Nothing but a waste of time as China and Russia will continue to flagrantly ignore any sanctions on NK.
Perhaps we're sanctioning the wrong country eh. China isn't going to force any change on NK until it's in their economic interests to do so.


Don't call me a conspiricist, but now that Roger Ailes' two progeny have taken over, hasn't anyone else noticed that the "conservatives" working for Fox are now being pilloried and marginalized and publicly humiliated?  Just saying.  Hope this story doesn't have legs.


No argument here, Mark.   I just feel that research dollars would be better spent on issues that aren't plain old common sense.

Harpo and McKay really dropped the ball when they were given the chance to make sex work safer for both providers and clients.  They also missed a chance to realize tax revenue that could have been directed toward helping those who aren't in the trade by choice.


For GOD's Sakes. take him now before the Yankees change the minds again, we may never get the chance again to fire our Prime Minister!!


The survey is appreciated. Get the SDA ministers to do sermon & Sabbath school class surveys. I can tell by involvement at church & the superficial level of comments of teaching and participation that so many SDA are just victims of mainstream warped media. At potluck last week I mentored a new student who is at Andrews so he wouldn't fall into the same inept pastor pattern. At another table, the SDA members were talking about Trump.
Think fanaticism and worldliness Rom 10:2 & 1 JN 4:5.


Was that a racist comment? It sounds like you are calling the robber a over-large Hispanic.

I'm going to resent that

when I stop laughing

I promise


One that you say you have.  And it can change from time to time.  It has nothing to do with what Jesus actually said or did.


It would be interesting to see how the people who Shawn Beaver deceived and robbed from are living now.  Crystal Frank now lives in a basement bedroom of her brother and his wife .  Once a partner in the same firm as Mr. Beaver it is beyond comprehension how he is able to live in the lap of luxury and she is left to live in poverty after he took advantage of her and her inability to care for herself after suffering a major stroke.  How this man can live with himself is unbelievable.  He continued on with his path of destruction and managed to wreak havoc in so many other lives.  Why is there  even a question as to what should be the penalty for this man.


No, B7, I was merely passing on some information. The reporter and the Valdez city spokesperson didn't seem to realize that feeding feral rabbits was already against the law.  It's important for people who are feeding those rabbits to understand they might be cited and given a $310 fine.

I like bunnies as well as the next guy, but it's also important to realize that "deleterious exotic wildlife" are on the state list for a good reason.  Rats, pigeons and, yes, rabbits, don't belong in Alaskan environments and cause a variety of problems when they are released into previously unoccupied habitats.


Go tell Alice and quit reading it.


Schools could accommodate all religions. However, it may get very tangly if one school provides for say 7 religions. Yet, can think of worse things in schools.


Rogue, who is Steven Smith?


How do you spend money on the slope? Do you mean the couple of bucks that are spent at the airport bar in Anchorage?


Mary magdalene, possibly his mother.


You are correct.  I don't know any Hawaiian Studies graduates with scholarship in constitutional law, finance, economics and tax law.  And you are at least ironically correct in that it is ignorant to opine someone with scholarship and professional experience as ignorant in that person's professional matters while being anemic or stunted in that scholarship and professional experience.


The democrats did it to themselves, they screwed Bernie and then tried to drag a tired old hag across the finish line with a complicit left wing  media.
Now these same snowflakes are wetting their collective  diaper under a Trump Presidency.
Its  truly amusing!!!


Finally an editorial that speaks to the problem, that people have been referring to for years now. If we were to take 1000 non-aboriginals plunk them down in the bush under the same conditions, it's likely we would fare no better. When there is no hope of a better life, surely despair must follow.


That's very selfless of you, Giveup.


Good article. I suspect the author was in the wrong field. As a black woman in a similar environment, I encounter the same issues but my passion for my job gives me armour. If you love what you do, you are less affected by the negatives that come in many and varied forms. The firms could have a better mentorship program but I am encouraged that although slow, what is 'normal' changing and diversity will be better supported. Secondly, building relationships with people forces them to see you and vice versa. Not everyone will want to be your friend and sometimes, colour has little to do with it. Build your network to sustain you in and out of work and build a life that makes you happy.


Seriously, "little donny dingdong". Ms Fredericks, please stop posting these hateful, things.


Trump is simply using a tax system devised by and for super rich Americans in what is deemed to be a model democracy.


Of those eligible to vote, most don't bother, and that has been true in our elections for eons. You can't speculate on what would happen if they actually did vote instead of sitting home doing nothing. You need to take your statistics from the actual voter counts. That's all you can do. Besides, how many disliked DT so much that they voted for ANYONE else over him? You don't know. EC is a technical win. It may be the deciding factor, but the popular vote stills gives legitimacy and power and confidence and acceptance to the winner. Arguing anything else is truly pathetic.

How did DT get the nomination from all of the GOP's best candidates? Why is Hillary the only one you look at as evidence of how bad a campaign she ran or how unloved she is? Were 16 other Rs just as unloved and incapable of campaigning that they couldn't stop DT from stealing the Nomination? You never answered that part of my question,


Worst. President. Ever.  And it's all downhill from here.


"I would have made a great priest and probably could have dealt with the asexual mafia."

Being a great priest usually requires an ability to reason well from a reasonably accurate assessment of facts.  You keep referring to the asexual mafia.  Since I doubt that they've announced their sexual preferences, what facts allow you to conclude they're asexual?


This is where the bishops ought to be focused: the cause of immigration.

but instead they look for more bandages.

Hang this mess around Hillary and Obama....8 years of incompetent dabblings.


"Life effectively begins at gastrulation, not fertilization"

This is not a claim that natural science is qualified to make. The discussion of when life begins is a philosophical/ethical one.


So I guess the secret of success in Canadian society is to ensure you are not in the majority.  Hard to do when one is a  reasonably-healthy, white, Anglo male.  Of course, I guess I might be able to play the "senior" card, and maybe if I look more closely at my family background I might be able to dig up some tenuous link to aboriginal or metis ancestors.  Failing that, I'm afraid my only option is to undergo a sex change operation.  Think I'd rather stay me and unemployed.


Buying something that will not meet your expectations can lead to buyers remorse.


Not everyone is beamingly happy about Lisa Murkowski or Obamacare.

Obamacare has hurt Alaskans more than any other State and Lisa refused to pull the thorn from our side.  Insurance premiums in Alaska have tripled and deductibles have sky rocketed under Obamacare.  My insurance premiums jumped from $370 per month, to $1,200 per month as a result of Obamacare.  Try to afford groceries when you lose $830 per month for inferior coverage.  I think that she would prefer to see everyone on the Government payroll (Welfare).  Maybe if Lisa had to use Obamacare or what is left of private insurance (like the rest of “her unwilling subjects”) she would see the need for repeal?!  Lisa needs to put Alaskan’s first!


The EU knows she won't have her cake and eat it too.


Thanks to all of you for participating in this discussion.  A number of comments asked about my use of the term "the institutional church".  My reference in using that term is Avery Dulles, S.J. and his book "Models of the Church".  He said, and I agree, that a helpful way to look at the church is by identifying 5 models of the church: institution, community, sacrament, herald, and servant.  He insisted, and again I agree, that each of these models are significant aspects of the mystery we call Church, the People of God as Vatican II preferred.  There needs to be a balance among all 5 models. My observation is that the institutional (visible organic structure, doctrine first, male hierarchy, etc) is still too dominant, to the detriment of the other 4 models.  So, to those who tell me to leave, I say, "No, thanks.  It's my church too". I want more balance, with a heavy emphasis on community (Gifts of the Holy Spirit spread throughout the community.)


"... lamenting the loss of the Tridentine Rite's stress on the power of the priesthood and the 'vertical' presentation of man's relationship with God...a vertical relationship that needed the clerical middle man to initiate."

I think you hit the proverbial nail on the head here... given that human nature is inherently selfish (this selfishness perhaps the greatest argument *for* Original Sin--although I think it misses the mark when weighed against more modern scholarship), who actually believes that Cdl Sarah is proferring "agape love" with all his talk of Sacred Liturgy and Tradition? We are not called to selfish "love" of ancient forms and customs but rather we are to love God and neighbor in real, tangible ways.

In other words, IMO the Church needs to show that it values substance over form as a means to agape love.  Mere "forms" and rituals are not capable of yielding this level of substance (i.e., agape love), which can only be found in relationships (with God and neighbor).


I think, now that we have invited people from cultures that enforce who their children will marry, and occasionally kill them when they don't comply, Romeo and Juliet is more relevant than ever. However, to appease the "progressives", perhaps 1984 should be ditched in favour of Animal Farm. "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian and all Canadians are equal but, and this is the crime, some Canadians are more equal than others." That being said, with the sudden hoopla over hate crimes and legislation to stop "Islamophobia" maybe we had better keep 1984 and its message about "thoughtcrime"in the curriculum, but , as a pale, stale,male, what do I know?


Why didn't you say speedup up the government when Cons were given a strong mandate with their majority government?


I appreciate Steve Heimel's thoughtful letter.  The Confederate flag rouses no warm feelings in me; not because of slavery, but because the people who had it plastered on their trucks when I lived in Virginia decades ago were trash, always armed and often drunk.  They gave me trouble a few times when I was quietly, legally fishing rural trout streams.  But the after-history of the Civil War is one of America's historical treasures.  No reprisals, no prolonged exclusion of the Confederate states from full resumption of political rights.  Slavery was ended and Negroes made citizens.  Reconstruction forced the participation of Negroes in Southern political life--often successfully--until they were excluded from it by abusive laws after Reconstruction ended.  The chapter that followed--over a century of segregation and black oppression--was a political failure of the whole nation.  But it was not some kind of extension of slavery; the Civil War survivors had little to do with it.


Too bad Don Young's Party didn't address this health care crisis earlier. It wasn't like he and fellow Republicans didn't see this problem coming as the warning alarms sounded especially over the last couple of years .  I suppose they expected to ride their "Repeal Obamacare" horse to re-election under a President Hillary Clinton.  That isn't going to happen and now Don, Lisa and Dan own the problem.  Alaska is not going to fare well under the current or proposed federal legislation and we no longer have the oil wealth to simply purchase a solution or Ted Stevens to leverage another "special deal" for Alaska. .


