Mark H.

Manitoba's reliance on transfer payments has been mentioned several times. Transfer payments as a percentage of total government revenue are sitting at about 25%. They used to be 40%.

You're either exaggerating or uninformed. Did you know teachers in big bad union-unfriendly Alberta can take five personal leave day per year?

Looking for change. Not very satisfied living in Saskatoon. The only thing I will miss in Saskatchewan is my house and going to Rider games. Other than that, it's pretty boring and ugly out here. My personality is better suited in the east where I can get out of the house and do more. Plus, CFL games are national, so I can still enjoy Rider games on TV . TV over Mosaic? Easy choice

Huff saw a value in Shomari. Some people here dont. At least Shomari has played & started. For 3 seasons Pall was putting his feet up drinking a few beers at practice for the Stamps, Als & Bombers, getting paid & planning his next adventure with CFL Vacation Tours. They have beer and vacation tours? Dude, I shoulda been a footballer

He still has couple of prime years left - generally 27 - 32 for most athletes.

I'm extremely pro-Manitoba, but I'm just gonna point out that I'm not in any way related to the oil and gas industry, but my starting salary here was an increase of about 1.5x and has gone up regularly since. Housing costs in MB are comparable to here, yet pay hasnt gone up with it. Spin off good sir. My salary could go over a 100 K in Alberta. Here you don't even make that with a masters.

what a ridiculous statement to make. Alberta has seen it's population grow by something close to 1 million people in the last decade, you think it's cheap to build infrastructure to support that many new people? Especially without raising taxes? Give me the government who keeps taxes low rather than the one that raises taxes at the drop of a hat. Oil will bounce back and Alberta will be rolling in the money again within a few years, Manitoba is still going to be stuck with their ridiculously high tax rate in a few years though. My my, touchy on such an innocent statement. Manitoba has worse infrastructure problems than Alta. has, and way less money to have spent on it. Alta., with any kind of competent governing, should have quite the nest egg, even with a minimal Prov. tax, but they don't. Even though my statement was tongue in cheek…it still stands. So the question is, who's statement really is that ridiculous? As an Albertan who has lived in calgary & been through the Klein cuts... Alberta by far. We've squandered tens of billions just since 2007. Our Conservative politicians out here are douchebags. Manitoba's problem has always been the NDP with its pro labour, high taxes & anti business government. There's plenty of mismanagement in Manitoba but not on the scale of Alberta. Just to be clear, when you say "squandered tens of billions", you mean that the people of Alberta got to actually keep their own money? Because here in Manitoba when we talk about a government squandering billions it's when they take it from us through taxes and waste it on a hydro line that costs far, far more than it needs to be, for no good reason. I don't understand why the Cons aren't going hard after the bipole 3 issue. In the last election they barely mentioned it.

Germany is better, but countries like Britain and France have enormous socio - economic challenges.

Two things: 1. Alberta teachers have received wage increases of 5% per year in recently settled contracts (the past 3 - 5 years). In MB, we've never gotten more than 2 - 3 percent increases. Nurses in MB. took a wage freeze a few years ago. I realize I'm only looking at a couple of sectors, but I think the idea that MB. is union friendly while Alberta is not is somewhat misplaced. 2. Most people go to Alberta because the oil fields are the only place in Canada where you can earn good money without having a degree. Of course they could find employment at home, but nothing can compete with that oil field pay cheque. Seriously, if some one running a manufacturing business paid their employees oil field wages, they wouldn't be in business very long.

You would think they'd have atomic clocks.

Political popularity depends almost entirely on circumstances.

I do not envy the party who wins the 2016 election. With the state of things in Alberta, transfer payments are bound to shrink even further. They used to be over 40% of total revenue for Manitoba; they are currently 23% of total revenue.

Your life is about to change for the better - except for getting lobster juice all over your Riders jersey

If you're going to whine about this - have some wine and cheese instead.

I'd be very surprised if they changed the concession prices. At least not until they know what kind of crowds they can draw.

They contributed quite a bit to IGF. No they didn't. They gave money for the UoM fitness centre. None of the fed money went directly into the stadium. As the old saying goes "there's more than one way to skin a cat."

Of course I'm biased as a CFL fan, but I totally respect that

Goal tending isn't as much of a factor as it used to be. Chicago didn't need outstanding goaltending, nor did Detroit or Boston.

My thoughts exactly. There are times when a coach's stubbornness is simply beyond reason.

He was a beast on at least one play...

Of course - what else were we expecting?

I say he got up front money from Taman. You know, 100k due on April 1st or something equally insane

Good win - huge pressure by the Jets in OT. So many games that last year's team would not have won

This is the league where Kerry Joseph has 9 lives...Glenn wil be signed before TC starts

Mack was as useless as **** on a bull. He'd never have done what Walters did today. Not in a million years. Congrats to Kyle Walters for doing a great job today. You need to research Bulls a little more closely...