kelownabomberfan

In the off season the Jets just need to trade for Ryan Reaves and Alex Steen and we are all good. 2017 - draft Ben Hawerchuk in the first round. When are Teemu's kids draft eligible?

Back to back games - gotta give Hutch the start against the Oilers so Pavs is fresh for the Canucks. I can't tell you how bad I want the Jets to smoke the stinking Canucks.

I think Logan makes a good point. Other than weather, there's plenty of good reasons to live in Manitoba, like the lower personal and property tax rate, no wait, that's not it. Well their PST is lower. No...hmmm. Well they have fewer insect issues...oh right...hmmm

Tacklewasher told me that the new commish was born in Kenya. Has anyone checked his birth certificate? Congrats on the new job. It is especially gratifying that we got someone this good, given how few people wanted this thankless job. Good luck Mr. New Commish!

Get Center Ice ya cheapskate

Yeah I think planting trees is an excellent idea. As for wood stoves, I've been looking at one for the house as the idiot government and utilities board here have put in a two-tier billing system for electricity, and it's caused huge increases in the cost of electricity. There's a wood stove manufacturer in Penticton that manufactures some of the highest efficiency wood stoves on the market, and may be the one you saw, as it has a catalytic combustor as you describe. Not sure if you can buy them in Manitoba - they're called Blaze King.

Well yes it puts CO2 in the air, but really everyone in Canada burning natural gas to stay warm is still like peeing in the ocean compared to the CO2 generated by China in a single day. Even if the man-made climate change myth had some validity to it, taxing natural gas just isn't going to do anything to stop it, and is just a revenue grab. So just say so. Also - in terms of "alternate energies" - I support them, as long as people look at the entire picture. Some look at a wind turbine and say "see it doesn't generate any CO2". Well, that's not true. What about all of the CO2 generated in constructing it in the first place? And what about the acid boiling that is required for the giant rare earth magnet in each of those turbines? And what about all the birds that are blended by wind turbines? I'm not a big supporter of wind or solar. I do support nuclear though.

Chiarot and Perrault practicing today - could they be back sooner rather than later? What about Buff and Little?

I saw Gretzky's first ever NHL game in Winnipeg. He would have been 18 at the time. He played terrible and the Winnipeg fans were chanting "Superstar" and taunting him, as Gretzky came with a lot of hype of course. I remember thinking that maybe the hype wasn't warranted. I probably was wrong about that.... EDIT: I looked it up - Dec 7, 1979. The Jets won 8-3.

Pencer looked to me like he showed up at camp completely out of shape, and he was getting turnstiled on every play. That first exhibition game he was just getting schooled. Definitely one of Mack's worst picks, especially given how high he was taken.

LOL. Can only imagine the chants if/when the playoffs start.

I met his parents at the airport in Winnipeg two years ago, really nice folks. Wish Paul all the best.

I went to the 2000 Grey Cup in Calgary - sat on the temporary steel benches in the endzone - that's the coldest I've ever been in my life! Never doing that again.

What I really don't get is putting a carbon tax on natural gas. It's the most clean-burning fuel you can find. You WANT people burning natural gas to heat their houses. There is literally NO pollution from burning it whatsoever. And yet, thanks to the idiots that still cling to this stupid man-made climate change myth, the government gets away with charging people a tax for using natural gas. Just so ridiculous. If you, the government, want to tax me for burning natural gas because you need the money, then fine, tax it, and just admit it's because you need money, but don't try and sell the BS garbage that you are taxing me because you want me to believe that taxing it is going to reduce man-made global warming - you can go and **** yourself. That's just total and utter crap.

I don't think it's "too easy" at all. There just is no will to even look at it, as the fear-mongering machine starts up immediately. I lived for a year in Australia, and they have a two-tier system, and no one there seems to complain about it. I don't know why people here complain about it, other than out of ignorance. It would be interesting to see what Australia's wait times are, compared to ours, as I think that is the number one issue - people here have to wait too darn long for treatment and surgery and thus their health suffers for it.