I guess that's where the Blue Jays budget went..................


Illegal immigration was easy to solve. Build a wall. So HE said.


"It’s a pointless but dangerous battle of wills. It can’t be allowed to escalate."  Sounds admirable. Good luck with that.


This is a good case for the Supreme Court, to put the issue to rest once and for all, and make both sides finally shut-up.  If ruling is in favor of MasterPiece Cakeshop, the left will have to stand down.  If ruling goes in favor of Colorado Civil Rights Commission (which it won't), then there's always the option for Mr Phillips and others to bake "special chocolate" cakes for obnoxious customers.  ...Remember the pie storyline, from the movie "The Help"?


Collect the taxes already, and stop rewarding TVUs brokered online. Ige' veto lost us tens of $millions revenue last year.

Huivaa still doesn't acknowledge that taxing an illegal or unwanted economic activity is a disincentive, while not taxing it rewards the activity.

In the United States, under Internal Revenue Code, a person’s taxable income will generally be subject to the same Federal income tax rules, regardless of whether the income was obtained legally or illegally. This is because you don't want to reward illegal income by not collecting taxes.

Please ignore Huivaa's foolish advice, and collect the tax. If anything, taxes could be raised for brokered online vacation rental transactions, perhaps with discount/rebate for those that can document they have a valid county permit.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_of_illegal_income_in_the_United_States


The Republicans say they support education and free thought, speech etc.  just ask them.
It`s becoming evident it`s only when it portrays the world as seen through the prism of their political platform instead of the measured benefits to PBS shows?  Penny-wise and pound-foolish Idiots..


Micheal Bennet is having a town hall meeting in Aspen. For a Democrat that's like having a town hall meeting in Boulder. So Bennet is going to be speaking to the choir. Interesting.


My take is that the investigations would have to have lasted at least as long as the Benghazi investigations before they would qualify for even hyperbolic use of "never ending". By your account, the oldest of the various investigations has been under way for only 10 months.


Yup another win!


You mean like the dozen women who came forward and publicly stated how tRump groped them without consent?  And you're correct, tRump is outside the scope of reality.


All right, is Canada going to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or will Britain and France engage in extensively upgrading their nuclear capabilities? If not, it is unclear to me that there is any real intention to engage in a response that would be proportionate to not being able to rely on the United States for global leadership in the defense of democracy.

I agree that Trump's apparent position on Russia is a problem, but empty rhetoric doesn't impress me as a response.


First. Let's get this known fact straight with you Mike. It was Roy who brushed off Butcher. Second, I am quite pleased with the Butcher-Kerfoot swap. In your attempt to smear the Avs Mike, you intentionally left out the part where NJ lost their own draft pick to us. Kerfoot is already worth more to us than Butcher would ever be. And in reality Butcher was going regardless of what we did or didn't do. Most die-hard Avs fans aren't that bummed about Butcher. Third, and most importantly, what truly burns, I am assuming most Avs fans with this article is your fanciful glowing praise for the VGK. Just as I was beggining to think that DP writers were just a sad group collection of special needs writers with an incurable melancholy disease that were just born that way, and deserve empathy rather than scorn, Chambers suddenly pulls a beautifully optimistic rainbow from somewhere dark inside him. If writing for Vegas gives you so much joy Mike, don't delay! Leave us and go to them and be well!


Most city people who deal with the realities of traffic, parking and yes fuel consumption want no part of a boat anchor they call a truck.

Why would I want to cripple myself in that way?? Just the gas cost alone is twice what most pay. And then there is the pollution in the city. Please give us a break with this truck talk. Most sane people would rather ride the back of flatulent camel than drive a truck everyday in the city. For 20K I can get a decent used sedan that will last me a good 10 years or more and spent 50% less on fuel for the pleasure.


Jeff, Reality 77, and Joe Cool

Of course you are leaving out the important fact that sometimes conveniently or for other reasons Parliament doesn't want to act on an issue. Takes assisted dying for instance. The court upheld the right that Parliament had granted to people by passing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court said individuals rights were being violated and then returned the issue to Parliament to decide how to proceed on it. It even gave the government extra time to come up with a law when a new government was elected.   It was Parliament that passed the law and set out the terms and conditions for establishing assisted dying in Canada. The Supreme Court interpreted the rights as it has been granted by the House of Commons and then the House of Commons passed the legislation.


imo odds are he'll not change his ways and the odds be better in his favor he'll be out of jail in a short period of time.


The state can revoke home rule cities rights only by constitutional amendment.

So now that you have finally become aware of the concept of home rule cities, how likely do you feel that the citizens of home rule cities will vote to amend the state constitution to revoke the rights of home rule cities?


Nobody is apologizing.  Re-read the post.


With the voter fraud that was found in Detroit I would have wanted it to continue and have all involved prosecuted to the full extend of the law.


No, "Sorry, but your knowledge of church history is a bust!" doesn't work.

The Church has never denied that the wolves commingle with the sheep, and that some portion of the Church militant are destined for perdition.

You really don't need Henry Chadwick to note that.

Nor is it germane to doctrine, btw.


Terrorist attach caused by bigotry, fear mongering and faux wars in the Middle-East. Thanks conservatives, hope you are ready for many more..


Food fraud is a minor problem. Canada should follow France and make it illegal for food retailers of all types to throw away food and help solve a major social  scandal of poverty.


You kidding right?  If some swimmer irresponsibly gets too close to that pup and the momma seal rips the swimmer in half, the video will go viral and millions will see the video overnight.  That would be incredible positive advertising for Hawaii as long as it is noted the swimmer disregarded warnings to not get close to the sea lion and her pup.  It is like watching YouTube videos of matadors getting gored by bulls in Spain.  Many more people root for the bull to tear a new one in the matador.


As usual, the globalist Idiotson is celebrating the cultural and racial genocide that is being inflicted on the West.


aloha Keala
your story about the wall brought back a sad memory for me. my whole life I wanted to visit the wall. we planned a whole vacation across the US around it. we parked our car and walked to all the monuments, Lincoln, Jefferson, WWII and Korean War memorials...the whole shebang. as we got closer to the wall I realized that I just couldn't do it. I could not will my legs to take me there. so I sat on a bench some distance away while my wife went up to it and pencil etched the name of a friend. as I was sitting there I called my VA shrink. "what should I do?". he said, "take your shoes off. enjoy the sun on your face. let the wall go. and quit watching your wife at the wall through your binos....you look like a perp!" good advice. I'll get there someday.


You cannot shame an ANC politician.


Tory is completely right on this one. Toronto needs more ways to raise revenue and getting compensation from the drivers who use these expensive motorways makes a ton of sense. It also aligns with other changes the city would like to make anyway- decreasing congestion, improving air quality etc. And that is coming from someone who uses those roads a lot.

Wynne is going down next election anyway. She may as well do the right thing in the interim.


Dermot, after failing to disclose your daughter worked in Governors office, you proved you are biased as is Aronno. Grain of salt rule.


Oh my gaaawwwwd. The nerve of the 1st Lady. I would have come out in shower sandals.


Another keyboard kommando weighs in.


Okay, so Bannon is opposed to immigration and globalism. So what? Obviously (according to the election outcome) so are millions and millions of Americans. So is the President-Elect. And he's staffing his cabinet according to his political ideology and in response to the American voters. That's the way it works! He has no responsibility to pander to the political losers any more than Obama pandered to the disgruntled Republicans when he won. And, in fact, Obama didn't put forth any effort at making peace either. Why should Trump? (Other than the typical liberal entitlement mentality of course; I refer to reasons based in reality.)


I know Mike and I know he's telling the truth.


What next? Places where alcoholics are provided with clean glasses, music, lap dancers, mood lighting, big screen TVs and table service?


I worked in a juvenile prison for years and half of the teenage girls were pregnant and would have had late term abortions as soon as the pregnancy became uncomfortable, this is what we have to look forward to and if you  are a Catholic and you vote for this shame on you and their blood is on your hands


Wanderer, go read the letter.  Even the hard core Trumpets cannot deny all the time.


"The Nuka System of Care is vastly overrated."
Why? because you said so? How do you come to this conclusion?
.
"Why is US taxpayers' money funding a whole dept devoted to promoting Nuka"
They aren't, US tax payers help fund the care of customer owners. This was a settlement agreement by the US and Indian tribes. SCF has multiple revenue streams, some of which aren't government subsidies. The subsidized monies are tracked and documented to go where they were designed for.
.
"travel around the world to attend conferences talking about Nuka."
Although, this is none of your business, when they travel "talking about Nuka", they are compensated via speaking fees. They also learn how other companies solve some of their problems and bring that information back to improve on their system.
.
"Are they taking vacation time when they do this"
Not when they are working.
.
"A quick google search ..."
So what, maybe you should move into a successful, fulfilling career too.
.
"How fun for them!"
Yes!!


I was sure The Hildabeast was gonna Pick Lyin Ted for VP.


But there was an important golf tournament to attend.


Another meth-head on the loose.


you are playing cards you dont have, no facts, no intelligence,,


All scripture comes from God. You make some good points. Businesses should not be fearful of being sued because they have a different believe system.


"Epic hypocrisy" GBA? - The fact that DeFazio, Wyden and Merkley all have excellent congressional healthcare coverage doesn’t make them hypocrites or delegitimize their efforts when they advocate for excellent healthcare coverage for all - They would be hypocrites if they didn't advocate for excellent healthcare coverage for all.
Definition of hypocrisy from Merriam-Webster:
"plural
hypocrisies
1 :  a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not :  behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel His hypocrisy was finally revealed with the publication of his private letters.; especially :  the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion our conventional morality often serves as a cover for hypocrisy and selfishness — Lucius Garvin
2 :  an act or instance of hypocrisy a keen awareness of one's parents’ hypocrisies"


I'm sure they'll appreciate your advice.


Just a few?


