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21 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
The fat. We have seen government bloat since Trudeau took charge. Reign it in. The size of the public service has increased 31% in the past 7 years at a cost of 151 billion dollars. I would start there.
What does that actually mean though? You say the public service has increased 31%, so what services are being delivered by that public service that can be cut?
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19 minutes ago, Mark H. said:
That's just it. Many of us do not weaponize our spirituality. My people certainly don't
I think there is a distinction to be made between spirituality and religion. Spirituality is your individual, inner understanding. Religion is shared and organized belief system. Organized religion involves people, which can turn into corruption and weaponization in some cases.
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36 minutes ago, Noeller said:
I've got a buddy that lives on Waller Ave, just off Pembina (where my wife and I crash when we come home for games) and that street is regularly on the list of Manitoba's Worst Streets (in terms of road condition) so this meme speaks to me.......it's a constant zig zag to avoid the cracks and potholes and other **** on there...
My in-laws live on Waller, and I absolutely agree, it's treacherous to drive down there.
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8 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Yes, this problem goes back 5 decades. But back then, the Big 3 were averaging 45,000 fans per game. Montreal used to average 60,000 fans per game at the Big Owe.. I can also remember watching games from Montreal in that cavernous stadium where 2-5,000 fans were in attendance & the team folded.
Today, tens of thousands of empty seats: Toronto, BC, Edmonton,. Calgary. Montreal loses 5 million dollars a year. Averaged 16,000 last year. They can't even fill a 25,000 seat stadium. Saskatchewan attendance down. No longer sells out.
Living here in Calgary, I can assure you that no one cares about the Stampeders. I don't expect crowds any higher than 14,000 except for the LD game but it no longer sells out. Why should fans here care when the owner Murray Edwards doesn't? Sadly, they don't. So far this winter the Stamps have been invisible.
This right here is the point... the owners need to do a better job of marketing their teams. The new owner in BC has the right attitude about it, and even called out Toronto's owners last year for not marketing their team. The problem isn't with the ratio or the rules, it's with some of the teams doing a really poor job of marketing.
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2 hours ago, Wideleft said:
Love how much you're leaning into this one...
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1 minute ago, Piggy 1 said:
I do every chance i get as well. Even breakfast. My girls just roll their eyes .
I barbecue my bacon... makes it nice and crispy, just the way we like it.
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2 hours ago, Brandon said:
The nicest answer I can say is that more then likely in real life he suffers from an extreme amount of ignorance and lacks the social skills and maturity so he isn't able to use an open mind and think before he speaks. In his mind he thinks black and white and that his own opinions are always 100% correct.
Because he's ignorant on religion and thinks that religious people are stupid and horrible people, he has no idea on why a Catholic (or Muslim) would not want to wear an article of clothing supporting LGBT people. He thinks by default that they are all horrible people who want LGBT to die or something along those lines. If Noeller had done any sort of research or get off the internet or maybe even speak to someone who is religious he would realize that many many religious people are accepting of the LGBT community. While they won't actively promote LGBT lifestyle, they do accept them and are not hateful or anything terrible towards them. Pope Francis in recent years has been a big supporter of LGBT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis_and_LGBT_topics
With the COVID stuff he more then likely reads and obssesses over all the extreme social media junk and thinks that it's still 2020 - 2021. I said many times that yes COVID is real , people are still getting it and dying. It doesn't mean that the world hasn't accepted it and adjusted and moved forward. Just today my kids went to school in class, we went grocery shopping, we went to over priced Boston Pizza, and watched the Jets on tv to a full crowd of people... and at no point in anywhere I went did I see social distancing, masks, or anything out of the normal. I don't see people living in fear or staying at home and hiding. For some reason he disagrees and maybe it's possible that he never leaves his house and is out of touch who knows? Either way when I provide an example like that instead of rebutting with any sort of evidence that I am incorrect... Noeller goes into his typical mode of covering his ears and shouting louder because he can't come up with an intelligent response. Either he does that or moves the goal posts because he can never admit that he is wrong (which is most of the times).
Hey may find a few supporters on here but in the real world I can't imagine people not pushing back on his stubborn takes.
