I like the comment about how the voters opted to not provide unneeded special rights to another so called minority group in 2012, but our elected leaders chose again to disregard the voters.

Before an attempt is made to repeal, we should impeach the members that seem to forget they're elected by the people....for ALL of the people.  Not just their twisted, personal agendas.


Is your sister Anita?


Their is no money in LNG right now when it comes to exports. Didn't you read that currently, it costs more to take it out of the ground than they can sell it for?  That's why the pipeline did not move forward at this time.


Haha, Mr Albertson. More of us actually live here than the few who work on the slope from out of state. Who cares about those few when those of us who live here year round and pay 2-3 times as much in cog's. It's none of your business where I work. But there are jobs put there for those who live off the rest of us. Yes, I'm willing to give up the dividend or have a flat sales tax. Then everyone who lives here has skin in the game. We aren't talking about Federal taxes, we are talking about this State and punishes those who made the effort to support their families, sometimes working a day job and going to night school to better ourselves or working a couple low wage jobs to make ends meet. No to an unfair state income tax.


D, I'm voting for Gary Johnson because he is the best candidate and will do the best job as president.  I am voting as a Libertarian because the Libertarian Party has a sound political philosophy and principles for governing.  I will not vote democratic or republican because those two parties' leadership or lack of, is why our country is in the shape it is.

If you like the direction the ship of state is heading, then vote for the status quo.  And, if Hillary or Donald wins, the Libertarian Party will be there four years from now, trying to right the ship again.


I am reminded at a time like this of that song which Rodriguez wrote about a ------- in silk is a -------- no less ! I suspect that this metaphor can be aptly applied to our dear out of his depth captured pet lackey of No. 1 ?


It's sad that because you belong to the group that supposedly Trump supporters accused of damaging this country you find a need to attack.  So let's look at your group.  University liberals.  Let's look at Universities.  Supposed to be a place of discussion and exchange of ideas and critical thinking now has become a joke.  No free speech. If students disagree with your ideas there is no discussion, there  is only violence, protest, property damage and the banning of people not agreed with.  There is the want of safe space so contrary views are not heard.  There is the shouts of being offended by the statement of different ideas.  Who created this?  Not the "working people" but university liberals. Are you proud of this? You site other groups, but many more of these groups supported Trump than previously supported Rep. Candidates.  Why? Because people see that following the path of democrat party lead to bankrupt states like Illinois or California.  Or worse lead to Venezuela.


Since these costs have already been factored into prices, you might as well collect the points/rewards or end up subsidizing those who do.  Why wouldn't you want something back since you are already spending the money?


Reality check.

The old 'walk a mile in their shoes' paradigm.  I've been lucky and haven't had to do the 'walk' but am old enough to have heard the 'talk' about the reality versus the actuality.

If you listen to 'real people' instead of relying on what you think you 'know' any 'help' you provide might actually help instead of just assuaging your conscience.


P.J. Hill - Fair to whom? To the people who will have no skin in the game, but who even now consume most of the budget?

If people actually stood to lose something, they might be willing to continue to scale back the budget, which is still 20% higher than it was when Sarah Palin left office ... still 15% higher than can be accounted by inflation. But as long as it doesn't cost them anything, they will continue to whine that their favorite programs should not be cut. That's because their favoirte program doesn't cost them anything.

I oppose all tax increases. We the people pay enough already to live here. But if we're going to have an individual tax, it should be something that all of us pay equally. That's fair and it gives all of us skin in the game and an incentive to continue to reduce the budget to a sustainable level ... because whether you realize it or not, an income tax damages the economy of the state at the benefit of the government of the State, so is not sustainable.


Classic bootstrapping, using related but unverified accusations to bolster each other. X must be true because A said Y about B, and then C said X about B, after which A repeated C's statement about B, and C repeated A's statement about B. Why would they do that if it weren't true? This is what is meant by creating a myth out of whole cloth.

The key, as with any shell game, is razzle dazzle. We reported on the unverified accusations because Comey presented them to Trump, but Comey wouldn't have done that unless there was something to them, and look everyone else is reporting on it. Would everyone be doing that if there weren't something to it?

Logicians call this "petitio principii" (begging the question, circular argument), but in the end it's just a lot of "oooh look, something shiny!" for the chattering classes to chatter about.


Mining gets you bitcoin for free, minus your server and system operating costs.


We heard what you said .....but did know what we heard ...carbon taxes will be used to buy  votes  next election


50% might pay income taxes.  But I would bet only 25-30% pay a significant amount of income taxes.  So yes, 7 Alaskans get a free ride on the backs of 3 Alaskans.  With sales tax, all 10 of these Alaskans have skin in the game, which is a good thing.  And likely, the 3 that make the highest income will pay more sales tax because they have more to spend.  The other thing about sales tax is that tourists will pay, which would be good for Alaska.


Funny thing. I sent my wife to the TD bank with a rather clear objective to invest her money in e-series funds which are very low-fee,  and the advisor tried to convince her to invest in a portfolio of funds where the fees were 7 times higher. Funny thing, their advice always seems to benefit themselves, eh? That advisor had an award on her desk, too.

Another true story. A presumably certified mutual fund salesman at a major bank was trying to convince me that the MER only applied in the first year and never again. I tried to set him straight but he was adamant that he was right and I was wrong.

So yes  if advisors actually provided good advice it might benefit their clients. If not, as in most of my experience, people are better off without them.


But you will vote for Clinton or Trump because one of them is MORE libertarian than Johnson?  If you refuse to vote until a candidate meets your standards as the "perfect libertarian candidate," you may be waiting an awfully long time!


Why is it politicians have no problem asking the people to reach into their pocketbooks to pay for new taxes, but equivocate on asking the same of big business?


They and especially TOKUDA have shown all of the above, PLUS common sense!  She will be the next Gov if we are lucky.


I view the attempt to force us into the ditch as some giagantic game of chicken - with 'King Louie' there all set no matter what comes out ...
he ought to be aware that there are many 'real live families' on both sides of the line which may find themselves in danger of collapse as this blowhard (having neither ability nor kind manner) continues to strut about the stage  /
apparently, that dear dear man is not


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Believe 10% of what you see and 0% of what you hear and read.
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We live in a fake news world.


Well I stand corrected ... the wacko lying leftist media is STILL hoping to find a crime to pin on Trump.

How about that, huh?


Wow, Connie.....you got no clue do you? You are comparing stats when you should be coming in from a moral stand point. We are not talking stats here, Connie. We are talking about the moral symbolism of the Confederate flag and the Nazi Swastika. Both come to represent the same metaphoric evil of racism, slavery and oppression. Its not the matter of statistical differences between the two but similarity of the evil that both got in common. Sad to say but what is really the symbol of Jim Crow? The Confederate flag! Who let this happened? The white people and not only of the south but also the north. Indiana at one time, had one of the largest KKK organizations in the United States during the height of Jim Crow during the 20th century. But your ignorance is not your fault, Connie. You just lack knowledge. You don't understand the symbolic interaction of the Confederate flag in our present time period. Your last commentary clearly shows that much.


The chief can count on an extra million dollars from Ottawa for each suicide.


krook is the biggest spender of them all


Reread my comment. Jesus said that a woman divorced from her husband who remarried commits adultery.


How did the Jews prevail over 90% of the American people? And wouldn't that include a sizeable number of devout Christians?
And one more thing: Don't apocalyptic Christians embrace the roles Jews will play in the end-of-times scenario, initiating a war between good and evil that will culminate in the ascension of all righteous Christians?


I somehow doubt it will ever be applied to individuals in China or Saudi Arabia.


The question of liability was determined by the Supreme Court of Canada ruling years ago; now it is just a case of the government paying for damages done.  This was an important ruling to protect Canadians from abuse by their government - which is what Chretien and Harper did through the positions and actions they took when Omar Khadr was in Guantanamo.  This is not about rewarding Omar Khadr, but compensating him for harms done by the government.

As for Khadr's "conviction"; it is obvious to anyone who is not ideologically stupefied that Khadr's plea was the only way for him to get out of Gitmo.  It had nothing at all to do with his guilt or innocence.  And while I feel sorry for Christopher Speer's widow, her claim has nothing to do with this case, and will no doubt be summarily dismissed by a Canadian court.


Ridiculous to call them deaths. They are addicts being murdered by drug dealers. Time to get police out of their cars and back walking their beats. The jails in BC should be full of drug dealers.


Brooks, not Broder.

Feeling old today . . .


You were right!


These globalist #fakenews artists would coming on themselves if it were Hitlery and her dwarf daughter.


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Thank you Sr for this reflection.
It is interesting how it is always assumed that the person taking offence is in the right and the offender is in the wrong. Experience indicates that the offended always feels they are in the right, and the offender does not always know s/he has offended. We overlook the small word 'listened' - we all need to feel that we have been listened to, been 'heard'. To me this passage is a call to reflect on our own reactions and to listen to one another; if that doesn't work - then a couple of wise impartial people from the communion can help us to 'hear' one another - without judging who is right and who is wrong (it is after all the Holy Spirit who convicts, people tend to accuse); and the church community as a whole - if it comes to that - needs to exercise this same 'listening to'. Continued


Ya great : but what is there to do in Naramata?

I might mention that a golden cage is still a cage. What is important is what is inside a home.


are you kidding me? :(
playing the Race game?


Good thoughts Myranda. Thank you for joining the conversation.


I never said anything of the sort.  Don't confuse unity with uniformity.


How does the FBI do a complete investigation without investigating the DNC server?  They are relying on a "third party company" to perform that investigation.  Who owns that third party company and where is their loyalty.  Experts have said the FBI does its own forensic investigations.  Why not in this case?  That is the question which needs to be answered.


They take free speech from us,
turnabout is fair play.


Nicely done story.


If they are a male between 18 and 45 then they are most certainly defined as being part of a militia.  Of course you are just trolling not looking for facts.


