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This is why it behooves all police officers and agencies to keep up on the Legal Updates published and disseminated by the justice department. We also have Implied Consent, but I knew about the SCOTUS ruling on drawing blood before I retired, and that was almost two years ago.
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That you've finally conceded the point I was trying to make all along. Thank you.
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Your belief that Communists and Russians played a significant role in American politics during the 30s and 60s must have been transmitted directly into your amygdala by space aliens from Area 51. Surprise! Your tin foil hat did not protect you! Did you ever consider politics and reality may have had something to do w...
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Political people and civil servants do not build an ark, they need Canada First people with strong negotiation leadership skills; like myself. I have volunteered for this job, but was not asked to join the team, even though I said I was not interested in any salary. our team will be slaughtered by the Americans for on...
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That has exactly zero to do with how to properly drive a tractor trailer down a mountain. And you're calling others in over their head? LOL! When you're in a hole, STOP DIGGING
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It looks to me like you have already reached the conclusion that President Trump does not meet your standards and that you, like many members of the press, interpret everything that he says or does as a premise to support your pre-established conclusion. Your comments reveal your thought process. A conclusion in sear...
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Mr. King is the face of the Republican Party and the face of Trump voters.
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Omfg...this dated argument again? We all know that the modern day GOP and Democratic Party switched platforms on many issues...this includes issues of civil rights, the role of government in scientific research and advancement, and fiscal policy. Yes, Southern slave holders started the Democratic Party...but you don'...
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This was his community the place he lived, the people who loved him. we chose to honor him how we want. We could care less if you agree or disagree it was not about you!!!
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to nitpick...the "love thy" phrase is one of the few actual words quoted to be spoken by jesus , and his final answer. I believe the "first will be last..." is matthew and luke(?).
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Every time I hear that there is a problem with only one solution, in this case the Philadelphia solution, my antennae go up. Every time I read the Globe and Mail referencing itself glowingly in follow-up pieces as some sort of heroic journalistic institution for having inspired others to pursue and beat the very same...
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Hey SA! Why were all the earlier comments deleted?
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Agreed. But I think that authoritarian behaviour has a larger underlying premise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace
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The term "the government" is used as a scapegoat to create an imaginary adversary. It was a person(s) who fired the weapon. But that firing was not without justification because the person shot and other occupiers threatened with weapons. If someone threatens me with a weapon, it's either me or them, and there is ev...
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Other heroes: Gupta leaks whistleblower (greatest of all) Investigative journalists Judiciary Certain civic organizations eg outa, Helen suzman foundation Khoza Gordhan, Mcibisi Opposition political parties Vocal public in S.A. Former public protector
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IMO Mr Gross is one very savvy guy.... You can't spend 30 years in the bond markets (successfully) without basically getting about 4 PhD's in economics.
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Why not target them from the air? I will NEVER support another ground war in Korea.
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The main thing is to not lie to your husband. Is the party a must-attend? In that case you may need to leave him home, or lay out rules like one drink per hour. [I wonder how much the multiple-drink situation may be precipitated by party anxiety.] If you show up solo, you can simply say truthfully that he is not the p...
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I'm also quite struck by Winters' insistence on calling the policies of Barack Obama "neo-liberal." It's clear he doesn't quite understand what "neo-liberalism" really means. If there were any "neo-liberals" involved in the last election, it certainly wasn't Obama and Clinton. I'd like to say it was Trump, but I agree...
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The players won't stop, the owners have already shown what side of this issue they are on (the players side), and the MINORITY of snowflakes that are upset with the players that are protesting will eventually GET OVER IT...
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I respect your response, which is thoughtful and informed. No, I am not a public defender, never have been ... but I hold them in high regard as being overworked, underpaid and underfunded. It is difficult to have the time equal to private counsel when the taxpayers refuse to adequately fund the PDs. I have had co-coun...
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Same with my Dad; a WWII vet.
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I'm sure that sentence means something. Right?
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The 80 page report on opioid use is biased and purposely ambiguous in its findings. It should be taken with a grain of salt and if the pain persists come back tomorrow.
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My daughter worked for a short time in Toronto for $CDN 62,000.00 doing medical research and teaching at a university. Same job in the US south (Texas) was offered to her at $USD 106,000.00, no snow to shovel, low cost of living, and a 3 bedroom home on 2 acres with pool, palm trees and tennis court for $USD 230,000, s...
