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since the bridge fits, you might as well hide under it, because you really are a troll.

Another Albertan tail trying to wag the dog again.

Your comment is nothing but logical fallacies, therefore it's disqualified. The timing of coming out has zero bearing on whether the accusations accurate. And that he's not still doing it is not proof that he didn't do it in the past. Those are your fallacies.

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

As someone who unsuccessfully ran in the recent Calgary election I have some sympathy for Mayor Naheed Nenshi and his concern over name calling in social media. The trolls called me and my supporters “tired, angry, old conservatives” and “backward looking”. While I completely disagree with most of the adjectives, after a close to 6 month municipal election process, I will acknowledge being tired! There is simply too much name calling in modern politics. However, to close using an epithet used by my successful opponent, all the folks who troll are simply “jerks”.

Things are not true until proven wrong. You have it bass ackwards.

M/s Harper and McGinty were not his direct superiors but Blair was. Nice to see he is still at the trough

Yah, and the reason I don't have any money is not because I blow it all on the video poker but because my paycheck is too small . . .

How ironic that the supporters of this are likely the same people that complain about the rest of us having too many green lawns and landscaping.

"Urban Dictionary: Johnnie Lunch Bucket https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Johnnie%20Lunch%20Bucket A Blue Collar Worker that takes his lunch to work every day." I don't see this as a condescending term at all....it's simply a colloquial phrase for blue collar workers. IMO, Ms Taylor-Young is far too sensitive in her assessment of Mr. Milbank's use of the phrase. Gary Crum

According to Facebook, she is a 2009 'graduate' of Churchill high school! Pictures here and there match perfectly! What you see is what you get!

Trump is looking after America much as any other national statesman would. Of course, Trump has nothing to lose. Afterall, the rise in China’s wealth has been at the expense of the American middle classes as Indeed That has been the case here in Canada as well. This could not have happened without free trade. Reversing free trade and you severely impact China’s wealth. Trade deficits are nothing more than wealth transfers. A very simple economic fact known to most high school economic students . But not apparently to journalistic students of Goeboels

I've written to friends how I lament the days of "Earl Camembert" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Cameron_(broadcaster) Every iteration of The National sinks ever lower. Who exactly is this aimed at? Is this up and coming generation that freakin' thick that reality has to be chewed and pre-digested this much for them? Put that into 140 characters and tweet it...

LOL That entire comment is your 'takeaway' from Canada's trade negation. This is why you think Americans are arrogant. And we think you have an inferiority complex. You're the complete package.

Aren't the bigger questions (assuming the Kealohas are found guilty) HOW the Kealohas were able to get away with the stuff for so long? Who helped them? Who turned a blind eye? Who dropped the ball along the way? Some of these accusations suggest that L Kealoha was teflon coated while he was chief, and no one was challenging him, or doing oversight. Rememeber, it took a federal public defender putting 2 and 2 together to figure out there was something wrong in the Puana prosecution. So, we have a new police chief. Who is going to monitor how things are done by that chief? And her appointees? Not saying there is anything wrong with them, or that they are inclined to do anything wrong, but who could have imagined what L Kealoha and his CIU did? Or, did we easily imagine it? And, can we still? Seems like we have a police commission for this sort of stuff. But, that body, led by Max Sword, gave L Kealoha $250K it probably had absolutely no need to, and will never get it back.

That is the ALLEGATION. It is unfair that the accused doesn’t have the opportunity or time to clear himself before the election. It was designed to happen this way. That is pretty disgusting too.

Justin playing politics. Big smile now. His "cash for access" friends will help syphon ever more jobs out of Canada. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-trans-pacific-trade-tpp-agreement-must-be-defeated?inline=file

In Soviet Russia, Pension Fund of the Russian Federation tells you if you are drunk and old enough to collect retirement! LOL

Japan is grumpy and rushing TPP because the trade agreement has been weighted heavily in their favour and they know further scrutiny and bargaining could result in an erosion of their benefits under the current text.

"Drive the wages down" And yet they keep rising, how strange

Mr. Jansen: ....not an easy letter to write. Thank you for your courage and decency in doing so. My regards, Gary Crum

take a walk sometime in northway mall there are entire businesses there run by criminals.....not kidding. you will see people there that are on facebook videos robbing houses, stealing packages etc.

The latest round of Saudi chicken-littling about Iran seems like MBS wanting to ramp up hysteria about an external threat to give cover for his preemptive counter-coup. Saudi Arabia has no border with Lebanon so war between them lacks reality. So either that threat is nonsense or the Saudis just tipped Israel's hand. One thing is for sure -- if the Saudis attack Iran they will get their assets handed to them.