2 Be, thank you.

I'm having a real struggle understanding what you are trying to say.  Are you disagreeing with me, with Rawls or with Crosby's addended concept of "sexual apartheid in my church" and "equal access in the sanctuary among those called to priesthood" to his initial theme of justice for the poor under civil law?  You've placed opening quotation marks but no closing ones, so I'm unsure if you are quoting something and, if you are, where the quote ends.


You believe in polls? I remember some good ones that predicted Hillary would win in a Landslide.


It's a shame about Frankie Corrado. Here is a guy that did what his coach, Babcock, wanted: he trained hard in the off-season and gained some weight.

Yet, the Leafs D has played only 1 game this year even though the team has one of the worst defences in the league. One would think that a coach would either play a young promising D, give him time to play in the minors, or trade him. Babcock shows no signs of doing any of the three.

It reminds me of the time when Mike Commodore played for the Wings under Babcock. Commodore was traded to the Wings, and Babcock hardly played him at all. Sounds like Babs is back to being his spiteful self. Shame. It looks personal.


Did I misread the bill?  Eliminate the skim and no extension?


If the pool of recipients of health insurance payers is primarily in the class of employed young men and women, and is in balance with the children and elderly enrolled, and health care costs is maintained at an affordable rate, than maybe it would attract more competition in the insurance market.   But in reality, health insurance coverage is no longer lucrative for this money making companies.  Then there's the pharmaceutical companies...know how much they profit?


What kind of "strict limitations?"


It's not quite true that US telcos are ignoring FTTH. Verizon has offered Fios for a number of years opting to bypass FTTN in favour of FTTH.


"Even if YOU see them as liars . . . ." you say.   Chim, there are none so blind as they who
wont see.


"Noam Chomsky: Much of the world must be astonished -- if they are not collapsing in laughter -- while watching the performances in high places and in media concerning Russian efforts to influence an American election, a familiar US government specialty as far back as we choose to trace the practice. There is, however, merit in the claim that this case is different in character: By US standards, the Russian efforts are so meager as to barely elicit notice.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39159-noam-chomsky-on-the-long-history-of-us-meddling-in-foreign-elections"
* From what I have read the "Russians" ( at this point all we have is modest to high confidence speculation), were hacking everybody.
It looks like they were targeting the Democrats because they were the only ones stupid enough to get caught.


Hate Crimes?  Define it 1st, rather then such a general term that it could fit virtually anything someone found personally offensive.

So what would you call the Berkeley & NYU riots, or the shut down of major highways?

Here is a picture from Berkeley.

http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cct-berkmilo-0202-3041.jpg?w=862

Note the ones in black, especially the one on the left, masked with a baseball bat.


Larceny and incompetence are often confused.


All beta are off thanks to the huge intangible next election--mail in ballots .There is zero doubt there has been voter fraud in the past . Heck , we even had an APD police officer who was an illegal and collecting a yearly PFD check--who probably voted. With mail in ballots the odd's of voter fraud go up to 100 percent . Liberals wanted mail in ballots so everyone could vote , and I mean everyone.  With no way to check if the person mailing in the ballot is the one who the ballot was mailed  to , anything can happen in the election. Liberals hope and pray this will erase conservative taxpayers input on elections . But they fail to realize it's a two edged sword . The reason it appears the city has changed is because too many conservative taxpayers stayed home. Many are older and don't easily get out to vote. Now they will cast they're votes , so proclaiming us a liberal sanctuary city is putting the cart ahead of the horse. The gay rights petition shows things aren't the way they seem


Like I have said for a while now, this whole thing started out as a deflection from the Democrats questionable practices.


A rise from $11.35 now to $15 per hour by 2021 is a rise of about 7% per year, compounded for four years for a total rise of 32%.
Question:  Lets assume, for laughs,  that labour accounts for the entire cost of a cup of coffee.  If it rises 32% from $3.00 per cup now to $3.96 by 2021, will you stop buying it?


Luckily this story is being watched by the mainland media. Another black eye for corrupt Hawaii. Cant wait for HPD Chief and City prosecutor to be indicted.... Hopefully Kauai is next.


Wind turbines were supposed to create 600,000 good payign jobs in Ontario.


Off the top of my head, the "penumbras" the Court relied on in Roe, were of reserved rights in the 10th amendment, first enunciated in Griswold v Connecticut, which found a state prohibition on the sale of contraceptives to be impermissible. The Court has never found any penumbra (correct Greek plural) in the 1st amendment.


As a dedicated LGBTQ ally who goes after anti-gay people, policies, and practices...I don't go anywhere near LGBTQ events/social media because there is so much behaviour policing directed at allies, some of it deserved, a lot that's not.
I think the points made are mostly facile. Allies aren't a homogenous group. Some will be wonderful, some obnoxious, like Perry. But they are ALLIES and their mistakes carry far less danger and consequence than those of ENEMIES.  Serious, persecutory, often lethal danger is afoot globally for LGBTQ. The online mewling about costumes and pop culture linked 'controversies' or the right attitude an ally needs to strike at Pride?  Please.  Mike Pence is a heartbeat away from the American presidency. There are concentration camps for gays in Chechnya. The Perez Hilton-ification of LGBTQ issues online and related shots at allies is crazy.
Plus, it fuels the Trumpian backlash when you slag people who get it mostly right.


so we should encourage members of ISIS to take up smoking.  like a rich, pleasurable, and  satisfying trojan horse.  ah, i see where you're going with this; very clever indeed...


An example of how the Repubs. lead from behind.  Don't be ready but do something when it's after the fact


Yet another dismal, but completely predictable Republican failure, just now shoved out the door.

The key phase is "give every American access to quality, affordable health insurance.” So, the plan will do nothing to cut the cost of health care in the U.S. (the highest in the world), because it continues to put for-profit health insurance bureaucrats between you and your doctor.

And again as usual, if you are too poor to pay taxes, best of luck! And the rest of us will pay their ER costs.

Stephen J. Remington


Your use of the word "whining" is quite droll.


So far about as much as his predecessor did for about almost ten years


Really...Orwell just called he wants his dog whistle back.


This is the only redeeming feature of his presidency if he gets real about it.


At some point intelligent people should ask themselves a question along the following lines:

What role in their country did these mobile-enough, able bodied, enterprising immigrants have?

Isn't the US just skimming off the top, benefiting from these immigrants?

What could MOST of them have done FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN back home?

Build businesses?
Raise families, that in turn serve the neighborhood?
Teach others?
Care for others?

Instead we encourage "skimming" without giving one single thought to what these people could have done back home.

We're just skimmers, but pontificating ones.


"Alternate nostril breathing" comes in handy when you're down on a muffin....!


Get a room.


It was all he could think of.


How could the Maritimes afford it?


Stan:

"... train left the station almost 10 years ago."  Very true but the genius who manufactures factoids to support his off topic comments was in diapers 10 years ago.


Of course they stepped up with $200,000. Without good water, it will cost them more to filter out our own water to charge us more for it. All the water companies should match this. Don't be swayed by this veiled act of good deed. They and all other local water bottlers have been tapping into and profiting off of the water we all can get for free...or at a minimal cost.


Absolutely gorgeous. Double Marc Lester's pay! :) Thank you for telling these stories, and may God continue to bless these beautiful, devoted families.


That would be about 27 hours later.   Based on the time and date of the incident.


Mr. President , Angry Again!


Who's he picking for ayatollah?


For every dollar a road toll generates for the city, city council will spend $3 on union staff wages and public day care.


I love that kind of talk as the Church, and its priests, become more and more conservative.

It's like hearing elderly Trotskyites outside of Russia predicting the fall of Stalin and the rise of real communism.


No expertise or do you just not like the message?  You seem to have a lower standard for authors when you comment on feminism articles that include half truths and are demonstrably disingenuous if not downright deceitful.  I wonder why that is?


Dave, good analysis

so here are some ideas

-Don't expand medicaid

-Pass on more of school costs to local governments where they are accountable.  ASD budget is WAY too big for a shrinking student population

- University should raise tuition and do private fundraising


I hope everyone had insurance.  There are a few stupid people out there.


i'm ashamed to say that i voted for a few of these clowns, won't make that mistake again.


Not if Obamacare has been repealed and both parties sit down and work out a truly bipartisan healthcare, health insurance reform. A bill that could be approved by 65% to 70% of our congressional members. in other words not a Democrat reform (Obamacare) and not a Republican reform (Wealthcare) but a plan that respects and addresses the needs and wants of the majority of our citizens.


Perhaps all of us need to kneel prior to every event.  Kneeling in prayer that is.


Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of te speech Ronaldus Magnus gave at the Brandenburg Gate. Some of the swamp dwellers wanted the line "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" removed, as inflammatory.

The line stayed, the wall didn't

God bless the United States of America!


Nice strawman.  How 'bout Vietnam, under-funded social programs, creation of the war machine, overthrowing sovereign governments, military intervention in foreign lands for profit....

...would you like me to go on?

You do know that there are nations who did none of that garbage and have better equal rights behavior than we do?


This is just the first time he has been exposed on a large scale. I'm confident that this player has been all about his game in the past too.


Just don't go then.  He is referring to the disgruntled lot that will be out protesting Canada day.


Wow some of things Rihanna has done for Barbados are incredible.  Good for her!!


10 years from now the zoned out far right will still be claiming Hillary gave our uranium to Russia, and then punctuating that by howling "But BENGHAZI!!!!!"


And Canada needs that


I loved the Broncos since  back in the day when Ralston was coach and Craig Morton was QB. After the back-to-back Super Bowl wins, I stopped watching. I'm glad I did.  Prima donnas one and all.  Too late to take back your display of disrespect.


trump gave the EU little choice in its reevaluation of the U.S. as partner in global affairs , and China is there to assure Europe that they are willing to be the reliable partner they seek. And all the trump trolls typing furiously to make the blunder seem like a positive is truly futile.


Nonsense


After six months, if you can't see what is going on by now, it is pointless to even try and explain.


I agree completely with this author. I worked with Korean-Canadians who made no secret they detested Muslims, Indo Canadians and blacks.


Immigration!!!  Too high.  Too many women (we have more women under 50 than men).  Too easy to sponsor young women without being married.


