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Yeah dont know what happened with this guy. I think maybe there was something behind the scenes we dont know about cause on the field he seemed to be doing great.

I also read that these two knobs in going there waved off security that everyone is required to go thru regardless of who you are. Boebert has said she packs all the time so there’s potentially an unauthorized weapon in chambers while the leaders of the Ukraine and the United States of America are in attendance. I’m embarrassed as a human being to be lumped into the same species as these two and their ilk.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/hudson-bagels-drug-trafficking-allegations-charges-1.6694465

6PM CDT, TSN3 Bahhhston is an insane 25-4-2 and 17-0-2 at home. Jets have their work cut out for them and hope that Helly is ready!

Now I have to watch

Friends of mine just sold their beautiful lakefront cottage in Kawartha Lakes to a realtor who was going to turn it into an AirBnB. Looks like the realtors are going to have some competition as foreign buyers' options just got tighter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cruelty is the point. BUILD Inc. shutters Winnipeg job training program after funding negotiations with province fail Daniel Peterson has a blunt answer after being asked where he thinks he would be without the opportunities he received through the job training program at BUILD Inc. "Dead," he said. Peterson is one of about 1,000 people who have gone through the program — which works with people facing barriers to employment and trains them to do interior renovations — over the last 16 years. Now that program is shutting down, after two years of funding negotiations with the provincial government failed to produce an agreement. Peterson first came to the program in 2016, shortly after getting out of prison. He said he struggled with addictions since the age of 12, and had few skills to help him get a job. After several more stints in jail, Peterson has been doing painting and carpentry work for six months. "They took me back again because, thank God … they liked me. They just kept giving me chances and it's really appreciated, because I stayed out of jail." 'Another family' BUILD's training program gave him confidence, he said. "It's like another family," he said. "They've given me a lot — love, compassion, understanding. I get a lot through this." Most of the program participants identify as Indigenous, although Peterson does not. The provincial government funded the program until 2018. It then received funding from the federal government, but that agreement ended in 2020. Executive director Sean Hogan said the training program has struggled for the past two years. Manitoba to commit $2.25M to program that aims to reduce number of Indigenous youth in justice system Manitoba looks to private sector to help reduce youth recidivism through social impact bond They've kept it going by using profits from the business side of the social enterprise, which renovated low-income housing, but Hogan said that isn't sustainable in the long term. "We have people coming in literally every day asking for an opportunity, people who are leaving a gang, people who are leaving jail," he said. "The past couple of years we've had to say no, consistently say no that we don't have anything for them and we're sorry." Negotiations with the province initially focused on trying to secure a grant to fund the program, but that would have required BUILD to stop paying the trainees directly, Hogan said. They then shifted to trying to work out a social impact bond — a method of funding social programs that uses private investment, which is then repaid with interest if the project's goals and cost savings are achieved. Recently, however, the province told Hogan they would only issue the social impact bond if they stopped working with people involved in the justice system. "I expressed that we weren't happy with that, and then about two weeks ago, they told us that they wouldn't be moving forward with us on a social impact bond, or funding." OPINION Social impact bond could not only help at-risk moms, but give Manitoba's government a chance to shine OPINION Social impact bonds: Another attempt at privatizing government? A spokesperson for the province didn't respond to questions about why the province placed those conditions on potential funding agreements with BUILD. Last April, the province gave BUILD $485,000 as a "bridge grant," and recently renewed an agreement for the organization to to be "one of the contractors of choice for repair and maintenance in Manitoba Housing." The spokesperson also said the province has issued a request for proposals for $2 million in training initiatives available in 2023. All organizations, including BUILD, are invited to apply, the spokesperson said. BUILD – which stands for Building Urban Industries for Local Development – was founded in 2006. Its six-month training program includes two months of in-class education followed by four months of on-the-job experience. Many of the participants are people who have been recently incarcerated, as well as youth aging out of Child and Family Services and parents trying to reunite with their children. Renovation business to continue Although the training program will end, BUILD will continue its business renovating low-income housing, Hogan said. "Which is OK, that can exist that way. But … there's going to be 50 to 100 people in this next year that are not going to get an opportunity in Winnipeg's North End, that could have had an opportunity to make a better life for themselves." Hogan's referring to others like Daniel Peterson, who credits the program with saving his life, as well as helping him support his daughter and three grandchildren. "I phoned and asked for a pair of free work boots, because I was going to go to a temp agency. They gave me a job along with the work boots here," he said. "I'd probably be dead if these guys weren't here." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/build-inc-shutting-down-job-training-program-1.6694552

Being cut twice before & at age 27 he might be in tough.

