You do know it's not the "fast" lane, it's the HOV lane. All you need to do is the speed limit in there...actually, all you need to do is the minimum highway speed.


The tenets of deep ecology should be cast upon the bonfire of the vanities.


The US is indeed the bigger economy, but Canada does have leverage, simply because the breakdown of cross-border trade is worth billions of dollars in the US too.  Its disruption would have devastating effects in the US, particularly in Rust Belt states like Michigan that were key to Trump's victory.


If anyone's interested there's a well-written and mostly not condescending article about Rockies pitching at Coors Field in this week's Sports Illustrated: https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/07/13/colorado-rockies-coors-field.

As for the Rox going forward, they don't need to trade for Giancarlo Stanton (never happen anyway), they just need to cut down on the strikeouts and improve their situational hitting, especially by Desmond, Story and even LaMahieu.  They DO need to add a bullpen arm or a veteran starter if they can, though knowing the reluctance of the Rox to trade for pitching, I'm not holding my breath.


I fear the message and focus of police racism and brutality will be lost in the din of the "I hate Trump" message from Hillary supporters.


Burn baby burn.
SeaTac is Ground Zero for the Democratic Resistance Movement against President Trump.
We want anarchy and violence because we lost the election and we cannot come to grips with reality. We are mindless fat white women that wear pink pussy hats.
We will burn the whole I-5 corridor until we get free healthcare and free McDonalds. Black Lives Matter. Fat White Women's Live Matter.
We are Fat and Proud. Long live Patty Murray, Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters.
Gotta go...I just farted and wet my diaper.


No one disputes it?
Really?
Now you claim to speak for everyone?


Way too many ego's and people who just can't get along and work together. In that kind of environment nothing will get done. Caldwell will leave it just to piss them off. And the drama continues.


cont'd

Jesus replied:  "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning."  He went on:  "I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

This was no hyperbole.  In fact, it is perfectly logical.  Jesus is telling us that divorce is impermissible in the sight of God, so much so that a man procures a "divorce", he is not divorced in the sight of God.  The marriage remains intact --- so much so that whichever of the spouse later marries and has sexual relations with the new spouse, that person commits adultery.  All of this sounds like metaphor to you?

You ask:  "How do you think they would have reacted when someone they knew, someone who had followed the law, was called an adulterer?"  That depends on who they thought Jesus was.
cont'd


You can always hold your nose and vote for Hillary like many Democrats, who, in so doing, put their stamp of approval on her womanizing husband.


The state of Oregon elected Kate Brown; the state of Oregon DESERVES Kate Brown (more's the pity).


It's an independent inquiry. It's been out of the government's hands for quite a while now.


Finally we starting to do something.


OOPS!


SAA is a looting station for the top..they will hold on to them for as long as possible


"I bet he's never even met the Cardinal but sees himself qualified to judge his heart. That isn't Christian by any measure."

MSW doesn't have to judge Cardinal Burke's heart. As a reporter all he has to do is judge his public statements, which are legion. That's a reporter's job, and there's nothing remotely un-Christian about that. You just don't happen to agree with his assessment, which is your right, but calling him unchristian is beyond the pale and needs to be called out. Consider yourself called out.


This is why the key still is to start saving/investing early in life and be consistent (save with every paycheck). Taking advantage of a matching 401k plan should be a no brainer. The power of compounding is lost on many people. Also maxing out contributions when possible, eliminating debt, avoiding risks with your nest egg, planning for multiple streams of income once retired (social security, pensions (if still available), dividends, part time work, etc.) and making catch up contributions once you reach 50 should all be part of everyone's plan. And work at staying healthy to reduce illness, injuries and medical costs. I recently found the site Retirement And Good Living which provides information on all these issues as well as many other retirement topics and also has several retirement and health calculators.


BOO, HOO. My heart bleeds for Iran as I play the worlds smallest violin, badly. We should have a pity party for hypocrite whining Islamic Terrorists!


Another government agency.  And it will be chaired by Mark Cohon, the guy who turned the CFL into a resounding economic success story.  What a great idea.  Perhaps they can hire Drake to be the agency mascot.


L2G, I have scratched my head over the photo of a woman with her dog.  I don't remember posting that and I am sure that was someone else.  As I said, there are some other jjp58's out there, and some of them post a whole lot.


"No review is needed because it is not likely to be needed". This circular argument was written by Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver in response to complaint about no public review of the Northern Graphite mine at Bissett Creek on the Northeast border of Algonquin Park in Ontario.
Proposed mines must submit a Closure Plan open to 30 day public review, after which they get their go ahead. The Ministry of Natural resources refuses to make public copies easily available to the public on their website along with the public notice. In this case a paper copy was available during 20 days of business hours in Sudbury.
Lacking in this and possibly all closure plans is a mention of cost, how funds will be accumulated over the life of the mine, and designation of a neutral party to hold the money (bond) for closure only. The Kearney mine on the other side of Algonquin is an environmental open wound.
The final sadness is we export jobs when we buy back semi-raw resources as finished goods.


Don't start that nonsense  that if you love your country you have to love the PM and the Liberals. Very dangerous road to go down.


E.G.:  You only need to read the first sentence in any of your comments "to see there is a political agenda".  Vendors "getting stiffed" has nothing to do with the Binkley's.  That rests solely with Rogoff.


Texas and Iowa have more wind generated power than California.


"No one has missed the tired points you bring up"...OH, you mean like the liberal drivel that you constantly spew in your incessant comments?  Get a clue already.


Wow, thanks  M. Van Praet, that was inspirational.


Screw that!


The state certainly did nothing to contain the violent leftist protesters.  In fact they have done everything in their power to get them right back out on the streets in the blue states in which most of these riots occur.


We have till 2023 to come up with a viable solution to the problem. The problem being too many people on welfare. Yes Medicaid is welfare.

So what is the solution to get these people off welfare? As Colorado is witnessing unemployment rates under 3% the current number of people in welfare is inexcusable. We need to demand more of employers and citizens.


Were the conditions not also chaotic? I fully support the Canadian government's rescue of Canadians in dangerous situations, but am surprised there would be so much criticism of those efforts and so little thought to the situation the government is dealing with. Makes me wonder if some of those travellers have an elevated sense of entitlement. At least they're getting out, which is more than you can say for the people of the country who provide them with relatively cheap vacations.


Bernie Sanders is Alaska's only chance to avoid reaching the climate change point of no return.


Denali Highway and it was posted "Closed travel at your own risk"!


Bombardier shareholders need to follow BP shareholders and cut exec pay.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN178186-OCABS


The legislators have a lot on their plate to deal with in a shorter time these days. They deserve some credit and most are honorable people.

I don't recall many legislative bodies that ever got a lot of praise in real time at any time of our history... except only decades later.

I'm sure that most of these former legislators of the past, who are now regarded as statesmen/stateswomen, were once cussed up one side and down the other.....just like the legislators of today. You can't please everybody all of the time. It's impossible.


the walker proposal isn't realistic either.   cut the dividend entirely.. send everyone an $84k check (each alaskan's current share) and the spending we put back into the state fixes everyone's budget for the year.  and possibly the next few years.. oh other happy side effect? most people will take their $84k and leave the state for good. it's win-win.


Southern Ontario should be its own province. Seriously Just draw a horizontal  line at Barrie and be done with it..


Where did I deny that it's not perfect?
You didn't answer my questions.
You want to gripe, but you're still here.
Family in another country should make the move easier for you.


The advice in this article is bad. The question needs to be answered by a lawyer, not some HR coach. Basically, one first needs to look at the employment contract to see what language is used about wages. Next look to relevant employment law statues. Last look to the common law to see how the statues have been interpreted. This person probably at least requires a certain period of notice for a pay decrease, otherwise a court may find this to be constructive dismissal.


Horgan had better learn that now he can't just blather on about things like he's still in opposition. This will cost us BC taxpayers money, just because he was stupid and didn't do his due diligence.

It should be interesting to see how much BC gets sued by Kinder Morgan if the NDP obstructs things (which, I'm sure, they'll try) - won't be 'just' 5 mill. Can't wait for the next election.


Based on Jim's comments in the past (I don't remember specifics, because I don't keep track of everyone's comments), I have no reason to believe that he does not support ordination of women or that he wishes us any harm.


Note that this increase is solely due to the insurance companies. Neither President Obama nor President Trump has anything to do with it.  It's disingenuous to blame either of them.  The insurance companies are making plenty.  They just want more.


Utter NONSENSE.  Why isn't Trudeau forced to denounce the FLQ, the guy that murdered all those women engineers, the guy that murdered Muslims in the mosque??? They were WHITE CHRISTIAN MALES...

You are just a racist  with nothing else to show for yourself. SHAME ON YOU spreading such FILTH.


No, the real reason is that a few misguided influentials are guided by their religious beliefs.  Put the issue before the general public to vote on in the next election.  Let the public decide -- not a few.


I'll take G'Kar over Yoda any day.

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/G'Kar


Thank you republicans for higher rates, more traffic, fewer trains, and less mobility.  You guys are swell and sure know how to screw over everyone. You sure do know how to lessen the quality of life for all. You want to hurt the "other" guy so badly you are willing to hurt yourself.

All these issues with A, G, and other lines, including not building to boulder/golden... you can thank the Repubs for the lack of progress... oh AND they saved you nothing.  It is just straight up hateful blocking for the sake of not wanting others to get their way. Selfish Selfish people.


Disappointed not to find some lyrics from Tom Sawyer, Limelight, or The Trees after I read your post.


it doesn't matter if electorate will forget or not.  Wynne will throw out enough taxpayer money to get to another majority.  Votes can be easily bought in Ontario.


Conservatives seem desperate to find something- anything that will stick to Trudeau. They hate the fact that Trudeau is the first liberal leader in 13 years they can't destroy with mindless attack ads and fear mongering.


