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This may be a new plan; however, the intent is to deny the minority caucus from having any ability to stop majority spending by allowing a 50% vote instead of a 75% vote to access our savings.. Another means to this same send was attempted in 2015 by Chenault and his usual band of suspects when they were in charge: :
From a 2015 ADN Article:
"Taking $5 billion out of the earnings reserve reduces the amount the Legislature has available to spend, changing the calculation for accessing the CBR. With the Legislature then unable to spend the money now in the earnings reserve, it would have the key to the CBR's billions with which to balance the budget with only a majority vote in each house."
Reference: "House leaders push Alaska Permanent Fund earnings as solution to budget crisis"
Author: Pat Forgey, Nathaniel Herz Updated: September 28, 2016 Published May 26, 2015
https://www.adn.com/politics/article/house-leaders-push-way-use-permanent-fund-solve-budget-crisis/2015/05/27/ | 0 | not toxic |
That's like a bummer, man. | 0 | not toxic |
I sold a condo within the last 3 weeks and 50% of the people who viewed our property represented foreign buyers looking for investment purposes, 20% were locals looking for an investment property, 15% foreign buyers looking to live in or for their children to live in, and 15% were local buyers looking for a home. Roughly 2/3 of the interest came from speculators. Obviously everything the government and CMHC propose is shot down by realtors and mortgage brokers, I wonder why? If you want to know how bad the market is, even the banks are now sounding the alarm bells. The banks have benefited from risk free lending thanks to CMHC. As soon as CMHC drops the "Risk Sharing" word they are saying RE is a bubble. They are saving face, when risk sharing takes effect they will underwrite less mortgages. They will say we said it was a bubble before the risk sharing took effect and are being prudent, it's BS. They knew it was a bubble the whole time, now that they stand to loose $ they wont lend. | 0 | not toxic |
Gotta give him praise for trying, his experiences are meant for the benefit of all. And the Jews have paid with blood for their lessons learned. Thank you for this article. | 0 | not toxic |
Across town, over rosemary-grilled rib eye and summer vegetable succotash at the White House, President Donald Trump and GOP leaders were attempting to convince a group of reliably conservative rank-and-filers to join with them and vote for the health care bill. But as they dined on lemon ricotta agnolotti with heirloom tomato ragout and the "farm stand peach cobbler," the Senate rebellion against the health care bill was well underway.
Somehow, even agnolotti didn’t get Republicans to sign up with Donald Trump. | 0 | not toxic |
Didn't the Orioles once start a season 0-21 and finish 82-80? | 0 | not toxic |
Sam Kinison?? I knew Kinison and he was far from right wing. He hated Reagan, Pat Robertson, and all the right wing loons. | 0 | not toxic |
That concerned pederasty. Start with Bernard Law and Justin Rigali. | 0 | not toxic |
The OMB needs to be defanged despite what the latte-sipping Gee thinks from his gated downtown core. Try heading out to Parklawn and Lakeshore and see the absolute mess the OMB has created on the waterfront. (Marcus you'll have to spend at least 90 minutes getting there with the lack of decent TTC services away from your gated enclave).
Mark Grimes and the city did not want all these condos with exits directly on to the intersection yet the OMA overruled the city and now we have had fatalities, multiple accidents, and general gridlock and endless problems with the excessive number of condos on this corner.
Gee needs to get out of his Cabbagetown bubble and actually experience the havoc the OMB is creating by overruling city Councillors who are trying to keep the developer's greed from ruining proper long-term planning policies. | 0 | not toxic |
I've read more history than you, you should really turn off the communist news network and think for yourself. | 0 | not toxic |
I haven't seen the movie, but the reviews look good. Thanks for the tip. I will try to see it.
" But the most telling revelation at the end of Memento isn’t limited to his condition: Leonard lies to himself. And when he isn’t outright lying to himself, he's guilty of confirmation bias, accepting only the facts that affirm his pre-cooked conclusions, and tossing out all the rest.
