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You know what I find hilarious.  That a bunch of you are such knee jerk reactionists that you're so filled with fear that you want to ATTACK NOW!  And you whine about how Trudeau seems to be doing nothing.  You know what I find is great about Trudeau.  That he's not reacting like some macho "we're going to get those terrorists" guy.  Because being reactionary towards this is exactly what the terrorists want.  They want the leaders to attack.  They want to fight and strike fear.  And Trudeau isn't giving them the satisfaction.  He's trying to show that it's business as usual and he's not showing fear towards these threats.  To react, to throw up more security, to attack...shows fear, not strength.  These are all things that terrorists want. 
 
Let me ask you something.  How much more security do you need until you feel safe?  Security camera's everywhere watching everything you do?  In your home, in your phone...listening to whatever is done or said?  Scanners that you have to walk through to go into a mall, a school...your own house?  How much fear do they have to instill into you before you allow all of your freedoms to vanish?  Before you're scared to leave this country...then the city...then your own home?  What happens if your kids befriend a refugees kids...how long before you get scared because they are in your house?
 
Yeah, it's a scary world, especially when this happens, but to react to it and freak out and ***** that we should bomb the hell out of ISIS...well to me that's just giving into fear and terrorism.

I just read the poll. It contains absolutely 0 information about Syrian refugees views about homosexuality or Judaism. None. That’s why I couldn’t find it. In fact, there is no empirical evidence provided that supports that article’s claim that “41% are jew-hating, America hating bigots,” or that 97% are-gay hating, probably woman-hating bigots.”
 
The language itself demonstrates the sentiment underlying this article though, “jew-hating,” “gay-hating,” “probably woman-hating bigots.” No empirical, legitimately done polling, would use language such as this.
 
But who needs empirical evidence anyways, as Unknown said, we “Don’t even need polls,” “common-sense” is enough.
 
And when he did provide this “evidence,” he exaggerated the percentage of individuals, in this non-existence poll, who hate Jewish people by 20%. Not to mention he modified the percentages by adding + to each one. Why if he is trying to engage in a debate rooted in objectivity and common sense, is he exaggerating the, again, nonexistent percentages or trying to distort how high they are? That is what one what does when they are trying to prove a point. In this case, that point is that Syrian refugees are incompatible with his conception of our country.
 
And to ISO and KBF, I am not against security measures, those are clearly necessary. But that is beyond the scope of what I’ve pushed back against. I’ve countered Unknown’s argument that Syrian refugees are nearly categorically incompatible with Canada.
 
So I stand by what I’ve said previously. And quite frankly to post and allow unsubstantiated information to be proliferated like this is unfair to Muslims and refugees.

Gay or straight, if you can score 50 goals in the NHL in a single season you're on my team. 

The problem with saying "who cares?" is that by trying to sound accepting and tolerant (which I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming this is what you mean) what you're actually doing is at best minimizing and at worst disregarding a very real struggle for many people.
 
Yes, we should live in a world in which we are all so accepting and tolerant that sexual preference is a non issue but the reality is that we don't. Like it or not, this is an issue. If you want that to change, ignoring it isn't the answer.

I hope the first one to come out is not a rookie but is an established player whose value to his team is established. Doesn't have to be a star but should be someone who has played for a while.
 
And they should come out to the team first, then the players go to the media as a group. Then the players tells the media it isn't a big deal and to f-off about it.
 
It isn't worthy of the circus Sam got.

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Not sure where fairy dust comes into the equation... 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_building
 
I still don't understand why you need to always denigrate those people or ideas that you don't agree with? Seriously... eco-loons? Lefty-wingnuts and so forth. People who are passionate about specific things shouldn't be dismissed and marginalized for their beliefs.

Don't care if we squeak into the playoffs with an under .500 record.
Don't care if we don't end up with a fairy tale ending.
Don't care if nothing much comes of it.
Don't care if some of you are embarrassed.
It's the Bombers. Still my team. Any win, any extra game is special for me. Love watching and supporting my team.
One of these days we will be rewarded. Can't tell when, but I'll be here.

Any time you can make the playoffs whether deserved or you back in is a good thing, anything can happen even with this team. 

In case anyone arguing with TUP hasn't figured this out yet... this will go on forever.  This is his internet forum style, and has been for years.  It's probably better for everyone involved to just agree to disagree and move on.

There's being "ready" and there's being silly.  Carrying around a shotgun on the off chance someone tries to murder you is rather silly.

Final FREEP column


I’m often asked how Winnipeg has changed since the Jets came back. The truth is, we’re not so different. Our image has improved, but the things that make this city and its people great, they remain a constant.

