Thanks for the great letter! School choice is the only way to combat the failing public system we are stuck with. There should be more choice and not just choice for kids who are failing in the system. How about school choice for kids who are well-behaved and hard working? Those kids have few opportunities in local schools. How about families who want a more traditional education for their kids outside of the wholly progressive education offered by our local far-left educators? We could cut class sizes in half tomorrow if we could get rid of the teacher's union. And would could doubt that there would be plenty of great candidates to take their places?


Eugene,

Yes. As I related here recently, one morning as I was entering Marine Corps Base Hawaii (K-Bay) the marine at the guard shack, for whatever reason, ordered me to keep my hands placed on the steering wheel and in the next instant said, "Your ID, license and registration please."  Now, far from lacking a somewhat evil sense of humor, it did (but only for an instant) occur to me to utter a comeback like, "Well, sure Lance Corporal.  So which foot would you like for me to use?"

But I heeded the better angels of my nature and so merely asked, "May I remove my hands from the steering wheel to get them?"  The young marine did drop me a slightly abashed expression for a second, but the end of this story is that I was allowed to proceed onto the base and there was no harm done.

There's a difference between being assertive when necessary and being needlessly provocative.


It may be "central" to journalism, but it is is still an opinion piece and should be on the opinion piece page and not masqueraded as news, which people generally believe to be fact based and not biased.  Opinion, but definition is highly likely to be neither of these two things.


Typical politician...they take themselves too seriously...and our problems too lightly..


You want land?....simple,buy it.


I didn't write the comment your replying to. That would be Ken Woods.


Similar but not involving a returned gun was the Nova Scotia soldier who drove himself to the hospital but was not admitted before he killed his family. I agree with you, the airport shooter should never have had that gun returned but our system is also lacking. A wife, daughter and grand-mother would still be alive today if the Nova Scotia soldier had been admitted.


"To the extent that we believe the historical Jesus is accurately portrayed in the gospels, or reflected in the Letters, we find that conditions exist for mercy and salvation"

Doesn't that go back to the original question?  Does Scripture have epistemological sufficiency and necessity so that the many conditions enumerated there can be trusted to be sine qua non imperatives.


He is the Donald aka God Almighty.  Yes I expected the Donald to do something.  I actually expected the Donald to come  out in favor of single pay health care and I expected him to just say no to bombing.  Proven wrong on both accounts,  The Donald is nothing but a phony.   Come on Donald release your taxes!


Those other words are yours not hers.  I reality she is running against entrenched politicians who haven't taken a stand for or against anything significant.  Watch who opposes public campaign financing before saying the person who supports it is the problem.


It can't..? Really..?  With apps like TOR and banking like bitcoin; it's close. Besides most users did not plan years ago to have several phony mail boxes or internet personas. Too little too late to work those up now..


and god made the bear attack him


So basically they beat each other up... Police investigating assault but no one else involved


Sounds good, but I'd need a bit more specificity to get on board.  Extra-dimensional as is armed rebellion?  Extra-dimensional as in group psychic energy (ala Wachovia's Goast Dance)? I'm really not trying to be snarky (there's plenty of other posters here to do that), but what are we talking about since working within the system is useless?


Exactly, and since when does a non governmental group get to determine how much tax payer money they will spend on themselves and their self interests?


Nobody said there were no problems under Obama. Maybe actually defend Trump and his ilk for once rather than try to deflect to a former President who has nothing to do with the topic at hand. There were plenty of problems under Obama. But he didn't deliberately try to make things difficult for those who could least afford it.


What the... who are you people and why are you posting this nonsense on the Vashon Island Beachcomber?


San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has willingly immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deems are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States.
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His latest refusal to stand for the anthem -- he has done this in at least one other preseason game -- came before the 49ers' preseason loss to Green Bay at Levi's Stadium on Friday night.
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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000691077/article/colin-kaepernick-explains-why-he-sat-during-national-anthem


I agree, but also his decision to directly address the people via twitter is a way for him to avoid being questioned on-air. He continues to repeat his lies, people start to repeat his lies, and before long many people begin to believe his lies. It is right out of the play book of some of the most dangerous dictators of the world. Expect more of the President of the United States of America. Integrity is a forgotten virtue in modern politicians as evidenced by leaders of both parties.


I often forget that there are more than my own set of assumptions to this subject.   I might try to clarify myself. However, from the tone of your reply, I suspect that your true intent is "uproar". I pass!


Yes, gut all tax credits; now and forever.  Now's the time.  It's the perfect Big Oil storm.  Gut the tax credits now while the gutting iron is hot.


Yeah, do whatever is pragmatic and the hell with ethics and morality. Governing with principle is so old fashioned, and inconvenient.


Many years ago I was a teamster for thirteen years.  The only thing I ever got from them was a collection of pay stubs listing the deduction of dues.


There's a great deal of truth to his opinion.  Tuckerboy Short.... was in charge of gerrymandering, back some 25 years ago.


Wait until the OPP, teachers and other public sector unions start running their ads about how great Ontario is next campaign.  I predict a Liberal majority, led by GTA once again!


The U.S. tax code, and particularly the corporate income tax code, need a VAST overhaul.

The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world, yet manages to bring in far less revenue then many other countries.  Canada's Federal government brings in about 2.0% of GDP in corporate taxes with a Federal tax rate of 15% while the U.S. brings in only about 1.6% of GDP with a Federal tax rate of 35%.  Why?  Because their tax code is chalk full of special deductions, credits, exemptions, grants, etc. etc.

If the U.S. actually does eliminate 90%+ of their deductions, credits and the like they could easily bring in more revenue with a 15% tax rate than they do with their current 35% tax rate.  At the same time they would reduce compliance costs for companies and administrative costs for the government.

However they would lose the opportunity for politicians to pretend they are "doing something about the economy".


The question has become who to believe when it comes to the government determining who gets how much and what "poverty" is.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics has changed the formula used to calculate the inflation rate that affects millions of senior citizens several times since the late 1970's.  Many of us remember the days of 5, 6, 7%+ inflation from those years.  It lead to administrations being voted out of office.  Guess what, if the same formulas were still in use inflation would have substantially  higher than the 0-1% reported in the past few years.  Why is the Oregon minimum wage based on BLS data that is derived primarily from Portland metro area, yet it is applied statewide?  The government is increasingly in charge of who wins and who loses.  The question is, who is in charge of the government?


Is there going to be a gender  based strategy for false claims of violence to get leverage in court, which is called perjury? Nope.


Did I say that campus violence and attempts to stifle free speech involve the right as well?

Has my subsequent post changed my position at all?

When conservative thought was less robust than now  should Chris Hedges have been dis-invited as a speaker at a major American university?

Should you be focusing on the campus activities of the left as an excuse for you and others to abandon your more liberal instincts without considering the far greater harms perpetrated by right wing policies?


The last paragraph of this article is what needs to be reiterated...
"They're saying we can't do anything until the ice clears," he said. "So they admit they can't respond to an event in Cook Inlet in winter. If they can't do that, they shouldn't be doing business here."
Thank you Alex. This is a perfect example of why I buy 100% wind energy for my home. Fossil fuels of any kind must be stopped before this planet is destroyed.


Asylum seekers and refugees

A distinction without a difference.


Part II...

...The People have shown they want an active and involved commission staffed with intelligent, activist members covering a wide swath of the community.

Not just lobbyists, politically connected types and union bosses that can throw money at the mayor's campaign coffers!

Do we have....? Is it possible....? PROGRESS HERE in HNL???!?!?!

Thanks!


Would be a major disaster for May, and she would be shown the door if the Exit Polls bear this out.


Perhaps they can see beyond blinkered, partisan thinking and are able to be objective about the situation.

You should try that some time.


You have identified what the MSM should be screaming about on the front pages (Globe I'm talking about you).  Wynne like the corrupt chiefs and band councils is skimming money meant for health services to feed her union buds.  If PM Butts gives her more she will bank it for a massive bribe just before the election.

Just say no.


Let's say that someone had done this to me.  Would me joining in an act that offends many Americans and military families really be changing the culture for the better?  Or would such an act of anti-patriotism actually create a greater divide between those who painted my door and myself?  My point is ... this is not the way to bring about the change they are seeking.  The only way is to dispel ignorance with education and experience.  No one turned from racist beliefs to those of equality because someone burned the flag.  It's a ridiculous "protest" at the wrong symbols and the visual of millionaires carrying it out while on the field is discordant with the message.  If they care enough, they would protest in their unpaid time.  But I don't see them investing even a second of their own time into this cause.  It's hollow.  And they know it.


Obama's Legacy, screened on CNN this past winter at least 3 times. Obama himself stated he was not aware ISIS was increasing in numbers,  and your point Innis Mor? Even Hillary admitted more should have been done then drawing a red line on a map


"left wing biased indoctrinators" - you appear to have a problem with educated people.  Your knee jerk reaction to education will result in a less educated society.  Perhaps we will get to pick doctors like we pick our presidents, we will choose them based on whether they are a person we would like to have a beer with rather than whether they have been educated well in medicine.


I watched the confirmation hearing all day Tuesday on C-SPAN3.  Mazie Hirono, having quite low seniority, got her turn to question Gorsuch late in the day.  I've always known that Mazie is far-left in her views and rather "slow" in her mental abilities.  But Tuesday I was terribly embarrassed for myself and for Hawaii, watching my Senator.  She kept repeating the well-worn Democrat talking points which Gorsuch had already responded to eloquently and at length.  And in the end she rebuked Gorsuch for not answering questions, even though Gorsuch had explained many times why a judge is not allowed to disclose his personal views on cases he might later be called to rule upon.  So stooopid "our" Mazie.  So far left.  So sad she is "my" Senator.  Well, at least she didn't being up her favorite topic -- how her mother fled an abusive husband in Japan and immigrated to Hawaii carrying Mazie in her arms.  I kept waiting for it with my barf bowl at the ready.


