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Got the headline wrong; we all know who has been paying all along, and who will pay in the end: Canadian taxpayers. The "contract" was based on circumstances that the government has changed by force majure; it is no longer viable and even at its most rosy potential outcome was only a "kick the can down the road" exercise. If it goes to court don't assume that the government will win. Churchill has always been an expensive pipe-dream justified on extending Canadian sovereignty. Either is reverts to the isolated fly-in outpost it really is or whatever is done to sustain it will need the weight of federal government policy to encourage its use as a port, and whopping great transportation subsidy to make this practical. The engineering and financial challenges of maintaining rail (or road) bed across sub-arctic pre-cambreian shield are now well quantified. If this is going to continue it is time for the government to be honest about who has to make the decision, and pay or it.

...at a celebratory signing ,really?...

A museum

Rik . 1. Sure, water from your tap is your personal water. However, fluoridation substances are not added to water after it reaches your tap. They are added to the public water supply from which your tap water is sourced. If you don’t like the content of the water of that supply, you are entirely free to obtain your personal water from a source more to your personal preferences. . 2. Yes, antifluoridationists consider facts, evidence, and peer-reviewed science, to be “propaganda.” That’s precisely why you all remain so woefully uninformed on this issue. . 3. The majority of the small percentage of registered voters who chose to vote is not, by any means, a majority of the citizens of your community. Your civic leaders must consider the best interests of all citizens, not simply the desires of a small group of noisy activists. to be continued..... Steven D. Slott, DDS Communications Officer American Fluoridation Society

Good for Trudeau. It shouldn't be a trade deal at any cost as it was under Harper, no matter how much Ibbitson might want to paint it that way.

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This approach has been tested. It has failed. If you educate yourself on such initiatives and take an evidence based approach, you will come to a different conclusion.

Churchill has been a black hole for decades. Even if $43 Million is spent to repair tracks, the line will continue to work at a lose and the tracks will get flooded out again. Time to get on the plane and move south.

Sounds a lot like what was said about Coderre, a white man, in Montreal, and the reason he lost the election...to a woman!

In fairness to Trudeau, he's in tough here. His gov't has bungled NAFTA by cozying up to mexico then demanding the addition of externalities like gender equality and indigenous issues, not to mention maintenance of Canada's communist era dairy supply supply management system. The Americans were heard to have collectively rolled their eyes, once the guffaws of laughter stopped. There are no files on which this government is a success. From electoral reform to tax policy, Liberal ethics, cash-for-access, NAFTA/TPP, energy policy, deficits, no infrastructure projects and defence procurement they have done nothing well. Even Canada's much vaunted GDP growth is largely attributable to resurgent oil/gas, big city real estate and US economic strength. Even with that our exports have fallen four months in a row. It's a shame the PM's chair in the house of commons doesn't come with a built-in pair of big boy pants.

Mean and Average don't define middle class. You can have 9 people making $1 and 1 person making $1000. The mean & Average of that isn't showing that 9 of those people are still poor, while they are. In the Denver Metro area, a "Starter" home is defined now at 300k. To afford that you need 100k income. Upper Middle class is not a starter home.

Now that's what would can call, pretzel logic. AKA, straw man argument. She also didn't mention the cost of an AR-15.

So sad to see the results of allowing unqualified people supervise our most precious commodity, our kids!

Have you also tried to visit other canals like the White Sea Canal, all built by slave labor ?

Scheer needs to back his party's message up to 2011 when it courted the immigrant vote and got it. That might be hard to do, now.

"She looked fifteen!" : Jerry Lee Lewis

That is an age old argument, the other side of it being "You throw the ball to open up the run". Of course the truth is somewhere in between. We ran well the first few weeks and also had an effective passing game too. If teams don't respect your QBs ability to sling it then they just load the box because there is minimal risk of getting burned deep. You cant run against 8 man fronts and that's all we're going to get until one of these QBs gives teams a reason to do otherwise.