It's unfortunate because Noeller is one of the people on here who will drive away new visitors because he acts exactly like the cro-magnon members on riderfans.com forums. In that if you go on that site and give an objectionable opinion they instantly drive you out with a barrage of caveman like insults because unless you pander 100% to them they'll drive you out because they can't take any criticism.
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Choosing to wear a mask in public, keep distance from people, or staying home does not equal living in fear. Choosing to wear a mask in public can mean any number of things, including choosing to help others out if you aren't feeling 100% but needing to be out to get groceries.
Of course you're not going to see people who are staying home and "hiding", if you did, that would mean they didn't stay home.
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1 hour ago, Brandon said:
And many more people have died from Cancer and other reasons. People adjust and move on, nearly everyone that I know is living life exactly the same way pre pandemic with going out and socializing and not wearing masks in public. No one is denying COVID is gone, but the mass hysteria and extreme over reactions causing fear is gone. I think most people were taking vaccines out of fear of the unknown. Fast forward today and most people who did take the vaccine to be safe... ended up getting COVID and realized it's not as scary as the media made it out to be.
If you are terrified and read the internet and get spooked by these numbers then nothing is stopping yourself from staying at home and avoiding people and having groceries and whatever else delivered to your house. Just because you have those thoughts does not mean people who do not are wrong.
Comparing COVID to Cancer doesn't make any sense... Cancer is not transmissible.
1 hour ago, Brandon said:Well technically yes, even if only one person didn't get COVID after getting the shot it would of reduced the outcome. However every single person I know who has had the vaccine ended up with COVID eventually including everyone in my house. So was it really that effective? How many people are getting booster shots, I'm not aware of many folks getting them.
Once again in the past, people moved on. We have other worries to deal with these days.
As observed by JCon, the vaccine helps to reduce the effect of COVID... yes, you may still get it, but you are much less likely to end up in the hospital because of it. The biggest reason for all of the measures and mandates was to not have everyone get sick at the same time to reduce the possible load on the health care system. The fact that most people are vaccinated now helps to keep it that way, though the health care system is so broken that wait times are still awful.
I don't know about everyone else, but everyone in my family has all of their boosters, and we will continue to get them as they become available, no different than the annual flu shot that I get to help reduce the effects of getting that.
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49 minutes ago, Tracker said:
Too bad it will likely never be commercially available. I would love to see a company come out with a product like this, but the shortsightedness of capitalist companies will never allow it.
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5 hours ago, Noeller said:
nah, it was a shot at Stern, who also weighed in on that tweet thread...... I think him bailing half way through last season was not looked on fondly.
Fair enough, I hadn't seen that.
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12 minutes ago, bigg jay said:
Outgoing Alouettes president with a mic drop on loudmouth Gary Stern. 😂
I don't think that Gary Stern is the majority owner. I'm pretty sure that's directed at the estate of the guy that Gary had partnered with to buy the team, based on some other tweets that have been floating around.
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1 minute ago, rebusrankin said:
Thought Rose would a cap victim but solid addition.
Would love to see Demski back soon.
Baumming tweeted speculation that Jeffcoat will be back since he's on the promos for the 2023 schedule.
Demski was on some of the promo material as well, so by Baumming's logic, he'll be back too.
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1 hour ago, JCon said:
He's still under his rookie contract.
He's not Canadian so it's a different contract isn't it?
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35 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:
I don't think these people realize 83% of Canadians made the simple cooperative decision to get at least the first vaccination, they've chosen a mole hill to die on and they continue to defend it with the mistaken belief they have the backing of the vast majority. Because of their continued belligerence, voting them off the island seems appropriate, it really comes down to FIFO.
I think that they believe that given the "choice", a good number of that 83% wouldn't have got the vax... The government "coerced" everyone into getting the vaccine by putting in restriction and limited our "freedoms" if we didn't get it.
