Every remark you make suggests this is a tempest in a teapot, and while you are right and Khan does not deserve the attention she is receiving, her visceral style and negatively are unbecoming are offend many moderates.

As such your glib remarks hurt your cause more than help it.


Kennedy is not liberal. He is the one who identified the motive behind the Colorado constitutional amendment on gay rights and Proposition 8 as well as animus. If the high healed pumps fit. If you can't see your own moral scorn for what it is, rather than some virtue of faith then you have a matter for your confessor (who is likely gay). It is impossible not to throw out a discrimination or race card out when the people you are defending are victims of unequal treatment and you are arguing with someone who is justifying the inequality. In the end, the opponent must be justiied in actually thinking the person they are discriminating against is equal or bad things happen, like black people being shot because the cop feels afraid. In the end, everyone must abandon the justificaiton for moral inequality.
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Don't forget to keep your tetanus shots up to date. And I always have a bottle of Aleve. If you fall take two immediately and you'll suffer much less pain the next day.


From a broader perspective, the process slows down legislation which is to the benefit of the people. I know that sounds strange, but what people seem to seek is stability and slow change.

That this issue is even being considered is beyond my comprehension due to the serious matter of finance the state is facing.

On another note the proponents of this proposed legislation can go forth with a ballot initiative if they choose. Of course they would lose, but then they can get the hearing they seek.


Hence the inquiry, Jeff... anecdotal was in fact, evidence-based events for the MMIW issue and for the treaties (maybe read up on recent SCOC decisions to get up to date on facts). Don't understand this continual parsing of wording. Not sure why anyone who is clearly unaware of all the details surrounding this issue continues to speak out against in whatever fashion up to and including semantics. Very strange.


Thank you Lynn--they can "walk away" today but not when Nov. comes.


"" Their life style is appalling, some supermarkets don't even stock fresh fruit and vegetables because there is no demand. "".... this is absolutely true; many many sadly fat kids, even young kids, all over the streets of Scotland.... someone told me about a family bring-your-own buffet they went to in Edinborough; she took a salad, nobody touched it --- all fried food and fast food there


Good for you.  I am happy that there are adults working at the White House.  The progressive liberals are doing everything possible to stop POTUS from succeeding.


Again, players were taking a knee before Trump ever said anything. In fact it had been going on for almost a year. That is what I am asking. Why were they doing it all last year? You still haven't answered my original question. Why were the players doing it before Trump made his statement? Can you answer that?


Ms. King later thanked Sessions for his support in the construction of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.  MLK's niece (Dr. Alveda King) rebuked Warren for using Ms. King for political theatre but we can't talk about that, it affects the Globe's entire political narrative for this piece.


Special visitors!


Thanks so much for that link, J. Bob .


Give your male colleagues a shoulder massage, or better yet, your underlings. See how they feel about that and report back.


I self identify as alt.right - aka fascist.  Can confirm.


It is a truism that TFSA's merely subsidise those who could afford to save anyway...kind of a waste of tax revenue that could be spent on somethng more productive.


Isn't it something how much all of a sudden can be saved when money is tight? I hope the legislation is watching and taking heed. It will cost a lot no doubt to just maintain what we have but wiser spending should have always been a foremost thought with no borrowing for the future and it should be the same for households. Something good could come out of all of this.


There is plenty of White Nationalist insanity right here in Canada.  The longer DJT remains in the White House the more it will seep into Canada.


not too many things better than Thunder In The Valley that you can do with your clothes on.


No, there's no shortage of temerity here.  Maybe a lack of humility, maybe a lack of generosity, maybe an excess of pride, nervous sarcasm, for sure.   All the signs.

A good spiritual director would wear out here.


Naturopaths should be included in our healthcare, not just by company extended medical (which barely any company gives these days) then more people would actually have doctors. You have to pay $75/mo in BC for MSP but you can't even find a doctor and it can't be used for Naturapathic doctors and that is backwards and wrong.


What American "Dream"? We've always had the nightmare, we just didn't recognize it as such. Obama, Bush Clinton all the way be several decades into Kennedy & Camelot, & before. FDR, Truman, etc. Check your history. This is the Kingdom of Satan not God. Bad case of mistaken Identity going on here.

Never try saying Trump is the first case of tyrannical authoritarianism we've ever had. He's not a real president either. He's a dictator appointed by the fraud Electoral College (like the Board of Directors for a corporation) to be the CEO of the USA, Inc. Does he not ACT like a CEO? Signs EO's & then goes golfing.

Do your research. We're not a country. We're a corporation governed by laws that go all the way back to Babylon.

After you've done some research and learned something, then write your article again. Obama was just another puppet among the may working on the SAME AGENDA of Totalitarian Authoritarian Global Control. It might help to also READ "1984" by George Orwell.


Commissioner Goodell called a meeting this weekend to discuss making it a requirement that all players stand for the National Anthem.  Fire his butt!  Didn't have the guts and leadership to do the right thing at the start and now he figures out OH, OH our fans are pissed.  Didn't have the smarts to figure that out.  Too late for him and the idiots at the NFL.  Trump won.


Continued response to Rick Wicks:
1964, Current Civil Rights Act passed and signed by Lyndon Johnson with 80% republican support and 68% democrat support.
1965, Voting Rights act passed and signed, again with a very large majority of republicans voting for it and a much smaller majority of democrats voting for it.
1973, The democratic party adopts Margaret Sangers Eugenics program which was partially titled "Negro Population Control". Ms Sanger is the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Since that time, there have been very few republicans switching to the democratic party but much more democrats switching to the republican party for economic reasons, not race issues as your side believes.
Restricting voting to legal American citizens has done nothing at all to restrict the ability to vote for anyone.
If you want to find racism, which party always identifies race and which party does not. The republicans do not identify race so which is racist? Kind of logical which party uses race


From a distance - in Australia
Internal forum is not new.  From memory Father Andrew Greeley explained it in his book -
The bishop and the missing L train which I read 7 or 8 years ago.
Christmas greetings and blessings to all NCR staff and readers, especially you, Phrogge.
John Casey


bs, compare any house and lot of same size in any urban city against toronto and toronto owners pay less you ignorant lefty, thus toronto taxes are LOWER


When was that era? You are forgetting the city's always had its share of losers, newbies galore feeding our ongoing boom and bust cycle, and druggies. Google Hop Alley. Not the restaurant.


I did better. I listened to the vendors on the grassy knoll! :)


In my opinion, in the historical context of 1942, the internment of the Japanese in Canada was not wrong.  However, it was certainly wrong that at the end of the war, these people were not adequately compensated for their losses.


Unfortunate about her husband, but her performance is almost entirely fluff, and the "metrics" simply didn't support an early extension.


Where is DOT Harbors in all of this?  This is the second incident in a week at the fishing piers.  More vigilance may be needed by DOT in monitoring potential incidents, and with notifying tenants.  If this happened at the foreign crew piers, things could be a whole lot worse!


Crappy column.  Doesn't track. Reads like someone forgot they had a deadline that afternoon. Lazy arrogance all to typical of academe today.


Jennifer, you didn't get a degree in maths, did you?


President man-baby and Mr. Exxon Valdez negotiating alone in a room with the kgb agents who rule Russia.  Oh well, it was nice having Alaska as part of the USA while it lasted.


You don't say.
C'mon man!
Have some faith.
Canada is the best middle class paradise ever.
It's a meritocracy.
If you become really good at something folks need you'll have it made.


YASSSS


This sounds a bit prejudicial against men. This, as every other gay, lesbian and trans issue will end up In the courts.


I think there is no denying that global temperatures are rising. Alaska is the perfect example of that by just looking at our glaciers. That being said, the earth has cycles. We have only been keeping accurate records for about 100 years. The possibility of there being a cycle larger than 100 years is entirely possible. We have no idea. The real argument is whether or not global warming is man made and whether or not global warming is a naturally occurring cycle of the earth. I for one believe the cycle of the earth is larger than we know and it is natures way of balancing things out. Throughout history, humans have a way of thinking the earth revolves around them. As history shows, we once thought the world was flat, because we couldn't comprehend that it would be anything different than our minds could fathom. Is it possible we could be off base here in our assessment of global warming? The earth wasn't flat after all....


Dock the republicans' pay for the amount they just fleeced the taxpayers with yet another of their "we can't govern because of TABOR" whine.


they traded for Neshek and a catcher that is playing lights out right now.  What more did you want them to do?


Its dangerous for old people. Streets are narrow and too much traffic!


Anonymous reports...........unsupported allegations..........news media frenzy based on these.............I prefer to wait until the newly appointed Special Counsel finishes his work and reports, or until one of the two congressional committees report their findings before drawing conclusions. Meanwhile, I would also like to see published the memos that Comey kept on the Hillary Clinton file.  Just to be fair. Trump Supporters and Trump H aters alike should all take a deep breath and relax.


Great idea, Applegate Theater!


The CRTC decided that Bell Media could not substitute Canadian ads to replace US ads during the Super Bowl broadcast. Bell Media was previously doing that, earning revenue from its Canadian clients that aired ads during the game.


Gorillas were just recently discovered? wow. No hope.


Fake News AP. Nobody is abandoning Trump over his agendas. Maybe? Over sampling polls with Democrats ? Haaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Yes I agree let's focus on our own problems and stop policing the world. MAGA


There is no evidence Russia hacked the election.
Sorry Charlie.
However,  Susan Rice  admitted she lied and  will face indictment.


"At least 60 lawsuits, along with hundreds of liens, judgments, and other government filings document people who have accused Trump and his businesses of failing to pay them for their work. Among them: a dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others."

"The review found more than 200 mechanic’s liens — filed by contractors and employees against Trump, his companies or his properties claiming they were owed money for their work — since the 1980s."

"The whole story paints a picture of someone who, if he has the opportunity to screw some little guy out of a few bucks, won’t let it pass him by."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/09/happy-hour-roundup-877/


Truth changes and evolves like everything else as we learn and grow over the span of centuries. It is part of God's great creation.