The Canadian Establishment, as you know, has turned Canada into the first multicultural post-national state. Sovereignty, democracy, equality, prosperity of the lower classes don't matter. It's all about maximizing profits for the global 1%. Further, the Establishment is under attack from Trump and his administration, as well as from various other bases, left and right, not benefiting from multiculturalism. The Establishment scapegoats Trump, social media, and North Americans complaining about being left behind by globalism. It's essentially a class war waged by the upper middle class media and gold collar professionals against the lower classes, who don't vote anyways. Afraid all these years to speak out against tsunamis of immigration, Canadians are finally objecting. Nenshi is, of course, the Establishment pushing back against the push back.

@Dante1969 >>...But hey what do I know. . Obviously not much.

A wise person wrote many years ago that you can’t legislate common sense, I think that applies here. As a driver I tend to regard all pedestrians as potential suicides, as a pedestrian I regard all drivers as homicidal maniacs. But in all seriousness drivers do need to slow down in city traffic, try driving at the posted limit and you’ll see what I mean, everyone is at least 10kph faster than they should be.

...swear I just saw the Donald ,standing next to Putin for the leaders pic😉

Why is this called a 'Wine Review' when this is a fine scotch? My personal favorite Macallan is the 15 year old Cask Strength. Had many wonderful times enjoying this with my best friend playing some awful chess.

Agreed. The CBC has a similarly misleading headline but the story tells the truth. TPP is in trouble.

Maybe this will start to help us get rid of the "Ugly American" tag.......=)

That's not in dispute... At least this time you didn't answer your own questions.

LW1: Just curious--does it bother you that your husband is "being himself" all over Facebook, or that who he's being on Facebook *is who he is*? There is a difference, and the latter would bother me a lot more. LW2: So . . . did you mean those condolences you sent, or were they obligatory? You "sent cards", which doesn't automatically translate into "we felt terrible and sent personalized, heartfelt, sympathies". And, frankly, people grow apart, and blood relation doesn't mean you're close. One of my cousins once spelled my name wrong on a Facebook PM. You know, when my actual name was literally right next to the text he typed. LW3: You're wrong. Let it go.

Leaving a sinking ship...

Same here. I am saddened by each event but not sympathetic. We should of course make sure that this cultural aberration is not exported to our country. I now avoid travelling to the US and only go there when obliged to for work. They seem happier when isolated. Eventually I hope that they will learn that tolerating the slaughter of innocents is not the ‘price of freedom’.

The Kealoha PIGS are continuing to RIP-OFF the locals with smiles on their faces. They are starting to fall apart and soon will be holding someones 'lunch' in prison. Kat looks like a winner for OCCC girls. Sweet, very-very chubby and yummy.

Methinks distracted walking laws are merely (and wastefully) distraction from a government facing election.

Rik, cont...... 4. Your personal opinion on the best manner of prevention of dental disease is obviously unqualified and irrelevant. 5. Your childish rhetoric and personal attacks are typical of antifluoridationists and a large part of the reason that intelligent people accord you no credence or respect. Steven D. Slott, DDS Communications Officer American Fluoridation Society

Given the ease with which skilled operators use proxy servers, vpn and other methods of masking their actual location, I doubt very much that is the case. Anyone in the USA can use a Russian proxy and a person up to something nefarious will do that on the internet. So the question remains and Twitter (and Facebook) need to provide technically satisfactory answer.

Agreed, sadly the vast majority of people live in Big City metro areas. In the Denver Metro area, a "Starter" home is defined now at 300k. To afford that you need 100k income. Upper Middle class is not a starter home.

Improve the team even more... how has Sakic improved the team at all? In which areas are they markedly better now, than 4 years ago when he became GM?

TPP is nowhere near ready for signing.

I guess this is anticipation of later in life when America is over run with illegals.

If you've ever been in a jail Melee, you understand that, at best, it becomes survival of the fittest! Anyone that has supervised criminals knows that once they engage in "Pack" Behavior, abnormal tactics must be used to control their abhorrent behavior!

