Colin Unger

In this case its some wacky paster from Winnipeg who is between churches. He's trying to use the whole anti-mask movement to grow a flock, start a new church, and make some money.

I will get rid of the mask once I'm fully vaxxed and health orders allow for it. Can't wait for the mask mandate to be gone so we no longer need that pastor from Winnipeg bringing all his Winnipeg friends to Steinbach for an anti mask rally. But if I was taking a bus every day I'd probably bring a gas mask!

That would require masks and social distancing. So not sure Winkler would go for it. ‐----‐---------------- Are you guys aware of any other province or state who had to send so many people out of state or province for medical care due to overloaded icu capacity?

Morden rates are pretty good but they have a super site and Winkler not. People from Winkler don't go to Morden but people from morden come to Winkler so it was a strange decision. Winkler also has an issue of being dominated by less progressive Mennonites than you see in Steinbach. I'm hoping that after my brother's idea of creating "I've been vaccinated" stickers in low German as well was adopted by the Manitoba government it will help improve vaccination rates particularly amongst elderly Mennonites. My understanding is that Winkler had quite a few people who literally think that covid 19 doesn't exist. You won't win these people over. We should have built more hospitals years ago. Manitoba's inadequate Healthcare capacity is really exposed under pressure. I'd rather have two tiered health than one inadequate tier.

I'm not endorsing anything. At some point we will face the reality that some people are never going to be vaccinated and Im just suggesting that It probably won't be that big of an issue so long as the larger urban center of Winnipeg has high vaccination rates. Im not promoting anything. Just trying to have a conversation about realities. I mean.. One day the vaccinated will have to learn to live together with the unvaccinated heathens.

You're never going to see rural area having higher vaccine rates than urban areas. My hope is that Steinbach can reach 70% fully vaccinated which is alot better than most other areas of southern manitoba. Also better than pretty much any American state. I think Canada and Manitoba are going to end up being world leaders in vaccination rates. And that will be to our benefit as the last thing we need is another lock down. It's time to start enjoying life again. I find it funny that my anti Vax friends are all of a sudden worried about an extremely rare risk of complications. I tell them I'm getting vaccinated because I want to live my life and if it kills me it kills me. Same thing they've been saying about the virus but somehow they are now changing their mentality.

I've got my first dose and my second dose scheduled. I'm very pro Vax. Let's not get this twisted. Steinbach Vax rate has steadily climbed since we got a super site in town and they are always fully booked.

Are they trying to hire someone who may know how to use Laine?

Stuff like this will only harden anti vaxxers. It will help motivate those who aren't against getting vaccinated but simply haven't gotten around to it.

No. The police exonerated him. Just was spotted at the wrong place wrong time.

The thing Is that once the majority of manitoba is doubled vaxxed it probably won't matter as much that a place like Winkler has low double vaccine rates. Where is it gonna come from?

You want to have depth in training camp at all positions. Who knows what kind of shape some of these guys are in.

We hadn't won a Grey Cup in 30 years either. I have more confident in this current regime to know what they have in a quarterback than previous ones. And with 2 qb's now per team there will be a decent collection of QB's floating around if Zack gets injured.

Winnipeg is going to end up being the first CFL team to win back to back championships over the coarse of 3 years.

I'm pleasantly surprised by this signing. I would think he wouldn't come cheap and there might be a team offering him more than a rotation. Glad to have him back. Hansen also factors into the rotation.

I'm not convinced it was that dire. When I go to bombers games I see a lot of young people there. The vast majority are young I would say. Its got a party like atmosphere. It doesn't get the young kids like goldeyes but once those kids become drinking age the bombers games is where they go. CBC has been more and more moving away from sports broadcasts I believe due to budget cuts. Last time i checked i was typically tuning into Sportsnet or TSN to watch Jets games. Ratings aren't really the issue for the CFL. The CFL offers good ratings and a loyal viewerbase who turn off their netflix and actually dust off their cable box when a game is on. The only thing cable has going for it these days is sporting events. What remains to be seen is what the reaction will be once we are finally allowed to leave our homes again. Will people stick with their new habits of staying at home or will people be so sick of staying at home and watching TV that sports attendance ends up getting a boost.

I wonder how much money the big 3 are really losing at times when they are well run?

That's the biggest difference here. We couldn't afford to hit and miss in the draft back in the Joe Mack days. Thanks to Kyle Walter's we now have the best Canadian depth in the league so we can afford to take some risks trying to get a couple of high impact players down the road. On top of that we've got another draft class from last season coming in to compete with the guys we drafted this year. Also this was a futures heavy draft due to the pandemic. A lot of eligible players opted to hold off on the draft this season and go back to college so the league expended the availability of nationals who are playing in thr ncaa and added some guys to the draft who we know are going back to school for one more year. There is no comparing this to what Joe Mack did imo.

I see us selecting an offensive lineman with our first round pick. Walters typically like to draft an offensive lineman every year with a higher pick. We didn't take a single offensive lineman in the 2020 draft so I wouldn't be at all surprised if we drafted the best available lineman with our first round pick this year. I could also see us picking up the rights to Chuba Hubbard later down in the draft because this team is dedicated to a Canadian runningback and i think there's a high probability that he washes out of the nfl a few years from now without a big payday.

Yeah. So whatever we do we should not cause the whole thing to collapse by getting rid of the ratio.

Maybe the XFL thing is all just a ploy to get money from the government. Canadian Ametuer football is scared of the merger. Maybe now the government will step in and help the CFL for the sake of amateur sports in Canada.

According the Arash Madani the Government is currently in discussion with the CFL over some sort of financing. Im not sure exactly what is supposed to be communicated to the CFLPA. Typically once the owners have something to present the players association they do. But i haven't heard of a situation where owners have brought in the PA for every pitch the make to the bank or some rich guy in order to secure finances required to run a season in any sports league.

Given the potential xfl cfl merger should we be focusing on players who can help us this season over players with the highest long term ceiling?

I wonder if Ricky Collins would have a change of heart if some real money was thrown at him.

Im hoping we leave the door open for him to return if the league gets its act together.