It's about time!  I'm tired of lawbreakers being valued over the law abiding.  Thank you President Trump


Everything turns to Bash Trump. I think I could write the sky is blue and it would morph into Bash Trump :)


I'd generally go for the 'treatment' option, but no treatment is very effective if the patient isn't interested in the change.


Please tell us how not being able to be identified by your name is something "trivial."


Enlighten me, oh wise one. Inquiring minds want to know.


The Democratic party will be around long after your generation is dead and buried. Does the Crusader have civil comments too?


Joyce is a highly respected Liberal and I'm certain, should you put the question to her, would support her constituency by speaking out loudly to the LPC about this travesty. (P.S. - trade you my MP - Simcoe-Grey's K. Leitch !)


This is all part of the bargaining process. Canada is one-tenth the size of the US. As far as Trump is concerned (or any President for that matter), they are the market, they set the rules. If you want to make nice with the US, what are we willing to give up for NAFTA? Stop defending Canada's dairy supply-management and stop the heroics on Bombardier.


He's not responsible for the loss, but if Wolters is going to make it in the Majors, he has to become a better defensive catcher. The pitch on which the Dodgers scored two runs was certainly wild, but it hit off the umpire's foot, so it wasn't exactly way inside. He has to stop trying to back hand pitches in the dirt and get his body in front of them.


@ MoiLee
Got my Trump Pence shirt! Waiting for my hat!!
Woohooo ^5 lol


Umpteen "Gold stars" !
My pet buzzword is " critical thinking " .... only they have no clue what to think about  .-(
And none of the NOBEL Prizes in STEM were achieved by group think !
And if your concepts are limited to Discovery Math it is a trivial next step to be "creative".


Imagine if Florida put in a tax for foreigner purchasers.   I can hear the Canadians screaming from here.... LOL!  We all know how well government intervention into the private sector works, don't we?  The real issue is political and bureaucratic interference in land development, not foreigners.


Please. Under your scenario, anyone would be able to enter the States without proper vetting. Why cant they leave and come back through customs and immigration? I would welcome them as we have from immigrants around the world. If a cop pulls me over for speeding, I have no right to tell him/her that I wasn't hurting anyone so let me go. You are offering ridiculous notions that have no basis in law, only your sympathy for these illegal parties.


Thank you


If every scrap of circumstantial evidence points in one direction, and not one points in any other direction, then circumstantial evidence alone can lead to conviction.  In fact, given some of the frailties of humans in giving viva voce evidence, let alone deliberate perjury being a possibility, circumstantial evidence can be more reliable, particularly when there is a lot of it.  Let's look at the judgment which, on appeal, the Nova Scotia Justice will be required to prepare.


This photo doesn't glorify anything.


Have you ever noticed how leftwingers want a solution that allows Israel to exist safely, but also treats Palestinians with dignity as human beings with rights, and believe that both sides are too blame for not achieving this. At times the bulk of the blame had been on Palestinians, at other times (including recent decades) it had been on Israel.
What leftwingers want is for Israel and Palestine to do what South Africa did in the early 1990s and come to a negotiated settlement which ensures the rights of all the people there are protected. A two-state solution seems the most likely way to achieve that since Israelis are so set on the idea of an ethnic and religious homeland being a rigth, they must then offer Palestinians the same right.

One the other hand rightwing thought consists of "Israel good, Muslims evil".
And hence peace becomes impossible because that section of Israel which is racist and hateful has the entire global rightwing on their side. Try a little sophistication.


What you don't know won't hurt you, right? The only thing consistent about trump...he's living proof human beings can devolve when there's money and power at stake.


It's perhaps also worth noting that the terrorists captured some of Syria's chemical weapons stocks before the Syrian govt, under UN auspices, dismantled and destroyed its chemical weapons stockpiles.


Do you think Kathy Wynne would be impeached if we had that option here?


Gary Crum has never referred to anyone posting on this site as an "idiot".  He is a voice of reason among the handful here who find polite debate too kind and end up censored or banned. Some call it the 420 shuffle.


You can tick off the environmentalists, you can tick off the west, you can tick of the natives but if you tick off Quebec you are doomed.


Urgent message to Senator Murkowski:

Don't. You. Dare.


What weaknesses? There have been zero Americans killed since 911 by immigrants from the seven countries affected. Why does the ban not include Saudi Arabia?


No, the government does not have the power or authority to deny inalienable rights based on blatant lies. That sir is a lie that insults intelligence and you of all people know that. You also avoid the fact the founders of our country grew and smoked pot, and further insult intelligence to suggest they created a government that is empowered to outlaw this. A government that mandated farmers grow pot for over 100 years for national security. Don't give me this BS legalizing the drug you consume, alcohol, tobacco, on down the list, while criminalizing all other drugs you disagree with, is equal rights and equal protection under the law. That sir is a frigging insult to intelligence.


The next violation is criminal, also.


92nd and Foster, not 82nd


Yes, M-103 is only a motion.  However, it can be viewed as the beginning of a path I'd rather not go down. "Islamophobia" is buzzword, and not defined. It's frequently used against people expressing legitimate concerns with the Islamic faith.

Striking someone because they are a Muslim is not acceptable. Examining the Islamic philosophy critically, and finding it wanting is perfectly acceptable. Asking Iqra Khalid to define the terms set out in her motion is not unreasonable.


it is called trickle down....and leftists don't believe in it.....LOL


Lets get real, regardless of how they ended up here they are here ILLEGALLY, many Americans want to show empathy trying to protect them but that is the fact, they are ILLEGALLY HERE, yet they cry and sue because WE THE PEOPLE want the US laws upheld. Obama did this, not the Republicans, not Trump, it was the Democrats and Obama who put this UNCONSTITUTIONAL DACA in place. And if these people keep it up with their loud "shut em down" attitude, they will lose that support as well. So sick and tired of liberals trying to give ILLEGAL'S more voice than law abiding American's who were born and raised here. These people have ZERO rights and if it weren't for the far-left liberal 9nth circuit court, they'd already be out of here. People need to wake up, liberals are like little children mentally and there is a reason why you must be an adult to be a Congressperson or President in America, because if liberals had it their way, an ILLEGAL or a 5 year old would be President.


You should share the views of your group so that we all know what you are resisting.

Given the company you keep, I should probably get busy resisting you.


TC's remark proves my premise that conservatives are long on judgment and very, very short on empathy.


". Never hear them crying out for investments in green energy jobs; just their own'
You should move to Ontario ,so you can live your dream.


who becomes the president in that case?


Glad for the Guy and the Grandmother that they did not succumb to Darwinism.

However it would have been a more interesting story if he had been able to 'feel' his way to rescue himself as well as her.   Good catch proofreader, we all screw up at times.


Aviation is the elephant in the corner few in Hawaii seem willing to look at, but if we are ever to make meaningful reductions in our Carbon impact, this is where it must happen. Let’s start being honest with ourselves and the public. We are the greatest emitter of green-house gasses from aviation of any place on the planet.

One example of the disconnect that is occurring from our environmental activists’ neglect the invisible climate altering emissions of jet travel is “The Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage Sponsored by Hawaiian Airlines”. This voyage of sustainability has been sponsored by the #1 climate polluter in our State.

Although I have not done the calculations, the flying of all of the Hokule’a crew members, support staff and family back and forth across the planet for the 3 year voyage is inevitably releasing a huge amount of GHGs and contributing to climate change - probably far more than if they had all just gone aboard a large, fuel-efficient motorized ship for the voyage.


Running for president should not preclude you dr taking legitimate  legal  tax deductions. George Soros  IS a genius when it comes to investing.  Yet, he still lost 1.5 billion in one year. Did he SAY he was a genius? I don't know. But he has said a few overly confident statements ( not that I care)

 "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out."


all well suited, you just don't seem to like qualified people. too bad


We can't do anything about what tax breaks/subsidies may or may not have been given decades ago.  All we can do is set tax policy going forward.

And no, we're not in the ME just for oil.  We're in there to kill terrorists before they kill us.  And we're in there because we have allies in the region, like Israel.  As well as various other reasons.


Now that Galera is out, David Ige will probably try to get Governor Dawn Amano-Ige the position...


Gary, you are absolutely right. I love people with open minds and willing to take the step further to find out the truth for themselves. Bravo!


labels should not be required by law just to satisfy someone's curiosity.


Excellent letter Mr.  George Harbeson Jr. you are a true patriot and defender of freedom.


Dirtiest oil , highest GHG content and you want to produce and ship this tar?


Perhaps...because there was really nothing to tell?

See Nora's comment that she was told the women were treated well...that the stoles were taken only before Mass (and we can understand that, in light of other disruptions at other Masses).  Yes.  Perhaps there really was nothing to tell.


If you combine facts and feelings you get factlings! Or is it feelacts?


My idea of law enforcement is to be certain that the duly-constituted police forces have superior weapons, firepower and training to overcome those citizens who are bearing arms to carry out unlawful purposes.  Making it possible for law-breakers to have full--auto weapons does not advance that goal.
If full-auto does not increase the likelihood of rapidly hitting more targets with more bullets, then why does the military use it?
I am not concerned that your desire for legal short shotguns, silencers, and fuil-auto is going to gain any traction among thinking citizens or law enforcement professionals.  if there was that possibility, then why hasn't the NRA already jumped on it?


Nice try there con troll


Please stop hindering business and progress with more red tape, rules and regulations.  Both workers and consumers will lose out.


Is she even in Alaska right now?.. She does have a place in Arizona.....Ok, now to go through the civil comments bullshite..


Your comment is one of the few serious and intelligent ones on this board, Chuck. Even though I do not agree fully with all you say, it is clear that "Europe needs a new strategy." That's a safely vague observation, as long as you are not advocating some sort of "final solution." Personally I've never been a big fan of extermination and genocide.

Where you are wrong, it seems to me, is to state that Europe is "doing nothing and hoping for the best." The quick response of the Spanish police to the recent madness was hardly "nothing." Now, if you want Europe to be "pro-active" in some extreme way, you'll need to describe just how, and in some detail, before you'll get a star from me.


