The Unknown Poster

Not good news: Paul Wiecek ✔ @PaulWiecek #NHLJets head coach Paul Maurice says injured G Ondrej Pavelec will be out til at least January or February with knee sprain

SEE, SEE HOW INCLUSIVE I AM?!!? why A shot at me I guess. A lame attempt to remark that my comment about family going to a Mosque makes me more inclusive as if I am showing off. Ofcourse, that implies I need to prove it which I dont. I dont have a single issue whatsoever with Muslims so going to a Mosque isnt a pat on my back. Especially since I wasnt able to attend. But I guess it makes my gf inclusive. *rolls eyes*. I assume Sweep attended to then. That aside, I agree with you about this odd development concerning the single males. Its actually rather interesting that people asking for caution and full security vetting would be called bigots but the government painting all Syrian males with the same brush is perfectly fine. Is it not rather bigoted to assume all males might be a security risk? Either way, cant complain about a women & children first policy. I wonder what Trudeau's answer will be when asked why men arent allowed in? "Because it's 2015".

If I recall (and correct me if Im confusing you with someone else), you've made disparaging or mocking remarks about wrestling a few times. If you dislike it, why bother posting about it? Clearly people posting in this thread enjoy (or otherwise are fans) wrestling and enjoy discussing it. Taking the time to mock it seems awfully troll-ish and silly. And again, the demos are not 13 year old boys and 100 year old fans. So aside from wasting both our time, you're wrong again. If you're confused about something related to wrestling I'd be happy to try and answer any questions.

Im not sure its lost yet. if I understand what is coming, they will remain there. Just need to get all the zombies out. I assume Daryl et al save the day. When i first started watching it I said 'if it was me, I'd go find a gated community somewhere' so I was happy to see Alexandria even if it just happened to still have running water, heat, AC etc.

Interesting!!! I guess he takes Petan's sport rotating with Peluso. Correct me if I'm wrong but Armia is a pretty big guy. Maybe Peluso gets less games. So what's the fourth line? Burmi-Copp-Armia? That could be a good line.

SPOILERS for The Walking Dead fans but they finally resolved Glen's fate. And I was surprised it was basically what most people had predicted. That's usually a bad thing but in this case it was a great thing. Good episode. But is anyone else feeling a sort of "oh ofcourse that happens" vibe whenever something bad happens just as they are seemingly safe? Becoming a bit formulaic

That's very inclusive of you.

Sort of dove-tails with my theory that WWE consciously wants no one to be over. The only thing over is "WWE" itself (and by extension the Authority since Hunter and Steph are lifers). If you were preparing Sheamus for a title run, you'd have built him up. For example, many of us thought Kane's odd World Title program was ill-fitting but it was designed to heat him up for his tag team with Undertaker...because Taker is one of the few guys who must be protected. The aftermath of the tournament is that a WWE Poll done on their website asking who should win was overwhelmingly won by Cesaro who lost on RAW and might need shoulder surgery. The most over heel in the tournament (Owens) lost in the semi's by clean pinfall. They still dont have a top heel since Seth is out long term. Their new top face gets mixed reactions, both of which are not at a top guy level. I wonder if they pop a rating tonight based on curiosity or if fans en mass reject this. I see what they are trying to do, take a heel the fans will heel on (if Owens worked Roman he'd get a lot of cheers) to help get Roman more over. But consider how much effort WWE is going to annoint a guy the fans just dont love at the expense of other guys who are more over. It really makes no sense other than Vince is out of touch, stubborn and has a "no one tells me what to do" mentality. And to a degree Hunter is the same way because while he likes to fancy himself among the late 90's and Attitude era top guys like Austin, Rock, Taker, Foley, HBK, Bret, Hunter was the one who kept failing to get over and had more chances than anyone. He would never have made it if he didnt have people looking out for him and the timing being right.

SEE, SEE HOW INCLUSIVE I AM?!!? Not sure what your point is...? Is that a shot? A lot of people went to the open house. It was a great idea.