To be fair to allie, when the media uses the catchphrase "of no local address" it's intended as a polite euphemism for "living on the streets. "  The accused, homeless or not, have feelings too you know.


Northrop Frye

Since we're dealing primarily with the teaching of literature at the Secondary level, one element that is rarely incorporated is the all-encompassing literary theory of the great Canadian critic, Northrop Frye.

His theory is all-inclusive (perfect for these politically correct times) insofar as everything from nursery rhymes to the Bible, from film to opera, from comedy & romance to tragedy & irony has a place in Frye's paradigm. It's both simple enough to be taught to elementary kids and complex enough to challenge university academics.

It would provide a context for Secondary teachers and students alike and would be sure to provoke questions and analysis, all of which would contribute to what Frye viewed as a central goal of education, the fostering of "the educated imagination."


Christ said, "Turn the other cheek." Where in the Bible does it say that Christ commanded, "Expose thy son's and daughter's throats to those who would murder them in the name of Islam."?

Go re-read the Bible.


I should also mention that not all of the money for the various scholarships, work study, grants, loans for service, and loans come from just the Lottery. I believe some of may come from the State's agreement with the Tribal casinos. The Tribes that have casinos gives or pay a portion of their revenue to the State of New Mexico.  Please go check out the pages I listed in my other comments that will take you to the web page on New Mexico  scholarships, work study, loans for service etc.


So dumb. And entitled!


Taxation is theft.


No, I know the difference between causation and correlation.  My hypothesis is that ecclesiastical patriarchy is one of the factors (perhaps the driving factor) *causing* the crisis of vocations.  As the patriarchal phase of salvation history passes away, who wants to marry a patriarchal church?  Who wants to marry a phallogocentric church?  Who wants to marry a church that is resisting the signs of the times?  Since 1976, in response to the Anglican ordinations, what we have gotten from the Vatican is mostly smoke and mirrors:

http://pelicanweb.org/CCC.TOB.html#CHRONOLOGY

My hypothesis could be wrong.  Do you have an alternative hypothesis?


Not if one considers Justin to be a traitor. The Chinese seem to be benefiting greatly from his actions.


With camera`s all over a business like a bank.Why would anyone believe that they could get away with it?Soon that guy will be caught.Another thing,banks kneed to get better quality camera`s.They do not cost that much now for hdmi.


Actually, if you read about Muslim funeral procedures, they are unique.
It would be interesting to see how they would lay out the plots since apparently, they are to be buried on their right side facing Mecca. How you do that inside of a casket, assuming they use one.
BTW, cremation is a big no no to a Muslim.


Let me,

You don't help your case by excessive overstatement.


Sad, the sacrifice of fiscal responsibility to Liberal ideology

more like to Trudeau Father and Trudeau Son ideology

Paul Martin was not like that, nor Chretien


I watched that, but I still don't know if they were for Brexit or not. Enlighten me, please? I didn't get chills. I got the usual angst from young folks, as it should be. But, I still don't get what they are saying as far as Brexit is concerned.


Richard, all one has to do is peruse this thread & read your comments to see whom deals in insults and childish remarks. It is rather ironic that you are calling others out for "acting like a 3-year old' when all I see from you is a barrage of insults towards a number of other posters.


Pruitt's actual reported words were: Pruitt: "No I, no I think that, that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the, to the global warming that we see. But we don’t know that yet, as far as, we, we need, we need to continue the debate, continue the review and the analysis."

In the latter part of the statement, he at least says that the matter requires further attention, i.e. is not taking a dogmatic inflexible stand.


Who is going to do the casting? You? If so, who gave you that task?


Our political parties seem to prefer stupidity.


That even cows had to die in order to satisfy the avarice of the Gupta's and the ANC sort of boggles the mind.
There is irony in the fact that even though Mosebebi bent over backwards for the Guptas, he was bent over the other way, as well. He now has the training and experience required to work in the prison laundromat which is to be his place of future employment..


What are you trying to say here?  What language is that?  Greek?


That was sort of what i was thinking. Everyone saying its someone else's responsibility. Then i was wondering, Is there a rule that prevents them from bringing in porta potties ? Would the state/city require a special permit or something to do it ? Maybe that is why its not happening.


What is so tough about the permit process?  Write a check, get a permit, done.


"certain “barbaric cultural practices,” such as honour killings and female genital mutilation, are crimes in Canada."

Its a fact...like or not.


I saw the Aga Khan speak on pluralism recently.  He is an amazing individual who heads a religious organization that has been greatly persecuted but still gives generously to educational and humanitarian causes around the world.  I admire him greatly and am happy for Trudeau to spend time with him, as his guest or otherwise.


"The use of bait would increase the harvest rate of coho, potentially jeopardizing achieving the escapement goal."
However, commercial and gill-nets are still fishing.........how does this happen?  If dip-netting is over 31 July why doesn't commercial and gill-nets end as well??


Some good points @credenhill.

But the wait times for diagnostics here in BC, including  colonoscopies here in BC can easily be 6 months or more.

A few years back an ultrasound ordered by my GP for  abdominal pain specified that an MRI was needed for clarification. My GP referred me to a specialist (as my GP could not order the MRI), and I was looking at a wait of a  couple of months for just the initial consultation.

The pain was strong enough that I could not work (let alone the stress of worrying about what it was), so I took out the credit card and paid for an MRI that was performed in days.  The specialist (who I had yet to see) did not suggest this - it was my own initiative.

I  sent the results to the specialist, and on the strength of the MRI I had an appointment within a week, and surgery within the month.

The system is broken.


Trump is nothing but a mentally unbalanced buffoon.


Another Pantload post.


David, while we who actually live in 45th district appreciate your interest in our local election, Englund is out of touch with the public health and transportation needs of our community here.


If the legal speed limit is 100 km/hr and I am doing the legal speed limit, which no one is supposed to exceed, why does it matter what lane I am in?  No one should be overtaking me.  My brother drives in the left lane all of the time at the legal speed limit and no one ever passes him.  He thinks it is because most people are law abiding, I believe it is because of the RCMP markings on his cruiser.  I guess we will have to agree to disagree.


Lol you think Goldman Sachs is just getting into politics now?  They've been around for a very long time and people pass between it and politics almost non stop. Certainly nothing new here by any stretch.


Great pictures.


How so?  The term settlers is an English word used by settlers to describe themselves?  When did this term become racist?  That is silly.


#3 - Too many differences in standards and regulations for this to work well. I for one would prefer we continue to ensure the dairy is BST free.


YES!! The real rogue IS currently in charge at SARS. It is now obvious that the slimy GUPTAS  is the real cancer. Send them back to India (or wherever ) post haste!


I'd be willing to bet where they live is no more of a utopia when you look at actual facts rather than through your rose colored glasses.


Most of the greedy geezers, who rail against socialism, aren't aware that Social Security and Medicare ARE socialism.


Cops tell blatant lies. What else is new?


Christie: "Let them eat cake."

Too late.


most the legal immigrants here are engineers, doctors, professors, etc... Most of the legal immigrants in Sweden are refugees from war torn countries (I know this, I was one of them) Somalia, Yugoslavia, Nigeria, Turkey, Albania, Columbia, etc... in the 90s. I'm guessing its the same idea but different countries now.

Even the illegals here mostly come for the opportunity to earn money to send home, which is very admirable.

The birth rates minus immigration are negative in both countries (believe me there are socialist problems in the US too, look at Bernie's Vermont, comes in last in growth), so the fact that they shlep in immigrants to boost numbers does not mean much.

Re education, they still earn less, would rather earn 100K with no college than 50K with college. Plenty of debt still there: https://qz.com/85017/college-in-sweden-is-free-but-students-still-have-a-ton-of-debt-how-can-that-be/


Taking refugees and immigration is a good industry for Immigration Lawyers on average make 500k per year paid by the taxpayers. Welfare workers average salary 100k with gold plated benefits.
Landlords who get cash from welfare, food banks, poverty industry and finally your local Mosque they need more people also..


Charles, Trump will take advantage of the meteoric advances in technology. It keeps increasing...and increasing....So what kind of virtual world do you want to live in?


Before I read the article, my own thoughts on the email leaks centred on the utter cynical contempt held by the Guptas of South African blacks, aided and abetted by Duduzane Zuma among others. Their reliance on a Western (white) organisation to disseminate misinformation rubs in the insult to black race and intelligence. The fact that Jacob Zuma is the spider in the centre of the whole tangled web magnifies his own cynical disregard for "our people". That and the thrall of 'struggle' and ANC antecedent loyalty can only lead everyone down the road of economic and livelihood misery.
 Ranjeni's article is beautiful summation of Gupta/Duduzane machinations.


I see. They are in social services. Perhaps the ministry. Makes sense now. Did you know there is an app for that?


De Gaulle was a coward and a traitor. He sold out his people then ran away in WWII. He sold out his partners in Canada in the face of the 45, 000 + Canadian soldiers who died to liberate his country while he sipped tea in Britain.


There are no EMHCs in the Extraordinary Form and even if there were, none of us would desire to be one.


He gave the Power of the Keys to Simon Peter, Matthew 16:16-19.


Why isn't Lisa as equally concerned about other villages that have even worse access to medical care? Perhaps because she can't build a road to them that goes through a wildlife refuge....and she can't get a fat campaign contribution from a major seafood company for those villages either.


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I think the concept to which you refer used to be termed "Multiple Personality Disorder."  It's now called "Dissociative Identity Disorder."  And it presumes a unitary self, such as might be said to suffer from the affliction.


OK, to each his own.


Slowly but surely, Sear's is on its way out. Sorry to see them go. We stopped shopping at Sear's years ago when we tried to get service on our dishwasher. It was a nightmare talking to people in India, Dominican Republic, etc. They wanted us to jump through hoops trying to repair the appliance on the phone before they would send a service representative.  Then, when the guy finally did get here, he couldn't fix it. It took three service calls to get it running again.


