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If it were to happen, I'm pretty sure the RAAM clinic would have street access - although I have no idea one way or the other. Also, you can't security yourself out of widespread drug addiction. You need to treat addiction, not punish it.

My daughter pointed me in her direction a few months ago. Looking forward to seeing her for sure.

Got my passes and campsite booked! Great lineup.

Winnipeg Jets owner True North considering purchase of Portage Place mall, multiple sources say Option to purchase downtown mall on the table, according to city report due to be published Monday Bartley Kives · CBC News · Posted: Mar 06, 2023 5:00 AM CST | Last Updated: 4 hours ago The real estate division of True North Sports and Entertainment is considering a purchase of downtown Winnipeg's beleaguered Portage Place mall, according to multiple city, provincial and non-governmental sources. City council is poised to publish on Monday a report about a proposed sale of Portage Place that would give True North Real Estate Development, a division of the company that owns the Winnipeg Jets, an option to purchase the 36-year-old property, according to the sources. The purchase option would only be exercised after a months-long due diligence period as well as community consultations, said several sources familiar with plan. CBC News has not viewed the report. True North Sports and Entertainment acknowledged a request for comment but did not issue a statement. Sources familiar with the report said they were not aware what plans True North may have for the mall. Over the past two decades, True North has made hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investment into downtown Winnipeg through the construction of the Canada Life Centre, the Centrepoint development to the north of the hockey arena and the True North Square development to the west. As well, True North executive chairman Mark Chipman has on several occasions expressed a desire to alleviate homelessness and addictions in downtown Winnipeg. Jets owner says 24/7 addictions drop-in centre should be part of massive rethink of addictions strategy Manitoba earmarks $3.6M for partnership working toward 'safer, healthier' downtown: premier In 2019, Chipman said he supported a 24/7 addictions drop-in centre in downtown Winnipeg to alleviate what he described as "the most heartbreaking of circumstances." Two years later, he suggested social conditions in Winnipeg's core had only worsened during the pandemic. "It's gone long past just being heartbreaking: it's become, in my humble opinion, a humanitarian crisis," Chipman said in 2021 at a downtown safety partnership event. Chipman also attended a provincial social housing announcement last week. He did not confirm or deny True North's interest in Portage Place, a mall built as one of many downtown Winnipeg revitalization projects. (more) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/true-north-portage-place-1.6767792?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

Sooo good.

Why have I never noticed #ChevyDayOff before? So apropos.

Ukraine live briefing: Anti-Putin group claims attack on Russian territory By Niha Masih, Bryan Pietsch, Mary Ilyushin and David L. Stern Updated March 2, 2023 at 8:20 a.m. EST| Published March 2, 2023 at 2:40 a.m. EST The Russian Volunteer Corps, a group of anti-Kremlin fighters, claimed responsibility for an attack on their country Thursday. The claim comes after Russia’s federal police force said that “armed Ukrainian nationalists” had entered Bryansk region, near Russia’s border with Belarus. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the episode as a “terrorist act,” saying that the fighters opened fire on civilians. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, called the Russian report a “classic deliberate provocation.” Key developments The Russian Volunteer Corps called itself a “liberation army that came to its own land” and urged Russians to “take up arms and fight Putin’s bloody regime” in a video posted to social media. It also said that the Russian claim that Ukrainians entered Bryansk was “a lie of the Kremlin propagandists.” Putin said the attack in Bryansk was a “terrorist act” by “people who set out to deprive us of historical memory, history, traditions, and language.” Addressing an online ceremony for teachers, he added: “They opened fire on civilians. They saw that it was a civilian car and that children were sitting there.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/02/russia-ukraine-war-news/

I don't want the gubment telling me what my carbon is worth. Let me sell it on the open market!

It's all a blur, but still remains one of the most fun weekends I ever had. Was so proud of my town for putting that on. It's funny because they thought they'd need to attract higher level curlers looking for practice time from the city to fill out the 48 spots, but it was almost all "locals". We were all scared that the ATM at the Credit Union was going to run out of money, but we needed those icy drinks to keep us cool.

You're probably a little too young to have had the chance to curl in Fork River. Two sheeter, natural ice and snow blowing through the walls. The bonspiel in Rorketon was the first time I ever experienced +40 C without humidex. They made 10K a day in the beer tent in a town of under 200 people, but it wasn't enough to replace the ice plant that they killed in the heat. We won 2nd in the 2nd. That's where I learned to curl. You weren't the guys playing Seven Nation Army 24 hours a day, by chance?