I think he may be talking about illegal pitches, where the trailing foot of a pitcher must remain in contact with the ground until after the ball is released. The umpires rarely watch for this unless an opposing coach complains. Even then, the umps often cannot see it in real time. Some of the "best" pitchers gain a mechanical advantage by leaving the ground before releasing the ball and are simply allowed to do it. Other pitchers get called for it, which awards a base to the batter and all runners. White, having been an elite pitcher, can spot pitchers who leave the ground and often asks the umps to call it. Opposing coaches probably hate him for it. The fact is, the rule exists for a reason, but it is enforced rarely and unevenly, which is bad for the game. White makes a good point.


Getting tough on terror??? what happened to the the plan to defeat ISIS due 4 months ago? why didn't he call it radical islamic terror when in KSA playing with orbs? Remember the BIG BOMB in Afghanistan? Yeah, the after intelligence revealed more hot air about its effectiveness. Still waiting the report on the failed Yemen raid Trump was eating burnt steak with ketchup during as he sent a SEAL and civilians to their deaths. Heck of a job Trumpie.


...except Trump. He hates McCain.


Veterans voting for a draft dodger once again(Bush/Cheney, et. al) who loves those Generals to carry out the same failed leadership that killed and maimed troops.  Believing these self-centered egotists care one whit about any veteran below the rank of Colonel is more spitting in the wind of intelligence and logic.  The private sector healthcare can't take care of their current patient loads much less add on the thousands of veterans needing care for specific war zone and polluted military base conditions.  The Corporate Healthcare Industry is dedicated to profit, not health.  Veteran Affairs problems stem from the infestation into top management by the same triple-dipping Retired Officer Corps just as incompetent now as during military service.  DOD failure to keep accurate health records deny benefits to thousands.  Yet, they continue to get raises and massive funding denied to Veterans Affairs.  Pentagon disease infecting CONgress and the Presidency.


A lot of people seem to put a lot of faith in the ability of the Chinese government and court system to fairly, and without bias, determine the guilt/innocence of its citizens.

I have a bridge to sell to these people.


Sine, thanks for doing a good honest job advocating for your point of view. I appreciate that. I think UA could use fundamental restructuring, that (imho) statewide administration/ regents are incapable of. Strategic Pathways isn't the answer. UA does a good a full court press lobbying the legislature, (making sure they come before K-12), and the only option the legislature has is budget, not governance-- that's the constitution. The time is ripe for an outside (not inside) evaluation of UA. Although UAAnchorage should be supported by the State of Alaska, we need to cut off the UA statewide "middleman."  UAA should be totally independent, and that may not require constitutional revision. Why is Alaska the only U.S. State that lacks an Architecture degree program? Answer-- turf wars and other duplicate programs-- do we need two MFA art programs? Heck no-- we don't need any, BFA is enough, but we have two MFAs, and we don't have a school of Architecture anywhere. That's not strategic.


"Canada’s constructive influence and relationship with the U.S."

Someone's not reading their Globe and Mail. Canada dumped the U.S. last  week because it's a failed state and can no longer be counted upon to provide Canada's national defense.
You're on your own. Not one cent more of my taxes.


I wonder what their parents are like to have raised such worthless human beings.


So they were growing pot back when it was illegal to do so.
I'll be sure to boycott their restaurant from now on that is near Matthew Knight arena.


How about doing the right thing for Canada's economic growth and prosperity of all of us which may well require some compromises with the Goliath to our south otherwise Trudeau will be on the bridge of the great ship "Canada" as we disappear beneath the waves.


That's quite an understatement, ask the Fairbanks Four, why breathing air in your Alaska State Trooper Outhouse is now a Capitol Offense. The Alaska State Poopers, where shit for brains, is a Alaska Attorney General's employment requirement.


i don't expect the fathers to complete their sentences. they will either get sick to the point of being released home , or die in prison. and they will take as much heat for their daughters as possible.


Competition is a good thing! Let's hope Canada can retain some commercializations benefits.  I personally don't have confidence that history won't repeat itself though.  Canada has proven it is a great early innovator and Canadian and Canadian based researchers are top notch.  The trouble is in Application and implementation.  It's hard to beat the Americans on the commercializations side and it's near impossible to beat Asia in terms of production and product engineering.


Turbins have an illegal vacation rental on there property in Kahala and in North Shore.


In tennis women only play best of 3 while men play best of 5 sets. As a result, women should only be paid at most 66% of what men get. The fact that there are paid 80% mean that they are paid more proportionately.


Bummer, I'm hoping for the best.


``Canada has been accepting too many immigrants of all kinds for too long.

You could have said that around 1915, Burned Alive, and it would have made more sense then than now.  In the first 20 years of the 20th century, over 3.3 million immigrants flooded this country.  1.3 million of them within five years.  And the country had less than 7 million people to absorb them all.  And back then, the arguments (`They`re taking our jobs!  They`re changing our society!`)  were the same as now, even though back then most of the immigrants were from the UK...


Dummycrats are desperate to turn PR into Trump's "Katrina" when in fact he and FEMA are way ahead of these losers. DoD, FEMA, the Coast Guard and other agencies are already on the ground there, working with the PR and USVI governments. There are big-deck amphibious ships there including LHD and LSD class ships. Trump is not letting congresscritters hijack scarce military aircraft resources to visit PR so that the flow of supplies and personnel to the island is not interrupted. The USNS Comfort hospital ship is also on its way there. So whatever talking points the Dummycrat party has sent out to the MFM are null and void. PDT has been on top of this from the beginning. Sending the Lincoln wouldn't make any difference.


Another good column, Mr.Saunders.  I'm beginning to wonder whether there is truth in the rumour that some big altright money engages armies of anonymous trolls to do its bidding on these sites.


To those of us who appreciate Trump, CNN could still be obsessed and report on the positive and funny aspects of his presidency.  His off-the cuff plain talk is refreshing and oftentimes hilarious in a role that is traditionally handled with much formalism and carefully chosen words.  Instead, the reporting is conspiratorial, tabloid-like, as if they are teasing us with the promise of a  revelation that only they know that will bring down the Trump administration.  It's pretty biased in that respect, but it's primarily about ratings.


Still no edit "Save" button!  Com'on Civil Comments, its been broken for too long.


The Gary King's sign hung in front of the original store location on 4th Ave., and was moved to the store on Northern Lights and Benson.  I remember it from the mid-sixties, along with Gary's biggest competitor, Bob Seaman.  I skied on equipment from both of those stores.

The sign itself may be pre-earthquake and, if so, may have had damage repaired by one of our neon glass artists (sign-makers) of that era.


Hickenlooper will drink and bath in any water and soil as long as the checks clear


No, the Liberals think that enough of the voters have the attention span of Goldfish and will forget about it before the next election.


STN - That really hurt.


The Canadian media report the  opioid crisis as largely a Canadian problem with either Vancouver or Toronto as the focus i.e. what  Vancouver is doing that Toronto could learn from or vice versa. The US is facing an opioid crisis as  well but our relationship to the broader North American phenomenon isn't mentioned, e.g., no mention in this article. Is it a different crisis? Are we already learning from the American experience and they from us?  So far it's conveyed as a tale of two cities.  Yesterday's  New York Times  carried a report by Josh Katz, "Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis"  and calls it "the deadliest drug crisis in American history".  Is Canada experiencing a different, isolated opioid phenomenon to be solved by and among ourselves alone?


From what I've been able to see, it seems that Freeman, after the shooting should have done what Chris Deedy did, which was call 911 and administer first aid until EMS arrives.


OS, given the 1.8 billion budget deficient in the upcoming budget, how do you suggest the new state cash outlay be paid for.


It is very, very clear from Donald Trump's history that he is motivated almost entirely by the following:

1) make money
2) bed attractive women
3) play golf
4) draw attention to himself

I leave the actual ordering up to the reader.

Stephen J. Remington


More likely mental illness and poor parenting.  Call it Satan if you want.


Yes, I can't claim to be fully up on the Carolyn Strom matter, but with what I do know, I'm with the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses.  A regulator (like an employer) can discipline for off-duty conduct, but this is different - they're saying a nurse has to act off-duty (as a concerned family member) exactly as she would as an employee nurse.  That doesn't seem right.  I wish her luck on appeal.


And the parents need to buy like three shirts, three pants and/or three skirts. And, in schools that do this they also hold a year-end parent swap meet style deal to buy their used but no longer fit clothing. It works, it saves a TON of money and it keeps all kids on the same "self-esteem" clothing level, regardless of parental income levels.


Bear baiting is no more unethical than child baiting with candy and soda pop.


Meanwhile all of our jobs will flee to countries like China, because they don't have these taxes.
This is what you Liberals call "Bad Luck".


And...I noticed you did not back up any of your other many erroneous claims. Care to answer this with more personal attacks on me - or at least who you (wrongly) seem to think I am? That says a lot about the strength of your argument.

Climate change is real, its caused primarily by human emissions, and its getting to be a serious problem. The sooner we act, the better off we’ll be. This is what the IPCC says, along with the American Meteorological Society, the American Physical Society, and 29 other US scientific societies: https://www.aip.org/fyi/2016/scientific-societies-issue-statement-congress-reaffirming-climate-science-consensus

You’ll find that is the message of Dr. Hansen’s book you reference. A clear description of the science that's digestible for the general public is "Earth: The Operator's Manual." You can find it on Youtube. Dr. Alley surely got so rich doing this PBS documentary. That's probably why he gave up a lucrative petroleum geology gig to pursue climate science!


Excellent - time to get off "emergency" rates and get the show on the road.. hopefully 2017 is the year..


An "aggressive" US Interest Rate policy compared to Canada will create much greater hardship unfortunately than just an increased fixed mortgage rate.  Rising US rates against Canada's stagnant economy will be exacerbated by a higher $USD / lower $CDN, higher imported goods & food costs, fixed investment moneyflow moving into US bonds away from CDN bond / Corporate investments, etc.

This doesn't even factor in the tsunami effect still to be absorbed by higher CDN (carbon, utility increases) in 2017 along with forecasted higher unemployment and inflation as a result of ill-timed political & ideological policy from Canada's political leadership.