What really is there for republicans to stand by the president on?  The president has been too busy it seems on turning over his staff.  I do not remember a president with so much turnover.  I wonder how many positions the Donald has to still fill?  Seems like he has barely filled the top positions and there are many positions below them.


Nice piece that brings back a lot of memories. I too recall being exposed to the love poetry of Leonard Cohen (and Irving Layton) as a senior high school student in the mid sixties in Ontario, as well as the less than romantic TS Eliot's "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock", and finding it all a liberating revelation.  However, the raciest stuff by far in high school was in Latin class., in particular Catullus.  I don't know whether Latin teachers thought that poetry in a dead language couldn't titillate teenagers, or whether they thought the way to increase interest in Latin was to have teenagers read tillitating stuff  by pagan poets, but, in any case, Catullus was a cut above anything we read in English class.


"Our" mentally shortchanged "representatives" never saw a tax increase they didn't at least want to "study" the h3LL out of and consider dumping upon us...


"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Just changed to:  "I'll march around like a Nazi and scream for you to be deported!"  "What part of illegal do you not get!"


That is not what the Church teaches, please do your homework.


Not the way I interpret it. But if you 3 or more people were living conjugally (i.e. sharing the same bed, viewed as being spouses) at the same time.


Please, explain what is inappropriate about it.


So, another big article on marijuana in Alaska. As was mentioned previously, the first legal pot was sold in Fairbanks but I guess the ADN has too much invested in this false story about the second store to open. They've got the pictures, the video and the story, so I guess they decided , ah so what.

I have seen several articles like this in the ADN. False information spread as the truth and yet when I ask ADN for the real facts I get no reply.

Nevertheless, a good day for Alaska but geez, look at those prices!


No one is dodging the proper tax rate. Doctors were paying the rate specified in the tax code, just as you do.  There is very little savings a group of doctors can find in a partnership that they can't also find without a partnership, and a bit more accounting work. Doctor can easily share office space, office staff, equipment, etc., while still having separate corporations, this is the most commons scenario.
As I said , expect to see many partnerships dissolved, as doctors find other ways to work in groups, while maintaining the small business deduction. Many partnerships are already working on this.


Isn't it great ?   I'm living the dream.  What makes it even sweeter is all my fans  , to whom it drives them crazy.   They never care that I worked many , many years to get what I earned , as opposed to the villages who want something for nothing.  If there are no jobs in your small town , unless your native , you move to a location that has jobs. Their ancestors moved when conditions changed---why not today's villagers ? These villages will stay where they are forever as long as everything is handed to them.  They need a hand up ( help moving to better locations ) than hand outs . It's past time to end the hand outs.


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We'll disagree about whether teaching about human sexuality is central to the Gospel; but I readily acknowledge that human sexuality is central to each person's self-awareness, and of her or his relationships with God and with other people. Birth control, pre-marital sex, homosexuality, masturbation: few people get out of this life without wrestling with one or more of these.
The combox is not a place to do the history; but while Christian dissent about the sexual teachings of the church burst into public view at the 1930 Lambeth Conference, the theological, biblical, historical and sociological work that preceded it had been going on for at least a century. That may still seem "recent" in a church that is 2000 years old; but 2000 years from now it won't seem so recent and people will wonder why it took so long.
The church has a rich treasury of research and experience from which to draw as it reflects on human sexuality; but it is boxed in by the false idea that it can't change.


hey!


The fallout from this non-event  makes it somewhat unclear who we should be tagging as the 'victim'.


There is a huge difference between a library in a church and a public library.


Whatever you say, dogs.  But I would point out that the rubbish you constantly parrot is always aimed at Democrats and liberals, and never at Republicans.  You show absolutely no political balance whatsoever, and your "information" sources are all bottom-feeding right-wing propaganda outlets, specifically aimed at the bigoted, the weak-minded, and the most ignorant of our voting citizens.

By the way, "PC" is a dog whistle used ONLY by the political right wing, who invented it.  There you go again, letting your brain be hijacked by propagandists, who blame Democrats for what Republicans well know to be their own evil intentions.

Have a nice day.  Do you still post from your Forest Service desk?  That's theft of public property.


Could This new law really be bad? We know the Golden rule through Christianity love your neighbor as yourself. Islam teaches that you. are to kill those who don't submit to allah but. Not all Muslims  follow that teaching. Go to a Muslim nation and Don t submit and see if I M okay your okay works there. The Christians believe in marriage as between a man and woman which in nature only reproduce. So hasn't the culture turned it's back on what is normal? Shouldn't people who have belief in God be able to live out their beliefs or should our new view of life be forced upon them as they do in other countries? They also believe waiting for marriage to have sex is good since 98.3 percent of abortions are done by choice. I really cant see wrong with these views maybe our new culture has it wrong and they got it right.. Yes I used to believe like the culture and l iived a selfish life but now that I see the truth I became a Christian .... In. Love of all.   Scott


You do realize that criminals are civilians too, right?


I loved it when Jon Stewart used to roast them nightly.  They called him fake news, so he challenged them to point out all of his lies and errors and then ran a list of thousands of lies and errors put forth by the kings of fake news at Fox.  The liars at Fox couldn't come up with one against Jon.  They're not called Faux News and BS Mountain for nothing.


Women can't defend themselves ? Wrong statement where you coming from , this is 2017 this is not 1970 . Women today can kick you in the a__ so fast you would think Wonder Women was present they don't need a weapon they have hands and feet that can tear a person apart , I seen that happen in a bar and a park at night . when the police arrived and saw what happen they just laughing and shaking their head and told that person wrong person at the wrong time , the person who try to sexual assault the victim was arrested . So women learn some self defense and teach those weirdos a good lesson . Don't brag about that you know some sort of moves will break bones or disable the weirdo , that is called RESPECT !


@Alistair McLaughlin: "Mine mean nothing to today's kids. I get that."

For me, while I'm no kid (tail end of Gen X), those stories can mean a lot. I've heard them from my folks, in-laws, and friends. They are very instructive for today, even if it's just for the anecdotes on how to survive and forge ahead (they can give hope, as do stories from my grandparents about being kids during the Depression).

The challenge for me is that I also sometimes encounter "I had it tough too, suck it up." as an excuse to not even start discussing systemic problems that need to be addressed. I think I mentioned this elsewhere: my household is in great shape. I come at this issue worrying about the sustainability of my hometown (Vancouver), which is seeing a growing net loss of young people (with all its attendant problems) and a growing hit on livability (ghost neighborhoods, etc.). This region is being gutted in a way it never saw, even in the early 1980s. Sounds like the GTA is on the same path.


Getting an MBA is an excellent way to attract recruiter attention. All things being equal, an MBA candidate will get preference. However, beyond education, today's employers are looking for the right attitude and the right fit for their team. I am not an MBA grad, yet, I have managed several. So, MBA by itself is not a guarantee of higher success, but it's a good foundation for getting noticed and starting your career.


Unfortunately many students living in the inner cities don't have much choice BUT to attend a weak public school systems.  I have seen too many of them in cities across America.  In the same way, parish schools can't compete, if they are the only Catholic school in the area.  Parishioners have to support the weak public system and then pay extra to send their children [if they are able to do so].  Good education is a RIGHT not a PRIVELEGE.


The CPC pool became very shallow and wide after the Reform/PC merge.  Too many people getting involved as 'grass roots' and social candidates.


Mr Trudeau puts his lofty ideals ahead of our jobs.  He and his are set for life, what does he care about jobs?  Canadians voted for this, we turfed a guy who was all about jobs for Canadian families.  (P.S. "climate change" is not the same as "human-caused climate change" - we all know the planet's climate has changed constantly and dramatically over the ages.)


The AFN bent over backwards supporting Trudeau in the last election.  Perhaps the members of the AFN should take drama lessons.  There's no better way to spot a poser than to learn their techniques.


Agriculture was cut by 55%

I read a stat somewhere that Boland area annual evaporation rate is 250mm, presumably nearly all of it over summer.   So about 250 million liters per square km of dam areas per year.   Not sure how many square km dams we have


Why he was ever there in the first place is a mystery, but then again, who would have ever thought trump would be president. It's like a satire movie. Good riddance. Now, trump, please go right behind him.


All Deb said was about the news. No example of what Trump said that was racist. I see you can't give an example either. Nothing like the imagination of a liberal then continue to lie to justify it. Did you hear GH County voted for Trump? Hahaha get back to me when you have an answer for me. Only the facts mam.


You keep going on about foreign owned companies like some shrill ideologue but completely ignore all the foreign owned companies mining BC or setting up shop in Vancouver. You have no evidence to backup any of your claims.


That is a point we will have to examine going forward. Our common law of the People is the ONLY law upon which this country was founded. Your agency has sought to subverted that 24/7/365 and take it from the People. See Bar Treaty of 1947.

Here's what you believe....

Marc Koplik: They don’t send the lawyers to jail, because we run the country.
Ralph Kayser [Global Witness impersonator of a consultant for an African Minister wanting to launder money]: Do you run the country?
Marc Koplik: Still do.
Ralph Kayser: I love it.
Marc Koplik: Still do.
Albert Grant: I should say, some lawyers run the country.
Ralph Kayser: So, you are, you are some of them? Two of them?
Marc Koplik: We’re still members of a privileged, privilege class in this country.
Ralph Kayser: So, how, what does it mean you run the country? It means you?
Marc Koplik: We make the laws, and when we do so, we make them in a way that is advantageous to the lawyers.

We've had enough. We'll be coming for you all.


Well, Terrence, your response is the intellectual equivalent of a monkey throwing his own poo.  Maybe that works at your UAF- which is not Harvard, or Stanford, or any of the top flight schools.  I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself.  Go ahead and defend the unconstitutional SB-21 which allows billions in oil revenue to be lost per year- far more than we'd raise from an income tax (maybe $200 million).