Lynn,  You are right and that is the "Gordian knot".  If one believes in a free society, society can't just "do something with them."  It seems the best that anyone can come up with is to make "here more unpleasant than there" causing "them to move there".


I agree with droid.  Please have trained Sheriff officers in charge of security.  Securitas is a danger to the public and themselves.  DOT has just been ridiculous in this matter.


Is Barry, Al, Jesse or Fredericka in Seattle yet?


Welcome to Trumpistan and the mindless "leader" of this stinking mess.


By "special interests" do you mean people who don't think like you or people who don't look like you?


Meanwhile, British Columbians are out there driving around in their SUVs and trucks like there's no tomorrow.  Apparently Weaver and Horgan feel there's no point in encouraging people to car pool or take the bus when we can put thousands of people in other part of the province or country out of work. BC imports 75% of their fuel from one of Washington state's six oil refineries who in turn receive their crude oil by rail or tanker. This is fine with Horgan and Weaver and their supporters - as long as it's not Canadian oil.


It has naught to do with the familiarity to the well-travelled of visiting Big Ben or standing on London Bridge.

It has something to do with caring more for people who are "like us".


Sorry you find it inexplicable; I did explain once that I found your regular faux-liberal schtick clumsy and unfunny.  I'll keep your punctuation tip in mind.  Which Carmen do you like?


Wow, repeated one of Donald Trump's disgusting phrases from the Access Hollywood tape (altered, no less, to soften its blow) and it didn't make  "civility standards"   Yet  half the population thought it was fine enough to elect him president of the US.   go figure.


Article is typical liberal pie in the sky…

The issue is that we need to remind our elite deep thinkers about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as we are stuck on the bottom 2 for most of our citizens.

Let’s get that fixed and let the new Trump team clear up the mess made by unplanned Globalization which by the way caused directly all wars (or conflicts) in the past…

We can think about bringing the high ideals of liberal democracy out when we are entitled to look at the upper level of Maslow

The new rule of the TRUMP government is lead/follow/or get out of the way…and it’s the right one for now and our government better get with that program and get our pretty boy to start listening to its citizens.

It’s very clear that any interest in these fine ideals about liberal democracy are secondary to the citizens of most western societies until they get their economies and core cultures back in control with strong borders and an environment where the current citizens and children come first


Good job Neko and tragically, an accurate list!

Do want to notify readers that the Southern Poverty Law Center has ample info on a number of  the groups on the list....gross info, actually....

Readers may want to inform themselves ...you can google  almost any topic listed and SPLC and get data...and Kelly Ann Conway and Bannion have been knee deep in this and you can just google their names and "alt right, or White Supremacists etc...."

Do think you omitted the anti Semitic  category....

Such a lovely group of folks and topics.....


‘Nearly 270 people have died in Canadian provincial jails over the past five years. Two-thirds of them were legally innocent.’ This must be a misprint. Canada is this diverse and joyous Shangri-la built by the likes of Pierre Trudeau and Stephen Lewis. This kind of thing does not happen here.


Trying to think out of the box - maybe there were equal or greater behavior violations of team rules during the previous coaching regime, but no suspensions except for counseling behind closed doors and no public awareness.


suicidal tendencies are treatable NP5! But if your proned to ride that missle in, strap in and have a great LAST ride FOOL!!!!! I'll be laughing watching!!!!!


The IRA had but one consistently identified enemy.

This is different.


This bill's chances will evaporate after the CBO scores it.


Indeed Mr. ricknro. Your last paragraph is worthy of a thousand likes. The heart and soul of the nation has been sickened by the poisonous bile emitted from Fox and the rest of right wing media. Trump is nothing more than the evil face and result  of the Limpbaugh/Hannity/ O'Reilly bloviators ability to normalize the obscenity that is the entirety of Donald Trumps lifestyle.

"Donald J. Trump received more Republican primary votes than anyone in the history of the Republican Party. He is a 2016 Republican to the core. He is the chosen leader of our time. This is who Republican voters admire. He is the Republican party."


There is no such thing as "trickle-down economics." It's just a term of abuse used by socialists. Everything else you spewed is a similar  hallucination.


Surely her insurance would have covered this?


A huge asteroid is going to hit the planet causing it to break up into pieces that float to the heavens ending all life on earth and thus no chance to restore biodiversity. But I did hear that the planet Mars has some potential!


But many here say crime isn't a problem in the USA, it has come down 41%, ha ha!


Prayers for all those involved and for the soul of the victim. This family will have to live with this tragedy for the rest of their lives.


Obviously Trump must be so soundly beaten at the polls that it'll take decades for another Republican of his ilk to dare to gull the likes of his supporters again.  Nor can we allow the current crop of Republican leaders to get away with burnishing their images by saying "look how great we are compared to Trump".  The whole bunch are every bit as evil and disgusting as he is.
But we face the problem of so many DINO's riddling the party that electing Dems may not solve anything.  In order to fix any of the long-term problems we need to trash Citizens United but to do that we need to break the power of the economic aristocracy but to do that we need to gut Citizens United...Classic Catch 22.  We need to repair public education pounded to ruins by "starve the beast" but to do so we need to break the power of the 1%, and on and on.
Can we fix the current system or is it so firmly in the clutches of corporate oligarchy that it's too late?


Authentic history research proves ownership . Look at Indigenous land claims in Canada for example and land  survey border disputes settled by historical and geographical evidence.


Really?  Something "positive about the Trump administration?" What would you like NCR to cover: "give his admin[istration] credit" for his misogyny, racism or fascism?  I suppose if you're a whitelash voter, Trump is doing just fine for you ... until they take away your healthcare and social security.  John Kennedy: "If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal." Hear, hear!


It is disturbing to see what is happening to the UK .


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Date: Thursday 7-14-16
OK,, A plan,,,how about some throw down notes –
for us simple people ?
I never seen so many people “gaming the system”! pdk

(Sell Juneau or lease it out) Close down government to essential services only;  Then come here to Anchorage and let us all gather up and review essential services in detail; And a ZERO based budget review-audit-education of 3 state agencies by random draws

Identify Drivers or Causations of problems:
1.Move Capital NOW or charge Juneau for the their costs to us.
2.Rapid Recall by internet petitions with true voter names (my Alaska) and “by will of the people” grounds for recall.
3.Term Limits for all elected officials
4. Centralize all expenditures for tracking purposes
5. Secure PF and PFD against any more bank heist gangs or;
 cash it out along with the PERS and TERS to all citizens
6. Decouple all public employees unions and go to flat hourly wages with no health or other benefits or investment plans


Why would the sens hire a guy from the previos loser MLSE rejime? He looks like a barrel of laughs...melnyk should have kept the existig guy


"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein


With girls now joining the ranks of cub scouts and boy scouts it won't be long before the girls start complaining about harassment and discriminating behavior at the hands of the boys.  It will be the same as in the military or the RCMP or male locker rooms or wherever:  the girls will go where they don't really belong and aren't really wanted, and then somehow will feel miffed and put-out because they're not "fitting-in" and the organizational structure of, say, the boy scouts isn't being completely revamped to suit their particular needs and desires.


HI:I teach in a college and when I went through engineering I took programing(back in the C++ days) it was obvious that it was not the easiest skill set to learn.

Fast forward to today if you don't have the high school graduates able to absorb nebulous thinking such as programing, colleges (and universities) will be at a loss to generate workers for tomorrows world.

Take the above statement and substitute STEM programs for "programing" and it still holds true.


Not only is Obama more popular than President Grump, Obamacare is more popular than he is. But his devoted Trumpons love him.


Lack of adherence to Church morality aside, he should be fired for basic stupidity.  Seems he would have us believe that before the year 2000, when the overwhelming majority of the world was hetero and still opposed gay sex, the majority's opposition was based on their own sexual maladjustment.  Got that?  So the ones who were sexually well-adjusted were the REST of the population --- the small minority: the world's gays.  Wow!


Having addressed this issue before in editorial letters, having learned that there is organizations that is addressing this problem and have been told have found homes, I question spreading the problem out, is that really the solution, are you addressing the problem or make it look less than what it is and therefore need not address it.  Instead of reporting what you want to do, tell the reader what you have found as to why these people are homeless, no general response, is it their lifestyle of drugs, alcohol abuse, could be they do not want to work, report the whole story, not just what you feel will win your point.


Unfortunately, the people who do leave are the ones pulling MORE than their weight and contributing MORE than most people to society.

That is why Ontario is in decline...13 years of McGuinty/Wynne has resulted in the more productive people leaving.


They've done this before.  Call their bluff and start looking for the "fat" they're hiding.

Wasn't aware ASD had Arte Johnson on the payroll.


The pitiful wailing from the Right over this indicates that their claims that "nobody cares" is spurious. They're obviously very upset.


Last year at this time, I brought guests from out of town to see an O.C.T. play.  Walking the short 2 blocks was very unpleasant and it's something I'll never forget.  Travelers took up much of the sidewalks and tried to engage us in the 'fun' they were having.  We had to carefully weave through and ignore them.  They were practically in our face---fun for them, but it felt like taunting to us.  Plus, we had somewhere to be on time and this experience was made even more annoying and stressful.   This wasn't the only time I had unpleasant experiences.   I don't enjoy going downtown because of this and therefore, go rarely.   It's not always unpleasant, but I'm tired of bracing myself for the worst almost constantly!
Kitty Piercy was astute to differentiate between travelers and homeless a few years ago...and I take issue with the former, not the latter.


Trump won't shut down the oil industry like Hillary will.  Elect Hillary and in 8 years your PFD will be ZERO


The rate of increase of medical insurance, as a percentage of GDP, fell after the ACA began to be put in place. In fact, the rate of increase is one-fifth what it was previously. You can thank Obama.

