Trump'sperformance in his news confrence was just deplorable.  Instead of cleaning out the swamp he has just made it worse.  Are we looking at the beginning of the collapse of the American brand of democracy?  It seems fairly obvious that Trump, despite what he says, will continue to lead his business interests.  As someone said during the election period, Trump is only looking for any way to boost his ego andmake money.  So for those who voted for him, Are you proud of what you have got?  We should remember that in Canada we have similar personalities running for the Conservative leadership!


Did none of you fools that strategically voted Trudeau a majority government not foresee this kind of incompetence happening?  Unbelievable.


"They needed no permission to come. They only needed reasonable health and $25, enough to survive while looking for work. The government didn't even write down their names — that was left to the purser on the boat that brought them." Yeah, it was a great system: everyone who wanted to come to America had to pay for their own transport on a legal shipping line, to an isolated island, where they were face a battery of health test and if they were found to be sick or weak, they would be rejected and sent back,  on the expense of the company that brought them here. They would bay for all the healthcare they received at the facility and if they couldn't afford it,  then the shipping line would be stuck with the bill. Naturally, the shipping lines themselves starting sorting and rejecting immigrants in order to protect their bottom line. Once the prospective new Americans made it unto the mainland, legally, they would be granted no government sponsored welfare.... Yeah, sounds good.....


C Difficile


That statistic of 30% is too high -- one would question the sample size and methodology.

10% is a more representative figure, and surprisingly,  even in closed/super-religious societies.

For anyone looking for an example of female privilege:  women can commit paternity fraud and the male, non-biological father bears full legal and financial responsibility for the child


I think if you count up the posts, you'll see it's the people who are suggesting there's no such thing as cultural appropriation who are calling for suppression of debate.


This isn't really credible.

If you are talking about the Russian election monitoring non-profit that was accused of accepting foreign funds, this was unproven, and can as at least as plausibly be explained simply by the Kremlin wanting to silence a critic of its corruption.

Moreover, I don't see any reason to dig deep into motivations: Trump's election clearly benefits Putin's regime, and even if Trump had lost, Russia stands to gain from the sentiment that they were stirring up.

More interesting is any insight we can get into the politics of the Russian escalation. The dossier with the Trump kompromat claims was really interesting here: the Trump stuff was boring and unverifiable, but there were some detailed bits about internal backlash over the hacks, because this made some of their intelligence operations very exposed and much of the situation was handled poorly. This is also unverifiable, but the level of detail made it quite plausible.


Well everyone has their nickers in knots over this fentanyl and there is really no need. Lets step back for a moment and think critically like the left wing sociology professors do.

First where is it mostly occurring? In Vancouver on lower east side and if you have ever been there you would agree with me that it is an absolute dump! What type of people are there? Well pretty much in line with my dump comment. These people subsist on welfare and crime. So this should be looked at as urban renewal. Or like with the moose hunt and culling the herd. This crisis is really no crisis but a helping hand from our friends the Chinese. They are lessening the social assistance costs big time. Just think how many people this stuff has taken off the welfare rolls... permanently. Everyone take a deep breath and calm down.


The thing that bothers me about reducing PFDs is that it affects everyone equally.  I "lose" no more than one person I know who lived in a trailer without insulation because she could not afford to get any.  And as AKfox points out, PFDs are not an entitlement.  This is not a government subsidy: it is investment income from our oil.  On the other hand, an income tax would require a taxing apparatus and money to pay for it. That's what I'd prefer, if possible.


"israel" does not spam comments sections in newspapers pretending to be outraged Canadian citizens supporting Putin evil. That is my point, igor.


Let’s see, first off, that’s what the City of Eugene $.05 a gallon gas tax passed in 2003, and never repealed was for...same for the $.30 a gallon Oregon State gas tax.
Neither tax is currently being used for what it was intended...and we should trust gov’t now because?...


The only hope for Peace in the Middle East is a 2 state solution.  To walk away from it will only inflame the situation.  Ironic that Trump could spew all sorts of politically incorrect/hateful vitriol and it's OK,but when the Obama administration tells the truth they get pounced on.


You feel the Republican party holds itself to higher standards?
Trump is the leader of your party. There is nothing about him that is held to high standards, an alley cat has higher standards than he does. He is a man that said "not getting a sexually transmitted disease was his Vietnam war", he's committed adultery on each of his THREE wives, he's been sued for everything from fraud to racist housing practices to rape by a teenager. The people your party chooses to represent you don't just fail, this president never even tried.
I am downright sick of the right claiming a higher moral ground when I see atrocities coming from the "higher standards" of that party; making it harder for rape victims to prosecute, wanting to kick children out of the only country they have known, trying to make it legal to discriminate against others based on their race again.

My party does in deeds everything that your party claims to stand for in words. There is no moral highground in the republican party


Because he didn't approve them. The AFT lawyers interpreted the law to mean that he couldn't. And you can imagine the hysterical screams from the gun nuts and the NRA if he tried. And now the Repubs are trying to hide behind the AFT to avoid voting on the issue. Yes, sir, Making America Great Again!


Second that! Indeed-Colorado being Good Public Stewards with our (not 'their') money-nope! Not by any stretch of the imagination.


This is quality journalism.


"Microsoft kept the emails on a server in Ireland"
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No wonder Office365 sucks so bad. Letting those drunken micks manage our emails is asking for trouble.
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(note: I'm Irish so I can say that)


Victim? So he was convicted?


Better than mine! or yours, for that matter ha ha


The States received $120 million for faulty ignition switches.  There was also a $900 million fine paid to the Feds.  How much did the car owners receive of these amounts?


State workers get raises and oil companies get money. Take that money first.


If you're going to go to the effort to google the meaning of words, make the extra effort to spell check as well.

It is " inept", as in you are "inept" in carrying on a dialogue so to make up for your "ineptitude" you rely on misdirection and name calling.

And THAT,  my friend, is how you tie the end of the conversation back to the very first post.

The devil is in the details.

I wish you a lovely day.


The vast majority of people in half-way houses don't walk away, and apparently those that do, do no harm. So what's your beef, exactly? Just another ignorant, self-righteous "lock 'em up and throw away the key" proponent with no desire to actually address the huge problem Alaska--not to mention the rest of the United States--has with incarcerating significant portions of the population for long periods of time, which has been proven countless times exacerbate criminogenic tendencies and mental health issues, increase recidivism and create mental health problems in those who enter prison without them. Not to mention the creation of a whole class of people who have been deliberately institutionalize by the state and p, once released, cannot get a job or function properly in society because of it.


Then you are not a Catholic.


Glad to hear that about those priests and the Eucharist.

The Lord's sacred food is his own to give, not that of any of his ministers. And he gives to all regardless, just as his love is given to all regardless.


Useless and ignorant like his dad. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree and in this case spoiled fruit.


OK.  Just to keep it simple, what were these rights of which you speak and which were those nations.  Have they prospered?  Are they still around?  Because if they are not around, then maybe we should pay attention so our country doesn't experience the same fate.  And then has or had that nation prospered other nations as ours has?  Not conquered or colonized, but prospered because of it's existence.  I promise, I cannot guess of which nations you speak.  So that all may learn from your learnedness.


The problem is that there is no document that assures the dogs are qualified.  For that matter there is no one standard that can be tested for, just general guidelines.

On the other side, every 'guideline' I've read allows a property owner/manager/bus driver to eject a dog that is misbehaving and creating a disruption.

These days there opposition to all regulation.  But regulatory standards can add clarity to what's required.  (which is the concern of those trying to deal with disability guidelines in education and the Trump administration removing those guidelines.)


If you follow them "blindly" you deserve the ticket you get for not keeping your eyes on the road.


Craigslist Medred = fake news


It's not. That person doesn't know what real socialism is.


6 years, Naval Supply Depot Yokosuka, Japan....CTF-77/ComSubGr5 Cubi Point, P.I rode Kitty Hawk, Oriskany, Ranger, admiral staff, USS Norton Sound AVM-1, gunnery test missile ship, formerly a sea plane tender out of Oxnard, CA.  SK2, made in in three years, had waivers from E-9's thought I was cocky and what ever they did by passed time in grade.  Knees gave out on me, found the Navy for five months to stay in, had shipped over, lost the battle, so medically discharged.  Funny thing about a year later the Navy asked if I would like to come back, overseas duty, by then I had started a new life.  Enjoyed it, especially overseas, something about state side sailors, learned that from the carriers since the admiral put them through drills, since they were there for only six months, we rode for a month or so, they went home, we went aboard another carrier, really the only way to travel.


Rogoff: “It is extremely unfortunate that GCI has taken this legal action to evict us from our press facility.  The events that led us to this point have been extremely complex."

What's complex about paying your bills?


The 1% pays 25% of the country's income tax.  Let's tax them more (inheritance/schooling) and cook that goose.  Who needs the golden egg?


Jesus redefined God's laws using the word Love. Love God and Love others as God loves us.


Very sad.


"He just likes heroin."
lol


Bolt sales .... note the open to sales nation wide next month / August - Albeit slowly, GM’s Chevy Bolt EV sales are still growing – reaching a new high of 1,642 units in the US last month. It brings the total delivered of the new all-electric vehicle in the US to 7,592 units since the beginning of the year and just over 8,000 since its launch in December 2016. In June, GM opened Chevy Bolt EV orders for approved dealerships nationwide, But that didn’t contribute to deliveries since the first shipment to the new approved dealerships are expected in August. At that point, we should have a better idea of the market for the Bolt EV.


To be honest, most are living very comfortably with mom and dad. Workers at or below federal minimum make up about 3.3% of hourly workers (makes you wonder what all the fuss is about) and half of minimum wage workers are under 25 https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2015/home.htm " Among employed teenagers (ages 16 to 19) paid by the hour, about 11 percent earned the minimum wage or less, compared with about 2 percent of workers age 25 and older"  So this isn't a statistical outrage even among teenagers.