-Scott Tobias, from The A.V. Club[63]" | 0 | not toxic |
Folks, propaganda works. He thinks people are happy other people lost their jobs. Misses the point entirely. | 0 | not toxic |
How come? Hmm mohammed the neurosurgeon, Wang the engineer, and krunal the cpa have skills employers want and are able to land the 70-150k jobs needed to support home ownership in our biggest cities. I have plenty of Caucasian canadian friends who also sacrificed their time and labour to obtain the skills needed to comPete and are now home owners in our biggest cities.being a third or fourth gen canadian with a high school diploma and a 65% graduating average does not entitle u to the same standard of living as someone with higher qualifications from another country | 0 | not toxic |
What you posted, Tom Harmon is perp talk. You wrote as though you graduated from Trump University. At the head of no class. | 0 | not toxic |
No reason why tax dollars have be used. Planned Patenthood can be entirely privately funded and still provide birth control and abortions. | 0 | not toxic |
You seem to forget what low wages reap. The size of he force dropped to a dangerous level. If you think low balling the cost of public safety will solve a budget problem your are delusional. Why do we not have a full force - competitive wage and work environment. Sorry if you feel the cpi applies to every occupation. Hard to find qualified people that want to take the job on for peanuts. | 0 | not toxic |
How about we start at the top, Daca are illegals whether Obama or liberals think so or not, he didn't end it, per say, he is giving the authority where it belongs in congress not Obama's pen.
Transgender's flocked to the military to have the tax payers pay for the gender reassignment and its costly and with 8 months recovery time they are unable to deploy and do their job
Why should a businessman be forced to sell services to gay couples, life is about choice, gays have a choice and so do businessmen.
Sexual violence in the universities is up to the university to solve it not the president, liberal universities seem to have the attitude anything goes and they don't want to upset the money bucket.
Refugees he made the right choice or do you just want to ignore what is going on in Europe, my daughter is in Germany right now and some of the things that are going on that don't hit the liberal media is shocking.
This is why Trump was elected because that is what the country wanted. | 0 | not toxic |
@jangm
Both Harper and Atleo didn't speak the language of corruption and perpetual victimhood most chiefs want to maintain because their ingrained blame game mentality is the easiest route to take being they don't have the ability to actually lead their people developing economic opportunities and jobs.
Complaining and blaming is far easier than actually doing something for your people which Liberals agree with because they want to control every aspect of people's lives
Visionary chiefs like Clarence Louie from Osoyoos who demand more from their people obviously don't fit the Liberal's or your idea of what leadership is because you prefer them to be unproductive wards of the state rather than be productive successful Canadians. | 0 | not toxic |
I also have to say that his struggle and hours spent in study, his doing the right thing set's him apart from those that would try and side step the system, they not only discredit themselves, they place suspicion and undo hardship on the legal immigrants.
Simply my opinion, your mileage may differ. | 0 | not toxic |
Haven't we destroyed enough toxicity already ,wastes ,for so little new energy needs ? What has new technology done that old contaminating systems need to be re deployed to make a few men and corporations rich while our earth suffers dying , in a raping of it's and our Souls for Greed and falsehoods ? Do we want our children to live on mars ? | 0 | not toxic |
Hey now. Sock puppets are cool. DS is more like that random sock that shows up, you don't know how it got there and are pretty sure you need to throw it out and finally realize it's been long enough. | 0 | not toxic |
The national GOP hasn't "drifted so far to the Right." The party and Congressional members have jumped into the cesspool.
They no longer practice "spin" because boldfaced lies serve their partisanship better.
They no longer act as saber-rattling "hawks" when kowtowing to Putin serves their partisanship better. | 0 | not toxic |
I heard the Russians prevented Hillary from going to Wisconsin even one time during the campaign. | 0 | not toxic |
Yep, which is why I would prefer that he just be ignored entirely. | 0 | not toxic |
Trump seems to batting for the other team. | 0 | not toxic |
Universities are now soft targets for different kinds of threats and pressures. Media trials and social network campaigns can do tremendous damage to universities. The very threat of such a trial or campaign can cause administrators to think and act like any corporation threatened with bad publicity--to succumb to threats and demands and to work through lawyers and payoffs.
