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also loved this:

In Manitoba's case we shoulda had beds available in the province (or shouldn't have cut ICU capacity pre-pandemic to begin with), coulda hired trained and equipped emergency personnel to transfer ICU patients when beds did run out, woulda saved Krystal Mousseau's life and we'd have one less very clear failure to point at And what good are the toughest restrictions in the world if enforcement is sporadic and inconsistent at best? Springs? Monstrosity? Half the gyms in the city.... How were these places able to continue to function while flouting the 'toughest restrictions in the world' with impunity? Nobody in power ought to be patting themselves on the back for a job well done imo

reading the National Post about the power sharing deal, I see the repeated perpetual grievance that only a third of voters voted for the current government. NP always forgets the 15% of Canadians who voted for the NDP. The current Lib + NDP governing coalition received support from just a smidge over 50% of Canadians, which makes it more democratically "legitimate" than almost all Canadian majority governments of my lifetime -- the Chretien, Harper, and second Mulroney majorities were all at about 40% of the popular vote, and the only majority parliament in my lifetime that also had a voting majority was the 1984 Mulroney majority, which won 50.1%.

If the new jersey has a scarf we will know for sure it was him.

No, really? That's great. Can't wait.

Buff helped mask the problems but we all knew that the d was a mess. It remains a mess and, yet, Huddy is still employed. Another failure by management.

Well deserved. Congrats, Paddy!

Also this is pretty funny: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2022/03/conservatives-warn-liberal-ndp-deal-is-backdoor-socialism-handjob-democracy-and-salad-tossing-representation/ lol "over-the-jeans leftism"

I will add, that being a senior, I have been following this war with the people who want for profit healthcare, for most of my adult life. It will never end. in the past much of the opposition came from the public, Doctors, nurses, and citizens, including Tommy Douglas daughter, Shirley Douglas, who had to go on a major pr campaign to fight off these efforts to destroy our healthcare system. Thats fine, but it would also be very welcome to see a firm stand by the Liberals and NDP on this. We shouldnt have to depend on people taking much time out of their lives to do the elected peoples' job.

Got kids in/around Winnipeg? Free registration. Ages 4-8: THE BLUE BOMBERS FUTURES KICK-OFF PROGRAM Certified coaching staff lead the program utilizing a variety of football-related movements, activities, and skills. Kids participate in a series of fun drills that help them develop throwing, catching, and passing skills while helping improve their physical literacy. Learning football at an early age can help promote an active lifestyle and build confidence. This initiative also helps parents understand more about the game and how the Winnipeg Football Club is working to grow youth football in our community. April 16th & 24th. Ages 9-14: THE JR. BLUE BOMBERS FOOTBALL SKILLS CAMP The goal of the camp is to introduce kids ages 9 to 14 to football through drills and skill-specific training challenges so they can improve their fitness and knowledge of the game. Certified coaching staff lead the program, allowing youth to learn in a safe and fun environment. April 27th & 28th.

Pearson from 63-68. One of the best governments ever. Brought us Auto Free Trade, CPP, Canada Flag and eventually Medicare (although believe PET had taken over by then).

Anyone else at least mildly entertained by the childish meltdowns of Murphy Brownshirt et al. on the conservative side in response to this agreement between the LPC and NDP? And true to form. she recklessly intentionally uses words dogwhistles like socialist and leftist in her vitriolic rhetoric.

I also feel like the Jets allow a lot of high quality opportunities. I don’t know the stats, but I’m guessing we’d be in the bottom half.

I bet it's written in the contract with New Era that they need have a 3rd jersey at some point.

This was easy: "The Canada Health Transfer is the money the federal government sends to the provinces and territories to help pay for health care, which is a provincial responsibility. Ottawa can use the CHT to enforce the Canada Health Act, although, in practice, it rarely does. The transfer can be clawed back if a province fails to uphold any of the act's five principles: universality, comprehensiveness, portability, accessibility and public administration." But as you said... Conservatives dont want to privatise healthcare, even though the minster oF health, ontario, just said, they want to privatise healthcare. If sticking up for our universal healthcare system is "boneheaded", I'm a flying elephant.

There is a way to do it but it wouldn't be politically savvy to do so. Hold up transfer payments and see who blinks first? Only the public would feel the effects, not the politicians. They need to work it through the health transfer (CHT) agreement.

If there is a way to do it.... the Federal government should stop Ford/Conservative effort to divert public money into private hospitals. And other attempts to get two tier healthcare.

If the Liberals win the seat both they and the CONs come out ahead. Yes, the CONs lose the seat and short term it is bad but a strong Liberal party only favors them in the long run. That being said I suspect that Obby will win comfortably. The NDP has the most to lose today if they don't win the seat. I agree that a strong third party would be beneficial to Manitoba.