Since this may become a safety concern why isn't the carcass hauled out to deep water and disposed of?


They will be singing, "I'm a Lumberjack, and I'm OK!"


Lol.  I think you missed my point about the prescribed rhetoric of the obama era. Since obama wanted better health care coverage he must be a liberal and if he is liberal he must be socialist and if he is a socialist he must be a communist and if he is a communist he must be the exactly the same as any other terrorist or communist leader and if he is a terrorist or communist leader he must be the anti-Christ out to destory America and he world.  Makes perfect sense right when you connect the dots lol.   At least how Fox News, rush or other right winged wacko talking heads have prescribed you to connect the dots.


"Fit" for what? Certainly not for his office. And BTW, I have no interest in a "globalist agenda" whatever that is. I do have an interest in POTUS being smart enough, skilled enough and competent enough to carry out his duties. Trump is not.


New ECMWF shows #Harvey moving back over the Gulf on Mon, restrengthening, then making a 2nd landfall near #Houston on Wed. Unthinkable.


"including the B.C. and federal governments, various health authorities and intervenors such as unions who oppose private clinics "

In Canada's two tiered health care system, what is ironic and outrageous about the above sentence is the sheer hypocrisy. The Government politicians, Lawyers and Union members ALL enjoy private VIP benefits and access to expeditated MRI's, CT's, Physio, Private Clinics, Psychologists, Dental.
In fact Federal Officials have rapid access to their own physicians and specialists. If the problem can't be dealt with in Canada, then immediate access to US Clinics such as the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota have been known to be frequented by such 'egalitarian Canadians' as PM Chrétien.

Actually the Canadian health care system as it is, benefits private US companies and America the most because instead of spending $Billions in Canada, the many tens of thousands of wealthy Canadians spend their money in the US. Private US companies don't want Canada to change a thing


An honorable man, he should resign. He knows why.


WTF ???

We have a million other important issues to discuss and resolve than to argue over who gets to say what before the damn meeting can begin!!

How about, "Thank you for being here. The time is now 4 pm August 4, 2016 and we will begin to address the issues".

For the love of God people! Pull your head out of your ass and do your jobs!! If you can't figure that out, then find obviously this is not the job for you!!


University of Washington neurologist Ethan Russo postulates that “clinical endocannabinoid deficiency” underlies migraines, fibromyalgia, IBD, and a cluster of other degenerative conditions which may respond favourably to cannabinoid therapies... CB receptor signaling modulates pain and analgesia, inflammation, appetite, gastrointestinal motility, neuroprotection and neurogeneration, along with the ebb and flow of immune cells, hormones, and other mood-altering neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and glutamate (213). Cannabinoids (endo [naturally occurring], herbal, and synthetic) are anti-inflammatory; they literally cool the body. But... if the immune system overreacts to chronic stress or mistakes one’s body for a foreign object, then the stage is set for another autoimmune disease or an inflammatory disorder to develop.

MJ also eases peripheral neuropathy, which also affects cancer patients and diabetics (229-230). - Martin A. Lee, Smoke Signals


Every citizen thinks their property is overvalued.


And we celebrate yours. Let the class wars continue.


Porque relutam tanto em aceitar a verdade? Porque não conseguem sequer assimilar a ideia de o formato da terra ser diferente do que nos foi ensinado? Será que sua pineal está calcificada ao ponto que não consegue ter um raciocínio lógico do que verdadeiramente foi observado e provado?
Vejo muitos comentários aqui que servem apenas para ridicularizar o pensamento alheio, a fé alheia e a verdade, mas não tem qualquer prova qualquer da veracidade do globo.


Predictable outcome once Quebec objected.


Such sarcasm here in this forum. Are you all Lenny Bruce? Or just a bunch of angry liberals who's world has been turned upside down?


Interesting you follow me. But thanks - I think?

I stand by my posts, and the nut job Lone Wolf shooter targeting only Republicans. He belonged to a Facebook group called “Terminate the Republican Party.” I doubt they really mean go out and kill GOP? But he tried to do just that. He believed that was the case.
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My Posts from then:

1) Citation please? And please, while you are at it-how many people took aim and started shooting on a Democrat lawmakers baseball team because they were "Democrats" during Obama? See-I think none. as in zero.

2) This shooter targeted lawmakers because they are Republican.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/14/steve-scalise-gunman-history-arrests/


Kieran,
It's long been my sense that what the church's leadership wants is a free pass for all of the bishops in power (at least up to some unspecified date), and then they'll consider addressing accountability after that.  The unspecified date would likely (and conveniently) kick in after the last of that generation of bishops die. I know that sounds like a horrible thing to say, but I can't come up with any other explanation as to why we've seen such inaction in the face of so much anger, hurt (etc) within the laity and public. The logic behind this seems an almost laughable sense of "how could we know...?"  In secular law, we'd be seeing a string of negligence cases all the way to the horizon with this defense.

That retroactive Canon Francis might have had to create, reminds me of the principle of "equity" under secular law.  And it's interesting that on something as basic a human morality issue as is this, the the church won't go there, even as secular at least tries...


It is ironic that we decry the loss of manufacturing jobs to lower cost, often times overseas, jurisdictions yet may posting comments here are cheering the same happening to the dairy sector.  I also doubt that a lower supply cost will translate into equally lower prices in the grocery stores. Retailers and processors will ensure they keep a fat slice of the spread, meanwhile dairy farms will be struggling to stay solvent.  We have learned nothing from the gutting of Canadian manufacturing.

There is also the question of food sovereignty. It is foolish to rely on other nations to meet Canadian food requirements for basic staples that can be produced at home.  Once the current dairy producers have exited the industry they are not coming back.  You better hope there is always and forever a low cost foreign supplier of dairy products after that happens.  Hope is a poor plan when speaking in terms of national, or personal, food supply.


Outdated thinking only if you don't agree with it. And why is it foolish? I thought it was very well written and presented the points succinctly. Much clearer than the silly thinking about equality that the article described.


Substitute Toyota for cars.


So now I wonder if the bureaucrats, who sent Omar to the torture chamber, are serving time in prison.


...as if N. Korea doesn't care if a Trident submarine destroys their country.


He got arrested for SPEECH.


It died from old age, root damage was not the reason.


"But we’re reminded that Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was projected to cost almost exactly $1.5 trillion in the 10 years from 2009 to 2019."

That was a stimulas bill at the depths of the great recession and therefore totally incongruent.


We need to remember that if all the Antarctic ice melts at the end of the century there will be a 400 ft rise in ocean waters.


Dear sanctimonious

your rebuttal to the sanctimonious people of the Left is indeed brilliant and not sanctimonious at all

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I agree. North Korea, Iran and ISIS come to mind. - brilliant rebuttal

may I add the leftist Apologists of North Korea, Iran and ISIS ...might as well throw in Justin's Cuba


I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT TRUDEAU OR ANY OTHER PRIME MINISTER IN THE FUTURE WILL EVER HIT HARPER'S LOW APPROVAL. LOL!

Merry Christmas to all!


I have a question to which I cannot find a good answer.

Does the so called dairy industry’s price-setting system need approval form either the provincial or federal government when it makes changes as it did to the high protein skim milk for the US?

In this article one observer makes an implicit comment that suggest it does, but it has not been reported and people I have asked in government don't know.

I sure hope it is a well developed process.


Sad but true.


The loan was for $14 million. Trump lied when he said "$1 million." He was also bailed out of a couple other early failures. His business record is definitely checkered. He's hardly the biz whiz he claims to be -- or that his myopic, over-adoring fans want to believe him to be. More significantly, he has demonstrated little useful knowledge of world affairs or how government works. And he appears to be a pretty nasty human, too.


Xenophobic much?


Then it must have been someone else I saw in Green Bay.


While I acknowledge that there are a few genuine cases of PTSD, the fast growing numbers are an indication of how "soft" western societies have become in the last forty years. Countries like Canada and USA have become so entrenched in having an easy lifestyle with more leisure time and less actual work.
Lifestyles are geared to obtaining material items that reduce individuals having to work or use their own strengthen - electric an can openers or electric toothbrushes,  self-drive vehicles that parallel park themselves, all of which require little o none physical effort and certainly no mental effort.
Thus mental coping skills have been impacted as well resulting in serious health problems. To deal with mental problems, medication as become a booming industry promoted by the huge international drug companies. In reality many RCMP officers resort to developing mental health problems as an escape goat when they are faced with heavy work loads. And once prescribed they're addicted.


and one of the thing that keeps Episcopalians going is former Catholics, like the thing that keeps the RCC going in the USA is immigrants from south of the border.


Too bad Governor K. led us headfirst into huge financial commitments for publicly funded health insurance and we were further harmed for the long term by going along with the ACA/Medicaid expansion.  We have a huge financial exposure here that could rival PERS!  Really, if we keep up the subsidies for continued ACA/Medicaid this will be as damaging to the state as PERS was unless we get some relief from the Trump administration.  It will be interesting to see what happens as the Congress debates healthcare reform.


Yeah, a Walmart full of shoppers pulling their sidearms to shoot the person with a sidearm.
btw racoon you used the word/term "Jamish" recently.
What is a "Jamish"?


More fake news and lies, MC.  It is beneath you to misrepresent so blatantly.  In my book, premeditated murderers should be summarily executed by public hanging or rifle squad.  So you are right, I would not support extensive jail for premeditated murder.  But premeditated murder is the exception as the worst possible crime.  Long prison sentences are routinely awarded for crimes that raise emotional rather than physical consequence.  Those are inconsistent with an enlightened rational society.


If you're suggesting that your $1.3 million house will go up to $13 million in 20 years while wages continue to grow at 3% or less, you're not that bright.  That's the problem with financial illiteracy in Canada these days.


Then you better exclude Christians. For undoubtedly, they have created more harm and evil in the name of their God than anyone else on the planet. Ever. And they still do.


