Sadly typical of the out of touch intelligentsia, this piece ignores the obvious.  Trump supporters, like the supporters of Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Nicola Sturgeon and Marine Le Pen are using their votes as a primal scream against the status quo.
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They have been dismissed as racist and ignorant because the elites refuse to recognize that fact that they have been marginalized during the Obama administration:  "And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," Obama said.
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The peasants are lighting their torches and reaching for their pitchforks...The are madder than hell and they won't take it any more.


And the cost to communities that formerly grew the crop in the past? And the cost in law enforcement, judicial, and correctional services expenditures to stamp out the black market (which won't happen anyway)? And associated healthcare costs in morbidity and mortality rate increases as a result of promoting increased consumption and targeting youth as new users?

Giddily rewriting history doesn't make this structural shift a good bet for Canadians. It simply means cannabis profits will now go to retired MPs, retired police commissioners, and executives at places like Tilray, instead of staying in small communities where the produce used to be produced.


True until you crash or it rains.


Thank you for writing this. Reading this article was similar to reading my own reality. My husband also died an "off -time"death from cancer, and robbed me of my partner, and our children of the opportunities to celebrate their life's achievements with their dad.   The emotions and changes that the author put to words describes everything I have been feeling from being "a fragment of us", to the diminishment of my thinking skills, to the incongruity of consolation in isolation and loneliness.  I also want to thank you for highlighting the lack of traditions that forces us to put on a public face in the absence of any visible signs of our private mourning.  David died six months ago and public opinion is that the trajectory of grief should be waning now. as you say, "some days are wobbly; others less so".  I


BEN SASSE IS A TOTAL ASSHOLE WHO HAS DECIDED THAT HE IS ON THE SIDE OF THE LAWBREAKERS.
NEXT TIME YOU PEOPLE GO TO THE POLL REMEMBER THIS AND SEND THIS CLOWN HOME.


hmm, I not at all sure I follow your logic (or lack thereof)...


I suspect CU would have won a fairly officiated game, but you missed the point. The blown calls in this game totally changed the outcome. CU won the game with two big offensive plays. Both teams made some big defensive plays. CSU made 4 big offensive plays, and all four were disallowed. The last one, the catch by Gallup, was as elegant a play as you will ever see from a wide receiver. As a neutral observer with no personal ties to either school but with family ties to both, I was robbed of an exciting finish by the most embarrassing one-sided refereed game I can recall ever seeing in the Pac-12, and I have seen many games in many Pac 12 stadiums over many years.


Check your email, buddy.  I think you have one saying, We miss you at the National Post ...


We can hope that we can sell something to China.
Instead of continuing to give it away for nickels to the Americans.


Food for thought.


Nobody wants the Canadian film industry hacked in half, especially all at once. Could you imagine doing that to any other industry?  Instead, extend the 10% rule to Netflix.


Let me see if I understand this. Duffy was not charged with accepting a bribe, he was acquitted on other charges and the "investigator" has no power to impose penalties even if there was any impropriety. Yet, Mr. Angus is all in for more taxpayer's dollars being squandered.  How much did we, already,  pay for this without any results?


Okay genius, what was it in my comment that led you to believe I haven't been fighting for decades to have cannabis reclassified from the completely erroneous Schedule 1 Drug classification that currently stands? You don't know who I am, or what I've done. Before you make claims about me, it would help if you knew what you were talking about, but judging from many of your comments, that's not a high priority for you.


Crime is up significantly since the bill passed, I would say it isn't headed toward a successful result.  We continue to take more and more rights away from victims and give more and more rights to criminals.  Great system we have going.


Two comments:
1) What is the scope of a culture or community? Who speaks for the community in terms of saying who is and is not invited to tell their culture's story?  Should a Polynesian be allowed to tell a white person's story? Should an Englishman be allowed to tell a Frenchman's story? Should a woman be allowed to retell a man's story? You can see how tricky it can get once we start mandating who is allowed or is not allowed to tell a culture's story.

2) Do you believe there is a distinction between fiction and academia as it relates to appropriation of cultural storytelling/history? Should historians from outside a specific culture not be allowed to research and publish? Wouldn't that lead to a stunted and biased body of historical works (acknowledging historical bias cuts both ways)? Or is the real issue here not about the stories of a culture, but the profits going to those outside the culture/community?


The hypocracy of the Tories knows no end.

3,000 Canadians named and not one of them seems to be a Tory supporter?

If I was Scheer I would be afraid, very afraid of the fallout.


But wait, aren't you the one who keeps whining for a "rebuild, tear down" etc? Must be awful for you, seeing them win as often as they have been.


It all can be explained by his small Johnson.


Hey, not their fault that the bear decided to make an entrance during night hours and weekend night on top of that. Note for future bear activities; only weekdays, between 10:30am and 3:30pm.


Wrong.

Welcome to life under TABOR, our joke of a tax program in the state, that doesn't allow for money to be spent on what we need, even when our economy is the best in the nation.


While I would agree that a meaningful dialogue is not possible on the basis of mere reaffirmation of church teaching and what purports to be natural law, I would also point out that an uncritical acceptance of the whole spectrum of contemporary sexual practice would be equally meaningless. Our society has crossed many lines that need to be reexamined by people of faith, and I would hope that includes some non-celibates who treat sexuality as more than a concept. I'm getting tired of well-meaning priests and nuns telling us what we should think about sex and do with pur bodies.


[This is Obama's illegal law.]
Fun Fact - Executive Orders are not laws.  While they both carry the force of law, ie. the authority to be enforced over objections, it is far more limited.  Remember laws, or legislation, can only be created by the Legislature and in some cases by the Judiciary, commonlaw, but never by the Executive.
Also, DACA functioned within the INA's (legislation) explicitly provided for prosecutorial discretion.  It is this same discretion that Trump relied on when he said he is deporting criminals first.


In a fully free society, taxation—or, to be exact, payment for governmental services—would be voluntary. Since the proper services of a government—the police, the armed forces, the law courts—are demonstrably needed by individual citizens and affect their interests directly, the citizens would (and should) be willing to pay for such services, as they pay for car insurance.
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1) The government is not the owner of the citizens’ income and, therefore, cannot hold a blank check on that income—that the nature of the proper governmental services must be constitutionally defined and delimited, leaving the government no power to enlarge the scope of its services at its own arbitrary discretion.
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2) The principle of voluntary government taxation considers the government as the servant, not the ruler, of the citizens—as an agent who must be paid for his services, not as a benefactor whose services are gratuitous, who dispenses something for nothing.


A 14 million dollar surplus...brought to you by the man who supports prop 8.  Your move voters.


I don't golf, I actually hate it, and knew that I missed networking opportunities by avoiding it. On the other hand, I felt that (painfully) slowing down a foursome would probably balanceit all out.
I'm not so sure that missing some bar nights means missing many valuable networking opportunities, though. Great advice in this column.


This situation predates Obama and Trump is making it worse. And who cares about what could have been done in the past? What matters now is what these two madmen are going to do next?


"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

My posting quotes the Preamble. Promoting something is to facilitate it. The federal government is charged by those who form the government (We the People) to facilitate our  common good. Part of that mission in our 21st century culture is to make certain healthcare insurance is affordable. Otherwise it isn't available.


I love when liberals ,like MR Dershowitz, get a clear view of the hatred and unhinged lunacy that emanates form the political left. Liberals can abide any, and all, alternative lifestyles but still cannot abide an alternative political perspective. I remember when Mr Woodward found out, It was one thing to criticize Nixon, but saying something positive about George Bush was a bridge too far for the hyper-partisan left He was put in the doghouse until he came around.


America has "elected" a GD toddler as president.


No kidding... I'd donate a kidney for 2 hours of sim time. I think that would count towards my instrument rating too :-)


Profitable only because the volumes are huge...it will be difficult if not impossible to compete and make a profit


Well done Daily Maverick and good on the Whistle Blowers. Now this scandal can be blown wide open and those that govern us will hopefully do the right thing.


As has now been reported, Bana Alabed did not write the tweets that this rag attributed to her on at least seven occasions.


The massive security presence is "to prevent truck attacks that are on the rise around the world". Those darn self-driving trucks.  They better not try to operate in Canada. Wait a minute; they are not self-driving trucks. They are trucks used as weapons of mass murder driven by terrorists. A reasonable person might ask  what type of terrorist is driving those trucks.  Ah, that the Globe, the CBC and Toronto Star will not say.


Often they suffered and died. Or they went bankrupt after being sued by greedy hospitals and doctors, as they still do. Your point?


I hope he gets the Death Penalty and its carried out,  but here in Oregon its Unfortunately,  Extremely Unlikely, however, it would  Cleanse the Gene Pool......................

Any consolation????  He will DIE in prison.

Think of that young woman, what HORRIFIC, Mental, Physical Trauma and PAIN she went thru before he killed her.

This guy is a genuine "MONSTER", and deserves the ULTIMATE SENTENCE.................................


Something smells.

It's almost as if this 'meeting' is being staged.


There is no 'bad' reflection of Trump saying this. No loyalty often gets people fired pretty quickly-especially if it is made public via social media.

As for what would make me turn-same thing every time with every decade and every president. Documented espionage, like Hillary and that Reality Winner girl (poor thing, look at her name!) That would do it. Documented treason like Snowden and Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning. That would do it as well.

Tabloid assumptions and gossip, nope. But I don't follow movie stars private lives, or watch soap operas nor do I read the supermarket tabloids either so gossip on, but leave me out of that. I really do not care about what the neighbor supposedly did.


It's pompous and egalitarian to say that no one should be out in the "wee morning hours".  Many people work service jobs until late at night.  And many of these people don't have vehicles.  So they walk or bike to get back to their homes.  "Rational" people know this.  So it is not surprising that you didn't know this.