I hope I'm not a patron of a company whose executive is so dim that he's accepting a fee of 4% for investment advice, and has just come to realize it. Even with CRM2 disclosing the trailer fees on MF MERs (often less than half of the total MER load), I hope he's enjoyed enriching his advisor and shortchanging his family's future resources. How unobservant can you be?

Questrade's ads have pointed out that the 10 or 20 year effect of standard MF fees can easily take 28% of your portfolio value. These ran long enough ago, that alarm bells have also been ignored. Mr Danoff loves to get your money, and his interest in your well being is a little less than the ads for Fidelity suggest.

While I'm constantly on the alert for ways to reduce my 0.5% DIY composite fee load, a lot of tropical vacations and luxury cars are to be found on the other side of the desk from the client.

And the interest and expertise offered with my checking out a robo-advisor seemed to be pretty comprehensive.


Trump should know about FAKE news. He is an EXPERT in it. For six years, in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of Pres. Obama he pushed the 'Birther Conspiracy' which propelled him to the top of the GOP/TP presidential pool. What goes around DOES indeed comes around. That is called KARMA. Period.


Trying to figure out where you get "free" from this. "Covered" does not equal "free."


If you don't want to drink, don't drink. Airlines can already decline to board you if you're drunk.  This involves bad judgement. How about we ban bad judgement?


Lars Bauer wrote: "Also, that ADN includes the PFD as "income" is likewise ridiculous"
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Why is it ridiculous Lars Bauer?  I had to pay U.S. Income Tax on my PFD DIVIDEND because it is considered income (just like stock dividends) by The Feds.  Is there an alternative reality that you know about and I don't?


Can you imagine graduating Coast Guard Academy, having the PRESIDENT speak at it---but all he does is complain that people are mean to him.


Let's take a collection for air fare for Wynne and Tory to be sent to Antarctica to sort out their problems in peace and solitude.


I don't think you understand how much a billion dollars really is.  Google "how much is a billion dollars?" Then consider its being harvested from a small island of less than a Million people by taxing our food, medicine, rent and clothing. Then multiply that by TEN!!!

And please stop lying about the lawsuit that halted rail for a year.  It was hardly "frivolous" and was a result of a rare UNANIMOUS decision by the Hawaii State Supreme Court. They do not bother with frivolous lawsuits much less rule on the unanimously.

To call that lawsuit "frivolous" is extremely disrespectful to the Native Hawaiian lady who filed it.

You don't care about the truth or anyone who isn't profiting from this awful rail scheme, do you?


Boozer is in reference to Carlos Boozer, the NBA player. Once again you run from the irrefutable fact it was Native Americans who overturned the ban on Native American mascots. In the case of Reedsport this is not a Native American tribe school. You also run from the fact no other mascot of race is being banned, and what makes this political correct nonsense racist stereotyping of us Native Americans. Run Forest Run


Insults are your thing?


Oh?

What was it Drumpf said about McCain? What did he say about the Khan "Gold Star" family?

...and yes, I detest Drumpf for that. You justify it by burying it and changes the subject. That's a go to tactic of the right as they still complain about Hillary Clinton to change the subject. It's time to move on from Hillary. The problem is they worked so hard for the Pavlov response and have nothing to replace the "Clinton" hate. Yet no matter what we do, don't talk about todays news! If it is humiliating to the altrightpubs that is. The altrightpubs are pretty despicable minions this day in age.


No Como.  It would be wrong to deport without due process of law.


Who else but a group of young boys is going to find a dead body? Have you ever seen Stand By Me?


Pish posh....

Harvard is the McGill of the south!


I'd rather forget YOU.


Well said.
A QB change makes no difference if the two tackles can't block anyone.


Maybe a junior professional salary in the Congo or Kazakhstan...not in the west...you need to get out more...


Your own post proves your lack of intelligence.  You use two conflating numbers to try (in vain, mind you) to prove your point.  You use agricultural numbers for a single state (California) and you compare it to national numbers of migrants.  You see, a person with actual intelligence and the ability to use logic would use complementary statistics.  If you're using state-wide number of jobs, you use state-wide number of migrants.  Vice-versa, if you're going to use national migrant numbers, you use the number of national agricultural jobs.  And that's not even delving into the fact that you singled out agricultural jobs, despite the fact I pointed out at least two other types of work. Your own post shines light on your lack of mental acuity.


Don't value other people's property? Tuff. Realize that people have a right to protect their property and "rightfully so".   Control your thoughts dude....and we won't be shooting at each other.


You should probably see a psychiatrist.


I think regular transit could take a page from microtransit, and use smaller vehicles for off-peak suburban routes. I have often ridden big buses with 1-4 passengers along the entire route. A smaller vehicle would save on fuel costs.


What to do, Charlie, when Trump is jailed?

Who are you going to try to apologize for then?


No, he is using them to make himself and his buddies richer.  Try reading what is really going on before it is too late.  Read about Trump's Washington Hotel, nicknamed the DC Swamp.  He is a con-man, albeit a good one, and has fooled a great many Americans.


I am still looking forward from the 'tell-all' from the salon worker who reveals what the color number is on the dye tubes that are used.....

One aspect of the 'nice hair' that is getting a free ride is a 46 year old Caucasian male without a single gray hair....riiiiiiiight.


From the Center for Disease Control in 2010:

• The majority of women who reported experiencing sexual violence, regardless of their sexual orientation, reported that they were victimized by male perpetrators. The most stark numbers were for rape, where 98.3 percent of bisexual women and 99.1 percent of lesbians reported their perpetrator was a man.

More:

The Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention states, "For several methodological reasons – nonrandom sampling procedures and self-selection factors, among others – it is not possible to assess the extent of same-sex domestic violence. Studies on abuse between gay male or lesbian partners usually rely on small convenience samples such as lesbian or gay male members of an association."


That's the game you have been running for years.


Allie has a point for some there is hatred of military presence in Hawaii and some might be targeting them because of their race.  The murdered serviceman was African American.


Is that three US rate hikes I see before me in 2017...??

Oh,and wait...I see a loonie...

he is in a hospital somewhere......screens are drawn

I hear some talking....something about administering something...some kind of medication ?

..."the last rites?"


Sunshine under the guidance of Gerald Butthead are doing their best to destroy Canada. Thank gawd it is all talk and no action. Imagine the damage they would cause if they actually did something, other than running a record deficit and giving it away to gawd knows who or what for a selfie photo op.

Excuse me,,, I must throw up now!!


How about the gang of four (two men/two women) that tried robbing the Kriner Restaurant, Mason?  Add them to the list.


The folks in Ketchikan could resolve this issue by paying for the trees to be left in place at the fair market value of the standing timber.  The tourism industry leaches in Ketchikan want something for nothing and that is the problem.  They want the benefit of the forest that the Mental Health Trust owns without paying for it.


I know, Charles his a crime with a weapon of mass destruction. Clearly as long as the violence is against people he doesn't like he is ok with it.


How did this remark ever get posted?  It is beyond non-Christian.


Indeed. We voter's own the power to "drain the swamp". He needs to go.


well, thats a big fat BIP, in the cost...but it's something. Moving on.


Everything about Trump, in the media, is innuendo and regardless of whether he is an idiot or not the witch hunt is on. Sadly though it is America which is being hurt by the foolishness of the likes of the WaPo and NYT and visual outlets such as MSNBC, CNN et al.


We definitely need more people like you. Your thoughts hit the spot.


I think someone should have called him on that one.  Put it out to a vote; do you want to finish rail at all costs and get your property tax bill increased?  That would have gone over really well and Crooked Kirk would be out of office and the people would really turn out to vote.  That really was the solution.  The Leg passing it back to Kirk and seeing if he has the balls to attempt a property tax increase.  I think the voters would turn out for that one!


FTM transgendered athletes are (generally) going to be taking testosterone.  However, their testosterone levels are monitored and have to remain within certain levels (which may well be lower than those of cisgendered competitors).  Nobody worries about the testosterone levels of other male competitors - the only concern is that they be "natural" and haven't been artificially boosted.  Fact is, trans athletes are held to stricter standards on that front than cis athletes.


Either the Kitzhaber administration wasted $305 million to receive absolutely nothing because they were incompetent to select, draft and monitor the Oracle contract or they were too busy running for re-election to select, draft and monitor the Oracle contract.

Either way, it was their job to have the website put together and it never happened.  "I wasn't smart enough to know that Oracle was pulling the wool over my eyes is not a defense.", just a different brand of incompetence.


My son is caucasian as am I. He was born in 1991 and went to public schools. (until he got a scholarship to finish high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy) He never experienced "Kill haole Day." nor did he ever discuss it. His mom was his elementary school principal and I was his high school assistant principal. We would have found out pretty quickly. (I'm glad WFE mentioned that the incidents to which she referred were from 35 years ago. She initially gave the impression that they were recent and I was going to ask the dates and school name so that I could call the current/former principal to check. As I said above, in the last three decades, KHD is a myth perpetuated mostly by recent arrivals.)


And the one thing I just cannot fathom here in HNL is the LOLLYGAGGING when one is in the crosswalk! Is it REALLY that enjoyable to cross a street as slowly as possible, using up ALL that crossing time allowed by the (too short) meter??

Seriously...if I'm crossing a boulevard, I want to get across AS FAST AS POSSIBLE because I just don't trust drivers in general for the reasons listed above!

I can understand if one is disabled, old or wheelchair bound and taking extra time to cross but I see WAY TOO MANY (apparently) healthy, young individuals that seem to be challenging the cars by their extra slow crossing!! (I almost think they DESERVE to be hit by a car as a wake up call)

Yes...you have the "right of way" as a pedestrian, but WHY invite death or maiming? Get across that street ASAP!!


