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ugh no to walker. Guy runs fast but that's it. if he doesn't have a hole big enough to drive your car through he's not getting anything. Like a smaller Grigsby. If Walters and Co. can't find a better RB than that fire them right this instant.

This was posted a while ago right? I seem to recall watching it before but it is interesting. Guy was good at scouting talent for us without a doubt. Wish he'd been kept around.

MBB mantra right there.

I feel that anything that promotes savings is a good thing because as a society we simply don't save enough. With the tax free aspect of earnings on them as well it should promote some investment which is good for the economy as a whole right? I don't think you can worry about possible lost revenue (god I hate that term) in the future. It's good for the people so to me it's a good thing.I tend to agree that it's a good idea as a whole. I 100% agree with Fraser that you should be keeping long term investments in them.Yeah top mine up every year with the goal of keeping it in there until I retire in 30+ years or whatever it winds up being. There's enough now to really see the interest making a difference and it just might be the best thing the conservatives have done. Some people though like to call it a bad thing because they don't have enough to top it up every year, but you don't need to fill it every year, depending on what your own personal situation is it's a great savings tool if you use it. You shouldn't have anything interest bearing in it. I'm not sure if you are actually getting interest or just using interest when you mean return. I'm not a finance guy, yeah talking about return.

I feel that anything that promotes savings is a good thing because as a society we simply don't save enough. With the tax free aspect of earnings on them as well it should promote some investment which is good for the economy as a whole right? I don't think you can worry about possible lost revenue (god I hate that term) in the future. It's good for the people so to me it's a good thing. I tend to agree that it's a good idea as a whole. I 100% agree with Fraser that you should be keeping long term investments in them. Yeah top mine up every year with the goal of keeping it in there until I retire in 30+ years or whatever it winds up being. There's enough now to really see the interest making a difference and it just might be the best thing the conservatives have done. Some people though like to call it a bad thing because they don't have enough to top it up every year, but you don't need to fill it every year, depending on what your own personal situation is it's a great savings tool if you use it.

Well Simmons wasn't getting onto the game day roster in Calgary either and one of the big reasons supposedly for that was that he wasn't doing enough on special teams to warrant it so....... logically we can assume that Simmons isn't a good enough special teams player to make the roster if he's not going to start.

Just terrible. You can't have a one size fits all minimum wage across the country, some areas are more expensive to live and have higher wages, others are cheaper and wages are reflected in that. ******* NDP living in their dream world not the real world. Surprised he's not saying "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"

I feel that anything that promotes savings is a good thing because as a society we simply don't save enough. With the tax free aspect of earnings on them as well it should promote some investment which is good for the economy as a whole right? I don't think you can worry about possible lost revenue (god I hate that term) in the future. It's good for the people so to me it's a good thing.

******* amazing. Unless you don't have any money to save then it doesn't matter one bit to you. I love my TFSA though. For me being incorporated and having a low personal tax rate it's a better savings tools than RRSPs since I don't need tax savings now so might as well defer the savings until later.

The only thing I would say is that it's not always as simple as running a deficit or not running a deficit. For example, the Conservatives planned to be deficit free, but with the economy hitting the shitter there's no way for that to happen now barring big tax hikes, which in a recession probably not the greatest idea. With everything being so global these days there are less things a government can do in order to avoid situations like this.

Yeah this team lacks talent more than it lacks anything else. Bellefeuille isn't anyones ideal OC, but he's not to the point of holding the team back right now. When the talent has improved then we can talk about upgrading the coaching staff.

The greatest lie the NDP tells is setting the bar at what constitutes "the rich" They make it sound like it's only the super wealthy that will get taxed, but the reality is that many of the higher tax brackets hit the middle class too because "rich" is such a subjective amount. I'm rich compared to a lot of people but compared to really rich people I might as well be a pauper.

It's something that boggles my mind too. My brother and his wife are pretty much the poster family for income splitting and they certainly aren't wealthy. Yes he makes a good salary, but his wife doesn't and with 3 kids they don't have anything close to wealth. The people against income splitting are the low earners who think they should as a household with 2 low earners pay less tax than a household with the same income but the majority of that income coming from one person. The left is very petty when it comes to people having more than them. They won't like being called greedy but they are greedy. They want more than they have and want people with more to have less. or people who are single and have a good income and are tired of paying way more than their share/to raise everyone elses kids. Well us single people already pay a disproportionate amount of taxes and that's never going to change so I see no real point in bitching about it.