Use your fingers on your keyboard. Type "The CIA's role in creating terrorism". Or type "Americas role in creating terrorism". Which corporations profit off America's policies of colonialism"? Type "Is terrorism the result of American policies of colonialism"? Or type "How many Natives die as a result of American and British policies of colonialism worldwide"? Or "How many Natives die as a result of American policies of colonialism"?


This article appears under the "OPINION" banner.
News stories appear under the "NEWS" banner.
It is really not that difficult for most to understand.  Try the dictionary if you are having trouble.


Aaron:  You gotta QUIT the LSD Dude................


Nathaniel, I believe you are misleading everyone with your article. Tell us how many children, disabled, unemployed, welfare recipients, medically challenged, rural area Native American, Alaskans are included in your research?


Just as you are with your comments.


The only significant opposition among the laity I have discerned is on the Interwebs, where I have concluded a small number of Restorationists and recidivists have created an army of sock puppets to invade the boards and make it look like their numbers are legion.  While many of us are not pleased with the glacial pace with which Frank is turning the church around, at least it's no longer heading in the wrong direction, and we have his back.


It says nothing about condemnation of this barbaric act and those who perpetrated it; reports are that this was a terrorist act committed by radical islam.


I like your comment, Lucky...  I like it a lot more than the woe-is-us comment from Loblaws.  "...hitting profit."  Gimme a break.  NOTHING, not government legislation (of any type), not workers (union or non), not overhead components (of any kind) will be allowed to impact profit.  The shareholders simply wouldn't stand for it.  That's what business is about.

In fact, even top management salaries aren't sacrosanct...although it's a last-resort measure avoided "at (just about) all costs," so to speak.  If profit dip enough--goodbye top management.  And top management knows it.


Not fair. A huge number of them worked extremely hard at college and earned their degrees. Playing D1 football is a full time job, then they go to school on top of it.
The ones I know definitely earned their degrees and are VERY proud of it, as they should be.


If that was only the case. Instead, like a typical Trumpnut, all you injected into the conversation was meaningless bullshit.


To be fair a lot of the problems and the decision making is happening above her rank.
The bulk of the blame lies in the PMO.


Proving once more that, for the radical righties (and, yes, you are one, despite the protestations you will make), there is nothing more important than a low tax bill.


"But this country [Afghanistan] does not represent a geo-strategic risk to the world.   It is no longer a source of global terrorism. This is a tremendous accomplishment, one that obviously serves Canadian interests."

-Stephen Harper, 22nd Canadian Prime Minister

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"Mission Accomplished," eh ?


What part of "almost" escapes comprehension?


Anti gun? Yes I am. The insanity spewed by gun nuts in this thread proves my point. I went from "some people can handle guns" to "you know, NO ONE needs to have a flippin' handgun, ever, for any reason" quite quickly reading the aggressive, posturing nonsense posted by you people.


Those numbers are not inflation adjusted.


I believe that quote was from 1787, during the Constitutional Convention.


It's not entirely correct that the O-line is preventing Trevor Siemian from being a good NFL starting QB.  True, the O-line is a huge problem.  However, so is Siemian's decision making.  Whether he's throwing balls to receivers who are well covered, or scrambling into pressure, Trevor is as much of a problem as the O-line.  If opposing defenses stack the box with 7 or 8 dudes, it's up to Trevor to throw them out of that defense.  He has to get rid of the ball quicker and more accurately.  If he can't do that, then it doesn't matter who is playing on the O-line.  He's as much to blame, if not slightly more, than the O-line.


This is the problem with electing Uber Liberal corrupt Democrats in a one party rule state, they promote causes that put animal lives above the lives of people and this is not even based on solid scientific evidence, it's based on fake science that uses its activist wing to hamstring the "evil capitalist's system".  That's the objective, Oxybenzone is a proven product that prevents skin cancer and aging, it is low cost and effective, and the special interest radical environmentalists want to take this away from you.  Don't allow this, call your rep and tell them your family is too important to let fake science have their way.


This column probably should never have been posted, it is very dull.  Despite the swooning comments of others, it ain't funny.

Mr. Kelly is the wrong guy to cover baseball.  His tendency to point out quirky and irreverent facts and situations doesn't work when it comes to baseball.


So you are admitting this is an infant. You said it. Ultimately, love is the answer. All life is precious...all life.


He/she must be lying.


Silliness, NcR has been condemned by its ordinary for the past 48 years, it's laughable that any of it's writers would think they hold a proper understanding of Vatican II.


..Removing the USA from world leadership
..Placing self interest before the well-being of country and citizens
..Taking bribes
..Reducing the USA intelligence services to nothing
..Nepotism over patriotism
..etc
..etc


I hope this is available to low income families<>????less beer and cigarettes and more better food for there children


If you had read (and understood) it, you would never have made this comment:
"I don't believe the Pope intends to authorize all the politically correct jargon or to suggest each priest just do his own thing."

The document is about the legitimate authority of local ordinaries, and thereafter Conferences of Bishops, to decide on the appropriateness of liturgical translations for their people. It restores the original post-Vatican II arrangement that the local decision be submitted to Rome for "confirmatio".

Not even a hint of authorizing political jargon, or inviting each priest to do his own thing.

Which is why I dared to suggest your comment is off point.


NP>More of the same BALONEY from you!!!!  This one with COVFEFE added to the baloney!!!!


Well, if one is to take any cue from "the" bible, there is plenty of polygamy in there as well.


This whole article is about plugging Jenkins $100 book.  Jenkins has no special knowledge or additional insight to King Kamehameha that what is already known about him.  He was a great leader that was merciless to anyone who opposed him or got in his way.  Besides practicing human sacrifice & killing his enemies in often the most tortuous & painful way, he ruled with an iron fist & owned everything.  Most of his subjects were nothing more than serfs meant to serve him.  Native Hawaiians of today, unless they can prove royal lineage like Abigail Kawananakoa are technically not entitled to any property in Hawaii & have NO right to Mauna Kea.  If Hawaiians of today who are protesting the 30m telescope  made their way up Mauna Kea when Kamehameha was alive they would be all put to death.  That is why I am against destroying Civil war statues because like Kamehaha he was a ruthless leader but did great/ positive things & that is what he should be mostly remembered and appreciated.


Before you support anything this dumb ass has to say about us first nations indigenous folks, remember this is the guy who said IT SHOULD BE OK TO VIEW CHILD PORN
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/02/28/former_adviser_to_harper_tom_flanagan_ok_with_viewing_child_porn.html


Are you aware that organic also uses pesticides?  Some of them are quite nasty.  Look up rotenone for example, an "organic" pesticide which is extremely toxic to fish and has been linked to Parkinson's disease.  Also because the pesticides used in organic farming tend to not work nearly as well as synthetic pesticides they tend to use a lot more.

What it all boils down to is organic is just a fear-based marketing ploy to get you to spend more money than you have to.


I hope that Mr Sneer is getting an earful from Canadians for his and his minions bad-mouthing of Canada.  He is not worthy to lead this great country.  What is needed is an apology from Sneer and moving Kent to the back bench with Rempel.


Just because your name is ducksinarow doesn't mean you have all your marbles. Now go crawl back into your whole you Nazi racist.


There has been no global warming for 20 years. Once again we are fed nutty climate predictions, based on a non-existent problem—a fabricated dilemma dwelling in the climate computer models that have all failed to match real-world empirical evidence. Climate changes naturally, always has, always will. There is no planetary climate emergency. This is the biggest scaremongering scientific deception ever perpetrated—the fake-green $1.5 trillion keeps on churning out its evil lies until enough people wake up to the  truth and stop the madness.


'A look at the fuller context of remarks by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to the BBC on Sunday shows that he was telling Londoners there was “no need to be alarmed” at the heavier police presence they will see in the days ahead.' Really?!!!!!  This is the best example of double speak if I ever saw one.  You don't need a degree in journalism (or pretend to be a journalist, columnist, commentator or whatever) nor do you need a PhD in common sense to know what Khan said: "The police will be out in numbers, just don't worry, be happy.  Oh, by the way, the police will be out because Islamist terrorists killed 7 people and injured 48 others, and we are afraid that it might reoccur (otherwise why would you increase security?)!" The G&M is not practising responsible journalism!  Do you take your readers for a bunch of morons who have to accept every piece of nonsense your contributors write, in their unrelenting feud with Trump and their pursuit to appease the Islamic terrorists?


Gotta love the liberal support for liberal hollywood pedophiles and rapists - and people wonder why liberals keep losing elections.


County considers final payment to Economic Development Corp. Interesting how The Daily News bundles this news report in with a bunch of others making it difficult to remark on only one. Possibly because Tax payers have made it so abundantly clear that they have no desire to fund this repetitive, useless, tax sucking corporation that does nothing to promote economic development any longer. Certainly our wishes will again be ignored.


What about Mt 25, 30-47?

As for your last paragraph: "But NO one person or group can enact laws, policies, etc. to deal with the poor as a government can.  To work for the Common good of all is THE MAIN DUTY OF THE STATE."

My point exactly.  Let's look at the best government ever - ours.  60,000,000+ unborn babies murdered by abortion with no end in sight, many of them paid for with taxpayers money; same-sex "marriage" for the first time in the history of the world;  the gender distinction in bathroom and shower use is under attack; trillions of tax dollars spent on the "War of Poverty" law that has all but destroyed the black family whose fatherless households has gone from 35% to 75% in 52 years under this government program resulting in black males imprisonment at a much higher percentage than the black race's make up in society.  Most, if not all, of these issues are supported by 1 government organization that almost half of the Catholics endorse with their names and actions.


Mischief? Eco-terrorism more like it. Time for very, very, stiff penalties for that crowd.


Z,

Sec 171-36 (b)(1) exists in current law.  I asked for it to be removed early in session when I was questioning a Chair,  given the ambiguity it carries.  He advised later that the DAG prefers it stay in.  The subsection has (apparently) never been used, and if you think it might be used for something big someday, e.g. TMT, well it hasn't been used so far.  So perhaps it's viewed as some kind of "nuclear option".  I really don't know.

