMT is much more difficult and expensive that building it in Hawaii and traveling US, Canadian, Japanese, etc. astronomers would have a much easier time traveling back and forth to Hawaii than to the Canary Islands across the Atlantic, but clear they cannot tolerate holding up the construction because of incompetence by those in charge in Hawaii and a small group of protestors.


That's too complicated for most abortion fanatics to wrap their heads around.  They can barely find their parishes in broad daylight as it is.


Finally after Harper...Canada has an intelligent Leader in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that knows Canada needs investors, global trade... as well as he possess the moral and ethical aptitude to realize out Earth cannot sustain the current course we are on without change.


He's absolutely not defending Weinstein. There's no way that any reasonable person could come to that conclusion.


Changed your name again huh, Travis?  Public comments weren't meant for thugs like you.  Go away.   Better yet, go ask tRump for a job as his water boy.


Why wouldn't we put our interests first? Mexico's interests come after ours, whether in 2nd place or 55th place, it really doesn't matter.

Our Government needs to first take care of Canada and Canadians, and let the others take care of themselves. Mexico would not put us ahead of them, so let's not suffer any sophomoric delusions.


Another strawman argument.  Shut down the oil industry today and we'd be freezing/roasting in the dark.  I am well aware of what is happening in the world of alternate energy and am optomistic that we will wean ourselves from using oil for transportation and electricity generation.  There are places in Texas that get free electricity at night because there is a glut of wind power that can't be stored at present.  That, too, will change as storage technology improves.  But in the meantime our modern world is dependant upon fossil fuels.  That is reality and all the blathering in the world won't change it.


Finding Minnery's opinion vacuous and pedantic does not automatically indicate that hate is involved.  You and Minnery are not being persecuted either.  Love that first amendment!  Don't flatter yourself into thinking people want to waste energy hating a marginal opinion or the author.


3 issues.

 Pedestrians don't act like a car can hurt them.  Doesn't matter if you are "right"  this isn't victim blaming it's reality.

It is way to easy to get and maintain a licence.  People don't actually know how to drive and they don't know WHY they are doing something / why it's important.

Police focus on the wrong behaviour.    Speeding isn't the most dangerous thing on our roads.  Unpredictability is, not telegraphing your movements and not signalling is far worse then speed.  We are letting drivers of the hook and they aren't communicating or acting as is they are on the road with others and they NEED to communicate.  If they had this mindset / approach there would be a shift.

Everything is always geared to the lowest common denominator.  Enough with that, raise the level of our drivers.  Pretty soon all the speed limits will be dropped to 20 K, because people will need to be protected from their own stupidity.


Yes this was true until relatively recently - local manufacturing and local consumption.  Now we have offshore production, less manufacturing and fewer unskilled jobs.  This favours the wealthy who have income from investments rather than wages.  Income from investments dramatically outweighs increased income from wages over time.  Not good for unskilled labour = Trump.


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Canada needs more Chrystia Freeland.

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That was confirmed years ago.  Main takeaway today: Trump is having a full-scale meltdown.  Sitting around in a darkened room in his underwear watching the TV and tweeting as fast as his fingers will go.
If they strapped him in a straightjacket that would slow down his tweeting.


Where are all the Obama-lovers who every month where job growth was positive, came out and said "Thank You President Obama."


Not a word today from Trump, who found time to compliment Fox & Friends, plug Luther Strange, flog Graham-Cassidy, excoriate “Crooked Hillary,” retweet knob-slobbering from MAGAts, etc.


It isn't always clear what internal considerations drive NK's attention seeking behaviour, but its long game plan is beyond doubt:  getting the US out of the peninsula and reuniting the Koreas on terms favourable to itself.

By standing up to the Americans and drawing them into a slanging match, the DPRK may be playing a weak hand as well as it can.  But it's a risky game and much depends on how South Koreans respond.  It may well be that in any conflict involving Japan many South Koreans will side with their own kin rather than with the foreigners.


Censorship in the G&M comment boards for legitimate arguments that in no way shape or form violate the Canadian Charter, simply because said comments make people 'feel bad';  the prima facie motivator for decrying Motion-103


Can ask that you come and meet me?
 Talk about the people we have helped and what we have done.  I never asked to do these articles.  I do them, when asked, to inform people on the actual benefits of medical cannabis. I never ask for a plug or even to mention where I do my work. That's not what's important.  This is something I am devoutly passionate about. I just want to help. Please Google my name and read other articles or listen to the podcasts.  Don't believe everyone in this industry is trying to make money on a green rush.  Some of us truly care about the benefit of this plant and how we can use it to help others.


The Child Behind the Eyes was not supported by the state Down syndrome group due to the offensive, outdated language.  A representative was there for the panel discussion afterwards to clarify the "then vs now," but local parents refused to endorse or partner with the production.


Thanks.... it was my first censored comment.


Given that we actually know nothing about the home life of the Holy Family, you quote is meaningless.


So the payout wasn't about doing the right thing, but choosing the cheapest option.


We always pay for those that made wrong choices. "sigh"


Just because something is subtle, or slight, doesn't mean it isn't happening. In fact one could make a reasonable case that it is worse when it is slight or subtle. Something slight or subtle buried in what is expected to be a pure news piece may slip under the radar into one's mind without being consciously noticed.


Utility's - "legal" and "legitimately"????


Some days, I feel like I am a 6'9' power forward in the NBA and should be paid like one. My boss would laugh at me and tell me to get back to work.

How is my "feeling" any different than what a person who is offended by the words "expectant mom"? What if I show up at an NBA game, in uniform, and insist that I play for one of those teams?

I don't mean for this comment to offend, but rather to see the thinking behind what others would see as a mental defect or disorder that should be addressed by a psychiatrist or psychologist.


Interesting that it is borrowed money coming from Alberta and Ontario, who pay more for it judging by the credit rating, going to Quebec so they don't have to borrow at a better rate?

Perhaps it's time to re visit the equalization equation.


The administration of President Obama never said any-such thing.


Somewhere hidden in this massive tax increase bonanza is money for the mayor's pro sanctuary city stance. The question is where and how much?


Utter BS. trump threatening members if they don't vote his way is not negotiating, it's bullying, and your spineless Ryan revels in the effects of reducing health care to millions
as they suffer. Feel better now?


What was Queen Sophie doing there?  She's a member of parliament?


Gary, what are you smoking? "Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, has a much better understanding of the role the oil sands play in the national economy. He appreciates that they must continue to exist ." He wants to eliminate the oil sads!!!!!!

Silver spoon 'boy' is a fool and even the Liberal folks who voted for him now realise this. Can tell what colour your stripes are!!!

Justine has no concept of reality and should have studied economics rather than Drama - who voted for this idiot!!??


I believe some amendments were offered last year concerning going back to state per diem rather than federal rates/policies, by democrats and quashed by the R's.


oh lefty the loser, getting rid of all liberal policies in energy is a great start period to lower costs


One wonders what IS the benefit of citizenship if illegal aliens who may well be here hoping to destroy the country have the same rights, better congressional representation and LESS responsibilities as the rest of us born, working and paying ALL our taxes here?


Sure, sure. You have trump speaking about Blumenthal's record, really? Let us instead talk about trump and his draft deferment: Bone spurs? Bone spurs, now. Funny how similar the symptoms for that are to “Pu$$y Running Away from Vietnam Because It's Scary When People Shoot at You Syndrome.”


Amen


Trump chaos? Unemployment down; stock market up; ISIS losing; illegal immigration down; tax cuts are next...is this your idea of chaos? Sounds like a pretty darn good 8 months so far.


The airlines still go by HNL when making reservations. Just like the old Las Vegas joke, "my wife said take me someplace expensive to eat, so I took her to the airport."


Real News on the way


Yes, but the mainland mentality has come to the nei and the low iq dont even notice


Helping the liberals, turn coat of the highest order, loves to-be in the limelight. Stay retired Brian, then every-one wins.


distraction n.

 hindrance, encumbrance, burden, handicap, nuisance, inconvenience; obstacle, impediment, disadvantage, weakness, weak link, shortcoming; millstone around one's neck, albatross, Achilles heel.


Bottle rockets flying into trees and starting fires don't cause heart attacks. He was predisposed, and his fate likely would have been the same if John Kitzhaber's son had crashed a Prius into the tree.


Not in Canada.


Trump will be "at the helm" because a bunch of idiots voted for him.


Poor decision.  Let Nature takes its own course.


This is not an editorial but a dilettantish harangue. Who appointed the G&M scribes to sit in judgment over the US government when they cannot find it in themselves to do an equivalent job on our own?


