I know a woman who went through this, as well.  However, the doctors urged her to be induced,  but the parish priest told her it was grave, grave sin.  She obeyed the priest, and the dead baby started to decay and caused severe infection.  Her husband demanded that she disobey the priest.  At that point, the only person who could help her was Dr. Tiller, so she traveled to Kansas.  Luckily, she survived the procedure and the infection and was able to conceive and give birth to healthy children. Poor Dr. Tiller, how his reputation was trashed by the ultra pious who had absolutely no idea of the nature of care he provided to desperate women.   To this day, they refuse to do the research, and repeat the same nonsense as Donald Trump.


Great point, maybe right wing media can also better represent the exact percentage of Muslims that are dangerous to America instead of misrepresenting their figures...#MAGA


I have a hard time believing the Liberals would be this stupid. Kill investment at the same time they are using heavy deficit spending on infrastructure to boost the economy? Combine that with competitive tax cuts very likely to occur in the US and I think the Liberals would have to be insane to do this... but then I look at Ontario and the loonie bins running that province and it seems believable.


Way to stay on topic, Ken_Conklin. . . .


Yep, that was pretty entertaining too ;-)


Careful Pete, Trump is even threatening Dreamers.


sounds like they are trying to help the residents as best they can.

 I'm curious.  Does anyone have a better plan?


This website for checking if we've been effected, does it actually work in Canada?  They're only asking for social security numbers.


Well, because it would probably generate a nuclear world war, that's WHY.


As long as we can continue towards the republican goal of maximum profit and no accountability, and as long as no oil company ceo has to go without a massive bonus then I am okay with reduced public safety, fewer snow plows, no healthcare, unsafe water, polluted salmon streams..


Wolf - having been there, pretty freaking rare to find an atheist in a fox hole or when someone shows up at your door to tell you a loved one has been murdered.


Your  hatred runs so deep that you may want to see someone about it.


The reason I can question how they spend it is because when (most of them) blow it, they come crying about how they can't live without out, the sky is falling.  How many people below the poverty income level have Apple phones at $800 a pop, how many have gaming consoles and the lasted electronic games, how many have newer cars that they don't really have a need for (a car yes, but that fancy one they're driving).  Then when all of the PFD money is gone they're going to complain even louder when their actions will lead to a State income tax - you and I are going to enjoy that won't we?


Donald Trump's White House is positively toxic. Friday's news alone was a tour de force of the all-encompassing virulence that's now seeping from Trump throughout the entire executive branch and everything it touches.

Trump's days start with a crack-of-dawn phone call about everything Russia that's clearly aimed at distracting him and his thumbs from Twitter. Why his aides aren't just jingling some keys in front of him is a mystery, but the call is nothing but a venting session intended to soothe a sulking and brooding pr*sident.

Trump's entirely self-generated Russia predicament apparently has him miffed at his White House counsel Don McGahn. Somehow, McGahn has failed to stop Trump from engaging in a series of self-defeating, ill-advised, impulsive, and often petulant behaviors that have now made him the central focus of an obstruction probe. And make no mistake, that's McGahn's fault in Trump's view.


I respectfully disagree.. Those rights most certainly ARE NOT on conditions! I invite you to review The Constitution of The United States of America or possibly an easier read.. your Civics book from high school.


The attacker poses no threat because he cut himself with a knife and made up the whole thing. What a genius.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/28/denver-area-arrest-neo-nazi-stabbing/


Good!

Now we'll see if Junior is really made of anything, or whether he just carries the briefcase for the real world leaders. No leftie agendas here. This is hardball with the big boys.


The point is we have had dozens of ice ages over millions of years.... and then it warmed up each time over the millennia.  The questions is, who had "SUV's" that warmed up the planet each time in the last 100,000,000 years?  This is natural, not man-made!  BOTTOM LINE:  don't believe anybody that says "it is YOUR fault, so you owe "us" more taxes, so we can "fix it"!


Come up with a longer list than that and maybe you have a point.  On the other hand, let's take a look at 45, who's been in office, what 70 days; trackers of his compulsive list of tales are already running out of space...his inauguration had the biggest crowd in history, his electoral college was the biggest ever, BO wire-tapped his house, the British spied on him, etc. etc.  Who lies about things that can be so easily disproved.?  The prof who predicted he would win long before anyone else did also predicted he would be impeached...would not at all be surprised by this, especially given the number of conflicts of interest that he's racking up.


What about the Boss? I've had a few Managers that when the word 'Boss' is their title somehow their heads grow 3 times the normal size.


Sadly she (Elaine Chao) does not know she is Asian.  She said the reason Asian Americans do not get ahead is because they do not know how to contact themselves at cocktail parties.  She has not been a role model or kind to the Asian Community.


Why do we need separate hospitals for veterans? The country has lots of good community hospitals, and they would be as convenient for veterans as they are for the rest of us. The VA could just issue to qualified veterans the equivalent of insurance, usable anywhere, with the paper work handled by the VA or Medicare.
   Here in Lincoln the hospitals and doctors are even advertising for patients!


This is a shameful decision by the august Supreme Court of Canada, which must be obeyed. Nothing must impinge on the sacredness of the rule of law.  In the meantime, my sympathy goes to the First Nations, because once again, they've been hit by a bunch of rabid materialists who are intent on instant gratification and can't see down the line to the next seven generations.

"Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go 'round.
A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
A buck or a pound
A buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around,
That clinking clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round."


Gerrymandering is accomplished by state legislatures not at the Federal, so it has nothing to do with Obama's "watch." Extreme gerrymandering happened after the 2010 census in states with Republican legislative majorities, states where Democrats could not overturn the re-districting that denied a fair share of the vote to millions on Americans.


Just shut off the water and open drain valve at the manifold. Once you shut off the water, your sprinklers won't operate. I haven't had my sprinklers ever blown out. Shut off early, and they will drain on their own. That's why they aren't glued when installed.


Thanks you for all of your family's service, past and future. You are a fun person to talk to, better than most...your not an ass, duty I can check that out too


The objection I have is the new rule where a second degree relative hunting with me for mountain goat, dall sheep and grizzly and is successful, BOTH of us have to punch our tags.  No real reason for it since the number of animals taken by non-resident "relatives" is extremely small.  It will, of course, prevent me from taking one of those animals on the same hunt without any opportunity to hunt that species the rest of the regulatory year. From what I read, it was pushed through by APHA.  The only people this adversely effects is the resident.
Instead of facts supporting Mr. Turner or the proposals that passed, this rebuttal is nothing more than attacks on Mr. Richards, BHA and RHAK which does absolutely no good for anyone.


So no mention of the 300+ artists from around the country, Sound and Movement stage in BelSquare, BAMboozle stage near the museum, free admission to the Bellevue Arts Museum, with free craft projects for kids. Just a mention is of one of the tag-along fairs?


And in Washington D. C.

He proved himself to be a racist in 1858 during the Lincoln/Douglas Debates.


" completely insane (and I mean it in the literal sense, as in needing to be in a hospital psych ward)"
"frothing at the mouth."
" hauled off to the psych ward"
What an uncivil comment!!! I await its removal by our oversee... errrr guardi... errr friendly community standards keepers. Assuming that incivility in comments also applies to those following the narrative of the left. It does, doesn't it?


It's their 'freedom?' to disrespect our anthem and flag?  Well, Mr. Joseph, tell them this, 'respect our anthem and flag or be gone immediately'  They are Wearing your uniform, Working for the Broncos, they are Not on their 'own time', they are at WORK, representing a NFL team and city,  kneel and BE GONE!


If you want serious debate, you should offer it.

Ask yourself how Planned Parenthood complied with the Hyde Amendment for 40 years. Ask yourself how businesses allocate costs and income to cost centers.

In short, we use accounting.


Bad analogy.  Why do they even print such poorly reasoned letters?  One is a protected class the other isn't.  One is an ideology that one chooses, the other in a innate state of being that a person has no control over.


This American, keeping in mind Canada's past, can't deny that a nation of a tad over 35 million can take those from an adjoining nation of almost 320 million in huge numbers.  The people crossing over are scared.  They may or may not be illegals in the U.S., but they are facing extreme discrimination and more.

I will not condemn Canada for trying to stem this flow.  Your history of humanitarian service to the world's people stands strongly on its own without be lauded by non-Canadians.  However, I do want to commend you in general for all you do.  The refugee problem is not of your making; it is ours.


Paul Reed just tried so hard and failed so miserably.  He seems to have a lot in common with Trump with exception to trying hard.


This is troubling. Is Thomas Friel the same officer who has expertise in terrorist fishing crews, the same person wanting funding to more heavily arm game wardens/enforcement officers?  We be better served if Friel fed new information to our national  intelligence agencies rather than heighten public fear and worry through a press release.

If there are heightened security risks, move the conference to the Big Island where we could use the money.


Irresponsible sexual activity outside a committed relationship is wrong for many of the conservatives.  There, FIFY.  Actually, a lot of liberals think it's wrong as well.


Never buy in a hot market. The corner cutting is your clue that you will get hosed one way or another. Had a friend who bought a place in Toronto - essentially a slapped together slum dwelling - and had to sink vast amounts into shoring it up and upgrading the house. He would have been wiser to tear it down and buy a pre-fab house instead.

Build quality in Toronto is all over the place. Some homes are very solid and Victorian; others are basically tar paper shacks from Toronto's slum days; still others are paper-thin developer's dreams that won't last the mortgage without needing huge repairs and upgrades. Toronto is a nice city but it ain't that nice. Get a job somewhere else where the market is not going crazy: build your wealth and savings and then move into Toronto when it dips or crashes.


The Huskies got those stats playing cupcakes.  They are not as good as last year. Run at them until they are dog tired. Run wide left. Run wide right. Hit them off tackle.  Run your receivers down the field and hit them with short and medium passes. Punish them for last year. Go Ducks. Use all the weapons at your disposal in a lethal and creative manner.