Also, since the plans are much, much more complete, don't allow for exclusions for prior health issues and you cannot have your rates raised for those existing conditions, the policies under the ACA are also much better. (That's the community rating part.)

Personally, I know I am paying less and receiving more. Prior to the ACA, the $8k my family spent annually was a one-time-use policy, since if we actually needed to use it it would have been canceled at the end of the year. Great for traffic crashes and quick-treatment cancers like Hodgkin's, but not so great for things like breast cancer.


Call me a bit 'old fashioned' but this senior citizen used to look upon the office of a country's leader as one whose occupant should represent with dignity the citizens he or she serves.  Unfortunately the current President of the USA seems to think it entails presiding over a reality show in today's 'twitter universe' where he can demean everyone and anyone he wishes whenever the mood suits him.  Methinks the political scene in the US will continue to spiral into the dirt over the next four years.  My hope is that the other 95% of the planet's population will be able to survive the new USA.


This is just wrong. The borders should be secured. Trudeau has lost control of Canada's borders. Money and resources are being diverted from Canadian citizens to accommodate illegals. Looks like it means nothing to be a Canadian now except someone to be taxed and treated like a chump by the illegals. Trudeau should regain control of Canadian borders if not let Goodale try. If  Trudeau can't handle the situation he should resign and admit  that he was just not ready.


CMD:  Slice of pizza.....bake a cake...(not catered,BTW)...are both services/accomodations provided.  Both are subject to statutes regarding refusal of services to protected classes.  Perhaps you don't think LGBTs should be a protected class.  That's fine.  Perhaps the bakers didn't feel lesbians ordering a cake for a wedding should be a protected class.  That's fine too.  I think 55 mph is too "slow" a speed limit on highway 99 north of Eugene.  That's also fine.  However, I'm well-served by obeying that speed limit.  I guessing you see the point I'm making.  regards, Gary Crum    BTW: I'm not sure mentioning that it's primarily "right-wing fundamentalist Christians" who wish to use First Amendment Religious Freedom as a justification to discriminate against homosexuals is quite the same as "using the N-word."  again, regards, Gary Crum


From an oil rig (not including nat gas), yes the 498 rigs in operation as of last week is a far cry from the high of 1609 in Oct 2014. But it's higher than anytime prior to April 2010.  So if you think this is a low rig count, don't fool yourself.

Canada might temporarily gain share at OPEC's expense but once the US starts working down the 7 million barrels per day it imports, Canada will quickly be displaced by rising US production and the rest of the world will remain oversupplied.


Sour grapes because they thought they were a shoe in for winning the game. Learn to take the good with the bad Crusaders!! Congrats to the Sabers, well deserved!!


He doesn't even know what mocking means he actually believes all the crap he says or tweets.


Okay then, Mr. Generosity, pony up the cash and contribute - or are you only generous with other people's money?


Thank you, Wayne. What I'd like to know is this: with all the billions syphoned off state coffers, will we ever see any of that money paid back? How many schools and hospitals could have been built? How many more police officers might have been trained? It could have been used for free higher education; to equip local municipalities with the skills necessary to run properly so that their audit reports improve; proper informal housing built across the country, and so much more. Few of us comprehend the enormity of what has happened to this country - the numbers are just too overwhelming.


project Much, weirdo!


Hey Stu Pid, although fitting, you must of changed your moniker. I have never seen you around these comment boards. So who were you during the Harper years? Could also tell me what I said about Harper that was meant to be humorous? When it comes to that individual Canadians could only cry.

Have a good day Stu Pid! <|:=)-  ...that is a clown with a soul patch.


Quit whining, lefty.  Under your friends everybody in the private sector will suffer.


It's the other way around, but than again CONservative blab radio is a beast unto its own.


Truth is stranger than fiction.


By all means then, go forth and change whatever rules you need to in order to ensure that only Democrats are elected. Abolish or neuter whatever you wish, for you clearly deserve that authority. When you're done, report back to us as to how elections will be conducted from this point forward, with one vote counting as one vote and the winner being declared based on who accumulated more of them.

The electoral college doesn't go against the clear will of Californians and New Yorkers. It just goes by what everyone else understood to be the rules before the game started.


Read the 1st Amendment.  It restricts the government 1) from making laws to either establish a religion or prevent some other entity/person from establishing a religion; and 2) from restricting people from practicing their religion.

There is no restriction on the government to provide taxpayer funds to religious entities or to even do so unevenly, discriminating in favor of one over another.  It's good that the government finances, say, Jewish schools, over, say Satanic cults.  That is not an establishment of religion; it forces no one to become Jewish nor does it stop people from becoming Satanists or practicing Satanism.

People's perception of the Constitution has been tainted by liberals in the Court.  The Court has increased its power beyond what was ever intended.  That's why a conservative President with the power to change the make-up of the Court is going to be very important to returning the balance of powers between the 3 branches.


I'm a professional (physician). In the process of unincorporating. There is a lot of exaggeration on both sides. I have done some pretty careful calculations....I save about $3000 - $5000/year via incorporation. I also pay ~$2500 extra in accounting/legal fees. The people who really lose on these changes are very high-priced specialists who income split with young adult children and a say-at-home spouse as well as the lawyers and accountants who have been carrying out the various schemes. Most primary care physicians will be surprised at how little they are impacted....While I do think some federal bureaucrats need a reality check (and changes to) their bloated benefits/pensions, physicians still have RRSPs, RESPS, TFSAs...one can save ~$36 000 a year using these, which if invested smartly e.g. ETFs will generate a very comfortable retirement and education paid that most Canadians don't enjoy....and if one still insists on a private corporation, there are still personal pension plans.


You're aware that sans NAFTA you have the opposite of a more free market, right?  There are more trade restrictions without free trade.


The topic isn't the comfort of your individual automobile; the topic is how to move thousands of commuters every day, into and out of Denver.  The Valley Highway is packed, I-25 stretching southward to Castle Rock and Colorado Springs comes to a stand-still in the middle of nowhere even when there is no accident or road construction to impede traffic.  U.S. 36, the old Denver-Boulder Tpk., is at capacity during rush hours now.  For mass transit, that is, for PUBLIC transportation, the use of tax dollars is the only sensible way to create a commuter rail network.


I worked for IBM Canada. The payroll was 'out-sourced' to Ceridan.


I think it's rude to insert oneself into a website and pretend to be a Church with no rules, when the reality is he has a church with no people. Check out the website. Like it or not, rules becomes necessary when a population multiplies over time.


So the "artists" in the union and the tax payer subsidized CBC oppose broadcasting the US advertizing - what about the other 99.9% of the viewers? Most of whom pay the the taxes that support the CBC.


Currently-our country has approximately 19 trillion in debt.

Also-many communities are declining the federal $ because they see that with current
laws, the more population an area gets-the more they have to grow in the future.  Few more jobs are added just lots of people.  Areas such as Boulder, Colorado and places in California
such as Petaluma have embraced slow growth or even non-growth.


Whenever I hear about the Globe winning a journalism award, I am reminded of Yeats' "The Second Coming":

"... The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."


i am!!


How do you have a 16 year old roommate?


Ha.


No. You may not have lived in this state very long or perhaps you are Outside now. What if medical bills or medical insurance took everything? Think about what you write.


My Dad, of blessed memory, was a policeman. He was the finest father a kid could ever hope for. A wonderful husband to my mother of blessed memory. The best grandfather for my kids. A caring great-grandfather for my kids kids. He helped make the city where I grew up a great place to live. We did not live in fear. My Dad, along with the rest of the Department, had the backs of all the residents of the city. I knew many of Dads' fellow policemen and policewomen. They were all people of honor and integrity. A finer friend you could not have, lowlyrepub. Me thinks you are seriously confused, lowlyrepub. You are the trash.


Sure.

North Slope Borough, Juneau, Haines, (Anchorage ? I think), and any other unified borough.


What is the difference between PC and Liberal? Seriously, what are the differences?

A good 35% of Canada identifies as small-c conservative. Short of an ideology-based genocide that you seem to advocate, they won't go away. You think all young people support mass immigration and SJW nonsense?

"Remember this, the more right wing elements are disproportionately over 65 while the more moderate elements tend to be under 30." - This is pure conjecture with zero evidence.


Don't forget the part where they are burning piles of tires and other garbage in the name of environmentalism.


Useless article.  Google is concerned about something.  Kristof does not clearly tell us what it is that Google is concerned about.  Does the proposed law hold Google financially or criminally responsible if a bad web site shows up on their search engine?  Since much of search engine maintenance is done automatically and not routinely checked by a human who could spot the bad site, it would be clear that Google would fight having to having to hire massive numbers of people to screen every one of the many billions of sites catalogued.


With a 2.85% MER for the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, the only people getting rich are the owners of the Franklin Templeton corporation.


Among who??


While every other Western country negotiated to have their citizens removed from Guantanamo Stephen Harper allowed a Canadian citizen to be horribly tortured for his own political gain. It's difficult to imagine more despicable conduct from a Prime Minister.


The second paragraph is very Protestant of you and wrong. Torah teaches that abortion is mandatory if adultery is suspected and the woman is stoned if the abortion bares fruit. It says no shrimp. All moral precepts written from natural law, not revelationl. Indeed, all revelation, prophetic and otherwise, includign those by Christ, come through human filters and words. Words change. Lost histories are found. Practices are reformed. Society impacts human nature. It is not fixed. Only divine nature is fixed and eternal and it is constantly teaching us how to be more human, which will make us more divine. Relativism? Maybe. But relativism is also a belief that the truth is discovered by obedience to the group and its leader rather than through reason and evidence (the only way to find the absolutes).