... or the persistent and paid-for harassment of professional fluoride industry shills like yourself. You admit that fluoride is not added to our personal water AFTER it leaves our tap, but it could be, or we could get all the fluoride you feel is necessary by simply using fluoride toothpaste, but your interest is in selling fluoride, so you ignore the greater good that would come from encouraging kids to practice proper brushing and flossing, and eliminating sugar from their diet. You only care about the $.

Like the Paradise Papers, Morneau's hidden business dealings, the illegal cash-for access fundraisers, illegal helicopter rides, and all his other ethics breaches/conflict of interest issues he's satisfied with himself for being a complete embarrassment and incompetent fool. This entire government is nothing but a bunch of bungling clowns that can't do anything correctly without it exploding in their face.

If I was in the market for an all wheel drive sedan the Acura TLX would turn my crank! The others in this list I would pass on. The Caddy no thanks. The MB 208 horsepower from a turbo 2.0L (what year is this 1985?) The Volvo has the best safety features but the styling kind of hurts the eyes.

Not forgetting his mob shot down a Viscount, murdering all on board - now that's contributing to aviation!

This location is too good to be Detroit 2.0. The population is only going to increase, especially as sea levels rise and east coast/southern weather continues to become even more miserably hot.

So just to be clear, we are most likely talking about kids with a disability, diagnosed mental health issue, or very high ACE (trauma) score. They are again most likely to be on an IFSP or IEP, a legal document outlining special education needs and services which often includes a very specific behavior plan. The schools can not legally disipline a child with suspension/expulsion for behavior that is the direct result of a disability. The root issue here then, is inclusive education. Do kids with "behavior issues" need to be removed and placed in an isolated learning environment or included as much as possible in the hopes that they will learn how to behave around their peers. The teachers here seem to be lobbying the school district for more segregated learning environments. I'd like to see actual data on the increase in incidents, not just the anecdote from one person, and a breakdown of the IDEA laws that requires mainstreaming these kids as much as possible in an updated article.

"insulting personal attack, full of stereotyping", Exactly, the type of language supposed to get censored as "uncivil", but only gets deleted when it comes from "the other side"....

If I had half of the infractions that he has at my current job...I would have been gone after the 2nd one.

So which country does have the second biggest economy after Japan, Vietnam?

True. Since we are reading the DP (I know original is WP) and I live in Denver, my comment is directed at Denver area. That being said, not a chance in heck 100k is upper middle in the Denver area.

Neo-liberal group think. Multilateral trade deals are a root cause cause of the rise of the 1%, offshoring of manufacturing to sweatshop nations in Asia, and the eroding of the employment base in Western nations. Ditching the TPP is the one good thing Trump has done.

That's because the anti-gun lobby is not primarily motivated by public safety. It's an ideological pursuit mainly based around fear and control. Gun control is just a euphemism for gun ban or gun removal. The end game of the anti-gun lobby is to assert their control over your freedom. The belief is that guns have no place in a civilized society. How many times have you heard this..."I don't see why anyone needs to own a gun".

This isn't normal by any stretch of the word. Send him packing.

TPP may be unworkable, but a 'no show'? Well, his dad did give people the finger so I suppose he comes by it naturally. True enough I may be getting a little testy with Trudeau but sopping him with kindness in the face of so much ineffectiveness as PM, that's too much. This is an insult to Asian leaders, a thumbing our noses in favour of the USA, with whom we are in peril of bungling our own trade agreement. From the Straits Times Newspaper in Singapore: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/talks-on-taking-trans-pacific-partnership-forward-put-off-amid-no-show-by-canada-at

Half true. But you don't know right from left. Nenshi isn't the left. Neither is the G & M or the NDP. "Centrist" or right-of-centre at best . The traditional distinction between left and right (workers vs. corporations) has been wiped out by the billionaire media conglomerates. The real divide in today's Canada is between upper classes and lower classes. And guess who's losing?