Please,  I am not disseminating "misinformation".  If I state an opinion, I'll back it up with why I arrived at that conclusion.  If I advise someone they've misunderstood a concept I point out the inconsistency, I don't accuse them of ignorance or evil.    I'm very familiar with this bill, know it's intent, and am appalled at the lack of in depth analysis, or concern for consequences, displayed by those commenting.  This is a serious issue, and the criticisms of this bill are frequently founded on mischaracterizations or misunderstandings.


Whereas Home Invoice one hundred doesn’t identify Agrium and the tax credit score can be obtainable to any urea and ammonia manufacturing plant within the state, the Legislature and administration made it clear that the laws is aimed on the firm, paperwork present.
Thanks,
http://creditspoint.com/


Yeah, I had to ask


Save your concern. If you think the "questioning authority" category is where any of these pathetic losers fall, you're mistaken. The so-called patriots are a conglomeration of poorly educated, unemployed, angry and bitter, often stolen valor, tough guy wannabes that claim they do what they do for the rest of us. Sad is about all I can say.


Fairbanks has such an alcohol problem that the tourists write letters to the paper about it.  The Borough, of course, is doing what it can to discourage tourism and endanger life in the Borough.


From the first related story ... "In the previous three hours, the 21-year-old had downed half a twenty-sixer of tequila and numerous mixed drinks, ..."


no it isn't.....if you actually communicate with most sports fans who attend those events, you will find that they like the military flyovers....doesn't everyone love an airshow? You read too much into simple things.


Hopefully he has a more positive impact than Buzz Hargrove


"Vacuous blowhard", "Drumpf", "little Korean fat boy".  Aside from hoping you get yourself a job some day so your Mom can be even more proud of you, I wonder where the moderators are today?


Bull!


Caspar Weinberger's indictment concerned a PRESIDENTIAL election. The former GHW Bush Secretary of Defense was indicted four days before the Bush-Clinton election. The indictment was thrown out in December.  By that point, Bill Clinton had already been elected.

You have to have probable cause to search e-mails. They have probable cause to search Anthony Weiner's e-mails related to Hillary Clinton. Until they get a warrant, it's safe to say at this time they don't have probable cause to search Trump's e-mails.


What a beautiful statement of this lovely young woman's heritage.  As others have noted, as a proud Alaskan, she truly represents our amazing state.  Well done, Alyssa.


Well I am a private business owner and 3rd generation Alaskan. Assumptions


Misdemeanor Child Neglect?!?! Misdemeanor??? How in hell does this qualify as Misdemeanor?


Not the answer he (ramones1) wants, but sometimes in the military when a person is declared "unfit for service" it is because they are in fact unfit for the requirements of service. It is not as if there was a need to cull the ranks, quite the opposite


why are you guys thanking ben?..it's kinda too late for that now..all that's gonna happen now is our property taxes will go up to cover the costs to finish the rail..yeah thank ben..for nothing..we are still screwed


Many readers don't get sarcasm.  They're so invested in a particular interpretation that if you use the language of that interpretation to try and rebut the interpretation, even if it's stood on it's head, they still don't get it. An emoji after the comment can be helpful but it sort of wrecks the subtlety.


"Hytera is facing a lawsuit from U.S. rival Motorola, which accuses the Shenzhen-based firm of massive intellectual property theft."

Sounds like this one is a little over the drama teacher's head.   But he's not above accepting Hytera's $1500 access fee, or perhaps generous contributions to the Trudeau foundation.


Hope everyone has a bunker. This is getting
out of hand. China can't wait to cut loose along
with Russia. Canada, the dumping grounds. The
signs were all there. Shoulda bought a ticket before.


Yep, would have said, "If it was my child, I would be up", to put it mildly.  Also, slowing on a case, it's who you know.


It'll pass like Mario Andretti flying by a Prius on the interstate.


Don't forget that you need to be qualified (educated) to teach. Not everyone can pass the criteria.


Scaleworker  .... You sure you meant reason ..... not treason ?


It seems that a victim is born every day. The Alaska Natives have been robbed and have surrendered their dignity and self-worth for government programs. Now they are "owned" by the White Father in Washington. A very sad story indeed.


What's really astonishing is that Anchorage police do such a professional job even with one of the lowest levels of police staffing in the nation. To be simply be at the average for comparably sized cities in the Lower 48, Anchorage would have nearly double the number of officers and support staff it has. And APD doesn't have the advantage other city police departments do, that of being able to rely on a nearby county sheriff's office for backup.


Nope.  I'm somewhere in the middle and I can tell Trump is a disaster.  So can most of my conservative friends.  As for his "relentless pounding" -- he's earned every bit of it with repeated lies and the appointment of complete incompetents like Conway, de Vos, and the Flynn fiasco.  He has the king of fake news, Steve Bannon, sitting in on more national security briefings than members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- as if he has any security credentials.  His first major initiative, the Executive Order about immigration, was sunk by the courts -- and then he calls them "bad" courts and a "so-called judge."  He has had time to settle in; he's just made a spectacular mess of settling in.


US military is goof master.


Mr. Hartsfield:

Your illustrations, I would not denigrate them by referring to them as "cartoons", are reminiscent of the work of Thomas Nast when he exposed massive corruption by members of Tammany Hall and the Democratic political machine in NYC.

Suffice to say you will have ample inspiration for political and social commentary over the next four years.

Sadly in today's America life is cheap, laughs are not.

Hopefully CB realizes how fortunate that they are to have you on their staff.


Hillary would have gotten health insurance done even w/a republican congress.
she wild had led them in the ways required to govern.
she would not have us on the brink of nuclear war.
she would have infrastructure underway
she would have a tax reform plan that tackled inequality and revived the middle class.
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trump has proven himself to be incapable of any of the above because he cannot tear himself away from trivial twitter wars against his own senators and gold star families.
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The sooner Mueller finishes his task the sooner we can be rid of the orange aberration now occupying the WH and the sooner we can get the swamp drained in favor of expert practitioners, not this incoherent mob of wrecking balls now formulating environment and foreign policy.
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The disassembly starts tomorrow.
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BTW, Duane Allman died on this date in 1971
Long live Duane.


Wrong. Read the Journal of the American Medical Association, Spine, Archives of Internal Medicine, European Spine Journal, JOSPT, JMPT and clinical practice guidelines throughout the world. All recent scientific evidence shows affects as good  or better than any pain medication and extremely safe.


I shouldn't expect logic from someone who believes in the Bible as a literal historic document. I forget there are those who find logic in Adam and Eve's story, ignoring that their sons must have had sex with their mom or had sex with sisters to later have wives.


Gee Guy, hyperbole much?


The customer service at The Bay is execrable, and since they bought Saks, the once great service at Saks has disappeared.

During the Christmas season, Saks had customers on hold for up to 20 minutes. The Saks store on Queen never answers their phone. I called Saks in the US when no one in Toronto answered the phone in any department and was told jokingly to check the lost and found for staff.


You do love to argue style over substance. Very revealing. And tedious.

It's neither inaccurate nor insulting to say you're ill-informed on this issue. You either don't care to learn or refuse to acknowledge what's happened in other communities with similar ordinances so as to become better informed about how the courts (lower case) might view the constitutionality (again, lower case) of the Springfield version, given the chance.

You are correct that this ordinance was written specifically to discourage enabling behavior from a vehicle in a traffic lane. The reason, of course, is that act is not protected speech and can be hazardous to others. Note that the ACLU's interest was piqued when the original language included fines for both panhandler and enabler. That was revised to address only folks such as you, who, once again, are invited and encouraged to enable to your heart's delight under safer conditions. However, no municipality is under any obligation to enable your enabling.


This story shows I just did.  Police can go in and arrest all these law breakers.


LOL, I love this guy!


I don't know anything about Clark or BC politics but I do know Americans.  Her position is spot on.  Americans will respect her for it and a better deal on softwood lumber will come of it.


Lol, true enough. If you're an alt-right Trump troll that doesn't really live in Hawaii, she wouldn't be your Senator.


Hard to believe, but Bannon is a big favorite of the far right Republicans and particularly, the young Far right. He could care less about the old middle of the  road conservative Republicans. A lot os the far right conservative Republicans have signed up with him— you can read in the conservative media.


Well written. And you're right, no telling what our government will do at this point. Economics is so simple when you just do the math.


It's not a myth.  You only need to do a google search to find that some doctor's offices charge a "membership" fee to patients.  It has been in the news, probably a year or two ago?


I'm a Georgia peach doll, sweetest you'll ever find.. ha!


Nope. I take a lot of taxis for work, usually to and from airports, and when I travel Outside, almost anywhere Outside, I get to take Uber or Lyft. There is no comparison in service, they are different products that both provide rides. I prefer using a smartphone to arrange a ride: it tracks the drivers, payments, destinations, and lets me know arrival times and costs ahead of time with fairly good accuracy. Cars are new and drivers are friendly.
With cabs, who knows what I'm going to get? Maybe calling 15 minutes ahead is sufficient, maybe I need an hour. I can count on the car being old junk and the driver being colorful. Sometimes that's fine and sometimes it's gross, like when one driver was cleaning his teeth with is tongue and lips (after taking out his teeth.) He was a character though and was funny. YMMV.
I just want a choice and am happy Alaska is one step further from being a third-world colonial state.


Yep, anyone else getting tired of all this winning?  LOL!


Reminiscing about the UDF and the departed leaders will not help. Many reflections, some referred to in the story, have been done. The question has always been whether ANC has the balls to take on the elephant in the room. As a member of the other organisation at the time I also remember that the "necklace" was pioneered by members of the UDF....


Another neato gun owner.