Another tidbit from that link "About 7 percent of part-time workers (those who usually work fewer than 35 hours per week) were paid at or below the federal minimum wage, compared with about 2 percent of full-time workers."  So this lengthy article is about, specifically, 2% of full time workers.

Note all these numbers are 2 years old.  No one would argue that employment is worse now than in 2015.


Conservatives like to use Alternative Math.


Exactly - and it's nonsensical to pay an inflated cost for a home in a bubble, subsequent inflated interest costs, plus all the tax, insurance and utilities.

We sold high before 2010 and have been renting a home in a smaller city for about 16K annually with a 1% income. Our investments have grown more than ever possible without paying a mortgage. We've bought cars, computers and trips for cash, and we are completely debt free. Our friends have renegotiated mortgages and pay well over double what we do monthly plus they have consumer debt because they can't swing it all. One couple is divorcing - after 25 years - they still don't "own" their home as they had to put on second mortgages and lines of credit etc. They can't even sell to settle their divorce because the mortgage term isn't finished, prices are slumping, it's a buyers market and really, they do not have anything to show after years of paying all that interest to the bank, all that tax to the city.....


Remember the previous B.C. NDP government disaster and it's deficit, let's stay away from these guys.


A university study by a school of journalism revealed that close to 20 times as many folks read comments sections as there are those who contribute.That is a huge, invisible audience to educate and influence. The small number of anti-science posters are generally unreachable due to rabid partisanship, being vested in polluting industries or are in other ways uneducable. They are not the audience any of us should be trying to reach. These posters do serve a useful purpose in being our "foils" as Shakespeare might say. Consider them as being tools for getting the science message across and not as people capable of being educated or influenced by solid scientific and logic based arguments.


I wouldn't know about that - apparently, you do.  I know I have seen you adamantly post the same thing over and over and over.

I guess we all do, when people refuse to acknowledge a post.  But I don't see one bit of relevance in this particular discussion with Neko.


The real reason is that the USA like Canada, is too busy trying to figure out how many genders there are.


Case can probably be made that many things at the UH is not essential.  Some Hawaiians for example feel telescopes are not necessary.  Some feel that football shoud be eliminated while others feel other sports should be eliminated.

I doubt if many even know what the East West Center does or was meant to do?


Local businesses that have had poor reception with the City of Eugene have gone north, east and now south to better communicating cities. With them they take jobs and a local tax base.
But a stranger who wants to do business in Eugene can get property tax exemptions thrown to them like chaff to the winds. Keep voting these pariahs back into office and when you do, you deserve them.


Only Albertans think the Randle reef in Hamilton harbour and Varo out in NWT funny.  Or perhaps there head is so far in the goo sands they dont even know about it.  I suspect the later.


Well said. I wonder why this point (that the "covering face" is not required in the Holy Koran etc) is not included in articles in Canada ?!


I am very proud of my friends, both here and around the world, who took the time and made the effort to stand up for their beliefs, and for those who cannot stand for themselves. If you disagree with the protestors and their beliefs, it is your right to do so, but name-calling and ad hominem attacks are uncalled for and inappropriate. Argue your positions on their merits, not by denigrating and attacking others who don't share it.


If the Muslim butcher usually carries pork, then yes, I would expect that he should sell it.  However if that same butcher doesn't serve pork, then, no.  In the cake case, they were asking for something he already makes, a cake, period.  The only thing that might be different might be the topper, and they could have just as easily provided it, or not had one at all.  So your analogy falls flat on its face.


Yes - there are a lot of pickup trucks that park right outside my condo.  A lot.  Rather suspiciously a lot.  A lot of them have licence plates that start with "AL".  It wouldn't surprise me if many are diesel.

And although diesel definitely irritates my lungs, exposure to LED bulbs does as well.   LED bulbs also cause stiffness and tightening in my legs and torso.   It is dramatic -- not subtle.   They are as dangerous as heck for anyone who is vulnerable to it.  I can barely go into a department store now because of the pain and fatigue they cause.


Seems like he had enough constituents to get elected.


In a previous G & M story it was reported that the vote differential in Vancouver False-Cree was 560 votes and that the NDP had requested a recount. This is beyond the 100 vote threshold this story reports so does this mean there was something else that went on election night in this riding?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-ndp-asks-for-recounts-in-three-vancouver-area-ridings/article34973219/?reqid=10d60b9f-8ae9-4888-aa1a-92c25c617d24


England's model is not what is being proposed here. They have a nationalized health service with publicly operated healthcare providers.
Medicare for All would be a single payer, but still utilizing private health care providers and drug companies. Going with a single payer maximizes economy of scale to negotiate lower drug prices and cuts out the unnecessary insurance middlemen.


Eh, "ethics" are just as much a human concept. Not saying they're bad and shouldn't be taught, just, you know...‘Remember! Reality's an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold!’


If air show needs to be scrapped surely it should not be because of traumatized refugees. These folks got safe haven and freedom from persecution in Canada and should be eternally grateful for that. In this vast country there are many paces where one would never hear a sound of military aircraft.
It appears to me that much of what we are doing as a society lately, is running around looking for every victim to coddle and over-protect. We are becoming a nation where half of population are victims of something and the other half just caters to them and then they switch. Millions of people are vulnerable one way or another, we can't endlessly change everything to create maximum comfort for every one , sometime people have to take responsibility to  do it themselves without making everyone else jump.


Wow people can even get into arguments with each-other over this article?  Great job Ms. O...haha we're done - now you even have it shoeless! Did you recover the shoe? LOL damn shoe. :)


Why is he even allowed to travel and trash Trump overseas on the taxpayer dime?  Time to make a call next week and inform his staff how the american people really feel about Sen. McCain.  It may not be very subtle.


Another of many multiply fatal accidents involving the Osprey. That aircraft is simply too unsafe to continue to use. Looks like a good idea, but it's performance should shelve it.


What is a wolf eagle?


I had a dream. I would get into a large  canoe, not made from birch bark, loaded with whiskey and blankets (basic supplies, not for trading along the way). In a early, calm dawn light I would begin to paddle from near Montreal to the Northwest territories, along a route perhaps taken by voyageurs 300 years ago, when Canada was new, pristine , and unspoiled in every regard. I often think of these men - roving adventurers of lake, stream and backwood. It was all backwood in those days, and a mis-step or errant paddling decision could cost you your life - and for many it did. No phones, rescue squad or paramedics in those days. It was root hog or die. The voyageurs, unknown, unsung, the intrepid wayfarers in a pathless land - true Canadian heroes, my heroes. What they did by deed and strength of character can only thrive in my imagination. Paddle on, men from an now unknown age in a then unknown country.


Rush Limbaugh thinks Trump Should Not Dictate Anything to the NFL Owners
https://youtu.be/fsWJ6JnwuAw


One should be able to make a sexual 'mistake' as a female --- and not produce a child.....start there.


the more that market and others is inflated the bigger the pop


"...John McCain declared Thursday that “America is adrift in Afghanistan” as he unveiled a war strategy of his own that includes more U.S. combat forces and greater counterterrorism efforts...."

McCain remains stuck on stupid.  He said Iraq was a good idea.  Amazes me people still listen to this guy when it comes to war.


Like a typical leftist, you try to misrepresent my words. "driven by women and gender studies departments" is what I wrote and what I meant. Strike one for intellectual dishonesty.

Now, many of the campus rape studies have been debunked by real scientists. Do you need a reference? It's not hard to find the information on your own. I imagine you know how to use google.

I know plenty about the issues here. I've been forced to sit through the mandatory "trainings" aka brainwashing sessions. There is no due process involved with campus kangaroo courts. Instances of rape belong in the criminal justice system. The campus tribunal movement is simply a means to punish the accused without due process. Rape is a serious crime however, and rapists belong in prison. The flip side is that calling everything rape, up to and including drunken encounters that are later regretted, trivializes rape and makes it much harder for real victims to be taken seriously.


Listening to her talk is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard.
No wonder the voters of Anchorage rejected her by a 20 point margin, when she ran for mayor.


McCain: "Bipartisan majorities of Americans are in favor of ...  globalization."

Yeah, he is as insane as the Democrats. He sees only what he wants to see in polling data.


allie
23 hours ago
"UH spends much $$$$ buying the best players from throughout the world. No real local connection here and BYU likely wins this game."

So where was your prediction about UH winning this one easily?  Do you have bipolar issues, or just a problem with the truth and reality?  These are your own words and it didn't say that UH was going to win.  Then again, UH is one of the best teams in the nation of your so-called "real programs" and you have to find a way to knock them down.  Envy is a terrible thing.  Be happy with who you are and learn to keep uninformed opinions to yourself, so it doesn't expose your ignorance of many subject.


Triple dip. They will charge you for service, sell your activity to advertisers, and charge a toll to content providers.


Read "Days of Grace" Arthur Ashe, when dealing with this subject.


Mccaine and Goober love their tax payed European Vacations


Do you also think a nuclear North Korea is a good thing?  You might want to go read about North Korea's latest missile test and Siberian oil.


Links are all over the internet. I can only assume at this that you have access. Do some research and stop relying on mainstream media.


That's right, ben w, let's arm every citizen with a Gatling gun to make the entire community safe.  Matter of fact, why waste time with open carry, just require that everyone must wear a hand grenade vest and infra red goggles.  Anything that goes bump in the night is open range.  Wink, wink.


"Dude, I didn't front you that weed so you could smoke it! You're supposed to sell it and pay me back!"


Sure, right after we discuss softwood lumber Mr. Trump.


Is this "civil comments" business meant to skew the set to the right.  I don't see a very reasonable comment I just posted.  The essence of my comment was I have seen no left wing mention, let alone fawning, about Obama's birthday and I have never seen a quibble about "former" for a retired president either. I did suggest the author rejoin America, if that's over the top, I apologize.


Everything is a secret with this joker.


Because there IS an alt.right doesn't mean that there is a alt left.
Won't stop certain people from pretending that there is to justify their rabid right views...