The BoC 2017 forecast of 2% GDP from current expected 2016 result of 0.9% will take an inordinate amount of pixie dust.


As long as the gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the [ordination] question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. Mr. Bergoglio, tear down this wall.


Ignoring whites also support BLM (you did know that, right), I likewise share the sentiment the overwhelming majority of America does with BLM for white supremacists, as well- correct.


Unsurprisingly, people commenting like the author based on whether what they say agrees with their view on things and vice versa. Clearly de Vos touches on a lot of nerves because there's a lot of name calling that goes on when he writes, which is a shame.

Personally, I appreciate him taking the time to share his expert views on matters relating to the constitution.


Buh bye enviro regulations that help no one.

St. Patrick's cathedral....lol


deborah, in the decades since, the rich have changed. now they dont even know there are poor people and if they did, they wouldn't give them their spit. public housing has to be built, and owned and maintained and administered by us, the people. letting speculators into the mix only creates corruption, which, unfortunately, we are all susceptible to.


Who is Mark Levin and why should I care enough to waste my data?


Craig is a so-called conservative troll on the payroll to try and shutdown liberal thinkers that post  comments.


WOW welcome to Fascist Germany-- seriously? those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and I am guessing you might have a few things that impinge on other peoples rights-- hmmm?


Don't know what the fuss is about, the tradition(Rule) says that "the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking". The individual has the only input into the truth of her /his desire to stop.
An AA group than can not restrict membership to anyone and honestly call themselves an AA group.
That includes Groups for just christians, women, men, and of course Agnostics. This of course requires a little common sense, and open mindedness.


Maybe it's high time that people who believe in common sense and who hold good values and believe in upholding the laws of the land and protecting/restoring our way of life start to get organized and speaking up against these liberal/feminist types?  What the heck have they got to protest about?  Trump is trying to stop the flow of entries from countries that are dangerous to us until such time as a proper screening mechanism is in place.  He's about trying to rectify trade agreements that have resulted in massive numbers of good jobs leaving and the middle class disappearing while at the same time the rich and society/political elites stuff their pockets full.  He believes in investing in health care, education and infrastructure so that we can at least try to play catch up to countries that have left us in their dust.  And for the first time in a very long time he seems to be providing political leadership that delivers on campaign promises.  Wake up people.  Trump is a good thing.


A terrorist should not be a Canadian in a first place.


Of course, blame it on the cops.  No, they would still be alive if it weren't for someone whose actions you obviously support.
It's too bad you weren't there to protect them.


They have become the racist party.  Nobody with an ounce of morality could vote for the Conservative party.  They make me sick, but thankfully they have no power in our country, which makes me very, very proud.


Judgments don't get paid from the DOC budget, so there is no message to be sent. Of course it's about the money.


QUESTION: Can you show examples - please, Michael Gerson? - of what you mean by "Christian faith, at its best, points to a transcendent order of justice and hope that stands above politics. So it was in the abolitionist struggle and the civil rights movement. So it needs to be in the Trump era."

ANSWER: Oh, never mind, Michael Gerson, I remember now what you mean exactly - albeit HYPOCRITICALLY - because following were your examples "in the (George W. Bush) era":

"Discussing the Iraq war (in Heroic Conservatism, Michael Gerson) ... mentions Abu Ghraib only once, and there is no discussion of the (George W. Bush) administration’s authorization of waterboarding and other methods of torture, ... or its claim ... that the president can declare any American citizen an 'enemy combatant' and hold him without charges until he dies of old age." (New York Times, FEBRUARY 10, 2008)


Embarrassing to the Trump Administration?  Yes--btw that is pretty much a daily occurrence.
.
Evidence of Russian collusion with the election? NO
.
And what was the special prosecutor hired to do?????


Yes, Coderre dancing on the grave of Alberta whilst Quebec takes $11Billion/year from it is nauseating.  But he is a one time Federal Liberal so it is not surprising he is still doing their  dirty work for them.


Get your status card so you can pump the system.


The contractor being at the residence six weeks prior absolutly does not automatically implicate them. Certainly they would be part of the investigation.   Albeit If they were the cause then something likely would have happened sooner.


Layla4 - who says they are forgetting about them!! My guess is they purposely forget because the cost is to high and the don't score political points with them or the audience in general. It's political candy when they talk about families and children but not so much when talking about singles.


Sigh.  Auto spell check changed Denby to Denny.  I need to proof read just to correct my auto correct.  Apologies.


First of all, he's a pig! I know a few people that would like to see him/her on a spit! Pay someone with an angry management problem to pay him a visit!


What I do know is that the majority of the Republican right are opposed to sexual education, opposed to abortion and then refuse to support single, poor parental teenagers because they should have known better... How when you made sure they didn't get any education? Great that your kids are so educated. Now get out of your glass bubble and acknowledge that the other kids aren't raised by you and you are denying them education that helps our society as a whole. I draw the line at teaching beliefs vs teaching science. You are the one that is muddling beliefs INTO science - not me


definitely his style.  i can't imagine a woman doing that to me. my initial reaction...? shock. then  ask her what did she think she was doing?  with all my chicago-ness in all it's glory...


Trudeau'd rather let opioid users die in droves(from unregulated black market drugs of dangerously uncertain content, strength, and dosage)than politically risk riling irrational,hypocritical,druggie-hating redneck sentiments he knows are all too common among voters, including  many "progressives".He&his advisors have likely done a cold political calculation they don't want to go TOO far along the drug laws reform road beyond legalizing cannabis for fear of a redneck backlash.

It's prohibition laws that make black market drugs more dangerous than they otherwise would be. Many of the arguments Trudeau uses to justify legalizing & regulating cannabis also apply, rationally, to other popular drugs. In fact, from a life saving standpoint,there's MORE urgency to legalize&carefully regulate opioids&sell them in standardized doses as so many lives would be saved by doing so. In contrast, few if any cannabis users' lives are at risk from using black market cannabis.End the homicidal drug war


Funny thing is, I have asked a number of doctors how much it will cost, and they just told me, even without a law.


I really am me.  I don't have to admire or even like or approve of Putin to acknowledge his success in his system.  Nor does  Trump.  I don't have to admire or even like o approve of Trump to acknowledge his success in our system.

Confusing morality and success is a waste of time.  The Clintons have gone from "dead broke" to multimillionaire net worth sand I certainly do not ascribe that to 'morality'.


Sigh. Tackling the toughest problems in the community, well done councilwoman.


That true.  A lot of the air pollution that reaches Toronto blows up the Ohio valley into southern Ontario.  Historically, Ohio has made very heavy use of coal-fired power plants.  This is what's been blowing our way.  Our heavy dependence on cars is not wise either, but all that gunk blowing up from Ohio needs to be mitigated.


I bet you say the same thing about Canadian Politics.


The man/child playing with his favourite twitter toy. Maybe one day he'll grow up but I believe he is incapable.


Very poor quality column.  Globe, heal thyself!


Drivers should absolutely do a better job of looking for cyclists.  Sometimes they don't.  It won't heal your injuries to say you had the right-of-way.
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Cyclists, like motorcycles, need to ride defensively and assume that all drivers do not see them.
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as a driver I try to be aware of cyclists and communicate by waiving them through or past me when practical


Well, he wasn't there for the hats./


when are we going to start talking about getting a rail from Denver to Springs? whoever can mastermind would be in the hall of fame. can't be that hard in 2017 and beyond. its a frickin train! one of the earliest modes of transport and we're having a discussion literally 191 years later. i can not be the only one with this perspective. or maybe theres a huge piece of this that i don't understand. what is missing?


Thanks for your aphorisms. FYI 6,000 hr ATP.


Except the record shows that Conservatives don't practise what they preach once in power.


“mutual” relationship with the girl and that he “didn’t think about the age difference.”


Hides in the shadow? Aren't you hiding in the shadows? Unless muckamuck is somewhere on your birth certificate


Do some background checks Personal and work related


Current crisis due to decade long propaganda
Mass removals of wild horses and burros from their rightful American Western ranges by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), decade-long, brutal evictions of tens of thousands of horses and burros from their legally designated habitats and the inhumane standards within the program have led to a huge public outcry, again. The crisis is real. Latest suggestions to feed our wild horses to Russian zoos are even more asinine.


hottunger9,

  Everything that defines "fascism" is now in place. All the fascist ducks are in line, so to speak.
  You don't need to be locked in a concentration camp to know when you are the victim of corrupt greedy vicious corporate classism.


Wow, you 2 are way out of touch. Must have attended the same public noneducational camp as these killers.


I would love to see this engine offering authentic rail car rides to tourist and locals.  Maybe staged in Placer drainage and ride up to Spencer Glacier and back for a short steam engine ride.  That would be Awesome!  I rode one in Austria once and it was a great experience.  Amazing what steam engines can climb once configured correctly.  It was a big win for their business; rail cars always full.


This vehicle would not give the driver the ability to lean into a turn. If the vehicle was to flip over, the occupants would have a hard time jumping off. There used to be a trailer for passengers, I believe was called a ski boose. The trailer would accomplish the same thing for about a twentieth of the price.


I once saw a motor home stop in the middle of the road, driver got out to take a picture of an elk, then climbed back into the motor home and BEEPED his horn so the animal would get off the road.

Utter lack of respect for anything but the human world and the experiences humans can "capture".


Mr. Mueller has had a long successful career as a witch hunter and will soon bag the trophy of a lifetime.  Time to alert the Official Taxidermist that a big one is on the way.


Well, when you put it that way, I don't disagree, especially if it's a general observation.  I don't even know what the term means!  Total yardage per game?  TDs?  Scoring?  Guys like Al Michaels constantly use this phrase, and as far as I know, they've never defined it.

Just for grins, I looked it up.  Total yards per game (DEF) top 3 are Pitt, Jags, Cincy.  Points per game top 3 are Seattle, Jags, Pitt.  Pass DEF is Denver, Pitt, Carolina.  Rush DEF is Eagles, Denver, Vikings.  That was actually sort of interesting!


