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Actually, when ranchers and the Bureau of Land Management work together, they can usually come up with an arrangement that works pretty well for everyone. There was lots of news coverage about this during the Malheur Refuge takeover in Oregon. Ranchers like Cliven Bundy who seem to have the loudest voice and the most radical supporters unfortunately are the one's who get heard most. There was a lot of reporting that described how Malheur was becoming a model for rancher/BLM cooperation, until the Bundys stuck there noses (and guns) where they didn't belong.

My bad. Did a quick search, but it must have been an old link on TSN's site. I stand corrected.

Because they can't make a living solely off playing. McEwen's team leads the WCT and has earned about $114 K. They have to split that 4 ways. I imagine a lot of curlers have to take time off without pay to accomodate all the travel and weekly competitions. It seems the most successful teams not so coincidentally have really accommodating employers who also sponsor the teams (Jennifer Jones comes to mind).

Dad's can be such arses. I remember narrowly losing to a nationally ranked Junior team in club curling and the skip's dad tore the whole team a new one after the game. I said then to my teammates that those kids were having the love of the game taken from them. That skip has not had much success at all in the last 10 years (not naming names).

It takes a big man to kick an amateur athlete when they're down. Two-time defending provincial champ and leader in WCT earnings. Don't know if you curl (or at what level) but the competition he faces does not guarantee Championships for him ever. Doesn't make you a choker just because you've lost to this and last year's Brier winners either.

Swap Gushue with McEwen. If Gushue had to curl out of Manitoba since they met in the Canadian Junior finals, there is no way he would be a 16 time Provincial Champ. If McEwen were curling out of Nfld ever since then, he may not have 16 provincial crowns, but I'd bet he's have 3 Briers by now. There's a difference between being a choker and having to face elite curlers just to get out of your province. Since McEwen graduated to men's curling, he's had to compete against Vic Peters, Kerry Burtnyk, Jeff Stoughton. That's at least 10 years of no chance of making it to Nationals.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/03/07/parliament-to-debate-vote-on-genetic-testing-bill-after-months-of-lobbying-from-both-sides.html It is a rarity that a private member's (Liberal Senator) bill becomes law, so Harper can't really take credit for this. Liberal MP Rob Oliphant is shepherding it through right now. It should be noted that BC, Quebec and Manitoba (lead by a Premier who amassed his fortune in the insurance industry) are the Provinces questioning the Constitutionality of this measure. This one is pretty muddy. There is either a real Constitutional issue here or the insurance industry got to Trudeau - or a bit of both.

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