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Today's terrorism preference does set the example that the hysteria over dirty bombs and in some cases outright invasion was little more than fear inducing subterfuge to justify over-wrought and narrow minded 'anti-terrorist' policies and expenditures Terrorism wins by inducing fear and it's most successful when the fear isn't even credible, let alone likely If this was happening right after Bush's Homeland Security buildout, I'd expect renting a car would become kinda like flying on a plane, I'm guessing their solution would be to force car rental customers to drive shoeless We can't allow ourselves to become overly reactionary to acts of terrorism We can't allow policy makers to take advantage of the fear to justify ill-advised or unconstitutional responses Much of the factors in the militarization of our police forces are examples of over-reaction. Private contractors profiteering off of military policy is emblematic of questionable responses. Terror wins if we give in to it

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The stories are quite cleverly done. Today, for instance there was this story: http://www.usatwentyfour.com/white-house-press-secretary-josh-earnest-says-men-entering-girls-locker-rooms-civil-right/ The headline makes a stark claim, that Obama's press secretary said that men being able to enter the girls locker room is a civil right. The commentators erupted in indignation, saying if a man enters a locker room with their wife or daughter they would castrate or kill him. Of course, no one thought Trump entering the pageant changing room was the same situation at all! If you look at the transcript of the press conference, there is a question about HB2 and then some blah blah from the press secretary about standing up for civil rights has been a priority of the Obama administration. He certainly never made any comment about "men" in general being able to do anything. To that audience, it would be just as upsetting if the headline said "transgender" but it pushes one step further anyway.

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At risk of inserting politics... Last week the administration deeply offended Britain, our nation's closest ally and friend in all of the world, with a completely baseless claim that they spied on Donald Trump. Now comes this, a moment when we should be rushing to Britain's aid, and our relationship with that country, which stood by us even through the Iraq War that most of the world opposed, is in a toxic place. This is the result of people making poor choices in the voting booth. It could have been avoided. The world matters.

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O'Leary is a coward!! A coward for joining the race after the French language debate and for demanding sub-servience of thirty Conservative MPs before he would run. Having based himself in the USA, he brings no Canadian civility, courage or knowledge of what Canada is or needs. Canada's Trump.., likes the look of himself on TV and fills any mirror he stands in front.

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These columns are always rather amusing as they seem to suggest the senior exec's really don't have all the answers and often are oblivious to blatantly obvious things. I worked in a lot of different places and every so often someone would come up with the bright idea that the company could save money by paying people less. Sure enough, the next time they hired, someone was hired and ... Well, they were less-well-qualified for the job. That might have been okay if the company made some sort of provision to "train" the new person up to the level required. But the 'Pay-People-Less' thing was always about 'Saving Money', so there was no provision for training. And as for trying to create an environment where people feel engaged, I guess that feeds back to the 'Pay-People-Less' thing and ending up with less-qualified people that you don't really trust. Then there's the 'Hiring-Contractors-Whenever-You-Need-Them' thing ... Great team-building with that, eh?

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"Where are the mass demonstrations, the solidarity vigils, the media campaigns, the protest songs? Good question. The answer, my friend, is nowhere. Because Canadians think war is sexy and they want to "give war a chance". The dogs of war are a politician's best friends. The fog of war has been so thick since 9/11, Canadians can't see the angels of our better nature.

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Dock workers have nothing to do with crews employed aboard ship. You don't even read article or have no idea what you are talking about.

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Not sure why this is such a controversial issue. I know veterans who support the protest (i.e. they fought for the right for those to express themselves) and vets who think the whole thing is silly and disrespectful. In the end it is under two minutes that this freedom to protest occurs. Why all the fuss over two minutes? Sigh! Remember that the original intent of the protests were to bring attention to police violence and harassment on African Americans. Which is a problem in this country that needs to be addressed - its intent was never to demean veterans who fought valiantly for the right to protest.

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If Trump was suggesting a limit on how many tourists can come to anywhere you hypocrites would be all over it, jumping up and down and saying "IT's UnConstitutional!".