Stephan Harper raised the age of consent to 16 to protect teenagers from themselves because their judgement is flawed and their brains are undeveloped at that age.
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 Why didn't Harper extend this protection to little Omar?


It's not too early to be thinking about replacing at least four of these legislators in next years election, with Independents or Democrats:  Micciche, Meyer, Kelly, MacKinnon, Bishop, Costello and Dunleavy. Emphasis on the first four listed.


Not to mention the minister in charge turned out to be subject to removal from Canada.


Until there is an accident and someone dies. Until there is a fire, death and burn injuries result.
Until incompetent people running the place willfully fail to do their job, someone dies.
Just in it for the money.
Set basic safety standards, enforce, inspect.


The first thing we should cut--$700 million in corporate welfare in the form of oil tax credits.


I'm reminded of a relative had a nice dog once.  Unfortunately it contracted cancer and grew an immense tutor.  Being of the Christian persuasion this relative allowed the dog to suffer right until the end rather than have it put down - despite getting a 'replacement' dog in the meantime.  No amount of discussion could persuade her to do the right thing and stop the dog's suffering.  How is this different?


Think you're racist? Not after reading your racist rant. Anyone with half a brain would know you're a racist. Do the world a favor, and leave it.


I agree with the point of your post. But the elephant in the room is that Prime Minister Trudeau (and Foreign Minister Dion) do not truly support international human and democratic rights.  If one logs onto DFAIT's web site, it claims that human rights is one of Canada's main objectives. But one cannot see that with the present government.


Yes, of course they're entitled to charge all they can
But those of us stuck flying them are equally entitled to complain about lack of good services, overly high change fees, terrible customer service.   They're the worst and the free market one day will provide an alternative and we won't forget


Republican Party 2017: "Cannot be totally condemned yet"


Under Article 8(2)(b)(xxvi) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), adopted in July 1998 and entered into force 1 July 2002; "Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities" is a war crime.
AND
 Article 38, proclaimed: "State parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of 15 years do not take a direct part in hostilities." However, children who are over the age of 15 but under the age of 18 are still voluntarily able to take part in combat as soldiers
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?????????


Healthcare is not a right. It is a priviledge. I currently do not have healthcare.  I'm not owed healthcare. Yes, I need it. No, nobody owes it.
Republicans promised to repeal it on Day One. It's past day one and they are not doing as promised. Senators, don't do what you're trying to do. It's breaking your promise. You want to stay in power.  If your bill passes I will be looking at who and I will be supporting someone who might do as he promised when elected. Who's in the swamp and who's changing the swamp?


Where is the balance that media coverage is supposed to present? Why are we all assumed to be in favor of NAFTA and quivering in fear about what TRump may do? Why is there no mention of Lone Pine Resources suicing Canada for $250 million over Quebecs ban on fracking? ... and all the other lawsuits that are sucking up "hardworking taxpayers money" to compensate big business? This deal is not about
protecting workers but protecting big business who are latching on to the fact they can make even more money by challenging Government regulation protecting the environment/public health? We've give the climate change deniers equal coverage even though their grip on reality is pretty slim... how about giving NAFTA doubters some print time?


...or they will do what Denver did in the generation before we arrived in Denver - yes, remember the old trolleys?  No, you never knew Denver had trolleys?  Yes, Denver had an extensive trolley system that the next generation decided wasn't suited for them and Denver dismantled the entire system and got rid of it.  Then, lo & behold, they forgot we ever had them and thought "wow, what a great system we can have!" and built a new trolley system called lightrail.  See...removing history makes people forget history and they make the same mistakes all over again.  So when we are long gone, let's not get arrogant to say what we are doing now is for the future's good and that the future WILL do as we make them do.


When you have the President coming out as he always does after an police shooting and saying it was based on police bias before all the evidence is presented (which he has been shown wrong before) he needs to take ownership of those comments for inciting riots.  This country is more racially polarized now then it's been since the 60's.  This was the president that was going to unite us?


Terrible fire,where the old Pizza Hut used to be at.


Wouldn't worry about it. home ownership isn't what it used to be anyway.

do the math, your probably better off renting. create equity in other ways.


Yes, a Brit. I did have a good laugh about myself getting my pants in a twist on here, this morning. Someone spilled a drink and shouted, "Gawd!! Brexit, Trump.... and now this!!!"

Perspective 😜


If Corvallis is a lesser destination for football players than Eugene,  implying Eugene is more attractive to minority athletes,  then why is UO 75% white students and OSU 70%?

My grand daughter is a freshman at San Jose State University.  White students are 7.39% of enrollment.  SJSU does not have a stellar football team,  either.  Yes.  Ten times as many white students as a percentage of the enrollment at UO than SJSU!  UO is "diverse" only by self declaration.  University of California schools are the real deal.  None have 40% white enrollees,  which is not the case at Stanford or USC,  both private schools,  and both over 40% white enrollment.  To which UCal administrators counter by saying affluent white students elect to go to private schools or out of state.  Many must be at UO,  which is less than 50%  Oregon resident enrollees.

All these  schools have a  female majority as enrollees,  evidence that the public and taxpayers are still not doing enough for females.


LOL, so Brock tells you what he is doing while the mayor does nothing except complain and you think the problem is Brock  Wake up, smell the coffee, and end your anonymous nonsense.


Curtis, sure in your context, you are correct.  But I don't think he means in that context


Ouch! Judge Seabright basically called Sumida dishonest in court. That's gotta sting.  Then he follows up with some sarcasm! You can't do that to a Federal Judge and expect to come out without leaving a blood trail.


Hanabata,

Just what is, in your "strict sense" a fire door?  By definition a fire door IS a fire resistant door constructed to a certain standard.  Unless you have in mind an infinitely fire-impervious door (that doesn't exist) akin to a "bulletproof" vest, I fail to understand your confusion.  Actual standards for fire doors vary but it would not surprise me that even a building constructed in the 1970s incorporated fire resistant doors in its specifications.

If you remain confused, I suppose you could look up the original contractor's specifications for the Marco Polo.  Or, failing that, you could take a moment to google what the definition of a "fire door" is.


Little Potato fits perfectly.


will thay have privet rooms....or will you make them get into fights with eachother.....


Driving from CT to Paarl a few weeks ago, a blue light convoy came up behind us very fast and put on their sirens, right on our tail - they nearly gave us heart attacks. It's a very dangerous way to drive - no one (other than emergency services) should be allowed to travel faster than the speed limit, and ALL blue light convoys should be banned. Who the devil do these idiots thing they are?


PERS has not been gutted...

I just cashed out my "401k" after leaving State Employment. The State of Alaska has a very generous matching program, after only 2 1/2 years of employment, Alaska paid me almost $10,000.00 dollars extra in my "401K" PERS Tier IV. I am now employed in South Carolina and they have no such matching program for 401K contributions. Here is a really nice perk.... you can "Cash Out" your accumulated personal leave AKA "Vacation/Sick" time, I "Cashed Out" several times while working for the State of Alaska, I would say I received an additional 12K during my employ. Again, the State of S.C. has no such perks. Ironically, the State of South Carolina has a balanced budget, does that sound strange....?


Both canon law and dogmatic teaching preclude a heretic from receiving Holy Communion. Promulgating infanticide or sodomy are heretical acts.


I just buy seal bombs, they are not fireworks as per the BATF


I agree with you that neo-fascists are not called to follow the beatitudes.


white people didn't have flush toilets until Thomas Crapper invented the first lou around 1890, so all people have barely had flush toilets for barely 100 years. it would take the 1890s to today to install flush toilets through out the US and Europe, replacing chamber pots(white peoples honey buckets, by the way the white way to deal with chamber pots was disturbing and deadly, ever heard of the Night Soil Men? high rate of death and sickness to the crews.) George Washington was a fore-father and he never knew what "flushtoilet" meant. honestly David why do you open your mouth?


"total registration of 749,917 people out of a state of 1.4 million" is a misleading number, sorry.  You need to factor in what % of the population is 18 and over, which according to the census is 1.1 million (78.3% of 1.4):  http://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/census/popestimate/2015_state_pop_hi/2015_popest_sumtab.pdf


the drunk driver was in the Hyundai!!!! It was his fault!


400,000 10 year visa's issued to chinese every single year, 320,00 immigrants per year, 500,000 foreign students, 450,000 foreign workers, record numbers of refugees....meanwhile university tuitions have tripled since 2000, housing has increased in cost over 300% in 10 years in both Vancouver and Toronto, wages haven't moved since the 1980s when adjusted for inflation on top of this Canada is currently undergoing the fastest ethnic replacement rate in the world and Trudeau wants us to "not worry"...immigration is the ONLY issue that matters now, nothing else matters and it must be opposed at all costs


Whether or not drunks can consent depends on how drunk they are and what your definition of drunk may be.

Of course, people who are unconscious through drink cannot consent, but that's an extreme form.

Still, it was clearly inappropriate for the judge to make that point as it's a red herring in the actual case.


No hon.  He took out da bruddas.  Bruddas are mainly cowards who cannot defend their families, wives or children from meth dealers.  I have no respect for them at all.  Our native American Mandan men protect their families and know how to be men.


I'll bet that would be just tickety boo.


In the short term, you can buy a round trip air ticket to lower 48 locations where procedures are less than half the cost and in many cases better quality.  For the long term, Alaska medical insurance will be more affordable if part of a larger pool, preferably a regional or national pool of patients.  If this works with auto and homeowners insurance in Alaska then it can work with medical insurance.  Finally, thinking that a critical and necessary service like health care should only be operating in a "free market" economy is a fundamental error, this thinking in itself has led to insurance companies and doctors increasing their fees as fast as the market will possibly bear until costs and CEO salaries are absurd.  Who wants to deal with doctors and insurance companies that care more about making money than serving their patients???   A centralized good quality hospital for reasonable cost would provide the best competition against the private monopolies that now pirate Alaskans.


