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If Vegas gets team it's gonna be real hard for Buffalo to re-sign Kane,

The thing with the unions and NDP is that they are one and the same. Unions have been running our province for the better part of the last 30 years. Anyone who thinks otherwise only needs to look at the shameful leadership convention we just witnessed. ONE union cut a deal and decided who our premier should be. SHAMEFUL, that on a party level the NDP functions this way, SHAMEFUL, if the people of Manitoba allow this to continue. My wife is a member of the MGEU, they are a year without a contract because both the government and the union have agreed to delay the proceedings because of the NDPs sagging poll numbers. Instead of cutting the fat, or Filmon Fridays, which would be responsible government. Let's delay the contract, and pay the union in the end for doing so. It's only taxpayer money. Thing is the new contract will be signed before the next election, and I will bet you dollars to donuts that it will see the civil service get a decent raise but will contain all kinds of other hidden goodies. Get ready for a no-layoff clause for the 2nd straight MGEU master agreement, that leaves the Tories without option to cut the fat for a few years. They will introduce all kinds of new "quality of life" goodies as well. What is really shameful is that right now the NDP have an unofficial hiring freeze throughout the civil service because they don't want to appear to be growing the civil service. HOWEVER, instead of hand picking which jobs to lose through attrition or simply eliminate due to a bloated mid management level, they are putting it on front line essential service workers. Therefore, for political optics, they are not filling a position but choosing to pay current staffing levels double time to fill the void in overtime because the shift still must be filled because it is a service position. Tax abuse at it's finest. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this kind of financial management is to the detriment of ALL taxpayers. All so that the NDP can say that they are not growing the civil service AND keep the bureaucracy they have created, the cost of government is soaring AND so with it our deficit and rate of taxation..

okay. You're right. Do you feel better now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc4lB9WT2C4 Anyone think Kucherov will get any extra discipline for the hit on Enstrom ... I mean Engstrom ... Watched it a bunch and while Toby turns to see him coming, Kucherov is taking a bee line for his back the whole time, knocks him into the board from at least 3 feet out and leaves his feet as he pushes him into the boards. Dangerous hit ... should get 3 - 5 games IMO

You know what,I'll take a stand and say residential schools were a not terrible idea that was just handled really poorly. Should a just assimilated everyone from the start then there'd be a lot less problems with reserves Clearly, you're not too familiar with the stated aim of the Residential Schools either. Their primary purpose was to eradicate First Nations culture, to get rid of "indians" once and for all. Explain to me how that can ever be "not a terrible idea"?Because assimilation is not a bad thing. Could have had just a whole bunch of Canadians rather than the government protected racism that currently exists. Signing treaties hundreds of years ago was an easy solution at the time but they have long lasting negative effects that manifest themselves in this day and age Seems to me the best thing would be for people to stop being pieces of **** and treating people differently based on cultural background. Assimilation is just the people at the top saying "you should all be like me". It's like Nazi-ism lite. no assimilation isn't a one way street, it goes two ways. Stop separating people into different groups and we can just all be Canadian and treat everyone equally. Treaties however just make sure racism and different groups being treated differently continues to exist. You are trying to grossly oversimplify the situation. You can't say "just stop separating people into groups" when people naturally self-identify already. Furthermore, the treaties were a legal document. This wasn't a bill of sale for a used BBQ written on a napkin -- it was legal title to land we now live on, land that is now Canada. The government has a moral obligation as society built upon laws to uphold the treaties; or at least the spirit behind them. No I'm not over simplifying. This is how the problem gets solved. I know full well what the treaties that were signed were and what the intent was. The problem is that they are legal documents that are guaranteed by the constitution of this country, and that's a huge problem and the #1 reason why most of these problems exist. When they were signed it was seen as the easy solution, put the natives out of the way and throw them a few trinkets every now and then and let them live their traditional lifestyle. Problem is that in todays society it is a terrible solution and completely unworkable. The best solution IS to stop treating them differently and make them all Canadian and treat everyone equally. When you have such a skewed number of impoverished people on reserves it is safe to say that the system is broken, but where's the push to change a broken system? You even bring it up and you're labelled a racist. Too much blame gets thrown at the feet of the government of Canada and they're expected to fix it, but they can't fix it unilaterally, self determination and all that, so basically it's just "give us more money because residential schools! abuse! ugly history! white guilt!" It's those treaties that are holding things back.

They need to devise a way to deflect non-urgent care from the ER's also. I've been in the ER many times over the last couple of years due to having sick and elderly parents and there are a lot of people there over night that "seemingly" are not urgent (I say seemingly because I cant know in all cases). Here's another one. If you are brought in via ambulance, the medics must wait with you until you're triaged and accepted by the ER. It is not uncommon for ambulance patients to be lined up in the back hallway for ages. Which means the ambulance is not able to attend to other calls. Even better, when the medics are doing this, they bill health for it. Why wouldnt patients brought in by ambulance immediately be triaged?