"let's hear the other side of the story..." I'm with you, slofstra. Man, it seems half the commenters on this page are practicing for the Olympics. You know, high jump, broad jump, everybody jumping to conclusions, the pile-on here threatens to be bigger than all the stuff about sexual harassment lately. Me, too! Me, too! Now, having said that, it might have been polite (Oh, how Canadians LOVE politeness!) to send a message ahead, saying, in effect, "The Canadian PM will not attend the meeting today, however, Canada will be represented by..." to avoid the PM looking "very rude" fronting an "amateur government" that is "doing a lousy job" yaddayaddayadda. On the other hand, not as effective politically as just...not showing up. At least now we know they shouldn't take Canada for granted. ("We're screwed"? Wow!) And the other pact hopefuls know it, too. Point made and taken, maybe. Now we're all attuned and waiting with bated breath. Politically, works, too!

Nothing too valuable...... hats, gloves, scarves ok perhaps but really coats? Considering most coats cost a few hundred dollars I don't think I would be writing a newspaper columnist for advice on how to proceed. The obvious answer is to either ask the teens directly if they borrowed a coat or hat on a cold day to go home. Or get your own kid to chase it down for you. making it clear that friend will be welcome back in my home when they show up with the item in hand. Odds are that there was no intent to steal, but kids being kids they have promptly forgot about the item the moment it was removed when they got home. Resulting in the other parent wondering where this hat came from?

Surprise surprise, conned-servatives are OK with a pedophile rapist. SHOCK AND AWE.

This wasn't 'Pack" behavior...it was 1 on 1...until the other 4 deputies entered the fray.

They will do alright as she can retire with a deputy prosecutor's pension. Together they will feed at the public trough!

Why would TPP supercede NAFTA exactly?

With 1,330,000,000 Rupees coverting to $20.33 CAN, the resources allocated by the Indian government to improve certain agricultural outcomes may not create much change.

Yes please do get us the stats to support your statement that Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Russia are bleeding cash as a result of lower oil prices. While there is no argument that these countries are experiencing economic stress, the actual profit from their oil sales is still positive. They are just spending poorly in other areas of their economy and haven't adjusted to the lower profit margins from oil. But bleeding cash????

Fake news.

Disappointed: You will always be disappointed going through life expecting your due. Display the character you wish others would share with you, and you'll have a better rate of return. It would be better to send no condolence than to write out a snarky thought.

This doesn't happen so your question is nonsensical. Any woman wearing the niqab/burka would be required to go into a private room with a female staff to confirm their identity before passing security. It has been so for years. Inform yourself.

Not a projection, if it's the truth. You are not reading a rebuttal or denial, are you?

And yet I suspect almost any other MLB team would take either of these imaginary HOFers in a heartbeat..

There is simply no excuse to be raising taxes on these folks (even if they are upper middle) at the same time we are cutting the estate tax and the carried interest loophole remains in effect among other giveaways aimed at the super rich. None.

Nuclear is far preferable to coal yes....no doubt about it. Having said that I look forward to moving beyond that as well. BrianTesla what do you think of Tesla's solar shingles...freakin' amazing if you ask me.....yet nary a peep on msm about them.

What MSW doesn't mention is the surge among younger voters who had been complacent last year. The shift was pronounced. This year they seemed to have sobered up from their youthful complacency, no doubt due to the Republicans' determination to get rid of their health care and/or the national emergency that is Donald Trump. Better late than never, I suppose, but the children did come through. As did the women. As one commentator speculated, "if Trump was the result of a backlash against the first black president, the election of Trump has produced a backlash among women." It was awfully nice to see all those women replace all those white men in the Virginia State House. Out with the old, in with the new. As for whether Democrats can replicate this in the rust belt, well, let's just see what happens when the cloak is finally pulled away from the Republicans' giveaway to the rich at the expense of the poor. Health care is saved but Republicans' attempts to gut it will not be forgotten.