The best way to defeat threat campaigns is to have procedures in place that anticipate the issues that are likely to arise, the ones that can be the basis of threats, and to follow those procedures. As far as possible, the processes should be open and public. There is no reason the University cannot follow such a course when planning the future of the OBF. If a personnel matter IS involved, there are limits to what can be made public, but the procedures can still be explained, and the people or committee involved can also be identified.
Openness is a protection. Secrecy undermines trust. | 0 | not toxic |
"TD does not believe certain media coverage is an accurate portrayal of our culture.."
Dear Mr. Masrani, I frequent 3 or 4 different TD CanadaTrust branches regularly. I first noticed the large whiteboard with the names of branch staff members and their "counts" at my home branch. I then confirmed the white boards existed at the other branches. The staff clearly were pressured (or perhaps you guys like the term "reminded") to ask clients coming into the bank about other services
It got annoying enough for me over the past year that I did everything I could to not go into the branch (ie. only use the ATM). You can deny all you want, but it is time to change your culture. | 0 | not toxic |
I think the President of UO, who is a lawyer, and the law faculty who signed the letter demanding her resignation foolishly rushed to judgment. This appears to be a case of protected free speech, and end result may be that the reputations of both UO and its law school are harmed. You would think that legal professionals would have more sense. This could lead to a massive lawsuit that UO would lose. | 0 | not toxic |
I wonder when women will start fessing up about the abusive way they treat men? The way they falsely accuse us. The way they con us into getting into bed with them. The way they harass us. The way they stalk and humiliate us. The way they steal money from us. | 1 | toxic |
Even Trump supporters are getting wise to misdirection like this.
They have a right to know the guy they voted for. | 0 | not toxic |
Your bottom dwelling Blown-it Jays should thank you for such excuse making, understanding and patience.
Actually wish that Ted Rogers were alive today because I would send him a personal letter mocking what a loser franchise that his Jays have become without the highest payroll in MLB to hire late season rentals à la 1992 and 1993.
Are your once mighty buyers now selling ? | 0 | not toxic |
Sick of how big money is destroying our democracy. Time for change. | 0 | not toxic |
There is nothing from Civil in my Junk Folder. All I have received from Civil are the responses when your system would not recognize motleycrew and used my e-mail instead. You then went in and removed my e-mail and motleycrew comes up as it is supposed to. Could you have killed my e-mail entirely when you 'fixed' that problem? | 0 | not toxic |
Population growth is the elephant in the room that the so called "progressives' seem to avoid. How about an accord on lowering the birth rate around the world? | 0 | not toxic |
That's funny but the Army is OK . They own at least 25. | 0 | not toxic |
Please post any evidence that you have that demonstrates ALL ARE citizens.
Obviously there's no way of knowing one way or another hence my statement. | 0 | not toxic |
Interesting bit of trivia. Trump's grandfather ran a restaurant in the Yukon and Putin's grandfather was a chef at the elegant Astoria Hotel in Petrograd in Russia. After the revolution, he cooked for Lenin and Stalin.
Moral of the story: beware the grandchildren of chefs and cooks. | 0 | not toxic |
It seems to me the political system is working exactly the way it is supposed to work for this issue/policy. Lots of back and forth, rejection; more back and forth, rejection; more back and forth, rejection, etc. Then finally, compromise. Once final compromise occurs we can begin adjusting the agreed upon and compromised plan for the common good that will hopefully reach an endpoint of affordable and sustainable health care for all Americans. | 0 | not toxic |
No, SSM is another court imposition overriding the wishes of the populace and short-circuiting the democratic process. | 0 | not toxic |
Is your name Richard? Check the ego, pal. | 0 | not toxic |
Now we know why the FBI has been involved in the local homocides, the suspects are on a Visa | 0 | not toxic |
I have heard of the Bill of Rights, (the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.) "The right to remain silent" was an issue in Miranda v. The State of Arizona (US Supreme Court 1966) in applying the 5th Amendment as it relates to the phrase "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Miranda case also relied upon and referenced Escobedo v. Illinois (US Supreme Court 1964) in which a distinction was drawn between a general investigation into a crime and the questioning of a suspect in the crime being investigated. There again the "right to remain silent" was a concern. We know that the phrase "right to remain silent" like the phrase "separation of church and state" are not found in the U.S. Constitution including the amendments but are derived from case law.