I tuned out Postmedia long ago because the owners forgot how to speak about the real issues we face and speak the truth to the public at large.  Instead they speak for the owners and their narrowing target market.  Headlines are often minor issues that will sell a paper today and are forgotten tomorrow, the latest polls (completed on a totally unscientific basis) replace real discussion and analysis, and hard-hitting, thoughtful articles written by caring journalists are replaced by puff pieces often penned by lobbyists and political hanger-ons.


Potentially it would seem to apply to everyone with whom you disagree or who disagrees with you - rather a wide range. Do you apply it to Pope Francis as well who believes that: marriage is only between a man and a woman; gender ideology is a damaging Satanic myth; and women priests are an impossibility. He seems to like Scandinavians but is he one of your trolls too?


According the the shill report you referenced, just care to enlighten us WHAT children will lose coverage?


Military empires are always arrogant. Assign to themselves infallible righteousness, infinite power, highest hypocrisy. The U.S., claimed to be the biggest, the best and the mightiest military and economic power ever existed in the history of man, have been accustomed to setting the rules for the world. But  exempt them from itself. Exceptionalism indeed.

The only power who nuked an enemy into defeat give itself the power to say what sovereign states can have nuclear weapons, can have this or that missiles, can use force on whatever. Itself exempted. Would Mattis allow Japan to have nuclear weapons? Pakistan got nuke. Why don't Mattis go and nuke them?

Do China and Russia, direct neighbors, feel threatened by NK nukes? Hardly a word from them. So peaceful. Why does the Pentagon feel so threatened? Simple: it killed 3 million North Koreans and revenge is in the card.

In a few years Mattis will be gone from office. NK revenge will be around for another century.


Not only is there no conclusive evidence, there is no evidence whatsoever.

Of course our western lugenpresse will never bother to even ask.


If I had 200 pounds of weed in my car I would set the cruise control at 60 and be in the right hand lane.


G and M, shut out the clearly commy trolls from china, like DI!!


Yeah.. right!!!


There is Commercial Fishing in this area too, Salmon, King Crab, and what little Halibut is left over after the Pollock Trawlers take their 7.75 MILLION POUNDS  as "By-Catch"....


If the Globe was "all over the story" why dont you share a link  to some of those articles on the G20 overspending you Googled?

The story was covered by some media but there wasn't much if anything from the Globe who strive at all costs to keep the laughable illusion of fiscal prudence from Harper and company

In fact thats something anyone can try- google overspending on the G20 summit in Toronto and see how many Globe mentions you get..


I seldom agree with Mr. Krauthammer on issues.  He's quite conservative, I'm quite liberal.  However, in this column he acknowledges the threat to democracy Mr. Trump represents.  My compliments to Krauthammer for placing principle above partisanship.  Well done, sir.   Gary Crum


My sales manager recommends leasing versus buying, for a number of reasons. In Ontario, an accident involving reportable damage immediately lowers the value of a vehicle, and  in the high end market, might make it simply unsaleable. He said he would not want to take it in as a trade-in, even if "we" fixed it, (he works for a dealer at Audi, M-B or BMW).

The extent of rear end accidents is significant, given the poor driving habits, including aggressive behaviour, and so the chances of an owner taking a financial hit due to being hit are increasing by the day. Of the four drivers in our family, three have been hit from the rear, most notably when stopped at traffic lights.

By contrast, a leased vehicle would need to be repaired, but at the end of the lease, the manufacturer takes the value hit.

Apparently in B.C. the law is different, while in Ont.the no fault legislation continues to allow poor drivers to escape from serious financial risk due to being sued by the people they hit.


1)  Flipping is a business, not an investment, and should be taxed as business income, and not as a capital gain. I believe that this is the rule now, in theory.
2)  When foreign buyers sell property there should be a withholding tax on the principal sufficient to cover any taxes, business income or capital gains, forcing the proper filing of a Canadian tax return.  If it is claimed as a principle residence, proof must be provided that the property was used only as a principle residence, and that the owners were in Canada and occupying the home for more than six months in each year of ownership. (confirmed by CBSA),


“That gets us further down the track,”
Though money we do lack,
Rail held up by tax payer's back,
Estimates and budgets lacking fact,
Politicians and contractors in the sack,
Spending money is their aphrodisiac,
Monument to debt is their knack,
On a track to a financial heart attack,


Name a few.


We have no objections to keeping untrained dogs out of stores. The existing laws are well sufficient to deal with the issue.
Yes, my wife has been harassed, stopped, and questioned about her guide dog. He wears a clearly visible guide harness with an easily seen handle which has 'Guide Dogs for the Blind' plainly written in bright blue letters on a white background.
How so we know an 'ID card' won't work?
Because guide dog handlers are being challenged for access with the most recognizable and well known type of service dog which has been in continuous worldwide use for over 75 years, which have plain and clear markings on them. If the general public is already too ignorant and stupid to read the clearly marked harness, they won't be able to understand an 'ID card' anyway.


[cont'd]
better chance of escape.

The pipeline company has estimated that a rupture at this location would be around 5,000 barrels. Fresh crude oil of any type is as flammable as its most volatile component. Indeed, much of what is shipped through this pipeline is Bakken crude, the Megantic stuff that the TSB later determined to be as flammable as gasoline.

Why am I mentioning this? Because Ontario's PPS states that "sensitive uses" (ie. where rapid evacuation would be problematic) must be kept away from "human-made hazards." Ontario's TSSA stipulates a minimum setback of 200 metres for hard-to-evacuate facilities.

None of this seems to matter to City planners. Their latest example of "good planning" is a 28-storey apartment building that's going up next to five transmission pipelines, all of which transport refined products (mostly gasoline) at pressures in excess of 1,000 psi.

The reason that the British case will be investigated and these cases won't is simple: nothing [TBC}


I saw a few of these rigs when I was driving around the Kawarthas this summer.  They are off to a good start for a half ton but they will need to step it up if they really want to play.  Look at how many years it took Toyota to become a bit player in the full sized market.  Word is that Mercedes has a new truck but it is not currently slated to come to North America.

Many fun and wonderful items abound as truck drivers come into the majority.


Improve your vocabulary, 'Lamont'. I was of course using the verb in its second sense, with an object.

Troll
VERB
1. Make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them:
‘if people are obviously trolling then I'll delete your posts and do my best to ban you’
[with object] ‘you folks taking this opportunity to troll me, you really need to reassess your values in your life’

2. Carefully and systematically search an area for something:
‘a group of companies trolling for partnership opportunities’
[with object] ‘I spent tonight trolling the Internet for expensive lighting gear’

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/troll


D's need to move away from the pure socialist path they are on. Most learned persons understand that socialism is a false promise. Freedom is the only thing that has ever advanced mankind. This country was founded to prevent subjugating our individual liberty to the King.


I would rejoice at getting Sen. Sessions out of the Senate, but he would be replaced with someone equally bad.  His nomination is a wake up call to people who would not vote because Obama was not on the ticket that voting matters.

DeVoss won't have the power to overturn the education establishment, but she will move the conversation.  I wonder if she (or the bishops) would entertain a compromise to require that voucher funded schools be unionized?  If not, I hope she fails badly.

Tillerson may be an excellent deal maker, but the question is whether he can be a Department of State organization man.  More important is seeing who his Deputy is, as the Deputy runs the department, including much of the policy.

The Democrats were overconfident fools when they changed the filibuster rules.  They made their beds and now they can lie in them.  The same is true of Trump voters.


Actually, when you study what the Founders said on this issue, the militia was all the armed men of the community and the men were meant to be armed because the Founder distrusted even the government they were setting up and figured someday, the militia would need to defend the people against the government. Go on! Read a book. Do some historical study. Even the most statist Founders held the opinion that being armed as a private citizen was a necessity for the protection of society. It wasn't for hunting or home defense; it was because they assumed every government would eventually become tyrannical and require a citizen's uprising. Some figured it might take a long time to get to that point while Thomas Jefferson thought it should happen every 20 years or so. But they pretty much all thought it would happen eventually.


Cardinal Arns was definitely not pleased that the Roman Curia completely ignored his input for reorganizing the Archdiocese on Sao Paolo by creating five smaller dioceses.  He considered the reorg an abject failure, and it was!  But those were still the days of JP II, with Ratzinger at CDF.


It's a valid complaint against this terrorist sympathizer.


"Bong Hits for Jesus". Remember that? It ended up in the Supreme Court. Is this one headed there too.


So what does that have to do with her irrational superstition that deliberately promotes misogyny, intolerance and hatred? She needs to reform her superstition and remove the haters and bigots who spew intolerance and promote 'the other'


No one has to live with those conditions. They choose to stay there. No one is forcing them too.


People are woefully ignorant about how the black market works. Buying illegally is expensive and making guns really hard to get would drive up the black market price so your garden variety dirtbag couldn't afford to buy. It really does work and it works all over the world, it would work here too.


What, did this guy accidentally swallow a stats sheet before writing a recap of this game?

Typing @ 34.6 wds/min on the Richter Scale, but that's downhill and to the left, which is correct @ 15 degrees C.   Fingers hitting the keys with 14.2 N/m2, not allowing for the wind.  Pascual Perez would be proud.

Not that Your Js for sure had to win this game, but had they lost today, and thus lost the series 3-1, there woulda been some discussion that they're not good enough, NYY kicked their behinds, that sorta thing.

Your Js still in last in AL East, though could be tied for last if TB hangs on to lose to Sea.  Their RD now neg @ -6, so phythagoric-wise, their record is right where it should be.

It bears repeating, they got all their runs today via HR, which is something they cannot sustain for the balance of the season, gotta find other ways to get runners home.


IRT Gerrit Osborne: The maroons in local government think the movie "Idiocracy" is a training guide.


If the headline had read Tristan  da Cunha,  the claim to obscurity would have been absolute.  In any event this set of islands are the only land in the mid- South Atlantic  between the Azores and Antarctica.  Truly a remote place, not at all conducive to snowflaking.


