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I'm an atheist who celebrates Christmas. I'd take a day off for the Queen's funeral. Hell, I even take Victoria Day off every year.

Majority is 50+%. They can't sell out a small arena and you can't tell me they average 635,000 TV viewers either (and don't forget their regional broadcast extends beyond Manitoba). For some reason, I can't find their TV viewership numbers. I doubt 50% care about the NHL and interest is waning as people get older.

My money is part of the generous tax relief the Jets receive. If the Jets lose money here and a 50 billionaire can't absorb that (or write off losses), then it shouldn't be here. I'd be interested to see polling that says the majority of Manitobans support the True North gravy train deal. I don't think the majority of Manitobans even care about the Jets.

Thompson is sitting on $50 Billion. He doesn't need my help for his shiny toy, nor should he threaten to leave if he doesn't get a break. I'm all for returning to Blue Bomber talk.

It's not a simple question to answer or quantify. Since there are city and provincial tax breaks/revenue offered to True North, you'd have to examine increases in each municipality as well as city wards as well as increased user fees. Someone, somewhere had to make up the difference given to True North and/or programs were cut. Katz proposed a 3.5% property tax increase in 2012 (the year after the Jets return), but I can't find info to confirm it passed (yet). Found it: The City of Winnipeg’s property-tax freeze has ended after 14 years, as city council has proposed a 3.5 per cent hike on residential and commercial property taxes in 2012. The city’s 2012 operating budget calls for $900 million in city spending this year on all city services, from policing to insect control. That’s an increase of $53 million over the 2011 operating budget. The property-tax hike will raise $14.8 million to help cover the spending increase. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2012/02/28/citys-tax-freeze-thaws

There is a ton of good "new" music and we over-romanticize old music because it connects with our memories. A lot of "classic" rock is pretty trash.

Have other programs and infrastructure suffered from underfunding?

The less tax the rich pay, the more the rest of us plebes pay.

Without huge tax breaks and gifted lottery revenue, these extremely wealthy people would not have returned the team to Winnipeg. The city and province are expected to provide True North Sports & Entertainment with $13.4 million worth of subsidies in 2015, according to city budget documents, as well as the terms of the revenue-sharing deal struck between the province and the Shark Club, True North’s gaming centre at Cityplace mall. The largest government-enabled source of cash for the Winnipeg Jets is a $6.79-million projected rebate of the 10 per cent city tax levied on events held at the MTS Centre. This refund is up $390,000 from 2015, thanks to increased revenue projections for the arena in 2016. True North is also in line to receive a city business-tax refund worth $232,000 as well as a break on city and provincial property taxes expected in the vicinity of $890,000. For tax-portioning purposes, provincial legislation allows the MTS Centre to be treated as recreational space, as opposed to commercial land. True North is also expected to receive an estimated $5.49 million worth of revenue from 140 gaming machines at the Shark Club. Under the terms of the deal between True North and Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries, if the Shark Club generates less than $6.1 million a year in gaming revenue, True North gets to keep 90 per cent of the house, which works out to a maximum of $5.49 million. If the revenue is somewhere between $6.1 million and $7.3 million, True North receives a flat payout of $5.5 million. And if the machines generate more than $7.3 million, True North gets to keep 75 per cent of that first $7.3 million — $5.48 million — plus 20 per cent of any revenue beyond $7.3-million. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries takes the rest of the cash under all three scenarios. David Thomson, the 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet, is a Canadian businessman, media magnate, art collector who has a net worth of $50 billion. David Thomson is the Chairman of the Thomson Reuters corporation and his family is the richest in Canada.

She hasn't helped the Jets so far. Not like she's new to covering them either.

I hate the True North chant. Don't understand why so many people are shouting support for extremely wealthy people who are taking their hard-earned money to watch a very mediocre hockey team. Gets even worse when you hear it at your kids' science fair awards.

I don't think he's wrong and not only about Americans. He said "a" weakness - not "the" weakness.

2 new episodes of Reservation Dogs dropped on Disney+ today!

Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal The Queen’s courtiers banned “coloured immigrants or foreigners” from serving in clerical roles in the royal household until at least the late 1960s, according to newly discovered documents that will reignite the debate over the British royal family and race. The documents also shed light on how Buckingham Palace negotiated controversial clauses – that remain in place to this day – exempting the Queen and her household from laws that prevent race and sex discrimination. The papers were discovered at the National Archives as part of the Guardian’s ongoing investigation into the royal family’s use of an arcane parliamentary procedure, known as Queen’s consent, to secretly influence the content of British laws. Exemptions from the law In the 1960s government ministers sought to introduce laws that would make it illegal to refuse to employ an individual on the grounds of their race or ethnicity. The Queen has remained personally exempted from those equality laws for more than four decades. The exemption has made it impossible for women or people from ethnic minorities working for her household to complain to the courts if they believe they have been discriminated against. In a statement, Buckingham Palace did not dispute that the Queen had been exempted from the laws, adding that it had a separate process for hearing complaints related to discrimination. The palace did not respond when asked what this process consists of. The exemption from the law was brought into force in the 1970s, when politicians implemented a series of racial and sexual equality laws to eradicate discrimination. Queen’s consent Some of the documents uncovered by the Guardian relate to the use of Queen’s consent, an obscure parliamentary mechanism through which the monarch grants parliament permission to debate laws that affect her and her private interests. Buckingham Palace says the process is a mere formality, despite compelling evidence that the Queen has repeatedly used the power to secretly lobby ministers to amend legislation she does not like. The newly discovered documents reveal how the Queen’s consent procedure was used to secretly influence the formation of the draft race relations legislation. In 1968, the then home secretary, James Callaghan, and civil servants at the Home Office appear to have believed that they should not request Queen’s consent for parliament to debate the race relations bill until her advisers were satisfied it could not be enforced against her in the courts. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/02/buckingham-palace-banned-ethnic-minorities-from-office-roles-papers-reveal

The families and loved ones of the 6.5 million people who have died of COVID probably beg to differ - as well as the rest of the thinking people who never ever said it was the end of the world.

I'm not at her funeral. I did not attack her personally. I did not attack anyone personally. I would take a dump in Trump's open coffin if given a chance.

Just found Darian Durant's burner account.

There is a huge difference in "treating people rudely" and offending their sensibilities. As someone who firmly believes in equality for all, I will not apologize for demeaning royalty in any shape or flavour, because that is THE most celebrated example of inequality on this planet.

I've had 40 years to form my opinion on a family that provides rules on how you are to interact with them. Her kicking the royal bucket doesn't change my feeling one way or the other. Mourn away, serfs. PS - Just wait until Trump dies.

The notion of royalty is ridiculous at best. Born to rule? Give me a break.