"...not sure about his caljones..."  Caljones?"  I'm not sure about them, either. Steelers36.   I think you might mean, Cajones," Use "Balls"; much easier to spell, no?  But Cajones does have...well, a certain cachet...

Memo to Conservative Leadership Campaign organizers:
I suggest there's an opportunity to take this nugget of information and run with it.  Let's capture this "Cajone Moment" and make it our own!

Now, what this means, of course, is that due to certain lack of physical attributes--and, who knows, maybe others as well--at least two candidates should be dismissed out-of-hand (no names, on this memo...you all know who they are.)

Some potential banner-and-button logo lines come to mind:
Canada's got Cajones!
Conservatives' Can-Do Cajones!
Cajones against (fill in the blank)
Cajones mean (fill in the blank)

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "balls up", right?


More or less stopped going to Timmies as the quality has deteriorated so much. The imported Brazilian management hasn't a clue about Canadian tastes and traditions. Fresh from destroying iconic Canadian companies such as Inco and Labatts, they are now 3 for 3. You can add the Heinz Leamington plant debacle to that too. For one who loves Brazilian culture, have never quite understood their animus against things Canadian.


Great article and great posts.


Dermot is correct here and his warnings should be heeded but probably won't be.
Most Alaskans won't stand for a 15% sales tax or a personal income tax that would more than double the liability of what would be owed on federal taxes. And I'm one of them.
It's too bad but the PFD will likely soon end. The PF reserve will have to be tapped  amd drained since the state wouldn't be legally insolent. The governors reduction only postpones the end by a year or two. At least there'll be a softer landing...


Of course it would.....why?  Because the morality expressed by the international community is inconsistent with the contract that has been signed by god/jesus/insert whatever other deity.


Back in the day when Hawaii nei was a pakalolo island the biggest threat from stoners was getting caught behind them in line at 7-11 while they tried to choose a flavor of chewing gum. Now thanks to the war on drugs and the law of unintended consequences, marijuana as a drug of choice; mellow, amotivational, cheap, and relatively harmless even to reckless youth, has been replaced by methamphetamine; hyperactive, paranoia producing, cheap, and addictive.  No doubt federal monies were infused to combat evil weed (Green Harvest) without considering what would replace it.  Both schedule 1 drugs (no medical use, high potential for abuse) marijuana is now legal in four western states with medical marijuana as the camel's nose in the tent.  Meth is a scourge equivalent to heroin with ruined lives, destroyed families, and the sad sick specter of addiction and all crimes associated with feeding the monkey. You can try to legislate morality but most often the do-gooders end up screwing things up


And then there are employers who will stoop to anything -- and I mean ANYTHING -- to sabotage a person's ability to make a living, whether contract or full time.


"Everyone knew Trump was a con artist?" Really ?  I don't think they did... I agree they were angry at the political elite in Washington but they shot the wrong foot. Republicans in Congress have not governed well or at all for a decade. They will win seats in Congress again and maybe not the Democrats  because the US Electoral system is seriously  broken.  The districts are so gerrymandered that voters don't choose their representative the politicians do. The nomination process is what matters.  Its a corrupt joke and an affront to democracy.


I say what I mean, and mean what I say; pro-CHOICE.  How about you Roberts, ever pay for a vasectomy?  That's a form of murder isn't it?  Pinching life off before it has a chance to form.


give me a break.  I will answer when the Donald releases his tax returns.   Stop making excuses for this liar in chief!  You can repeat all you want but it won't change the fact that you voted for a Clown as president.


So does this mean that we as a society are regressing back to the pre-1776 days when inalienable rights were only guaranteed to property owners? Did the USA turn into an oligarchy or a plutocracy when nobody was looking?


...and if it were 19 years ago?  The woman in the article is 21.  How can we be certain she is even a citizen and wasn't brought over in utero, or conceived or birthed prior to mom and dad running across the desert?  You think they would tell anyone?

Seems like by default if mom and dad aren't citizens, you aren't either....right?  Maybe with her free Yale degree, she can word towards interpreting the law correctly.


Good God people - are you too stupid to learn this or too lazy to try?  No wonder Alaska has so many Trump voters with that kind of thinking.


I can accept your "Could it be"s. However, I reject your "Don't blame God..try the mirror".
Pain and suffering is THE mystery for anyone believing or attempting to believe in God.  Not to be profoundly troubled by that mystery is to jeopardize the capacity to grow.
There's a line from "Job the Musical" that haunts me: "If God is good, there is no God", yet I believe. I am a fool for God.
There is no adequate answer that unsettles the urgency of that question. Only if pain and anguish is an illusion does it makes sense. And it isn't.


Nearly 70% of Americans support the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a November 2016 survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Backing away from the agreement in any way, is a crime against humanity.


Shellyn _ I am so sorry about you and your family's loss. I am glad someone has been arrested for his death. I hope you guys are able to find the justice for him.


Why disgrace the national anthem by kneeling? Don't cut off your nose to spite your face!


There have been great writing from anonymous writers.    I don't see any on this site being particular important and certainly not immortal.

What makes those writers great is that were published and circulated to a wide audience.   We know that is done in war times, including our own Independence and Civil wars.    The mediums have changed of course - you have fools who think you can make and explain policy on twitter for instance.

You seldom aim to belittle others Out.  We've had strong disagreement but I always read and 'like' those post I agree with.     You do not hide behind your anonymity to avoid common civil standards (if we have any left).      We can continue to disagree civily I hope, I have no animus toward your adopted alias.    *Your life is not irrelevant and you don't think so either.   You've let people know about your patents.   You writing is thoughful and well constructed.  You are a peaceful and quick to defend the underdog,


Perhaps the column has been given a rhetorical title. Trump flip flops from day to day. On Monday it might be the madman "strategy". On Tuesday it might be the con man "strategy". Variety is not always the spice of life.


Castration is best for him


The US surpreme court has already ruled that the US constitution only applies to US citizens.  Refugees are not US citizens.


welcome back!


Leah is gone too:

http://www.canadalandshow.com/globe-and-mail-axes-tabatha-southey-leah-mclaren/


Good response T.O. Jeff


By the critics, more concerned about the form the protest is taking than the actual issue they are protesting.
Then, Trump threw down a dare, and now nothing good can be accomplished, because it's all about Trump's ego.


Ahh, a VW fan.  I did almost everything myself on my 78 Scirocco, 84 Rabbit, and 85 GTI.  My Mark IV started to get tricky, and my Mark V is becoming a baffling ordeal now that the warranty is muerte and I am more inclined to try and tackle things myself.

Pretty soon I think my driveway wrenching will be limited to my motorcycle and snowblower.


I'm not even going to jump into that big pile of straw.


Note:  Trump can get all the sweetheart financing he wants as a private citizen.  But not as President.  And, even whether a lender provides financing will create all kinds of headaches for the lender.  Same for Insurers adjusting Trump Organization claims.  I don't think they can treat Trump favorably without adverse consequences.

Seems like any lenders wanting to put money into Florida rebuilding can find lots of good credit risks to plant money with, without risking the added scrutiny and added paperwork and added potential civil or criminal accusations that might arise.  So, it looks like if Irma hits Trump properties, they are in pretty serious financial risk going forward, and thereby, so is the Trump Organization, and Trump's net worth.

Are there mortgages on the Trump Florida properties that Trump or the Trump Organization are responsible for?

Can Trump engage in his normal aggressive construction management practices for massive rebuilds?

I almost feel sorry for him.


China's emissions are about one third of U.S. emissions on a per capita basis.
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and what is your source for this?
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and on a per capita basis is Canada not one of the highest too?
is our lifestyle so different than the Americans' ?


So, pulling the wool over the eyes of USA, is pretty good isnt it..for a 'friendly' neighbour....when the USA advertises these great canadian attributes....are they ever going to be able to rebut them when truths come out...about the wolf in sheeps clothing...that canada is to most of the world.....


Oh I agree that our schools should be more focused on academic success than social engineering as they seem to be now.  Frankly I think there's way too much emphasis on extracurricular activities and not enough on actually learning.

I'd also throw in vocational skill success in with academic success, too.  It shouldn't be just about advancing kids to college, there should also be more vocational tracks in HS for those whom college isn't part of their future.


more war mongers hired by the incendiary buffoon.  and the new guy is worried about iran.  ask most rational thinking citizens in the world outside comatose united states who they are worried about most and they will tell you it is america.


This seems to be a repeat, why ?
The author and the editors have clearly overlooked the biggest movement in China, and, that is the Hong Kong freedom movement.  Openly discussed in the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Edition.
Obama failed to implement a reciprocal tax plan for China, as Obama's administration also failed to properly recognize Taiwan.
Our shameful Prime Minister openly admires dictatorships, and continues to follow Obama's failed policies.
Note, a small point, from Taiwan........" Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) congratulatory phone call to United States President-elect Donald Trump last week has been described by two former U.S. officials as a positive development".


This reminds of a friend that worked in the oil patch - was adamant and railed about climate change, yet let his pick up truck idle all night in 30 below so he wouldn't get cold starting it up in the morning.....  When I asked him about a few of his contradictions in life style, he said "you're missing the big picture"..... Ha !  Reminds me of the do gooders jetting around in various forms air conditioned transport......


Don't care. Liked and admired Mulroney up until the GST (Like most who zapped the Tories that election - Note, the Harper Conservatives were NEVER the Tories). There is never a reason to accept Trump or Trumpist racism in Canada.

If you stay at a Trump hotel in Toronto or Vancouver, you're a Trumpist. Don't do it. Boycott him at every turn.

Everything you do to say "Oh well...that's the way it goes..." normalizes him and normalizes the behaviour of right wing extremists in Canada like Ezra Levant, The Rebel "Media", Wildrose Party and Kellie Leitch. How UnCanadian.

BTW, Globe and Mail...your spellcheck says behaviour is misspelled...also UnCanadian.