If you think that's true, how has it helped Europe? Oh...It hasn't!

What's needed now from this general is another speech to the cadet student body in which he vehemently affirms that liars and people who speak before knowing the facts have no place in the US Air Force; if you must lie and speak before knowing the facts, then get out!

The harassment will stop when everyone thinks twice, NOT just men. If you believe that only men are the perpetrators of this behavior, then you are really naive. As a man, I have been unexpectedly/explicitly propositioned and groped by female co-workers. My personal reaction was; "Did she really just say/do that?" and then I shrugged it off and moved on because it's a no win situation for a guy. I'm fit but average looking, so I suspect some guys might be experiencing this way more than me.

Like the piece - pragmatic and doesn't pull its punches. Disagree - on one point . Syria is now Lebanon's defacto patron and through them Iran (and Turkey/Russia). Clearly Canada is lined up on the wrong side of the tracks here by siding with the war mongers The revisionist state in this case is Saudi Arabia heavily weaponized by the US and now looking for a fight. Agree Yemen is a mess of their making and no one including those phonies Freeland and Trudeau have called them on it. As for Israel - it will saddle up with anyone that advances their interests and that means keeping Iran down. They succeeded in suckering the US in taking on Iraq in 2003. But this time around it looks like regional war with the USA proxying its way to battle It's time we left Israel to fight its own wars. Canada certainly has no real need to align itself with them unless you can take JT's fundraising stars seriously.

Hon, what you described is EXACTLY the definition of a Democrat! LOL Go visit any major US city run by the (D) party and you'll see they all end up like (D)etroit!

I often wondered what the C.K. was short for...Carnal Knowledge?

I'm wondering if it was the Ethics Commissioner who gave him the ok to skip the meeting.

The dumb "live with the bears" policy that has been in place in recent years does not work. More people will continue to be mauled and/or killed and more bears will be killed until the spike in bear population is reduced.

She always reminds me of these words of Jesus: "They are like to children sitting in the marketplace, and speaking one to another, and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept." No matter what anyone says, it is never good enough.

LW2: So sorry for your loss. When my dad passed in July, I encountered the same thing. I chalk it up to our society being really uncomfortable with death and people not really knowing what to say... if they should say anything. In fairness though, you don’t seem to be accepting the condolences you HAVE received with much grace.

Pay, pray, and obey - Does that ring a bell?

This is a pretty clear example of investors ruining a business through short term greed. At any point, where does these pirate investors hve the interests of the company at heart betond try to raid its present value? The investors complain? Cut the dividend. They complain more? Crater the stock. Investors are pirates, nothing more.

Wasn't Foxx news doing the same thing? And doesn't this sound similar to the nightly programming one gets when tuning into their prime time lineup. The most glaring example was on the week CNN announced leaked information that the Justice Department was filing charges in their Russia investigation, four days before on the Tucker Carlson show Foxx claimed to have proof that it was the Democrats who had colluded with the Russians by selling them Uranium. A transaction which had occurred years ago and had been approved by several government agencies and was clearly above suspicion. If anyone should be investigated its Foxx for beginning a pivot four days before the real news was leaked.

LOL Spot on remark. Thanks for the background info on the letter writer. Your reply also made me think of Dish TV ads which go out of their way to insult cable TV customers -- because that's a great way to interest people in their product. Or maybe those Dish TV ads are about customer retention by making Dish TV customers feel superior to cable TV customers.

just let it rust out where it is already.

30 plus years ago in Alabama who was going to support a 14 year old over an established prosecutor. NO-ONE! This is a state that allows a 16 year old to agree that sex with a 70 year old that is a consensual arrangement. Yet the 16 year old is not old enough to vote or do any else only an adult can.

+Cupich says, "The problem we're facing now isn't that we're divided over issues, but people are divided into tribes, into camps...We need to recapture, before we get to the issues, that common bond." The "tribes"+Cupich refers to haven’t had a common bond for decades. Not even a common language bond. While one “tribe” describes Catholics as" children of God", "sheep" to be shepherded, another describes Church as "People of God". Tribe Opus Dei, aka Evangelical Catholicism, speaks "Reformed Trent" while the other speaks liberation &unity in diversity. The 23 Catholic Churches/Rites united with Rome speak "different languages," have different ways; they represent (as Cardinal Kasper might describe them) the Multifaceted Unity of universal Catholicism. Can Rome NOT see the genius of Multifaceted Unity in regard to Vatican II? JPII gave juridical status to Opus Dei. Will Rome just continue to homogenize Vatican II into one Evangelical Catholicism? NOT if https://RiteBeyondRome.com

Tax should only be for recreational use. Medical or food use should be tax exempt and totally decriminalized.