Leave room for Pebble and Parnell and Sen. Dan


Buckle up!!!  While the driver did everything wrong, a seat belt might have saved a life.


I have no problem with Muslims. But I have a problem with their way of "fighting" against our way of living.  I have a problem with the fact that even a "secular" Muslim will pick a fit when his/her son/daughter gets involved with a Christian (or Jew, or Buddhist)... I have a problem with asking for special accomodations to allow him/her to pray while at work. Even if Coran allows not to pray in special conditions. Or with the fact that they do not adapt our culture and want to impose theirs - no music classes, no mixed swimming classes.
It is absolutely clear that the "others" will start pushing back - if he is allowed to pray 5 times a day, why cannot I refuse coming a Sunday to work because I have church? Or not work on Fridays because I am Jewish? The "when in Rome do like the romans do" doesn't seem to apply to SOME of the Muslim community.
Unfortunately, even if the MAJORITY of Muslims are good people, the FEW "bad" Muslims are going to make the front pages. With all the fallout.


Grandstanding nonsense. First off if such a bill passed the Senate. The House would have to pass it and then Trump would have to sign it. Like I said.....nonsense.


"But I'll leave it to others to discuss the proper decorum for a governor-general."

OK. I'll bite.  For starters, the GG should be respectful to Canadians and not go out of her way to offend them or their beliefs.  She should never use a mocking tone about anything or anyone.  And she should take a week and learn about the history of the GG's role.  She is now the Queen' representative in Canada.  Nothing more.  She is not Canada's new Head of State for the next 5 years.  Every time she speaks she should ask herself: 1) would the Queen feel comfortable saying what I am about to say; and 2) is what I am about to say in keeping with the apolitical nature of the office and my need to set a good example for all Canadians.  So far, she has shown little sign of having read the "How to" book for new GGs.


You seem to be focused on grammatical errors. You realize there was a 6-page list of complaints, right?


that makes 2  people then


I'm not able to lol at this time...later, I'll try later.


This is a really nice article, and I think the author is right on about the notion of Lance as The People's Champion. However, this line--"I can only base my answer on my own experience"--isn't true. I hope the author pushes himself further than that next time. This piece would have been made better with the inclusion of a few others' anecdotes, or even some data--informal survey of other mushers?--about why Lance is so persistently popular. The best journalism--even an opinion piece--springs from personal experience into research that helps substantiate a claim.


UA is ensuring its own weakness and irrelevance to students and selected out faculty. Future planning should be focused on real time needs of the State of Alaska; of UA students and systems rather than one selecting sustained deterioration.

Start with senior UA management/administrative then look at individual University management...how much of that could be cut way back? How much money could be permanently saved with increased efficiency and lower administrative overhead?

Weakening - rather than building - programs key to the state; cutting athletic teams which help draw still more students and together should be part of aggressive student recruitment in Alaska and across the Lower 48 is remarkably ill conceived and counterproductive for Alaska and the UA system.


This reminders me of our terrible public schools.  I pay for the public schools so your kids can go. I also pay for my kids to go to private school because public schools are so terrible.  I will end up paying for you and your families medical and I will have to also pay for private insurance so my family doesn't have to go to the crappy medicare doctors and facilities.  I will not support it.


It's not funny cause it's not true.


Really?  No clue, a smart guy like you?

You're the problem, man.  You.


Nonsense! The biggest problem is not money, it's the tens of millions that Band leaders and Boards are skimming off the top each year. They syphon money off and buy properties in the US and pay themselves, friends and family members huge salaries and benefits! We have seen reports on that many times but nothing is ever done by our craven Federal Goverments. That is the real disgrace here!


How about Circle sentencing?


Well - the problem is that people will hire munchkins who will "babysit" homes and will go into them once a day to flush toilets, run the dishwasher and so on.

It's pretty easy.   The flow of foreign capital into Canada was excessive and has created problems for locals (beyond simply causing housing prices to increase to a level where they are no longer affordable for a significant proportion of the population.)   A lot of this money seems to have come in through the Quebec investor immigrant program (and it's interesting that the money then makes a bee-line for Vancouver, Victoria and then Toronto).   The people in Quebec aren't suffering the ill effects, are they?   Perhaps if the money had to be used in Quebec, the problem would stop.


Isn't it amazing that an "advanced country" like Canada mostly exports raw materials while poor countries like China and Mexico mostly export manufactured goods?  In fact, one of Mexico's biggest exports is "nuclear reactors" - can anyone explain that one?


I posted these exact same sentiments in the lead up to the SB 21 repeal vote, but most people failed to understand that the oil companies and their minions in Juneau will say or do anything to rip the State off. Just look at how many times the a state has sued the Big Three to get our due. Most of the suits were settled for pennies on the dollar and the verdicts sealed. Too bad it's so late in the game and the people of the state remain clueless after 40+ years of rip offs.


Allow me time fix that for you.

"The insurance companies and corporate welfare recepients have made health care and most everything else, more complex than it needs to be. Trump has no clue how to replace the Affordable Care Act."


That will be an interesting meeting - the Pope and the Dope.


Well bless Jackie, Linda and the staff of Island County Human Services for working hard to find ways to best allocate these funds.  I know how incredibly hard this staff works to bring direct services to people.  It appears however, that once again, bureaucracy is managing to get in the way of support to those most in need, the very youth who the dollars are directed toward.  My father was a white collar Production Manager,  at Boeing.  He used to jokingly refer to himself and his peers as pencil pushers.  It appears that pencil pushing at the state level are keeping these funds from doing the good they are intended to do.  Trusting that Jackie and her staff can get past this.


That is what democrats do,


Let them reapply and then just deny the visa, no explanation is required.


UO Spokesperson Tobin Klinger claims it's long-standing practice to treat OA's like faculty; but this conveniently overlooks a HUGE difference: OA's can (and are) routinely and easily "non-renewed" (a.k.a. "fired") from their positions all the time—sometimes (often?) with little legitimate reason other than not getting along with a superior. Try doing this to a tenured faculty member (even one who wears blackface).


I don’t give a damn who pays for this...  These are great people that had the weather turn on them and they got in trouble.  We need to always help stranded Alaskans because the next person to be rescued may by you... Your in my thoughts and prayers folks... hang in there, help is coming......


The farmer should move to CO.


Says the guy who believes in Whitewater to justify his.


that idea was developed in America in the early 60s (or 50s). It was in popular Mechanic. And a prototype was built, tested and dropped. China built theirs, tested it and dropped it as well. Turned out that it was also a disaster.


In this case I'd say a troll is a person paid to disseminate misinformation in the interest of a certain ideology. I vacillated on RC; he's quite amiable as trolls go (as opposed to, say, Marty of yore.) But every so often he'd suddenly interject a baldly propagandistic comment, and the specifics of this particular act of plagiarism convinced me that he's a bad actor who should be ignored.

Whether the Mueller investigation will lead to impeachment is a separate issue from whether the investigation will reveal activity that rises to the level of collusion. Indeed it has already done so.


I took a one day seminar on "tactical scenario survival" (or something to that effect). It was excellent with lots of good and surprising info, including videos of actual situations.

One thing we learned is that most people lose it when surprised by a violent threat. Many run in a random direction (over others if necessary). Some just stand there immobilized. Often police who are sharpshooters at the range now miss the threat up close.

Meanwhile the armed perpetrator has his blood up already and is more prepared.

Guns help the perp way more than the victims.


Iggy is a class act all around. He deserves to play for a competitive team, and he should be welcomed and appreciated wherever he lands. I'd love him back in Calgary (I still have his jersey) but I'd support him anywhere that gives him a chance to win.


History today, gone tomorrow. 15 minutes and life savings gone.


They need a Plan "C", unless KHL and other leagues are willing to part with their players.


the real issue is that Harper government gave them a blank cheque and the abused it and know we are finding out when the real culprits are retired and out of the picture what do the Conservative think that they can get away with this i think not.

time to bring the gentlemen back for answer to the charges of espionage under the cloke of security against the average joe blow all over Canada shame now the Liberal will have to clean up Harper mess.


Another Wall Street junk bond scheme right out of the Ayn Rand playbook orchestrated by Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan for which the nation and much of the world has been paying ever since.  Creating more phony paper, assign a value, and dump it into the Wall Street Casino for manipulation by the brokers until all value disappears and Alaska citizens are left with the worthless paper and the bill for it all.  You can take the Republican name off the title, but you can't take the Republican ideology out of the mindset.


Seriously?!  If everything is racist then nothing is racist.  You people don't get the concept of "beating a dead horse".  The entire country is by now, completely immune to the term RACIST.  Take a long walk off a short pier.


