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OldAndShouldKnowBetter is obviously not speaking about a defunct agrarian party from 90 years ago, but about the Joe Clark type of Conservatives from the Progressive Conservative Party that Reform/Alliance consumed.


most have, but Trump and his rhetoric have brought it out from the dark again.  Shameful.


The Canadian government(s) is (are) lobbying other political players in support of NAFTA. Meanwhile, the point of TPP is to encourage more trade with those countries, increase the percentages of Canadian trade going to those countries, and lessen our dependence on the U.S.

TPP is not a substitute for NAFTA, but it strengthens Canada's (and Mexico's) hand in dealing with the U.S.


Oh so if North Korea walked into Colorado and took it over while Trump was golfing you would give him a pass? No reason for our Governor to manage safety why would that be in his job title. You are absolutely incorrect, Hickenlooper is directly responsible and it didn't sneak up on the guy he gets daily briefs from his staff in regard to the state he manages which is Colorado.


This is simply libel. You have no idea what you're talking about.


That is exactly why it wasn't trashed - because of the roll-over.
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Remember - "Canadians do not expect me to  lecture other countries...".
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What a cute little soldier you are. Go on, give yourself another pep talk.

Leave politics to adults.


Don't blame insurance because you're to stupid to use inspect repellent.


At least trump didnt give 500 billion to Iran. Or delete 30k emails, or sell our uranium to russia. hmmm I can think of more!


Just to be clear, I don't believe a word that comes out of Trump's mouth... so the content of his speech is irrelevant to me.  It is the actions he takes that will determine his impact as President.

That being said, it is HILARIOUS to watch all of Canada's poorly educated immigration hawks stumble all over themselves when they come to the realization that the model Canada follows is actually envied by other countries.  Most of these hawks see people sneaking across the border and they confuse immigrants with refugees.  Their knowledge is largely superficial and based on biased viewpoints like Rebel.

Canada's immigration policy delivers us great contributors to our society.  Further, our sponsored refugee policy is also admired around the world for doing a great job of helping refugees integrate into our society. I think it's time Canada's immigration hawks set aside their petty biases and learn what's going on instead of just complaining about it.


Start working at home with Google! It's by-far the best job I've had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this - 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. I work through this link, go to tech tab for work detail.
 +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ http://www.9easy-jobs.com


....and use their self serving positions to systematically further their causes.


Whoops. Recent WH statements imply that those who did not vote for "him" should not expect to be represented by "him". That "he" received a minority of votes cast implies that "he" represents only "them". Sure sounds like hate to me....and worse, fascist.


I suspect they are looking at double taxation.


We in the West will never learn our lesson. Whatever we do in the Middle East, even with good intentions, will be considered an invasion or occupation and used to justify more terrorist attacks.


Yeah, I agree. Good point. Was just trying to focus on the positive for a change. Epic fail.


I'm not surprised that most Douglas County voters don't put a very high priority on libraries or book  learning in general. Most of their kids that go away to college never move back. They resent that, like a lot of Trump voters. They don't realize they have just given their smarter kids one more reason to move away. Of course, critical thinking has never been their strong suit. That would be killing trees.


Maybe a year or two in private practice would have given him the common sense of a non-state employee. He fell in line with his employer for life and weakened the constitutional role of an independent judiciary.


I hope so.  Scott was an airhead that dragged down the quality of the education and the standards for acceptance.  Good riddance.


Because it's irrelevant, and only advanced as an argument on this issue by people who fundamentally misunderstand what religion is and how Section 2(a) of the Charter works.

Section 2(a) is a personal right, meaning that it is grounded in the religious beliefs of the individual.  If a Muslim woman sincerely believes that wearing a niqab is a religious requirement (seeing as there are many different interpretations of Islam, just as with all religions), that's the end of the inquiry.  Just as, if a Catholic sincerely believes that something is a religious requirement, the courts don't send a request for clarification to the Pope.

Moreover, all religions have aspects beyond those set down in their holy texts.  There's loads of Christian doctrine not found anywhere explicitly in the Bible.


Dear Justin, I am sorry that you felt this way. Nonetheless, I would still recommend anyone to go to Uganda. I can only speak on my behalf, but I had a great there, met with many lovely people, became good friend with a few, fell in love with one, travelled to the four corners of the country and were helped by numerous people on the road. For these reasons, I can only say thanks to them for their kindness.


This should make Toronto sit up and take notice.  While John Tory muses about targeting legitimate gun owners in Toronto and takes away any weapons the Toronto Police Service has in the fight against gang violence, gun violence, this Police Chief has got it right.  I hope she sticks to her guns.

John, you can't get tough on crime by targeting law abiding citizens and ignoring the criminals for the sake of political correctness.  Wake up, Man!!


Jessica, I totally agree. However, IMHO, Dinos edges out Golden Donuts.


Caldwell hasn't met a tax he didn't want to raise. Every time you turn around he's proposing to raise a different one. Combine that with his incompetent management of the rail and it's hard to understand how he gets re- elected.
The (D) is all powerful, voters are like sheep being lead to slaughter in Hawaii.


The RG editorial board will not allow any op-ed letter calling out their unprofessional approach to journalism to be published. Time and again an RG editor has rewritten my op-ed letter, without my permission, and published an op-ed letter with my name on it, I didn't write, their editor did.
 No other newspaper I submit editorial/ op-ed letters to pulls this crap. Every other newspaper always contacts me first before making any changes to my submissions. Say something to Baker, and you will get an email telling you that if you do not like this unprofessional practice to take your business elsewhere. So much for promoting a civil debate.


No, the unhinged are those that thought HRC was going to be one of those swept up by Mueller and spending lots of time making a lot of noise about Hillary last week. :D

Time will tell if this will having "nothing to do with the campaign or Trump".


He has done good work developing a prototype car.  There is just no market though in reality.  His work in the space program will likely be more notable in the long run.  Perhaps his car technology can be used on other worlds.  I cannot see earthlings buying in in any numbers.


Dear Governor

To raise money for your schools and many other area's of need just start the LOTTO like the rest of the USA has done. Last year the State of California received $1.2 Billion dollars from the LOTTO. Whats wrong with you people, its just to easy to do

Cheers


Well said.  Anything whatsoever to do with Trump and any even mild support for him on anything brings out the left wing fanatics to make a farce out of Civil Comments.

The observation that he is a fine golfer who has won numerous club championships and has a single digit handicap (even more impressive for a septuagenarian) leads to all manner of vitriol  at Trump and at anyone who observes that less than 80 days in it is premature to declare that his presidency is a failure.

He cheats at golf, he isn't really a good golfer, he didn't really win club championships, as a graduate of Wharton he can't spell, he is a total failure as POTUS, posters here and voters by the millions who supported him are deplorables who require an IQ boost of at least 20 points, yadda, yadda, yadda

This level of irrational, obsessive blind hatred gives the lie to the claim that this is now the Civil Comments section.

Rather, it remains the Left-Lib Circle Jerk Comments section.

Pity.


What about the killers of the Hawaiian monk seals?  Have they been caught and brought to justice?


Documentation, please.


Corrupt Tory party? Oh you mean like crooked fundraising scams. Oh. wait.


"... the Canadian Agricultural Partnership is intended to help the $100-billion sector come up with innovations to boost productivity, develop new trading partners and mitigate environmental issues."

So why can't they fund these initiatives themselves from their $100Billion of revenue?  Why do they need a government handout?


'Tru' (ump/deau) politicians are never wrong, NEVER admit it and would never box themselves in a corner and if they did would never acknowledge it


Yes, just like if they'd won 2 less games when Peyton was under center. Peyton, Brock, DT, Von, Harris, Talib, Sanders, and dozens of others were all pieces of that.


Not another darn dime!


Your confusion seems originate with a self-assessment that you've the theological chops and authority to make comments like "the indissolubility of marriage was amended in the first three centuries of the Church" sans details, facts, citations, or in fact anything at all except a bald-faced personal opinion, and then level "(y)ou are not the judge of matters of faith".

I am unimpressed. Seriously.


Instead of editorializing, you should have ended before the parentheses.


" ... because white writers don’t get out of the way and make space for the multitude of stories to be told by those who aren’t white and middle class.”

When it's about who you are, and not about what you do, it's called narcissism.

When you take that extra step and decide that who you are defines what other people are supposed to do, you are a narcissist in deep mud, and it will be a tough slug to find, let alone define cultural relevance for others.


Canada' CO2 contributions, when we discuss world reductions to slow global warming, are insignificant. If we went to zero emissions it wouldn't matter a wit to the total world reduction of GHGs. We cannot factor in oil exports because we do not burn them and they are factored in at the country that buys them -it's the burning of the oil and gas that produces GHGs.
I hope that helps educate you a little more.


And 3 of those Dems caucus with the Repubs so they can get a few crumbs for their districts....that makes it 40-18....yes a supermajority....try some math next time.


Good question.
Quick. Tell me. I want to be on the right side of righteousness and history. Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?


You act like people who aren't REAL Native Hawaiians have homes somewhere else.  Many of us don't! I must not be REAL. I exist!


Most people have no idea how many dust explosions happen in the world. Grain dust in grain silos and elevators. Google the Diamond Sugar plant explosion. And, there is a reason they say not to throw flour on a kitchen fire. If it contains carbon, is finely ground and dry, a high concentration floating in air containing a normal oxygen content can be ignited with a spark as easily as coal dust. Sulfide rock dust is also highly flammable. But, that goes without saying.

Wet 'er down!!!


You know what is going to be really funny here?   It will be when this $20+Billion monster is all done and it is crawling along at 15 mph, crammed full of tired, sweating people that have to stand up and hold on to the straps in there for 1-2 hours just to get home.  You will be looking up from your standing still, motionless car, listening to the radio about all the traffic snafu's on the jammed up parking-lot "freeway", and realize that the traffic is even worse than it was before!
It is then that everybody will realize that this thing didn't accomplish one  damn thing except put us all in debt forever.