You expect the same level of protest for a state representative as you do a President? And you expect to be taken seriously?

Something to bet on here; whoever guesses the date of removal wins the pot.

Still not good enough, perhaps Enoch Hansomepersonbridge may come closer.

Hi, Kyndsi, Here's some ideas about what can be done about this: -Get up 15 minutes earlier so you can leave 15 minutes earlier so you can get to your destination on time -Plan your trips for times the roads are not so busy--say, 5 in the morning or 11:15 at night -Distribute your class schedule to everyone who lives around Coburg Road together with a nice note asking them if they wouldn't mind staying off the road when you need to use it -Ask Costco to change their hours so as not to inconvenience you -Move to a smaller town, like Burns, with not so many people

Kim, I can't see your comment because apparently it was below the civility standards! Why can't we have a polite discussion?

Nailed it. Daddy drove around the streets of Montreal on a motorcycle wearing a Nazi helmut during WWII : https://bcblue.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/ex-canadian-diplomat-pierre-trudeau-wore-german-helmet-during-ww11/ Kinda says it all right there.

"Their employer can do whatever they want, but I'm with Trump that they should all be fired." It used to be that a core conservative principle was that government should not be interfering in private enterprise. But interfering in the employer-employee relationship is exactly what Trump is doing. The President of the United States is telling some employers to fire some of their employees. Trump is violating a core conservative principle, but that's OK with conservatives. So for conservatives, principles can be easily turned off when it is expedient to do so.

Your nastiness only strengthens my resolve to speak out to bullies. And you ARE a bully. The Franciscan should count themselves lucky.

[but they did say a couple of weeks ago that this was not going to be a traditional news bulletin as all of that stuff is widely available elsewhere on the internet ... this is fewer stories covered in more depth. ] Then why call it "news" if it's a "newsmagazine"? I've tried, I can't watch it, it's freakin' tedious. actually painful at times. I managed maybe five minutes before giving up last night. It was fifteen the night before...keep trying to give it a chance. Tonight? I won't eve bother, it's trial enough to deal with their website, let alone watch four people 'spin the bottle'.

Mr. Harper was a terrible negotiator. Terrible! Couldn't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. Case in point, he joined TPP so late that we had to surrender veto power on anything already agreed to. He also signed a terrible trade deal with China heavily in China's favour. He then signed a free trade agreement with South Korea that everyone knows is heavily in South Korea's favour. What do we sell to South Korea? Almost nothing. What do they sell to us? They dump cars and electronics in Canada for very low prices because they import low paid labour from China etc. to work in their factories. So now, our premier high tech manufacturing industries have to compete with South Korea absent the protection of tariffs. And we got nothing at all out of the deal. Harper, apparently, got an economics degree so as to learn the most efficient way to sell out Canada to the highest bidder. With leaders like Harper, who needs enemies?

In your dreams. October 2019. Circle it on your calendar.

When all other arguments fail, go for the martyr complex.

Look at the picture above. What do you think Mnuchin is thinking about as that distinquished panel was getting bombarded with questions about Judge Roy Moore's pedophilia? That's what was going on right at that moment. I saw the video. What does the far off, whistful gaze on Mnuchin's face mean? Was he merely dreaming about how to further keep his wife happy? Maybe fantasizng that all this Roy Moore controversy might create a good, distracting diversion for him to commandeer a government plane for a quick "trophy-wife-pleasing" getaway somewhere? . . . or, worse???

It's far worse than simply having "this smug , arrogant attitude on the world stage". . In Canada's case you can't back anything up. Peacekeeping, honest broker, not racist, peace loving, stewards of the environment. You name it and it's a hoax. A carefully controlled hoax.

"Maybe you'd like to try and prove that they are solely responsible for the demise of every failed company in Hawaii??" Prove to us you (D)onkeys aren't responsible for every failed company in Hawaii!!! I can give you a laundry list of firms proving so. Let's start with the Jones Act and how it drove hundreds of firms into the gutter. Also, care to tell me why NO SINGLE Fortune 500 firm has relocated it's white collar office jobs to Hawaii and why no major Fortune 500 firm would ever touch this state with a 10-foot pole?