I can see you're not very smart.  Even then that was a low rate.  Keep trolling.  I'm done trying to school you.


God’s compassion is unquestionable, yet you presume to have greater vision and wisdom than He does. When you were a child and your parent insisted on holding your hand while crossing the street, there was a good reason, though you probably wanted to pull away in your ignorance. Do you now resent your loving parent for holding your hand? Do you now still wish to exist with the other road kill? The analogy is apt, and you are living it right now. Your choice.


bring on the beteljeus  and the kat


Really? in other news numerous European countries agree with the US take on immigration.


My thoughts, exactly.


Yes - I felt many of the tea-baggers and their rallies were not productive, and were foolish, with people dressing up in colonial attire, tri-cornered hats and all, and wrapping themselves in the flag while hollering "small government!" and "less taxes" - all while waiting for their Social Security checks to clear ...
You have me confused with being a conservative - it's understandable - I have opinions on both sides of the aisle, and don't march lock-step left or right ... normally that gets people from both sides upset and they get on their "If you not with me, you against me!" horses ...


How about a nickel for every fatwa issued in response to humorous cartoons depicting the Big M?

Perhaps if we use the coded reference 'Number 27', the pernicious influence of M103 can be averted?


I agree---TOTALLY!!!  the arms manufacturers, their investors, those employed by them are the real culprits and enemies of stability.  I believe that all elected officials should have to surrender all financial information prior to taking office. ''blind trusts'''......... release of tax informations are not ''the answer' but rather a sort of an overt declaration that '''we know what they're doing!!!!''   I am not not trying/ wanting to be outrageously negative, but I believe that 'wars' are here to stay.  it is 'Cain and Abel' all over again....and again.  ''wars''- big and small are a symptom of the ''missing piece'' in all of our souls..the 'need to be on top."  world wide organizations such as the UN can be a major help diffusing fear and violence, but not rid us of them.  sorry to say!


we have legislation. the problem is a lack of enforcement capacity, which in turn involves outdated institutions hiring dumb people ... the RCMP (the rcmp?!) has exclusive jurisdiction over detecting foreign bribery schemes, for example.


2/3

I assume that when repressed memories emerge spontaneously outside of psychoanalysis, the process and purpose is essentially the same--they pop out when we are ready to deal with the memories, and move beyond the unfortunate behaviours they may have caused in our lives.

However, Buster is not completely wrong. There have been problems with repressed memories, but those problems are very specific. It is true that some incompetent therapists, through the incredible power of suggestion, have led patients to remember traumatic experiences that did not happen; and, horror of horrors, in some documented instances, these "false repressed memories" are about sex abuse!!!

Re Buster's mysterious deletions: He is not the only one who has attempted to absolve the Church of responsibility for clerical sex abuse by casting blame elsewhere including the victims; but Buster is the first time I have ever heard of a victim adopting such a strong "personal responsibility" stance.


Friends don't let freiends drive Jeep/Dodge/Chrysler.


There can be little doubt that the only reason Mbete allowed the Zuma no-confidence motion to proceed by secret ballot is because she knew ahead of time and with sufficient certainty that the motion would be defeated.  This fact alone encapsulates the deplorable depths of depravity and vice in its political gamesmanship that the present-day ANC is willing to plumb, all for the sake of a heftier pocketbook and preserving a sham respectability.

SA doesn’t need moral regeneration.  It needs a whole morality transplant.


What the Democrats really failed to do was to put up the chart showing the decline in manufacturing jobs over time.  Then blow up the Bush 43 era, asking the questions is this what we want and look who gave it to us?

Over 5 million jobs were lost during the Bush administration, but output continued to rise.  Trump should have asked frequently about this during the debates.

Many times it is how the facts are presented that a coherent correct story can be presented.


Exactly - when has any government been honest enough to admit the potential of a shrinking economy ?!
Every election promise is based on more social spending to be paid for by an ever increasing economy ,,, " This is a recording ..This is a recording .... This is.. "


Well, yes, if a member of UO is a leading voice against testing because he or she thinks it is unfair to the underprivileged, then that faculty member is part of the problem. That is an important point though, even if white (or more accurately, affluent regardless of race) kids score better on tests, that does not mean it is the fault of the tests. It does underrepresented groups no favors to pretend that objective metrics won't matter in life, their potential boss or clients or landlord or mortgage lender won't be interested in hearing that it was society's fault they failed to deliver on their duties.


Thank you for writing about this. Though it isn't the most exciting piece of news, the pattern of hiding information from the citizens is disturbing. Many people wanted the rail (and many did not), but not at the current and future price tag. We all need to know why. Please persist in your reporting.


yes, Traceability is just arriving in Canada...other parts of the world have that for over 20 years....I speak of experience...


Black supremacy is OK though, eh?


Who cares about the truth anymore anyway?
Too unpopular and boring...


Well that is interesting. Denial is quite common in my experience.

Perhaps you can be specific about what if anything I have said is wrong.

How about this? Lets start with the basics. "Waldorf Schools are defined by their curriculum which is based on the 'Occult Science' of Rudolf Steiner and his Anthroposophical beliefs. "

Is this true of false?


Hillary wasn't a "bully" when she squarely blamed Comey for her loss?

Europe.  Please.


who the heck is Dana Lenham?


To all of those who just have to drive over the posted speed limit along the Arm, as well as elsewhere, what is your hurry?  Are you late for dinner?  Late for work?  It is a nice drive and a crooked road but just like the several vehicles which sped around me last night at speeds well over 60mph so they could turn off at Girdwood, the time saved is not worth anyone's life.

As to the project; a much cheaper solution to the traffic issue would be a solid median between all of the existing passing lanes.  A physical barrier between the opposing traffic.  Put left turn lanes at the 'official' turnouts for the tourists.  Then enforce the five car delay law.  Which applies to the posted speed limit by the way.  If the lead car is doing the posted speed and they pull over to allow someone to drive 10 mph over, then they are an accessory to a moving violation!  To all of you who live in Girdwood etc who can't get up on time or plan ahead, tough.  Grow up and become an adult.


I would personally like to see Mr. Torrey aka "Pie in the Face",  removed from the School Board.  Why?  Because of his under the table dealings and investments with the Health Care Co.  Yes, it was so called legal, but, "SHAMEFUL".........Yes, Mr. Torrey, Robin Hood of this decade, only reversed, Rob the Poor, and Give to the Rich............................


Yes you do Frank. And as for your statement that my comments are consistently anti government, you left out an important part. They are anti "stupid " Government. And I make no apologies for them. On the other hand I note that your comments seem to generally endorse Govt decisions. We have a difference of opinion on  many issues Frank, but I respect your right to voice yours.  Please respect mine.


Perhaps inappropriate is too gentle a word. Racist is more like it.


Doesn't apply here in BC.  This Province is one of the few jurisdictions in the world where a foreign government or corporation, or non residents/citizens can donate.

And yes, the BC Liberals have accepted plenty of money from offshore real estate developers, mining companies et al....including the government of China. And who knows how much at their version of fundraising dinners


Methinks that no one of any particular political or social ilk should cast aspersions about amorality...a term only clearly defined by the person casting the aspersions.


ACH:  Your comment is why we leave those decisions to people who know what they are talking about.


Kadr and family Canadians??
Not a chance, they were opportunists who took advantage of Canadians.
For us to apologize to Omar is Immoral, and a slap in the face of anyone who has worked to build our country.


prima, give murderers more than life in prison? Maybe make a certain level of IQ necessary to be on the internet.


Is Putin giving Trump the Get Lost signal?


Leafs simply weren't interested or ready to play in a critical game at this time of year.   Where is the brilliant coaching?


This is farken hilarious!  Kick this clown Sword to the curb already.  This taints the whole selection process already.  Kealoha is gone, so his stooge needs to be gone also.


deflection? you act like a parrot that repeats things without thought. My post is about the staggering shameless hypocrisy of the left, and how once again it is only evil if anyone else does it. I am intellectually honest to a fault, it is evil when any one does it. Therein, let's put on our thinking caps like in 1st grade, and answer me this grade school question: what logical reason would I have to deflect from that which I say is evil for anyone to do? here's another grade school question for you to consider: could it possibly be my point wasn't to deflect, but drive home the point it is evil when everyone does it, and let's stop this double standard you always puke on this board?
 There will be attest this Friday Mr. Teacher


So the comments are now closed, and the article quickly taken away from the first page and hidden at the bottom of the "small business" section...lol!


What I said they should have done is crystal clear - just as it's crystal clear you're a terrorist apologist.


