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I would think the odds of getting Dobson have increased significantly. 6'5 - 330 lbs....Jeebus....guy is a load. One of his four games last year was against us, so we must have seen something we liked.

I trust the Bombers on this. Looks like they didn't think 9 would yield them a whole lot so get a rotational DE out of the deal and probably go with an OL at 13....or maybe they are not done and we trade back into the 1st round.

I personally think Chevy has done a good job so far. His next move will be make it or break it for him though. Paul Maurice was an excellent hire but he was here a bit too long and the players started ruling the roost and now the locker room needs a coach that can reign that back in. Who he hires will be a big factor as to whether Chevy gets to finish his contract imo. We have an excellent team on paper, but Maurice let the players sort too much stuff out on their own without intervention and it went off the rails. Especially after a particularly locker room dividing incident took place he did nothing and now the locker room is in disarray.

Exactly. That being said he got great value out of many extensions he signed players too. For sure. A lot of people hated the style of Maurice's coaching but he was an effective HC of a small market team. Hi KBF, I can't get into the incidents on a public forum but I'd be glad to PM you.

According to Hufnagel, the league was putting forth ideas to improve the game to be fleshed out for further discussion/consideration by the rules committee. Somebody suggested the league consider advancing 4 downs for further discussion. It was voted down 7-2. Hufnagel himself said he would have likely voted against a change to 4 downs if it had ever gotten to that point but thought it was something that should at least be discussed. Pinball loves the CFL but he loves his paycheque more and his bosses want 4 downs....preferably NFL if a team is granted to Canada someday.

There was a vote on whether to advance 4 downs as a possible discussion point. It was voted down. Therefore, the league did not even discuss 4 downs as being an option, they voted against even talking about it Arash.

That's right. 7th in career wins in NHL history, youngest coach ever to 500 wins. If you are judging coaching strictly by Stanley Cup wins you are going to label a LOT of very good coaches as being poor. This isn't the CFL where you have 9 teams and you're bound to win one if you are a good coach. Tons of good coaches never win a Stanley Cup. It is very difficult to do so...just ask the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Paul Maurice lost the room, but when he had it he was as good as any coach in the NHL. It is revisionist history to base his entire tenure on his last season and a half. EVERY coach loses their room eventually. Even O'Shea will.

Totally agree. Getting the vast majority of our star players to sign extensions at reasonable contract levels is yeoman's work on his part. There is a culture problem in the locker room and it is 100% on the players. There were incidents that took place a couple years ago that shook that room to the core and it is 100% in the locker room and involving players.

I am not sure why anyone thinks Chevy hasn't done a good job on the coaching front? Chipman hired Noel basically and then when that turned out to be a poor decision Chevy brought in Maurice. who was an excellent coach for many years, but like EVERY coach ever hired had a shelf life. That shelf life expired and he had to put in an interim HC. Could he have gone outside the organization? Sure he could have but then you are settling for leftovers. I see nothing wrong with the way Chevy has conducted business in a hockey market that very few players want to come to and stay in. Winnipeg is not a desirable location for any player or coach if they have a choice. Let's all remember that.

I agree that Pollievre engages in dog whistle politics. Dog whistle politics is not exclusive to the alt right, nor is it an indicator of being one. Most people would suggest that the Democrats in the US engaged in them for the entirety of Trump's term. That's is crazy. I don't defend the truckers way of protesting. It was wrong and misguided, but to call them white supremacist terrorists is batshit nuts.

Meeting with a trucker is alt right behavior? Who knew? You guys are reaching like a drowning child. This might be the most stupid leap of logic I have ever seen. You are seriously suggesting that every trucker in Ottawa was an alt-right white supremacist terrorist. Honestly...holy **** that's scary.

Please do me a favor and look up the definition of alt right and tell me what policies he has announced he would pursue that would make him classified as one. Oh no...she was a Trump supporter you know before she actually spoke out against him....burn the witch. You guys are comical.

No it most certainly is not no matter how much you jump up and down and say it is. That's just you carrying in US style politics of painting the other party as extreme into this debate. It is absolute nonsense to suggest that the entire CPC party is alt-right. Laughable really....but you keep doing you on this. I don't disagree that Pierre is further to the right than the other candidates, but to suggest he is alt-right is the same as those who call Trudeau a communist. It is a gross exaggeration. I mean really....you think Pierre Pollievre is a white supremacist who wishes to replace democracy with a white nationalist state...or do you just not know what the definition of alt right is?

Never have believed in the alt-right. Not every CPC member, in fact the vast majority of CPC members, do not either. That's just the Liberal way of trying to minimize those who think differently than them and it is kind of gross really. That's US style politics and I thought we were better than that here in Canada. BTW, the CONS haven't had a leader since Harper. They've had guys in the role that were completely out of place being there. Trudeau managed to capitalize to thin minorities against no opposition really. But yeah....he's your man. I never said he wasn't in power, I said he underperformed badly because his popularity is waning. Kind of hard to refute that.