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We don't get to define "free speech" by our preferences relating to the content. Don't like nude dancing? Don't go to the bars which feature it. Don't like panhandling? Don't participate on either side of the transaction. Don't like sermons which condemn same-sex marriage? Don't go to those churches. Don't like s...
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Don Neal, I'm happy for you on earning $21,000 last year. Hope you can pay the city property tax on that every year for the rest of your life. Our city government is quite sure that what money you have is better spent by them. Our city government is here for you Don.
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The lies continue. Another Trump who the FAKE NEWS claims is engaged in shady dealings and blatant lies. And now he's being forced to hire a lawyer who represents organized crime gangsters - that demeans the great Trump name. The next thing you know he'll be cutting business deals with cell mates with romantic intenti...
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A dying party in Colorado. Good riddance.
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The left is against charters and vouchers because the outcome is not under their control. That includes teacher unions, democrat politicians and yes, the NAACP.
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Time to hold that bozo to full account.
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"Good luck finding corporate media that just reports the facts when it comes to Trump." Oh, that is just too, too funny. Of course, where we should go for "the facts" about Trump is Breitbart or Infowars or, better yet, his Twitter feed, right, bav? I'm with you - why on earth should we believe the work of reporters w...
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Obviously not. These comments prove otherwise.
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Doesn't sound like a fair price...lessay $15,000 per name, and the money goes directly to the voter. We have something of value to an astute businessman, I'll sell since there are no jobs here to feed my family. #maga
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We get tired of our Prime Ministers after two terms. If the economy was the be all and end all, we'd still have PM Chretien.
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nonsense.
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Situational_ethics_was_unmoored_from_absolutes,_however_the_natual_law_reasoning_of_the_Curia_is_unmoored_from_evidence_from_the_natural_world_and_is_equally_invalid,_whether_legitimate_or_not._The_moral_argument_on_abortion_would_actually_be_stronger_if_the_Church_recognized_that_ensoulment_happens_at_gastrulation_(wh...
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China is officially secular ======== Chinese or Chinese culture are highly secular. No matter any where Chinese society has the least religion followers (including in Canada), less than 10% of the population (same in Hongkong Taiwan or mainland or ... in Canada). That why DL is a ridiculous figure to Chinese. God king ...
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Hmm, make Mexico a poorer country, which leads to more people wanting to escape its poverty. Smart. Not to mention the children fleeing Central American gangs.
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I have to say this op-ed is above average in whininess for a Shannyn Moore piece - perhaps a solid 9 on a scale from 1-10.
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This week there’s a column to spare So Denise weighs in on day care. But there’s not enough space For her to whinge about race An occurrence exceedingly rare For a censor the limerick's uncivil When I wrote about this awful drivel. Let’s try this one for size, And see how many cries Cause that gnome to come out a...
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Does anyone else think that EFC1127A doth protest too much?
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Jeffrey Ryle: a warped legal sense of impacts have created a law that disallows dogs to sniff, romp and run like hell off leash, and at the same time, a law that allows trappers to plant deadly land mines anywhere they want. Your claim about trails originally made by trappers is BS. Do you have any evidence?
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"I can tell by what was covered mechanics, clothes, words...that the bulk of the formation was temporal, not supernatural." That is what the author chose to focus on and she has her own agenda. Again, I don't think we can know what Sophie may know or feel. We only have the mother's view, biased by her own considerat...
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The fact they have a powerful lobby group now pushing their second PM to put Canadian soldiers into "their" country of Ukraine to protect them from .... Russia I guess. Although Ukraine sure has more problems than Russia on its border.
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No-charluckles does. His quote. Take it up with him/her.
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Yes, it's a cumbersome system that I found acceptable within limits, but this latest device was a bridge too far. Cheers!
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Her own words define the best reason not to read anything pouring forth from this "snarky" woman who just wants to be "one of the boys" in vocabulary and human interaction.
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Or, there is this site: https://www.facebook.com/discoverdowntownspringfield
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Where did we Christians ever get the idea there could be no suffering in this world, in our life? Look at Jesus, the person upon whom our faith is based. He hardly escaped suffering. His message is how to deal with suffering. Arguments against the existence of God based on suffering and evil are off point, irreleva...
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These people can only make so many excuses for the dufus trump, so the only card they can play is deflection. I personally think it is durn funny how desperate they are.
