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Never mind the politics of it, if Americans can’t see the competency of a past President as opposed to whom they have now...then they deserve another 4 years of him. Trouble is, Canada will have to pay the price too.

Having pondered some of the recent posts......my new plan is to ingest as much gin, as humanly possible.....then jump off a 5G tower. Plaudits to follow......

FYI A Canadian company in Ottawa has invented a very simple, easy to use COVID19 testing device the size of a Keurig machine that produces results in under an hour for about $15.00. They have been besieged by American companies wanting to either buy the company or all of the production on an exclusive basis. The owner has refused to sell the testers outside of Canada until domestic demand has been satisfied.

What a dumb thing to say but then... you've been making a habit of it everyday on this thread.

Obama's endorsement really means little, he was going to endorse whoever the Democrats nominated

Obama will be a big help in articulating just about anything for the Dems, this fall

Walker will sign any year now,I can feel it!

That is funny. Gotta blackout a game already played.

Speaking of TSN.. TSN is showing an NHL game tonight so I tuned in to see who’s playing on the off chance it might be an interesting game. 😠 Quote “This game is under regional blackout on TSN” That’s just dumb.

And there will be some here yet again predicting that this new league will kill the CFL.

Another good article by Ed Tait. https://www.bluebombers.com/2020/04/14/bombers-draft-part-1/?fbclid=IwAR0P8f0UB6yJt51k5GVPLmPuSj4deIjqtqdb_9D9o9RAfmYOrqiyL-EtrrI

Awesome.

The whole cottage thing seems like a "use your best judgement" kind of deal. If you have a cottage an hour out of a major city, I can't honestly see any issue (Falcon, West Hawk, etc). In those cases, you are likely sticking to your own cottage anyways, and most likely would end up in Winnipeg if you needed health care. For Trudeau: 25 minutes out of the city? There is no way that is what people are intending when they say "avoid the cottage". Kenora, Clear Lake, etc...those ones are trickier. Disclaimer: we have a cottage at Falcon, so I am 100% biased here.

and it's 25 minutes away. Less than a drive across the city. This story is being spun wildly out of control by Con supporters.

Trudeau's wife and children had been at the cottage for three weeks prior to the Easter weekend and he chose to join them by automobile- a different scenario than suggested here.

Meanwhile in China: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-04/14/c_138975722.htm

Stupid rule.

Well, they would have to pry that gin glass.... from my cold dead hands.....

If you had to make a choice between yourself and a younger person what choice would you make? I think I know the answer and why.

They didn't want to spoil the ending.

Hmm. That 80 year old has seen their life's work been destroyed as well through no fault of their own. They didn't ask to have Dementia, Cancer or Alzheimer's. Or anyone of a thousand sicknesses, diseases or afflictions we could get. What you just posted above is the most pathetic, selfish & heartless thing I have ever read here. You. Should. Just. Stop. Now.

He should have owned up to that bad day. Chose not to. Learning experience for him. Have to take the bad with the good. That's part of being a pro player.

FINALLY- SOME SANITY IN AMERICAN POLITICS From: Alternet.org Conservative commentators pour salt on the wounds of the GOP’s ‘historically humiliating’ Written by Alex Henderson April 14, 2020 208 Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” isn’t the only Never Trump conservative who has been pouring salt on the GOP’s wounds over Wisconsin’s April 7 election: Charlie Sykes, co-founder of The Bulwark, is doing so as well this week — and, like Scarborough, is arguing that Republicans subjected themselves to a public relations fiasco over a right-wing candidate who didn’t even win: incumbent Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly. In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers and other Democrats — fearing for the safety of voters during the coronavirus pandemic — called for postponing the election and encouraged mail-in ballots as an alternative to in-person voting. But Republicans in the state legislature resisted that idea, and on Tuesday, April 7, the election went ahead. Those who hadn’t already mailed in absentee ballots had to vote in person — and Wisconsin voters, thanks to Republicans, stood in long lines on Election Day. Scarborough has been slamming the Wisconsin GOP for putting voters at a greater risk of being infected with coronavirus. That day, Wisconsin residents voted in the Democratic presidential primary as well as for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Liberal Jill Karofsky was up against Justice Dan Kelly, who has been enthusiastically endorsed by President Donald Trump. Republicans, Sykes notes, believed that discouraging mail-in voting would give Kelly an advantage, but as it turned out, Karofsky won by “more than 10 percentage points — which translates to more than 120,000 votes.” “It was a blowout in a state that has become notorious for its close elections,” Sykes asserts in his Bulwark article. “Despite their efforts to make voting as difficult as possible, Republicans were overwhelmed by a tsunami of mail-in votes…. The scope and nature of Kelly’s defeat was historically humiliating.” Sykes observes that although Wisconsin Republicans were hoping that Karofsky’s supporters would stay home on April 7, all they succeeded in doing was bringing them out in droves — even with the threat of coronavirus.

That is so true.

So your argument is: "Trudeau did something stupid so I can too"?

I had totally forgotten what a President is supposed to sound like, but listening to Obama's video endorsing Biden dramatically shows that the Mango Mussolini has no idea how to use the English language.

So will a woman in the VP slot....

Good joe Biden impression

Its so bizarre... every other essential service drives home to their family every day - Trudeau does it for a weekend and Canada freaks out

Haha... says the dude who voted for Kenney and the UCP and who has now become a self-annointed Jesus saving all humanity. Same old ISO.

Now cmon, Joe Biden is a great communicator, maybe the best.... no sorry... I didn't mean to say that - he's good though... that's a stupid thing to say.... I shouldn't have said that... best was... maybe... no that's stupid... good... yes... what?... okay, thank you

He'll be a great lightening rod too. Trump hates him (for obvious reasons) and will probably have regular melt downs about him.