"We still live in one of the safest, strongest rule of law country on the planet"? Too bad Clinton doesn't apply to this.. Good Grief.. Sounds like you think we should all be sheep and kneel at the feet of the Government.. FYI Trump will get more votes just to vote against Clinton than votes for actual Trump..  this election isn't about Trump.. it's about CLINTON.


I don't see where there is any scandal that I have laid; if there is a scandalon, it is the one Jesus laid and which, for many, is one they cannot seem to get around.  "So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name" (not "If you pray", not "say something like this", not "remember to be gender-inclusive").  This is not the mere product of some good guy living in First Century Palestine; this is God telling us something about the relationship we are to have with Him.  It would be the height of grammatical error to say "Our Father" and then suggest that this is the relationship we are to have with "Her".


It would appear that you misunderstand, when some of us refer to Trump as a loser, we don't necessarily refer to his business dealings.
I, for one, refer to his moral bankruptcy, which happened early in his life and from which he hasn't recovered and never will.


Is there a rule at Civil Beat to not spell the Hawai'ian words properly? For example Kaka'ako or Waikīkī. By the way, even Google Maps make an attempt to include kahako and 'okina in the map names.


Putin is well-positioned to do it: the meeting only happened because he prevailed on his stooge, Trump; and Trump, in turn, admitted the Russian press and excluded the American press. Trump's contempt for the American people, their government and their institutions is inexhaustible.


Posters? Buttons? Stoles?

I would say the authorities acted reasonably given the circumstances and paraphernalia.


I am 54 years old and feel guilty for retiring early. As soon as the financial planners gets involved it becomes a shell game. This couple needs to grab an HB pencil and a sheet of paper and do the math.
Does anyone remember 2009 ,and the complete wash out and the toll it took on RRSPs. The very best of hard working couples will never retire on 2 million dollars at age 40 , 50 ,or 60.The low interest rate environment will last another decade, and returns on investment will be devastating.
Urbanites should stop relying on house prices as the primary retirement .
O and just a foot note i had 14 million and i am scared to death.


Good news.


"The first edition of Friday night lights in Kalihi was spoiled by the private school kids from up the street."

And we wonder why the ILH and the OIA don't like each other? C'mon, man! That sentence is nothing but inflammatory and only adds to the problem.


Maybe because "Censors disourage (sic) original thought."


Go ahead.  We will watch.


Why is the state executive director of the Colorado Farm Service Agency a federal appointee?


In other news, Nigeria, Libya, Canada, and the United States have increased production in total by 1.8 million barrels a day.


"But, but, it’s Texas, where even toddlers are armed! This can’t possibly be as, the NRA says, an armed society is a safer society. Weird.
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Why is so "weird" when other people don't act the way you expect them to act, especially when the only thing that is "weird" is your expectations?
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Small town
Church.
Who would have thought that a bunch of church-goers in a small town was going to be the next "mass shooting site" of some insane criminal?
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Obviously they didn't.
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But if you have anything to offer other than, at best, your sarcasm, lack of knowledge, lack of understanding, lack of sensitivity....that's fine.


my African Canadian friend said the same thing.  My irish friend didn't agree.  I talked to a muslim who said it wasn't great but no big deal


Jeez, does it make it that much better that she was "only" pregnant, the baby could have been born at any time in any godforsaken corner far from help. You guys seem to be obsessing over something that is almost completely irrelevant. Personally, I'm intrigued by Boyle having been married to the extremist Zantab Khadr and then taking his second wife backpacking, while pregnant and/or with a child, in areas with known extremist Islamic militants.


Thank you Pauli & Scorpio. We need to keep up the pressure, but like the others I am concerned that there is no accountability in SA. The Bell Pottinger collapse happened in the UK where the standards and ethics are much higher than here. At the moment in SA when things get bad in the public service we just lower the ethical and even the legal standards.  We need a few IMPORTANT people to go to jail. Not fall guys as seems to be the way it works in African states, but the one who perceives himself as  "King"


There was a lot more flight activity in the 70's, before the first oil/gas crisis.  I grew up out there and always enjoyed seeing and hearing the planes.  Those were the days of "sonic booms" too!


You mean the leader of the German National  Socialist Worker's Party?  Uhhh, yeah...that and the fact that he put into practice some of the philosophies of early American Progressives..(As did they, but not to the extent of the Nazis... mandatory sterilizations of mental patients and prisoners, advocating an "all white utopian society", etc.etc.)


Ms. Freeland is right to correct misinformation but, at the end of the day, other the Trump Administration will focus on other aspects:
1. Haven experienced several recent setbacks, they need a win to steady moral. The upcoming NAFTA negotiations will be of high interest to their support base and begin soon.
2. If their international trade policy is more than mere transactional machismo, it is implicitly 18th-century Mercantilist with Canada and Mexico envisioned as economic hinterlands to the US's metropolitan centre.
3. Canada may not run a net trade surplus but we do in certain industries (softwood, etc.) and the US will cherrypick for decisive wins.

In short, Canada needs its own detailed list of unfair US trade practices with which to bargain and must be cultivating trade allies and new markets.


Russia succeeded.
Bunk.
Bunk.
You're 0 for 3.


Reg, you may have been in management and sales of life and health insurance for 60 years, but this does not give you access to the numbers needed to compute total percentage of GDP going to health care.  You have refused to consider that the costs for health services under the heading of personal consumption expenditures might not reflect the total cost of health care in the US.  The fact that the bea.gov website itself says that health care comprises 17-18% of GDP trump's your interpretation of their numbers.  The key is what they mean by health services in the context of personal consumption.  As I said above, a literal interpretation of personal consumption implies that many health costs such as insurance costs paid by employers are not counted.


gotta pay attention.


That's the problem...you see something that goes against the propaganda that you've wholeheartedly swallowed and you "stop reading"...


This time I agree you have spotted reformers over-looking the obvious.


Jabbers...it is great that you found "your people"...guess nothing else matters now? Should all of us bow out to you and your people now? Please make sure to keep the "other people" informed  on how the cold life is going.


Vaporize it. Safer - with none of the "obnoxious" smell of burning marijuana. Vaporize it.


Hey Les, You ever notice that Homer just hangs around in the corner and "disagrees" on all the topics, yet, you never see him making any points or says what HE thinks?
Just a troll.


HeII, not all three-year-olds act out the way he does. The "terrible two's", maybe.


Good luck.


William Robinson is a strong, compassionate, friendly individual that has come through the worst, from being called "murderer" to dealing with what seems like a never ending legal process, and works to make each day before him better than the last.


The "bundling" is quite different here.  In the U.S. it was a bundle of many different mortgages that were resold as a high-grade investment, even though mort of the mortgages in the bundle were not of very good quality.

The "bundling" discussed in this article is two loans for a single person, one a regular mortgage and the other essentially being an unsecured loan used for the downpayment for the mortgage.

That being said, the underlying issue isn't entirely dissimilar in that you have people who can't really afford the house they are buying, and therefore at a high risk of defaulting, obtaining loans where the details are intentionally obfuscated from lending regulators.


Me thinks you exaggerate a tad. For 280,000 you can easily buy a one or two bedroom condo in Vernon. We just purchased a 3 bed 2 bath townhouse in Armstrong ( 15 min. North of Vernon).

Lake Country and Kelowna, now those are much more expensive than the north Okanagan.


She does one thing that you don't agree with, a thing that is completely open to interpretation as we don't really know what was going on as we were not there, and she's a filthy parent?   Do you say such things about people to their face or only when you know that no one can identify you?


Yes, adults can and do lose that ability.  And the presidential election campaign 2016 demonstrates the sad accuracy of that conclusion.


In a well-coordinated cyberattack, Russia attacked the sovereignty of the U.S. in an effort to interfere with one of the pillars of our country's greatness — our democratic electoral process. In addition to trying to directly affect the election's outcome, Russia sought to discredit our electoral system, to Americans and foreigners alike, by portraying it as corrupt and dishonest. Like a ventriloquist's dummy seated on Putin's knee, Trump made outrageously false claims that our election was rigged and that there were millions of illegal voters. Trump attacked our basic institutions and couldn't bring himself to whisper a single criticism of Putin. He was Putin's dream surrogate. Now, someone has risked prison to expose Trump's collusion — yes, concealing the truth about Russia's cyberattack on the U.S. is tantamount to collusion — and you think the leaker is "anti-American"? On a daily basis, Trump attacks fundamental American institutions and values. Who is anti-American?


Not a single mention of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto. What a shortsighted list.


Unilateral disarmament won't work.  Remember British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's infamous, "peace in our time" remarks when he returned from the Munich Conference with Chancellor Adolph Hitler.  Britain essentially agreed not to use military force and oppose German expansion.  And today, we know the rest of the story of how that appeasement worked out, do we not?


you wrote 'cannot respond'.  But as anyone reading can see, I have frequently responded.  You just don't like my answers.  The topic I am discussing is modern roundabouts.  They are regularly constructed in cold climates across the US, Canada and Europe without significant issue related to weather.  They don't use signals, so criticisms of signal timing are irrelevant.  You criticize the road users, but ignore solutions like roundabouts in favor of the same old solutions (which you also criticize).  You have yet to articulate your vision of a properly designed road system that would keep all users safe, that anyone could also critique.  Be brave! Tell us your vision.


Through the "right kind" of work...government work, where medical coverage is pretty standard and comprehensive...with the "rightsizing" of government now being proposed, fewer will have such privilege...

And he was fortunate to serve when he did...the US military no longer provides lifetime medical coverage for all veterans...range and quality is now dependent on how long you served and how high up the food chain you rose...

So you are kinda right...


That's another example.


People like Bauer just like to troll and flush up anything that they think will hurt teflon Hillary.  Whoot, whoot.


I never made that argument- houston vs new orleans. Why dont you tell that to lake houston and its 96 decision to do nothing.