I don't believe so. Buff was a truly one of a kind player. While I agree losing the other guys hurts, nothing stung as much as the departure of Buff. Buff was a bang and crasher and forwards were afraid to go to the net while he was on the ice. None of the Jets defense past or present have that physical edge to their game anymore and its evidenced in the teams current play. That playoff series against Minnesota was a great example of his physical dominance. You could always count on Buff to deliver that crucial hit or clear out the player in front of the net. Granted he had his brain dead moments too but he was a game changer.

TCF

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-jagmeet-singh-working-together-1.6392756

Manitoba leaders worm their way into history with 'coulda, woulda, shoulda' pandemic response This column is an opinion by Dr. Jillian Horton, a Winnipeg-based physician and author of the national bestseller We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ. So many of our elected officials govern with such a general contempt for humanity, you'd be forgiven for generating a long shortlist. Maybe it was former Manitoba premier Brian Pallister, who once wished happy holidays to the atheist infidels. Maybe it was Premier Heather Stefanson, who said it's time for Manitobans to look after themselves. Or maybe it was then-Manitoba health minister Cameron Friesen caught on camera, referring to me and the 199 other doctors and scientists who wrote to him in November 2020, pleading for action on the brink of a crisis in our health-care system. I couldn't bring myself to write any two-year anniversary reflections on the pandemic. I hate this milestone. To me, it is an anniversary of leadership failure at virtually every level of our government — a heart-wrenching deep dive into a cesspool of indifference and incompetence. Two years in, despite more than 1,700 Manitobans dead and solemn-faced admonitions from our government officials that it's time for us to "learn to live with COVID," there is, as many others have pointed out, little evidence they have learned much of anything. Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said recently that mandate-free Manitobans are now "empowered" to make the choices that are right for themselves and their family. While I sympathize with the many challenges Dr. Roussin has had to contend with these last two years, this statement is hard to reconcile with the mantle of public health. COVID is airborne, but general members of the public are not easily "empowered" to know anything about the quality of the ventilation and filtration in the spaces where they work, send their children to school or seek medical care. Patients and at-risk elders aren't "empowered" with the knowledge that their care providers are fully vaccinated. And none of us are "empowered" to make personal choices based on the degree to which COVID is circulating in our community, since the province has eliminated the comprehensive testing and data sharing that tells us how much disease is circulating. Worse still is the language of "anxiety," as if whether or not you think restrictions should carry on is just about desensitizing yourself from fear. This is particularly absurd, as patients who face chronic and life-altering diseases are some of the bravest people I have ever known. Yes, for some, the public health measures are an issue of "comfort" and personal autonomy; for others, they are a matter of life and death. But the fears of immunosuppressed patients are often portrayed as being roughly equivalent to a phobia of clowns, with the suggestion being that one should simply try to relax at the circus. What a depressing development for a province that calls itself "Friendly Manitoba." But of all the things our leaders have said in the last two years, perhaps the most illuminating has been the repetition of this mantra: "Coulda, woulda, shoulda." Pallister started it, Stefanson kept it going, and recently, Fort Whyte PC candidate Obby Khan ran with it, repeating the point as if he had just completed an exceptionally bad franchise training module. 'Coulda, woulda, shoulda' Watching him speak, I found myself thinking about a fundamental aspect of modern medical culture: critical incident analysis. Critical incidents are unintended events that result in death, disability, injury or harm to patients. These incidents can be reported without blame, to support a culture of learning and openness. Events must be meticulously reviewed so we "look at what can be done differently and what improvements can be made to the way health-care providers work." In 25 years of medical education and practice, I have never yet heard a physician respond to a question about a critical incident with "Coulda, woulda, shoulda." As long as we aren't sociopaths — and sociopathy does exist in medicine, although less frequently than in politics — our reactions are usually on the opposite end of the spectrum. We lie awake at night, haunted by that one mistake, that one decision, the death or disability that could have been prevented. For most of us, the grief and shame of having caused harm is unbearable; a physician's risk of suicidal ideation is highest in the weeks after someone has made a complaint about their care. This context is one of the reasons why I was stunned by Premier Stefanson's indifferent and heartless response to questions in the legislature about the death of Krystal Mousseau — a young Indigenous mother of two who died in an attempted out-of-province intensive care unit transfer during the horrifically bungled third wave. Mousseau's death was subsequently declared a critical incident. But when Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew said "Krystal Mousseau's life mattered," Stefanson responded with the totally excellent news that one of her own children had recently won a hockey game. This is much more than a clumsy "Coulda, woulda, shoulda." It is pathological.

Ouch, that's awful expensive for flag football, for a lot of people that don't qualify for assistance. When we ran our tackle program in the North End in the 70's and 80's we found ways to reduce the costs including having socials and bingos to support the clubs. We raised our profile from one team of 20 kids to a dozen with over 600 kids in less than a decade by doing this. The key was keeping it affordable and having good programs with knowledgeable coaches. It's no wonder that kids sports are mostly soccer now as that's what working parents can easily budget for. To keep kids in these programs we need to find unique ways to fund and keep costs low. $245 for 8-10 GAMES OF FLAG FOOTBALL IS CRAZY! Sounds like they are trying to offload field costs which is just stupid! I remember when we bought the Hawkeye's field for $1 and the city agreed to cover the taxes for the next century. I guess things are done differently now.

