SpeedFlex27

You don't think both political parties influence the way things go? The problem is the Conservatives yell louder than the NDP. Everything is No. We need a new hospital. No. We need to spend on education. No. We need to spend on infrastructure. No. We need more Police. No. We need a new arena. No No. No. Whenever Conservative politicians say no it makes headlines. That was Jeremy Farkas (Calgary 2021 UCP Mayoral candidate ) modus operandi for 4 years. Make headlines by saying no to everything & cut property taxes even if it meant drastic cuts in services. Fight with Nenshi constantly. The UCP mayoral candidate hated everything & everyone who was against him. He lost. I get the felling he now realizes he was played as a sucker by the Powers That Be in the UCP & by losing he had no political friends anymore. They dropped him like a hot potato.

Hiow can anyone say 12,000 people to a one game event is a success? I mean, if they were able to fill a temporary 25,000 seat stadium made up of bleacher seats I could understand it. But like you, I don't get it. There was no hype. Except TSN. Football fans in Atlantic Canada are so used to going to New England or New York to watch the NFL. There's no CFL tradition there. No one cares.

You can find that in the fiction section under Comedy.

Man, don't even consider back surgery. Stay away from it. All it'll do is put you in a wheelchair once you mess with your spine & discs. .

They'll freeze you from the waist down so you'll be asleep in kind of a nether world. You won't be totally out. If you're "lucky" like I was, you'll wake up before they're finished with your knee & you'll hear the sound of a drill... Zeee, zeee, zee & a hammer.. ting, ting, ting. And hope to God the freezing doesn't come out too soon. That'll be my fate again on April 19th for my 2nd knee replacement. Then the fun begins with the healing & physio for both of us.

The NDP has more intergrated memberships than the other political parties. If you're a member of a provincial NDP then you're also a member of the NDP federally. To me, this means that the federal wing will have more influence over its provincial counterparts & use that influence even if a province has an NDP government. Jagmeet Singh & Rachel Notley clashed over climate action & her support of the O & G industry in Alberta when she was AB Premier much to Singh's dismay. Even though she brought in a carbon tax. She was also concerned about worker's rights as well as opposed to climate p;olicies that would cause Alberta to lose jobs in that industry. That's how I see it. Municipal politics seem different. I can't explain it.

To everyone who doesn't understand how Alberta works politically, well this is for you I never said I was supporting the UCP just because I answered a question by 17to 85 in a way he didn't like. What do I get? A ******* lecture for no reason. I don't like the UCP's politics. It pisses me off that I can be accused of being some kind of disloyal piece of **** on this board because I answered a god damned political question that 99.999999999999999 ******* percent of you know the answer to. At the same time why do I have to justify anything here????? It also pisses me off that a couple of posters sit here in judgement of others in their own little private Court of Opinion because they can't figure things out on their own. Well, my answer is if you don't like what people say at least respect their opinions & figure it out for yourselves. And if you hate living in Alberta so much then go live somewhere else. Alberta is the bastion of conservatism. It's been that way since the 1930's with the exception of 4 years. We all know that. So, why is there a surprise that Danielle Smith is ahead in the popular vote? She sits ar 46% which is 7th in Canada among sitting Premiers so it's nothing to be proud of. Anyone who can't figure it out is either clueless or has lived in a cave their entire ******* life, I hate the alt right as much as I hate the alt left. I'm a MOTR voter. There's nowhere to go for me. The A;berta party is a joke so I'm not voting for them. I don't appreciate being lectured, berated & accused of being a bad person for something I never said or did. It sucks. Like I said in 5 years my wife & I are outta here.

You asked a question. I answered it. That's all I did. So calm down. Take a little blue pill & get some sleep. You need it. Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it wrong. You should know that by now. It's been like that here since the 1930's with Social Credit. Don't get mad at the Messenger like 17to85 just did. I ******* hate Smith by the way. In 5 years my wife & I are out of here.

Oh yeah, I curled there many times.

People would rather have Danielle Smith than Rachel Notley answering to Jagmeet Singh who would be calling the shots. Simple as that. The NDP in Alberta take their marching orders from the Champagne Socialist Singh at the HO in Ottawa.

Do we really want to bring this thread back?? I have one: Hot off the presses... It Takes A Thief by Darian Durant.

What was Canlan?

The drought continues.

Needs a new baseball stadium. The old one is abandoned & rotting away. It'll never get built. Needs a new football stadium. It will never be built in my lifetime. Needs a new fieldhouse. Unbelieivably, it's been on the books to build for the past 60 years but has never been financed. Edmonton has 3 fieldhouses. It will never be built. Year #4 of negotiations for a new arena. They had an agreement in place until our stupid Mayor decided she wanted solar panels on the building & other "climate mitigation" that would have cost $12 million after the agreement was signed. Flames walked away from the deal just weeks before shovels were in the ground. After 12 months, they went back to negotiations & started from the beginning again. Meanwhile inflation has probably pushed the coat of the arena from $600 million to nearly a billion. Yeah sure, great city. It used to be. Not anymore.

My childhood hero is gone. He was an icon. RIP Bud Grant.

In Calgary, there's a movement to bid on the 2030 Commonwealth Games. It was made public on Thuesday. They'll have to build new track & field facilities. The organizers gave no promises that money would be spent on McMahon Stadium or a new stadium. NO PROMISES.... Like WTF????? I'd support the bid if Calgary got financed for a new stadium or at very least a major, major reno of the dump of a football stadium we have here now. If not, **** it. These ******* politicians here in this city are so ******* clueless.

That monopoly was great in the 1990's when the CFL nearly folded. The CFL would have been dead without the CBC broadcasting games in the 1950's as well. Times change & it's also time to move on from a damned single cable broadcaster tbnat does an absolute shitty job promoting the league. No free agent coverage. No CFL awards coverage. Complete **** broadcast of the CFL draft. No one reporter from TSN covered the biggest CFL news story of the off season with the ownership change in Montreal. Dave Naylor is too busy creaming his jeans about a couple of Canadian twins at Illinois making waves at their pro day yeaterday. And bragging how a record number of Canadians will get drafted by NFL teams. (Maybe it's time to abolish the ratio if more & more Canadians are playing in the NFL). Farhan Lalji is out there somewhere. God knows where. The two guys paid to cover the CFL are too busy covering the NFL Combine & pro days to care. I like Naylor as well so I'm prepared to cut him some slack. I'm so so on Lalji since his man crush on Nathan Rourke so I'm pretty disaapointed with the coverage on the league's "flagship" network today by these two. I'm constantly underwhelmed with the coverage TSN provides the CFL.

I'd like to see TSN's hold on the CFL Englsh broadcast rights challenged as well, having a monopoly may have made sense in the 1990's but not today. No, I'm saying he could if he wanted to. Even as a member of the Centre of The Universe, Bluto you are loved. That's an extremely hard take.

Smith backstabbed Fergie to get the GM job with the Jets.

Bronfman could probably build it himself.

It's never as good as the doctor will make it out to be. But it's still a helluva lot better than what you're going through now

I think that was Mike Smith.

The Bronfmans are trying to build a baseball stadium to get a MLB team back. Looks like things are just kind of in limbo with that project. Nothing like a billionaire to put $$$ into a new stadium that could hold baseball & football.

I wonder if Paladeau will build a new stadium for the Als? They really have to get out of Molson stadium. Also, is Paladeau the first French owner of the Als since Leo Dandurand & his 2 English buds Eric Craddock & Lew Hayman in 1946?

Vive les Alouettes de Montreal.