"under the current policy, an undocumented mother would be torn away from her young children who are US citizens by birth and deported. Now that's dysfunctional." -- John Kawamoto,
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John, why do you keep preaching this blatantly false and fake news that "an undocumented mother would be torn away from her young children....and deported"???  False and fake because only undocumented criminals are being deported!!!
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John, you need to read the subject of this forum which begins with "Lawmakers are debating whether Hawaii should join communities balking at cooperating with the crackdown on criminal immigrants."
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Yes, John.  "CRACKDOWN ON CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS"
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CRACKDOWN ON CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS, John. '
Criminal Immigrants. John.
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Having gone to law school and practiced  with a few attorneys who later became Judges, and actually having served as a pro-tem judge a few times in minor cases, I am unimpressed by your deference for their opinions.

A big black robe didn't turn me into an omniscient arbiter of all that is holy; nor did it for any of them.

The ones in Oregon could, at least theoretically, be removed by the voters for being stupid.

Those with Federal appointments serve for life just because a couple of Senators liked them and a President appointed them.

That does not give them any more brains than they started with; and certainly didn't anoint their opinions with Godlike qualities!


You guys still don't get it.   Remember when Trump couldn't possibly be the Republican candidate because he was crazy?  And then they all laughed until election night because he was so crazy?

There's a lot of us out here who Liberals think are crazy.  We put Trump in office.  We think you are crazy.


Yes, Social stratification by wealth is color-less.  Some people of color who I have met are totally the most uppity when they have bucks.  "Oh. My God, look at that girl, she's country"  In many brown nations, the darker you are the less you have social status.  I have seen examples in my travels.  The elites in these countries think that it is normal to use and abuse the average person.  Many in the 3rd world are conditioned to think they are "less" that the elites.  If you are American and have not traveled, you cannot fathom the difference between here and there.


Tell that to the lobbyists.


Mr. Gates I find your letter disgusting and offensive, but par for the course since Predisent Lord of the Flies became potus. As our once great nation sinks into the swamp of hate, lies and deception, I will not sit silent but speak out against the "Trump Effect" sweeping our country.
tRump said that we should torture and kill terrorists families to keep us "safe".
If this is what the citizens of a "Christian" nation believe, then we are no better than any radical Islamic terrorists.


These stories cause me to wonder how people can believe that all lives are so valuable. Obviously some despicable animal, an unimaginably twistedpos didn't value Ms. Cooley's life one bit. Unfkingly horrible.
May she rest in peace.


Symmetre,
  Actually, they don't have that capability yet. They do have an ICBM but are a long way yet from being capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. They don't even have a re-entry vehicle yet.  Still, they are getting closer every day and that is concerning.


I knew it was over once the light-rail train to/from the airport bypassed all of the hotels built nearby and the car rental places. What a waste.


So PM Dum-Dum is suggesting we really buckle down and invest in his prefered China even though there has been well documented threats of their state sponsored theft of our technology for decades?

How reassuring that we have a fool for a PM who thinks just because he signed a farcical treaty where China promised to curb their theft, it will actually stop.

Everyone looks down at this clown the same way the world saw Neville Chamberlain waving his signed treaty with Hitler promising a comical pact of non aggression and halt of annexation.

Canadians have enough to worry about his latest tax attack on small business. He expects business and and everyday Canadians to assume all the risk knowing the Liberals will always get the majority of any profits made?

What a fool of a PM.


Not an issue shooting a firearm. But, I have a G. Shep, and kids. I do not want chaos in such a situation.

And no, I have my bow rigged with a fishing rig (I only hunt carp anymore).
It will NOT be punching through multiple walls. Unless the target is about a meter away, this arrow will embed itself into the hit object, be it a wall, or a person. And it will penetrate most vests easily.

OTOH, a broad-head or target with 100+ lbs behind it can go through 1/2", but it not go through a second one.


Should have hired contractors...not employees.


It's obvious to me that you don't like EVs.  But to answer your question the battery replacement is really a non-issue.  The estimated life of my EV's batterty is 6 to 8 years (although if the battery fails in the first 6 years I get one for free).  The battery replacement and disposal cost is about $5,500.  This as really no different that when your gas vehicle's engine breaks down.  However, the real benefit for me is the gas savings.  Because I have a PV to generate the electricty to charge my EV I save on not having to pay for the electricity or in your case gas.  On the low side I figure I save about $4,000 annually in gas.  Multiply that by 6 years (again the low side of the expected life of the battery) and I have saved $24,000.  So even if I have to replace the battery after 6 years I'm ahead about $18,500.

Here is an article on EV battery prices - https://cleantechnica.com/2017/02/13/electric-vehicle-battery-prices-falling-faster-expected/


Because the last 20 years and many kupuna that passed away that have fought against the telescopes, the hundreds of community meetings that ended in the wee hours of the morning, the thousands that stood or supported and STILL STAND AND SUPPORT the protectors and those who are for NO TMT/TIO, I guess all that wasn't good enough?  polls from where?  The State Sponsored news papers?  WHATEVER... TMT pages have low member numbers on their social media, which is why they have to pay for Media Relations Firms to "drum up support".  We aren't ANTI-science, we are ANTI-desecration... There is enough up there and the community has been saying it for over 20 years.


And then what?


I'm not married, I'm a parent, and I had no part in the physical creation of my child. Parenthood is not marriage.


So Obama "choked", fine.  What are you going to do about it Trump?  The lack of response is only emboldening the foe.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/politics/russia-steps-up-spying-efforts-after-election/index.html


no kidding.  Started with McGuilty and has been getting worse with Wynne and Boy Blunder.

Take a look at your hydro and gas bills.  My hydro has plummeted and the savings appear to have have been added to the gas bill.

She thinks we are too stupid to notice


Nice peteism on your last sentence.


It was not starving. It had plenty of your vermin cats to feed on. Lie much? Or are you just this blathering self-deceptive without even realizing it and you don't even know that others can see in you what you cannot see in yourself.

Explain how 5 endangered Florida Panthers DIED from 1 vermin house-cat infecting them with house-cats' FeLV disease.

How about this article explaining how your vermin stray house-cats' diseases are killing off ALL native cats around the world:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/big-cat-owners-warned-to-keep-them-acres-away-from-feral-strays

Or a USA one:

http://rapidcityjournal.com/sports/local/feral-cats-pose-threat-to-birds-lions/article_8ec451c9-4b03-55a3-baa7-71ac577905cb.html

"... diseased lions are less likely to succeed at hunting their natural prey and more prone to human conflict."

Poke out both your eyes. Your desire to wallow in a bliss of self-inflicted ignorance your whole life will never be complete as long as you can still read.


You mean your wonderful "Religion of Peace"  What a load of crap!


Hopefully Justin will make a statement on bringing these people to Canada.


1) Kneeling for the Anthem causes NO property damage or personal injury to others.
2) Do you want the BLM protests, or the kneeling?  Take your pick.


You're a non sequitur.


While I didn't read the article anybody who thinks there is a long term solution to refugee issues is simply 'out to lunch' - especially in the light of CanadaBob2's earlier comments.

When I was born (circa 1950) there were about 2.6 Billion people on the planet.
Currently there are over 7.5 Billion with another 2 Billion on top of that expected over the next 30 - 35 years - practically all in areas of the planet that can't support them.

You'll have more luck emptying Lake Ontario with a spoon than you will trying to solve the refugee problem.


"Isolation, marginalization, poverty, mental illness and discrimination is what drives would-be extremists into the waiting arms of groups like ISIS."

Could you please cite the study or research that supports this view? Thousands of educated young people from middle class backgrounds, around the world, have fled civilization to join the head-choppers in ISIS. Could it be there is another cause?


Why not target them from the air?  I will NEVER support another ground war in Korea.


No, of course not.

Justin has also enlisted the help of a former Conservative prime minister.

As despicable as I found Mulroney to be, it must be super humiliating for Justin to have to call grandpa for help.


ICE needs to head to IOWA and I am not kidding.   PERRY, Iowa;  Marshalltown, Iowa; possibly Newton, Iowa - and any other town here with packing plants - such as a beef or pork processing plant. I'm dead serious - ICE has had a field day here before and it's back to business as usual here. Trust me - Perry would make their entire month's quote in under a week. Yes, I used to LIVE there and still know the town pretty well.
ICE - hit Iowa!!!  No one honestly checks here - and some get jobs with STOLEN SSNs. That's a FACT ICE has already proven.


The psychedelics grow in the woods. For as long as we've been human, we've been eating psychedelics in the woods. I may not want loud music intruding on peaceful woodland activities, but the author's point is lost when he attacks the peaceful woodland activities.


And you said they were open and showed no wrongdoing without looking at them!

I'm betting a herd of forensic accountants could spend weeks trying to 'follow the money',

 I don't happen to be one of those critters so I will ignore your assertions of Clinton Foundation sainthood and go on my merry way!


He's where he belongs..  Cut the HST 2 points and didnt create a job.  Ran a dictatorship,  who wants that in our country?


Although I don't wish debt on anyone. It is nice to know I am not alone in this struggle. Recently I can across a debt elimination program that is helping me better understand what I can do to help myself. I wish I would have found this program 5 years ago, but its never to late to try and fix it. Here is a link if you want to check it out. I hope that it can help others! www.freeyourmoney.ca
Best of luck to everyone working to free your money!


My fav vinyl cafe episode was the octogenarian who met Dave on a cruise ship, sailing away his last few months of life.

One of those made you laugh, made you sigh moments.

Mr. Mclean was always at his best during those times.


Good editorial. Yes, reading and having a decent sense of history is essential to maintaining a democracy. We could use more people in this country who took the time to read and appreciate the importance of history. We could use more people in this country willing to sacrifice personal achievements and pleasures, for the common good.


