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GCn20

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  1. Bring back Pickled Onion chips. Hostess used to make them in Canada/US and now they are just a European thing.
  2. No doubt about that. Damn app doesn't even update. I have to log off and log back in to get the latest highlights/GOD. I find Crave to be equally problematic.
  3. On some issues, certainly. I don't like tax and spend government that runs enormous deficits. I want a fiscally responsible government that provides services but value to the taxpayer. I really liked the Chretien Liberals, and I want the current Liberals to go back in that direction of government. I don't want an election run on boogeyman politics and virtue signalling by either party. It's how we have gotten the kind of weak sauce government we are currently seeing. I want an election with actual ideas and platforms that give the voter a choice on actual policy, not imagined worst case scenarios.
  4. A forensic audit will be needed to see if he got his 500 bucks this week or not. Dickenson says he will not be compensated this week, I suspect that the Riders will put in for a 500 buck lunch expense for the office and mysteriously the receipt will have been lost.
  5. I don't like the swing away from centre. Concerns me about the CPC, and it concerns me about the Liberals as well. I don't particularly care for the way politics are heading here, and in the US either. Polarization and shifting out to the extremes is not particularly helpful to anyone. I completely agree with Poilievre on some fiscal issues he is flogging, but I do not support the use of boogeyman politics by either the left or right of the political spectrum. I don't care for the "freedom" platform of Poilievre, just as I don't care for aspects of Liberal populism that have been flogged under Trudeau. I wish all parties would just get back to the business of running our country and quit virtue signalling to the extremes of their parties. I would hate to see Canada become as polarized as what is happening in the US, and I'm afraid we will head down that road if neither the CPC or Liberals step back to the middle. Whoever goes back to the middle will get my vote. Not closest to centrist politics but actual centrist politics, otherwise llke I did last election I will register a protest vote.
  6. I agree on most points about where the CPC seems to be heading, yet it appears that there must be some big time dissatisfaction with the current government as this strategy is showing tangible positive results in the polls for the CPC. Is it the social media effect? Is it an electorate simply tired of the Liberal government? A little of both? That's why I said the polls seems fascinating to me because I never expected Ontario and Quebec, in particular, to bounce to the CPC in the polls like they have since PP took over.
  7. As Trudeau has consistently done his entire tenure. What's your point?
  8. I completely agree. It's over the top.
  9. The polling after Poillievre became leader is fascinating. He seems to be pretty popular in BC, the prairies, and Ontario with all 3 published polls showing the Cons with leads in these areas, and surprisingly even Quebec where they are statistically tied now with the Liberals. What shocks me is how popular he is in the 18-35 age range. Quite a substantial jump in support there and amongst women voters as well. Momentum seems to be building behind him. Now go on and bash this factually correct post if you'd like, but I think a lot of people are underestimating Poillievre's popularity overall and not just with the alt-right.
  10. I will take an arena/stadium getting involved right from the singing of the national anthem over the crickets that are heard at Argo/Stamps/Lions etc games. Half the NFL/NHL arenas and stadiums are so sterile and the fans just there as a matter of status. Winnipeg rocks their buildings. Keep it up Peg City.
  11. How does the Jets name origins make a chant "stupider". That makes no sense. You wanna tie a nice bow around it and label this chant as some kind of implicit support of millionaire elitism and that is just a wild stretch of logic imo. It's fans having fun and seeing how loud they can be. You are way overthinking this.
  12. That's my 2nd favorite Dickie face of all, both him and his brother. The 1st favorite is the Dickie head throw back signifying defeat. Working him in slowly I would think.
  13. The worst thing was the look on her face in the morning when she saw the look on my face in the morning. lmao.
  14. Smart because most guys don't even know their CFL options are owned by someone already. Don't want them finding out before we have a chance to sweet talk them.
  15. When I was younger I had to take penicillin a few times after some bad decisions at closing time at the bar. Surely was a game changer. lmao. Whiskey goggles are a real thing.
  16. Seems like the smart play. I can't imagine the tall foreheads in the league office love it when we do it but tough **** for them.
  17. You objection is noted. There are some that share your objection, unfortunately, it seems to be something that we are going to be stuck with for some time.
  18. Could have just been coincidence but iirc last year we released our 10 on the neg list and within a couple days a couple of them were added to our PR.
  19. I like that they have an excuse after every game. It prevents them from having to be accountable to each other, and the fan base.
  20. I agree on that, however, the chant has taken on more of a Winnipeg rally cry identity than anything to actually do with True North now. In the early days it was to thank the Jets owners for bringing them back, now the True North chant is to signify the strength of the fan base. It's to let the world know that Jets/Bomber games are hostile territory for the visitors. If Bomber fans want to do it in that context I have absolutely no issue with that.
  21. Sloppy article by Hodge. He needs to narrow down the man games lost by team to guys in the starting rotation for this to have any impact. Take a team like the Riders, for instance, who have a whopping 73 man games lost to marginal roster ham n' eggers STers and backups. It skews the impact of the article when that context is lost. Also, a team like BC losing Rourke...how can that be equated to a simple man game...he was their team. That being said in simple terms of man games lost their is not a lot of difference between a lot of the teams in the league with a couple of exceptions. The difference between 175 and 122 is quite literally a couple of STers that Saskatchewan lost compared to us.....but they are snake bitten woe is me the football gods are shitting on us, and we have been completely healthy according to them. The excuse train out of the big trapezoid never ceases to amaze me, show them facts and they will say the league conspired to fix the numbers.
  22. It's a rally cry just before the game. Not sure why you have a problem with that. If you don't want to support the Jets don't, but many people feel they get full value for the tickets they buy and understand that our team spends just as much as any other team to try and provide us with an entertaining product. Hate it when people go off on the owners of a team like the Jets that is more a passion project of the ownership group than a profit centre.
  23. Nope, he is just their speech writer.
  24. I know of a gentleman's agreement in regards to draft picks returning to school, but I have never heard of one concerning PR players being plucked. Every year there are a couple players that are plucked by a team off another's PR.
  25. Yes they do. For sure. I am sure any GM consistently asks players if they will accept long term contracts even if they may/may not be in the long term plans. Why wouldn't you....nothing to lose. I would LOVE the Esks to get on a roll and end up bumping the RIders out of the cross over. That would be just too good.
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