To improve things, Cato recommends that Hawaii do this: cut spending “on sanitation and sewerage, parks and recreation, public buildings, health and hospitals” and other “miscellaneous” areas; relax the state’s “extreme land-use regulations”; and
adopt a “shall-issue concealed-carry license”. What a bunch of bullshit. I guess Cato institute has never been to Hawaii. Fair to say we don't spend enough on  sanitation and sewerage, parks and recreation, public buildings, health and hospitals. All categories of great examples  of crumbling infrastructure. Imagine if there weren't  “extreme land-use regulations”. Say goodbye to the trees, shorelines and ALL agricultural lands. The islands would be one big KAPU for the poor and average citizens.  And one of the nicest things about Hawaii is that we are all not carrying guns, because I'm sure we'd do our best to shoot each other more often if we had more guns.


Not true.


On the matter of "Trudeau" - merely illustrates the sad state of voter priorities when mere name recognition celebrity status devoid of deeper qualifications is sufficient to fill the highest office in the land !

My question: Would any corporate board of directors engage him to become CEO of a global busines organization ???

You know the answer.


The MSM made up the fake news story that they didn't get along


Yes, I said I was depressed after Obama won a second term. I got grief for it, and I understand why. But I never looked across the aisle at a person who voted for him and said, "You despise me, and you despise America."

Yes you did; when you voted for tRUMP!


That was kind of creepy AND insulting. I'd hate to be the young man and have to live down that disrespect by his coach. What is Taggart thinking?


There would be an article. It would read: Eugene police police shoot dog in Amazon Creek.


I'm sorry, but in spite of your quotes above, you are either idiots or desperate for money and/or attention. Heck, if you're on a transcountry or trans-Atlantic flight, you can SEE the curvature of the Earth! Ugh!


$160 for a couple of tickets for what amounts to a stop on a book tour: too pricey for most. You might have expected Clinton's publisher to pick up the tab. Making money is no crime although money seems to have been an all too prominent part of Clintons retinue before, during and after the election.   Tellingly, during the campaign for the Democratic nomination Sanders supporters showered Clinton's motorcade to an LA fund raiser with dollar bills to underscore the point.  Listening to abandoned working class Democrats rather than cozy huddles with bankers might have been more productive and maybe we wouldn't have to ask ourselves What Happened?


The Chinese are hovering.....once panicking sellers see that they are not getting their prices, the vultures will tempt them with offers but not offering anyting....then the panicking sellers sell more.  Just like the stock market....then when some capitulation occurs the Chinese strike, and strike hard.
Just like the Borg...you will be assimiliated with resistance being futile.
Remember there are probably 100 million  plus who want to and have the means to leave that filty country to move here....and that is an undeniable fact.


I am always amazed at Anchorage peoples comments in the midst of someones tragedy....most are cold and heartless.....if you knew Josh and his family.....you would know what an awesome family they are.....from birth Josh was a great guy....he worked hard....was a role model for his younger siblings and others, the other day some one wrote about a "long list of alcohol offenses" three....is not long.....smh....turn your heartless self in whoever took his life..stop being a coward.....to all of you who think you know Josh....to make such rude comments in such a  time as this....some of these comments anger me.....I pray you find compassion because some day you  might find yourself in similar situation...I apologize if I  offend anyone but I believe that some of these comments offended a lot of people in the Copper River Basin and Josh's family


Never driver fault is it? Always somebody else's fault.


Still don't understand why the "accumulated deficit" was permitted to increase by millions each year for so many years.  At a certain point, you'd think someone would wake up and realize that the endeavor is losing millions, each year.   Unstated in this article was what would be done THIS YEAR to make sure no more deficit "accumulates", or in other words, no more money is lost.


Best news so far today, but it is still early....


If they are indeed Canadian citizens, let's not screw it up this time and do things according to international and domestic law. If that means bringing them back to Canada (yes, unfortunately we may have to) and detaining them here, so be it.


And me.


Makes me wonder if she had another baby at 40 because the first two "U.S. citizens" she had are at moving out age.


It’s the new normal. But, diversity is our strength, right?


What I would like to see is the DEATH PENALTY to Billy-Bob that overuses the fishery to send salmon back to _____while parking his land whale in the middle of the road and filling the trash (if he actually is that concerned) with his beer cans while rudely casting aspersion about what and all. The dip-sheet fishery is the most wasteful travesty ever created. Most of the salmon harvested either end end up in a landfill or are transported south to - another landfill!


this is too late, it is false and insincere.  your first reaction defines you real feeling.  hence, trump is a racist and bigot, no matter what he says now.  he has many racists and bigots in his administration.  if he is really sincere, he should fire all the racists and bigots, bannon, miller, sessions, gorka, price, devos, Conway, pruit, etc.  he is totally unfit to be president.


The Liberal destruction of Ontario is nearing completion.

If there is one thing liberals are good at, it's wrecking stuff.

Unfortunately, the rest of us get dragged along with their ideology.


Sure have. They have driven up real estate to the point where it is now a major socio-economic issue. And more grief to come when it pops.


Envious?


I use studded tires and I don't skid on ice let alone dry pavement. But then, I know how to drive in Alaska in the winter.


With about 1./3 of the vote I'd say Globalism is starting to be clawed back. This election was a Protest by the French people, not a landslide win for the EU and Globalists.


Does anyone remember when rent controls were at their apogee some years ago?

"key money" (AKA bribes) to building managers

Minimal maintenance, as there was no point. Besides the "good for nothing" tenants who were benefiting from cheap rent could pay for things like stove or bathroom repairs..New paint? Forget it.

NO new construction of commercial buildings.

etc., etc. etc....


Boat Drinks!!


Why would you rush to buy a property that will be worth less in the coming months? Any educated buyer will stay clear of this hot potato until it cools down.


Assholes everyone of them. Feckless moronic Jesus believing losers all of them.


Alex, the AEA's continued development of non-competitive construction and subsidized intrusion into the private sector of our economy is a glaring example of how an unchecked government agency can build itself into its own empire.  While you were investigating this story, did you happen to ask why the state government is building these power modules instead of putting them out to bid?  Did you wonder if the state government is the most efficient entity to build the project?  AEA has developed and continues to develop its own sole-source mentality, increasing its role as both the manager of funds and private contractor, its own watchdog.  Did you ask if the AEA has the required manufacturer's licenses that a private entity would need.  Did you ask if its employees were licensed by the State equivalent to a private contractor?  Did you ask how AEA afforded to develop this "expertise" in-house? Now that you've carried their flag for them, maybe you can report on the rest of the story.


The Holy Father has yet to non reply.


My comments are late because I only stumbled onto this ill conceived and poorly executed piece by accident.

Call me stupid if you like, but I don't see how you say the following: "This media-created narrative threatens and undermines the integrity of SARS, for example, to focus on its core mandate of revenue collection to enhance implementation of government programmes to the disadvantaged majority of this country."

How does media coverage threaten SARS integrity, if what the media does, is question SARS actions and the actions of its leader, and in-actions where action is critical? How does media coverage threaten or undermine SARS integrity to focus on its mandate? If SARS and Moyane's actions demonstrate that it is more important to play political games than to focus on its mandate, then by all means, I think, SOMEONE should focus on SARS' mandate and be commended for the public service they perform. So, thank you, to the media, for focussing on SARS' mandate!!!


Another empty comment from Doc, but with more partisanship than usual.


Peyton is no hero as far as most are concerned. He's just a clueless imbecile who's notorious for appearing in his Republican benefactor & all around scumbag's commercials for the inedible Papa John's Pizza ! I make a practice of never buying the products of right-wing contributors & supporters,nor anything produced in a Red State. Why bankroll those with whom you vehemently disagree,when you can enrich those who share your vision for a better America ? Join me in boycotting any & all products & services advertised on FOX News & all alt-right broadcasters in every type of media !!!


...as it says in the story.


“My job is to defend and enforce the law,”
Ha. Did anybody ask him why our governor is a dirty rat traitor for not supporting OUR President? Oh no, you all just fawned all over the guy, dintcha? Dintcha? Congratulate him for his efforts to fill America with millions of Muslims? Jaysus.


In all honesty,....what the heck is Barbarella?


your thoughts and prayers? how bout dial back the rhetoric... Dems.... blood on your hands


Re: "They react with emotion and ego."

That describes the Trumpster to a "T".

Project much?

If T-rump is "ruthless", he can just grab any Ruth he wants to ... by the pVussy. Apparently with impunity.


Your "third-world peasant" comment smacks of racism.


Big tax cut?  For who?


Where have all the DEMs/LIBs/Lefties/Fake News Believers gone to????  I thought they would all be making comments to defend their heroes, BHO and HRC????  WELL, IT TOOK A  WHILE BUT THE HAMMER HAS BEEN RAISED AND IT WILL BE FALLING SHORTLY, WHO WILL BE SMASHED WHEN IT FALLS????  There are so many crooks in these sandals, wow , it will take a while to sort it all out, wow!!!!


Didn't they teach you in school that proper names should be capitalized?


Such a perfect article Kalim.

What will KPMGupta do?


Chuck Orr joining Thompson in worship and praise for Theocracy over Democracy.


I used to think the mass ended with "Thanks Speedy God" which I understood to be a reference to the priest getting service over quickly.


The deal wasn't done until Trudeau approved it.

Of course, if rights were violated Trudeau will send the militant $10.5 million of our money.


What do you mean by "the real world".  Do any of us work in a virtual world?  Bullies are everywhere.  I agree, boss is not going to change, get a new job.


The U.S. Senate, under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has wasted time and confounded the nation on health care. Senate Republicans have tried to pass three plans over the past month, and is scheduled to try to create another through debate next week. McConnell’s efforts have been wasted, as have the back-and-forth protestations of President Donald Trump. “Thankfully, the nation has a plan in place that takes health care seriously — the Affordable Care Act.” https://www.justeditorial.com/editorial/2017/7/22/upgrade-health-plan-o


Just trying not to get my comment censored.


It stopped being comedy ages ago. Now it's just pure hatred. Shame on Colbert.


