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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/robert-reich-saving-capitalism-tpp-1.3256940 "Contrary to the conventional view of an American economy bubbling with innovative small companies, the reality is quite different," Reich writes. And although we are only beginning to understand the details — mostly because the Trans-Pacific Partnership was negotiated away from the prying eyes of voters — one of the main criticisms of international trade deals like the TPP is that the main beneficiaries are large corporations, not ordinary citizens. "Negotiators worked overtime on terms to please multinational corporations — under close consultation with those same corporations. But there was no consultation with labour or civil society groups," says a release from the Trade Justice Network, a group that opposes the deal. Rigged gameIn left-leaning circles, the conventional view is that creating equality requires redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Reich says the real problem is something he calls "pre-distribution." By lobbying for laws such as those that make life-saving pharmaceuticals expensive and technological patents unbreakable, large corporations and their teams of lawyers rig the game in their favour long before the issue of redistribution arises. Drug companies are rewarded not for inventing drugs but for extending the exclusivity of existing drugs. (The TPP does exactly that.) Companies like Google, Amazon and Apple capture the value of patents and then are rewarded for "strategic litigation" to prevent anyone else from using them. Because these advantages are constructed into the very fabric of the government and its rules, advocates of the "free market" fail to realize the winners have already been selected by the process of pre-distribution. "The idea of a free market separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed,"

Why would Miller do that? His greatest concern is putting bums in seats and generating more revenue and that can only be achieved through more wins. MB and winning are not compatible ingredients.

Thanks a lot, I just caught dyslexia from reading your post!

If you want to review Walkers skills re-watch the Bombers first game against the RB's last season. No doubt that he had the physical talent at that time but as we have seen until recently with Stoudermire sometimes these guys forget how to use it.

The way the O is cycling through receivers and RB's without giving them much of a chance to show their stuff does not inspire confidence. I smell desperation on the wind.

The winners and losers have little to do with the individual countries involved. The TPP like all other free trade agreements before it mainly opens the door to unfettered market access for multi-national corporations. The Mom and Pop dairy farm (which we like) will become a thing of the past for the most part only to be replaced by industrial scale dairy ops (which we hate). Betsy can kiss the sun goodbye for evermore but I for one, can hardly wait to save $2.00 on that swell Chinese ice cream! Unfortunately common sense will never trump the dollar.

Mike is finally cranking it up to 11....and just in time.

Chevon's one and only interview was pretty riveting.

Can't believe Pfeffer is sitting on their PR or that the Argos actually cut him, especially since Waters has re-injured himself. He looked very good earlier in the year. On checking the RB roster Pfeffer is listed on the 6 game IR.

Those are the kinds of trades that appealed to Brendan Taman, which eventually cost him his job.

Lirim might be having a problem with the visualization part of his game.

I think the Bombers have a very good chance of beating BC next weekend. BC put a beat down on the very worst D in the entire league last week, which coincidentally is also how the Bombers earned two of their 4 victories this year. This weekend BC will start a rookie QB against a D that has been steadily improving every game to the point that they are now respectable. If Nichols can continue on the trajectory from his last half performance I can see the Bombers actually winning comfortably.

Even if Castillo was bad I would expect him to hit at least 50% of his F.G.'s. Nothing to lose giving him a shot and whatever is ailing Lirim has been ailing him all season but has become terminal lately. Not something that can be turned on and off like a light-switch.

If they can afford to dress both Lirim and Castillo for the next game I think that would be a wise decision.

How could anybody have an opinion about the TPP when no details of the negotiations have been released? Anyway, I think the details of this agreement could be the tipping point of this election that breaks up the logjam.

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I honestly no longer care about this issue. why should I? Americans think it's fine. so, let them carry on killing each other. saw an amazing stat yesterday about the number of children killed by guns that their parents can't be bothered to lock up properly. In the USA. two days ago USA bombed a doctors without borders hospital in afghanistan and burned a bunch of people to death. They've been bombing that country since October 2001. No kidding, and people wonder why there are so many refugees fleeing countries that are being bombed. Without ground forces and intelligence, bombing is completely unguided and the victims are of no consequence. I'm ashamed that Canada is participating in this activity.

According to the Washington Post in 2015 there have been 294 mass shootings in 274 days in the US 41 of those being school shoot-ups. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead/

Hence, the 3 minutes of dead air time. Or Rod Black analyzing the play...whichever you prefer. I'll take the dead air time, thank you. Still hoping that one day soon Duane Forde snaps and we get to listen to him strangling Rod Black live on air.

Maybe it's just my perspective but I noticed last night that TSN was not providing a lot of replays of penalty calls. The PI in the endzone that put the Esks. on the one was not re-shown and a number of the blocking violations that were flagged on Stoudermire's returns were not spot-lighted either. Maybe TSN has decided to play down the poor officiating that is par for the course in the CFL and try to focus more on the positives.

Like I said how come it's okay to rip on Brohm but not Liram? Seriously! Iso...you may be old but you're no idiot. Brohm has done nothing to prove himself in this league. Lirim has shown he can be a CFL calibre kicker. There's the difference and you know it. No difference, huh? Quit making excuses for the guy. He gets paid to kick field goals & he's not doing a very good job. There's certainly a double standard here shown by some fans. Brohm is an import QB, I'm no expert but I've heard of a place where those guys are literally falling out of the trees. Lirim is a talented National, a much rarer commodity and much, much harder to replace.

First year he's just happy to be paid to kick footballs and be a part of a team. Off-season his agent tells him not to re-up as the sky is the limit and he sets his sights on the NFL. With added pressure to be perfect in order to achieve his goals the relaxed demeanor is now gone and the guilt of failing his teammates just adds to the weight. If Walters is smart he re-ups Lirim in the next few weeks and sends him to a sports psychologist in the off-season. We all know he has the physical talent to have a long and successful football career, he just has to learn to relax his sphincter muscles a bit and accept the here and now and not worry about the future.

BC looked like they found their groove tonight with Jennings at QB but of course that was against Sask.

The O definitely looked better in the second half and Nichols was using a lot of play action to avoid the rush. I wonder if Nichols is actually helping MB to revise his playbook as he is the first vet QB Marcel has worked with in a long while and it is in the interest of both to try and keep him alive. The way Nichols was limping around out there I don't think we've seen the last of BB.

Some fella named Palardy did the same for the Argos a couple of weeks ago and he had been stone cold for almost 2 years.