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We as a country still have much to do in confronting what was done and is still often being done to first nations people, and other minorities as well. What we are doing different than the US is not pretending that systemic discrimination does not exist, and we are not threatening to kill people to prove that. We are a work in progress, no question, but there are a lot of other places in the world that are way worse.

Guns and nutcases. Lots and lots of both.

Pre injuries his accuracy wasn't an issue. Post injuries he was afraid to go through his reads and throw over 5 yards deep. It's not hard to achieve a high accuracy when you dump off 5 yard passes continually. His last two seasons he struggled greatly to throw to any of our guys in stride. He was placing them in areas that nobody could get them, it was night and day different when Zach was in the game. Guys like Bailey and Lawler were actually seeing balls come to them while in stride, Zach at least gave them a chance to make the play. And for the millionth time... it's not all on LaPolice, watch the games with our awesome o-line... Matt had time in the pocket... he had guys running routes who were open... he simply was no longer comfortable making the throws and would either dump it off to Harris or take the sack. Yes LaPo ran a gameplan that was run heavy, but it wasn't like his passing plays were all 5 yard curls to Harris. The times that I did get to see them live I watched the receivers run the routes and had their hands up trying to get Matt's attention and he just wasn't seeing anyone. I always go back to 2 seasons ago when Strev took over in the 2nd quarter and the offense went from limp to instantly alive because he took two steps back and fired a ball 15 yards down in an area where the receiver could make the play. Nichols pre injuries was a good QB, look up my old post where I showed pre injuries how he had plenty of 250 + yard passing games... post injuries it dropped considerably.

you forgot number 3, massive increases of national debt. these apply in Canada as well. if your goal is take say, 28 billion from the public, and give it to a few people, it has been a success

Nothing. That's their whole bag.

So the Texas Republicans experimented with deregulating energy, saying that competition would drive down costs and make things more efficient - 'cause capitalism rules! Kansas Republicans implemented the wet dream of low low taxes - 'cause capitalism rules! Both "experiments" turned out to be abject failures. What else does the right wing even have beyond promises of low taxes and deregulation?

Extremely undemocratic. And sets a pretty ugly precedent.

The last residential school closed 25 years ago. I know Canadians pretend that this was a long time ago but it wasn't, at all.

Good God... why would you do this? I think Texas has 6.5% of its citizens vaccinated... Seriously... wtf is going through his mind? "Well sheeeeiiit, a collapse of our entire power grid not enough to toughen ya up? Freezing homes with no heat in sub zero temps not putting hair on your chest Boy! Water pipes bursting and destroying all your worldly possessions still not enough to make you a STRONG TEXAN? Then how about a Covid super spike to over run the hospitals and raise our death count? That will make you TEXAN TOUGH!" Seriously... insane...

How can you say Nichols doesn't have accuracy? Otherwise he'd be throwing interceptions all over the place & have a completion percentage well under 50%. Most of it was LaPo's offense. It's all about the routes & decisions Nichols made as to who he threw to. It has nothing to do with accuracy. Nichols career stats are as follows: He has attempted 2,373 passes with 1,582 completions for 18,363 yards & 108 touchdowns. He has a career completion average of 66.7% & has thrown 60 interceptions. Nichols has a career qb rating of 93.2. Those aren't numbers of a player who isn't accurate. Now, he has other deficiencies that come into play but that isn't what you said so therefore not worth mentioning. I'd like you to define accuracy...

Yeah, I guess I asked that rhetorically.

Ted Lasso is fantastic. Probably the most optimistic and pleasant show I've watched in awhile.