"Justine is an idiot" is no worse than "Harpo is an idiot," and it's not just conservatives who automatically dismiss news as fake if it disagrees with their world views.  I agree you can't discuss an issue if common ground can't be formed, but if it can be difficult to do this in a forum, it's hardly only the fault of conservatives.


I can't speak for everyone, but as a subsistence user, I donate every year to conservation efforts. Believe it or not, hunters, trappers, and mushers are capable of deeply caring about animals and the environment. They are not mutually exclusive. Just because you chose not to sit down and have a steak or wear fur mittens (which speaking from experience are way warmer than synthetic mittens), doesn't mean you get to sit down a take a big dump on people who do. Every time I catch a fish, I am grateful for it to be in my freezer. When my husband brought home his first reindeer, we skinned it and butchered it in the living room. I cried, but I was grateful because that reindeer fed us for months. Don't sit there and say that people who eat animals, watch the Iditarod, hunt, and trap don't care about animals. That is the biggest lie PETA tells.


Cuz crooked Connie gotta get paid das y smhhhhh


Way to go Trump, this is on you.  Maybe next time you'll think twice before you unilaterally decide to upend our local Chinese political and diplomatic  strategy (although it's unlikely he'll think even once). This could be the first move in preparing for a military move against Taiwan,  If nothing else you've ratcheted up the tension in the area.


Bad hair, poor dye job, ridiculous make up, a too long tie.......then there is a distinct need for a lobotomy. That's enough reasons for now.


Republicans have, and will continue to, resist EVERY effort at immigration reform.  It is THEIR constituency that benefits from illegal immigration.  Instead, they blame the immigrants, the Dreamers, Liberals, and anyone else they can think of.  Republicans are responsible for the immigration "mess" we have today.


The assessed value may drop, but the mill rate will rise.


Another significant factor delaying discharge: the funding process for home care, assisted living, or skilled facility care. Once a patient is ready to transition (or very close), many patients need to apply for specific insurance to cover that kind of care, which is not automatic under most plans. (Just because it was considered medically necessary by a multidisciplinary team doesn't mean it was covered... but your hospital stay? That's definitely decertified now, because the team is recommending transfer to a different level of care.) The state can take 30 days to review that application once all the materials are pulled together - and it essentially -always- takes 28-30 days.  Assisted living and skilled nursing applications aren't reviewed until that funding is in place as they are in no position to hold beds indefinitely.
This leads to a 2-4 week extension of hospital time on these stays, & it's not something anyone wants.


But shouldn't healthcare research be linked with better healthcare outcomes at which the US has been demonstrated to perform poorly? The US needs to balance innovation (that financially benefits healthcare corporations and the rich) and ensure that preventative medical care is accessible to all citizens regardless of income, race or sex.


You've just presented a list of outright lies.  "Bowing to foreign kings" upon meeting them  is a part of correct protocol when dealing with other nations.  But of course you wouldn't understand that, or the meaning of diplomacy.  Learning about all that stuff is boring for people like you. Nothing less than a big, loud, attention-getting magic  show led by an orange-tinted, blowsy, furiously tap-dancing, endlessly babbling,   mentally unhinged' short attention span egomaniac will do for you.  Sit back and enjoy the show.  Who knows, maybe Putrumpski will open with an exciting nuclear display!


Now, now, it's ok, smile, take a selfie and all will be well,  The Snowflakes will still vote for you.


A death of a person? The acts that ISIS commits against innocent women and children - sadists who rape and mutilate young girls after killing their families - these are not people - they are rabid dogs and should be dealt with accordingly.


Almost nobody working in retail gets more than 28 - 30 hours even now; ObamaCare settled that.   Maybe one leadworker per department gets 40 hours.


Pres. Clinton did it "en masse"......Pres. Bush (W) had it done by April.....most have replaced all or almost all by April......That is what the link says....It is March,

 Pres. Trump has done it "en masse" and a month early....he is following a 36 year pattern.

He is in a hurry, he has a lot to do....a big agenda, cleaning up 28 YEARS OF LIBERALISM!!!

Bush SR.....Clinton....Bush W....Obama...28 years of Liberalism !

For the record, I wish they Kept Ms. Loeffler....she did an awesome job and will be hard to replace, but that's politics.


Not sure what you mean by "real" Alaskans.  After reading many of the ADN's comments, I thought that real Alaskans liked to tell others what they should and should not be doing! Are you telling me that if I want to be "real" I need to read ADN's soon to be regular articles on guns & hunting and then tell others what they should and should not be doing?


Unions certainly sometimes help people have better wages. However in some cases those people don't deserve better wages. In the case of forestry work, none of them would have any wages at all if not for the forest products companies creating the jobs in the first place.


We have been over-producing teachers for decades, the number of these programs should be reduced and the funds redirected to other programs.


I love the CBC, but this is ridiculous. The PMO has already allocated them additional funds and now more?!?


Pinker could be totally right, and have considered all pertinent variables, and that would be great. I'm all for it. And if that proves the ultimate benignity of the Western powers' hegemonic influence over much of the globe, that will be so nice for everyone, and  my skeptical agnosticism will be washed away by the rising tide of peace. Until then, I may retain some uncertainties.

I'm not sure how one might prove the evolutionary significance of a trendline in real time. One may certainly hope, but history always seems to have another shoe to drop.


Well shucks, people...One can only wonder what happened to the high ideals of "moral theology" during the sordid Georgetown University slave sale; a sale that the Vatican approved by the way. (Which reminds me: Why hasn't the pope spoken out about this now-infamous incident? After all, isn't he a Jesuit? ) I await anyone's reply. 🐒.


The dog was not restrained by any visible thing, so I applaud the action of the shooter.  He may need more practice if it took more than 1 shot.


motley, you know how DA's interpret the law.  If one piece of glass from a broken vase struck an arm and any detectable mark was left or even if not just based on assertion, the charge would be made.  I laugh every time I read application of the kidnapping charges, with up to life sentences, for dude A holding a door closed for 3 minutes thereby preventing exit of dude B.  The kidnapping statues were not intended for such situations, but in the desperate effort to force that plea bargain, the statues are used.  There is no meaningful restraint on charges applied by the DA.  Even the sound of the vase breaking could construed as causing physical injury to the "victims" ears.


The assault of the loss prevention officer should be more of a concern than the felony.  Yup, bruddah went for the big time item and committed a felony but I still feel the assault is more serious.  This young man just ruined his life for a long time to come.  Please teach your children well.


who knew "open and transparent" really meant "we'll take anyone's money any way we can get it"


The problem has nothing to do with dogs; and the wimpy and ineffectual enforcement that is planned means that what tiny impact this ban might have had on the problem will be negated. Complete and total fail, City Council. Mark my words.


Mr. DeCuir - okay, a good point.  Allow me to raise some other perspectives:
a) Kung never silenced people; weighed in or judged colleague's works that impacted their careers and good names - so, one difference and stated reason for Weinandy hypocrisy
b) Kung is a well recognized, peer accepted, and acknowledged church theologian - Weinandy pales in comparison.  Kung has been in dialogue and has met with various popes and they have discussed theological interpretations (so, not sure your comparison works that well)
c) Kung and Benny were and are colleagues - IMO, Kung's criticisms were more from one colleague to another - version of a theology school debate
d) More difficult to describe but we always face the issue of what is valid, significant, and reasoned criticism and what, in some opinions, is just a version of whining.  Weinandy's letter comes across as an ideology - can you say the same about Kung's positions or criticisms?  In fact, some of what Kung stated


OMG isn't that the truth. The GOP are the worlds biggest hypocrites and those that follow them blindly are just plain ignorant and uneducated.


We kicked Mulroony out of Canada... you can have him but don't call him Canadian!  He took a lot of money from us.... he's something like Melania and Donald.... ME FIRST!


I believe Trump is operating with a Abundance of Caution, with reason. Not bigotry.


Oh? List one please.


I'm sure he'd prefer zerohedge or the The Rebel...too many flaky libruls at the NP.


Wake me when you're done...


Everybody in the world would fit on the Kenai. All 7 billion of us.


Maybe he grew up in a town where only the goal scorers got their name in the paper.  That is still my incentive not to pass at age 52.


Drinking has little do with it.
If I'm drunk as a skunk sitting on my lawn and the neighbour's off leash pit bull takes a bit out of my leg, the neighbor is legally and morally responsible. Period.
  Discrimination against women and intoxicated women is a hold over from the 18th Century days of the British Empire. It's completely undemocratic, unjust and unacceptable.
  But women need to join men in demanding the legal system be brought into the 21st Century, because low income men as well are by and large unable to obtain justice in a court of law.
  The poor live at the mercy of the rich and powerful. That's medieval.
   No lawyer = no justice. No justice and equal justice = no democracy. The justice system is medieval.
   I would readily and happily trade my right to vote for the right to have a lawyer represent me in a court of law on the various occasions when a piece of my life was wrongfully swindled away from me.


Alaskans refusing to fix & upgrade their vital infrastructure!! Say.. welcome to the lower '48.


You've never read Dr. Wakefield's paper, and I don't believe you've honestly watched this film either. You're a yellow journalist. Take the piss somewhere else.


I nominate drumpt for the "Ignoble Piece Prize". Qualifications include but are not limited to dishonorable, base, shameless, mean, low character, degraded, dishonorable, ignominious, contemptible, greedy, and corrupted.  Knowing the little-finger-man, a DT $699 "piece doll" would soon follow. Call now and receive a shock of DT's comb over for free! Stick pins and batteries included but steak knives dipped in cheap ketchup will do.


Good news......hillary will never be president. End of discussion


Actually, after the fact, I saw on the CNN story that it can sometimes be transmitted through water.  What a "Catch 22" as water is used to clean it off?


What? Drink coffee and listen to you drone on about your own intellectual and moral superiority?
No thanks.


To see right wing heads explode?


One problem --- I can't say "the" problem --- is that the Church stopped leading society several decades ago.  It made the decision to follow instead.  No Church is perfect, not even the one established by Christ Himself.  But no church came closer to reflecting the teachings of Christ.  (If you don't believe this, your claim to be Catholic is irrational.)  Given such a Church, it is absurd that it follow society, rather than the other way around.