I already avoid Beltline .  I can't imagine the horrors that await.


No argument there then.


I think that many people here in the US don't really care about a particular candidate's religion.  It seems to me that the press talks about this topic more than most people do.  The fact that white Evangelicals would cause the election of someone like Trump points to the fact that affiliation is not really that important.


uh no.
Actually, Tesla, Volvo, and BMW have all announced that they will be held responsible for the times when their APs were in use and there was no interference by the driver.


Maybe, maybe not. He is however, far superior to you. Now that's not sayin' much, but still.


Oooo, links to five year old articles when neither the current police chief or mayor were around. Relevant how?


Some people said Hillary was running a child sex club out of a pizzeria, too.


I thought we were promised "change" by Trudeau.


That's basically correct.

Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler in particular were the nastiest.

See who started the Nazi death camps., the Gestapo, the SS.  Check out the war propaganda from Goebbels.

These were the sweeties who invented all that; Hitler signed off on it, but they thought it all up!


Can you just simply never tell the truth about anything?


So a simple DNA test could determine one's sex easily. If an individual decides to live out a delusional fantasy in conflict with their test results, the rest of society should not be forced by rule of law to accept their fantasy as if it were actual reality. Otherwise, I demand to be a puppy and demand public funded treats and belly rubs.


Will the treasonous Trumpublicans enjoy licking the iron boot?


While the long-term solution of better defining what constitutes a “support animal” may very well rest with new Federal regulation (and we all know how loooong that will be!), more immediate relief is available for associations that institute a well thought out set of rules regulating animal behavior. For, while it may be “impossible” to completely restrict such exceptions, it IS possible to regulate the behaviors, such as noise, messes, damage to people or property, etc. that animals sometimes cause.


I love hearing about the colonists and the coal miners of Sutton.  Yahoo, Mat-Su!


He's in a banana tree with his proposal but you have no clue about how equalization payments work.


Nope. That's a lie.  The 1994 Framework agreement worked out with Clinton had the N Koreans actually pausing development of nukes. When Bush Jr cancelled that deal and THEN  invaded Iraq on a lie over WMD and THEN called North Korea "evil" Pyongyang doubled down on nukes. I mean who wouldn't after seeing what the neocons did in Iraq and then Libya? If the US gets nuked its because of corrupt, arrogant and ignorant neocons. They will have American blood on their hands. The USA is no longer the good guy. Wake up.


Agreed!  Finally, a baby step in the right direction.  The progressives will not get everything they want.  The conservatives will not get everything they want.  But somewhere in the middle is where we will need to find common ground to get things done.  Wise and mature individuals understand this, immature idiots will cry and moan over not getting their way.


looking more and more like an authoritarian turn for the worse.  Controlling the media, whether or not you agree or disagree with them, is a dangerous form of repression.


I'm getting very tired of the Liberals dropping everything that they were elected to do.


Here here


How long did it take POTUS to start a twitter rampage on immigration when 6 people were killed on the sidewalk in NYC?
This?  27 people?  Just good patriots making the necessary sacrifice for our 2nd amendment rights.
He's probably busy on the links somewhere in Asia.


Sorry who was it that promised Canadians to end cash for access if they gave him their vote? Oh right Trudeau. The very same guy defending these cash for access events.


The only crime so far is the traitor in the intelligence complex who leaked confidential information to the press.  Let's find out who the traitor was and charge the person to the full extent of the law.  There is no other evidence of a crime.


You are trying so so hard, Como Comrade R bot. On the defensive I see.  Good.


You mean like when you advocated for Thomas Mulcair to be assassinated two years ago, in a comment that was quickly deleted by the Globe and Mail moderator?

That kind of free speech, Glenn?


I think the hospital would be better for patients as a local organization. It would probably be cheaper as well, but my main thought is that a manager who lives here in Fairbanks must face his neighbor every day and so is more likely to see a patient as a person who might talk back than as a gold mine to be exploited.


"“The lead concerns are great, but it has to be ingested” to be harmful, Meyers said. “You’d have to be chewing on concrete walls” to get sick, he said."

Wow - this demonstrates the incredible amount of ignorance and incompetence he has regarding how lead exposure occurs. Maybe he should do a little research before trying to convince others there's no hazard.


It was actually Sarah and Burke et al bullying the Pope. Sometimes a bully needs a poke in the nose to behave. Cardinal Sarah was not the only target of this action.


Good grief. What do you think that I misrepresented in referencing your supplied link? In what manner exactly do you allege that we disagree?


The Democrats emerge from their long somnolence and begging for campaign contributions to finally do their job.  Completely absent from the Corporate Media as Trump and his traitorous Republicans own the airwaves and print media on a daily basis.  An alien visitor would be surprised to find an opposition party just from viewing and reading the news since the new year.  When the Republicans are in the minority, Democrats are unable to pass anything because of Republican ploys to prevent.  Now, with Republicans in majority, the Democrats can't stop the Republican juggernaut of dismantling the governing system of the nation.  Too many DINOs(Democrats In Name Only) serving the same Corporate Oligarchy masters led by the Military Industrial Complex nests of thieves.  Time for a Revolution.


If you're still arguing in favor of global warming at this point you're probably a sociopath.  "Hey I'll die soon, who cares if all life on the planet dies after I'm gone!?"  I mean, seriously, what is wrong with you?.


How do our legislators even justify an LIO bldg in the first place. Wouldn't a phone call to Juneau get an answer to most questions. Don't our legislators have an email address any more or a phone number directly to them? Is it just their ego, some symbol of public status or what, that drives these stupid decisions?


Why isn't Gary Watts running for mayor?  This is awesome!  Liberals are always complaining society tries to hide the homeless out of sight....here's a guys shining the bright light of notoriety on them and the Herald is helping him!  AWESOME!


When you say “check it out,” is this usage to underscore the value of your Catholic universities education in Rome or an invitation to research something you have learned? On the one hand, I currently regard your education at Catholic universities in Rome as remarkable. On the other, I will need to be pointed to a source associated with your assertions.


Did Team Trudeau write this? This is doing a disservice to Canadians youngsters by giving them a false sense of hope. Completely detached from reality.
Did Rich figure in the recent devastating Trudeau/Morneau Tax Changes on business, professionals or the Vancouver/Toronto housing bubbles?
Trudeau will be confiscating these brilliant professionals/business /  high tech entrepreneurs investments and savings. Why would someone come to Canada to pay up to 70% of their salary on housing and then have the rest confiscated by Trudeau?
All these ‘best and brightest’ will be like Elon Musk of Tesla: arrive in Canada, spend a couple of years getting their US credentials paid for by Canada, apply for their US visa and then as soon as possible get out.


Beautifully written. Heart wrenching. Loved the gardening interludes.
Church closed due to "fewer priests". There are solutions for that, but I won't go there. (!!!).

"In the past parents were happy to give one of their children to the Church". In the 50's there was much prestige connected with having a child become a member of a religious community. My mother was ecstatic when my brother decided to go into Jesuit seminary... my Dad less so. He attended our once a month visiting Sundays with a jaundiced eye and, as a Republican, was furious when my brother mentioned being pressured to vote Democrat. After 10 years, two years short of ordination, my brother (like many of that era) chose to leave it all behind and follow a different call. Dad was ecstatic....Mom less so.


hey we already pay enough in taxes including gas taces ,, what we need is a provincial government able to stop blowing billions on scams and vote buying and let the road and such taxes be used for transportation


I'll take a wait and see attitude for now but it scared the s**t out of me when I heard him heap praise on the Dreamers. This is not the Trump I followed all through the campaign! I know a President can only do so much, but, face it, there have been no great Legislative victories since he became POTUS? And you can only blame the RINOS so much. He'd better get Taxes, the border Wall and this DACA thing right or he'll lose my support and tens of millions of other decent hard working Americans who put him in there. Let's stop blaming the media, too. They've always sucked. Trump won with all those arseholes all lined up against him. What does that tell y'all? Lets be honest, there may come a time when we'll have to put the blame where it really belongs, right in his lap. But I pray that doesn't happen. AMEN


"A fish rots from the head down."


Your story reminds me of how Homer was in the 1960s through late 1970s; with the greater good furthered by kindness and fair judgement; and I thank you for sharing perspective on a great lady along with a light overview of her being a pillar of local life here.

Sounds like Mary would have known my father, who now is in his early 90s and has health issues, so he is in a care facility in western Washington; and no longer does the things he lived for...

You may remember the 40+ tenure of a KPCC/UAA teacher who'd laugh at the idea of his being a crusty old professor; who'd hike and teach courses he invented. He retired and with his wife, drove from Kenai to Belize and lived several years in the rain forest where he continued to learn and teach. But his second love was Alaska. Learning and teaching were first nature, as he cared as Mary about people and the future we have an obligation to bring forward.

And I remember KPC was generally an after hours classroom in a public school...


The best place for the military to train would be the Bering Sea, right across the border from Russia.  That would be a show of force and it would allow the military to be better acquainted with a region more likely to see international conflict, than off the coast of Cordova.  But the military is too clueless and cowardly to train next to Russia.


Keep telling yourself that.


Why would anybody from the west in their right mind travel to NK?


Nope... This just proves that HART's new fiscal procedures are foolproof. You can't make a dispersement like this until it is thoroughly reviewed and when that is done, we find that the feds need to be in the loop. See HART does take numerous audits and reccomendations seriously.