More interesting stuff from Tait on Dalton Schoen (don't see that anyone has referred to this before). "Schoen outlined how his various NFL workouts unfolded; he usually arrived in the city the day before and then was up early for physical testing and meetings with personnel and coaching staffs. He took three weeks off after the Blue Bombers loss in the Grey Cup to get his body right again for the process and then was all-in for a circuitous journey over the next month and a half from one NFL stop to another. And here’s where it can get really frustrating: Schoen’s on-field evaluation would sometimes see him just run routes against air – no defenders – for about 10-15 minutes. Yet without the chance to run in a training camp environment against defensive backs, he had zero chance to showcase his skills, his ‘Street Dawg’ approach and maybe quash the suggestion his success in the CFL was predominantly because of the pre-snap motion – the ‘Waggle’ – that doesn’t exist in the NFL. “You’re asking the same question my agent and plenty of people in my inner circle have been asking,” said Schoen. “It’s something we did struggle with – where do they put their weight in terms of the evaluation process? Is it what you were able to see me do on the field in a 10–15-minute workout after I flew to be there? Or do you look at the body of work I put together in the CFL over an 18-game regular season and two playoff games? Those are questions I’m not sure I got a great answer to in terms of how they evaluate people and what they were really looking for.”" https://www.cfl.ca/2023/02/27/schoen-excited-build-off-successful-rookie-campaign-in-23/

CFL only seems to have stats up post Week 20 when only Edmonton played 18 games. This ain't right! Bottom table shows what the teams gave up - not forced.

Aged like fine wine is usually used sarcastically these days. I was a little surprised at your (therefore) sarcastic take, knowing what I know about your opinions. My mistake.

Daily reminder that the Winnipeg Free Press is independently owned and probably the best newspaper left in the country. That being said, I miss Melissa Martin and Ryan Thorpe already.

Does the question still not stand?

I've always been (and still am) a fan of Ed's writing and his radio commentary. I am speaking more to the output than the man. Better rephrase: Ed's columns are advertorials for the Blue Bombers. It's all semantics, really. It's also his role with the organization and because he's an accomplished writer, they don't come off as ads or promos - but they serve that purpose.

"Idiocracy" certainly comes to mind: Joe: For the last time, I'm pretty sure what's killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff. Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes. Attorney General: So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops. Joe: Yes. Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet? Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that's the idea. Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave. Attorney General: It's got electrolytes. Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren't growing, so I'm pretty sure that the Brawndo's not working. Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow. Secretary of Energy: Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet. Secretary of State: Hey, that's good. You sure you ain't the smartest guy in the world? Joe: Okay, look. You wanna solve this problem. I wanna get my pardon. So why don't we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave? Attorney General: Brawndo's got what plants crave. Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it's got electrolytes. Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know? Secretary of State: It's what they use to make Brawndo. Joe: Yeah, but why do they use them to make Brawndo? Secretary of Defense: 'Cause Brawndo's got electrolytes.

When I was back in the ad biz, I'd occasionally have to write pieces on businesses that didn't follow typical ad copywriting style. They were more stories about the business and less about selling - but they still paid for the space. We called them "advertorials". Ed Tait is an advertorialist.

Read an article about the potential political pitfalls of this idea just yesterday: It sounds like something out of science fiction: A country suffering from heat, flooding or crop failures decides on its own to send out a fleet of aircraft to spray a fine, sun-blocking mist into the earth’s atmosphere, reducing temperatures and providing relief to parched populations. Other countries view it as a threat to their own citizens and ready a military response. But members of the U.S. intelligence community and other national security officials were worried enough last year to plot how to avert a war triggered by this kind of climate engineering. In a role-playing exercise, they practiced managing the tensions that would be unleashed, according to people familiar with the exercise, a sign that they see it as a credible threat in need of a strategy. The practice, known as solar geoengineering, is theoretically possible. And as the world’s most vulnerable populations suffer more sharply from rising temperatures, global decision-makers will likely come under heavy pressure to deploy the technology, scientists and policymakers say. Compared to other methods to combat the effects of climate change, it’s likely to be cheaper and faster. Because the technique could weaken the sun’s power across the globe — not just above whichever country decided to deploy it — security officials are concerned about the potential to spark conflict, since a single capital could make decisions that shape the entire world’s fate. “Parts of the U.S. government are rightfully focused on trying better to understand this,” said Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Wilson Center, referencing last year’s geoengineering exercise. “If you don’t understand it, you can’t manage it.” The science is evolving, said Goodman, a longtime expert on the intersection of climate change and security. But global discussions haven’t kept up, leaving a powerful technology largely unregulated internationally. “It could be weaponized by a country to either try to improve the climate and reduce the temperatures in their own location or against an adversary,” Goodman said. “It could be threatened in a way that could cause fear or panic among populations.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/27/geoengineering-security-war/

We shall see.

I think she only continues if she's convinced she can win it all and those odds get longer each year for her. She lives in Ontario and has young kids. I don't think being a mentor on a competitive team is enough to commit to 3 more years. She's been to the mountaintop so many times that I'm not sure she'll find it worth the sacrifice to be a regular also-ran. My odds are 70-30 she retires.

Question: Does the home score total on the stadium scoreboard go past 99?

Yet another reason to love the Winnipeg Free Press.

Not according to her. I have already edited the harshness out of my comment that you quoted.

We shall see. As reported today in the Free Press. “We made a one-year commitment to each other to make sure that we wanted to do this. So, we’ll sit down and see where we’re at, and I’ll sit down and talk to my mom and see if she’ll continue to watch the kids. You know, there’s just other things that are involved other than my desire to keep playing,” said Jones.