The  US military acts based on the civilian goals and objectives of the Congress and the President.

 The melting of the Arctic has clearly opened up the 'Northwest Passage", increased Russia's territorial desires in the area, and has altered military planning in that regard.

No doubt many other effects will have to be responded to as well as detailed in the report put together by the source in your cite.  Their recommendations are consistent with many military principles and concerns.

It should be noted, however,  that the report by these retired Generals was funded by the "Energy Foundation".

"Our mission is to promote the transition to a sustainable energy future by advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy."

http://www.ef.org/about-us/

Hardly an unbiased source.


So the Chair has no impact on the committee?


Good! I was tired of financing the big shi**y! Welcome to the rest of Alaska, Anchorage!


The Scriptures tell us that His/Their name is Yahweh Yahweh Elohim.  Exodus 33:19 – “And He said, I will cause all My goodness to pass before your face.  And I will call out the name of Yahweh  before your face ...”   Exodus 34:6 – “And Yahweh passed by before his face and called out:  Yahweh Yahweh Elohim.”  Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel, Yahweh our Elohim is Yahweh echad.”  The word “echad” is plural, signifying more than one Yahweh.  Had only one Yahweh been meant, the word would have been “yachid” which is singular.
The first Yahweh is the Father, Yah Yahweh, whom we pray to as our Father, who art in heaven.  The second Yahweh is the Son, Yahshua Yahweh, also known as Yahshua Mashiyach, or Yahshua (Yah is salvation) the anointed/Jesus the Christ.  Elohim (Gods) is a uniplural noun (collective nouns are similar) which signifies unity in oneness.  This concept is the Jews "stone which causes offense".
Jesus said that only the heavenly Father knows when He (Jesus) will return.


How hard is it to pick up the phone and say, "911."  Is the proposed $2.5 million added to the current $7 million going toward the employees answering the 911 calls or is it going toward the EMT ambulance crews?


There needs to be a huge stamp tax for out of state and out of country speculators snatching up Hawaii property.

Hong Kong had to do it to cool the insane amount of mainland Chinese speculators driving the market into a rich mans playground.


Jesus chose (note the word "chose") to leave the John the Baptist group, because he came to the realization that to stand on the other side of the Jordan and shout critiques of the High Priesthood and the collaborating Jews was not the way to go.  He also chose not to lead an ascetic life, but a life he was criticized for because he mixed with sinners and wore soft clothes (such as sinners might wear).  One of the issues he would have to deal with was what should your attitude be towards foreigners, not Jews, not members of the Chosen People.  Here is recorded the decision he made. The Gospel writer records it because it is so important.  God's Kingdom is for all.  And thank God he came to that conclusion.  Where would we be without it?  Thomas Gumbleton has heard the Good News.  And he is repeating it for us.  Thank God Almighty.  Thank God.


I thought you lived in Montréal? We have thousands of triplexes with front doors that lead directly outside, to the street or an outdoor staircase.


Even though I am Republican I voted for Ms Clinton-
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Trump is a buffoon.
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but I am perplexed by your defense of Mr Trudeau-
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-nothing I cite is false
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-Mr Trump is indeed a fool - but I would wager that his IQ "trumps" the prime ministers


Just another smug, low end Canadian trying somehow make his cold over taxed life meaningful by thinking he is better than others.


The math on this deal does not add up. $25/hour vs $5/hour for 1,000 workers equals way more than $7 million?  The don promised something else; let's see if Carrier gets a big government contract!


that would mean playing hockey, going to work, getting food, hunting, and other activities that have been practiced for 10,000 years in the cold are precluded?  You speak as a spoiled urban dueler.


Not only am I willing to listen, I have actively sought support for "what is reported". I spent a good part of yesterday searching for an instance in which a bishop advocated a candidate by name without success.

To this point what I have found is that bishops and priests have pointed to Church teachings, particularly on abortion, and individuals have taken that to mean that they could not vote for their favored candidate because that individual supported abortion, supported the government paying for abortions, and was foursquare for overriding our long tradition of respecting earnest religious beliefs.


Women should be do their traditional jobs of Wife, Mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, home maker etc.
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That would be the first step.


https://www.pressprogress.ca/here_are_canada_worst_conservative_tweets_of_2016

And it only seems to be going further howndill in 2017....


Part II. Almost from the beginning, city leaders tried to regulate public use of the mall with permits and fees required for organized activities. At times, the regulations escalated tensions between city government and citizens trying to enjoy the mall, although the city was not able to devise an effective method of resolving tensions. Social activism had existed in Eugene prior to the mall's opening. People angry about the Vietnam War gathered on the mall. The mall was an ongoing location for counter-cultural activity and retail customers experienced unhappiness at the widening generation gap. When Springfield Creamery owner Chuck Kesey, brother of author Ken Kesey, brought the Grateful Dead to the Oregon Renaissance Faire to play a benefit concert for the creamery in 1972, to some the Eugene Mall seemed like a good waiting room for the next concert. That concert did not occur until 1982.
(Wiki summary)
And so it goes.......


No a person serves  best when they realize that they are a child of God and yet deserve nothing at all.  Service is greatest when humility and gratitude try to out do the other.

You've bought the 1960s style self esteem mumbo jumbo


We spend - what was it last time I checked? $12k? $16k per head?! - way too much per-head on government schools (aka "public school") already!
I do NOT want to hear that education needs more money (in this case, to provide higher salaries to teachers). Don't care. Sure, I agree teachers need to be paid more. but NOT at my tax increase expense. They ALREADY get 12-16k per pupil. They need to figure out how to better use that money to pay teachers more. Even if it means cutting the NON-teaching fat out of the beast.
Enuff of my money down the tubes. Get rid of all that consultancy, admin, execs. Pay teachers more with what's left.


everyone one knows grady is bankrupt moron


Ha, ha, ha.  Two hundred dollars worth of merchandise and $600,000 in court and incarceration costs.  Aren't we a logical society?


Check out AAA Premiere. Covers RV tows also. Should cover both Dalton and the Taylor. Call 'em.


Trump adviser Steve Bannon profited from a business relationship with Weinstein before he slammed Democrats for taking donations from the movie mogul.

I don't hear Strada bad-mouthing the Nazi for taking money from Weinstein.


So are you guys going to retire then and sell your business too.


Just like abortion and gay marriage, President Obama's views had to "evolve."


More fake news that as absolutely no proof provided.


The thing about this multi-year rigorous study funded by the NIH/NIEHS/EPA is that it validated dozens of human studies and hundreds of laboratory studies that all found that prenatal exposure to fluoride even in extremely low doses consistent with 'optimal fluoridation' result in subtle brain damage when the exposure is prenatal. (Bashash et al. 2017)

Another neurotoxicity study (Malin & Till 2015) suggests that prenatal and/or youthful exposure to fluoride even if water concentrations are 'optimal' results in more learning disabled 11 year olds.

Don't think you can just drink bottled water while pregnant and while your kids are little. Every food prepared with or gown with fluoridated water has absorbed fluoride. It's very simple - DO NOT ADD POISON TO WATER! That's even a law, but one that is ignored when it comes to fluoride because of the politicking.


My comment about modern government surveillance techniques was a general one. No one can deny that government's today can and do use mass surveillance techniques on the public. And the government does everything it can to conceal those activities.

Within that greater surveillance regime we have the government employing secretive methods to investigate alleged crimes. But whereas the government can do almost anything it pleases with mass surveillance- because it doesn't need judicial review- it must reveal its methods in a criminal trial. If it doesn't, then the evidence can't be tested for its accuracy and legality. And evidence that can't be tested by council is virtually worthless in court.

Having a judge's approval to wire-tap a phone doesn't prove that all the evidence submitted was gathered lawfully. Each piece of evidence is subject to careful examination in court.


Each day more and more Republicans declare they do not support, and will not vote for, Mr. Trump.  They're trying to save the GOP and, with Trump as the Republican Presidential Candidate, that won't be easy.

 Please don't be so presumptuous as to claim that Trump supports are "We The People"...We The People are, in fact, all Americans....those who support Mr. Trump, those who support Ms Clinton, those who support Mr. Johnson, those who support none of the three. ...We're all "The People".  You remind me of the Dallas Cowboys years ago claiming they were "America's Team." .....didn't go over very big.  regards from Gary Crum (just one person among "We The People")


This is a full hate-on against the Canadian government for giving any compensation to former child soldier Omar Khadr, let alone $10 million. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation already has collected 52,000 names on a petition to force the Trudeau government to withdraw its offer. Never mind that the CTF is in reality a partisan organization that acts in knee-jerk support of the electoral and policy objectives of the Conservative Party of Canada,
Only someone who has never read the Supreme Court of Canada decision on Khadr’s treatment by Canadian authorities could sign such a petition. Only someone who has never read Romeo Dallaire’s book about child soldiers — They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children — could post the kind of venom being written. These are people who no longer know what truth is — or worse, don’t care to know.


Hello Moderator or anyone

What is the meaning of the colour balls next to the names of the commenters?


Yes, and it's also foolish to think the Media could have any effect whatsoever...#MAGA


Trump is not looking at Canada. His spokespeople had stated that we have the same/close-to labour costs as that of the US so the competitive advantage is minimal. However, team JT jumped the gun after the election and said they are open to re-examining NAFTA. In doing so, the incoming administration pretty much said, "...sure, but we were talking about Mexico but if you want to renegotiate then we'll add you in".
Good job team JT, you really messed that up and now it's going to cost us. Harper would have held his tongue and waited for Trump to see what their intentions truly were.


Lol - this is getting too funny: make a comment that challenges the holier than thou crowd and the comment gets removed. No vulgarity, no harassment, no threats, just stuff they don't like = removed.

Even the CBC comments board is starting to look good compared to this: the Communistic Comments Conditioning Police G&M board.