I mean so what?! Do you really think the US doesn't try to undermine Russian interests via hacking/espionage? This game had been going on since 1946.

Obama got beat plain and simple... in a motley of ways and the US is weaker for it. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose but Obama... he always seems to lose.


Check again.
110km on a fast HWY. 45min to Vaughn. 20min to the go train.
See how long it take from Caladonia, Innisville, Hamilton, etc. Rural road 60-80km will take forever.


>>i looked through the issue featured in the article and i couldn't find a single current, urgent, world view article. most of the issue could have been included in the student handbook.<<

If we are talking about the same issue Gary, then the one with the "Manoa Now" cover was meant to be a 48-page  "student handbook" that was produced by the editors for new students attending orientation during the summer and for distribution throughout the year. Ka Leo produces one of these every summer (in lieu of a "news"paper that week) because incoming students find the content useful and advertisers want a vehicle for reaching them.

Jay Hartwell
UHM Student Media Adviser


Just what is labor's "fair share"?  Did labor assume ANY of the financial risk?  Did labor provide capital to start or even to run a business?  Does labor assume the responsibilities of an investor or business owner?  Which one of those McDonalds employees borrowed the nearly half-a-million dollars needed to start that new franchise?
Labor's fair share is the agreed upon wage it accepted when it took the job.

The free market is the engine that drives capitalism.  It certainly doesn't drive socialism.  Punishing the successful because they are successful and others aren't,  is in no way "fair", nor does it promote prosperity for either the rich or poor.  How many starter jobs are being replaced by automated systems because of all this faux fairness?
Socialism always fails.  In some cases it may take longer than others, but eventually socialism deteriorates into dictatorial rule and genuine injustice.  But I guess you're OK with that as long as everyone is equally poor?


That's real mature Pat, your sanctimonious reply's tell me everything I need to know about you. You have all the answers but can't answer a simple yes or no question and you seem compelled to make childish remarks like that stupid "taco stand" line frequently in your comments. So be it if that's your shtick.

Are your juvenile comments indicative of how you execute the "executive responsibilities" you so smugly claim to hold?


Except you are conveniently ignoring the other peice the employer contribution.   When calculated together the PERA Employee is contributing much more early and reaping the benefits of that contribution later.   And a big part of that contribution is a lower salary leading to a lower overall payout from PERA even at a higher percentage.

Example Person A can take job A in the private sector at $50000 or job B in government for say $45000.

Job A is for damn sure going to give bigger than 0-2% COLA and far bigger than 0% merit pay increases to employees most years.

Job B if lucky will get 1% COLA year to year.   They can technically get merit increases if the legislature funds them but that's happened 2x in15 years.   So even before looking at retirement there is an issue.

Cost to employer

Job A contributes (both employer and employee) 3100 X2 6200 towards SS
Job B contributes 3600 employee and $9000 from the employer.
Job A $53100 Job B $53100. Pretty close right


Psychology? Rubin, Clinton and their supporters are in need of psychiatrists.


No I "didn't hear about a study on CBC".  Did they say what it would cost taxpayers for the health and social problems mentioned in the article you are commenting on?
You probably can't be stupid enough to think this is about preventing criminal records. At least be honest about it.


I bet you dont bitch about republicans when you get your PFD check do ya??


Well your first error is that you assume anyone cares what you think. The remaining drivel also falls apart quickly.


No problem. Online communications can be tricky things.


you are right we should be setting up centers of excellence to study the gender pay gap that exists on television series.


Go to hell, troll.


And Chretien allowed them o do it!!!


Thank you governor for cutting in half our oil legacy that was not frittered away by careless spending. The other half needs to be restored and interest paid on what was taken. Why? Because this money belongs to the people of Alaska.


Turn the managing of the airport over to any 3rd world country...  their clean modern airports are head and shoulders above the run down, out dated Honolulu airport.  So embarrassing...  anything would probably help.


Obvious to anybody that the Buffs would decline without their defensive coordinator from last year. It was the DC that made Colorado a top 25 team. It certainly wasn't the head coach, who is looking more mediocre every year...Ranked 98th out of 130 Div. 1 teams on defense in 2017


If passed, a statewide sales tax will hurt communities already reliant on municipal sales taxes: Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg, etc.  These places levy 5-6% city  sales taxes.  Therefore, they will be forced to rework their municipal tax structures because consumers are unlikely to pay a combined tax of 8-9% on purchases and will take even more shopping out-of-state and online.  The net result means hurting local business.

Here in Southeast Alaska I often see seasonal workers: deckhands, charter captains, and tourism workers.  Many reside in WA, OR, MN, MT or elsewhere during the school year.  They export their wealth with little tax burden right now.  I believe a statewide income tax would be more apt to capture a fair share from these folks to support state jobs and infrastructure.  The PFD cap, local property taxes, and local sales tax will capture Alaska residents.  If we are to help fund our local/state governments, why not outsiders?  Income tax should come before sales tax.


I couldn't help but notice that staffers for a number of Democratic legislators have shown up on Wikipedia over the years to write about the non-accomplishments of their bosses as if they were something profound, followed by said legislators providing links to those pages "in the interest of public service".  Am I to believe that this happens because "they've been shut out of the process"?


Looking at Argentina is the past.

Look to Australia, a country that has less than 2/3rds of Canada's population, and is set to pass Canada in absolute GDP within a decade.

A century - or less - Australians will be looking to Canada that way Canadians look at Argentina.

Canada is badly managed and over governed...


Yes, a mental one.


My caution about being involved in this is related to two problems that the present protest are doing htat are hurting the community,
1)  The Target of the Protest - Entertainment, Shopping, and Business - are hurting the working class people.  Violence in Downtown and on the 'Loop' have closed and damaged small businesses.  Cancellation of the U2 Concert lost income for Businesses and workers who were laid off because of no work.  Same for the Ed Sheeran Concert.  Meanwhile, Many Businesses are also repairing Windows and facing losses - impacting  their income and wages for employees.
2) The violence associated with the protests.  Those causing violence need to held accountable, but people in the protest are not coming forward to report and/or turn-in those who are attacking police of causing damage.  This passivity to the violence is no better than the tolerance of the public and leaders to hold the Police responsible for their actions of unnecessary violence.


"hoping that the Pacific and Atlantic trading zones one day merge into a new global trading agreement."

Why not work on a new global trading agreement as a goal instead of a possible side effect. Are there features of the plethora of existing agreements that could be incorporated into new WTO rules and regulation? Only from a global perspective can mid sized and smaller nations gain protections for independence and integrity whilst seeking fair trade. The powerful nations and their multinational champions coerce humanity found in smaller countries. Just as we see income disparity in first world countries unaddressed, world comity is being challenged as never before.

The idea that if you get business right the rest will automatically follow is not unlike the trickle down theory, specious in practice.


You can't vote to abolish the Senate. The SCC has *already* ruled on this.


"We should respect each other's choices and freedoms" - yes, and it is his choice and freedom not to believe nonsense*.

*Clarify it as something that makes no SENSE before I get stoned or something.


We never had a real VOTE.
RUSTY THE HATED MONEY SUCKING RAIL was sold with lies & deception and shoved down our throats
by the City Leaders and PRP.  John White, MUFEE, CARLYLE & CADWELL were all in the pockets of the Unions. We the public never had a chance.
By the way, this was a great article. wow- 2 honest  articles from SA in a week. Maybe the reality of this BOONDOGGLE IS FINALLY SINKING IN


Who is writing this? Who chooses words from Jesus to quote on today's events?


Perfect example of what she is eluding to.  Kill the messenger, the hell with the message.


I live here -and I have lived in Oregon and CA both, born here. Oregon and California will not be able to sustain themselves due to the high cost of housing, the low wage workers ("The Trump Supporters" or deplorables)  have nowhere to live. Ironically one of the things I did  not like about it here when I moved back was the lack of ethic diversity, too many (close minded) white people. Bet you find that funny, don't you ?


He's making the same mistake Obama did, assuming his win corresponded to a "mandate" from the people.  Which it doesn't, he didn't win by nearly a big enough margin; he didn't win the popular vote at all.  And in fact, to say he "won" is not accurate.  A more accurate statement would be that Clinton lost.  The election was hers to take, she just didn't do what it took to connect with the great, white, scared middle of America.  And Trump played on that fear like an accomplished violinist.


What are you talking about.  The democrats controlled congress when the ACA passed.  Entirely democratic votes passed the ACA with none from Republicans.  The democrats could have passed the ACA with whatever provisions they wanted.


Hey diddle diddle
Putin and the fiddle
Trump jumped over the moon
The whole world laughed
To see such a sport
And Putin was quite pleased with his boon!


I believe in gravity because when you get drunk your buoyancy changes due to the lower specific gravity of ethanol, and then you fall to earth because buoyancy requires gravity to work, and that's why you end up in a heap under a pool table in the bar.
People don't realize that Newton was a drunk and that is how he discovered gravity.


No.  Just that hurling epithets without any suggestions for improving the situation  is not constructive, and certainly not the role of an academic.

His comments would have been denounced as paternalistic, provincial and racist if they had been made in respect of say, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Maghrebian, or Sub-Saharan societies.

The role of the academic is to advance debate, not tout one's own supposed superiority.


BINGO!!!!!!


We don't know that any foreign government interfered. However, the fact that it is possible should be enough for bipartisan support.

While determining how people would have voted without the email news is virtually incalculable. We should be absolutely SURE that the voting network is clean. We should also go after the individuals that posted "fake news" in an attempt to subvert the election. We should go after ALL of them, especially the ones that bragged about it to news agencies after the election.

In my book, dishonest propaganda designed to sway votes is treason. Individuals that knowingly engage in this need to be brought to justice.


The logic of this article is that high income people should not pay higher taxes. The statement " I work hard for what I got and now people are taking it away" would be true for any taxpayer. At root of this is the question: do we need taxes? If you believe in good health care, good public education, a basic income for seniors then yes we do need taxes. The tax burden should  on those with more material wealth. Those that have benefited from the system should be expected to contribute more. That isn't 'class warfare'; that is common sense.


