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Encouraging...

Eskimos, when the team was named, wasn't seen as derogatory or racist. That's the modern spin. I mean...if we've learned anything, it's that in the early to mid 1900's there was very little racism. I'm sure when the stamps called Edmonton that it was very respectful lol.

C’mon..

I think it is important to distinguish between those who live in close quarters and are not deliberately exposing themselves to the risk of infection and those who do. The second group deserve the name "Covidiots".

Netflix Exposes Trump’s Shady Mob Ties in ‘Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia’ In the 1970s and 1980s, New York City was controlled by five major mob outfits—the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese families—that not only ran the region’s various illegal rackets, but also effectively operated the billion-dollar construction industry that was transforming the metropolitan landscape. Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia is the true story of the law enforcement and prosecutorial efforts to take down those kingpins, which played out in a manner eerily reminiscent of The Wire. And unsurprisingly, at least for those who lived in or around the five boroughs during that era, it’s a tale of crime and vice that invariably involves Donald Trump. The current commander-in-chief factors into the final episode of director Sam Hobkinson’s three-part Netflix miniseries (debuting July 22), since his Fifth Avenue Trump Tower was one of countless projects the mafia had a hand in completing. “So I told him that there’s jobs in here that did count, like Trump. Nineteen million,” says a gangster on a federal wiretap recording, thereby directly linking the future president to the shady mobsters who governed New York’s concrete and cement unions (and businesses). These crooks regulated which of eight chosen firms would get contracts and, in the process, kickback points from the gigs to their criminal superiors. As Fear City makes clear in just a few short minutes, anyone like Trump, who was knee-deep in the real estate scene, was invariably a bedfellow (either directly or indirectly) with the mafia.

Shout-out to all the other savers that paid off their house and are fiscally responsible millennials!... In all seriousness though that would be catastrophic.

Still say the delay is CFL trying to push for an ‘eastern hub’ that is not Winnipeg... Winnipeg and sask were obvious choices from day one

Wait... American players don't regularly use forward foreign exchange contracts to hedge and minimize their risk to match their risk appetite? Reckless... simply reckless....

FINALLY, A GLIMPSE OF SANITY IN THE GOP: Lincoln Project co-founder details how the conservative group will deal with Trump-enabling Republicans after the president is ousted In an interview with the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, one of the founders of the Never-Trumper Lincoln Project said he is personally seeking “atonement” for some of the Republicans he once helped into office, and that the group is making plans to eliminate all traces of Trumpism once the president is gone. Lumped in with those “traces” are the GOP lawmakers who have enabled the president. According to John Weaver — who admitted that he helped get former GOP Senator Jeff sessions elected — the group has no plans to disband should Trump go down to defeat in November. With Sargent writing, “The Lincoln Project’s declared mission is ‘defeating Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.’ That includes a pledge to elect Democrats over Republicans who, like Trump, do not ‘support the Constitution,’ he went on to point out that the group has been notable for the inclusion of Kellyanne Conway’s husband George, and longtime GOP strategist Rick Wilson known for his hard-hitting attacks on Democrats. Asked whether “the Lincoln Project is breaking permanently with the GOP embrace of voter suppression, gerrymandering and other anti-democratic tactics,” Weaver said absolutely, adding they are commited to ensuring the “drive-by Jim Crowism in many parts of the country is put to an end.” Asked about his work for Sessions, Weaver replied, “I have my own atonement to do every day about that. Did I contribute to putting a brick in the road to where we are today? Yeah, I did.” The political strategist pointed out that the group plans to release get-out-the-vote ads to go with the blunt-talking ads they have already aimed at Trump and GOP senators like Lindsey Graham (SC) and Susan Collins of Maine. Which brought up what the group plans to do after the election. Pressed whether the Lincoln Project will run “ads attacking President Biden for raising taxes on oil companies in early 2021,” Weaver said ‘no.’ “We’re not gonna do that,” he explained. ““He [Biden] will have a mandate to clean up the mess that Trump has created with the help of his enablers. That shouldn’t be held up. We intend to do all we can to make sure that doesn’t happen.” “Indeed, in Weaver’s telling, binding the ‘wounds’ of Trump, as the group’s mission puts it, includes working against Republicans who try to prevent Biden from addressing our deep crises, particularly among Trumpist Republicans such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) who use this to position themselves for 2024,” Sargent wrote, adding that Weaver told him, "We will not stand on the sidelines if an attempt to bind the wounds is held up. We plan on participating in that debate.”