"We need a strong private sector with good incomes to support our social service,".... yes, we do. However, for that to happen we need steady rising business investment and that we do not have.  In Canada new investment in plant and equipment does not even equal current levels of depreciation. Unless that number turns around there will be no new capital formation.

lack of new business investment leads to poor productivity performance, which ultimately leads to a lowering of the country's potential growth rate.  It's a spiral downward in the land of Wynne and Trudeau.  This will not be remediated by government spending.  Sad, really sad.


The TTC had better be looking for parts sourcing for their old streetcars. With Bombardier's delivery record, they'll get their last streetcars when other transportation runs on anti-gravity.


Motel vouchers......and community college vouchers.......and a law that says that a landlord can't do a background check,...... The are a lot of apartments open....but landlords are refuseing to rent to people that have criminal record ....


Why on earth would anyone actually want subject themselves to such a thing?


Another drip in the drip, drip, drip


And let's not forget Bill Clinton had the White House on its knees.

We're tired of fake news. Go away.


I am not sure why LifeSite News,
Church Militant and "Fr Z" have this enormous influence in the Catholic Church.  To me they represent the complete opposite of
what Jesus has asked of us.  I pray other Catholic and non Catholic organizations and institutions invite him to speak.


With any luck, their children will reject this false faith, and raise their own children to embrace the values of compassion, peace, tolerance, selflessness–values that have no place in Trumpism.

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With any luck, those who reject Trumpism will teach their own children that Donald Trump was the god that failed.


In my opinion, and many other Catholics, he was the lesser.  Proof Biden would have won- the God given common sense we  all  receive at birth.


Here are some of my thoughts on your questions.
"Is it your contention that those born with obstacles should have to work harder to catch up to those who do not?" Life is not fair.  In my life, I was not the brightest.  My peers I grew up with did better than I on the SAT, they got the scholarships for college.  Yet today, I am better off financially than my peers who had better opportunities with scholarships and more affluent family. "Or that they should be willing to accept their lot in life?"  Each person measures their success differently.  I don't judge the rich or poor person.  I judge the person that revels in victimhood and wants to be rewarded with my hard work yet they are not willing to exert the effort of hard work.  I am talking about able bodied people, not our mentally ill, our special needs, or our sick.


Am I the only one who noticed that the *sex* of the teacher is not mentioned??


My impression is that the root cause of the resistance to "Amoris Laetitia" is religious patriarchy.  As long as the hierarchy of the Church  remains patriarchal, there is no way in the world to reconcile our doctrines of human sexuality with created reality.  The reason is that our current sacramental theology is contaminated with ancient/modern versions of "patriarchal gender theory" (i.e., the sex/gender binary, male headship, and complementarian stereotypes).  The confusion is in part due to a biased patriarchal interpretation of St John Paul II's "Theology of the Body."  This is the most formidable obstacle to the "new evangelization."  May I share my petition to Pope Francis about this unavoidable issue:

Appeal to Pope Francis ~ English
http://pelicanweb.org/CCC.TOB.120.html#english

Apelación al Papa Francisco ~ Español
http://pelicanweb.org/CCC.TOB.120.html#spanish

"Redemptoris mater, ora pro nobis"


The two Brookfield stocks are MLPs, US based. What about US withholding taxes at 35% which aare not recoverable in a TFSA?
Please comment.


Truth is Obama does not really have a legacy as he spent 8 years mostly sitting on the fence. The only thing he achieved is Obamacare that placed financial burden on the working middle class to support those who don't work and don't pay taxes. The MSM catered to him, celebrating him no matter how inept he was. If he in fact had a "legacy" that people cared about, his party would not have suffered such a devastating defeat at the electiion. The people have spoken.


Bull feathers ... prove your lie!! A link to proof of the subsidies please.


How did China use North Korea as a proxy against West?


Better late than never


There's a much bigger issue inside Quebec's petty fatwa against facial coverings. It's about IDENTITY: what that means, when it's necessary to reveal it and how it may be discerned.

I suggest that 99% of the issue is taken up by the first point: what does it mean to have an identity? And conversely, under what circumstances may a government require you to reveal your identity.


No honor amongst thieves. They're able to get away with it because the people who put them there are too chicken sh-- and afraid to do anything about it.


These so called scientists are idiots.


I agree that the wearing of the hijab in some places in our country is tantamount to pasting a bullseye on your back.  But there is something going on overseas we might care to ponder.

An unintended consequence of France's regulation (some would say ban) on the wearing of the hijab or various facial or full body coverings in public places has led to greater safety through anonymity for its 10% Muslim population.  The high-minded (and today, somewhat highfalutin) sentiment of liberté, égalité, fraternité has its limits too.  But that's not surprising for France as anyone even passingly familiar with the Dreyfus Affair already knows.

As of a year or so ago, a good majority of French Jews expressed a serious intent to emigrate to Israel.  Some cited better economic opportunty there, but about as many cited increasing French anti-Semitism as the reason.  Why French anti-Semitism is perceived to be getting worse can be guessed, but openly only so far - especially in France itself.


They're natives...They'll get away with poaching. They always do


Sometimes certain groups just have a greater aptitude, interest and talent for a specific sport. An American minority group has a definite aptitude, interest and talent for basketball and a situation exists where 10% of the population make up 90% of their professional basketball players.

What if this is the case with rugby in South Africa?


Lying on one's birthplace isn't coverup?


How do you know that? 90%? False. Personal medical data is protected. Did you hear that phony story in a bar?


Why should parents be accountable to government who fail miserable at educating our children?  Our public schools produce way too many irresponsible, poorly educated adults who can't communicate and who are not self sufficient.  In addition, the people who send their children to public schools are a burden to the society already.  Public schools cost the society a minimum $17000 per child.  Independent homeschoolers cost the society $0 per child.  Do the math.


When will it end? The clerical abuse crisis has been in the news in the US for over thirty years. Bishops and their associates, both ordained and lay, have lied, stonewalled, spent millions on lawsuits and lobbying, while telling the faithful and the media that the crisis is long past. And yet, we see priests arrested for computer porn, solicitation of minors and rape. The crisis continues, dear Bishops, stop lying to us!


I wonder if this deal was discussed at Trudeau's $1,500 cash for access fund raiser earlier this year with Chinese investors.


What's a pension?


Acquiring donations or other items of value for an election, obstruction, and anything else discovered.

You seem to be forgetting that Bill Clinton wasn't being investigated for his adultery when the Monica Lewinsky situation arose.

Besides.....how many other presidents have you heard of discussing pardons just for the heck of it?

I won't say that there is for sure anything to the investigations, but 1) it is the Trump administration's fault that all of this is taking place with their lies and omissions (of course, I'm sure you're a fan of the GOP mantra "responsibility for thee, but not for me"), and 2) you seem to be adamant that there is no way that a guy, with a history of stiffing people, adultery, admitted sexual assault, and bankruptcies, could have possibly done anything wrong.


Dave Cuddy sound better to me..


The those who call us out as drunks, welfare takers, on the dole, and on and on, this proves we're much more than all that. In fact, every Native village in Alaska is just like Savoonga. I have been there a few times. And in almost every village in the state. These are good and great people, with hearts as big the sky. Thanks ADN for sharing a part of their real lives.


Maybe not horrible...most well sites have tanks on them, usually one bank for temporary crude oil storage and another for contaminated water (from natural ground water that comes with the oil, not fracking water).  However, there are also process vessels of various types that are often called "tanks" that also handle oil and gas.  So, which one was actually the culprit is lost in the article, and the photos don't really help.

You are correct about the fracking part.  There's no such thing as a "fracking site"...but, regardless, only a random Twitter user and the person assigning tags appear to have made that incorrect assertion.


Islamophobia and Antisemitism are not going away - for another 13 centuries.

Mohammed, with Christian help, defeats Big Business, Bankers; sets up a secular Socratic republic in Medina with rights for all, especially women. Anti-Christian Kaliphate just after him reverses all progressive gains - was anti-poor, anti-women, anti-peace, anti-trade.

Kaliphate, sitting smack on East-West Silk Road, lived on Tariffs (Arabic word of Kaliphate origin) for easy life of languid pleasure for few at the top. 100 famines in Europe straddling 1300 AD. Christians, malnourished, prone to plague, population fell to 40%.

Kaliphate fells Constantinople 1453, blocks routes altogether, starving over-populated Christians further. Desperate Christians find new routes and new lands, destroying 3 Empires - Spain, Ottoman, Mughal.

Jews were allies in Kaliphate's nefarious entreprise. Finally, Christians find a Silver Bullet - Israel to pit them against each other. No war in Europe since then. Lord is Just.


Seriously, has Krookwell perhaps thought if funding rail puts that tremendous a burden on the city's resources, it shouldn't be done?


First:  Why did the dog break the "CHAIN"?  Must have not been quietly lying by a tree.  Didn't see pics of the "chain", but if a chain, must be pretty strong.  My dogs don't pull that hard against any leash, etc.


Khadr committed treason when he took up arms against Canada and fought with the terrorist cowards of the Taliban. He forfeited his rights and in any event, was treated more than fairly. Khadr is a convicted terrorist, any sympathy for his "rights" is grounded in moral cowardice.


Unfortunately, our internet capabilities are poor to non-existent in many places including more populated areas which make it difficult to use the Internet and some related business efficiencies


I think what we are all missing in this is that there are consequences for slacking in life, whether it be at work, in the gym, or even at home. One thing that I have seen come to light from all of these stories is an almost admiration of everything that was at Oregon in the past few years. And while we must respect the coaching staff for how they built Oregon into a national power, what became evident after Chip Kelly left was that there was something lacking, all coming to a head last season when the Ducks looked out-muscled, conditioned, and out-played much of the year.

Now what does this point to? That perhaps there was a lack of control and it is catching up with those players who may have slacked off last year. There have been ZERO incidents at USF with this strength and conditioning coach and current players have voiced their support for the workout.

