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State and County taxpayers will cover his criminal defense all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States if he is indigent. The only involvement by Mexico (if he is, indeed, a Mexican citizen) is to file the customary protest if the death penalty is sought by the prosecution and complain if his jail does not m...
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Using the UN statistics (how were they computed?) helps sensationalize the issue but gives little insight into what is happening at this time in Canada. The first step in understanding the issue is defining it properly. Apparently a non-ideological analysis conducted with real scientific rigour, that considers both ge...
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A few thoughts: Democrats have been running Denver for decades. If their ideas and policies were effective, why the high cost of housing now? Did they fail to plan? I think the Democrats running Denver secretly LOVE high housing prices because it brings in more tax revenue. Instead of the same old rob Peter to pay P...
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Now lets get Hilary and Obama!!!!
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Ditto Toby Keith. Who now plays his gittar for the Saudis. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/toby-keith-perform-men-only-concert-saudi-arabia-during-trump-n761761
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socks with birk sandals? This whole 'ugly is beautiful' irony trend is completely out of control.
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Social license is a crock!!
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So what may happen if the government takes action to curtail the use of fossil fuels and promote "green" energy sources? Has anyone researched the effect tens of thousands of wind turbine farms will have on the relative motion between the Earth and its atmosphere? Has anyone researched the effect that thousands of squa...
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New elections. You can't shove proportional representation down the electorate's throat without a referendum.
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Bonnie Cler needed to mind her own business. It's none of her business how harsh the world was or who needed to think for them. I think the dad did exactly what he needed to do to raise the children into responsible, self productive adults. Her opinion as a youth leader was not needed or deserved. Good job dad!
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Garbage. What clear,verifiable evidence do you have to make such an outrageous claim? In short there is no problem other than the one your ignorance is desperately trying to make. The guy in Ottawa was a nutter who used his religion and faith to justify hurting people. His family disowned him. To characterize him as a...
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"Denounced by all". To hell with you G&M, and your suggestion our freedom to speak should be curtailed. A multitude of people detest her....in life, you reap what you sow. She's reaping the scorn for proceeding with her twisted personal agenda.
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The murder of transgenders this year has been one of black men killing black transgenders. Great denial out there in GLBT and BLM community on this problem.
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Coal miners pensions have nothing to do with oil and gas development. Not to mention the fact that coal pays billions in annual taxes and royalties.
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Like China and India were really going to abide by the non binding agreement. They were just going to let the USA commit economic suicide, then say, "Oh, that's okay, we were just joking".
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Re: "When will President Trump respond to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine?" Not until (Ras)Putin releases all he's got on his Washington puppet. (He is such a 'vengeance' kind of guy.) "Blackmail" is such an ugly word. Let's just admit T-rump is 'owned' and be done with it.
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It takes much more than one (1) percent of revenue to maintain the brick and mortar stores. Is your editor working?
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With my rogue home province of Quebec in the lead, the whiners within the entertainment community are pounding the drums once again. Several articles in the past few days have echoed the high end welfare club's anger over the federal government's decision. Of course, they fail to point out that more than 80% of Telefil...
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"exploitation, enslavement, and evitable destruction of the Earth, Abzu, and atmosphere alike" It's not possible to have an intelligent conversation with someone who's entire thought process is one hyperbole after another.
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I believe this was the 'meilleur' décision given the circumstances.....
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I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Pickard's letter. The use of violence to shut down the free speech of anyone is repugnant and completely unacceptable in our free society.
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This is particularly valuable information for almost every 71 year old in Canada. It is an extremely efficient strategy to manage that pesky income tax.....everybody should give away that $60,000 RRIF payout mandated by the Government.
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A sad day for the families of the missing sailors.
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Make it illegal for foreigners to buy property in BC and see what happens. That might be away to test this hypothesis. I could predict the outcome of that experiment.
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Once upon a time, you could get a 2 door Camry, and a station wagon Camry, and not just a 4 door. Same with the Corolla which had hatchbacks, wagon, sports versions, etc. This was cheap for companies to just change parts of the back of a car and using a lot of the same parts instead of having every model in just one ...
