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Unfortunately, we even see huge disparities in our public schools in Manitoba. More wealthy areas generally have better schools that have less resources required for a range of issues associated with poverty. Wealthier areas also have much higher involvement and support of families which can help schools. One of the reasons I was against bill 64 was because it would increase the disparity between 'have' and 'have-not' schools in the public system.

Being a father & witnessing the birth of my 2 sons.

CFL's Flagship Franchise does it again

And with the exception of places like Thompson and Flin Flon, it just gets worse as you go further north I was also against Bill 64. And, I do not want to see anything of that ilk implemented, until we actually have a competent government

This should either be only about the bombers or moved to the general discussion.

Who was a better receiver, Joe Popawski, Jeff Boyd, Perry Tuttle or James Murphy? I'd say that Joe Pop was probably the #4 receiver in that group. Probably the slowest & maybe even had the worst hands although that could be argued as he made many, many incredible clutch & sure handed grabs as did the others. And yet, Joe Pop reached a thousand yards receiving or was pretty damned close every year he played. It didn't matter if he was #1 or #4. he produced because he was given the chance, something Wolitarsky has not been allowed to do.

Helle probably tired of the **** this year. He's overplayed. Samberg should be playing too. Maybe Ville also. Kovacevic.

Winning Time is one of my favourite shows to come out in a long time. I agree John C Reilly is so good. Jason Segal and Adrian Brody are also very good.

Have you forgotten assault rifles and automatic weapons? Any firearm designed to kill people ought to be banned.

I didn't shovel my driveway yesterday and, sure enough, Mother Nature took care of it.

Which is why the CBA will likely change this.

But, then we're going to lose Hansen and there was no point in developing him. We can get better players down south and just churn them. The roster spot was to develop the player but also develop a global market for the game. So, the league will lose the best Global it has.

Are you sure that's not a picture of an Argo home opener?

Definitely please move to the Gen Forum, and start a "Favourite Bombers Moment You Saw Live" thread here...

Not a ton of options today, but let's go with a local boy, Tommy Miles!!

Woof to that list....

Yeah he was my coach and g.m for a yr of junior hockey actually...he always said I suited grass more than ice haha

Mother nature can take a sharp stick and........you know the rest.

Nice to see those Manitoba licenses coming back in to play.

2019 GC at McMahon.... Nothing in my life will ever top it.

Limit it to sports but here is my list. 1. Milt Stegall 4 for 4 Thanksgiving Game 2. Adrian Peterson breaking single game rushing record (same game longest ever kick returned happened to Antonio Cromartie) 3. Nelson Emerson throwing a puck into the net in overtime against Blackhawks ref counts the goal as a good goal. 4. Milt Breaking all time TD record 5. 1999 World Junior Gold Medal game Loungo stood on his head the whole game. 6. Just getting to see the 2005 World Junior team live might be the best ever Junior team

You're underestimating it, a lot. Woli settles for a role but has shown and produced at a much higher level. Lawler was the no3 option going into last year. 2nd year woli was as good or better than 1st year lawler, 2nd year bailey, and 95% of nic demski's career. You just don't grasp the nature of the position and role he plays.

I taught in Frontier for years and know many teachers around the division and at reserve-managed schools in the North. The differences in education are staggering and the gap has continued to grow, especially since Covid. There are students who have missed out on two whole years of education and attendance rates of 10% class-wide(not always the case, but I know places where it happens regularly). It is shocking the difference between Northern MB and Southern MB. I can't imagine students who have gone two years without education will suddenly have great attendance rates in future years. It is saddening and there is little knowledge or willingness to do anything about it by anyone in Southern MB.

I don't know why he couldn't be "better" than demski... totally different kind of receiver and demski fits what they like to do so well, but in terms of production I don't know that wolitarsky is all that far off if he was put in a position to do more. He's not Jamie Stoddard out there. He's got more tools and more pedigree than that. Just the way they built the receivers this is where he plays and his numbers will always be less than they could be because of it.

Solid 2 hour premiere for Saul last night...going to be a great final season! Anyone watching "Winning Time" on Crave? John C Reilly is great as Dr Jerry Buss, who built the Lakers and the LA Forum as a marquee destination in the early 80s. Really enjoying it so far...