Having successfully made his country an international joke in a short period of time, Trump now intends to destroy a trade pact that is hugely to his country's benefit.  Is there any success that this man can't reverse?


Who is John Gault???   :)


Let's be honest.

Some of the noisy bishops stand to lose SJW (AKA USGOV'T) dollars coming into their dioceses...their motives are hardly all "charity and justice"; there is undoubtedly, inarguably some feather bedding underway.

And further...some of these more noisy and flamboyant bishops are only too happy that a topic such as DACA, etc. is taking the bright lights off of their same sex abusing priests and their own "cover my buddy" cover ups.

So they benefit by fanning the flames away from their own predatory priests who abuse post-pubescent young men.


Are you ILLITERATE, chuck?


This article makes one want to laugh out loud.

It appears to be predicated on the ridiculous and false assumption that ANYTHING meaningful has happened with Vancouver houses in recent months.

Hello?

The average price of a detached house in Vancouver city limits is close to three million dollars, dozens of times the average annual local income.

The reason prices are so high there is MAINLY due to overseas money flooding in, most of it from China.

So no, there is no meaningful drop, there is no shoe that has dropped. Nothing meaningful has changed.

And it is hallucinatory nonsense to be saying that the government has taken actions (roll eyes) aimed "to cool overheated housing markets." In reality, no government - not Ottawa, not Victoria - has any interest in meaningfully cooling the market in Vancouver. If they were serious about that, they would be targeting the Quebec investor immigrant program that is a floodgate for overseas buyers getting into Vancouver housing.


What a waste of editorial space!


Very good point.  Makes about as much sense as tasking a criminal gang with investigating the misdeeds of one of its members.  In fact it's almost EXACTLY like that.


motley:   GREAT Idea.   Now that would be an Event worthy of being held in Matthew Knight  arena.  The arena is big enough for the HUGE crowd and it would make a ton of money for the victims.    This would show Uncle Phil how to really make money with Matt arena.


HChef, subsidized daycare is known to increase birth rates (QC has the highest in the country) and allow more women to participate in the work force.  (Fees for newborns are approaching 2K per month in most cities, making it unaffordable for most working women).  As far as I can see it's either that or increase immigration.

And are you really saying that taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill for education?  Wow.  I am considered upper middle class, and there is absoutely no way I could afford to keep my two kids if I paid for private school from JK on and university tuition was at US levels.

In case you didn't realize it, children are future workers and taxpayers.  If we don't invest in them, the country is finished.


How many billions will we make off this line? Because we will spend 40 billion to build it when it is all said and done and we will be broke.


Gandhi said, "The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." Christy Clark and her BC Liberals reign is a sordid, horrific tale of the proverbial sweeping issues under the rug.  BC is the only province without a Human Rights Commission dismantled by the former Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell. It has the pathetic Human Rights Tribunal - an utter failure in comparison. The high, exorbitant rental situation has spread to Victoria. Disability payments are among the lowest in areas where the cost is high. The fentanyl crisis is looming larger and larger. The increase to the MSP is crushing. And so much more. The BC Liberals did more harm to the working class and the poor, and they benefited the wealthy with one tax break after another. A balanced budget - my foot?! They trampled on lives.


Hey John, I guess I'm not 'most people' as by and large most of the talking heads that have or now pop up to read the news seem to do it fairly competently. And I'm quite confident that I don't have the experience to rate anyone.

Of course there were people (I think you at times were one of them) who complained about Peter Mansbridge. A year or so ago one columnist completely dumped on him declaring that, inherently, women were ALWAYS better interviewers than men.

The only thing I'm sure of is when CBC finally gets out their magic wand to anoint a successor, it will be a woman.


Jake you just confirmed everything we know about you: a loon who will accept every conspiracy theory as long as those theories prove Obama was born in Kenya, is a Muslim and most important of all hates America.


Thank you for adding nearly 10 trillion dollars to the nation debt, thank you for reducing home ownership by over 3% , thank you for making the median household family income go down by nearly $4000.00 , also for raising the average health insurance family plan by $6000.00 per year, thanks for making people dependent on food stamps go from 32 million to over 43 million , and thanks foe Addinf 7 million people to those living in poverty.  But most of all thanks for making the American people see what the last 8 years have done to Americans and vote democrats out o of office.


I find it sad when the once Great Globe and Mail has to host such a batch of imbecilic commentators as it does now.
Once they endorsed what's his name it has been a mess since.
Other interesting topics are not discussed while the Globe reminisces over the lost fortunes of the wealthy.

More than likely it was all caused by the declining gene pool. There are not a lot of smart heirs hopping around anymore, and a lot of people are too busy to care.
Much like reading the Globe and Mail.


Well if you're interested, the full maths is in a facebook post I wrote when I did it: https://www.facebook.com/silentcoder/posts/10155638825492278?pnref=story


Sure there is : Antifa, BLM, Worldwide Workers Party, the entire SJW clown brigade,....


And now we can be sure there's an active effort to blackball Kaepernick. Resigning Osweiler is just as "distracting" (even though that's a dumb argument), and Kaep could be had for the same money.... to start at QB!


This isn't a story. You should be ashamed of yourself for perpetuating this divisive line of talking points. Hillary isn't the president. It doesn't matter a lick what was said at the time.


Great column Bret Stephens.  Sad, but had to be written.
For years, while  the majority of America's Jews have been liberals and generally voted Democrat, we've seen much of our Jewish leadership supporting the right-wing politics of Aipac, Netanyahu, and then Trump.  Charlottesville, with its torchlight parade of  foolish young white supremacists  chanting anti-Semitic slogans and waving swastikas  was a wake-up call for those who remember Germany of the 1930s.
It's time for all of us who hate racism and totalitarianism to unite to fight the social cancer which erupted for all to see at Charlottesville.


m:  Perhaps by your definition but not by others.  I stand by my comments.  Defeating an incumbent is no small task.  Senator Sullivan did it with ease and quite handily.


"If Rogue One doesn’t perform well, it will cast a Death Star-sized shadow over Disney — and Hollywood."
No. No it won't.


Why can't there be a walk in clinic attached to an emergency medical facility?

At the entrance there is are staff persons trained for triage, who then direct the patient either towards the clinic for non emergency treatment or to the emergency facility if it is more serious in nature.  If, there is an error made in judgement, both facilities are within the same building, but for the most part, better use of the health resources are spent treating patients with the appropriate level of care and staff expertise.


I've got some great ideas for raising revenue which I shall present at this time. First, let's tax food stamps. I know they have a new name but I forget what it is. Why shouldn't the city tax a federal benefit? Next, we tax people for each pound they are over their desirable weight. Why? Because obesity is costing us billions. Once a year weigh-ins for the entire population. A tax on four wheel drive pickups. Let's tax ammo stored in the garage. Let's tax dogs and cats. And a tax on vacations in Hawaii or Mexico taken in winter. That's just a few of my ideas. I'd sure like to hear what Paul Jenkins wants to cut.


Wow, thanks for clueing me in. I didn't know that transportation vehicles were designed for killing and not transportation. But then again, the word "moot" was included in the dictionary for  reason.


Koreans are determined people. Whether outside resolve was quiet or noisy, North Korea was going where it wanted to go.


It is difficult to enforce no texting laws and it is biased base on visibility inside car. It is hard to fight the ticket or for the officer to show evidence of texting. The new law is there to make enforcement easier.


What could happen? Shooting these days is normal and if they are breaking in to your house what would you do?


If it was you they sexually assaulted, would you be so quick to make excuses for them?  I think not.


Send them to Goodale's backyard and let him pay for the illegals.


Here are the stats.

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/eschenbach-fig2-people_killed_by_police.jpg


Beastly clownish gaslight-coloured noises of crass animals and fallen souls of low men. Disregard everything that Donald J Trump and Pence say, degrade everything they do, be completely ungovernable, and deny them all their preference and dignity for they are nothing more than pure evil and they do not have a leg to stand upon. They never did because this whole thing, particularly the 2016 US General Election, has been a completely odious steaming pile of male cow feces. Why the heck are we still even talking about this in October? You people have a duty and an obligation to impeach and end this regime. It's an affront to everything we are, everything we stand for, and it's clearly high treason against our US Constitution.


All three parties (LPC, CPC, NDP) are corporate sock puppets  betrothed to the interests of Big Oil.

This is what petrofacsism looks like.

Notley sold her soul to the devil long ago.


Why in the world would the City hire an advisory team from New York City to tell us
what the problems of the downtown area are?   I can't believe our tax dollars were wasted  this way.


By all means, every good Canadian should be ready and willing to ensure that an American pipeline company (risen from the ashes of the Enron debacle) and the nationalized Communist Chinese oil industry can  realize obscene profits from the exploitation of the Canadian tarsands.

Despite the risk to our environment, several endangered species, the rights and the viability of First Nations communities, and the BC economy in general, all good BCers should suck it up so that a bunch of roughnecks can continue to make payments on their gas guzzling pickup trucks, ATVs, ghastly suburban homes, etc.

Funny, I don't recall a national outcry (or any help whatsoever from Alberta or Ottawa) as tens of thousands of BC forestry workers and commercial fishermen lost everything when our major BC industries collapsed.

Or is this really all about the collusion between a one-term premier and one term prime minister?  National interest, my azz.


Vinyl LP records never left. A bunch of people simply settled for mid-grade fidelity because they believed the pro-CD marketing hype or they simply did not care for whatever reason. A stereo analog LP done right mesmerizes, excites, and titillates. You just haven't actually experienced many of the old (and new) recordings until you've properly listened to the original LP issues. Others were never reissued digitally. Many people have been missing out, stuck instead with the digital audio recording technology of 1983: compact disc Red Book audio. If physical albums just aren't your thing, try 24bit/96KHz (or above) or DSD/DFF. Digital+Physical+HiFi could lead you to hi-def DVD-Audio or SACD audio format albums. The fact of the matter is though, most albums only get issued in true hi-fi as vinyl LP records, even today in 2017. The downside to vinyl LPs is the expense of credibly good playback gear, but if you're sitting and listening, time is valuable; aim high on quality of fidelity.