New York City Mayor de Blasio AND Gov Cuomo said that the President had contacted them but that initially thier office had only been contacted by two senior White House officials, NOTH of them saying, “I’m not bothered at all because two senior officials called to offer help, and I think that was appropriate.”  de Blaiso and Cuomo said.  Sorry, your lies have no place here.


Point taken.


exactly Linda…. exactly!!!!!!!!    thank you for the simplicity and truth of your comment.


Are you shitting me?


Wow. Please dig deeper. EU/US desperately needed depressed natural resource prices along with depressed interest rates to recover from their two trillion $ 2007 sub prime mortgage write-off. After ten years of manipulation US/EU are still in trouble. Depressed natural resource pricing has cost Canada,Russia, OPEC trillions of $ yearly. The voting masses in EU/US are having a party at our expense.  Bill Clinton's dream of providing home ownership as the financial cornerstone for every American family via sub prime mortgages was a classic socialistic disaster for all of us. EU/US government manipulation has everything to do with natural resource pricing.


So funny. The GOO pers eating each other out. Lol.


That statement is wholly unsupported by economic research and is simply rightwing pablum.


That's pretty typically the case. There's a great article in the New York Times today that specifically addresses rural populations and health care. The main crux being, "I was against Obamacare, but I really didn't understand what that meant. Now that Trump and the Republicans are proposing a plan that would result in huge cuts to rural health infrastructure, I think I can support keeping Obamacare." That's frequently the case of these people who are preaching "self-reliance." What it often means is "don't question what I want to do, but keep the money coming from the central government."


You don't think plecus has worked that out for himself - that his BCLib career has ended?????? You think he cares? He already disagreed with the BCLibs over clark's leadership so I doubt he expected any support in future.
He did the right thing, and his voters will get some benefits out of this from the new government, wait and see.


Thanks...nice insights.


That didn't even make sense as a sentence! Seriously, if you're going to comment on intelligence, please become passingly acquainted with the shift key and the concepts of basic sentence construction. It will, I assure you, help give your points some chance of seeming plausible.


Yep, a true "pip"!


Of course it isn't.
Examine the premise that muslims want to kill americans.
Examine its provenance.
Its Obama/Clinton who undertook regime change in Libya which left it a failed state, resulting in a massive immigration of north africans , previously prevented by kaddafie, into Europe.
Then they entered Syria and destabilized that country which is the mess we see today.
Then, Obama killed   thousands of innocent muslims using   drones and  bombings in all 7 of those   Middle east countries.
So, yes Trump has every reason to believe, as do the American people, that certain violent muslim groups want to kill americans and esp on US soil.
And that has happened numerous times.

Trump has chosen the security of American people over  temporary  bans of  refugees from those  7 states  .

Its the correct choice


The most disturbing idea circulating here is "regulations to reduce the addictiveness of tobacco products". In plain language, this means reducing the nicotine content of cigarettes. The catch is, some theories of smoker behaviour posit that smokers inhale until they reach a desired dosage of nicotine, then taper off.

If that's true, then limiting nicotine would cause smokers to inhale MORE toxic products of combustion to reach their desired nicotine level. This policy could INCREASE harm by causing smokers to inhale more smoke in order to get the nicotine they want. It is basically a crank idea with no real-world backing, being promoted by ostensible experts who ought to know better. Very worrying.

As for Mr. Cunningham's (of the Canadian Cancer Society) comments — what's the point in being a "world leader" in deploying risky, unproven health policy with the potential to create vast, negative unintended consequences? Innovation in bad ideas is not a virtue!!


It was not just Lewinsky that Bubba took advantage of.  Both Clintons lied about Gennifer Flowers, there was also Kathleen Wiley and some others that we know about.


IF Alaska had paid out yearly earnings each year to equal shares to every Alaskan, most of us would be in a better financial position now and State spending would be under control.  Sure we would have had to pay Federal and State taxes and local taxes might be higher but we would have much more money than the PFD would ever give us.

Possibly an even better idea would have been to save all the earnings for 20-40 years and then use the yearly earnings to pay for State government for eternity. We would be richer than most countries. Now we are in debt and going broke. Greed. It is my money and I want it now!

The PF was a great idea. It kept the State from spending every last penny. I wish we had put more in it each year.


Valley politics smells like a dog lot


The SA story does NOT give an accurate account of the story.  Actually from the Hawaii News Now online story, they quote witnesses who said they say Pahio first get out of his car and punch retired fireman Freeman.  Then when Pahio started back to his car, Freeman left his van with his gun and shot Pahio next to his car.  Then Freeman got back in his van and ran over Pahio's body.


Canadas solution to illegal addictive and dangerous street drugs.  Naloxone kits.   Good to make them available.  How about the police charging dealers and distributors and having the courts send the creeps to jail and keep them thete.  Hey how about air dropping these Chinese engineered opiods right back on thier school yards...with instructions!


It's called BIG ART. And it was great.


I would be thankful I got out alive of th al qaeda grip. with my health relatively intact.


U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said  … "Good people don’t smoke marijuana.”  Or lie to a Senate panel about contacts with Russian officials.


Trumptie duped the voters and once again they fell for it.  The Christian voters always get duped.  The Tea Baggers too.  He drained the swamp to make room for the jackals.


If the society won't match his gift; the society doesn't really care.

It isn't Knight's job to correct the greed of the SEIU and AFSCME union leadership and the Democratic office holders going back to 1990.  He was earning his money against worldwide competition during that time; not supping at the public trough.  Of course, he had to serve in the Army Reserve between his U of O graduation and his time at the Stanford School of Business, first.

 Knight has donated tens of millions of dollars to the University of Oregon's academic side. Major gifts include funds supporting the renovation of the Knight Library and construction of the Knight Law Center. Knight also established endowed chairs across the campus.


I found this article incredibility biased. Its almost as if the author knew the outcome they wished to achieve irregardless of the evidence. Yes, Naspers comes from the Apartheid area. Yes, it was "as far as I know" established to benefit the Afrikaner. If you are going back into history, you cannot take a screenshot of only the one bit that fits your narrative, you have to look at the full picture. At the time the Afrikaner was considered a second class citizen. They suffered extreme poverty. Many lost everything during the Boer wars. I stand to be corrected, but one of the goals with the privately created Naspars was the upliftment of the Afrikaner community. It was not government driven. One can not criticize that initiative, but excuse BEE or countless other Black forms which aims to achieve the same. As for the money Naspars donated, nothing strange here. Every political party relies heavily on donations.


i hope so!


The NS Borough has taxed my home, yet pays us each $40,000 per year in roads, schools, pools and subsidized utilities. Math simple: $400 million divided by 10,000 residents. If the state charged sales and income taxes the burden falls onto one class of folks: working stiffs.
Public Assistance isn't taxable. Food stamps (quest cards) are exempt from sales taxes and housing, medical and cash assistance isn't taxable as income. Zero welfare monies are ever clawed back. This is long overdue.
The folks that are hit the most by a Permanent Fund raid are the folks most reliant upon State of Alaska's generous public assistance programs. Don't you see? Raiding the Permanent Fund is the only way we can get financial help from the poor.
All other taxes fall on OUR shoulders. The working stiffs that read newspapers, vote every election and read my moronic drivel here in the peanut gallery of ADN's comments section.
It's okay to covet the rich, but in Alaska, sadly, I'm starting to covet the poor.


DW55:  I have been publicly criical of Mr. (now President) Trump based on, first, his character as evidenced over his entire life.  I don't think he's a paticularly nice man.....actually quite the contrary.  Based on every action I've seen, he, as I said, certainly seems to evidence sociopathic behavior.  You may agree or disagree....that your business.  You comment "when things go as planned"......I haven't the foggiest idea what this means, doubt that you do and, frankly, doubt that President Trump does either.  If he actually turns out to be a good President, or a decent President, or a "not so bad" President or anything short of an "absolute disaster as a" President, I will  certainly be among the first to acknowledge it.  Thanks and regards, Gary Crum


"there has been a significant increase in the use of altered” temporary visas originating from Shanghai and Addis Ababa. "

Trump will be most pleased at the upcoming NAFTA negotiations with Trudeau. More evidence to seriously question the integrity of Canadian Government documents. Just adding to the outrage is that other recent incident uncovered of Sunny Wang of Richmond BC enabling massive fraud through forgery, bribery and perjury which allowed 1200 offshore nationals to obtain Canadian citizenship.

Trump will be appropriately angered and add Canadian citizens to the list of those banned to enter US unless Canada acquiesces to all US demands for NAFTA reforms.


Instead of getting a check the kids should be taken from her.   And she should be spayed to end the cycle


The elephant in the room question:  would they have pulled this in Texas?  Yea or nay?


Let's see, even the left wing media say that Clapper lied to Congress about NSA surveillance:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/fire_dni_james_clapper_he_lied_to_congress_about_nsa_surveillance.html

Similarly, another left-wing rag said Brennan lied to Congress about spying on US Senate staffers:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/cia-director-john-brennan-lied-senate

And we're supposed to be impressed that these two liars got invited to the Aspen Security Forum?  They're a couple of old neocons, in the image of Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush.  Neither saw a war they didn't want to the US to get involved in and carried that neocon POV into the Obama administration, which basically carried over the foreign intervention policies of the W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.

Both of them have sweet, high-paying gigs at think tanks that promote war and military spending.  Why should we listen to these two corrupt warmongers?


The 88 faculty and administrators includes scholars; many of these scholars are theologians. Many (if not all) administrators on the list are scholars.


So, you  prefer to see more people drawing less money on EI or welfare than by working for $11.60 per hour (the current minimum)? If so, you shouldn't mind seeing your taxes and EI premiums go up.


