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The term knuckle-dragger isn't exclusive to those on the right side of the political spectrum. On the other hand, and it's been demonstrated consistently in this thread, the terms lefty and libtard are being used, albeit erroneously, by at least two bad actors when their obviously biased commentary isn't endorsed by others. What's to be gained by derailing a thread and be unwilling to participate in informed, objective, rational, evidence-based discourse as it relates to the political climate in our country? There are those in this country currently holding political office who seem eager to emulate the same regressive, misinformed, sociopathic culture war nonsense that has deteriorated the political landscape of our southern neighbour - and the sad reality is there are Canadians who support and agree with those views. It's the Paradox of Tolerance once again.

Or it could be someone close who is dying a slow death. This is none of our business.

Here is the section of Johnston's report that delineates his attempts to communicate with Poilievre, even Erin O'Toole participated in the discussion. Poilievre deserves the level of respect of a squawking chicken.

Oh boy, oh boy!

One of my favourite local brewers. 66 is a fantastic NEIPA.

7 facts about Pierre Poilievre that probably aren’t true but we refused to be briefed on the actual situation 1 HOUR AGO by LUKE GORDON FIELD ( @LUKEMAYBEFUNNY ) Even though Pierre Poilievre has been leader of the opposition for a while now there is still so much we don’t know about him. And we were outraged to discover these 7 almost certainly not true facts after we refused to be given the real information as it may prevent us from sensationalizing the situation with a bunch of false propaganda that plays to our base. 1. He invented the saying ‘Case Of The Mondays’. 2. If he wasn’t a politician his preferred career would be selling predatory reverse mortgage loans to confused elderly people. 3. He is also compromised by a foreign power. But because none of the “big guys” wanted him, he’s been selling our secrets to the Czech Republic. 4. He voted against gay marriage even though his father, a gay man, was about to get married to his partner. (Oh ****, this one’s real). 5. His favourite television series is Mindhunter but “only the BTK parts.” 6. His favourite donut at Tim Hortons is a Boston Cream with extra Cream. 7. He hates the CBC because it cancelled his favourite show Being Erica Update: We deleted a part of Number 4 that said Poilievre’s father was in the House during the vote, because the source on that wasn’t definitive, and we take our job as fake news journalists more seriously than Poilievre takes his. https://thebeaverton.com/2023/05/7-facts-about-pierre-poilievre-that-probably-arent-true-but-we-refused-to-be-briefed-on-the-actual-situation/

Hate this too. I am certainly no lefties, I've voted for right of centre options far more in my life than I ever have left of centre... but these current right wing parties are off the deep end so even someone like me who generally has a centre-right approach to things can't support them. That doesn't make me a leftie, at least not in my mind. In my mind it makes me someone who wants good government not culture wars and science denial.

Ok, let's talk about the price of food: Wheat is the back bone of the world's food supply. The two largest wheat producers in the world are at war with each other. There are climate issues: farmers in Kansas are abandoning their wheat crop, due to drought. Saskatchewan and Alberta are currently crying for moisture. Manitoba has had areas with drought in recent years. Currently, meat prices have come down but grain prices haven't. Margins for meat producers are slim to non-existent to negative. Drought and ground water depletion in California is impacting fruit and vegetable prices. All of this plays into the things you mentioned - it's the backbone of the economy.

Apparently, I expected too much from the resident rabble-rouser who would rather engage in petulant retorts, moving goalposts, repeated logical fallacies, and the same tired baseless assumptions*. So, here's a chart showing the most up-to-date federal budget management: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/services/publications/annual-financial-report/2022/report.html One fiscal year of excessive spending relative to revenues (it's almost as if there was some major unprecedented global socioeconomic crisis* during that time, AKA a time of need) - and then a significant recovery for the 2021-22 fiscal year and a deficit on par with the 2009-10 fiscal year relative to the nation's GDP. And the projection for 2023 looks to be relatively positive: https://www2.deloitte.com/ca/en/pages/future-of-canada-center/articles/federal-budget.html I'd say you're welcome but gratitude and humility seem as non-existent for you as the effort to engage in worthwhile discussion in this thread. * I'm not a LPC supporter (Daniel Blaikie is my MP and I voted for him in the last two federal elections)

Or:

I am so tired and frustrated how some continually throw out the echo chamber you all think the same nonsense to support their ‘this is what see’ thoughts while hurling labels like lefties and libtards. I’m not a lefty nor a libtard in how some here think it means. I consider myself and a lot others on this board decent critical thinkers that sometimes results in original thoughts being incorrect.

