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Players need change sometimes. It's not weakness because they don't have to trade him. Eichel got traded.

No chance. This is a legit elite centre. Until this past year, he was favoured to take one of the 4 centre positions with Team Canada. It's only been since his hit last year in the playoffs that he's not been the same.

Evander Kane still has a job in the NHL. Some teams don't care and still pay over-the-top for talent.

I think more than anything, we can see where the threats are coming from. We'll maintain strong connections to Europe but we're going to be further and further isolated from our nearest neighbours. Both Dems and GOP pose a threat. Traditionally, Dems have used economic means to attack Canada (protectionist) but the GOP valued our strategic partnership. However, with the recent antidemocratic, pro-fascist actions by the GOP, we're going to be in tough. That poison is seeping into our country and a major political party is mouthing the same rhetoric. The US is a threat to our democracy aa they turn away from it.

REC vs DB will be fun.

I mean the idea that they will privatize healthcare. They can't do that over one term. They slowly defund it and push it beyond repair so that the only way to "save" it is privatization. It's all about the slow play. Undermine the system, cut funding, and bleed it to death.

In the case of Hydro, however, the PCs have a history of privatization and they've been making obvious moves in order to facilitate a sale. It was notable when they brought Paul Beauregard in as Secretary to Treasury Board.

Yeah, we definitely see it from the NDP, Liberals and CPCs. Liberals warn of guns, Cons warn of criminals running around, and the NDP warn of attacks to healthcare.

ICBC is godawful too. But, I only lived with it a year back in the 90s, so I'm sure it's gotten worse.

Nope. They had press conferences that specifically excluded some media because they were worried about the framing. They chose Duffy, as one, because they knew he would frame the policy well and then get nice reward at the end.

Harper would literally only invite friendly journalists to release info. Duffy was one of his favs that just repeated the Harper lies. He got a nice gig out of it (until he tried to steal, of course).

Oh, god no. NO, no, no. I had to live with it in Ontario and it's godawful.

They started by neutering the Hydro board. Then they dismantled PUB and their powers. It's a step by step plan to reduce ties to gov't and remove it entirely from the GRE. Next step will be to say that the debt is insurmountable and the only way to save "tax payers" is to sell it off. Rinse, repeat. Just like MTS.

That would be good. A lot of Cons got rich. They're looking to get some more money in their pockets with Hydro too.

Weren't the L(k)'s trying to trade Arbuckle?

Perfect. A development player on the line with potential upside. If there is a team that can have patience in developing a CDN OL, it's us. Not sure if the scouting noted by 3DN is any good, given that he was not selected in the draft. I would think that a team looking down their list in the 7th round and didn't pick him, must have had him ranked really lowly.

At 6am.

I hope that the Philippines can find a good leader. Duterte is a monster with all the summary executions.

We use the term "professional" loosely about YouTube. There are definitely a lot better podcast/Youtube shows. But, the production value of this one is very high without a producer, apparently. Producers are overrated though, right?

Haven't seen it yet. All I've heard, other than a few positive and few negative reviews, is that there is no way it should be rated PG-13.

Welcome to YouTube, I will be your guide on this mystical journey...

Trotz. Anything less and we riot (peacefully).

That's just too obvious for some.

This is it in a nutshell. How does the game get better? How can they do this right before camp is supposed to open?

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