Senseless but ok


And yet there are very many things that are unarguably better than in the "quaint" past—highly important things, too.


No. What we ARE ok with is reducing federal government over reach. Nothing says that the state can't enact stricter rules on state water, or on waters not covered under Waters of the US. So these articles crying gloom and doom are very misleading.


Sloth hardly inspires anger, sunshine, just lukewarm pity. Once again, if the information isn't handed to you at the top of each hour . . . old habits die hard.
Now, back to scolding those elected officials for lacking a law already on the books.


"The cultural appropriation debate is over."

This is an utterly embarrassing statement, and laughably ironic to see coming from the Globe and Mail, which has done its best to present only one side of this debate, over and over (with the exception of one eloquent image by your political cartoonist).

None of the arguments decrying "cultural appropriation" have even approached logical validity: educated critical thinkers, philosophers, constitutional lawyers, high school debate club geeks, all must look at all the blatantly incoherent rhetoric pumped out by your paper and literally cringe.

Some suggest that we liberal-thinking Canadians who value everyone's rights to free expression should just simply back away from these cultural apartheid promoters, ignore their ranting as we would the grumbling of the Westboro Baptist Church, or ISIS, or other such terrifyingly ignorant but motivated groups of censorious cultural conservatives.


I’m of the notion that the denial of Democracy is a conservative meme.

 O.K. I agree, we have a “representative form of government”…BUT…that representation is based upon the foundation of Democracy.  China calls itself a “Republic”, the “R” in USSR stood for “Republics”.  The term “Republic” is meaningless pie-in-the-sky without the word “Democratic” preceding it.  The U.S. is first and foremost a Democracy…except for one GLARING exception:  the way we select a President.  It is time we extend our Democracy to how we select our President, just as we engage Democracy in selecting our local Sheriffs or School Boards.  I’m amazed Americans allow 538 unelected non-representatives choose our President.
“Democratic Republic”, really?  Not when it comes to selecting the ONLY person who actually  “represents” ALL  Americans.


This country is going crazy.


A direct route from the airport to Ala Moana?  Really, what bus, the Who's Magic Bus?
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWFNHmUJHe8


How about the taking of Private Property without just compensation.  (LCDC, Kelo, EPA, etc., etc.)


The Good Pastor talked with God. And God told him that:
 "Yes, Don, it is okay for you to collect the $2,750,000 in salary you have coming to you, if you serve out your term."
Divine intervention, what a beautiful thing.


I think the solution to all these issues is clear. The State must forcibly take all children, at birth, away from their parents and raise them in special institutions with highly trained professionals.

This way, each parent can work full time, free of the "burden" of caring for children, and all the care givers will be paid professional wages.

Only then will complete equality in everything that can be measured (like individual incomes) be possible. And, most important, by taking the care of children out of the home and into the marketplace, we will instantly see a huge jump in our gross domestic product and, even better, the government will collect vastly more money in taxes.

What could be better?


We have a lot of other priorities than funding environmental pseudoscience!


Thanks Comrade.
I don't like Justin Trudeau at all, but on this "front" I wish him well. He's having to deal with a newly-minded and seemingly unsteady leader in the U.S.A.. The trade between us and them runs at more than $1 billion per day. More than any two countries in history.  Free Trade in 1988 and NAFTA are keys to our ongoing prosperity - and American businesses themselves know that without Canada, they'd be a crippled nation.


I'm an illegal alien. I'm not required to have auto insurance.


Doesn't the First Amendment give them the right to say things, even scary things?  They're not shouting fire in a crowded theater -- it's protected speech.  Your solution is a police state.  Maybe a re-read (first time read?) of the US Constitution was in order before you posted this comment.


Simple, he is richer than he could ever spend and his kids are well taken care of. His life is on the down side and he has nothing left to prove. So this is his legacy project. To set his place in history as a great Presidenrt like Reagan or Kennendy. That is his goal, so expect major achievements, the last thing he would want would be to go down in history as a major f@#k up.


Was writing on a company authorized discussion forum for employees to discuss company related issues of concern.


Keep on believing this.  Republicans have nothing to worry about.  They are doing so well.  lol

Lets see, Hillary is locked up, ISIS is defeated, A 50 ft wall is being built and Obama care has been finally removed and replaced by something much much better.

Believe this if you want, but republicans have only  continued their record of doing nothing and working for large corporations.  Wait until tax cuts for the rich are passed and the deficit goes through the roof.  Oh, but that is ok as a republican is doing it.  Yes the Donald won, but I think many who voted for this bankrupt party are having regrets.   But enjoy it while you can.   Frankly it is time for republicans to face facts.  They are no longer true republicans.  They don't believe in less government, they don't believe in fiscal responsibility and rights are only reserved for those who accept the republican platform.  No thanks.  I am glad that I am a democrat who believes in freedom.


People don't think they will ever be homeless until they are. So face facts people at any point in life we could all be homeless. Deal with it. The homeless do


Get ready for a new, moronic "Shock and awe" campaign by Il Douche Trump.  Hey, Trumpnuts, what was that you were saying about how Clinton is a hawk and Trump just wants to be bff's with everybody?  Trumpnuts: Bringing Stupidity To A Government Near You.


WTFU - those are facts not TN's opinion.


You don't have to worry about gaming because it is already legal in Hawaii, and even minors are allowed to do it.  Teenagers who are addicted to video games engage in gaming all the time.  Now, if you are talking about gambling, you should call it what it is.


None of what you've said changes the fact that the US took the land from Mexico.

Keep searching, keep cutting and pasting.

At least the cuts and pastes make some sense if someone stumbles upon them and wants to read bits and pieces of unconnected wiki entries.

Better luck next time.


Do it 9pm t0 1am!


Talk about backstabbing.  That Kadri has all the tools,  dirty player, diver, total lack of a human being.  He will have his day..  He will hit the wrong guy in the wrong way..  And yes,  no suspension.  That should have been a 5 spot.   Ur Laughs should have had 6 points out of the west, got 3.  Not performance.  Far from a good team.  And Matthews,  what is he.  Hasnt done a thing yet to note.. 4 in the first game, what since.  Laine making him look like an ordinary Joe.


Butts and Telford are also counting on the next cycle being another LOTE vote, which is will be.
By them Trumpism will be pretty much shredded by the man himself, so no, not this time around. "Four moar years"


Lives destroyed, turned upside down, many will lose coverage, whatever, but Donny got to sign something in front of the cameras, right ?  Look at me being all Presidential !  Also, its Friday and the weather is beautiful !


The word 'doctor' comes from the Latin root 'docere', meaning 'to teach'. Doctors are meant to be educators, helping people to understand why they became ill and how to get well again. Naturopathic doctors are experts in this area and contribute greatly to the health and well-being of Canadians.


All I see, is government mismanagement & overspending.  When the governments (plural), run out of money, they increase the tax laws.  They can not balance a budget.  They know how to create, an ever widening financial black hole.

Voting the "elected ruling elite" out of office, takes a long time.  Not enough voters, exercise protest votes.

The US & State Constitutions, never intended career politicians.  Everyone wants people of experience, to run the governments.  How did that vicious cycle get started?

In NYC, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, was elected 3 times (2 term limit), as the NYC Mayor.  He did a great job, for a man with no political experience.

POTUS Trump, does not have any political experience.  Yet, he is reigning havoc, on all political fronts.  He has kept most of his political promises.  Most career politicians, can't say the same.

Political experience is not needed for the job.


Nice try Joe but trying to deflect the issue by bringing up Trudeau is pretty weak.


Go outside and see for yourself. Do you live in a dark place, because you sure come from one.


Mrs. Kravitz: I'm not sure if you've noticed, but, there are some strange things going on at your neighbor's house.


If you're going to speculate a figure, then yes, it could've cost $40 million. Taking everything into account, the $20 million the plaintiff was asking for was probably a shoe-in. Fortunately, the plaintiff and the state were able to agree to half that amount.

I commend both parties for finding a middle ground. By any reasonable standard, Mr. Khadr has fully paid his debt to society. Now society has paid its debt to him for egregiously abusing his rights along the way.


Proof?


Ontario loves the first Free Trade Agreement with US-the Auto Pact.

No Auto Pact (now part of NAFTA), no Ontario auto industry.

Ontario didn't really carry about how the rest of Canada would benefit from NA Free Trade agreement & then NATA, their major industry already had their US trade agreement.


Yeah, give me that Les Paul studio T guitar, a couple of picks and hmm maybe that AK47 and a thousand rounds.

do you validate parking?


Your stat is a thoroughly discredited one. In any event I am happy if you will protect yourself just provide insurance. You may drive defensively as well but I still expect you to insure. Naturally if you drive badly it costs more and so the insurance cost may make It too costly for people who think they need to sleep with their toys.


ya thats it, boycott industry hurting jobs that include woman, some idea there brainiac


Keeping with that thought of yours here, "pale in comparison to the damage done by right wing terrorists here, like right wing hero Timothy McVeigh of OKC bombing infamy, or the Birmingham church bombers, or the killers of Emmet Till."

Boy you must totally oppose any and all Muslims too then huh! They have the highest number of successful group kill rates of anyone out there, including in the world in fact!


Anybody have any doubts anymore that our bureaucratic overseers basically view the private sector workers as their serfs ... ?   :(


Heehee, my first thought after reading this was that "the board" must be emulating Mr. "Lock-her-up" Trump, or perhaps Kim Jong Un in punishing a citizen for speaking out. However, after reading the ensuing comment, I now know that "the board" is just another bunch of "liberals" run amok.


Perhaps you would like to compare them based upon population density?