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You obviously are not from Alaska. TNR will do nothing up here except create a smorgasbord for our local bear population. We cannot afford 'managed colonies' and residents here are continually told not to leave food out because it entices the bears. Or would you prefer we give TNR preference over the risk of our children? smh

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This may seem obvious, but "college" means nothing. What you chose to study does.

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This carefully choreographed "event" was executed for the sole benefit of one who disdains deliberate governance in favor of self-aggrandizing grandstanding and his distracted followers, who're not paying attention to what's going on offstage.

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"severely depressed Obama-era defense budgets" I imagine one of those slide whistles playing as Ohio Dan says this.

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Thought women hd more barins than this.

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Age has not been kind to her.

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Ive been up on Belford-Missouri-Oxford five times, in the winter twice. If you don't know the area very well or if you get turned around in a white-out snow storm, you could be heading down a side of the mountain, into a drainage from which in tough conditions, you could tire very easy and have to find shelter. Spending a night over 12K ft, especially with blizzard conditions coming in, I really feel for the man who very well might be stranded alone in extremely dire conditions. I hope the outcome is a positive one!

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Is Huang really dedicated to reform? From above: "That is a rumor," Huang said outside of the summit. "I am the person who arranged to stop using prisoners organs from January 2015," He said Feb. 7, the first day of the conference. "[There have been] no more since my announcement, no doubt." But according to the link below, Huang was peddling Chinese organs in Taiwan in December of 2014: http://www.dafoh.org/opposing-organ-trade-china-comprehending-doublespeak-taiwan/ Huang himself is a liver transplant surgeon and over a ten-year span of time transplanted roughly 2 liver/week. According to researchers, during that same time period, the vast majority of organs were actually sourced from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience and it is unlikely that Huang is unaware of that. http://www.dafoh.org/letter-to-the-vice-chancellor-of-university-of-sydney-questions-honorary-professor-title-to-huang-jiefu/

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Tell me about it. The country which was largely responsible for 9/11 and with the most restrictive interpretation of Islam, and we let them in wholesale. But hey, they have all that lovely oil and money.

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Is that what you do when you over spend? Tax someone?

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I think that Ms Zille needs to consider the first rule of digging holes that she seem to believe should be ignored: Rule 1: STOP! Rule # (however many you need before implementing Rule#1): Refer to Rule 1

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So why isn't Williams also charged?

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Last time I checked California was part of the US, and if each citizens vote counted equally, Clinton would be the winner.

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Looks more like the mother-in-law of all bombs to me. NBC's "Manimal" was actually the original mother of all bombs back in 1983. Don't kill any "beautiful babies," eh !

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Yet still correct.

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Actually, I thought it was folks from Latin America.

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Actually, while we will never know for sure, he probably could have. From what I could see during the election, while both camps had their staunch supporters, many voters seemed to pick who they viewed as the lesser of two evils. Trump came across rather buffoonish (not sure if that's really a word) but Hillary is/was completely untrustworthy, elitist, and entitled. She literally turned the stomachs of many people I spoke with. Democrats, mind you, who voted for trump because they had too much self respect to hand the nation over to Hillary.

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I never said she was. Scripture only says that Jesus drove out a substantial amount of evil from her, healing her. Could have been any number of sins of hers. Sexual sins do, in general, tend to multiply quickly, corrupting much of the integrality of the self, the mind, the will, the body, the passions, etc. And further her response to Him from that point forward was clear: union, reparation, acts of charity toward Him. And then you continue with the ugly personal attacks! If I bring out the ugly in you please don't respond to any of my original posts. "Avoid the near temptation..." as the Church so wisely and beautifully teaches.

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By now, I ought not to be amazed at this inability of the hierarchy to see what it has wrought, but I am. As you say, this wound of clericalism is self-inflicted. It has been causing harm for a very long time, and now that harm has reached huge proportions. And the hierarchy continues to refuse to see itself and its legal structures and strictures as root cause of the problem.

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Send Trudeau, Morneau and the name of your local MP the name of the person you intend to fire and the charities that will no longer be receiving any contributions. Make it personal.