What a total line of crap. "Everyone under the tent" does NOT agree. And the retailers who support thwartoing local control and western voices will be ignored and not purchased.

Has the author of this editorial posing as business news ever been to the areas of ANWAR in question? NO! Has he ever even been to the red rock area that Clinton stole in 1996 (while Clinton took a photo op at the Grand canyon--hundreds of miles from the newly 'preserved' land.

Let the retailers take their show to Chicago or New York or Philadelphia--some place appropriate for their politics and ill-informed stance. Senator Gardner, don't let Colorado Politics and lands be dictated by people who have never been to the areas that want to rule. Colorado needs to stand as strong as Utah.


I have a serious question. How does this system handle partisans who don't care about conversations just making their points and refuting everything that doesn't fit their world view? What if I was a Trekkie who insists Star Wars is keeping America from being great? How will you stop me from doing that and stop the Star Wars fans from being offended at everything I post?

OK, that's a few questions. But I got more. Lots more. Thank you for taking this on.


One can only hope! All these "healthcare" jobs are drain on the economy.


No one has mentioned deportation.  President Trump wants Congress to help these kids have a pathway to citizenship, instead of staying in the limbo the previous President left them in.


No worries.  I got it from an anonymous source the Russians will pick up the tab from Sept. 30.


If any of the council people had done their job we would not be dealing with this because as an impeached Mayor he wouldn’t have had access to the Hawaii Congress of Planning Officials Conference.

Mayor Kenoi admitted to the Big Island County Council that he did something wrong when he misused his pCard on personal items which is a breech of his fiduciary responsibilities and the council decided to let him off the hook.  These so called professionals are making a mockery of the state constitution and the Hawaii county charter and somehow they are able to get away with it.  I expect our elected officials to take serious the obligations they are under to serve the public with the highest ethics in discharging the duties of their respective office. The highest standards not the lowest.  I believe these obligations are real and not imaginary, theoretical concepts.   I wonder what material the council thinks is impeachable?


Had them in a 2008 Subaru Legacy and they did not fit well. hard plastic. Not what I would call a great product. I'd rather get the factory rubber mats, much better.


Why, thank you, kindly for the sociology lesson.  Clearly, you are an expert.
I hope that you get what you want.
As an old person to a young one, I would like to point out that, as one matures, one realizes that we know far less about God than we would like to think, so those "clear" teachings you want so much -- not so applicable.


From article: "The... BC NDP/Greens will... reduce the province’s reliance on industries that contribute to climate change & instead place emphasis on shifting to a sustainable economy"

ZERO "sustainable economy" DETAILS SPECIFIED= SPURIOUS CON JOB & GRIEVOUS DANGER FOR BC!!

Careful what you wish for...

BC NDP/GREEN's objectives to replace:

A) BC's proven-to-be-highly-successful* economic model; &
(* in terms of ensuring that BC has a growing, low-tax, efficient economy that is attractive to domestic and international investors; extensive, generously-funded public services);

B) BC's "first past the post" political system that, until now- for over 100 years- has served very, very well; &

C) BC's political party fundraising laws;

with

- a new- BEREFT OF SPECIFIC DETAILS- economic model;

- ENTIRELY UN-DEFINED new political party fundraising laws;

- an ENTIRELY UN-DEFINED new electoral system;

... could result in disaster for BC, & consequential un-rectifiable economic damages


Do you mean that Cheese in a can we use to get in K rations? That stuff wasn't even Cheese and sat in your stomach like a big knot for days! Plasticized Cheese has got to be criminal!


Actually, I did spend some money on a nice quartz countertop when I redid the kitchen a few years back.  But that is because I could afford it.  I had enough saved up that I didn't need to take out a loan to pay for the kitchen reno.


Charles, as well as Dermot, try every possible angle to encourage an income tax. Every commentary is another opportunity for them to espouse favored wealth redistribution scheme. Just some examples from this latest:

"Because so many Alaska workers do not live here, a substantial portion of the tax would be paid by nonresidents." Depends what you mean by "substantial". According to the ISAR report only 15% would be paid by nonresidents. Alaskan workers would be stuck with 85% of the bill.

"The income tax proposal in the state House would put us in the middle range of the states." How long do you really think that would last? Once the mechanism is in place, it's all too easy at every budget shortfall for government to turn that knob toward "increase taxes"

"Then it will be up to 20 senators to decide the outcome of the Alaska experiment." If they don't institute an income-tax, the sky will fall and it will be 20 senators fault!


I use to, but nowadays there's just so many people who have drunk the Kool-aid....

Still don't know


Maybe Mussolini got credit for making them less late than usual?


Oh yes, I'm sure you do. I bet you're a billionaire! As to the fact that you've repeatedly stated that I'm on welfare, when I am not, how's it feel to be a charter member of the pedophile community?


Hi Mokantz, Rudyard Kipling had a line in the poem IF,

"If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;"

It's a "camel under the tent" of ones polarizing certainty.


"I have to question how these people keep their jobs when they don't do the one major task on their plate."

The answer is simple - not enough Alaskans bother to go to the polls and vote these incompetent, self-serving Imperialist oil mops out of office.

Maybe this time will be different ...


A native demanding only a native doctor just the same damnable  racism as a white people demanding only  a white doctor.


The government should be taking a critical view of how people are being treated by them as an employer: this case is tragic. PTSD is like an internal brain injury (it is a physical response to external forces that gets stuck). It is physical first and foremost, the fight or flight response that dumps chemicals into the system gets stuck and damages organs and fries neural connections. If psychiatrists were better versed in treatment rather than drugs, if employers like the military would accept that it is physical and stop treating people badly when they get this type of injury (i.e. sending them to JPSU, "retraining" while a person is still injured rather than waiting for enough recovery to retrain), if they accepted that it take 2 to 5 years for brain chemicals to balance out again before firing a person, giving them a few dollars and no chance to get any further work because such actions create stigma about mental health issues so the person will never get hired, the person may heal


Please !  Alaska Natives are the one group who think they are above the law.  They would hunt and fish until there was nothing left if they could get away with it.  They want the feds to let them get away with it.   If anyone else is caught illegally hunting or fishing there is a price to pay.  The game they took is confiscated and sometimes the tools used to get the game are taken as well , along with a fine and possible jail time.  What happened when the natives illegally took that whale a few weeks ago ?  Native leaders told residents not to talk to the authorities and boasted they wouldn't give the illegal fish back .   If you want to cite past history , then that history alone should show we must stop illegal fishing and hunting now.


Can we believe that those people will honor that agreement? How long will it be before they all go their own way, it only takes one to up production and that will happen


If you have the money, why not?


You appear to have dodged the question. Please explain why being tortured to death was "necessary" for the forgiveness of sins.

Since I never suggested a cruel death is necessary to show us how to live a good life, I don't know why you would ask.


Zapiro, if you haven't already done so, please create a cartoon around Bathebile Dlamini's comments that women get too emotional and therefore need male experts.


This is brilliant! This issue Definately needs to be brought up in the House.  There are many more examples but i like this one the best.


Hey SA! Why were all the earlier comments deleted?


Some people have imaginary friends, some see cold chess wars.


I'm in the same boat. It means there is less money for pay increases,new hires, employee training,  research and development and in a very competitive global market there is no chance to increase the price you charge for your products.  In the end it pushes businesses closer to failure. Well done Liberals.


Move the homeless from Nimitz but I hope they do not move to Old Stadium Park where now the tents have been popping up again. Also, the tow company finally moved from the old bowling parking lot which opened up street parking but those spaces have been taken over by the homeless living in their vehicles.  We need another purge in our neighborhood.


I'm surprised there isn't a comment on how Trump orchestrated this fiasco to draw attention away from the constant barrage of collusion with the  Russians news. But no - this $10M payout to a boy terrorist is a debacle of your own making.


I just sold my Leslieville house last week well over asking after receiving 8 offers. The sale was unconditional (clean)

We are not quite at the madness we were back in March but The idea that there is a crash is fiction.

In any event I will be taking my winnings (my house doubled in value in 6 years since I bought it) and renting for a while as I move out of the GTA. We will see what happens but right now it still feels like a seller's market and the sales (including my own) bear that out.


Brah, the reason is because SA is for the rail, no matter what, hell or high water.
This talk over a "free press" that the drive by media is talking about is a trojan horse.  The real issue is the absence of an independent press,not one controlled by a small number of multinational corporations who decide what they want you to know and nothing
more.


why do anything to prop up this market, if it is has become unaffordable then prices crash however there is a need to prevent any further buying by offshore interests and favoring the rich elite who get a citizenship of convenience


Kind of like Thomas Jefferson.


Where was the outrage? It's funny that you're inclined to invalidate an anti-racism demonstation instead of showing support for it. Why is that? It's likely the same reason you can't tell the difference between neo-Nazis and BLM supporters.


The break even is on the cost to earn the premium.  For every $1 in spending over $10K you are earning 2x what you would on the regular no fee card. Obviously if you don't spend more than $10k there would be no point.  But since most people will easily spend more than $1,000 in monthly expenses that can be charged to a credit card the fee is worth paying.

So even if you have more than one card you can often still benefit from premium cards.  We have 2 no fee cards and a premium card - the premium card gets 90% of the transactions.  The no fee cards are simply for convenience.


Pretty much anyone who takes a close interest in politics knew where this was headed. However Monsef's actions in the House of Commons aside, there does seem to be a lack of understanding on her part, of how our system works. She continually refers to referendums as being divisive, as a a reason for not having one. One might say the same thing about federal and provincial elections, but we have them. Proponents of PR will suggest that this is why we should have PR as it will bring people together. It will dilute power, but there is no evidence that it will "bring" people together. As for fairness, then the ultimate fairness is to let the people  decide. If we have learned anything from this exercise Monsef doesn't belong in cabinet, and even more so in a position that she is woefully unqualified for.