IRT Peter (aka Boots), Hey, Congress is the exact place DACA must be resolved, period.


Do none of you understand the concept of bargaining? Or are you just that jealous of people with unionized jobs and the agency to negotiate a better deal?!


George Will - The most admired of conservative commentators. An elegant man, who remembers two elegant men who were our presidents.. A man of intelligence. Doesn't like Trump. Who would'a thunk it?


Oh, dear a typo.  Sigh.  Your position: prithee can be spelled anyway you choose because it is archaic and there were no spelling rules.  My response: chaotic spelling is allowed because it is tradition.  Which was meant to imply that you justify your blunder with a claim of tradition.  And that, as we True Catholics know, is the final argument.  Tradition.  If the Church has been doing it for at least 500 years, then it must always continue to do so.  This is what being a Catholic is all about.  But really, if you want to be cute and use a particular turn of phrase, then you should be a wee bit more careful, don't you think?


Huh?


I lived right in the middle of this when it happened and I can assure you that white zimbos in Matabeleland were not unaffected. It was an extremely dangerous time in the province, perhaps even more so than during the war.


Churchillian. It will be their finest hour. Do you think Winnie said "I'm pretty sure we can beat the Germans". Take a stand!


You took the low road. Sometimes that feels good.


I pray they hurry up.


I can agree that Canadian conservatives have to clearly demonstrate that they aren't racist Trumpers.  However, I disagree with Ibbiton's statement "And Mr. Scheer has his own populist streak, such as his campaign pledge to cut funding to universities that don’t protect the right of free speech on campuses." It's a matter of principle that universities are the forums of free speech (remember the Berkeley free speech movement over 50 years ago?). Universities who neglect this commitment should lose their funding.


"Sen. John McCain urged fellow senators Friday to “start fresh” and seek a bipartisan plan, hours after he provided the decisive vote against his chamber’s latest Obamacare-repeal proposal. “We can do this,” the Arizona Republican said in a statement".

To John McCain: We lost any possibility of a "fresh start" when you voted to keep Obamacare. The Democrats will never come to the table and discuss a true bipartisan health care as long as Obamacare exist.


Seeing as how we can't comment on the radical islamic terrorist in Edmonton article (which is closed, for "legal reasons" which is code for "we don't want people to be able to express their opinion and say something against Islam because then we wouldn't be multicultural") I decided to comment here.

Yes, Sheema, we did think it would happen here; it was just a matter of time. And yes, we will be calm and carry on. But we also need to be vigilant and look out for radical islamic terrorism, the forced marriages, the forced genital mutilation, the misogamy, and if you are gay watch out as you will be thrown off a building.


This is disgusting. Clearly Palmister does not see himself as a servant of the people.  On the other hand, people deserve the politicians they elect.


With our track record it's the pot calling the kettle black in my opinion......Argentina.....Rwanda... Bosnia just to name a few,  all under some form of guide of "sanctity'.


I have no use for Trudeau but he does have a way with people the same as Obama did.  In some ways that makes him even more dangerous in my opinion.  He has charisma.


Certainly Trump is no Kennedy or any other President in history. He doesn't learn from his mistakes just blames others and moves on. He doesn't read. That I find scary. A man in his position who gets virtually all of his news from biased right wing new sources and the National Inquirer. The man is a farce and his agenda is soon to be in total ruins. As he recently quipped "nobody knew how complicated health care is", his depth of ignorance knows no bottom. Sad.


The depth of Trump's stupidity cannot be measured.


OIW there should be a single payer (govt) safety net, with basic health care services covered for everyone.  Congress could set an annual cap on govt funding; whatever essential medical services that amount will cover is the universal plan for all. Anyone who is willing and able can buy additional coverage through private plans.


Building on DOE's new policy not to rank, apply the exact same guidelines to all their employees. Rank them all the same, no need to pay some employees more than others. Lower the pay levels.

What a huge financial savings this will be to taxpayers. No more money wasted on paper shufflers, deadwood bureaucrats, loser teachers.

Yes. Good for the goose. Good for the gander.  Git'r done!!!!


Agree with all your points, Bob. This is massively serious; the issues ought to transcend political party lines.


The technological capacity to render the date of post-delivery viability back to 24 weeks or 22 weeks or 20 weeks...

... will likely be met with a massive collision from the quarters that involve preferred abortion policies of various types...


Another tax out of Wasilla great have  a tax on everyone now tax on larger stores, bunch of democrats running the borough.


This article isn't about pay gaps.....


The Nazis were pretty violent, cold blooded killers, just like their Muslim counterparts.


For 76 deaths, 9 years behind bars doesn't even rise to the level of a slap on the wrist.


As seen in Ontario the green energy scam has chased away hundreds of thousands manufacturing jobs and made us energy poor.

The elitist have NO clue and will badly feel the outcome of thier arrogance in the next Provincial election.

Yes a Trump administration just came to power and the USA is now open for business. One would think that punitive  tax measures would be put on the back bench until a full economic assessment is completed.

Ideology rules the day,  the  leftist logic centre and their entitlement allows them he ability tax us away to oblivion. Yes  1.6 percent GHG while our American counterpart says  NO to Carbon tax is inconsequential and should not be the catalyst to taking food off our table.

SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!


Go away Broncos.


Civil Beat regularly provides coverage and criticism of these issues. This editorial is not a distraction, it is an appeal to the aloha and American spirit, which lean towards acting on what is moral first and sorting the consequences later.

The argument that the strain on our resources outweigh our moral values is a compelling one, but not one I am entirely convinced takes precedence.


you do realize I'll assume that there are plenty of articles not written by Ms Wente noting the increase in Monarch populations over the last 4 years ...my questions to you then would be, is it the writer who makes a point that makes you disregard what they say, or is it the points they make that make you disagree with the writer....

if you disagree with X because Y said it but actually agree with X...then you're an ideologue...if you disagree with X no matter who says it..you may be wrong, but at least you've only got one problem.


My understanding is that 4 Senators (Collins, Paul, Lee, and Moran) announced opposition to the bill floated at the end of last week, whereupon McConnell- with support of the White House- then said his next step would be a repeal-only bill with a replacement (maybe) in 2 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-suggests-republicans-will-let-aca-market-collapse-then-rewrite-health-law/2017/07/18/5e79a3ec-6bac-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_healthcare-844am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e96e4af0da78

Then, "three centrist Republican senators — Susan Collins (Maine), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — all said they would oppose any vote to proceed with an immediate repeal of the law." That is what I think killed the last iteration.


It's sad hearing all these racist comments from the left.


Trudeau's mind is that of a child.


"Trump did not start this controversy. Kaepernick did. The media needs to get it's story straight."

Hmm...don't know about that. The whole Colin Kaepernick thing is yesterday's news. Nobody knelt for the first 2 weeks of the season. Then Trump spoke reigniting the division. As long as someone keeps a muzzle on the Don I doubt we will see players continuing to kneel.
The Little Guy


I've been poisoned by a liberal Gom Jabbar! "Using violence to subdue criminality is wrong......so you should die!"
No one can survive that.


Ah, someone's still sore that his preferred candidate lost the election I see. That would explain the childish name-calling.


Mr. Stacey, I'm glad you shared this good story of the police.  Sadly, far too few of us know of the good work police do every single day.  While there are bad apples, there are many good ones as well.  Good for you for sharing this example of the good.


I couldn't believe when blubber butt admitted sending known criminals to sabotage Uber's driver pool.  He never gave a thought to the danger he was creating.  A bad man.


BECAUSE IT WAS A TAX.


If the goal is to collect from out of state workers, that can be done without an income tax. Require work permits and waive the fee for in state residents. Clearly, the goal is to make sure we have no reason to stay and work in Alaska, only to stay and ride the dole.


It is never ok for white people to use that word.


and now it is in double digits set to climb to 30 or more billion a year, the liberals own this one.


Actually you are correct. In the most current update, there was no overbooking on this flight. They needed to get a flight crew down to Louisville so they had to bump four people off. Three people left like adults, unhappy but mature. Only one choose to act like child and became a drama queen. And it wasn't handled very well. The airport security officer was put on paid leave pending investigation, obviously, excessive force was being used. And we still don't know if that guy really was a doctor or not. But it fair to say that United is getting beating over this and they weren't the ones who took this guy out. And I read that not only he was dragged out but he came back in!!! And they had to deplaned the passengers to take him out again!! Keystone cops at works here......


Illegals break 3 Commandments:  1) Coveting others' goods,  2)  Lying (about their status, break laws), and 3)  Steal (take entitlements unfairly and unlawfully.


I wonder why Hillary had Jill appear to do the dirty work - the heavy lifting?

I wonder what Hillary was so worried about?


Sure can, I got this information from a BLM research article ,  who actually own the Reindeer, and you can contact the RHA at Kawerak in Nome for more, they know how many Reindeer are left after the WAC moved in and they took off in the thousands (safety in numbers with herd animals)
The Reindeer Research Program at UAF, and who inspect them yearly, and you might be able to find records from the Lomen Brothers, who shipped out thousands by barge before WWII to San Francisco , as lean red meat.
Also Reindeer were reintroduced by Dr. Sheldon Jackson in 1905 (?) who along with Reindeer also brought  in Sami Herders to help learn about handling and care of the Deer.


HRP is a microcosm of RNC not in its selection of wingnut Trump (HRP leadership stood firmly behind Rubio) but rather in its insistence on clinging to impotence and insignificance all in the name of leadership's sole end to retain its limited power as big fish in a little pond.  The arrogance of HRP leadership and it's utter refusal to hear any type of opposition are breathtaking.


if lady gaga where the dem's choice, she would get my vote.  this election, the important thing - the utmost important thing,  is keeping trump out of office.  i have no support for a libertarian candidate.


They probably got this case mixed up with all of the archery crime we've been seeing lately.


The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAP) is not on Standing Rock Souix Reservation (SRSR) land.  The pipeline right of way passes north of the SRSR Cannon Ball River bound.  When DAP crosses the Missouri River, it will be bored 90 feet under the river bottom.

