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Man, I am uncomfortable with that word being used at all here, even in this context.

Great article (as usual) from Melissa Martin today. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/coronavirus/hutterites-deserve-respect-not-stigma-571854451.html

If you think people around the world are laughing at the States because of people in Portland, you clearly have not been paying attention.

Sask bid 500k more and didn't get it. Players on the Twitterverse are saying it's because they didn't want to get stuck in Saskatchewan for 8 weeks haha. Imagine being a player there for 20 weeks..

it's almost like individuals are...different...

Impossible is a word I’ve rarely seen used.

Sincerely hope you and your loved ones are as safe and healthy as possible, my friend. Here's hoping all of this gets cleared up as soon as possible. I've heard the testing sites (only 3 in the province????) have wait times of 4 hours right now. That is wildly unacceptable, if true. In AB, you book your appointment, show up at your scheduled time, and you're in and out in 15 minutes, tops. I had mine done at the end of May (asymptomatic - came back negative as expected) and it was a rather pleasant experience. Fast and easy.

I don't think any of the talking heads EVER said that.

I am honestly shocked that the Edmonton Eskimos did not have another name ready and waiting in the wings.... this controversy has been dogging them for five years...

All references to a racial slur have been removed. Please do not use the slur or anything related to it again. Any continuation of this usage or anything related to it - will result in an immediate suspension.

She also a top notch reporter and researcher. She finds out who the primary source is, and that is the first person she interviews. I am good friends with the people she mentions in the article.

Leaked memo: Trump administration authorized domestic surveillance of protests to protect statues The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) authorized domestic surveillance to identify threats against monuments and statues in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting vandalism against federal memorials, according to a department memo obtained by Lawfare. The document, issued by the DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis, described “Activities in Furtherance of Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, Statues and Combatting Recent Criminal Violence.” The document says DHS personnel are “collecting and reporting on various activities in the context of elevated threats targeting monuments, memorials and statues.” It also provides legal guidance on the “expanded intelligence activities necessary to mitigate the significant threat to homeland security” posed by threats to statues. Senior DHS official Ken Cuccinelli appeared to refer to intelligence gathering on protests during a Monday interview with CNN. “We got intelligence about planned attacks on federal facilities,” he said in response to questions about the administration’s controversial deployment of federal authorities to Portland. “If we get the same kind of intelligence in other places about threats to other facilities or officers, we would respond the same way.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/1151617/ (Sure as spit sounds like a dicatorial oversight on citizens exercising their right to protest)

The "troubles" in Ulster did not stop until ordinary women went out and started protesting and putting themselves in harm's way. That forced both sides to the table. What we are seeing is the emergence of a fascist state and if there is not a popular uprising, America will be in big trouble. All popular uprisings begin somewhere and Portland may be the flashpoint that dooms Trump and the racist parts of the GOP. Like what happened in Canada when Mulroney was PM, the right wing in the states will probably be split into the nutty and the insane factions. They will probably wander in the wilderness for a long time as well, and we had better hope that the Dems do not get drunk on power and succumb to the same excesses as the GOP.

So we beat Saskachewhine again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsaO3v4SvwA

"Looking way to (sic) much into it" is just another way of saying "Don't actually think about it". Explains a lot.

Here is the truth behind the covid statistics... https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/22/california_covid_19_latinx_community?fbclid=IwAR0uxS0jOFu42NGr881_Lz7Lv5RIdH8zuH4jfUI-E1FxqKR9WyeddTRUiDk The California spike is because we want people to work for nothing and live in squalor so that we can have cheap fruit and vegetables.

This statement is an egregious insult to Brandon.

Yes, apparently Trump did pass the cognitive test recently, but in a follow up exam, when asked to name all 26 letters in the alphabet, he could only come up with 25. After the test, when they asked him about naming only 25, he could only say that he didn’t know why....

This is an aside, but her articles are usually good and often great. She is one of the few writers at that paper that I will stop to read, regardless of the topic.

It’s an “I’ll believe it when I see it kinda thing”

You guys need a Folklorama venue!

Really good interview:

Winnipeg tentatively announced as hub city for 2020 season https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-cfl-hub-city-1.5657988 Just like most players, Saskatchewan offered more ($3 million) than Manitoba ($2.5 million) to subsidize operations but Winnipeg was picked based on ... qualitative factors (such as not being Saskatchewan)

I just saw some guy in red with a horse on his shirt muttering something about the Canadian Mafia.