It's always wild to me to see actual conservatives/Conservative takes around here....

It's up to GMs to sort this out, I believe. Are we going to implement salary caps by position?

I would add it's not that most CFL fans are resistant to change. We do tend to be resistant to change that seems to be change just for the sake of change and more open to meaningful change with the hope it helps the CFL continuously be a better and more attractable product.

Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street (tldr: thousands of fascist blackshirts march under police escort in London in 1936 but are routed by a coalition of OG antifa. Great story.)

the fake outrage and "Otoole was right" **** birds are incredibly annoying right now. They very clearly know their audience though, I'll give them that.

Leave our jerseys alone. I blame Ambroise. Also sure he's behind all the dang potholes in Winnipeg.

Babysteps

ehhhhhhhhhh........ cash grab. You can't improve on the kits they have.... hopefully just a one off and it's not as egregious as I'm imagining.

Lots of factors tied to Buff leaving. We had already lost Trouba because he never wanted to stay, so we did the best we could with the trade. But that then made Morrissey more valuable to keep as a future cornerstone defenceman and we overpaid. Should be worth $4.5 and not $6.5 million but that’s the market and the cost of keeping someone in Winnipeg. Do not underestimate how hard it is to compete in this market. The “draft and develop” model is in place for a reason, because unlike Tampa or Vegas we don’t have nice weather, no taxes, or big city outside attractions to entice free agents, and Andrew Copp is the latest example of a draft and develop player who we would have to had comparatively overpaid or let go once free agency hit. We are the Oakland A’s of hockey in the Yankees world. We can’t compete with the big dogs and build teams the same way, we are card counters, and hopefully our players bloom young enough that we have a strong team before they key pieces ripen fully and command top dollar. That’s what we had in 2018 with Laine, Connor, Hellebuyck, Trouba, Morrissey, Tanev, Wheeler, etc on the cheap and gambles like Scheifele and Ehlers contracts paid off. Like Colorado now. Next problem, Myers was going no matter what and Enstrom retiring, but we thought we had Buff locked in so we didn’t overpay for Chiarot to stay. Then Buff quits but his big salary is still on the books, so we have destroyed our defensive depth but can’t afford to replace it because now contracts to keep Wheeler and Hellebuyck, who were our best two players at the time, plus anticipating Laine and Connor raises. Then pandemic and flat cap and Little LTIR, which clears salary off the books but doesn’t allow for cap space to grow but of the weird cap rules. And with the overachieving 2018 year changing expectations, we roll the dice on deadline day and trade away high draft picks for Stastny and then Hayes, eroding our depth. So we sit on what we have at D for two extra years before trying a quasi re-build with Dillon and Schmidt this past year, again with cap implications that hastened Copp’s departure. Now, could systems be better? The accountants who like fancy stats say sure, and maybe a different approach is needed, but this is much more layered than just “Buff left” or “coaching culture change” as the sole reason. Such is life in cap era hockey.

Exactly. And, Liberals get official party status, which means mo' money, mo' problems for the NDP. The NDP don't need to win the PC vote to win, they need to convince Liberal voters that it's in their best interest to vote for them.

I think the Buff departure, the way and the timing, shook this team. It hasn't recovered and it has never looked in on itself to determine why it happened. A house cleaning is in order.

I personally love it. A true collaboration of the NDP and Libs is exactly what I'd like to see in a Canadian government.

True enough but they've co-operated during the entire minority gov't. It's about time this gov't got to work passing bills and establishing a foreign policy. It's not sexy but it needs doing.

A tackle with experience that Walters could fit in within the cap? Great!

It still doesn't mean that their might be far more losses of Ukranian lives. It's called propaganda, of course the Ukranians are going to also use it to pump up morale. Of course everyone wants to believe that things are going great for the good guys and everyone wants to believe that Ukranian losses are minimal while Russian losses are at a maximum. Nobody really knows at this point what exactly is the true numbers.

DB Marlon Character from Louisville on the transaction report

Except that Russia should have won and taken over by now - that hasn't happened.

Comrie is not that guy.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-6/page-2.html

I believe the term she used was "backdoor socialism"... as if helping people was a bad thing. The irony in it all is that this is probably a really good thing for the CPC because it gives them time to get their house in order before the next election.

You should read the Canada Health Act. Feds can withhold funding. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-6/page-1.html#docCont

Thought I read somewhere that they wanted to do the “heritage” thing again this season.

Injuries happen.

The only equipment cost is the flags, which, I can assure you, are fully amortized. And, the t-shirts, which are sponsored. They need fields to play on, so that's a cost. Refs too. But, compared to indoor, why the same cost?