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  1. Round 1 - Game 5 : @Volcano Golden Knights

    in Winnipeg Jets Discussion

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    36 minutes ago, Rod Black said:

    Blake Wheeler becomes offended. See, the players were expected to act like pros and they didn’t fix the problems, now 26 starts whining - as one tweeter says “exhibit A : wheelers the problem.”   

     

    Give it rest, Wheeler. There's a reason (or reasons) your C was taken away from you.

    Bowness nailed it. No pride. No push back in a do or die game.

    I guess the truth hurts some of these privileged, overpaid manbabies.

  2. Canadian Politics

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    Speaking of smoothbrains: https://pressprogress.ca/conservative-mp-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-if-pierre-poilievre-supports-giving-workers-a-raise/

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    Asked by CTV Power Play host Vassy Kapelos if Poilievre’s Conservatives “support PSAC’s position that they would like to see a 13.5% raise over three years” to keep pace with “the rate of inflation,” Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie refused to answer.

    “I’m not going to comment on hypotheticals,” Kusie replied. “This rests on Justin Trudeau and his incompetent government.”

    “I don’t think it’s a hypothetical though to ask what the Conservative Party supports,” Kapelos responded. “Do you support the union’s position that they should get a 13.5% raise — why won’t you answer that?”

    Kusie again dodged the question about the Conservative Party’s position on giving workers a raise and repeated talking points attacking Justin Trudeau:

    “As long as the strike is ongoing, as long as they continue to be at the negotiating table, it is a hypothetical, and as such, we will rest the blame with the prime minister and with the Liberal government and their incompetence.”

    “Ok, I’m just going to register that’s not an answer to the direct question,” Kapelos replied.

    Nothing tangible. No solutions. No ideas.

    Just outrage. Useless, petulant, insufferable outrage.

  12. The Environment Thread

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cumulative-logjam-n-w-t-carbon-1.6823234

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    You might not think of the Arctic as a place with a lot of trees, but a recent study says the Mackenzie River Delta in the N.W.T. is home to the world's biggest known cumulative logjam — and it stores a huge amount of carbon. 

    With the help of satellite imagery, Sendrowski and her team studied 13,000 square kilometres of the Mackenzie River Delta, which lies above the Arctic Circle. 

    They found more than 400,000 caches of wood. Added up, this cumulative logjam would span a 51 square kilometre area. That's roughly a third the size of Yellowknife. 

    Sendrowski calculated all that wood stores 3.4 million tons of carbon — which she said was equivalent to a year's worth of emissions from 2.5 million cars.

     

  13. Canadian Politics

    in General Discussion

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    2 hours ago, Wideleft said:

    Did a little digging (always seem to need to for some claims).  The Fed public service is now 50,000 spots larger than in 2010.  Our population has grown by 5 million over that same time.  Seems sensible to me.

    https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/innovation/human-resources-statistics/population-federal-public-service.html

    Nicely done. 

    The "gov't is too big and fat" narrative is just another dogwhistle.

    1 hour ago, 17to85 said:

    If trimming the fat was easy it would have been done before. You want balanced budgets then someone will have to pay more taxes.

    Cons love to scream about running government like a business but when faced with budget shortfalls never actually raise revenue. 

    They did that in 2012 with the Debt Reduction Action Plan. But it was duplicitous nonsense and the effects are still being felt today.

    http://ifsd.ca/web/default/files/360/DRAP Case.pdf

  19. The Airline Thread

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canadian-north-merger-conditions-changes-1.6820933

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    The federal government has signed off on changes to the terms and conditions of Canadian North's 2019 merger with First Air, which now allows the airline to reduce service to northern communities to as little as one flight per week. It's a move the territory's senator describes as "totally shocking." 

    The changes, announced in a late-Friday afternoon press release, also open the door for the airline to hike passenger and cargo rates by up to 25 per cent per year, whereas under the previous merger conditions fares were locked in for seven years beyond those related to operating costs.

    The move could have significant implications for Northerners, particularly in Nunavut where Canadian North is the only commercial passenger airline, connecting the territory's 25 fly-in communities to each other, and to southern hubs.

     

  21. The Winnipeg Thread

    in General Discussion

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    20 hours ago, Wideleft said:

    So simplistic.  You're ignoring the fact (as always) that it was part of Winnipeg's commitment to implement the 94 recommendations of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission.  

    You may have heard of Winnipeg - it has the largest First Nations population of any Canadian city.  Not per capita - total.

    That you don't see the significance of his ignorance says a lot about you.

    To quote the legend James Lahey: birds of a **** feather.

    Sickening how uninformed (willful or otherwise) so many Canadians are when it comes to the darker, ugly parts of our nation's history.

  22. Round 1 - Game 4 : Vegas Grand Knights

    in Winnipeg Jets Discussion

    Posted · Edited by blue_gold_84
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    9 hours ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

    So everyone screaming for a re-build is going to abandon the team now until they are good again? Some great fans here. 

    Good again...? They got hot late in the season to secure a WC spot after struggling for the better part of two months.

    They're a slightly above average team with some good top 9 talent but questionable depth, a blue line that is below average, and a top tier netminder.

    How the off-season shakes out is anyone's guess but a rebuild of sorts isn't out of the realm of possibility. And fans' views or opinions have absolutely no bearing on that.

    As for this series, they're likely done on Thursday night. Too many injuries and not enough horses.

  23. Canadian Politics

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    On 2023-04-22 at 5:52 PM, Brandon said:

     I can understand bashing Manitoba because the province is a mess and Winnipeg is a dying city that's in desperate need of money.   This place is a shell of its former self it's actually sad to drive around and see how bad it is getting.  

    And then a few hours later...

    On 2023-04-22 at 9:27 PM, Brandon said:

    ...it's pathetic to generalize a large amount of people with a stereotype.  

    Hilarious self-own.

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