There is also a whole body of law relating to hindering prosecution, interfering with a peace officer, and concealing evidence. That too has stood the test of time. | 0 | not toxic |
Trump has no idea what responsibility means. | 0 | not toxic |
Here's hoping the Jets will turn it around..too much talent otherwise. Meanwhile the Flames are making believers out of me after a dismal start. | 0 | not toxic |
I worked for Honolulu Roofing at the Kenrock Building in the early sixties. They moved there in 1950 and were good friends with the architects. | 0 | not toxic |
Hooray!!! Revolution of the Little Man = Presently Quelled. | 0 | not toxic |
They are against it. Its on their website. https://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animal-issues/companion-animals-factsheets/veterinary-malpractice-grooming-accidents/
They even protested the opening of the movie called a dog's purpose. | 0 | not toxic |
Hey— noticed anyone around here dousing themselves from head to toe with DDT (powerful neurotoxin) lately? Odd that polio went away right when we stopped doing that and changed the diagnostic criteria | 0 | not toxic |
No, it doesn't. Stop being an armchair lawyer. | 0 | not toxic |
I hope this is not billed to OHIP | 0 | not toxic |
Shannon, what really bugs me is when people try to use the Bible to justify their own agenda on either side of the question as both you and these churches have. Yes, Jesus fed the hungry and healed the sick but He did it voluntarily. He didn't demand anyone contribute much less the Jewish or Roman authorities. Every church I have ever been involved in has had a voluntary ministry to the sick, poor and hungry.
Halibut life cycles have nothing to do with human behavior. Just because animals have certain behaviors doesn't mean we should be like them nor does it mean it is in our DNA. People can choose to act anyway they want as long as it doesn't hurt others. It's when their choices are forced upon others who don't choose to live that way that it gets sticky. I think the bathroom issue is of little consequence. I really don't care who is in the stall next to me and I have no fear for my daughters. I do fear a government that will force all of us to ajust to the social whims of a few. | 0 | not toxic |
I would like to see laws passed requiring nominees to the office of President to provide 10 years of income tax history, and requiring businesses owned by the President to be put into a legal blind trust. I have contacted both our Senators requesting this, and have heard nothing back. | 0 | not toxic |
You're a brave man (boy?) to insult people you've never met and never shall. | 0 | not toxic |
More fake news from the Glob.
Jeez. Most of what is presented in the article was happening before the US election.
This rag has lost what little credibility it may have had. | 0 | not toxic |
Randomly regularizing their status,! Really! How's about having them go thru the proper channels, which, by the way, is available. They know the rules. And you are correct, no one should be illegal! All they need to do is go thru the process! | 0 | not toxic |
It's too bad that schools can't benefit from fresh local fruit - | 0 | not toxic |
Bavius, can we presume you see the mayoralty of Rob Ford as an exercise in "common sense''? | 0 | not toxic |
Yet you guys just keep coming back over and over and over and over again. | 0 | not toxic |
Sounds to me like if any body got the shaft, it was the average working person in our Republica
Bananera who will have to continue to pay for Linda Lingle's folly to the tune of more than $71 million dollars.
What should have been a fairly successful ferry project was botched from the very beginning
starting with having to build the docking ramps because the ferry design did not have a docking ramp
as part of the ship, then there was the failure to do a proper EIS which resulted in costly litigation
and then the silly insistence that the ferry had to go to Kauai where the opposition to it was the
most virulent, as well as having to upgrade the harbors so the ferry could dock. Every which way you
turned, it was poor decision making by Lingle and the State DOT.