Yes, but then they have to play another Global and keep another Global on the roster.

Found it; A little-known aspect of the league’s agreement for global players is a rule limiting them to a salary of $54,000 – $11,000 below the CFL minimum for all other players. So becoming a free agent last month was basically meaningless for the 29-year-old Hansen. “We’re not able to negotiate,” he said. “This is a hard situation for me. It’s fair maybe for one year to have us on a deal where we get maybe the league minimum. Because for teams it’s a shot in the dark. But after that, we should be able to. Especially if teams want to pay us more.” The Bombers actually tried to sign Hansen to a deal with a bigger salary after his first season, 2019, but the league voided it. Word is the CFL Players Association is working to get the rules changed in the new collective bargaining agreement. While Hansen appreciates the opportunity the league has given him, he’s not sure how much longer he wants to put his body on the line for such low pay. “I play all the special teams, I get snaps on defence,” he said. “So I’ve got to see, if they don’t change, if I really want to continue to do it.” https://winnipegsun.com/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-bluebombers/friesen-bombers-free-agent-hansen-makes-play-of-his-life

Sure he'd be more productive in the slot, but that wasn't the argument presented earlier at all. People were suggesting moving the hashmarks would make a big difference in his production and I argued it wouldn't make much of a difference because he is playing a position where touches are at a premium. You actually did directly compare him to Joe Pop and my comment, and the comments before them, had nothing to do with how he would fare in the slot. You are moving the goal posts. I stated that moving the hash marks won't get him many more touches. I stand by that. This is a slot league and when shots are taken outside the hashes they will rarely go his way because we have better options whether you like it or not. Joe Pop got his touches because he was an outstanding receiver in his own right and was just as good as any other receiver on the roster. If you are suggesting that Wolitarsky is as good as Demski/Bailey/Ellingson than I have to wonder what you are basing that belief on. Could we move him to the slot? Sure we could but who do you move out of the slot? Ellingson? Bailey? Demski? I wouldn't.

This is just another dumbass Ontario Liberal policy. There are real issues that they could be running on and even winning on but they go this route.

Ontario... https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2022/04/19/liberal-leader-steven-del-duca-would-ban-all-handguns-if-elected-june-2.html

I wasn't comparing Drew to Joe Pop. Where did I ever say that? I was comparing where Joe sat in relation to the other 3 when they played just like Wolitarski does now. We don't know how good he actually is because he may only get one, two or 3 throws his way a game on average. The guy usually catches everything that comes his way, is fearless, tough & no one knows just how good he could be. I know there are fans like me who'd like to see him moved inside where he'd no doubt shine.

USFL attendance opening weekend. Liam Dobson will be here by the beginning of TC. Looks like less than a thousand people. They are claiming much higher attendance but the eyeball test is what I go by. There are almost as many players as fans. You guys are way overestimating the effect of the hashmark move.

Unfortunately those are close to the norm in the world we are in. They are not good, but they happen regularly. But that was not the Habs organization, and their fanbase should not effect these ratings in the slightest.