Alaska is giving away its oil, tax- free.  Here is what Rep. Gara explained recently:

"According to the Department of Revenue, the oil tax law adopted in 2013 is predicted to bring Alaskans exactly zero dollars in oil production taxes from every field that's gone into production after 2002, and any future fields until 2026."

Some other points of concern:

Reducing dividends is highly recessionary, and highly regressive- and hurts the poor, rural Alaska, and the elderly the most.  Why would you favor that as an alternative to getting a fair return from our oil as a first step?


So they can dodge gavel to gavel Dicko?  No.  They can go back to the official seat of the state Government where we can tape them and see them real time..


Maureen is easily influenced by movies.


Don't_you_dare_speak_of_Lincoln_from_a_reactionary_POV


I am sure that the people at the Christmas party in San Bernardino or the people at that nightclub in Orlando felt the exact same way.  However, if some had been prepared with the tools necessary to shoot back, we would probably never heard of these places.


IRT MillionMonkeys, returned from Vietnam in 1969 through Japan and Hickam.  We unloaded and boarded busses to Schofield with all the windows of the bus blacked out.  Why, the military wanted us secured from the liberal anti-war demonstrators at the gates of Hickam and Schofield.  The liberal anti-war Americans hated us American combat veterans from Vietnam.  For me, witnessing the reaction of the Congress touched me deeply.  Maybe American has learned?  I pray you and they have.  Imua.


I agree that we could have recovered faster with more pro- business policies. But my point was that he went into office during an existing downturn and (after June 2009) we did not go into recession again for the remainder of his presidency.

I'm don't agree with his economic policies, but stating that we've been in a recession for the last 8 years is just not true.


Uh, Wyatt?  They only exercise that constitutional right when they've been told to do so by a lawyer, for fear of INCRIMINATING THEMSELVES.  Believe me- we all like the Constitution- they especially LOVE it, right now.

Every American who died in Benghazi will always be on Hillary Clinton- you can call it whatever you want.


Nobody wants your koolaide.  The evidence is in on that as well.  One in twelve Canadians bought an F series truck last year.  Ontario's green energy fiasco is dying because nobody outside of the gubbermint cheerleaders believes in it.  If a warmer world is coming then we had better embrace it as our future.


The Koch brothers absolutely LOVE him!


it was the NDP's David Eby who said "Good schools, hospitals ... and services'.  Well done Mr Eby, for confirming that a prosperous economy managed by a free enterprise gov't  is the means to all those good things.  The damage that will be done by a wealth destroying NDP gov't will reduce the quality of life for all of us in BC.   Mr. Eby should be a Liberal candidate

As for medical wait times, none of our family, and none of our neighbours, friends have any complaints, in fact quite the opposite.  From major treatment to medical imaging we all give the current system good marks.  As for private school funding, bring it on.   Anything to reduce the monolithic teacher-union controlled monopoly we have now.   You'd be horrified to see where the high-paid, unionized skilled trades are sending their kids these days ... yup, private schools. That, in my view is excellent.


You just can't enjoy the sport until you feel the joy of a broken nose  or a black eye or waking up with a concussion and the good feeling that the guy pounded on your face for a while after you passed out. Makes one proud when he qualifies for a Handicapped Plate.


It is doctrine. It is binding and unchangeable.


Appeal rejected. Sanity wins.


I can't stop thinking about money and old man with money. Lol


Hello Mark Shore,

You might want to re-read my post, clearly you did not understand it when you read it the first time.

I commented on the CROWDS in that street who were white, as was abundantly evident in the photos and video clips released at the same time as the article.

The question that I posed was about the article's reporting on the CROWDS in that street, where I clearly asked: "Given that this is a racially charged scenario, why is the newspaper not mentioning that the car plowed into a street lined with crowds that appear to be, um, white people?".

Why are you focusing on the driver? I never questioned the reporting on the driver, I questioned the reporting on the CROWDS in the photos and video.


The comments tonight : fantastic!


It's so blatantly obvious.


Dear Donald, you are an imbecile.  I absolutely guarantee that he will NOT follow through with this plan.  I give him two weeks tops before he flip-flops yet again.  I have never seen such incompetence in my entire life and I'm including Rob Ford.


Nice to see an article spelling out the future of the tar sands.  Too bad its going to end very very badly for alot of people and companies out there.  The big question is when......certainly within the next 20 to 30 years I suspect.

Watch carefully the first company with healthy earning and cash flow with still plenty of  goo in the ground exit for good this wasted landscape.  You know the party is over and they are prowling more fertile grounds,

Also what is interesting is the possibliliy of overextending the pipelines across this country  One day there will be plentiful of jobs availabe in decommissioning these.....perhaps turn them into some form of cross country transportation system.

Elon Musk...are you listening????


Khadr wasn't an Afghan, nor was he fighting for his government.
Huge difference...


Holy F*** you're deranged. You're the guy that sits in front of planned parenthood all day to "protect the babies", yet want to shamelessly go to war.  Wow.  Typical fox news christian.


I'd rather have resources spent ridding our United States of home grown , executive office encouraged white supremacist terrorists


These types of initiatives are necessary precisely because in large parts of the world, particularly in areas where foreign aid is directed, women are not equal.


Mike, Francis' opponents  BELIEVE that Pope Francis is committed to human life. But they are not happy that he isn't as "possessed" with the 'below the belt' issues that they are.  Francis' two predecessors were 'over-kill' on these issues---made them almost identical with a profession of faith.  Francis is not on that band-wagon!  Therefore, they do oppose the rest of his programs.


I tried watching what I thought was going to be a documentary on this  missing persons case but changed the channel when I realized that his father was exploiting his son for short term TV fame for himself,  shameful  :  (


Hard to read much when you're pulling 56's. Will read 2 fingers and a line at a time, but still won't be voting for either one.

The magic 8 ball has been finally set aside. ..coffcoff<


The problem is, who knows when/if rates will rise?  Perhaps 0.25 - 0.50 in the first six months of 2018?  Really?  Nice crystal ball BoC.  I don't think the economy is as rosy as they think it is.  Wage growth and standard of living for many is stagnant at best.  One of the big concerns though is HELOCs.  While most car loans and mortgages are likely "locked-in" to a low interest rate, many HELOCs are $100,000+ and are based on Prime + ?.  If that starts rising then some over-extended borrowers might start to feel the pinch.


I totally agree that both state and county should do more for less.  I've seen plenty of waste that can be cut in order to make that happen.

Tokuda looked at a budget projection from last year (the most recent that was available to her).  I think she had some valid points and good questions but didn't receive good answers.  Not once did the mayor or deputy director say "we've already looked at that" or anything similar as far as I recall.

The city keeps increasing its budget in line with revenues.  If the rail tax were more visible, I think more pressure would be put on politicians to really watch rail costs.  We don't have that now.


You must be part of media, you seem to have inside information or just guessing... like the media.


Good start.


Swaggart repented and there is hope for you if you turn to Jesus  for his mercy as well. This guy shows no repentance nor understanding of the issue.


How do you know that to be fact?


And I would agree with you!  There is always common ground, sometimes we just need to work harder to find it. :)


If it raises me above sorority and fraternity sorts to not try to earn acceptance by association, rather than by my character, then--yes--I and others like me who disdain these social clubs are "superior".  Character is everything.  I wouldn't give a frig for a joiner.


Somehow, Trumpcare is going to wind up being Obama's fault.


There is too much Trump bashing by the media since he won the elections, its downright ridiculous.  CNN had a 2 minute news item about Donald Trump getting 2 scoops of ice cream.  What is seriously wrong with media today is its profound  willingness to interfere with election results.  FBI  person  Clapper  stated in march there is no evidence, haven't seen any evidence regarding TRUMP and RUS. and today  he thinks well, maybe there is but he ain't sure?    Its all fake news but then so is the sky fairy and people still believe.


As I said before, any sinner can be Catholic.  But not every sinner can receive the Holy Eucharist.  Perhaps what Chaput means is that those in mortal sin should not defame the Eucharist by receiving it without repentance.  Jesus decides what sin is, not popular culture.


Good for those that were carrying as their own first responders. Many in the media have reported that the reason it took police 5 hours to identify the shooter was because of all the licensed holder in the store who pulled their guns. According to a police officer, on another page, they knew which person was the shooter in 10 minutes. The rest of the time was trying to identify him. Feel free to laugh at the media.


I "like" your comments, too. ... Just a way to recognize a solid post without commenting directly on it. If it adds to the conversation, even if I don't agree with it, I'll like it. Seems like a courteous thing to do.


Wynne and Trudeau are two peas in a pod.  The live in echo chambers.
Wynne isn't listening about how the too fast minimum wage increase will negatively affect business and the people she is supposedly wanting to help and Trudeau isn't listening to the business groups opposing his proposal to negative changes in business taxes.  Why the assault on business and their owners by Liberals?
What do they have against the people who employee the same people they say they want to help?


"Donald Trump told Americans that Washington and Wall Street were rigged and the business and political elites were responsible. It was punishment time."

Donald Trump will, of course, punish Wall Street by deregulating them and giving them stupendously huge tax cuts.


If 10% is enough for GOD, it is enough for everybody else. Just get rid of tax schemes of corporations, churches, non-profits, close banks to ignorant allies who feed at the billion dollar trough on us, are useless to us and hate our guts and special interest groups who wants tax dollar grants, hollywood fame and awards feeding nobody but their Mercedes and vacations so they be more important at taxpayers expense.


What part of the world are you living in?

There were a bunch of little green men influencing the "vote" in Crimea.


Sorry, but I am having a hard time connecting the concept of "people are unhappy with government policies related to immigration" and the concept of "people are picking up crowbars and beating in the skulls of random immigrants on the street".

Would you care to elaborate the connection you claim exists there? Your post seems to be giving a tacit nod to the violence of bullies.

Sorry, but plenty of Westerners have been unhappy with government policies related to rates of tax collection, but somehow we do not see mobs of bullies beating in the skulls of tax revenue workers on our streets.

