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As much as it would have disgusted me, if they had just gone and camped on the front lawn of the Parliament building, without trying to disrupt the daily lives and businesses of Ottawans (???), they could have camped their until spring. But, when they went after the people of Ottawa, that was over the line. The racist stuff is just to be expected from them.

The police have begun operations to clear downtown Ottawa. Let's hope for a peaceful resolution to this occupation.

Tamara Lich has been arrested. David Cochrane @DavidWCochrane · 1h Convoy organizer Tamara Lich was arrested Thursday evening by Ottawa police and also remains in police custody. Both she and Chris Barber - who was arrested earlier - are expected to be charged criminally, according to sources.

But heaven forbid we have a socialist government that "gives handouts to the poor"

You know what this whole thing has really shown? People have no ******* clue what is meant by the right to peaceful protest. Peaceful protest doesn't mean non-violent. It means not breaking the peace, aka not breaking the law! It is most certainly against the law to block roads and such... so why the **** didn't the boys bust these assholes up from the get go?

By the way, his disability is an amputated leg. He claimed he lost it when he served in Afghanistan. When a quick check revealed he’d never served, he quickly retracted his lie. As it turns out, he was working as a labourer and fell off a roof, breaking his leg. Rumours that he was drunk at the time have not been verified, but he did not properly care for the break, and after it became infected his leg was amputated. He now says he works as a health and safety officer but there is nothing g to show he ever completed the required training, and he himself says he does not work. Of course, he has been collecting disability cheques ever since from the very same government he so loudly decries as oppressive.

Funny, I've just been taking stock of the misconceptions and ignorance . It's another pandemic. No seems to know : - What the Charter of rights and freedoms really says -What freedom in a society means - the difference between want / desire and right - whether you like a particular leader or not is inconsequential. They were elected by our democracy. - What a Nazi is. In particular that neither our current PM Trudeau or our previous PM Harper are or were Nazis - What an Anglo- Saxon is , or the history of them. - That there are no real " pure races " - Lastly , history. There seems to be an amazing lack of knowledge about the history of the world, from ancient to recent.

Tell me you know nothing about playing in the CFL without telling me you know nothing about playing in the CFL…. Sounds like another player thinking they can just light up our league because they threw a football in College and ran once for zero yards in the NFL lmao.

They absolutely want to become martyrs. They want the cops to get violence so they can claim to be victims. Why else would they put their kids out in front of them and dare the cops to do something. Disgusting cowards.

More self-contradictory nonsense from the National Post. Not gonna link because **** giving them traffic. He's not a uniter. He's just got 82% of Canadians backing his approach. it's a total fascist play to portray your enemies as both strong enough to be terrifying but weak enough to be defeatable. It's a line they walk. Umberto Eco described it:

Three "leaders*" down. * piles of bigoted, ignorant, cowardly scum And he throws his arrest up on social media: The insecurity and conceitedness of this loser...

FFS

Well it is the Trump playbook

media have taken a beating lately, but the reporters on the ground and the hosts in studio have done incredible work, IMO, to bring this info and these images to the masses...

Because he is incentivized by interceptions he will go for the pick more often than the safer knock down. I can see him being beaten a lot.

Exactly, these occupiers have no clue. They have a right to protest peacefully just like everybody else. Trucks don't have a right to protest. Commercial vehicles don't have a right to protest.

I bet it was us. Agent thinks we need another guy because we lost Lawler and Adams. But our coaching staff originally brought him in and moved on from him so there was something about him we didn't like.

i'd take him as 3rd import option with Ellingson and Bailey

Anybody else surprised Ricky Collins is without a deal?

Who thought hiring a numbers guy would be a good fit for Rider fans? They should be fired.

You're probably thinking of former Vikings qb Christian Ponder. Wish we'd honour Clements. He put up some great numbers, won a lot of games for us in a Bomber uniform & won a Grey Cup for us in 1984. He was the CFL's MOP in 1987 as a Bomber & a CFL All Star in 1984 & 87. I don't think he's been back to Winnipeg since Crusty Cal pushed him out for Roy Dewalt in 1988.

Steve Armitage is calling it a career.... a lot of jokes have been made about him over the years, but the man really is a national broadcasting treasure. He's had some incredible calls....

This is because these exact same people, the organizers and the spineless politicians that have backed them, have advocated for violence against other protestors.