Here is a copy of the article so you can avoid the paywall. And given bb1’s comment about chasing a generational player in next year’s draft and blowing everything up, it puts him anywhere from stage 4 to stage 6. The NHL is a 32-team league with 32 different fan bases, each of which is unique. Some are big, some not so much. Some are more than a century old, some are brand new. Some are spoiled with years of excellence, some have had their ups and downs, and some never seem to get to be happy at all. But there’s one thing every NHL fan has in common: We want our team to win. Sometimes. That’s the reality of being a hockey fan, especially at this time of year. We can throw around all the clichés we want about how winning is everything, but it isn’t, at least not all the time. And depending on circumstances, winning might actually feel like a problem. When that happens, you’ve entered a very controversial zone as a hockey fan. You have to decide if you’ll cross a line, and start rooting for your team to lose. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. But it’s a perilous place, one where you want to tread carefully. And since I have some experience in this world, I want to offer you a guide. I’ve prepared a list of the 10 stages of rooting against your own team, so that you can be prepared for what you might face, and for just how deep you want to go. Stage 1: Apathy We’ll ease into our list with a category that doesn’t really involve rooting against your team at all. Instead, at Stage 1, you just stop caring … temporarily. The season isn’t going well and you know it. You also know that one bad year isn’t the end of the world, and that even the best-run teams will go through it eventually. You’re fine with it. You’re just especially interested in watching it all play out. Honestly, this stage can be a pretty reasonable place to be. You’re not bailing on your team. You’re just backing away from committing a ton of time and mental energy to caring about them. You tune out, maybe check back in around the deadline, keep on top of any major developments, and then return to the fold in the offseason, rested and ready to go. The stage makes our list only because it’s often confused with a fan rooting against their own team. But it’s not. You don’t want them to lose, you just don’t really care if they do. Stage 2: Rooting for lottery odds (after playoff elimination) OK, now you want them to lose. But it’s only because they already have, a lot. So much, in fact, that they’ve been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. At this point, there’s really nothing left to play for aside from lottery odds, and in the NHL, you get those lottery odds by losing. In a perfect world, we’d have the Gold Plan in place and fans could cheer for their teams to win their way to the top pick. But we don’t, and it sounds like we never will, so fans know how this works. Even at this early stage, some fans are too loyal to actually hope their team loses. But most of us understand that the league has decided to embrace a system where losing is better for bad teams. We want what’s best for our team, so we act accordingly, even if only grudgingly. Note: Once you reach this stage, it is 100 percent guaranteed that some random guy will have the game of his life and it will cost your team multiple draft spots, and you’ll kind of hate him for it forever. The key here is that you only root against your team after they’ve been officially eliminated. Until that day comes, anything can happen. You never give up until the math says you have no choice. Stage 3: Rooting for lottery odds (before playoff elimination) OK, according to the math they’re still technically in it, but come on. They’re clearly not going to make the playoffs, and even if they do, they’d only get swept in the first round. That’s not you being cynical — it’s just that you’ve watched this team all season, and you can see that they’re not good enough. Yes, sure, sometimes an underdog will make a miracle run down the stretch, but this team isn’t it, and there’s no point getting your hopes up. The gap between Stage 2 and Stage 3 is a narrow one; there’s a difference between being realistically out of the race and actually being mathematically eliminated, with bad teams sometimes stuck spending weeks in between those two zones. Some fans will insist on staying the course right up until elimination day, but others understand that sometimes you just have to accept reality. Teams like this year’s Canadiensand Coyotes haven’t been technically eliminated yet, but their fans know they’re not making it. So if you were the sort of fan who was willing to bail in Stage 2 anyway, you might as well get a head start. The point is that you were with them all year long, right up until they made it clear this wasn’t going to be their year. It’s not like you turned on them from opening night. Stage 4: Rooting for lottery odds (from opening night) Look, we have to be realists here. Some teams are unexpectedly bad. But some teams are bad by design, or in some cases by misdesign. If you’ve been a fan long enough, you know when it’s going to be one of those years, and there’s no point deluding yourself through October and November before accepting the obvious. These guys are bad, there’s a great prospect waiting for you at the draft, so let’s just get to losing. Often, this stage involves obvious tank jobs, like the great Sabres/Coyotes battle for Connor McDavid in 2014-15 that worked out so well for everyone. If your team’s management has sent obvious signals that they’re trying to lose, well, you root for the result your team wants, right? Nothing worse than watching a well-designed tank job go off the rails because of a few lucky wins. There’s no question that this stage can feel icky. It’s one thing to turn against your team when they’ve already lost a ton of games and fallen out of the race. It’s another to do it early, even when your intentions are good. There will be nagging doubt. This stage isn’t for everyone. But if you’ve got the stomach for it, it can be a perfectly reasonable path to take. Stage 5: When you want somebody to get fired Maybe it’s the coach. Maybe it’s the GM. Maybe it’s both of them, or someone else entirely. But somebody needs to be sent packing, and it’s not going to happen if this team keeps fluking out wins that it doesn’t deserve. And yes, this stage sucks. On one level, nobody should want to see anyone