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It's not anti French related. It's anti Canada. Paladeau wants to breaak the country up. He sat as a member of the PQ in the Quebec legislature & ran for its leadership a decade ago. No separatist govt has ever been elected in Alberta. No one separatist has ever been elected to the AB legislature. There are a lot of people in A;berta sniping about Ottawa & especially Trudeau but to say we're somehow lesser Canadians here in Alberta because we complain about Ottawa than someone from Quebec who actually espouses the breakup of our country is mind boggling. You're talking apples & oranges. I have no idea why you act so surprised when people mention Paladeau is a separatist & that's somehow anti French. No, it's not. Like what country have you lived in the past 40 years???

That was a great show. Look at the subject this episode was based on. Racism by police & the Canadian justice system. Assumed all Indians were drunks & presumed guilty just because they were Indians. This is 1963. Not 2023.

He has no media platform as RDS & Quebecor are two separate companies. RDS would be Bell Media.

He's been our GM since Day 1. Chipman won't fire him no matter how bad it gets. Job for life.

I dunno. That's your opinion. By giving Chevy a job for life, we'll never find out.

Why would a separatist like Pierre Paladeau want the Als? This is a head scratcher. I think one of the reasons Quebec City doesn't have an NHL team is because the NHL didn't want the political baggage that would have come with his ownership. I mean, what will he want? A French GM & Head Coach??

Picard is sure making up for it this season.

I"m amazed at what's happened to Craig Dickenson. It must be the culture of Riderville. he's totally changed. The guy has taken on a villainous persona. We saw how he treats players that have fallen out of favour with him. We saw how he constantly defended Garrett Marino last season after he injured Jeremiah Massoli. Most coaches would have cut him on the spot but not Dickenson. A few days ago, he was mouthing off again to the media about something he was unhappy about. Like I said, he used to be one of the league's good guys. Now he's becone an asshat.

Walker is over the hill. Too old. Lots of miles on that creaky body. He'll have some great games but he'll also disappear during an 18 game season.

That entire Discovery series should have been called Star Trek: Lost... Plot lines were grey & cloudy. Some things made no sense at all. Like the Klingons. The 2 greatest villains they had they got rid of... Lorca & Georgiou. Lots of crying every episode from Captain Burnham. Everything was so huggy feely. My gosh what a happy ship. Buh bye. Get lost.

I'd love to see more plays of Sterling rushing the passer. He got great leverage on the RT & used his momentum to push him away. If he had a big gut he'd look like Reggie White as that was his move.

I just want to add my brother in law passed away suddenly in 2011. He left behind 2 kids who are now grown. His oldest daughter has 3 kids of her own with a fourth on the way so he missed out being a grandfather. His curling team also played summer baseball on the same team together for years & they frequently golfed together so as you can see they were truly close. He loved sports & even found time to coach little league. He had no kids on the teams he coached.

HNIC mic'd up the penalty box during a Leafs home game at the Gardens vs the Flyers in the mid 70's. Bobby Clarke got a penalty he didn't like & all of Canada watching that game heard the swear filled tirade that Clarke directed at the referee. Thousands of complaints came into the CBC by phone & they never did that again. However, I don't think Clarke forgot the penalty box was mic'd up. I think he did that delibderately. Maybe he felt mic'ng up the penalty box went too far. Or maybe he just wanted to be a big **** head that night. Lol.

I remember that exhibition game Meleschuk played against Vera Pezer the 1972 Canadian Women's champ. She dominated women's curling at that time like Duguid had done for the men. She challenged Meleschuk to a Battle Of The Sexes match. The media jumped all over it. And CBC set it up on their saturday afternoon show called CBC's Wonderful World of Curling". I read that Meleschuk wanted no part of this game but gave in because of the pressure to play. So, in November 1973, they played the game on the CBC network.. If any of you remember Meleschuk's delivery it was a high backswing out of the hack & then a flat foot slide down the ice while holding the broom in his left arm at shoulder level. Nobody knew how pissed off Meleschuk was & how he had spent awhile in the lounge at the St james Civic Centre drinking his anger away to go play. I think he felt trapped by the hype & was forced to play aganst his will. There was nothing for him to gain by playing this game. He was the reigning Men's world champion. Orest was half cut by game time. So, his first shot, with a cigarette in his mouth, he came flying out of the hack & nearly fell over. Only his natural strength kept him upright. I remember Don Wittman calling the game exclaiming, "Ohhhh, the ship's a little unsteady!" I think Pezer beat him that day but in typical Meleschuk style he just shrugged it off as in "Who cares?"

My brother in law travelled with his regular team from Assiniboine Memorial to Green Bay Wisconsin in July for a summer bonspiel back in the 80's. I think threy might have won the thing but I can't remember. My bro in law was a helluva curler. He could make all the shots. He curled with his buddies. They curled together for years. He could have left them & played on a better team & challenge for the provincial crown but he wasn't like that. He loved curling with his team. They were all high school friends & very close.

I curled in the Stonewall Bonspiel back in my early 20's. The bonspiel was the first weekend in April. They didn't have an ice plant. Anyway, the temp shot up from minus 2 to plus 15 during the game & like you said the ice turned to slush & water. Ifa team got a rock somehow in the house they'd get a point as it was impossible to remove. We had corn brooms back then & I was playing second. My friend playing lead & I were getting sprayed with water & were soaked on our legs. It was ******* awful. We were eliminated in the playoffs. No idea how they finished that bonspiel. I never swept so hard in my life. Myarms were dead & sore for 2 days after.