And so I think there is a difference between mere opposition to a government policy and what has happened on a street in Britain, the latter being far, far darker than you seem to pretend.

You nonchalantly invoke a thug state with mob rule, and a good clue you are off base is when Andrew from Toronto, Guantanamo and Doctor Demento are all lined up together on the same team against your statement...


There's a trendy way among trendy people - many here - who have a light understanding of just about everything....it goes like this:

u is v and
v is w and
w is x and
x is y and
y is z.


Let's look at you comment that it takes courage to deal with whining with a quote from Aug 11, 2015 - Trump: 'I am a whiner, and I keep whining and whining until I win" So are you applauding the progressive whining?


"Mr. Pugash said you cannot compare the approach of Toronto police with their Vancouver counterparts because citizens in the two cities have very different attitudes toward the popular drug."

I don't believe this.  Any evidence or is this just the opinion of Mr. Pugash?  Does he actually live in Toronto or does he commute here like most Toronto police?


Btw, I don't watch Fox News.  I watch Morning Joe, MSNBC, and CNN.  Seriously.  Because I know that they would be presenting the evidence of there were any.  Maddow is the biggest joke of all, which is a shame because she is such a smart person and is obviously just doing what her producers demand of her.  That whole tax thing she did must have made her sick to her stomach before she launched into it; she knew there was nothing there.


obobwa, you see freeloaders everywhere. They must be attracted to you and Larry O for some special reason. You giving it away now?


Hope Hicks Joins Ranks Of White House Staffers Who Have Lawyered Up
Besides Hicks, Mueller expressed that his team would seek to question former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, White House counsel Don McGahn, White House senior associate counsel James Burnham and Josh Raffel, who runs communications for an office overseen by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.


Except for a handful of isolated communities, the majority of the Hawaiian homelands are surrounded by areas served by Hawaiian Telcom and Oceanic now know as Spectrum.

The Universal Service Communications Fund was created to provide funds to telecom companies in rural areas.  Are the communities in Papakolea, Oahu and Kula, Maui located in rural areas?


Fascinating:  An article that is profoundly about Climate Change that doesn't mention climate change.
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Interesting how climate change denial is brought to a screeching halt when somebody has to pay up on insurance claims.
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A single storm is a weather event.
Insurance risk assessment is about climate change.
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There is no climate change denial in insurance premiums.


We are accustomed to thinking about infrastructure in essentially physical terms. Roads, hospitals, airports, pipelines. Even the internet, somewhat less physical in its occurrence to its users, comprises a lot of physical elements. Key megatrends of the past decade are reducing the physicality and increasing the complexity of this infrastructure and its use. A case in point is that the transportation network companies (TNCs) have added road congestion to, and reduced transit use in, many municipalities in North America.  The effects of digital technologies are new, growing and show no signs of flagging.  We cannot plan for the second quarter of the 21st century using mostly the same logic and tools as we used to plan the last quarter of the 20th century.

Simply incorporating big data and including resilience planning is not enough. We need to start managing digitally, as well. Consider the case of surface transportation of people...


Better hide in your garage.


Have we already forgotten the shooting at the Republican congressional baseball practice? We are only LUCKY that only the gunman died.


i know and i bet its the foreigners.   Triple the 15% tax or ban foreign sales altogether.  When i tell my international work colleagues what's going on they just sigh, its everywhere.  Foreign money goes where they perceive a safe haven, right now its Canada.  No one that works in London (UK) can actually afford to live there.


...always looking for the scum at the bottom of the glass.


I'm sorry but that just isn't true.  It might be a goal or even required but it isn't happening.  I personally know half a dozen people who have out of wedlock kids where the mother is on welfare and the father is not on the birth certificate and pays no money to support his child.  If they aren't on the birth certificate the state pays for health care, cash assistance, food stamps, counseling, babysitting (while the mother "attends" classes), etc.  It is a huge expense that taxpayers pay while the dad lives with the baby momma and his baby.  The state has never required any restitution from the father.  Why would the job have to take away from a government worker instead of supplement it?  Like cleaning up a park or picking up litter or cutting grass, are our government workers so unionized they can't use free help?


Muslims over the entire world are violently demanding to dominate every society they are in, THEY AREW MUSLIM SUPREMAICSTS!
Kick the Rohingya out, Burma is protecting itself just like Poland protected the West, all of Europe in 1682, 1683.
DO NOT FORGET HISTORY!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna


The only thing I pause about is to reflect on what a broken person you are to exploit the tragedy of others for a political agenda. Seek the help you obviously need.


But the Bishops have said it was a "message of hate." A radical feminist group has claimed responsibility.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=32216


An innocent comment like this: "And the world just waits for a confirmation of something that is already on everyone's' mind." triggers someone very weak in the head to reject it.


"There is relatively little the government can do to lower rates through more lasting, structural means, mostly because the Liberals have tied up so much of the system in 20-year contracts."

Totally false.  The Ontario government is a sovereign entity which can write laws to change contracts at will with impunity.  There is no excuse not to do so as this province is being bled dry.

Until then, all Ontario ratepayers should form a coalition to band together and immediately STOP PAYMENT OF ALL HYDRO BILLS ACROSS THE PROVINCE TO BRING THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO TO ENACT IMMEDIATE CHANGE.


Yep.  The parents of the band kids.


Bingo. Best comment here.


what ever suits them at the time.


I have a 2009 Kia Sedona.  It has had several minor recalls that have been taken care of, but what this article fails to note is that the Kia comes in second when taking the powertrain dependability into account.  As for the other areas of concern, my only reservation with the Kia has been the propensity for the sliding doors to freeze shut , especially after a car wash.  So, if you park it outside in freezing weather be careful if you're getting a car wash and wipe off the water around the doors before parking it out.


Pandora religiously demands proof beyond an unreasonable doubt when the accused is clergy.  Generally, she uses Eliane when posting on articles involving clerical abuse.


<the closest I've come to being a Pharisee is to repeat what Jesus said to the Pharisees, i.e., that divorce is impermissible.>

You haven't acknowledged that Mark and Matthew give two different versions of what Jesus said -- one an absolute prohibition, the other with an exception.  It is intellectually dishonest to say that the two passages say or mean the same thing; so: what do you make of the difference?

I've asked you twice to reflect on Hosea 6:6: "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice." You've ignored my question, and so I would simply ask you to pray and reflect on that passage, even as Jesus asked us to do: "Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'" (Mt.9:13)

You are a prolific poster; I don't have time to read all of your posts. And so I may be misreading you: I thought you were arguing that a remarried person cannot be admitted to the Eucharist. If I have misunderstood you on that point, I apologize and I will stand down.


Talk about faux news.
Get over it Sarah, you lost.
What a sore looser.


"...all branches of the military are viewing climate change as a national security issue."  Yep - when the climate goes south and transportation networks and food production are affected the world political situation will become even more unstable.  Low lying countries and islands in the Pacific and Asia are already beginning to flood and vast areas will become unproductive and unlivable.  Personally - I'm old and have lived a decent life - just a few more years left.  I pity the younger generations who will face the result of our ignorance.  I think we have passed the tipping point - disastrous climate change is inevitable.  YMMV.


They could save a lot more money and resources by having Donald Trump fix it, trust him, he'll get it done all by himself. ;)


".blame immigrants for taking their jobs and Obama for making them feel bad about themselves."
You left out "illegal" and failed to list "..or depress wages so low that the job is only a life-breaker" (look up the Bristol Bay fish processing employment issues this year).
And President Obama has made it possible for your tax dollars to be paid to convicted (and unconvicted) baby killers under a guise of birth/population control.


Not to worry. The entire state of Alaska is now considered a 'green space' to be kept from development. Consequently there will be no new oil to pay for everything, even when oil prices rebound. We'll have less and less oil every year. Nothing can or will replace the many billion$ Alaska is accustomed to getting from oil companies. Government services will be cut. New taxes on Alaskans with jobs will be levied. PFD checks will shrink. People will one again be leaving their house keys on the counter and walking away from their lives in Alaska. Except this time there's no bottom. And rebounding oil prices can't save us. But the roads will be less crowded.


Remember when Blaisdell Concert Hall was trasferred to Enterprise Services?  They immediately tossed the Honolulu Symphony's schedule out the window, bought in Broadway shows for 2-3 months and the Symphony had to find new venues.  This led to its bankruptcy when they could not maintain a normal performance schedule.  Thanks, Jeremy Harris!


Oh my all those poor recent popes, P6, JP2, B16, and Francis who have committed mortal sins by participating in inter-denominational worship services. B16 and Francis still have a chance to repent and avoid going to hell because of their mortal sin, but it would sure seem that P6 and JP2 are beyond redemption. Not only did they pray together with non-Catholics, but they did so publicly. Since such public sin requires public confession to expurgate, and they never did express sincere sorry for their public sin, we would appear to have no choice but to conclude that they died in their sin.

To die in mortal sin is to be condemned to hell.

Now all that is clear enough.

What concerns me is the fact that the same infallible Church that established these actions as mortal sins also declared the JP2 to be a Saint, which mean he is absolutely known to be in heaven. But how can JP2 both be simultaneously in heaven and hell?

Can you help me out here, mjmchal; since you know the rules.


A "ballerina" is the principle female dancer of a ballet company. It's not a generic term for anything in a tutu.


So Senator Beyak has defied convention and stated that she doesn't believe in unicorns. Candidate O'Leary, needing votes from unicorn-believers is in a tough spot, needing to straddle the fence between urban myth and rural reality. The votes are with the urban myth crowd, but falsehoods put him in the same camp as the Liberals.
There are those who know, and then there are urban people. I admire anyone who is willing to enter today's political environment. The politically correct line is so far removed from reality, that a politician is never certain whether they can keep all the balls in the air.
Personally, I like O'Leary as a media commentator, but I'm not sure why he wants to hang around with politicians. He has a lot of good ideas, but in Canada, we're still believing in unicorns. It's not O'Leary's time.