I don't recall the details, would you mind elaborating some?


It's against the law in Canada, so if it's practiced, it's not practiced openly.  The Shafias killed three of their daughters and the first wife, remember?  http://www.macleans.ca/politics/how-to-get-into-canada-if-youre-a-polygamist/


Thank you Kokua Council, can we expect some firings for incompetence, noncompliance on the part of this State Department?


If The Globe elites are smart as they believe they are, take the comments on this forums,as a small sample,  most of which agree with  articles of this nature, start by a management shake up and replacement, beginning  with progressive editorial to opinion journalists, the Globe needs to move back to the center of the political spectrum, let go of the marxist- regressive staff, substitute them with skilled and caring real reporters.


His posts are extremely inane.  His knee-jerk response to everything does not help further the conversation.  Anyone who thinks someone is going to take away his guns has serious issues.  If anyone is going to abridge his rights, it will be the fascist government that he so-assiduously defends.  Isn't that ironic?


Could not pay me to live in a Candelas house.


Did you use your search engine yet to find the front page news about the popular NYC  Shakespeare play that depicts Trump as Julius Caesar?   Did you find the twitter account for that play that features countless thumbs up for the play, because it satisfies these liberal's blood lust for violence in the name of politics?


Ah, the quality of mercy....,,


Amazing story of survival and the tenacity of the will to live! As Winston Churchill said "If you're going through hell, keep going."
I am glad these folks made it through the fire. When there is life, there is hope. They may have lost the things that they loved but they survived and are with the people they love. They can create new memories, they already have a start with this story.


And more about lying, pu**y grabbing and bullying.


Alaska's marijuana system was broken from the get-go.  Oregon did it right.  No guarantee any of these "Growers" even know what they are doing, just that they know how to jump through bureaucratic hoops.  Stepping through endless levels of government is ridiculous.  Washington gave a ton of licenses to people who had no clue how to grow and saw part of their industry struggle to produce at the beginning.  Lots of Washington growers were a joke.  Alaska is shaping up like Washington. Oregon's industry is is thriving and behaving, and a grower can literally walk in to a store and sell their product.  The licensing is easy!  I want Oregon's system here.


I bet the police were allowed to participate.
Pride Toronto has become an embarrassment.


You're joking right?
Take a look around you. Electronics (incl computers), phones, vehicles virtually everything you use in day to day life is the result of science.


That is utter nonsense and outright garbage.

It was made very clear to the British people what this referendum meant - the remain side and its project fear campaign couldn't stop going on about it - now that they have lost apparently it is a different story....

The will of the people was taken - it was very clear what they were voting on - they decided and their will has to be respected. Period. That does not mean watering down their decision or having new votes with new campaign spins until the left gets a result they like.

Brexit is done, circumventing it is an act of treason and one might take note of how the English have dealt with traitors in the past.


That's sarcasm--right?


Let's get rid of Morgan Irwin and his fringe beliefs and vote in Nate Lowry so we can bring sanity back to the 31st


Considering the female activists are not the sort of women to sleep  with men their outrage  is understandable.


learner's permit is one possibility


The Democratic Party has always been RACIST! Just look how the Republicans were forced to fight a Civil War in order to free the Blacks from Slavery! Look at how President Lyndon Baines Johnson had to turn to the Republicans in the U.S. Congress in order to get much needed Civil Rights legislation passed against the will the opposition of many of his fellow "DEMOCRATS"????


how would you know that


Are you ever going to give it up? Moronic!


Obviously you are unaware of what constitutes false doctrine.


@ Tempmanoa
No matter how hard you try to explain the dis-n-dat scenarios you still Lost and WeDeploables won.
Hopefully this will be the last time I see the "popular Vote" mentioned.
Move on...get over it.
#MAGA
#PMPK


Feds probably relabeled Honolulu, Hawaii as the new Havana, Cuba. LOL


Go to their website and do it online. I did all three sites in less than half an hour.

Phone? You cannot be serious.


I'm fine wit self driving cars and my wife can't wait. It will still be a few years before we see a lot of them. Some folks will never buy them. The daily poll a few months ago said that 78% wouldn't feel safe or buy one. Lower insurance rates? There will still be accidents because other cars will still run into them. A self driving car can't get out of the way of a reckless driver or someone speeding through a red light, etc. They will still be safer as far as abiding by the speed limits but I'll wait for the few cities that are testing them before I give a full thumbs up.


"So, you are saying that all we should do is send a sympathy card to the victims of the Syrian gas attack 3 days ago.. Is that what you are suggesting."
Answering a heinous act with another heinous act only make you just as heinous as the first action. What you imply is no different than a raging animal breaking everything in sight because they don't know how to be anything other than a thoughtless raging animal that can't tell right from wrong.
Also, if you are set on reacting to the Syrian chemical attack, then why attack Syria's military? There has been no evidence that they are responsible for the chemical attack, and the previous chemical attacks in Syria that the media hyped turned out to have been by the rebels.


"According to his butler, Anthony Senecal, Trump once said the tiles in a nursery at the West Palm Beach club had been made by Walt Disney himself; when Senecal protested, Trump had a single response: “Who cares?”

Before the election when Reince Priebus was asked how so many people could support this vulgarian (my word) he said: "They don't care." Yesterday Kellyanne Conway told us: "The White House response is that he's not going to release his tax returns. We litigated this all through the election. People didn't care. They voted for him."


PLEASE take rosie with you!


Although it doesn't excuse what the Russians supposedly did, years of Hillary proved her incapable.  She really needed no help to lose for anyone with their eyes and mind open.  But maybe to get someone as bad as Trump to win the Russians might've been the tipping point.


Ah ha!  We don't see Laine often, but we often see McDavid on the late game....Matthews is even superior to him!


It's not a matter of keeping all his promises; it's a matter of doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of the promises he ran on.


AK Deplorable, your comment sounds like nothing more than sour grapes.


And this only took us back to 2016 prices... WoWWWWWWW... when we are down to 2010 prices give me a ring, cause it's never getting there... we are at the tail end of the panic with what I call "Peak fear" which is pretty much were most of us were in Jan/Feb/March with "Peak optimism". We will slowly get out of this and probably going down a few more % before it's all set and done and we re-settle to a balanced market by the end of the year.


What is your point because Europe was completely destroyed during World War II while millions were murdered in concentration camps and tens of millions killled but yet these communities re-built themselves. This has been documented.


His eminence is correct that bishops should take a coordinated approach to the matter.

And they would do well, then, to follow the pattern set by Archbishop Chaput. His diocese's guidelines (http://bit.ly/2eRrUP2) seem to be a model of reconciling pastoral compassion and mercy with a fidelity to moral truth.

This would have the advantage of closing off any mistaken notion that Mother Church is about to tacitly consider marriage impermanent, a notion corrosive to the family.


Sorry, but your first sentence is bogus. I deal in facts: disease and starvation (malnutrition is still here, however) are all-but eliminated compared to former times. War deaths are a small fraction of what they were pre-1960. These are golden times, my friend: enjoy.
Projecting devastation and apocalyptic visions are meaningless exercises. History is rife with such nonsense: human ingenuity always has found a way through with science leading the way. Global warming, our greatest challenge, has technical solutions, but they're not economically feasible, in today's political climate.
Almost 8 billion humans now inhabit this planet. If that is too many, please feel free to lighten the load... More seriously, planting trees, eating vegetarian, having zero children, and living in metro areas are the best things a person can do.


Exactly, another barrage of personal attacks written by Dave Pellegrin. You referenced Sam's health as a reason for him to be challenged. Does that mean Congressman Takai and Sate Senator Harimoto should resign immediately or should be booted by an challenger once they were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer? I find it ironic that progressives like you takes advantage of a lawmaker's health to encourage challengers to run yet won't call out on lawmakers from your own party to step aside immediately when their health is on the mend.


What is rap hula?


You need some schooling. I'll help.  Illegals are here illegally.  If they were not here,  the crimes that they have committed while being here illegally would probably not have happened.  It's their very presence here that leads to the illegal acts.

Example:  In California an illegal who had been deported several times killed people in a drunk driving accident.  Now, had he not been here, those people would probably be alive today.

Get it?


19,000/32,000 gun deaths in the US were suicides.  Where are most suicides?  In Asia and Eastern Europe.  Most common method?  Hanging.  They should outlaw ropes.

Most civilized people do not like guns.  We don't like bombs either, but thank God the US has them.  Why?  Because if the bad guys have all the bombs....  Same deal with guns.

Most gun homicides in the US are about personal conflicts, not the mere ownership of a gun.  The majority of homicides with guns in the US are committed by Black people killing other Black people.  That's sheer numbers, not rates per person.  Considering that Blacks make up about 13% of the population, maybe we need to be focusing on something else, not the guns.


Wow, you are too kind! Thank you. I greatly appreciate your appeal on my behalf, but I don't think I should be given a special dispensation (so to speak). It seems CC's latest measures would be exasperating for anyone. The moderation system remains a crude instrument. It can't detect good faith, or honesty, or factor in accumulated experience with posters over time. Clearly a few antagonists have managed to game the system and gain wide latitude. While it's annoying, that's the internet. But to have to negotiate an increasingly heavy-handed medium that is not all that effective in discouraging serial disruptors is both frustrating and a cramp on free expression. Not to overstate the case!


If there was, firing him would not be smart. He now would have no reason to not spill the beans, if there are any beans to spill. It may be that Trump had to wait until other people were in place to replace Comey. No matter whether you're a Dem or Repub, you must admit that the FBI Director has been a source of chaos for many months. As an executive, Trump is doing what any executive would do. Watching the media and politicians like Schumer make crazy statements is laughable. What they want is a special prosecutor who will guarantee the investigation will drag on into the 2018 elections. Apparently Schumer doesn't have faith in the bi-partisan Senate investigation. Odd because he's the Dems leader in the Senate. This is all about the next election. Dems have been on an 8 year losing streak.  It's all politics at its worst. It could all backfire. We'll see.