Winnipeg got a little lost in "the national conversation" during its 15 years outside of the NHL, sadly looking in. But Winnipeggers didn’t forget who they were. They just didn’t have as many opportunities to show the world their spirit of community, their warmth and their drive.

Winnipeg was labelled a second-tier city during those 15 years, and now visitors marvel at how the city has "come back." I find that notion more than a bit hollow. The spotlight was turned off but people here didn’t stop living full and rich lives. Sure, the 40 or so nights of hockey are great. But they’re not all-defining.

Maybe there was a temporary funk after the Jets left, but by the time I arrived here in the summer of 1999 it had begun to lift.

It was August when I drove in from Thunder Bay. The Pan Am Games were in full swing and Winnipeggers were draped in those awful salmon-coloured volunteer jackets. The world had arrived for an international sporting event. Athletes were the stars, but Winnipeg triumphed. The city was vibrant. It had gusto. And a lively rhythm. I fell in love almost instantly.

A run of bad fortune and bad press had outsiders expecting to find the city had rolled up its sidewalks. The departure of the Jets, a national focus on Winnipeg’s crime rate and a tough economy had dinged up the city’s reputation.

But for new arrivals that summer, me included, Winnipeg offered surprises.

The Free Press newsroom was humming. So were the restaurants and sporting venues. To be honest, that first week, I was a little awestruck. To me, Winnipeg had it all.

In the ensuing years, the province unveiled to me its remarkable way of life. Cottage country steeped in Canadiana, a historic but ever-refreshing music scene and multiculturalism that is celebrated rather than stifled. My Winnipeg is so colourful — Jewish and African and Asian and indigenous and Irish and French-Canadian.

The Pan Am Games revealed a city that had soul, pulse and relevance. That feeling faded a bit after the athletes and international media left town, but it was my original impression of Winnipeg and it proved lasting. It was also a preview of where this city was headed.

My first job at the Free Press was on the copy desk, working nights, writing headlines and trying not to mess up stories written by reporters I’d admired from afar.

When an opening in the sports department came up, I leapt. Over the next decade and a bit, I moved in and out of the hockey, football and baseball beats. I’ve been a columnist the last few years.

It’s been an education, an endless stream of thrills, early morning flights, laughs and deadlines. I have absolutely loved it. My office walls are covered with framed stories from my time at the Free Press. A Mike Keane tribute, a John Ferguson column and a series of stories from the Olympics.

This will be my last column for this newspaper. I’ve accepted a position with TSN to write and talk about sports. A colleague once said to me, "This is the best job there is. You get to see the world and sporting events all on someone else’s dime." For me, truer words were never spoken.

I’m excited for the next challenge, saddened to be departing the Freep, but comforted knowing I’m not leaving my home.

That’s what Winnipeg is to me: home. It’s where I met my wife and where our daughter was born. It’s where my neighbours, friends and colleagues are, and for me, it’s the only place to live.

It’s funny, we Winnipeggers like to knock ourselves. And God knows the rest of the country likes to take its shots.

But for me, Winnipeg has always been this incredible place. It has never seemed too big or too small and it’s never seemed remote.

In my 16 years here, Winnipeg has opened a new downtown ballpark, built a new rink and a new football stadium. And yes, the Jets came back, too.

The Jets, with their consistently packed houses and caffeinated fans, have become the cover of the sports book in Manitoba. The images of the NHL franchise leaving and then finally returning have been shared worldwide. The story of loss and redemption the Jets represent is the one people outside Manitoba know.

But for me, after living in this province for 16 years, other stories resonate with equal strength.

Cindy Klassen and Clara Hughes, Ace Walker and Rick Forney, Milt Stegall and Charles Roberts, Jonathan Toews and Jocelyne Larocque, Jennifer Jones and Jeff Stoughton.

We’re not just the Jets and the NHL didn’t save Winnipeg. Quite the opposite. Our hockey fans and our corporate community gave the NHL a soft landing when the Thrashers cratered in Atlanta. We took them in. They needed us as much as we needed them. We shouldn’t forget that.

Earlier this summer, watching the Bombers play a game before a less-than-capacity crowd, I was awed by the oomph of the fans. There may have been only 25,000 in the stands and the news all week had been grim. Fans were grumbling about another losing season.

But when the game started, the fans came to life, loud and on cue. Times were tough and many had talked about abandoning the Bombers — but there they were, roaring in full throat. It strikes me that this is what sports in Winnipeg is about, as much as the big lights at the MTS Centre.

The spirit and devotion isn’t just for show, to be trotted out when Hockey Night in Canada comes to town. There’s durability here. Heartache, and the ability to overcome it, is more a part of Winnipeg’s fibre than any new-found attention.