CHARLENE COOPERSON IS A SPAM ACCOUNT.

It’s the CBC. It’s now Trudeau’s propaganda organ. They got their $1 billion budget increase . And you have the gall to complain that real news is somehow missing these day !

Terrible! We are long time National watchers and CBC fans but think we will stop soon if the news hour stays like it is now. We want to hear important news told by one announcer in a coherent manner. Please rethink this format CBC!

Would love to hear the inside story on what has been going on with this company for the last year or so.

Did they show you when you said "yes"?

Sure you don’t...#MAGA

Thor, I see notification of your replies in my e-mail box. But when I go to see the actual replies, twice in recent days your replies are gone. Are your replies disappearing? Or are you deleting them after having second thoughts? As one specific example, a reply concerning bells and sobriety.

To answer this from you- "why else would someone choose a screen name with a positive greeting in a foreign language?"? Because I learned some Spanish and do use it, albeit limited. As for this by you---> "maybe the kids just need to learn basic words like "como estas" in order to feign support for a foreign culture. What do you think? " I thought with my check book. I paid to teach my children Spanish as a second language starting at age 5, the optimum age for language development in the brain. Ludicrous to spend tax dollars on something parents can fund and should fund. In school, I wanted my children taught English, with spelling and comprehension. If one can read and *comprehend* what one is reading, one can do anything-including self educate. Have a good one.

You don't actually have any idea what happened in Toronto, do you? And what's the cumulative damage over the years from Stanley Cup celebrations by those "peaceful folks in other provinces"? 'course we don't know how much damage Toronto hockey fans could cause because they never win anything. :)

Trudeau Senior drove around on a motorcycle during WWII wearing a Nazi helmet : https://bcblue.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/ex-canadian-diplomat-pierre-trudeau-wore-german-helmet-during-ww11/ Seemed to have a real thing for totalitarians. Like father, like son, I guess. Je me souviens.

Well, he was nominated by Alabama Republicans the way Pelosi was nominated by San Francisco Democrats.

Our military and their families love our First Lady: she's poised, intelligent, beautiful; she spoke Italian with orphan children while they attended events in Rome this spring, staying behind with them as the rest of the dignitaries continued with the day's agenda. An immigrant who speaks 5 languages and believes in freedom and that women aren't a bunch of victims. She is proud- every day - to be an American. It is such a refreshing change from the last First Lady.

". And what the one Duggar did was not against the law, it was an issue between he and his wife." Roy Moore is liberal?

So, if I understand the logic, Jim Ziegler is saying that the Bible has many examples of child molesters, and therefore it's ok for Roy Moore to be a child molester too. Simple.

Coal is the dirtiest fuel for power generation and must be completely phased out world-wide. If you want to use a fossil fuel natgas is much cleaner and North America has huge reserves and the price per cubic foot is extremely cheap. We can use renewables when they make economic sense and wind and solar are becoming increasingly competitive. Natgas is a good compromise in the meantime.

Because Ted Bundy raped and killed, you must think it's okay for you to rape and kill.

I really do not understand the rationale behind trying to make an illegal activity safer. To me, it is kind of like looking for ways to make driving without a seatbelt less dangerous because every year "X" amount of people lose their lives due to not wearing a seatbelt. I am saddened by all of these drug overdoses-- I just don't see the logic behind this effort. Now, if drug use were legal it wouldn't strike me as being so strange.

She's a dirty cop-loving criminal.

Never said it was my side.

This is a troubling story. I have visited the Antique Gallery on several occasions and spoken with the owner about his various collections. He was very professional and knowledgeable concerning his offerings. I noted the few unworked bones and ivory in his store were all very old and likely first traded before the Marine Mammal Protection act of 1972. This raid by the USFWS has the feel of a witch hunt or of too much time on their hands. There must be more current or dangerous crimes they could pursue before collecting some ancient bones from a well established downtown gallery.

Stupid huh. Not sure that word gets past the "censors" but apparently they don't patrol the headlines. . I'd say the guy who crossed in front of me against a light (just last night), not because of his phone, but fully aware, was more of a problem than my car stopping to avoid driving over him. When I honk my horn and he flips me off .... there is a brief moment when i wonder if it was worth my time slowing down in the first place. . yeah ... it must be the drivers who are stupid. . or maybe the editors at G&M

Hear, hear, Bernie !