Exactly !
And please - look at Ontariowe ( or perhaps not .-(
Debt beyond >$320B, last election bought with Gas Plant cancellation costing >$1B, electricity rates "lowered" with borrowed money, a Green Energy fiasco .... and our very own sun-shine list public sector Nomenklatura !! A Discovery Math educated electorate of snow flake pronoun confused critical thinkers  .-)
And we have the gall to lecture from our usual Canadian pedestal !


We can only hope he fulfills his promise to "Lock her up!"


Well don't the banished parties end up in Anchorage ? So we get to deal with their issues? Doesn't seem right to me .


There the ones blocking up the system,have nothing to do,book an appointment.just had one last week,so what, lets go again,ITS FREE!


I hate these things, but here we go again.  Where is Al Gore and his Carbon Credits that you had to buy from his company?  I wonder if the people that want 732 will tax themselves every time they use a baggie, garbage bag, toothbrush, shoes and anything else that is a fossil fuel product???  AND, the We have NO time to waste, do it now, it's an emergency, or we're all going to die tomorrow.... I really enjoy statements like, "The initiative is designed to be revenue neutral, meaning the tax revenue increase from fossil fuels would be mostly offset by decreases in other taxes."  When has that ever happened? I SAY NO TO 732!!!!


Has Bibi returned the US weapons gift card then?


Mean women are weak and at their core fearful of actually living. Bullies thrive on fear. Reading this I cannot help but think about all the women "leader" bullies I encountered in my career who believe this garbage about themselves.


"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them... The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it." —Federal Farmer (1787)


Oh yes, no matter how blatant and devastating its consequences, misogynists never can see misogyny.  Talk about 'self-involved'!


Even if Khadr killed him what is your point? The Americans killed everyone else in the compound and tried to kill Khadr. That is war. There is no legal liability if you kill your opponent. The whole "military medic" angle is a crock. These were all Delta Force soldiers going in. They signed up for the military acknowledging that they may die on the battlefield. Khadr fought on the other side as a child soldier. He has no legal liability to anyone and has repeatedly won at the Supreme Court of Canada.


This selective meme is BS...they have always had enforcement for most non-profits, including those 'conservative thinkers' who entered into political advocacy...and they through a hissy fit on a Faux, sort of their war on Christmas, and don't listen when it was pointed out that it wasn't true so Doug you need to relax, there are plenty of dark money sites for conservatives that allow your tribe to do anything they please. But you like the false controversies...of course that's a Faux news' business model...gin'er up!
In truth no church is harassed enough...walk into you typical radical right church and you will find voting guides. Enough said.


.

Chuck Berry defined the Rock'n Roll genre.

How many guitarists were first inspired by the licks of Johnny B. Goode, Maybelline, Memphis or Brown Eyed Handsome man?

He fathered American Rock'n Roll.

All of those British wavers - Beatles, Stones, The Who etc will all attest that it was Chuck that ewas their first and most important inspiration.

Doin' the Duckewalk in Rock'n Roll Heaven.

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If it had been an attack by a radical Muslim, no one would be complaining about the language of Trump's response. I'm so frakking sick of these hypocritical double standards. 😡


lol Joe who? Pathetic....what's worse than the lame duck do nothing Obama? Now you know ,and on the taxpayers 'dime' yet! Totally meaningless and useless trip from a former U.S. administration  discredited and mocked on the world stage. Something worse than Joe who? I guess having a little potato and Communist China sellout as a leader....when not flooding the country with future Muslim terrorists. A few more months until President Trump gets his little potato masher out for the airhead and bubble brained 'leadership' in this former great country!


Hydro is anything but green!


And the forum fool is back trolling.


Not made up.  Look it up yourself.  Get thee unto Google and presseth thou the button.


Bill Hooper - As a trained scientist working in academia and industry for more than 30 years, my experience tells me that 97% consensus among any group of scientists is a remarkably high number.
If you spent time attending conferences in any scientific discipline, you would see that the ideas and models scientists propose are rigorously debated by colleagues who are trained to conduct critical evaluations. As a group, they're focused on revealing how things work - that's the joy of science.
Here’s a hypothetical for you, Bill. Say you have heart disease, and a heart attack is in your near future unless you accept your doctor’s recommendation to begin treatment with an approved drug that is known to be effective; so effective that 97% of cardiologists recommend it. Your position would dictate that the 97% of cardiologists are ignoring the 3% who don’t recommend the therapy.  Therefore, you would refuse that therapy. But denial of the empirical evidence won’t prevent your heart attack.


I in fact am hopeful that Trump is both friendly and respectful to Russians. Someone please explain why good relations with Russia is a problem.


Thank you for flushing away the PanMan dear. He was as annoying as a hemorrhoid.


I wouldn't mind it so much if it weren't so irritating to have to listen to.


Nice deflection. The second the story broke Oregon democrats took money from a Hollywood pervert, we have to women [sic] come foreword and accuse Kruse of "inappropriate touching." and what is that? he gave one a hug, and put his hand on the others shoulder when confiding something in their ear. and why was Kruse singled out as I know for fact democrats do the same and is common as family members hugging...because he smokes in his office and became the easiest target to single out. This sickens and disgusts me as this hyperbole drivel belittles true sexual harassment...and for what? to deflect from the fact the democrats have been taking money from a Hollywood pervert.


Clearly Ryan and Joanne have bought into the "Big Lie"... In order to embrace this lie requires the ability to completely ignore reality and all of the evidence that reality has provided disproving it.

What is the big lie? The Big Lie is the lie from which most of their other incidents of wrong thinking flows…it is the belief that the GOP is the party of the rich. The Big lie is the GOP represents only the ‘wealth class”, the big lie is that the GOP is in the pocket of Wall Street and Corporate America, the Big Lie is that everything Fox news and Talk Radio report are lies. The Big lie is that the GOP is the overfunded political machine hell bent on instituting anti American ideologies on the unsuspecting citizenry; suppress the vote, kink the elections and that every time they find themselves in the majority it’s only because they managed to scare and confuse the electorate… CONTINUED BELOW


Government prosecutors knew even before the trial started that she was not a spy, but they (U.S. Attorney) refused to back away.  There are several good books dealing with the farce, including one written by Ronald Radosh.


The first problem with this argument, of course, is the old tendency to try making Canada look innocent by comparing it to the US. This is often done by some of the most important Americanized elitists in our country.Some of them recently advocated that Canada become the 51st state of the US.

"Our liberal, democratic, rule-of-law system, with constitutionalism and federalism and habits of negotiation and peaceful coexistence, is what the Fathers of Confederation established and reinforced."

 Under the influence of American and British imperialism, Canada becomes more conservative, less democratic, less just, and less peaceful.

   John A did a lot of good. But he did some bad as well, It's time to face up to the bad, the harm that still does damage to First Nations 150 years later.


How about we stop blaming bad behaviors on people being drunk? Especially rape and sexual assault! Alcohol doesn't cause these crimes. The perpetrators do.

Anything a person would do when drunk is something they would do sober in a situation where they think they will not get caught.


come on, thats as bad as the left people here insults, bill clinton was very gracious today as were all the former presidents.


He's not just a leader of Roman Catholics but of ALL Catholics in communion with Rome. Including Eastern Catholics. There are 23 Catholic churches of different rites and traditions all in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. Please update article to reflect this. There are a lot more Catholics in the Catholic Church than just Roman.  Certainly Roman is extremely valuable and important and wonderful too, but so are our Eastern Catholic faithful. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches


Hillary thanks you for your support.


Nothing short of Martial Law will accomplish anything until all the liberals are relieved of all power.


If Marshall actually did what Lowdell alleges, a $50,000 judgment seems reasonable. Her alleged actions are especially deplorable because we live in a society in which fathers frequently do not fulfill their responsibilities. Weaponizing a supposed pregnancy undermines other women who are actually pregnant and need help from the fathers, to say nothing of what it does to the victim.

I suspect Marshall doesn't have two nickels to rub together, but if nothing else, she will endure the stress and expense of defending herself against the civil suit. Maybe it'll make her think twice the next time she decides to mess with someone's head.


"Our world is totally different than yours (Thank goodness)"  Except that you want the X Box, pick up trucks, drugs and alcohol.


Right, and since when have you EVER come up with anything other than whining about how others think differently than you?  Of course, by definition thinking at ALL means we're thinking differently from you.  Have a nice day.


Shill numbers in the report, they failed to exclude those that opted TO NOT get coverage. They also included over 40+ million illegals and including their anchor babies in those numbers. Practically every LEGAL US RESIDENT and US CITIZEN already had some form or adequate medical coverage for their needs already. And the bums always had coverage via the ER. While the system before Obamacare wasn't perfect it sure as hell was cheaper since we didn't have to subsidize for 40+ million illegals and their anchor babies that don't pay a dime for Obamacare!


I would agree some vaccines are effective and worth the risks, but not all of them.


Dentists should also be included.


Sounds like you aren't one of the smartest guys on the block after all.  However, with your ego, you could always join Trump's cabinet....


Well, Father....as has been said before, NCR has problems with their headlines, too.
Perhaps they should take note.


This is a pretty rich comment coming from a guy who threatened to sue Choon James for calling out your boss's endless trail of corruption. Do you expect anyone to believe you wouldn't be crying a river if someone put a sign on their business that said Mayor Caldwell supporters weren't welcome?

Im curious as to how you are able to have so much time to post comments while working on the taxpayers' dime? Is this part of the special contract you were hired under?


You would relish the chance to stomp people on the street for pure pleasure wouldn't you?


Never denied it happened under the previous admin.  There's a reason why no politician ever gets held truly accountable in these investigations: because when they start digging, both big parties have their hands dirty.  If you think otherwise, you're a fool.  The public behavior is partisan.  The real behavior is same feces, different diaper.  Wake up.