A US boarder tax will push USD up against CAD and drive both countries into a recession necessitating even more deficit spending.


Thanks for making your usual contribution to the peace and tranquility of our city.


Actually most people are happy to sell to whoever will buy their product so they can make a profit.


Since when are all private companies governed by provincial regulations?  Take federally-regulated financial institutions as one example.  (Banks, Insurance, Trust).   Broker-dealers are provincially regulated.


Unfortunately the young man passed away


It is hypocrisy of the highest order to chastise Evans, Chivington, Gore, Custer all the while writing from the comfort of a home or office whether rented or owned built on land first settled by Native Americans.

Your land is being held by force, the force and power of the United States. If you live here you are just as complicit as the white soldiers at Sand Creek. Shame on Diane Carman for elevating herself above a cavalry soldier from 150 years ago without recognizing she has been the beneficiary of his soldiering.

If you believe Evans should be erased from history, give all your wealth back to the local Native Americans. If you keep it, you are blood brother to Evans.


Gov. Walker's State of Alaska savings tank in the above graph reminds ... every one of us how much money has been squandered. $10 billion and down the drain... and we have for it $300 million per year debt service + $3 billion worth of retirement ..everyone should read Gov. Hammond's "Diapering  the Devil  Then someone will know what's going on and how and why.
Google Jay Hammond Diapering the Devil


Their reputation has nothing to do with it. The names of victims are always released, except in the case of minors or sexual assault.


Right-clicking the link and opening in new private/incognito window worked for me.


Come on, the Vatican's been into "alternative facts" for centuries.


I like Chong a lot, and will be voting for him in the leadership contest this spring.  I do think he'll have difficulty winning the leadership (he'll need a lot of voters to have him ranked #2 - #4 on the ballot to overcome Bernier's wide appeal), but if he does he'll give Trudeau a good run for his money in 2019.  I like Chong, O'Toole, Raitt, and Bernier (to a lesser extent).


Not really since stories on MSNBC disappear quite often. I very rarely cite MSNBC or use them as a source but have seen a number of stories that were actually favorable to Trump disappear, either within a few hours or a day or two. There was one story on CNN about it. But ask me if I care what you think about anything? When you or Wavemaker make a comment that is completely false, I will correct that comment with factual information then ignore any more of your ignorant comments on that subject. From now on, my responses to trolls will be singular in nature. If you care to make any more comments about this issue, find anything that refutes the facts, otherwise, do not expect any more responses to a troll, you.


The Denver Post is nothing like Pravda.  Pravda printed what the Soviet government told them to print.  The Denver Post prints whatever they want.  It is no more state run than Fox News is.

However, it interesting that the current Republican in the White House would like to have more control over the media....and not a word from you about that.


Amen.


Apparently you've missed a lot in the last couple of months, or...remember last season!


GO BILL GO!

Can't wait for the Supreme Court smackdown on the Raiding Governor.


when the government gets it's foot in the door, there goes the neighborhood.


Well the purpose of the Catholic Church is supernatural.  Concern and "heading" of souls, all souls.

Church-State relations are best understand using some teaching developed by the Catholic Church, which hinges on two principles: "distinction of ends" and "harmonization of ends".

The Church's focus is, as I said, supernatural.
The State's focus is on the common good of all.

It's the lay's job, mainly, to do the "harmonization," as we live out the Gospel in our ordinary work.

So our concern should be toward ways that can help people reach their end: heaven.  And most of the concerns of native american's isn't eco related, but truly spiritually related.

Addictions on reservations are a huge problem.

But "occupiers" love a protest..and invade reservations..or anywhere, where they think cameras will be clicking.


Hmm......all benefit from state services so all should help pay for it.


What happens if one of these repositories has a technical malfunction and becomes "un-airworthy"? (.i.e crashes).


The Court's answer is ludicrous.  It does not go through standard equal protection, due process, or fundamental rights analysis.  It simply declares, without a shred of grounding in the Constitution, that a man has a right to marry a man.  You have yet to answer the objection that the Framers of the 14th A. never dreamed that their amendment would REQUIRE the States to re-define marriage so as to allow SSM, this at a time when sahdemy was a crime in virtually every State.  Don't give me any BS this time, just try to wreck my argument.  Let's see what you have besides name-calling and ad hominems.


The Romans reserved crucifixion for treason, and so Jesus of Nazareth was executed for treason against the Roman state.  The notion he was executed to appease the Jews appears in the last Gospel, chronologically, written in the late 1st or early 2nd century by authors who were not present and did not witness Jesus' life to better appeal to Roman audiences by shifting blame for his death to the Jews (who were despised in the Roman world by that point due to the Revolt a generation after Jesus' ministry).


This will be all fun and good until these campers have a question or the police are called onto the property for any stray reason what so ever, and then they will likely be thrown out!


I wonder if the Torstar families are paying attention.


The constitution is not a myth.  Not be able to comprehend it & making up myths about it are the problem.


There they go again. When Russia established nukes in Cuba JFK did not tolerate this. Liberals don't have a problem. When Russia tried to establish communism in central-South America democrats voted to fund a war so long as American troops were not involved. After starting this war the democrats then pulled the funding leaving our allies on their own to fight a super power. This is what created Iran Contra. As for Iraq, this dictator made it clear he wanted to be the new Hitler, and take over the middle east he thought belongs to Iraq. On a little deeper note, this bailed out Russia after we bankrupted them, and got money flowing into that country before they sold their nukes on the black market for cash. It also bailed out Mexico who was decimated by runaway inflation that made the peso worthless. Now, as a democrat, there's not a chance I would vote for either of the incompetent clowns put up anymore than I would vote for the incompetent republicans. Ron, you are a bleating sheep.


Guess you have forgot about Obama's sticking up for thugs in Ferguson, Baltimore, Philadelphia, oh yea the kid in Florida,  we need to name more, there are some but you should get the point


Jackie"  Are you a "real" person or are you a professional troll?  Your allegations are very very serious and, from all available intelligence, very, very wrong.  Would you be good enough to cite your sources so I can look at them directly.  Thank you,  Gary Crum


You're completely out to lunch. This has nothing to do with censorship or free speech or political correctness. It has to do with the difference between fact and fiction. Of course, your quoting Trump places you in the post-truth camp. I doubt you could tell the difference between fact and fiction.

I have no problem with Joseph Boyden writing about indigenous peoples in his novels. But if his author's bio is going to claim he is indigenous I'd like to know if that's true. Biography is supposed to be factual. Unless you're Lemony Snicket.


Gonna be tough to build a wall . . .


HC, your report has brought tears and joy to me.  God bless you always, and those you shepherd.


I remember when
My defense was irrelevant


Wait for a year or two and they'll sell TH to the highest bidder.  That's all they want to do anything, squeeze it, milk it and sell it off.

Why doesn't our fearless government do something to change tax rules for foreign nationals owning Canadian companies?  As opposed to going after the little guy.


Blood on Obomba's hands.


Too bad the US Department of Labor statistics show that you have absolutely no credibility!

Since over half the agricultural workers are legal, starvation here in Eugene as you argued all day yesterday is completely ludicrous!

But, unlike you, I won't say that your are a liar; just intentionally ignorant and biased.


How do you say "no shame" in Inupiat?


Is Brady an athletic supporter?


Vote pandering!


Because it's just that, an excuse.


Who exactly decides who is 100% female and who is not?


DUMP DRUMPH


funny about left wingers, they always try to claim raising taxes helps the economy but on housing not so much since it has been proven (again) raising taxes on something, the housing in BC set the housing market downward. Maybe wynne might actually learn that her taxation nonsense like carbon etc is not a good policy! lets not hold our breath


Write-off. Take an accounting course to boost your IQ.


Don't confuse "nobody has ever succeeded in doing it" with "it cannot be done'. For thousands of years men tried to fly, and nobody ever succeeded...until they did.


Murkowski has voted to endorse all the worst nominees of Trump.

Her last vote was to confirm a known adulteress as Trump's nominee to an ambassadorship to the Vatican.

Newt Gingrich's mistress is sent to the Vatican as an ambassador.

Principles?  Lisa voted aye.

Think about the 'message' that sends to the Vatican.

Trump is thumbing his perverted nose at the Pope and Lisa enables that too.

Disgusting.


I doubt that is your real name Grand Wizard .  Are you still wearing the sheet the dog whizzed on ?


And Trump's ability to pardon anyone only extends to Federal Crimes - he has no authority when it comes to violations of state or local law.


Very frustrated reading this article and some of these comments! The number of addicts seeking narcotics in the ER has been at epidemic levels for MANY years. As an RN, I recognize and witness that prescription drugs kill FAR more people than anyone realizes. ER docs are at the front lines of this deadly epidemic. With the evidence before him AND this patient's history, Dr. Lee's treatment of was SPOT ON.

A complete work up showed no source of her pain and no signs of an infection. YES, an infection can overwhelm the body within a few days even if not detectable just prior. Dr. Lee VERY APPROPRIATELY told the patient to follow up with a medical doctor. Going to a CHIROPRACTOR, FOUR days later?!  They claim it was life and death at the ER but no one takes her for immediate follow-up as instructed??!

I sympathize with this family (especially the children) but if the doctors "strong urging" to follow-up with a medical doctor had been followed, those girls would still have their mom.


I am confused.  You mention that security hawks cite past negotiations were never honored by Pyongyang.  Why do you believe that negotiations would stop/slow them now? We can negotiate, but if they don't honor the agreement what are we doing besides looking like fools?  You might have a well have named this article  "Pyongyang: How We Shouldn't Change a Thing".


What bs.  Figures though.


good for them.  i hope other non-native named rural communities follow suit.


you forgot to mention his ill-fated attempt to be hired by arizona st. while still at smu.  the reason he wasn't rehired by uh is his lack of integrity and character, two qualities that matlin is looking for in all coaches.