Harry,
Until Carol came into his selfish lonely life, Melvin behaved like a spoiled child who was only concerned about what others could do for him. Carol had one goal in mind, to do all she could to help her sick son get well. It is no wonder that she was repulsed by Melvin's obnoxious holier  than thou persona.
At first he was only concerned about her desperate situation because he wanted her to continue serving his  demands. Her distrust of his selfish motives eventually convinced him that she was truly a caring loving person who could not be bought off with money unless he radically changed. She made him feel like a "better  person" when ever he was around her.
Carol made Melvin a better person, you know like a good liberal tries to make selfish greedy conservatives less concerned about themselves and more concerned about others, similar to Jesus.


Sure don'y want anybody to think anyone posting here is a an accidental racist. Please keep pointing out comments you think are over the line. Appreciate your efforts.


Sure wish that our tribe would care enough to get a treatment program going. They had a chance to lease or buy a state building but went and bought land North of town but won't say what they are going to do with it.
They keep buying "lemons" such as old bank buildings and putting money into building they do not own and then lose the building.


"They only do that is they're losing money on those plans..."
Yet their overall profits are up.
"...so that everyone buys their plans on the open market like they do their auto insurance and homeowner insurance."
Prior to Obamacare, I was unable to buy insurance on the open market.


This article is tangential to the two issues that drive behavior.

First, most advisers and asset management companies have no edge.  So regardless of behavior, will fail to produce above market long term returns.  High costs just make the hill higher still.  Perhaps the 40% who say that senior management have no vision are really saying skill.  This is the 900 pound gorilla for the CFA Institute.

Second,  winning in markets is about managing complexity to create a series of moderately weighted bets.  Bets that win in the long run, but can look foolish in the short run.  Some of these bets come from strategies that move investors out of the realm of zero sum games. But, even the win-win games have losses for periods.  Investors, consultants and  journalists are reticent to let this statistical process runs its course.  Further employers continue to structure compensation in a "trader's option" manner that encourages big bets rather than the prudence of lots of small bets over time.


We should definitely have been requiring solar on commercial buildings for the past decade or so. The cost savings would have already been realized.


kag1982,  God's mercy is geared toward our salvation.  God is also just and holy.  His mercy cannot be used to an unjust end.  He is patient with us, wanting our salvation, giving us time to grow and HEAL, NOT remain in sin.  There is a war between the flesh and the spirit, the Gospels tell us.  Adultery is a sin of the flesh and no adulterer will enter the kingdom of heaven.


I can think of a few acts from the 80s (Depeche Mode, The Cure, Iron Maiden) right off the top of my head that still draw as big a crowd today and in the case of at least one of them draws in more young fans.


Lawyering up = getting a lawyer. Public Defender = lawyer (kinda)


It was discussed all over the media back in AUGUST when Hillary and her running mate both released ten years of tax returns for public perusal. You're late to the party, pumpkin.


But Kennedy was elected. Voters can apply a "religious test". The U.S. government can't.


Wow, for an unrepentant socialist, he makes some very good points. I for one am pleased at the withdrawal of Petronas. We probably need a plant in Alberta for refining tar, but definitely not in B.C. That's just vile.


Ever feel like we're living in a "House of Cards" episode?


Speaking of restricting yourself to topics that you have some knowledge of, I brought up the "most-watched" news, and cited television figures... not website visits. Website views are not counted the same as television views. None of the figures mentioned above include website views.
"RT.com doesn't appear on that list because it wasn't in the Top 50."
No. The click-bait "trendingtopmost" link is completely different than the news outlets in the Alexa top 50.
A few things to point, however, out about the Alexa-documented website views:
- HP, Guardian, and others websites appear more popular than BBC (despite BBC being the #1 most-watched news)
- RT is #335, not 350 (it was #279 three months ago. NYT, CNN, especially Foxnews, and others, are all on the decline)
- rank #335 (not 350) out of all websites in the world means that RT.com is receiving massive visitor numbers (globeandmail.com is #8,068,541)


Who will prosecute him?  Even assuming your 'legal opinion' is accurate.


How do you lose a leashed dog.
Or a supervised unleashed dog, 100' from the "trail"?
And then take 5 days, to find a the poor injured barking dog.
As a dog lover/owner, it sounds like the owner was irresponsible!


How? You get a job at least somewhat matching your skill set and....work. Hundreds of millions of people do it every day.


Actually, my team is the Dodgers.


alleged rapes as per rape kits doesn't prove rape is involved. That's why they didn't bother to process them. As for Doug taking on the legal wonks in DC, local yokels go far beyond their limited reach, where they play to the ruling local party big wigs, thinking they will get promoted to one of the choice on the payroll slots in return.


Redistricting is not a political question is bias is evident.  The current mix of redistricting decisions has been abused both ways.  Expect a new doctrine and expect it to be fairly unanimous.  Alito may dissent, but he may not.  Expect the core to be Bryer, Kennedy, Gorsuch and Thomas.

The Mr. Newt puts party before country is not news.  Nothing is happening now that did not happen among Nixophile in the early 70s.  The young people who came back from Viet Nam, wanted Nixon Now and have hated Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Kerry and Obama are having their last hurrah defending public thuggery.  The College Republican Club, graduates of Liberty and Ave Maria are promising partisanship over truth for the near future, with pro-life legal eagle Jay Sukalo defense attorney spin for Trump using terms even he can't believe.

Tip got negative ads to and used them as a badge of honor when fighting off the GOP. Nancy is protection against any foul constitutional amendment they may put forth.


Employers have been gaming this system for too long.  Anyone who employs low to medium wage workers needs to pay them for the hours they work.  The idea of putting employees on a salary and then making them work many extra hours without compensation should have gone out with the turn of the 20th century.  Now here we are in the 21st, and are busy rolling those protections back.  What's wrong with this picture?


Yeah the Israelis will be thrilled with the Saudi arms deal, and the tremendous security breach in talking to the Russians about Israel's ability to operate inside ISIS.


I am the Joe Miss Flowers is talking about. WHAT She needs to tell you more is how she responded to my information.. I wasn't mean to her, I just asked her to look into information that I have known for 25 years and she obviously has not known.Her reply to me was an F-BOMB. PERSONALLY, she should be repremanded for her actions, because if I dealt with the public like she did I would be fired. Her actions in no way represent a person in the media that represents professonialism. If a person thinks they know all about anything then they are a fool. She declined to even look at my information because if she did she wouldn't be writing this article, or for that matter if she agreed with me she wouldn't have a job. Much holocaust information has changed over the years. LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED THAT MOST STILL THINK IS TRUE AND IT IS NOT.
For example, Jews being made into soap, false, Jews being made into skin lampshades, false, the number 6 milion, false...I could go on and on.


The short debate went well. Good questions from Dr. Chad. A podium for him next to Yunji would have been more appropriate visually.


So then what is your solution to the poorest of the poor communities in the poorest states that still have homeless ? Do we strip them of their citizenship and ship them off to India or someplace they might be able to "afford" ?

When the USA signs deals like NAFTA and TPP and other corporate welfare give aways, it has impact on the people. Those are not in the general welfare of anyone except corporations. Move 3,000,000 call center jobs over to India because it is cheaper than to pay US minimum wage to someone that desperately needs a job. and you get exactly what we have now.


It happens. They are a loud minority that cannot stand free speech.


Did Chinese and Russian leaders show up in this report too ? They have billions stashed away. African leaders and other Asian countries no less.


The article is very superficial.  In case of Partition of Sudan, it was Muslim North versus Christian South.  What is now?


This is what I said
Why are obama people in the Trump administration. Trump should fire them like he did on his TV show. Is he afraid to fire them or what.


Did you think that up all by your little self!
What an intelligent comment, thank you for that.


Do you know how high operational costs are at Punahou, Iolani, and Maryknoll?  So many good teachers and faculty members are not being retained to lower their budget.  Just last year, Punahou didn't renew the contract of approximately 40 employees.  Why you might ask?  Their operating budget is just too high.  And with the lack of money to pay employees, I find it very hard to believe that they would allocate monies for girls volleyball at the expense of retaining quality workers.

The business place just doesn't work that way.  Can you please provide us with names of kids being recruited?  You do know that Punahou doesn't offer any athletic scholarships right?  They only offer needs based financial aid.


I bet the crew was mustered and told to put on their survival suits and no emergency responder crewmembers were all owed to enter the engine room but told to get into the liferafts... as she took on water flooding the engine engine the ship was sunk... you decide... the reputation of all concerned speaks louder than everything reported.


“sportsman-like”???? The guy goes up against a meat eating predator with a sharp stick and its not “sportsman-like” enough to suite YOU? You are a liar and a fraud James Dickey. You use “sportsman-like” conduct as a ruse to cover your Anti-Hunting bias. Look below at Roy Anthony, there you see honesty.


Union boss Joelle Hall is opposed to Prop 8?

(Joelle Hall is the Alaska AFL-CIO's Director of Operations)

That's pretty good evidence that YES on 8 is good for taxpayers

YES on 8!!


http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective

Australia, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany......sorry you did say just one. I guess I just got carried away.


A huge (damn, I can't even type that word with an orange blob floating before my eyes) part of the trumped up budget is anti-science. The toads hate science, hate critical thinking, hate evidence because it questions their 'beliefs.' Virginia, climate change is caused by anthropogenic factors...hundreds of year of releasing stored carbon. And while the apologists will point out that climate has always changed, what they miss is the rapidity of this change...it's killing species that are the keystone to whole ecosystems! But you are too blind to see and will slash budgets for those that do...your children and their children will hate your stupidity and the lost responsibility to open your eyes. But like the toad sitting under the board, you don't care...till it comes to get you.


Could_be_both._Of_course,_rising_up_through_the_bureaucracy_can_be_a_corrupting_process.


Mustafa Kemal was a towering figure, one of the most impressive leaders of the 20th Century. His over-riding goal, though it seems a little naive today, was complete independence:

" ...by complete independence, we mean of course complete economic, financial, juridical, military, cultural independence and freedom in all matters. Being deprived of independence in any of these is equivalent to the nation and country being deprived of all its independence."