The character limit does not begin to allow the excoriation of the evil Ziegler. So "there's noting illegal here"? Moore "never attempted sexual intercourse"? He and Ziegler had better stay out of New Jersey, where any "sexual conduct which would impair or debauch the morals of the child" is a crime. N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4. See also State v. Perez, 832 A.2d 303 (2003) (even child-luring is illegal, let alone unwanted touching of breasts and genitals). I somehow believe Alabama law is similar. And it's OK because "Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult". Who says? It's not in the Bible. And since when was Ms. Corfman betrothed to Moore? And it's OK because "Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth"? This liar-by-implication fails to mention that Zachariah and Elizabeth "both were advanced in years". Luke 1:7. Ziegler needs to be imprisoned for advocating, aiding and abetting child sexual abuse.

ohhh, that explains why I saw this guy calling himself "Big Daddy Justin T." during the exact time of the TPP meeting, in Grandtheft Auto 5 Online on the Playstation Network, and he wasn't driving or shooting or anything, just sitting in a strip-club smoking something that looked illegal in Canada. Until next July. Yup.

Except that the example given of "coded language" proved precisely the point that when one wants to interpret something as "coded racism", it is easy to find racists under every bed. Coderre lost his job as mayor of Montreal to a woman because he was considered "arrogant" and "too big for his britches". What code is that for in this case? That he is a white male? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Classic deflection there and blaming the MSM that defends the truth, MO. Yep, this story is VERY VERY newsworthy. Priorities. Mo and others that inhabit the DP comment threads fit the description of Russian Trolls: not confined to twitter, on going and right here, right now. Can you spot them? "AP’s analysis illuminates the obvious strategy behind the Russian cyber meddling: swiftly react, distort and distract attention from any negative Trump news." "refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton’s campaign" "Racial discord also figured prominently in the tweets" "“MSM (the mainstream media) is at it again with Billy Bush recording … What about telling Americans how Hillary defended a rapist and later laughed at his victim?” tweeted the America_1st’ account, which had 25,045 followers at its peak, according to metadata in the archive." http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/09/donald-trump-russia-twitter-trolls-deflected-bad-news/ Fight back, America.

This is simple. Responsibility and accountability are no longer with us. It is evident to those who pay attention , in all matters of life. I have been a car nut all my life but do understand the need for changing how we live, work , & play. Speeding in small towns is just as bad as the cities. As Michael Jackson said " The man in the mirror ".

Actually, there is historical evidence that Mary was an actual person. Whether you believe the qualities Christianity and Islam have attributed to her is up to you; however, she was real.

Liz What you personally claim to “know” does not represent what “we all know”. There is no “wear and tear” on water mains from fluoridated water. Fluoridation substances are gone before water leaves the treatment plant, and a minuscule amount of fluoride ions in fluoridated water do not cause “wear and tear” on anything. There is no “experimentation” involved in water fluoridation. Competent water treatment personnel are educated and trained in how to properly deal with the myriad substances routinely added to public water supplies. If you believe your local utility personnel to be incompetent you should address that with your civic leaders. Steven D. Slott, DDS Cimmunications Officer Anerican Fluoridation Society

Wow- it took over 35 years for these women to get upset...35 years of elections and judgeships...hmmmm. .I guess like Hillary says, drag a dollar around a trailer park and you'll never know what you come up with. I suspect there was more that just a "dollar" involved....let it be proved as truth. Judge Moore is a super threat because he stands for the Social Kingship of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Bolsheviks hate Christ ( their hatred is the reason they even exist) and their goal is to wipe the name of Christ and Christian Society off the map. Judge Moore is an existential threat of the greatest degree to the communists The left has exposed their evil hand again- very transparent.. All the more reason to vote for the Judge. "No weapon formed against {him} shall prosper".

Various factors, "...have caused the crisis, as they do every year." So, no big deal? Or maybe a big deal that it is more severe than other years (question not answered here), Or (gasp, choke!) bigger deal that it happens "every year"? It's kinda frustrating sometimes, when you read an article to get answers, but end up having more questions... G&M: follow-up, maybe? Or how about one of those nifty little "Explainers" you do so well?

We don't direct money to transit...the politicians do. And you can count on them squandering the money...