If anyone wants to see how this issue is discussed rationally and non politically in Western Countries then please google the American Liberal Bill Maher Show and the 2016 episode when Liberal Minister Chrystia Freeland is interviewed by Bill Maher. Liberal Bill Maher rationally and appropriately decimated the  accommodating platitudes that politician Freeland used to support this particular irrational superstition,


Yep, think we should have Caldwell pay for the rail himself.  From the start I figured it would take at least $10B ... now to get to Ala Moana ... probably more like $20B.  And ... we still won't have the riders to pay for the daily upkeep.  Oh so sad ... Caldwell is an idiot!!!


Are you kidding me ?  Without defense spending we'd be over run by at least two nations .  Giving Planned Parenthood money so they can set up the killing of defenseless nearly born babies is an outrage. Hopefully the new court will make abortion illegal again .  The pathetic part is many of those who oppose the death penalty for killers are gung ho for it via abortion for those nearly born who did nothing wrong and can't defend themselves .  Low income American's need to pull their share of the load.  Helping those who can't help themselves is one thing---but the problem is far too many are flat out lazy so they just hold their hands out expecting free everything. Democrats bend over backwards to give it to them to buy their votes. IF Planned Parenthood can't make enough selling baby parts to fund their organization , and liberals love it so much---they should donate and fund it themselves .


William Gates III is a Democrat? I and II must be spinning in their graves. II was a big deal in the Republican Fund Raising machine. In any case "Trey" has given cash to both Republicans and Democrats. Republican Party connections may have come in handy when Microsoft was facing that Anti-Trust Federal Law Suit under Dubbya.

"Trey" likes to say that he never used his own trust fund (millions) or family money to found Microsoft. Pull the other one. His father was a big deal in Corporate Law and invited a number of his Venture Capitalist buddies and clients to lunch at the Puget Sound Club when Trey was trying to drum up cash for M$.

Trey's mother just happened to be on the board of United Way of America at the same time as IBM chairman John Opel. Small country the USA, eh!

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-helped-her-son-start-microsoft.html


On the other hand, killing in self-defence, which is what happened to Sgt. Speer, is entirely legitimate. Remember, the Americans shot first. Anything after that is on their heads.


Jimmy you should know that prohibition just does not work.  Government should not be running the lives of its citizens.


Is anyone celebrating anything at all? 1967 was fun. This thing is dead in the water.


My last comment was deleted by God (Allah) knows who!

Guess you cant say that you are for Syria government and Russia!

Is it better to say that I am for the Islamic terrorists (rebels/moderate)


Another solid month of growth in the Canadian economy — managed by the “evil” Liberal government. The government just can’t win with the alt-right. No matter how well the economy is doing, like leading the G7 in growth, it isn’t enough to avoid boisterous condemnation.


Engineers of tomorrow --- today!


You've got it all backwards. They fought in a war to provide a life and culture in a unified harmonious culture. Now they are flooding you out, replacing you, creating another war and destroying you life, the life your relatives fought for for you.


The press makes stuff up about Trump but ignores short-circuited Hillary.  Thankfully the mainstream press is dead


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heh heh,

Good catch, Lou


The United States has become progressively more of a representative democracy over time. The original method for selection of U.S. senators by elected state representatives was replaced in 1912 when the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution called for their direct election by the citizens of each state. The indirect "election" of the President remains as an anachronism, and should -- as with election of Senators -- be replaced by direct election by all U.S. citizens eligible to vote. The President serves as the elected representative of all the people. We do not need to elect intermediaries to make that choice for us.


Vote this jackass out,  he can protest on his OWN time, not while he is performing official duties.  Get rid of this piece of garbage!!!


Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference!   Mark Twain

Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.                          MARK TWAIN, letter to W. D. Howells


True, but you are a lot more likely end up as a roadkill in a Micra.


It was a joke.


Von was still getting doubled even when Ware and Ray were in, sometimes even tripled. Decent pressure up the middle should solve that problem, hope the Broncos generate some push there.


Special indeed.


I think that Canadian monarchists are sometimes completely unaware of the fact that to people who come from elsewhere almost nobody considers the British monarch to be the Canadian monarch.
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Most Canadians while accepting the Queen as the Canadian head of state don't consider themselves "monarchists", a term I would reserve for those who get moist at the idea of monarchy.  It's one of those weird facts of being Canadian that make us who we are.  Most (I presuming here) are uncomfortable with those who make a fuss about the monarchy one way or the other - sensible Canadians just don't care and seriously suspect the motives of those who do. Happy Canada Day!


Bob, spot on! SB114 appears to give the gains of the Permanent Fund since inception, to government only in the future, while tying the PFD to a new fund built from oil royalties.  The PF needs to fund both the PFD and some percentage that is sustainable for government services after  income from the fund inflation-proofs it.


Kizla saying someone has a big, goofy face? Have any mirrors in casa de la Kizla?


We'll see. He is a God of surprises and nobody can abolish the power and light of his love which is unfolding in time. That is reality. My hunch is that the insights and teachings of Evangelii Gaudium and AL will hold up better in that light than Veritatis Splendor.


"When the Americans and the Germans were starting to significantly buy into Victoria years ago, there was a significant spike in the prices of homes on a similar proportional basis now as Vancouverites and new Asians buying here. No complaints because they were white buyers."

There it is, the boring and ridiculous race card.

Y-A-W-N.

The gig is up, dude. It has nothing to do with RACE and EVERYTHING to do with the reached pricing levels. When all those Americans and, um, Germans (roll eyes) were busy buying en masse just like the Chinese (in your imaginary Southwest BC), they did NOT get houses up to several dozen times the average annual local incomes. This is a WEALTH flood that is up-ending the balance, not a race thing as you desperately pretend.

I am all for having EXACTLY the same levels of immigration we have had from China and Hong Kong the past 30 years, but from wealth strata THE SAME as the average of Canada, and NOT favouring the rich. There is no racism in this.


I completely disagree with Mr. Saunders.
Motive is of the utmost importance and to find the motive for a horrible act, like a mass murder, is a must for it will and should determine how law enforcement and intelligence agencies deal with it.  A lone wolf act is one in a thousand, violent acts carried out by individuals motivated by radical religious and/or political beliefs  are carried out in a systemic fashion and deserve an entirely different response.
What Saunders is implying is that as western  societies we have no right to make a 'value' judgement as to who is carrying out the terror against us.  We do.  We can easier accept that mental health issues can bring a person to psychosis where
he carries out a violent act, but it is more difficult for most of us to accept the pre-meditated violence carried out by for example ISIS.  As a society we hav a duty and a right to differentiate between different kinds of violence.  It is our
duty to understand the underpinnings of it.


Mr. Meyer: Alaskans need to hear  a voice of reason and a persuasive argument for habitat protection. Thanks for providing.


We can not honestly expect everything our secret squirrels discover to  be reported to the entire world.
Not telling  us is part of the deception ; it makes the Kim's of this world wonder if we truly do not know anything about what they are up to.


Enlightened Communists and Socialists did that too, it's just not commonly in the history books.


Lets not forget Michelle Obama's shopping trips around the world.


Two points Rick.  First, you completely ignored the peer-reviewed research which I provided with this link.
, https://www.facebook.com/notes/making-sense-of-fluoride/peer-reviewed-research-on-fluoride/549094861795529/
So, when you say, " your intake of fluoride is limited by water intake and thus an inconsequential," you are ignoring the reality of the science.

Second, when you say, ", the "optimal dose" was nearly twice what PA was adding before 2015." you are incorrect.

In 2011, the USDPH recommended narrowing the target of fluoride concentration from 0.7-1.2 parts per million, to the lower end of that target, 0.7.  And yes, that narrowing was established in 2015.  However, 0.7 was always a part of that optimal target.  Either you are purposely being deceptive, or you are repeating something you have heard from someone who was being purposely deceptive.


The people who lived there would complain about the train noise ;o)


I'm currently looking for a place to rent, that's how I know. :)


When Trump is cutting the Federal  Transportation budget by 13% and wants to  "focus on the Northeast Corridor" for Amtrak from Washington D. C. to Boston, this is Easter Bunny stuff.

"The NEC, which covers routes between Washington D.C. and Boston, is Amtrak’s only profitable line."
"Over 2,200 trains travel along the NEC every day.  NEC serviced 11.9 million riders in the 2016 fiscal year."

OPB showed the crumbling infrastructure on the NEC just tonight on television.

They are going to get what few Amtrak dollars there are for the next four years.