If Donald Trump had a grain of leadership in him, his tone now would be conciliatory and welcoming. He would address especially the fears of those who think him personally unfit to lead. He would feel and act humbled by the responsibility he's assumed.

But what do we get instead? Braggadocio, vindictivemess, lies. Reckless attacks on the very intelligence agenies on which he must rely for critical information in times of crisis. Meaningless sideshows about saving a few jobs here or there. Bizarre fawning on a Russian dictator who means no good to this country. Impulsive tweets that call into question fundamental policies and old alliances. Refusal to separate his personal financial interest from his public responsibilites--even to disclose his financial links to foreign nations, especially Russia.

The only thing Trump really cares about is his personal image, his brand. None of this is about his country. It's all about him. Great job, America. You sure picked a winner this time.


Thanks for posting that Randy. Wilson was indeed a progressive democrat racist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/25/expunging-woodrow-wilson-from-official-places-of-honor/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-race-princeton-idUSKCN0T91BM20151120


I will be retired before 2019. When I retire I will look closely at the benefits  versus costs of maintaining residency. I have talked to many in my age
group,that tell me there are states that even give tax breaks to seniors just to have them spending  money in those states.  Seniors  usually are low maintenance and contribute  to the medical businesses. We hear about job growth in the medical business here in Alaska, but high taxes will curtail that  I know a few seniors now birds that tell me they get most of their medical work done in the lower 48 because it is a lot less expensive


Thank you very much for your own fair and accurate assessment and reporting on the problems in Waynesville, and in Charlotte.  Your situations are all too common in the US church, and have been for quite some time now.  In spite of the alternative "facts" which the usual suspects posting here desperately want us to believe,  you are helping to document a notable failure on the part of both priest and bishop to understand, or undertake, their spiritual leadership of all the people.  B XVI attempted to further the cause of the Latin Mass "crowds," but they think that B XVI also gave them a mandate to control their parishes, along with an unalienable privilege to "do it all their way."  They are defending and promoting the "young Traddie whippersnappers" because their dioceses would be even more priest-short without them, and parishes would have to be combined or closed.  THANKS! for speaking up!


i know there are limitations the RG must work within, i know the competition for eyes on is fierce.  and  that their scope of reporting is local.  it's just that far too often the reporters are  just re-writing a press release...no questions asked.  period.  i think the writing could easily be improved.  but as i said elsewhere if they are not reporters , but only writers,  i will drop my expectations/hopes of more in depth coverage.  it is like TV news - the anchors often are readers as opposed to reporters.  but i would expect very well written pieces from news writers.


4 down votes, yet not one of the down-voters bothered with a rebuttal.

Maybe because there is no rebuttal.  In 2016, HR consulting group Korn Ferry analyzed gender-based income differences for 8.7 million employees across 33 countries.  What began as a pay gap of 18% narrowed to only 1.6% when people working at the same levels in the same company were compared.

Of course, the study will never be mentioned in the Globe because it doesn't fit the "all men bad" narrative the Globe & Mail has adopted.


Make sure to count this one:

https://honoluluhomelesscrisis.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/honolulu-calcutta-of-the-pacific/


O: "First off, the RG editors cannot read Trump's mind and have no particular insight into his thinking on the EPA."

True. If Trump was opposed to the EPA his words, executive actions, and appointments to head the agency would reflect said state of mind.

Oh wait a minute, they do!


Isn't this the first time an article int the ADN has been run that is potentially critical of Alice Rogoff's pet political prince - Begich 2.0?  That means two things: 1) he has done something that can't be covered up by the ADN and 2) this story will be soon be placed in the back corner of the ADN web site.


But Don we are now the censors. I sotta think vulgarity might well get a pass from us. Vulgarity can in the right context be perfectly civil. ;-}


Come to think of it, I did mention that, above!  I also mentioned that civil annulments and ecclesiastical annulments are "quite different creatures (fictions) of the law."  Again, I would caution the faithful against relying on you less-than-legal "expertise."


3 disagree at this time, yet no answer to my question.


If only you could let NCR go.

Oh wait. You could.


I see a lot of people defending the idea of have a piece of land attached to your house that is mostly used for show (lawns) or parking unused goods on.

At best if you are thinking of relaxing outside, it is done perhaps at most a dozen weekends a year, for a few hours -tops. And that assumes during those dozen weekends it is comfortably warm outside it doesn't rain...


I think I'll disappoint both sides of partisans, Alceste, and add that there are / were mitigating factors for both successive governments.

The previous government, for all that I disagree with most of its policy positions, faced a communications challenge from within its own caucus which it met through a ruthless, comprehensive level of message control (with a much greater level of activity by PCO Comms).  This was seen as a centralization by the PM, when in many ways it was a recognition that there was a short list of Ministers who could be trusted to convey the Government's message correctly and effectively.

For the current government, they've taken some steps that are utterly unprecedented in openness: publishing mandate letters (a laudable step, IMO) and releasing much of the transition advice (yikes!).  But they made a bunch of commitments on ATI without realizing what a fundamental mess the current system is.  They own it now, and have to come up with some kind of a solution.


Sure Doc., and I'd say the same thing if the story was focused on Alberta.  The bottom line however is that if you power a 'green' car by fossil fueled electricity plants all that you end up with is a really long tail-pipe.


All infrastructure projects take funds that could potentially benefit everyone and give it to a portion of the population. By your logic the H-1 rehab ($42 million) should not have occurred because it did not benefit the windward side, or the H-3 freeway ($1.86 billion in today’s dollars) should not have been built because it does not benefit Ewa residents.

All our infrastructure projects directly benefit only a portion of the island, though we all benefit from them, if indirectly. Rail is no different.

What is different is that H-3 was paid for with 90% federal funds and rail is closer to 15% federal funds. The problem is not that funds are being spent that benefit a portion of the island. Rails problems are ballooning costs, mismanagement, and (unpaid) benefits that developers receive. The problem is that we were sold rail that would bridge two major population centers and what we received was a system that starts in the middle of an empty field and ends where no one wants to go.


Of course I support mine with cites, while you support yours with ... declarations of being right.


Neither Barry Bonds nor Roger Clemens ever admitted using performance enhancing drugs.

Bet Lance wishes he could have that night with Oprah back.


This is a non starter, if it was someone else they would spent time in jail, but this American where money and the 1% count. He will walk away with a smile on his face. Fair no, check out the number of Black Americans rotting in prison for lesser crimes (Oh I am white) but I can see a set up here. If your black your either dead, or in prison, but if your pretty boy Trump, nothing yes nothing will happen.


To think that just over a year ago we were a well-managed country with an idea of where we were heading. Maybe we were not exciting and sexy but we were stable. Who has any idea where this crew is leading us? I can't believe any serious person voted for this.


Finally starting to understand Victim. I'm impressed.


disbarred?


Right above the title of the article is a key word.  It says "Opinion."  This isn't an article, it's an opinion piece.  It isn't meant to share both sides of an issue, it's meant to be one person's opinion.


Been doing this for years....must also consider stock price when looking at potential for growth...often National Bank provides the best investment option when it is trading in the low to mid 30s.


Merit?

Skippy?

A lifelong taxpayer funded complainer who has never done anything in the real world. How does he *merit* being finance critic?

As someone said today, Scheer acts and sounds like he is running for Student Council.


IDGI.


I'm hoping that they'll at least beat the teams that they are supposed to beat...though Cal Poly & Irvine are both playing very well right now...


I'm so sick of hearing about Junior and most of the Conservative candidates who are really Liberals in sheep's clothing. Kellie Leitch would have approved all of them and now Canada suffers.


I do not want anyone living in America who burns our flag. It is a slap in the face to the thousands who have died protecting it.


I fear the actual outcome of the Avorio/Regina encounter was sadder than that. In reality, after the shot that killed the skipper, the surviving crew started the scuttling procedures and abandoned the submarine, that was then boarded by a boat from Regina that was unable to prevent it from sinking. 26 men were rescued and taken prisoner by Regina, but another 20 died. Their names (along with those of all Italian submariners who died in the two World Wars) are here: http://regiamarinaitaliana.forumgratis.org/index.php?&showtopic=1429


Why would you investigate something that does not exist?


Glad to see Hugh mention how Ellen Fairclough deracialized our immigration system in the Diefenbaker government. Something most Conservatives today don't seem to know as they rail about Pierre Trudeau.

Next they can learn their history and realize how it was Conservatives (particularly from the Ukrainian-Canadian community like Conservative Senator Paul Yuzyk ) who were a political force instrumental in the development of multiculturalism as official government policy. Indeed, the late senator is often referred to as the 'father of multiculturalism'.  Albeit, the charge was led against Diefenbaker's preferences.


The same day as NS refuses equalization payments.


For someone who works at UAF, it seems to me that the focus has always been Anchorage First. UAF has a renowned engineering department so the legislature provides funds to build an engineering building - at UAA. We get a shell. We have internationally acclaimed scientists at UAF and so UAA is allowed to create science programs that confer Masters and doctoral degrees, both of which were and are already available at UAF. Sixty-five percent of Alaskans live in southcentral and so most of the legislators are from southcentral. The legislature is largely to blame for the excessive money spent on duplication at UA. The idea behind Strategic Pathways, if I understand it correctly, is that each of the three MAUs will have a focus yet all will continue to offer the courses that are required as general education requirements. I agree that the faculty and public should have a significant role in affecting the decisions being made re. the university but I advise against holding your breath.


I agree.  Part of coaching is knowing who you want to be the on field leaders.  Grooming those kids to be leaders on the field was something Helfrich failed at.


no one is getting sued. Paul is a liar.


Sure, trucks are a nuisance unless you have a commercial reason for owning one.


I thought she might  have a bright political future but not by her recent actions.  Meeting with Assad was a bad mistake.  Who does she think she is?


