Rich

The morning show was at its best when Paul Edmonds was hosting.

Thats crazy. To make things worse, the guy ended up dying.

In my opinion, there has been a lot of embarrassing discourse going on in this thread today and over the last year or two. After numerous attempts to try and curb peoples behavior people don't want to listen, so some lengthy suspensions have been handed out. I'm tired of the stupidity that goes on in here daily, and I'm sure many others are as well. If people can't have a discussion without belittling, making fun of, and insulting others, they aren't welcome to post here. Interesting video here from 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard. I recommend watching the whole thing, but this link has been queued up to start at 48:28. Watch it for a good 5 - 7 minutes. What Rogan is saying here is pretty applicable to what has been going on in here. The amount of times I've been asked to remove posts for the simple reason that people don't agree with them is damn right scary. I don't care if you are left or right leaning, if you aren't actually interested in discourse and give basic respect to people, and try to understand where someone is coming from society is going to a very very bad place. Forums are supposed to be about discussion. Not silencing dissenting views or simply posting to "win" the debate at all costs.

This is why I'd include Dunigan. As well as the hype, hope, and headlines he brought to Winnipeg when was signed, and going to the Grey Cup 2 of his 3 years here. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/One-glorious-night-266208361.html

To muddy the waters a little more, they still have to sign an entry level contact and are subject to RFA rules after that contract expires, it is just that they can do it with any team they choose. So not completely a "UFA". An RFA that can sign with a team of their choosing.

https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144540/china-and-india-lead-the-way-in-greening

When I click on a news item and it is a video, I never watch it. The level at which news articles are written are purposefully an easy read and it is faster for me to read it than watch a video. I can also scan and decide if the content is work my time. Suppose that ages me as well...

Hard to say without seeing how the contract is written, but once the players are no longer being paid, wouldn't the league be in breach of contract?

It was to Friesen.

Ukraine elects their next president - a comedian who was best known for starring in a political satirical drama in which his character accidentally becomes Ukrainian president. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48007487

Except neither of those things are what happened. What about aids ignoring orders and praying that it just doesn't come up again, putting "spin" on their answers that they had done "something" but not what he really requested, or Trump firing people for not doing as he asked. The world really isn't broken down into "anti Trumpers" and "Trumpers". Can't stand this black and white thinking. The world and this whole situation is in general more complicated than that.

Seems to me this debate about impeaching and indicting Trump has run its course for now. Let’s see what happens next with the report Amazes me how a number of you can fill up pages and pages of posts repeating the same things back and forth. Dedication . Here is something that has been mentioned but a little lost in the shuffle. The report indicates Trump aids regularly ignore his orders because they are reportedly illegal or unwise. Is this an indication of the system working in the US. Where would we be today if everyone had followed his orders? Or is this more an indictment of a broken presidency as utter chaos. Or both?

Setup a playoff bracket for anyone who wants to make some predictions. https://bracketchallenge.nhl.com/leagues/mbb-2019 Password is morningbigblue

https://3downnation.com/2019/04/05/cfl-to-assume-control-of-alouettes-report/

https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/gwyn-morgan-talk-about-collusion-how-foreign-backed-anti-oil-activists-infiltrated-canadas-government

Imagine if a president of a Country went to their Attorney General while an ongoing investigation into significant federal corruption charges of a private company involved with a Lybian dictator where they, among other things, expensed money paid for prostitutes for said dictator and that company also happened to be a major party contributor and the president tried to coax said attorney general into looking the other way and dropping the charges. Now instead of president, replace it with Prime Minister.

Fixed

Locked indefinitely until people can prove to me they can discuss this topic without slinging insults.

Might mean they changed his contract?

Sounds like he just wants to play. Here or another team.

Thread is unlocked, but I am going to start handing out suspensions to people who can't behave civilly in this discussion and in politics. Seems to be the usual suspects in both. You guys don't have to agree with each other, but you do have to respect each other and contribute to a discussion, if this is too sensitive of a topic for you to do that, then don't post.

Locking this thread for a day. Perhaps everyone can take that time to cool off and actually try to have a discussion without insults, gifs, whining, and name calling. Reflect if you all want to have an actual discussion here or I should just split this into two threads so each side can have their bubbles.

Keith Gretzky interim GM of the Oilers while they look for a replacement.