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No it won't.
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The Democrats last gasp. It's good to see them reduced to this. Damn animals showing their true colors.
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The author's contention seems to be that being noticed is not the objective of people demonstrating in public, and, thus, ignoring them will have no effect.
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There appear to be select segments of our society that get a "pass" on personal responsibility. :-/
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A voice of reason and rationality. Thanks, Dieter! Mixed use development has been the norm this past decade and it's pace will only increase. While I mourn the loss of the mom & pop character of the past around Cherry Creek, every big city's "Cherry Creek" area is going through the same thing. Change is inevitable, e...
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A lot of the millenials I know were maxing out their TFSA by priotizing their spending and/or appreciative of the extra space and hoped to fill it soon. These were I guess of the less entitled lot of millenials who work hard and save. But I see nothing but truth in Ryan's overall post that Trudeau's policies will hur...
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Curious if you are directing your comment to the bombers or SouthStander. It is indented a bit, leading me to believe it is the latter.
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. . . as long as they don't seek ordination.
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You would think they would know how, after all, they always appear to be on drugs.
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The excellent curricula from the Abstinence and Marriage Partnership will equip middle and high school students with vital, critical decision making tools that will help them throughout their lives. Students completing the curricula will learn how to make choices that will move them toward positive goals, and away fro...
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Illegal crossings have probably not stopped. The fact that the media are no longer reporting on them implies to me that the rate of crossings has probably decreased making this no longer newsworthy. If they were coming over in their thousands every day, it would be reported on, guaranteed. Perhaps the word has got back...
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Is the Globe and mail editorial board actually suggesting PM Trudeau might say something that he does not believe?
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Still looking .-)
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Good god, who actually still thinks this. Give me a break, this is just utterly stupid.
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If Obama fired the AG the Conservative crowd would be yelling "constitutiona crisis!" "un-American" etc. etc. etc
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Other than Gas plant you mean? Other than Ehealth?
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They would be peaceful if we didn't invade them. But no we invaded Afghanistan or sorry the US invaded Afghanistan, Iraq Libya and now Syria but also forays into Yemen Somali Pakistan and we drop bombs on them killing civilians tens of thousands we destroy their infrastructure all of this to protect Israel and prevent ...
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This is nothing new and that hasn't been seen in cities with similar real estate "issues" in Vancouver. Go try and find a gas station in Manhattan......there are fewer than 12 of them below 96th St....and a total of around 50 or so down from 80 to 90 a decade ago, and dropping. Its all about real estate value, zoning...
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Early abortions are not major medical procedures, normally.
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Ok Bible people know that 1 Elizabeth was too an older women. Mary and Joseph were close in age. Come on people read the Book
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Russia's Pravda published a daily litany of lies and falsehoods the average Russian knew was just propaganda. Glorious praise for the great workers paradise compared to the hell hole of American. capitalism. The failure of the propaganda ushered in the collapse of the USSR The failure of the credibility of American...
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Trudeau and the Globe and Mail are completely out of touch with Canadians actual viewpoints!
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I would have to agree. As a regular international visitor to Hawaii, I was looking forward to the opening. I, too, was impressed by the quality of construction and care for the trees. However, we went for dinner and were very disappointed by the variety and prices on offer. Admittedly many of the restaurants and shops ...
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Buy the dumb voters with massive debts for their children. (Worked great for Greece.) Saddle taxpayers with $1 billion in penalties shutting down gas plant contracts to buy two election seats. Pay wind and solar electrical producers to not produce, more than doubling off peak consumer hydro costs since 2006. Then artif...
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Funny really funny!
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This is a highly marketed, entertainment business first, so Shapiro's cynicism is understandable. Rubes will come, wearing team merchandise, and Rogers will make big money regardless of the baseball played.
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Loretta Sheehan has every right to question and challenge she is trying to do a job. The Chief so concern with her being involved.“I don’t, frankly, think he has a leg to stand on,” Sheehan said., why so scared chief.. Aloha
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It's simpler than that...just go find the proof, and you'll prove me wrong. Very easy. But instead you continue your way.