Don't be so quick to judge just because you don't like change.


Reaching much?

To equate a few gizmos and pieces of software to revolutionary changes to human knowledge and thinking such as those of giants like Galileo is hilarious.

Data is not knowledge, any more than noise is music.


The worst thing is that the president* was never made to apologize for his racist birther nonsense, nor was he ever made to pay the price for pushing that stupid conspiracy theory years after it was rejected by nearly everyone but the die-hard racists.


Yes!!! Now, not to suggest we change the income tax act on family trusts because there are few tax saving benefits to trusts now anyways. But we need to underscore the hypocrisy at play here with the PM and his finance minister. Expose all their nasty little financial details.


If you have really low standards and really low expectations of Kamehameha, then you'd probably think that was an unfair comparison.  But we have Kam statues, Kam parades, Kam School, Kam highway, etc.  There's nothing unfair about viewing savagery with an honest eye.


Delusionally optimistic. You'd have made a good  Trumpeteer during the campaign.


"... we need to be more thoughtful, and less emotional, in assessing how best to minimize harm and maintain our country in a way that will enable us, when the time comes, to recover from a serious threat."
I think this, too, is a caution we must heed. We are only two weeks into this presidency, and we must be aware that the outrage we feel now will be hard to sustain without a commitment to long-term attentiveness and coherent strategies for resistance and political action. The worst case scenario in the Trump presidency is not legitimization but normalization. He is uniquely unqualified for the office that he holds, and we must never think that his holding it can be regarded as normal.


the picture above are some of the 750,000 people on welfare and we taxpayers are paying this just so they can hold up signs and protest while on welfare.


Yay, more taxes!  Because we all know that taxes solve all our social problems.


I no longer question the likelihood of the pee-pee story...fits right in to everything else we're seeing.


The "progress" you speak of was when Frank Murkowski changed the name, broke up the agency and promptly defunded the CPS function. It was the familiar Republican mantra: Do more with less. Same as it ever was...


Continued.... I have small kiddie pool filled with cheap sand on back end of property, and the visiting cats use it as a toliet, instead of my garden or flower beds. It's easily cleaned with a shovel and a garbage bag inside a 5 gallon bucket.
People who have problems with neighborhood cats using flower beds for toilets,  it's a cheap and easy remedy to a constant problem.
I should mention, at the moment, and for last 5 months, I have zero kitties who have come needing help. Fingers crossed.


Jet Blue came to Hawaii.  Even got into a code sharing arrangement with Hawaiian.  Not a big deal in terms of lower fares.  Discount carriers from Asia coming here too.  Deep pockets?  How do you think they got the deep pockets?  By being stupid and giving away tickets?  I'm sure they'll have promotional fares to gain market share, but it won't be permanent.

A fool and his money is soon departed.  As I said, "Like taking candy from a baby."  Crack me up MauiWowie!


this potus is still delusional.


Cut state  spending across the board 5%/year for 3 years.  Then see where the choke points are, if any.
Reduce or eliminate dividend payouts.
State and city healthcare fee should match private sectors ratios.

Have an independent study of roles and responsibilities for all State labor positions.  Look for efficiency gains.
Increase user fees.  Fuel tax, launch,  airport, and state park fees.  Would be nice if you could dedicate these fees.

Many of us are paying a heavy property tax. There are no shortage of people wanting to increase this tax and the resultant spending that comes from this revenue.

I am worried that any new revenues from either sales tax or income tax would only end up as additional spend opportunity.  As they say nothing easier than spending someone else's money.


thank you for the anti hunting out of state opinion.


This might help with a few of the 600+ nations (mostly the one already doing reasonably well), but many within will claim it is an attempted genocide and they will be more than humoured by the ridiculous among us.


Here's a disturbing example of why they call cats their "furr-baybeez", and will always call for the extermination of all humans, while in turn saving the lives of their vermin parasite-infested cats instead. Reinforcing Rick Sinnot's parasitic wasp analogy. Here's a photo from one of their main TNR promoter's websites (she replaced her own unwanted and abandoned human child's face with her vermin cat's head). This is just as she presented her adored cat named "Furby" and her own never-mentioned child to the world. This is what she thinks of her very own daughter today. That's her infant daughter in the photo long ago that she will have nothing to do with today. The only thing added to this photo was the text explaining the reason why they see cats and humans this way.

They now value the lives of their vermin cats EVEN OVER THE LIVES OF THEIR OWN HUMAN INFANTS!

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/86de62d24a6271016936db028f18d1ac6ac6b81cb0901f889f6fd3a792eee6b7.jpg


No need to guess.


Surprise, surprise, surprise
This is an individual  who has lived high on the government dime her entire professional career.  This is always the reality of the liberal left.


The SA polling result seems highly suspect as per your reader comments.  Instead of unreliable polls, make it a referendum in 2018.  This will give an accurate result from folks who care enough to vote.  Why was this not done earlier?  Let the voting public ALL have a voice, not just a selected few.


We can only hope they are processed out of Canada. Trudeau can talk to Trump about this as is our border not defendable from the US? Either have an effective border or get rid of it. There must be a way to fast track them out of our country as they have broken the law and are illegal. This will probably be the new gateway into Canada unless proper action is taken


They are all broke because of mismanagement.   They will not reduce government as to not upset their parasitic bloated vote base.     And we are all being impoverished as a result.


What is happening to the once mighty Kings?


I thought people were he offended when Sessions called Hawaii Island in the Pacific. But you're not offended by calling him Isle boy.


Trump and reality, never the twain shall meet. His missives are short and devoid of any fact.  Trump saying that Obama colluded with the Russians has as much credibility as his him saying, "Trust me."


IMO the only loser in this entire episode was Kai'ele.   He was just a dog doing what most dogs do after just being released from being crated on an aircraft.  Imagine being crated and put in  an aircraft cargo hold for a trip across the across the ocean.  I would be agitated and a little stressed too.  My condolences go to the dog, not the owners or the security guy.


Nuclear weapons are not going away anytime soon Justin. You need to man up and realize that Putin on our northern flank is making preparations to test our resolve.


Somebody needs to tell these idiots that she's in WA D.C.....


Not if that statue represents a time when human beings believed other human beings were slaves.  If you saw a statue of a man violating a young child ..........would you feel that way too?  Stupid.  History needs to be preserved?  Well I agree there but the Alt.right like Koch boys have infiltrated school boards nation wide and soon you won't find anything about oil spills, climate change.....lol.  BP got to submit what they wanted in the school books and trust me........it had nothing to do w/reality.

We're WAY past that reality buddy.


Do you even know the definition of "Fascism" ?
Obama creating Obama Care and making it a Law that You Must buy it, under penalty of Law and/or Fines IS Fascism.


Our current and previous MPs are/were selfish, irresponsible and abusive. Immigration and foreigners cause the housing problem. Get signatures as per www.elections.ca and be a good independent pro-Canadian MP and vote for pro-Canadian MPs only. Pro-Canadian MPs believe in decreasing immigration so Canadians come first. http://immigrationwatchcanada.org/?s=housing


It's kind of amazing that the owner often seems to be the only person that doesn't hear his own dog barking.


Excellent, but as you say in the opening paragraph, a different Party would have to be in power.


She should be doing hard time, my trailer park manager told me so


Good proposal!  Price seats more accurately according to demand and the profit margins are squeezed for brokers.  Unfortunately, this works well on paper but not in real time.  Raising prices means that some fans are not going to be able to afford tickets, a problem most artists don't like seeing.  Dynamic pricing has been tried for some sports tickets, where prices rise/ fall with the teams performance (and demand.)  Inevitably, you will find fans who pay $100 and will be ticked when they find the fan next to them paid $40.  Works great with hotels and airline tickets.  Not so much with concert tickets.  Something that you are seeing more of with Ticketmaster:  VIP seats.  An allocation (but not all of them) of some of the best seats are often priced with a premium and closer to the true value of that seat.  Its harder for a broker to squeeze the profit out of a $1500 front row seat than an identical seat priced at $100.  Hit up my startup and get presale passwords: roostr.com


I think the overall policy is the best we can do. A lot has to be done to make it work-- a lot of it is getting Pakistan and India to close off avenues of escape and attack and regrouping and he did ask for patience. He shows he can listen and make a good decision. He has dumped all the rhetoric in the campaign about pulling out and learned the reality of dealing with Afghanistan-- not easy to pull out and leave it as a base for terrorists. Read what the Alt Right media like Breitbart who wanted a pullout are saying-- they say another "blank check" like Obama gave away-- no timeline-- no real objective-- just "win" and policy is just Obama 2.0-- Trump learned the downside and pulling out and  dropped it-- the things he himself called for and he fired Bannon who pushed for it. Now Trump takes over this war.


"You lost get over it. "

Those were Americans protesting? Who knew?


Steve, the military protects our freedom of speech, rights to assembly, freedom of the press.  You can argue points in history, and your opinions about them because the military protects and defends the constitution.  It is disingenuous to complain about the military in principle while enjoying this right.  If you have a specific complaint about some action or policy, speak up and be prepared to participate responsibly.


An ugly game that the Leafs were lucky to win.  The Leafs lacked the grit that is required in these games in Feb and March.  If they play this way for the rest of the regular season campaign, their chances of post season play is small.  Take the two points but the Leafs need to be prepared to play a different game going forward.


They should have included Donald Trump's name in the tax bill when giving examples of people abusing he system trying to do everything to evade paying their fair share of taxes.


Ohhh hahahahahahaha!!


should have been done in tandem with the foreign buyers tax in B.C. and our governments were made well aware but couldn't resist basking in the glory of the potential votes coming from being "economic leaders" and turned a blind eye to well known asset bubble consequences that are now coming hard and fast.


More proof that "supply-side" and "trickle-down" and "voodoo economics" don't work.


