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Greg Ellingson

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Haven't seen anyone mention this, but Durant continues to confirm that he should've been picked ahead of Addy Richards.

If the Bombers don’t win by 14, I’ll be concerned about their ability to compete against the rest of the teams in the west. If they win by 21, I’ll feel like they have a decent chance to beat Calgary next week. It's been a while since the Bombers could blow people out and finish games.

This random incident has taught us that: (a) Judy's 28 year-old son still lives at home, and (b) that she still loves getting her name in the paper.

Dressler adds another touchdown in Regina to his resume!

Was that Chris Pratt holding the beer at 1:17?!?

Should probably go wit the popular E-Jax pick, but I'll say Cunningham.

Those odds for the Bombers and Riders seem low and high respectively. Bodog had the Bombers at +/- six wins at the beginning of last season, and I was happy to take a few hundred of their dollars. With our o-line and QB depth, I don't see how the Bombers don't reach .500 this year. On the flip side, with their lack of QB and OL depth, it's really hard to see the Riders getting more than seven wins.

Excited to watch Oh, Hello on Netflix! John Mulaney and Nick Kroll are both hilarious, and all of the clips they put on Twitter from the Broadway run were awesome. Anyone else go see Mulaney when he was in town a few weeks ago? My face hurt from laughing by the end of it.

Family Guy won't be the same without him. So many classic moments on that show.

http://3downnation.com/2017/06/07/alouettes-ink-national-and-local-defensive-back/ So the Redblacks have already cut the guy they drafted in the second round in 2016 right ahead of Calhoun, and three spots ahead of Loffler.

Just defensive backs like Cox? Or did you mean running backs (like OJ and Lawrence Phillips) and quarterbacks (like Ryan Leaf) as well?

Any time I'm at a restaurant with any of my brothers and there are blintzes or corn muffins on the menu, the obligatory 'those blintzes/corn muffins were terrible/lousy' line comes out, followed by 'paint my fence/chicken coop', followed by 'make me'. Never gets old. After school in the late 90s it was standard to flip on the old TV, turn it to CBC, wait for Diana Swain or Jennifer Rattray to tell us what was coming up on the 6:00 news, and then veg out to the Simpsons. Blew my mind ten years later when I was taking classes in grad school with Jennifer and constantly thinking 'shouldn't I be watching the Simpsons now?'

I was referring specifically to the comment about abused children and all the other domestic-related crap that social workers deal with every day. Just based on job postings I've seen in the past, most social worker salaries top out in the 70s. All I'm saying is that the current funding and negotiation method probably isn't as taxpayer friendly as it could be (this goes for all public sector unionized environments).

In that case, social workers are severely underpaid when compared to cops (well, maybe not the bodies, but everything else you mentioned applies).

That is an absolutely valid point, but what about the officers who are paid under the same union contract, making the same wage, who never see those dangers because they work in the communications department, or the traffic division. When my property taxes continue to go up 5-8% per year, you can't fault me for asking if there is a different way to deliver these services.

I don't have much experience in these fields to make comparisons, but it seems like the ceiling is much higher for engineers, lawyers, and IT professionals in the private sector.

I was just listing the guys who were most likely to go next based on age. I actually liked both of Dalton's movies.

Oh no. The first Bond actor to die. Someone put out a watch on Connery and Lazenby. You know, bad things in threes...

My problem with looking at current raises is that you have to put them into context with past raises. If you consistently give someone raises that are above the rate of inflation, not only will they eventually end up with salaries that are well above the average worker whose wage only rose with inflation during that time, but you'll also create expectations for those increases to continue in perpetuity. In the case of police officers and fire fighters, the arbitration problem is well documented. But other public-sector jobs? In the case of teachers, you can compare their salaries against teachers in other provinces, but also against non-unionized teachers in private schools, and against the thousands of Education grads out there who can't find teaching jobs. Then you've also got the many people in the public sector whose titles don't fall into the 'professional' categories. People with words like 'clerk', 'co-ordinator', 'technician', or 'analyst' in their job titles, all of whom make 10-20% more than they would for similar roles in the private sector (I am one of them, and would probably have to take about a 10k pay cut to move to the private sector). Then there's the fact that in many cases, these wage increases apply to everyone at the same rate, which further compounds the problem. A 2% raise to a clerk making $40,000 is $800, but that same 2% gives an analyst making $80,000 a $1,600 raise. Compound that over ten or 20 years, and you've got a massive difference between those at the top and bottom of the same union contract. In reality, you could probably freeze the wages of all public sector workers for about ten year before they even came close to the salaries of their private sector counterparts. Toss in the benefits, DB pensions, lack of accountability/performance standards, and (by comparison to the private sector) the vast majority of public sector workers have absolutely nothing to complain about.

Pretty sure everyone pointed that out (and yelled it very loudly) about two years ago.

They must really like Derek Jones and the two new Canadian DBs they are bringing to camp (Conteh and Branning).

Haven't seen this posted anywhere yet... Dunk wrote about Ekakitie's contract details: http://3downnation.com/2017/05/16/first-overall-pick-2017-cfl-draft-gets-healthy-raise/ $88,000 base this year, could hit $100,000 if he hits all incentives. Closer to $110k and $120k in years two and three with incentives. If he hits all the incentives (ie all-star status), it'll be a great deal.