I don't think you are a racist, most people here don't either- but you could be a bit more "tuned-in" as your First Nations, Black and White post showed. I think we can all agree that being a little more informed is never a bad thing. What's wrong with righting a wrong and making reparations when one is in a position of privilege and has the means to do so? Many of the privileges we have are because we inherited them from the wrongdoings from the past. Rail roads, land, slavery- all of it to build this society and the comforts you and I enjoy... so why not make amends? There's a reason why it's "Catch a tiger by the toe" and not it's original verse... They call them licorice babies now for a very good reason... The game is called telephone now and none says "Not a Ch......n's chance " anymore. First Nations... well there is still a ton of things that need to be done there. We progress and correct things as we go- as it should be, I don't see this as any different- evolve.

Sweet. Just two weeks ago I was a trump redneck who only cared about the economy... now I’m a social justice deadbeat...

It was easier back then the real life Eskimos had numbers too just like the football team - racism didn’t even exist... until the hippies invented it

Is old merch really selling at a loss? I've had friends in the clothing industry and for clothing its really only a few dollars for each article of clothing. The mark up is insane.

You know, maybe if a single player still living at home having just graduated & has no income coming in & would play for food & a roof over his head even in pandemic. But if a player is married at 26 or 27 with a couple of young kids they have financial comittments like all of us do. They all have jobs at that age as well as responsibilities. Why would they leave their jobs for a pay cut? If I was one of those guys, I'd never play. Not for the money the CFL has offered.

Imagine that, Desantis falsifying figures!

I guess he can’t handle both..

The question no one wants to address. What if the pandemic is still going strong in 2021 & there's no vaccine? Pro sports along with vast sectors of our economy will be devastated.

We got your point that the CFL is shitty and doomed the first fifteen times you posted it...

Funeral no but.... I believe - and Mark H will confirm or deny - that the guy who brought the infection back went to help looking for the girls and got the covid from people who later went to the funeral. Six of one half dozen of the other.

He allowed Marcus Crandall to have five steamboats for the entire 2001 grey cup...

Winnipeg would be the best choice as a Hub City. Great facilities, lots of hotels, low Covid rates.

There is no direct link between that large funeral and the cases in Manitoba.

also he was a Rider.....so double that.

More specifically, is it related to a funeral in AB? ....As opposed to just "generally travelling to Alberta" for social reasons...

Armed ‘Volunteers’ Defend White Supremacy in Charlottesville The TV cameras left but the white supremacists dug in, with law enforcement’s tacit approval, to “defend” the same Confederate statues that inspired the Unite the Right rally. In the pre-dawn hours of Monday, July 13, an anti-racist activist in Charlottesville, Virginia, awoke to find that someone, in the dark of night, had planted a flaming tiki torch on their front lawn. About half an hour later, another local anti-racist organizer would discover a blazing tiki-torch had also been placed, in his words, “very carefully and deliberately next to my mailbox.” Later in the day, another tiki-torch was found—this one unlit and abandoned by the side of a road, along with a bottle of a fuel, near the home of a third activist. The message was clear. “Tiki torches are irrevocably linked to August 11th and 12th,” one of the targeted activists told me, referring to the mob of neo-Nazis and Trumpists who descended on Charlottesville in 2017. “And so for us here, it's impossible to see this as anything other than intimidation, and I would say you'd have to be incredibly naive not to think of it as a threat of violence… It's clearly an effort to get myself and others to stop the work we do and to frighten us.” Three years after the Unite the Right rally, the national spotlight has moved on from Charlottesville but the white nationalists have not. Instead, openly armed “volunteers” are now posting themselves in public parks—making those parks feel much less safe, or public, to many—to protect monuments to racism. https://www.thedailybeast.com/armed-volunteers-defend-white-supremacy-in-charlottesville?ref=home