I fear that the City's rail project is going to go the way of the failed ferry. Just as the State did, the
City has begun selling bonds to help finance the project. The rail project like the ferry is doomed
to fail. | 0 | not toxic |
I think that things started changing as technology got better or actually worse. When there became many multiple channels that had to be filled 24/7 with anything than anyone could put out there and try to make people react to actually hurt the news media and especially when big money could use the news to their advantage. When anybody with an Ipod or computer can sit in his living room and incite thousands of people that have too much time on their hands and no knowledge of a subject then there goes the honest news. When there was just radio and a couple of TV channels and a non partial newspaper then news was news. I remember when Oregon had the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian and the Journal closed it's doors and the Oregonian was left leaning consequently like ADN, Oregon started sliding to the left and it's been that way every since. Honest news, researched news to be sure is very valuable but with all of the garbage out there the sources are hard to verify anymore. | 0 | not toxic |
He's already doing it. All you protesters are doing nothing but holding picket signs upset that the welfare checks stopped coming in. If it wasn't for George Soros paying you fools $15/hr to protest, you'd all be sucking on the public teat because illegals took YOUR jobs! | 0 | not toxic |
Sorry but this column is becoming tedious, redundant , boring and a waste of print space. | 0 | not toxic |
Nice gaslighting there. | 0 | not toxic |
Those who tagged him "the new Ann Coulter" presumably meant it as a compliment, but I don't consider it one. | 0 | not toxic |
Want to be a Millionaire under Trudeau?
Start with a Billion. | 0 | not toxic |
Nice article other than the last paragraph. Why is your negative opinion necessary? | 0 | not toxic |
Yet Trump supporters had no problem with the Republican head of the FBI telling people that Clinton was under investigation for possible email leaks 3 weeks from the election... | 0 | not toxic |
Maybe you shouldn't get carried away by the guy who wrote "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels."
But let's dump Cook. How about
Anderegg, Prall, Harold, and Schneider, 2010
Doran and Kendall Zimmerman, 2009
Bray and von Storch, 2008
Farnsworth and Lichter, 2011
Lefsrud and Meyer, 2012
Oreskes, 2004
Powell, 2013
Verheggen et al., 2014
Remember, the question is, is there consensus among scientists that humans have caused recent global warming. | 0 | not toxic |
It's hard for me to believe that WT can't scrape together an offense during JH's injury. They don't have ONE player on the team that can sling the ball? I know that there are several players that played QB in high school so you should be able too piece something together...where is the creativity? | 0 | not toxic |
All of this is true and doesn’t contradict my point.
“...used the funds to buy dodgy securities...”
The “dodgy securities” were the result of Democrats who created these worthless mortgages by changing the lending rules. | 0 | not toxic |
Margaret, you are absolutely right. The finest academic institution in Canada fell victim to this blight in the late 1990s. Check out the leadership changes at the time & root cause is obvious. Have they banned Halloween in 2017? | 0 | not toxic |
It is well known that after age 45 people lose interest in being stoned all the time. | 0 | not toxic |
If you take exception with anyone saying of a dead soldier or Marine "he knew what he signed up for" then I'm going to need to see a DD214 because you've set off my BS-o-Meter in a major way. | 0 | not toxic |
You should try to educate yourself about animal cruelty; go watch some videos on youtube. | 0 | not toxic |
What China does to Chinese is no concern to us.
I like helping China. I report tax and immigration fraud. I here the fine is only 0.45 cal.
People sure don't like Chinese law, I love it though! | 0 | not toxic |
Trust JJ/EN and your other 10 personalities fighting to get out political science smply isn't your forte. | 0 | not toxic |
Police officers are going to wear Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys? | 0 | not toxic |
"Are you aware that 97% of scientist BS has been thoroughly debunked and is not true and that debunking happened years and years ago?"
Details please, a man needs to know! | 0 | not toxic |
The wage they pay today is not a living wage. They can pay below-market-rate wages to the labor they import. They would be forced to pay a living wage if the visa program was discontinued. The visa program is effectively a taxpayer subsidy to the shareholders of Vail Resorts. | 0 | not toxic |
No one is suggesting you "put some in one year to take out the next". Do some proper cash flow planning, and leave what you will need in the business. Take out what the business can afford to set aside for your retirement. Really, you shouldn't throw your poor financial management practices at the feet of the government. | 0 | not toxic |
It's only WORSE than Watergate, but by all means, nothing to see here from the DNC and the media. | 0 | not toxic |
Economics 101. Minimum wage is the entry level starting wage. If you can't level up your skills and value after a time, why should you be paid more?
There is always farming for those wanting a livable wage- grow your own food through hard work and reap what you sow | 0 | not toxic |
“Students need to leave our system being able to speak to who they are.”