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Oh precious child. Have someone read the article to you and explain the big words. “Organizers included the Nationalist Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; the Traditionalist Worker Party, which wants a separate white ethno-state; Anti-Communist Action, a right-wing group that believes America is being threatened by ...
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I guess the only way to look at this is to add $500,000 to the big bill on homeless that the City and State have spent so far. You can add to that the $2 million-something that the City is having to give back to the Federal Government, unable to spend for housing programs that would have actually helped this group with...
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The same to you, Tater.
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Wrong
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To be completely accurate, they are not the core messages of these Gospel texts that you wish to present. However, they do tie in into the Church’s understanding, particularly of the sacrament of Reconciliation. The Jewish process of forgiveness involved sin - repentance - forgiveness (up to a point limited in numbers...
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This is a terrible tragedy no doubt. No financial reward will ever replace a lost daughter. I can also understand that there is tremendous anger at the health care system in general. It is dysfunctional - perhaps beyond repair. We need to be very careful where we point fingers though. Mom's quote makes me very sad...
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Best comment of the night!!
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We have well funded, really great schools, but they are saddled with a bureaucracy and benefits/retirement system, that sucks up most of the operational funds, and the administrations incessant micro-management also stifles the teachers efforts to educate our kids.
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Trump Attacks Democrats For Not Helping Repeal Obamacare Trump lives in a truth-free bubble. He's trying to pull the rest of us in. I guess he was standing too far away from the teleprompter he never uses to see the script he never read with his aging eyes, which are in the best shape of any President's eyes, ever...
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It must have been a good comment to be taken down
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People who patronise the smaller stores paid a price for convenience. Whatever else you can say about Walmart the price of living dropped by 10% to 15% when the 1rst Walmart opened in a Region and broke the Family Compact / Chateau Clique cartel that used to set supermarket and department store prices. Eatons, Simpsons...
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Tulsi's motivations are wonderful, but she did not do her homework. We all make mistakes, I hope Tulsi learns from this one.
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and pay no Canadian taxes.
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It was like someone put every Woody Allen trope in a blender and hit the Chop button. Jesse Eisenberg doing Woody is impressive for about twenty minutes, then tiring, then torture. But, you know, Woody's like the Chicago Cubs. "Wait till next year!"
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This is quite possibly the best piece of trolling I've ever read. Bravo, Mr. Trost.
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Islam is a religion, and we have always been free in this country to criticize a religion and disagree with their stance on various issues. Christianity for instance still comes under criticism to this day. It would be informative to hear how those who practice Islam are discriminated against , since like all religions...
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I'm not sure what you mean by shareholders giving, but without hopefully sounding to cold here..."right-sizing" is just a given with business. If you had three people who you regularly paid to do your lawn care, and you decided two could do it well and besides you couldn't really afford to pay three anymore, wouldn't y...
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Thank you SO much, Elizabeth, for your very informative and entertaining article about the Globe. It's really nice to be invited inside and be shown around the paper we love so much, yet know virtually nothing about. Greatly appreciated!! :)) Sold to a developer . . . . and . . . . then what??? Thanks very much. You a...
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OS: You state you live on a slice of heaven out in the country. You have critters roaming about. Your problem with motley is not with CRITTERS, its that he is RIGHT and YOU are WRONG..............
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The Federal judge effectively elevated Moore to higher office when he removed him from the bench for hanging a copy of the ten commandments in the court house.
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Good information on anti-semitism in the British Labour party I wrote many comments on this site of this issue many months ago. There was silence at that time by the M.S.M. and Mr. Saunders. British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ignoring the political ramifications is seeing his party poling numbers fal...
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Parolin added, praising Trump, that “the future leader has already spoken like a leader.” (catholicculture.org) And the next day Parolin said that “points of dialogue” between the Vatican and Trump include peace and “internal subjects such as religious freedom, Catholics’ commitment and attention to the most vulnerabl...
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Just glad that we have a competitive race for Gov. Often we would get uncontested or weak challengers. Quiet and Ineffective does not cut it in this day and age. Perhaps our Gov will become a one term wonder like his predecessor?