Bringing in 10,000 Syrian refugees by Sept 2016 is different than bringing in 25,000 by Christmas 2015. I generally support the idea of bringing in refugees. Many of us are very blessed to have been born here. We should share our good fortune with those less fortunate. Just do it with an abundance of caution, and not just security-wise but as others have pointed out, the economic fortunes of the refugees coming here. One question I have and perhaps Im misunderstanding the media chatter, but we have been told there is no security issue with these refugees and some are arguing its Islamaphobic to think there is...that ISIS will not use the refugee process to infiltrate western countries...and yet the government is restricting male refugees due to security concerns? Does not compute. On an off-topic note, my gf and sister went to one of the open-houses at a local Mosque and had a great time (aside from a bad allergic reaction to a Henna)

I saw a lot of chatter about a Sheamus cash-in and then it sort of fell by the wayside because Sheamus is not remotely over and the feeling WWE needed to make a new top heel to replace Seth. Many of us gave WWE too much credit for doing something interesting. They didnt. And in retrospect, we shouldnt be surprised.

Average age is 41 years old. 68% male (Total Divas skewers the number down to 63% overall). The smallest category is the under 17 at 19%. The largest segment is over 50 at 37%. WWE audience is getting older and more male. I suspect many dad's watch it with their kids but once you start hitting 50 years old, how many dad's are watching with their 12 year old sons? Not many. TNA is even worse, skewering even older and even more male. Interestingly, Total Divas, being more soap opery and with more interesting and realistic (to a degree) storylines grabs a much better female demo. WWE has been unable to translate that into female viewers for their other programs however. What seems clear is, WWE has whittled its audience down to its most loyal and long-watching fans. It doesnt have a great under 17 demo and even the 18-34 is well under it's over 50. WWE isn't "cool" and isnt doing a very good job of creating new fans. With TNA, it became clear there was a core fanbase that would watch no matter what. Im not sure what WWE's core fanbase totals will be but as they've hit and flirted with historic lows recently, they might be at it. They better hope so.

