Unions don't like vouchers because they would divert public money to private schools, many of which are not unionized.


Jay Bozievich you like to comment about the money you want to spend so tell us why have you not written any comments about the animal control issues nor as I  have seen any thing about the short fall at solid waste. You wrote all kinds of stuff about your new court house you want to burden taxpayers paying for it. And you had plenty to comment on when some of us were taking steps to recall all of you. So tell us why did these 2 examples happen on your watch?


Thank goodness we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to save Canadians from themselves. I look forward to seeing the smoking crater where this law used to be, once the Supreme Court is done with it.


With your last sentence Last Patriot I completely agree.  Invocation could be seen as a nice word for show boating - lots of waving arms about and making a ruckus with no tangible benefit to be seen or experienced.  Great posts Last Patriot.


Benefit cuts are coming one way or another for SS. What has to be decided is who loses and how much. Raising the age limit is one of the worst options. Its fine for a white collar person but I saw what blue collar work did to my male family members who worked in the forests and mills. My Dad was lucky, he moved into management before he couldn't work anymore, long before 65. That is why my Australian friend's father's thoughts are important. Personally, one being allowed to choose between private mutual funds the SS agency manages would be a good thing, if done correctly. But just turning it over to anyone to manage as self directed account would be terrible.

I can't fault you on Johnson's disengenousness nor will I defend it. It isn't a perfect world we live in, nor will it ever be. But I maintain it is easy to see thru his disengenousness which is a problem he will face in the debates if we can get to 15%.  But his ideas/policies are radically different than what the other two offer


Wow, if this is true ... it's a classic case of facilitation bribery, where a fee is paid to facilitate a service of a government agent that is supposed to be their job.  This is a common 3rd world scam.  And proof that Alaska has become a 3rd world country.


You can't sue the Legislature for negligence or incompetence. Otherwise the courts would be full.


Yikes. As if the Arab rivalries were not complex enough.

The U.S. just made best friends of Saudi Arabia, who probably spearheaded the action. "The chief worry among them is the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist political group outlawed by both Saudi Arabia and the UAE as it challenges the nations’ hereditary rule."

Meanwhile, the U.S. has major bases in both Qatar and Bahrain, now on opposite sides of this dispute. And Trump can't just sign an Executive Order to settle the issues.


StewartBrian offers, "the racism argument is for the intellectually weak"

While Serafim Sarovskii found my earlier post humorous and you gave it a "like" wherein I simply compared the similarities of two North American born women of Indian descent, one a Canadian and the subject of this article and the other an American and a member of the Trump administration, it appears with the arrival of the "intellectually weak" this morning that my earlier comment has become "below the civility threshold for publication".

Hmmmmm....


RG:  "But while on the witness stand, the child, now 5, also told an unlikely story"  ....  whose opinion is that?   RG: "While Jagger insisted to the jury that the case hinges on the child’s credibility, Morgan asserted that plenty of other adult witnesses — including a pediatrician and counselor who have treated the alleged victim — provided testimony that supports the state’s contention that the child was abused."  ....    jim jagger VS a 6 yr old.  blame the victim..so easy to do with a little kid.    i would have loved to been there and listened to that testimony and the cross examination.
  i wonder if jagger is court appointed or took this case voluntarily..


Interesting fact is that both Ambrose and Trudeau are anti-Trump establishment politicians. I hope O'Leary will bring business attitude in politics and real professionals to guide this country.


It is true that I believe that we must respect the lives of our fellow citizens.  I have great trouble with your comment "I would gladly have cleaned up the mess if he had followed through on his threat," which you made on this page.  The comment appears to utterly devalue the life of another citizen and in fact you have only the information from the press to support that conclusion.  Sorry, but I believe that crime itself derives directly from the tendency to devalue our fellow citizens.  The man involved may have done many good things in his life.  Yet, you are willing to condone his suicide and clean up the mess based on this one tenuous media report?  No, I am a supporter of rational criminal justice that begins with the assumption of the value of our fellow humans and aims to rationally correct deviations sans revenge or utter devaluation of life.


conservatives disrespect all women equally, successful or not.


lol you wish, it's been a year...he aint goin no where


We cut the Bell phone 4 years ago, now we only have internet with them and they gouge on overage charges, we use the net the same amount every month, no netflix but some youtube. These overage charges seem to be random hit and runs that have nothing to do with our usage, it's leaving a bad taste in our mouth and their internet will be next to go.


It is truly unfortunate that American support for the "freedom fighters," aka killer rebels allowed the Syrian war to prosper and continue.  We are as much responsible as Assad.  We touted "Arab Spring" and encouraged insurrection.  It all sounded good, but how many Syrians died because of our misguided support of armed insurrection?


I have walked thru the shadow of death more then five times. I fear no evil. For mine is a different calling. From a place you have never been and never will, for mine is a path much less traveled, much more sought after, by the common mortal. Thanks for asking...


Kim, I am sorry you are not able to donate.  It must be frustrating - especially after having been a donor for so long, and especially if, like many other people excluded under this rule, your exclusion is the result of your, or a family member's, service to our country.

Unfortunately, this is not an area in which the Blood Bank has any discretion.  The FDA decided to tighten donor restrictions with respect to CJD (the human version of mad cow) and the Blood Bank, like all US blood banks, had to comply.


No jobs will be created?  Sure buddy, whatever you say!


Mililani is a HUGE community. They've have their local problems like any other community


CleanupEugene:  My comment that we've had coffee was based on my belief that your first name was John and you and I had coffee and a visit at Max Porter's in Junction City.  Please note my parenthetical comment (assuming he is who I think he is).  It seems you are not "John" and we didn't have coffee together; my assumption was incorrect.  My apologies for the mistake.  However, may I suggest you could have said something like "no, Gary, I'm not who you think I am.  We've never had coffee together."  Instead you write  "garycrum, I have NOT had coffee with you, ever. So, you stating you have, is a LIE."

I try very hard to post accurate information and welcome corrections if I post something which is not true.  I do not knowingly LIE about anything, including having had coffee with you.  You could easily have pointed out my error without the insult of calling me a LIAR.  It would have been a far more civil approach.  regards, Gary


The LWNJs are here in full force with their usual absence of sympathy for the victims of terrorism. True to form, they are exploiting the suffering of others to score political points.


What's wrong with a zip line?  Seems like a reasonable proposal.  Probably less adverse impact than the atv rentals.


Again and asgain!


I hope I'm right, too -- but I wouldn't bet my worldly fortune, such as it is, on it.  If Trump fails to concede, that would be a tragedy for the country; and if Pence also refuse to concede, that would compound the tragedy.  That would leave Priebus, or maybe Ryan, to concede -- which would also compound the shame and the damage inflicted on the Republican party.


Bet there's a few basement shrines, though. Not too close to the microwave, however.


Scary indeed: Tokyo earthquakes!


It is important to have a common understanding of what a customer complaint is.  Too often what a customer believes is a complaint is not perceived as one, therefore not acted upon, by company staff and/or upper management.


It always cracks me up when folks don't realize that 'free speech' has serious limits...lots of school won't allow you to wear tee shirts with advertising...let alone the F-word. Broadcast TV is more regulated than cable...thisis fairlt stupid in my opinion...cable should be too! In fact we have a number of restrictions, hate speech comes to mind. So speech can be and is regulated...and I would suppose I'm often in favor of this. Of course the ACLU rightly takes the view that rights should not be limited Willy-Nilly. Cool...so we gets peaceful NAZIs marching. It may be their right. Of course schools are different, as are work places.


I was surprised to see that Russia and The United States have 95% of the world's nuclear weapons. I knew they had most but I didn't realise that much.

And I really can't see those countries disarming to an extent that it will make any difference to the likelihood of nuclear war.


I am so very glad that you wrote this letter...far too many of our beautiful
tress have been taken down in very recent times.


Katmailand? Ok,maybe they'll have better luck than they had with Alaska Marketplace.


Icon:  I'm a democrat (small d), a Democrat (capital D), a Liberal (capital L) and a Realist (capital R)..  Yes, I'm also an OWG (Old White Guy).  Since you couch your post to me in such terms, I will add I've been involved in Civil Rights movements since 1960, we have a bi-racial biological Grandson and two adopted AfricanAmerican Grandchildren,  so, I do "have some "skin (no pun intended)" in the game.

If you'd care to review my posts during the campaign, I think you will find them extremely critical of Trump and all that he expoused during his run for the Presidency.  j

Do I take his "promise" seriously?  Hell if I know?  Here's a guy who made extreme promises to every right-wing hate group in the country during his campaign...here's a guy who ran the most divisive campaign in our history.....here's a guy who showcased his sociopathic nature...yet, he was elected President.  Now he promises to "bring us together."

Simply put, "I hope for the best and fear for the worst."  (cont


Harry 904, You know "truth" was never the goal!  They can't really state their goals as that would EXPOSE them for what they really are!  Remember these people really aren't for a "democracy" or a "representative republic," they are for a dictatorship run by them.  For example, I just read thaat straight black males are being called out for their " white privilege."  A 5 year old has a "terrorist report" on his school record because he didn't want to take off his Super Mario Bros backpack at school.  The teacher kept at him (instead of just letting it go) until he said he had a "bomb" in his backpack and that if he took it off it would go off.  He immediately got suspended (from Kindergarten, no less), then when parents pointed out that suspensions only were used for 4 - 12th, they changed the charge to two counts of terrorism!  And, we also have the teacher who handed out the words for a particularly explicit and violent rap song as homework in Middle School.  Where are we going???


Plan all you want, luck, and government, still plays a big part in where we will end up.  Good luck if you were born after 1970, the year that income stagnated and wealth began to decrease for all but the top 10% here in the U.S.  It's too bad that working together is seen as a bad thing by the Grand Old Party.  Ahh, that sucking sound....
.
"As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped."
-  Marriner Eccles.  Frontiers: Public and Personal Recollections.  1951


So you agree with Harper that the Liberals should not exist?