The few people going from Eugene to Portland or Seattle are not going to get the big bucks needed to be able to provide reliable, timely and consistent service.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-budget-proposal-amtrak-2017-3


nope. They sell them to china. Seriously.


It is amazing that anyone would publicly support a decision by the 9th circuit. Everyone knows that 86 percent of the decisions of the ninth circuit are overturned. Translation, anyone siding with a decision of that body is wrong 86 percent of the time.


All that's lacking in your statement is evidence and logic, therefore it must be alt-true.


I expect that I will continue driving my F350 everywhere that I need to go.


Canning Liberal appointees was not a surprise but publicly defaming the guy without checking all your facts first that the BC NDP requested for a number of years ago - that is incompetence.  All the stuff that they pulled on Wilson a few years back was all for show and clearly no one in the BC NDP read the documents they requested.  No wonder the BC voters voted them out of power for a generation.   Can't wait to see how they are going to get outta this one or whose head will roll for this one since all the Liberal scapegoats have been canned - Wilson can be quite a pitbull.


1. Antarctica is losing land ice mass.  http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/land-ice/
2.  Antarctic sea ice extent doesn't have much of a trend one way or the other. Up to a year ago, your point might have been valid, but it's no longer the case, possibly due to El Niño as this source indicates. Various explanations for the previous increase include the increased glacial calving and winds pushing the sea ice farther out to sea. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/el-nino-keeps-antarctic-sea-ice-from-record-19555


Is there a note in that bill about going to jail for lying during election campaigns?  Because freedom from corruption should be considered a human right.


Read Jill's oped


With the tensions between the US and Japan already approaching a boiling point I'm wondering what the upside would've been for either side to keep the capture of someone that famous a secret.


Everybody sing along .... "I want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony..."

I am curious, what are most commentators so twisted about  the axial about ?
Is it that the LAW was violated ?
Is it that the LAW that allows subsistence harvesting (killing) of wildlife, by specific indigenous people,  was laughably stretched and contorted almost beyond rational recognition ?
or
Is it the "in your face" act of killing a living animal in such a manner that does not reflect the nice neat Styrofoam and cellophane wrapped packages that you find in the supermarket ?

Where is the outrage regarding Japan's annual violations on whale harvesting ?
 (for educational research), that is...

Where is the outrage that under our Legal, (notice I did not use the term Justice), system still promotes a multi tier approach determining equality under the Law ?

Why are some still surprised to discover that humans are successful predators ?


The US courts adjuicating trade disputes, well that's a firm No. Thats just plain stupid. Best can do is European courts.

Origin product percentage, sure.


If you think "the rest of the media" never writes about anything positive, you live under a sad, sad rock.


Gun control is a moot issue. American citizens currently possess approximately 350 million guns. Its too late! There is no way that additional government "controls", short of totalitarian measures, would hinder a would be killer from securing what is needed to commit crimes. Liberals know this. The end game of  gun control advocates is government confiscation of all firearms.They are willing to employ totalitarian measures to accomplish this. The problem with this idea is that Americans possess 350 million guns. Get my point?

We would expect that Catholics would view the problem of mass shootings on a more profound level. We hear little to nothing about how secular liberalism has hollowed out the Christian content of our culture. When there is no heaven and hell. When there is no formation of individual character and conscience. When morals become relative we should expect more violence from soulless creatures like Pollock.


Again, Jesus gave us the sacrament of confession because he understood our sinful nature, but you have to go and sin no more, and keep on trying no matter how many times you fail.  Jesus gave us the Eucharist so we can grow in strength with him, but you have to be in a state of grace to receive him.  What is the point of receiving the Eucharist, the real presence of Jesus Christ, if you can't even be bothered to change your sinful ways?  St. Paul even said that this puts your soul in real jeopardy because only God knows the time and the place you leave this earth.


I see the Provincial Liberals have slid to a dismal 23% (still falling) in the polls and have a firm grip on 7-8 seats or less. Ontarian's have finally seen through Wynne's BS and are about to deliver the Coup de grâce to her party next year. The way Trudeau is governing he'll be joining her in a couple of years unless things change fast, he's yet to deliver anything of substance that was promised. It would be wise for him to learn from her mistakes!.


"A man's got to know his limitations" - Dirty Harry-
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Happy to help you recognize yours and your place in the 21st century.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrFV5r8cs0
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Think about what you are saying. You are mixing up knowledge and beliefs. Beliefs are not provable. Should the G.G. support the belief of polygamy, human sacrifice, the evil of birth control, femine genital mutilation, etc?


Hawaii, like the nation as a whole, desperately needs a decent Republican party that hews to its progressive founding principles - the party that championed the rights of slaves, broke up the corporate monopolies, created the EPA and advocated for universal health care. A party that Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt or even, dare I say it, Richard Nixon could be proud of.  You can be all those things and still advocate for a bootstrapping, small government, low tax agenda. Hawaii WOULD be better if those arguments were cogently made in our legislature.  But the GOP of today is abject in its subservience to corporate and theocratic interests, spiteful in its embrace of racism and misogyny, and wicked in its willful rejection of science – wicked because in refusing to act on climate change it threatens all humanity.  There are progressive Republicans like Rep. Cynthia Thielen, but the recent history has been that the tea baggers who run the Hawaii GOP have been chasing decent Republicans away.


Except for the part where people are literally none of those things, and still support the death penalty.....


Did anybody see the Ken Burns Vietnam War documentary on PBS?
 I was very surprised to learn those 18- year old kids were sent into the jungles to fight, not with the very best post-modern weapons technology could produce and money could buy but with M-16 rifles that often jammed.
  Unfortunately the Vegas shooter's gun did not jam.
  Just sayin. To paraphrase Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet,"Something is rotten in the state of the United States."


As a faculty member at a university allow me to present a different point of view. My institute dropped membership in  Access Copyright after they tried to hugely increase the fees while also adding extremely onerous new terms and restrictions. Instead they directed the funds saved towards a copyright office which vets course material to ensure compliance with the law.

In addition, some of us faculty have got so fed up with dealing with overpriced academic publishers and increasingly onerous copyright laws that we have published our own course notes using the incredibly cheap online publishers available. This has reduced the cost of textbooks for students in my courses from ~$200 to zero if they can live with a PDF (as ~90% do) or US$5+postage if they want a printed book from Amazon's CreateSpace. That's where your royalty payments have gone: measures to completely avoid or ensure compliance with increasingly complex and onerous copyright laws.


If I were you, I'd be worried too.


Allow me to comment on a different point from those below. In a time where Twitter wars, personal slurs, and a general lack of civility have become the norm, it is encouraging to see Ms. Keesmaat and Mayor Tory find only good things say in public. Good on them both!


They working ONLY for the Federal Government.


Boots, even HitLIARy doesn't blame the Russians, she blamed you and your devout senile Sanders. Looks like you are a very confused voter not aware of what your candidate even said. LOL


Do you think law enforcement wouldn't come take them by force? If they are banned and you have them you are now a criminal and law enforcement will deal with you like the criminal you are.


The only thing hurting the NFTA talks is Rempel and Kent deriding Canada in the US media. shame


Zipper Billy Clinton is so slippery he uses eels for traction.  I wonder how much he has made from Russian sources, starting with the $500,000 speech he made a couple of years ago in Russia.  Maybe financial inducements like that helped to persuade Hillary to sanction the deal that gave up 20% of the US uranium reserves to Russia.  Maybe some of the other money scored by the Clinton Foundation since 2001 that has netted the Clintons between $150-300 million came from Russian sources.  I can't possibly know these things but if the lunatic left wing whack jobs here can make the same kind of crazed leaps of fantasy about the Trump clan then  I can return the favour about the Clintons.

This drive by smearing is such fun!


guess you really did not comprehend what was mentioned in the article, DD.  What do you think is causing the oceans level to rise and the water temperatures to get higher, if not "global warming?"  Or can it be, that you are one of those "climate change deniers?"  Why not go stand on a sea groin, when the "king tides" roll in and see for yourself, just how high the water gets, before claiming that your name is "chicken little" and the sky is falling.  As we all live in an island state and are affected by the waters around us, the sky over our heads and the trash we toss in the oceans that come back to bite us in the tush!


somehow I am deemed, by the Gods to have biased voting?  Isn't the purpose of voting to show a persons bias?  Now, loyalty is not only to the flag, country etc.  Do you honestly believe that Eric Holder or Lorreta Lynch were not loyal to Obama?   They most certainly were not loyal to the flag or their country, unless of course you're biased.