A litte bit of (somewhat) local news: National Post After a multiyear journey, Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has struck a deal to sell its Allstream unit to U.S.-based Zayo Group Holdings Inc. for $465-million in cash consideration. Zayo, which is based in Boulder, Colo., has a market capitalization of about $5.7-billion (U.S.), is in the same business as Allstream, which operates a national fibre-optic network and provides connectivity and managed communications services to enterprise clients. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The agreement to sell to a strategic player comes more than two years after the federal government rejected an earlier deal to sell to Egyptian investment firm Accelero Capital Inc. on national security grounds. But MTS chief executive officer Jay Forbes said he has “high confidence” this deal, which the company announced Monday, will win the necessary regulatory approvals and close in the first quarter of 2016. While MTS was engaged in talks with potential buyers, executives also spent time in Ottawa to “understand the complete needs and expectations of all the relevant regulatory stakeholders.” “We undertook our own due diligence on each and every one of the prospective acquirers that we entertained, looking at them through that lens of national security,” Mr. Forbes said in an interview with The Globe and Mail. “We look at Zayo as a very public company and as a trusted, precleared secure provider to the United States government. We think we have a party that meets the needs and expectations of that regulatory community.” Ottawa’s rejection of the Accelero deal – which was valued at $520-million (Canadian) – came as a shock to management at Winnipeg-based MTS. Since that time, the company has regrouped and hired Mr. Forbes, who took over in January of this year after long-time CEO Pierre Blouin retired. Mr. Forbes undertook his own review of both MTS’s Manitoba consumer communications business and the national enterprise services division. In May, he announced plans to reduce capital expenditures and cut 500 jobs at Allstream over this year and next. By the summer, MTS had hired bankers to advise it on the sale and said it was actively courting strategic players, as well as entertaining interest from financial buyers. “We had the participation of six strategic bidders and multiple offers for consideration,” Mr. Forbes said, adding that they decided on the Zayo bid because it represented “full value for this asset” and “also gives us a reasonable degree of certainty in terms of closure.” Zayo said in a statement it plans to reorganize Allstream into three parts. Allstream's communications infrastructure, which represents about half of its revenue, will be incorporated into Zayo's own core business operations, while maintaining a "strong Canadian brand and presence," and will form Zayo Canada. ‎Zayo said it expects about $300-million in revenue from Zayo Canada. The ‎remaining part of Allstream's business will be organized into two separate business units - voice and universal communications and a small business division. Zayo has an 87,000-mile fibre network in the United States and Europe, and the Allstream acquisition would represent a North American expansion for the company. It provides Internet bandwidth and data-centre and cloud services to customers ranging from wireless carriers to finance and health-care companies. U.S. telephone company AT&T Inc. was a past investor in Allstream – which was once known as AT&T Canada before rebranding in 2003 after emerging from creditor protection. The following year, MTS bought the company for $1.7-billion and the division has underperformed for many years. Zayo would be the first U.S. carrier to fully own a Canadian telecom operator, a prospect made possible by a 2012 change to the Telecommunications Act to permit foreign investment in companies with less than 10 per cent of the total telecom market in Canada. In 2014, Canada’s telecom market had revenues of $45.9-billion. Allstream’s revenue for the year was $644.1-million, well below the 10-per-cent threshold of about $4.6-billion. The deal to sell to Zayo should not be subject to the “net benefit” test under the Canada Investment Act – in April, the threshold for review of private-sector investments increased to $600-million, up from $369-million – but the government can still review the transaction on national-security grounds. It also requires approval from the Competition Bureau. If the Zayo deal does receive the necessary approvals and closes in early 2016, the next possibility investors will ponder is the sale of MTS itself. Earlier this month, when the company announced its third-quarter results, Mr. Forbes also revealed a plan to overhaul customer service and rein in costs at MTS by cutting capital spending and offering voluntary buyouts to an expected 200 to 250 employees. He said he expects the efforts to result in $100-million in additional free cash flow annually. After that announcement, Desjardins Capital analyst Maher Yaghi wrote that if an Allstream sale finally does happen, it “would improve the valuation of MTS and even put the remaining company on the block to become a potential takeover candidate by either Telus [Corp.] or BCE. [inc.]” Asked about a potential sale of MTS, Mr. Forbes said his focus is on completing the three-year transformation plan and “to continue to evolve this organization to be far more customer-centric and, as a consequence, create meaningful value for our shareholders.” He said the company will share more detailed plans on what it will do with the proceeds of the Allstream sale next year but said they could be used to retire some debt MTS incurred to prefund its pension obligations, as well as purchase wireless airwaves from Wind Mobile earlier this year. After closing costs and other adjustments, Mr. Forbes said the net proceeds of the Zayo transaction will be $425-million. “The Accelero deal actually whittled down to about $400-million in net proceeds … so while the gross proceeds associated with this transaction are slightly less than what we had with Accelero, the net proceeds will be nicely above that,” he said. In either case, it seems MTS fetched more for the asset than some expected it would. In an August report, Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang said consensus estimates pegged Allstream’s value at $300-million to $400-million. Earlier this month, RBC Dominion Securities Inc.’s Drew McReynolds said he assumed a $425-million value for Allstream. MTS will retain responsibility for retirees and other former employees under Allstream’s defined benefit pension plan. Pension benefits for current employees will remain Allstream’s responsibility.

CBC The federal government's much-anticipated Syrian refugee plan will limit those accepted into Canada to women, children and families only, CBC News has learned. Sources tell CBC News that to deal with some ongoing concerns around security, unaccompanied men seeking asylum will not be part of the program. The details of the plan will be announced Tuesday, but already Canadian officials have been working on the ground to process people. In the last six weeks alone, Canadian authorities have managed to screen about 100 people a day in Lebanon to help the government reach its ambitious of target of getting 25,000 Syrian refugees here by the end of the year. These are on top of the refugees being processed by the United Nations Refugee Agency. The government has so far been mum about both the kind of security screening it is doing and whether it will be limited to refugee camps overseas, or whether some of it will take place in Canada. But last week Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the process will be on top of what the United Nations is already doing. Canada's screening is being co-ordinated across departments, including the RCMP and CSIS. As many as 900 refugees a day are expected to arrive from Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. The vast majority of them will arrive in Toronto and Montreal. Sources say most of the newcomers will initially be housed in military bases, which have been preparing for their arrival. Other kinds of housing will also be used, including hotels and abandoned hospitals. Moreover, once in Canada, officials broadly expect refugees to be "mobile" in about a month's time: While thousands of people may arrive temporarily in one location, they may quickly disperse throughout Canada. There had been some initial concerns about trying to "contain" refugees to any given location for too long, given that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees mobility rights. Those rights apply to refugees once they arrive in Canada and could open the government up to potential legal problems, if applied. The price tag of such an ambitious plan over a short timeline is going to be significant. Sources confirm the dollar figures reported by The Canadian Press on Friday: $876.7 million for this first year alone. A large part of those initial costs come from airlifting thousands of people by Dec. 31. The total cost of the program is expected to be $1.2 billion over six years.

