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There is one reason: space. You put that stuff in the cockpit and you lose room for seats and paying customers.

Kamau Peterson? No not Kamau Peterson...he was Canadian and I believe played a lot of football before he got to the CFL. This guy was a track star of some kind and we brought him in to see if he could catch the football too. Didn't make it out of TC.

You know what, I wear Bomber t-shirts and a cap a ton, even on vacation. I won't judge fans for wearing team gear. That's not to say we can't still mock Rider fans for being the bandwagon jumpers they are though.

Willy and his agent would be silly not to do everything they can to cash in. Walters and the Bombers would be silly to just give in. This is just plain and simple negotiating, it'll get worked out. He wants to stay and the Bombers want to keep him.

Alberta?? We didn't really have winter here in Calgary. Snow's been gone for a month. And even when we get winter there's a chinook rolls around every few weeks and gives us a break from the cold.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but if we followed this strategy in the year Muamba was taken #1 we would have wound up with Mitchell and that wouldn't have done a god damned thing to help the OL. At least we got a couple years of Muamba being a ratio breaker. Take the BPA always. The only time position comes into play is if there are two players who are close.

At least, that's how he presents his character, anyhow, and it's hilarious. Religulous is one of the best things I've ever seen. but you shouldn't judge the one good thing he's done and hold it up as the standard for him. Rest of the time he's just a whiny liberal ******. He's an anti-vaccine type isn't he?

almost like it's the offseason or something.

Good point, if Bryant gets seriously injured I'm not sure this O-line will do much better than last years edition. An upgrade at Center is great but it's not going to help them much out on the wings. if Bryant gets hurt who we drafted isn't going to make a lick of difference.

He is too far up his own ass to be taken seriously. It's funny to watch people either seriously believe him or get angry about what he's saying, but he's as douchey a ****** as ever douched.

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. This is something that a lot more people need to be aware of. Canada may have a high per capita emissions rate, but we could stop all emissions tomorrow and it wouldn't make one bloody bit of difference. The US, Russia, China, India they all pump out so much that until all of them drastically alter their emissions nothing will change. I don't think you can argue climate change at this point, what you can argue is how serious an issue it is. It's a costly thing to "fix" and I don't know that the economic hardships are worth it. I think a lot of the doom and gloom is overblown. As for wind and solar, in some areas it can be a viable source of energy. In Canada though I don't think solar is all that realistic for a large amount of power, just too few daylight hours in the winter. The big problem with wind and solar is that it's unreliable and affected by too many outside variables to be the dominant supply, but as a supplement I think they have merits.

This is a good thing except it might get used as excuse to jack up the price of some channels since they can't subsidise the crappy channels in packages anymore. I think ideally we see channels that can't generate enough viewers wither and die and I don't think that's a bad thing, but it might also mean some channels cost more than they did before because if there's one thing cable companies know how to do it's **** over their customers.

The local connection is all the more reason I say to hell with OL and draft the kid. Would be great to get more local flavour on the team. It's just good all around. The fact that he's a talented player helps a bunch too.

Oh yeah I really hated season 2 just because of all the useless changes they made, season 3 I liked because they took it back closer to the books even if it made no sense given some of the changes they had made previously, but season 4 showed me that without the books to lean on they have no idea. To be expected from the guys who brought us Troy I guess. They are not terribly gifted, just lucky they had such a rich story and characters to play with. I'll support it just because I think there needs to be more well done fantasy on TV and in movies, but I'm going to gripe a lot about how they've botched so many characters. Completely whitewashing Tyrion, botched both Robb and Stannis horrendously, I'm sure there's a lot more I could but I'm going to get angry thinking about it.

The books are even more boring. I've tried to read the books twice and never been able to slog through them all, the movies on the other hand I really like because they pick up the pace and cut a lot of the useless fat. As for GoT, the first season was fantastic, after that they got too full of themselves and started ignoring the source material. If you haven't already, do youself a favour and read the books, far far superior to the show, except that fat old George RR Martin is a slacker and won't finish the god damned series already. I read A Game of Thrones when I was 13 for gods sake! That was damned near 20 years ago.

We signed two americans who should be upgrades on the OL and we signed a veteran Canadian centre... Those upgrades plus the continued development of the guy they drafted last year should make the OL stronger and less of a problem area. We need Canadian receivers too because it's the #2 Canadian position on the team and we don't have a lot of game breaking ability there. This team needs top level Canadians at every position, if there's a receiver in this draft who can be that guy then by all means take him.

I have wanted to watch the show because it seems to be up my alley... is there somewhere that streams the past episodes online so I can give it a shot when I get some time?

I understand what Brown is saying and there is some merit to it, but he's not looking at things from the correct perspective. Yeah there are a lot of Canadians playing OL, but there's a lot of Canadians playing receiver too. Is there a team that doesn't use at least one and more often 2 Canadians at receiver? It's basically a guaranteed Canadian position and with some of the recent acquisitions on the OL taking a receiver in the draft can be just as good a move because you need Canadians at receiver too.