He's beyond my expectations of ineptitude.  He has confirmed time and again he's the same simple-minded man child famous for uttering mindless drivel at any opportunity when not reading from a script.

Hate Harper or Chretien or Mulroney or even his Dad if you wish, but can you ever imagine the brainless things Boy Wonder utters coming from one of those highly educated, experienced, mature leaders.  NEVER.

He's our Sarah Palin in suit.  Good looking and vacuous.  Total ruin ahead thanks to the CBC, the Toronto Star, cell phones and little potato's hairdresser.


Proponents of this tax reform should acknowledge that a holistic review of the overall tax architecture that was decades in the making, with adequate time and consultation, may result in more targeted outcomes and fewer disruptions or unintended consequences.  But a hasty, piecemeal implementation as the Liberals are unfolding is the opposite of that, and it is downright irresponsible and arrogant.


China will not attack U.S forces if they take out the NK nuclear facilities only.
If the U.S. starts bombing cities, that could lead to problems with China.


Cherry pick an audience of devotees........and shockingly, somehow..........no one has a bad thing to say about him. Just more completely slanted reporting by the Alaska TMZ Enquirer.


Back in 2004 I was working for a First Nations community and we took some community members on an excursion from northern Ontario to Ottawa (and later Montreal and Kahnawke). We went to Parliament Hill and one of the young people asked me why there were no statues or memorials to First Nations people there. During that project, I was asked by the hotel where I was staying not to bring "those people" to the hotel (I left and slept at the band office). I also realised, that in my late 30's I had never learned a single word from any of Canada's 54 native languages in my supposedly multicultural country. I am proud of my country but those of us who are not native need to know more about our history, our agreements with First Nations, but even more, we should be open to appreciating the rich cultural diversity and world views they have to offer. We will all be better for it! Meegwich.


"weapons that only a madman would use"

You mean a 'madman' like the leader of North Korea?  That kind of 'madman'?


Of course we are.  Anything anti-Trump is OK with the liberals, and anyone who socializes with him is the enemy to them.  They'll say and do anything for their agenda.


Debra - Your pony finished last.  Get over it.


So it's apartheid's fault that the miners acted so violently, eh?  Some apartheid apparatchik, but not a witchdoctor, informed them that muti would turn the police's bullets to water. It's some evil dead white dude's fault that many of them have two families and too much debt.

Yes, of course. The devil made Hansie do it, and Verwoerd made the miners and the police do it.

You know what would be nice? One, just one, original thought from a journalist, instead of the hackneyed blame-apartheid drivel that contaminates 99% of so-called journalism in South Africa these days.


The deal was done in 2014 by the Harper government long before the Liberals got in. The Liberals did not cancel it, no party said that they would-and since they did not cancel it they were obviously obliged to sign the export permits.
However they did say they would monitor it and so they are,


(cont.)  The "right" to drive a car, be a barber, be an attorney, etc are all granted based on meeting specific criteria.

Those "inalienable rights" you're so fond of referencing are included in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence..."We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."  They do not define the "rights" of citizenship or address the limitations on judicially defined rights.  BTW: We, as a society, do in fact "alienate" all three of these "inalienable" rights with some regularity: we execute and we imprison....

The "right" to smoke in County Parks is not an "inalienable right"....far from it.  Oregon state, county and city ordinances define the rights of smokers and Lane County has every statuatory power to limit smoking.  For you to compare it to racial discrimination is, frankly, rather silly.


been with the company for a long, long time. always loyal customer to an alaskan company. guess now i don't have to worry about it. they have become less personal and more dollar driven. too bad. maybe someone will step up and start a company that doesn't screw you with high rates (mta), and is still alaskan.


These are not legal, not now; but 100 years ago, you wouldn't have been doing anything wrong. The law changed because the physical world changed, as did our understanding of our place in it.

A similar thing is about to happen with climate change denial, especially to powerful people and organizations who have consciously, purposely mislead the population about the dangers of climate change.

There are any number of lawsuits alleging this. As the cost of AGW becomes more and more clear, criminal prosecutions will become inevitable, one hopes.


Jimbo,

  I rarely censor any comment. Only the very rare, very odd comment that's hate speech.
  Commenting here for almost 12 years, that's the way I've always been. I've known intuitively that once people start deleting comments for this reason and that reason, soon they would be deleting comments that simply make a strong case against their opinion. And that's precisely what's happened. the fun and the humour have been sucked out of this website. There are many things in the comments worse than incivility.


So you think a wall will stop heroin, cocaine, and illegal immigrants from entering the U.S. - and firearms from leaving the U.S.(if you happen to care about that side of the coin)? What about the meth your neighbor makes in his kitchen? Mexico can't be blamed on the millions of Americans who do dope; neither can Columbia or Bolivia. Better build a wall along the Canadian border too...


Like most sentient beings, wolves can't stand the Yankees.


How did I not even know there was a recall vote in Broomfield?  I got no notification...


Anyone who puts forth personal experience when arguing for or against global warming immediately gets disregarded in my book. Intelligent debate would be appreciated but it seems a large percentage of people have no idea what scientists are trying to tell us. It's GLOBAL warming, not San Francisco warming or Paris or Honolulu warming. Also we're talking about average temperatures (maybe 1 or 2 degrees F) going back decades if not centuries. Anecdotal evidence is NOT relevant here.


Sure !!! Extend the session at the tax payers money for the corrupt rail. The  neighbor island mayors should stay clear of this mess. As it is the neighbor islands
will be paying for Oahu's rail. Watch out for Cardwell as he could care less about the neighbor islands. All he cares about his rail and his fat cats and cronies.


Bermuda and the Caymans are British Overseas Territories, so what exactly is the problem?  I'd be a lot more concerned if she was invested in South Africa.


Well-written but self-contradictory.  First Mr Burton tells us that Canada needs a FTA but China does not.  He might have added that China is the second economic and political power in the world and has multiple policy options.  (If the USA continues its present fit of the sulks China may soon be number one.)  Then he tells us that Canada must stand up for a list of things, starting with human rights which the Chinese have made clear are not on the table.  How do you stand up to someone who holds all the good cards?  And if we have no FTA with China, what other options do we have?


Craig Richards has the look of a  future presidential candidate.  I'veve never seen a picture of him.  Is his face orange as well as his hair? Make America Broke Again, 2020!


I tried to ignore this, and not comment, but just couldn't. The article makes a fair point about not incarcerating him and being apologetic, but a massive payment seems a bit too far. How many other citizens have been 'wronged' by government? Should we pay them all some money too?

Remember this guy committed an act of war against Canadians. With full awareness and intent. Let's not pay him please....


Although the ice is less, it is still there, and it is still so beautiful.....anytime of the year....Soon there will be surfers riding in on the 2nd highest bore tide in the world.....Right here....


RE experimenting states! maybe you have not noticed but Adult use aka Recreational use of cannabis has been legal in Oregon for 1.5 years!  You need not look as far as Colorado. It was the topic of the City Club of Eugene presentation last week. Times are changing.

Adult use is legal now in 8 states though some like CA may not go into effect until 2018. A lot more states have legalized Medical cannabis. Visit local goodies store within bike distance to see fruits of the gardens of earthly delights.

Leafly.com has reviews of marijuana stores and strains. GreenFlowerMedia.com an excellent site for learning about how tinctures and other cannabis medicine can be used for recreation, medicine. GFM will hold a 2nd virtual Cannabis Health Summit soon (listen online). Some have a PhD in cannabis medicine. THC University CO an info source and THC Foundation in Portland. The list of green rush media is rising exponentially. Terpenes a new book, the research Edge. The Kool Place: found!


They might still choose to hire on merit .


Incorrect. A naturalized Canadian citizen can lose their citizenship if they committed fraud in applying for permanent residence or  citizenship.

This is the third factual mistake that you have made in one hour, the others being 1) that William Sampson sued the British government after his release from Saudi prison (when in fact, he only sued the Saudi government) and 2) that the Conservatives lost support in Quebec in 2015 because of Khadr, when in fact they more than doubled their number of seats compared to 2011.


I hope it doesn't disappoint you to know that statement is 100% sarcastic. A line drawn is a line all the same. I don't expect my neighbors to afford me a 10 foot buffer zone on their property to allow my dog to dump in their yards. If the federal government wants to bear the cost of game management, they should practice it on their own land first. If their wolf population declines, it's because they let them decimate the the prey population. Not to worry. Either the prey will rebound in a few years after the predators' decline so wolves can rebound, OR, the neighbor's managed game will wander back over the line that they didn't see on a map and feed them. The latter, of course, translates into free meat for federal predators in exchange for high cost wolf pelts that the state doesn't begin to recoup their ungulate management costs from. Good trade? Not for the state. and certainly not for the user groups on the state side of the LINE. Build a WALL! Your wolves in, Our moose out!


The majority's answer to this significant budget deficit is to have "average man" pay but let the richest corporations in the world continue to be paid for the privilege to take the state's oil and we should be grateful for such an arrangement. There is no balance what so ever in their long term solution.


Fitting remark.


Another difference:
It is one thing to expect personal loyalty from staff (eg., the press secretary) and something very different to expect it from the Director of the FBI.


Well, I think Tim Winn is referring to photographic and video evidence, which we have only had for decades. Scientific evidence has been around for millennia, but these people sadly do not believe in science.


Sure it did. Not a thing wrong with it. Someone just embarrassed themselves and wanted the comment pointing it out removed. Pointing out ageism is not "gaslighting" or "criminal harassment"  or the lesser "bullying" (duali's claims). But the fact that someone would try and make that claim is evidence of how far gone some elements of our culture are.


Drugs are the single greatest scourge on society.  That includes alcohol.  There's not even a close second.