People in Chatham commute to London, people in London commute to Kitchener, people in Kitchener commute to Toronto

Also many jobs allow you to work remotely or only 1 or 2 days per week on site


Hey sukiyucky, still obsessed with Hillary? She's a private citizen that the Trump camp of nut cases what you uneducated idiots to keep focussing on.  And it's working.  The fastest way to find out if someone is a Trump supporter is to check their educational background.  You, I would guess, barely got through high school, never studied, but are one of the masses that kept getting passed from grade to grade because no teacher could deal with you for more than 9 months.  However, you seem dumb enough to have enrolled at Trump University, so maybe you did advance beyond grade 12.  One other point.  Private citizens get passes all the time.  Trump got lots of passes as a bankrupt business guy, but remember, he is our baby-in-chief now, so we get to scrutinize him.  Just like you guys scrutinized Obama.  Please keep posting, you've been awarded the MAGAphant of the week prize.


Well when Huessein the Muslim Racist president came here, way too many times, not everyone welcomed him either....The Democrat Leftist are just try to get pay back...


Wow. So naive. I know houses that were demolished, rebuilt and flipped for more than million dollars profit while the owner never lived in the unit but kept it for two years to avoid the tax all the while living in common law wife's house.


I am not looking for FREE health care. I am looking for affordable health care WITH coverage for my pre-existing conditions. Yes, my insurance premiums were lower before ACA, BUT the insurance didn't cover the care that I needed. As someone who is self-employed and over 50, I just want access to health insurance with the same costs and coverage as is available to someone who works for a large business or corporation.


But you did say Mazie has been untruthful: "I do not believe she has been truthful about her cancer."  That is a direct quote from your posting.  Go eat $het!!!


I think the prosecutors already took her indigenous background and difficult circumstances into account.  This fuss about mandatory minimums is just an attempt to muddy the waters and try to lower the sentence some more.


How are they harming you or anyone else?


He won't get away with it. He doesn't have a loyal base. He won because of the ABC and First Nations vote who are abandoning him in droves.


Unknown, the first paragraph of your comment was superb; the second unnecessary and, by your being unable to resist the lure of partisan politics, undercut the first.


The number of people injured or killed by bikes is nowhere close to the number injured or killed by drivers.


I am an academic clinician-scientist with an MD and a PhD.  So I do both jobs.  I sympathize with your salary and wish you could earn more doing academics.  But doing both I can assure you that the 500K is tough and draining while the academics is what I do for fun.  You have a great job and your life wouldn't be much better with more income and all the sacrifices that come with it.  Doing a PhD is not the same as doing a surgical residency.  Don't compare them as "education" by years.

We docs need to stop complaining about our income - nobody wants to hear it!


There is a mechanism for changing the Constitution. BTW, being Whiny McWhinyface on the internet is not part of that process.


Ran out of room to put in a mention of SB21 or the Tax Credits issue. Thanks Bill!


The court is saying that you may only practice your religion in your home or church.  They do not want you to follow your religion in public.


If those protesters are marching against the abuses of Sharia law, then they should march in protest in those nations where those abuses take place, not in America where those abuses don't take place. That would be logical, as opposed to your pseudo-logic. But no, those demonstrators, according to Muslim leaders cited in this article, are marching in protest of Muslims in general, especially in the United States, where the SPLC concludes those hate groups are activists against Muslims in the US. Your pseudo-logic leads me to conclude that you either didn't read the article, or didn't understand it.

Here's a question for you - when was the last time Muslims threw a homosexual from a high building in the US, or beheaded one? The answer of course, is never. Sharia as practiced in the US is not against our Constitution.


Machete was delicious and reasonably priced.  Give it a try.


Amazing that the mother of the Benghazi victim that said Hillary looked her in the eye and LIED about the video being the cause of her son's death gets NO press coverage.  And she spoke not her husband.  Muslim women aren't allowed to speak but the press is fine with this


G&M editors,

It only seems strange or weird if you start with the premise that he knows what he's doing. Discard that assumption and it all makes perfect sense.

With that in mind, it would be nice if you just stopped reporting on all the banal inanities. Not that I'm going to be holding my breath.


As long as that change is made constitutionally, there's nothing "fundamentally wrong" about it at all. The General Assembly gets it's powers from the people, and we've a right to strip them of duties if we believe that there's a better way.


Between the new 500% age tax and new even lower income cliff cutoff for subsidies of 350% of poverty line, this bill will simply price even more older pre-Medicare Alaskans out of the health insurance market. Older Alaskans with otherwise comfortable incomes, that WANT to buy insurance. Older people that might be perfectly healthy, but that have been around long enough to know how quickly that can change. People that understand that one bad accident or illness can mean losing that retirement nest egg that took a lifetime to build. The Republicans really expect older Alaskans just above the new lower income limit to be able to pay 40% to 60% of their income for insurance? Really? Do they really think the "young invincibles" that benefit from the higher age tax are going to buy insurance once the penalty for not having it is removed?

This bill is an attack on older pre-Medicare Alaskans, pure and simple.


Honolulu's Finest, at it again.  Here in Hawaii, the only difference between a cop and a criminal is one wears a badge and gets free Zip Pacs and a shady parking spot to sleep in.


Well written piece.  I usually scroll through ADN, get disgusted with all the political junk and crime, and move on to something better.  This is the first article that I've read all the way through in months!  And at the end, I was glad I read it.  Well done.  Looking forward to the next one.


Parks are for doing Park activities, not for living in. That is what shelters and transitional units are for.


Not that it matters.


So . . . nobody over the age of 35 is ever in front of Powell's? :P


Jesus taught us that God has infinite love and forgiveness. Unfortunately, many still believe in retributive justice. In Ezekiel 16, we learn God reamed out the people of Israel.  God punishes them by loving them even more. This is called restorative justice. We need to allow God's infinite love and mercy to redefine ours. We need to realize we don't earn forgiveness. It is not "Let's make a Deal".


Definitely wouldn't call legal weed and Jim Crow similar things, but legal weed may end up being incredible for lots of people, both on a medical and on a criminal level. Imagine a future where someone isn't locked for having weed on them? Too many have been imprisoned and had their lives altered over a drug that is likely much less harmful to you than Oxy. I wouldn't diminish the effect we could see as a nation from this.


A bully can never be appeased. Maybe a ban on US diafiltered milk imports would get Orange to shut up. And I totally agree with the commenters who pointed to American subsidies as proof that those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. As far as Maxime Bernier goes, someone should tell him he happens to be on the north side of the border.


Why should the city fund any parades?  If people want to celebrate their history/race/ethnicity/sexual preference or whatever, they should pay for it themselves.


Not to mention paying taxes that they will never be able to get any benefit from.


always the victim huh eric?


NYT? America's version of Pravda.


APD knows a little and that's why FBI is involved. Nobody has any details yet - none at all! By suggesting families and friends know the crimes committed your suggesting it's gang related and not serial which are two entire different kinds of criminals. Two different types of mentalities. You two must be cozy with all the harsh words lol!!
To identify which is which I'm curious to know if crimes were committed on scene or if it was a staged area with homicides taking place at different locations.  I have serious doubts our young activist and street person were involved in gangs. They simply don't fit the bill.


So this is legal according to the scobc.... BClibs cancelled fall sitting to campaign full time . This premier didn't even earn her 195,000$ .This stinks of corruption .


Replying to H.Insider. There are sources, you just have to do a tiny bit of work. Try googling US Virginia senator Richard Black (Republican)  former marine pilot, Vietnam War, former prosecutor with the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, former head of the US ARMY'S CRIMINAL LAW DIVISION AT THE PENTAGON. Not good enough for you? Try independent journalists Eva Bartlett (Canadian), Vanessa Beeley (British), and Robert Fisk who has a life-time of reporting from the mid-east including from front lines of the Iran-Iraq War, Afghanistan during the Russian war there, from Iraq after the US/Brit led Gulf War. These reporters have all had their feet on the ground in Syria and/or Aleppo. Sadly, I doubt that this information will have the slightest impact - there are none so blind as those that, willfully, will not hear, listen, or read widely.


I have not followed the case, and thus am in no position to comment.  I wonder how many of those thousands who are marching are in the same boat as I am, so far as their knowledge of the case.  Ah, but what are facts, anyway?


You guys forgot the MONTHLY INTEREST payment on the 300 BILLION debt -

1 BILLION dollars/month.

No wonder Wynnie has to have fire sales to service this debt. We in Ontar-we-owe are so screwed!


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You need to be contacting the Aestheticians in town.  This woman has had a LOT of work done. OMG, can you even imagine what she looked like before all the botox, scrape, peels, laser treatment an plastic......Ewwwww.............


The NAFTA renegotiations will probably drag on into the summer of 2018 (the Mexican Federal election) and fall (US midterms).  This will make the political context in all 3 countries increasingly complex as it relates to NAFTA.

Increasingly many progressive Democrats are campaigning on a protectionist platform while centrist anti-Trump Republicans support NAFTA.  Thus, there will be no consensus in either US Party around which NAFTA debate can rise above the simplistic populist level.

Mexicans want a change of government and the NAFTA stance of the US fuels the left wing populist cause making the negotiating options of the current government increasingly narrow.

In the increasingly chaotic negotiating environment just described, our government likewise little room to manoeuvre, especially with a general election scheduled for 2019.

Increasing rhetoric and rigidity on all sides is likely.


People who are angry some corporations offshore jobs to Mexico never have one word to say of Oregon liberal communities granting billions of dollars in property tax relief to foreign corporations offshoring jobs to Oregon. the only ones complaining about that are the far left liberals who want to kill any and all jobs coming to Oregon to stop growth. After the despicable things that were done to Hyundai, and the hostility the Beaverton City Council shows towards INTEL, it's amazing all American corporations are not offshoring.


