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Based on what?

Is it a lack of discipline or a lack of character? Me first players. O'Day learned his craft from Jones who puts zero stock in a player's character. Talent is great when scouting but guys like Walters know that it is only part of the equation.

Ummm..no..Harris was average to slightly above average. His was not some virtuoso performance.

You keep clinging to that hope that Harris will falter. He was not the reason you guys lost, nor is the short week. Short weeks don't cause 8 sack nights, or a QB to get happy feet all night and just spray the ball around. These are personnel, and playcalling, issues. The short week may have accounted for it being a blow out but the Riders team that played last night wouldn't have won even on a full week's rest. Your OL interior is bad....really bad...and compounded by the loss of Clark. CFaj is a QB that melts like butter under pressure. He is very much like Kevin Glenn in that he gets happy feet once you sack him. Always has, always will, and that is why the RIders will never go anywhere with him as QB especially with an OL that is just plain awful.

Honestly, I don't see the point in doing so. I express my opinion, an opinion that is reasonable and fair, and am told I am lying and deflecting when in the first sentence I stated the GOP is corrupt and money grubbing. The issue is that I dared suggest that the Dems are the flip side of the coin and I'm guilty of whataboutism ? Believe what you wanna believe, Biden is as crooked as they come and you guys can accuse me of any sort of bias for saying that but the truth is the truth. I am just honest enough to recognize a **** show when I see one and it is not confined to one of the American parties. I won't defend the GOP but I am not stupid enough to believe they are the only occupants of the cesspool that is American politics. Is one worse than the other, perhaps, but smelling whose pile of turd is worse seems kinda pointless. I completely support science and research. 100%. I have supported all vax mandates, and restrictions. You are trying to discredit my opinion by playing boogeyman to anyone who doesn't kiss the arse of your precious DEMS. You are part of the problem, part of the polarization. You scream whataboutism and go out and do it yourself. Hypocrite much?

Yep, the Dems are every bit the money grubbers the GOP is, they just virtue signal better. I get the criticisms of Trump and the GOP over all, but I find it highly hypocritical when those same people choose to ignore the greed and corruption of Biden and company. Just the flip side of the same coin.

In a perfect world..no...in today's reality politics and media/anti-media are driving sensible people out to the fringes. I would hope that in the near future that a return to centre and away from the fringes will make a much needed correction to the very polarized and non-sensical approach many are taking now in politics and political support. It is gross. I like some policies and beliefs from every party on the spectrum, but some will never admit that each party has some redeeming qualities and will instead villify them and their supporters. That is so sad imo. Being open to opinion and debate without name calling and labelling those who opposed our viewpoint used to be what made Canada such a better place than America. Now, our politics are just as gross.

I hear ya....my pro stitch white Jets jersey has never been worn for that reason. The Blue one...all good...but I am a slob that eats with his chin, chest and hands and I tend to love stuff that will stain the **** out of anything white.

Fair enough. lol...although the last couple pages here have seen some whoppers out of left field.

I completely agree with you on this one. Black and white. Sort out intention in the extra discipline department.

I was led to believe that wild conspiracy theories were the exclusive domain of the far right. Imagine my chagrin right now.

Maybe Wayne is incorrect, but he made a zillion dollars off of it and Shoen is pronounced Shane in pop culture because of it. Therefore the Showen argument is irrelevant, because once Wayne changed it and set the world on fire with the possibly incorrect pronunciation it follows that anyone with the name Shoen was doomed to have Danke jokes levied at them ad nauseum. Any Danke Shoen jokes at our new receiver, and there will be a crap load of them, are fair game.

Kinda where I am at too. I was very unhappy at the time but a couple Grey Cups have smoothed things over for me.

Sounds familiar to Manitobans.

I don't know if it was or wasn't, but I find it extremely hard to believe any person capable of achieving the status of GM in a pro football league would make such a trade at any time without being forced to do so. One can spin that into conspiracy theory if they want, but unless Tillman was suffering from temporary insanity I believe his had was forced by someone within or outside the organization. I'm not a huge Tillman fan, but c'mon.

I am still holding a bit of a grudge against Bauming for his role in the Harris snub in 2019, but I must confess up to that point I enjoyed his reporting and have liked the Bonfire as well. Good luck! It is great to see some really good and interesting CFL coverage whenever, and wherever, it comes from.

There is a reason that the Riders are paying almost ten percent of their payroll to two jump ball specialist receivers.

On more than one occasion.