And **** the stamps. Like seriously to hell with the lot of em!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwji8a_MpdzqAhWxLn0KHXOjAl0QFjAAegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fd3ham790trbkqy.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2019%2F05%2F2018-Annual-Report-FINAL.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2voazgzshYcL_LztpFSPmV For anyone else who is interested - above are the public audited financial statements (2018) for Edmonton's team, keep in mind they hosted the Grey Cup that year, so there's a boatload more revenue in 2018 because of that. EVEN THEN though - their financials indicate cash on-hand hovers above $8 million, and that's not even including their investments. They show positive operating cash flows, and not only that, they have a rainy day fund of $12M ("stabilization fund") that could be drawn upon for dire situations .... like a pandemic. Of course, 2019 was a decent year on the field for Edmonton, they made the Eastern Final despite a losing record... there were certainly other teams (Toronto, Ottawa) that did a lot worse. Assuming the $1M estimate to rebrand is correct, the question isn't if they have the cash to rebrand, it is if they want to.

On a similar vein I saw the new Bombers plate and I thought "That's not royal blue! Where's the gold trim?" Fandom fail.

you criticize a guy for one argument and the use your one argument to disprove it... Also you are taking this over rated comment too seriously and imagining it to be something it's not. If Damon Allen really was this elite qb why were teams always looking to move on from him and upgrade? Seriously he was good but not great for a long long time. He did have playoff success which is a huge feather in his cap, but it doesn't make him one of the greatest. You act like the multiple team thing is a mark in his favour but all it does is prove the point that he was over rated.

Not in my court

NYTimes investigation finds Trump administration was desperate to shift blame for a crisis of its own creation Conducting over two dozen interviews with senior administration and public health officials, and consulting a cache of previously unavailable documents, the New York Times has uncovered what now seems obvious to everyone except perhaps Trump’s dwindling and ignorant base of supporters: the Trump administration deliberately sought to shift blame for its botched handling of the Covid-19 pandemic to the states, in what the Times authors aptly characterize as a “catastrophic policy blunder” and “one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in generations.” A team in the White House led by President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, met daily on the crisis, but the ultimate goal was shifting responsibility. “They referred to this as ‘state authority handoff,’ and it was at once a catastrophic policy blunder and an attempt to escape blame for a crisis that had engulfed the country — perhaps one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in generations,” write Michael D. Shear, Noah Weiland, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and David E. Sanger. Other than Trump himself, two of the officials taking a lead role in causing this catastrophe, according to the Times, were Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House Coronavirus Task Force leader Deborah Birx. Birx’s role in delivering deliberately upbeat information to Trump (in the face of dire negative news directly to the contrary) played a major role in Trump’s decision-making, according to the Times, which refers to her as the “chief evangelist” portraying the threat from the virus as “fading.” (The Times article in fact contains an entire, devastating segment explicating Birx’s influence on the policy; she declined to be interviewed for the article). https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/nytimes-investigation-finds-trump-administration-was-desperate-to-shift-blame-for-a-crisis-of-its-own-creation/

https://time.com/5868678/corpus-christi-babies-coronavirus/ I sure am glad that we're keeping the border closed.

This helps explain it all Lucy...

Ladies and Gentlemen the POTUS, just so sad what the people of the United States elected.

I am curious about those freedom and liberty voters and libertarians who support trump and how they feel about this:

I agree.....1/3 of your salary...minus 26% exchange rate.....no guarantee you don’t get cut before the 6 game season is completed. No guarantee you don’t catch the virus. It seems some people seem to consider players simply as a commodity easily replaced and disposable. Perhaps people need to place themselves in the situation, given the circumstances and maybe their perspective might change.

The Oregon Attorney General:

Ouch... this pretty cringe worthy...

Yep. He said it.

Empire is also this guy...