The Free Press indulged me and allowed me to write this piece, with the stipulation that it not be a list of thank yous. That list, of course, would be long and wouldn’t fit into a single column.

It can, however, be wrapped up in three simple words for a city where I found myself, in more ways than one: Thank you, Winnipeg.

C'mon, what are you even talking about? We have a whole TV show about criminals acting the fool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cops_%28TV_series%29
It's run for twenty-eight seasons. It is older than the Bombers' Grey Cup drought, for christ's sake.
So what? Does that mean we shouldn't fire / charge out-of-control cops?Of course we can't expect perfection from the cops. But what we can expect out of them is improvement -- that they'll be on the watch for the violent, lying assholes in their ranks, and guide them towards different careers.

Both versions are untrue. He went for the media room after the game...but he missed.

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Look at this and avoid what really needs to be looked at...

I'm a little sour with this news, but not at the Bombers mind you. I will say to all of those who are pumping up Sam Hurl and saying Muamba wouldn't have improved us equally for the extra money we would pay: Is Sam Hurl a candidate for Most Outstanding Canadian in the CFL or have any chance at being considered by NFL teams for a spot? Because that's the comparable to Muamba right now. Think about how far Hurl is from that and that should say how much better a player the Als now have.
But I'll say that there is some bitterness towards Muamba in this corner. Hey, do what's best for your career, but when he said he'd come to Winnipeg as part of his "negotiation tour", then blew us off for a supposed workout with an NFL team that never happens, and signs with Montreal 7 days later without ever re-establishing contact with the Bombers, it says to me that the club would have talked contract but he was never ever interested in returning here. Disappointing since we let him out of his contract early to pursue the NFL in the first place, on top of employing his brother to keep him here when Cauchy had no business being on a football field. I could have done without the dog and pony show and empty promises of including Winnipeg in the negotiation process.

If everyone's opinion got the same scrutiny than Iso's does there'd be a hell of a lot more people angry. This talk of being an adult and just dealing with it because it's an internet forum would make a lot more sense if there wasn't such a double standard. 

If everyone's opinion got the same scrutiny than Iso's does there'd be a hell of a lot more people angry. This talk of being an adult and just dealing with it because it's an internet forum would make a lot more sense if there wasn't such a double standard. 

Not sure what's wrong with Iso's posts… The guy has much football experience and knowledge, and is informed about the team and the league.
 
That is, he's someone who's opinion means something to me.
 
Who cares how he phrases things? ( I for one, don't see any problem with his comments, he's generally much less insulting than the people that don't agree with him) 
 
As for the people that don't agree with him, haven't seen many, or any of them mention their experience and knowledge, so I have nothing to say about it. 
 
Another blunt poster whose comments seem to be accurate based on team outcomes, and transactions is Juranboldenrules.

I hear you and I think you make sense. I wasn't responding to you, I was responding to Mark H.

Far too much kerfuffle over a harmless question. It's not a serious, actual situation, but it has created discussion...harmless discussion. So, what really is the problem?

No one is giving Marve too much grief for his mistakes. Throwing across the body for the int didn't bother me that much because that's a rookie mistake, not being able to connect on long balls though that's something else entirely. You can watch his passes and see he's not close on them, that's the concern here. He's a professional quarterback in his 2nd year, surely to god he should be able to better place a ball than he has shown. 

Geez man, it seems sometimes, not always, that anytime a person posts something that runs counter to what you believe, you respond with these type statements. The hypocrisy is dripping here.
I think some of of us take more of an eclectic approach to politics and sensitive issues by not branding our ideologies as left, center or right. We take it issue by issue using the best facts available to form our perspectives. We sometimes don't get it right but always try to take an evidence-informed approach, identifying any bias's we may have a long the way. We can't brand ourselves with only one political strip but we can always aspire to be a sound critical thinker hopefully adding value to the discussion.   

NDP supporters are telling you they know they'll suck?
 
If I may take a guess, I think you made up a conversation, attributed it to NDP supporters, and then used it to laugh at "their" logic.

Whether or not studies show wifi is bad for the human body is of no concern to me.  Mine and my family's health is.  So I try and err on the side of caution in this case and try to limit the amount of exposure when I can, especially for the kids.  Cancer is rising too fast all over the world, so I'm trying just trying to limit as much exposure as I can personally.
 
But to get back on the subject.  Just because you don't agree with May, doesn't mean she's a nut case.  Everyone has different beliefs.  You laugh at her using homeopathy, yet in 50-100 years from now, I bet we as a people are going to look back at Doctors of today and go "omg...I can't believe they were using that quackery back then.  What kind of archaic medicine were they using."