Great take away line, Margaret: "People figure he's just a crony politician like everybody else. And they're not wrong." Justin Trudeau's entire existence is based on the crony principle of its not what you know, its who you know. Nobody able to read without benefit of lips and fingers or not nose deep in the Ottawa trough tries to make a case for Trudeau as PM of a G 7 country as a consequence of his superior intellect and relevant education, experience, accomplishments and talents. He has the most anorexic resume of anyone who has become Liberal leader and is the 1st Liberal PM never to have sat in cabinet. He has made such absolutely ridiculous, ignorant and bizarre remarks that an entire website is devoted to them and some like me have had posts deleted here as uncivil insults when actually quoting Trudeau himself. Everything he has done has been a function of his famous name and concomitant political contacts. Butts even "helped" him with his famous eulogy to PET.

Congrats on being a criminal-cop enabler. You're delusional in thinking that you are any better than his mom. And what does his mom have to do with it? Nothing. You're a simpleton.

Thank you and yes. Exactly.

I have watched The National since the time of Knowlton Nash. Peter Mansbridge was also a great anchorman for the newscast. Since Peter's retirement, things have gone downwards, but it was still watchable. Now, I am having serious doubts the new format will last. I guess CBC is monitoring the ratings and soon may realize their mistake. I hope so...

Marijuana is not medicine, but is an effective distractor, regardless of your health. Uniformity in tax application is correct.

Wig, You seem to think Canadian's actually care about American opinions of us. We stopped caring about that the moment you guys elected Trump. The once great nation is now the laughingstock of the world. Think whatever you like, nobody cares anymore.

Who gives a crap? Your point of distinction is irrelevant. If you think you can assault a non-POST-certified officer and not have the assault punished at the next higher class of offense (like for cops), you'd be wrong.

Why do supposedly serious media play along with the marketting of disgraced celebrities? Use his real name.

and she lies about what others post, even when you show she has misspoken, she continues to state the same statement over and over. that is definitely lying.

Have watched The National for 14 years. No longer - seeing Hanomansing, Arsenault and crew performing like reality TV hacks was unbearable. Switched it off when 'At issue' came on as it was just too much. Like Doyle, switching to CTV, even though I can't stand LaFlamme. At least we get Sandy Renaldo, Scott Laurie ... Marcia and Beverly and some other non-sycophants.

And another major reason for the deficits: 2007 -2009 saw the worst recession since the Great Depression according to many economic commentators.

They will diversify our employment....to other countries. Bank on it. Elites are okay with that. Case in point? Alberta's Nexen Energy. Bought by China and not long after the deal was done they fired Canadian workers and installed their own.

Cops don't confront murderers on a daily basis. I was roommates with a murderer (unbeknownst to me). You must be wondering how I'm typing from the grave. How dumb are you? That's the question.

Talk to someone make 30,000-40,000 or even 50,000 while raising a family. $100,000 (Six-Figure Salary) is an upper income level. Not filthy rich, but upper. Facts do matter. Someone making a six-figure salary can afford a car, vacations, and a home. If they live within their means and save rather than spending every dime earned or overextending by buying the huge house, they are definitely well-off. It's all perspective.

Why are you sure they have built some wealth? Almost 2/3 of Americans can't cover a $500 emergency with cash. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-americans-dont-have-enough-savings-to-cover-a-500-emergency/#14e4f5604e0d

physician, heal thyself!

The Nuggets have shown us they can beat bad teams. Win two of the next three and I'll put a foot on the bandwagon. Millsap still looks like a $10 million per year journeyman forward.

Man, I was thinking about becoming a stoner, but now, no way.

You feel it was a prudent choice for (D)onkey politicians to literally give away $2-million to Biki and not trow a lifeline to Island-Air? Hope you are enjoying one of your pet projects. You might want to attach some paddles and a floaties onto your Biki rental so you can ride it across the Pacific channel to the next Island! LOL

A friend of my Son is being brought up as a meat-eater. The kid is extremely fat and round. Hey, if you want to go 'meat' - go ahead when you are fully grown and developed.

Agree: what a gong show. I hope that they re-tool the show to have Andrew Chang host the headlines, top stories from the start, and for the first 15 minutes. Then Barton with in-depth political coverage, and interviews. Arsenault doing the 'PBS Frontline' style features that she does best. Or a magazine piece from Hanomansing. Or follow up with one or two headlines in greater depth. It would help too, if the stories were more oriented towards Canada and its place in the world. The Syria aftermath stories are interesting, but not rally relevant to our day to day life here.

Flat rate across the board, stop sending our tax dollars overseas.