Could you and your pal "Mud" back this claim with some actual information, like the article you're commenting on does?


Whenever the voices in your head tell you that it is....


The Globe, the CBC and the Toronto Star are all in favour of open borders for immigrants, regardless of whether laws and regulations are being followed.  Expect many more articles like this one arguing why open borders are a good thing.  Don't expect to see any articles about the negative results, such as increased crime, which can result from not screening immigrants.


not sure why everyone limits this type of comment to just election funds


Before we hire Gaffney Cline again, how about releasing their last report that they did for Parnell before SB 21?  He buried that thing and it never saw the light of day.  I guess it didn't rubber stamp his tax plan so he deep sixed it.


pretty sure you meant compost..ok - that would deal with rats... and the fireplace?   you would seal them up then to not suck warm air out of room up the chimney and to make sure they weren't used..yes?
 but still how can you ask for that money twice?
  you didn't charge them before...and it's like the stores charging for paper bags all of a sudden when there was little choice.  it seems opportunistic and somewhat predatory.


Who needs an economy or jobs, as long as you have diversity and gender balance?


He who mistakes restraint for fear is surely a fool.

Why are you so afraid to answer simple questions of substance, such as whether special interests funded your failed lawsuit and whether you have any regrets about driving up the cost of rail to taxpayers now that your chosen political candidate has flip-flopped and agreed that the now more expensive project must be completed as planned?


Okay, so you're admitting Melania is unqualified. I agree on both those bimbos.


From the StarAdvertiser article concerning this report..... "Despite its concerns, the APTA panel found that once rail is finished it will “significantly improve mobility throughout Honolulu.”"


What nonsense .............. Powerless Cruz and Rubio were the first to be laughed out of the nomination.


I'll do it!  Where do I find the application?


they have been for 100's of years and 100's of billions
next point


Evidence?  Don't need no stinking evidence.  Pinochet, Stalin, they got stuff done and didnt need no evidence.


will check it out no doubt they have had funding pressures as well.


Yes Clinton did and has apologized for the remark. But back on topic, so do you think little hands is a racist or not? Was that enough proof for you?  Did you know the last 45 economists that have served the last 8 presidents have said they will not support little hands and they will not vote for little hands? Most people would find this interesting but I bet you don't even care. Being so smart and all.


Canada's growth industries under Trudeau are career activism and public sector unions. Shell, Total, and Petronas are only the most recent companies to pack up or cancel investment. They won't be the last thanks to the shameless incompetence of Wynne, Trudeau, Butts, Notley, and Horgan - a veritable dream team of #progressive ignorance. Petronas will end up building a pipeline to the Gulf or planned Oregon Coast LNG plants while Canada gives up a $38 billion investment.
Although it seems unlikely today given the string of legislative failures by Trump, if the US ever gets around to comprehensive tax reform - Canadian businesses will move south overnight, Canada's tax professionals are already advising as much. Canada's best and brightest won't be far behind with personal taxation bordering confiscation after Morneau gets his way. Canadians deserve what comes next and Trudeau couldn't care less, "they" can always pay for the endless promises of a smug self-involved "yes-man".


app,

  Did you know the majority of Canadians can't afford a lawyer and generally don't get a lawyer from legal aid no matter how seriously they've been harmed?
  You must live a sheltered life if you've never needed a lawyer.
  And you obviously don't care about equality, justice or democracy.


White euro men are such wusses


Eminent domain. No? I bet you if the rail was going through there, Crook Caldwell would not hesitate to exercise such police powers.


LW2: Your illness is probably very hard on your mom. People have different ways of dealing with stress, sorrow, grief, etc. Whether your mother is truly just a cold, uncaring person, or whether she just keeps her feeling close to her chest, I don't know, but either way, you can't and won't change her. All you can do is maybe have a talk with her and tell her what you need.


It would have been cheaper to pay the bus fare.


We will get our country back but of course the next step for the ANC is totally rigged elections. Mugabe is here to lead the way.


Pence will be President but not until 2024 after Trump's second term.  Enjoy!


One would think with all the numbers flying around, simple math would come into play.  Is that overly simplistic thinking?  This reinforces the idea that govt is no longer governing but has turned into the administrative state.  Most of the taxpayers, individuals & businesses, don't have an expense account to reimburse their expenses.  If can, can.  If no can, no can.


Absolutely right, Dante.  Fahmy will never win any popularity contests in Canada.
"...full of himself'' is putting it mildly


"Further a switch to proportional representation would almost certainly require a constitutional amendment."

Nonsense.

Did extension of the franchise to women require a constitutional amendment?
Did elimination of the property requirement require a constitutional amendment?
Did lowering the voting age to 18 require a constitutional amendment?

There have been over 30 amendments to the Elections Act since Confederation.  Not one of them has required a constitutional amendment - or a referendum, for that matter.


Contra Guys have held this stock for 3 years and have only recently broken even? Speaks volumes to me on their ability to pick a winner.


You have GOT to be kidding me!


But he hasn't presented any!

Yes...investigate.  if there is evidence, let's have it...if not?  Drop it.

The fake news you offer?  Presenting accusations as truth.  And not stating clearly that it is the campaign committee under investigation...you present everything as if it were Mr. Trump himself.

You apparently don't know me at all...I am the one always asking for proof before flinging accusations and condemnations about.  If you're honest, you will admit that.


Didn't Jesus try to simplify worship with his "where 2 or 3 are gathered, there I am!"  Unlike the Jewish minyan of 10 men, for Jesus just 2-3, male, female!
Lot less overhead. A reason for closing so many church was the YUGE maintenance costs from dwindling collections. Imagine if French government didn't pick up the repair bills of French cathedrals, a bankrupt RC French church.
Separation between sacred & secular space is an imaginary line.  A binary.
Problem today is church have too much empty space, to few folks to fill it up.
Now that's a design project!  How to get 'em in to any space called church?


"expensive ammunition"  ...?     four bullets shouldn't cost that much


I watched the Super Bowl.  Audi ran a disgraceful commercial implying that all women will be paid less than all men,

Audi Canada's 2 top execs are men.  All Audi USA board members are men.  All but 2 German Audi board members are men.

Audi pays females less than they pay men.

Audi lies on diesel emissions and it lies on gasoline fuel economy.  (I know).

Audi is a politically correct, hypocritical company.   Shame on Audi.


I kind of wish the new owner of the property would remove the Black Forest Bar. It's been the host bar for many of our local white supremacists for quite a while.


"Respectable women were forced to wear the veil while those who were considered unrespectable were forced to go with their heads uncovered. Thus veil became an exclusive symbol of respect; a privilege that slaves, prostitutes and concubines were denied of."

Islam , no ancient Assyria almost a thousand years before Islam. Sorry its cultural not religious.

https://alexandrakinias.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/history-of-the-veil-part-one-veil-in-the-ancient-world/


Does "top notch" also explain the unusual shape of the bishop's mitre?


Please spare us the theatrics Mason.  There is no crisis in Toronto.  There is a strong housing market though.  Cheap housing is not a Constitutional right.  Nor is a single family home on a 50 feet lot.  Sorry.  There are a growing plethora of options in the apartment/condo market for everyone though.  Like in New York.  And London.  And Paris.  And Hong Kong.  And Singapore.  And Toyko.  And You know, other global cities like Toronto is quickly becoming.  Are there foreign investors in Toronto?  Duh.  There have been foreign investors in Toronto since the Second World War.  And that's very positive for the city.

And if housing costs and rents exceed the budgets of the workforce well then employers either lift wages or employees vanish.  Thus far Toronto has seen an influx of new residents and jobs, not the reverse.

So quit whining from your rainy left coast commune and let Ontario enjoy its housing boom and let the gigantic housing industry keep the national economy from tanking.


Their relaxing the rules.. they fought so hard to get the Conservatives to implement.. Why? because it's 2016 of course.


Has she cancelled it??  Lots of Liberal hogwash and skirting the issue... We will hopefully know more in the next few days


Hopefully all the proper agencies the taxpayer's need to uncover what's going on get their hands on the books before the Liberals fire up the shredding machines again but my fear is this has been dragging on too long already and any evidence has already been destroyed and the hard drives wiped.


The house of mirrors, pretzel logic of that puts me in mind of a movie from several years ago entitled "Momento".


You got it!


Thanks to the CBC for shedding light on Manulife's secret slap on the wrist.
To summarize:
1) "We operate the highest ethical standards anywhere in the world," says the Manulife CEO.
2) Manulife deliberately chose to loosely interpret the regulations, which was against the law.
3) Manulife negotiated a deal to keep the mess secret.
So much for corporate social responsibility ... or the boss's credibility.


you do realize that this story which started in the Daily Mail, has already been discredited?  The response was swift: Several climate researchers, including former NOAA scientists, wrote blog posts pointing out the many flaws in Bates’ argument. Chief among them is the fact that the datasets, along with a record of bug fixes and their impact is publicly available. In addition, multiple papers have drawn the same conclusions as Karl et. al using the same dataset, and another recent paper backs up the reliability of the NOAA’s models. All of the research points to a mostly uninterrupted trend of warming throughout the 20th and into the 21st century.


Exactly. The citizenship is not just a right, it comes with obligations too - and he failed to fulfil those by helping Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Citizenship stripped and he deported to his buddies over there, I say.


It was not a ploy.  If it was the only one she ever opened then i might agree, but Next step was one of 8 facilities opened. It was the first and in direct response to Mufi kicking all of the homeless out of Ala Moana park during 40 days of straight rain. and with all of the facilities, she housed over 3,000 people.  And since Next step was the first one, it also provided a LOT of "lessons learned" for other service providers with what to do and what not to do with the additional facilities.


"...A blind trust is a waste of time in this situation...."