Wrong. My approach succeeds and your approach fails. History tells us so and you cannot deny this. Libertarians are freeloaders, they want to use the commons but they don't want to pay for it. Living in society that is economically well off is not "slavery." It's absurd to call paying for your stuff "slavery" just because everything isn't free for you.


I've always wondered why it is that only Conoco reports its Alaska earnings while BP, Exxon do not. This seems like another travesty. But basically, we should  simply tax the oil that goes down the pipeline - simply, accurately, & in timely fashion.


Is it any surprise that Morneau and his crony capitalist friends would be cooking up a plan to sell Canada's infrastructure to rentier capitalists so they can literally profit off every move that a Canadian makes?


Yep. Probably hundreds of people get denied entry into the US every day, for any reason.


Yes true.  California has an estimated population of 39 million and Hawaii has an estimated population of 1.43 million.  This means California has about 27 times the population of Hawaii but only 13 times the number of electoral votes.  Hence Hawaii, like the dakotas, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska has a disproportionate say in the outcome of the presidential election.  Add that to the fact that, in all states except Maine, voters for anyone other than the most popular candidate in that state get no electoral votes regardless of how close to a majority they come and you have scenarios like this election where one candidate wins the popular vote by more than 1.5 million votes but looses the presidency to the other candidate.


...when done by legal processes, by the proper people, at the right time-- correct.


This is similar to people who smoke two packs of cigarettes per day for 30 years.  Then they get lung cancer and want the government to pay for their medical problems.

These rivers have been moving since time immemorial.  Its what they do.


So why doesn't Trump take a page from the playbook used by Canadian politicians? Do all your work in secret back rooms.  Then if something needs to be made public, your hired media representatives put the proper words into the news release: For example:  "It's for the children. The new restrictions on foreign travel are to protect our people from the type of mass slaughter that we see in the Middle East.  There will be no walking human bombs wearing suicide vests blowing away innocent people in our shopping malls. We can't raise a generation of young people afraid to go out into public places." ---  How's that example  sound???


I am not too worried about people studying to be Doctors, Nurses, Lab Techs, Engineers, Informaticians, etcetera. Even Teachers are a highly paid profession, despite their negotiating tactic whines about being "the lowest profession".

What I am more concerned about is students in fields such as Social Work, Early Childhood Education (pre school) and Child and Youth Care racking up student debts that will take decades to pay off at current pay levels, if they find a job.


Gather their own money? You're 'wealth' has been created from the resources on Indigenous land that was stolen!


I'm personally philosophically opposed to this concept.  These kinds of accounting optimization strategies are fine but they don't really define in my experience why some people have money and some people don't.  Tinkering with financial schemes and accounting tricks is best left to the experts even for wealth individuals.

The real way to make money is to manage your own psychological energy.  I don't really think you need to be any more financially sophisticated than to create a few buckets to dump your money into.  Your personal home is one bucket best left full.  By leaving your personal home bucket full you can free up some psychological energy to focus on other investment buckets without concern for your or your family's material well-being.  Risk everything in your other investment buckets, not the one where your family lives.  That should be a last resort only in my opinion regardless of your risk tolerance.


I was told by a driver today that the fare would be $2 on October 1 for senior and the disabled.  No mention was made of single-ride fares or passes for that matter.  BTW, I'm disabled but have never heard of an ADA identification card.


The terrorists are making the same mistakes the Nazi's made during the Blitz in World War Two. The Nazi's thought the Blitz would weaken the resolve of the British people. They thought the British would be demoralized and turn on their leaders and adopt a defeatist attitude. The opposite was true. The Blitz only strengthened the resolve of the British people to fight their enemies with every fiber of their being. What was true then is true now. With every attack the terrorists are ensuring their eventual demise.


Oh yea, Dunleavy and Chenault.  After all, they've done such a bang up job in the legislature, of course they they should be elected to where they can do more damage.


The oil companies are dropping and canceling leases in the Arctic offshore areas and Lisa comes up with this.  What a crock.  Grow some spine lady.  There is no sensible company that is going to explore the hardest, toughest physical environment on the planet that has a concurrent set of protections for it when there are far easier and reliable prospects on shore.  It simply doesn't pass the laugh test.  And add me to the "Minority" that opposes Arctic offshore drilling at all.  On shore accidents are nasty enough and it is still not a slam dunk to contain them.  Offshore cleanup or containment would be a nightmare.  Macondo showed what a drawn out mess can happen and they had everything in their favor.


There was no crowd to speak of - the camera scanned the UN audience and the vast majority of seats were empty - 20% full at best. The press conference afterwards had more full seats, but in the quick scan CBC provided of the group it did appear that the capable Ralph Goodale & wooden head Freeland were sitting in 2 of them.


You do live in an alternate reality, Joe. A "reality" where the only people who watch, read or listen to the media are "leftists". A "reality" where "conservatives" are the only ones who know how to spend wisely.


What nation state's borders  were violated?


There are indigenous Europeans. Most Europeans are of Celtic/Ionian extraction via the post celtic/ proto geman,  Gemanic tribes (Belgae, Franks, Lombards, Allemani, Saxons, Jutes, Angles,Cimbri, Teutons,  Suebi, marcomanni, etc) mixed with other post celtic gallic tribes and romans (ionians)....late in the 6th cent AD the slavic tribes were added the mix from the east. Later still the finno-urgric tribes.

So yes Europeans are native to Europe (West of the Urals), and have hereditary claim to their ancestry, geography and culture. They have been there sine early stone age at least.

So what is this nonsense about cultural appropriation which has always happened. Goo ideas are good! Acknowledge the source and move on!


Just remember it was these same intelligence agencies who assured us there were weapons of mass destruction (WMD's) in Iraq also.

The Russians were probably just as surprised as everyone else when Trump won the election. IF they were the ones who leaked Hillary's emails it was to make her a weaker president once elected.


Nothing new here.  Same ol' song and dance that always gets elected in Portland.  Expect even more government control from her, and more "innovative" ways to increase tax revenue.  A six month freeze on no-cause evictions?  How about a six month freeze on tenants being able to terminate their rental agreement.  Make sense?


Bannon is next.


Your skepticism is well-founded: there's no reason to believe that Trump has a position on abortion or that he cares about it even a little bit.  More important, we know that the rate and number of abortions will increase on his watch as he and the Republican Congress enact social and economic policies that strip health insurance from millions of people who now have it, many of them as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act. Voting for Trump on "pro-life" (read: anti-abortion) grounds was an act rooted either in ignorance or hypocrisy. A well-informed voter who cared about life issues could not have voted for Donald Trump.


First rule in lawmaking: rules cannot make sense. They can seem rational on the nose, appear sensible in initial verbage, but somewhere in each piece of legislation there needs to be an additional clause that makes the law completely spineless, incredibly costly or asinine in implementation... gold star for all three.


This is hilarious.  I thought the snowflakes were starting to accept they lost.  Seriously dude you are making yourself look all wet from the meltdown.  But to call YOUR  President of the United States "a deformed personality and a defective intellect" is hateful, mean, biased, prejudiced and typical of the way you snowflakes think.  You couldn't be more wrong.  Why does he have THREE great adult children? His "personality is deformed?"  Why is he richer than over 7 billion people? His "defective intellect?" You are so messed up, I'm sure you'll find a way to spin this. That's what you do!


The confluence of oil and religion is a slippery spot


Voting Liberal over and over again and expecting honesty is a mental illness.


You are lying. There is no clitorectomy at birth. There is no stoning for talking. Women don't have to wear the hijab at all times. There is no killing babies for being "born lesbian"(!!!!!) How in the world would one determine at birth that a baby is lesbian? Are you non compos mentis? Does rationality baffle you?


That is a fantasy. You rely on taxes to pay for healthcare and the basic infrastructure that makes the economy work. Under investment in public infrastructure makes these problems much, much worse.


How am I sympathetic to that? All I'm saying is that not all Muslims are supportive of that version of Sharia law and to equate them to it is narrow minded.

Yes it exists, yes it's abhorrent. But you can have that opinion while still shielding innocent well-intentioned people from that criticism.


Boy,this is a tough nut to crack. Who are we to believe, a man of character or a caricature of a man?


Since 2008 financial crisis China has gone on a credit frenzy and created more credit than the value of the entire US banking system and we're talking several trillions $$. That money was spent on ghost cities, bridges to nowhere and many many other useless lavish projects that will never make any return on the investment,  making many Chinese enormously rich very fast at the same fast. As a result of that China has become a Ponzi scheme, so the Red Barrons in Beijing cannot afford any trade war with anybody, because it will collapse their fragile system and make poor masses very angry. China has more to lose than gain here, Trump has the upper hand...


True.  They could fix their budget woes with the elimination of the one sport that consistently loses.


Mr. Winters addresses many  points.  And as the old radio show said, as I listened to while driving across the prairie: And Now, The Rest of The Story (or at least a bit more).

Remember the sputtering anger of our President when Putin showed him aerial photos of the 10k+ of oil tanker trucks driving from ISIS to Turkey while the air force claimed to be attacking ISIS to the tune of thousands of bomber sorties.

Look at the battle the for Aleppo (actually the battle for East Aleppo).  As the Jihadi forces fall we learn that there were 28,000 civilians living under the gentle ministrations of Jihadi governance.  This is less than 11 percent of the numbers trumpeted as the reason to change from secret R2P (Responsibility to Protect) war to open USA "boots on the ground" war.

The tale cracks wide against a huge clandestine WAR battering the regime, or government, or confessional society and is untenable when the light of day shines on it.

And we are still up to our elbows in blood.


I wonder if he was walking with or against the traffic.  He may not have even seen the car coming if he was walking with the traffic.  And, what caused the driver to drive off the highway on to the shoulder?  So many unanswered questions.  A tragic event.