National ownership you say?

Those papers were already 'nationally' owned.

 Atlanta, Georgia is not yet a part of Alaska.


If it's your money in the fund,  and the managers miss,  do you have to send them more money to infill their losses,  to make the fund whole again?  And if I am putting the money into the fund (employer/taxpayer  paying the PERS contribution),  why do I get the losses and the employee gets the gains?  That is NOT the case in private capital investments and businesses.   Apples and oranges deal.  You can't take the gains and expect the contributor to make up all the losses.   I will make a segment of the population really disturbed and angry.  It's not an investment with risk and reward,  but a system of all reward and zero risk,  expected to be paid for by taxes on risk/reward money gains.  All that is forgiven is that you are not liable for taxes on losses.  Yet.  Oregon public employees are still trying to levy a gross revenue tax on companies with more than a set threshold of revenue,  even if the company lost money,  is bleeding money in a bad market,  trying to keep workers.


>>> want to intervene

I guess "intervene" must be a legal term; but, if seems that "join" would be more appropriate for the common person to understand. Intervention sounds like trying to prevent something from happening.


Tripe indeed, especially when we consider the variance between popular vote and Electoral College election.


Dallaire?     Talk about an activist...............I don't really care what he has to say.


Funny, I just read that only 250 soldiers are currently receiving treatment for this issue.  15,000 is a bogus estimate solely  obtained by taking 0.01% of the current troop numbers.


"You've clearly never had the task of being a negotiator."
You need to match negotiating technique to the opponent. If you only use a single technique, intimidation for example, your opponents will adapt. Insult and intimidate seems to be Trump's go to, I hope he has more tricks up his sleeve than this.
.
In my experience, posturing with Russians only leads to more posturing. There are times when this technique can be useful but not when nuclear weapons are on the table imo.


If my thoughts and beliefs are not accepted as valid by another reader, it`s their right to say as much isn`t it?..and without them being penalized for having "passion" about a subject, and without their risk of being stifled from speech, or worse being blacklisted.  I`m more offended by the lies allowed to be told in the media about a "million barrels a day" if we just fork over a billion in cash to Exxon every year under SB21. THAT "free speech" (some would say propaganda) offended me far more as an Alaskan and American than anything I have ever seen in the previous Dispatch comments system.


Rather odd Toyota wants to become a parts supplier. I guess they would be putting forward their JIT suppliers but still I don't buy it. Perhaps to a few Japanese companies with no resources to develop and design their own near by.


Unconscionable greed is the reason they are having problems


i agree with you bdpapa to a point but respect is not what it used to be back in the days, look at our youth, their parents and how disrespectful people are now in society............glad i'm old!


perhaps The punk who would be King...?


the NFL union dosen't mind if their bros are beating on their wives.


Another informative and educational We Alaskans article so long missing from the old ADN.  Amazing woman.


Hey BS, where did you get your fake news?  If you read all the releases, they all speculate that President Trump may have blamed the generals for the death of Navy Seal Owens.  Nothing has been written in confirmation that Pres. Trump did blame the generals.  And, where did you get this "cut-and-run-on-your-troops" cr_p?  Auwe BS.


It's OUR oil to begin with. We leased it to the industry subject to royalties and taxes.
We're just arguing about what that tax rate should be. Right now we're paying out more in tax credits, than we are receiving in production taxes.


It's sad that a coach who has done so much for the program is not treated with a little more respect.  A one year extension with no raise kind of tells the coach that yeah, we'll take you back but if not, we'll find someone else.  Well, looks like we're going to have to find someone else.  Thank you, Coach James, and best wishes!


I though selling Ocean Front Property in Arizona was a scam, But taxing carbon is a far, far, much bigger, much bigger, bigger scam. I took a bag of carbon,. that I collected in a plastic bag from my cars exhaust pipe, took it to the recycling shop, and the guys said the bag was empty? Go figure.


Boozer,

This tax (call it whatever one wants) will become part of the operating costs of each company.  (I wonder if a discriminatory tax is even legal?).  Anyway, each company the tax is assessed to will make a business decision based on its own interests.  Some companies will have the pricing power to pass the whole tax on to the consumer, some will only pass on part of it, and some will not pass any of it on for a while.  But it will raise the company's operating costs and therefore at some point, the price for the product will increase unless demand falls or competition causes a price reduction(s) .

At least with a sales tax it is transparent, one knows they are paying it, and can consciously decide if he or she wants to pay it.   This new tax will be much like Oregon's share of the gasoline tax paid for each gallon of gas.  In 2009 the Oregon legislature raised it from 24 to 30 cents per gallon and it has not been raised since (yet?).  It essentially is a stealth sales tax.


The solemnity of the declaration and the language used by the Pope are enough to convince me of the infallibility of OS. It must be definitive for the future for the Pope explicitly says that the Church has no authority from Christ to ordain women to the priesthood.
If the Church has had no authority up to now to ordain women then it is difficult to see where it is suddenly going to obtain this 'authority' from at any time in the future short of Christ Himself publicly ordering the Church to change its teaching. Any pope who claims to have have had a personal revelation from either Our Lord or the Holy Ghost is going to have an impossible task convincing the rest of the Church.
Leaving all that aside, the experience of the Episcopalians and Anglicans who have ordained women has been catastrophic for those churches. Were the Catholic Church to follow suit it would precipitate the greatest split since the reformation. Look at the strife a mere footnote in Amoris Laetitia is causing.


See? This is the problem like you, not even being a Chinese but speak for Chinese.
BTW, I am a Chinese.


Good luck with that--*chuckle*


The "huge deficits" you talk about are far less than they have been in the past, and with the improving economy they will be lower than projected. The economic disasters the extremist right whined about have not happened and indeed the opposite has. As to the American economy...  Let's wait and see what happens when Trump starts up some trade wars to see how well his fiscal "plans" do.


I read this article with great interest.  For part of the time that these two young ladies were playing basketball at UW-Green Bay I was a ticket taker for the Women's games.  I had a number of contacts with them and I just wanted to comment on what wonderful people they are.  We were privileged to have them as basketball players, but even more privileged to have them as residents of Green Bay.  I hope they both make the rugby team!!


I agree.  Trump has been caught lying to us so many times in the past few months, and now this.  To me Comey's testimony rang true and Trump sounds like a thug.

I would like to comment on fedup_with_gungrabber's comment.  I hope that regular Republicans reach a point where they begin to refute this sort of comment.  It is the only way for the Republican Party to resume it's place as a proud, intellectually vigilant political group.


Some people float without flotation devices.  I've seen it myself.  If he was using a flotation device, is the color a critical news item as well as its type?


"Only the top of the income distribution is making significant economic progress."
Of course. They are the beneficiaries of free trade agreements and will be the beneficiaries of TFW's and massive increases in immigration.
The rest of us will get low wages, job insecurity and higher costs for housing.
Trudeau knows all this and is pushing for more immigration, TFW's and free trade agreements with the USA, China and a revived TPP. He works for the 0.01% not the rest of us.


I can see the government going back to no CPP unless essentially not employed.  It's only recently that one can be employed and still start their CPP.


Thinking that only human happiness is important is discrimination and called speciesism. Other species have lives and families, want to be happy and free from suffering. In this respect we are all the same. We need to treat all living beings with dignity. Let's stop causing unnecessary suffering and death to our fellow earthlings. There is no good reason to be killing bears and our other animal friends in this modern world.


Well, it depends on whether it's done by workers or academics.

"Q: How many Stanford professors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
 A: One to write a paper claiming that light is a pig whitey invention, one to organize a Darkness Studies program, and one hundred to protest the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Generating Station."


Only 150 million people, and that's just in the U.S. If you go worldwide with it, it's in the billions. Trump's support is not in the billions.


What does Pope fRANCIS's praise have to do with this matter?

Are his parents here legally?


Soooo, the Ontario Liberal bribery trial news will get buried by the pending Liberal email erasing trial and Wynne wants to awaken the Liberal bribery scandal again in the media in six weeks. Brilliant strategy.


Ibbitson is a bore and does nothing for the mind.


While not condoning if Pillar said what we think he said, are we getting a little over-sensitive? Does the guy deserve to be crucified? Lets say he called the pitcher a b*tch. Would that entitle all females to be hyper offended? What about when a player swears and takes the name of the Christian God in vain?  Do Christians raise a big stink? Of course not. So can we just all just take a pill and relax???


Right, Comrade Chroma - he didn't win the election - it was a glorious revolution! The rightful heir to the throne, Hillary the Great, is in exile.


You just named the main train to nowhere supporters.  Add Belatti.


Are you sure that’s a bee?


To die doing what you love is fine if you have no family, no friends, no debt and no responsibilities.  If you have any of those things in your life then your attitude of tempting fate is way more than just fun, it is arrogant and selfish!  Accidents happen, but to play Russian Roulette intentionally, without regard to the aftermath, is in my opinion pretty stupid and selfish.


Then quote that statistic to make your point rather than the meaningless one.  That's all I'm asking.  And, btw, you didn't.


Ha,ha only 33 picks? Nothing speaks to a lack of confidence more than a huge number of darts!


But it's not fine!  That's akin to saying:  "We will never agree that people of all races ought to have equal rights before the law, but that's fine."  No one would agree with the previous proposition.  Why do people think that it's OK to deprive women of equality in the Church?


Well she has expressed no interest in running but people should seriously get her to reconsider. That said I do hope there is more than just Tory and Ford in this race, especially considering the size of this city certainly more should be interested in running.