You and your ilk are very, very sad...


It is time for ADN to do some real journalism. Ask some deeper questions. How can a company make any money flying one passenger with a $1,000,000 airplane?  What was the reason for  this flight between PAQH and PATG?


If the Trump Administration decides to withhold federal funds from sanctuary entities, is there a plan to replace that money with other funding?


It's not named after Cal Thomas, but rather Lowell Thomas, Jr., who helped fund APU's program and promoted the Eagle Glacier as a recreation area.


I favor your view Taipan.
Two cavemen where sitting by a campfire at the end of the last ice age.
One caveman said to the other, "I see that the glaciers are melting".
The second caveman replied: " Yeah, we need to stop lighting these campfires".


Funny,  the reaction of the security experts today was how carefully drafted this bill was and how thorough the briefings compared to the slapdash amateur hour efforts of  the last government,in fact several said it was like day and night.


She couldn't give them any of her family contact information and the car couldn't be found.  I hate that an animal died in this manner but suing feels like nothing but a money grab to me.


The Space Pork has been a misrepresented, overly expensive boondoggle since its inception & it continues to drain Millions from the state Treasury. Gubmental Baloney!


Only one of them.


You're comparing a few hours (worst cases a day or two) of rude treatment of a bunch of lookie-loos to years of bona fide torture, illegal detention, and forced confessions?

No words suffice to describe that level of idiocy and false equivalency.


Yuppers....goin' to buy myself my first house and a new truck and a bass boat and trailer with these here lottery winnings and thanks heavens my divorce settlement came through before I bought the ticket!

Oh ya...and a canoe!


Hi Mark.  Good to see you showed up to add your spin to my comments.  As hard as you are trying to convince everyone otherwise, the science is not settled on global warming.  The climate models are based on theories that may or may not be valid.  They assume feedback loops and use borrowed equations from circuit design.  There is good reason to believe that there are significant errors in their math.  After a thorough impartial review it will probably be found that there is some anthropogenic global warming but not enough to be a concern.  I know this finding would not fit with your world view so you are trying your hardest to head off any call for an impartial scientific review.  Unfortunately, for you, science always gets it right in the end.


Correct, all racists and inbred should move to Alabama


Hitler never had gun control; he had Jew and anything less than the master race control.


The takeaway for Power 5 schools is to not hire your assistant to be the head coach.  Washington went through this when Jim Lambright replaced Don James, and OSU did the same thing in basketball replacing Ralph Miller with Jimmy Anderson.  Your new head coach should be someone that went out on their own to hang a shingle, and create their own identity.  Dana Altman became a head coach out in the middle of nowhere at age 24.  When Altman did jump to KSU as an assistant, he went back out on his own as the Marshall head coach.  As great as an assistant Tony Stubblefield is for Oregon basketball, we better not hear in 10 years that Stubblefield is replacing the retiring Altman.


I'm not going to comment about the killer or the victim, just the milieu.

We've always had social signaling, where people intentionally provoke or solicit attention and validation from the people around them, but the rise of social media in general, and Facebook in particular, has created a native market for attention that simply didn't exist 20 years ago. Someone looking to engage in an extreme act to garner notoriety was limited by the limits of media back then, but now they can publish in an instant, have viral reach in less than 24 hours, and become sensations, literally overnight.

We've created the perfect vehicle for people who engage in these kinds of acts - near instant celebrity. This won't be the first or the last, unfortunately.


This advice to learn from history and stay modern coming from someone with a company website that looks stuck in 1997. If I had a company with the word Innovation in the name I'd make sure I didn't look like a dinosaur in my presentation to the world.

This is the thin gruel that passes for pro-fluoride support? "Listen to your betters", "do as you're told", "father knows best", etcetera. There is something that accumulates with fluoride, but it's not knowledge.


Harper has always been more pro-US than pro-Canada. This is just further proof that voting out the Conservatives was the best move by the Canadian people...if Harper was in power now he would be giving Canada away.


TROLL


Sure.  They need to follow people who fail and can't govern - the Republicans!  Great idea!


Let me guess-- rightwinger?

No sense of time/place and what is appropriate when.

Allow people to mourn.


There is no doubt..."reporters can be a real 'pain in the #$$%'"  Guess what, when your job is to provide information and acquiring that information requires asking difficult questions, the person asked may be unhappy.  I hope no one is too surprised by this disclosure.

Donald Trump has taken the "war with the media" to a whole new level.  If the news is "bad" for him he blames the messenger, calls them the "enemy" and declares they reports "fake news."  He has openly ecouraged violence against reporters.  He has mocked a disabled reporter, and, regularly, attempts to bully anyone bold enough to ask him difficult questions.  lt's no surprise that other very conservative candidates and office holders follow his lead.

The media provides much-need public accountability.  Sometimes "our guy or our gal" ends up looking bad.  Guess what? That's their fault, not the media's.

Don't forget Harry Truman's little sign "if you can't stand the heat, stay the hell out of the kitchen"   Gary C


"It wasn't until after the parks and recreation commission had approved the idea that anyone thought to ask the Anchorage Watershed and Natural Resources Advisory Commission what it thought about the trail proposal. In this case, the meddlesome "anyone" was me. I'm a duly appointed member of the commission."

If you read between the lines here (not hard to do), the bias is evident.  This article is a poor attempt to try and justify your irrational actions.


Politicians have been doing just that for decades, why is it now this major issue? The Democrats took government control of 1/6 of the nations GDP based lies and misinformation and liberals applauded that action.


Rudy Giuliani Confirms FBI Insiders Leaked Information To The Trump Campaign
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-fbi-clinton-emails_us_581c9e3fe4b0e80b02c93d6b


Didn't a high ranking military commander not too long ago say publicly that our mission system was highly unreliable to shoot down incoming from Korea?  Hope this isn't just feel good news because I'm scared stiff about what may happen especially when civil defense  says  our shelters are outdated and not functioning but they have no plans to ressurect any time soon.


You don't have to go that far.  Just look for some retired teachers who are at least 70 and they will still know how to teach math properly.


Maybe he should have donated his massive bonus to keep skiing and track.


Yip, turn the other cheek.... then pop a cap in his @ss!


it was the fault of government who forced the banks to give the loans to anyone regardless of ability to pay pal all for social engineering housing..


While you are travelling back in time, I would like to remind you of other ruthless and cruel people that were not Muslim.  Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Vlad III.  Does that make any terrorist attack that happens today more tolerable?  Your attitude is one of the reasons that terrorists think they can get away with the things they do.


You're driving me crazy. Your use of its/it's is distracting me from concentrating on your busybody interest in the intimate lives of homosexuals (mainly men, it seems).

"It's" is the contraction for "it is" or "it has."

"Its" is a possessive pronoun.

For the love of God, get it straight (so to speak).


I don't know where you live, but pick your community's backdrop or favorite place.  That's the type of place where the Trust wants to harvest timber in Ketchikan- and decided to do so with no public input.  And that's why most people who live in Ketchikan- and the elected bodies- oppose what the Trust is doing here.


As another poster pointed out, the GOP came up with this plan over lunch, enough said. I think she made the right vote.


Again someone who does not understand taxation law to make this type of comment. If you do not understand the law do not comment.


Practice, lots of it.


Voice:  And the Judge should have made it mandatory that Mr. Lundberg stay out of any place that serves alcohol............


One hopes that when the time comes for you to be in need of your country's help that you are met with a few of these useless sods to protect you rather than those men and women who would protect their country. In Canada though soldiers and their equipment are in short supply but I am sure that fits with your narrative regarding your definition of a sports hero.


Isn't that a lot like saying "Hey, I dumped HER."


"They were considering a second career so we thought we would be proactive."

Proactive against what has been accepted as a legal industry? Proactive to keep law enforcement from earning more income?
Proactive against folks that have already proven their trustworthiness from participating in cannabis?

What EXACTLY is the proactive intentions?


Where is the Constitutionally guaranteed right to reasonable accommodation listed within the Constitution.  These employees performed a wildcat strike and remained absent for 3 days before they were fired.  Moslem prayer times (Salah: 5 daily prayers) in Denver are Fajr 4:46am; Dhuhr 1:06pm; Asr 4:56pm; Maghrib 8:02pm; and Isha'a 9:26pm.   Have them take their lunch break from 12:30-1:30 and everything else is pretty well covered.  The Obama appointed NLRB/EEOC screwed the pooch as usual.


And worth noting the OECD information I provided a link to picks up the story in 2010. The large increase was in the early 2000s right after the reforms when they shot from the middle to near the top.

Using other data (WHO regional office, World Bank), a recent WHO analysis reported that GDP ratio went from about 8% to 12.9% in 2013. No other country experienced this kind of leap except the Netherlands.


At least he said something, Whether anything will come of it??? Lets hope!


Art, All the Alaska Railroad labor contracts provide for members who are promoted out of the bargaining unit to keep paying dues for the right of reversion.  For the unions it's a revenue stream from people whom they do not have to defend.  For the members it's perceived as insurance to revert back with seniority.  It's perverse! More importantly it says so much about how the public sector operates (or not).  As for the hit list, bring it on!


Newt Gingrich summarized his support for the National Popular Vote bill by saying: “No one should become president of the United States without speaking to the needs and hopes of Americans in all 50 states. … America would be better served with a presidential election process that treated citizens across the country equally. The National Popular Vote bill accomplishes this in a manner consistent with the Constitution and with our fundamental democratic principles.”

Saul Anuzis, former Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party for five years and a former candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, supports the National Popular Vote plan as the fairest way to make sure every vote matters, and also as a way to help Conservative Republican candidates. This is not a partisan issue and the National Popular Vote plan would not help either party over the other.