Haaaa, haaaa, haaaa, Trump's scared,
yes sir. You dems are running scared
and are full of BS. Be thankful that he
doesn't declare open season on them.
Kick them all out sir, along with those
who love them. They're just illegal
aliens and don't belong. Also cut off
all welfare. No more free riders on
the taxpayers back.
   In Canada even their newspapers
are welfare and 95% fake.


Guess married life didn't' improve yer attitude huh dude


If not a "silver vixen"  try  dirty blond cougar.


But never the less, the ban against gay marriage was about gay men and this transgender battle is about men transing to female.  In the end the true message is contempt for the feminine.  Trump is just another reflection of the Roman Catholic position on the feminine.


Wonder why the 4 from Fbks were in a Fbks hotel  Maybe Mom daughter and infant were there to get away from the shooter?  Who knows what the motive was  Just so very sad


A Gerry Butts cardboard cutout - now that is scary!


You answered you own question Monkey.  What is the use of that stat if no one tells you it is dangerous to go out even at 10-15?  Streets on Oahu are safe as long as you avoid certain areas.  It certainly was not safe for the victims.  Still don't get it?  I do disregard stats depending on the subject and who has written it.  Common sense prevails.  Reading stats does not make you intelligent but if you believe them 100% then it certainly proves you are gullible.  What is your point by replying to me in the first place?  Teased?  What's the point of that question?  Are you the bully that got punched in the nose?


Hundreds of millions in unmarked bills to Iran, millions to the Palestinians, murdering terrorists released to kill again.  I am surprised or 'journalists' have remained so silent so I wish someone would explain to me exactly what is considered a traitor these days.


Mr. Commissioner, sexual harassment is a criminal act as defined by the criminal code, how many of the 300+ officers identified as having committed this crime are being formally charged under the criminal code of Canada?

Hello Mr. Commissioner?  No comment?

Ok, how many of the 300+ officers identified have faced suspension and termination under your zero tolerance policy?

Hello Mr. Commissioner?  No comment again?

Ok, you've claimed that there is a culture of harassment and intimidation within RCMP ranks, how can the public have any confidence at all, whatsoever, that the public hasn't been treated in the same fashion?  How many cases of harassment, intimidation, false arrest and abuse of rights has the public endured at the hands of this corrupted culture of which you speak?

Hello Mr. Commissioner, no comment yet again?

Mr. Commissioner, is all that's happening is the throwing of my tax dollars at your problem?

Hey, where did this brave officer go?  He ran off?!?


Caelus just laid off 30% of their oil field workers due to low oil prices.  If the state did the same, that would be a cut of over 7000 state jobs.  And Beltrami has the gaul to claim state workers have made "sacrifices"!?  That shows why unions are a big reason we are in such a financial mess.  Time to not only stop raises, but cut 25-30% of state staff.


If I were to enumerate the problems that your beloved US has (NRA, legal KKK, no universal health care, no maternity leave, a tweeting racist megalomaniac as a president ...) I would run afoul of the character limit for comments on this site.


100% correct. A corrupt government and civil service on this island backwater.


I wonder if the Liberals recall why they were unceremoniously turfed out a decade ago? Adscam, the sponsorship scandal, Shawinigate and I'm entitled to my entitlements. Cash for access is sleazy, let's not try to put some lipstick on this pig.


Sarah indulges an urge
to use scary words like a “purge”.
She wants Comey to speak
so then she can shriek
in more columns that sound like a dirge.


Don't worry, Patriot- there's *Our* country, and then there's him.  Let him pout.


The ONLY way I would ever "Buy" into new user fees would be if my Income Taxes were lowered by at least $10,000.00 per year, otherwise, no deal.


As I understand it, the 2009 budget was formulated by G W in 2008, and was 407 billion.
(It's a curious fact that an outgoing President establishes the budget for an incoming, but the incoming can pass new budget bills in his first year)
The actual money spent in 2009, was by Obama.
This is the federal deficit for 2009 which was 1400 billion.
Sorry if i may have confused budget deficit with federal deficit (the actual money spent)
*
I should have said that Obama was the king of federal deficits


> Sorry, not going anywhere until my properties have appreciated more. In the meantime, you're welcome to leave, and maybe learn how to use punctuation.

Oh, you mean how you "correctly" punctuated this sentence you wrote?
"Having moved here in the '90s I am part of the problem."

I hope the door smacks your haughty rear end when you leave.


You know not all of us live close to the border. I would have to drive 3 hours there and back 2x a week to get a gallon of milk. Thanks but I will buy Canadian.


2.5 million protesters and only 17 of them had to call in sick for work...liberals never fail to vote for free stuff using our pocketbooks and they don't like being told no.


Hey, Larry, to whom was it released?


my god another brain washed sheep in the cult of climate change,,, here for your education, watch and get help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxHfb66ZgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUDGfCNC-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmc5w2I-FCA


If you kill someone for trying to steal your property, you will go to jail.
If you kill someone that attacks you, you might go to jail.

You should control your blood lust and check into Colorado law before going and killing someone.


He could not stop on the slippery road.  Rather than slide into the police cars he hit the snow bank.  I doubt he had a choice.


Brandon missed the part in history where Hawaii became the 50th state. Just because Hawaii became a state, it doesn't mean that anyone needs to abandon their culture. Unfortunately, Brandon, and others of like view, fail to realize this.


Emergency clauses and magic don't stop you from assessing the "instructions".
You choose to.


Donald "Damage Control" Trump. This administration is a continuous flow of inflammatory statements followed by putting out flames with varying degrees of success. It is a difficult way to run a business much less a national government. I guess this is Trump's method of leadership; I don't see it becoming a model for any business or government.


All very well but are you actually replying to my post?
Do you acknowledge the difference I highlighted?


The Quebec police force has been corrupt for decades.

Absolutely nothing new about that.


Resistance is futile.  Mayor Spendowitz and his Merry Band, in one way or another, will have muni apparatchiks siphoning wealth from/suffocating this private endeavor in no time at all.


"This will be a precedent setting case. Whether religion trumps human rights." - jamgm

The case may set a precedent, or it may simply follow previous rulings to reach a decision. But what it won't do is set a precedent on whether religion trumps human rights. That question isn't even in play. In fact, putting it that way makes no sense.

A winner-take-all approach is never the best answer when one human right conflicts with another. Competing human rights must be balanced and reconciled, not prioritized in a hierarchy. The idea isn't to create a winner and loser, it's to find the solution that collectively does the least harm to everyone's rights.

There are competing Charter rights in this case, and the Supreme Court is the place to resolve such matters. It won't rule that religious rights override equality rights, or vice versa. It will strike a reasoned balance, whereby both religious rights and equality rights are given all due respect.


LOL, you set up a false dichotomy.  We do not have to all be the same to love and serve God.  Trump University didn't have diversity in its mission statement, and it was still a complete scam.


Same thing with Sask. the distribution costs
more than usage.


True the NHS is not Soviet. I think a lot problems (lately; private insurance levels declined pre 2011) are due to Conservative austerity, especially with cuts to staff. The Conservatives are reversing some of their austerity but I am not certain whether this will cover the health care cuts. Politicians are the same when they try to 'hold onto power' by 'buying votes'. For whatever reason there has been an increase in private insurance but it is still a small proportion of the population.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/16/private-medical-insurance-sales-surge-health-nhs


And here we are, reading the Pope's comment online....


North Korea, Ukraine (remember them?), Somalia, the Philippines, Yemen, Libya, Egypt ...
Not to mention Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
When do we start calling it 'general war'?


A friend renewed his membership within the required time limit but his payment was not processed until two weeks later, all verified by fax log and credit card statement.. Did not receive a voting package.   He suspects vote suppression against members from the West.  Why would that be?


"Sullivan said that his focus will remain... while putting Medicaid spending on a "sustainable and equitable path."

I hope many of his voters on Medicaid realize that he just stabbed them in the back with this.  How many seniors are in longterm care funded by Medicaid?  (answer: the majority of them)


Inference isn't fact.
Enquiringly minds want to confirm.


There are only 2 approaches - either carbon pricing or regulations.

If you are against both it means you want to do nothing.  Come right out and say that if thats what you mean


And you don't even include the President's House or Chancellor's House in Fairbanks. Or the University House which looks to be a 300,000+ joint that sits empty and unrented most of the time. Sell those and make these bigwigs buy their own effing homes and you've got probably close to a couple of million in savings.

Jim Johnsen is a total bagman for the legislators who didn't have the cajones to do this job themselves. He came up with this ridiculous "Strategic Pathways" nonsense out of thin air and it's been clear since the beginning he had no intention of varying from it's basic premise: To obfuscate the real problem. He's superfluous. Eliminate his position and send his carpetbagging arse back to whatever midwest craphole he slithered here from ... then start more cutting AT THE TOP where the worst of the wasteful spending starts.


We need to resist Trump, the Anchorage chapter is organizing

https://actionnetwork.org/events/resist-trump-2017


As the sister of someone with Schizophrenia, I see how often my brother decides to stop taking his medications for a variety of reasons that he finds: they make him sleepy, he doesn't need them, he's traveling, etc.. As soon as he does, we know he is off his medication and he reverts to violent thinking.  As far as I have seen, sadly, there is no cure for this illness. I believe as a society we are still very naive around mental illness, even doctors.


I already told you that experts say it IS doable  - with today's technoloy EVEN if you have to finance it and pay interest on the cost.
That's literally how solar panels and batteries are going up in every office park and high-rise in the country right now !
Do you seriously think all those businessmen would be spending this money if they weren't expecting a return on their investment ?


So Melania has got to go? Time for wife #4?


He threatened the Attorney General.  Good grief ... are you so much of a Trump sycophant that you can't see things in plain sight?


HPD is looking for somebody to fill Kealoha's shoes...