No, they're both lousy in their own special ways.  And if you think Trump is better, put down the bong.


Ah.  You meant "Chucky Cheese".  I'd agree that's just about the right level for you.  Research the definition of "paedomorphic".


Funny stuff right there.


You sound bitter.


On the "bright side," pretty soon things like this will most likely start occurring more in earnest here in these United States, once Trump and Trumpism are allowed to consolidate just a little more dark power. Despotic authoritarianism hates liberal democracy and its institutions, particularly investigative journalism. We've already seen it creeping in from the edges in Montana, at public FCC hearings, Health and Human services press conferences, Trumpist rallies, and so forth. We wait with baited breath to see what follows, next.


If they were swerving in front of you and they almost hit you then it seems you were following too closely. I do agree that people shouldn't let technology distract them while driving.


Divide and conquer. Obama--create division between races, create division between law enforcement & communities, create division between religions, create division between socio-economic groups. The plan has worked very well because the stupid Republicans are stupid. Now Hillary is following the same game plan! Give me a break!!  The idiot Trumpster is falling for it, Cruz swallowed it hook, line and sinker as have the Never Trump folks. Just elect Hillary already you idiots!!  The Trumpster is the poster child for NOT PC!! Most people with half a brain & who are intellectually honest don't buy into how 'offended' people say they are by what the Trumpster says.   The biased media demands it and stupid politicians looking out for their own best interest (i.e. McCain) get all righteous and PC and take the bait!  When is the last time a democrat criticized Hillary? Even Obama & 'Mr. Feel the Bern' ate the turd sandwich for Hillary.  It's about the economy stupids and I'm not that smart.


It was among "the show-stopping zingers of all time" as evidenced by the audience reaction. A wonderful show stopping zinger is identified, IMHO, by short and long term reaction to the isolated moment, and not by whether it changed the vote. Many things affect the vote...zingers are pure delight in and of themselves.


The embedded traitors obfuscate their way into outright lying to justify their fellow Republican Terrorist Traitors now ruling the nation in violation of every humand and civil right under the former U.S. Constitution.  All eliminated by the establishment of the Republican Terrorist Traitors overthrow of all of the governing system of the United States of America; Now changed to the United Corporations of Amerika.  Scalia and his band of 5 traitors certified the process;  Der Fuehrer Trump and Republican CONgress just "nuked" it into full legality.  Scalia's clone, Gorsuch ends all judicial restraints on the 4th Reich.


Unfortunately, even outside of pilot error, helicopters have a much higher rate of catastrophic mechanical failure than fixed-wing aircraft, with many moving and dynamic parts.  Personally, I have flown in a helicopter only once and that is enough to say I experienced it-pretty amazing to just lift straight off the ground.  Hope there is still a chance they somehow survived and will be found.


Many of us "up there in years" would prefer to hand down a great nation to our children/grand children that bleed it dry and hand them nothing but debt. The thing YOU fail to comprehend, is, WE have been paying close attention. That is why Donald Trump is the POTUS!


Another thing to consider in your argument in case you're not aware of it is that in Alaska, all auto & home insurance companies can use your credit score to rate consumer premiums, and most companies take advantage of this legality. In California, it is illegal to do so and it is also illegal for health insurance companies in Alaska to do the same.


You could very well be right about King but this piece provides no evidence of Robinson's accusations, nor yours.  I will add this, if you really believe King is a racist then you should write/talk about him all the time, just provide the evidence so those who don't know him can make a judgement for themselves without relying on a testimonial.  But, your testimonial (credibility) is important, I value your opinion so my antenna is up regarding King.


Did you go look at his link, Muz?

"As Trump's contract rose and was trading at 26 cents, the Democratic presidential nominee's Predict It contract traded lower at 77 cents."  It's rather simple...77 cents is higher than 26 cents.


Would you have this country turn into some kind of dictatorship where everyone has to march lockstep whenever the leader so orders? When has that ever worked?


It is common practice for a HOA to place a lien on a property for asthetics issues if the bylaws set in the covenants are violated.  Once he stops doing business the MOA has absolutely NO legal position on Asthetics.  Zoning laws are for addressing land use for business, not personal property storage. He should stand his ground.   If he decides to tidy up his property to make neighbors happy, who is the "looks good enough" cop?  Just another opinion whoever it is..  Bottom line talk to your neighbors make friends help each other out.  A stroke is a difficult injury to overcome; and he's a Vet? 👍  Who knows he might just have that part for your refrigerator that just quit working...


I guess some people would prefer the Caldwell Gedenk Biergarten and the Kamekona Lunch Wagon lot to grass, trees, and ocean views. Personally, I don't. Hey, why not make Joe happy and drop the Souki Casino Complex right into that prime location? Easy access from the Train's "Hawaiiland Station."


Perhaps you missed the report that the team was concerned about how Sloter looked going against the 1s in practice. I'm as much of a Sloter fan as anyone but going against guys who are now selling cell phones instead of guys preparing for a week 1 NFL game is why he was released.


Erik, all Alaskans know they cannot see Russia from their kitchen windows, it is just admirers of the Sarah Palin look alike, Tina Fey who thinks that. That would be democrats.


After jacking up our deficit by billions, Justin is suddenly worried about an extra $30MM?
  I'd rather spend $40MM fighting for a correct judgement than hand $10MM to a known terrorist.


Not just yet. There are some world leaders clearly in need of killing. I can name 3 or 10 pretty quick.


A lack of understanding of what science is again, sigh, how have we erred so in our education. Science doesn't need to prove or disprove a hypothesis it didn't postulate. That burden would lie with those that make the claim that a supernatural sky faerie exists!


I agree with Saunders -- even sadder than the loss of 22 young innocent lives in a horrific slaughter is the chilling effect it might have on Britain's openness to mass immigration.


Mr Grootes has made some excellent points. It should have been up to the ANC to sort out this mess. The wishy washy path they went down says a lot about them. There was good political mileage available at the time for opposition parties to use. They didn't use the ammunition given to  them. Zuma is  a problem. But he is mainly an ANC problem. My suggestion is that the ANC be embarrassed into action.


MAN--PUNY insolent-idiotic  MAN-- CANNOT even do anything to try to convince NATURE to change its ways---global warming IS----was and always will BE----


It easy an easy feat, just do what Australia does and lock them up in offshore detention centres. The Europeans have failed on this issue, and failed dismally. As the Indonesian president once said to the Australian PM ''You have take the sugar off the table''--sounds like Canada's sanctuary city offerings, are a big dose of sugar. Harden up, boot them out and don't give them visa's. The people smugglers will no longer have anything to sell--they'll soon stop coming.


"It was part of the ongoing education of a president"
The man is in his 70's.... you can't teach an old dog new tricks. For gods sake he is tweeting GIFs of him hitting golf balls at Hillary Clinton. I know 5 year old's who are more behaved than Trump.


hey Mom look at my post.
they like me.


Unless it's an editor censor you have never been told what you can say on this site.   How do you support Trump who shows no compulsion against insulting people with truly juvenile taunts, trying to intimidate his opponents or discredit them with branding them by repeating what he thinks will make him look better.   You support Trumps juvenile potty mouth, but condemn Gary for being a condescending?

Serious Xavier, you do support Trump dont' you?  If not, I appologize.   If you do then you might look to see if your bashing Gary isn't a bit hypocritcal.    Gary has strong opinions that don't match yours, if you are really about free speech, then what he says shouldn't really bother you much.    Gary and I have butted heads many times, yet he has never insulted my character.  (my reasoning sure, but I expect that on an opinion site).


Resign Sousa, don't let the door hit you! You destroyed Ontario economy now trying to broaden your reach?


Oh I can really dig that........rain.  I love my rain.  I remember when Mt St Helen blew?  No summer.  LOTS of rain and people who'd moved here left in the thousands.  Sigh.


Great story! I'm amazed at his dedication to finishing that project.It's an amazing accomplishment.


"If the Feds withdraw the billions spent through military contracting, research grants, support for college graduate funding, will the private industry pick up that cost?"

Only if all those private corporations in Silicon Valley and elsewhere like Elon Musk and Bob Iger, Lloyd Blankfein and Jeff Immelt are willing to work without Federal funding to "put their money where their mouth is" because of their deep personal concerns about the environment.

But, being private corporations, I suspect they will expect measurable and quantifiable  results from the money they spend instead of just shoveling it into the troughs to flow into the university systems to never be seen again.

 And the 'automatic' 10% off the top for 'administrative expenses' that most Federal Grants carry down level by level is also unlikely if they are spending their own money and not taxpayer money.


This is probably the most pointless article the Globe has published this week.

And that's saying something.


"There is a great disturbance in the Force."

"I have felt it."

Galactic Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader.

It wasn't Luke Skywalker; it was Trump!


What's your problem, Rob? The people who put Donny in the Oval Office were the working people of America. ( known to the liberal elites as the Deplorables ). All this fine gentleman is doing is keeping his promises to those same people: the ones who keep America running and who defend its freedoms. I don't see any of these elitists serving the US Armed Forces, do you? And, by the way, those fine men and  women of the US Armed Forces and the Intelligence Agencies are the only barrier preventing a foreign country from taking over our country. Too bad that the progressives here in Toronto can't seem to grasp this fundamental concept.


@Chris in Ottawa -- the suit against the Federal government began before Harper was in power, and was as a direct result of actions taken by officials under the command of Chretien & Martin.

The SC rulings have not been ignored, and there are two outcomes:

1.  That Khadr's Canadian Charter rights were violated

2.  That the Federal government is not obliged to repatriate a Canadian citizen held by another country.  That ruling came down in 2010.

From there, it's a question of figuring out the compensation, if any.  The most similar case would be with British GITMO detainees, who received slightly less than $2M each.