Stop that!! You will upset Speedflex who has a good hate-on going.

and it worked! I'm coming to the home opener! Thank you Westjet for the great seat sale!

Ontario?? Wine...... *fart noises*

he can easily be rostered...we had Mcrae on roster with all the starters...so he goes in for him No reason why you can't rotate receiver in like any other rotational guy..Sheed also qualifies for Nationalized player now too...so Agudosi could be the defacto starter, and Sheed can rotate in for import or Canadian ...lots of ways to make it work If Bennet is real deal...wont have to DI for an import rotational end...they will have him on the roster, as you know ZC will be wanting that target....if Ford comes back sooner than later from an NFL camp too...he could be 6th db and not use a DI spot there as well

True.

There’s another good one tucked away on Warsaw avenue called Sookrams Brewing company.

Oh...? Unhinged hypocrisy.

It's gotta be ******* exhausting to be that angry all the time...

Patent 5 is great.

It's a great physical space. Can't say much else about it food, people meh... Patent 5 Distillery and Tasting Room around the corner, I could spend way to much $ and time in that place if I was a little younger.

I provided the data to refute yet another one of your inaccurate claims from yesterday: Those two charts I presented - if you bothered to pay attention - demonstrates how often federal governments run deficit irrespective of the party in charge. If you feel so inclined to talk about LPC spending since 2015 as it relates to the federal deficit discussion, fill your boots. Do your own work. Where has anyone labeled you that? You're the self-proclaimed "centrist voter," anyway. Try some effort for a change. Instead of peddling conspiracy theories and other nonsensical talking points.

Our own Manitoba government is borrowing money to fund tax cuts.

Was able to catch a scrimmage, man, I'm so excited to see what a healthy Agudosi can do. He's got speed, big height and a threat at a big receiver we haven't seen in a long time.

I hope not, but they might, it looks like the Argos will not visit Wpg. until week 17, it would be nice if Harris is able to play in that game. It would also be good to give Matt Nichols due respect with a night in his honour sometime this season.

Left, right, middle, combo don't matter, an example of what a true non critical thinker (updated label) looks like that got them to this moment of action:

Nonsuch is a nice tap room - but I have never had a beer that I liked from there.

So...pretty safe to say at this point: The Jets gave the Knights about as much competition as any other team has.

I don’t think you are going to get that view at Low Life haha. So apologies in advance - but I do want to check out their room and beer. I have found that there are some Good Neighbour beers I like - so I’m wanting to check that one out as well. I think the owners are all ladies - so it should be pretty clean @Mike 😉

have been to Sookrams.....it was alright. I appreciated the owner coming around table to table, checking on people to see how they liked the beer. Was a nice touch. Not sure I have an absolute favourite in the city, right now, (in terms of breweries as a whole, not beer specifically) but there's lots of good ones I enjoy visiting. For me, it's half about the quality of beer, and half about the taproom experience. My Lotto Max dream is building a small brewery along the waterfront in Pinawa, because, for me, it's all about "beer with a view". A patio with waterfront views, and a really good beer? Life doesn't get better than that.