It seems to me that the police and politicians completely misjudged the degree of organization and the amount of committment by the occupiers. This was likely due to the "Candianishness" of our collective mindset. The same thing happened in Washington on 1/6 and many Americans still cannot fathom that this was an organized , well-funded deliberate attmpt to overthrow the government and capture or kill as many disliked politicians (including VP Mike Pence) as possible. If it had nor been for their own ineptness and lack of tactical discipline, they might have succeeded. The occupiers in Canada do not seem to have been quite as millitant. They somehow hoped/expected to force the government to give in to their demands and then resign, allowing the idiots to set up some sort of provisional government as dictated by them. Had the governments and police moved quickly to oust them, it would have collapsed quickly, but the dithering and tacit support of the politicians and police made a situation that was potentially bad, worse. So far, we have not seen bloodshed, but the delays in clearing the protesters have given them an increased sense of righteousness and support by large numbers of Canadians.

That 88 off season was the one where Joe Pop retired, Willard Reaves & Tom Clements were released. That was also the season that Cal put a Coke machine in the locker room & the players had to pay for it which set off a lot of veterans negatively. As well as cementing Cal's reputation of a cheapskate.

Matt Nichols?

The leaders of this occupation should be thrown in jail on charges of sedition & treason. But they won't because we're too polite.

Even now in the crackdown, the cops' tactics have been gentle. Repeated warnings, ticketing, financial penalties, arrests of key people, and leaving the insurrectionists an escape route. No teargas, no LRADs, not a lot of baton swinging. Those crackers are in Ottawa trying to get their heads busted, they have provoked the population relentlessly. (This is funny because Ottawa is the least confrontational place in the world. It makes Seattle look like the Bronx.) They wanted to show the world that the tyranny they imagine is backed up by actual jackbooted new world order cops. That'll legitimize them, bring in more believers and more marks. When they were controlled nonviolently -- like when they were blockaded in at Billings Bridge and Riverside -- they are helpless. I think the authorities' working theory is that this is a fringe movement that won't be popular in Canada, but it could go more mainstream if people get sympathetic to it, and scenes of good honest canadian whiteboys and their kids getting kicked around by evil NWO cops is a great way to build that sympathy and legitimacy in their target audience.

It must have been rookie camp then, because I remember him on the field. A lot of us were pretty impressed with how he looked and not happy to see him find early success with Sask. We've obviously not had luck finding receivers under this management group, so it felt like a miss.

I would say there is a very high likelihood of this happening.

Depending what happens over the next decade we could easily become the USA 's " Ukraine. "

That hasn't stopped the Argo's apparently. This week's insider talk article on 3DownNation has a bit about that:

Signing bonuses are, as they are paid at signing. Roster bonuses, not so much. Lawler should have secured a signing bonus. Very large risk on his part that he didn't.

wbbfan moved the goal posts. I was responding to him. Matt Nichols definitely played his best ball under Lapo.

Clements was my first favorite Bomber. I'll never forget the very cold october afternoon I spent at Winnipeg Stadium watching the Bombers practice, just so I could get his autograph after practice. Still have it in my papers, I've laminated it and it went with me to the 2011 Grey Cup. Because I am a giant nerd I subscribed to the Free Press archive last year and I re-read all the stories from Clements' arrival and departure. The story the Freep told was that Clements was a victim of the end of the Carling CFL sponsorship deal in 1987 -- overnight the CFL lost millions in free money. Clements justifiably didn't want to take a pay cut and had lots of off-field opportunities -- dude has a law degree from Notre Dame, a pretty heavy education -- so he retired. DeWalt was very much a plan B and was on the scrap heap when the Bombers called him.

On SportsCage DT announces that it was time to go. He has been there 3 years. Say no more, we all understand.

Plot thickens: Murray McCormack interviewed Taylor in the Regina Leader Post today. Taylor indicated he re-signed to focus on sports betting, which is his passion. Re the CJOB job, he said, “I should look into that.”

Make a roster first there bud.....

They're all cowards. Selfish, entitled cowards.

Want to be a coach? Play for the Bombers.

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-locks-first-star What an incredible feat of technology. I can't wait to see the images produced.

Even the announcers want out of Regina haha

my KN95 (a base layer in a 2-mask system for me) is excellent. And anyone who says that a 3rd dose of vaccine doesn't do anything is just dumb and possibly ignorant. Getting your booster shot is HUGE in terms of protection. The data is very clear.

Stop calling it an experimental vaccine, it works and it's saving lives, anyone saying otherwise is uneducated and ignorant and I don't have time for either

Thanks for sharing. Same thing in our house. How people can be anything other than thankful for vaccines, is beyond me.

Huh.... So my 7-year-old daughter got covid at the beginning of February, my Wife caught it 5 days later... both are fine and recovered completely (except my Wife's sense of taste and smell). There are seven in our household all fully vaxxed including boosters where applicable. 2 out of 7. Vaccines work.