You guys grasp of history seems limited. Yes, Mulroney ran big deficits basically inherited from PET, but in the end he and his Minister Jim? Wilson brought the GST which was the biggest, toughest sell for ending deficits. Then Chretien lied and campaigned against the GST and slaughtered Kim Campbell only to keep the GST. Then Paul Martin and Chretien later took all the credit for slaying the deficits through a combination of Mulroney's GST and a huge downloading of costs onto the backs of the provinces.


Trump doesn't need the media to inflate the absurdity of his comments. His comments are reckless and idiotic enough on their own.

And as a veteran, I wouldn't give him so much as the time of day given his horrible comments about McCain, and what Trump laughably considers "sacrifice." He bent over backwards to ensure he never sacrificed anything to our nation's security or armed forces. He's a loudmouth over-privileged coward with a hyper inflated ego.

He's also been the most dishonest candidate so far in this election by independent sources who review the validity of candidate's statements.


Yes, Bill "Slick Willie" Clinton, who was very successful in avoiding the draft during the Vietnam War.


If I was a prospective buyer, I would absolutely bring it up, but I wouldn't expect much price reduction. I think that for every buyer asking for a discount, there is a more motivated buyer willing to eat the cost of a retrofit. If the retrofit costs an additional 3% of the purchase price, that's not enough to walk away from.


The matter of prostrate cancer treatment suffers from statistical averaging which does not identify a decision tree that results in the best possible treatment options given the great variability in growth rates.
Some cancers may be slow - but others are not !
Once the cancer has metastasized into other body organs you are SOL ! When that happens treatment options may be worse than the "cure" ( none exists ).


Thank you Rep Drummond, for standing up for Alaska. It's high time this giveaway of Alaska's mineral wealth came to a halt.


It is the Anchorage Dispatch so a lot of the news is in Anchorage area and the state news is bland. I agree with you. I guess if the crime rate drops dramatically the news here will be in trouble. The buy out of this paper let a huge amount of the good staff go and it shows. The staff they let go were long timers and knew the Anchorage area and the state issues well.


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" In the longer run, profound discussions about the root causes of terrorism including alienation, interpretations of Islam, Islamophobia, .  .  . "
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Professor Hewitt seems to believe that we can obtain a "social licence" from the jihadis that will induce them to cease butchering the innocent.
Perhaps he can travel to Syria and make such a proposal directly to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.


So you're comfortable voting for a politician who knew she had been given questions at least twice from Donna Brazile (who at the time both worked for CNN and the DNC)?

Marvelous view into a conscience.


Nice job guys.


So the "race" [not a pun,pc] is now on to be the first team to burn the flag during the national anthem to prove how much they love this country?


We have received the rest of the news yet !!  Get ready to howl.


You're the one that is backwards. Individual transporters will always be with us, regardless of the power source. If you want to ride your bicycle, or smelly bus, go right ahead, but don't expect everyone to follow your lead.


Coal miners pensions have nothing to do with oil and gas development. Not to mention the fact that coal pays billions in annual taxes and royalties.


Nope.  They can't...a sperm and a sperm don't lead to life, under any condition.  Terminally and "essentially" ( that is 'essence', as distinguished from accidentally) defcicient.


What sort of insane reasoning arrives at this argument:

"We have refused to enforce immigration laws for a long time and by our own actions have created communities full of people who fear they may be subject to deportation for violating those very laws.  Therefore we can not be asked to enforce immigration laws because we will not be able to police our communities full of people who fear they may be subject to deportation if they talk to the police."

The Feds need to do more than turn off the cash to these cities.  They need to bring the politicians exploiting this situation up on charges.


If you know anything about these "parents" you'd realize that these kids never had a chance.  They were all an accident waiting to happen since birth and it's unfortunate that we only have 5 of them in custody because there are a lot more of them that we could preemptively remove from society.


It was completely moronic that the rail wasn't built from UH Manoa out towards the west.


He's history's greatest monster, won't somebody think of the children???


Making cuts to the state government is NOT complicated.  Just look at the list of state agencies, see: http://alaska.gov/akdir1.html.  Then ask the question, which of these agencies can be handled by the private sector?  Ask why the State of Alaska is in the mortgage company business (AHFC), in the investment banking business (AIDEA), in the oil company charity business (oil tax credits), in the gas line development business (AGDC), doing the jobs of non-profits in health and education and in the fantasy retirement management business by isolating state retirees from (oil) market reality (and cutting their benefits).  The state hasn't cut a single agency yet (except maybe KABATA) ... so anyone (Walker, Cole, Dems) saying the state has cut significantly is flat out lying.


Over the years I've heard people make stupid and (sometimes) offensive jokes. Very occasionally there has been actual meanness behind the joke. More often it is thoughtlessness.

This has been blown way out of proportion. Too bad the students weren't content to settle this within the walls of Massey College.


LOL..Chris put down the kool-aid. The 52% of 1000 people (out of a population of 35+ million).

The sample size is way too small to draw such conclusions.


Do you mean Francis?


On the plus side, the police are getting some decent practice with situational live fire events. They might never need to go to the range again.


RadirD, you're an idiot.


PERIOD??? get a grip, Ontario and Quebec import  billions in overseas oil.....


Are you saying Trump wants to impose a ban on illegal immigration? Or is that just a tick?


I'll gladly go record stating that even if a man named Jesus existed, there is zero proof of any kind that he was imbued with super human powers.  And now I need you to go on record admitting that every other religion is at least as legitimate, valid and worthy as yours, whatever that is?  Otherwise, you're just being argumentative for arguments sake, which is a waste of everybody's time.
Oh, and please address my actual comment about Wikipedia, instead of deflecting as usual.


Short of General Mattis none of them would be considered "champions" for the middle class who get up every day; go to work and try to keep their head above water. The DOW might soar some and corporate profits might rise but that "warm trickle" down ain't gonna be what they were expecting.


Tanins cause the ice tea look.


Has Sanders ever been sent a classified email? I strongly doubt it. The guy has never faced the situations that Hillary has spent her entire life working with.


Absolutely.  I'm one of the biggest hockey fans around, but I still realize it's a business.

This is why I never, ever understood why people push to ban fighting.  It's an entertainment business, pure and simple.  Nothing other than goals cause a bigger cheer from the fans - those arguing "altruistic" reasons in an entertainment business make me laugh.  Might as well start complaining to Miley Cyrus to wear more clothes.


This team is a joke. The lemmings are all watching with baited breath to see if they can achieve the enormous goal of 500.
Malcom, how's the pizza ?


Hillary Clinton is tough as nails, she didn't fall out for sick call. She stood before the man and refused to not show up and she showed her respect regardless of her health issue. Tough as nails she is.


She's unethical but she's the victim-oh yeah-the devil made her do it ! Considering she's working with the Clintons , maybe that's not a bad defence !


OMG. Your post must be satire. You must be trolling. Fascism and racism? That is liberal bread and butter. That's not going anywhere while they are in power and it's probably the last thing we need to be dealing with right now when there are actual real issues besides that division politics nonsense.


How exactly do you stop someone from modifying the triggers on their guns? Its illegal already. Silencers are restricted just because Hillary made a stupid statement about them after this event does not make them an issue to discuss in context to this tragedy.


Don't know what you said because the DP Censors deleted it, but whatever it was, I like it.


So the racist Attorney General Sessions has added his 2 cents on behalf of his corporate masters. My thoughts about these neo Nazis in power is they hate the color of Obamas skin and his intellect, charisma, calmness, and thoughtful clarity when he speaks, so much, that they will undo every single thing Obama accomplished while in office, to give themselves comfort that they have wiped out every thing that uppity black man had accomplished. Like George W said, Presidenting is hard work, so it must be why Trump has cost the taxpayers more since he took office, to vacation and play golf at his resorts that taxpayers pay to, more than Obama played or vacationed in his 8 years, and cost more than Obamas 8 years thus far. At over $365 million a year for Trumps protection, if he survives impeachment or disgruntled Trump voters, he will be on par to get over a $billion dollars worth of security, plus what Putin is kicking in


Source considered, and taken into account. Moving on.

It wasn't that long ago that students had to fight for freedom from religion in Canadian public schools.


What silliness!
You copied and pasted the ABSTRACT.
That would be like judging the Bible from its contents page.

Does your double  negative judgement apply to the ARTICLE?


This is what happens when true believers in backwaters vote for Cruz who is totally unpalatable to those who will vote for Trump.


The scene of the Philando Castile shooting. http://www.slideserve.com/reillygraves/the-scene-of-the-philando-castile-shooting


Another diagnoses from a progressive socialist. You have no idea who Mike Pence is or what he stands for, or how he "feels" when he defends Trump. I admire him for defending an imperfect leader, because he has honor and dignity and a sense of loyalty that is sorely lacking in today'society. And BTW: Bernie would not have won, he is a KOOK.