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Bah. Defense teams are far more to blame. They invent every possible reason to delay cases to make sure that the time periods are used up in a flurry of useless paperwork.
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I'm for both - an income tax and a seasonal sales tax. That lets us capture revenue from both categories of visitors to our state. And a sales tax would mean that everyone pays while an income tax would pull in funding from where the money is - with the high earners. I'd even be OK with a flat income tax with zero e...
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Let me see if I have this correct. Her mother couldn't have given consent because she couldn't sign her name? Sounds like mom was illiterate. Had she grown up in that household, I guess mom wouldn't have been helping with the homework, building that project or even simply reading a bedtime story to her. I guess all ...
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Anyone killed by a cop is not justifiable unless other measures have been attempted. What is missing from this article is what crime did Mr. Crutcher commit in the first place? Be a large black man with a broken down vehicle in the middle of the road? Why the heavy police response? Race has become an issue in this who...
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No wonder Americans have no respect for public education leadership. What a complete asinine policy that wastes the time and efforts of all involved. Contact the police? To alienate, humiliate, and publicly shame children is in the "best interests of the children"??? The superintendent Christy Perry and the rest of the...
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I would agree with pretty much all of what you said, except the whole GOP bashing thing. We are talking about Hawaii, here. Not the mainland USA or nationally. HERE in Hawaii the democrats have RULED the state for 50 years with basically absolute control at all levels. All of the problems we have here are FULLY owned b...
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exactly...no one is helping her by encouraging lawless behavior..and not owing up to the consequences of your own behavior..or making excuses for sin.....the problem is a lot of people dont understand the word sin anymore..they think everything goes..and its all love love love..and no trust and obey...as scripture teac...
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Wow and I mean, "WOW"!... Who are conservatives?....what an incredibly stupid question! Conservatives are, a wide spectrum of, reasonably thinking people, who, for the most part, think that, Government intervention, in peoples business, personal and otherwise, (which by the way, fuels, 75% of the Canadian economy) s...
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The language has to basically be an immediate incitement to violence. That's a high hurdle. As odious and repugnant as these nazis are, along with Trump and their other enablers, the courts have said their right to assembly stands. But, they have a right to speak, not a right to be heard or respected.
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Uhhh no. I prefer imported freeloaders taking it every year.
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So if this comes to fruition I'll end up paying two extra taxes; I travel the TTC when I go downtown and thus I pay a tax every time I use it. If there are no tolls I'll end up paying for roads I don't use too. Just sayin'
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How on earth can you apply your Algebra teacher's statement to History? History has taught us how even the 'nicest' people behave when told it is okay to beat up a person with a different belief. During the Civil Rights protests, anti-integration zealots attacked (killed) not only Blacks but anyone who defended them ...
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Okay, let's round up all shoplifters and send them off to concentration camps.
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The American Indian "claims," also known as Treaties, were settle by the federal government after the government permanently took their lands away and put them on sparse Indian reservations. Sorry, nyman, but the good U.S of A. is strapped permanently with the American Indian treaties. How about the federal governmen...
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I like that Charlottesville draped its Robert E. Lee statue in black as a memorial to Heather Heyer. Not as good as taking it down, but they're working on that. I also like the one that was tarred and feathered. That was even better than shrouding one in black.
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77 million dollars worth of bigotry and disparagement against men. Why do I pay taxes to be denigrated? I should stop.
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and you are the king who decides everything? too funny.
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We won't have to wait that long to see the effects. Those young boys will grow into disillusioned, "alienated" young men pretty fast...
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More powerful than a million hashtags!
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And you, of course, were all ready-teddy in support of our last REAL president, no?
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Trump campaigned and serves with a unifying message: We are all Americans who would like to live in a great country that does what it was founded to do: make us free from government tyranny, taxation, and oppression. Meanwhile, his biggest foes are factions that by definition are divisive, singling themselves out fo...
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That is very true Naidoo; it is the poor who pay in the short and medium term but sooner or later even the fat cats pay. The financial crash of 2008 has affected us all including the bankers who caused it!
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They should shoot this monster right between the eyes and Morneau should resign. What a scam! What a gd rip off!
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this sounds to me to be a ruse to increase membership and accrue better revenue because they invested pension funds of workers and pocketed the interest without the knowledge of workers.they should stay-out of politics and concentrate on crime which affect workers daily.
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That's all the liberal MSM is good for firing off relentless insults on TV and then whine and cry when they are insulted back. Liberal Hypocrites.