Seems to me that many of the liberals comments just demonstrates how ignorant of the Issue they really are. Many Hurricanes in the 1850's did far more damage. What they are saying is that the Gulf is warmer than its been. what funny is that no one, and I repeat no one has really made that claim with data showing it. yet it all of a sudden pops up during and post Harvey. whats wrong with this picture?


Oil,  Exxon stands to make big bucks from drilling rights in Russia once sanctions are lifted.  That and the opportunity to make 40 million overnight to keep money from a spouse.   Love the Russian opportunity.  lol


People need to stop pussyfooting around this issue.     The new right (or what passes for "Conservative" these days) turns a blind eye to the fringe elements they attract.    Or worse, they openly pander to the fringe element.     This happens in Canada too.

Levant and company can try to distance themselves but they knew exactly who their target audience  was.


Your numbers are false.


No, passive investments within a Corp are funding the owner's pension, to level the playing field with the MPs and all others who have a pension.


"It was not intended "

Yes it was.

By enabling low-value manufacturing to go to Mexico, high value could stay in the US and Canada - works very well in Europe and Japan.

And US Corporations get to sell more and more products to Mexico - the Mexican Auto market is growing at about 2X the rate Canada's is, the Mexican ejido system of agriculture has been wiped out.

Unfortunately  US governments never invested in the requisite skills training,  so too many "deplorables" lack the skills to manufacture the higher end products.


Can we hose the lake down with a 1/4" of water on top of the ice right before you show us what they can do? ;)


Margaret, you certainly took this Cdn back; Expo '67 was just the best experience & wasn't Montreal exciting for a young Cdn just starting out in life?

Expo was a magical time... a future of Canada & that of many other countries around the Planet laid out with so much history & culture on exhibit in each & every pavilion..

Canada re-discovered in special wonderment for a young person; Expo was a superb intro to various planetary peoples & their cultures.. but what was truly scintillating was the cohesive emotion from Canada's People for 'Love & Pride of Country' which was an obvious take-away for Canadian Visitors.. eh.

I had forgotten about Yorkville -- yeah, can't blame you for living nearby. If memory serves.. Yorkville was known as 'the Village' way back when.. & man, didn't we kick it up & enjoy the cool social ambiance of Toronto.

Canada has evolved over the last 50 years & will continue to evolve into the Future as our Big Beautiful Canada should.

Happy Canada Day.. !!

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A friend of mine was showing me around his new SUV. When it came to some of the convenient"cool", but hardly necessary bells and whistles, he was genuinely surprised when my response was "meh." My dinosaur station wagon , now 14 years old with 124,500 km on the clock, has computerized fuel/engine management and door locking. The latter is now screwing up as I can no longer open the rear doors with the key fob. At least it still has keyholes on the driver's door and rear gate, unlike the Tesla parked next door.


I posted a facetious comment about trucks staying in Zimbabwe and SA running out of trucks as a result and immediately got called for writing an abusive comment. Maybe DM should use human censors rather than electronic ones.


There you go, Cooper, what comes first mental illness or drug addiction?  And who's going to determine whether or not someone is suffering from mental illness?  Have you checked to see what the cost of therapy is?  Or realize that it takes months to be seen unless one's suicidal?  I believe by the time someone is living on the streets for a period of time they are swallowed up into a cycle of loss of dignity and morales.  Have you tried standing or sitting on a community corner holding a sign begging for money or food?  How about slithering under a shrub along side a sidewalk or road?  Ever had a brush with drug or alcohol addition and try to get a job.  I don't believe anyone starts out in life with a "goal" to have to scrounge for food, water, shelter, or a place to shower.  People get into a rut and oftentimes can't seem to get out without help.


From what I have read, the truckers in Puerto Rico via their union are demanding more money from FEMA to deliver aid. That is the real issue.


I saw the damage a Canadian Goose did to  Piper Navajo once. It ended up requiring the entire horizontal stabilizer to be replaced. A smaller airplane and a bigger bird. I have no issue with thinking that the plane could have suffered fatal damage.


Will some needy Liberal cabinet minister please give Radwanski the job for which  he is obviously auditioning.


Rest in peace.


That's fine, you can roll your eyes and defend micreations of justice all you please, but there is a price tag. They say "injustice begets war, and war begets injustice." They're right, you know.

I'll tear this corrupted evil system of justice down one brick at a time, one step at a time, one day at a time, as long as God-given faculties enable (hopefully another two or three decades at least) until I find myself standing in a free field surrounded by bricks. Then, and only then, we may build a credible good system for ourselves in this wayward failed place.

Together, we can demonstrate to Colorado justice why injustice never pays, why they must operate with perfection and above all error, and why, when they do err, they must correct. Because life under injustice isn't life at all, it certainly isn't freedom.

You can thank a failed Jefferson County judge for my tireless political activism. This is a consequence of fascism, don't you know. I'll raze down this inequity with ideals.


The problem is the absurd rates given to Green energy sources, which then need to be backed up by reliable fossil fuel sources, leading to more than double the cost of just the reliable power.


Did you even read the article? Did you notice that congress hadn't appropriated the money during the Obama era? Does this not mean anything to you? Now they have to fix the problem, does that mean nothing to you?


“We’re not asking for the moon, just something fair and equitable, and they’re moaning and groaning,” Lundeberg said.

What I would like to know is what are the Sailors and Firefighter unions getting now and what are they asking for?  Does anyone do journalism anymore?  Am I supposed to be happy about paying more for goods and services because they got a raise?  I am certainly not getting a raise to pay for the added price increases.  Should I feel supportive because they are not getting paid an honest days work, or should I be mad because what they make is obcene?

Thoughts?


Cite it? The Fifties versus the Bush-Great Recession. Sheesh. We lived through this, you know.


PERCEPTION...
COMPASSION....and
SPIRIT

These shepherd virtues are often scoffed at in the name of  alleged "higher" attributes, say: CONFORMITY, CLARITY, ORDER.

As Pope Francis said recently, we can lazily take false comfort in black and white rules OR we can also be open to the risk of learning from His tremendous gift, "the flow of life." A new pro-life message, maybe?

Clearly, Archbishop Quinn surprised folks when he opened up himself to perception, compassion, and spirit experienced in the flow of life, and eschewed the minimal expectations from on high to "just get those uppity Vatican II women in line...for their own eternal good of course.."

Thanks, Ken.


It was a poorly written bill that Rep Ing messed around with.


Every Native group in Alaska reveres its elders. Elders are the keepers of the cultural flame. It's only the white newcomers who piss on the experienced people who know how to manage this state. You want to listen to a bunch of 30 year old yuppie jerks who can't stop looking at their phone? Show a little respect for people far wiser than you are.


More Koolaid?


It's just pure joy to watch the two Trust Fund kids calling the shots for small business owners from the comfort of their Ivory Tower.


Kevin, my brother in Christ, I understand that all people respond in different ways to Jesus' call to pick up our crosses and follow Him. I agree, but when anyone of us (anyone of us) goes to Jesus with true sorrow in their hearts for sinning (Sacrament of Confession), God who is merciful and loves all of us so much, will plant a seed in our hearts and souls that will inspire change/transformation in us, so that we are truly saddened when we sin against/offend God or our brothers and sisters. He will plant this seed in our consciences! It will start to become more and more impossible to offend God and not become sick to our stomachs until we have gone to Jesus and our brothers and sisters begging their forgiveness! I guarantee you that Jesus will always accept our apology, even when our brothers or sisters do not!
Lastly, let us remember that "act of (perfect) contrition" is only an act. God sees through our acs and our hearts. If our motivation does not meet what is needed Continued


You would suppose wrong. I'm furious.


Is this "benefit" worth the cost?


In a values scale of one to ten, where does this rank? Maybe, minus one.(?)
In my book +Burke messed up the Churches Center for Land and People and the National Catholic Rural Life Organization, as a onetime head of both organizations.


We tried one of those bans.

The Volstead Act.  and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.  October 1919 through  December 5, 1933.

Other than making millionaires out of the Kennedy family and other such bootleggers and introducing the tommy gun to organized crime, it was fairly unsuccessful.   With that history, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

With 330 million firearms in private hands, the odds of repealing the 2nd Amendment looks a little dicey, too.


HAARP uses high frequency.  You need Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) in order to see underground.  Basically, satellites use it now to find archaeological sites.


Yes, Lamont, I can see it now.   Little Potato listened to raptly by numerous  Chinese communist billionaires at a cash-for-access dinner as he repeats ad nausea (accent on the nausea) his plan "to help the middle class and those working hard to join it" which, so he says, is what he does at every opportunity including these Liberal Party fund raisers.

His decisions may not be in the long term interests of a prosperous and sovereign Canada but they will certainly be in the short term interests of the Liberal Party of Canada.

What bemuses me is how most Liberals seem to have no problem giving in to the Chinese communists on every take over bid and every other demand they make despite their untrustworthy,  predatory, one sided track record on every trade, investment and other deal they make while the same Liberal loons went ballistic in the 1980s during free trade negotiations with the US.

And if Trump seems tough, wait til they encounter Xi who is even tougher and much sneakier.


Justin endorses NFL players taking a knee during the American national anthem as freedom to express their views.  For backbenchers, however, there's a different party line.


Trump is simply telling all of these politicians to either poop or get off the pot. For decades we have heard politicians talking about doing things, like tax reform, healthcare reform, immigration, and addressing the corruption that exist in our central government, and for decades we have seen NOTHING! Now I have to admit Obama did attempt to reform healthcare put his far left ideology failed miserably.
The Democrats would love to see four of those five run for President, because that would allow them to implement the far left agenda. Cruz might stand in their way for a short time, but eventually he would cave. Trump is working to make the country great again but for the average person and not for our corrupt politicians.


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"A drive to unionize workers failed earlier this week after staunch opposition from the company."

Is this what Trump had in mind? A race to the bottom?

Washington Boeing workers earn (on average) $38.00 per hour (benefits in),the workers in South Carolina earn $22.00 per hour.......yet, the SC government and Boeing pulled out all the stops to deny the workers in SC the same pay as the workers in Washington.