Good. Keep fighting this madness all the way. We must not be governed by fear, racism and religious intolerance.


What a guy. Hats off to this gentleman who will finally bring some closure to this family. This just proves that there are Americans that have a lot of good in them, people that have love for others even strangers.


The Globe having kittens over this fundraiser - and in the actual body of the article it is clear it was not set up for nor conducive to lobbying-undercuts their former editorial proposal  that the amount for a political fund raisers should be lowered to 100.00 as the amount for this fund raiser was 150.00.

The only apparent reason for this "joint" production by the Globe and the Conservative Party is that they can use smear and innuendo around pot-  such a trigger word for their shared constituency who are just recuperating from their hilariously over wrought response to the PM's remarks(which were very much like every other leaders remarks except for Trump).

It seems that even though there is nothing  there just being able to use words like Chinese Billionaire!!Pot!! is reason enough for this increasingly silly manufactured outrage.


Oops, my stats are for $15, not $12, thanks.

My own workplace doesn't have many immigrants, but most of the jobs were outsourced to Asia a few years ago, and the workers who were left had their pay cut. I think our tax laws encourage that sort of thing more than they used to.

As for owing, I do think that employers owe their workers a living. Not wealth, but a basic living. It seems like that used to be assumed.


Neither you nor JHM4 have been to Quebec for some time, I would guess.

The food is quite sophisticated and smoking is way down.

As far as the driving is concerned, I see far more Asians and middle easterners running stop signs.


hey thrushie boy, go to a home depot parking lot and see dozens of illegal alien day-laborers getting hired and practically ZERO citizens:  there's your "statistics" you f____ng dooosh.


Now he's 'Bob' and not 'The old guy'? Get off your horse, Powers. You sound like a fool. OK, you already know I'm an old guy and this old guy has never shot at or in anyway disturbed HEA when the come a ONTO MY LAND while doing work that they are legally able to do. In my dotty old age, I rather prefer the power remaining on during storms.


The Secretary of the Interior (or most any other high position) need not, can not, know everything about the job or issues. What is required is an experienced, excellent manager who knows how to use experts, distill information, & make pragmatic decisions & have the courage to stick with them, no matter the howl & cry from the press, etc.

Certainly, Bob Gillam demonstrated all that in his efforts to defeat the rape of salmon & wilderness that we know as the Pebble Partnership.

I believe Bob Gillam would make an excellent Sec. of the Interior & I believe his taking the job would be a personal sacrifice to him, for the good of Alaska and the Country,


Reinforcing the alternative reality bubble is the only way they can face themselves.


I'd like to see how his campaign funds leftover after his 2010 campaign were spent.


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So, if you don't obey any gun laws, which ones do you break?


Cliches and one word comments laced with personal insults will get you elected.  It worked for Sarah Palin (for a while) and look how Donald Trump is doing.  The key is don't dwell on any issue or take a definitive stand.   Be a student of the great Satchel Paige who said: "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." Just keep moving.


Hey, if it weren't for the VW Microbus the Vietnam War would still be going on.  You can fit a lot of protesters into one of those things.


"Since compensation is set by statute, Trump can't actually refuse to take it - just like George Washington, who reportedly tried to refuse a salary but got paid anyway, at $25,000 per year.
That said, Trump could opt to donate his salary to charity or return it to the Treasury: he wouldn't be the first President to do so. When John F. Kennedy was President, he donated his salary to charity..."*
And I'd bet that they deducted the contribution from their taxes.
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*http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/11/14/trump-says-no-to-presidential-salary-could-you-do-the-same-cut-your-tax-bill/#25b7ea3e3401


"I get it, it would be ok if it were coming from one of the left."

No.  No one likes Hillary Clinton. ;)  We wanted Bernie Sanders.  Remember, Alaska was one of the states Bernie Sanders won in the primaries (79%).


I am very familiar with this park, because I walk by on my way to work. I can confirm what others have stated about park users being homeless and drug addicts by how they look. I do not see children playing in the park. It is too small to be a useful park. The City should sell it to a private owner who can put a building on it or turn it into a parking lot. That way, our taxes will not pay for maintaining this wasted piece of land. Also, they should get rid of the bus stop next to the park, because it looks like a drug dealing spot. If you ever wonder where all of your hard-earned tax money is going, you might be disappointed to find out it goes to people who do nothing all day but conduct illegal activities, socialize and get stoned in your public park.


This was proven beyond a doubt when the Dallas Cowboys, after much discussion between players, coaches, and owners, decided to kneel BEFORE the anthem was played in solidarity for the protest against police brutality toward black people.

They stood for the anthem. Got that?

They still got booed for kneeling.

They got booed for exercising their right to protest white supremacy.


Trump is trying to appoint someone who states publicly that Roe v Wade is safe, and the Dems oppose it.  TDS.


....look at Wynne's polling numbers! Your connection make little sense.


once the pipe is in the ground, that's when more negotiations will be imposed


Despite what Metrolinx states, this area really needs a GO Train station for high capacity fast transit downtown, as well as to provide GTHA wide mobility. Many area residents work in Mississauga and Oakville and must drive to work for lack of transit options.

The planned Waterfront LRT to this neighbourhood it will be much better than the 501 Queen streetcar that goes through the area.

Until transit is vastly improved here, most residents will continue to drive, causing huge congestion at peak hours as well as greatly adding pollution to the lakeside natural habitat.

Metrolinx is being shortsighted, if they can approve a GO station for a minister in an empty field in Kirby, they can build a useful GO station in a high density neighbourhood to alleviate congestion. With the Regional Express Rail electrification coming to the Lakeshore West GO line, this additional stop won't be much of a time delay, perhaps a minute or two for local trains.


'
…matching the comments from those who screamed the loudest for more cuts and more cuts,

…with those comments from those who are going through histrionics to blame reduced services,

…results in a few too many names matching up and predominating both lists.
.
Happens regularly.

Scream for cuts,

…howl about the lack of services.

Vote against bonding,

…bemoan a lack of infrastructure.
.


We provide everything else to people in the low income bracket, WHY are bear proof trash cans/dumpsters not provided too?More often than not it's human stupidity that kills animals needlessly or creates reckless situations.  If Alaska was really interested in protecting and preserving their wildlife, their stance would be far more forward thinking and reaching, but it's not taken seriously.


Shoelaces are quite different than steering and brakes. I agree with David Kelly. Driving is a privilege, not a right. You need to have safe equipment or you should not be on the road ! Did the dude have insurance I would be surprised if he did.  Your example sucks.  Why don't you get the reckless drivers address and send him some money for insurance and brakes and steering repair if you want to help someone so bad.


I read it.... the comments on the article on the Guardian website were on the lines of 'strange the Guardian invited 4 Communists, all immigrants to the area (from elsewhere in Spain) to comment.
Interesting though, another perspective!

After watching the police brutality, over 700 injured, it was noticeable that the Spanish PM didn't comment on that at all, just saying the 'referendum' was illegal and therefore did not take place!

I daresay much more will play out over next few days... even the EU might comment though saying bot much!


Atta boy, Zoolander.  Your biggest customer, large enough to put out your lights with single phart, has decided to make their goods and services more competitive.  What do you do in the face of such a challenge.  Why, what any drama teacher might suggest to a 10 year old. You raise prices, taxes and increase red tape.  Be right.  Be dead. But dead right.


I currently live in Fairbanks and rent so I can't deduct anything.  My house is in Nome and rented so neither I nor my tenant can deduct anything.  What about the snowbirds that leave state for up to six months each year?

I'd say Representative Ortiz needs to rethink his proposal.


Rich people use ALL public resources more than poor people - your statement is indicative of the complete and ongoing lack of understanding of consumption of public resources on the part of American conservatives.  Reliable rule of law and enforcement ABSOLUTELY benefit the wealthy more, because they support a stable economy and business environment that helps keep/make rich people rich.  That's why Nigeria doesn't have as many millionaires as the U.S.  Everything that benefits stable national security, rule of law, developed infrastructure, an educated (and healthy) labor force and generally a higher quality of life overall benefits those who own stocks/businesses much more than it does common wage earners.  Who the troopers are out there arresting doesn't indicate who's "using"their services.  Who has the most excess discretionary income does.


Islamic law is irrelevant to those who do not feel bound by it. Your religion says that you are to kill gay people. Are you doing that?


Under no circumstances do I want the Springfield School District entwined with  Eugene 4J!