Gosh Pilot, you've solved the entire issue of poverty and homelessness.  Let's see: teen who have fled an abusive home need to get a job; addicts and chronic alcoholics just need to "get a job"; Vets with PTSD "just need to get a job", severely mentally ill individuals "need to get a job", the developmentally delayed ( mentally disabled) need to "get a job"; abused women with childred need to "get job"; the elderly trying to live on Social Security need to "get a job."  You suggest that "most" homeless people are alike and all they need to do so "solve" their homelessness is to "get a job."

It would, in my opinion, benefit you to study homelessness and poverty and the many, many different issues which lead to those conditions.  You might also study the idea of Housing First, a program which has been very successful helping needy individuals take those steps toward working their way out of poverty and homelessness.  Simplistic solutions seldom represent real solutions.


The joy of smirking neoliberals will likely be short lived. With no party, it's difficult to see how Macron will succeed with his plan to Uberize French society. Even if his neophyte party succeeds in electing members to parliament, the resistance to his plans and the rage against the Euro/technocratic elites from both the left and the right will ensure a high level of civil unrest. Hold on to your bicornes!


Great story indeed!


Irrelevance + Dressup = Ecumenism?


Why can't someone hold a different opinion regarding an inherently subjective judgement?


The law was applied in his case and ignored for various reasons by both established parties for various reasons like cheap labor , future voting blocks etc. Once the economy went into a depression from 1995 and more so from 2008 the Tea partiers woke up to this. Which is one of the reasons Trump is in.


I do remember oh complaining about other people making personal comments. Interesting that you do the same.


Yep, they need to work on time management for sure.  Late in the 4th quarter in the CSU game Montez was snapping the ball with a lot of time left on the snap clock.


It IS easy to embarrass him.

He goes nuclear at the smallest slight.


Plenty of $$$$ for illegal immigrants but none for dam safety. California needs a time out for reorganization of its priorities.


These are actual problems, not issues.


Why such a long long post, can't you say what you want in short simple lines and ideas. What you miss writing is that in the past ± 30years presidents (especially new ones) are given 100 days grace before being attacked, Obama being the best example of this principal. Also it is new that there are powerful groups/people actually publicly dedicated to bringing Trump down, a new  happening. Please don't bring up that Obama was attacked, it was by mostly fringe groups with zero power,vs the current situation where powerful people are working full time behind the secens to bring Trump down.


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At least we are playing and not letting Putin stack the deck with his nonsense. Appeasement leads to war.


You just minimized their deaths.😒


McCain has a brain tumor, so what he says doesn't mean anything.


Please back you claim with proof. Harper would be much better than Trudeau. Actually, anyone would be better than the drama teacher.


Source?  You don't need a source with Donald Trump because his Administration  encourages creating an  "alternate fact"  to support any bias or preconception.


oh please! my dad's sibs went to school in their home state of wisconsin. he'd be 89 now. he and mom moved to montana, a sister to wyoming, a brother to seattle, and another sister settled in chicago. they all left wisconsin, though there were no doubt plenty of opportunities. cry me a river.


Oahu is an island...with too many cars, too many people, not enough highways and parking lots, and not enough affordable housing.  There is no where to go to but up and all it would take is for the island to sink from the weight of it's occupants.  I wish I could blame the rising sea, but is it happening now?  The sky is falling, and we are ignoring the fact that our feet is wet by the "encroaching" ocean.  People, YOU GOT TO STOP!  There is no other recourse.


Does the spending have anything to do with paying for the homeless ambulance rides and treatment at Queens plus taxi rides back to "their" parks? I don't know but sure'd like to. The spending in this state is totally out of control and is ruining our wonderful home. Wake up folks!


The counties of Hawai'i, Maui (islands of Maui, Moloka'i, and Lana'i), Honolulu (island of O'ahu), and Kaua'i have licensed dispensaries.  So, every island except for Ni'ihau, Moloka'i, and Lana'i will most-likely have a dispensary in the near (within 5 years) future.

Hawai'i's medical marijuana law is quite stifling - when compared to certain other laws - and the bureaucratic process has been very slow; so the dispensary process is slow.  We don't know which cities just yet, but I'm assuming that you'll see them near urban centers (like downtown Honolulu).


This is a desperate attempt to find fire, where there is no smoke.
There are all kinds of disturbed individuals everywhere, including Russia.
Trying to politicise a non-event reeks of desperation.
My respect for the Globe and Mail just sunk another iota.


maybe you will do us the honour of telling us your point...


The CDF tried to stick its finger in the dike of the emerging meme that gays were well made (which they are) and sex is a gift from God, making Church gay marriage inevitable. The dike(sp) is now slapping the CDF back upside the head and the Church deserves it.


First Lady?  How gracious, WW.  She's no Lady, and that title should not be used for people of her caliber.

 As Sir John Gielgud so eloquently stated - "Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature. Good luck in prison"


Beautiful


AGW is nothing but FRAUD only the mentally challenged believe in.

A simple greenhouse test:

- 20x20x8' greenhouse has 3,200 cubic feet
- The amount of CO2 is 1.28 cubic feet
- Does any grown sane adult honestly believe adding or removing 1 cubic foot of CO2 from the greenhouse is going to magically change the temperature by 2C?

If this was true why would anyone need to pay for energy to heat their house? All they would need to do is put a clear bubble on their roof and fill it with 100% CO2.

- The amount of CO2 increase since 1960 is equal to 7x7x7" in the greenhouse. Does anyone think this makes a difference?

- The fact is 224 cubic feet of CO2 is required to make the greenhouse temperature rise by 1C, about 70,000 PPM.

MSM and governments are scam artists, brainwashing the ignorant masses with fairy tales while they are taxed into oblivion.


Sydney, I suspect that he got most of his information from the above stated Palin. And that scares me.


This fits my evaluation of the cost of ANYTHING that is routinely financed:  The price of the good (houses/cars/education) explodes.


They doesn't do English - git it right.  Is our children still not learning?


Pope_Benedict_seems_to_teach_differently._See_esp._Caritas_in_Veritate_25.


It will always be the big weakness.  Sadly, that's one of the big problems with playing baseball at 5k feet.  As long as our pitchers have to make 16 starts here, this will remain a monumental challenge.  Just look at the mile long list of pitchers that were great before or after pitching here.  Fellow Rockies fans don't want to hear it when people talk about altitude dramatically inflating numbers, but it does, for both pitchers and hitters.  It's not the Rockies fault, but they have to deal with it.  25 years without winning a division hasn't happened by accident.  The Rockies have challenges that no other team have to deal with.


Both of these bills, SB 1109 and HB 1545, are already dead this session. Why is SA reporting on this issue like it might make a difference if you know about them now? This would have been relevant last week - maybe. Is our daily paper really so poorly managed to not even have staff writers who understand the legislative calendar? It's their job to know so they can properly inform the public at appropriate times. Good to cover, but irrelevant and misleading coverage. Maybe do a story on how someone like Roz Baker has so much power to do so much harm to the people and that state of Hawaii for so long now. Where is the party to challenge her with the actual platform of the party she pretends to belong to while being hostile to any semblance of the party's platform? Do something relevant SA, cover that.


Your love for the Rebel is widespread among Scheers followers and probably Scheer himself and is the reason why he cannot try to disavow them.


Super-Bozo once said that climate change was a Chinese hoax.
When even the politicians have realised something is wrong, and we need to do something to fix it-it may be too late.


He's already proven over and over again that he's , at best, a decent player who can't go a full season injury free. That's unlikely to change. He certainly don't deserve all the hype he gets because he's "local".


They are afraid their lap tops will be stolen.  That is an ironic way to say the baggage handlers in those Middle East air terminals  are likely to be thieves.  Ali Baba would be proud.


Given Bombardiers record with the TTC and Montreal Transit I would put my money on Metrolinx this time.


But this is more like suddenly insisting that everyone's watches have radium in their dials like the 50's.

We know more than we used to about what improves child dental health with least risk to the general population.  Most of the developed world has abandoned indiscriminate systemic dosage via water fluoridation, and the World Health Organization has reported that in developed nations, systemic fluoride dosing has no correlation to dental health.

Port Angeles was fine with unfluoridated water until 2006, when a City Council that did many questionable things did one more, and without public notice signed a no-escape ten-year contract to add industrial fluoride compounds to our municipal water supply.

At the end of the ten years, the current Council first proposed an advisory vote, then decided on a survey of all water customers, including those outside the City limits.  Two-thirds of them said "No" to fluoride  --  and the city overruled them.  This is not tin-hat nonsense.


All of Canada ! --no gravy train for that bum.


Bit of a straw man article.  Alberta has and is  largely viewed with a schizophrenic mix of envy and contempt by a sizeable number of Canadians; many in the media.   Albertans are aware of this and aren’t asking for pity.
Mason’s whiney piece is principally  indicative of his disappointment in the failure of the Notley NDP.


The parenting bar can't be lowered much further than you just did.


Um, hello? Alaska's situation is completely at the feet of Sean Parnell, whose President Obama-hating tantrum is 100% responsible for the fact that Alaska is completely at the mercy of BCBS. Parnell could have taken the money for a state run exchange but he was so scared of the black man in the White House that he refused to take the federal money. We are all now suffering because of it.