Fair enough. Each province is in charge of their health care though, and in cases like Manitoba, where the government is in bed with the unions because the unions fund and control the party in charge, you are going to have far more inefficiencies etc. We saw that here in BC when the NDP were in charge, it was like open season on the province for the unions with no checks or balances. A friend of mine works in the health-care scheduling business and he says you will never see any professional group abuse overtime more than nurses. It's like they think it's a right of their job. Of course, when you say stuff like this, you get the nutbars who think that you are "attacking" nurses etc. Always an over-the-top emotional reaction when you even suggest that possibly they stop willfully stealing from the taxpayers, and work for the wage that their union negotiated. So there's one big reason why you can't ever talk about changing anything in health care, you can't talk about doing anything differently without someone claiming they are being "attacked". In BC now, the Liberals have hired so many administrators it just makes no sense. Way too much overhead. No business would ever be run this way. And that's the problem, the health-care system is so obsessed with not being "run like a business" they go out of their way to lessen the accountability. A relative of mine was a doctor (retired now) and I asked him what's wrong with health care. He said "What if tomorrow the government said "food is now free". You'd be ordering steak every night. Except after a few days you'd be sick of steak, but you'd still order it. And after awhile, you'd just throw it out. But now you feel you have a right to that steak, even if you are just going to throw it in the garbage, as it's an entitlement. And that's what's wrong with health care".

When I hear things like this I think....who? Pokey Reddick? Daniel Berthiaume? Bob Essensa? Then I remember...wrong franchise...

OK so I will ask - what the hell is an "X" receiver? Wolvervine?

"Retiring" and then being called back in mid Sept when the OL injuries start kicking in.

I just don't see Neufeld making it through a whole season un-injured. Morley will still be around.

That was Kristers Gudlevskis. He's with their AHL franchise right now. Vasilevskiy came from Russia and was in the World Juniors a couple years ago. Highly touted if I recall. oh ok thanks

I was trying to remember - was that TB goalie the one that stood on his head for Latvia against Canada at the Olympics?

Apology accepted. Difference is that "revenue neutral" seems to always equate to "poor people get screwed". The end result is the government gets the same amount of money, but more of it comes out of the pockets of people who can't afford it. And as I write this I am amazing myself as believe me, I am not a socialist. In fact, I believe that socialism hurts the poor more than it helps them, in a lot of the policies they enact. The Carbon Tax is one of those policies.

1. Mark - if you are calling Iso and I whiners just because we are questioning the validity and intelligence of various methods of taxation enacted by our elected officials, without even waiting for us to explain our reasoning, then I invite you cordially to kiss my large hairy behind. But you wouldn't do that, now would you?? Naw... 2. Someone at the Globe and Mail should actually do some fact-checking, as Alberta has a lower overall personal tax rate (flat) and Ontario's personal rate is actually lower than BC for income below $41K. BC also just raised their corporate tax rate and we are now higher than Alberta for corporations as well. And then of course there is that 7% PST we have that Alberta doesn't, that should have just been a 12% flow-through HST, but well...that's another story. But that's not the whole story. In addition to the Stuuuuupid carbon tax the BC government has introduced a ton of user fees, and jacked existing user fees on various government services. For instance, now in BC a family of three has to pay $144 a month in monthly medical premiums (BC I believe now is the only province that has this fee as Alberta phased theirs out a few years ago). There's a break for lower income people, but every year they have jacked this premium. What I don't like about the carbon tax is this: - the provincial government calls the Carbon tax "revenue neutral" but in reality its just a transfer. They used that revenue to lower personal income taxes. When people complained about the carbon tax Gordon Campbell told people to just take the train or the bus. That's kind of hard to do in Castlegar or Quesnel. The single mom with three kids has to get her kids to school somehow, and she needs gas to do it. So while she might not have been paying much in income taxes, thanks to our progressive tax system, which I agree with, now she's got to fork out extra dough for gas. All to subsidize some hose-head in the lower mainland getting a tax break on his already giant income. I'm no socialist, not at all, but I hate hate hate it when the government tries to social engineer societal behavior via taxation. Raising taxes on gas doesn't stop people from using gas, it just makes their lives more difficult and expensive, and that's not right. The government just cut 2% off the taxes of people in BC making over $150,000 a year (while raising MSP rates 4%). Whoopee!! I get it, they promised that they would cut the 2% off the high end last election and they followed through on the promise. I just would much rather have seen that cut in taxes go to cutting the STOOOOPID carbon tax, and seeing that single mom get the benefit, instead of some dude making over $150K a year. Everytime I see that stupid carbon tax on my natural gas bill, my blood just boils. Anyway - sorry if I'm "whining" and am so "hard done by" - but if you want to seriously discuss this topic, then Mark and Dee, how about we seriously talk about it. Preferably over wine and cheese.

Yes I totally agree. I also think that if he were alive today, Tommy Douglas would burst into tears if he saw what his NDP has become.