Can you explain what you mean by fallacy?  What makes you think that accumulation of GHGs in the atmosphere doesn't cause the climate to change?

Cap-and-trade systems are simple: There are a certain number of emission allowances.  The number decreases as the regulatory body ratchets down the allowed emissions.  These allowances have a value based on the number of entities involved in the program and the amount they admit.  If they purchase an allowance but can reduce their emissions equal to the amount equivalent to that allowance, they can sell that allowance at whatever the price of market dictates.  This was devised by conservative think tanks, not by liberal ivory towers.


The economic case for road tolls is powerful.The first, and by far the most important, reason to toll a road is that a well-designed road toll is the best solution to Toronto’s traffic woes

what utter nonsense! first highway tolls will send the mess to the inner streets not fixing them. as for economic more nonsense. Increasing taxes (another word for tolls) is again taking money out of the economy from consumers and in ontario we can not afford more of this stuff. what we need is a responsible ontario government that does not blow billions a year buying votes, that slashes spending down to a responsible level to free up billions in cash for such projects. No , tolls are not the answer and neither is the liberals new carbon taxes etc that they are clearly going to use to give the money to Toronto


The story the news media should have been reporting all along was that Veresen NEVER had the money to complete this project.  Our screwed-up permit system allows speculators to victimize whole communities and landowners.  We should not  allow anyone to seek permits involving eminent domain till they prove they have the funds to build.  Veresen thought they'd get everything in place and then sell the whole thing to China.  Well China decided to cut a huge deal and have already started building their pipeline to Russia.  Putin gets the last laugh on all the politicians here that thought a west coast terminal would stop that from happening.  The local politicians think that family wage jobs trump the environment, health, safety, and landowners rights.  That is just plain foolish.  It's not why FERC shot down the permit, but it should have been.  Clean water, air, and climate change should have been the reason, but most of all the reason should have been the earthquake/tsunami zone!


You're welcome to win all the polls you want.  Or wait for the introduction of West Wing II. I'll focus on elections. Winning elections does seem to be the objective of political activity.

The problem with polling for political affiliation is that while 39% of respondents self-identify as Independents, the overwhelming majority of them will vote for a Democrat or a Republican at election time.

You can't gerrymander a race for the Presidency, the US Senate or state Governor.


I agree with the person who said NHL is unwatchable. It is. It should be called anything but hockey. There are too many teams to have all good players on each team. Instead you have one or two good and the rest are enforcers. My enforcers can protect my good player better than yours.  Maybe if Crosby hadn't been hit over the head he may have been able to avoid the final collision. A ban for the playoffs for the head shot should have been called and wasn't. However hockey as it is, is unwatchable.  No more  pro hockey here. It is thugs on ice.


Well that's kind of the point of the designation of sainthood. And the point of the Catholic Church as a whole. It sounds absurd, St. Paul told us as much himself. But I believe it anyhow.

"The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."  1 Corinthians 1:18


Ukraine's authorities blamed Moscow for Voronenkov's murder; Russian experts accused Kiev of masterminding the murder to score a point in its confrontation with Russia. But recently I've found some curious details (https://dnrnews.wordpress.com/) about this case, which throws light on everything that happened to former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov in Kiev. It turns out that Denis Voronenkov and his wife Maria Maksakova have left Russia for Ukraine coz they were finding those who could ensure their security and better life abroad through legalizing their shadow funds. Surely, in such case secret agencies are the best helping hand. But not only Ukrainian security environment has become Voronenkov's protectors in Ukraine. Such CIA residents as Jason A. Stock and Thomas A. Thliveris have been his main curators in Kiev! And how could highly skilled professionals from the CIA fail to protect Voronenkov? It's absurd! Thus, they've simply turned him into a sacred victim of their intrigues.


Meth will do that to you.


Lock him up, lock him up!


If the existence of the program created a property right (i.e., a work permit) and that's being rescinded there's a due process argument.  Maybe not a good one, but it's there.


Nothing but a server full of classified emails that she really should be in prison for.


Mike Brooks, you can't help yourself let alone me.  You have already stated you believe all the lies the fossil fuel lobby tells the uninformed.  The level of green house gases are in the atmosphere going back a half million years has already been documented from drilling through the Antarctic ice cover.

It isn't very difficult to predict what will happen and because it is already happening.


Time to get some assistance from the minor offence people to pay back some of the victims. No reason for that manpower just sitting around living off of the state. Put them on remote beaches with no roads and just a tent and some sleeping bags away from the dope supply for a while and some fresh air.


What of it? Tilting at windmills are we?


Kirsgirl: "If there is a smidgen of doubt, kee the patient there. Err on the side of safety for us citizens!"

The lawyers say differently. There must be "clear and convincing evidence" of dangerousness to confine a mentally ill person in a hospital. This burden tilts toward immediate release 75% to 25%. It's not even 50-50. And there are full-on hearings with surprisingly dedicated piblic defenders. Also, hospitals have wide discretion for how they document and testify about risks, making it easy to get a judge to order release. Then they all have immunity from liability. Isn't that nice and tidy? Let freedom ring!

The criminal process differs in that cases are rarely argued, overworked PD's encourage their many difficult MI defendants to just plead guilty. They are held in jail pending sentencing. For felonies they may go back to jail or prison, and don't usually get early release. They're turned loose when they max out, no matter their dangerousness. The lawyers keep us so so safe.


DucksInARow:  And you go back to one of your default positions; anyone who disagrees with you should quit commenting, go to another State or go to another country.  Since there are so many more of them and only one of you, the simplest 'solution' would be for you to self-deport.

Your problem is not motley's  'comments'; it is that HE is RIGHT and YOU are WRONG!

DucksInARow, Do Not count your DUCKS, before the EGGS Hatch?????????????


We are also now preparing our move out of the country.  The wealthy, $200,000 per year plus pay some of the highest taxes in the developed world.  Big incentive for them to leave.  The big issue is not tax fairness but tax competitiveness, and on that we are failing miserably and it is getting worse.  Look at Ontario, Alberta and BC which have raised taxes. QC is already very very high.  Have met a lot of entrepreneurs and highly educated Canadians who have moved south of the border and to the UK.  Compare Canadian and US marginal tax rates at around $210,000 when the top rate kicks starts in Canada.  Add in the additional taxes and attack on Canadian privately held business. Our best and brightest will be highly incented  to leave.  That is not how you build a modern economy.  Economist just published an article showing that optimum maximum marginal tax rate was 44%. Anything higher leads to lower tax revenues and lower economic growth.  We are net loser to US and UK on immigration.


Yes, I listened to his entire speech.


This is an argument not worth fighting as you never want to drag a family through this.

The rep politized this and I will bet she has twisted his words. They are looking to make him look bad.

Nothing on the prisoner swap for the guy who left post who we traded terrorist for after others died looking for him.


And like I said earlier, stuff it. You are still trying to deal with personalities and not the subject or issue being discussed. That is what always marks disrupters like you and always proves that they (you in this case) are not the least bit interested in anything except their own self gratification.

What I am is a man, a Canadian man, who is considerably more senior and a lot more wise and a hell of a lot tougher than you are. So mind your manners and curb your tongue.


spot on, spot off, for now.


What if Khadr is innocent?  The evidence against him is extraordinarily weak.

This Guantanamo mentality needs to stay in Guantanamo.

Everyone who actually appreciates the rights and freedoms that we all enjoy knows that.


What does this have to do with Obama or keystone?  Lockheed martin is a private company

Besides Obama is gone in like 2 weeks


150 % agree!


I distorted NOTHING. You said that pain isn't too bad, we are afraid of pain, and taking pills for it is a failing. Incidentally, I said nothing about parents and children -- that distortion was entirely from you. Your blather about not medicating children shows, among other things, that you want your children to be in pain. You praise working with your family, but it seems that you really don't care about the wellbeing of your kids. Oh, and ADHD is something real. A genuine parent would know that.

I was wounded by a claymore mine set off by a Vietnamese. If you had bothered looking at that article, you would see that the Chinese made knock-offs of the American claymore mine. And you got an ouchie in Fallujah. I got shot once with a rifle round that grazed the top of my head (and bled like the proverbial stuck pig), and I got a dozen or so claymore pellets in my left leg. I'm lucky I can still walk.


If you want to be on Special Olympics Tennis Team, http://www.enumclawspecialolympics.com/tennis-registration.html

Questions?  Email me at daryl-at-harper3.org


Competition is based on skill level. You really don't think there was an open competition at  receiver do you? You really don't think Bennie Fowler and DT were on the same level? You really don't think Will Parks and TJ Ward were having an open competition? The only thing that Paxton Lynch ever did to deserve a shot at the starting QB gig was be a number one pick.
The Little Guy


Sounds like it's one of those entrapment type cases they like to do in states.


Models, especially computer models only work when you can include all possible variables.

With climate thats an impossibility, we don't know the temperatures or precipitation that will occur in the coming weeks, months or years. We don't know cloud cover, or what volcanic eruptions, forest fires or earthquakes will occur and all of these things plus many more affect future climate.

Computer models do one thing, they provide a result based upon the variables (data) provided in the programming. Alter the data and you get a different result. Climate model results are never factual, since the variables used are best guesses of future events.


And who cleans up the pollution from the engine oil and fuel?


I know a few people who would love to discuss the meaning of the word "sacrifice" with you in person. Nice folks once you get past the scars and missing appendages. You might want to reconsider how you state your "opinions" about stuff you obviously know very little about. It might rile a few of them up.


The Province of Saskatchewan was blessed with several centuries worth of coal deposits....and has developed a process to burn coal ....at an industrial scale...without leaving a carbon footprint.