lose their job. But this is also pro sports, where getting fired is part of the deal. If your team has the wrong guy in the wrong place and it’s dragging them down, there’s really no other path to take. It’s going to happen eventually, so you might as well get it out of the way now. A nice little losing streak might just seal the deal, and pave the way to a brighter future. Call it an investment. Stage 5 can last for a few games, or it could take most of a season. But it’s always temporary, and it ends as soon as the pink slips start flying. The moment the new guy takes over, you can go right back to cheering on your team. Let’s never speak of this again. Stage 6: When you want the roster to get blown up The more complicated cousin of Stage 5, this one has the same basic premise. Things are bad, you know they’re not going to be fixed until there’s no other choice, and so you have to root for them to get worse. The problem here is that old sports cliché: It’s always easier to fire the coach (or GM) than to trade the whole roster. That’s especially true in today’s NHL, where we’re told that trades are impossible, especially during the season. When you’re at Stage 5 and just want one guy to be fired, any day can be the day that snaps you out of it. Some insider reports that a change is being made, the press conference gets called, and you’re back on the bandwagon by the end of the day. With Stage 6, you’re never really sure how much change is enough. One trade? Two? It’s going to take more than that, but you’re not sure how many moves you need before you’ll feel like it’s worth returning to the fold. Whatever that number is, the team isn’t good. You know it. Other realistic fans know it. But management doesn’t know it, or at least isn’t willing to admit it, and that won’t change unless the losses start piling up, so that’s what needs to happen. It’s for their own good. Stage 7: When you realize you kind of hate these guys This is the more extreme version of Stage 6, and the difference between them can seem subtle. In Stage 6, you want changes because the team keeps losing and you don’t like losing. In Stage 7, you want changes because you don’t like them. The team is bad, sure, but so is the vibe. You’re just kind of done with this team, at least this particular iteration of it. Sometimes, you’ll reach this stage because of something specific. Maybe you’ve finally realized the other fans are right and these guys are a bunch of dirty cheap shot artists. Maybe you’ve heard a few too many of the same excuses trotted out in the postgame. There could be some controversy involving fans, or a bigger social issue, or the media. It could be something approaching all of the above. Somewhat weirdly, it’s possible to reach this stage even when a team’s record says they’re playing well. (Ask any current Leaf fan what will happen if they lose in the first round again.) You might arrive at this stage when a team has been stubbornly staying the course for years, and you hit a tipping point where you just want them all gone. It can be a progression through the other stages, or in the case of some sort of major scandal like this year’s Blackhawks’ story, a rapid ascent. The key is that Stage 6 isn’t personal. Stage 7 very much is. You’re sick of this team, you want everyone out, and you’re not going to root for them until it happens. Stage 8: Apathy, part two This is what comes next when you hit Stage 7 but nothing changes. There really isn’t anywhere else to go. You used to hate these guys, but hatred at least meant you still cared. Now you can’t even muster that. You raged against the machine, nothing happened, and now you’re done. Make no mistake: Despite the similar names, there’s virtually nothing connecting this stage to Stage 1. Back then you stopped paying attention, but it was always going to be temporary. You’re well beyond that at Stage 8; it’s a far darker place to be. You’re pretty close to being done. If you reach this stage, your fandom is at a critical moment. If something doesn’t change very soon, this might be it. Stage 9: You quit The natural progression from Stage 8. You’re done. There’s not much more to say. Hopefully, you gave your team plenty of chances. Stage 9 should never be a rash decision. But at some point, enough is enough. Life is too short to make yourself miserable, or to let a pro sports team do it for you. In theory, reaching this stage means you’re no longer rooting against your team, because you don’t care anymore. But in reality, anyone who gets this far doesn’t want their team to win without them. Imagine being a Red Sox fan who bailed after the Aaron Boone homer in 2003. Nobody wants to be the fan who’s pounding on the doors of a bandwagon they just abandoned, desperately begging to be let back on. A truly noble fan would leave quietly, wishing those that are staying behind the best. It should go without saying that none of us are noble. If we’re leaving, we want to toss a match over our shoulder as we go. And taken to an extreme, that can lead us to our final stage … Stage 10: Actively wanting to see just how bad it can get (aka Sicko Mode) Not to be confused with these guys, the fan who’s managed to get all the way to Stage 10 is truly disturbed. They’re not even really a fan anymore, at least in the way we think of the term. They’ve transcended that experience. Their team has spent years, maybe decades, force-feeding them angst and misery, so much so that now it’s all they know how to consume. It’s what they feed off of now. And they want more. Oh, the team has a new franchise player? Let’s see him tear his ACL. They’ve made the playoffs? Let’s blow a 3-0 series lead. A can’t-miss prospect who’s absolutely guaranteed to become the greatest hockey player ever? Lifetime deal in the KHL, baby. The owner is a hopeless moron? Have him name himself coach and GM. No matter how bad it gets, it needs to get worse. So much worse. These people are depraved. They’re also extremely rare. Oh sure, many fans might spend brief amounts of time as a Sicko Mode tourist, but very few ever stick around permanently. You might think you’re there now, but you’re probably not. And that’s a good thing, because it means you can still be redeemed. There’s still good in you. There’s hope, somewhere, even if it’s hard to find. There’s always hope for an NHL fan. Until you reach Stage 10. And if you do, may the hockey gods have mercy on what used to be your soul.