Public health crises or not, one can be socially responsible, take care of oneself, ones loved ones and complete strangers AND still not live in fear AND live life to its fullest still enjoying the many freedoms and choices we have in this great country. It’s not an either or. It just ebbs and flows as appropriate you knuckle dragging MF’s said to no one specifically here.

that's fine if this were in a vaccuum....but that **** has an effect on us if new, crazy variants are coming because of what's happening in China...

Just so we are on the same page, can you give a few examples of the "hard turns to left"? I am trying to understand your point of view. Sorry- it was about the health care funds. Also, funtcionaly- The liberals would have a minority government every single time- the NDP would prop them up, very time over the cons. So, No- I am not wrong in that. Interestingly enough- all those graphs show a clear left of center preference for Canadians.

Outgoing Alouettes president with a mic drop on loudmouth Gary Stern. 😂

Maybe...but I think a signing late last year basically put that to an end.

*edit* Jay beat me!

He isn’t a DB. Struggled in coverage. Also I don’t think this signing means he won’t be back.

He was definitely playing well early on and then he seemed to hit a bit of a wall towards the start of the second half of the season. I remember DT talking about how at the star of the season, Rutledge had a play or two each game that kind stood out but those slowly started to stop happening and nobody could figure out why. Was it fatigue from not being used to playing this long, coming out of college, was there an injury, maybe a change to the scheme? Whatever the reason, the coaches clearly lost confidence in him by the end of the season and now it's a wrap.

A lawyer who represented 'Freedom Convoy' organizers has been sued for defamation after alleging a Toronto consultant carried a Nazi flag to discredit protesters. ctvnews.ca 'Freedom Convoy' lawyer sued over Nazi flag claim A lawyer who represented 'Freedom Convoy' organizers has been sued for defamation after alleging a Toronto consultant carried a Nazi flag to discredit protesters.

Be happy with a single point the next 2 days.

Hopefully after tonight’s festivities 25-5-2 17-1-2 are the updated number combos for bahhhhhston.

Demski for sure

To see that another way, China has done a great job at protecting their citizens from Covid and minimizing chances of variants developing in their substantial population thus far. Their initial lack of containment and attempts to cover up the virus were very much detrimental, but their efforts to contain the virus over the past few years surely helped the global population. The lack of containment outside of China has now caught up to them. I'm not a fan of the Chinese regime at all, but from anecdotal accounts I have heard, they were mostly able to live life as normal throughout most of the pandemic. It makes me wonder where we would be in the world today if other governments took a lot of the same mitigation steps they did. Perhaps Omicron would never have evolved, I'm not really sure. Again, not a fan of the regime. Not a fan of the inhumane ways they have tried to shut down Covid (forcefully locking people in buildings for example). But after the initial failures, their containment certainly helped the world's effort to limit spread and now the lack of containment worldwide and more virulent variants have caught up to them. I also don't believe their decision to drop zero-Covid was due to economic concerns, but due to worry about anti-Government sentiment spreading and a desire to hold ultimate power over the people.

A fellow of discriminating taste!

Agree. New crop of WRs coming next April. WRs are a dime a dozen for NFL teams now. Not saying he won't sign with a team but he has a tough row to hoe.

Neither does mine!

While MGT slobbers and knuckle drags across the floor frothing away yelling in her hardly understandable language drivel America first.