This article is written by someone who likely has never picked up a club, kicked a ball or put on skates. The article means very lttle -just shows any non athlete geek can write about sports without knowig anythig about th e experience - lke bettman with hockey


like man, keep smoking that stuff, its obviously destroying the brain cells


Of course he can't.  It is being done in the utmost of secrecy! LOL!


pull your head out of your butt....they've been tone deaf to middle incomers for the most part...they lost seats in the lower mainland ,the 'most prosperous' with over inflated real estate and rents people can't afford...who fear reno-victions .. ...who can't get into the market as the useless bc libs were so in the pockets  of RE developers that it was only when the Globe's Kathy Tomlinson (and Kerri Gold, amongst others) did their exposes on shadow flipping, or on greasy New Coast realty's ''sales'' practices, and they (bc libs) were publicly shamed that any measures were enacted....we were all expected to just go for the ride of BC ''prosperity'' here wages and better paying jobs would make us afford a home (lol: sure my wages haven't increased 30-100% over the past 1/2 dozen yr to match the overinflated dumps going for $1.5million...what does that say, all that fat cat tone deafness, and losing seats in the $$$$ golden goose RE of lower mainland? it says a TON..
hasta la vista!


I wonder if they have any sort of internal practices about who they give anonymity to and how they determine the source even knows anything.


I worked on several projects with Bill when he was a fire chief, and he was always a great guy to work with. He was committed, helpful, and also cognizant of the challenges and demands other agencies faced in joint projects. When projects finished, he'd be the first one writing letters of appreciation and thanks to the participants and their supervisors to commend their efforts.
About two years after working with Bill, I went to work FOR Bill as a responder and he continued to be an excellent leader and administrator. The MSB certainly is plagued with dysfunction at many levels, but Director Gamble ran a department that worked very hard at all levels to remove theirs. He and the rest of the team there at DES have really brought that department a long way in a short time, and morale is higher now than it has been in the 8 years I've seen it.


ROOTsters set new standard for disinterested broadcasting with this game Spilbourghs and nachos, Huson and his birthday, Hickenlooper in the booth, Goodman on watching his sons play baseball ... I want our broadcasters to call the game, analyze what's going on, inform us about how players are doing even within an at-bat. A little off-game chatter is OK. Instead, we get barroom chatter and only cursory attention to the game. Come on, ATT, you've got to professionalize this crew or you'll continue to be second-rate station.


The issue is, there is no pollution.


Hurley v. Irish American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston
(1995), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding free speech rights, specifically the rights of groups to determine what message their activities convey to the public. The Court ruled that private organizations, even if they were planning on and had permits for a public demonstration, were permitted to exclude groups if those groups presented a message contrary to the one the organizing group wanted to convey.


How amusing given that 39% of the electorate was prepared to elect a PM with the intellectual capacity of a single-cell organism.


Thanks Rebecca, but  you need to tell the entire story instead of focusing on a small aspect. Here’s some info that you may find interesting, care of Wikipedia.

There are 3 public stakeholders who ensure the entire country has access to clean water for domestic, agricultural and industrial use: Dept of Water Affairs (DWA) which formulates and implements water resource management, as well as drinking water supply; Water Boards which supply bulk water & also participates in water resources management; Municipalities, who buy & resell bulk water thru their distribution networks.

Cape Town has a mix of water suppliers, including the Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) – operator of the Berg River Dam – which sells bulk water to the government, represented by the Department of Water as the owner of the Water Boards, that treat the water and sell it on to municipalities and mines. The government is the 100% owner of the various Water Boards.


"As Texans owner reignites protest debate, Jerry Jones says NFL should seek “accountability”

What they should seek is the realization that Football is an ENTERTAINMENT venue, and that millions of fans will return when that understanding becomes clear.


we have to wait and see that the facts are for sure before making any accusation. the only fact we do know is the evil and hate this attack was whomever has done it.


The practice of Politics is at least in part the art of finding a way around, over or between implacable positions.

Wente has neatly summarized the ridiculously rigid positions of the eco-Vancouverites - no compromises are possible, no data or logic need be raised.

The endless pandering to pipeline opponents, starting with Northern Gateway, has reached its logical and predictable conclusion: opposition to any and all oil pipelines in Canada.

In reality, the correct decision is obvious: Trans Mountain follows an existing right-of-way for the vast majority of its route, and it is ridiculous hysterics to believe that any new tanker traffic cannot be handled safely, unless we believe that the rest of the world can somehow manage to transport 10's of millions of barrels of oil by tanker every day with very few incidents (and with not one of those incidents ever having resulted in the eco-armageddons being screamed about, including Exxon Valdez), but we cannot.

Good luck Junior.


he sounds like a hippie.


You mean my 10 bucks isn't keeping them afloat? Maybe some of you freeloaders could pay your fair share and help your local paper!


You must be PISSED about that $700 billion defense bill making its way through the House right now, amirite??


because when people write views that disagree with the progressive G&M perspective they are censored.


This is an op-ed. If you're going to allege plagiarism, don't lazily wave your hand and mutter that you've 'read this before'. Provide a link, and compare representative passages.


I would like to keep the word "dividend" front and center in this discussion. It is not a handout. It is the way Alaskan residents are invested in Alaska's oil, gas, and mining resources.
Whether or not any particular person likes it or not is not should have no bearing on the fact that it exists and has been working just fine for several decades.
If we should have vital proposed changes to it all of us who are eligible to receive it should have a say in that decision.


Ahhhh Kevin, truly a legend in his own mind


You misunderstand grace and the action of God.  All acts of generosity stem from His hand. We're mere cooperators, ushers.


In an interview with The Washington Post two days ago, Trump said: "We're going to have insurance for everybody." "There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us."

This was not a campaign promise, mind you, this is what the PEOTUS said a couple of days ago. We shall see.


The dairy board's attorneys will milk this issue for all it's worth.


Optics are everything Chris....had this occurred when Jim Flaherty was at the helm, you'd be having a Warp 8 hissy.


I supposed it would be too much to ask if these later-night entertainers would be entertaining in a non-political way. I really miss Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, etc.


If we use you as an example, yes, he can get more pathetic.
You constantly expand the boundaries of patheticism.


What hypocrisy we have about American politics. We condemn the leadership of many states around the world because they are "Muslim theocracies" while we turn a blind eye to all the Christian prayers and bible readings by preachers and priests during the Trump inauguration as some kind of bizarre normalcy. Everyone needs to read Religion in American Politics by Frank Lambert for a little grounding in reality.


Interesting article and I wish Formula E luck and success !

BUT:
" ...  so the only noise they produce is a persistent whine from the lithium-ion battery packs ...."
News flash  .-)
Lithium ion batteries don't "whine" - they discharge their energy quietly without the racked of exploding gasoline fumes ! What you may be hearing is elecftric motor and drive train whine, air flow, tires ....


"in 2015 we provided $3.3 billion in subsidies to the Oil and Gas Industry"
Considering the amount of taxes collected from the industry as a whole , it is a investment.
 Ontario residents alone paid $6.8 billion in federal and provincial taxes. Canadians as a whole paid over $16.6 billion in gasoline taxes, in 2014 In Alberta , over $8 billion in royalties was collected in 2014/15. The oil patch is nothing but a cash cow for governments .
see: 17th Annual Gas Tax Honesty Reports page 18 Canadian Taxpayers Federation May 14th, 2015 @ http://www.taxpayer.com/media/GTHD-Report-2015.pdf see: http://www.energy.alberta.ca/Org/pdfs/FS_Royalties.pdf
The Bolt or Volt would not sell without the rebate.The size of the EV market only exists because of the subsidies.
"I am not advocating whether rebates are good or not (I lean towards them being good)"
Sure you do , you are getting a direct benefit from this one.For what? a" empty virtue-signaling gesture,"


Jack, I'm so sorry for you and your classmates - things must be very difficult around school right now. It sounds like she was a very special lady.


Why would Walden stay to take questions from the media, when the event had already lasted twice as long as scheduled and he clearly had somewhere else to go?  That he did not do so was included in this piece purely because of the reporter's bias.

Why did the RG not follow him to Medford?  Because it's not the most liberal city in his District?  Or because they had not been clued in to a Democrat plan to cram the place there?

It is easy to see why Republicans consider the media to merely be part of the opposition party.


I own a home in Anchorage and the property taxes are very high and go up every year. Question answered.


No prosecutions?


"...illegals are who they depend upon says a lot about pay scales, racism, class, and entitlement." HUH?!
There are No pay scales for Illegal workers....they're ILLEGAL.
There is No "Class-ism" in America - ONLY what you may believe about one's self. The Rich
may believe they are in a higher "class"...just as the poor may think the same thing about the rich. But both are wrong. The Rich just can point to having "better stuff"- but it in No Way does that automatically infer Class, Intelligence, or "breeding". IE: The Kardashians.
"Entitlement" may possibly exist Anywhere, and by ANY group of people.
 "Racism" is unrelated to skills being paid for equitably, IMO. That seems to be a fear of the 'minorities'- possibly rooted in an inferiority complex. If I hired a man to do something, my only requirement is Skill. I would not think " Welll...You're a Mexican...so I will pay you less"; nor visa versa.


And you know this how?  Your gut telling you that?  The last Census pegged it at 12.1 % and that included those who work because they want to work.  Because most of the people I know over the age of 65 are retired and if they work, it is their choice, not because they have to work.


You have a point, although it'll be lost on many Americans who are in anguish about the EPA, or the people in Beijing who can't breathe.


Cory is representing his constituents, his conservative ones the ones who voted him into office, just like Bennet is representing the liberals.


No detective work required there.  The facts are clearly documented to the point of sending several folks to jail.


Money and music have something in common. Both starts with the letter M! Other than than that the variables could includes 'greed' to others than the legitimate players .


I hope there is a 4 litre bottle of vodka lying around you when Trudeau wins in 2019.


I got a full college athletic scholarship offer by phone one April Fool's Day. It took me weeks (and having official paper work via snail mail in hand) before I believed it.


First class ass


The CRTC, unbeknownst to virtually every Canadian, has for close to two decades required every broadcast distributor, be it cable, satellite or telephone company, to add a hidden tax of 5% to every bill with the proceeds going to fund Canadian content.  Unlike the issue of Canadian commercials in Super Bowl broadcasts, which every Canadian can see and complain about if they so desire, the CRTC deliberately forced the broadcasters to hide the 5% tax so Canadians wouldn't know about it.