Khadr was already in a US prison for almost 2 years before the first Charter breach

Contrary Arar, Milgaard and other innocents, Canada didn't put him there, so by definition his compensation should have been much, much less.


Well that is helpful....glad he's back.


"Do you marginalize the poor?
Not Doug, he represents them"

Thank you for my biggest laugh of the day. Yup, the Ford family are fighting every day for the poorest in Toronto. That's what they want taxes cut and people laid off so that the city can't afford to upgrade its social housing or provide better services to the "marginalized".


Dwayne didn't kill anyone dumbass hiss mom did keep getting tired. You didn't know him lmao


And some would use," su padre".................


Must be tiring for "NITRO08" (or is that Krooky's daughter?) to click on "disagree" with E V E R Y logical argument against the rail fail here.


Jammer Coenraad. I should have read on before replying.


trudeau will approve it, its a good fit for the corrupt liberals!


Using Google Earth to zoom in on Eugene from above reveals that few buildings have greenery on their roofs.  This is a solution that many cities have adopted.  Planting grass, shrubs, and trees on roofs lowers air conditioning costs and results in less hot air being blown out of buildings onto streets.
Governments can start the process by converting public buildings, and then provide a tax deduction for businesses that adopt this practice.


ha. cmd: i was writing reply to ms chelsea re her too amusing story. it's hour later where i am and just finished supper and saw this. showed the story to couple friends here in jackson wy. it's a real chuckle. so just saw your post. and yep, smoking gun entrant for sure.


Davie: That's fine, but those teams were simply a flash in the pan. You make an excellent point, but that example does not fit your argument. The Johnny Unites Colts do, they were a powerhouse  with best running back, defence and quarterback for over 15 years but only won one championship.


Or any rules, for that matter


Liberals/Democrats have ruined much of western society ... lol lol lol

Most civilized countries in the world have been led and will continue to be led by Liberal, social democrat governments for decades now. Most policies we now enjoy to make our world livable come from these governments and not from idiots like Trump.

Just look at the list of countries that are most livable and that are the happiest and they aren't led by right wing crackpots. The list is lengthy and doesn't include fools like Trump.

http://www.today.com/money/2017-best-countries-world-switzerland-tops-us-news-world-report-t108890

These places value education and a strong social service program


Jaime North
WRONG WRONG WRONG

WaPo already submitted what is tantamount to an editorial retraction for their own "fake news" on fake news sites.  Chances are they saw lawsuits on their way up the hill. They are running scared because even those who didn't support Mr. Trump, like me, were more offended by the biased news smear campaign orchestrated against him than ANYTHING he said or tweeted.

WaPo is a plutocrat-owned (Bezos) propaganda rag, spewing any anti-Trump fairy tail they can lay their paws upon.  I still haven't forgotten how they beat drums for war with Iraq...along with Hillary and all the other war-mongering ostriches in Foggy Bottom.  Talk about FAKE NEWS resulting in millions dead + millions more lives ruined.

WaPo and the so-called Media Establishment/Main Stream Media are nothing more than shills for corporations, plutocrats and dying on the vine.

Try thinking for yourself.  Take anything CNNADNNYTWAPOABCNBCCBS puts out as "news" with less than a grain of salt.


Diana DeGette is the poster child of what a failed government looks like.


don't eliminate but trim the new Liberal CHILD TAX BENEFIT

which gives over $500 a child per month for children under 18

a refugee family with 8 qualifying kids
would get $4,000 a month

plus subsidized housing, medical, schools, daycare, ESL classes etc

a bit too generous, don't you think

taxpayers cannot afford
but of course Trudeau's lifestyle will not change


I like Eric's comments a lot. He makes a lot of sense in his postings. I wouldn't know if he was a Norwegian Troll living under a bridge north of Trondheim, but I am pretty sure he is not 13 years old. But Mr. Comrade and Mr. Ronni seemed inclined to think otherwise. I respect that opinion too, but the presentation is a bit juvenile :-) I do see a pattern of insulting and putting people down that offer a differing point of view on many postings - mostly on the Right, but the Left too. Too bad.


They upsell dubious services like fluoride varnish! haha


With all due respect, you are missing my point. Both sides have chemical weapons, but only ISIS and the Assad regime have been documented as using them.  As I specified in my comment, ISIS isn't there.  This means this can't be blamed on ISIS. Since al-Nusra Front has no jet fighters,  it leaves either the Russians or the Syrians. Organizations like Amnesty International have confirmed that it was an air strike.

 Just because you've never heard of air to surface missiles being used in chemical attacks doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Cold War Soviet Navy doctrine, for example, assumed a chemical warfare environment and all Russian tactical weapons, including air to surface missiles, can be configured to carry chemical weapons. The warhead is like any other once fitted to the airplane.

As chemical weapons expert, Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, told BBC Radio 4 "If you blow up sarin, you destroy it.". This would preclude an airstrike on a chemical weapons facility.


your comment begs the question .... do we NEED growth in GDP if our population is stagnant?


Get out of the lawsuit and stop dragging your heals on adopting a responsible, well-thought out budget that preserves the delivery of essential public services and does not adopt taxes or raid the PF.


Well for starters if you would get off your self righteous high horse you would notice that I was not replying to your comment. You are not the only Bob in this string.  Apology accepted.


Well, current politics dictate that this country is currently fully controlled by Republicans.  So, its difficult to lay into both sides when really its just 1 side currently.

Maybe if the Democrats can take back the House/Senate, we might be able to deal with some real issues in a bipartisan way, but...I dont really see that happening if the last few years of Obamas presidency are any indication on how things would run.


Great article! Everything I have read to date about the new coaching staff leaves me optimistic for the future of Duck football and thankful the previous coaching staff was replaced! Go Ducks!


If the EU is so wonderful, why is it necessary to threaten to punish the UK to prevent other countries from leaving ?


I agree with Gary's thoughts. Furthermore, nothing 45 has done to date indicates a smooth running government.  He's putting in the worst abusers of the system into his cabinet, eg  Devos and her ties to Blackwater, Pruitt to big energy exploiters, and right wing supremacist psychopaths into his inner circle who are shockingly  writing policy.  Freedoms and ideologies that made this country great are in danger of being eroded not to mention the health of our ecosystem and environment.  If one can stomach viewing the truly fake news on Breitbart or infowars.com in comparison the press 45 critiques is far more intelligent and compassionate and  much more accurate and any bias reported is a natural reaction by the white nationalist mainstream that has surfaced out of the mire.  I care about human rights,  environmental health, compassion and fairness towards others, none of which I see from any with 45's perspective.  Impeachment is never good, but is likely the only sane alternative here.


I don't know who felt you comment should be deleted - it wasn't offensive - not very smart - but not offensive


Suicide by Troopers.


M.A donated $1000 to my friend's grievance fund after he suddenly lost his longtime girlfriend, a friend of Mike's. This was just 4 months ago. I will remember him for his sense of humor & his generosity. RIP


This country is in big trouble judging by the ignorant, anti American temper tantrums by the libtwits.


Posting a link to Bill Clinton's State of the Union speech in 1995 regarding illegal immigrants has been removed as it does not meet the standards. LOL

You couldn't make it up. Only at the G&M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yesvvYEvs


Some animals are more equal than others.


We have a PC bank accounts for travel funds, can you guys in the globe look at the interest paid on these accounts and suggest some alternatives. We have been looking at this for a while, maybe this is a good time to move and get a few cents extra.


I have watches that comunity hunt completely wipe all the moose out of my aria i have hunted for years watching youg bulls come up year after year then the comunity hunt came to town and they were all gone i passed 30 to 35 inch moose i have been warching for years being haules out on the back of wheelers all in a line


Kabuki theater.  They just speak for themselves.  That's it.  And they talk about transparency, but if it was a hardball interview they would probably have gotten up and left.  I used to live in Hawthorne and the coffee thing didn't cut it.  The consensus there was that the "police aren't your friend"


I vaguely recall some kind of law that was passed that charged hikers for the cost of a rescue operation.  Is my recollection accurate and if so what does that law say?  These hikers who take unnecessary risks should bear the costs of a rescue operation.  They also should be held liable if their rescuers are injured or die.  Of course this wouldn't apply to hikers who follow the rules and procedures but just suffer a legitimate accident.


Go back to your cave, troll.


You are ASSUMING that the American version of what happened is true.

Because of fog of war, at best, and American bias, at worst, can we believe them???


I downvoted because your statement about 'most employers..' is not true. There is NO maximum working temperature in Ontario's occupational health and safety policy. I can tell you many worksites pass 34C on a regular basis. Much of the world functions easily in 34C, as your body can still cool itself by sweating,  if we were talking above 40C I would agree, but there is no need to spend the ridiculous sums for A/C for a handful of days a year....


''it was heartless to continue to leave these folks in limbo''
it's deadly to send them into unknown lands to face killers.

''President Trump is actually helping them. Dems had 8 years to do something permanent. This will bring on comprehensive immigration reform.''
ask any one of them if they feel the help.
Dems didn't hurt / kill them, trump is, he cares 0 about reform.

“young Americans have dreams, too.”
pfft!, nobody is stifling them but trumpublicans.


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Not too long ago women's rights were protesting that women in burka's should have the rights as the man and be able to dress appropriately and now?


Tell that to the congressman who was shot yesterday at baseball practice!


"In 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 38, proclaimed: "State parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of 15 years do not take a direct part in hostilities." However, children who are over the age of 15 but under the age of 18 are still voluntarily able to take part in combat as soldiers. "

"Kelly Ellard is scheduled to appear this morning at her first hearing for day parole since her conviction for beating and drowning 14-year-old Reena Virk near a Victoria bridge nearly two decades ago.Ellard was 15 in November 1997, when she smashed Virk's head into a tree and held her underwater until she stopped moving."

Ms Ellard was tried as an adult and has been in prision for 18 years . Mr. Khadr was never a child soldier .