Nice going Gents, race to the bottom indeed......................

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Your comment displays your ignorance and prejudice;  either unawareness or willfully ignorance of the systematic discrimination against the groups mentioned (there's no discrimination in Cda like there are no gays in Iran).  Do you think because someone is in a wheelchair s/he is incapable of 'creativity, innovativeness, brains, and ability...'? Or is 'diversity' a proxy 'visible minorities' in your eyes?  If you have no access to a pool or a body of water, do you think you'd know who to swim?  The point of this threat is for universities to start hiring diversified talent and support the ones already there.  Chairships require letters of support from deans, etc. and if they dont particularly like you your letter wont be particularly good.  Institutions should reflect the population they serve; currently they're akin to 45 and his merry band of white men making decisions about women's bodies...and we all know just how smart they are.


The word "lynching" is very poorly chosen, given what lynching actually is.


I expect no more from JT..............


Just like Dao?  That's a silly moronic judgement.  Apples and oranges.  Rookie poster?


Griffin is claimed to be a comedian, but that isn't funny.
However, over Obama's 8 years I received many emails from the deplorable Right with the same ugly sentiments about Obama.


If one has given up the Christian Faith, it matters not whether they call themselves Christian.  Atheism under the guise of Christianity is still Atheism. Thus they cannot qualify as "separated brethren." They can only qualify as "separated brethren" if they are, in fact, Christian.

Look at the likes of Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi--they call themselves Catholic, but in fact have little to nothing to do with actual Catholicism.  They are cultural Catholics, not actual Catholics. They may not be atheists, but they are no Catholics. Rosaries and other Catholic accidents don't make one a Catholic. Being Catholic has to do with what one professes, not whether they like statues or Rosaries, or devotions to the saints. When it comes to Protestants you can have the same phenomenon. In the Jewish community you have the same phenomenon. Jewish is a term that can refer to ethnicity or culture as much as someone's belief system.


No sacrifice is too great in return for protecting the hobby of a small, angry, white male, triggered segment of our population.  Outlaw abortion because these gun fondlers require a never-ending supply of moving targets.


Another fake issue.  The good folks of Toronto, Ottawa and Atlantic Canada have never had a problem with Liberal corruption, they will always support Liberals.


As a teacher ASD I was RIFFed ...reduction in force...for the first seven years of my career. This is typical contractual policy that happens every year.


There was no reference to sexuality.

Why do you have such trouble with metaphors?


The story is about fear that already exists in the Hispanic community because of Trump's stated deportation policy. Blaming the article for that fear is like blaming the weatherman for a thunderstorm. It might make you feel good but it has no basis in reality.


Well, many will stimulate something.


Sounds like our do nothing government strikes again. Why spend 400million if you can wait and spend 8 billion when catastrophe strikes?
Same thing is happening with climate change. Why have people buy efficient vehicles when selling gas is so awesome.


I know you would like to use that as the big excuse...many died-in-the-wool Clinton supporters need to.  But it's not true.

What "you" never admit is that there would be no Comey announcements if Clinton had been honest and accurate.  That due to HER actions, close to 60% of voters saw her as basically dishonest.

An interesting analysis....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/11/10/dont-blame-comey-for-clintons-defeat/

In addition, even Mr. Obama and Bill Clinton warned her about abandoning her traditional blue collar base.  Argue with them, but I trust their analysis more than yours.

The best line? "Like most other journalists, I missed the depth of Clinton’s weakness with older white Democrats who don’t eat brunch." (Jonathon Alter, "The Daily Beast," - hardly a right wing outlet).

She ran a lousy campaign...she did it to herself.


CNN and its simple-minded and quite condescending new commercial may not be the best examples to start such an article with. What is remarkable about CNN these days is just how little it actually covers the news, overall. It is hard to find any news anymore on CNN not just about the rest of the world, but also about most of the U.S. I can't recall a real news program on CNN anymore, where news from around the world are reported impartially and factually. What we get instead on CNN, as far as I can tell, is a bunch of "media personalities", each with his or her own show, who follow each other and have their own talk shows, essentially. Generally, I find these shows to be biased to the point where no attempt seems to be made to even appear to strive for balanced and objective coverage of the issues. Guests seem to be selected mainly to agree with the host and each other, and the occasional guest who disagrees with the rest is there to be yelled at, ridiculed or rudely interrupted.


So-called "Hate speech" is speech, Constitutionally protected.  Remember "sticks and stones may break my bones?"  My speech is allowed beyond your nose.  That is part of the politically correct tyranny, created by whiners who want to seek help from the courts when their wittle feewings are hurt.  When the KKK marches and says,  "we hate you effing whatevers," we should be proud.  It is the most important speech of all to protect.  Nice, unoffensive speech needs no protection.

Trump's speech is speech, Constitutionally protected (see above).

Words do not kill; we learn this as 5 year olds (See "sticks & stones," above).

Trust me, a word has never harmed anyone.  If you are offended by speech, then walk away from the speech.  Don't be such a poosy.


What the article doesn't say, is how much Greenpeace paid her to be there.


Suicide is a hard thing for people i have tride but people should talk to peopel


It's been that way here for decades. It's an abnormality that has become normal its so prevalent.


It's all the cop's fault. It has absolutely nothing to do with anybody else. Being a democrat, as I am, I think that everyone is just human and is allowed to be a dysfunctional slob who tries to run people over and screw up their lives and everyone elses. when something like this happens I get all literary about it and bring up references from ten years ago and quote garbage from various socialist community organizers and always find a way to point the fault at the cop.


Posted this before and will keep posting it

All these protests stem from Kaepernick's stand against police brutality, white police officers against black. Google a list of fallen police officers, google how many have died at the hands of others, to include black assailants. Tell me there isn't a great disparity between the two lists, one more honorable than the other. Our own Celena Hollis of the DPD, a black female police officer of Denver was gunned down by a black assailant. Is she, a fellow community member on any of these football players lists of protest. She was in a park giving security to everyone, race exclusive and was shot at for no other reason that she was a cop. Keep this in mind when you see a player kneel, our police deserve it.

The do goes out of its way to help the NFL players sully and condemn hard working and honorable police officers and their career field.


First of all, Cliff Groh is a liberal Democrat. You are hiding that important fact in your column. Second, the U of A can withstand a lot more budget cuts. This school's budget (like the rest of the State's budget) has skyrocketed since the 1990s. Our State ranks almost dead last in K - 12 school performance so why do you think we need to have a great State College system? We don't. We don't even have enough students able to take high level math classes there. I know a U of A prof and he is frustrated because the higher level math classes keep getting cancelled b/c not enough students enroll. We need to think about big cuts to U of A. Top students can easily go out of state to college. That is the truth. Also, your column seems to forget that many many Alaskans are middle class (not low class and not wealthy) and we don't want an income tax either. We can't afford it. We want a right-sized Gov't for our State. There are too many State employees making too high of salaries.


Kathleen Parker is not a "leftist," but in fact a right-of-center columnist.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Parker


You watch too many movies.  Grow up.


As long as they don't build them next door to you ...right?


Don't forget about the New Year's fireworks because his daughter probably wants 'em!


Replacing fluorescent bulbs with LED bubs is cheap.  Costco sells 2 four foot LED replacment bulbs for under $20 and should just come out of the DOE's own maintenance budget.  What DOE & the State should be doing is purchasing PV panels outright and installing on all DOE buildings the way Ala Moana Shopping Center is completely covered in PV panels.  Then DOE's yearly electric bill, paid by Hawaii taxpayers, would go down MILLIONS of dollars and will greatly support the PV installation industry in Hawaii. Of course HECO does not want millions in lost revenue FOREVER so this manini energy savings of LED bulbs, making sure refrigerators are properly maintained, etc.   Also another reason why HECO was so in favor of the Oahu train to nowhere project becasue they will make many millions to build & maintain a new fossil fuel electrical generator plant to power the train & the many hundreds of millions HECO will make to relocate power lines and all electrical infrastructure along the route.


This president has a very good history of denouncing and little of actually doing anything. Hillary has done nothing but she continues to pat herself on the back for all she's done for this country,.....but only in her mind, zip in reality.
Do not lecture us on choosing to ignore waverunner, you and your worshiped leaders are the the ones in denial. There isn't enough cyber space to contain all the examples.


That's our state legislature for you.  Company worth millions or even billions of dollars; have a tax break.  GET regressive tax on food and health services; let's extend it for years to pay for a public works boondoggle. Thanks reps!


Well ... maybe if home inspectors actually did their job rather than pay lip-service and simply collect their fees.  The home inspector I hired here in my Oakville purchase did absolutely nothing - as I found after his inspection, several electrical plugs that were loose in their fittings, two actually had a screw in the outlet ... attic insulation that was so poor, that the frame was exposed in some places ... yet no mention in the 'report' that I got.  A total scam in today's market ...


Pretending to be something you are not, to suck some money from the feds. God Bless America.


My deepest ALOHA to their ohana.  Sad...


Life insurance for the value of your house does the owner no good at all; dead people have no use for money.


Piece of scum, who does he think he is daring to touch her royal highness. Did he not know the rules for commoners touching royalty? Scum should be sacked.


Typical non story from the Unamerican Press. Wordy, wrings emotions from the reader, but ignores what used to be the aim of a journalist, provide the Where & whatnots. How much of my tax $ went to this fellow to not sell to the condo builders? How much can I get to not build condos? Local produce is wonderful, I wish I could afford it. I'll stick with store produce, much cheaper even after having been shipped across the world.
The whole story reeks of swamp rats.


That’s a significant stretch. If investigators had a warrant, the firearms would have to be turned over, i.e., collected.