Nice letter, GC.  The situation brings to mind Bertolt Brecht and his observation on the old GDR:  "Perhaps the Government needs to elect a new People ..."  :-/


typical uneducated left wing biased slant.  writer did absolutely zero research for this article what so ever.  Let me explain this to you all.  as of right now over 50 thousand tanker cars are sitting in storage and almost every single one of them are oil tanker cars and a good percentage of them are brand new tanker cars that have never been used and will never be used. Why? Oil; crude by train shipments have fallen by half esp on the coasts as importing crude from the Middle East and south America is so much cheaper than Bakken Crude. Also crude from Canada. but most of that goes to Delaware city DE .  new Tanker cars as they are being built are going into storage at rail short line , tourist lines all over the country.  Tourist lines in some cases  building tracks just to store freight and other rail cars the economic crash has turned down that bad in the past year! over 55,000 assorted freight  thousand of engines are in storage and hundreds  older engines are now being scapped


ScienceDuck, In the drug world, this is what drug people do to one another.  Its a revolving door, person buys drugs from drug  dealer, buyer does not pay drug dealer, drug dealer retaliates either by robbery or murder, usually murder.  Drug dealer takes a Druggie out of society.

If only we could put all the Druggies and Drug dealers on a huge island, the problem would be solved..........GENE Pool would be cleansed.

God will take care of this in the NEW World, there will be none of this DRUG CRAP................


Rightontheleft is on crack. Just move on folks nothing to see here.


www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet; http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/10/incarceration.aspx;http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All.  And there are lots more.


Oh please!  He came on condemning it right after.  Dont let your TDS shine through.


Jesus wasn't pushing politics at his events.


AMEN!!


It will never be "cleaned up" until the citizenry are willing to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth of the situation.


Cutting the government workforce isn't going to get anywhere near a balanced budget. A lot of our government is federally subsidized by grants from DC, so they're not getting Alaskan money anyway.

It's unfortunate but we're facing two options: a new tax (income, sales, etc) or a restructuring of the PFD. Personally I'd rather give up a yearly check that I didn't earn or pay into than pay more of my money per month to the government just to have them give me a check for some of it back every October. It seems redundant.


My favorite colleague and one of the brightest people I've ever met is a gay woman. When I needed advice or someone to bounce ideas off, she was my go-to person. Her partner is also a good friend and immensely capable. I count her as a friend also. Knowing them and really liking them has given me a perspective on people that I didn't have before. Gender really doesn't matter if someone is a truly good person. (What was funny was her partner referred to me as her "Work Husband" while giving me a hug.)


In my opinion, she is an enemy of Canada, and so is Pothead.


The DTEK60 is the best high end smartphone on the market for the price. It has identical specs to the Google Pixel, yet costs more than $300 less and has BlackBerry security and software.


The key to the growth is not stopping but it should be managed as it happens.  I was approached by a member of the group getting signatures to get this on the ballot and they were complaining about too much traffic on Wadsworth. Instead of stopping building, you can focus on public transportation, building and maintaining sidewalks, or bike lines.  There are alternatives.


that would be germane to the Clinton foundation ... you cant expect to be taken seriously that this statute would pertain to Trump ...


Excellent set of arguments sky. Unfortunately we'll never know what Richard231's response would be. He simply said he'd pull his child out of a class taught by a woman in a veil. No explanation - which is what I was asking for when you chose to respond.

Where was your distinction about extremists when you were calling for all Muslim columnists to prove their loyalty? Where is your recognition that wearing a veil may be a woman's choice or are you assuming that she has been co-opted and brainwashed to think she has no other choice? I'm curious about your basis for a "human right" to deal with people face to face. There are numerous times when we don't do that. Phone calls, Catholic confessionals, and don't forget that the wearing of a veil has long been a tradition at weddings and funerals in the Christian world. And given that the number of veil wearing women in Canada is extremely small and that it continues to be a controversial issue, I'd hardly claim that it's being "normalized".


you speak without thinking clearly because saying "you cannot allow people who are not using rail for a real purpose for fun or no good reason" must consider the fact that (1) this is a free country (2) anyone can ride the train as long as payment is made.


luv2ski: Strategic voting against Kenny means holding their noses as needed and voting NDP.


Not to disclose trade secrets, but I'm thinking of a stealth operation: hiking boots, a picnic lunch and binoculars. My criteria for "illegal camp" will be based on
1. Is someone camping there? and
2. (I'm thinking.... isn't camping illegal unless specifically authorized, which it isn't in Eugene parks?)
Don't even think about undercutting my bid, tramp.


Note to Civil Comments software engineers:

Recent developments in the Globe and Mail call for a new reaction emoticon.  An animated eyeroll is sorely needed.

Subsequent improvements might include an emoji with its fingers down its throat.


May be that needs to change.thats the whole point of prolife .life starts after conception and certainly after 26 wks when fetus can start survive in moms womb with medical help.It does not have to be all or nothing there has to be more education into prevention of unwanted pregnancy and more support for women if they do end up with unwanted pregnancies.may be state can take them and raise them .but we criminalize abandoning a child as if they are better of in households that don't want them and be abused .so women have no choice but to abort if they cannot raise the child .if we shut down debate we won't progress or discover other acceptable options.thats what liberals (need to be renamed autocrats) are doing on everything including climate change .


Actually Canada produces 1.6% of global GHG's.


I think you read my comment too seriously Elagabalus, I did not mean Trump was to be taken lightly...Trump is Trump...was Not a compliment. He is a very scary man, narcissist, spoiled, juvenile and I could go on. I also mentioned that he was dangerous.


Even if not shot in the back, he was not moving away. The officer shot him out of fear, which does not make for a righteous shoot since the officer had been chasing him. He could have waited for help if he could not take him down alone. It is not like he did not know who Brown was. The cop was mad because Brown had punked him in his own car. Black lives matter more than police egos. As for Travon, self defense goes out the window once Zimmerman, after being pushed down by a justifiabily afraid Martin, got up and rushed him. He became an assailant at that point and anything that happened is a consequence of that fact. Martin was not aggressing Zimmerman after the initial contact, where he believed he was justified in standing his ground. Events proved him right. Thanks for playing, but it is time to end the subjegation of young black men to armed neanderthals.


Seeing is believing...
Our Military has been shortchanged for way too many years and is in dire need of NEW Equipment all around... be it Navy, Army or Air Force...The "troops" are coping with 50+ year old equipment and they have to ROB Peter in order to fix Paul so to speak...and they have been promised this kind of thing before... and NOTHING ever happened..
Speak to some of those people that actually work on the Equipment >>> they will tell you the very same story <<< !!!


It has nothing to do with supremacy... that seems to be the rhetoric from a certain 3rd wave extremist faction who believe tearing down men is the only way to elevate women. There are plenty of strong women out there who respect the other sex.

The fact is that there are a lot of dangerous jobs out there that men take on in overwhelming majority... but its only the cushy, desirable jobs that I hear anyone complaining about there not being equity in employment.


Writers from the Fraser Institute--say no more


Then Trudeau will resign after being overwhelmed with the boring and mundane details of running a government in Canada and all the boring Canadians he has to deal with.
Trudeau's true calling and abilities are really more a combination of real estate agent, women's garment peddler,  White House banquet guest, Davos auto valet and Vogue poser. Trudeau needs to get a refund from the guidance counselor who said being PM of Canada best suited him.


Simply put, in President Trumps writing of his "second executive order" banning foreign travelers from entering the US, it is still based upon what the first executives travel ban order was based upon; as both executive orders are relatively the same exact order!  In order to understand Trumps mindset in crafting the travel ban, get contextual insight and see the fullness of what and who are targeted by this travel ban, you have to include what was said on the Trump campaign trail and what was talked about when he took office; in order to get the full picture.  Or to put it simply the "first executive order" written by Prez Trump is not superceded by the "second executive order" as they are in essence the same, with only a slight difference in "technical definition" or use of words, while the intent is still the same for both executive orders.


There's something that needs to happen before we start talking about removing contraception from the "sin list." The Catholic teaching magisterium must finally acknowledge that sex isn't only about conceiving a child. This is almost acknowledged every time old infertile people marry in the church. I once asked a priest why the church would marry people who are clearly beyond their child-bearing years and do you know what he said, "to allow for a miracle." I kid you not. Seems to me if God can create a miracle and suddenly make an old woman fertile again s/he should be able to make a lesbian pregnant from, I don't know, the Holy Spirit? Or perhaps a gay man will miraculously be able to bear a child in a womb that God could suddenly create in him. But no, that would be foolish so we can't allow gay sex. Getting past that barrier would also remove masturbation from the sin list and also allow every straight couple to enjoy sex without worry. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for that.


Bread and circuses. I do so dislike being pandered to by a rooky politico who pretends to not to be doing just that. As was alluded to, subtlty ain't the rich boy's strong suit. I think it's probably a good thing for him and a bad thing for the country that he inherited/married his wealth. Pass the French fries [even if they are frozen].


Alaska needs to be getting out of business of a lot of things in these tough financial times. Alaska should be getting out of the student loan business as well. Current federal student loans for graduates are a little over 6 percent. How much better deal could Alaska get? What happens if our economy really crumbles and kids can't pay these loans off? Who pays them then? PFD? General Fund? AK taxpayer?


The unholy triumvirate of trudeau notley and wynne  ... as America rediscovers the power of free-enterprise and capitalism, Canada turns the clock back and sinks into the liberal sewer from which the USA is now poised to escape.

Glad I converted my investments to US dollar denominated ones after the shiny new PM was elected.


Why should the PFD be even considered?
The state government needs to be accountable and should just start cutting huge departments completely. Yes jobs will be lost. If your good in your field then you can find a job in a cubicle elsewhere.
The numbers don't add up for years the Alaska budget has been in the multi billion dollar range in a state with a lot less than a million people so where's the money going when Alaska's richest person is worth less than 500 million.
Time for the government to shrink we can not keep this up.


It did endorse Harper for PM, but the alternative, which we are dealing with now, was too frightening to contemplate. And they were dead right.


"the supremacist hashtag #whitegenocide"

Say what you want about the word choice, but whites not wishing to be displaced in their own countries is not "white supremacist". That is common sense self-preservation.


Just out of curiosity, why does the article keep referring to a heroin overdose when it was obviously (from the article) the fentanyl that killed Jamie?