CBC The new Liberal government is delaying approval of a deal to convert a civilian cargo ship into a badly needed military supply vessel, leading to concerns the plan will soon be scuttled and the navy will be left unable to properly defend Canada or deploy its force abroad. Shipbuilder Chantier Davie had proposed a new-for-Canada plan to buy a cargo ship and turn it into an interim supply vessel able to support a Canadian naval task group at sea by providing fuel, food and ammunition. The government signed a letter of intent earlier this year, and in October finalized a roughly $700-million, seven-year contract with Davie. The deal was dependent on cabinet approval, expected to flow out of a cabinet committee's meeting this week. But CBC News has learned that on Thursday, the committee has delayed deciding on the deal for at least two months, provoking anger inside some corners of the shipbuilding industry and fears inside the navy. There is also an economic consequence to the decision to delay. The letter of intent signed by the government offers Davie $89-million if the finalized contract is not signed by Nov. 30. Davie has already bought the ship and has brought it to its yard on the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City. Meddling by Irving Shipbuilding? There are also allegations from different high-level sources in those same corners that Irving Shipbuilding Inc., a longtime competitor of Davie, meddled in the decision by sending letters to several cabinet ministers about the deal, an event that in the words of one defence source "tipped over the apple cart."

TSN llayed clips of Maurice saying Helle would play. Will be interesting how much. And how good does he have to be for the jets to consider making changes this season. Or does that not happen and regardless of play he goes back to Moose

That's weird. I thought there were no concerns whatsoever with Syrian refugees. This increased security sounds like bigotry to me. Or sexism.

In the case of the Survivor Series the arena is attached to CNN world HQ.But as far as attacking major sports event I could see WWE being on the list. If for no other reason then it's a major event with a lot of people on live TV. If they actually care that it's WWE, the company has been very supportive of US troops. But I think this list was ideas offered up for lone wolf attackers. No reason why you wouldn't include wwe if you're just making a list of random "sporting" events in major cities. I don't think ISIS wants to terrorize all the 13 year old boys who watch wrestling. It would be a much bigger impact if they were to attack an NFL game. That could be true. The part about an nfl game being a bigger impact. The part about WWE's audience being 13 year old boys is false.

It was the most predictable finish and the most predictable swerve. Ratings should be historic lows by Christmas.

Thing is with things like this simple coincednces get turned into conspiracies. Or mistakes become intentional. On one hand imagine if the bike cop hasn't left his radio open to capture the gun shots

He didn't get called up to start. He got called up the back up Hutch. Which might mean he starts eventually of Pavs is out for awhile. But if it's only a handful of games Id think they'd ride hutch as much as possible. Or they think he's ready and they stick to the rotation.

Some people were killed. Some people were so high up they would never talk. And some people talked. I don't think it's as brand a conspiracy as we have romanticized over time. I think Oswald was involved. And I think a second sniper would have easily been caught if a lot of mistakes hadn't been made.

In the case of the Survivor Series the arena is attached to CNN world HQ. But as far as attacking major sports event I could see WWE being on the list. If for no other reason then it's a major event with a lot of people on live TV. If they actually care that it's WWE, the company has been very supportive of US troops. But I think this list was ideas offered up for lone wolf attackers. No reason why you wouldn't include wwe if you're just making a list of random "sporting" events in major cities.

That's also switching two RHD to LHD.

Absolutely. They want people to fear any large public assembly, especially those airing on live television and those having any sense of Americana.