Clarification: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-ban-non-resident-buyers-exemptions-1.6693875 Seems like the effects could be minimal. And in other developments: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-interview-economy-windfall-tax-interest-rates-1.6693777

What a terrible take? So every CFL player post career should be entitled for a job as a O or D coordinator or HC? What makes Allen qualified to be given a coaching job? Because he was healthy and had a long career? Because he could run faster then most other QB's? He has free time since he hasn't played or coached in 15 years? What if Cody Fajardo decided to retire and wanted to coach in 2023, should he be given a job because he also was a QB and wants to coach? Why teams recycle coaches... because when you sign coaches who are not familiar with the game you end up with Count Chocula Bart Andrus. Or when you sign guys who haven't been around the league a long time then you end up with Mike Kelly. Usually QB's who transition to coaching are the qbs who were as players always known to spend a tonne of time in the film room and known to be able to dissect plays and create plays. Dinwiddie was always looked as a guy who would be a good coach because his ability to break down a play and his time he put into the game film.

But muh individual freedoms don’t stop at your fears. 99 percent of people with Covid don’t die so believe what you want sheep. I’m going to live my life and make my own choices and not be told by big government what I can and cannot do. ffs

I think you are not seeing the forest for the trees. Right-wing politics in the US, Britain and Canada have swung sharply towards fascism but the center and center-left politics in Canada at least has remained static. British left-wingers have always been nutty and the US has no real concept of what European/Canadian left-wing politics are really like.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias. Elizabeth Moon

For me, this comes down to what has already passed. We know the PCs were given money to help with Covid (i think that's what it was for..the 85 mil) and we have zero knowledge of what happened to it. Even after they've been asked, nothing. Similar things happened with Daycare and education. Daycare I know the prov gave the payments to the centres...instead of investing in actually making daycare cheaper all the time. Don't get me wrong, I've benefitted THIS month because of what the PCs did. (I didn't have to pay this month) but I would have preferred to pay this month knowing that in the next year or so, daycare costs would be coming down. PCs had also been given money to help with school infastructure...essentially to update it especially the ventilation...again..what happened with it? So my question is...if the Feds are giving provinces money for specific things, and the provinces aren't using it for those things or only using part of it...or using it for those things but not in the intended way. AND the provinces are then turning around and pointing the finger at the feds for the problems those funds were supposed to address. When does it become reasonable to want a solidified plan in place before more money is given out?

Whispering 'but stays a Bomber for life, carves out a nice career in the CFL, enjoys a few GC rings and see's his name up in the rafters'.

Let's use this sport analogy in a different way. Apparently Rider fans can say that the RoughRiders are the best team franchise ever in the history of sport because it's their opinion that doesn't have to be backed up with evidence because it's their opinion. Sure I think the Bombers franchise is the number 1 best franchise ever because my blood flows blue and gold but I do know I'll have a hard time backing that up with facts if I get called on it and admit that this isn't true but this is where my heart is. Just be upfront with your thought processes if your opinions don't match the facts. I think that's a reasonable expectation for us all.

Good for him! Sucks for us. I wish him the best and hope he gets a fair shake.

The rank and file Trump supporters have not realized that every dollar he has grifted from the US treasury/IRS is a dollar that has been taken from them.

as an immigrant to the USA I am of two minds about this: 1. yeah, you can't have a government unless you can collect taxes, dummy. the US federal government spends money as stupidly as any other trillion-dollar organization, but it pays for medicare, medicaid, social security, infrastructure, weather safety, food safety, javelin missiles for Ukraine -- lots of good ****. there is value in those tax dollars. 2. American tax law is so jacked up that you can buy your way free of taxes with the right help. Many wealthy Americans will happily pay their accountants $100K to avoid a $101K tax bill. So is the extra IRS enforcement going to help mitigate these structural issues and make the wealthy pay their fair share? Or is the burden of the extra attention going to fall on the smaller fry?

