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Covid has really shone a light on how ignorant and selfish a lot of people can be.

Oof.

Ignored

Find I am out more especially during the weekend where during the season I would rather stay in and watch football.

Just having something that means that much to me, to look forward to each week.....it's taken a huge emotional toll on me. Having hockey back is cool and all, but even if the Jets and Oilers were still alive, it doesn't mean as much to me as CFL does. Not even close.

C'mon Noeller get with the program. You've now hit 40. You are now in the second & last phase of your lonnnng life. What you do with yourself from now on counts for nothing because there are less sunsets in your future. This is a world for young people. You should be willing to sacrifice your life for theirs so they can have jobs & work. You should be doing it gladly... That seems to be the message from Pallister, Kenney, DeSantis in Florida & Trump. All of which who will use their influence to save their lives while sacrificing others if they get sick.

If people don't go to jail over what this administration has done and is attempting to do then I hope America burns.

Karma's a *****, ain't it. It's almost as if playing like a dirtbag puts a target on your back.

I'll make the popcorn

Whenever I see pictures of the countries who have mostly worn masks in the past, they also have worn them outside, and it reminds me that they’re the countries that seemed to have handled this crisis the best. Once you’ve made that decision, it’s a piece of cake..just don’t try to eat it. My take is wear them whenever you are headed into a crowd or public place or...protesting? and the like. Going for a somewhat isolated stroll? Nah. It’s leadership they’re providing, and we haven’t seen that in this present administration.

IN THE ROUGHDonald Trump has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his struggling Scottish golf clubs. Lawmakers in Edinburgh want to know where that cash came from....the self-proclaimed “king of debt” typically takes out large loans to finance the ventures he does bankroll. In this case, Trump’s company proceeded with the development on its own. And it says it paid for everything in cash.Such was also the case for Turnberry, the historic golf resort, an hour south of Glasgow, that Trump purchased in 2014 for $60 million.....Like other Trump wagers, his Scottish gamble has so far not worked out. Both resorts are bleeding millions annually. ....If business was lackluster before, it’s dismal now that the coronavirus pandemic has all but halted the Scottish golf season, at least as far as international travelers are concerned.Recently, a new—and perhaps bigger—threat to Trump has emerged in Scotland. Scottish lawmakers are pushing to peer into Trump’s finances using an anti-money-laundering statute typically employed against kleptocrats, oligarchs, and crime kingpins. Their question: Where did the hundreds of millions Trump poured into his Scottish courses actually come from?...This February, a group of Scottish Parliament members began making the case that Scotland should use an investigative tool under UK law called an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) to scrutinize Trump’s transactions. It can’t be wielded against just anyone; it’s designed to make inquiries into the finances of “politically exposed persons” suspected of money laundering. https://apple.news/Aoh9xLB1iSGW4-KvrwD38dg 👁‍🗨And he still hates windmills. Perhaps this is why Trump was so inconvenienced in the New Year to deal with something petty like a pandemic. This article has everything ...Trump suing and losing, fake Scottish crests from Trump, windmills and broken promises...

Can you imagine trusting something like ballots to a for profit 3rd party?

H: The guy at work who goes to strip clubs gave me Covid, dear. W: You've been working from home for five months.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-strip-club-employee-may-have-exposed-more-than-500-people-to-covid-19-1.5064310 Imagine testing positive and having to tell the wife where you got it.

Most of the Interlake - Eastern cases are travel related as well.

You’re gone for two days JCon... 😁

I believe thats what he meant by saying he got time off

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Southern Health was a man who went to (ahem) Alberta and brought it back. I want the border closed not only to keep the riffraff out but to mandate 14 day isolation. I don't care if it's Manitoban's bringing it back or travellers from other provinces, I would like to see self-isolation mandated again.

A glimmer of hope? Njoo positive about talks with CFL but cannot provide timeline for decision TORONTO — Canada's Deputy Chief Public Health Officer remains encouraged about the CFL's health-and-safety protocols but can't say when approval for a shortened season might come. Full story - https://www.tsn.ca/dr-howard-njoo-positive-about-talks-with-cfl-but-cannot-provide-timeline-for-decision-1.1509221

It's almost like it's a group of people all working together for a common goal. For lack of a better term, let's call them a "team".

I guess that is a credit to Walters , O’Shea and the coaching staff....as well as the Equipment and Medical Staff. The individuals who are in constant daily contact with the players. Thanks to them for all they have done.

She's been working in QC since April. Surely, she could have worked from home to two more weeks. Way to tell you staff, I don't care about you or your families.

Time to close the border. It's an easy thing to do since they are incapable of coming up with any sort of plan.

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-betelgeuse-mysterious-dimming-due.html

Here is a great run down of what the USPS crackdown is all about...

Well no Canuck team will win. It's Bettman's law.