Hey I’m sorry but that’s just the way it is now... we’ve had no cases for three months and everyone calls the health inspector if you organize any event in the Yukon... people freak out about US license plates, etc thats actually my point about covidiots and generalizations

You seriously believe Hutterites are not being criticized over this? I mean, maybe not so much from the media, but we are hearing it with intensity from the general population. One example: We got a call from Shopper's Drugmart just today. Several of our members had prescriptions to pick up, and they wanted just one person to come pick them up. Which is hilarious, because that's what usually happens anyway. In another colony, someone's dentist appointment was cancelled, just because they're a Hutterite - no positive cases in their community. There's been other harsher stuff that I'd rather not mention.

I’m not hard done by, not at all. 20 of 29 cases in MB are Hutterite, as we speak. I’m just not sure how you arrived at the conclusion that we get a ‘free pass’ from MBB. I was critical of my own people right from the start, and you will see that if you look back. You have cited examples of foolish actions, and I agree with that. The good news is, those cases are confined to 3 colonies and they are in complete lockdown. But that’s MB in the past week, that’s not all across the prairies. SK has a significant number of new cases in the north, spread from an oilfield outbreak to indigenous commuters. That’s the the part I had a problem with.

The buffet there was amazing... definitely miss that place.

I was chatting with the girlfriend about the potential fans. If seated properly,you could spread out 10000 fans in that stadium. .........The argos heads will be spinning when they see that many seats filled.

Edmonton Evil and they can have Dr Evil as the mascot??

It’s good to see a reporter not accept glib scripted answers..

I was just gonna say - can we keep the COVID rambling to general forum? I need a place of respite from the negativity and it'd be nice if we could just keep this to football.

Just because the majority of people (according to your own anecdotal observation) may be following the rules here doesn't change the fact there are still covidiots sharing the same space. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/march-to-unmask-rally-manitoba-1.5655566 Bit of a slippery slope to advocate for the need to have one's health in his own hands. This self-proclaimed virology expert and economist also claims masks are ineffective. Seems pretty covidiotic to me.

Well, I’ll tell you what I find interesting: I have come on here and stated things exactly as they are, making an effort to not hide anything. But you somehow see that as making excuses - I didn’t make any. I answered every question that was asked and provided the facts. I have no Hutterite contacts in Alberta or Saskatchewan, thus I could not comment accurately on what exactly happened there, so I chose not to.

I don't think you are a racist, most people here don't either- but you could be a bit more "tuned-in" as your First Nations, Black and White post showed. I think we can all agree that being a little more informed is never a bad thing. What's wrong with righting a wrong and making reparations when one is in a position of privilege and has the means to do so? Many of the privileges we have are because we inherited them from the wrongdoings from the past. Rail roads, land, slavery- all of it to build this society and the comforts you and I enjoy... so why not make amends? There's a reason why it's "Catch a tiger by the toe" and not it's original verse... They call them licorice babies now for a very good reason... The game is called telephone now and none says "Not a Ch......n's chance " anymore. First Nations... well there is still a ton of things that need to be done there. We progress and correct things as we go- as it should be, I don't see this as any different- evolve.

Not only was racism alive and well, you might also want check out the rigid class system that most people lived under.

Is it really a racist name though? Not trying to be a knob but rather a legit question..Would it be wrong to call them the Edmonton Inuit as well?...It's a proper name for a group of people...Are the Irish soon to follow and ask Notre Dame to drop the fighting Irish moniker?..how bout any offended BoilerMakers...And lets stop offending the Ragin Cajuns...I hear they don't like that either...like where does it stop??...people are wayyyy too ultra sensitive now and just looking for a cause..or a fight I can see the point with the Redskins name, as that was an offensive term...But Braves?.Chiefs?...cmon...thats like a rank in an Army in a sense...heck I played on a travelling Baseball team back in the day..An Indigenous based team for that matter and they used the team name Braves for their ball team, and Chiefs for their hockey team and it wasn't an issue...still isn't You could go on and on and on with amateur..college and pro teams who have a nickname or support a phrase or a cheer that the snowflakes in this world will deem offensive...let it go man

I'm offended... OK. I'm offended, you have to change... Nope, just nope. It's the same as My religion says I can't do this... OK.. My religion says you can't do this. Nope, just nope. What it is is blatant censorship that does nothing to change peoples opinions or the way they think. It's just a waste of time, effort, and money to placate some offended folks.

People have a right to be offended and people have a right to offend. Being offended shouldn't mean the offenders should be forced to change.