If people in Kenora need to see a doctor or shop you don't think they come to Winnipeg? It's kind of 2 faced for them to turn around & say stay away. Same with Pinawa.

Tombstone Todd Krenbrink as the first pick in the 03 draft made me go "Ooooof", and somehow I don't even remember the name Mike Morris from the 09 draft.....some crazy stuff in there that just goes to show you the CFL draft is, at best, a complete crap shoot.

Oh they know. Trump is their useful idiot. Once they have complete control for Republicans they will deal with their sideshow.

Tell that to Trudeau....

I disagree. Within the past 48 hours Trump has stated that Article 2 allows him to act unilaterally without the approval of Congress and/or the Senate and/or the Judiciary and/or the states. He has surrounded himself with sycophants who will execute his dictates even if illegal, and have done so already. The American public for the most part and especially the GOP-controlled senate have conceded their responsibility and authority to Trump.

Trump and the GOP have demonstrated repeatedly that they care nothing for either the law or the constitution and have simply ignored any legal restriction they find inconvenient. Trump has hinted broadly that his supporters might use violence if he is unseated and he has already stated that there were many millions of illegal voters, even though his own inquiry found nothing. He has maintained that even afterwards.

hands down the absolute worse take on this topic.

Choice was deliberate....if I am going, I'm going full bore...

I think your doom & gloom, we're all gonna die if we don't go back to work, we must sacrifice the old & the sick for the young & the strong, the economy being destroyed is worse than the virus itself thingy needs to be tempered. I was curious as to how the Great Depression affected the mortality rate & found articles all saying the death rate went down & not up. Life expectancy increased as well. Here's one: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-depression-had-little-effect-on-death-rates-46713514/ Another: https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-economy-life-expectancy Finally: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2765209/ There's more of the same articles but I won't post them. It seems historians & scholars are in agreement that while life was difficult for just about everyone in the 1930's, millions did not die from starvation, disease, from freezing to death or from the economy falling into a depression. Indeed, life expectancy increased in the 1930's. So then, based on the information in the 3 articles above & others that can be googled, it seems the world would survive somehow & life would carry on. Therefore, I would only sacrifice my life to save my family if in danger. Not to save the local A & W down the street or Apple, Microsoft, General Motors, Sony or Amazon. In this economy at present, companies will fold & others will take their place. I expect that a lot of companies that we know now will not be around in the future when this pandemic is over. Ones that we have known all our lives. Opportunities will be created by entrepreneurs when these & other businesses fail. The world survived the Great Depression & The Second World War back to back. Europe, China, Japan & SE Asia were in ruins after 1945. The economy roared back in the early 1950's. My concern isn't Floyd's business. That's his problem although I do hope his business makes it even though he wants human sacrifices at The Altar Of The Almighty Dollar. I have my own problems to worry about & those of my family, relatives & friends making it safely thru this pandemic. But if any of you want to sacrifice the lives of seniors who are sick then please think again. People who sacrificed to make a better life for you by building this country. If saving the economy means killing the weak, the sick & the infirmed then count me out. If you want to be be dead heroes & sacrifice your life willingly or the lives of your loved ones to save the economy then have at it. I won't be doing it.

My cousin has dementia - I just visited him before this broke out. He's probably scared right now and wondering why no one is visiting him. Do you think they deserve to die alone while we hide from covid? Should we not find a way to secure their health AND let them see their family? If we really lived in a world where we could save all covid patients and not hurt anything else, sure I would support that... But aside from being willing to destroy businesses, put us into a structural deficit which will result in health care cuts 5-10 years from now, likely a recession or depression, etc etc etc... We are running out of blood supply, medical supplies are being diverted just to covid, CT scans are cancelled and other tests, communities are going to run low on food - we have a shitstorm of problems on the horizon... My business is fine - booming in fact - but I see every restaurant, bar, storefront, contractor, etc shut down in Whitehorse entering the only real time of the year we have to make a living... the price will be far higher than the government can cover.

Nah, give it a few years & some rich yahoo will try again. It just never ends.

Trumps toast, Biden will steamroll him.

A nice, neat argument - until you look at what Norway has achieved.

Ban people? No, I don't think so. Seems a bit extreme... I haven't advocated banning anyone, I've just asked people stop being so selfish or inconsiderate or dumb or whatever it is... Maybe not driving hours to neighboring communities because they have great deals on kitty litter and diapers. Is there no grocery store in Kenora large enough to support their community? (There is). Why do they have to come to Costco, considering the risk? It just doesn't seem wise to me. I think everyone should be doing everything they can do to self isolate, especially the things that cost you nothing, all you have to do is be considerate and at least think things through - is there a better way? I'm talking about reasonable things like getting gas when you're near E, not when you're passing by the station and the bays are empty. Not popping in to the grocery store a 7-11 for a snack or because you're bored and want to go for a walk, instead waiting a week til you can do a worthwhile shop. Worst are the people breaking self isolation because it's Spring and they're bored. Play some solitaire or dry hump a couch cushion, whatever it takes to be entertained, just do it at home.

What if (and I'm not taking sides because damn it I want a cabin) someone sick or asymptomatic BRINGS the virus to a small community and starts an outbreak that could have been avoided? Can Winnipeg support everyone West of Thunder Bay if the sparse under-equipped hospitals between here and there begin to back up? Everyone thinks the risk to themselves is so small - end of train of thought. Where is the concern for your neighbors? Not directed at any one specific person just cottagers lol