Yes US -Russia relations are shot for this presidency. Mr.Trump will not be able to work with Russia because of the hysteria of something that may have never happened in the first place. "At fault is the "democratic impartial media".And this is not good for any country, any administration and any human being on this Planet. The hysteria is clearly MSM media created and propagated.
As for Massa Gessen when was this person persecuted by Mr.Putin? Furthermore when did Mr. Putin not allow people to vote or persecute religious minorities?
Clearly Mr. Trump is the wrong person to be the President of USA. But he was elected by Americans. " By the People for the People" as they say and I do not think Russia has the ability to produce a regime change however if they did the media made sure that is what it will look like.


As long as there is a net, it doesn't matter. Besides, the government itself sets up the bureaucratic mess that costs the state. M91 wasn't about how best to serve the government.


The Indie a dubious website ? They're as lefty as the Guardian. I thought that if I quoted something like the Daily Mail I would get the usual shoot the messenger response of it being a right-wing blah, blah.


Velwano - the voters you are referring to knows where to draw their cross - they have been doing it for the last 20 years, and nothing JZ, or his cronies get up to will change their MINDSETS.   They have been CAPTURED.


The author could have offered some serious insights or thoughts on any number of issues related to the contents of the piece above.  Surrogacy is certainly a topic that ought to be discussed seriously.  The behavior of the judge who is mentioned in the piece probably ought to be examined (but we can't be sure, because there is no context to the remarks).  The many difficulties that poor women suffer is certainly a worthwhile topic to be discussed.  The topic of "throwaway children" merits much discussion.
Yet, the author chose to write an article that is high on outrage, but low on facts and information.  Perhaps the writing served some sort of cathartic purpose; reading it leaves this reader underwhelmed.


As I read this "story" I don't see him calling for her to be shot at all.  He is just pointing out that while she wants to control American's guns, she wants to be surrounded by them all the time for HER protection.  Maybe that's what she means by "I'm with HER".  If this is supposed journalism, no wonder the public holds the media in lower esteem than at any other time in history.


"Btw, it wasnt Trump but Obama..."

Thank you.


Yeah sure, his name isn't Claude.


Such as? Just asking?


How? By [when carefully studied and "rightly divided"] showingthe traditional/professing institution of "Church" is apostate from the scriptures.


Okay, you have a point. I should have provided a greater variety of scholarly data for that claim. So, here you are:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934309004045

http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(09)00525-7/fulltext

Regardless, do you believe those bankruptcies have been reduced in numbers since the ACA was passed? I'm fairly certain you have been decrying the law as having made everything far worse than what we had before.


These "pope as savior" articles (as if the whole human race depends on what the pope says or where he visits) are a bit much.  "hopes shattered"!  Our hope isn't in the pope, or Obama, it's in Jesus Christ.

At bottom...they reinforce a disturbing "clericalism" by "training" people that the pope is a linchpin in every single action the Church takes.

Just as EWTN over does "clerical" topics...NCR does as well.  A strange similarity between these two news organs, as much as fans of one seem to detest the other.


Thank you for refreshing my memory. I think a few of the people in this forum also have ruined their life because of drugs.


So obvious most posting on here are not your everyday citizen, but some junior political hacks paid to attack Trudeau no matter what he does.  The majority of Canadians will say-good on ya for recognizing that those secretive fund raising events-practiced by all parties- were wrong.  Also, want to thank Trudeau for putting himself on the firing line with Canadians across the country.  Not like past political leaders who hid behind the boys in short pants.


20. Another failure is to try to do it all yourself.  Hire someone else to do the tedious tasks that take up time, thereby allowing you the time to work on things you are passionate about and utilize your strengths the best.


repeat this soothing mantra .. POTUS Donald J Trump...feel better? now, liberally speaking, who is it that you are just as good as?


Mathematically and using their numbers the $50 per house would equal a cost of over $100 million per year.  Yeah, I think the calculations for these thing swing in what ever argument is being made. I also have a truck.  I am thinking I will offer my neighbors to haul their trash once a week for free.  If I can do this for ten households I can save us $1,200 per year.  In addition to this I can save the C&C $6,000 per year not picking up those bins.  Yeah, I think their math is off somewhere.


You were an infantry officer in the Army, no fooling?

A black Air Force general commenting in the early 1970s about racial problems in the military, noting the disproportionately low number of incidents that the Marine Corps had even adjusting for service size, said: "They don't have racial problems in the Marine Corps, they treat everyone as if they were black".

All out of tissues.


Your insights into the individual's behavior, the overriding motive on the part of the airline employees - "[doing] right by the majority of its customers" - as well as my own reasoning for my comments, are beyond amazing.   Very creative.

I agree with you regarding projection, however, and we all reveal ourselves in the things we say about others, especially when speaking *to* others and defining them.

Lars, you couldn't demystify anything for me.   You can't eat my intellectual, informed dust.


This is bent coverage. You do not cover any information about the 3rd party in the equation, the one causing product shortages and exacerbating the currency debasement there. You tow the "freedom fighter" vs "dictator" line, leaving the corporations that import most of what they need to completely control what is happening there.  Of course their government is corrupt and has been for a very, very long time. Like everywhere, like us, so they are not special in this regard.  What is important you recognize is that they have more oil than Saudi Arabia, and if their main export was brussel sprouts this would not be happening to them.


Trash, including that which can be recycled, presents a social phenomena. First, the generation of waste materials comes at the time of purchase. But we have few fees (like on tires) included in the initial cost directed to recovery. So the incentive is for producers to make products out of the least costly, most effective materials, including packaging, which is also often the hardest to recover. Consumers will pay very little more for a "green" product or package.
Later, the product and package is "thrown away" but it never goes really "away". Low income residents, who probably purchase less "stuff" pay the same rate per pound for disposal as the more well-off (who generate more stuff), so the per-pound cost is regressive.
Recycling is not "free", it is a cost to the County minus the recovery value, which fluctuates.
None of these costs are in the initial purchase price. We pay them later and disconnected from the initial cost. This is an inefficient supply and demand system


Yes pay off the debts with the money in the non-registered account.  He's essentially borrowed money at zero per cent from relatives to invest in his portfolio, he can tell himself it was for a car but this not true at a high level.  Kind of disgusting really.  And feed your family, $450/mo for a family of five doesn't seem possible.


I realize this is a rehash story with details missing that were in previous articles. Instead of making this political as one commenter wants, this has to do with the lengths felons will go to avoid their deserved justice. The fact that Rico was not wearing his bullet proof vest is disturbing to me. That's like sending out a human with no vest or gun against a felon who's armed. Which is another problem. Armed felons aren't supposed to happen. Or so I thought. I believe that Dan Sullivan played the biggest role in our police departments inability to do their jobs to the best of their ability. He shamed them by taking away funding they needed to keep us all safe. Why don't you talk about that? Only those that want to live in a lawless state would chastise the efforts of our police departments. They take an oath of putting THEIR lives on the line for your sorry asses. I don't see any of you stepping up to the plate and taking on that responsibility. Shame on you for your ignorance.


And how have the regressive liberals acted?
How about the Progressive Conservatives?


Raised well,  kudos to his parents.


...or a position in the Trump administration?


And then again... People hunt to eat. Ever cross your mind? Nahhh didnt think so


The Civil Rights Act is clear about firms who serve the public.  No discrimination, especially against a protected class (which the Perry decision makes gays and lesbians).  Private bakers can, of course, select their clientele.  The only thing objectionable to any baker would be the cake topper with a rainbow flag, two brides and two grooms and if asked to do the rainbow flag in icing, I am sure a sincere baker could ask politely to beg off - but they have no right to show moral scorn to the customer.  Ever.  The baker can believe what they want but even St. Paul would say that they must be polite (a Jew to Jews, a Gentile to Gentiles).  Indeed, it is much more fun to celebrate gay people in love.  Thinking is sinful because your tribe disapproves is putting politics before people.


Even this paper covers housing under "investment"....and seems to be the focus of virtually all "financial tune-ups", or "retirement columns"


What's the relevance of your questions?


Come on darcy, You girl lost. Deal with it!!! Go Trump Go!!!! Face it you were wrong and posters like me were right. In fact, people like you are always wrong.


Time fo keep local union dues money HERE AT HOME. Staht wit da kine lottery den move to da offshoah casino ships...

We going see tourism from Asia skyrocket, brah!


Actually this morning it was Fox and Friends anchors trying to raise the conspiracy angle, despite cautioning from Senator Paul Rand and the Fox news anchor Brett Baier.  CNN was interviewing witnesses and regurgitating the facts.


Trump was at it again today in Brentwood New york. When addressing a large group of police officers he said ver clearly that the they should rough play when arresting suspects or supposed suspects.
Trump said, "Police should treat the people they arrest violently, President Donald Trump said Friday afternoon, encouraging cops to get “rough” when they toss people into a police vehicle."

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-rough-rides-police-brutality-43a3383b297

The cops applauded.......sad......

Trump also said he wants 300 more ICE officers.......really sad.....


In a  culture that has degraded into immorality and sin under secular forces, the Church should wear the label of "harmed cultural standing" as a badge of honor.


Actually, I think THatcher's contention is right. Your comeback doesn't address your fallacious contention about "overwhelm (ing)any possible biological 'tendencies.'" Talk about overstating the evidence!


For greater clarity. "Clubbing", or other such form of cruelty of recreation as was insuated by one commenter was not part of my argument against cruelty. Yes I have hunted and trapped in the arctic (Baffin island)  For some it is a quick death. For 1/2 I saw it was not. As for animal rights, there is plenty of evidence of consciousness beyond even those of some commenters for whom I would still  advocate more humane treatment. And yes this extends to mass slaughter of beef and pigs but you cannot reform the rules selectively.  Indigineous life when subsistence based had balance. When exploitive was not - as the europeans and later the north americans discovered of the fur trade. The indigenous industry in Canada is $5+B annually. Why add seals?


no we should not, we have our own issues to deal with and terrorism on the west, let the SA countries fix the alt left mess there


Hey all the crazied liberals look at the scoreboard. President Trump won and Hillary and the crazies zero she lost get over it. History will repeat itself in 2020, President Trump will win again.