We used to have all night bonspiels in the city. We'd be curling at 4 am on a Saturday morning only to do it again the next night. And the clubs would let us drink as back then the junior age was 21. It was changed to 18 in either 1977 or 78. Those were about as fun as you could have although going out on a sheet of curling ice after 3 hours of pounding back rum & cokes wasn't he smartest thing. In 1975, we got to the semi finals of the main event (Free Press trophy) of the old School boy Bonspiel just to get hammered by Dale Duguid's team. We gave up a 5 & then a 3 ender in 5 ends. They were just too good. What a great team that was. Arrogant as hell but you couldn't deny their talent.

I started out at the Fort Rouge in 1971 when I was in Grade 10 at Churchill High. We had our high school curling league. We sure had a lot of kids who wanted to curl. Some went on to be damned fine curlers in the Men's league & competed for the provincials to go to the Brier. I played Men's League for many years at Fort Rouge. I don't curl anymore but I still consider it my curling home. It's always had the best ice in the city & I can tell you it sure had the best pizza. Yes!! I got into curling because of Don Duguid & his total dominance of not only Canadian curling but Manitoba as well. that 2 year run he put together from 1970 & 71 was amazing. He skipped the best rink on the planet at that time during those 2 years. Rod Hunter wasthe best third in the world. He wasn't nicknamed The Arrow for nothing. And his front end could sweep with those corn & artificial brooms all day long. Don had a 15 minute curling segment called "Duguid's House after late sports on the CBC on Sundays. He'd go over such things a grip, stategy, fundamentals & usually show how to read ice & throw a few shots. I watched that show every Sunday night before going to bed as I had school the next day. When I was curling in our little CHS league, the men would start coming in at about 6:45 pm as we were finishing up from our 4:30 pm ice time. Their draw was at 7 pm. So, this is 1972 in October. Orest Meleschuk from Fort Rouge was the world champ. He had beaten Bob LaBonte from North Dakota to win the Air Canada Silver Broom. If you guys know about the burnt rock... Anyway, I come off the ice & there he is. As big as life. Orest meleschuk & his entire rink standing there right in front of me. At first, I just ignored him as I sat down to take off my curling shoes but my heart was pounding & my stomach turning over. I had to talk to him. I jst had to. Although I was scared & just 16 years old, I worked up the courage to do do so. I went up to them, tapped Meleschuk on the shoulder, opened my mouth & something like "Uhh, ahhhh.... Errr... Mr Meleschuk, all you guys are great!!!" I remember how dry my mouth was & how nervous I was. He said, "Thanks kid" & then turned & ignored me as he kept talking to his teammates. I was totally crushed. I had made a fool of myself. I read later that Meleschuk was a moody kinda guy & wasn't the most friendly person to chat with so I don't feel bad. As I got older, I also know I would have handled things a lot differently than I did when I was an awkward, shy teenager. It was still good though to have a brush with greatness. In the lounge upstairs, the 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom is encased in a glass display. It's awesome to look at still.

I've been saying this since pre season last year & yet we can't seem to rectify the situation like other teams can. We let Sayles go to free agency & didn't seem to go after any free agents as well which is a real concern.

Read a story about the Montreal Gazette which is owned by Postmedia. They were supposed to lay off a number of writers, reporters & production staff last week. Something in the order of 30 people. However, public backlash once the move became public was so severe that PM only laid off a handful of employees, including longtime sportswriter Pat Hickey who covered all the pro sports in Montreal. A consortium headed by former Gazette columnist David Farber attempted to buy the Gazette from Postmedia so they could run it independently. However, PM refused to sell even though PM itself is losing hundreds of millions of dollars itself each year. Seems the majority of PM's shares are owned by hedge fund out of New Jersey who seems hell bent on destroying the newspaper industry in Canada. In other words, they'd rather grind each paper into ground than sell off their newspaper assets.

Tait works for the Bombers. He can't be critical of the team by calling them out or he's fired. He's not a columnist. Columnists are paid to have an opinion & for giving it. Having said that, I like Ed Tait. I'd rather he be doing that than being silenced by the Postmedia purge of the newspaper industry in this country. So many talented writers & reporters silenced. Postmedia are ******* bastards.

Gainer & Michael Ball vs Buzz & Boomer... IN A STEEL CAGE!!!!! At Wrestlemania.

Why haven't we addressed the interior of the Defensive Line. Why can some teams find big run stoppers in the middle & we can't? This is our defense's achilles heel. Please ask both Walters & O'Shea that question. As the Lions only gave up a conditional fourth round pick & with the contract he signed, did the Bombers try to acquire Dane Evans?

The Bombers should launch a lawsuit aginst him & the Riders for slander. That would get that liyttle urchin's attention. Probably lead to his firing.

Everybody trashes the CBC but if it wasn't for them we'd probably not know who Gordon Pinsent was. The CBC gave Canadian actors work back in those days. I know Lorne Greene, John Vernon & others got their first tv exposure with the CBC.