Crrrrrrunch!


Thanks for the link. The union contract doesn't entirely cover the point being made, however, as it does not say how many people are in each position, what step they are at, and of course does not say anything about non-union employees at all. When taxpayers are footing the bill for government, we should be able to have available all the information necessary to hold our elected representatives accountable. And for those choosing a job working for a public agency, that may mean being willing to endure having the public know how much you make. We should not allow unions or individuals to negotiate a clause of confidentiality, as that defeats accountability.


Sayeth Dumb Dumb:
“I respect the fact that I believe he is starting to respect us,” DD said of Kim at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday evening"

He's got the best words....

Bad (or sick) guy!


Sorry Wente but this is just your normal nonsense. It's great that Singh won the leadership and he will indeed put some pressure on Trudeau but he is not Trudeau's "worst nightmare". This is a positive thing that may wake the current Liberals up to remember their long-term commitment to social affairs which has mostly gone on the back burner as they are practicing very Conservative politics. It's also too soon to know how Singh will handle federal politics and where he will position the NDP. It sounds like Singh is pretty left wing in his support for poor and struggling people but Canada has drifted pretty far to the right these last twenty years and it will be interesting to see if the NDP is saleable - even Jack Layton couldn't quite get them over the hump despite trying to position the party as centrist and conniving with Harper to try to wipe out the LPC.


"Forcing"..."substandard"... such drama. 36 other countries have better healthcare systems than ours, so your continued claim of substandard is pure ignorance.

Again, we are "forced" to do lots of things to live in a civilized society. Except you're not really forced, you choose to live here and you have a vote. Children whine when they don't get everything they want. Adults know better.


The use of state letterhead by Rep Munoz in making a "personal" statement is totally inappropriate and should result in her removal.


WestJet. Ugh. Tiny 17 inch wide seats.

Am looking forward to the new C Series...18 inch wide seats. The new Airbus 350 XWB 18 inch wide seats.


housing for minimum wage earners has to be public built, owned and operated by we the people. anything private will be corrupted and profit oriented. since politicians have shown they can be corrupted, we, the people, need to own it.


Talk of corruption and fraud brings to mind the AHS of Alberta. It is people such as yourself who compound the problem of timely health care with your socialist rhetoric.


Another person who does not know why government got into the social welfare business. It's quite simple: Private charities, most of who do good work, were -- and are -- unable to help everyone who needs it.

Your claim that 73% of welfare goes to overhead. According to the Inspector General of HHS, the actual figure is 6%.


What's funny is the media would have vilified Trump for doing the same thing but it doesn't seem to be as contraversial in this instance.


We spend 53 cents of every tax dollar on our military. Better ways to kill people to protect corporate access to foreign resources are always going to be a big seller here. We sell more weapons than any nation on earth.
Hillary Clinton signed off on a record-setting $200 billion arms sale to the Saudi dictatorship. Moral? We doan need no steenking morals! All the better to destroy Yemen & control the approach to Suez and the Southern hemisphere. One more potential Iran ally down.
This is about building empire. As LBJ's att'y gen'l Ramsey Clark said, "There is only one thing the rich want, & that is everything." Now, if the port can just find ways to make drone bodies from recycled carbon to use those cooling systems.... Locals are salivating over those jobs, no matter who has to die as a result. Love of money feeds all evil.
Arms are the only thing we build better than anyone else in the world, so war is always going to be popular here, no matter how many innocent lives it costs.


Politicians are too afraid to reign them in because they fear their garbage will be made public by the intelligence agencies.


Tom Vilsack ought to be a shoe in when everyone gets the word that he invented the 'SNAP' card. It's also rumored that the Obama phone program was his brain-child.


I suggest you watch the movie "Idiocracy".


One young man found he could spend 50 cents a day for a room and 75 cents for meals, and pocket the remaining $2.25. He said he had never made so much money in his life, and would stay forever, if he could.

I wanna know what happened to this guy.  Did he stay, or no?


President Garbage said this to a reporter from Finland which has been invaded by Russia countless times
Even his ignorant wife was embarrassed


Not really, no.  That message tells Assad that the conventional bombs he has been dropping on schools and hospitals are OK.  And Assad's barrel bombs are also just fine.   They don't use chemical agents or nuclear materials.

Seems like you thought this through as carefully as Mr. Trump did.  Meaning - not at all.


"Whining about Trump won't get a majority back in the House of Representatives.
Whining about Trump won't get a majority in the Senate.
Whining about Trump won't get a viable candidate for 2020.
Whining about Trump won't get back a majority of Governorships in the rest of the United States.
Whining about Trump won't get back all those State Legislatures lost over the past eight years.
You should have figured all that out by looking at the results of Hillary's whining about Trump all last year.
Whining just makes you feel good.
All whining and no substance is not a solution."

I'm gonna assume you feel better now.  (After all this whining.)


If it were $2000 it would sell itself, since I can casually pull it out in public and show I have money to burn. Remember Blackberry's Porsche branded phones? Features don't even need to work. In the primitive brain, money=status.


That's why I said stiggin it to Obama, but nice of you to project.


<No, when I use that term ["person with same sex attraction"], I'm being sympathetic.>
I have no way of knowing if you really believe that.  What I do know is this: it's pure drivel -- nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.


What cardinals seem not yet to understand is that Godhead consciousness is about dialogical truth - which in human and divine consciousness is 'dialogic', in supposition of female/male wisdom.
The monologue of male hierarchy talking to itself is absent dialogical Godhead-sense.


Mr. Craske, judges know the police lie under oath all the time, yet, as one told a lawyer friend of mine, they allow it to go on "because the system wouldn't work without it." In my opinion, that statement demonstrates the "just us" system is already broken and hasn't worked in some time.


Mr Doyle thinks it’s America falling apart when it’s more like the American Left having a conniption fit over Donald Trump and the fact that they have little to no actual power outside academia and the media. All they can do at this point is disrupt. Oh, and exactly no one outside the media bubble thinks a late night talk show host is the ‘conscience of America.’ Jeez...


Itsme:, I do not feel that every religion is calling on same GOD. Majority don't have a clue. One GOD. One Savior. The rest are all immitations man thought up to justify their culture!


it is very strange how comments can just disappear from here..  no word.. nothing.. poof


We must try


If she can bring Trumps attitude to Canada,
I'll vote for her. It's what we need.


I have lived on the ocean on the West Coast all my life,58 years minus 3 years in Prince George and found most Indian villages are the worst for dumping in the ocean and very poor environmentalists .This makes me as mad as when DFO brought biologists out from Ottawa to cook the books for Alcan to divert 92% of the Nechako spawning river for a power plant to sell electricity.This is why I want BC to separate from Canada so we can manage our resources using something called a brain


Number one city to live in Canada is Ottawa Mr Calgarian.  Combination of high tech and government paves the way to prosperity and clean living.  LRTs, bike lanes and Teslas are ruling.    Funny Dirty old Alberta(second dirtiest jruisdiction in all of North America, proudly standing just behind good ole Texas...LOL....) was hardly mentioned. I believe one or two places outside of the national parks was mentioned for posterity reasons.  JT didnt forget ALTA for a reason....smelly oily tarsands will be over soon.   Revert ALTA back to Ag and toursim and the quality of life in your province will improve exponentially. The big cities will have to be decommisioned and have enough people to support the above mentioned businesses.  Calgary and the egreggious subdivisions that are so pervasive across your landscape will have to be torn down......MAKE ALTA GREAT AGAIN!!! This is from an Ontarian who worked in Banff during my schooling summers and who loved ALberta back then....no so much now.


What would be fair is if the monster went to jail where he belongs.  If the monster is no longer alive--I likely would not punish those who had nothing to do with the abuse--unless the actual person was responsible for covering it up or enabling it in some way. Then I would want that person or persons to go to jail.

If I was at all inclined to sue, I would obviously go after the religious order.

In answer to your question: there is nothing that would make up for the abuse--even if the monster went to jail and all those who enabled him, even if I sued and received a huge payout.


Well, there you go, if Don Jr says it isn't true then it's settled!


Maybe it was brake failure eh Ross. Or more likely it was....................


Of course they do! Catholics like any other religious group have a constitutional right to raise their children in accordance with their respective faith. If you do not think sex as taught in public schools is not based in a particularly ideology, you are not paying attention.


...because invoking children always makes for a better spin on any topic.


Fewer than three million at this point.


There are people who don't think the current taxes are high enough because "marijuana is bad."
Worse are the people and organizations (Smart Colorado) who want to return to the failed prohibition and black market.


But it is ok to lie on your immigration forms


Lightly , I do too.  As they are churning around under my tires .


And the CPC membership paused briefly to digest this latest turn of events, reloaded and took careful aim at the other foot.


So, why is nobody investing in Chinese real estate ?  Besides being very difficult to do but it seems the West is wide open to Chinese buyers.


Of course my above comment is just a philosophical gripe. Taxation is a balance between not enough, and too much. However, the argument of the legislature being bought and paid for is a tired diatribe. If you are an expert in the economics of lift cost specific to the arctic environment, perhaps you should testify before the group you disparage. With a plentiful resource, the producers can manage an immorally high tax rate, grudgingly. What they cannot withstand is uncertainty and an entitled state government spending beyond reason.
Drilling budgets alone account for close to a billion dollars per year, in greater prudhoe. That is, until the commodity crashed. Then drilling was slashed, thousands of jobs were lost. Their profits are still paltry, de-insentivising drilling, increasing production, and creating jobs for Americans.


Trade the L for a P commonly, or L can be Load. It seems as if garycrum was trying to get around the censors in his/her interminable effort to belittle people and call them names.


HRC is 100 times worse than Trump.


So happy to see the real definition of fulsome explicated for all. So tired of lazy language.