"Love it or leave it" is soooo sixties.
Even nostalgia doesn't make it any less stupid.


Sexism is saying "women are inferior to men".Thus, we have women being paid less than men for comparable work, the "glass ceiling", women having the vote for less than a century in most countries, women being arbitrarily denied ordination by the Catholic Church (and yes, "arbitrarily" is the correct word).


Could you share where you found that info? It's actually been rather difficult to find a comparison of murder sentencing for CO juvenile v adult court, especially since so many juveniles are charged as adults for the crime.
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That being said, if the claim is that they should be charged as adults because the sentencing for juveniles is too light, it seems the better way to address that would be to increase the sentence in juvenile court, not to claim that the accused is something they're not.


Oof...I'll leave pitting region against region and the divisive politics of attacking Albertans to our left wing friends.

Have at it.

Back out of the thread slowly...don't make eye contact...


Nunes cancelled this week's hearing, without explanation. The Washington Post may know why:

“As acting attorney general, [Sally] Yates played a key part in the investigation surrounding Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign aide who became national security adviser before revelations that he had discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador to the United States in late December led to his ouster.

“Yates and another witness at the planned hearing, former CIA director John Brennan, had made clear to government officials by Thursday that their testimony to the committee probably would contradict some statements that White House officials had made, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The following day, when Yates’s lawyer sent a letter to the White House indicating that she still wanted to testify, the hearing was canceled.”


I agree and statistically speaking it's much much much more likely he did it than some random predator out roaming for children on a weeknight during a thunderstorm.


Obomba will go down as the wiretapper in chief.


TBD. Mr. Tillerson is giving up a job that pays between $27 and $33 million dollars a year for one that pays $186,000. Hey maybe you have to have $150 to $200 million squirreled away before you can be considered for Secretary of State these days (like Clinton and Kerry).


Some facts about this.
When it was decided that the Poverty and Homelessness Board needed to address the thousands of homeless in Lane County, various people around the table including law enforcement argued for a "frequent user" facility that could house and help the men and women they see every day. They said often there was no place to take them, and it would help the police if this facility were considered the highest priority. In other places in America this type of facility really does work.
This is about suffering people already living in Lane County, on the streets and in the doorways. It promises to help make the community safer and save a lot of money for the emergency departments and the police. No influx, but help for those already here, and often, in police custody.
So yes, it is a valuable asset for Lane County.
(Disclaimer: I was on the Poverty and Homelessness Board, but am not now on it. I certainly don't speak for them in any way).
Hugh Massengill, Eugene


Yet another example of Trump hypocrisy.

Trump today: "Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless."

Trump as a candidate: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."


Jesus did not write nor teach dogmas.  Dr. Jirran is quite correct.


sometimes I almost feel sorry for Bill.  almost.


May their bellies be full.


A pretty boy like the Kush will not enjoy his time in prison.


Leafs are very vulnerable in goal.  Andersen has a sub-par year and/or gets injured, no playoffs.


Both the social warriors on the Right and the Left admit that 'the climate' changes over time.
Only one side thinks that 'science' is fake.


The article points out that managers with better soft skills achieve better results.  If someone can have their team achieve the same results, over time, with poor soft skills then that's just fine.  That may be not be easy but certainly possible.


Well, the thing is, there are six teams statistically ahead of the Jays for the second wild card spot in terms of record, and some of them were also sellers at the deadline. The Twins gave up their star closer, who I think had 27 saves, and the Rangers traded Darvish. The Royals and Mariners added players, and the others didn't really do anything. And the net result is that it doesn't seem to matter that much: no one seems to be good enough to shake the rest of the pack. I mean, a few weeks ago, I thought, look out, here comes KC, a team still with some players who have been there before, but no, they're slip sliding away like the rest, 2-8 in their last ten.

The Jays are hanging around because of that, but to get into the thick of it, they have to get it going. A ten game win streak seems unlikely, but what about 14 out of 20 or something like that?


"They represent us well with their thoughtful, clear responses to President Donald Trump and their strong stands against hateful white supremacist philosophies, policies and actions."

Remind me again what they said against ANTIFA...BLM...Black Panthers?


A lot of storms start on Facebook. Maybe towns should rethink what gets posted on their official FB. With tweets and FB, there is no explanation for what is said, leaving way too much room for misinterpretation. Government by tweet and FaceBook is a recipe for divisiveness. Diverse ideas are not the problem.


Think about it !!!!   All these burglaries, robberies, assaults, murders, could be eliminated by erecting a junkie injection station at various locations around town......


I hope the Democrats don't "want" an income tax


frank, wow, not much i can add to that, except that i wonder where you got that bs. the fbi crime report for 2015 shows that, indeed, hate crimes against jew headed the 'religious' hate crime category, but, blacks continued their first place position of 'most hate crimes', for the 400th year in a row, i think. the difference is that a vandalized jewish headstone gets the same, or in some cases more, air and other media time than when a black man is dragged behind a truck until his head is separated from his torso. im sure there is a reason for this, a justification, besides that the media is white owned. remember good, but black ethiopian jews, and the arms wide open love and acceptance that awaited their arrival by white israelites. i dont know if there is a real christian left on this planet earth. right here in hawaii we have over 600,000 professed christians and 8000 homeless people. what would jesus do?????  i'm sorry folks, but i meet a lot of hypocrites on my daily rounds.


And this is why the private sector pension plans are diminishing GIU ....

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/10/19/retirement-heist-how-firms-plunder-workers-nest-eggs/#2a695a567275

Wake up man and figure it out. Quit blaming the only sector that is making things better instead of worse. You keep harping like a trained seal but you ignore so many realities. Instead of complaining about people retiring with dignity why not start complaining about policy that allows corporate theft of employee benefits.

You sound like a paid shill for these corporations


i bet that guy is a cold one shorts and no shirt


Under the Paris Accord, each country was allowed to set their own amount of carbon reductions.
There's nothing to negotiate.


Just the dumbest politician on the Island.  Too bad he's got such an important job.


The unarmed black men and women in the news who have been killed by police were not committing violent crimes.  I think one was for a broken tail light, another for selling cigarettes on the street.....  I mean, pul-lease stop being an apologist for a horrible reality that black people are almost twice as likely to be killed by the police and it is wrong.


so you're good with 35% increases last year and another 30% coming this year?  Let me guess, you either have medicare or group coverage somewhere and are not affected by the ACA........if you do have an ACA plan, what is it and how much?


You read my mind.


Let's have a contest.

How many more CEOs resign from Trump councils and committees in the next 24 hours . . . from right . . . NOW (11:11 a.m. HST).


Scary. is it not ?


Seven record highs on the Dow Jones within the last month and the media remains silent.  Wanna hazard a guess as to why?


LOL. What percentage of black Americans vote Republican? And why is that? Because Republicans can't stop putting their collective foot in their mouth and equating all black Americans with welfare and demonizing black Americans while pandering to the angry white base.

Maybe stop propagating the tired old propaganda of the helpless, feeble black American who is passively waiting for a welfare handout like Pavlov's dog waits for a treat. Because this is why the GOP can't earn the black vote. The modern GOP has no intention of trying to earn the black vote. They're still getting too much mileage demonizing and infantilizing black Americans in order to court the racist, white backlash vote. Southern Strategy. Thanks for the polite if condescending pat on the head, though, GOP, as you dismiss 38 million black Americans and sloppily paint all with one obscenely wide brush.


but i would have a shred of respect for him.


I suspect Wall's numbers will be a lot lower. Lots of grumbling about the latest budget.

At least he's not selling SaskTel to cover for his incompetence though there are musings about that too... next up selling Wascana to developer buddies? .


Great article! This will be me in my 80s. I started working out at age 20 and have never stopped. A lifetime of fitness pays off when you start getting older with a better quality of life.


A sociopath.   If he committed suicide, then I'm Genghis Khan riding a pony in Constantinople.


Wow.  A screen shot? Okay that's like weird. Like seriously obsessed weird.

Yep--I did just as I said, answered another post which had written  "German dictator"-


"It was for me like 'you give so much. You give me so much — all the people on the river."

Great quote from a grateful man.


No one puts words together more effectively and beautifully than Justice Abella.  As always, she is spot on.  She is a national treasure.


Why aren't the Democrats behind the effort to get rid of Jeff Session? Shumer, Bennet, DeGette, all criticized Trump for picking Session, saying he was a racist, anti marijuana, and now Session is among the top AG to the left. When it's pointed out the Democrat have zip, zero principles this is what we mean.


When we say "humane" we really should mean "humane" to the team that has to do the work.  We need to be focused on their humanity, serenity.

I am against the death penalty in the US under all circumstances, but if we have it, we have to be concerned with the souls of the people tasked with executing our government's decisions.

It should be "rare, painless, and safe" (to leverage some nice words from the abortion sub-class).  Affordable too.

The person being executed has made themselves low priority in the bigger scheme of things.   Their remaining job is a great and full confession to their Father God.

Most of our role is to pray earnestly for them...maybe fast for them...that they face their God in their hearts and fully reconcile with Him.


Skeptical
Whether it is a country or an ideology that is attacked by a democracy, it is an attack. Certainly Vietnam and Palestine were  not clear and present dangers.

Vietnam was to stop the spread of Communism, but that was not necessary. Odds were it would fail as it did.

Palestine was to establish a Jewish state. A deal made with the Brits in WW1 and implemented in highly emotional times, after the Holocaust. That essentially handed Hitler's goal of exterminating Jews over to Muslims.

Attacking an ideology does not legitimize the attack.

"An overwhelming percentage of politicians think they can solve the worlds problems with a hug or a blue beret. This is foolish thinking." Where is your data to support that statement? My recollection of the past 70 years is that politicians have tried to solve problems with violence. That certainly has not worked.

Establishing a Jewish state in the ME was a mistake. Moving it is within the capabilities of Jews. 1/48th of Texas.