I'm sure the ambassador from USA to Canada...will be interested in this process...and offer Canada...ie...Saskatchewan... new markets for this new process!!!.....  WIN WIN for USA AND CANADA
Way better than Sarah Palin or somebody like that ...could do


I agree.  The fact "Open" even has to make the statement that Ali's book is not about bigotry simply proves that we have gone too far in one direction on what is acceptable speech.  I have read Ali's books and articles.  I wish others would do same.


I was just teasing you, since it's obviously not a crime or even a story. Just poking fun at you dullards.


You must be bald for the all the head scratching over the irreconciliation between your comment and the reality that the Unites States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. A bunch of softies, us. You're a stone-cold cretin.

http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All


Sadly, you are right. The only questions are when, where, and how many for the next time.  What a world.


The basic text here is John 3:5 "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit." which was taken to mean that the unbaptized cannot be saved. Theologians then asked, "What about small babies who die before they can be baptized? Are they going to hell? Is this fair?". To answer this, they invented limbus puerorum -- "limbo of the children" -- essentially out of thin air.

Nowadays, the attitude is "Of course a loving and merciful God would not have that happen", and limbo has fallen into disrepair.


Ignoring the implicit racism in your first sentence, and taking 'mitigation' in your second sentence to mean the legal concept of a 'mitigating factor', I disagree with your point, as does the law; Mr Kangas' state of mind does matter.

First degree murder does require premeditation.  There was clearly no premeditation.  This young man will spend the rest of his life behind bars regardless of how the trial goes--but alleging premeditation is a pale too far.


You say"don't go where you're not wanted". Good advice, you should follow it.


You think MAGGIE is a feminist?!

LOLOLOLOLOL

I hate to burst your little MGTOW bubble, but there are oh, so many married feminists out there, raising feminist children. :o)


"Both parties placed more importance on their own personal agendas than on the public good"

I hope you can appreciate the irony of that statement as you place this mess of a rail project above all else, including your own credibility and integrity.

How many lies have you told in support of this mess?  Hundreds?


Great story! Thanks!


No it is NOT against the law to have a revolver there in 'most' jurisdictions any more than it is to have a loaded gun in your house.   In Colorado it's permitted everywhere.

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/colorado-gun-laws


http://www.adn.com/politics/article/average-compensation-alaska-lawmakers-surpasses-88000/2014/02/16/ Below is excerpt from the article- good read
JUNEAU -- Alaska's part-time legislators received pay raises of more than 10 percent in 2013, bringing the average legislator's total compensation to more than $88,000 for the year, at a time when the state swung into deficit spending.
The other portion of legislators' total pay is in per diem, the daily amount each legislator gets while the legislative session is ongoing. Legislators from Juneau got $175 per day, while those from outside Juneau received $234 per day. For most, that per diem amount added about $21,000 to their pay, tax-free.

If I paid you $88,000 a year and you did not do your job,  I would fire you. If you wanted to get paid per diem to work where you live I would tell you to get lost. We continue to do the same thing and expect different results. So sad and it just gets worse.


Civil comments are looking for moderators with lengthy experience as editors in "Pravda" - while it is a joke, but there is 100% truth in it.
Can we all together sabotage the censorship by voting all comments as civil?


Tw words:  Mary Magdalen.


Justin will be visiting a mosque for closed door prayer services with Khadr. Now they can be best friends.  Allah Akbar to all.


Once were warriors, maybe. These are not real warriors.
Our society doesn't value MMA, UFC, etc. except as "entertainers" who are more flash-in-the-pan than anything else. Even BJ Penn is washed up. At least he was smart enough to self-promote and make his millions while he could. Most of these "others" are not as savvy.


It depends on WHICH medication, obviously. The standard anti-malarial in WWII was Atabrine, which didn't work very well; a lot of soldiers serving in the tropics developed malaria despite taking Atabrine. I took Paludrine daily for 4 years as a teenager and it apparently did me no harm, but it wasn't totally reliable either. When the Paludrine failed and I developed malaria anyway I was treated with chloroquine, which has been known to have unpleasant side effects in a small portion of the people who take it, but didn't harm me.

Almost certainly, you didn't take mefloquine.


We should waste no more time and energy on more resource extraction, Canadians of today have been educated to be anti-development and they, along with a faction of native people plus their US entertainment industry allies, will ensure there are no new projects.  So let's just cut to the chase and forget it.


Oh, that breeding-like-rabbits thing. Yeah, forgot about that....


"...subsequently ended up in FBI hands". That is the key difference. That incident was handled in the proper manner not the above the law approach of the Trump clan.


For years I have said the four marks of the hierarchy are
- Arrogance
- Clericalism
- Legalism
- Disdain for the Laity

The time is long past for a stake to be driven through the self-serving ecclesiastical claptrap of an Ontologically different "Priesthood" and proper attention be paid to the Priesthood conferred on each and every one of us through our Baptism.


He cool your jets and leave your bats at home not making threats.  And your white sheets and your nazi arm bands.


Chris Alaska wrote: "This still hold true today."

Oh, and this too?

In 1969, then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir told London's Sunday Times, "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."


Careful stewards of growing a crop, not a forest. Just to make sure we're making that distinction.


OMG... you are so right! It's all Harper's fault Trudeau purposely put us into a massive deficit, one not projected to end until 2050 something.
If only we followed Ontario's lead, where 1/3rd of after-tax income is spent on hydro for people not living in urban Liberal ridings. And with the most debt of any province or state in North America! Yes, what a true paradise that would be ... #sarcasm


Shouldn't the poll question been: Are you happy with paying $3,000 more next and subsequent years to make no difference to the climate ?


The pages of detailed problems with the translations the CDF used to accompany the two rejections belie your proposition.

The ICEL had its own agenda and the English-speaking bishops had to go as penitents to get slight "favors" from it. It had arranged its own income source - the royalties off ICEL texts - so it could operate without supervision.

In the US a handful of bishops, like Trautmann in Erie, blocked their fellow bishops from sending complaints directly to the ICEL.

The lack of correspondence between the content of the Latin originals of the Missal and Psalter ultimately made a CDF clampdown mandatory.

It amazes me that anyone misses the puerile, clumsy, ungraceful, dumbed-down ICEL texts.


The democrats take from productive Alaskans and use it to over spend on worthless crud  ........no, neither party that is currently in the legislature is worth a nickle.


You mean like the "dried up" number 1 song he co wrote for Rianna last year?  or that loser way he had the second highest earning tour in the world ? It's always amazed me that in a world  where musicians that have one hit and start  acting like entitled douche bags Mccartney who has been an Icon of music for 50 years and the most successful recording artist in musical history(look it up)  seems like a pretty  down to earth guy that still likes to experiment with new sounds and new artist and  puts on 3+ hour long shows for his fans. yet has to endure assholes like the Author of this article constantly bagging on him.


The repeal part is going to happen; there is a solid majority in both houses in favor of repeal.

The replacement part looks shaky; there is quite possibly no conceivable replacement that can get majority support in both houses.


Property taxes, sales tax, carbon tax, payroll taxes, pipeline royalties (if rumours are correct), not to mention the spin-off economic activities generated through construction and operations which will also generate tax revenue.


Actually, a second body was found on his property and he's admitted to five additional murders. He was busted for kidnap and rape as a juvenile and did 15 years. "Kohlhepp -- who is 5-foot-11 and weighs about 300 pounds -- had numerous guns on the property where Brown was found and a body was discovered, officials said."
7th Judicial Circuit Solicitor Barry Barnette told a judge at Kohlhepp's arraignment that the suspect appeared to have been target shooting on the land he owns near Woodruff. Discarded targets were found near a two-car garage. "He appears to be a very good shot from looking at the shooting that he did," Barnette said. He killed Charles Carver in front of his girl friend. He confessed to four killings at a superbike shop, 13 years ago.

Hmm. Angry white guy from Arizona and South Carolina. Gun nut. I wonder who he was thinking of voting for?


My deepest ALOHA to all the ohana.


Actually they're not. Remember the NDP were appointed, not elected. Certainly not a resounding endorsement after 16 years in Opposition. I think it is the Greens who are lost. They are supporting a party that seems to continually contradict their own policies. And it's only the first day in the Legislature.


I think you're lost... You seem to be commenting on the wrong story here.


Spend sometime calculating the new cancers that would result.  The cost and the death that would ensue.  Why do you think they produce sunscreen?  Don't believe any chemicals are good for corals.  But I also believe that coal burning plants, fossil fuels and toxic chemicals are bad for the entire planet especially the corals. Write a bill to have China stop burning coal or to turn the switch off at Fukushima.  Would you let a child go into he burning sun without sunscreen?  I hope not. This bill is to narrowly crafted... I won't be around long enough to find out.  Famine, longer and hotter days, lack of potable water, solar remediation, sequestration of CO2 and methane emissions, environmental refugees, rising water are thing that interest me.  But one has to start someplace.  Imagine if we did not treat our sewage.  Somebody thought that was a good idea many years ago.  And got something done about it.  It's a start.


These kinds of stories make me ache. I will never live long enough to see a just world.


You, sir, are woke.

Wait. im white.. i cant say "woke". dang it, MTV!


Trump is right. These lefties should move to Canada.


I don't know what to tell you, Vector.  We now know the rail is not about traffic relief.  It's about land development and transportation "options."  Even HART's ridership "raw data" has math errors in it.  If ridership is less than projected, either the taxpayer subsidies or fares have to go up.  Neither one is  good.


wow........


And those same comics thought they had a found a gravy train in Bush ..... he was just a warm up for this clown with the orange hair. In some ways I feel sorry for America and in others I say they deserve this. The biggest laughing stock every to govern a country like this. By far the biggest joke the US ever produced as a leader. No one else even comes close.


Since you seem to have a handle on Mr. Dalton's bias, perhaps you can elaborate on yours.