It was only a matter of time... he'll get his shot.

https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/201191E 3 The Federal Spending Power The federal spending power is inferred from Parliament’s jurisdiction in the Constitution Act, 1867 over public debt and property (section 91(1A)) and its general taxing power (section 91(3)). Thus, Parliament may raise money by taxation and may spend it, or grant it to others, as it sees fit. Although the provinces are responsible for the direct delivery of most medical services, the federal government uses its spending power to play a strong role in the Canadian medicare system through its financial contributions and by setting certain national standards by means of the Canada Health Act. Using its spending power, Parliament may set conditions for receipt of the money. The Canada Health Act, therefore, is constitutionally about the financing of health care, not health care directly, and the national standards it establishes are the conditions to which the provinces must adhere if they wish to continue to receive federal money. The only sanction on a province for breach of any of the Act’s criteria or conditions is for the federal government to reduce or withhold payments to the province. In a 1997 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice LaForest stated that Parliament has played its role in the provision of medical care by employing its inherent spending power to set national standards for provincial medicare programs. The Canada Health Act … requires the federal government to contribute to the funding of provincial health insurance programs provided they conform with certain specified criteria. (The constitutionality of this kind of conditional grant, I note parenthetically, was approved by this Court in Reference Re Canada Assistance Plan (B.C.), [1991] 2 S.C.R. 525, at p. 567.)

Which is why Alberta has yet to completely privatize health care.

Dalton worked out for Arizona and Minnesota with more to come according to 3DNation.

Under the Canada Health Act, they can withhold funding if conditions in the health act are not met. Constitution FYI says nothing about funding.

Of course the Con Premiers will piss and moan. It's al they have. And, failed leadership. And crypto coins.

Not a fact. There are different kinds of electoral reform: Proportional Representation, Ranked Balloting etc. Even under PR, the Cons would not have had enough seats to form a coalition with 1/3 of the seats. You must have missed this from a few minutes ago (I'll put it in red so you notice this time): Excluding pandemic costs, the province spent $7.08 billion on health care in 2021-22. That’s an increase of $520 million from the $6.56 billion the province spent in 2017-18 — an average annual increase of only 1.9 per cent. It’s a stingy amount that falls well short of addressing chronic hospital understaffing, long wait lists and a severe doctor shortage, particularly in rural Manitoba. It’s especially inadequate given the province’s aging population, which is putting increased pressure on hospitals, home care and personal-care homes. Ms. Stefanson blames the federal government for that funding shortfall. However, during the same period, health-care transfers from Ottawa to Manitoba increased on average 3.8 per cent a year, bringing the federal contribution to $1.57 billion in 2021-22. That does not include additional federal funding for pandemic relief. It also doesn’t include the $900-million annual boost in equalization payments Manitoba received from Ottawa during that period.

You're acting petulant, though. And you made numerous claims without any evidence whatsoever. That's also not a fact. Arguing in bad faith is akin to trolling and does nothing to benefit discourse in this thread.

From today's Free Press editorial: Excluding pandemic costs, the province spent $7.08 billion on health care in 2021-22. That’s an increase of $520 million from the $6.56 billion the province spent in 2017-18 — an average annual increase of only 1.9 per cent. It’s a stingy amount that falls well short of addressing chronic hospital understaffing, long wait lists and a severe doctor shortage, particularly in rural Manitoba. It’s especially inadequate given the province’s aging population, which is putting increased pressure on hospitals, home care and personal-care homes. Ms. Stefanson blames the federal government for that funding shortfall. However, during the same period, health-care transfers from Ottawa to Manitoba increased on average 3.8 per cent a year, bringing the federal contribution to $1.57 billion in 2021-22. That does not include additional federal funding for pandemic relief. It also doesn’t include the $900-million annual boost in equalization payments Manitoba received from Ottawa during that period. Instead of using that funding and other own-source revenues to provide the health-care system with adequate funding, the Tories cut taxes as part of their “$2,020 tax rollback guarantee.” According to Finance Minister Cameron Friesen, total tax cuts since 2016 are worth over $1.1 billion a year.

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.

I think it's important to recognize that someone can be insulting without directly insulting someone. People who consistently ignore facts and repeat lies do a disservice to healthy discussion and tend to drive conversations into nit-picking, double-speak, whataboutism and hypocrisy. Their arguments are disingenuous at best and dis-informative at worst. What I feared most about a Trump presidency was not policy (although I knew he'd be destructive), but rather the lowering of political discourse to a level we've never seen. There are no alternative facts and the truth matters. If you cannot appreciate facts, provide them or at least comment on them beyond stale talking points, you provide no value to any discussion and are insulting the intelligence of anyone who has the misfortune to read your drivel.

From early front runner for team ROY to the USFL.