Egad - cry me a river - based on their  pictures I would rather meet  Adam in a back alley then Wong.  Adam has done a lot for the community.   Alice Wong who???    Too hot in the kitchen?  Leave.


This sleaze ball has been lying about his investments and ripping off investors for years. It's good to see that they are finally going prosecute him.

He's the type guy when you meet him and shake his hand you have to wipe off the stink.


55%

The crossover with marginal tax rates is scheduled for 1 pm today.


I hope they had some good weed (legal) to carry them through their ordeal. And how would they obtain enough drinking water if they didn't have a stove? Hmmmm...more to this story. CNN and Fox are picking up this story for lead.


I agree and understand you 100% with your statement here. I've been saying the same thing but the problem is, that the ACLU REFUSES to make "hate" "racist" speech illegal in their crony excuse that they're defending the 1st amendment hence they'll continue to kick the "hate" and "race" can down the road to keep the country segregated and under constant tension. Also, the majority of the ACLU's money comes from foundations. For example, the Ford Foundation has given them more than $14 million. The Open Society Institute, headed by billionaire George Soros, has given $2 million. And guess who's a trustee for the Open Society Institute? Our pal Bill Moyers whom helped to write the Democratic party platform. What a shock! LOL


When the rabidly liberal WaPo says he's bad, you know he's good.

Get ready for the onslaught of unhinged Progressives in 3...2..1..


Fries, feel free to just sit back in your cozy little insulated world and criticize. What have you done lately for your community? And even if you have done something, what gives you the right to criticize those who take a different path? Who are you to determine what is constructive and what is not? You may think Trump is hunky dory, but the majority of the country does not. Why don't you respect that? And don't pretend you do, because it's clear you don't.


Eh? What race or ethnic background is "Stonehouse"?


Expatriates, yes.
At this time of year, not snowbirds.


When the legends die... my condolences to all..


Stupidity is not a crime.  President Trump, you are free to go.


ever think that it's on a day when most people don't have to work?


Actually weed will stay fresh for 1 year easily. It can be grown in the Parries or anywhere in Canada during the summer.


My guess is that they were trying to use the heritage designation to block an intensification of the site.  Any building on Yonge Street between Eglinton and Lawrence should be a minimum of 14 floors as it is on a provincially designated growth corridor.  Also when you look at the building there does not seem to be anything special about the facade, unlike some of the former banks downtown that had their facade's incorporated into the redevelopment.


The facts are that we  have millions of illegal immigrants and we are not going to deport them so we need congress to come up with a path to citizenship, we need the taxes into the social security that these people can pay and we need the labor.  Right now the cherry farmers in eastern Washington can not harvest the entire crop due to the lack of labor.  I hear so much about the Hispanic taking jobs away from Americans I guess it doesn't count picking the cherries


Which would you rather have?  Someone saying safe things and doing nothing (shades of today!) or saying stupid things but doing good, even great, things.

And Byrd was a Southerner.  To expect better from them is like peeing in the desert and looking for the flowers to bloom.


Exactly.  Our kids are out of the house.;  my spouse and I both have good paying jobs, and she will be affected.  We have a simple solution:  she reduces her workload during winter months by ~50%.  We have wonderful lives outside of work, and will make sure that the new tax rate will never be applied to her.  Not only will they not get the 54% tax rate they envisage, they will not get any income taxes.  She is an award winning physician.


As always, a great column from Mr. Granatstein.
And absolutely on-point: One does not honour history by either glossing over it, or by focusing only on the negatives.
We learn from history, only when we take an objective look at both the good and the bad that our forebears have done. To place emphasis on either extreme is dangerous.


You’re correct that the Earnings Reserve is a spending account.  The problem is that we’re spending like we’re 30 when we need to spend like we’re retired.  The State can spend 50% of the 5-year average of Permanent Fund earnings every year sustainably and still pay the people their 50% of the 5-year average of Permanent Fund earnings.  The problem is the State wants to keep spending 800% more than their share, rob the people’s share of the PFD, spend down savings and tax anything that moves to do so.  They are still going to come up short, and worse, will be broke in a few years if we continue the status quo.  There is only one solution to our crisis, and while it involves responsibly spending from our retirement earnings, it must be predicated on spending only what we can afford.  Like a morbidly obese person going on a diet, it’s going to hurt.  It’s also the only way to stay alive.


California-bottled water is already the cheapest bottled water in Nome, Alaska.  We could just ship their water back to them.   Why repeat the same strategy that we use with the oil industry?  We send our oil to California, they refine it and send it back.


Providing meaningful and adequate support for the mentally ill is very expensive and, like it or not, often intrusive.  Many persons simply won't support the funding of facilities and programs to provide early intervention and support at the community level.  Others feel such interventions are inhumane and personally intrusive.  As a result we have, across our nation, hundreds of thousands of mentally-ill individuals impoverished and homeless, sleeping in doorways and alleys, and aimlessly wandering the streets during the days.

We don't intervene until the individual "becomes an imminent danger to themselves or others".  Frequently, that means until they either commit suicide or commit a serious crime.  Our lack of compassonate care for the mentally-ill is a national disgrace.


I'd be curious to know if your "black and white truth" is in fact actually "rational, intelligent".


Not the figures you cited. I checked their website.


Pause  to reconsider your hyperbole, even withdraw it on the basis of abject silliness.  Consider how infantile your assertion is in the face of hundreds of thousands of Afghans having fled their country, then living as refugees in places like Pakistan, India and even Canada. Consider also the horror faced by many of them as they are forced back to Afghanistan by the Pakistani gov't this past year. Torture, rape, murder and starvation awaits them. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/13/pakistan-mass-forced-returns-afghan-refugees

Your reckless suspension of logic and reason is like salt in the wounds of these brutalized people. Fool.


The election cycle is over and now we await the winner to show us the real results. For the results are not simply who won the election but what that election brings to fruition.  Campaign are full of promises, most of which are never remembered after the election. In six months if the ISIS mess is not over, thousands of our troops still deployed in the ME, Trump will not have the same great number of followers supporting him.  The ME problems had been somewhat kept in the background except for a few statement of who knows the most about running the military.  American have grown weary of the ME cost in blood and treasure and expect Trump to put-up or shut-up.


I don't know about what her position was, and she probably was not tempting him purposefully. But he did not break a law, what he did was probably in poor taste, but  not illegal. This may help you understand me a little better on the subject - If she was dressed in a way that revealed a large amount of cleavage, PERHAPS, an option would be to cover it up a bit. I don't know that is the case, but is would be an option that MIGHT solve problems like this.


Doc's idea meshes with Josh Gordon's surtax proposal.  See:  http://torontolife.com/real-estate/qa-joshua-gordon-researcher-blames-buyers-rising-home-prices-toronto/.  Both make sense.

Re KM1's comments, a start would be to set the bar at higher surtaxes/property taxes for purchases made with "non-Canadian-taxed" income.  This is doable if the provinces and feds cooperate to make all RE transactions contingent on a thorough review of income tax filings of the purchaser. That's the only way to know if Canadian income tax has been fully paid on all the money being used for the purchase. Money from outside Canada would only be suitable if it was duly taxed in a country that has a fair tax agreement with Canada. "Gift" money would only be suitable if one could show the source, and that source's income tax filings revealed tax duly paid in Canada or in a country with a fair tax agreement with Canada.  No sale if taxes paid aren't commensurate with the RE purchase price.


This is far more than just the treatment he might benefit from in the US. Here's the facts.

THE DAMAGE IS ALREADY DONE. Nerve cells have died of starvation from lack of energy due to the defective mitochondria he had. They aren't coming back. He's got systemic damage throughout his body as his cells have literally starved. So, if this therapy is successful, he will never live up to the potential he might have had he had normal mitochondria. What does this mean in real-world terms?

Continuing healthcare, throughout his life. Reduced or even zero productivity. A net drain on society. Unless the parents are absorbing this cost all by themselves, this means society is paying for this person his whole life. That's not single payer. Here in the States, your insurance costs would go up if you were using the same company he was. That's how life works.

The parents need to let go and let him die in peace. That's the real problem here.


I think civility is a GREAT idea and I encourage it. Stop attacking people and concentrate on the merit of their ideas. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are stupid, evil or insane. STOP IT!

But, in looking at the realm of ideas ...

The problem is that compromise is what has gotten us into this mess. There is no viable way to compromise between the big spending,vast government ideals of the Democrats and the small government, fiscal conservatism that the country desperately needs. But that's what we've been trying to do for 60 years and we've watched as government has grown larger, more intrusive and more expensive until my 18-year-old owes $65,000 for a national debt that has done NOTHING positive for him or anyone he knows. We can no longer afford to compromise. The country is going the way of the Roman & British empires if we don't return to fiscal sanity. But the spenders won't compromise with the fiscally sane, so we're stuck in gridlock.

And, Gerson ...


Very succinct and well thought out comment, I for one agree with you.


It's still up :)


At least Ray Lewis knows how to kneel meaningfully while the others pose.


---"Sugarfoot Anderson represented his adopted home with dignity and kindness"---
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What improvements would make it safer?  It is a largely straight road, with some potholes.  If you resurfaced the entire span then drivers would only increase their speed.  People killed on this deadly section have been victims of speeding, illegal or stupid attempts at passing, falling asleep at the wheel, DUI, texting, and impacts with deer.  Resurfacing the road would prevent none of these. Expanding to four lanes into wetlands would be an engineering nightmare and not eliminate the aforementioned problems.  Slow down, pay attention and be patient.  That will make this section of road safer.


None, cause they believe news papers, tv, rather then doing their own homework. Its easier...