Religion is treated as personal not institutional under our Charter. If one personally regards the burka/niqab to be an important part of their religious beliefs, then it is. Their is nothing in the Bible about wearing a cross, but this has become, for many, an important symbol of ones religious identity and is therefore also protected under the Charter. This has been explained many many times on this forum, yet proponents of this law refuse to accept this fact always returning to the same flawed argument to claim it's not religion cause it's not in a book.

-So pedestrians shouldn't take as many precautions as they can, given that they're up against multi-ton vehicles? -Pedestrians also have to obey traffic laws where they are concerned. If they didn't, there wouldn't be signals for pedestrians at traffic lights - And the other 23 215 deaths occurred from what? I wouldn't be shocked if at least 85% of them were due to pedestrians playing chicken by jay walking because they were too stupid and lazy to wait at a crosswalk

They both have substantial incomes. Can they be forced to pay back the state for the appointed attorneys later to leave them only with income up to the poverty level and no houses or other property? Public housing at Kuhio Terrace?

@Dante1969 >>...But hey what do I know. . Obviously not much.

You denigrate the faithful, because you feel threatened by their system of beliefs. So if I feel threatened by a secular progressive point of view, that allows me to denigrate and attack those of faith. Hardly. Thankfully we have the charter, that keeps folks like you in check.

MULCAIR was toast the second he was FOR veiled faces. Nearly nobody in Quebec wants hidden faces. This is CANADA and we live with OPEN faces. ALL immigrants except muslims honor our way. This law is only the beginning, all over the country taxpayers are sick and tired to BOW to closed faces.

Its Not religious, its Not telling people how to dress: Its about 'identity concealment'. I, you and everyone has the right to identify and be able to recognize with whom one is dealing. IF you wear a mask - I don't have to serve you. Full stop.

Your FB friends have already unfriended him. Just do it, don't say anything, like they have. Problem solved.

"Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus...There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual.” If the basis of Zeigler's argument that it is ok because it was allowed in the Bible, then it should also be ok to own slaves, stone disobedient children to death, avoid any contact with menstruating women (because they are filthy and full of sin), etc. So isn't what Zeigler suggesting similar to what Sharia law proposes? I guess that's what religion is intended to do: to defend pedophiles against civilization's desire to protect children from harm at the hands of someone who should not only know better, but who lacks the ability to understand that pedophilia and child abuse is evil.

The majority of those who could or would vote on the issue clearly prefer their water not come from the tap with fluoride in it. Some of those who voted against public fluoridation may indeed choose to add fluoride to their water at home or use fluoridated toothpaste, but they respect the right of the rest of us to choose otherwise. Why don't you fluoride-fascists?

Is Trudeau supposed to be representing Malaysia, Singapore, Australia or Canada? The deal has to be good for Canada in order for us to sign up and it's too bad if other potential signatories are not happy! Australia, for example has allowed its car industry to wither on the vine, manufacturing plants are dying off for the most part - it's very important for Canada to hold on to the auto industry and its parts suppliers like Magna. Countries like Vietnam are threats to Canada in the auto parts area and any approach to that has to be dealt with very carefully.

fake news

What exactly is that supposed to mean?

This man runs unopposed in my district. He wins. He is so far left he is unable to turn his neck toward the center. He is a nasty man, and loved by the ultra liberals in my district. He represents all of us whose brains are immersed in excrement. Not his fault, ours.

Ziegler seems to believe them.

I wouldn't be caught dead driving a car worth $40,000 or less. That's for the peasants!

so you're saying instead of paying for my car I give the money to government to build me more transit?

She used to be on the left-wing fringe. But the Democrat Party has moved so far left, she's now mainstream. The polarization in the country is pretty crazy.

Rik That you choose to present a childish rant and personal attack in lieu of facts and evidence, speaks volumes for your lack of understanding of this issue and your inability to defend your position with credible evidence. Steven D. Slott, DDS Communications Officer American Fluoridation Society

She got $35 million$, plus getting her boss fired.

Good to see a constitutional right recognized.

His pension.