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maybe not exactly in line with the subject but... how come the liquor industry can have "tastings" ?? if pot is to be treated like alcohol then the punishment he gets should be the same as if a similar infraction took place in a buisness dealing with alcohol.. BTW.. 420 is SOOO lower 48... we legalized Feb 24th.. in Ak we should say 224 !!!!

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Wish we could filter citizens the same way.

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What have the Trumps been convicted of and sentenced for? At least follow your own standards. Where is proof that the Russians rigged the election? Where is proof of "voter suppression"? What was your own standard again? Oh yes: "Convicted and sentenced." A funny gif of a golf ball hitting someone isn't "a violent sense of humor." Why the need for exaggeration? Seriously: A golf ball joke is ALL you have. You're seriously afraid of Trump calling the loon in NK a Rocket Man? Please, feigned outrage. 2nd Amendment people? He did not call for assassination. Do you know what the NRA-ILA is? Of course you don't.

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Stonie: It was sweet while it lasted, I can see the smug patterns and the pumpkin heads coming back, already. Did someone say that Phil has two Cup rings, one for each hand?

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Actually, we have ZERO proof of Trump's claim that "millions voted illegally". Obviously, he just made that up as he has done with everything else he spouts. Best, RTD

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No, the people of God , East or West are each " breathing with only one lung " . And that is everyone's problem. We are one Body ... laboriously struggling to live .

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Watch out for the land sharks!

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Says the guy who allowed himself to be duped by Obozo for eight years.

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Would you enjoy being greeted each day by strangers or co-workers saying "Ooh Sexy"?

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"...further investigation of the source of what caused the elevated lead levels." Wince. Where's the editor when s/he's needed?

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Let's face it...the rail was a political tool to get people elected as mayor from the very beginning. No thought of the big picture on future issues the rail will encounter...cost over run, maintenance, power supply cost, qetc. You hit the spike on the head...

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keep deleting my posts - you will be proven wrong, and already were - you know that. I do not forget that action.

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So true.

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It's vitriol to expect cops to follow the law? Amazing. At what point does one toss out all expectations and concede that racism is okay, government corruption is okay, ignorance is okay. At what point does one toss logic out the window just so one won't be bitter?

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Thank you for the facts RG. In sticking close with one of your editorial values, can I ask for a little transparency as well? Just wondering what level of 'scoring' by the peers justifies removal? Is it a percentage of total votes, a fixed number of 'uncivil' votes? If it's all the readers votes, wouldn't it be a logical extension to make the number of votes known to the peers?

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An old man can attract young gold diggers

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US military strength exceeds all three of these countries combined and the US would completely dominate the air with nearly 3x the fighter jets of Russia. What are they seriously going to do? Sit down and shut up.

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Before he can decide to be president, he has to learn what that means and what the expectations of him now are. At the moment, it seems he thinks the office is just another CEO-ship figurehead position where he says "jump" and the "company" (government) asks "how high" and makes it happen, while he checks his personal financial statements and sits back figuring he said it, it must be halfway accomplished already.

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I see we are doing a great job of passing the entitlement philosophy on to our foreigners who like to complain about the country they landed in. future liberals they are.

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Many fleets are moving to EVs even now, most are not long haul trucks but urban delivery and service vehicles... post office, courier, service tech, etc. these often do much less than 200 kilometres a day, returning to the same depot (think recharging) daily, and are idle overnight - perfect to take advantage of time of day hydro pricing.

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OK, so where is the smoking gun?

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I'm glad someone else sees that. The comments thrown at Sandra Jansen were deplorable, but hardly unique to women. For example, just yesterday I read an online comment stating that Trudeau "deserves to hang" for his recent comments on Fidel Castro. The immediate response was that "Harper deserves to hang" too (though no reason was given for this statement -- the commentator just hates Harper, I guess). This sort of vitriol is commonplace, but apparently it's only worthy of a column in the G&M when directed at women. I'd rather see a rational discussion of this problem as it applies to all people, but that's unlikely, given how writers such as Ms. Renzetti frame it.