It's something that boggles my mind too. My brother and his wife are pretty much the poster family for income splitting and they certainly aren't wealthy. Yes he makes a good salary, but his wife doesn't and with 3 kids they don't have anything close to wealth. The people against income splitting are the low earners who think they should as a household with 2 low earners pay less tax than a household with the same income but the majority of that income coming from one person. The left is very petty when it comes to people having more than them. They won't like being called greedy but they are greedy. They want more than they have and want people with more to have less. You're big into generalizations. I'm not a low income earner, nor am I really a "lefty", and I'm not a fan of income splitting. I disagree with the idea of taxing households as a group rather than individuals. I know there are already differences in taxes for married vs. single people, but I'm not really sold on that either. It's not the worst idea ever, as I understand the thinking behind it. I just don't agree, and I actually benefit from it. A story about people having more kids than they can afford won't persuade me. Seeing as how you like generalizations, the right likes keeping their women at home and want a tax break to pay for it. Why is that? When you get married or enter into a common law arrangement you already are combining into one person really. It's just a sensible thing to do. I don't really care if it is a tax break to keep women in the household and out of the workforce, that is a choice that couples make and there's nothing wrong with someone choosing to live that lifestyle. If one person can support both why not let one stay home and raise the kids themselves? Better than letting the government raise kids.

No one is going to use revenue for one thing and one thing only and I honestly don't believe that it should be used like that. Why not? Because I think trying to have certain taxes ear marked for certain things is too easy to have a surplus in one area and a deficit in another. Should treat taxes as general revenue and use it to fund everything. Just easier to keep it all straight and you don't find yourself in a situation where there's too much money for something so better spend it on something useless just to spend it.

It's something that boggles my mind too. My brother and his wife are pretty much the poster family for income splitting and they certainly aren't wealthy. Yes he makes a good salary, but his wife doesn't and with 3 kids they don't have anything close to wealth. The people against income splitting are the low earners who think they should as a household with 2 low earners pay less tax than a household with the same income but the majority of that income coming from one person. The left is very petty when it comes to people having more than them. They won't like being called greedy but they are greedy. They want more than they have and want people with more to have less.

Yes. As another poster said, Mtl is in turmoil. Ottawa has the same problem as us, unproven coaching. If Ottawa has an edge on us I believe it is Henry Burris and his experience. We don't have a veteran leader like that, someone that can teach the players how to win. We have to rely on Mike O'Shea for that and thusfar the results have been sporadic at best. Marcel Bellefeuille could have been that guy but I don't think he is up to the challenge either. We sorely lack the coaching and/or veteran leadership required. I wish we had a Buono type here to serve as an adviser to O'Shea. Did you just say MOS wasn't a good leader? Man oh man the things you say.

Numbers need more context and are they weighted in certain areas that are more important? They are interesting numbers but given the information lacking with regards to them I don't know that we can put an effective ranking of offensive lines. As raw numbers they're interesting, as a ranking I need to know more about the logic in the rankings.

and I'd like to win the lottery. No one is going to use revenue for one thing and one thing only and I honestly don't believe that it should be used like that.

Yeah I don't blame you. It was a classic protest vote, in which the people of Alberta chose to chop off their leg because they had a sore toe. What I find hilarious though is that I've talked to probably a hundred people from Alberta this summer and not one will admit that they voted NDP. And they all blame Edmonton and "those idiot young people", whatever that means. I know people who voted NDP just because they wanted change, people who'd never normally do it. Just sickening. Yeah Prentice and the PCs ****** up but for gods sake, the NDP? Really? That's just being angry smashing a bunch of stuff in your house and then waking up thinking "boy I wish I hadn't done that" I am concerned that Canada is going to do the same thing this fall, it really worries me to be honest. Yeah the Conservatives probably need to go just because every government has an expiry date, but god not the NDP and Tom "say anything" Mulcair. That's just asking for trouble.

If O'Shea hadn't played him in the last game clearly he wouldn't have hurt himself working out. For shame Mike O'Shea, for shame. Your short sighted coaching is causing players to get hurt all over the roster.

that's a deal breaker for me. You shouldn't take that at face value. The Conservatives are still increasing health care spending each year, they just cut the amount of increase each year. It's still increasing funding. If health care is such an important issue I suggest taking more of an interest in provincial politics since it is a provincial responsibility. I dunno man, polls show Quebec is still fully on board with the NDP and now BC seems to be joining their party. Damned granola eating hippy tree huggers and french losers. Hey man, we've rejected those Dipper-doughbrains in four provincial elections in a row now. You should be the one talking, with all of that ugly orange crap currently sitting in Edmonton as your government. Hey don't blame me, my riding elected a conservatives and the wild rose candidate came in second. It's the nutjobs in Edmonton and inner city Calgary largely responsible for that clusterfuck.

Unless they were coming to the CFL right away not much, but if they're coming to the CFL why aren't we just keeping them?

I prefer to think of it as trying to drag them up.

I think they're still stuck on the idea that the swing voters are between Liberal and Conservative and that they can siphon enough people that way. I don't buy it. That likely works in Ontario but in the west people are more likely to vote NDP than Liberal it seems to me so there's a lot of gains for the NDP to make there.