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A measure of the effectiveness of the Magnitsky Act is the opprobrium it has met from the Putin dictatorship.

If Vlad the III, Tsar of All The Russias, is squealing this loud, you know it's having the desired effect.

When a respected honest-broker like Canada makes a statement like passing a Magnitsky Act, it sends a strong, truthful message to the rest of the world.

That is why Putin is apoplectic about it.


Yes, as usual,  US spokesmen continue to reassure Canadians that trade relations are fantastic, but leave out the fact that they feel free to kick  Canadian ass with great expediency, any time they're  unhappy about anything.   The typical Canadian response is to download a billion or two in compensation to affected  industry players.


I suspect that Pandora17 is co-responsible for a significant uptick in estate (legacy) gifts to NCR, in addition to the Webathon results.   I know of several excellent estate-planning attorneys who reduce (and sometimes waive) their fees for clients who include NCR in their estate plans.  That's a mighty vote of confidence in NCR's survival, in spite of the "freeloaders."


Marathons are not run on oval tracks.


"we will take as much time as we need to get it done right".......that's an oxymoron. Government never gets it right on the first try, and sometimes never AT ALL. So what I read here is it ain't gonna happen this term ;)


Face it, nothing more than envy from 45 of Jeff Bezos success and wealth.


Nixon was a small pick time pickpocket compared to the corruption displayed by the Obama administration. Unfortunately for him, he didn't have the media in his pocket.


All excuses. They are liars about legalizing. Vote in the next election for Trudeau they will say and then he will legalize. Incompetent Liberal government. The war on drugs is a complete fiasco.


Probably the money Maquaqua was stuffing into an atm. After all, an atm  is just a sophisticated brown envelope or black plastic bin liner.


"It is Mr. Trudeau’s problem, arguably one of his own making."

Well, let's argue that.

Yes, no question: Trudeau's foot-in-tweet come-one-come-all message really did it.  But the REAL problem?  Social media.  Well, no stopping that.  Next problem: the American President's deportation rhetoric. Well, no stopping that, either, even if Mr. Kelly is Chief of Staff.  It's hot air, really (US couldn't afford the costs to deport everyone it doesn't--suddenly--approve of.). But that doesn't matter, once fear sets in.

Hot air from the Whitehouse: We're clamping down; we don't want you and you're gonna go. Hot air from Ottawa: y'all come!

And a long undefended border.

The perfect storm.

Haitians may only be the START of this thing...


This isn't about the existing observatories although their lease expires in 2033. It's unlikely that will be renewed. There may be a total of 700 people employed through Mauna Kea but most are technicians, some engineers, a lot of service people. The nature of astronomy today is astronomers don't work at the telescope location. They lease viewing time, may do some astro tourism when their viewing slot comes up. Astronomer tourists spend a fraction of the average tourist (they don't go to tourist attractions). They collect their data, go over to UH-Manoa for some processing then take it back to where they came from to work on a team study and report. None of that observatory "charity" money makes it south of Hilo. Go to Kau, ask how many people are deriving jobs, income and education from the observatories? As far as Hawaii island goes, all these great "discovery" announcements usually have a *Discovered by X observatory on Mauna Kea*, not even a mahalo for the kama'aina.


It’s fair these people don’t want to lose their view.
It’s funny because these people think they can stop anything from going in there. It’s zoned and it will be built on. If they wanted a preserved view they should have bought in a place where something wouldn’t be built next door.


Free preschool for needy kids. Too many come in unprepared for school and fall behind and drop out. Looks like the DOE and the teachers refuse to acknowledge this problem. This program would pay for itself. Instead a nonprofit with insufficient resources funds this huge problem.


A few times during the summer months I like burning a few logs outback in a pit where the family's sits around it and enjoys the evening.  I would like to see the data on this bad air that the government claims.  Instead of just saying it is so, let's see the data how they arrive at the results.


Of course we would.  That's why you don't see many liberal posters here at the G&M anymore.

Their hypocrisy and astounding partisanship gets placed squarely ahead of public safety.

Most liberals aren't even brave enough to show their faces to comment on current government articles.

Every last comment, from every last liberal poster during Harpers tenure, had ZERO to do with issues of the day, just naked political ambition and power hunger run amok.


Sorry but you sound like a tipical advisor.
What’s wrong with having a cash contingent?


Your comment doesn't make sense.


First, it was not a "sale". As widely reported, "no cash changed hands", Airbus didn't do a share swap, nothing like that. The parties really entered a joint venture, at no entry cost to Airbus. Brilliant move on their part, life support desperation on Bombardier's part.
Secondly, dishearteningly, and without any apparent redeeming value, we have shown once again that while our Canadian genius is great for inventing things, our national inferiority complex has us trapped into an endless cycle of being lousy business people. Just start the list with Nortel and Blackberry and take it wherever you want it.


The comment "your comments exactly parallel X", if  X were also posting, would be civil.

Since in this case "X" is not present, your memory is demonstrably not all that precise, one would expect Catholic comments on many issues to parallel, and the entire enterprise is simply an elaborate ad hominem intended to impugn the writer rather than discuss one or more issues, it's not.


Awesome!


Lynn Willis for Governor!


"DW: Really? Maybe Anchorage should ban a few of the accused murderers and send them to Allakaket. If this is an example of "tribal justice" we don't want it."

Nothing in this article mentions accused murderers.


The latest polls have the Liberals back in the lead. If there ever was any doubt about the stupidity of many Ontario voters this eliminates it. Mind you we should have had a clue when Ontario voted for Junior.


Kind of like you're a Forsberg when you're walking, and a douche when you're commenting


Don't know about that:
Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that living in a home where there are guns increased risk of homicide by 40 to 170% and the risk of suicide by 90 to 460%.4

The risk of dying from an unintentional gunshot injury is 3.7 times higher for adults living in homes with guns, with handguns in the home posing a particular threat.5

On a state-wide level, states with higher rates of household firearm ownership have been shown to have significantly higher homicide victimization rates.6


There is very little of "far right" in The Donald.


An outstanding editorial! Hire that guy.


I find it very interesting that Whitbeck, a party official,  seems to think the only thing keeping Republicans in power now is the gerrymandered election districts.


... and here I thought that the NDP had kicked unions to the side in favour of the almighty LEAP manifesto crowd of champagne socialists who are deadset on killing the resource industry across Canada.  If the NDP returns to being about jobs and giving average folks a means to make a decent living, then perhaps I'll give them a fresh look.


A well written and informative article of the debate to achieve a united right in Alberta.

 I would disagree that Conservatism is in decline in Alberta.  I base this on the rarity of a meaningful federal presence of the LPC/NDP in Ottawa, and that the NDP are in power in AB as a result of the division of the PC and WR Parties.  Had Prentice survived, he would be a contender for the CPC leadership.  And then there is Kenney and Jean. Two former MPs with impeccable leaderships skills and proven record of upholding democracy.  And then there is Harper, a highly skilled PM who served Canada well. The wonderful  Ambrose.  Help me out here.  By every definition, this is an embarrassment of riches- a robust political vision that governed this country without requiring Quebec's support.  They would have preferred it.  That being said, I am not sure there is a stronger and more Conservative presence in this country than what is found in Alberta, having a strong and agreeable message.


I must admit that, given all that is occurring around the world today, I am uncomfortable when I see a woman wearing a full facing covering... is it really a woman or a man masquerading as a woman to carry out ill deeds, but that is my issue. If they don't try to force their values on our society (e.g. by trying to create so-called no go zones governed by their laws) and as long as they comply with our rule of law (i.e. sharia law should have no standing in our society), let them be, except when it comes time to vote or obtain a public service type ID (e.g. driver's licence, health care ID, etc). We live in a secular society where everyone is free to practice their religion as long as they respect other religions and where religion does not affect our rule of law.


Would you believe that many of us thought the education curriculum was garbage 25 years ago and needed to be fixed? It looks like the situation is much worse now, except that it's costing us all a lot more. If Grade 6 Ontario students can't pass these math tests, you can be sure that they won't be able to handle advanced math courses in high school.


There is strength in unity , it builds capacity to do great things. Most is going to needed  infrastructure.  Enjoy the party , not happening again for another 50 yrs.


Well, I hope Americans like flipping burgers and collecting food stamps.


So, was that a threat he tweeted: Watch what happens to her after this election is over?


So there will be no future for writers,  teachers, doctors, nurses, police and civil workers  because they don't code?

By the way, future of military, those who control drones aka gamers do not code also.


"...provide affordable housing..."    In Portland?   Hahahahaha!!!!


The millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust. The atrocities that the Japanese military committed for decades in China and other areas. The civilian death toll in Syria. The slave trade. The obliteration of indigenous people. I could go on.


The state of Alaska does not own any oil until an oil company takes drilling risk and pays to produce it, then you get free royalty income for doing nothing

If the oil & gas land is so badly mismanaged in Alaska who is going to help fix a broken oil and gas system?

The state prices Alaskans and other smaller investors out of the oil and gas industry and has all kinds of tricks to give the majors a monopoly and provides no due process to the the smaller competitors!

It is time to let Alaskans and other investors explore and produce oil and gas and finally profit!

I work with many Alaskans and together we cause more oil production!  We all work hard so we all can have more oil and gas production, that benefits all PFD recipients!

I am from Florida the 27 th State to join the Union on March 3, 1845 .

I have oil and gas rights here, my state helped pay for Alaska when the The United States  purchased it from Russia so I have a legal right to invest in Alaska and make suggestions!


Just because Obama care enslave millions of Americans that fine, it helped you.
 And that's all that matters.
 I mean" freedom is certainly not worth dying for " said no American patriot hero, ever !