Actually they accurately reported what the polls said at the time

Look at the final predictions - Hillary was up by 3%.  Which is what she won by.


Best comment of the night!!


Trump Attacks Democrats For Not Helping Repeal Obamacare

Trump lives in a truth-free bubble.

He's trying to pull the rest of us in.

I guess he was standing too far away from the teleprompter he never uses to see the script he never read with his aging eyes, which are in the best shape of any President's eyes, ever, in America's past 1241 years.


The article mentioned is:

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-burke-on-amoris-laetitia-dubia-tremendous-division-warrants-action

Your assertion that a "parallel magisterium has reared its head" has reared its head is unsupported by the interview, the cardinal correctly states that nothing can contradict Tradition (or Scripture) upon which the entire teaching rests, nor has “Neo Lefebvrism” any currency in the discussion as, unlike Marcel Lefebvre, the cardinal has not rejected a teaching of the Church, has not consecrated successors without mandate, nor challenged the authority of the Pope.

The relevant Scripture is Galatians 2:11-21.


In Colorado, despite legal weed, most people do not partake. Sure, a majority of adults will have tried it at some point in their lives, but a majority of adults have also tried alcohol at some point as well. Our society has not become "more interested in taking [a] substance to check out of life." Fewer than 1 in 10 people have some kind of substance use disorder and that remains more or less constant throughout history.


Tell that to my relatives who were killed at Salem.


Is the count able to be displayed on a map? That would be pretty interesting to see how the homeless population is dispersed throughout the area...


So you're saying that black lives don't matter. We know how you feel. We know that it's the white racists on one side and blacks and their friends on the other.


Bob...You are carrying a very heavy  load. Honor yourself by not adding more to its weight here. Rest. Recover. Renew. Posting here may not provide that kind of care or comforting.

 I think they call them "dog whistles" these days to refer to those whose ears are tuned to react to particular words no matter who uses them or in what context. The practice is to determine what "dog whistles" will set someone off.  Like a dog is trained to attack with no regard for who, or what or why.

If you want to practice keeping a still pond while people toss rocks in the pond with the goal of disturbing your peace... then that means not responding - in either thought, word, or -- comment.
This from Henri Nouwen - just heard in this last Sunday's homily -- No one who is shot with a bullet is not first shot with a word. No one who is shot with a word is not first shot with a thought. http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/videos


"Elders have advised everyone to stick together and support each other if troopers come."

Wonder if that's "code" to hinder an investigation?


Thier prices are twice as high as their competitiors.


"At a time when Speaker Ryan has bailed on Trump, why is the president of the U.S. bishops reading a script that sounds like it was crafted in Trump Tower?"

If the last two decades have shown anything, many Catholic bishops are among the most inept actors on the American political stage.


My goodness "Climategate" - cherry-picked data from hacked sources, especially chosen and presented to appear as if a conspiracy was in place!


Boss, boss! De planes! De planes!


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I saw that post before it was eradicated and it had nothing uncivil in it.  This comment system is corrupt.


I fail to see the great importance of this story.


I suspect that the word "Jingoism" is no longer taught in the public schools.

 If so, the Trump rhetoric would have produced it by now.

And it is such a useful word when you have the likes of Putin, the North Korean regime, the Chinese and so forth running amok and Trump pursuing his international agenda.

I also believe that the internal US focus on multi-culturalism as opposed to international concerns after the fall of the USSR accounts for that.  Then, when you get a Putin or a Kim or even a Trump, you have no context for evaluation.


Prayers, oh my god


Trump could have just pardoned Flynn (as it is his right to do), and the investigation into Flynn would have ended. Trump didn't do this, thus allowing the investigation to continue. Which it still does, with or without Comey.


Happy new year to you Niagara.... May 2017 bring you nothing but good heath.  The rest will fall into place if we have health at the top of the list.... Stay warm,  Be safe.


Well...first off I dont see it as disrespect, these are the freedoms vets like me fought for.

But leave them in the locker room and just remove them from thier stage, issue no longer there.


I suppose this kind of naivete, narrow-mindedness and myopia should no longer come as a surprise.  I mean, really, where exactly do you propose America goes next with the Senate, Congress and presidency controlled by Republicans?   Would impeachment really amount to anything?  The fact that Donald Trump is not 'presidential material' is patently obvious - any fool can see that.  Would Mike Pence be better at acting the part?  Theater it is, and so it seems every president finishes their term a better golfer.  Honeyed rhetoric and appropriate behaviour is convincing, mind you.

To pretend that Donald Trump makes all US decisions and that the enormous military, judicial and other civic bureaucracies have nothing to do to with countless US policy decisions, many of which are dangerous, reckless and represent endemic corporate corruption, and for this to pass as journalism or opinion today, explains why other news and opinion sources are sought.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “chop off the heads” of traitors during a speech in Istanbul commemorating the victims of last year’s botched coup attempt and celebrating the government’s victory.
“First of all, we will chop off the heads of those traitors,” the Turkish leaders said, addressing tens of thousands of people in Istanbul on Saturday evening, as cited by AFP.
Now to get Turkey to admit to its Genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. Justin is silent, Trump, Bibi, Putin and Macron. Imagine if Germany (government) denied the holocaust the world would be in an uproar!


If Patrick Brown has a different more private minded approach as far as selling pot it's a complete mystery to the voters in Ontario due to his usual silence on any issue.


I agree with a lot of what your saying, but I also know if any effort were made to curtail the growth in income for those 'highest paid civil servants' you would be the first and loudest protesting it

Sorta like all the posters on these boards who trash the Conservatives for running deficits post 2008, yet it was the political parties they support who pushed for, and wanted larger deficits...


As long as the Liberals control Ontario, there will always be boondoggles akin to the Pan Am games that he can profit from.


You think the Petroleum Broadcast System is too left-leaning? LOL!

Oh and when I see someone griping about "political correctness" (the fake kind), I just assume they are bleating about someone either being civil and/or actually correct.


And reversal surgery/hormonal fixup.


My wife and I paid off our 1982 1st mortgage (16%) in 5 years, 9 months, at age 34. We found not having a mortgage made our lives less stressful and gave us more options about spending post mortgage.

Oh, we also bought a minivan without a loan while paying off the mortgage. They would only let us pay 10% of the Principle, once a year,  in addition to the regular mortgage payments. That 1986 van lasted us until the oil pump broke in 2006, although we bought a 2nd mini-van in 1992. Buying a new vehicle every 3 years or less is insanity, despite it being a common bad financial habit. I used transit from 1985 on, when I didn't bike to work.

One employer even let me expense my monthly transit pass, as a cheaper alternative to subsidising a parking spot by $100 per month plus tax. My kids and wife could also use the pass, when they didn't have a youth pass or College Student Card as Bus Pass of their own. An Express bus stops next block, something we considered when buying our home.


janey, we are the most inclusive society on the planet.  Anywhere.
.
We are not perfect, but equal rights are here for everyone.  Application is not perfectly even, but we require relatively small modifications to be better, not wholesale changes.


So your identity as a Christian has nothing to do with Christ or his teachings, the, and is just some throw away tribal affinity you label yourself with.  Got it.


The state should not get involved in business - period.  This applies in almost any country and many countries have effectively followed this practice to their great benefit.
There are several reasons.  1. The people in government are politicians and are usually not good business people. We are seeing this too often in SA.
2. The sale of SOE's to the private sector will bring in huge amounts of money to the fiscus.
3. In SA the ANC cadre deployment has resulted in incompetents being placed in positions of high responsibility - with disastrous results,
4.  Many in these positions see $ signs from all the money involved and cannot resist enriching themselves via a host of dodgy processes.
5. Many large SOEs could be sold to a number of private companies so that competition could bring down prices. SOEs  tend to be monopolistic and because of this prices rise.  Eskom is a case in point.
6. Tax money that could be far more effectively used gets channelled to propping up failing SOEs.


Define ugly.  Is 2-4 ugly?


It's the FBI's fault for not allowing the militia time to clean the place up.


You don't have a "right to mass murder."  Your paranoia does not justify your infringing on the 2nd Amendment.


Since there is no meh button I use funny.


A two syllable first name is simple enough for even dogs to understand. That is why dog owner's are advised to keep their pet's names down to two syllables. A human who can't handle a two syllable first name either has a mental deficiency or is being deliberately rude which is the case with the hostess described in this article.


When Trump launches into a spittle-flecked tirade against those #BlackLivesMatter radicals who think police should shoot fewer unarmed black men, the racism is so obvious it might as well have been written in the sky by the Blue Angels.


Being gay -- and sexually active -- does not necessarily entail engaging in immoral  activities, though as with straight sexual activity, it can be immoral.

You and I have been here before.  I remember how vile your thinking is and I know where you will go if I engage you. I choose not to provide the occasion for you to re-post that filth. I don't want to be the proximate occasion for your sin.


No doubt the NDP coming into power was the last straw. This is terrible news for the entire county and a whole industry has been killed in its infancy.

We should expect more from our politicians.


Thank you Globe and Mail for publishing this article describing just how dire the situation is for animals in Canada. The transportation laws are just one issue; the treatment they endure on factory farms are another issue it would be good to see more coverage on.  It is embarrassing that Canada lags so far behind Europe and other western countries as far as the treatment of farmed animals goes. I'm very thankful  to organizations like Animal Justice for speaking up and trying to improve animals' lives.


Better to utilize the VA system and get him the best mental health available. This Veteran Hero needs all the help he can get. Soldier loses all his limbs and USA is there. Soldier loses all mental control and fellow soldiers want to abandon him? Cmon man.


Yes becouse Crooked Kathleen and the largest sub sovereign debt in world are of NO concern to Ontario's futures .
Nothing to see hear folks, move along flippers.
Ya, nice try lefty !