The Pump House is a cool spot. The Common is a great place to grab a beer - I wish it was bigger

This could go in the Canadian or US Politics threads as well because it deals with the rise of fascism. Since it's specifically about Russian fascism, I'll leave it here. Russia’s Frighteningly Fascist Youth A new generation of Russians glorifies war, death, and Vladimir Putin. MAY 21, 2023, 7:00 AM The term “fascism” may have a vexed history, but this paradox—war is peace—is central to its political philosophy. Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher, noted that one of the key facets of fascism was the constant war that had to be waged to prove that the nation was always on the path toward a cleansing regeneration. “Pacifism is bad; life is permanent warfare,” he wrote in the mid-1990s. But why should Putin, a 21st-century autocrat seemingly without real internal threats to his power and ruling a country fueled by income from abundant natural resources, be attached to such a vision? The British scholar Roger Griffin argues that fascism seeks to regenerate the nation through war. It aims to destroy elements of modernity in order to create a new world order in response to the “degenerative forces of conservatism, individualistic liberalism, and materialist socialism.” The obliteration of morally degenerate enemies and moral orders by an ethnonationalist society totally dedicated to this goal is meant to bring about a new era in history. That new era, however, only ever recreates a supposedly lost past: a time of mythical, wondrous harmony when a nation and its subjects were culturally and militarily powerful. For Russia, this fantasy era picks apart and reassembles chunks of the medieval, tsarist, and Soviet past, where symbol and myth transcend historical reality. The longed-for utopia can only ever exist as fictional spectacle, performed for and by the public. It is pure fairy tale. Putin’s Russia has bolted the fascist dream onto a distinctly modern popular culture. Modern fascist culture, Danish scholar Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen argues, spreads itself not through formal political parties and institutions—21st-century Nazi parties or Brownshirts—but through popular and internet culture. There are no closed doors beyond which fascist ideology cannot reach. Parties are no longer needed to create mass movements when social media groups can be created, joined, and eviscerated at the click of a mouse. Fascist governments and their subjects continually construct and reconstruct themselves—and do the opposite to their enemies—online and in “real life.” In online spaces where performance and public display easily overpower everyday reality, fascism is apt at staging what Bolt Rasmussen calls “a simulacrum of society.” From Foreignpolicy.com https://archive.ph/5O8Dt#selection-1069.0-1081.22

Noeller is going to call it “issues with the ownership”, but I’m going to call it “I find their hygiene practices absolutely gross and I don’t much care for an owner who gets drunk and berates customers” If you want a beer that hasn’t been treated comparably to a burger scraped off the bathroom floor at McDonalds, I’d recommend going to Brazen Hall (great food as well), the Forks or Sookram’s (my personal recommendation) if you’re looking for a spot somewhat on the way to the stadium. Devil May Care by the Forks is also sort of close to Pembina, I suppose, and they do cool stuff too. Cibo and the Pump House, although Cibo has been known to struggle with dirty tap lines. I love their food though.

So, Stephen Harper appointed Johnston Gov General & that's okay. But for everything else Harper is a monster representing the right. You lefties make me laughas you pick & choose what you like & dislike. And Trudeau was a ski instructor & drama teacher who liked to dress up in black face. And he's always had his daddy's trust fund. Like you? This thread has become like a private club. You don't belong unless everyone thinks the same. All of you who mock & insult anyone that think differently that we are all entitled to our own opinions. We need to respect one another even if we disagree. Why is that so hard?

Its Lord Helmut

Sorry, I meant Kelly McCrimmon who is in management, not coaching. Congrats Pa Ma - you are going to the big show!

Don't worry, he won't run out of things to hate.

Thanks.

Vance Barnes

WestJet has dropped the price of their May to July flights from Winnipeg to Las Vegas down to between $224 and $285 CAD roundtrip including taxes

https://www.tsn.ca/dallas-stars-jamie-benn-suspended-two-games-for-cross-checking-vegas-golden-knights-mark-stone-1.1964621 Disgusting move last night.

Who says this? No one on these boards. No one i know says this. Just you and a smattering of Milhouse supporters i reckon. The inquiry is going to be redacted to hell - everyone knows this... its the nature of the subject of the investigation. And Milhouse is going to yell an scream to whip up a frenzy for his followers about how the deepstate, anyifa soros... blah blah blah **** Trudeau! And those dumb clucks are going lap that **** up. Tax cuts are essentially directly contribute to deficit spending in a big way.

you're right...maybe I missspoke on them being impossible. The countries who have most recently ran a balanced federal budget are - - - - - - Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg and Germany. I look forward to the PP lead PC's adopting some of their governance policies...