No. Students need to leave your system being able to do math, read, write, reason, problem solve, form arguments with supporting data, etc. so that they can function either in a post-secondary education environment or in the workforce. | 0 | not toxic |
"...it creates an impression of media bias which is very dangerous for democracy." Sorry, we already have that, and have for years, with the CBC and their fawning over everything Liberal and, esepcially now, Trudeau. | 0 | not toxic |
No stars for that load. | 0 | not toxic |
so you don't distinguish between the Aga Kahn Foundation and the Aga Kahn? | 0 | not toxic |
Well put Robin - The question goes begging - if Trump thinks that not paying federal income taxes makes him 'smart' - does Mr. Trump also think the rest of us who do pay federal income taxes are chumps? | 0 | not toxic |
User accounts Chinabot1, Chinabot2....ChinabotN are just mocking the G&M. | 0 | not toxic |
And now Mr. Trudeau is on a trans-Canada tour, at public expense, to try and regain his public persona. Should the Liberal party not be paying for the tour? | 0 | not toxic |
You remind me of the promise of second coming of Jesus--for 2,000 years it's always been just around the corner ("the end is near"). Would you believe that in late middle age I'm just about ready to be both the world's fastest sprinter and the strongest man? I'm close. Don't blink. Get ready. | 0 | not toxic |
Indira Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi. As for being elected due to her family name, that was probably true in her first election in 1967, which she almost lost. The next three elections she fought were on her name. She won two, and lost one.
He father, Jawarharlal Nehru, won all his elections. It was due to him that India was the only Asian/African colony to remain a democracy from the time of independence. | 0 | not toxic |
Here’s what two prominent Russian Putin-haters had to say about Oleg Deripaska’s links with Putin. Masha Gessen doesn’t mention his name once in “The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin”. Anna Politkovskaya, in her book “A Russian Diary”, includes Deripaska in a list of oligarchs, also mentioning Potanin, Mordashev and Fridman, whose wealth was created under Yeltsin, Putin’s predecessor, not under Putin. She suggests that the murder of Georgiy Tal, the Director of the Federal Service for Financial Recovery and Bankruptcy from 1997 to 2001, may have been directed by Putin, because Tal knew too much about how these oligarchs got their wealth. She adds: “It is unlikely, however, that Tal’s murders were in the interest of these people.” | 0 | not toxic |
I hadn't heard of a constitutional amendment. | 0 | not toxic |
No, if you just end rail, problems will just continue and get worse. Rail needs to go the UH and to Waikiki. That is what people should be pushing for and for answers on why it is so over budget. | 0 | not toxic |
What a disappointment. | 0 | not toxic |
Wolf Eagle, if you would have read the whole story, including the caption to the photograph of officer Jackson,
"Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson, who was killed in a shooting attack on July 17, 2016, is seen in a photograph from his social media account."
you would have seen that officer Jackson was obviously black. | 0 | not toxic |
If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck .... | 0 | not toxic |
Yep! | 0 | not toxic |
Man, when is Paxton Lynch going to be ready? It's time to throw him out there...and see what we have. I understand he lost the QB battle, and that he looked terrible in preseason. But we can get 21-0, or better, with Paxton Lynch.
Heck, probably time to throw Brock out there. It will be ugly but Siemian deserves to take a seat. He's a solid to good back-up QB. At least we now know and can move on. | 0 | not toxic |
Maybe. At least there is accountability for vanity. Nothing that Springfield did just now, including the weird and massively expensive roundabouts project that suddenly is reversing a long held City policy not to confiscate private ownership in Glenwood through immanent domain has any meaningful public input or accountability. The consolidation happening is something that is being fast-tracked and pushed and is not spontaneously occurring from the economics of the situation or the economic good of the city or Glenwood. And, as a diversion, all this activity and private investment positioning is being fronted by a showcase CLT parking lot that purports to revitalize a timber economy that someone needs to acknowledge is not going to return anytime soon. At least Kitty Piercy cannot do things like this in a vacuum and I hope Eugene locates its new city hall by "recycling" the EWEB building at the river. A truly "carbon neutral" choice. | 0 | not toxic |
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