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it's not CAN'T.....it's DON'T WANT TO (...which I will fully admit there is less of in MB than AB, but it's still pretty strong...) The whole "I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO CHANGE EVER" thing is just exhausting...

money pulled from Uni's and put into trade schools........ they know where their bread is buttered.

any time you lose to a bottom feeder team, you played poorly. Jets deserved to lose that one, if for no other reason than their complete ineptitude on the PP....

I can absolutely see how Alberta governments wouldn't want people being taught about the real history of Canada.....just some white-washed version of it. That would make all kinds of sense...

this site lately..... there have been some sickeningly inhumane takes. Really awful how little some people seem to care about anyone different than them.

all of this, but especially the bolded. And I think it's doubly important for those of us whose lives have been relatively unencumbered to speak the loudest in fighting the good fight.

Sounds like Hansen will be nip n tuck to be ready for the start of the season....

Yeah the Rooney thing was the worst of it, for sure, but any time you had white actors portraying anything other than a white character....man that's so ****** up and hard to believe that was ever acceptable. And not just in terms of race, but other things, like characters with a physical handicap being portrayed by actors who were fully physically able, even when there were perfectly good actors with that handicap who could play that role. All of that **** just disgusts me now, to think about it. But, again, the Rooney thing.... that makes me sick to my stomach.

Yes, it was perfectly acceptable to wildly racist 60 years ago...... what a disgusting time in our history. ******* embarrassing.

My retinas just detached because my eyes rolled so far into the back of my head.......

....just ******* painful......

well, I just kept thinking the league would find a way to **** us over again....as they are wont to do...... As it is, I'm beyond elated. This feels like a goal for me.... a deadline.

and if someone "out east" had made a similar joke about Alberta, there would be outrage the likes you have never seen.... but it's always okay to take shots at Quebec when out in the West. Blah. Whatever.... I think I was just not meant to ever live out in the west.

I've got Jets socks on, and an Oilers tee... "I just hope everyone has fun".........

I have a relative that was a prof in Montreal for a long time. Anglophone, but fully bilingual obvs, and he told me about that once. Said the Habs are very much the team for French-Quebec, and the Als are more Anglo-Quebec's team. Obviously that's not 100%, but "for the most part..." kinda thing.

I'm not going to go back and multi-quote all the posts, but all the anti-Quebec/anti-French sentiment in here is almost every other post. "You can't sell to a separatist!" says a guy who is a lifelong voter of a provincial party that would love to separate from Canada..."they'd better not call it Montreal Quebecois!" in another..... just so ridiculous.

so much anti-French sentiment in this thread.... it's interesting. I understand hate for separation, but is Alberta's current situation any different?? Maybe I've just been living in rural AB for too long (definitely...) but people getting their backs up immediately over anything French related just makes me roll my eyes.

I tend to lean toward the "good players don't want to come to Winnipeg" thinking, and Chevy isn't going to deal quality assets for players without term or ones who refuse to sign contract extensions. Also good players won't waive NTCs to come to Winnipeg. As for the comparison to the Bombers, 6 months during Manitoba summer is WAY different than being here for a Manitoba winter. Not comparable. I don't know what more Chevy can do, honestly.... so much of the Jets "middling" is just the result of the market. It's how it's going to be, and then hopefully every decade or so, you get a run like they had in 2018 when they legitimately could have won it all, and just ran into a healthier, red hot VGK.

I would like to retract my statement, your honour....

So is this guy an American Kongbo? Seems like the same build and same versatility...

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watching that clip, I'm more embarrassed for the RT than I am impressed by the DE. You should never get roller-skated that bad by anyone, let alone someone 100lbs lighter than you...

They re-did this event with Randy Ferbey vs Jennifer Jones sometime around 2007 or so.......?? Jones was the first ladies team to play a men's style of game, fully aggressive and could play all the big weight shots. It was a fun match. My favourite Melechuk story is one I read in a book while I was going to BU (my Can History prof was a curling historian and wrote a book about it)... one of the earliest televised curling matches with microphones on the curlers was at a cash spiel in Thunder Bay in the late 70s or early 80s. The curlers were not used to being mic-ed and often forgot all about it. So at one point, there was an absolute mess in the house and O and Johnny U were in the house trying to figure out a plan, and O just let's it fly: "Well, Johnny....what the f*ck are we gonna do?? What in the F*CK are we gonna do??!!" Amazing. Legend.