"It is always amazing to me that the people seeking to keep the product of their own labor are considered "greedy" by the hard Left, but those seeking to steal the labor of others are considered virtuous.

Ah yes, Venezuela, the last refuge of one with nothing to say.
The far better examples are the Scandinavian countries and Germany, but you conveniently overlook them.
The only ones who are stealing anything from anyone, it's the fat cat capitalists who steal the value from the workers on the line who created it.
The fat cats' pay packages ought to be carried on their corporation's books as liabilities, as they produce nothing of value and their compensation packages are obscenely high.
BTW, you DO make an eloquent case for a wealth tax as well as an income tax.


The key is the promises made in the "may" and "eventually" manner.   Sidewalks funded by the city are only a dream unless you are downtown.  Ask how much the city has in road money and if they answer honestly the answer is next to nothing.  Ask the city about the transfer of sidewalk financial responsibility to abutting residents rather the city maintaining and paying for them.

The city mentions sewer services but they fail to mention the "connection fee" for said service and the escalating utility rates.

Then you have all those pesky nanny ordinances that the city council rubber stamps for most whims of the mayor and staff.

Don't even get me started on draining the financial resources from most every area within the city borders to fund there downtown self serving lunch stop district infatuation.

The only thing I see as a real benefit is a better coverage and faster response by the police department.


If anyone has learned anything while living here is not to trust anything that Dick Traini says.........ever.


Could be investigative grand jury in Mr. Caldwell's future.  Possible misuse of federal money will bring regulators and investigators out. Inquiring minds like to know.  A rail from nowhere to nowhere will certainly raise eyebrows. The rail may stop at Middle Street, Honolulu, Hawaii but the investigation will begin in Washington D.C. and end at the Federal Court on Ala Moana Blvd. There will be more questions than answers. And that is never a good thing.   There will be statements under oath, investigative grand juries and at minimum serious criticism. Some are saying that Mufi, Caldwell and Grabauskas should be ashamed.  I fear that it will go beyond shame.  It may go to culpability and blame.  Money trail is hard to hide.  Forensic audit will reveal the questions that no one had the courage to ask.  Where's the money?


Our city celebrates slugs and trans.


"The American people are tired of this witch hunt"

Ohhhh, wrong again. The majority of Americans are interested in learning the truth that the multiple Russia/Trumpster campaign investigations will reveal. Buckle up, it's going to be a long bumpy ride.


state budget = broke


"There are only 2 possibilities. Either 1) Trump is lying, or 2) his lawyer is lying by putting tons of makeup in Trump's admission that he was being investigated."

There is a third possibility, which is substantiated by the facts:  Trump's lawyer has not been informed that Trump is being investigated for the Russia connection, but he is being investigated for obstruction of justice in trying to shut down that investigation.


Agreed.  Case in point, Sand Lake Rd is currently being repaved, but didn't need it.  It was a great road last year and seemed to have many years ahead of it.  At first I thought it was a city boondoggle, but today I saw state vehicles all over the construction site.  What a waste of resources.  We do need to pay for our infrastructure, but not to simply employ people.  Our state departments need more critical oversight!


Why do we always say "help homeless"?  The homeless do everything they can to be a nuisance to the rest of us, the City, and the State.  They put themselves in our favorite parks, our business areas, near schools and display their filth for all to see.  We should be arresting them and putting them in out-of-the-way fenced areas.


Charles -- I quoted the pertinent section from the 1965 Report which updated the Subcommittee's findings from its original report in 1963 when it reported that the Society was "sustained on a high degree of emotionalism".

Since you do not dispute the accuracy of what I quoted from the 1965 update, there is no basis for you (or any other Bircher) to claim that there has never been any evidence of anti-semitism within the JBS.

More importantly, it is significant that other conservative organizations did not have this problem so the overarching issue which you never want to address is WHY was the JBS so attractive to racists and anti-semites?  In other words, WHY did racists and anti-semites think that the JBS would be receptive to them?

Incidentally, the 1963 Report is available on Internet Archive website for review by anyone who wants to know exactly what the Subcommittee concluded.


"Funny the summary of the story I just read "

Well don't read funny stories, go read the data from Stats Canada - very clear and concise; real Median wages fell in the 80's and recovered in the mid 90's hitting a new record around 2012


RTH problem with you idiots is you keep on focusing on the Clintons and they're not in the White House so get over it. The bullseye is on the Chumps fat rear end and it's a hard target to miss. As much as he shakes it even Stevie Wonder could hit it with a slingshot from a mile away. Only a true idiot would not say that this presidency is a f-----n mess. BTW how many bankruptcies have you been through.


And yet, they founded the greatest democracy on earth, that has done more to promote human rights than any other.

What nation in Africa can match that record of achievement?   Answer: None.   In fact, slavery is still practiced in a number of African nations to this day.


Are you kidding ! It's the Ram 1500 Rebel!


Is it 2017? I will have to admit, I bought a case of wine in Salisbury, New Brunswick at the 'discount' New Brunswick Liquor outlet and then left for Nova Scotia. Not one New Brunswick official tried to stop me....not one. I was expecting Premier Gallant to be at Au Lac (the border crossing) with a possee there to stop me from crossing the border. I will admit, I cross border shopped for liquor in New Brunswick.


But if the school district has to pay (deserved) damages from the local taxpayer base, then those local taxpayers would hardly be a fair and impartial jury.


I knew the Rams fans would come crying in the masses once the Buffs won.. You were all so confident after that OSU game and now you are all laden in excuses.  Funny stuff


This is fantastic news.  I have visited the The High Line in New York and found the concept and the execution brilliant.  I am very eager to see the concept drawings and hope it doesn’t take as long as some may think to complete this final stretch of park around False Creek!


"Little Potato" was actually coined by the Chinese government.


Clinton wants to shoot the messenger.


agreed  just look at her previous writings


And I can bet what church they went to as well.


I don't think "antifa" consists of a majority of "people of color".   They're a confusing bunch and don't exactly seem well organized but at least they don't seem racist.

They seem angry and they are often violent.   They are also ill-defined.  I'd probably be called "antifa" if I had shown up in Charlottesville with a sign that said "It belongs in a museum" (referring to the statue of R.E. Lee).

I think many are anarchists.  Can you even vote Democrat and claim to be "antifa"?  I think hardcore antifas would disagree.

They've existed for years and have never had a clear message except they hate those with wealth and power so they burn things in the street and smash the windows of their local Starbucks but they'll probably buy coffee there again as soon as it re-opens.

BLM is NOT "antifa".  "Antifa" are extremists.   They are violent.  And they are confused.  And not everyone who protests is "antifa".


Idiot.


this story is about a wind turbine dud story.There was a wind farm that had 4 turbines in Denmark that produced 63 gwh in the month of june 2010.That could produce power for like 30,000 plus American homes for that month.I will add them turbines were as extraordinary as the above story was less than ordinary..My point is wind is a viable form of energy,and should be treated as such


$130 trespassing fines seem really puny when they are prone to suing the park service and the state if they so much as stub their toe, and illegal tour guides make more than $5000 in a couple of days so that seems very inadequate also. The six month incarceration sounds like more of a deterrent for illegal tour guides, if they are actually held for six months. Otherwise, it's just a joke.


The building is named after Police Chief Robert E. Lee and you are saying that the building should not be named after Police Chief Robert E. Lee.  That is, absolutely "denying something" for Police Chief Robert E. Lee.   Claiming otherwise has no basis in logic or language usage.   Even for you, that is remarkable.   You are saying Police Chief Robert E. Lee's memory  as a public servant should be erased because he has the same name as someone you despise.   Perhaps you have heard the saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but naming a Police Department Headquarters Building after a Chief of Police will never harm me."


I cannot fathom what the Republicans in both houses are hoping for with this bad and cruel bill on health care. How will people flock to their party when their neighbors go untreated and die, when their own elderly family members cannot remain in a rest home, and how care givers and medical providers have to explain why nothing can be done. In reality the costs of both assistance in premium payments and the continuation of an expanded Medicaid coverage are both cheap and widely effective. Why such cruel peony and who really benefits?


Just now that happened? Lol.
Not over the last 7 years when deductibles increased 500%?

The middle class does not receive the mortgage interest deduction. Stop with the lies.


He is not confusing anyone.  He is simply being gentle in repealing the counter-revolution attempted by St. John Paul II.  Benedict, who had been a friend of Fr. Kung and likely still is was less strong in restoring the directions of the Council. He could not handle Vox Clara.  Francis can.  A Pope who called himself after two counsel fathers and then tried to undo the thing was the one who sewed confusion.


Well the "Eucharist" at the Episcopal Church isn't valid unless the (male) priest got orders from an Old Catholic or Orthodox bishop, so there's that for starters.


Well what about the health cards....they play that game regularly?


A weather buoy near the North Pole just hit melting point
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-weather-buoy-near-the-north-pole-just-hit-melting-point?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1


They will also be benefiting. It's for their future that we invest in. The long term benefits are priceless. Nomu is penny-wise and pound-foolish.


If Donald were my daddy, I'd hang my head down and go far, far away.  I'm sure others would take advantage of the situation, make zillions of dollars off Daddy's coattails and unethical overseas deals.  But I have to look at myself in the mirror every morning...


No matter the language used in the government's press release and in this article, the program is clearly discriminatory, but since it is the type of discrimination which all left wingers support, the mainstream media would never consider calling it discrimination.


4 CEOS Have Now Quit WH Jobs Panel Over Trump’s Charlottesville Response


So much for being neutral !


Option #1:  Let the old goat fall asleep and drag him out, or
Option #2: Antagonize him until he responds in a manner that will allow you to shoot him.
At 69 years old it's not like he's going to stay awake for more than a couple days, max.  Waiting a couple then harassing him until he responded in a manner that allowed a legal basis for lethal force was odd.


"Goluf", a sport for non-athletes.