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You know, I have seen a lot more stories about U.S. Congressman misbehaving in public bathrooms then transgender people. Perhaps they should be the subject of such an ordinance.
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I'm sure he feels threatened by your juvenile comments (were he even to see them). How childish.
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The Dems should get behind Margaret Stock. She is honest, level-headed and practical. She has my vote!
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Begich might be a threat but not as bad as the threat of Obama poisoning us with chemtrails, male perverts in the girls lavatory, Muslims imposing sharia law, or the teaching of sex education in high schools.
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the root of all of this was to get the uncle out of the picture by framing him so that the elder abuse could continue with Katherine taking from her grandma. Elder Abuse. Aloha
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HB 247 http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/29/Bills/HB0247F.PDF
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rbfromcalgary writes: "Go ahead and tap dance around THE issue, which is immigration." The word "immigration" is alt.right code for "Muslims". rbfromcalgary writes: "Gender equality - gone. Separation of church and state - gone. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press - gone. A thousand years of hard-won pr...
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Hey Sutton, This could be you making real money.
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Chickens are the best! They are highly entertaining and lay eggs to boot!
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Trump is a racist, …and a petty con man, …and a traitor. But back to the racist part. That's what attracted so many of his supporters. There is no longer any doubt that Mueller's office is investigating Trump for collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation, …it's just a matter of time n...
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That's freaky. I would never have guessed she used to be a guy.
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You forgot the CBC's hypocrisy aver the "Q" guy, whose name I have already forgotten.
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He deserved it; he inherited a healthy economy, and then tanked it.
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This budget, as proposed, is mean-spirited and hard-hearted. If it was passed as is, along with the republican-crafted house health care bill, the homeless population would explode and emergency rooms would be inundated with the uninsured. But, trump certainly doesn't care. In his eyes, if you can't afford it, yo...
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I'm not talking about subsidization. I'm talking about regulation that would keep the pharmaceutical and insurance companies in check.
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I remember this story like it was yesterday, because I was 17 and 7 months pregnant. I wept when I read the story, but after I had my daughter on November 4, 1986, I looked at her and would think of you. I sobbed for that baby. I prayed, and thanked God I was blessed with a safety net, my mom. I was so happy to hear ...
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People vote against across the board increases that give the largest increases based on time in service with no performance component. Why can't a brilliant, motivated, energetic, highly-educated teacher that proves that s/he can facilitate high levels of student achievement be paid the same as the teachers with 25 yea...
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Trudeau has done the FN peoples are far greater disservice then Harper ever did, he gave them false hope. The inquiry is going nowhere because it was never intended to - like the many other promises Trudeau made to the FN to get their vote and has now reneged on.
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While Picard is right in principle that misuse of antibiotics promotes resistance, this is not the key problem in the case of tuberculosis. TB bacteria are special little critters, and there is little overlap between the drugs used against them and those used against other bacterial pathogens; therefore, misuse of the ...
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"Practice for what?" - .....hitting targets. And I don't call it "practice," but you seem to like the term. . "The purpose of a gun is not to be a long-distance hole punch for a paper target." -- it is if I want it to be. Olympic shooters do it every day-- you would sure hurt their feelings with such talk. LOL . "A gun...
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The bottom line is the legacy of poor leadership by Lane County...going back to Steve and his manipulation of planning and permits as a profit center. And the current so-called conservatives have ignored this to their political benefit.
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I am sick of hearing about this issue. Please give them the all the of the pfd money, tell them it's the last time for free money. Let's get on with the state income tax, of which there will be no more money given for houses built on sand bars. This is one of those pointless topics of conversations because there is no ...
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It is not a question of whether the county can tax enough to give employees what they want. Of course they can. The question is what is reasonable pay. This cannot be answered by referencing pay to other counties as all counties face zero competition or need to be frugal. Pay should be determined by a combination o...
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I'm very surprised this hasn't already happened. IMO, the BCLibs political donations stance was a major reason for them losing so many seats. h11: You are correct - the NDP best not forget this. And best move soon, or earlier.
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