Reply to MrDarcy23:  Now you are being too modest.  You shouldn't belittle your idea that spokespersons are redundant and they "clearly" don't add anything but "spin".  Governments at all levels have not only official spokespersons, but also an abundance of unofficial spokespersons, writing reports, writing speeches, creating media presentations - all in an effort to convey the government's "message".  Think of the huge savings if taxpayers didn't have to pay for all that messaging.


RD is a conservative. Many of them prefer ignorance. How else can one explain Sarah Palin?


Typical hypocritical Christian organization. They don't pay into society for some unknown reasons. They are a business yet pay no taxes. They live above the laws and skirt them to achieve selfish gains all in the name of imagination.

Glad their true colors are exposed, not that it will do anything or open peoples eyes to reality.


It's the sprays fault. Ban all sprays.


RC -  I doubt there are any "progressive Catholics" who are accepting of the LGBT community who think gay priests, brothers and sisters should NOT come out publicly. Whether that is safe at this moment is another question. As a Catholic community, we still maintain for church men and women the closet which lay people are increasingly escaping because their rights are legally protected. Our church men and women are not protected in these way and they can have their lives torn apart if a parish or diocese or blog decides to go after them for leaving the closet, even as celibate gay men or women. When people come out, even in celibacy, allies tend to say "oh great! She is comfortable with being who God made her to be".   Others seem to say, "we need to watch that guy to be sure he doesn't get out of line/break his vows/come on to me/recruit my kid/corrupt the parish/etc." When that stops, maybe more church men and women will come out publicly.


Amazing work done by these scientists, but all in vain and a wasted life's work if you ask me - don't they know that all of creation was just zapped into being by the magic man in the sky, over the course of a week?


Richard, no i don't consider criticism of ideology to be ill treatment. Would it have been ill treatment for people to criticize Nazism?


It's hard not to be saddened by the victims out there who have not received justice. And everyone says that unfounded means they MUST be false allegations. That's too simplified for me, based on the amount of men and women that have been reported to be assaulted on college campuses alone in studies. Rape does happen and often victims do not get justice There is also an issue that training is not properly done in these settings. My friend in BC worked in corrections and there is not an emphasis on appropriate conduct. In fact she found the inmates to be a relief compared to the STAFF she had to work with. The point is is that there aren't ways for police to determine if rape cases are true or false often. There needs to be a better method than he said she said. If bias gets in the way eliminate that and create more objective methods.


How would the gun equivalent of driver's test and maintaining a license have prevented this?

The fact is, someone with packs of firecrackers could have caused a lot of injuries and deaths by simply causing a packed in crowd of 20,000 people to panic and stampede all over each other.


The Globe and Mail cut two freelancers: Tabatha Southey and Leah McLaren. It's unfortunate that Tabatha was let go as she was one of its better writers. McLaren did not take the news too well.

http://www.canadalandshow.com/globe-and-mail-axes-tabatha-southey-leah-mclaren/


You know how hard it is to get good help .... but they can be trained.
Reminds me of a very old joke: "Don't give them more than 30 minutes for break or they'll need retraining"
Getting into a great variety of establishments was a great source of popular wisdom, especially in the pre-PC era.


I thought airport changed name


the biggest laugh i get from jailhouse tats?  well, i mean after jailhouse face tats?
that would be the goofy clothing people wear in order to 'casually' show off their brands.
truly, we live in a mindless wonderland.


It is time to stop with this wireless "code" and bring in the utility commission to regulate the industry as an essential service that it has become.


Congratulations, all! What a stellar group. I'm so proud of each and everyone, and a special shout out to Janet.


so as a capt of a cruise ship going into waters that always will bear out wild wind and water, was he not trained proper?


They want more. 5%+!


He is posting against every post I make. I believe they share the same hatred of the truth.


Why?  Most of the people who go to church can't kneel anymore.


Then you have no reason to complain about any potential consequences. I suspect the Americans will be undertaking more "Freedom of Navigation" operations in South China Sea in the near future. The Australians are now thinking of doing the same thing and I wouldn't be surprised if Japan is thinking doing this as well since China has claimed the Senkaku Islands. Meanwhile, the commander of the US Pacific Fleet has stated he is ready to confront China. You reap what you sow....


Oh, so they refused the money? Why are the Mayor and City Council obstructing justice?


Artemis,  I pose the question because I believe that privacy and safety are the reason for it.  Yet folks like Waverider believe this is not the case.  So I pose the question to see if he or someone of his thinking can please explain the purpose of separate restrooms, locker rooms, or changing areas if anyone can go into either based on how they feel that day.


The problem is using old technology to build these here . The rest of the world has moved on a long time ago, more efficient, better quality, higher energy efficiency, pleasant living...and still overpriced here in Alberta...the price should be around 80 to 100 dollar per sqft finished/delivered ready to move in.


I'd bet there are other rare Hawaiian crows that some people would just love to release into the wild.


And makes the espouser, at a minimum, a material heretic.


There was plenty of violence before the murder, mostly initiated by the antifas, and violence "on many sides" was the subject Trump addressed. Your wish that he only talk about the one act of violence you want talked about doesn't govern anyone.


According to who? You? Try that as a defense in court. I don't think you'll get very far.


[What's that all about?]
Work product is kept confidential unless it becomes an essential element of a case or controversy.  It also wasn't an issue until Trump fired Comey under highly suspicious circumstances and then compounded it by admitting like "he was a nutjob" and "I was thinking about the Russian thing" not to mention possible attempt to cover up by originally disseminating Comey's firing was because of Rosenstein's memo.
In other words, Comey's memos would never had to come to light but for Trump's actions that could amount to an impeachable offense of obstruction of justice.
IIRC, you could also look to Comey's earlier use of such memos in regards to the Bush warrantless wiretapping event.


I guess the Russians undermined Bernies campaign and wrote Hillary's idiotic emails.


The important part is the 50 year thingy of course


Since when a Chinese bank is a international institution????


thanks,  I just might do that.....gary


That's because she already left.


given how badly your stock has done since buying out Verizon, I wonder about your abilities.


Why is there a "Vatican City State" in the 21st century? Why does our church have "ambassadors"? Why does our church seek the attention of world leaders as politicians, not as a soul to be saved? Why, why, why?


No matter which lane I'm in, driving 110km per hour, I'm going to be tailgated by some arrogant, type-A personality like you, who thinks that when he's on the road, he somehow has a better right to it than anyone else and everyone should get out of his way.  I never use the left lane.  If I decide to drive in the middle lane to let people enter and exit the highway safely, and pass the big trucks in the right lane, set my rearview mirror on "night" to ignore you and relax, then good for me.  Eff off Andrew.  Go around.


Judging by his touchy, prickly reaction when called on his pretzel logic (AKA Total BS) I don't think Pallister really wants to be Premier.
He should step down and move to Costa Rica, that's where he wants to be anyway.


cools foreign investment should read.............................

The infiltration of dirty laundered money may finally be ebbing to a slow crawl as the infiltrators take stock of the current situation and a possible re route of their considerable sums to other channels.  The unsustainable
increases that have led to smugness in the real estate and associated business will finally meet their waterloo.
Hey holding a real estate licence which takes practicall zero skill and educational background is the key to
richness that rivals the top earners in N. America was bound to fail at some time.

The holy grail question that begs to be answered is....if home prices indeed stabilize and perhaps fall will our municipal taxes follow suit.  I think I know the answer there.


Feel free to ask my foster son. He was born with FAS, and other problems. He can't talk, move, eat, ect....but is aware of his surroundings and can smile and cry. We give him the love and comfort he needs. His parents live in a village and do not want to move closer to an area with the medical care he needs.  Even with the State offering to pay for visits, we have never met them. It is extremely rare that a healthy child is put up for foster care or adoption.


If any of that was true it would have already surfaced.  Looks like 8 years of Trump. Maybe more, unlike the Clintons people like the Trump kids. This could be decades. Baron will probably be President too.  This is such a disaster for Dems and the false accusers.  Not  Trump lover but you have empowered the Trump supporters so much there will be no stopping him now.


"I also find a troubling inconsistency in the notion that, as an investor, we should boycott a whole class of companies at the same time that, as individuals and as a community, we are extensively relying on those companies’ products and services for so much of what we do every day. "
Quote from Drew Faust, President of Harvard, in regards to a proposed divestment of endowment funds from fossil fuels


Don't tell anybody but oil workers paid for around 90% of everything in Alaska but some want to end it with HB 247!


Really? A muslim guy shooting someone? How is he a liberal?

The baton rouge thing was by a sovereign citizen. AKA trump supporter. LOL!

Epic fail.


I hope the editors have stopped demanding articles on demeaning long time white Canadians pushing for racial tensions where none exist
-
let's not mince words
do you mean Diversity journalists writing stuff  blaming whites for racism that you read in leftist rags?
as if whites have a monopoly on racism?


Perhaps, Alceste is also on the list given he seems to be the only one defending these sham awards which have been awarded to ex-convicts on multiple occasions.


Please grow up and accept the fact your side lost.


Iran's nuclear development program ended in 2003, according to many USA intelligence investigations. And it's the USA who has been continuously threatening Iran - not the other way around.


Where's Donkel?


Snowflake much?


I'm eating a whatchamacallit right now that I got at Holiday Gas Station.  They are ubiquitous in most every gas station and supermarket in Anchorage.  I can't trust the opinion of anyone who would consider this vintage and hard to find.


I agree that in the long run you will probably do better, financially, if you move to northern California. Despite the absurd cost of housing, you can do pretty well even on a junior software engineer's salary living in a one bedroom apartment. Many Google employees have contributed to an internal wiki page on how to live on the Google campus, rent free (they have free meals, showers, plenty of comfortable places to sleep, lockers to keep changes of clothes -- the big caveat is that you have no prospect of any kind of love life). Moreover, your career prospects are better because you can move more easily between companies and working in HQ has a lot of intangible advantages, like being better connected to decision-making.