"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ”
     George Santayana, Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense,
     Scribner's, 1905, page 284


The adjective PC is not a pejorative but rather an attempt to avoid offensive, hurtful or biased language. The all too common association of the terms "pc" and "liberal" encourages the counter stereotype that conservatives tend to be racist, mysoginistic or ignorant hillbillies. Neither generalization furthers communication. It simply encourages division. As does name calling, no matter how accurate you may find the epithet. As for the inclination in the U.S. to accuse both academia and journalism of liberalism, there has always been a prominent streak of anti-intellectualism in this country. Where other cultures admire education and knowledge, we behave as if deliberate ignorance is something to be proud of. That our free and open press is vital to a transparent government should go without saying and yet many believe reporting facts alone constitutes bias. As Asimov so astutely noted, democracy does not mean that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."


Exactly.  A rural version of urban living with generous linguistics.


The City will spend money on anything and everything!


I was hoping for a gazebo in every backyard.


Professionals should be able to restrain a drunk. Most of our police are amateurs in uniform.


Nonsense. You comment shows you are not thinking rationally on this. Being popular has nothing to do with being honest, ethical or competence. All you have to do is look south of the border. Ninety six percent of what Trump said on the campaign trail wasn't true, he's grossly incompetent and ignorant and has gutter level ethics ... they made him President.


If I did something like that, I'd be in trouble!


Everything you said is absolutely true, but Dems don't want to hear it.
Sadly, if Dems keep this up, then they are destined to lose yet another round of elections.


Racist and classist? The good professor seems to think everybody of the race and class of the dysfunctional element approves of the behavior of the scrofulous party crowd. Some cultures are more judgmental than others. But I challenge this woman named after a cheese to find a race or a class that approves of hanging around the park, doing drugs, defecating in public, and being a general nuisance.


Well that sounded quite exciting! Yeah-normal looking dude alrighty :)


Had Senator Akaka, Governor David Ige, Shan Tsutsui, etc known they were working with the kids that were born and raised to serve their Guru- (the human individual they take orders from known to them as God's representative on this earth aka Jagad Guru Chris Butler), perhaps they may have taken their business elsewhere.
Had the constituents of Hawaii been told upfront that Tulsi Gabbard is merely a puppet for Chris Butler's political aspirations to have his  disciple be president of the United States one day, would they have voted for her?
In the majority of cases Religion plays no part in a persons electability, but in the Gabbards case it most certainly does. They march to the orders of a rabid cult leader, not to the President elect, the constitution or their constituents.
This cult believes it is above the laws of the land. To lie, cheat, all in the name of their Guru and God -Krsna is indoctrinated in this group of brainwashed individuals devoid of critical thinking skills.


They did test the software. The residents of Hawaii are all Beta testers! LOL
The next Beta test will be the first suckers on the rail 1.0 as it derails and drops from 50 feet due to cheap  $0.10 cent plastic shims holding the entire steel rails giving out!


I have been noticing racial overtones given by certain urban people when it involves native people who breaks the law when it comes to hunting, fishing and crime. Through out my years in the construction industry working all over Alaska, I know better then to label all natives as murders, Rapist, alcoholics and wanton waste killers of game, the Majority of natives from what I have observed is a lot more honest, hard working and law abiding than their city counterparts. Sure you have those that break the law, just as you have people from the cities that are raping, killing, stealing, drinking and killing animals and only taking their heads. The difference between the city folk is the city folk say it wasn't me, and on the other hand you want to lump all natives together which in our society is the norm.


Because ADN doesn't get their articles from Alex Jones, pharma boy Martin Shkreli, or the National Inquirer. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/09/is-hillary-dying-hoax-started-by-pal-of-alex-jones.html


10 years ago or so I had given up on Hockey Night in Canada because it didn't matter what important things were happening, the cbc was going to "bless" all of Canada by shoving the laffs down our throat. So, like many I just stopped watching. Except, 45 minutes after the puck dropped I would religiously turn on coaches corner. It was both entertaining and often profound.

These days, I'm glued to the screen on Saturday nights as thankfully the control of who sees which games has been yanked from cbc.  Now, as often as not I don't bother with coaches corner as there is never anything worth listening to. The saddest thing in the world are old fools who don't know when to quit. Dollars to doughnuts if cops were shooting old drunk Irishmen with poofy last names for sport cherry would be on his knee but fast.

Save what little is left of your dignity and retire Don and please take bob cole with you. The minimum we should expect is an announcer who can remember the players names.


Coal miners (who are "people") don't agree with your assessment of Trump's action, nor do those of us who believe that the "war on coal" was not necessary to "fight (vastly overblown) climate change".

That is not to say that coal burning does not need cleanup for legitimate reasons - particulate matter (smoke) injected into the atmosphere, for example.


The quote is from a National Weather Service scientist providing insight to the public on road conditions.  As such, citing a random colleague's perspective - with no indication of whether that colleague has driven the road 100, 1,000, or 10,000 times - is careless and a poor substitute for objective information.  And in this case, having seen the conditions today myself, I'd say the colleague was a little inexperienced.

You're welcome to feel it's a fine way to report conditions to the public. I simply disagree.


they should lower personal taxes across the board and rid of all this silly climate change regulation and taxes. Thats a good start and plain to see by anyone with a brain not locked into groupthink.


Perhaps following similar logic, and collapsing them all into zero would make more sense. (But then, Hey - this is politics...)


That's simple, and I've actually done it. I live in Wakiki and work at UHWO. By car, at a minimum it takes 1.5 hours round trip. I fill up with gas every 4 days. The schedule for rail would be a train leaves no more Han every twenty minutes and the ride along the entire length will be a half hour. Increased demand can be easily met by adding trains to the route, and it's automated. Bus service is now crippled, like car transit, by traffic congestion. The environmental impact statement has a whole section on this. On time arrivals are declining, routes take longer, and the buses burn more fuel. Thereby increasing costs and fairs. Having an integrated commuter system with rail as part of the networks proves the whole system. OTherwise forget about the bus it's doomed under current circumstances.  My calculation as to savings on my commute was $2,000 a year. That didn't include the car payment.


You really ought to take your own advice Mr Smug and self delusional, telling others they are "spouting nonsense".


dennism,
A BIG AMEN brother. And that IS the way it is supposed to be!!!


You should just move on.

…or start over with premises actually grounded in reality.


Anchorage is turning into a toilet. It needs to be flushed, scrubbed & the lid needs to be closed to avoid an influx of new *****.


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"Virginia Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (R), however, had no qualms about urging Trump to drop out of the race.

"Donald Trump should step aside and allow our party to replace him," Comstock tweeted. "I cannot in good conscience vote for Trump."
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Trump supporters boycotting Hawaii?! PLEASE, PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE boycott us! We don't want you here anyway! And no, this boycott will NOT hurt us financially. You really think these Trump supporters on the mainland can afford to come to Hawaii? They've probably never been any further than their local Walmart!...LOL....Anyway, judging from the comments on the #BoycottHawaii twitter feed, the half dozen or so Trump supporters that say they are cancelling their vacations to Hawaii will be more than made up for by the sane people that say they are coming here now because of less Trump supporters!


Ok lets put those earnings in context and to avoid putting words in your mouth or unfairly speculating as to your intent, by all means spell it out for us.

So far you haven't provided much to work with.


And how does the Religious Conservatives continue to support Trump, who lies, is conceited, and grabs women's genitals.  How many times has Trump been married?


Odowd had a history of that he also bashed Holliday to a certain level after he traded him.


Definitely Cupich is the man for the job.


Guess you'll have to buy more apples.


I actually don't mind the time change twice a year. I make it a fun event to change all the clocks in my home - and I have quite a few of them, one an 1878 Ansonia School Clock. I certainly don't experience sleep deprivation [from the time change]. That said, I enjoyed not having to do it when I worked and lived in Arizona at the beginning of this century. Like Lynn, I prefer the extra hour of daylight at the end of the day, so if I were to choose one or the other it would be full-time PDT (or MST).


Wonder how many JT can spark up from just 3 gms?
Or is his inhalant provided free like everything else..


The more hate-inspired robo-calls and mailings filled with lies and innuendos I receive, the more personal phone calls I make in support of Lynne Robinson, Karol Brown and Janice Zahn.
Lynne’s dedication to the city has been demonstrated during the last four years as she has worked to preserve and increase Bellevue’s open spaces, trails, parks and walkways through projects such as the Grand Connection, Meydenbauer Park and the Downtown Park.
She has collaborated with different groups to make sure developers are including affordable housing in their projects.
Karol Brown and Janice Zahn, both thoughtful and intelligent, will support our neighborhoods while helping Bellevue maintain its reputation as a great place to live and raise a family.
All three candidates recognize that the real problems facing our city are rising housing costs and transportation challenges – not an already rejected heroin injection site.
I support these heroines in their run for City Council.


There is no PC party


I agree with you 100% !  I am proud that some of the girls who stayed with us have gone on to make a difference in foster care, adoptive care and in the system in general.
Yes, resiliency and as I said above, they were survivors who had the tenacity to not only survive but to thrive.


Prime Minister Tater Tot (Xiao tudòu  小土豆) must have a different version of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms than the one posted at the DOJ website and the one with which I am familiar.

That version is quite clear that it does not apply to US government officials and their actions.

:Application of Charter

"32. (1) This Charter applies

(a) to the Parliament and government of Canada in respect of all matters within the authority of Parliament including all matters relating to the Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories; and

(b) to the legislature and government of each province in respect of all matters within the authority of the legislature of each province."

Where can I get a copy of this amended Charter that the PM is relying upon to protect Canadians?


Soooo.....your music sucked....More than one person complained.....You were ejected and asked to leave. So it just becomes racism ? What a news story. Move along nothing to see hear.....


All of us who are not white supremacists should pay close attention.  Trump/Bannon has a definite, demented plan to take this country down, and it doesn't look like Congress will grow a backbone in  time to rein it in.


Ferries were repossessed by Maritime Administration.  Beleive they are now leased to an operator which provides ferry servcie between Maine and Nova Scotia


Our fellow Bronco fans are like Trump supporters when it comes to Elway.


