RagingIce
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Hopefully the NDP win federally. This country needs a shakup. We've been stagnating for the past 20 years.
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Change should not be feared because of change alone. What happens elsewhere does not always recur again. Manitoba's situation is entirely different than Alberta's, and I'm sure that will be evident in the coming months. It was time for a new Gov. in Alberta, and you got it in a shocking way.
I can only hope that Canada gets a similar change on the Federal level. We need it.
A big part of Manitobas situation is because past NDP governments made it an unfriendly place to do business. The Alberta NDP campaigned on making corporations and specifically oil and gas companies pay more. They are actively looking to make it a less business friendly environment. Wish I was a teacher, then I'd be taken care of by the NDP. As it stands they're just going to tax me more, slow down an already slow oil field which means I'll earn less with less work, all in the name of someone else should pay for the spending. **** the NDP and their ass backwards ideals.
Any stats to back that up? Manitoba has one of the strongest economies in the country. The recession barely hit us.
the recession barely hit Manitoba because the economy is already the shits. If you seriously think Manitoba has a strong economy you are out to lunch. What Manitoba has is a stable economy because there isn't much to it. Doesn't have far to drop so a recession doesn't impact it like it would gigantic economies like Alberta or Ontario.
Show me the stats. A stable economy isn't a bad thing.
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Change should not be feared because of change alone. What happens elsewhere does not always recur again. Manitoba's situation is entirely different than Alberta's, and I'm sure that will be evident in the coming months. It was time for a new Gov. in Alberta, and you got it in a shocking way.
I can only hope that Canada gets a similar change on the Federal level. We need it.
A big part of Manitobas situation is because past NDP governments made it an unfriendly place to do business. The Alberta NDP campaigned on making corporations and specifically oil and gas companies pay more. They are actively looking to make it a less business friendly environment. Wish I was a teacher, then I'd be taken care of by the NDP. As it stands they're just going to tax me more, slow down an already slow oil field which means I'll earn less with less work, all in the name of someone else should pay for the spending. **** the NDP and their ass backwards ideals.
Any stats to back that up? Manitoba has one of the strongest economies in the country. The recession barely hit us.
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This is about where I'm at. 1 month till training camp?
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we played like garbage today. We deserved the win on Monday, but certainly not today
EDIT: And we score right as I post this. Guess I need to make more pessimistic posts
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hoping we get the playoffs. Home playoff game would be a bonus.
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Dump pavs
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The sooner the better. Even watching Toronto home games on TV is painful - I can't imagine watching it live.
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Perhaps the reason Manitoba has worse infrastructure is…….
They didn't get the big money Alberta was fortunate to dig up.
that's a defeatist attitude. Manitoba could have worked to build up some type of industrial or commercial base, but instead the province has had a long tradition of socialism and anti business policies. High taxes and pro-union governments make Manitoba into what it is. There's resources in Manitoba too, but there isn't a lot of incentive for companies to base themselves in Manitoba.
So anti-business that we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. It's just a fact of living here that there are more expenses and fewer resources than Alberta.
Manitoba certainly wasn't competitive with Alberta when the PCs were in change for a decade, so you can hardly blame pro-union or anti-business attitudes for anything.
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Even with their recent problems, Alberta is in better shape than us. We have crumbling infrastructure, a broken down health care system and a lack of private enterprise. Throw in debt levels, an 8% PST, some of the highest tax levels in Canada and bracket creep and its pretty bad.
Alberta could add a PST and junk the flat tax and they'd be in better shape.
I mean things certainly aren't peachy keen, but comparing Manitoba to Alberta isn't exactly fair. Alberta sits on a pile of black gold, doesn't have to deal with annual floods of the caliber that we see, and in general is built on better terrain than Manitoba.
With all these advantages, the conservatives have routinely screwed the pooch in Alberta, and the fact that people are even comparing the two provinces is evidence of that.
I can't really fault the NDP for the debt considering the federal government is also still in deficit, and the 8% PST thing was so overblown it's not funny. The same people who advocated for a decade long property tax freeze (this is the real cause of the crumbling infrastructure) are the same people who are complaining about the PST.
All that said I really think that Manitoba needs a change in leadership, which is why I was hoping Selinger would be defeated here. Pallister is just too much of a buffoon to govern and the fact that he will likely win terrifies me.
It's times like these that I wish we had proportional representation so that voting for a third party was feasible.
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They shouldn't stop playing it. You have to separate the art from the artist or you'll be excluding a lot of historical works from the public lexicon
It's absolutely worth putting the artist together with the art.
And if they're pieces of garbage, their art should suffer. People need to held accountable for their crimes.
Would you listen to music written by Josef Stalin?
If Stalin made some decent music then I would have no problem listening to it. People still listen to the Beetles and we all know how John Lennon beat his wife.
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They shouldn't stop playing it. You have to separate the art from the artist or you'll be excluding a lot of historical works from the public lexicon
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3 more to match the Bombers!
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What happened to the jets over the allstar break? This is painful to watch. 10 shots after 35 minutes...
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Jets need to get back on track
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Ya this one isn't really shady as much as it is a major screw-up by Centreventure who got desperate when Stuart Olson Dominion couldn't put a deal together for a chain hotel to operate what was to be built in the original proposal. The major problem here is a lack of oversight (information getting to council) and clear guidelines for arms length governmental agencies like Centreventure or even WFD/WPS to work under when it comes to these land deals. Makes it easy for the Sheegl's and Shindico's of the world to press their personal agendas forward with all the blurred lines and avoid real scrutiny until the deal is already past the point of no return.