There is more to it than money, though. If you have a spouse and/or kids, downgrading from a 2500 sqft house on a quarter acre lot to a 1400 sqft home while adding $600k to your mortgage is not an easy thing, despite the higher salary and the nicer weather.


Plenty of beds, kitchen, secure and bus service back to Anchorage.


"I also always acknowledged that to be in what once was the best country in the world and not everyone had health care something needed to be done. "

Two questions for you:
1.  What IS the "best country in the world" today, since you and the president elect feel it's not America?
2.  If something needed to be done, why didn't GW Bush do something before Obama came on the scene?


Editorial note - please reconcile your spelling of Mr. Gravell in this article. It is listed multiple times alternately throughout the piece as Gravelle.


Pathetic to see Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats play politics with a perfectly qualified Supreme Court nominee.  Did we not send them to the Senate to work for the American people?


What an amazing young man you are! With your attitude, I have no doubt you will beat this and fulfill your dreams as a doctor! I will be praying for a successful transplant and your future as a doctor!


Kurds are pro western and far more tolerant of minority religions and women than other peoples in that region.
Kurds fought ISIS while The Gulf States and Turkey supported ISIS
Kurdish people are overwhelmingly pro American and pro Western while the majority of Turks hold deeply anti American and anti-Western views.
The Kurds are indigenous to the region while Turks arrived from Central Asia around the same time that Europeans were arriving to America.


Wait until the next phase of Obamacare when the 'extra' money for Medicaid that Oregon bought into to pay for the Trilliums in the State is cut back.

Oregon has been receiving extra money over the States who didn't buy into Obamacare and very soon, that money will be reduced by 10% and will have to be replaced by the Oregon taxpayers to maintain the current level of Medicaid service.

"For states that do expand Medicaid, the federal government pays for 100% of the expansion through 2016, and the subsidy tapers to 90% by 2020."


High risk vote buying.

This could spell disaster for the future pensioners.


Fikile April Mbalula?
If Mbalula was born in Europe he had been found a week overdue or born on April 1: AN APRIL FOOL  to be destined to live as an AUGUST.
In Africa, Filile April Mbalula could reserve himself with a degree from a Free State College of Education to "serve" the people of South Africa and living in grandeur through his  cANCer association as youth leader and as grand finale: Zuma's private Minister of SPORT and when it recently becomes to hot for 783, Minister of Police.


wow off our meds today?  get help


Actually, I just graduated from the UAA Psychology program and the department presented this data to us during our senior capstone class. The study encompassed a 10 year snapshot of alumni. Of course, research of this magnitude also requires funding. Although many would support it, some would not... somewhere along the way, UAA will upset the apple cart. I've read some pretty negative comments in recent articles - I am proud to be a UAA graduate and grateful for the opportunities I've had within the university to take part in research and engage with fantastic faculty. It's too bad everyone hasn't had these experiences. The university is in a precarious situation given the fiscal climate.


Do you REALLY think contractors, developers and the ethically absent mayor will be held accountable to anything??


Wasn't Catalonia a key player in the Spanish Civil War?
It seems to have a restive history, no?


The Honorable Lt. Governor Byron Mallot;

Excellent, it has taken far too long for important Democrats to call out the false & phony slogans that have driven republican ideology since Pres. Reagan's big lie that government is the problem.  In those decades slogans such as "cut waste, fraud & abuse" have echoed again & again without their finding any examples, other false accusations aimed at honorable government workers as in they are "underworked & overpaid" resulted in countless workers finding their career path stymied, promotions unavailable while their managers had to jump thru political hoops to defend their missions and workers.

In their effort to defend those who fund them, they have become so oppositional that they can no longer offer or develop policies or ideas.  They permit lobbyists to write the bills & regulations.  Protecting the truly rich means not raising sufficient revenue to properly operate our Republic, they are more interested in holding power and by any means.


Both Spicey and Sarah Huckabee are both a little visually challenged and Melissa McCarthy of SNL emasculation of Spicey has hit way too close with Trump so their solutoin is to ban all videos of the press briefings.  If Trump's press secretary looked like Dana Perino, it would be a whole different story.


Maybe it's the aptly named Peter Boyles under a pseudonym.


That picture that you are seeing is him scoring on a 84 yard touchdown is the one that was called back because Dejon Allen was called for holding, Saint Juste is a good running back, the best we have seen in a very long time but we can't expect him to carry the whole team on his back, stupid penalties especially from one of the best lineman we have just makes it frustrating.


I...think you well know that more Americans voted for Clinton than for Trump, and that the statistics are not on your side here.


World wide recession. War in Afghanistan. Minority parliaments. What's Trudeau's excuse other than his sheer delight in spending money?


?! the proposal wants to increase to 35 oil tankers per month and there is only 5 tankers per month now. The lies are unreal from the corrupt oil lobbyists!


Pope Francis passed over Chaput for a red hat.  Pope Francis had a good reason.


Anything to reduce teacher workload and the comments chosen will be pre-approved from a bland and banal list. Of course because no marks will be handed out, the teachers will no longer need to grade the tests. Hence the real reason is not to improve the kids education, it's to reduce teacher accountability and work. Nice try union folks.


if you haven't grasped it by now, you never will


My dearest, Mr Scott, you are omitting the implied word "humanely" before the word "execute." Of course we are going to execute the dog humanely! What sort of brutes do you imagine us to be? The dog is eventually going to die from an accident or humane execution anyway, and we are simply stepping up the more desirable option by a few short years. And we may very well be doing it a favor. Let's suppose the coach most responsible for the excruciating defeat in Kansas City returns home and finds his dog jumping around in glee at the occasion of his arrival. The coach, in his melancholy state of mind, thinks, "He's mocking me. My dog is mocking me!" Whereupon, he kicks the poor thing to death. We don't want that now, do we!?! Let's stay the course on this one and provide a humane execution that will send a subtle but indelible message to the coach that we expect a more lively presentation of our local football team in the future. Cheers!


This is not about those tweets any more. The last few weeks have been what can only be called a witchhunt.
I used to agree that it would be better for her to just let it go, but round about when the first commentators starting comparing Zille to Zuma, when real hatespeech by black people (Velaphi Khumalo), and real racism by black people (like Fikele's rant on Mmusi's wife) has no consequence what so ever, when I realised this is about a trend in South Africa that will lead down a dark path.
Zille is definitely not a racist yet you expect her to plead guilty to it.
So this is what it's going to be like ahead in the future? No, there will need to be a way forward for all of us together if we will not widen this rift even quicker than it is now. And that includes sometimes not being politically correct.


According to the G&M headline writers, the Liberal Party of Canada has once again failed to do or not to do something.  Where was the Government of Canada?  Wasn't it involved?  You do know the difference, right?


MORE power to S&R  Personnel--whoever-wherever they may be--OF COURSE--there will bE the insensitive commenters--ie:;waste of $$---???                 TRAINING


This guy was a hero of mine growing up. I had the posters. I had the clothes. I mimicked his golf swing. I watched all the tournaments, saw all the miracle shots and his countless victories.

My admiration evaporated with the adultery. That was infuriating. This is just pitiful.


"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
(hands waving in the air with a botox smile)


The article states that Jillian has experienced a decrease in performance, but, as we all can attest, a decrease in performance can be attributable to multiple factors aside from hormonal changes such as age and many within the control of the athlete such as a reduction in the frequency and intensity of training. While your point about European women raising the competitive bar is accurate, it was raised under the assumption that they didn't not have a biological/chemical advantage that could only be obtained by their fellow athletes by breaking the rules. Mental toughness is a part of every sport, but when a competitor potentially possesses a biologically physical advantage that another competitor could only obtain by cheating, the impact chips away at the implied level playing field. While I appreciate the desire to accommodate Jillian, is it being done at the detriment of biologically natural women and girls?


The Donald is so out to lunch.  Hay Donald, why don't you do what you promised and give us health care second to none?  Too tough?  Always felt you were little more than a big cry baby.


I saw first hand how the union bent over backwards to protect the slackers . My paycheck was gouged for years for the honor of calling myself a union worker.  People who did their jobs didn't need the union. The milking slackers did.  State and federal labor laws have made unions obsolete . No worker should be forced to give a cut of his hourly pay for protection from unions .


"Hatred is at the root of much of the world’s horrors"

Muslims and liberals love to excoriate us about Islamophobia, but we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, hatred of Christianity, Europe and America, destructive iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other.  Entrenched civil  wars between Kurds, Shiite, Sunni, Wahhabi, Druze and other Islamic sects, ISIS , Taliban and Al Quada are the root causes of most of the wars and social chaos happening around the world today. It is a purely thankless job to try to stop Muslims from killing other Muslims, or non Muslims, or gays, or women,  or Jews, or Christians, or Buddhists or Hindus..  It is worse than anything expressed in the west, even by trolls.


I hope these ladies had a nice social outing, but they are wasting their time if they think they are affecting public policy.  They look more like a rump of Democratic Party supporters who have trouble accepting the fact that after 8 years occupying the White House the other political party is now in power.  Like, hellooooo........ reality calling..........that's how democracy works.  You're in power for a while, then you're out.  I don't remember a bunch of Republicans out demonstrating after Barack Obama got elected.  I think these ladies need to develop a bit more political maturity and stop behaving like 13 year old girls having a temper tantrum.  If they want to influence public policy, they should go back to their districts, figure out why they lost key states, and start organizing for mid-term congressional elections.  When they behave like spoiled children, they don't exactly look like a political party deserving support from voters.