American voters had their chance and blew it.  Now the Dems will have to come behind them and put a wall around Mr. Twit.


Except for the fact that the most virulent anti-trump hosts are the ones who are rising to the top of the late night Heap.


I cannot help but wonder if Mr. Trudeau's handlers, after not having their expense claims honoured, have left their boss to twist in the wind.  It is pretty clear that our PM cannot handle anything but carefully scripted photo-ops.

I suspect we'll get another avalanche of shirtless panda hugging pictures next week to try to bury this story.


Canada's outmoded approach to and 'idea' based economy throws doubt on anyone proposing change.
Oddly enough, the US silicon valley startups involve people working together under a system of understood "trust", that does not happen here in Canada.
It is not a matter of changing laws; its a matter of changing the perception, that if its here, its mine. There are many too skeptical of trust to bother risking making someone else rich and recognized for naught, but theft of ideas, concepts, names and so on.
It starts with the top. Business Managers, Politicians; and mainly here in Canada.....civil servants.
In the 50'st was quite common for an 'idea man' to take main stage in the US corporate world; in Canada he would be robbed, ignored, or otherwise dismissed.
Good article !!


I am sure it is climate change and not the fleet of Washington based gilnetters


You know D T? No one knows him.  Impressed by his appointments? You are easy to please. Wow. First you want more military here. Classic. A republican wants more government jobs to be brought here. Let's cut the military instead. Let's cut the military. Let's stop selling Government bonds to China to fund more military jobs. Let's not go into debt to "make" more jobs.


Who didn't see this coming ?  There was zero doubt he'd stay in office if he couldn't get elected president . Now we see why Trump called him a liar.


Only Lisa had the stones to stand up for Alaska and say NO to Trump and McConnell.
Ohio Dan crumpled like a cheap suit.


I didn't do it. I haven't had a match since Superman died.


I just hope better for the kids in these villages who get stuck into living with adults who are hard substance  abusers. I hope that the goal is to keep these kids away from such adults to protect them and not just use the system for a revolving door for these children when mom, dad or guardian are wavering in their efforts and ability to control their substance abuse problems and their anger problems. This also goes to any community of peoples not just the Native people. There are so many cases of children that should not  have been back in a parent or guardians custody. The state stand on this for decades has to been to rehabilitate these parents and guardians to "keep the family" together  and only when the child has suffered abuse and neglect that is just horrific has the state stepped in to permanently remove such children.  A show on tv today on parents who suffer with their adult children in the opiate crisis.  A lot of grandparents are raising their own grandchildren.


I guess we should be building a wall, and making the US pay for it.


In 1977, the opening crawl never said "Episode IV". In fact, it wasn't called "A New Hope", either, to avoid confusion.  It was originally a stand-alone film called "STAR WARS" until The Empire Strikes Back was released.


hilarious.


The Register Guard reported that the defendant beat Mr. Bumpas while he was handcuffed. This is a lie. Mr. Bumpas was never struck by Officer Sharlow either in the field before arrest, during arrest, nor in the booking room at the jail. I base this FACT on the sworn testimony of all witnesses in court and by statements made by both the state and defense counsel. If Officer Sharlow had indeed struck, kicked, or otherwise assaulted Mr. Bumpas, those facts would have been stated by at least the state's counsel during the trial. Absolutely no one stated, nor testified that Officer Sharlow engaged in any type of physical contact with Mr. Bumpas besides Officer Sharlow grabbing one of Mr. Bumpas' wrists when the two officers attempted to arrest and handcuff him, deploying his taser which allowed the back-up officers to handcuff Mr. Bumpas and place him in the patrol car for transport to the jail, and using a defensive tactic to take Mr. Bumpas to the ground in the booking room at the jail.


Prefer modest course correction to a big lunge either left or right, you say?
Poppycock! This state couldn't get more left anyway if they wanted to, so you cannot say that they prefer to not make large swings to the left.
You can accurately say that they chose not to make a large swing to the right. There's lots of room to the right of this electorate's current stasis.


Isaac Asimov wrote that what most often greets scientific discovery is not the word "Eureka!" but rather, "Hmm, that's funny."


Agreed. I see Trump and his supporters as evidence that our schools could do a better job at the instruction of critical thinking. I'm always amused at how they have turned the term "fake news" completely upside down, without the least bit of self-reflection on their part at all. They'll tune into ridiculous clown shows like Faux, Breitbart, Rush, InfoWars, Washington Times, etc...and then call respectable media "fake news".


Just noticed this is a member-only report. Really?


President Obama has led by example but the only people that refuse to take notice are the bigots.


The Leafs just make any goaltender a scapegoat.


The Libs are so good at cooking up cute names for their outrageous behaviour. ELBOW GATE is their name for Trudeau's : "Get the frack out of my way" in Parliament. The lefty media helped sell the nonsense with "surveys" where they conveniently asked if JT hurt the woman... rather than asking how people felt about what he said.... on the job to fellow elected politicians.


But who other than Muslims wears a burqua or niqab? That's what associates this ban with the Muslim faith, and one/some of its well-known symbols, specifically. The shorthand for that, albeit one that builds judgment into the shorthand, is "Muslim bashing". So, not defending the choice of words, but replying to the logical flaw in your post.


They struggle to  get this as long as it is "their"religion but they'll start to understand this perspective once the tax payer funded vouchers are used for Islamic schools......


Doug Saunders needs to shake his head a few times on this one.    This is one of the strangest articles he has written, and counter to the whole environmental philosophy of the country we live in.   Go get yourself some  counselling, Doug.


Obviously, I disagree.  And yes, I'm "up for the challenge" not that I'm required to be. But feel free to avoid the real issue by attacking me.  The fact that the Grunwald's have had and continue to have military careers doesn't automatically make them perfect parents, nor does the horrific fact that their child was brutally murdered make him a perfect person.  Neither of these facts changes the grief they feel for the loss of their child or the fact that he didn't deserve to die the way he did. No one does.
You don't know if what I've written are "vile lies" or not. And you don't care. So if anyone should be crawling back under his manure pile, it's you.


She lives in the middle of 50 acres of forest.
I'm certain she knows trees exist.


Please enlighten us?!


i can't think of once, not once, i heard anyone say "There She Falls" - never , not once, ever, ever, ever. not in relation to falling a tree.  in a bar...?
 i didn't "cater" to loggers ...you're assumption based on i am a woman?  i never stayed in a logging camp....they are kinda rare since gas engines and roads.... i've heard of one here -  way outside oakridge had friends put one together. but ... most likely elsewhere in alaska.  every crew had their lingo - i worked with gypsy crews...
 so,  yeah, i worked up on the ridges in the middle of nowhere. usually cutting standing dead wood..snags. i split DRY rounds with a splitting maul and wedges. up to 2+ feet across. popped those things apart - i was a surgeon.  'read the grain.   luke, use the force...' .  lol. i had a blast - met all kinds of locals and heard story after story. i was happy as a pig rolling in mud.  i especially enjoyed breaking up the coastal trees... lots of dry wood. ever chop that? smells good.


Haven't met a Catholic couple yet who fails to use birth control. Anyone remembering or knowing how 1960s teaching on birth control by Pope Paul was handed down knows how arbitrary it was and how it was contrary to commission formed to study issue. Institutional Church continues to demonstrate how inept it is in dealing with matters of sex-----------all matters of sex from sexual abuse of children to matters of conjugal love.


Maybe after he starts WW3.


I wonder if Mr. Winters' dismissive comments about another Catholic in good standing would pass the civility criteria? I wouldn't pass them.


"You've slagged the province before."

Really? Please share.


That photo of Wynne is going to stick in my mind... just like chewing gum on the sole of the shoe.


OH:  Oh please it's always someone else's fault in your mind.  Obama had 8 years to legalize marijuana and he didn't get it down.  Now the President says we are going to enforce the law.  What part of that don't you understand?


Since you obviously don't live here, it might be a good idea to stop now, before you embarrass yourself further.


So the nazi thugs who decide to hold rallies in defence of their 'right' to inflame hatred, these are the same nazi thugs who suddenly understand they can't organise a p..sup in a brewery? Who ensure they are safely behind police barricades before they start insulting  people who disagree with them (which is 99% of Canadians, of course)? Who are real brave on facebook and on message boards but who are the same nazi thugs who creep home early to their mommies when they suddenly realise they aren't wanted. Probably wetting themselves on the way.
What a woeful lot they are. Laughable, in some ways.


Everything the left disagrees with is deemed "racist."


Creative "Stress Free" baloney 101....
A+


In Russia country protests you.


Classy.   And so adult......


"The summit of Mauna Kea is not mainland tourist land, it's not State land, it is Native Hawaiian land."
Could you please cite your source for that ridiculous statement?
Everyone in Hawaii came from somewhere else, even the Polynesians.


He opposes abortion because he thought it would get him elected.  He isn't against telling a lie to get ahead, having affairs, belittling the handy capped, the sick, women, non whites, the poor, and on and on...but he "said" he was against abortion.


*sees headline*
Oh this is going to be fun
*grabs popcorn and dives headfirst into the comment section*


You mean like the Kennedy's?


Dave  - I have to admit that I do not like your advice column. For the most part, I find your advice tone deaf and out-of-touch. This advice though - for once - was stellar. Right on the money.

I see this happening all the time. Glad that you are broaching it here and making it known that these feelings are actually a "thing" with almost every couple I know.


Read this: http://www.frontiersman.com/opinions/editorials/who-owns-alaska-s-natural-resources/article_6ac2f800-4e35-11e1-8272-0019bb2963f4.html    And, read this: https://www.adn.com/commentary/article/compass-alaska-owner-state-and-needs-act-one-oil-taxes/2013/03/10/  from the article: "...we refer to Alaska as the "Owner State." The idea of Alaska, indeed all Alaskans, as the "owners" of our resources is not wishful thinking. It is rooted in federal law...  (There is a continuation of this cite in the following reply due to space limitations)