Where is the "valid argument"? You assigned benevolence to yourself and I pointed out its falsity.


you little censor hungry peasants working for minimum wage over there must be on cloud 9 whenever your masters print one of these boring wannabe sensationalist muslim stories. I want to see you continue to do that: keep simple and small, keep running to mommy and daddy to shelter your precious fragile minds. it bemuses beyond your comprehension - how wantonly self destructive you are. go ahead, invite daddy under the covers there with you, i know you can keep the secret - go ahead and have no other sexual experience until you are gifted to the old hairy bozo down at the used car dealership, enjoy that old world misogyny while you trumpet the open society and tolerance. and you know what? when the war DOES happen, i wont return your pettiness and scorn in kind - i, the big, strong, intelligent, successful white man, WILL rescue you, like i always have. im bigger than you, its just that simple. now go ahead and continue playing in your little mind control sand box. i do consent


In point of fact, your "ordination" is objectively invalid however much you feel or claim otherwise. But at least you took the more honest, albeit misguided, path and left the Catholic Church.

Your juvenile anger and willfulness towards the Church - "at being seen as "less" as a woman" - is, like all those promoting this "cause", rooted in a spirit of rebellious pride. These are not gifts of the Holy Spirit.


We hear a lot of noise from the conservative element about running government like a business. Well, what kind of business can afford to pay out more for a good or service than it gets back? When the profit line falls below the cost line the prudent stop dumping money into the pot until the trend reverses, if ever. Big oil works that way. The state needs to do the same.


LW2 - omg, please, move in next to me.  Someone who will water my lawn and clean windows as well?  SCORE!!  I can't wait till the paint is old, the wooden steps are rotted, and my car needs a good washing.


Developers always promise jobs!  It's a staple of the narrative. The trickle down of money is attractive , but temporary and of no sustainable consequence. Drug epidemics are fed by the fast bucks of these developments.


"rescind the UBC letter"? What's that got to do with his ancestry?


Only an imbecile would think that the Chump is not a pathological liar. He has a history of lying his entire life. He is seventy years old and he ain't going to stop his lying ways. What I can't figure out is why the people who are supposed to be keeping him in check can't. His cabinet, staff and the republican majority of congress need to step up to the plate and do their jobs. Right now they're empowering the dummy to continue lying because they find all kinds of stoopid excuses to back him up.


Since you asked, I'm just a single data point of course, but I started out my voting back in 1970 registering as Peace and Freedom, then switched to Libertarian, finally and for good to Democratic because my wife pointed out that a vote that's not for either of the two main parties is almost always a wasted vote.

I resisted that idea for a few elections, but it holds up pretty well to scrutiny over the long term; and definitely this year, which strikes me as the most important presidential election of the last 50 years, at least. Make your vote count ... unless you're thinking of voting for Donald Trump, in which case, please vote for the Libertarian Party instead.


They can't. It will likely be a windfall because many more will tune in out of curiosity, even though some Republicans may pass. Maybe they can snag Hillary.


Harriet, Coalition this majority that, we don't care. Just put all that aside and tell us your plan. My plan in order of priority. First State government cuts and cuts to funding for city governments.  Regulatory agencies heavy cuts because we have regulators regulating the regulators. Then cuts to subsidized housing AHFC and business subsidies AIDEA and similar offices need major reductions, the feds and banks have programs. Whole departments could go away, we can't afford them. Next welfare cuts to heating assistance etc. Next Inform the oil companies that we can no longer afford drilling subsidies and faze them out. Start a 5% sales tax so every one who comes and goes pays. Cities keep the 5% tax if they do away with property tax. Next establish a State Tax Cap. Last discontinue PFD checks and use only the earnings of the PFD to fund state government under the cap and earnings can also go to infrastructure. We all benefit from docks roads airports trails broadband water sewer ect.


sympathetic toward wynne?  She is as cunning as a fox and is willing to do anything to win.  even playing victim.


Brett Oppegaard: why don't you ask the Syrian "opposition", i.e. al-Qaeda and ISIS to escort you on your trip since that's who you think should rule Syria? I'm sure they'd be happy to foot your bill.


all of it. I just pick up one example. "Dov Zakheim was an undersecretary of defence in the first administration of George W. Bush" . That guy were able to convince Bush on WMD. This fact should disqualify him from any opinion he expresses. and he is talking about Trump.


"ad absurdum"?

Are you trying to spell a reference to your comment?


IRT "Consumer Advocate ignored activist"
Perhaps the Consumer Advocate answers to Connie Lau and brother in law Jeffrey?


I do think that before this project was approved by the City- there should have been
more more neighborhood communication and out-reach.   How did the neighborhood
association feel about the building of this project?


Alaska is not in a recession. Perhaps by some skewed definition of manipulated labor statistics, Mr. Fried can make this claim. It seems more like a coordinated effort to "scare" Alaskans into a fix-- taxes, raiding our  PFD or increasing the capital budgets to sustain the construction industry.

Second, if there is a recession, it's Dept. of Labor's fault. Alaska's union-centric labor laws kill jobs. Minimum wage increases; the lack of "day labor" provisions; strict regulations militating against "contract labor"; favorable unemployment benefits--the list of disincentives to hire and to work are endless.

Finally, compare the number of people declared "unemployed" or collecting unemployment benefits to the number of people seeking work--registered with DOL as "eligible for or seeking work". There's ZERO correlation. There is NO REQUIREMENT in law requiring a person seeking benefits to apply for a job that's open and available.


Lock this young man up until he outgrows his childish rage!


Torque truth? Come again?


How soon we seem to forget...he also was one of that group who wanted to rent/buy a building in Anchorage while pleading the state had no money. Really, all he cared about was what the legislators wanted rather than cutting their own budgets. If he can't set an example in his own office, why should other departments feel a need to cut.


I'm very sorry for your loss. I, too, lost my brother in a very similar way. He was 20 and had recently started experimenting with spice. One night after work, he drove up to his favorite spot overlooking Homer where he liked to play his guitar, write music, draw and watch the sunrise/sunset. That night he shot himself. No suicide note, no previous suicidal tendencies, none of the red flags were there. Due to the fact that he took his own life, it was ruled a suicide, regardless of the drug influence. I had a really hard time accepting the title of "suicide" because my brother would never willingly, soberly, take his own life. Like I'm sure you have, Ms. Goodman, I spent hours, days, weeks trying to piece together his last moments, reading his text messages, reading the police report, trying to find answers, a solid reason that makes sense to me as to why he is no longer here. Next week, it'll be 4 years since I lost him and I'm still trying to "learn to live with it". Be strong.


Don't be fooled by this law.  It is not to protect workes aginst sexual assualts it is designed to make hotels pay over time by room size.  Attendants can only clean a certain square footage per day, if they go over, even by one foot it is overtime.  Fast workers are sent home early, making less money, so it encourages employees to work slowly.  Good workers are penalized.


I usually ask for a discount for paying cash or debit.  Sometimes I get it but sometimes I don't.


It is called the Holocene Interglacial Period, and the ice has been melting for the last 11,700 years.  It is not "unprecedented" either.  The Holocene Maximum, Minoan Warming, Roman Warming, and Medieval Warming periods have all seen warmer temperatures than today.  Furthermore, this is just one of ~50 interglacial periods in the last 2.58 million years.  The last Eocene Interglacial Period, from 130,000 to 115,000 years ago was even warmer than the current one.


Say what?! Andrew Scheer doesn't hold a public office??? Excuse me, Mr Scheer, but you are the Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition. That's a public office. It comes with a significant pay raise, office staff, and the perks of a mansion and the privileges of being a member of the Queen's Privy Council. Scheer doesn't seem to know how parliamentary government works.


Same old, same old ... for a few extreme cases, we are changing the law that will fundamentally change the fabric of society ...

Once it becomes a law people, especially old people, start thinking, and feel guilty: "I am old, I am in need of (ongoing)care, I am useless, I am only a burden on my loved ones, I better die" ... "Doctor! My discomfort, pain and disability is an 'unbearable' burden ... I want to die!"

On the other hand, when granny gets old and cranky and in need of ongoing care, children start to think ... "Well ... this is getting burdensome ... she should know ... she wont get any better ... only makes everyone's life miserable ... it is legal now ... hell ... it is the norm (governed by law) ... why doesn't she just request it ... maybe we can drop a few hints ... like not visiting ... "

Once it becomes the law, eventually it becomes the norm. Old people, out of sense of guilt will want it.... a society without care and compassion ... and this they call progress...


Good.  I hope Joly takes this letter to heart.


This law change is all well and good, assuming it comes to pass. However, what we really, really, really need is actual traffic law enforcement. It has been shown time and again, both in practice and in theory, that it is not the size of the penalty that changes behavior but the certainty of being caught doing something "wrong".

I'd much rather see a bill to assess the effectiveness of police traffic law enforcement by randomly looking at the relative lawfulness of motor vehicle operators' behavior. Just look at a few roads and intersections and tabulate the percent of motorists who are not speeding, leaving their lanes or violating the traffic control devices (very low locally) and tie the pay of the top third of the agency responsible for enforcement to those numbers.

If we did so, Chief Kerns might have to move into the Mission since our low rate of traffic law compliance might mean that he is paid zero dollars.


steeler, exactly, but, they would live in 'our' neighborhood and we would control what happens in 'our' neighborhood. something happens to a person, physically and mentally when they reach a certain income level and its not pretty.


I guess you conveniently overlooked that it was Trump's crew, the Russians and the Russian press at that event.
No American press admitted! How's that for logic? The fewer participants, the fewer sources for leaks, eh!
What would either of them gain?  Who knows, but it certainly doesn't look good on Trump; either he is blabbing too much or someone on his hand-picked crew has it in for him. Either way it goes right back to Trump i.e. not all that smart.