No you misunderstand QC, & imo, neglect your own duty to embrace Quiet Revolution yourself.
I've lived in English Canada as an english language person since 1996 after Montreal & even I, an Anglo, am very troubled by English Canada's continued embrace of religion, very disturbing. You just don't understand the impact of the Quiet Revolution:  a removal of an unelected Power, which religion both claims & seeks, from our daily lives.
It's not about turban it's about the inability to be secular, forgo what many see as an immature attachment or dangerous obsession to show your faith to everyone.
Before you get wrong idea, I think Sikh culture is great. In Vancouver  it's one of our great communities, individuals part of our business networks, workmates, friends, neighbors and more. If you've never been to Vaisakhi, book a trip out to Vancouver for April 14 or check online for Surrey, BC + region 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaisakhi#In_Canada.2C_United_Kingdom.2C_and_United_States


Trump is going to put it to the little guy..  Anyone without a million in the pocket is going to get a little drying.


This man must just face the court.


When you have fewer containers to cover the same costs, of course the cost for each container must increase.

   Economics 101.


So you're a fan of Porky Pig?


In summary, our comprehensive review of the published literature on the comparative health outcomes, nutrition, and safety of organic and conventional foods identified limited evidence for the superiority of organic foods. The evidence does not suggest marked health benefits from consuming organic versus conventional foods, although organic produce may reduce exposure to pesticide residues and organic chicken and pork may reduce exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

http://people.emich.edu/gzhou/Internal_Medicine_Organic.pdf


You mean the Liberals didn't pre-screen the audience by going over their facebook profiles?


Or, I can research actual laws, which you obviously have not.....Too much liberalism can rot your brain. You ignore facts.
Saudi law death penalty:
Sodomy, homosexuality, or lesbianism (If a man or woman is sodomized by their own consent, then they will also be sentenced to death along with the sodomizer)
Adultery (Unmarried adulterers can be sentenced to 100 lashes, married ones can be sentenced to stoning
Fornication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Arabia
Iran:
Adultery (zina): Unmarried(fornication), 100 lashes, death penalty for married couples. Mitigating Factor: repentance, lack of evidence, marrying partner, temporary marriage in some cases
Lesbianism (mosahegheh): 100 lashes; death on 4th offense
Sodomy (lavat): Rape, death penalty for rapist; Consensual; 100 lashes for active partner, death penalty for passive partner unless repentant (prior to 2012, it was death penalty for both).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_system_of_Iran

1st re-post


Aurora, lol


I taught my daughters better. Walk away when things aren't right. Don't keep going back for more. She is guilty of being a gold digger, and now she wants revenge because she didn't get the gold!


There should be a federal law against cities bidding for the Olympic Scams.


The part about Criminally invading another Country. You Are Illegal! Just turn yourself into ICE, you wont have to look over your shoulder anymore. They will take that little Civil Matter & throw your Arse across the border .... civilly. Criminal Invaders don't get rights, they get kicked out.


Employers can ask about felony convictions. That includes Major League Baseball teams. Should that be illegal or not a determining factor in whether a team chooses to draft a player or in what round?
About 15 years ago, Oregon recruited a football player who was serving time for felony assault. The coaches wrote on his behalf to the judge, who reduced it conditionally to a misdemeanor so the player could accept the UO scholarship. He played a supporting role as a Duck defensive back.
OSU's history with the Brenda Tracy situation offers much-needed context for this current dilemma. It's worth examining.
About the now 11-year-old girl in Washington, also known as the actual victim. What counsel would you offer her, were you to deign to consider her feelings and well-being, too?


oh man if Tebow is smarter than him we are in trouble!  I don't know why Elway didn't that that would matter.  Offensive line, okay, but QB?!


Line those equalization payments with each province's resource royalties and you'll see that Alberta gets way more than their share.


True, that. When you have to pay money for every government service, you care less about liberalism or conservatism, but more about corruption, food, and housing. But very few elites get that!


"Two wrongs simply don't make a right"
William Amherst, I'm just stunned by your statement as I'd thought of you as one of the more rational commenters here.
For God sakes, this is a  simple black and white  case of Good vs. Bad-- a terrible, violent man lashed out with racist violence  at two innocent  young women, was only stopped by the heroism of three bystanders, two of whom he murdered, and YOU want to make it in to some sort of sophomoric "two wrongs don't make a right."  This is  not about free speech,  it's not about mental health, it's about racist hatreds leading to violent behavior.
I'm saddened   at all of you who have tried to somehow minimize the evil here-- Can't you either  just admit it was a horrible act, or hush up and let the rest of us grieve in peace?


Trump is the worst thing that ever happened to the US.


I agree with everything you typed, KS.  With the current limits on how many characters can be used in a comment, I've had to narrow my focus a bit when commenting.  I do want to say my actual favorite paragraph in the story is:

"Schulz said some jobs that were intended to be temporary have become permanent as departments used reserve funds to retain them. Some of those temporary jobs were in the Office of Multicultural Student Services to help support an increasingly diverse student body, Schulz said."

In other words, WSU chose to make temporary jobs permanent and to continue to bow at the altar of multi-culturalism at the cost of reserve funds and now they're running around cutting other stuff so they don't go broke.  And this doesn't even account for the money spent on that bright, shiny new WSU Everett campus that recently opened near EVCC to much applause and cheerleading from the Herald Editorial Board.

You're probably right...I was too kind in my original comment.  Heh.


"Yep, keep everyone equal even if it slows all of us down. No wait, that doesn't make sense."
Socialism at it's best


Allow them to stay, permanent resident status only, and they cannot sponsor family members.  THAT is how you prevent the people who are actually responsible from benefiting from a compassionate plan for the kids.


The article continues:

Francois Fillon also won the primate vote using similar tactics, by playing off simians' fear of "fire sticks" and loud noises.


As long as they fund it as well, no problem.


We know, pumpkin.


The plus:
Drouin is young, highly skilled & adds a dimension to the Habs which they currently lack.  If they play him at center, & Julien can get him to excel at both ends of the ice, the deal could turnout well especially since the CAP hit is ok.

If Galchenyuk resigns for reasonable amount, & play him at C, the Habs could have their 1-2 up the middle longterm.

The negative:
Blueline is aging, & they traded a big piece who might've been able to play immediately in October.  The Habs now have to go into FA or trade route to augment the D.  This may mean moving AG for a Dman, which will negate to a great extent Drouin's acquisition, and still leave the team with a lot of work to do up the middle.

In CAP era, drafting & inserting young talent that are on entry level contracts to augment the core is the recipe for success.   If AG is resigned for $6m, the top 8 (w/o Rads)will eat up $43.5m in 2017 & conservatively $50m when Price ($8m) &Max ($7.5) resigned, leaving $25m for 12 players.


Yup, would be military to act up.


It's still Barrow until December 1.


And she's a conservative, priceless!


A real mistake to let Internet backbone providers merge with last mile providers.  Prepare to see your Internet bill skyrocket - even if Centurylink isn't your local ISP choice.


So with all these liberal post on here, are you guys saying we all have to kneel now for Muslim inequality and open borders .?


I am disappointed in the Republican plan for health care.  It does nothing to control costs and thus is not sustainable.  The ACA was well intended, but it did nothing to control costs and thus it is unsustainable.  The medical industry has enormous power.  I still have a small hope that Trump is out of the box enough to give us the nationalized, price controlled, universal medical care that this country needs.


More evidence we desperately need tort reform. Why aren't the nurses being sued?


Where is Pat Robertson?  I mean come on Pat?  first Texas, now Florida?  Seems like every time there was a disaster in the past good ole Pat would be claiming that God is angry over gays, abortion or whatever.  So, now is God angry at Red states for voting for the Donald?

I suggest more consideration should be given to science and less to false gods.


Should one inappropriate comment made as a bad joke in a private conversation erase a distinguished career of decades where there has been ample evidence he is not racist and he has contributed significantly to the college?  Where is the balance?


It is commonly known as the notwithstanding clause (or la clause dérogatoire in French), or as the override power, and it allows Parliament or provincial legislatures to override certain portions of the Charter.  End of story. And Justin would be a hero too many!


The Nazi's weren't popular until the stock market crash.  Hitler predicted the economic fallout and the nazis became a popular movement because of it.
Ok, what's your solution?


Given the magnitude of the deficit created by the unconstitutional theft of our oil- caused by Republicans, we should ask which of these Senators are corrupt.

Who is taking bribes?  The last time we had a situation where legislators were behaving this way it because clear why they were not fighting for the best interests of Alaskans.  THEY WERE TAKING BRIBES.

The FBI arrested ten legislators. Alaskans then began to understand just how horrible our legislators are- we saw the video tapes of Bill Allen passing out bribes to scumbags who should still be in prison.

Article VIII of the Alaska Constitution REQUIRES Alaska derive MAXIMUM BENEFIT for the sale of our oil.  All these legislators took an oath to uphold our Constitution.  But it is CLEAR they lied when they took their oath.

So the only question remains.  Which of these legislators are corrupt?  Which of them deserves to be dumped into a prison cell?

Alaskans need to take our legislature back from these crooks.


David--you start with a false premise and then make statements.  First, the government is not a business, although there may be parallels. If I run a team I want the best, most skilled and informed. Peter is a great leader for our part of Oregon...he's skilled, he cares and his vision is pretty much the same as mine....so I voted for him. We do not have a multiparty system, yet, so a vote for most third tier folks is wasted...and if you look at the current libertarians they are really just GOP light and more than a bit strange. So if you don't like what's happening look at who blocks progress...it's the GOP.


If Paul Anka didn't want to perform at Trumpet's inauguration, why couldn't he just say it frankly instead of coming up with such a lame excuse as being in a child custody battle that's been going on for two years?  While child custody should certainlybe of utmost importance to anyone, this somehow rings pretty false and sounds like a lame excuse.  Also, his stance on  cash-to-perform-for-anyone is not all too inspiring to me.   I used to think a lot better of Anka... now I'm not so sure.