That would be almost as bad as being entwined with the City of Eugene and their disfunctional regime.

 Only South Eugene schools are semi-functional; the rest are on the bottom of the curve.


Well, he'll be getting a dose of reality shortly.


The Feds, state, insurance companies pay for nothing . Ever. Everything is paid for by the people. If you're not paying, your being paid for by other people.


Locals priced out?  Are you claiming that foreigners are buying property in Woodstock and Orillia?  Tell me I have that wrong, because it's a ridiculous premise.


Not to worry.  EVs are a fad with no real market.  Once the subsidies are gone then so are the EVs.  Bankruptcy is coming


As local energy demands increase.


Clueless you are, as to the amount of traffic going through the Bering Straits...


You don't have to be a "professional" anything to be an elected official.


This will solve nothing.....just a scheme for someone to make money.....


I believe Hamer and King accepted suffering, the Cross, as a consequence being faithful to Christ's Gospel, the Gospel's law of love and forgiveness. But they never embraced suffering or believed in it as an end in itself. Their end was to follow Jesus, his law of love, forgiveness and mercy.


Bobbi: I think the DPH didn't and doesn't want new members brought in by the Sanders candidacy,  at least not allowing us any power or influence.
Thus too the effort by the DPH to close the primaries.
The DPH is not and should not become a  "democratic centralist"  party.


Of course eh BC Liberals have nothing to hide. They are , electorally, above the law. Not enough voters care when they break the law.


Oh please, give me a break!  If anyone wants to save for their retirement they don't need a company sponsored plan to do it.  Open an IRA (traditional or Roth depending on your tax bracket) with a low-cost mutual fund company like Fidelity or Vanguard and have them automatically take whatever you can afford from your checking or savings after you get paid by your employer.  Done.  You'll get the tax deductibility when you do you tax return on the traditional IRA or not have to pay taxes on the Roth IRA when you withdraw the money.

And who is the author of this article?  Someone with a vested interest in seeing the legislation passed so he can sell the employer a high-fee plan?

Perhaps the employers can't afford to offer a plan because they are being taxed to the edge of extinction.


Nope.  HR 158 amends the visa WAIVER PROGRAM it does NOT ban outright "immigrants and non-immigrants" from any country.  Under HR 158, the visa and green card holders that Trump's EO blocked from entry into the US would be admitted because they've already been approved for their visas and free cards.  The Trump EO IS an outright and immediate ban on ALL people with citizenship from the Islamic 7 REGARDLESS of whether or not they have a valid US issued visa or green card.

On a personal note, I sincerely hope Putin hasn't coerced you into being a troll and that you or your loved ones aren't in any danger from him.  I am sincerely sorry if he has, but he can't be allowed to expand his dismal influence any further.

Best,
-HAYKI


Amen, bro.  Sometimes a guy's girls are his only real friends.


My only quibble is the line "We are all on our own".   Only the USA is on its own.  The rest of the world can still move together.


She seems to think she will have the only weed business in town. Doubt she will gross anywhere near $10m & in any case expenses & competition will be a reality check. Remember the black gal who tried to operate a weed biz after quitting her job? Will be interesting to see if she has the nerve to applly for a license.


Why is the pension needed by small business owner different than the pension needed by any other Canadian? If there are inadequacies in Canada's RRSP/pension laws that is a different matter. The solution needed is to close the loopholes and reduce the tax rates for all Canadians.


Produce them as postcards for those with an opinion about the Rail to mail to their representatives on the Council and in the Legislature.  You would sell a bunch at a buck apiece.


While I am glad that the Libs are acknowledging the problem and taking some steps, this doesn’t go anywhere near far enough.

When my two children were small,  I was paying roughly double my mortgage in monthly child care fees.  Luckily my spouse’s income was higher than that, but many women simply cannot afford to work because of fees – and many families are limiting the number of children they have because of cost.

Québec’s model is likely too extreme – universal care at seven bucks a day – but a means tested sliding fee scale that takes regional living costs into account would make incredible sense.  If that is too hard to administer, try making the tax deduction fairer.  In my day it was capped at 7K, and only the lower income earner could declare it.  Ridiculous.

We have two choices – help Canadian families or increase immigration levels.  I have no problems with immigrants, but feel the former is the better alternative.


First thing I notice is the gentleman saved nothing from his high paying high stressful job.  All the savings are hers.  It appears she is the saver so she should think very carefully if his irresponsible past behaviours will continue.


These "fragile, cream puff, snowflakes" that Trump and Trump supporters like you have been lying about, reviling and threatening for years scare you, don't they? Words have consequences and so do elections that sabotage the will of the people.


I believe this is a little late since Obamacare is already dead.


The statue wasn't attacked, the soldier was. If a soldier is not a military target, what is? I'm not aware of any common saying involving dead bears.


This is not a comment!


You rode that short bus hu??


BTW, just for clarification, I do NOT think what this man did was OK. I simply don't think it's that big a deal.


It's disgusting how much women go missing in Canada and nothing is ever done about it. Even police were ignoring all the evidence/reports about Robert Pickton for many years endangering everyone with that negligence. All the witnesses even said he didn't act alone, so there's still serial killers from that going about their crime to this very day.

RCMP are also riddled with sexual abuse and so is our military (remember Top-ranked military man Russel Williams in killing a Canadian woman after stalking?).. the inquiry is required and the abuse of women in all levels of government departments must end. It's the dark ages if anyone even tries to bs that money isn't worth it; because they are essentially trying to cover up the severity of how unsafe Canada is for women, especially if vulnerable/alone.


Or left wing extremist category!  Money doesn't discriminate with either group pal!


As far as I know, the only organization employing this name  is a nonprofit organization. I don't think the political party has been active since the 70s. I don't think you need worry too much.


QUOTE The Democrats should have won by a mile against Trump. Their failure to do so was a consequence their "professional-class" myopia, their disconnection from the troubles and travails of millions of their fellow citizens, and their inability to explain themselves and their agenda in compelling moral language. UNQUOTE
Here is a good example of this myopia.

“The media always covered her as the person who would be president and therefore tried to eviscerate her before the election, but covered Trump who was someone who was entertaining and sort of gave him a pass,” said Podesta. “We need to reflect and analyze that and put our voices forward.”


Make it illegal for foreigners to buy property in BC and see what happens. That might be away to test this hypothesis. I could predict the outcome of that experiment.


Your sociopathic obsession with others sexual activity is sick and disgusting. When did you begin your deviant behavior?


your an idiot PERIOD!,, FULL STOP!! , trump never enlisted anyone you ignorant brain washed fool, that has even been admitted by CNN now!,, Whats wrong with this picture? Answer, YOUR STUPIDITY


Why don't people ask what was the root cause behind the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11? Why did those Mideasterners come from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to kill themselves in order pto kill as many Americans as possible?
It was in response to America manipulating and destabilizing the governmnts over in the Mideast, to open up contracts to the western oil companies. 1953 was the first CIA sponsored coup in Iran for the British oil companies. Iraq refused the western oil companies any oil contracts since 1972, but since George Ws invasion, they got the contracts including George H and Cheney. Oil is the reason we spend trillions to invade and occupy, that the oil companies don't have to spend, they get to go in and steal the resources for free. Americas kids are being blown up and shot while they are being security guards for the oil companies, while the owners kids enjoy their beautiful lives removed from MainstreamcAmerica. America weathers the resulting terrorist attacks they don't


The problem? The current version of the bill, from the finance committee, still makes changes that some pro-industry Republicans don’t support, like one that would end a generous tax deal for newly developed oil after five years. One wing of Chenault’s caucus appears to remain opposed to the bill, with members arguing that the proposed changes are too abrupt.

“I cannot support it,” Rep. Lynn Gattis, R-Wasilla, said in an interview late Sunday. “We should not change tax regimes willy-nilly.”

This statement sums up republicans in Alaska. The rest of us can go suck eggs when it comes to cuts in the budget but the almighty oil companies.....this is why no one up for reelection should receive 1 vote.


Serves them right for having some silly rule or policy that precludes Rona from running.


Disagreeing with you is not a sign a mental illness.


Wow, another REEEEE DONALD DRUMPF IS LITERALLY HITLER article. I'll vote for the candidate that doesn't support TPP, regime change in Syria, and war with Russia. Thanks.


Well....Why Perry was eliminated is beyond belief! Looks like the board is looking for the perfect candidate to meet the "Feel Good" test! Here we go again....


CIA ... the world's most dangerous criminal organization


"It's funny to sit back here in America, and watch you Canadian mock, insult and denigrate President Trump."

It's funny just watching America, bud.  No need for mocking.