Are you suggesting that Slick Willy Morneau didn't get PM Trudeau's memo advising a blind trust is the "gold standard? Maybe Slick Willy considers himself a member of the Platinum Club, and the PM's conflict of interest "gold standard" is beneath his station in life.

Trudeau and his LPC gov't have failed us in NOT providing the appearance of wrongdoing or entitlement. Whether or not S.W. Morneau did anything wrong, the appearance of impropriety is just as bad.


I understand your response, J'n, and do realize that it could be an uphill battle - an impossible battle if the other side is unwilling. We have little, if any, real leverage with China of course BUT they do seem to care about their international reputation and there is some interest in trade with us. Perhaps, within all of that, are the seeds of a deal of some sort. Pretty safe bet that the kind of people who are producing this poison may not be China's favourites either. Slim hope, I'll grant you, but don't laugh too hard.


Because some fairy tales 'prevent' some people (who happen to be barbers) from cutting some other people's hair, for example.


Facebook is the last thing we need.


My Muslim words escape me at times. I admit that, for that I apologize. Thank you for correcting me. My point still stands, care to refute that?


What money?  They aren't getting a dime.


Apparently one man's heretic is another man's defender of the faith.  From an Adventist perspective, it is you who are the heretic, since, as I said before, the SDA Church does not believe in original sin, as defined by Augustine, et. al.

If you believe we are "born sinners," you'd better start on a campaign of getting babies baptized.  If we were "born sinners," so was Jesus, since He took on Him "the seed of Abraham."  But we know that Jesus was not born a sinner.  He chose not to sin.  Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do the same.


Come on. Indonesia was not on the list Pre-Trump and is not on the list now, had he taken it off the list I MIGHT agree with you, but this simply demonstrates you desire to tarnish the mans motives at any cost. Saudi Arabia should have always been on the list, but their ability as a swing producer keeps the House of Saud out of these types of things. Christians have no track record of mass murder, be-headings or blowing things up, sorry if you think that is targeting.


Harper may not have had highest unemployment rate but Harper comes dead-last in terms of job creation and GDP growth of every PM since Bennett in the Great Depression. Harper was the worst PM since the Great Depression.


Let me tell you this. Censorship is worse in this country than in North Korea. We cannot talk about Muslims, Chinese, refugees, obesity, welfare, Quebec.... the list goes on. We can't even talk about censorship. This post will be flagged or removed in about 10 minutes.


I bought meat from Walmart.
Once.


I'd like to see a poll issued from CB for the race this trollbait is running in. I betcha the numbers are so wildly askew that if there were negative voting allowed, she might actually make history and poll that low.


A doobie-a!  😇


Maybe he could get Don Smith or David Nees to run with him; that would surely sweeten the pot for his particular brand of "constituent".


There is no such convincing evidence. If you think that there is, you've either been had, or your bar for "convincing" needs a signal boost.

What does "the Japanese aren't very enthusiastic about WiFi" mean, exactly? That sentence has no real meaning unless you're able to contextualize it.


Karin obviously hasn't been following the KING TIDE story...


To the family, friends and coworkers, I'm so very sorry for your loss.


Heartbreaking.......


I often do and my pastor is fine with it. Apparently the problem of understanding scripture is yours alone. Good luck in your endeavors to understand what you are pulling out better. Christians are not in agreement about many things as this discussion shows. I will pray for you.


Glad they may have finally found a safe haven, but I hope the free dental doesn't include the latest upsells like cherry fluoride varnish and gum grafting.


You and your gun love are the true victims here, James Del Norte.

I am so sad this happened to you and your love.


Not to mention, the Military is extremely inefficient with their budget.  If "You're not getting more money, you need to figure out how to use what you have," is common outcry against funding Education, why not also against Military?


You completely lost me at "Ms. Maddow, more often than not a whip-smart commentator and one of broadcast journalism’s best assets".  Maddow is a complete partisan hack.  The moment she even breathes a word about a conservative, it is with a smirk, as if "of course their idiots, don't you know they're Conservative??".  Lucky, very few people ever watch the show.  As others have stated, I too had a huge laugh on election night. Not because Trump won (which may or may not be a good thing, time till tell), but because the likes of Maddow were so clearly crushed, and it showed.  MSNBC is not a news outlet, it is the mouthpiece of the Liberal movement.  They should stop pretending.


A lot of people wanted Galera to apply, he's a well-respected man. I don't know what lies and deception you're talking about but I do know what Galera is like, having watched him at EIH and heading the ESSA task force. His withdrawal feels like a loss for our school system.


Other male carnivores try to kill their offspring and are still viable species, though.

Lions? Bears?


You are 100% incorrect. And they weren't protesting the "removal of American History."


"Let's compare on actual military adventures and millions killed in the post WWII era, shall we?"

Sure.  Communism "wins" that one hands down.  Conservative estimates are 90 million but most put it well past 100 million killed by communism.


Quite possibly the most stupid title to an article ever. Is Obama going to be president again? No. So by back to power, what do you mean? You might be smoking too much of that medicinal marijuana some of those "libs" have.


You do realize that when you sell high, you also end up buying high in the market.

Housing plays a critical part in the lives of every citizen who lives in this country. As property taxes are now based on market value assessments, you can expect it to go up as the value of your property goes up.  Imagine how a senior on a fixed income is going to pay their property taxes just to stay in their homes.  They'd be forced to move out of their house.

Young families will have to secure a large mortgage just so they can buy a place to live.  Getting indebted for such a large amount of money and at a longer time is not a great way to start out.

Our governments need to be more cognizant of the tremendous effect that the cost of housing has on people's lives.  Housing should not be open to foreign speculative investors.  There are only downsides in the future.

It's already too late for the Vancouver market. People who bought high will not be willing to sell their house at a loss.


Naruto's off of Minnesota right before Spears Rd. Their gourmet Ramen is to die for.


Please state this "LOOOOOONG list of proposed constitutionally illegal acts".


I once told you about the little that got sick and died after being exposed to cat feces in her sand box a year later. Her brain turned to mush and had a really foul odor when they opened her head up. It was so sad.

I don't read a lot. I read very slowly and I get frustrated. I had to take remedial reading even in college. I'm trying to read two books, one is called Nowhere to Go about the mental institutions closing their doors back in the 70s and 80s and another book about homelessness and the mentally ill. I finally have my brother living up here with me.  He's 69 and has been homeless in Florida off and on for a few years. It's his own fault just as it has been my own fault when I neared homelessness myself a few years ago.


If Kaine won so convincingly , why would you feel the need to disrespect Pence by not using a capital letter in his name , or the need to  " like " your own comment ?  If he had such a command of the facts , why did he need to interrupt Pence over 40 times ? Kaine came across as classless and extremely rude , and Pence the only adult on the stage.  Your love of Hillary clouded your judgement of tonight's debate.


And perhaps I'm overreacting, but I can't help thinking it's just a matter of time. We'll see.


Oh, I don't know about that. When you think about it, there are actually very few things we've ever discussed. You might be surprised at what we have in common.

There's more to life than religion and politics, you know! (And even on those things, we do agree now and then.)


I'm not sure what everybody is in an uproar about. The restriction is for lease sales for a five year period (2017- 2022). There is little doubt that none of the producers that have the capability of developing on the outer coastal shelf in the Arctic have been planning anything in the next five years anyways. As the famous British saying from WW II says: Keep Calm and Carry on.


I heard that in the 70's only it was said this way
" a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle "


Indians don't own those casinos.


A true accounting would put benefits alongside costs on the balance sheet. FAIR doesn't do that. It's not FAIR.


"Trump’s allies were also heartened by his trip to Europe last week, feeling that his speech saluting national pride in Poland was a high point of his presidency and believing that he held his own during meetings with foreign leaders at an international summit in Germany."

More Fake news?  Hard to see the Donald holding his own when he was all by himself on a major agreement that was passed 17 to 1?


I think Punahoe has changed over the years.  When I was growing up, there were mostly whites there, few Asians or other minoreities.  Last time I was  at Punahoe, dark hair students outnumbered the blonds.  It is a far more balanced student body today.


I am somebody who knows Edgar Rodriguez personally and what you all are saying is pretty much on target, except for the idiots who think the police were just doing their job.  The problem for them is that he survived.  He's a minority who legally open carried a handgun for self protection from the guy he called the police about and they shot him instead.  These cops had better be fired and brought up on charges of attempted murder because Rod wouldn't hurt a fly.  He's in school studying to become a doctor.  I served with him in Iraq and we carried guns all day everday and Rod never pointed his at anyone and vice versa, so to imply that he would point a weapon at a police officer is beyond ludicrous.  This makes my blood boil and makes me want to get revenge for shooting my fellow soldier and brother but I'm going to wait until the outcome and then if they are not terminated as they should be, then  revenge becomes a viable option.


Mr. Athearn, nothing prevents you from taking positive action on climate change.  Start a non-profit, collect donations from similar thinkers, and start installing renewable energy sources.  Nothing stops you except the notion that climate change matters are someone else's problem and that someone else should pay.


By the time they get around to building these things, the cost will double, guaranteed.


Of course there's no money! The state spends most of available funds for "studies." Here's a freebie: If you think it's expensive and the DOT doesn't have the money now, in ten or fifteen years the price will be double or triple and they still won't have the money.


Now it's but, but, racism...and Russia!


GBA is an "equal opportunity"meanie.....so he likely meant JimmyJ, you, me and everyone to the left of Attila the Hun......regards, Gary


Seems the Legislators are on it, when talking budget.   They also seem to know what the priorities are.  What would a housewife do to maintain her family on a budget that is less than what she needs.  The question when deciding is, do we really need this now?


Interesting thing about Newfoundland and Labrador is that its border with Quebec IS defined by the constitutional amendment that created NL as a province of Canada -- yet the government of Quebec does not officially accept that border and  even occasionally re-draws the map, apparently just to bully the NL government into issuing an official objection.