So how about a replacement "park" for the stoners and winos and delinquents?  Maybe a hundred miles east of Denver, with free booze and drugs?  Could be cheaper and easier...


No matter how much they try to beautify football with the no contact after five, up tempo, four wide basketball on grass offenses, it still all comes down to those big fellas upfront as it always has in the past. There are only around 10 teams with decent offensive lines in the NFL.  The others, including Denver, are all equally medicore to bad that they could all be ranked 32nd. It would be nice if Trevor could make his reads quicker and get rid of the ball in 2.5 seconds but not many quarterbacks can, present or past. Even those, like PFM, Brady, Brees, or Rivers have taken a beating when throwing too often behind porous lines. Trevor is what he is at this stage of his career which is an average quarterback with a lot of learning left to do. Denver has a blocking problem and it is not going to get any easier with future opponents putting 8 in the box. Only Elway can fix this and it won't be this year unfortunately!


Devils Club,
So you think it is fair to screw over retirees?! They fulfilled their end of their contract with the state to work 30 years for a full retirement. Now you want to take pay and benefits away from them while they are past the age to work? Real classy.

If you think state employees have it so good then why not apply for a job with the state?


Hear, Hear


My monthly premium through Obamacare for my family is $2400 per month. How is that affordable? Your premium is based upon your income. Because I do ok, I get high premiums. Oh, by the way, that is with a $10,500 deductible. Affordable? Not for me. Affordable for you?


What part of illegal don't you understand Stephen? Judging from all of the evidence that seems to be surfacing showcasing the lefts strategies to steal elections, kink local results and disrupt their opponents campaigns it is clear to the entire world that its the democrat party who threatens the foundations of our republic. All of the evidence of voter and election fraud points only one direction ...care to apologize to the American people for 50 years of election fraud?


Had you read the article you would have viewed a picture of one burnt out boat.


Why would any other living situation be more appealing? Everyone who lives in a  luxury condo does so because that the most appealing situation than can think of. if you suddenly think all the renters, along with all the foreigners who have these as summer or winter homes, are suddenly going to be willing to live in less luxurious places to help drive the average home prices down, I think you are being naive. Government intervention is the only thing that can bend the market.


Not Joe........I don't understand the cheap shot at Alberta and the oil patch workers who are not having such a great Christmas.
I hope  your Christmas was a good one.
I think most producers would be quite happy with $60 US prices and it would be also very helpful to the Canadian economy. We are all better off when Alberta can be a net contributor to equalization.


Are these "mega-corporations" incoporated (probably in Delaware) and a part of the US?  Are they run by, staffed by, and employ Americans?

I don't think that even compares.  Our great nation was founded upon a concept of competing factions but they were supposed to be AMERICAN competing factions not international factions.


Marcus Gee is a well established cheerleader of the war against drivers. And he was a leading cheerleader of the Bush administration lies to start the invasion of Iraq. Accordingly i will bet you 10 to 1 this rendition of events here deceitfully avoids or misstates  important information to further his cause.


1K for a phone.... wonder how many welfare trolls will be carrying one....


Trump, whom I think is a turkey and did not vote for, did NOT assault anyone, sexually or otherwise.
He BRAGGED (boasted, asserted without proof, perhaps falsely) that he had and could do such a thing; and so it with impunity.
This makes him a louse, a cad, a heel - a jerk: and not anyone I or anyone else would really want to hang around with.
But it is not a sexual assault. And no one in their right mind thinks it is.
Get over it.


All easily said, all with zero evidence to back it up. I saw an interview with the renowned lawyer Allan Dershowitz on CNN a short time ago. They asked him if antisemitism had risen due to Trump, and his reply was that in his experience, antisemitism mostly occurs on the left of the political spectrum these days, among social justice warriors and the 'anti-Zionist' set. There's no doubt there IS extremism on the far right, but those people are largely outsiders, barred from politics and academia, to say nothing of media, at least in Canada. Meanwhile, the far left thrives in academia, and are deeply involved in politics and media. As such, their threat is much more real.


Im sure the abuse/use of the existing law is being stretched as far to docs' advantages as possible.  Change the laws and outlaw lobbyists.  Docs, have a conscience.


Sorry, in what way were you right?


Yeah, why don't you call Prevo and ask him about why he doesn't support the homeless.  After all, go drive by his church palace.  I hear he has accumulated 18 pieces of property with housing for himself and family members. And it's all tax free.


Considering it.


At the peaceful protest I organised on Sunday I also spoke to a Mother who along with her children and their Grandmother were all peacefully protesting last Friday when the police turned up with water cannons. They fired the cannons into the face of her 12 year old daughter who then ran and was separated from her family. A policeman then chased the little girl and shot her legs with rubber bullets. She got up and tried to hide behind a tree.......the policeman then HUNTED THIS CHILD DOWN BEHIND THE TREE AND SHOT HER AT POINT BLANK RANGE! She luckily raised her hands to defend herself but still got hit on her hands which broke her fingers.
So the OV police are not only NOT doing the job of policing and protecting their community effectively and working in cahoots WITH the gangsters, but they are hunting down and SHOOTING innocent children!
ENOUGH!!!
Who is going to accept responsibility for eradicating the gangsters and reinstating law and order to this community of wonderful people?


The responsibility for providing water to the South African population falls squarely on the "National" Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS) and I quote directly from their legislative mandate "seeks to ensure that the country’s water resources are protected, managed, used, developed, conserved and controlled by regulating and supporting the delivery of effective water supply and sanitation." The DA has been pretty powerless other than begging the ANC to recognize the crisis (which until Jan/Feb this year they refused. So far the National Government has contributed R60 million or R10.84 per person in the Western Cape. The drought is real. The DA's response is real. The ANC is the only one with the powers to assist and they are also the only party to refuse.


Like your alternative but the ruling class will not allow it.  Remember  Djou originally had that in his platform but suddenly recanted.  Somebody big is behind the scenes pulling the puppet strings.


Unlikely, name a single case where the county or state was sued over the Stairway to Heaven due to an injury. LOL


I wish she had smiled for the picture used in this article.  Probably a pretty girl.


It's simple logic, but since you are not able to actually deny the logic you call it spin. Since you think it is spin, let's see you try to put forth a cogent argument on why the letter was actually calling her a dive bar patron. Use quotes, not made up stuff. Bet you can't do it. And if you can't or don't try, you are admitting you have got nothing but insults to back you up. Go ahead, let's see it!


I could have sworn what ISIS has done everyday in the Middle East and every month in Europe a "hate crime"??


Indeed.  The proper title for the article should be: "Bernie Sanders bill expands Medicare for all, but lacks details on cost savings."


Lets not forget the Juneau Police, they are just a bunch of over paid security guards.  They can't/don't know how  to arrest someone from a building they don't belong in.


You honestly don't see the difference Putin's input will make?


Yes ...Harper would have done the most Machiavellian moves in order to ingratiate himself to Trump. He would have thrown Mexico under the bus, given up on the auto manufacturing , sent Bombardier workers home and dug an open trench for the oil to flow to the US with little or no regulation. Then he would have slept comfortably with all the US old white men in charge...and play golf at Trumps private resort.
All the reasons why he isn't PM anymore. He doesn't represent modern Canadian Values.


Well, finally! Republicans are at last realizing that an educated servant class means trouble for implementing their "screw the poor, coddle the rich" goals. What is amazing is the number of poor Republicans who voluntarily assume the requisite position necessary for the top 1% to rape them and their families. I guess this proves they prefer the modest security of bondage allowed them by their masters over the the fulfillment of true freedom.


What did I win?  Money?  Where do I get it?


Good. Then say that. But don't give us this "Reverend, now Mister" garbage like a seven-year-old.


And people wonder why the suburbs & xurbs keep growing?


"which drew neo-Nazis, white nationalists and members of the Ku Klux Klan."
Not to mention neo_Marxists who are the  alt-left version of the Nazis, and are themselves evil and destructive.


TDM, it might have been your misfortune to have been born 100 years ago in Moscow. While I don't share Singh's opinions, I am concerned about our own PM's enthusiasm for communist China.


"A deep urban-rural divide persists between southern coastal cities with economies increasingly driven by ideas and towns to the north and east that depend on extracting resources of diminishing availability and value"

Does Homer-Dixon really think that an economy driven by real estate is an economy driven by ideas? There is a heck of a lot more brain power involved in developing the oil sands, one of the greatest engineering feats in Canadian history, than ever went into selling and flipping real estate in Vancouver.


It would be nice to see a lot more articles like this in place of the many "Trump misspelled a word!" articles the Globe seems to have become so enamored with.


That slight mill rate decrease would be great, if your properties assessed value remained the same. Unfortunately the MPAC assessed value of your home has sky rocketed since 2009 rendering that slight mill rate decrease meaningless. Kitcheners mill rate should be in the 0.08 to 0.09 range based on the increases in MPAC assessed values.

As to the budgeting, municipalities have a very good idea each year as to how much new assessed value has been added by MPAC and they inflate budgets accordingly.


Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke welcomes oil and gas lobbyists to Trump's Washington hotel

Convenient that there are no visitor logs when you hold private meetings at Trump's properties.

The country's assets are being sold off at fire sale prices to enrich the wealthiest among us.

And Zinke is complicit in the scam.


hey something 'nice' was said about PMOC: he is better than Trump!  What a complement!


It's not about the subs....about bribery and illegal  fundraising


You fail to understand how your own SCC works?     They were ruling on the Federal Courts order that our Gov't must demand the repatriation of Khadr.    The lower court decision did not involve money so why would our SCC talk about damages?

What they did rule was that Khadr's rights were violated.


Lasted three days, O 'Christian'.  Rumor has it that's long enough for a resurrection.  Wouldn't count on it in your case, though...