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Well maybe all the folks on the Southside can stop bad mouthing Spenard now since it is obviously far more dangerous over there........

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As the Globe continues to publish story after story, Trudeau's coziness and complicity with Chinese Communist kleptocrats becomes clearer and clearer. Chinese corruption is massive, endemic and inherent in Communist governance in China. The fact that the Liberals of Canada are in bed with, and benefit from their partnership with this odious regime, should be cause for alarm among Canadians.

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Are you getting tired of all the federal subsidies and tax free living up here?

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'''Rona Ambrose has no skeletons in the closet, ''' Are you the inside brain that knows this???

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The French system is largely a single-payer, government-funded system. The government reimburses citizens for most health care costs, on an income-related scale. As for American's views on health care, they are obtuse, blinded by the words "socialized medicine". Rant and rave all you want about my point of view, but they've managed to create the most expensive health care system in the world with one of the lowest life expectancies, highest infant mortality rates and the highest rate of personal bankruptcy due to catastrophic illness in the G20. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of their handling of this issue. .

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Governor Walker: You can't even build a road between King Cove and Cold Bay as you promised during your campaign. Get on that D9 and start the road!

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Nice try at "rightsplaining" Trump and, predictably, blaming the left. I'd guess you don't see the irony.

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You missed the point about his residence. He hasn't actually lived in P.E.I. for over forty years. When challenged to prove his residence requirements he had to apply for P.E.I. provincial health care, driver's licence plus promote his summer cottage as his primary residence.

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So Hillary as SoS and the Clinton foundation taking money from foreign donors and countries wasn't a conflict of interest? So tired of this biased main stream media and the fact that it is actually blinding the majority of people. Trump won the election despite it being rigged against him and he will be a great president.

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Fine, anyone who wants to ingest Fluoride to improve their dental health is, as a free citizen, perfectly able to add that themselves to the water that they consume daily. Forcing everyone to consume it is a supremely extreme measure to accommodate those that want or need a dental treatment. Stop adding fluoride to the water supply and you will drastically reduce the numbers of people stopping on the highway for water at the pipe. Those that do it for the taste can use a simple carbon filter to remove the chlorine taste. Fix the public water is the logical answer.

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Alaska doesn't need more donuts. It needs more broccoli, cabbage, carrots. We're too fat and getting fatter.

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yup. As long as the kitchen sink has a disposal.

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Excellent piece, Mr.Meyer. You've delineated the difference between the neo-hunter who seeks "book trophies" to hang on his wall, perhaps to impress himself - but too often to impress his friends & visitors, no matter how tarnished those trophies may be - as when taken from high-fenced "cultured" stock or merely shot by the wannabe hunter who knows nothing of the habits of the animal he pursues, & was taken by the hand to the beast by an indulgent professional. Nevertheless, healthy game populations best bet for survival depend on the game "singing for their supper" through hunting. If wild animals lose their financial value, they will be eliminated, so we should all support & promote ethical sports hunting.

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They are convinced they are victims, why do you think they will give up that excuse just because they get older? It will always be somebody else's fault.

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A country gets the government it deserves. The US deserves Mr Trump. The good news is that Mr Trump will be impeached long before his term expires.

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Reasons for this persistent lack of access to healthcare are (1) the failure to properly inform health plan members in these communities of this legal right and how to assert it, (2) a lack of interest in the enforcement of network adequacy laws by responsible state officials, including DHS (MedQuest) and DCCA (insurance commissioner), and (3) weak state laws. Thankfully, an IMPORTANT new law passed this session, SB387, which better articulates and clarifies legal requirements for adequate health plan networks. The press ignored this bill (which may be why it got through), but now that it is law, those concerned with health care disparities and access to care in rural areas should begin to understand it. We must call on state officials to begin using this potent new policy tool. Our health plans have annual revenues exceeding $6 billion, and the ability and legal responsibility to improve access to care in rural and undeserved communities. Let's insist they start doing so.