My points on defending sanity and not Trudeau or true liberal supporters gets proven over and over and again with predictable responses from some of the F Trudeau crowd.

Long-sought universal flu vaccine: mRNA-based candidate enters clinical trial. The phase I trial will test safety and efficacy in a small number of people. An mRNA-based flu vaccine designed to offer long-lasting protection against a broad range of influenza viruses is now in a phase I clinical trial, the National Institutes of Health announced this week. The trial brings the remarkable success of the mRNA vaccine platform to the long-standing efforts to develop a universal flu vaccine. Currently, health systems around the globe battle the seasonal scourge with shots that have to be reformulated each year to match circulating strains. This reformulation happens months before typical transmission, providing manufacturers time to produce doses at scale but also giving the strain in circulation chances to shift unexpectedly. If the year's shot is a poor match for the strains that circulate in a given season, efficacy against infection can be abysmal. Still, even when the shot is well-matched, people will need another shot next year. "A universal influenza vaccine would be a major public health achievement and could eliminate the need for both annual development of seasonal influenza vaccines, as well as the need for patients to get a flu shot each year," Hugh Auchincloss, acting director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a news release. "Moreover, some strains of influenza virus have significant pandemic potential. A universal flu vaccine could serve as an important line of defense against the spread of a future flu pandemic." A successful design has been elusive. Flu vaccines often generate immune responses to fast-evolving bits of proteins on the outside of flu virus particles, hemagglutinin (Ha or H) and neuraminidase (Na or N). These proteins are responsible for helping the virus break into and out of human cells, respectively, during an infection. Both proteins look a little like lollipops stuck to the outside of the virus particle, with their tops evolving and being prime targets for potent antibodies against the virus. For the universal vaccine design, NIH researchers have targeted not the tops of these proteins but a portion of the Ha protein's stem—a highly conserved part of the protein that doesn't evolve as quickly. Human antibodies that target this conserved region will likely target Ha proteins from a range of different flu strains in the same class. And, because this section doesn't evolve as quickly, the vaccine could induce long-term immunity. With this design, the mRNA-based vaccine will include a snippet of genetic code in the form of mRNA that gives human cells the blueprints for this conserved stem region. From there, the immune system can learn to target it. There's already data to suggest this target could work. Before NIH researchers used an mRNA-based design, they developed a similar HA-stem targeting vaccine that appeared safe and effective in a phase I trial. The vaccine uses stabilized protein fragments of the Ha stem stuck to a nanoparticle. Last month, NIH researchers published results showing that this nanoparticle vaccine induced cross-reacting neutralizing antibodies against influenza viruses in the same virus group (H1). And those neutralizing antibodies stuck around for more than a year after vaccination. The vaccine candidate has advanced to a second trial. The researchers are hopeful that having multiple platforms in the works will increase their chances of getting a successful vaccine. For now, the mRNA-based vaccine is starting with a small trial of just 50 people recruited through partners at Duke University. Three groups of 10 volunteers will get different vaccine doses to find the optimal dose. Once that's found, 10 more will be vaccinated, and their responses will be compared to a 10-person control group that will be given a standard annual flu vaccine. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/experimental-universal-flu-vaccine-with-an-mrna-based-design-enters-trial/

Exactly. Singh could basically get anything he wants because the liberals need him. So why doesn't he? Because he isn't polling well enough to call an election so he has to try and score some more points first.

You'd be better off drinking out of the toilets at the stadium.

First off, where are you from? What kind of food do you like? - Feast Bistro -Cibo Cafe -Sous Sol -Tons of MIcro Breweries... as for spots... -Canadian Human Rights Museum. -Shop and dine @ the Forks -Try and book a tour at the Canadian Mint But realistically- if you are just keeping it in Winnipeg you are seriously missing out... So much to do outside of Winnipeg. -Clear lake -Riding National Park -Gimili for some Icelandic experiences Various beaches -various fishing places. -Hecla is awesome.... I guess it depends on how much time you are spending here.