Stuart Olson Dominion and Abou-Zaid are 5 words I don't want to hear in the same sentence as "Winnipeg" for a long time. A lot of ignorance and incompetence in their work in this city.
We do seem to have a lot of terrible construction/property management companies in Winnipeg.
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If we were to go crazy in FA, I don't think all 3 of Heenan, Wojt and Don O would be impossible.
Im not crazy about Watt, though I do respect his ability, and think its very possibly O'Shea and Walters are targeting him.... but we could be getting a good prospect in Groodrich, and I'm a firm believer that you should always build the foundation of your football team in the trenches... and that's our weakest link right now
I think history has shown that going crazy in FA isn't always the best idea (see Hamilton). That said, if we could pick up Heenan, I would be pretty darn happy.
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heh, this thread turned into a shitshow.
I think it's OK to be skeptical of the dealings going on at city hall given our history with corruption over the past decade. Bowman comes from the same group of social elite that a lot of our politicians come from in Manitoba, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that something untoward is going on with this situation.
That said, Mayor Bowman has done a good job so far IMO, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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What an absurd thread.. We have MBB political pundits who literally have no credibility OR insight to this topic speaking on it as if they have done hard hitting investigative journalism..
man off-season around here gets lame.
What makes your opinions more credible than anyone else's?
Don't really agree with the way Spuds worded that there but... reading the last few comments on page 1 here, He is pretty much bang on. I mean there is tons of speculation and made up stuff there for sure from one guy atleast and with no real facts to back up what he is saying. I mean, honestly, if you are accusing people of doing back room deals over land or whatever else really, you better have some damn good facts to back it up and quite frankly, there are no facts. Just a bunch of speculation and really guessing big time, i wanna call it blowing smoke up peoples asses cuz that's actually what a few of those posts are pretty much doing. I like the one comment too that ends page 1, something about living in fantasy worlds... guess that person does too cuz what they have written about this topic is nothing but fantasy.
That's just what it is - speculation. No one was purporting to know exactly what is happening at city hall. There's no need for people to attack others for stating their opinions as to what's going on at city hall.
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Absolutely nonsense. This is the "dirty" aspect of politics. Someone endorses a politician and must be expecting a favour? Give me a break. There is absolutely nothing to indicate Chipman traded his endorsement for a favour.
Only problem is that Mark Chipman publicly endorsed Brian Bowman for mayor. My instincts tell me that Chipman expected something in return for that endorsement and that mayor Bowman will cave and allow TNSE to develop the land. I suspect Mr Bowman and Mr Chipman have spoken several times over the past couple weeks on this matter.related note: the contractor (Stuart Olson Dominion), is also in a dust-up over the convention centre project. The convention centre part is fine, but as part of getting that contract they also had to build a top-tier hotel to service the expanded building. This seems to be mired by backroom deals that I'm no so sure SOD had much involment in, but the facts are still coming out.
It seems that CenterVenture kept throwing wrenches in the works of their hotel building so they could get the contract in the hands of TrueNorth. In exchange for doing the dirty, the 16 million dollar penalty for not building the hotel was slashed to under 4 million. One of the reasons that centerventure uses to try to convince the city councillers to accept the deal is that if they try to get the full penalty out of SOD, the whole thing will be tied up in courts for years. Part of me thinks they are using the reputation of the legal battle over the stadium construction as leverage to add more umpf to this BS argument.
The good news for taxpayers is that it seems mayor Bowman smells something shifty and is demanding a public RFP for the hotel build now. Here's hoping this issue can be fixed up, and SOD gets a fair chance to get a hotel built, or pays the appropriate penalty, not something discounted by over 10 million bucks.
We will see what kind of backbone our mayor has this week. RFP and he's got a backbone (although TNSE could still win the bid through the RFP), or council decides to give the contract directly to TNSE means Bowman is paying back a favour to Chipman. Will be interesting...
What it seems like is CV has a deal for a hotel project there. SOD claims they have a deal too. Let them both submit bids and let council pick one. Done and done.
Supposedly SOD was having trouble finding a hotel partner and let CV know that. If CV turned around and did their own search and made a deal with TN and then SOD said hey wait we think we have a partner now, I can understand if CV was reluctant to throw away their work. Especially if SOd's partner isn't local like TN
Not that I am defending CV at all. They got way too far away from their original mandate.
Bowman will clean it up. If anything bowman will be tougher on Chipman to dissuade anyone from accusing him of a conflict. I see nothing that indicates bowman is Sammy.
You are being very naive here. Election support from business in exchange for political favors happens ALL the time.
But I sure hope you're right about Bowman treating Chipman tougher.
You're accusing two people of criminal behavior in this thread. You really think two lawyers would be dumb enough to have an almost direct and transparent quid pro quo around a municipal election endorsement and deferential treatment in the SHED?
is that a joke? Stuff like this happens all the time. Not saying that this is the case with Bowman (and I wasn't exactly a Bowman supporter during the campaign), but you'd have to be naive to think that these kind of deals don't happen.
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Perhaps be a tad less patronizing? You don't know what I've done or experienced.
The economy isn't the be all and end all (and we're nothing special in that regard) - we're stagnating in social progress, environmental progress and healthcare among other things. I didn't say Canada is a bad country to live in.