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So what would you propose Elaine? Move to the single payers system that provides quality coverage to everyone at less cost per capita than the US has ever paid for health care? Or repeal and replace with a Repub plan that covers fewer, shifts the costs to the elderly, and will still cost cost the US more per capita in health services than America's allies. It is noteworthy that the Trump plan failed because it was not cruel enough to America's marginalized citizens for the Freedom Caucus.

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You mean like Mr.Ed isn't talking, because this is talking and it isn't a horse. Or are you deep down sad that you can't accept it? Or are you in Moscow working for 4500 a year with no hope of democracy? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Thanks to the 16 who voted for a planned and ordered future for Oahu

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More malfeasance by the Gupta's and their cronies. It is getting to be the new normal. Soon there will be contracts where Billions are paid for nothing at all.

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Interesting to see your experience. I'm ģlad you were able to find and access opportunities here. It is frustrating when people make sweeping judgments about countries with different demographics, size and geography and decide their statistics prove our problems could be solved if we adopt their policies. Looking at real people's lives is not definitive but is certainly instructive. Thanks for sharing.

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I am a white woman who was date raped in 1982 by a white male much older than me. I was a few months short of being 20. I have since learned to identify predatory male behaviour. Colour is not an issue. It is male behaviour. When a man refuses to hear a woman who says NO, the issue is the man's not the woman's.

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Let's review - The $650k covers until the 2017 dividend is paid... 675k people filed... I guess we need to see how many of the "flagged" applications are fraudulent out of the 4,000. I am not for how this contract was awarded, just fixing the math involved. Plus, what if the lawsuit wins and the PFD is actually $2k or more?

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You realize that the U.S. regularly sells Taiwan billions of dollars in arms? They don't make it a secret.

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College: BA Hawaiian Studies; JD w/focus on international/environmental law; Work: Prior, Disney Imagineering; current, State of Hawai'i and small business enterprise (start-up); Student Loan: Over $70,000. Home: Not with parents because their house is too small, but I live in my grandparent's house. Hawai'i has one of the highest costs of living in the nation with average home price of roughly $700,000. Can't buy a home because new housing inventories are virtually non-existent and when they are available, locals compete against out-of-state buyers or second (or more) home-owners, who are planning to resale the house for profit or rent it out until the mortgage is paid (at which time they'll resell at substantially more than what they originally purchased for). Can't rent because of limited inventory, a landlord's market, and competing illegal vacation rentals (like airbnb). Millennials were screwed over by inefficient systems created by previous generations.

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This is exactly why if I need to have marijuana for pain relief I will grow it myself .

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Well Grasshoppers, I've lived here 20 years longer than you have, and downtown was not always like this, and people were not always unhappy with it. When they removed the streets to put in the "mall" the loiterers started hanging about and then the panhandling started, and it has been a progressive decline.

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There are all kinds of lefties out there who have convinced themselves that this is no problem and the more money government borrows and/or prints up and spends the better. Using that logic, there should be no effort made whatsoever to control spending.... just print up bazillions of dollars and deposit them into our bank accounts! Which obviously would lead to disaster. You know a leftie doesn't know what he's talking about when today's amount of overspending just happens to be just the right amount of overspending. And if the government is forced to go into debt more, well there must be a good reason and then that figure is right on the money, too. You get sick of listening to it. Obviously this will end in a bad way, especially for those with big debts and/or tenuous job prospects. We will eventually have inflation, a devalued dollar, climbing interest rates, and a seriously reined in federal government. Just a matter of time. Make sure you have some savings. Greece is the word.

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No, that is untrue. Political opinion columnists regularly employed by The Globe neither have nor require a bottom paragraph about their credentials. Free lancers who are given a one time or occasional column do get a brief paragraph at the end introducing them to the readers. Margaret Wente as a decades long Globe writer and formerly editor of the ROB and the overall paper and the winner of numerous awards for her columns (e.g. the only back to back winner of the annual best public affairs column in a major market newspaper) needs no introduction to Globe or other readers who follow political opinion closely. If you need to know more, do some cursory research such as reading her bio in the columnists roster section. Now, do you have anything relevant to say about the points in the actual column?