To an extent, Quebec undermines their own arguments about the value of enshrining anything in the constitution when refusing themselves to respect something so fundamentally constitutional as territory.


Trump doesn't want to be President.  The pay is too low.

He's a gangster.  He's just in it to siphon off as much money as possible before November.  I mean, how much is the campaign paying for rent in Trump Tower, now that donors are paying for it?  Then after, he'll continue to fund-raise to pay off all the loans he made to himself.

Classic Mafia scam.


Yes, Trump tricked folks in that district of Georgia with an offer of a free Alaskan cruise in celebration of the US purchase of Alaska from the Russians 150 years ago this week for $7.2 million (which will now get you a fixer upper in Toronto).    Hundreds signed up for the cruise and were marooned on an Alaskan ice flow until the polls closed.

Next time, Democrats must outspend the GOP by 70 to 1 instead of a paltry 7 to 1, ensure every illegal alien aka undocumented immigrant waiting to vote Democrat for more free stuff gets to vote early and often, that every media outlet fills the airwaves with non-stop anti-Trump innuendos and fake news and faux scandals 24/7, that the entire country is declared a "safe area" off limits to GOP pundits, professors and posters, and that 10 new congressional commissions, committees and special prosecutors are launched to determine if Jeff Session once shook the hand of a Russian official in a reception line.

Then they might have a shot.


You realize we are talking 'Kevin O'Leary' here, right?


But those people were not from this state. If all the fraudulent votes were tossed, we would not be having this discussion.


Thank you, for all whom are so caring! I can't hardly warp my head around this horrible, committed crime. I do pray, he will come out of it strong, but I also know; reality says, head insury as such, are not to be taking lightly."
But God works miracles and is able....
I trust this guys get caught up with, & get a long time, behind bars. It is sad, to learn of the people, whom pray & play to be Believers, to not step up & do the right thing.... Most disgusting act, ever!!!! I feel so sorry, for him and his family !"
Please get well soon.... What a crime world we live in!
What is going on, in this ones, so beautiful & safe town? Sad indeed.


Maybe they "took" just two Belugas a year, but how many did they shoot and were unable to recover?  Were they required to keep records of how many they shot at?   What caused all the dead whales at the mouth of the Big Su?


Sorry ADR416, but interest rates won't go up significantly for a long time. The demographics alone are keeping the global economy flooded with unproductive excess cash. I agree with you otherwise though.


nicknaylorrulesagain/nicknaylorridesagain/retireefinally, etc, etc writes:

"and yet again a left winger spews the childish stupidity"

....making it very clear why he keeps getting banned.


Ahhh...go one more step...human error is an essential part of human nature.


It is probably impossible to totally relieve traffic but the rail is an important part of a total comprehensive plan to give alternatives to movement.  A little bit here, a little bit there, and before you know it, traffic flows smoothly.  Main point is that the total dependency on the automobile needs to be broken.


Well, since I live in CA several months out of the year, we see a HUGE reduction of mexicans and other illegal aliens here.

And the only joke is the morons that are slamming their heads against the wall that he is building.
Trump has done more positive things than Obama did in 8 years.  In fact, everything supports this except the MSM, you, the snowflakes, and the Trump-disorder syndrome people that are checking into their shrinks in record numbers!  Are you one of those people?  Melting snowflakes all over the place as you realize you lost with the just re-opened investigation of your babe, Hillary Clinton, by none other than the FBI!  You see, snowflake, they have everything on her now, the docs they just found and were hiding, are now going to court.  You don't hide docs unless they are damning.  That is your babe about to be going down again.  Ask yourself...why would the FBI re-open her case again?

No laws broken by us.  We had a permit.  Did your side to beat people up?


Poor Joe is easily distracted by bright shiny objects.


"Getting harder to get old in Alaska I guess"
This might be totally unrelated, but I saw a movie a while ago called "No Country for Old Men".  The theme I got was "devolution" if that makes sense.  The analogy with old men is lost on me at the moment and the movie is unrelated directly to aging issues if I recall..(unless you count the chances of being "just another old man" being murdered..).   It`s kind of a cult classic nail-biter that would have given me nightmares as a kid. And I was a pretty tough little street urchin.


Fortunately, we have another candidate who never actively promotes anything that could be perceived as evil.  I trust you have prepared a voting guide for you parish to make sure they support the candidate who most obviously projects the fundamental values of the catholic church.


...who deserves it in spades! Just think of the "fair" elections act.


I'm not sure why you'd say he didn't have to use it. Surely under the circumstances that was the best option.

Also, please note that the gunman did not shoot; one would expect a gun-nut with an itchy trigger finger to shoot the loser in cold blood. He did not. Well played.


Sadly the science says it all.....but weed smokers minimize the evidence. That alone should tell you the effects of smoking weed.


How do you cite trends in the attached real estate market in the Lower Mainland and NOT reference the grotesque market interference that is the BC Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership program.

https://www.bchousing.org/housing-assistance/bc-home-partnership

Even the CMHC vilified this monstrous market interference:
https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/05/18/BC-Liberals-Housing-Plan-Worsens-Crisis/

Anyone who thinks high prices here are the result of a free market and not the product of several levels of market interference needs to give their head a hard shake. If the massive special tax treatments and debt-accumulating "helpers" like the HOME program were reeled in so that real estate wasn't such an attractive investment compared to others, the market would return to sanity. But it's too much to expect the government to stop picking winners in this market because there are too many jobs and too many nest eggs. So we'll just keep building ourselves for a bigger fault later on. Great.


Though I am thrilled this is happening I thoroughly agree with Eaglemom! What used to be a vibrant business community when I was growing up in Cascade has wasted away. Plus it is right down the street from Renton Park and Benson Hill - I'd think that students and families would prefer to "meet up" on neutral ground and further bond the community. It would stimulate Cascade Center big time and why not bring bowling back? I loved it as a child - I was in Bowling club at Nelson Middle School, it is a great way to cheer on fellow students! If you were going to do cooking classes - there is a closed down restaurant on premise too. Why not a fixer upper instead of new construction?


Obama also had a line drawn in the sand. It's nice to be a democrat, just vote Gary Stevens(D)-Kodiak.

After Red, how much will it cost to paint that White House Budget Black?

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." Mark Twain


Now all we need is for someone to file for the Position 1 seat, and we'll have a real election.

Please, somebody!


Slu, That's why we have a professional Code of Ethics, http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp; good journalists stick to that, and I recommend you only support and subscribe to journalism organizations that follow it; the rest is just social-media noise. ... There is not many (if any) benefits to a democracy that puts ethical journalists, just doing their jobs, on the stand.


More guns would have prevented this.
I got a farm in Cuba I"d like to sell....too.


"Denver has also warned ICE that its agents’ actions are jeopardizing public safety by creating fear among immigrants."

This would not be an issue if people followed the law. To blame lawenforcement for enforcing the law is ridiculous.


fry her to a crisp.


One night of love festing isn't going to help tRump into the White House.  I hear the DNC is going to mop him up with all the ugly bigotry and racist hate that he spewed during his campaign.  The same Republican fever pitch was made during RNC McCain campaign and America saw fit to turn their backs on the GOPers.


A lot of things weren't "like that 30-40 years ago."  Including what you call "police surveillance". (ugly term)--we used to call it "patrol."  But some things never change.

Didn't see the police much growing up in Vernon, B.C.--I hunch some of them typed with two-fingers, too.  A little girl was abducted (likely sexually abused--we didn't get THAT detail back then, either) and later found dead in the brush near the end of Polson Park. Believe they caught the guy. Happened in the summer.

Next September, in an era of one-car families, kids--like me--walked to school and back every day.  So did my younger brother and sister.

And when we got into the (one) family car to go "for a drive" (people did that back then, too. Strange, eh?). Guess what?  No seatbelts.


So trudeau is totally silent when islam is committing genocide, and now he is upset when the victims stand up to islam and fight back?

trudeau is the Islamic terrorist's best friend and ally!


What a load............
Brian Mulroney and his off-shore accounts are far from Liberal


Ask anybody... even the "immigrants" themselves... they have no interest on staying in Quebec.

To make it worse, Quebec knows this and just keeps the program for income generation.


The easy grant of anonymity to individuals seeking to use the media for partisan or personal benefit should be stamped out.  Any such reference should at least be accompanied by the reporter's rationale for agreeing and a warning about the reliability of such quotes.


But remember, 'you can keep your doctor'.
-
And, 'I wiped the server, with a cloth'.


Fresh Tomatoes = 2.99$/kg

How are they going to make millions on dried tomatoes?

Once Canada and the US decriminalize every other country in the world, in the topics, will fallow suit. The price will drop to nothing.


Elissa Brown, owner of Wild Scoops Handcrafted Alaskan Ice Cream, makes Matzah toffee ice cream sandwiches with Alaska sea salt in her test kitchen in Fairview on April 6. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

Matzah

Matzah Bread.....
Bill Roth....

Now I understand why ADN wrote about this


hahahahaha, you're priceless... dimwitted but priceless nonetheless ! :P


Having worked for a major Canadian corporation we ran into two key roadblocks with the patent process:

1) the cost and complexity of filing a patent in Canada, then with USPTO was huge. Since we were not really in that business, we we unlikely to really profit from the patent, except to say we had developed a terrific  and unique idea. Eventually we decided not to pursue additional patents even though many of the things we did on our web tools were firsts, and useful.

2) USPTO allowed ideas to be patented. We were served several times with claims for patents that were simply PowerPoint ideas submitted and then granted patents. They had never had an implementation, they were overly broad, and they allowed owners to sue for big numbers with the onus of proving prior art on us (which also cost money).

So I fully agree that NAFTA 2.0 should contain a reset of patent process, allowing a patent in one country to be recognized by all, and to restrict to "real" inventions.


You keep saying things you have no evidence for.

Tell me this: Which group commits the highest per capita of hate crimes? Hint: It's the same group that commits the largest majority of interracial murders.