Ataturk lived in a much simpler time. Complete independence in the matters he mentioned isn't possible for any nation today. And that is a good thing.


Once again  you admit you know nothing about the meat of predators, then act like an authority on something you know nothing about.


These people are free to chant whatever they want.  And we are free to judge their behaviour for what it is:  idiotic and juvenile.


When the government outlaws front end loaders, only outlaws will have front end loaders.


Hey Mike...say hello to your new president, Donald J. Trump !!

And white Catholics put him into office.  We know where we stood with Hillary and her left-wing anti-Catholic bigots.  And we weren't fooled, any more than liberal Jews were fooled in the 1930's into supporting Hitler because he favored national healthcare.


Has he admited that he lied?


Well he didn't land in the trees. Any successful landing is a good job.


And don't tell me this is fake news, I made it up myself so it must be true...
Я хочу, чтобы Америка завязлась в трясине вниз в разрушении при наличии ее церквей позволяться выразить политические мнения и взять миллиарды из далекого права.
Владимир Путин
Кроме того, Хью Массенджилл - абсолютный гений, который обнаружил мой секретный план преобладать на мире. Я приветствую его. Я вижу теперь, что США слишком сильны, чтобы быть возглавленными, таким образом я прекращу быть болью.
Vladimir
Hugh


agreed. But I suspect for very different reasons. Trump's rhetoric smacks of white nationalism and even neofascism and that ain't good. This system is rotten - but it isn't just the government that is the problem it's wholly unaccountable and out-of-control private corporate power that has worked to corrupt and control not only the economic but the political system - which explains Sanders' popularity. In the end - Trump will be great for corporate interests and horrible for the rest of us.


Perhaps because they're very expensive and highly salable animals?  Often, when Animal Control seizes animals, they also seize registration papers.  :(  The sale of ten registered French Bulldogs will provide adequate income for Oregon Humane to imports LOTS of dogs from Puerto Rico, Afghanistan and China.   :(
I'm curious, if the conditions the dogs were in are so bad, why there aren't pictures?


I have a new respect for her. I wish every woman would sue every drunken creep who feels entitled to put their hands on them, whether they are "famous" or not. I guess the women who run in trump's circles think it's okay, as he said, but self-respecting women don't.


Once Trump gets a 15% corporate tax these same premiers will be gathering to find a way from stopping the moving trucks leaving for the USA,these people are DELUSIONAL.


Well said Alf! That is so, what could those brave intellectuals have done for our country! We can just imagine what we could have achieved with them in leadership today. I do believe though, that there are still those who will lead us to a brighter future. We all together must just get out of the grip of rogues and grab and getters, who do not give a damn for the suffering poor in this country.


Why did you leave out the part that he was conscripted into the Einsatzgruppe D? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Oberlander

Isn't that the same excuse the Omar-huggers like to use too?


"The sale of such an notable B.C. landmark to a Chinese firm could spark controversy in an area of the country where the sale of real estate to foreign interests has prompted debate".

Wrong. It is not the sale of real estate to "foreign interests" that has prompted debate and backlash.

Instead, it is the sale to OVERSEAS MONEY of real estate that has led to backlash.

The two are not the same, and this paper ought to spell that out.

Look, OVERSEAS MONEY has been flooding into Vancouver from many sources, among them the investor immigrants through the now ended federal program, investor immigrants through the Quebec investor immigrant program, multi-year visa holders, student children of millionaires working overseas, and so on.

STOP calling all that "FOREIGN INTERESTS". To the contrary, many of those folks hold Canadian passports, the students even Canadian birth certificates.

Informed people see that OVERSEAS MONEY is key. Not foreigners. Not foreign interests.

OVERSEAS MONEY.


A defined contribution plan also empowers you to draw down the money as you see fit.  Some of us fear a financially strapped senescence; others would prefer to spend the money while they are healthy enough to enjoy it.  A DC plan gives that freedom.

My mother was on a DC plan, and her partner was a middle manager in the federal government, with, of course, defined benefits.  She was able to retire early and was comparitively wealthy thanks to a shrewd investment advisor -- much better off than her partner, who worked longer for less money.

Her plan was certainly riskier -- but it paid off handsomely.  I have a DB plan and wish I was on DC, since I dislike not having a say in how "my" money is invested or disbursed.  I am very grateful to have a plan at all, mind you, I would just prefer to have more freedom.


And meanwhile at the behest of the 0.1%, successive federal governments have continued to stuff the country full of 300,000 new people every year, with no plan or thought for how this strains the public services we all rely on.


An invaluable opportunity for serious introspection is minimized every time a comment attempts to paint with broad strokes a picture of all Trump voters as alt right racists. The media fueled rise of extremism has provided a statistically insignificant yet increasingly fowl segment of America's demographic with an undeserved public stage, overshadowing many legitimate concerns that contributed far more to Trump's political success. While total rejection of racism's ugly message is not only warranted but demanded from all of us, unless we begin to really listen to ourselves, we are destined to propel into power simply another demigod of the disenfranchised.


Hitler was the end result of a democratic election. Force of arms prevailed.


I had to laugh at THAT one. It's an Island, in the middle of a very, very big Ocean. Who knew?

Why does he constantly repeat phrases twice? Is that some crazy kinda tell?


While perched upon a gilded throne
In the bathroom of his home
He tweets out thoughtless early morning groans
Erratic script he'll forever own... and we'll perpetually bemoan.


AK: Yes, I am aware.  However, they way I am expressing this, classified information are "secrets" while classified information communicated to another is "confidential" information.  It wasn't a secret that the US (or Trump in case any  orange people still confuse the two) created or developed.  In other words it wasn't Trump's secret he was obligated to not disclose.  It was another nation's secret.  It would be bad to one degree if Trump had let Russia in on a secret that the US "owned" but its bad to additional degrees that Trump let Russia in on a secret "owned" by another nation.
Think of it like having your doctor or lawyer giving out personal information you provided in the strictest confidence.  It would be bad if you let it out but it is worse when your doctor or lawyer lets it out.


I would like to correct one of the many false statements in this article:

"continuing to burn fossil fuels brings chronic and severe atmospheric warming."

There is absolutely no proof of this - just computer models that have failed time after time to make accurate predictions.


Two world leaders - two different approaches.
May of the UK flattering Trump. Nieto of Mexico cancelling a trip to the US.
Both extremes could well be foolhardy.
What will work?
Supporting democratic opposition in the US through a polite but strong resistance to supporting crazy Trump schemes.
Chretien did not support the Iraq war and Canada suffered few consequences.
Trudeau cannot sign on to any crazy Trump schemes. He need not disparage him in public though.
Clark is a politician and politicians are supposed to be political - not blurt out the first thing that comes to her mind. In doing that, she is acting like Trump.


I hope that our friends in Quebec can survive this disaster with the minimum loss of property and disruption.


If you don’t see something wrong with that then your a fucking idiot. misandry Shouldn’t be any more tolerated then misogyny...


It's hard to say what's "civilized", though.  Is civilized our inner city of Chicago, with its seemingly daily murders?  Or our jails with lax laws that provide a place for criminals to expand their resources for future crimes?  Or our guards and sometimes police who brutalize the convicted and even the innocent?  Or our sweet talk of fighting for freedom yet killing hundreds of thousands in other countries who don't even attack us?

This is one incident.  It's likely their jails are hell.  But, could be their streets are much safer than ours.  And, in no way am I justifying how their government behaves, at least what we can see.  It's a dictator regime, but that doesn't mean every person in that country ends up on some torture table.

This wasn't cool at all...but then again going there and starting to poke at their government wasn't exactly the smartest choice, either.


sanctuary for what and who.....  If people are here illegally, they must leave and go through proper channels.  No society can survive without consistent laws that provide stability and security.  those advocating for sanctuary zones dont understand this and think they are above the law.  I say, cut ALL federal funding for these institutions including cities.....


LIES. OBAMAS ADMIN HAVE RAISED THE MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE AMOUNT


That would only happen if we gave the Church the option. If we form our own communities, we can use priests as altar servers.


Housing  needs to be treated as an public health issue it is. As the article states there is not a shortage of housing but a reluctance of those  who own and reluctant to do so. Studies also show providing housing first helps provide a stable foundation in which additional issues can there be solved.These are LOCAL issues, to provide man with a fish when is hungry is VITAL to TEACH him to fish is everything. We have the talent and the awareness to do so.


What loss is that?


There is no objective standard for music. It's a matter of personal taste. I have no problem with incorporating different expressions of music into the liturgy, and I believe it's important to preserve the musical heritage of the Church.

I'm just not fond of liturgical snobbery, and sometimes the criticisms of traditionalists verge on that.


What is, he lied on purpose.

I'll take "Trolling" for 200 Jack.


So when you go bankrupt in Canada, it's CCAA. What is it called when a county goes bankrupt??


Wish Obama would show more anger at USUS than He dies at Trump.  His legacy will be leaving Iraq too soon and creating Isis.  That is what happens when a community organizer is elected Prrsident.  Poll today show 49% of people think Obama made America less safe vs 4ore safe


It's telling that relatively moderate Republicans like Michael Gerson and George Will, and even hard rightwingers like Glen Beck, reject Trump.  Even Utah Mormons reject Trump.  History will revere them, unlike Chris Christie, Rudi Guiliani, Paul LePage and the like.


Maybe the "dismal" graduation rate is one of the beneficiaries of PERS.


I see you're still working on your capitalization and punctuation problems.  Keep trying.


So,  based on the few comments submitted so far, here we  see many  baby boomers doing what all generations have done... "their music" was better than this "modern new fangled stuff".  Broaden your horizons!  Drake is a huge talent and deserves this recognition.

I might add that Celine's was a simply magnificent rendition.   And, being 60 years old myself, it was my favourite performance of the night.