Outstanding two sport athlete, and Holder of a record that definitely will not be equalled. "In a period overlapping the 1959 CFL season and 1959–60 NHL season, James became the only player to play in the CFL's Grey Cup (November 28, 1959—won cup) and the NHL's Stanley Cup (first game April 9, 1960—lost cup) in the same season." still alive and kicking.

Ron Lancaster won something like 4 games in Saskatchewan before he was fired. He then went into broadcasting for the next decade being an analyst on the CFL on CBC broadcasts & used that time to figure it out. He became an elite head coach in Edmonton & Hamilton. My guess is he learned to surround himself with great assistants & delegate authority. I think he learned to manage people.

Riders are only really "elite" in their fanbase opinion...and a few media hacks...no real sizzle to.that steak there...

Pour les lulz...

My biggest take away was that the Riders were nowhere to be seen, which is always great. No Habs either... Interesting.

Fox News is not a credible news source. 1. Fox News is currently being sued by Smartmatic for repeatedly making false claims about their machines and the 2020 US Election. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/big-lie-could-mean-big-trouble-fox-news-defamation-case 2. Fox's own lawyers have argued in court that you literally cannot believe the "facts" that Tucker Carlson tells you. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye 3. Chris Wallace, an experienced respected journalist left Fox News because they started questioning the Truth. https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/why-chris-wallace-left-fox-news/ 4. They repeatedly lied in their coverage of the Trucker Protests. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/21/politics/fact-check-fox-canada-protests-carter-gutfeld-pirro/index.html

Hence the importance of fact-checking and journalistic integrity, more than ever before. There are actual, verifiable, proven facts and those still matter today.

Sinclair Lewis is quoted as saying," When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

That really drives home how pathetic voters in the US are. Trump stood up and told everyone he was corrupt and they lapped it up. Misogyny and racism are the core values in the US.

Imagine using a source like that and expecting anyone to take your comments seriously.

It is long disproved b.s. that is repeated endlessly. been checked, double, triple checked, there is no missing money, clinton foundation, haiti. Or anywhere else. jewish space lasers, soros, pizza, uranium, emails, all b.s., doesnt matter, just keep,saying it. Newt Gingrich: wiki "According to Harvard University political scientists Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky, Gingrich's speakership had a profound and lasting impact on American politics and health of American democracy. They argue that Gingrich instilled a "combative" approach in the Republican Party, where hateful language and hyper-partisanship became commonplace, and where democratic norms were abandoned. Gingrich frequently questioned the patriotism of Democrats, called them corrupt, compared them to fascists, and accused them of wanting to destroy the United States. Gingrich furthermore oversaw several major government shutdowns. University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason identified Gingrich's instructions to Republicans to use words such as “betray, bizarre, decay, destroy, devour, greed, lie, pathetic, radical, selfish, shame, sick, steal, and traitors” about Democrats as an example of a breach in social norms and exacerbation of partisan prejudice.

I recoil at the thought of the Democrats being considered "left". They are to the left of the GOP but no where on the left of the political spectrum.

On this I agree. If the Democrats had fielded any kind of a candidate that connected with people then a narcissistic ,lieing , womanizing, failed businessman would never have been elected in the 1st place