I think there are a great deal of horror stories like this. 2 years ago my 4 year old daughter fell off a trampoline at our cabin in Thompson. We took her to the ER at 10 pm. At 4:30 am she had still not been seen and fell asleep. She was in a great deal of pain prior so we asked the ER nurse how much longer we could expect to wait. She said that since our daughter was not considered critical it would be another 2-4 hours. We took her home and came back the next day. Next day at 10 am we arrived and waited until 4:30 pm before she was seen by a doctor. He sent her for an X-ray, though he insinuated that she might just be faking for attention. A 4 year old faking for a 24 hour span? At any rate, the X-rays came back and she had broken her leg and the break was right by her growth ring of her bone. Off to Winnipeg for emergency surgery where we were advised that had this gone any longer there would have been a real danger of her leg bone never growing correctly. The surgeon even suggested off the record that we file a lawsuit for malpractice as she should have been examined much earlier with a suspected broken bone. I didn't bother. However, I have decided to become active and vocal against the RHA's. Our medical care in Manitoba is in shambles so that the NDP can play politics with hospital care through the formation of the RHAs. Had my daughter been crippled for life so that NDP cronies can sit on boards, they are quite frankly completely unqualified for and fleece the taxpayers for per diems, I would have lost it. Egregious management by the NDP. It just goes on and on. Anyone sitting down and viewing the truth would see this but the NDP are masters of throttling thought by creating panic with their "boogeymen".

And Monday didn't completely suck this week.... go figure... and GO JETS GO! "Big game tomorrow"...

Please don't get KBF going on the BCTF. The board would melt down.... (And BTW, I agree with his opinion on it)

To those responding to my comment about not needing cell phone laws, my point is simply that the existing law was adequate to cover cell phone use if the driver is distracted. We didn;t need a law specific to cell phone use, we needed the existing law to be enforced. It bothers me because it leads to lazy enforcement. Tickets for the sake of tickets and not safety related. If I am stopped at a re light and check my phone, I don't see that as a safety issues. If someone is driving and checking their phone, then yes it is and they would have been covered by the existing law. I know cell phones are an issue. But it just bugs me that the cops take the easy way to make money instead of doing their job. There is something broken with our system when it becomes more about cash than preventing accidents.

Its all politics. Ask the general idiot on the street and he will be scared of "private healthcare". Ofcourse the fact that private delivery already exists is something ignored by the politicans. How many of us suffer an injury go to the ER? Unless it's the middle of the night, we go to Pan-Am. I broke my knee cap a few years ago. Middle of the night. Went to the ER at Mis. Told to come back the next morning because their cast clinic was closed at night. Keep in mind Im walking around with a knee cap that was broken in half. Go back the next day. Sent for an X ray. Back down to ER. Only then when a nurse saw the X-ray image did she react with shock that I was being sent all over the hospital with a broken knee. The pain wasnt too bad and Im not a complainer. She offered me a wheel chair but I said at this point, I can walk down the hall. Long story short, I get a cast that rank the length of my leg from my ankle to my balls. Doc told me to come back in six weeks. Everyone I knew advised me to get a second opinion at Pan-Am but I had been scared off by stories of long wait times. Honestly, wasnt that bad. Pan-Am doctor had the cast removed saying for this type of injury keeping a cast on longer than a week or two would do more damage by atrophying my leg. Even in that short period of time, I nearly fell over when it was cut off and my thigh had shrunk. Had I waited the 6-8 weeks, I cant imagine what my leg would have looked like. If you have standards in place, private delivery of public healthcare is not a problem.

lol, so it came full circle after all, be tolerant to all including Rider fans!!!!

I wonder how many folks setting up these churches share the same "to each their own" attitude as you? Call up a cowboy church and ask if they perform gay marriages? I have a pretty good idea what the answer will be... WTF does that have to do with anything? Call up a Chinese restaurant and ask them if they do fondue, if they don't should they be ridiculed on a football forum? Who's ridiculing? I think organized religion has done far more "evil" in the past 2000 years than it's done good. And the more extreme/peculiar the religion, the more hateful and intolerant they tend to be. That's my opinion, expressed respectfully on a football forum. Enjoy your Chinese food. I am a regular church goer and can readily concede that religions can do and have done wonderful things for humanity. That said, it has been reported that there have been more killing over religious differences (at least that was the excuse) than any other reason. About 20 years ago, the chief theologian for the Catholic church (Hans Kung) wondered out loud in an interview whether mankind would not have been better off without organized religion. Within 24 hours of the airing of the interview, he was demoted to a small parrish in France. Religion is not the problem. It happens when politics and religion get into bed together. Exactly. Christianity is pretty tame right now, but look at what happened during the Crusades. I think it's our responsibility as Canadians to be tolerant, yes, but also skeptical. What people want to do on Sundays is their business -- just don't let them inject their beliefs into policy making, education, government, etc. Lets not forget registered churches are getting a tax break as well. I see, so religion should not inject their beliefs on society but your beliefs regarding gay marriage must be supported by them? Anything else your highness? There's no need to be so condescending. It just makes you sound ignorant. Then again, you seem to believe a modern society should be based upon a book of fairy tales full of talking snakes and whales that swallow people. And actual living, contributing Canadians that happened to be born gay shouldn't enjoy the same rights as the rest of society. So perhaps ignorant is a good fit? Fact is, separation of church and state grants you the freedom to have those ignorant views. And I for one support that. Now move to a country where there is no separation of church and state -- see what life is like as a "non-believer." Fact is I have never been to church as an adult, it's not my thing. I'm also not opposed to gay marriage, I have gay friends and anyway who am I to decide who should or should not get married. I have never once told you how to think and yet I'm the ignorant one for being put off by your insistence that those who disagree with you are wrong, silly and uneducated. I am more than a little tired of the labels doled out by those of you who don't want to be labelled. Condescending is the absolute best your kind should expect.(and no, I don't mean gay)