SRSR leaders declare, "We're protecting the sole, critical water intake" which supplies the SRSR  from possible pollution.  In fact, this "so-called MOTHER EARTH GOD critical water intake", will be closed in 6 months.  Why?  It is because a new "free upgraded water intake" will start operating in MOBRIDGE, SD.  That's 80 miles south of the present SRSR water intake.  HOHUM?  This new upgraded BIA water service system has been building since 2002.   "SO IT AIN'T NO SURPRISE TO NOBODY" ... ACCEPT CURRENT SRSR PROTESTORS ... WHO SELL T-SHIRTS TO THE VISITING INDIANS AND FOOLS  RALLYING AGAINST ... THE WHITE MAN IN NORTH DAKOTA.  The extensive DAP permiting process lasted over 3 years:  the noble Souix SRSR ignored it.  SRSR=a rural slum.


I've lived and worked in New York for the past thirty four years. I have dreamed about right to work laws becoming federal laws giving states no choice but to comply. Wow imagine that giving the American worker a choice. As a forced union member I have the right to not be represented buy my union which I'm not. However I'm still forced to pay an "agency fee" witch I pay every third Wednesday. So right now they get you one way or another. I applaud any passage of right to work laws. Bring um on.


Alli,
Glad you made it up the peak - isn't that view off the backside amazing! Many years ago, along with my mentor, the late Austin Helmers, I helped mark that route. He was 70 at the time and I twenty years younger. I had a hard time keeping up, and had the lame excuse of his legs being considerably longer. Yes, it is an 'expedited' route. Recently I heard that it may be redesigned. Perhaps next time, you will encounter a few switchbacks ! Cheers


Lots more Trump turmoil to come. Yugely more turmoil. The greatest turmoil ever!


You need to get out of Toronto.


". . . “not confident” the project’s total construction price tag will remain at $8.2 billion . . ."  I included this with my testimony to city council on 10/3/17 when they were discussing the recovery plan.  It didn't matter - they approved the plan anyway.


Buy a single family home. You are not involved in the 'politics' of community ownership that includes exorbitant maintenance fees that escalate year after year.

What's more important in a building like the Marco Polo you have no safety net of fire protection due to absence of sprinklers. So you pray your neighbors are responsible enough to not inadvertently start a fire. There are a lot of elderly in that building.

What needs to be addressed here is liability. We have no control over our neighbors actions.........

What value does one place on human life? Human life is worth more than $3000+ isn't it ?


Tks for your comment S.C.

I have an 18-24 mth time horizon with this, not a long term hold which is usually at least 5 years.  If it goes the wrong way, I can either double down, having taken only a small position, or I can bail out.  If they can close enough of the loosing stores, revamp the winners by downsizing them than there is a chance they can end the decline.  Also will help if a few of the weaker ones drop out.

I have done reasonably well investing in mature tech when they were beaten down, both Cisco and Qualcomm have provided nice returns and I still hold both.  I was in early on both but never the less doubled down and was well rewarded.  It takes a long time for the momentum investors to get out of these before they become attractive value propositions.  If you look at a 10 year earnings and stock price comparison, eventually they become cheap, even if earnings has slowed.  Once they pay a decent dividend yield it is a good indicator they have become investable.


A $30 billion deficit, triple that promised, with NO infrastructure to show for it and NO plan to achieve fiscal balance.  What a crock of d u n g.  Trudeau's spending spree is only remotely palatable because Harper got debt-to-GDP DOWN to a little over 30%.

-Harper didn't ask for the worst financial crisis in nearly a century.
-He didn't gladly agree with the G20 to run massive deficits to prevent a worldwide depression, he had no choice
-He didn't cause the nearly -3% NEGATIVE GDP contraction of 2009.
-He did, however promise to get us back to fiscal balance by 2015 and he did that, just as he said he would.

Now, keep posting more silliness so we can have fun correcting it.


Justin knows just enough to keep his trap shut.  Any response would confirm that he probably doesn't understand the issue.


It did, shortly after Clark loosened her foreign buyer tax policies.....


Not my "crazy numbers".  Those of researchers with the Australian Ministry for the Environment.  And if I have "less right" to comment on Hawaii's feral cat scourge, you CERTAINLY have no right to dismiss Australian scientific data as "crazy numbers".  My son is a joint US/Australian citizen, and two of my grandchildren are Australian born and raised.  I indeed have skin in that game, that's very precious to me.  I don't want them struggling to survive in the midst of a mass-extinction induced ecological collapse or a cat-vectored zoonotic disease pandemic.  And I want them to be able to see king parrots, wallabies, blue-tongued lizards, kookaburras, Children's pythons, White's tree frogs and bandicoots someplace other than in a picture book of extinct Australian animals.  So how much "skin" do you have in the game?  Other than that of your filthy, disease-ridden "community" vermin, I mean.


A $356 million annual draw from the general fund tells me that every resident of this state has a say in what happens at UAA/UA.  If the regents and students want to dictate their own destiny, all they have to do is eliminate state funding.............do that and you can do whatever you want.
http://kcaw-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016_02_02-AnIntroductionAKFiscaFactsChoices.pdf

Page 18 and 29.........of UAA's own study.............


A spill would not so much impact the mountains as the waterways.  CN has a technique in the works to transport oil as a semi-solid, which would be easy to clean up and would not be a lac megantic tragedy in waiting. (It would not be highly flammable.)  The mode of transportation should suit the product, not the other way around.
I expect the pipeline will go through, but I hope common sense will prevail and it won't terminate in  heavily populated Burnaby.


Wouldn't it be a hoot if the Province of Quebec decided to subsidize an arena in Quebec City and the Feds put in a third. And the Flames were sold to new ownership and moved to the new Bombardier Ice Palace.


lol - don't remember that one..  the RG used to have some great headlines.  they were clear and relevant but also clever, funny...sometimes with a double meaning that could be read in.  I think your "stumpy leaves son out of will"  (LMAO I embellished) is a missed opportunity for the RG to show some mettle.  but jade - stumpy - it makes me laugh so much.  thank you girl!!


WOW!  I won't support anyone who feels carbon pricing is OK  and sorry but I like KL's take on immigration. One of them wants to let in 400K, insanity.


That really shouldn't be a problem, all his businesses are in "a trust" and he probably never talked to a Russian when he arranged the financing. Even if he did, it probably was a casual acquaintance, not the slightest bit of a conflict for the "Insane Clown President".
BTW does anyone know if the Brooklyn Bridge is still for sale?? LOL


Totally agree.  Hawaii's courts are inept but it could be fixed with proper legislation.

Channel 3 cable said last night that HPD is being investigated for phony "ghost" driving citations and that the Prosecutors Office, long thought to be just incompetent, might also have massive corruption charges against it.  Why is this not being reported in SA?


I'm thinking that Nageak actually has very little to do with this lawsuit. My bet is that Babcock and Ruedrich are using Nageak as their puppet, they are pulling his puppet strings and telling him what to say, because they know they can get him to caucus with the oil soaked majority if he can retain the House seat. He continues to run as a Democrat because he knows he would never get elected as a Republican in his district.


They've been a flawed/fraud for 25 MLB years, or have you not noticed?


Dangerous delusion, deliberately deceptive: “We believe climate change is one of the greatest threats facing Canadians and the world..." It's actually a non-existent problem, fabricated.*  The real "greatest threat" facing the West, including Canada, is Islamist terrorism. *(There hasn't been any global warming for 20 years; all computer climate model predictions have failed to match real-world evidence; the supposed driver of global warming, carbon dioxide, is plant food, an invisible, odourless non-polluting trace gas. The non-existent "threat" is an imaginary one in the failed computer climate models.)


maybe his brain cancer, or the drugs he's on, is affecting his judgment.. because, if something looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck!. the same for illegal immigrants,(criminals).. how are you going to find out if they are illegal for certain, if you don't ask for their paperwork??.


The party of trump can't pass a repeal of ObamaCare.  McConnell had to pull the bill because it was going to go down badly.  30 - 40 repub Senators would have voted against this stinker of a bill because those Senators face re-election and this vote would have cost some of them their jobs.

Eight years of repub crying about repeal and now, 6 months into a completely controlled repub government, STILL no vote.  These guys are dangerous but pathetic.  Even their own know that this bill is toxic and horrible for us citizens.

chump and turtle know this so they are remaining silent - for a change.


Your uncle Chow?


Maybe they felt oppressed and dis-empowered, and had suffered enough from chauvinistic bullies, condescending authority figures, and patronizing leaders.

Perhaps now is the first time in all those years they have felt comfortable enough to air their grievance and their pain. To tell their story without being put down, ridiculed, and dismissed. It's possible they have the sense there are enough fair-minded, compassionate, and just people that are finally willing to listen. And maybe they can start to heal.

If that's the case, that's a good thing, right?

It sounds like you are blaming them for something. Isn't that what has been keeping women like this silent for so long, the inevitable victim-blaming that goes on? Is this some type of game? A game that protects the perpetrators and the predators.

Who's side did you say you were on?


What kind of Democrat is Tobias Read? VOTE HIM OUT.


Well, Dipper1945,  I guess we agree and disagree.

We all want Canada to be great.  That is where we agree 100%.

However, Trudeau and his corporate globalists will not make Canada great.  It's impossible for a committed globalist like Trudeau to improve the well-being of the nation he allegedly "leads" (exhibit #599: the paltry OxyContin settlement ).

The only hope Canada has for being great is that Donald Trump succeeds in Making America Great Again and lifts Canada up and/or shows Canadians that nationalism, not globalism, is the answer.


Whoa......."Sitting here watching humanity circle the drain, and God knows we deserve it."
What a joy it must be to live in YOUR head............

If we all had your attitude I'm pretty sure we'd still be hunkered around the old fire at the front of the cave gnawing on a mastadon leg bone. Assuming we'd have been motivated enough to learn how to build a fire..........


$250 million. Yeah right
This is the same government that told us the raising taxes on the "wealthy" and cutting them for the "middle class" would be revenue neutral. Then admitted that there was a $ billion shortfall right after the election.
They can't do math!!!


A "confession" that is obtained by torture is not a confession.