It appears the OMA leadership is in a difficult position. They have some Doctors who are happy with their high incomes and preferential tax treatment, and others who are unhappy because they want the big pay increases that other public sector unions have received over the past 12 years.
      Unfortunately for Doctors, they don't run and finance the Liberals election campaigns like the teachers and other unions do, so they don't get the paybacks. And the OMA has some specialists who refuse to have their pay lowered, even though they have had huge pay increases because of technology, and their ability to perform more procedures in a much shorter amount of time
     Either way, the pay increases the public sector unions have been receiving are unsustainable with a $300+ Billion deficit and $1 Billion dollars going out the door each month in interest. So the government has to clamp down on costs, especially on health care and Doctor's salary's are a significant component of this expense.


If they cut overpaid administrators, they wouldn't need to cut as many jobs.  But then, the administrators are the ones making decisions so that's not going to happen.

The largest cost driver to education is not the salaries of employees, but the health care costs.
When my husband worked for the school district, a full half of his salary went into a health care fund.
Who is managing that and where is all of that money going?  I always felt is was a bit insulting that some health insurance fund got the same pay as my husband for doing absolutely nothing and people go on complaining about the salaries of teachers?

Is there a teacher in the comment section that can post their pay stub information for all the people here that think teachers are making $100,000 per year?

If the state really wanted to save money on education, as well as other state employees...they would set up a state system of not for profit health care.


Amen -Jay is rolling in his grave


Well, Just a Normal Person, thanks for the exposition of why you're not college material.


Any thoughts about the number of black on black killings??  Or black on white attacks??  Or the huge number of Hispanic gangs, most illegal alien felons, that run huge areas of LA, Oakland??  How about the number of honor killings in this country?? Any thoughts on the liberal run cities like Chicago, Detroit, DC, etc. No!!  Why??  Because they are all liberal run cities, many for the past 50+ years, and liberals are no going to say a word to challenge minorities to get their act together-FACT!!  What about these parents??  Or do you what to blame that on the CBF, Repubs, G. Bush, or G. Washington!!  Dishonest, lazy and clueless liberals.


Gov. Walker, Pres Obama to meet new Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia this Month.


I thought you were an informed voter Stevenson.  Apparently you've been in a coma for the past eight years.  Otherwise you'd have realized that it was your Republican brethren in Congress that brainstormed  a Just Say No campaign against President Obama.  Furthermore, the president can't spend a dime.  It's Congress that's charged with the responsibility to produce an national budget.  And let's not forget that it was Dubya's two administrations that dragged our military into the two bogus wars that you're talking about, which produced the first $7 trillion.  And let's not forget that it's the Republicans that have generated the so-called Patriots Act which spawned an annual Trillion and another Trillion for the nation's Defense budget.  So much for trying to wipe your uninformed hands  clean.


Last paragraph  of this article -  your top priorities aren't moving fast enough it seems like a slow boat to China!! Move faster and it'll be a win win situation for the caregivers and patients!


First convince me that ANY new building is needed when we already own one.


I disagree that it is complex or an issue.  Just IGNORE any mention of cultural appropriation.  Easy peasy.


Or not teaching anything!


Yup, I'd admit publicly that I would shoot a person. On a forum, in a nationally published newspaper. Good move. Let us know how you 'make out' with your new roommate. Literally.


There are some difficulties in this column, first Are Monastries so willing to receive clergy who have sexually offended? This idea is based on the old "Penitential monasteries", which do not exists anymore. In some countries in Europe Monastic major superiors have voices their worries with having those men among them. To have work for many years as a psychotherapist for sex offenders, I know that some of them are very difficult to monitor, and first of all need more therapy than penances. How can you ask a community with an average age of let say 70 to monitor such problematic personalities? Secondly, though the procedure for bishops or superiors mishandling cases is in place on paper, it has not yet being put in practice, and apparently there are some resistances to it. So there are the official talks, but as Marie Collins point out there are different stories behind the closed doors. But otherwise I have no objection for mercy as long as justice for the victims is not sacrificed.


Dead at 33 years old, gone forever and his killer is sentenced to 11 years less allowances then set free to go after someone else? I don't give a good crap what this guys problems are or were at the time of the incident, he deserves to spend the rest of his life imprisoned or if we were really lucky, a hangman's noose. Where's all the sympathy for the dead guy or his family?


AR, too bad you don't know the law.


We won't have to wait that long to see the effects. Those young boys will grow into disillusioned, "alienated" young men pretty fast...


Way to go Ige. And they'll be right back by Friday.  No vision, no permanent remedy, just more ring around the rosies by Ige and company. Not to mention the waste of thousands of tax payer dollars goin through this big public relations charade.  Anyone but Ige


Tesla probably thought that pickups were cheap low-margin practical work vehicles. Tesla misjudged the market now that pickups are simply luxury toys for the rich costing 50, 60, 70 even $80,000.

However, they did realize that 3-row SUVs with stadium seating are neither sport nor utility and sell lots of their enormously popular and ridiculously expensive Model X.


I don't have a car. I usually walk, sometimes even if it's an hour. I don't feel safe on a bike with cars. If it's a longer distance, time critical or bad weather, I call Uber or Lyft. Riding a bike like the author described almost requires a GPS phone to not get lost in the non-euclidean maze some of the bike paths are.


In this, I agree with you.  Bill Clinton was the one with power.  He was the one who should have said, "Stop."  Although this may not have been assault from the legal perspective (and I want' there, so cannot know for sure what really happened), what he did was reprehensible.


If you stop ALL oil subsidies you still need the PFD to pay for this bloated government. Oil breaks are $750 billion. PFD endowment brings in $2 billion. There is no other practical way to do this. Income or sales tax bring in $100-$300 Million, nothing like the PFD restructure

Take a deep breath. Oil is $51 and climbing. The guv’s budget is based on $30 something

Reducing the PFD attracts less “Pilgrims”


Again, Sanders is not a communist. That is a blatant lie.


France compensates vaccine injuries, Canada is the only G7 country that does not. Odd the writer doesn’t note this glaring difference.


So you see the Eucharist as a reward for being good?


An excellent statement of why we need to have some realistic controls on who gets guns.


scary


Let them hold his CO responsible for the proper leadership and management of his unit and accountable for its failings, and certainly, let us all hold the commander-in-chief responsible for all war crimes and crimes against humanity that resulted from the illegal US 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. Round up all the relevant parties in public and private organizations and send them to the International Criminal Court at the Hague for prosecution, along with a boatload of hard evidence and documentation of their culpability in these crimes against the US Constitution, The People, and indeed, against all the civilized world. They have authored for us all a completely unlivable and intolerable world, and it is so sickly that it cannot stand even one more year, can it?


Actually, the BC NDP's proposal is the CLOSEST thing any government or party in Canada has come to actually dealing muscularly with overseas money, and that is the NDP plan to increase property tax on folks who do not have BC income tax histories.

Look, dislike the NDP all you want, but that one policy proposal is WAY more aggressive than anything Ottawa or the BC Liberals have come up with for dealing with overseas money. The NDP's plan is a torpedo at overseas-working millionaires, regardless of whether they bought a Canadian passport or not and regardless of whether their Vancouver house is empty or filled with a parachute family. No other party has touched that target.


Is that what you "thought" Jimmy?


Now this is REAL vision! I agree with all that is said here!


"The Left"...

...in Douglas County...
...where Republicans outnumber Democrats by a ratio of well over two to one...

Thanks for the laugh, bro...


Critics of the program, however, argue DACA recipients take jobs that should go to unemployed Americans. What do you say to that issue?


Make SHOPO pay for new lawyers


wish i had said that...


Trump literally turned this into a Hitler youth rally.


Have you considered the alternative?  An increase in desertification?


We voted no on this for several reasons:

1: It doesn't go all to the jails;
2: Fear mongering tactics are being used on voters;
3: Want more beds? Give ICE the illegal ones taking up those beds;
4: Current budget is not being allocated responsibly


Golly, Trid ... you sound like a notorious, craven Liberrralll! ;-)

I, for one, never obeyed Ratty's command that I view myself as inclined to an objective disorder or in a love relationship that is intrinsically evil. I'm so glad that we see eye to eye.


Wow, this is how corruption is dealt with in a civilized society. I do hope their reach will ensnare the GuptaANC crime syndicate.
We are totally powerless with a vice grip like state capture over our investigative and prosecutorial state agencies. The "no confidence vote" rescue plan in parliament will also fail because the ANC majority do not have 50 moral and incorruptible members to help us save our country.


Another brown blouse.


Every vote matters , some more then others and your vote may or may not be counted for who you vote for.
Its hard to call that democracy.  No matter who you voted for don't you want your vote to go to whom you voted for??? I bet a recount would be a disaster when it uncovers voter fraud etc. I personally think we need to audit all the votes to ensure that the voting system is working properly.


I love how now that you have been exposed as someone that doesn't actually know anything, just copying and pasting from articles that serve your purpose you are trying to deflect and tell me what my job's policies are to try and prove a point. I am actually off today, thank you, sitting at the VA for an appointment as I am a Disabled Veteran as well as a state worker, the latter of which you seem to try malign as some sort of demons almost every time you get a chance. But keep on trying to deflect, it just makes you look more desperate.


Bad news....


cont.
... people who are punished with higher rates.  However, if you're a heavy smoker or an HIV-positive party animal, an alcoholic ne'er-do-well or a drug-raddled slacker, a single mom with no job skills and 5 kids by four different dads,  and lo and behold you're paying the unavoidable health costs of poor choices and impulsive, self-destructive behaviors - you probably qualify for a government subsidy.  :-/  Not surprisingly under this scenario, lots and lots of responsible people feel like they're being screwed by the system.   O-care seems less an insurance program than it is another redistribution mechanism, setting up yet another entitlement to buy more reliable Democratic  votes.