Shows just how watered down the Canadian OL talent pool is getting around the league.

If I'm an NCAA coach...

Pretty sure he wants an X receiver as an import from the free agent camps, not the draft.

Who is Engstrom? Don't be an idiot. You know what he meant. As for the game itself, it goes without saying how big that win was. With the injuries we have the best we can hope for is keeping our head above water until we get some healthy bodies back. Eight of the final 13 are at home as well so that should help the cause as well hopefully, albeit a difficult final 13 games.

Maybe a team drafting after us wants Demski like Toronto for example. Walters might be able to trade our first for their first and second, for example, if they really want Demski.

Or he wins the hart trophy

The ugly rider fan, residential schools, buggers in politics, cowboy church, gay cowboy church, gay ugly bugger rider fan politicians that attended a residential school run by a cowboy church on the flat earth. What does it take to discuss the REALLY important stuff...when is the McRib coming back?

The problem is you started your argument with an assumption about cowboy church based on nothing but a stereotype.

I like the Montreal formula of o line o line o line....it continues to allow them to start 5 national o linemen and playing longevity favours o linemen. The end result is both depth and longevity.

To get this back on track if you can steal some Rider gear the Bomber store has an offer for you. IF you have Rider gear, we'll make you a St Patty's day trade: 30% off anything in stores in exchange for your green! pic.twitter.com/fDN2wwz2py — Bomber Store (@BomberStore) March 14, 2015

And the last few pages of this thread have nothing to do with slagging Rider fans. And we have yet another thread ripe for a purge of posts to the general discussion forum. June can't come soon enough.

Bottom line to me is that the old laws (distracted driving etc.) were about safety and the no-cellphone laws are about revenue generation. Cops pretending to be beggars at stop lights really hit this home. And I've never been ticketed for either. I have no problem with laws against cell phone use. Way too many idiots staring at their damn phone when they should be staring at the road. worse than drunk drivers. Because they're sober and making dangerous decisions.

You know what,I'll take a stand and say residential schools were a not terrible idea that was just handled really poorly. Should a just assimilated everyone from the start then there'd be a lot less problems with reserves Clearly, you're not too familiar with the stated aim of the Residential Schools either. Their primary purpose was to eradicate First Nations culture, to get rid of "indians" once and for all. Explain to me how that can ever be "not a terrible idea"?

By far the worst premier in Manitoba in my lifetime was Howard Pawley. Selinger is bad, but he doesn't quite get to the Pawley standard. Overall, I believe that Filmon was the best. Yes, there were some blemishes, but he had the heavy lifting to do after the Pawley disaster. Filmon cleaned up the financial mess and took us to a surplus position, and did so without massive tax increases. He reduced the size of the bureaucracy and put us onto a sustainable path, including the building of a reserve fund. I don't think that he had much choice but to privatize MTS. Those old enough may recall the millions and millions that the MTX subsidiary of MTS lost on a deal in Saudi Arabia. MTS is a much better organization now than it was as a crown corp, and the taxpayers haven't had to cover for any MTX type of schemes. Unfortunately, most of the good work that Filmon did has been destroyed. We now have one of the highest ratios of government workers to population size, and this is unsustainable. The reserve fund is long gone. Our taxes have increased to some of the highest levels in the country, and yet we are entirely reliant on transfer payments from Alberta and Saskatchewan. We spend the most on education (which isn't a bad thing) per capita, but have the worst results (which is a horrible situation). Manitoba desperately needs a leader with the fortitude to make hard, tough choices to clean up the mess. Margaret Thatcher -- Ralph Klein -- Angela Merkle type of person. I don't know that we have one, but it sure as heck isn't Selinger. In general, I prefer a smaller government with lower taxes, but IMHO, a good government isn't solely based on high taxes vs low taxes, it is based on value for our money. Currently under the NDP, we get poor results for big dollars, and way too much influence from the big Unions.

If you said 10 years ago in the space of four years a NHL team would return and a AHL team would leave then also return to Winnipeg. Both playing in the same building you would of been put in an asylum.

I wonder how many folks setting up these churches share the same "to each their own" attitude as you? Call up a cowboy church and ask if they perform gay marriages? I have a pretty good idea what the answer will be... WTF does that have to do with anything? Call up a Chinese restaurant and ask them if they do fondue, if they don't should they be ridiculed on a football forum? Yes. Yes they should. #youdothatfonduethatyoudosowell