I understand academia quite well. I just strongly believe that academia is out to lunch. But just for shits and giggles here is one from the Fraser Institute citing several studies that counter your argument. You will no doubt miss that point though, and claim the Fraser Institute is a biased right wing think tank even though they have cited credible sources to their opinion. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/minimum-wages-dont-help-poor

There is nothing personal or anecdotal about how small businesses in the real world react to wage increases. Every business lobby has been screaming it from the rooftops to the socialists that would offload governmental responsibility to the business sector. Keep on dragging up absurd comparisons, they do not make your case any more compelling.

Sorry man but it is my belief that if it is not personal experience then it can ONLY be anecdotal. Evidence is not theoretical, it is real life experience. I am shocked by how many of you disregard that. For every piece of evidence you provide I can provide an equally compelling piece of evidence by an equally credible source. The problem with that is you will call it biased when it doesn't fit your narrative. Therefore, I will stick to my personal experience gained over 30 years of being a business owner in this province and from the network of colleagues who, by the way, agree entirely with what I'm saying. Have you ever ran a business yourself? Was your experience different? These are the only things that are credible to me, not university professors pontificating over sets of values that are unrealistic and set up with parameters that quite frankly rarely exist in the real world. Anyone can spin their study to say anything they want it to say by whoever is paying for them to do the study. That's the difference between academia and the real world and why I hold very little respect of the opinions of such studies. That being said I could probably provide a thousand links from academics that will counter your point but again, it will mean little, because these studies are produced to promote the viewpoints of those that sponsor them. The problem with the studies you promote, and academia really loves to produce, is that the economists assume businesses can survive the disruption created before the stabilization and that is idiotic because most small businesses do not have this kind of war chest to fall back on.

What a bunch of know nothing horse **** that is. You don't know me, you don't know my businesses and you are completely out to lunch on what I paid. Downloading cost to everyone else? That is precisely what vast increases to any wage legislation does. I had several businesses over the years, most succeeded, some did not. I worked on a 10% margin as most in the hospitality industry do. You think business owners are carrying millions of dollars to the bank? Sure, the corporations do....some of them....but the single biggest employer in Manitoba is small business and you are smoking crack if you think that they are selfish, or downloading costs to everyone else. Most are struggling to survive and in the internet age it becomes tougher and tougher for brick and mortar places to do so. Save you sanctimony, you don't have a hot clue about what you are talking about. I had a ton of employees making minimum wage, and most of them would have worked for nothing if I let them. In the hospitality industry it's all about the tips and on a slow day that minimum wage worker is making 30-40 bucks an hour. The problem with min wage legislation is that if I had to pay those same employees 20 bucks an hour they wouldn't have gotten their hours. I couldn't afford it. The business taxes in Manitoba, particularly the city of W, are much higher than other jurisdictions. Cost of goods, are slightly above average, and maintenance fees on property are very high due to our climate. Speaking as a hotelier, the red tape and regulation in this province is draconian. Our liquor laws are some of the most antiquated in North America. It's not just one thing, but many things and they add up to very narrow margins. Couple that with the war the NDP wages on the industry to try and force unionization, and you've got a hospitality industry that would simply have to fold it's tent with much more prohibitive taxation, or government policy that increases cost. I speak from REAL world experience, a lifetime of it. Not imagined, or think tank hypothetical bull ****.

A lifetime of being a successful businessman, I lived and died by the bottom line. You can stuff your academic papers. Academia will tell you a crap load of things that in theory should work, but don't in the real world. Could the market sort itself out....sure it could, but not without significant casualties and upheaval along the way. Look, I'm not against anyone getting a living wage but I am very much against knee jerk idiotic moves that chase business away and shut businesses down and if you don't think wage cost plays a significant factor in that than there is zero point continuing this discussion with you.

As a small business owner in this province, I can assure you that a big part of wages being low in our province is a higher cost of doing business here. For small businesses, in particular, margins are tight as they are. If you increase the minimum wage too quickly you will drive a spike through the heart of small business in every sector with retail being the most vulnerable. Ultimately, any big increase in wages will get passed on to the consumers by the corporations that can survive such a thing making it an almost net zero gain for the employees receiving them. Yes, life has become unaffordable for many on the low end of the wage spectrum, and single income families. This is not new, and it is not something that 2 bucks an hour is going to fix. Getting some responsible government during an inflationary crisis might help but that's not what this particular forum wants to hear. Bumping minimum wage is fool's gold. The answer is to provide more industry and better paying job opportunities and that comes from having the ability to attract these opps to our province by not having draconian socialist government policy and taxation. You can't tax yourself out of poverty, and you most certainly can't fix it by trying to offload fundamental flaws onto the business sector.

Totally agree. Just pointing out that when she took over it was to a collective groan. Kenney was immensely popular in the polls when he became leader of the UCP....and then he just plummeted. It takes a special kind of bad to have Alberta hating a right of centre premier.