THE MEDIA CAN’T QUIT CHASING REPUBLICAN SNIPE HUNTS

Republican House investigators are participating in a demonstrable propaganda campaign for the protection of their scandal-plagued president.

The fabrication of the scandal, not the scandal being fabricated, is the scandal itself.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/10/media-cant-quit-chasing-republican-snipe-hunts


Maybe she will get a breathalyzer machine attached to her bike for a year.


All this Saunders bashing is a bit odd considering that he's correct. The idea that Britain can simply re-join the EU market almost instantly, and on its own terms, is an absurd fantasy. A bit like thinking your ex-wife will give you the keys to the Bentley a month after a nasty divorce. Highly unlikely.


voting against the no development party is in the best interest!


Legit people who are in line to get PR card, who are highly qualified, are held back for years. Lesson learned, NEVER ever do anything the right way!


I think "as well as those who abhor anything to do with firearms," covers a lot of 'anti-gun nuts'.

If 'common sense' were more common, I might tend to go along with you on portion of your comment.


Ah yes, the old, “I am rubber, you are glue.”
That is favored by the 12 and under crowd. Appropriate for you.


It was two legislators - Sen. Kouchi (who is now Senate President) and House Rep. Scott Nishimoto quietly put through a resolution "asking" the Hawaii DOT - Airports to look into possibly changing the name. What happened next was completely out of the public realm as DOT-A employees put through a name change request to the FAA, and had it approved - again completely out of the realm of the public. Not to say that this is universally loved or not loved, but the only time the public could have even made a peep on this was when the resolution was going through the legislature in the last days of the (2016 I believe) session.


I agree with that. Asia is organized into viable states. Africa is not - which is a major cause of civil wars.

Also, a critical element is the presence of prosperous neighbours. Spain and Italy were helped into becoming high income countries because of their prosperous neighbours, who they could easily trade with. A rising tide lifts all boats.


There is a fundraiser started for the landowners legal fees
https://www.gofundme.com/fund-against-eminent-domanin


Someone looking in on his cats? Clear Creek folks?

Hope these asshats get turned in.


Sadly, in a democracy, people get exactly the government they deserve.


I bough a 100 shares of CNQ before Jan 2017 and will add oil to my position over the next years as banks become less appealing... like dividends as well but I do not by oil stocks between Jan and May so I am in wait mode to get some more..


Bannon wasn't the Chief of Staff. Nor is he "strong" and "capable".

And Trump's presidency is the farthest thing from "success[ful]" as it's possible to get. Nor does he have a "top notch team" or a "top notch cabinet".

Your delusions are very entertaining, but they're not based in any observable reality.

Odd that you ignore Trump's own "temperament and [lack of] talent".


"The sun will rise, the sun will set.  That is what we call it. But the sun isn't moving, its the rotation of the earth that makes the sun "appear to rise and set"   This is an example of a "fact" that really isn't.  Even though we will all continue to call it a sunrise or sunset, we know it's  not. Similarly, we know that although Mr. Schwab says things that have an "appearance" of  fact, we know the reality is sometimes  much different. But saying the sun set is much more poetic than saying the earth has rotated...


Don Young is in the oil companies pockets deep and is taking YOUR money, yet you keep re-electing that p.o.s.


This article is so far from reality  it is silly.   In business, or trade, or treaties; you only get what you negotiate at best.  China does not support free trade on imports into China at all, just demands no restrictions on their exports to the west.  Got it?


true

pay for another poll


If you think all donald has done is "hurt some feelings", you've raised obliviousness to an art form.


Changing the rotors and pads at 100K is not bad, especially if the rotors are scored. It's quite possible that machining the rotors would reduce the allowable thickness below the minimum. Buy OEM pads and rotors, as not all aftermarket pads are created equal. The last thing you need is cheap pads and rotors increasing your stopping distance by 10 metres.


When armed  White Supremacists and Neo Nazi hate groups descended on Charlottesville Trump didn’t immediately  call them out as bigots and racists. He was essentially silent because these people are part of his base.  Time went by and at the prodding of his advisors he gave a half hearted condemnation from a teleprompter. Later,  when given the opportunity to speak his mind on the subject he  basically undercut his previous remarks by stating that there were “very fine people” among the racists. He didn’t call these hate mongers “sons of bitches” or call for their employers to “fire” them.


What ever happened to the good old days when reputable journalistic houses used to state in bold heading that a column was an editorial??? This is nothing but an opinion piece presented as journalistic fact. I don't necessarily disagree with these opinions but still - shame on the globe.


"How Capitalism Saved the Bees"

"A decade after colony collapse disorder began, pollination entrepreneurs have staved off the beepocalypse."

http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/19/how-capitalism-saved-the-bees-new-at-rea


My oldest was very colicky.  I couldn't put him down without him crying.  I finally put him in a baby carrier and carried him next to me for 4 months before I could put him down by himself.  It was a life saving realization.  Today many moms use baby wraps that keep their babies right up against them.  It takes a lot of pressure off your shoulders. I wish I had had that when my oldest was a baby.

That baby is now 22 and a great kid.


Ooh, the dreaded rogue DemLibs. When I want my nieces to quit being rambunctious, I just mention the rogue DemLibs and they calm right down.


And the first person to leak after he started was himself...


All a driving test will show is that you know how to be careful when an instructor is around.  People generally KNOW the rules, they just disregard them.  Mandatory tests are a bad, bad idea that won't do anything.

And I would say that if you have driven regularly (day-to-day basis) and have no tickets or collisions for 5+ years I would definitely class you as a better driver.


That's it in a nutshell. In a city of 200,000 people, there are 4000 empty homes and thousands more with parachute families. All those townhouses built on No 3 road for families but no elementary school nor are there any plans for one. No one really complains about this because a large number of these townhouses are empty and being used for speculation.  As a recent study showed, local families are leaving Richmond in droves for good reason.


They are most certainly not my choices, but the ones your fellow conservatives have made for themselves.  Freedom is a funny thing isn't it?  No guarantee your ideological brethren will agree with your choice, but you are the one that started your argument with your implied biopic "you vote Liberal."  But now you don't want to be pigeonholed with your ideological comrades.  Very interesting.  I guess it is OK for you to do it, but not others.


Duffy raised millions for the CPC while he travelled the country on the taxpayer's dime.   So yes, the $90K was trivial compared to the payoff to the CPC.    Why do you think Wright (in charge of the CPC fund) was so quick to write a personal cheque in an attempt to make the entire issue go away?


Obama was not qualified to make a cup of coffee and still isn't.


Straight from the horses mouth. Ontario budget 2005 Page 159

https://www.poltext.org/sites/poltext.org/files/discours/ON/ON_2005_B_38_01.pdf

"PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS
In 2001, the right to incorporate was extended to all regulated professionals. Under existing provisions, non-members of a profession cannot own shares in a professional corporation. Recent negotiations with the Ontario Medical Association have resulted in the government’s commitment to extend the share structure of physician professional corporations to include non-voting shares for family members. The government is also proposing to implement this change for dentists who operate their practices through a professional corporation."

Thanks to the poster who alerted me to this.


Don appears sad that the number is only 40.


Even attempting to use the word 'factual' in a theological discussion is ludicrous!

The Catholics will be surprised to discover that they are not Christians.  You would think that the guy buried in the Vatican would have some slight claim to be a follower of Christ, at least.  Not to mention the one supposedly buried in St. Mark's in Venice.

All the "Pieces of the True Cross" and most of the other Saints' relics scattered about Europe are most likely bogus, but there seems to be at least some contemporary history for those two.

Whether Catholics are Christian illustrates the problem.

Theology and doctrine define a 'Christian'.   Then you kill eight million people in the Thirty Years War to make sure that your definition is followed.

380 years later, you want to reopen those wounds and kill off the Catholics because they are not Christians, I guess.


How do you even prevent this, or minimize the risk as a pedestrian? I've had so many close calls that I never cross the street until cars have come to a full stop and I make eye contact with the driver so I know they know I am there. But the victim here was just standing on the sidewalk.

How does the killer even get her license back, ever? She should never be allowed to drive again. The $1000 fine is just a slap in the face to the victim's family. That's insulting.


I could be wrong here but Steph Curry had only said he was considering not going to the whitehouse when president Trump rescinded the offer. Apparently an editorial gives you the right to change considering not going, to already had flat out refused the offer before it was taken away. There are so many things you can easily argue against what the POTUS does, why do you have to mislead about all these extra little things? It makes everything else written suspect when you start changing what happened just because it gives you a few extra jabs at Trump for your own satisfaction.


Kudos to the undertaker that did Hillary's make up tonight, she looks VERY life like.


The wife has an official title of First Lady.  The children do not. Nor are they given offices in the West Wing and the job to create peace in the Middle East, for which they're entirely unqualified.

But I agree with your 'successors' point. Are you suggesting that because the Bushes and Clintons did it, it's now OK for the Trumps?


Go Bears!


Mark Cuban said recently that Trump is interested in only two things and I believe him:  His image and his bank account.  By 'image' he needs to be adored or you are his enemy and by bank account, I mean he's after ours.
He cares a whit about running a government, it's just an inconvenient means to his ends.


Natives should commit less crime then.  A week does not go by that someone in the village does not murder or rape, they don't get a pass.


Your difficulty is that you're correct, ANCSA is a disaster ... but pre ANCSA was a disaster ... before statehood was a disaster ... before "Seward's Folly" was a disaster.  We're left with trying to salvage something out of practically nothing.  Like Tic-Tac-Toe, the only winning move is to not play.  Rock and a hard spot! ... Can't win for losing! ...  Life is not fair!  But at least someone, you and many others, are looking at the situation, and trying to make things better.  The disagreements are in causation and cure, but the hearts are in the right place.


"I can walk, Mein Fuehrer!  I can walk!"


Maybe you're new to this but there is an entire history.


How are the media lying about being shut out?