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A woman who fights to keep a marriage together with an adulterous husband is manipulative, ambitious and cannot be trusted? I bet sexism had nothing to do with your support for Trump did it?
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Home inspections can not tell you if there is mold or asbestos behind the wall. It is only what they can see. Home inspectors have no liability, good luck on suing them. Many times they work hand in glove with the realtors as do the RE lawyers. Sometime the realtors will get home inspection done and present it to the p...
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Putin moving in on Belgium? I won't be voting for any Canadian soldiers heading off to that mission.
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"Russian sanctions must be upheld by all countries: Stéphane Dion" What on Earth for??? Their whole point was for the Obomba administration to save face around its blunderous Ukraine debacle. Now that Obomba is going there is no further point to the sanctions.
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France will be permanently and negatively changed by the African and Middle Eastern migrant tsunami, which is precisely why France's rivals want Macron to win.
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How about "BUCKS FOR LOLOs!", but in an affectionate, non-threatening, nurturing sort of tone. Or maybe, "Puff, puff, pass man! Follow the rules!"
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Nobody saw this coming? Go to any local sporting event, especially a Rockies game and witness 1/4 of the crowd cheering for the visiting team, then when that team leaves town, witness 1/4 crowd cheering for the next visiting team that shows up. Suddenly the sad reality sets in that this place is overrun with transplant...
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For everyone who is surprised that banks and other financial institutions don't mislead the public, I suggest you grow up. To think for a minute that a bank or other institution is not in the business to make money and mislead the public with it's advertising is ridiculous. If your a investor, reading the fine print i...
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Thankfully, self-driving is what is known Hard Problem that requires AI to solve 100%. We can get some of it working today, but just like with chat bots, it will fail to perform outside of narrow range of 'usual' parameters and will require human driver to bail it out. Now, BlackBerry going into self-driving many year...
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News flash for you, Jesus WAS assassinated... The other guy? Who cares.
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We think were lessors. Since we signed the lease. All negotiations were done with signing.
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Perhaps the biggest difficulty in understanding the Falun Gong movement is that there's really only two sources of information: Falun Gong itself, and the Chinese government. Getting unbiased information on the group isn't easy, however I recommend this lecture given by Benjamin Penny, an Australian authority on religi...
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The whole world knows that CIA stage-managed the 9/11, and lied on WMD. Who would believe them except Hussein Obama, and sycophants?
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My "boy" did lose "Bigly". So answer the question. What's up with the retro info back to 2008? Didn't see the inference to that year in this piece. That news is more current.
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I also miss the blocking. It was a valuable tool, IMO, to keep comments "civil" when used with discretion and not as a weapon of sorts. This method seems friendlier to the iPad environment, though -- no errors yet, anyway. Sending you blessings, AnonAJ! (You get the trash can within the 7-minute edit timeframe.)
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Nice article. At this phase in my life it would not be what I want but I can certainly see the appeal for many people. Best of wishes to all the current and future residents. Glad the adn.com selected this topic as I love human interest stories and would never have known about this if not for the article. Merry Chri...
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If he doesn't give a hoot about democracy, which is obvious, so how can we expect anything that resembles anything that's honestly commendable to guy who comes across as a lying power hungry dictator?
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Well said! I'm a teacher in Fairbanks. I've been writing to the Senate every single day for the past two and a half weeks to let them know what their plan and their continued rabid adherence to that plan is doing to public education. When we're threatened with a 5.7% cut, the school district has to treat it as real. So...
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You all cannot see the forest for the trees.....
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that seems to be the curse of the rider....not age related
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btw, some Calgary History. Only one elected Mayor in Calgary has lost an election since 1970 (Ross Alger lost to Ralph Klein), the others all retired -- Sykes, Klein, Duerr, Bronconnier.
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Especially liked the photo of the duck and kittens. Very poignant photo of the Seventh Fleet with air cover steaming toward Pearl in 1940. Thanks.
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While I do not like the rather imprecise terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ there has been s a significant contribution to the national debt by those who are more concerned with the short term profits of international corporations and the 1% than those who are concerned with the technology that will improve the wellbeing of futu...
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It's a bit strange for the a PM to be touring the country in winter time, when at the best of times it is always difficult to get people out to a political event. Perhaps the motivation comes more from the less then astute moves he has made of late, and this is just another one of those divert the attention elsewhere m...
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