I'm not going to bet on either scenario (Play vs Not Play) until it's 100% official. I'll never bet against Wade Miller... that said, if they can financially survive without playing games in 2020, then I think that might be for the best. Just spend all your time focusing on how to make 100% sure that 2021 goes ahead as "normal". Give us something to look forward to.

right now, the only interest I have is in seeing Calgary and Vancouver lose as quickly and painfully as possible....

He was proven wrong

If anyone is still under the delusion that there will be a CFL season, this should dispel that. It's only the community based teams that really want it. The league and PA don't even have an agreement and it's mid-August.

Is he sludge or slime?

Of course they are, the King and Queen don't have time to vote in person, you peasants go stand in line and vote

The reporter after the one who asked about Trump lying should of asked him the same question, and the one after him and the one after him till you would of seen Trump's fat face turn red and he waddled from the podium

If I could, I would shake that guy’s hand.

Yeah, this “off season” is totally off.

They have staggered lunch breaks and social distancing is enforced. They also have dividers setup too so close contact with others during their breaks is limited as much as possible. Masks are worn at all other times and you get your temp taken before you can even enter the plant. Anyone with symptoms gets sent home or isn't allowed to come to work until they get tested. Up to this point no covid cases can be traced to someone actually catching it at Maple Leaf. But with 2000+/- employees there was always going to be a chance there would be outbreaks outside of work. Outbreaks from people carpooling to work, working part time jobs together at places that don't enforce distancing and mask wearing, having backyard parties over the long weekend and then testing positive a week later, flying back from Montreal and hanging out with friends instead of self isolating, etc. Can't speak for other parts of the province but we got pretty complacent here in Westman. Now we're paying for it.

I have an uncle in ICU, and my aunt or any other family can't even visit. I think anyone still not taking Covid seriously - should be required to explain their actions to people who have been impacted like that.

With Cargill, it didn't happen till they had over 100 cases. And that was with beef cattle, that can just be left on pasture. There will be thousands of hogs euthanized if (when) Maple Leaf shuts down. We used to have dozens of slaughter houses in Manitoba, with employees who were well compensated, but I guess the current model is more progressive. /sarcasm

Finally, somebody does something..

Speed, your argument in defence of Miller seems to be a bit of a moving target, so let's get back to your original point that people disagree with. You think Miller will be less hostile than Ambrosie in player negotiations. The counter-point is that he won't be because his personality is one of "my way or the highway". You then shift and say if he was hard to work for, people would have quit on him. That misses the point. In CBA negotiations, the players and their association are not working for him, they are working with him at best, or negotiating against him if spun in a more negative way. You then agree that he is a hard ass and control freak, which is what people were saying in the first place, but your argument shifts from "he'd be a better commish because he is less confrontational" to "his confrontational style worked for the Bombers because they won", which is another topic altogether. So if you think that style will work, OK, but that was not your point. You just want another reason to slag on Ambrosie IMO and use Miller as a better alternative (he may be) but your reasoning that he will be more conciliatory in negotiations seems way off if you want to make that the key point of your argument that he will be better.

Anyone who does the math has to know that the league is not going ahead this year, and that has been the case for weeks. Let's say that the CFL magically resolved its issues today and announced tomorrow a full plan to start up, and that plan actually was set in motion tomorrow as well. Players would need to come up from the USA, so getting flights would take some time, but let's be nice and say that gets done by Friday, August 14. They all arrive in Winnipeg and are put into the mandatory 14 day quarantine, which gets us to August 28. They also need to go through multiple COVID tests during that time. As a matter of comparison, the NFL is spending $75 million on COVID testing alone as part of their new season. so let's charitably say that 1/4 of the teams means 1/4 of the cost, so $19 million for testing alone. Then assuming no foul-ups or delays because of positive tests, and physicals take place and we are into the start of training camp and two-a-days by Monday or Tuesday. So start of September. Minimum time frame for that is 2 weeks, and 2 pre-season games will be needed because with 9 teams, you can't just have one because of imbalance. So now we are likely at the start of October for the start of the season. To play a 6 game schedule will take minimum 7 weeks of actual time given the required byes, so regular season ends November 17 and Grey Cup goes December 8. So if we start tomorrow with this process, we are already into December and we are definitely NOT starting tomorrow, and we are NOT starting the moment the plan gets announced, so best case scenario I say we are talking about a Christmas Grey Cup. That is just the calendar issue. Aside from the COVID testing, there is massive hotel and meal expenditures for the league to pick up for 9 teams, and this is a league that relies more than most others on gate revenue and not just predominantly TV money like the big 4, and not matter how the plan goes ahead there will be zero fans this year based on precedent from all other sports, and I don't see that changing by December. The real question here is the dreaded one - does the CFL come back at all? One year off actually saves them more money then trying to squeeze in a COVID cost-prohibitive season, but the teams are still taking a bath. And when the Roughriders are losing money last year in a normal year, and are considered one of the strongest franchises out there financially, then it is time to consider overhauling the entire business model or scrapping the league in its current form, sorry to say.