The problem is, James, what the government rewards, it gets more of.  What the government punishes, it gets less of.   When a society consciously *punishes* personal responsibility and instead rewards all the screwheads, what do you think happens in the long run?  0_x


This sounds like a great compromise! Nix the unrealistic and divisive wall but purge the nation of illegal criminals (although, in reality, anyone in this country illegall has already broken the law and qualifies as a criminal). That's a solid start anyways.


Pravda apologizes.


"If you commit a new crime on probation - even a misdemeanors - you can get jail time under SB91, period. "

Of course, the victims of that second crime might have preferred it if the probationer had been in jail instead...


I'm not going to dumb it down for you.  Sorry.


Kid is another Herbert: stationary, pro-style. Why we went after him is a mystery. Now, it'll be hard to find a QB with a sensational upside.


Or as our politicians would say: "the system is working perfectly!"


Didn't they just this week allow women into some sporting event they were banned from?  Great country to chair human rights.......such a farce.


I'll wager that one stump anywhere is one too many for you.


This epitomizes the type of straightforward issue that should be resolved under a royal commission. There is definite criminal liability here as well as government incompetence that allowed these tainted batches of cannabis to be sold to the public. This is right up there with the tainted blood scandal that saw thousands of Canadians getting HIV and Hep-C through blood transfusions! All these cannabis companies need to be stripped of their government licenses, right now! The RCMP need to raid and lock down the premises, a criminal forensic audit needs to be launched of its books (especially of inventory). Liberals should not pass legislation to legalize marijuana until new federal rules governing the production and distribution of cannabis are written to protect the public. Especially, sending samples of every batch of cannabis to be tested by federally approved labs before the cannabis can be deemed safe for human consumption. People need to go to jail for selling bad WEED!!


Facts do not require common sense to validate them.

The sky is blue. Fact.

Water is wet. Fact.

Life begins at conception. Opinion.

If you really can’t see the day difference maybe you should put down the koolaid of your religion and take some basic logic courses.


Obviously you're no stranger to shame.


Interesting. I never vote "not civil" on even obvious lies, if they are civilly presented. I get what you're saying but I think the civility thing relates to being adult and not name-calling. I have voted "not civil" on posts i deeply agree with but which call the other person "idiot" or some such.


He was a thief !


Institutionalized ongoing criminality.  There is no valid visa, not for work, not for school, not for an individual with a specialty with an advanced degree, not a sports team, not for arts or science or any other visa that would foreign temporarily allow individuals into the United States.  It is simply outrageous and disheartening to think that the scammers are so greedy that they even risk jail and fines.  There have been admissions, there has been continued deception and now the auction states that they are against slavery and trafficking but are willing to accept an I-95.  This very form is for an alien seeking temporary landing in the United States. And this alien must leave in the same fashion that he arrived.  Temporary..... not a work permit.  Not the right to obtain a fishing license.
The same people, look at their faces, that said the monument expansion would take away Hawaiian fishing rights.  They lied so that they could continue to exploit trafficked for labor. Failed..


The argument isn't a Canard, and your list of examples shows many ways our system could adapt and make itself better.

What evidence do you have that Drs in Canada would revolt at a contracted 40 hour week? I suspect a lot of them might quite like the idea

"That is clearly not the Dutch model." It is clearly closer to the Dutch Model, or even the UK model that the current system.


Well said.   Sad but true from my own personal experience.   Human nature.


While we're at it, put the wholly unfunded OAS on the balance sheet. Add in an estimate of the extra medical costs, which will increase as the seniors age.


Alberta would welcome a sane conservative government. It would be a pleasant change from the government we've had for the last 15 years or so. The Frankenstein creation of Unite the Right wants to return us to those good old fiscal days that never were.


She must be missed for not only the food, but for the family. Wish we had the chance to taste her creations! Well written!


This bill is a small step in shutting down what has become government theft of folk's assets. Of course law enforcement opposes it - stealing from suspects has become a major source of funding. And that is what it is - theft. If law enforcement officers want the respect and trust of the public they should stop stealing assets and prove that what they seize was in fact gained through illegal activity.


So in saying that we shouldn't hold John A. Macdonald to 2017 values, I guess, following that vein of thinking we shouldn't hold Hitler and the Nazis to 2017 values.


3 yrs $65M isnt bad coin.  More than the Blown Jays were offering in terms of per year dollars... Good for Edwin, he can come back into the death hole in the Nation and blast a few out of there for the Tribe.


The Bloomberg liberals are attacking the First Amendment again, look for FOX cable ratings to go up.


Bronson Kaahui, You say that the well regulated Militia was designed as a check against a standing army.  The Second Amendment gives them the right to keep and bear arms.  You also say that a well regulated Militia no longer exists.  The inescapable conclusion is that nobody today has the right to keep and bear arms.


Golf guy3: Well said.  I not sure why there are so many entitled people in the GTA.  People don't DESERVE to be home owners, they work toward it.


The Catholic Church has always been paranoid...Let it's Dogma sink into antiquity,and tax them for their political involvement ...


When you put something in "quotes", it should be a "quote", not a summary of your memory.

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

"Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."

"The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians—and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse."

"I propose that it shall be no longer malum in se for a citizen to pummel, cowhide, kick, gouge, cut, wound, bruise, maim, burn, club, bastinado, flay, or even lynch a [government] jobholder, and that it shall be malum prohibitum only to the extent that the punishment exceeds the jobholder’s deserts."


Well she didn't.  If she had given them something other than water charges would be appropriate.


A cite to support this Russian Money Laundering claim please.


Hypocrite, pretender, dissembler, deceiver, liar, pietist, sanctimonious person, plaster saint;
-
sounds like (and I am being kind)
Justin TRUDEAU and Kathleen WYNNE
does it make them "social conservatives" ?


Over two centuries ago, Thomas Jefferson and certain other founding fathers in our "Christian" nation actually debated whether a Muslim could be president. The answer was "yes." See Denise A. Spellberg's THOMAS JEFFERSON'S QUR'AN: ISLAM AND THE FOUNDERS.


There is much more that just those categories you mentioned...local or Washington....There are local Tribes which I don't think you are referring to...and people from all over the country who want less public land used for extraction or development. There are also developers of all kinds, from all over the world even, that will be looking for mineral and other resources to extract from public lands, so putting some aside now is of interest to many.


Your extreme vetting will only show us that the great majority of  killers are liberal democrats.


There was a really awful scree gully on the route above Willow Lake that was steep and very loose.  IMO it was pretty dangerous when there were hikers above you causing loose rocks to slide.  A different route is definitely a good idea.


"He left the seminary and a few years later married. "

He turned out better than many who stayed (from his generation that gave us scandal).


..."That is a lot of trust to place in a young man who spent his formative years following his father around terrorist training camps and living cheek by jowl with some of the most crazed jihadis on the planet."

Mr. McDougall - you address just one part of Omar Khadr's ordeal when you don't mention that he also spent part of  his formative years in Guantanamo Bay prison, purposely established by the Bush administration to evade American law and justice. Mr. Khadr was handled by "patriotic" American  security agents  who tortured him mercilessly and with impunity for 10 long years,  with complete disregard for the rule of law. He was 15 when his imprisonment started.   A government gone rogue while, simultaneously, claiming to be a beacon of hope and defender of democratic values worldwide.  Enough said.


The writer of this article is obviously still upset over his precious Hillary's loss in the election.  As for the NFL, Sunday marked the end of my support for them.  Yesterday, instead of watching football, my wife and i took a nice stroll through downtown Raleigh and later a bicycle ride--a far more enjoyable way to spend a Sunday afternoon than watching NFL. Next Sunday, we're going to attend a festival! We can't wait!


Says the man (or woman?) who voted for Hillary Clinton the most corrupt politician in American history


Odds are excellent he'll be Trump's running mate.


School district builds multiple schools. These guys didn't even build the original building. You really should just give up


I'm a woman and I would have interrupted her too. She was being ridiculously rude.


It seems like the service times chosen were ill-suited to the location.  The busses started too late in the morning and ended too early at night.   Any sophomore-level college business student could have come up with a better plan.


I certainly don't hate my job.......it's just that there are a lot of other interesting things that I haven't time for.  I will be retiring within the next two years max, and am thankful that I did the financial planning  and still have good health  so that I will be able to pursue those other things.

I know many people count work as one of the sources of self-worth and identity.  I am hopeful that the activities I plan for retirement will more than fill those potential holes.


"illegal" migrant? not wanting to get deported


To the author: Please do not confuse your opinion with fact. When offering your opinion, please state that it is opinion and offer arguments to support it.  Consider this statement - ".... he cancelled the census to starve the government of data that could be used to justify programs that Conservatives oppose. It truly was an act of political vandalism." You state that as a fact when it is only your unsubstantiated opinion. Here is another explanation; Countries like Australia force citizens to vote, they take the view that this is a civic duty. Canada takes a different view. Some in Canada believe that the government should force its citizens to complete the census, that it is a civic duty. The Harper government felt that this infringed upon Canadian's civil liberties. I don't know if this explanation is any more true than the nefarious one that you have advanced, but your statement that, "There was no reasonable case for cancelling the census." is patently wrong.


Were they wearing helmets or not?  More weak and incomplete reporting from the SA...


The UN just released a report condemning Canada for anti-African racisim so ingrained in Canadian society that it's considered 'normal' and not even noticed by the majority. They call for apologies, reparations and memorials.
It permeates every Canadian institution and found a direct link between a history of anti-black racism and the deplorable conditions that blacks in Canada find themselves in today with everything from an over representation in police homicides to poverty to inadequate food to poor education opportunities.


Isn't that the truth!


Proper Gonja: What is MSM?   I hardly watch tv at all, AND,   I am NOT living in FEAR.


This is getting ridiculous.