Gerald Newton: What's with your sense of entitlement? You are a TAKER. You run by the motto, "hooray for me and screw you". You and your ilk have left gut piles and toxic tailings piles all over Alaska. Nobody cares about your claims of privilege - that you killed things here and here and here and that you've been in AK a long time. Nobody cares.

Some Alaskans - and even the much maligned Outsider -  see Wilderness as solace, as a privilege and a delight, and as a place that we should walk home from slowly and with reverence.


No other team lost their #2 QB to injury last week. Or Os may have gotten  call. Look at the available QBs -- Brandon Weeden?....they're always flawed.

And all 32 teams also passed on Sloter for their active roster. If it was such a slam dunk, and Denver is so unfair, why didn't anyone else think Sloter deserved a spot on their 53?


That's a lot of money and a long way to go  for pizza! I hope it was worth it.


Are you referring to Trudeau or Wynne?


My question is why isn't Canada trying this individual for treason? Under s46 of the Criminal Code, a person commits "high treason" who a) kills, attempts to kill, wounds, imprisons, or restrains the sovereign, b) wages war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto, or c) assists an enemy at war with Canada or any armed force against whom Canadian forces are engaged in. Instead we're paying him over 10.5 million dollars! There are many minors who commit capital offenses (ie. murder) that are deemed eligible to be tried in adult courts, Mr. Khadr in my opinion qualifies. The Canadian courts should allow Tabitha Speer, the widow of Sergeant Christopher Speer. Sgt. Speer to receive this money. Mr. Khadr should now be put on trial in Canada for treason.


Absolutely!  And false accusations.

Yes.  We've a long way to go in being civil.....


...and he didn't have the integrity to return his unearned prize.


I don't know why more citizens aren't angry about this whole rail fiasco. This last election was another referendum on the rail project and yet more people voted for Caldwell and the same cast of city council flunkies again.  My Honolulu peeps!!!!! What's the deal?????!!!!


What happened to NOT making a killing if you are an elected official. It was never intended to be a cushy job. It was supposed to be because of someone's love for their state and/or country that they would want to be a legislator. I didn't say work for free but it wasn't supposed to be a lifetime career for all these people. Everyone is allowed to run and serve but it was never intended to be the money pit it has become.
They need to take away all the other benefits they receive to make it a level playing field. Career corruption is what we want to avoid. Term limits should be the next step since now they feel entitled to all the fluff and benefits.
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" should be required viewing to remind our legislators they are there for US, not themselves.


THANKS DAD......no wonder someone like him gets his ass handed to him in a hat...im guessing the boys a junior .and the fathers a senior....."WILLIAM TELL....no thats not very funny,sorry i tried to make light,but flopped..NEXT.


You can read about all this, including the schools in Fuchs, "Hawaii Pono, a Social History of Hawaii." These schools were not nice, not intended to preserve pidgen, or even teach in it. They were a means of excluding plantation worker children from basic public education. Seperate and unequal.


How do you know, Pandora, that they are just "stories?' and without merit?  Isn't your denial also filled with "loads of agenda?"  Please excuse my turning your own style of questioning and disagreement on you personally, as I do believe you are unaware of the verified investigative reports - aside from personal exchanges with clerics in Rome - that confirm such stories, including of clerics of all levels visiting brothels of both men and women.  Interestingly, much was learned as a result of the Vatican rumors of a "gay lobby" that was significant in the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.  It was amazing how so many talked as a result of that event.  I wish that our friend with deep ties to and in Rome was around to once again give us the citations from the mainstream press there.  But I am sure you can find it with a bit of research.  A Blessed Christmas to you and yours!


Face it, America...whichever way you cut it, you've become little more than a Russia exarchate.


These business put their profit ahead of Canada national interests. NO!

The fighter jets is for the defense of Canada. We have far more than enough to do that even with current models. We have 'excess' jets solely for the purpose of NATO, which has morphed into a military of aggression serving the global empire interests of the U.S. This include the Super Hornet, as fighter of no value to Canada defense, solely to work with U.S. forces in its foreign adventures.

Bombardier did a most heavy lifting job of developing the successful C-Series. This product line is vital to Canada aerospace. NOT any offset from buying Super Hornet, which is entirely built in the U.S. In fact, buying it guarantees Canada will never be able to develop our own. Even Sweden has done better. Time for Canada to make our own fighter jet.

Buying new fighter jets from a company who sues Bombardier for doing a great job with a successful product line is unacceptable. Tell Boeing to take a hike.


Trumps aren't known for their intelligence.
Donald's father Fred, the son of German immigrants, marched with the KKK to stop immigration into the US and was apparently a member of America First, a right wing organization that preached exactly that.


Telling people what the President is having for dinner is not a leak, duh.


uppity"?  no she is a low-light, made from the same stock as those white supremacists who support trumpy.  she should support him because she acts exactly like him, no class.


They just like to scream.


No he probably doesn't see it as a problem as they were, by law, required to turn in resignations and he could accept or decline. There are way better true lifetime civil servants on down the ladder that will do a lot better job than these political appointees.


You two teenage boys are preparing themselves for future prosperity! Good for them!


"Then applying taxes would come after."

It needs to be done together, or it won`t get done at all. They have proved that over several sessions. Remember what they say about doing the "same thing over and expecting different results"?


A brutal commute (like that of Georgina) kills your family life, both with your kids and your spouse.  Real estate reform through transparency of listings, listing times, sale prices, actual commissions paid should have been on the Ontario agenda.  Simple things to improve the marketplace are not likely on the (incompetent Government) agenda.


Ooops....didn't see that you asked the same question!


I am very sympathetic to your experience Michael3.  I'm a woman.  So I'm going to share something that is similar and my experience.  I was living in Newport OR for a couple of years.  I took the Master Gardener classes at Hatfield and this was 2000=2002.  One of our projects was to go to an elementary school and help a class set up raised beds for their garden.

My partner, a male, and I gave a lecture and then moved on to the physical work w/the class c of 5th graders following.  OMG.  This one girl.........age wise she was a girl, stand up and walk in front of us to go out the door and my mouth hung open and my eyes followed her in disbelief.  When I looked away, her male teacher was pinning me down w/this look that even today I don't understand.  It was a nasty look and I was very grateful I wasn't a male.  She was as developed as a woman of mid 20's,, dressed liked a hooker and carried herself as a female who is, ah........experienced.  LOOKED like...don't know if she was.


ADN? What happened to the other 27 comments?


Can't you see his name is Juan Valdez?  Obviously, he picks coffee beans for a living.


Most increases to the minimum wage are done incrementally.


Dude, you need to update yourself on German Foreign policy. German military and Bundeswehr units have been involved in Syria and Iraq based in Turkish Air bases. Bundeswehr units are all over Africa and Afghanistan. Thanks for the usual condescending ignorant Canadian perspective on the world


If you really believe in Trumpy the Clown, then he's outsmarting you.  He's doing everything possible to ensure Hillory the Blood Countess moves into the Oval Office where she'll obediently, and eagerly, perform all the unpleasant, violent tasks Tel Aviv, Wall Street and the owners of the military-industrial complex want done, while he skips away and sinks all his leftover campaign money into his own companies and starts grooming the next ex-Mrs. Trump.

As the great Malcolm X (Rah'matullahi alayhi) said: "Ya been TOOK!  Ya been HOODWINKED!  Ya been HAD!"


"... sent the bag to NASA for authentication, and when tests revealed it was used by Armstrong and still had moon dust traces inside..."
~ ~ ~ ~
"Hey!!" Wow... isn't that interest... ahh, Ahh, AHH ... CHOO !!

"Gee Sorry.."

<.>/


Threatening divorce is pretty excessive.  My sister hated those month long, distance visits with his relatives so once the kids where old enough to not need so much attention, 6 or 7, she just quit going.  She used the time to do things for herself, relax and work around the house and he got time to spend with the kids and his mother.  Her husband was a bit snitty at first but then seemed he also enjoyed the time apart.  If forced, month long vacations are divorce material for him, then  maybe time to get away from this unreasonable bully?


I had a summer job once where the female manager tried to go down on me.....so I let her :)


You are correct that sexual assault is rarely black and white, especially when alcohol/drugs are involved. UA owes it to the victim to be thorough. Still, 15 months does seem a bit excessive for an internal investigation and UA owes it to the accused to render a decision in a timely manner.


That would be political violence by the left. Sorry nice try.


Exactly.
Which is why it is questionable that the Harper government brokered the deal in the first place.


In the end, it boils down to who is accountable for bad investment and strategy decisions .. the shareholders or the Executive Leaders (especially the CEO)


There he goes again. For years Junior has been lecturing how we need to be more like Europe, and now that Sander's wants to do just that Junior lectures on and on how Bernie is clueless and out of touch with basic economics, to now lecture yet again how we need to be more like Europe after just going on record time and again defending team Billary how this policy will bankrupt America. Amazing how many sheep graze on Junior's straw.


Americans got what they deserved.  Frankly who cares and given their proclivity to shoot each other they will all soon be extinct. I will miss little Donny's Tweets ....


Is there any more reason to believe McMaster than to believe the unnamed source?  Frankly, I'm skeptical of both, and no one dislikes Trump more than I do...except perhaps for his ex-wives!


Broken-hearted for the victims and their families. The entire CSU community is in my thoughts. :(


Only you are because you don't pay for your grandchildren's preschool.


"Lies, damn lies, and statistics."  Cherry picking from a far left website.  Please forgive me for looking elsewhere for legitimate information.


Photo went viral, and DP is known for putting a photo with approximately 99% of their stories, yet none with this one, without clicking through to the other site?


I agree, especially your last sentence.  He is consumed by the knowledge of his own guilt, and as yet we don't know for what (must be a doozy).  He seems set on disruption and destruction of progress.  So many questions. Where are the ideas coming from, and how far back will he try to go in segregating the military and country?  Will he stop before he gets back to 1920 and removes the right to vote from women? Does he mean to rewrite the Constitution?