The USPS  had previously ASKED congress to approve going down to a 5 day delivery week before and congress said no.  That suggestion was made by them to address this very problem.  Do THAT instead.


"Enabling" in this case as in encouraging, however unintended, through act or omission, negative and self-harmful behavior?

I'd say Robin is using it properly. Would you like to proffer another definition?


Okay, I missed something here. How does expansion target China and does monument designation authorize China to enter the monument, or expansion thereof?


The event was billed as a panel discussion with Palin, Nye, Lamar Smith and Brent Bozell.  They forgot to invite Nye, so Palin could just attack him when he wasn't there, instead of having to actually debate.  And the part about being as much a scientist as he is?    Bizarre.


Gov. Kate Brown said earlier this year that the state’s low graduation rates are due in part to decades of the state’s “under investment” in public schools.

Coincidence that the state has been controlled by democrats during the time of under investment? Nope. This is on you democrats! Votes matter people!


"...criticizing Nate Turner, a well-respected member of the Alaska Board of Game"

Sorry.  He can't be respected if he's a member of the BOG.


'Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine"  Women used to say that. Now men have  to, to avoid jail time.


I have been preaching this for the last 30 years. I firmly believe that sales people and teachers should be the highest paid in the country, because then they will attract the best people. It is also interesting to know what criteria employers use in hiring sales people. A hunch maybe....


While I generally support what the writer seems to be talking about, this piece is so long on polemic and so short on facts that I am left more mystified than enlightened.  Start by telling me what is being proposed.  Then I can make evidence-based judgment on it.

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Not really.


What a sleazebag.  Kent's lunacy has transformed to active harmful treachery.


I would rather see it completed.  Hydro power in BC is absolutely the best power you can get.  The most reliable, longest lasting method of generating power.  When we all switch to electric cars in a few decades we are going to need a lot more power.  I would rather replace the gasoline with electricity from renewable resources.  In Kelowna, the sun is not going to shine any more in the winter, so solar is out.  Wind is out, as BC is not a great wind location.  The worst solution is to spend 7.3Billion (as stated above) and get absolutely nothing.  That would make me anti-NDP for the rest of my life!  Completing the project is not about the 2,000 workers, it is really about the 4 million people in this province who will be using power for the life of this project - many decades. The other two dams on this river have been powering homes for a long time.  Where would we be without them?


Disagree, she had time to raise her arms to the side and communicate with the group about the threat, which was very selfless and heroic in its own right, thinking of the group before her self and using what little time she had to insure their safety instead of her own.

Heck she could have turned on her heel and ran back down the group leaving somebody else to deal with the bear.

Point in fact however she could (note I did not say should) have used that time to deploy spray or firearm. And for what it's worth firearms are easier to deploy quickly than spray in such situations.


And folks wonder why Alaska is broke.. I wonder who and how much these "Deciders" get paid? California Madness! Here we come!


Part 2: Israel needs to explain the Jordanian "occupation" and the whole story, instead of pleading for peace and understanding. Arafat and the PLO didn't murder thousands in Lebanon and Jordan, then in Israel, plus American diplomats in Khartoum, attacks elsewhere, planes blown up, in order to have peace with Israel. When will Israel leave Peres's ideas behind? Today on TV Brooke Goldstein started telling the whole story about 1948 and plenty more, about no Palestinian people having existed, about that word being used as a pejorative term for Jews. But it must come from Israel, too. Over and over. Can you help, here and behind the scene? Tell the truth Mr. Ambassador. Thanks.


The truck driver was a madman but not a terrorist.  ISIS is lying just like our politicians.
From the Dailymail:  He added: 'My brother is not a terrorist.'
His father also insisted that Bouhlel was mentally ill and not a radicalised soldier as claimed today by ISIS.
Mohamed Mondher Lahouaiej Bouhlel, whose son killed at least 84 people on Bastille Day, told how he suffered from severe depression in an interview with French TV BMF.
'From 2002 to 2004 he had problems that led to a nervous breakdown.
'He'd get angry and shout and broke everything in front of him. He was violent and very ill. We took him to the doctor and he was put on drugs.


The presidential election was never run by the popular vote.   It was always run by the electoral college.   The Senate also was not originally done with popular vote.   Senators were originally chosen by the state legislatures.  The only part of the government that the people voted in were House Reps.    So what is this 'returning elections to the popular vote' idiocy?


Who are we to dictate to the North Koreans? If I recall, the USA has a sizable collection of its own nuclear weapons. The North Koreans have every right to run their country their own way so long as they do not act irresponsibly by extending their violence beyond their borders. If the North Koreans begin making serious acts of aggression, only then do we have the right to intervene with our military. Trump must stop provoking them with his veiled threats, and they will leave the rest of us alone. Trump is a dangerous psychopath who is emotionally unstable. Trump could easily trigger a global thermonuclear war.


You misunderstand the concept as usual.


I prefer to see a variety of editorial viewpoints when reading news and opinion, unlike some right wing sheep I have known.


and christianity?


On Star could conceivably do that, also.


The Newman Society should have been up in arms about Milo being invited to Catholic colleges even before his latest YouTube video.  The fact that they aren't and someone as obsessed with NFP and Theology of the Body as Janet Smith is praised the guy is telling.  It is all about tribalism and not values.  They aren't even consistent with their own soc con values.


This is all from what progressives say is "America's insatiable desire for drugs."

Those poor Mexican drug cartels are only trying to keep up with the demand we impose upon them.


"You're wrong. ... I have a Masters in English. Trust me on this"

Do you want to know what you can do with your masters in English? You can be as pedantic as you like but it will not change the fact that "self entitled" is not the same as "entitled".


psst hey idiot there is not one cap it that post you replied to,, wow you really are a nut job of stupidity.


UBI stands for "universal basic income". "Universal"  means you give it to everybody, including people making $85,000, just like OAS, which is also universal in the sense that eligibility is not means-tested.


"Another adjustment for the homeless campers will be complying with the Eugene Mission’s rules for staying on its property."

Indeed. Complying with rules (or even basic property rights of others) is certainly a constant adjustment for these nature-loving "campers."


As real scientists know there are always edges to real theories.

Only in sociology are their theories boundless and unfazed by real data (that is, data with an absolute zero reference value).  Likert scales need not apply.

The problem is that sociologists have to over compensate and so they play pretend with other domain's theories, not understanding much about them at all, but this doesn't diminish their air of "me too want to play intellect"

What school of sociology would you consider yourself part of?


Clinton says she “kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off.”
The "Most Difficult Man", being her husband, the rapist.


I agree!  Christy and her gang are solely focused from a policy perspective on helping those who already own or want to buy a home in the Metro Vancouver area, and are utterly ignoring and doing nothing from a policy perspective, as described in the article, to help the 34% of Metro Vancouverites like myself and others who just happen to be renters, eh!!??  And here I mistakenly thought governments are suppose to take a "balanced" approach - not a lopsided one - when it comes to the actual work of governing on behalf of all its citizens.  Boy was I ever wrong here in BC, eh!!!


No, dogs are not part of nature.  They're domesticated animals.  Doesn't take a biologist to see that--they've been subjected to generations of selective breeding (this involves extensive culling of 'nonconforming' pups, BTW).  All it takes is a set of eyes.

Dogs are definitely NOT 'non-GMO', unless you're prepared to argue that Chihuahuas are conspecific with timber wolves.  Mammalogists don't think so.  That's why they classify the former (and similar strains) as Canis familiaris and the latter as C. lupis.

What's REALLY interesting is that the drastic physical and physiological modifications to C. familiaris could initially have been accomplished in as little as half a century.  Consider the Russians' work with gray foxes--Urocyon cinereoargenteus:

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/biol/5090/boyd/Captivity_effects.pdf


from Berig in Rochester, N.Y.
We're expecting up to 50 centimetres here, just cycled on on my trike, great in snow, to get kitty litter and milk, wind gusts are pretty strong but not like our storm last Wednesday.  Enjoy the storm, hopefully the last of the season, well, for us down here anyways.


Wow. Liar and desperate eh. Care to mention the last time some liberal kook took office and dudes with AR's stormed the streets? Yea didnt think so


I watched her read her budget with all her forced followers clapping and feigning joy and good tidings while she added more billions to our dept to ensure her continued  reign of terror .   Ontario is paying 11 billion dollars just to carry her debt.  Sickening.


PatrickOwens,
" Americans that have to live with this incompetence for the next four years."
Patrick, allow me, if you will, a minor correction in your paragraph,
Americans that have to live with this incompetence for the next eight years.
Next, if you're following, Ivanka might be the first Woman President of the United States of America.
Feel free to walk away taking the rest of the minions with you.
Thanks for allowing me this opportunity to correct your opinion.


Self interest is the name of the game in politics. If it's not we wouldn't be 20 TRILLION dollars in debt. We wouldn't be a divided country.

After a politician gets elected their first priority is to get re-elected, ie self interest.

"The purpose of government is to allow for safe and peaceful co-existence..." Sorry, that maybe your view of what government should be about, but it's not what those in government believe. The purpose of government is to; 1) get re-elected, 2) acquire power, and 3) get re-elected.


Do you really want teachers in the classroom at age 80?  Get your facts straight.  Teachers currently entering the system no longer have a fixed retirement.......very few teachers currently working are tier I.  That is one of the problems since new teachers no longer fund TRS.  No new money goes into the fund and it is harder to find new teachers to even teach.  Who wants to teacher until age 65 and retire without a fixed retirement?  You get what you pay for.


Amen!!! To the last.


Trump's moral compass is 100%.

Did you forget already? Trump condemned the Nazi's yesterday and again today he condemned bigotry and hate.

Today Trump refused to let the Fake News and elites bully him.  He spoke the truth.  There were agitators on the Left who came to cause trouble.  Are they immune from criticism?  All violence needs to be condemned.


Sadly, some of the first dead to be identified are turning out to be young girls that had their whole lives ahead of them.   Teens, and even pre-teens as young as 8 are among the dead.