You were voted in by some retarded assholes to work for the people not to sit there and tell us what we will pay, get a grip or ship out to sea with Notley


This guy was not a sniper people...ugh.


The dogs have a license to be there.  Do the geese and waterfowl have a license?  No.


What is the opposite of Big Brother?

Little Sis.

https://littlesis.org

LittleSis* is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
* opposite of Big Brother

We're a grassroots watchdog network connecting the dots between the world's most powerful people and organizations


Another post devoid of any economically viable STEM reality ....


I see bicyclists everywhere, Ed. I see them in the bike lanes, on the sidewalk, in the middle of the street. I see them going the right way, the wrong way, and crossways.  I see them stopping for stopsigns, and zipping through them in traffic. I see so many bicyclists with so many different types of behavior that I now think of all bicyclists as unpredictable.


Hanson? The e-mail gate guy? Fudging data, faking numbers? That Hanson?


Just about every other country in the world has a privatized air traffic system ... Germany, England, Canada all have partially or fully privatized air traffic control systems. In Canada, it paved the way for a wholesale modernization of air traffic control technology while also reducing costs and massively reducing red tape. http://www.navcanada.ca/en/Pages/default.aspx No system is going to be perfect, but international observers have said for decades that the American system is clunky and flirting with disaster. Like everything the government does, it's inefficient and clogged by bureaucracy. We've been lucky nothing has happened, but we should remember that on 911, one man had to make a decision outside of the bureaucracy because he couldn't find anyone in the government to take responsibility. Google Ben Sliney. He acted like a private sector employee, able to think autonomously and that made all the difference. We need that to be the rule rather than the exception.


Priscilla finished up the meet just a few hours ago. She placed 2nd in her class with a 235kg (518lb) Squat, 160kg (352lb) Bench Press, and a 240kg (529lb) Deadlift. Her Total (635kg/1,400lbs) was a lifetime Personal Record by 2.5kg, which is a remarkable feat considering the heated competition, international travel, and how long she's been competing!


I've never been more disgusted at the Broncos organizations.  Moves like this are what tear a team apart.


Atlantis Resorts coming in 2 years.  A $2Billion expansion.  Certainly conditioned on the train being built.  ASK them at the next Council Meeting about this folks.  And carry large black and white "FBI INVESTIGATION NOW" signs.  Once they see those signs just watch how they cast their eyes down and how they squirm while trying NOT to show that they saw them!  Those are the guilty ones that need to be investigated.


Education was never sacred. It's always the first on the chopping block.


When a cable TV news caster in Austria or Britain or Germany or Spain changes TV stations there, do you know why the event does not make it to the top-of-the-fold news headlines of newspapers in Paris, France?

Answer: Because France is a real country.


Is CSIS's watchdog still moonlighting as a lobbyist for Enbridge ?

Maybe, they should also consider a position as a hired goon for United Airlines.

Hear they also pay well.


Rick it would be very interesting to know what you do for a living.  You point of view indicates working for a living isn't in your cards.


I think the charge was.


'8 years of incompetence'?

That's funny.

Obama didn't have an IQ contest with his handpicked staff.


Lyrical and lovely. Brought me back to quiet - peaceful - tundra moments. So long ago now, I'd forgotten. Now I remember again. And yes, for the most part,the Alaska media has never been able to accurately understand, or report about, rural Alaska. That being said, Lisa Demer of ADN has been doing some interesting stories for the past while. Some, but not all of her stories, vary from the standard list of "bad news."


hey Jeff,

how's that full-scale investigation into Hillary's servers going?


What the weather was like before and after Trumps inaugural speech is irrelevant, and not mentioned in the article.

See the (speech) rain for yourself, plain as day, Trump's speech started about 30 minutes in, this video direct from the White House:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-address

Trump's version -- "we’re not going to let it rain on your speech . . . it became really sunny. And then I walked off" -- is plainly wrong.  You have been given the irrefutable evidence that it's wrong.

Your video shows a lighter spot behind a cloud -- as Chief Justice John Roberts is introduced -- not Trump.


Dismissed Republican ideas when Obamacare was being discussed? Obamacare IS a Republican idea. Well, until Obama embraced it, it was.


Saying that an abortion to save the life of the mother cannot be done says two things: Two deaths are better than one and the life of the fetus means more than the life of the mother. This is not my "attribution", this is the application of simple logic.

God said NOTHING about abortion to save the life of the mother, so stop pretending God did.

You are advocating the use of nuclear weapons in self defense. Well, one can certainly make an argument in favor of an abortion to save the life of the mother on the grounds of self defense. In fact, the Talmud makes exactly that argument.

So, explain to me how a dead mother and a dead fetus is morally superior to a dead fetus alone. I really want someone to even attempt such an explanation.


Ron, please seek help. The narrow thinking is not coast to coast, but mainly restricted to  the coasts.


This column does an excellent job of capturing the facts. What I would add is this. APPEARANCES  matter. In government, appearances either build or erode trust.
This is the reason elected officials seeking to be elected and trusted pledge to be transparent and inclusive. Even the fuzzy Ethics Code of the City of FW states "Each Employee is expected to act in accordance with all laws and ethics that may apply to his or her position, as well as striving to avoid even an appearance of impropriety in the conduct of his or her office or business". The appearances of this cozy relationship give great pause and raises many questions. The City of FW needs to seriously examine how they wish to be viewed by the public. And then they need to act in accordance with those values and principles. In general, I'm one of those who believe the majority of public employees strive to provide the best services possible to the public. In this case, something went wrong.  Deeply concerning to say the least.


The original Medford Mail Tribune story helps a little but still seems unclear how that much could be spent on ramps, fire escapes, sprinklers and insulation, the the type of work indicated.


The only evidence of dementia I see is amongst those who are steeped in inordinate hatred of this man.


So your theory is to suggest that because Castro threw out the Americans he was a good guy and Cuba a better place? Your anti Americanism is showing through loud and clear. Stick to the point please and stay on topic. This is about Castro not the US or the mafia etc or El Salvador. Castro was cruel and crushed dissent at every opportunity and he sided with the Soviets to spite the West. Trudeau was foolish and made all Canadians look that way with his remarks. This editorial is bang on but you are blinded by your hate of the US (and now assuredly, Trump) so you are upset. If it's so great why don't you move to Cuba?


It's an idea, but I also have to put it up against the idea of ignoring people--which I have some objection to since I've been in some communication with Pan for a long time already. I have been in several unpleasant situations where people found ignoring other people was acceptable while I found it ugly, like shunning. I tend to live in hope that there must surely be ways of communicating with anyone; that is foolishness, I know, but I will likely die trying because I value attending to others a lot. It does, also, allow other people to carry on conversations at times while I distract the distractor. I've also walked away from a few lately.

I also don't always like letting comments stand unanswered when a response--while irritating to some--also lets the infrequent reader know that there is likely to be a response to the gibberish some people post. I am currently settled on the solution that a couple of people have mentioned, which is to give a few tries before calling it good.


Trump likes nazis.....and they like him.


I assume if you built up a business you would expect to sell it also when you retired also.


You took me literally but not seriously.


Maybe they should pay for a staff of rangers to patrol the trail and the lake all summer watching for miscreants like themselves. A court injunction forbidding use of the pictures would be nice. That seems more practical and meaningful than the gobbledygook mentioned in the article.


Colleges will slowly reductio themselves ad absurdum. It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic--and culturally disastrous.


Actually, no, what you describe isn't at all how the reality played out.


my goodness when i was a halloween kid roaming neighborhood with friends in tow perhaps all the costumes would be offensive and not welcome at most doors. today halloween cosplay better be vetted. of course parents with tots door to door have to inspect candy with uv light and a magnet today. guess i'll stay home with geezer pumpkin spice pizza.


Yea!.. maybe they'll come back as worms.


Take mother nature's support system and this is what happens.  All in the name of progress.  Right?


THIS IS ABSURD..GONE TOO FAR..I AM EMBARRASSED LIBERAL..  FORT BRAGG HOME OF THE 82ND AIRBORNE. FORT BENNING, HOME OF THE 101ST AIRBORNE...THIS FORTS ARE PART OF THE MILITARY TAPESTRY OF THE US IN WW1, WW2, KOREA AND NAM...TO CHANGE THE NAMES WOULD TRAMPLE THE MEMORIES OF THE THE SOLDIERS WHO WENT THROUGH THESE  VARIOUS TRAINING FORTS AND DIED FIGHTING FOR THE US AND WORLD FREEDOM...BACK OFF DEMS YOU ARE MAKING US LOOK BAD IN THE FACE OF TRUMP AND HIS MINIONS...BACK OFF BOOKER...THERE ARE BIGGER FISH TO FRY...


The real question that I see is, can Singh bring the NDP into second,  or third place.   With Jack Layton the party gained prominence. With (grumpy) Tom Mulcair the party became the "Opposition", and was on track, well before October 19th, 2015, to become the party in government....Singh is colourful, but not a leader.  The next federal election promises change, the difference simply, will the NDP be second or third ?


As a man in his 79th year on this planet I am truly happy to see that we have a woman on a major party ticket running for POTUS I'm only saddened by the fact that my choice is between Hillary and Frump. I will most likely vote Democratic but I definitely wear a rather large and strong clothespin on my nose when I do it.


This is the same as 'trickle down' economics, only in reverse. Instead of the notion that low, low taxes will encourage the wealthy to spend more thus helping the poor find jobs, higher minimum wages will have a 'trickle up' effect which will encourage the poor to spend more thus helping the wealthy make more in profits.


There will always be a portion of society who are unable to take care of themselves, we need to identify the people who are homeless due to mental illness and provide them with the treatment and services they need.

Those who are homeless by choice and are causing problems we need to give them the option of changing their ways or dealing with the consequences.

I was curious what happened to all the panhandlers when Obama came to Anchorage, they all vanished for those few days.


Or don't hang out in and around bars looking to prey on drunk women.