Sorry, mocanic, you're also incorrect. A 2011 study by U.S. PIRG found that gas taxes, auto registration, tolls, and the like cover roughly half of highway construction costs. The rest is general appropriation. And since the gas tax hasn't increased since the early 1990s, the proportion of (my) taxpayer dollars filling that gap is ever increasing. Consider also that most bicyclists also own cars and pay the appropriate licensing fees, etc. And to take your straw man argument to its logical conclusion: If motorists are dismayed that their user fees go to bike paths, would they really prefer NO bike paths and all those cyclists on the road instead? So again -- bicyclists are already paying their fair share.


My daughter worked for a short time in Toronto for $CDN 62,000.00 doing medical research and teaching at a university. Same job in the US south (Texas) was offered to her at $USD 106,000.00, no snow to shovel, low cost of living, and a 3 bedroom home on 2 acres with pool, palm trees and tennis court for $USD 230,000, she and her family have never looked back.


The liturgy is for man, not for God. Even the worship of the angels is refrigerator art compared to the awesomeness of the Trinity.


It is not programmed that way. Driving and actively avoiding collision are two concepts in automation ... I don't think the developers have given that too much thought, it makes things more complicated.


Canada needs to expand the safe third country agreement to the entire border. Feed them a hot meal and send them back.


Or just take Molinar's life. I'm good with his mom going too.


Rick, I sent you an email with a video that I think you will enjoy.


It will continue this way, the variations in identity are continuing to grow along a spectrum. The problem with your point is that a counter argument would be to just call both groups 'women', but then that would lead to confusion in certain relevant situations (like in these kinds of discussions).  So, perhaps 'cis' or 'non-trans' should only be used to refer to groups when we are explicitly discussing gender issues or maybe medical discussions  - in normal conversation 'women' should be sufficient.
With respect to human rights - generic terms like 'gender identity' could be used which would not exclude women.


jimetjules:  You are correct on the first point, but emphatically incorrect on the second.  Canada declared war of its volition as a sovereign country in WWII.


I have been an Aeroplan member since it's launch, and have launched a significant number of loyalty programs in Canada  (Royal Rewards, CIBC 5% CashBack, various TD Credit Card programs, Scotiabank 5% CashBack and ScotiaGold Rewards, etc).  Bravo!  Air Canada should take an approach of key travel-related benefits such as lounge access, preferred check-in, etc. and most importantly, unrestricted access to availability...."Travel Anywhere, Anytime & Anyway You Want" (if available, not just allocated) on any Air Canada or Strategic Alliance partner.  Leave Aeroplan to non-travel, replacing the pathetic performance of AirMiles.


Interesting charts ! Thank you.

So now my rant  .-)
After all the ballyhoo propaganda promoting wind and solar "green energy"....
- Solar contribution = 0.01% of load ( not installed capacity )
- Wind contribution = 4.4% of load ( not installed capacity
So this whole comedy achieved a 4.5% of demand load after spending $$ Bilions to make Ontario/Canada world leaders in green energy ....
CO2 reduction ?????????? !
In my simple engineering mind this money would have been far better spent with a transmission line to Quebec hydro generated power ( as was an option ).  But then I am not a politician nor Discovery Math qualified PhD in Advanced Basket Weaving !
Never mind that the solar and wind technologies were imports and we dug the foundation holes ....
It is to weep !
Somebody .. P L E A S E - hand me a Klenex  ;..-((
Then there is Ontario's >$340B debt .....
I need a psychiatrist because my mental health is going into shock.
I think I'll stop here .............


But how many spendy private sector contracts would that eliminate?


Soooo...Wednesday, in other words.


Here we go again, a black man?  Sound racists to me, they should say a dark man then we can clump more people together and not hear the race card over and over again.  How do these people get guns anyway.  Main thing they only hurt each other and no innocent bystander.


This is exactly what Trump wants.  Media and protesters on both sides are playing right into Trump's hands.  His approach is to be intentionally divisive and gets people to pit against each other.  He does this with the public, with the media, and he does it with his own staff.  This distracts everyone away from focusing on his lies and abuse.  Classic business negotiating tactic.


If you want top-quality education, top-quality roads, then that costs upfront. Yes, it pays off in the long run, but it means having a tax increase in the short term. Everyone wants top quality services, but nobody wants to invest in them.

When's the last time you lobbied your councillor to increase your municipal tax in order to spend a little more on better quality paving? It exists - look at many European countries with similar freeze-thaw cycles to ours. Their roads are in much better shape!

When's the last time you lobbied your MPP to increase your taxes to pay for better quality education?

We can have better things, but the idea that "innefficient bureaucracies" are the reason we don't have them is false. Yes, I agree their is government waste, but there will always be, and eliminating that isn't nearly enough to pay for what we want.


Ambitious and conscientious OIA schools need to get smart about the situation and bolt the OIA.  Make a deal with the ILH, and collaborate and cooperate on both sports AND academics.  There is expertise in the private schools to be shared, but not enough to be shared broadly across all public school Districts or complexes.  The ILH should act like college sports conferences, take in selected public schools, and interact holistically.  Yeah, there will be backlash from the unions and even DOE.  But the OIA claims it is "separate" from the BOE/DOE.  That's why the BOE and DOE deny responsibility for their behavior.  What is the BOE going to do?  Refuse  private school contributions?    Fine.  ILH, start a sports super league and throw in educational resource support sweeteners.  PAC 12 has Stanford and USC as well as public schools.  All are elevated by affiliations surrounding sports.  Enough with the OIA crab in the bucket mentality.


Is Ron Amemiya related to Managing Director Roy Amemiya?


"The dumb-and-proud mentality is way stronger ... on the right"
Wow you don't seem to follow current events very much.
All the violence is coming from the left. All the attempts to frustrate free speech are coming from the left. All the hysteria is coming from the left. Google will tell you as much and youtube will show it to you. Try searching "Berkeley antifa", "April Free Speech", "Berkeley Free Speech", and "Berkeley Riot".
Refute with facts if you can but I won't be holding my breath.


Competitive with other counties?  All of these positions are elected positions, if the elected officials don't like the pay, they should not run for the positions as they know the salary and benefit package when they file for the elective offices.

I can't wait to hear Jay Bozievich's reasons justifying why he deserves such a generous pay raise while cutting services for county residents and cutting pay for classified employees of the county.  What part of the county budget will the 14% been removed from to cover Jay's raise?


Time for the Republicans to explode the debt again.


Perspective:
4.2M:     Alberta's population
2.5M:     possible voters
61,670:  United Conservative Party membership
35,623:  voted for Jason Kenney.

35,000 dinos lead by a corrupt, incompetent weasel - who couldn't in 9 years get a pipeline built and brought 400,000 temporary foreign workers into Alberta - aim to sway you with their "ideology" which consists of attacking minorities, gays, women, and social programs that support working people, including health care.  Yeah, you elect that Alberta and in four years you'll throw it to the curb like you did Prentice.


No actually more guns means less death. Its gun free zones that cause more death generally because bad people don't follow the law.


What's laughable is that you don't know at all what he said in the tape.  He said he could just grab women because he was famous, he never mentioned a word about women trying to become famous.  Don't believe me you might actually want to read the transcript, here it is and here is the part you so incorrectly referrence.  By the way if you don't think that Trump is uncivil, you might want to look that word up.

Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html


Hmm.. And what would that do to South Korea? Are they prepared to take in millions of refugees?


Please Mr. Trump when in office, put on
your best lead boot ant plant it up Justin
trudopes commie backside.
Thank You
Regards.
JC


Do you work in Healthcare or insurance?


Steve, I think you have a good point. Probably, as seems to have already begun, there will be some intelligent and respectful sharing of opinions, but there no doubt will also be some nastiness.


The amount of GOLD in the ground is why they keep trying to sugar-coat the negatives & tear up the ground with alien (Foreign) shovels. STOP PEBBLE.


We need to acknowledge those who voted NO too.  Mahalo to those members.


Why does the headline say "gave" while the article says "giving".
And why the hedge 'any'?


Could you please explain what is wrong with taxpayer funding of homeless shelters?


Been watching Guardians of the Galaxy have you?


Another bitter, angry, dissociated con supporter. You have been defeated. In every province. Nationally. You won't be seeing the government side of the commons for many years to come. I guarantee it.


To the Grunwald family - I can't even begin to imagine what you are going through! May the Lord bless you and heal your heart in the fullest possible way. You will remain in my prayers!!!
To the families of those involved - you too are hurting and for that you will remain in my prayers as well. Your children have, for some reason, gone down a very dark path that has lead to heartache for so many. I pray for your healing as well!


the solution is simple. Either go solar or drink 10 gallons of red bull. The real issue being; if NASA is truly convinced of man made global warming, and we are at a critical point, than why are they still driving their vehicles and sending rockets into space?


One never hears hide nor hair from Patrick Brown or the Conservatives for that matter. Strange.


Doctors, lawyers, physicists, dentists, engineers etc.???  What is wrong with you?


Theater is the original place for grand standing and protest.


Kudos to that officer for aiming for the head.  Keep it up ICE.  SOMEBODY needs to keep law and order in Colorado!


Maybe they're just fat and lazy.


coal, oil, natural gas,   it's ALL GOOD !!


It was a succession of governments that gave away the world to Boomers. Low taxes, cheap education, free health care, and companies were't taxed to death so they could afford to offer Pensions, Health plans and vacations to their employees. Boomers demanded it.
They left the next several generations with massive debt. We will pay more taxes than Boomers ever did, yet see far fewer of the benefits.
So yeah, we do have a bit of an attitude. Enjoy your retirement and healthcare. This generation is footing the bill and we will have to work until the day we die to afford it. Thanks.


Is it too early to start talking about a PF tax-exempt trust account set up for every resident? Every year you are a resident you receive a "dividend" in vesting for benefits for education, health care, etc. Kind of like capital credits at your electric co-op.