But make no mistake,  there is a huge amount of fantastic music out there today, and much of it is bypassed by major media.  The Indie and Alternative streams are full of great music  closer to the stuff of the 60s.   So you might want to try some of that... it sometimes fuses hop hop and rap into more melodious sounds, and could serve as a segue to greater appreciation for today's mainstream.  Of course, there is a lot of garbage out there too... as there was during the 1960s and 1970s...


Money talks, BS walks. If he was any good as a starting QB, teams would be tripping over themselves to sign him !


My only consolation is that I live in the deep blue state of Massachusetts where Hillary Clinton won with 61 percent of the vote.  All of our congress people are democrats and they were all re-elected with big margins.  All of our ballot questions results were liberal.  I have seen my share of stereotypical Trump supporters, an I am praying they do not infiltrate our state.  Cardinal O'Malley and his merry band may have achieved their national goal, but their flock here in MA is not with them politically by a longshot.  If abortion rights came to a vote here, in one of the most Catholic states, it would pass.  The assisted suicide bill failed a few years ago because it was too broad.  I voted for it but I wanted it to be stricter, so I hope the next time it is a referendum that it will be severely restricted to cases where death is imminent within a few weeks.


I have to wonder how many people responding actually hike off trail in the Tongass? There is some acute ignorance on display. Old growth takes over 250 years to replenish and what comes back isn't the same. That means we're not seeing the very first clearcuts replenished yet and wont for a while let alone that cut in the last 50 years!

Second growth is choked and no fun to navigate. Old growth is park like and wonderful to travel through.

The fact is that there are no timber jobs in the Tongass that rely on clearcutting, aside from exporters. The mills are a joke and a sacred cow myth maintained to allow continued logging (all the companies profits come from exporting raw timber not from milled product sales). The loggers are from the lesser 48. And the roads get built then closed, entirely built with federal dollars. It is all a huge destructive scam


Have we even gotten past the who can be included, who's out, who's in. Gotta set the rules before you can play the game, or, do you not understand how our screwed legal system works?


Haha. I do know that Shelby Steele is black. And I have read your comments lo these many years. And you do possess, shall we say, intellectual ardor for the racist Trump. Therefore...


I think it is more precise to say we have an allergy to resource development done traditionally - where the government incentivises multinational companies like crazy with tax and royalty breaks even as myriad social and environmental impacts are isolated from the project as externalities - thereby disenfranchising the locals as it is they who unavoidably pay those costs, generally with limited to non-existent compensation or acknowledgement. It is about time we developed that allergy- we need a better way of doing things and one that includes spreading the wealth and the costs more effectively, not one that continues enriching those who already have more than they need- or in many cases  deserve. Even the US electorate has declared support for that- just in case you have not been paying attention.


Well that explains a lot.


The same report which says that Mat-Su gained jobs also says that Mat-Su's unemployment rate increased.   Presumably that's because the population is increasing faster than the jobs.


Congress, etc., lords over us.


Are you the one on MedicAid or Medicare?  Are you the one on the scooter?
Why should we go to a failed system?


Agreed - For a while Nylander didn't seem to  compete hard all the time.... but Babcock seems to be reaching him now. He has lots of talent that isn't easy to come by.  But he needs to be good without the puck all the time.  The last couple of games he has been. - With the puck he's special....Maybe he'll be a centre after all


Well, Clearthinker. I wasn't aware that gays can force people to give them baked goods for free...


Isn't it really a three state solution? Jordan is about 75% Palestinian heritage and Jews are not  to live there so with a Palestinian state in the West Bank with no Jews there will be two Palestinian states.


But the statute you proposed didn't punish men who father children and then abandon them.  It punished men "for having an orgasm that resulted in a child they didn't want."  You didn't really mean that, did you?  Of course, not.  But it sure made an impression on one of your lesser colleagues here, 12thBlight.


Then if Obama deserves credit for the success of the markets, so does Trump.   And if the markets indicate how America feels about the administration, then that applies to this administration too.


You did not mention Mr. G. Soros ...... check it out, he plays a major role world wide in the "Refugee - Game " with his foundation, yes it is a game played where the major player - behind the scene off course - make big money with this industry.  Very sad, very evil.  I still remember, when the refugees flooded Germany and the population got restless, Mr. Draghi ex-Goldman Sachs and now in charge of the European Central Bank said .... people should see the business opportunity with the refugees ...


I heard Illya Kuryakin say, c. 1967, "No man is free who works for a living." :)
I would agree.  In itself, the Gospel is not ideology.  I'm curious about how you mean "different"; competing, complimentary, divergent, insoluble, or something else.  Thanks.


"Without Donald Trump’s promise to cut taxes, the Liberal government would have continued its campaign to extract more tax revenue from higher income Canadians."

Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Brian Mulroney - Three Rich Amigos.


"Canada’s pension funds, those paragons of risk aversion."

???

Ok maybe there was some truth to that decades ago, but Canada's major public sector pension funds are HARDLY risk-averse in recent years!  Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan and Caisse de Depot et Placement in particular have been extremely aggressive in their investments and risk-taking.

They have also been reasonable activist-investors for some time, though arguably not quite as much as some of the big private equity funds.  However since the private sector equity funds have shown little interest in touching Bombardier with a 10-foot pole it shouldn't be too big of a surprise that it was the public sector pension funds that stepped up to demand change.


While I employed these kids I ran into the dilemma that my 14 and 15 year old kids couldn't cut up a banana for my store's "banana split" product. A simple kitchen knife they had used at home for years was off limits under the law at my ice cream shop. The kids thought it was ridiculous and in a way it was, but how do you write a law that protects kids from having to use a sharp knife to peel potatoes over and over constantly all day at work, where the risk of injury is quite high, and still LET them use a knife in a low risk environment like my little ice cream shop?  I had a 15 year old employee that begged me to let him use the little knife, days before he turned 16. I had to say no because it was illegal and a few days later when he turned 16 and could finally use that knife he picked it up and looked at me and said "Oh yeah cause I'm so much safer and mature NOW!"


Nice work Mollie!


Oh, please !

The G&M wouldn't even recognize many of these people as Canadian before Trump got elected.

The Thomsons' silliness continues....


As a Marine 6234, the A6-A is close to my heart. It was my whole career in the Marines. One hellava aircraft. VMA(AW)533 was a hellava Intruder Squadron. Semper Fi, go Nighthawks.


Ted Stevens fought for Alaska and in the end he was screwed by the FBI and U.S. Government. Stevens remained a class act to the end.


That's pretty rich, a democrat talking about a do nothing Congress.
They are all part of the problem.


OK--I see where you are coming from.  Thanks.


Not as big a pile of crap as tRump and the highjacked Republican Party.


The M2 was the subject of this article? Who would have known?


Obama who?  love it.


You said it, nobody.


"The age of consent for sexual activity is 16 years. It was raised from 14 years on May 1, 2008 by the Tackling Violent Crime Act. However, the age of consent is 18 years where the sexual activity "exploits" the young person when it involves prostitution, pornography or occurs in a relationship of authority, trust or dependency"

Although it will be argued that his acts were not criminal, and therefore he should be allowed to remain in the Senate, clearly lines were crossed and his judgement and the privilege of sitting in the Senate should both be called into question not only by the public but by his peers.

Increasingly we are seeing just how far the ethical and moral boundaries of the privileged and powerful can stretch before breaking. I wonder how exactly Senator Meredith looks in the mirror everyday without getting woozy.


Beautifully reasoned and written!


I never dreamed this could happen to my country; my heart is breaking!     I have been a Republican political activist and officer for decades, as was my mother and grandmother; this nation is a working miracle.

I never knew of the level of insane hatred that was developing in the Democrat party.    I never knew that "Americans" would take money from a vile anti-American like George Soros to cause chaos!     I never knew that the Leftists were capable of this level of unfair,  irrational activity, or that they would sacrifice national security for revenge.


"...secret donation meetings with ultra-rich Chinese followed by selling out your allies to curry favor with the same people in the sale of hi-tech companies,.."
.
.
A variation of this very topic, and criminal investigations of politicians are top news items in New Zealand and Australia.

When will they be fully investigated in Canada?

The hemming and hawing as well as the abject inconsistencies and falsehoods surrounding the sale of the high-tech communications company in Vancouver to a Chinese entity that has been stopped from similar purchases in the UK is both shameful, and in need of a criminal investigation.


A fantastic rescue ! This story is interesting because it answers for me why some people climb mountains, placing themselves at great risk. I have always wondered why and what they felt after doing so. I have wondered as well, what people who have had such a close encounter with death think and feel after they survive. It will be interesting to know (a follow up) what Takac will do with his new chance at life. Will he continue to climb ? Will he return to Alaska at some point ? What of his personal life, did he makes changes there ?
As a trauma surgeon, he must have saved many lives himself and perhaps it is because of that, that the fates deemed him one who needed to continue live, his work is not over, he can save more lives.
Dermit Cole should have found out more about Takac's health insurance because it must be pretty good to pay for a medical escort and flying in Business Class too ! Something that could be included into the Republican's health insurance plan.


Stay on subject.   You wanted a source quoting where keolu got a cost of $10 billion from.   I gave you 2 sources.   Just admit  you lost, and  stop trying to change the subject.  But it seems like since you can't handle being wrong, you just make up more nonsense but while doing it,  you get off subject.   You asked for a source,  you were given one.   Maybe you should do the same too.


I have an original blue ticket, it is stamped accomplished, although it didn't accomplish much.  it was mostly used to send anybody that was deemed unsavory or a burden on the community away.  It required a written agreement never to return to Alaska.  It was deemed illegal by the courts may years ago.   it sure seems to be a classic republican treatment of a problem.  Sweep it out of the way and forget how it all started.


In six months we will probably have a new president.  Poor Donald, he is way over his head.  Give it up Donald and just release your taxes so that we can all see what a fraud you are.


Fat ass, go eat another do-nut.


They need three relievers and they need to dfa cargo, he is killing the team. Bring up dahl


I remember those days Mike Daigle, and I agree with your assessment as to what TV has become for many of us. Like moths attracted to a flame, regardless of what's on, we're mesmerized by the shapes and sounds emanating from The Tube.