Chelsea was busy keeping her head down at Stanford while trying to ignore her Dad's non-sex with Monica Lewinsky at the time, as I recall.

 Being surrounded in your dorm by Secret Service agents pretending to be students and having bullet-proof glass in your dorm window tends to reduce that sort of thing, after all.


Yes, actually.


People end their lives because life is not worthwhile living.
When those who colonized this country moved in they chose not to live with the people already here. They built separate communities to suit their life style. They considered those already here as being savages and not worthwhile getting to know unless they were going to be of some use to them. The Indian Act came along to further separate  Indigeneous and non Indigeneous and placed some FN people who signed treaties on reserved land.  An Indian Agent completely governed affairs on the reserve until the 1960's. People had to ask permission to leave the reserve. The policies of the Feds  were meant to reflect  protect- civilize and assimilate. Their solution to the " Indian problem" has not worked. Those living in the south should not be telling those who live in the north how to live their lives. It is not boring to live in isolation. Boredom does not cause suicide,  feeling not worthwhile as a human being does.


And the white house cared so much, they couldn't even get Sen. Scott's name right. They called him Tom. You seriously can't make this up.


its very obvious you're a HT employee


Nothing like discouraging justice with the threat that the fine could increase if one decides to take it to trial.


I have credit cards that are no-fee and give rebates and I pay off everything every month with preauthorized debit.  Result: rebates of $hundreds every year on what I would have bought anyway and little need for actual cash.

Having said that, I'd go back to cash immediately if merchants offered a discount.  But the card companies have it in the contract that they can't.  This restriction should be outlawed.


I really, somewhere down deep, think this is taking away my right to feed myself in my home state...and my country's PUBLIC lands. I can see no guides, but the rest is pure D bullshit!


I'd rather read a story about a new Canadian who contributes zero in the way of contributions and receives old age security.  But hey, it's so much easier to take pot shots at government employees, we're Canadian!!!


Klastri Roham Clinton, is that you? You planning to assist someone with suicide again? LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfLoF4g51_o


I guess those property taxes I paid for years in Mat/Su were just a figment of my imagination? I'[m sure the collector's office would disagree. And like A.K.Commander replied "equal" treatment all pay the same.


The garbage he is spewing on the radio could get someone killed. Of course no one in their right mind in Florida would turn to Limbaugh for advice on hurricanes, but that is another story.


quit putting non violent people in prison, put them on an ankle mon so that they can continue to work and reimburse their victims.absolutely yes: Life in Prison NO PAROLE.


The reason the snp lost many  seats is because voters don't yet want another Independence vote.  Sturgeon isn't going to touch this with a 10 foot pole.

Maybe you should read some news that's up-to-date and  absorb data from some actual experts in the matter? Of course if by 'in the long run' you mean 10 or 20 years, then who knows.


An honest introspection about the problems in the ANC. South Africa's electoral system would surely benefit from MP's being made directly accountability to voters. The only part of the article I disagree with is the assertion that the ANC must be fixed to save South Africa. It conflates the ANC's problems with those of the country and ignores the most obvious remedy - that voters should dump the ANC and elect a different ruling party.


I would comment on this but the Globe would probably delete it. Or maybe they would post it.... but then I would be subjected to a barrage of insults from M-103 supporters, and subsequently pulled before a human rights commission. But that's ok, they are always impartial. Welcome to Canada!!!


Hey, can I borrow your car for a minute?


They are cutting on BLM today up off of Eagles Rest in Dexter area-


While you're at it, let's get rid of the capital loss carry over deduction and reduce the net operating loss deduction from 20 years to 5 years as well. You have no clue what the purpose of the EIC credit is intended to do. The removal would far exceed the cost of having it in place. Same can be said for health care. On paper now it might show a $119 billion reduction. Truth be told, nobody can claim that with certainty.  Reduced premiums? I have not seen a reliable assessment that premiums would be reduce. All reliable sources claim the exact opposite.


Other school districts do allow it and all of them are required to by law.


Or no longer has her snout in the trough as the fortunes of her party have dissipated.


There's never not been any evidence of anti-Semitism in any organization. Even Jews call each other self-hating Jews sometimes. The record is perfectly clear about the JBS position on anti-Semitism. If you wanted to be taken seriously you would start off by admitting that. The fact that you feel the need to draw attention to an alleged anti-Semite or two who snuck into the group only offers more proof of this.

This has been posted elsewhere but I think it's worth re-posting:


No, no it doesn't. If you read the article then you know that The Blom Family is closely associated with the evangelical organization Cru, which means they are believers like Susie and I. We have a relationship with Jesus Christ and when tragedies happen, we know where to go for comfort. There is no peddling of religious beliefs here, just sharing love and prayers with others who most certainly appreciate it.


Their parents did that already, you see the result!


the Georgia district was a well to do educated area.if the Dems had a chance to win anywhere it was there.
info right from CNN.
why are you not whining about the Vogue and weed nation voters that put our little Justin in.


Who said anything about there being more nurses?   Or is that something you just made up?


It's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
There. History re-written. Feel better? Forget the past. We don't want to have that crap around to learn from.Then when the same mistakes get made again , we can say, "Wow! How did that happen?".
Turkey... Which came first? The country or the bird? Somebody needs a name change. what do you say, Erdogan?


One of two scenarios on Monday night ..
1. After 15 years of getting nowhere - maybe it is time to cut your losses and withdraw.
2. Desperately needing a jump in popularity - he announces that they will bomb ISIS back to the stone ages.

We"ll know in 24 hours and one way or another - he will claim it a victory.


The "secret" 2 pages (2!) were stamped 'client copy' and Donald is the 'client', so he leaked this himself to the media. If you do some real calculations, it comes to less than $3 million in real taxes paid, after hundreds of bad business decisions and catastrophic loans. Perhaps it was the only year in the last 20 when anything showed he "paid taxes". His entire energy will be devoted to lies and PR, for himself and his 250 shell companies. Sleazier than Putin.


'
…nice tearjerker,

 Your anecdotal anomaly isn't going to counterbalance the whole of history.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OmOzrbPIHxI/VYuCk6u4cZI/AAAAAAAAGDU/RAxfrcvkvGM/s1600/Flag%2Bof%2BHatred-1.jpg


He has been working well with Republicans. His unique bipartisan buy into medicaid plan for all income levels which is shaped at the State and not Federal level has support from both Republicans and Democrats. Republican governors who have been increasing coverage under medicaid like it because it lets them keep control of medicaid and it lets them increase payments to doctors and providers that will keep doctors in the plan. He has been interviewed on this and he is very articulate.


The show made a compelling case of Burkes guilt. First it was the 911 call and what the mom said before hanging up followed by Burkes interview by a child psychologist when he was 9 or 10 where Burke was taunting the shrink about a secret he can't tell.  BTW the ransom note is just plain stupid, written by someone who thought they were clever.  What I can't believe is the mom not calling an ambulance even if she thought the girl was dead.  Pretty cold hearted if you ask me.


Since when did everyone collectively lose their minds?  No one has a right to politically protest at their place of employment.  In fact, most employers have very strict codes of conduct of what is acceptable while at work (attire, etiquette, behavior) and even out of work (i.e. racist facebook posts, being a Klan member, etc.).  Furthermore, if you break these rules, you usually get a warning and if you do it again, you get fired.  That's how the real world works and anyone that says these players have a right to protest on the field of play (i.e. at work) is 100% wrong.


You know what, Purple Pete?  Your obsession with historical figures (the Cllintons) is tiresome.  In case you didn't know, the Clintons are past history.  Old news.  In the rear view mirror.  You need, now, to focus on the absolute horror that is Trump.  Give up you Hillary obsession.  It's unhealthy.


No. Would you have statues of Hitler and Stalin standing around? Countries and people have enough common sense on where to draw the line. The decision was made in 1865 to end slavery. Military generals representing separatist slavers should never have been honoured post-civil war. Your argument is a hollow shell used to give support to white supremacists and racists. I would rather have one statue removed by mistake than have fifty standing that reinforce racism and bigotry in society.


Pretty spot on there Mike, the quail I have seen are in Arizona, dumber than a box of rocks and are barely capable of flight of any kind much less 3,000 feet.  They appear to be on the way to becoming flightless.


Sen. Giessel does not believe that every child deserves a great education. She believes that the children of those that can afford it, deserve a great education. Sen. Giessel at heart does not believe in government for, of, and by the people. She believes that government is there to nurture and reward those that are deserving, the "makers" and not the "takers", and that if you are poor, it is your fault and if you are rich it is because of your own virtue. Sen. Giessel is the embodiment of the kind of selfish, me and mine first and the rest take the hind most that is has grid locked the legislature and prevented any kind of rational, common sense solution to the budget crisis. Your argument, Ms. Buckendorf, is reasoned and reasonable, it unfortunately is directed at someone for whom reason and a sense of the common good, is alien territory.


It was also "tongue in cheek"; taking obviously hyperbolic statements literally is the summit of tackiness.


The problem is voting for either the Demopignicans or Repignicrats is NOT a solution...


Wimp like Trudeau can not stand up for anything because he does not believe in anything. Thank god he was not head of this country in 1939. He probably would have paid the Nazis. Come to think of it his father use to go around Montreal wearing a Nazi helmet while our troops were over seas.

See one traitor you have seem them all and the name is Trudeau.


Last Friday was the first anniversary of Trump’s horrific speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Think, for a moment, about the voters who swallowed every lie in that speech whole, who took Trump at this worthless word, who believed that he was going to make America great again–and who victimized this country with their votes on November 8, 2016.


How has she paid her debt when she didn't face appropriate charges (in part due to gender bias) in the first place?