Changes coming Friday: https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/?archive=&item=50898 The following changes will go into effect March 5 at 12:01 a.m. and will expire on March 25: • households and gatherings: - households can choose one of the following: continue designating two visitors to their home; or designating a second household so that two households can visit each other, as long as everyone in the house has authorized those designated individuals to visit. - gathering limits at an outdoor public or private place to increase to 10 people including for outdoor non-organized sport or recreation activities; and - places of worship to have increased capacity size of 25 per cent or 100 people, whichever is lower, with physical distancing measures in place and mask requirements. • business, retail and restaurants: - any types of business to be able to operate with the exception of indoor theatres, indoor concert halls, casinos and bingo halls; - retail stores, malls and personal services to have increased capacity limits of up to 50 per cent or 250 people, whichever is lower, with other public health measures still in effect; - restaurants and licensed premises to have increased capacity limits of up to 50 per cent, with the requirement for tables to sit with only household members, and other public health measures still in effect; - businesses other than casinos to resume operating video lottery terminals, with physical distancing measures and barriers in place; and - professional theatre groups, dance companies, symphonies and operas to resume rehearsals that are not accessible to members of the public. • recreation and fitness: - day camps for children to operate at 25 per cent capacity with other public health measures in place; - indoor recreation and sporting facilities such as gyms, fitness centres, rinks, courts, fields, ranges, studios, clubs, pools and centres to open at 25 per cent total capacity, with public health measures in place including for spectators, common areas and locker rooms. The requirement to provide one-on-one instructions has been removed; gym, fitness centre and pool users must continue to wear a mask while working out and in all other areas of the facility, with the exception of while in a swimming pool; dance, theatre and music facilities to open for a total capacity of 25 per cent; - indoor recreational facilities such as arcades, go-kart tracks and children’s facilities to open at 25 per cent capacity with physical distancing measures in place.

I think that the CFL ought to be able to present a credible argument to the g]federal and provincial governments for a one million dollar subsidy per team. The country needs to regain a sense of normalcy as a matter of societal mental health and CFL games would be a big sign that we are recovering. Nine million dollars is really a pittance in government budgets.

They play any more games like they did against the leafs they'd be lucky to get 15%

"outside of Quebec everyone is friendly to all races and cultures..." Indigenous Canadians: "HA!"

what you get when you bow to big business and ignore all else. "Texas has been a laboratory for Republicans to test their ideas of governance and leadership — and they failed miserably to protect Texans from catastrophe. In 1999, when then-Gov. George W. Bush signed into law an energy deregulation bill pushed by his largest corporate backer, Enron, they promised cheap, reliable energy. It turns out that Texans received neither — as recent weeks have demonstrated, without investments in excess capacity and winterization, the energy supply was not reliable. It also turns out that, according to a Wall Street Journal study, it wasn't cheap either. Since the implementation of deregulation, Texans have paid $28 billion more for energy than if they had bought it from traditional utilities. " salon

I hate these kinds of games. Just such a waste of time.

With Zach Collaros im expecting Wolitarsky to put up much better numbers. I don't think that Nichols had the accuracy to really take advantage of the mismatches that Drew presents out on the boundary.

For some reason they won't move Wolitarski inside which makes no sense at all.

i can't control myself

He would make a pretty good slotback.. I want us to have a gamebreaking slotback again.

https://www.chrisd.ca/2021/03/01/covid-19-manitoba-people-colour-race-affected/ Interesting article. Manitoba has released a report showing COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Indigenous, Black and other people of colour in the province. “This is systemic and it is seen in every jurisdiction,” Dr. Brent Roussin, chief provincial public health officer, said Monday. Roussin said the province’s race and ethnicity data show a similar pattern to information in other jurisdictions in Canada and around the world. He said it’s not about people in communities making bad choices. COVID-19 infections are largely linked to pre-existing inequities, including in housing and employment. “We know people in (Black, Indigenous and people of colour) communities are more likely to live in lower income neighbourhoods, live in overcrowded and multi-generational households,” Roussin said. “They are also more likely to have low-wage occupations.” Considering that most of the deaths are in care homes - I have to wonder how many low income people actually live in care homes?

I feel like we have said this for every qb we have had the last few times Lapo has been here. Maybe, just maybe that's a huge thing in the Lapolice offense. I mean Drew Willy became dump off man, Matt Nichols did it. Streveler started out throwing all over the place and became run or dump it off guy... Maybe that's just want Lapo does to his quarterbacks? The more time they play the more they dump off. The issue with Nichols is that he is not as accurate on the deep ball as some guys. He took his shots because a lapolice offense will always try and hit some big plays. Collaros has a much more accurate arm than Nichols on the deep shots, however I felt that Collaros wasn't as accurate throwing the shorter stuff to Harris as Nichols was. It's the CFL, there is no perfect quarterback in this league. Just find a guy that works with what you are doing and for a lot of years Nichols worked, except for his injuries.

I think this season will determine his fate, no more scapegoats and excuses to use if they don't make a play off run.