The suicide bomber has been identified as being 22 year old Salman Abedi.   Abedi is the British born son of immigrants from Libya.  The rest of his family recently returned to Libya to live, but Abedi stayed behind in the UK.   His parents have been quoted as saying that they did not want to live in a non-Islamic nation any longer.

British police have already arrested another man as being an accomplice in the attack, but he has yet to be identified.

The death toll has now risen to 22.


You're as petty and childish as your hero trump, aren't you?

And did I say anything about trump's collusion with the russians?  I'm willing to wait for the conclusions of robert mueller's investigation.


Taiwan has lost its chance to get independence, back in 1950s. After Chinese got nukes, it is simply impossible. And also it has lost the chance to negotiate back in 1980s, when it has the economic bargain chips (its GDP used to be 1/3 China's GDP), now with a few percentage of Chinese GDP, it hardly can ask for anything.
Waiting to be annexed by peace or force is the only consequence, like it or not.


My plan A is to see this collection of fools and their bedfellows in the other party dumped and replaced by people who appreciate the needs of working Alaskans in the cities and villages and have a different priority than protecting the Alaskan tax haven and giveaways to the oil companies.


Like back in the 90s, eh? When the NDP caused the rental prices to spike and the availability to evaporate into the thin air. It became so ridiculous that the owners used to do group showings of the rental units and the rental construction came to a complete halt. I guess we've forgotten the "good old days".


Obama and the Dems reached across the aisle and were willing to work with the GOP.

The GOP refused to work together to help make legislation for the benefit of all Americans then and they're refusing to work together now.


This article makes abundantly clear that Sen. Chuck Schumer is a prevaricating scoundrel. Lying to the American people about their democratically elected president is far worse than falsely yelling fire in a crowded theatre. He should be removed from office immediately and placed behind bars to await prosecution.


Queue the lefties and the tree huggers. Giddy up.


Hey Thomas, are you sure it isn't a squirrel? ;)


God forbid. It was Theresa May.


Let's all remember that Nik Nanos is the Liberal's go-to pollster.

As such, we can only hope that the numbers are even worse than with his skewed pro-Liberal polling.


They will change the name and continue on.
There's big bucks to be made after all.
Purveying the fake news ...
Just don't call them liberals.


Mark...do you agree or not with a professor being pressured into resigning and being called a racist and a misogynist for walking out of a meeting...or for another being threatened and called a threat to the LGBT community for not agreeing to use made up preferential pronouns ?

as for Engineering and science and mathematics....when the professors and students in those programs  come to demand that 2 be called 3 and that a lever be shortened to move a heavier rock, then you might have a point.


wow you do live is a different universe...I'll take one thin book.  What little I've read about the real TTP, not the fantasy inverse version, is the same issue with all "free" trade, we tend to be a country of laws.  And Obamacare is the step in the right direction, if we can stop paying the vampires their trillion, we might actually have something akin to the very good system they have in Canada. The biggest tax increase on the middle class was R. Reagan's.


Kim Reu what you are suggesting makes way too much sense. Away with you and your common sense! PS. I'd vote for you for mayor...


I've never seen anyone conflate issues on the other side of the world from each other. What the hell does addiction have to do with "needles in the park" or "no gun laws" or "paved roads and build schools"?  You must be a Bernie "the burn" Voter.


If they're anything like my teenagers this would just give them an excuse to stay up until 3am, instead of midnight, playing video games.


Watching "Intelligence" on Netflix.   Best Canadian drama ever produced, in my opinion.  Very dense and very tight.   CBC had to end it after two series because was unflattering to our police and security services -  Watch it and you will believe it.

$100,000 a year chump change for our industry and Netflix.  Laughable actually.


He should give that money to the family of Christopher Speer.
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who is "he"?
Trudeau or Khadr?
in either case don't count on it
now both of them are millionaires


The Star War has a Millennium Falcon, which is 1) a thousand, which is cool 2) a spaceship that is also a bird?!?! NO CONTEST


Technically, there are other inferences to a HIGHER POWERS.   But only four times is there any reference at all — “Laws of Nature and of NATURE'S God,” “Supreme Judge of the world,” “their Creator,” and “divine Providence” — and in all four cases the references to a higher power appeal to the idea of human dignity, never implying a role for a god in government.

There are NUMEROUS references to what they also believed and put forth: FREEDOM to choose, NOT ONE RELIGION.

Thomas Jefferson, "Christian establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."

 George Washington, "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

Our constitution was written to give FREEDOM, not Christianity.


If you expect adoring God 'to do something for you' then it is not adoration, it is a form of self-gratification.


The $70 billion figure cited by Hughes is as bogus as they come. But when you've staked your bet on an inherently polluting non-renewable resource with a vanishing long-term future, grasping at straws is an understandable reaction.


The book Time Enough for Love (Robert Heinlein), published in 1973 and still in print, explores at great length this question of what to do with your time if you have thousands of years to live. Having said that, extending our lifespans in any significant way is still deep in the realm of science fiction. Not to mention that we are already way overpopulated.


66 million preferred Clinton. 3 million more than Trump.


My point simply is that regardless of who won what, stores should cater to their customers. Catering to the loudest who may not be your customers, defeat the entire purpose of staying in business.


The only sucking sound in this article was when asked whether the president would use his “Made in America” week to commit the Trump organization and his daughter’s brand to make more of their products in America, rather than overseas, Ferre was non-committal.

“We’ll get back to you on that,” she said.
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Did you hear it! That sucking sound.
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How's Trump's acclamation's about Ford, Boeing, and Carrier? Did you hear the sucking sound as Ford announced it is building a Focus plant in China, adding to the two in Thailand, Boeing who is building an assembly plant for 737's in China, and Carrier of the 1100 jobs he claimed to have saved 400 were management never intended to be laid off, 632 workers were laid off and Carrier is using the tax incentives to automate it's plants leading to more layoffs. Right under the nose of Trump the businessman.
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I don't have to go back 25 years to witness hypocrisy, I can wake up in the morning a read the news.


They already have 280%


These sales, going on for several months, are just a way to get more money for the creditors. I don't blame them, as they are already getting squeezed, but for the shopper these "sales" are really just a rouse. They aren't just selling existing inventory, they will be restocking all the way past Christmas.


Hahahahahahahaha. You're funnier than Louis C.K.


I wonder how the Galic speakers feel?


The actual problem is lack of emergency shelter beds and affordable housing.  Until those deficits are effectively addressed, people who are unhoused will be in the streets and the sidewalks will be their living rooms.


The AHCA mirrors the PPACA in requiring that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions, continue coverage for children until age 26, and retain the 10 Essential Health Benefits of the ACA. Those were all identified as high priorities by the Obama Administration.


An interesting column.  However, has anyone noticed that it is based upon presumption, apparently without factual basis, that Trump has not already read the documents suggested.  This being the case the opinion is simply an exercise in arrogance.


This is great reporting, but the real criminals are the suits who sent Sgt. Rodriguez to war in Iraq in the first place. Probably a million people are dead because of prodigious lying, cherry picking, incompetence and fear mongering  by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and company.

The Iraq War itself is a disgrace, a blot on the national character as bad as anything the US has ever done, no matter how well, or badly, individual soldiers performed their duty. We will never see the end of its ramifications.

Maybe the worst is the betrayal of America's young soldiers' fervent commitment to duty, fraternity and the nation. All of that was wasted, at best. At worst, they were betrayed for short term political advantage and corporate profits. And there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and maimed as well, a war crime of epic dimensions, one for which no atonement is possible.


To confront rising global temperatures is hopeless without a reduction of population.


It never ceases to amaze me how Canadians would always rather blame ourselves (it's the media, it's the debates, etc) rather than the actual nut who committed the murders.


just as bad is ford dealer wanted to charge me for security etched window glass and a ridiculous amount for nitrogen in tires and special wheel hub locks.  None of the items i would pick from an options list but they do automatically to jack up the profits.


FAT and OBESE is an epidemic of mass proportions...literally.  This is as bad and probably worse than what cigarettes and their attack was.  Where is the federal and state action about this massive impact to our healthcare costs and our economies and of course to save our children as is so often cried.  I'm sorry, but fat and obese is UNHEALTHY and needs treatment.  While processed foods, GMO's and other such bad foods are complicit in this, the person on the end of the spoon is very largely to blame.


This result was predictable by some of us who saw that these projects would be so politicized that rational analysis was impossible.   The time line was simply too long to survive ever changing political influence. The actual death knell to this concept goes back at least to AGIA when two of the three producers refused to participate in AGIA and launched the Denali (more properly described as "denial") project. Now calling for an audit (that can't even be started for at least a year) is typical legislative strategy to do nothing by confusing motion with progress.  This is a story waiting to be written.


“we all are unlike unto God”
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My personal nomination for Most Awkward Sentence by a Religious Nut Spoken award.


Canada's greatest asset is oil. Canada should be building pipelines coast to coast so the oil can be exported east and west. It should also be refined before export. The resulting infrastructure work, value added and export income would go a long way to getting our economy moving again. That's what we need a leaders to do, not just sit back and wait for the US to act.


Money pit and passe`.


No argument there. Boosters have been and always will be the driving force, much like meddling owners in pro sports like Steinbrenner and Jones and Cuban. Oregon's problem was that Helfrich as face of the franchise just wasn't going to sell next season, and Mullens needs to max out his limited stadium capacity, despite his denial last night. Plus, the PKs love only one thing more than money, which they have enough of, and that's winning, which they can't get enough of. And they'll never stop trying to buy more of it. The AD is just the middle man, counting the beans, but the charade holds some entertainment value. Can't wait to see the next coach's contract . . . sticker shock, anyone?


According to Ontario's education system there are six distinct genders.  Are they all being fairly represented?