I hate when the NDP says they're going to hire more doctors. No kidding, seems like there's a shortage of doctors in this country, especially in remote rural areas. If hiring doctors was just a case of hiring more doctors it would be an easy fix. I'd like to hear where they propose to find these doctors that we need.

haha...indeed. That stadium is pretty old and crappy. Those top row benches for the 09 GC reminded me of the old Canad benches...instant ass freeze... It wasn't even that cold in 09. You should have tried sitting on them when they did the outdoor hockey game there... now THAT was some serious ass freeze even with the snow pants and a sleeping bag to sit on.

Burning natural gas does still put CO2 into the air, just a lot less than oil or coal or other heavier hydrocarbons. I just wish that if people were serious about reducing CO2 emissions they'd stop with the BS "solutions" like carbon taxes and carbon trading scams. Invest in alternate energies, the barrier to them is the cost compared to fossil fuels, bridge that gap and things will swift. Easier to just tax people and parade it as a solution I guess.

This is something that should be looked into. I don't know if it's the best solution, but it needs to be looked at. The trouble is that you start talking about private anything people go all in on the "No American style health care!" rants. There is a lot of middle ground between Canadian and American health care, we should stop pretending it's so black and white.

How is locking a thread always some peoples' default position? Sometimes it's best not to block opinions and just let people learn from each other. I am a pretty big fan of how civil the discussion has been on the 3 or 4 political topics so far. I think it is important to be able to have a debate about controversial topics because if everyone is afraid of differing opinions you'll never be exposed to new ideas.

You know what,I'll take a stand and say residential schools were a not terrible idea that was just handled really poorly. Should a just assimilated everyone from the start then there'd be a lot less problems with reserves Clearly, you're not too familiar with the stated aim of the Residential Schools either. Their primary purpose was to eradicate First Nations culture, to get rid of "indians" once and for all. Explain to me how that can ever be "not a terrible idea"?Because assimilation is not a bad thing. Could have had just a whole bunch of Canadians rather than the government protected racism that currently exists. Signing treaties hundreds of years ago was an easy solution at the time but they have long lasting negative effects that manifest themselves in this day and age Seems to me the best thing would be for people to stop being pieces of **** and treating people differently based on cultural background. Assimilation is just the people at the top saying "you should all be like me". It's like Nazi-ism lite. no assimilation isn't a one way street, it goes two ways. Stop separating people into different groups and we can just all be Canadian and treat everyone equally. Treaties however just make sure racism and different groups being treated differently continues to exist. You are trying to grossly oversimplify the situation. You can't say "just stop separating people into groups" when people naturally self-identify already. Furthermore, the treaties were a legal document. This wasn't a bill of sale for a used BBQ written on a napkin -- it was legal title to land we now live on, land that is now Canada. The government has a moral obligation as society built upon laws to uphold the treaties; or at least the spirit behind them. No I'm not over simplifying. This is how the problem gets solved. I know full well what the treaties that were signed were and what the intent was. The problem is that they are legal documents that are guaranteed by the constitution of this country, and that's a huge problem and the #1 reason why most of these problems exist. When they were signed it was seen as the easy solution, put the natives out of the way and throw them a few trinkets every now and then and let them live their traditional lifestyle. Problem is that in todays society it is a terrible solution and completely unworkable. The best solution IS to stop treating them differently and make them all Canadian and treat everyone equally. When you have such a skewed number of impoverished people on reserves it is safe to say that the system is broken, but where's the push to change a broken system? You even bring it up and you're labelled a racist. Too much blame gets thrown at the feet of the government of Canada and they're expected to fix it, but they can't fix it unilaterally, self determination and all that, so basically it's just "give us more money because residential schools! abuse! ugly history! white guilt!" It's those treaties that are holding things back. LOL Well that doesnt seem right. The natives are native to this land.... that about as Canadian as you can get. Do i have this right? The white man comes here and brings their traditions and pretty much just throws the natives and their traditions away and now you want to make them Canadian? Odd but alrighty then. You know that Canada embraces people from different cultural backgrounds right? And encourages them to maintain those traditions right? Every country everywhere has been conquered by someone. You can either sit around wishing it weren't so or just move on and live in the world as it exists today. There is room for everyone to be Canadian and still celebrate their history and traditions.

Shows just how watered down the Canadian OL talent pool is getting around the league. Well exactly.. If they couldn't stick here... The worst oline in almost the past decade.. It's sad to imagine they get looks (even tfc type ones) elsewhere.. Guess a body is a body for a Dlineman to tee off on.. When your problem was injury, not talent (like it is with both Swiston and Pencer) then you're going to get multiple looks at a high demand, low supply position. I think Swiston has a chance. Pencer is a write off as far as I'm concerned. I kind of got the impression that with Pencer it wasn't just the injuries, seems like he might have had a severe lack of give a damn as well. Swiston I'd agree that the injuries were the biggest culprit.