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If I'm an auto industry type in Ontario, already burdened by high electricity charges, generous benefits packages and wages, and knowing that Trump isn't a fan of domestic auto makers with branch manufacturing in Mexico , I'm sweating bullets. Canada isn't Mexico , yet. Trump doesn't care how we operate only that America comes first. I wish the Wynne government had waited a year or so to see what Trump was planning to do in regards to NAFTA. Then if she wanted to implement a cap and trade agenda, Ontario would be better positioned to compete, sort of. Now with the burden of these new costs added on to our nervy needs, she's made Ontario very weak to compete financially. Somebody has to pay.

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OR....you have yourselves to blame when the Union jobs and demands make many pack up and move their business elsewhere, not to forget the tax hikes Wynne and Co. loved to hoist on Industry. Why blame a western based economic driver? How very typical.

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So much for Neighborhood Watch! yeah, watch from a distance. And what was a 21 year old "man" doing with a gun? Packing it around for fun and games?

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They just like to tell others what to do, they don't do anything but talk

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actually they've always treated theft as a minor offense in this town. cops have been handing out tickets for thefts since the 90s

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"The previous 5 Canadian governments passed an average of 48 bills in their first year. Following Harper's Conservative majority win, 58 bills received Royal Assent. For the Trudeau Liberals, that number sits at just 11."

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Maybe just maybe it is not the schools job to feed the kids. I spend between 10-13 hours a day at my job and guess what, my employer says bring your own lunch. Now I've heard that government jobs provide lunch so people from Eugene wouldn't understand. No wonder schools can't teach all the resources go to the lunch room.

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This is all Clinton+Bush+Obama willingly ignoring our sovereingty as a nation over 2+ decades. These 800k+ illegals should have never been here from the start. Now the deplorables have to clean it up;)

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Those of us who have seen the elephant have to live with what we have seen and done. Some do it better than others. Fifty years after World War I (and a year after I returned from Vietnam), I asked my grandfather if the nightmares ever went away. He said they will subside, but never really go away.

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Opportunistically Outraged? Protesters who are furious that Donald Trump wants to deport 3 million immigrants but silent as President Obama has actually done it. "Let that sink in, President Obama has deported more immigrants than every President of the 20th century combined.

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Exactly. Real people who read the media ( on any subject) are often shocked by how plainly wrong it is all the time. We wonder, who are they writing all that twaddle for? And youve nailed the answer: articles are not written to inform readers, they are to advance narratives, shape official positions and to equip lobbyists and special interrsts.

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Dear Lowes: Next time someone has a dog trailing along behind them, barking and a long leash crossing between my elderly mother and some yapping dog, I plan to fall down and sue Lowes.

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Man, you keep bleating this as if it negates what SCOTUS said in Heller which Moore points out. I think you're suffering a form of Tourette's.

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IRT - Ron Sanderson - Giving away land owned by taxpaying citizens to social misfits is a recipe for even greater disaster. Have you considered some of YOUR Hawaii Kai property for "overnight campers down on their luck"?

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Are you a real expert on this subject (Wente does not claim to be one) or just a self-styled one?

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The reason why places like Japan, India and China have low immigration rates is because nobody wants to move there. Those countries are over-populated, crowded and generally unpleasant to survive in.

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It constantly amazes me that some people think they have the right to speak to people like this. I can guarantee Skyline4me doesn't talk to people like this face to face.

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I'm reminded of the Lotos Eaters: "Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more."

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So we have the 2nd biggest loon in Canadian politics history with his daddy being the biggest and only because he was in power for 700% longer so far. On the cover of Rolling Stone doing another selfie and the mentioning of why he isn't America's President. This poll is about the hatred of Trump. Also it would be nice to know exactly how it was proposed. I could care less about hitting this loon with another dumb deal. We supposedly sent 20 million to Clinton Foundation to help women. All of it will go to the women Billy mugged and Hillybilly said were sleazy.

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"The black Leonardo" also created recipes for the plants he worked with, thereby expanding their uses and increasing the market. Yay, Cyclones!

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