The Duffy scandal was a myth created by the media. The ultimate in fake news. Someone should sue the media for the cost to tax payers of Duffy's prosecution and that wasteful audit of Senators expenses.


One for you - Name the defunct fox farm a skiff-ride away from Petersburg!


Funny you suggest the scenario of young children "armed to say back to a teacher."  Kid tried that on a (disturbing) TV series we're watching called Ozark.  Kid in question: the son of a guy laundering millions for a Mexican drug cartel.  Well-spoken, neat kid refuses to sign the classroom pledge to avoid drugs. Off to the Principal's Office!  Still refuses. He appears every bit as bright as Noa appears, and wow, the arguments he gives for NOT signing on are absolutely fascinating. And quite convincing.

Of course, you might draw the conclusion that his particular "home schooling" is much more persuasive than the public school kind. I mean, if the family doesn't make the grade, it doesn't "fail."  It's just wiped out by the cartel.


you want local kids to come to eat breakfasts?  dump the American style food, how about local style food?  how about poke and poi?  forget the eggs and bacon.


they let him out of jail then he murdered somebody


So the garage won't be needed until some way is found to fund the $43 million hotel/convention center and may cost between $14-20 million to build if it were built today, also from money not currently in sight,  right?

And the City Council authorized spending $700 thousand dollars on this project last week.

Is this anything like the planning and spending that the Eugene City Council has been using on their Taj City Hall?

Seems similar to me.


If it is only 300 metres wide- why don't they just build a bridge over it?


"White millennials exhibit about as much racial prejudice, as measured by explicit bias, as white Gen Xers and boomers."

"Millennials overall are more racially tolerant than earlier generations — but that’s because young people today are less likely to be white."

All ages of Whites racist; millennials less likely to be white therefore "more racially tolerant".


"Too funny, you think I was relating the Harvey volunteer effort with any issues in the mass effort of DACA citizens toward US citizenship? I must have given you more credit than you are worth."
Amazing when your feeble efforts come crashing down you resort attempt to make this about me. Funny stuff. By the way - your comment is indicative of an uninformed Canadian and VERY easy to believe.
BTW - "Under what rational, humane approach could an administration force adults to leave a country for which they had no knowledge or capability of making a decision to stay?"
Really? They're adults, as evidenced by work permits and university attendance. Trying to portray all of them as innocent six year old children cracks me up. You people are a riot.


Probably  all locals. Case is a perfect example on how Feds and local authorities  work together.  Case actually  started at street level then went inter-state same way CBP and ICE want  to work with local authorities to target criminals that are in Hawaii and United States illegally.


"passing local ordinance on vacation rentals"

No need to pass a new one, the ordinance we have in place is fine. Besides, you want to put thousands of hotel employees out of work as hotels lose out on tourists? What will you propose next, nightly AirBnB-Flotilla's to save more money to bypass everyone while hobo's legally sleep on rafts anchored by the beach?


I understand what you mean Napartaq. In not saying don't vote for an R or a D. I'm saying vote for the best of the two based only on their position on things that matter to you and not just because they are an R or D and you've always voted for all R's or all D's. The name of the party is not important. The character and quality of the candidate is what to look at not what party they run with. But as you said independents/unaffiliateds (like me) already need to do that so I'm really taking to the party faithful on both sides.


Sorry ricko if everyone doesn't want to support you for the rest of your life, try getting a job other than min wage and come back and then tell everyone to fork over more.


Check out the end game if socialism in Venezuela


The rest of it's all the boilerplate Krauthammer conjecture, hyperbole, and conspiracy theory.


Yours is one of the most idiotic and hateful comments I've ever seen published in the G&M.


"Early on, RCMP can't ..."
Actually that isn't the case, the Globe later published a retraction saying they hadn't accurately reported on the RCMP's response. It's worth reading it to see how it got so wrong.


my wage growth for the last 3 years is 0....so its even worse.


I dated someone who was repeatedly molested and raped by the town preacher. His own daughters, who had also been molested by him, testified in support of their dad. I don't give any weight to others who support guys like this - many people will line up to support the worst offenders because they can't bring themselves to admit the truth.


Poor Barbara Wong.  She's a whipping boy for SHOPO because SHOPO wants to make it difficult to file domestic violence complaints against police officers.


Now's a good time to visit Paris. Nobody's there. Lots of beefed up  security. Cheaper hotel and Lido de Paree and Moulin Rouge show rates. Lots of vacancies and no long lines to the Eiffel Tower and museums. Might wait a little longer and airfares will plummet. If they still act rude you can just hop onto the Chunnel Train and visit wonderful London. They are so much nicer there, wonderful pub food, beer, and atmosphere. Check out Expedia for air fares and Agoda.com for hotels or hostels. Profit from a disaster.


White Supremacists Praise Trump

Some of them do it right here.


Marty, I didn't like you then, I don't like you now. I will not flag your comment for incivility, although you are insulting me.


I didn't realize that members of the Liberal party take the time to defend their leader on these comment boards....interesting.


"Deaths by terrorists born in the banned countries: 0"

The Somali who plowed into 11 people on the Ohio State campus in Nov 2016 and was subsequently shot wasn't trying to kill anyone?


Depends on the definition of  patriotic don't ya think?  I happen to think Trump is treasonous in his butt kissing of Putin.  I'm sure Trump would have a very different definition from mine.


"Single-ride bus fares are slated to soon go up to $2.75 from $2.50;"  Remember, these are without transfers.  If a transfer is needed, the fare is $5 (and will apparently be going up to $5.50).


Wow, you sure a quite the detective. I would call 911 or the District Attorney's office and tell them of your evidence. In the meantime, thieves are after your banking information from a check that you may have put in your mailbox. They are not interested in your love letters, your wife might be though. One further thing, the ballots went out at the end of last week but the thefts have been consistent since MARCH.


"For example, Obama's order applied to people who were under the age of 16 when they came to the United States. In the Dream Act, the age is 18."

Hmm. So someone who illegally entered the US at the age of 17 would be eligible for legalization?

Even if unaccompanied by parents? (Unless there is some "brought by parents" requirement not mentioned in the article.)


Kenney and Jean are both Harper era professional politicians.  I'm sure they're both enjoying geeking out on the minutiae of merging Wildrose and Con ... but as a voter they need to tell us what they are going to do in government.

PCs got us into this mess and Wildrose are often just rude & provocative in the Legislature.  Didn't even come up with a shadow budget.

Policy please.


(from before) I am not optimistic that the world will solve its global warming problem when many of its inhabitants still believe in the mantra "Be fruitful and multiply."


What a disgusting comment.  Although I think Biden will be a bit too old, just from a health and wellness standpoint to ensure a full term in the next cycle, in no way does age impact one's ability to lead, adapt, inspire and put forth great policy that benefits all citizens.  He should have challenged Clinton and Sanders last year.  I'm an older millennial and would happily vote for anyone based on policy, competency, connection, leadership and experience irrespective of age.  Hillary, just didn't have it.  Fresh blood doesn't mean good, competent or brilliant blood.


Of course they are part of the statistic because You have ABSOLUTELY NO CASE without them being included.


The funniest comment I have read on here in a long time. You, like me, must also be in retail.


Yes, a quasi - government institution has stepped in to risk average Canadians money in saving a corrupt institution.    It was either that or the CHMC, this is the beginning of the RE meltdown, the Lehman Brothers moment has arrived to Canada.   Watch out, cause the pooh is about to hit  the fan.


Trump wants bilateral trade deals because he is the big dog in such deals. He can win on each such deal.
It is important then for Canada and the rest of the world to work together and go only for multilateral deals that are of equal benefit to all countries. That means, for example, no more TPPs which disproportionately benefit US companies.
Trump is a bully and a loudmouth. While it is best not to antagonize him, it is important to work with other like minded countries to build trade that does not involve the US.


Well  maybe but it's difficult to "go solar" in a rainy climate.


Turn down the volume Margaret...really? In other words - be ladylike, shut up and take it.


It is good that the Conservatives (unlike the Liberals) get to elect their own riding representatives though isn't it ?


First of all, the facts: as far as we know at this time, all the disturbed man's firearms were purchased legally and FBI database background checks were done.  Next, regardless of any claims, a legal semi-auto can only fire 1 bullet per trigger pull, so there was no illegal modification to "fully automatic".  A person, with a little practice, can fire any gun quicker. Has anyone observed pro-pistol shooting competitions?  Has anyone seen a Wild West re-enactment, where the single-action Colt Peacemaker is "fanned" and 6 shots sound like a machine gun?  Next, it is also illegal for a mentally ill person to buy a firearm, the same as it is illegal for someone who uses marijuana or drugs to buy a firearm. Have any of these laws prevented any such mass shootings? A little research show a big NO on that. Laws are to punish the lawbreaker and that seems to be where there is some confusion on the left-leaning. Laws don't prevent crime, otherwise pot smokers would give up or not purchase guns.


If they will happen, how come they haven't happened yet (despite decades of fracking in the inlet)?


Richard Painter, who served two and a half years as the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bushfiled, has filed a complaint against the F.B.I. with the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates Hatch Act violations, and with the Office of Government Ethics.

Painter stated in a NY Times opinion piece:

"[Comey's] letter was sent in violation of a longstanding Justice Department policy of not discussing specifics about pending investigations ....

"[A] public communication about a pending F.B.I. investigation involving a candidate for public office that is made on the eve of an election is thus very likely to be a violation of the Hatch Act and a misuse of an official position.

"We cannot allow F.B.I. or Justice Department officials to unnecessarily publicize pending investigations concerning candidates of either party while an election is underway."


Hear hear!


I wanted to say I'm very sorry to hear about Phillis my mother sally was her roommate in the nursing home there at canaberry for awhile they became friends and my family were there visiting on a daily basis so we got to no Phillis  my mother past away march 1st as well and never got the chance to let her know . we feel bad about we would have like to attend her serves but just found out again we are so sorry for your loss the Metcalf family