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Justin Medlock: 2007-2019, mix of NFL and CFL experience... 8 of 12 in NFL (66.7%), 283 of 329 in CFL (86.0%)
Sergio Castillo: 2014 - 2022, mix of NFL and CFL experience... 8 of 13 in NFL (61.5%), 124 of 145 (85.5%)
Marc Liegghio: 2021-2022, all CFL... 37 of 47 (78.7%)
The guy is just on the upswing of his career. We were lucky to have been able to bring in Medlock and Castillo when we did, but guys like that don't come available every day and we were lucky with the timing on both of them. It's very easy to say "bring in a guy with experience", but if a guy with experience if available you have to ask yourself why that's the case.
I remember what happened with Lirim Hajrullahu where he was unceremoniously let go after a lackluster season, and he has turned his career around and done quite well for himself (averaged over 80% in all of his years in the CFL minus the one when we let him go). I didn't like that we let him go, and I wouldn't like it if we did the same with Liegghio.
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1 minute ago, max power said:
LOL, obviously I'm talking about the videos. Which have clips from all sorts of people, including the CDC and Fauci. But yeah I'm the braindead one here. I'm sure you'll never watch them. I might not want to face some of that either if I'd been like that.
You're right about one thing though, covidiots like me aren't the biggest victims here. At least not the ones that haven't lost their jobs or had their lives ruined in other ways. I'm fine. I haven't spent 2.5 years of my life wallowing in fear and hatred of my fellow citizens because of a bunch of cynical politicians and ass-covering doctors.
The covidiots in the convoy were the biggest group of hateful people... between the white supremacist neo-nazis with their swastika flags and the F*ck Trudeau flag bearers, let alone whatever other groups were in there...
Getting a vaccine is not living in fear, it's using well established science to help reduce the effects of a deadly virus.
Wearing a mask is not living in fear, it's being courteous to your fellow citizens to protect each other from whatever sickness you may be carrying around... there was a reason why seasonal flu cases were down severely in the fall of 2020, because enough people were wearing masks and properly washing their hands.
As for personal experience, I have a good friend who got Covid before the vaccines were available and although he didn't have to go to the hospital, he tells me that he felt like he was going to die. 2 years later, he got it again after having been vaccinated and he said that it was a night and day difference between the two.
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16 minutes ago, max power said:
Clever. Do you think that the covid vaccines do anything to stop transmission?
Nobody ever said the vaccines stop transmission, they drastically reduce severe outcomes. The reason for boosters is 2-fold, decreasing effectiveness over time and mutation of the virus... no different than the annual flu vaccine because it is different strain(s) of the flu going around every year.
As for the protest, if you think that honking horns all day and all night in the middle of a city is peaceful, then there's no reasoning with you.
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16 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:
You have the "option" of not reading it!
Or do you?
option = mandatory around here, or haven't you been paying attention?
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2 hours ago, TBURGESS said:
What part of: not to exceed 10% more than the 2nd year base salary, is hard for people to comprehend?
If teams/players/agents could say that Option means what it means in a different part of the CBA, then there is no reason to put the option in the draft picks salary section because it wouldn't mean anything. The simple fact that it's there means it's the option that is allowed.
All Nationals will be required to sign a minimum 2 + 1 first contract and follow the salary grid. So yes, you still have to follow the salary grid even if you 'opt out' of the contract.
If the option year isn't really an option as you are suggesting, then it wouldn't be a 2+1 contract... it would just be a 3 year contract.
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Slightly different, but once more for those of you in the back who didn't hear right the first time:
option
[ op-shuhn ]SHOW IPA
noun1. the power or right of choosing.2. something that may be or is chosen; choice.3. the act of choosing.4. an item of equipment or a feature that may be chosen as an addition to or replacement for standard equipment and features:And this further definition of an Option Year:
Option Year means the additional twelve-month period that is added to the term of the Standard Player Contract of certain Rookies if the option provided for in Article V, Section 4 is exercised by the Team.
Bold emphasis is mine.
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1 hour ago, TBURGESS said:
Option means what it says it means in the CBA.
I'll just leave this here:
optional
[ op-shuh-nl ]SHOW IPA
adjectiveleft to one's choice; not required or mandatory:Formal dress is optional.leaving something to choice. -
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Further breaking that down, in 2010, 0.835% of the population worked in public service vs. 0.869% in 2022. I don't know what staffing levels should be, but this doesn't seem unreasonable to me.