The P.Q. is dying?  Let me grab a shovel.


So so surprised that this happened during a football game and that racial slurs accompanied the   brain damaging, violent, wildly expensive, all male sport that should not be paid for with our limited K-12 education dollars


Serious control issues run amok, eh?   'Seems like everywhere Raymond Burke goes a ruckus follows.


Exactly Daysofmiracle!

It's an outrage when they hurl that accusation at us who work so hard at establishing safe spaces, removing hate speech and empowering our Human Rights Commissions.

Those people have their nerve!


The tax in Seattle did precisely what the writers of it wanted it to do.   It pushed all the gun shops outside the city limits and raised essentially no revenue.


He's still conforming to the media election narrative because that narrative conforms to his beliefs, which are almost certainly "his" beliefs because it was the media election narrative.  When you live inside of an information bubble, all logic tends to be circular.

It doesn't matter that this media narrative was proven completely false by the evidence and the data, because they don't place a higher value on the truth or the evidence.  They place a higher value on their beliefs.  They WANT to believe that Donald Trump is a racist.  They WANT to believe that people who voted for him are racists.  They WANT to believe that racism is the best explanation.

Shortly after the election, I wrote a well-researched evidence-based article with many citations explaining in detail why Donald Trump won.  The numbers don't lie.  CB refused to publish because it utterly refutes the "racism" media narrative, but you can find a full explanation here:

https://liberty-intl.org/2016/11/why-trump-won/


Given the 35bp rise in rates since the election, and the expectation that rates will continue to rise as Trump stokes inflation, that would be a legitimate worry


Here in Illinois, committing that crime while employed would result if forfeiture of all pension.  Teachers, cops, firemen etc. all lose pensions.  the only ones to get away with that kind of crime on the job would be congressmen and CEOs who are protected by their fellow criminals from consequences we serfs must suffer.


Maybe yes, maybe no.  I really would like to know how you think that Energy East would make any difference in terms of getting a good price for our resources. The Kinder Morgan expansion makes a lot of sense, and so does the LNG line recently approved through northern BC.


WTH? And how do you think Goff got the job? He played the LAST 7 games of the season, of course he never looked back. Then they got a new coach, he got all of the reps, get your story straight. Rams didn't have a shot, Broncos did and Kubiak went back to his prized horse, no harm, no foul, but again, get your story straight.

Wow, he started, looked like crap toward the end of last year, looked like super crap this year. I straight told you teams had figured him out, and here we are. Again, how can I be embarrassed when this turned out exactly as I said it would? But, hey, I wasn't the one who said Siemian reminded me of Montana I've got no reason to be embarrassed cuz I've never said crazy crap like that.

You're all about one player, I'm not, that player is now done, just like I said he would be, now it's moving on time. My criticisms of Siemian were on target, that's just the way it is. Happens.


I did not post the comment. This explains why it is not on the site.
I changed my mind when (on looking back) I saw that your original comment (to 'Jon82') had been deleted by 'Civil Comments' who had decided that your comment "did not meet civility standards".
So I thought it best to exit the discussion, given that it made little sense to continue without your deleted comment. BTW, I did not flag your comment.
But to answer your latest point:- I nowhere said that I approved of the comment which had upset you. In your previous comment to me, you told me that I had "no excuse for apparently agreeing with the original comment". Well, I don't need an "excuse" for something that exists only in your imagination.
As so many things seem to do.


I have been waiting for him to do just that. I fully expect him to pick a woman as a running mate, just to try and appease the female voters of the country.


Why doesn't the Idiot Union simply pushes back even those already sheltered?


I almost ran over a bike rider at night because he wasn't using a light and there was no street light. It's a dark area. About two weeks later the same thing happened to my wife. If a motorist is going to be held to high standard, let's make sure the bicyclists are held to that standard. They need lights, turn signals, helmets, reflective high visibility clothing, no cell phone usage while riding. They should be required to have bicycle insurance, and life insurance. You take a risk every day you walk out your door to begin your day. No one plans on getting hit or wants to hit and harm another person. It happens and it happens in a split second. Everyone that reads this should understand and know from experience from driving or biking perspective. No felonies for accidents.


Bye bye dreamers. Self deport now and maybe some will be let back in legally.


The article was clearly written by an insurance company stooge. Only people who have ties to the parasitic insurance companies and pharmaceutical industry oppose single-payer.


She's absolutley correct under trump, and he's on his way out.


I could not care less about pro sports, and the silly use of the national anthem(s) at the start of a game....but a draft dodger who doesn't pay income taxes, should keep his mouth shut about patriotism and ways to display it, or not...isn't it time for another golf week?


Again, where is the proof? They said they have a strong conscientious?  Thats it? And these are the people who if it did happen, failed at their job and allowed it to happen.


Trouble is they elected an authoritarian bully who prefers similar bullies in Russia, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines to the leaders of other democracies. And tweeting lies to rational discussion. Democratic elections don't ensure that the voters will elect democratic champions or even sane people, as each day is making increasingly clear.


An 'Invasion'? How derogatory! I am appalled that Globe and Mail would let this title be printed.
 Is it because they are mostly white? Or...French?
Would the Globe and Mail ever refer to another immigrant group such as  the Syrian or the Vietnamese  as  an 'invasion'?


The tax parked off-shore basically belongs to a dozen companies all of whom already spend heavily on investment.

A lot will probably go to buy-backs and dividends as they did with previous amnesties - yes, it's been tried before and we know what happens.  Don't get me wrong; I love dividends, buy-backs not so much.

US Corporations are awash in cash domestically, so it isn't the absence of capital that is holding back investment.

A large chunk will stay abroad to fund international operations.

Since the US is the only country in the world that taxes overseas earnings, there is nothing to tell JT (at least on this particular file).


All in good time.

They are in talks to purchase a Conoco building right now...

Alaska in Talks to Purchase ConocoPhillips’ Nikiski Kenai LNG Facility
https://www.oilandgas360.com/alaska-talks-purchase-conocophillips-nikiski-kenai-lng-facility/

This is the same mothballed plant that Micchiche makes $500,000 per year to 'manage'.


And taxpayers pay the fine for incompetent government workers AGAIN.  What is the point of fining an organization that gets all of it's money from taxpayers?  The managers keep their jobs, don't pay a fine, don't have anything detrimental happen to them, and taxpayers get screwed.

The system needs to be revamped so that the people responsible are fired, personally fined, and ineligible for any government job in the future.  Too bad our government is full of chickens who would never stand up to a government organization for fear of losing the votes they've spend so much time buying.


Fake war on fake news?

Sarah has everyone beat with her "Flake News".

Agent Sarah is part of my team for busting Canada's mainstream media (the propaganda arm of our crooked political class).

And then there's Agent Ibbitson, PSYOP-Eds. So repetitive and soporifically boring that subscribers start saying: "I read this yesterday, the day before, and the day before that. I'm not going to pay for this garbage anymore." Each little pirhanha bite into MSM cash flows helps.


We, the vaccine risk aware, know that we have science on our side.  The current vaccine schedule is complete insanity and has damaged a generation of children.  Before you say we are "antiscience" please read the science first.  James Lyons-Weiler has written a book analyzing over 1,000 studies done regarding causes of autism.  Vaccines are a significant concern.  https://jameslyonsweiler.com/latest-book-environmental-and-genetic-causes-of-autism-skyhorse/


There is an endless supply of foreign buyers who have mortgaged their factories/companies to buy property in Toronto and Vancouver.  How these people filter their money and move it here is the big secret.  Normally I would say we are in a real estate bubble but not with this kind on infiltration that will continue forever .  In Switzerland they cap the number of foreign owners .  A 15% tax is not going to make a dent in holding prices down.


Taking this a step further, in a global and perhaps someday universal economy, why do we have time zones? Now is now, regardless of which direction the planet Earth is facing.


This is a scurrilous attack and merely looks bad on the Democrats.

Sessions was asked about Russian contacts with the Trump campaign.  He answered that, not something else.

Of course prominent senators encounter ambassadors.

Why can't the Democrats focus on important matters instead of blackening their own name with this sort of scut?


Agreed.  The Census issue was self inflicted.  The Khadr case (which dated back to previous administrations) needed to be dealt with.  You may not like the final outcome, but the gov't made a decision.  That's their job.


In the long run, that photo did absolutely nothing to the IRS. It's still here.


Agreed.  Even with all of those safeguards and precautions, the sheer volume of traffic from Lake Hood and Spenard Lake, and the airstrip out there happens with amazingly trouble-free results. Thanks to good training and certification, scrupulous maintenance and repair, and responsible operating procedures on the part of our local private pilots, we have little to be concerned about.  If the vehicles and drivers you see around town were typical of what you find with aviation I would be afraid...very afraid.


Not they are meeting Gordhan behind doors. Probably a deal with him will save their license. Shameful.


So you used bear spray, the bear fled and you survived and it was not enough.


Potter should have known that in Canadian political culture only people from certain provinces and ethnic backgrounds constitute pre-approved targets for public trash talking.
Any member of Canada's media class would have gladly given him the list beforehand.


To get rich requires capitalism.
To get really rich requires socialism.
To get filthy stinking rich requires communism.


Not refugees. Illegal immigrants. Let's get it right.


What else should we expect from Nanakuli.


"... apparently taking money from an ATM machine that accidentally was left unlocked." What does the M in ATM stand for? And what evidence is there that this was "accidentally"?

Further, it looks like the perp left the door ajar. Nobody notices until the next day?


Of course not. I am a gentle person and I have no idea who you are. I'm just doing some data collection to support my research on determining the relationship between loonies and capsicum exposure.


After 8 years, you and Obama were still blaming and suffering from Bush.  After only 60 days Trump has taken charge.  See the difference?


His actions have nothing to do with suicide rates in Western Alaska.  That is a myth perpetrated by unknowing alarmists.