"Listen, this is where the White House has landed.
They have landed on the stupidity defense.
.
"He just didn't understand that the FBI is an independent law enforcement agency and was doing what you just described.
This is where they have landed.
This is where they have landed on foreign policy.
He just didn't understand that you don't blow the cover of undercover agents. So he didn't get the intel.
He didn't understand it was inappropriate to ask for the FBI to be the arms of your press operation and rapidly respond to stories you don't understand.
"If this is where they have landed, this is where they are going to have problems over and over again."


Living with a depressed person is very difficult, indeed. Friends and family members may try to "cheer them up", or attempt to persuade them that things aren't as bad as the depressed person feels they are. That never works, and often makes the person suffering from depression sink deeper. Depressed people often carry within them the feeling that nothing can be done, and nothing will change.  But medication and/or talk therapy, depending on the individual, can be highly effective. When someone who's depressed resists getting help, that becomes frustrating, and almost unbearable for the people around them.  Getting angry with them doesn't help either.  It's a great relief when a depressed person gets help and feels better, or the depression lifts on its own, as it sometimes does.  People with repeated episodes of depression can learn to weather the storm, and realize that when they're low, getting help is useful, or if they're lucky, it will simply pass.


I love stories like this. The Free Market, the free market everyone yells, until it's personal. Now it's all about making sure the big bad corporation doesn't screw me. And for the record I think this is a long needed reform and I have never been a free market advocate...


What a dumb park that is with the line on the fence. The other dumb thing is baseball using the idiotic replay technology. Granderson quit on the play when he saw the ball hit the wall above the line. He knew any replay would call it a HR so he stops running? That's the kind of ridiculous play replay has given us among other silly plays like the super slow-mo camera catching a guy safe on the tag only to be pushed off by the fielder and called out after a 10 minute confab.


Not sure why I'm even bothering to reply to your post, but here goes. See there's this thing called competition. If there's another provider in the mix then Comcr*p will have to account for that in both pricing and service or simply leave the area. Here are some examples of how community broadband has saved localities money:
https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/fact-sheet-public-finance.pdf

Feel free to provide counter examples if you can. Spare us anymore drivel if you can't.


Trump's not on trial.  Where are you coming up with this? There isn't enough votes to impeach Trump in either the House or Senate, even if they did find something. If they do find  'something' it will be tainted by the fact that the one who 'finds' it is disqualified by a severe  'conflict of interest' and it will be tossed out anyway.  Trump's not going anywhere.


What about people who can't walk or otherwise physically exert themselves?  How are they supposed to defend themselves?  The only reason "guns are a plague in the US" is because ignorance about guns is the real plague in the US.  You can hate and fear guns all you want, but you should still learn about them.  Knowledge is power.  Teach young kids what the proper action is should they come across a gun.  It could save lives.


Did Josh Earnest say at any time how bad and scary the news media were?


You just want our laws to permit discrimination. How wonderful for you that you can separate your ideological beliefs from the consequences inflicted upon other people if your beliefs were to be encoded in law. People who are subjected to daily discrimination don't enjoy such luxury.

Your beliefs are unconstitutional, under the Equal Protection clause at minimum. America rejected your line of thinking over 50 years ago, and we are continuing to reject it every time your ilk attempt to drag it up. What a bummer it must be for you to live in a country where you disagree with one of its most basic founding principles.


For once we agree; the Roman view of sainthood/canonization should be relegated to the scrap heap of history.


Well churches are not the only organizations that are 501(3)c’s. If we eliminate the Johnson Amendment, your donation to your kid’s Little League team could also be used for partisan political purposes. It gets even shadier than that, remember when the Trump Foundation cut a check to an electioneering organization working to re-elect Pam Bondi after she stopped investigating Trump University? Were the Johnson Amendment to be repealed, rich people could set up “charities” that allow them to donate money and then write it off on their taxes, making donations to political campaigns tax deductible for them. It has nothing to do with religion.


The Denver Post has not been a reliable news source ever since Singleton obliterated true journalism there and at many newspapers across the country.


can't come soon enough


Noted by me for one. I suppose I could go find some cites. But it's sorta the whole point of the social contract and rule of law. We surrender our right of private violence against those who wrong us in return for the assurance that the state will use its monopoly on retributive violence to seek justice for us. Eliminating legal private vigilantism and replacing it with public law enforcement doesn't really protect the vigilante, they are by definition capable of doing so themselves, this rule of law primarily protects the accused offender. Again, this is Philosophy/Criminology 101 stuff. I can recommend some reading...


You mean how so many students spend their 'spring breaks'.


And the G&M continues with it's policy of fomenting open trade. Consider for just a minute that Canadian inflation adjusted median incomes fell from 1981 until 1998 as trade expanded and flourished. Yet trade as a percent of our GDP maxed out in 2000 and has dropped ( a lot) since then while median incomes have risen. That tells you all that you need to know about why people reject free trade - they reject it because it hurts them.  Our government and it's various cheerleaders, G&M included, want to put us back onto a bad path.


Is there anything else going on with film that might be worthwhile to comment on than yet another article about comic books being turned into lowbrow fare with huge budgets?

Perhaps the reason for the declining attendance is that for lots of us, the garbage that Hollywood pushes at us....with opening nights of 4000 cinemas across North America...is nothing to write home about. Or leave home for.

Except it would appear film critics and writers from the Globe and Mail. Who go on about the latest in  Hollywood franchise junk.

For the benefit of Mr.Herz and others, there are tons of good films being made...many of them foreign. Or independent english language, Canadian films, and documentaries.
What about something on the top prize winner from Cannes from the great Swedish director Rueben Osland. How about Mikeal Haneke's Happy End with Isabele Huppert.

You are what you eat Globe and Mail. And the intellectual food you are feeding us on cinema is junkfood.


Oh, then why did Clinton get close to 2 million-and possibly more--votes than Trump?  Doesn't sound like a mandate to me. Sounds like a lie perpetrated by a con artistist and his thugs.


Microsoft licensed their first OS (DOS).  They didn't write it.
There are many search engines aside from Google.
Opera was developed in Europe and remains popular there.
Open office is a good alternative if you don't like MS or Google Docs.

Google is predatory and bent on creating a monopoly.  The EU is doing the right thing.  Microsoft was the same but is slowly coming around.


Ah yes. Drugs; a victimless crime.


Let me guess; it will be called buraq.


I believe Trumpet could shoot someone on a NYC street and his followers would not care.


This is not about the relative dividend yields of the Canadian and US markets. It's about there are more efficient ways to screen for value that dividend screens, and the high current valuations, and therefore lower expected returns, of dividend stocks. While true that dividends are taxed more favourably in Canada than in the US, the thesis still holds for the Canadian market. Have a look at the 3 articles linked in the article, which explains it more fully.


Whatever the controversy, why in the name of anything is this news? So he had a surgery that cost of lot of money, he is the citizen of this country, yadayadayada.. Why force such controversial piece of non-news on your readers. Others did it too. One thing is sure, he , his father, his mother and other members of his family have cost Canada millions. This on top of tragedy they directly caused as terrorist. How much more they will cost us and how much more we have to be exposed to this...what can you call it that is printable By the way, how many schools we could have built for our neglected and abused natives for that for ever lost money?.


At the Indian fuel stop last weekend a big rig driver took grievous offense at the "Veterans for Obama" bumper sticker on my truck. He spewed out a series of comedic ideas that he held about President Obama. When I asked him where in the name of dog he got such crazy ideas he said, "I listen to both stations". Limbaugh on one and Hannity on the other no doubt. Right wing media has introduced a pathological epidemic of ignorance into this countries psyche that feeds on fear and hatred of the "Other". Everyday a new thing, person, group to hate and fear. As FDR told us in the midst of the darkest days of WW2, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".


The place is a cesspool of neglect, poverty, criminality and desperation. Its population is a volatile mix of locals, immigrants (many of whom are illegal), workers, unemployed and criminals. To top it all, it resides on a steep slope.

I have no idea how the authorities think they can make this place liveable, without spending hundreds of millions on terracing and installing sewerage, water and power. It is also probably one of the most dangerous spots in the city.
Blocking will require some form of census, and many if it's residents don't want that, for obvious reasons.

The only way to get it right is for the community itself to identify the criminal elements that live among them, isolate them, and then participate in the "blocking" as temporary city employees.  The city will have to break its own laws to expedite this process.


"He quoted from the portion of the immigration law that he said gave him the power to enact the ban, calling it “beautifully written” and saying, “A bad high school student would understand this.”

But much too difficult for orange buffoons to understand.


Anybody can parrot science research.  Even the guy who invented the internet.  Doppelt has great faith that what the scientists are preaching is the gospel truth.  No different than any other religion.


I've heard the same thing said about earlier generations. Gen X, baby boomers, sandwich generation, etc.

I don't buy it and the studies about distractions in open floor plans (higher stress) and about multitasking (humans, no matter their "generation", are terrible at it, especially men) don't bear it out, either.

I especially do not understand that millennials would be all that special in this regard. If anything, earlier generations - like boomers and the "greatest generation" lived through some of the biggest disruptions in history: radio, television, air travel, car and consumer culture with nuclear families living in the burbs, leading up to the rise of the net and mobile. They saw it all and many adapted quite well to it.

Of course, then there is the problem that "generations" are mostly a construct that has dubious merits....


What a ridiculous double standard by the City of Vancouver....the city proposes really tough "heritage house" legislation that removes people's private property rights, and doesn't allow owners of older homes (even if dilapited) to demolish/renovate homes they invested their life savings in...then here they are bulldozing heritage houses at will and leaving them empty for months on end.   This municipal government appears to be run by wealthy vancouverities (presumably in the west side, who have paid off their mortgages) who see themselves as socially conscious, but in reality, or completely out of touch with the average /middle income earner and their struggle in this housing market.   Hopefully east vancouver comes out and votes in the next municipal election