For sure. He has narrowly won the last two elections, and given the state of his opposition, is seriously underperforming. Keep on believing though. If you think that the last two elections is an endorsement of him than you are drinking the Liberal koolaid way too heavily. People plugged their nose and voted for him (and he did lose the popular vote) because no party emerged with any kind of alternative to him. Trudeau will not win another election.

Liberals need to get over the idea that Trudeau bashing doesn't work. The Cons have been in a state of disarray, rife with internal struggle, and rudderless leadership for the past 3-4 years at least....and yet they sit ahead in the popular vote in 2 elections and are pretty much in a tie right now with no leader with no clear direction of policy to speak of all on the strength of Trudeau bashing. A Trudeau led Liberal party gets worse for them, not better. The Trudeau bashing will not stop, nor should it, it's working. What they need to do is build some policy around that. I honestly believe Trudeau is a big liability to his party right now. He is an albatross they need to shake off sooner rather than later or it will eventually cost them.

I am not sure what OPEC will do to be honest, was just throwing it out there as one possibility. All I'm saying is that I would think OPEC is spending billions on carbon capture research, which may very well be the answer in the end, and will try infinitely hard to secure market for the fossil fuels they supply. Cutting production to get higher prices is not a great way to secure any business when you are in competition. A sound business model to keep demand high is essential. What that may look like I'm not sure but I can't imagine it won't involve some kind of incentive to their consumers. Developing nations may be who they target as most have energy needs and big oil would be a cheap short term solution for them. What most of us here in Canada fail to understand is that in many parts of the world there just isn't the hydro capability or potential to replace fossil fuels.

Will they? I'm not so sure at least in the immediate future. When you have super powers like Russia whose economy is dependant on oil I am not so sure. When OPEC is backed into a corner and starts making deals around the globe for cheap oil and natural gas do you think that there will be no takers. I am not that naive. Big oil may be looking like the ugly sister at a Saskatchewan social but there is still more than enough drunks at the party willing to dance with her. Honestly anyone thinking that fossil fuels are going away in the next 30 years on a global scale is dreaming in technicolor. I am certainly not suggesting that gives us permission to pollute and not try to address it as best as we can, however, part of our strategy needs to be as a producer of clean oil to help reduce the impact from countries that will take much longer than us to end their dependancy. Right now we are seeing oil taking it's lumps but anyone thinking the game is over is deluding themselves. As tech pushes demand down big oil will come back swinging to try and keep nations hooked on their product. RIght now demand is still high and big oil has only been minimally impacted, when demand reduces it will be interesting to see what their strategy for survival will be and who will be their dance partners. I think many hoping for a quick transition away from them are going to be very disappointed. Maybe I am just being overly pessimistic....hope that is the case but I know one thing, in most countries there are parties pushing hard for a quick exit from fossil fuels but in almost all these countries there are political parties who are willing to take a more long term phase out and keep the economy chugging along. Most of these countries will see those parties take power....no government lasts forever....and they will undo a lot of what the other government did and the cycle will repeat over and over and that inevitable will slow things down a great deal. We've seen this play out many times the world over in the past 20 years already. Next election there is a strong chance that we see Republicans in power in the US. Anyone thinking that the Libs will hold on forever here are dreaming as well. There is a breaking point as to how much people are willing to sacrifice for the greater good and when that pace overtakes their comfort level it will result in government change. Very few people are willing to suffer greatly economically for the greater good. Sorry to say but that's just reality, and reality is that in order to rapidly change that is what will need to happen. Quality of life is a very motivating factor in many voters decisions. If a government policy begins to adversely affect my quality of life I will vote against that policy, I am not alone in this, I think the reality is that the majority will as well. Governments around the world are very cognizant of this and that is why most climate change policy to date has been empty promises.

Alberta school of politics. He's pandering to the base that wields a lot nomination power. No surprise there. General election he will have to tone it down considerably or get crushed unless, of course, Trudeau is still leader in which case he is playing it right.

Maybe so...but I think people are realistically overestimating the world's ability and want to get off of fossil fuels. The fact of the matter is that here in the West we can grouse about the need for change but realistically that change needs to happen in countries that don't really care to do so. Funny enough I have been grousing about this for around 25-30 years now.

Marcel the monkey will be busy QBing them by game 5.

Kind of kills any legit shot he had at cracking their game day lineup. It will be PR at best for Drew.

Gotta be honest...I couldn't care less who they have to listen to on the radio. At the end of the day it's a Rider game so it's gonna be crap no matter what.

I'll argue for more oil production right now, all day...every day. I believe that thinking us not producing oil is a good thing is kind of naive. The world demand for oil is there and it's not going away any time soon. That's just straight up fact. The environmentalists can act like this is an issue that Canada has any say in but it simply doesn't. What we can control is providing clean oil production from a country that is a reliable world leader in peace and democracy. Tired of this B.S. that us producing oil will diminish the world....just the opposite really. It's time we take some of the business away from the Venezuelans, Russians, and Saudi's who use the money to make the world a dangerous place for all and don't give a fig about global warming and never will. So long as those countries don't care we will never break our dependancy on oil completely. Canada can become a major player by taking a larger segment of the oil industry then moving the world to be green and using a healthy portion of our oil wealth that is created to do so.