Let's get one thing straight.  Medicaid assisted living fraud can't possibly happen IF the DHS Medicaid office was doing their job.  Secondly, the state of Alaska is handing out far too many assisted living Medicaid billing licenses like cotton candy.  There's a lot of assisted living facilities, 500, that are in the business solely for the money and to hell with the vulnerable elderly who are trapped with debilitating diseases.  There's people operating assisted living facilities and using the elderly to buy themselves real estate housing, but using the elderly as a cover.  The state of Alaska ought to  be a shamed of themselves for allowing these assisted living  sharks to prey on the elderly.  The governor's office needs to conduct an investigation and start closing down some of these facilities.  A lot of these so-called assisted living facilities house 6 clients and only hire one caregiver as a 24 hour live-in.  Theres no way one caregiver can take care of these people.


"...goofy Gus backcountry lawyer..." who graduated from Georgetown, earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and then a law degree from Yale despite coming from very modest means. Yep, sure sounds like a stupid backwards hick don't it? And your academic pedigree is? If you aint got similar paper to "goofy Gus" on your walls, what does that make you?


There will be some civil unrest this summer in the U.S.A.. Good weather for demonstrations - likely from both sides of its current political borderlines. Trump is unlikely to disappear immediately and there will be far more divisive political demonstrations in the U.S.A than there would've been if Hilary Clinton was President. And I am no fan of hers. Watch CNN and FOX this summer, likely showing America in unmatched unrest since the Vietnam War. The sooner Trump departs, the less damaging a summer/half decade that the U.S.A. has to struggle through. Let's get the Vice-President in there.  If they go with him, Republicans might reach some of their legislative goals. With Trump hanging around, true legislative success is impossible and the future division of their own party is imminent.


As Trump mulls these changes, I definitely think he should keep the first lady.  She is, by far, the best looking first lady since Jackie O.


Chief scientist Dominick DellaSala at the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon, testified in congress on Sept. 27, 2017 and you can read this at ForestLegacies.org- he uses the best available science and states that; "Wildfires are necessary natural disturbance processes that forests need to rejuvenate.  Most wildfires in pine and mixed conifer forests of the west burn in mixed fire intensities...this tapestry of burned patches is associated with extraordinary plant and wildlife diversity....Recent increases in acres burned of forests are mainly due to climate change....human development is adding to fire ignitions via roads and development in the Wildlands Urban Interface...thinning is ineffective in extreme fire weather....read the entire testimony for more important info.


So, by November 2015, Molefe already knew that he was being lined up for the cabinet as Minister of Finance.  This, as long as he obeyed the strict instructions to look after the Guptas and Duduzane Zuma.


Yes but the question really is how many readers think its worth paying for?? Less and less every day! ;-)


Who cares? He's a monster.


Stay away from crowds in Red Deer.


Jesus made no such command.


If there truly is a surplus, (many comments state there really  isn't), then I say give it back to the tax paying people of this state.


Patience, jackass, patience.


I've read a lot of comments about this story. Most make a good example of community safety and dog owner laws. The one comment about "Real Alaskans Don't Shoot Dogs" is a hoot. And the part where the dog owner put up a "Dog Killer" sign with a memorial lawn decoration is bad-face and reflects immature attitudes with the owner and anyone who contributed to the memorial. Heated debates on both parties, but the neighborhood should of involved the "Accused Dog Killer" in the meeting. Looks to me that neighborhood is singling the family out and would rather have them isolated along with the children, who shouldn't need that kind of welcome, especially when they just moved into a new city and would like to have make new friends. They're all immature and bullies for trying to have a meeting to not let their kids play with Mellerstig's kids. GOOD PARENTING. Show your kids how to be snobs and now they will be making fun of the children because he shot the neighborhood dog, who everyone loved.


There are probably valid moral arguments about banning transgendered persons from serving in the military.  This is not one of them, and reeks of adolescent moral reasoning. I'm surprised the Denver Post chose to publish it.


Or the word "privatize."


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Would you like to know the differences, the voters in Wyoming or Kansas not trying to force their lifestyle and values down the throat of the big city cesspool supporters.


Ms. Koch-a-lite likes to reinvent history to suit her talking points.  The free speech movement was opposed by the UC Berkeley administration - the school banned all political speech in those days.  UC's argument was that the campus mission was education.  The UC administration eventually caved in and changed the policy, and that helped energize the right so that Ronald Reagan got elected Governor of California.  But now fame wh---s like Ann Coulter want to shore up their sagging career, so they are targeting Berkeley in the hopes of getting free publicity, claiming they are victims; meanwhile their thug fans are rioting and beating up leftists who attend, punching people in the face, even young women.

On Megan McArdle's ties to the Koch brothers:
http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/


CaT:

" ...does not excuse repeatedly posting grade 3 articles."????

This,,,,, coming from YOU?????  You're kidding, RIGHT?????


Trudeau dances to the Saudi tune.


We have probably entered an age when actual news reporting by private media should be eligible for public support.


Probably Russia's Law Firm of the Year" advised against it.
The question is who does he owe money to in Russia, or anywhere else?


Take it easy there. I read every word. I know exactly the type of tax sheltering that goes on in that type of transaction. I have a level of skepticism that being purchased by a larger company will be "good for Alaskans."  So, don't try and knock down my effort to comment and inject skepticism by pretending I didn't read something. Public discourse is what these comment sections are for.


Victimis - if a Conservative put in a quota system like Trudeau, would you still be lauding that great accomplishment or would you decry the condescending nature of a privileged white male who feels that women can't get a head on their own but only with the help of man?


Silence does not mean Mueller went away Como, no matter how much you wish it so. After all, it took several years to get Hillary on the email thing....oh wait......


"This President makes everyone a loser"

And your objection is the crowding I guess.


shame of the university leadeducators, all they are doing is encouraging mediocrity and deceit by lower calibre students who are cheating either their way into undergrad or while in undergrad.  hard working students are being disadvantaged at great expense while foreign, poor candidates take their place. Shameful.


As you promote torturing to death billions of animals each year by using your man-made vermin cats as an extension of yourself.

Yeah, that's how to leave it better than you found it.


Did you not read the article???  The passenger admitted that they did it intentionally.


OK. Now I feel argumentative! In your mind, the fact they paid it back is proof that they they knew it wasn't theirs, and disproves that some staffer made a mistake. That is a bad bit of logic. I claim that they would pay it back by either scenario. If they knowingly stole it and this was discovered, they would pay it back (your scenario). If some staffer made a mistake, and this was pointed out, they would pay it back. So it is ridiculous to say them paying it back evidence of anything!

Reading  up on it, it all sounds very complicated. Lamps were meant as gifts but a rug from the same person was a gift to the White House, for instance.

Anyway, who let the dogs out "spun" by declaring they "stole" it as an example of how naughty they were. At best one could claim there are questions as to how those items ended up with the Clintons. You also seem happy to spin it as outright theft when nothing supports that, and then you are troubled by anyone questioning that unsupportable claim.


Aw, Maki, have you gone and identified orange haired tRump as a Witch?  Now that's a new one.


Two articles on RC things in NCR currently.  The other about Museum of Divine Statues in Cleveland. Both have common thread of valuing things. To me, in contradistinction to the uniqueness of the gospel assertion of the priority of the person, and especially the least. Museums are about things.  It is disconcerting that Christians would give any priority, relevance to things.  Human life remains cheap, of little value as we continue to cavalierly discard persons, everywhere crushing them like ants.  But we will house in hermetically controlled museums - things!


And then there's error-prone writing like the statement in the article that Golden Eagles are a real species (correct) but not native to Quebec.   In fact Golden Eagles are native to Quebec (and all other provinces and territories).

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden_Eagle/lifehistory


"Exaggerating" is Williamspeak for "bald faced bullspit".


Timothy, where do you think that the existing tugs that Florida-based Crowley Marine own/manage were built: In the deep North because labor was more expensive there?


Women are definitely the most disenfranchised gender in the developing world, so I think this is a great idea.

However, foreign aid money is notoriously corrupted and misused. I wish Canada would spend some of that money researching and implementing blockchain compatible foundations/charities so we can ensure our money is being used as intended.


Mainline protestant churches have adopted those liberal positions and because of that are dying on the vine as we speak.


Look at what the Jews have contributed to the world: medicine,science,technology,education,morality,etc. What have the Muslims given us ? Suicide bombing, veiled women, flying planes into office buildings, underage sex, etc. The Arabs have a large portion of the world, and they can take in their bretheran rather than have Alaska foot the bill.


I believe the fullness of God's Revelation to man is in the person of Jesus Christ.


Please review the Chuitna watershed on Cook Inlet. Thank you.


well, we are the capital of the world, and everything. ;)


Harper had finally put checks and balances into place and the actual band members had some say with the chiefs and council. The changes in First Nations leadership in their own elections is proof of this. It was a tough pill to swallow but progress, symbolic protests aside, was being made. Harper didn't care about votes all he cared about was getting the First Nation community functioning and accountable.

Along comes Justin and his whatever way the wind is blowing policies with a big chequebook for the Chiefs. Accountability is now out the window, bureaucracy is getting bigger and bigger and the people on the reserves are again getting the dirty end of the stick.


"Libbers love themselves." And Republicans don't love themselves? Is this a personal attack as part of an argument?


I think there are tests they do to determine if conception has occurred.  If it has not, they will give the woman contraception.  But perhaps they could still give contraception even if a pregnancy has occurred--provided that it is a true contraceptive drug and not an abortion inducing drug.  Then it would not matter if conception had occurred.

What is or is not most "effective" is not the point.  The point is that it is never morally justifiable to murder an innocent human being.  To suggest an abortion is  a more effective treatment in this case is like saying killing the poor is more effective at combating poverty!

As for tubal ligation--the women can have her child and go to a secular hospital and get her tubes tied if she wants.  By the way--pregnancy can still occur when the tubes are tied.


I have not seen evidence of character in Wynne.


Of course back a couple of years ago they all said he just wasn't  ready saying he was too young and inexperienced. How did that turn out BTW.