I wonder what it's going to take for Maurice to get fired at this point. The Jets are winning. I'm not advocating for Maurice's dismissal, just pointing out that the Winnipeg brass appears quite content to keep Maurice especially since we are winning only only 1 pt out of second place. The defence pairings will stay the same as long as the starters are healthy and we're in the playoff hunt.

Same methodology employed on massive tax cuts, it seems...

A real bad faith move by gov't.

maybe hydrogen. also fast charging. but battery tech is changing quite fast. There is a short haul airline in BC that is swithcing the fleet to electric. one in service now, and it saves money over ice, which is the main reason for the change.

Think Harkins is hurt cuz if not and he's sitting so Lewis and Thompson can play.. why. Harkins Scheif Wheeler looked good when used together. Not playing Harkins if he's not hurt is just dumb.

Back to back the 2nd in a 3 in 4 days set up here. Bro should play... Not knocking Helle.. he's our mvp. B2B tho.. play Bro. Thompson or and Lewis should be out... Put in VESA. Take out Beaulieu... He's our worst D man and get Stanley back in. Morrissey Demelo Niku Pionk Forbort Stanley. Don't think 2 30 plus yr olds playing top line minutes vs the other teams younger faster players is optimal either so yeah... Stastny is a Center.. keep him at center.. We have the talent to actually run 3 scoring lines and a checking line but also the talent to have play drivers on each line. Scheif Dubois Stastny Lowry should be the centers. Line 1 to 4 is irrelevant... I mean recently Maurice said Thompson is in for his pk ability but has yet to have 60 seconds or more of pk a game.. these guys playing 3 4 minutes a night? What's the point when you can roll 4 lines. Thompson Lewis Perreault to an extent.. maybe Wheeler even..they need a game off every now and then. This is the year to do it. Taxi Squad? WTF is the point if you don't use it. Back to back 2nd of 3 in 4 nights... Change it up.

Not really. There are terrible teams in each division.

It's more the offense we run. We throw the ball to the slots more than the wideouts. Put Woli inside he has the potential to be a legit thousand yard receiver. He deserves better than 2 catches for 17 yards kind of game we've seen.

FWIW through the first 20 games 2020/21 13-6-1 = 27pts 2019/20 11-8-1 = 23pts 2018/19 12-6-2 = 26pts 2017/18 12-5-3 = 27pts

well there's no denying the fact this game was godawful

Obviously not a stellar game, but Niku has looked really good again tonight. Smooth skater, making smart plays and he’s dangerous offensively.

aw hell no https://fb.watch/3ZpcbhC1cj/ I wish facebook posts would show up again but Bachelor in Paradise is coming to Canada

Ol, especially tackle has become a position of much more athletic demand. Weve come a long way from the era when matt sheridan was a stalwart at guard to a time when geoff gray is the new standard. That or larry allen esq freak athletes. The NI pipeline is almost always behind the us. And that means the difference between what you find at ni T and imp T is lofty. Mean while we have also seen a great increase in ratio breakers. Its still hard to attract the most athletic big kids to playing line, but only more so up here. So we've gone from good teams striving to start 4 or 5 ni ol, 1 wr and 1 dl as pretty standard to teams starting 3 or even 2 NI ol with a mix of other positions. Idk if we will see the number of NI Ts every rise back up to what it used to be.

How do we keep giving up these lame duck goals. Constantly playing from behind cannot be a successful plan. Cuz the refs need to ease on the whistles. And of course the bs call on Pionk leads to another goal against. 3-0 .

What's with the hit on Scheifele not being called?

Let’s just stop replying to his posts. It’s obviously complete horsecrap.

I've only ever seen a handful of Big Bang Theory episodes. Way too sitcom-y for me. The laugh track is out of control. I'd highly recommend you watch a few episodes of Arrested Development. That, along with Seinfeld & 30 Rock, are my three favourite sitcoms ever.

Don't you think Drew Wolitarski would make a great slot rather than a wideout? He seems wasted out there.

It was bonus for them last night. They had MTL playing a MTL-like team.

I thought this, BEFORE they signed Bear woods lol. I mean they could be really dangerous if the CFL only plays 9 games. Any more than that and their 6 game is gonna be full!!!!

I won't be surprised if there are some big name vets cut before the season by TO.