kelownabomberfan

No I didn't misread it. The BCTF was given the right to determine class size and composition in 1998. Which is a total conflict of interest. Imagine in the real world, a business hands over all hiring decisions to the union. Suddenly they are hiring tons of guys and the business goes bankrupt, as they can't bear the weight of the extraneous workers. This is what was happening in BC with teachers until the Liberals took away this right, that the BCTF claimed they had "bargained for". Yeah right. Whenever a government union "bargains" with an NDP government, they are bargaining with themselves.

Not gonna lie. I will never, ever, ever, ever vote NDP. Provincially or federally. Just the worst party ever invented in history. So corrupt and stupid. Blech. I wish them nothing but exile to the dustbin of Canadian political history. May you never ever darken Manitoba's political doors ever again.

except that the NDP is a disease. ABNDP - anywhere in Canada.

I still remember 1999 when the NDP won - Pat Martin was on the TV and was going on about how "transition teams" were already at work to move the NDP into power. So happy tonight that "transition teams" are now already at work freeing Manitoba from the NDP enslavement. Next up - a Grey Cup for the Blue!

It's one thing if your union gets you job security. But if there's a whole pile of people that were hired for basically no reason, and now you can't fire them, you are essentially powerless to cut spending. You are stuck. The BC government saw the union hiring thousands of extra teachers without regard to the cost and had to put a stop to it, one way or the other. It's great to have three students per teacher but that's an unsustainable system.

Good to see Argo fans finally getting to enjoy a game-day experience they've been denied so long by those ass-clowns at Rogers.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2449500/mgeu-members-promised-no-layoffs-for-five-years-in-new-contract-offer/

It might just be general NDP ineptitude.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-challenges-no-layoff-clause-for-civil-servants-1.3069929 Here's the article. Just plain criminal. Shame NDP shame.

how is that even possible - no layoff clause. I remember the out-going NDP in Nova Scotia did a similar "screw you" to the taxpayers and handicapped the ability of the government taking over to lay off a lot of the unnecessary NDP deadwood they had hired during their 4 years of mismanagement and corruption. In BC the NDP gave the BC teacher's union control of class size and composition, if you can believe it (talk about a conflict of interest) before being punted out of office. The Liberals took away this right almost immediately, and now it's been in court for 15 years, with a final ruling to be handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada (the Supreme Court of BC ruled in the government's favour). Hard to believe that unions can be given rights like no layoff clauses and the ability to hire as many teachers as it sees fit, and the government coming afterwards is powerless to stop this blatant screw job, or has to incur millions of dollars of costs (taxpayer dollars all) just to fix it. We are almost due for another NDP government here in BC, and I can just see those bozos handing the BCTF the class size and composition power again, with another gazillion dollars spent in legal fees after the NDP are punted to claw that right back again. Oh.. I just love the NDP...

I agree with that. I think what cost the PC's was that their leader was so arrogant. As for platforms, I think that the PC's had the right one for the economic situation going on in Alberta right now. The NDP jacking up taxes and spending just isn't what is needed right now in Alberta. As someone else said, time for a sales tax, and also for a government with the balls to cut spending, not ramp it through the roof. Incidentally, I have family working in the Manitoba government right now. Since the Alberta election, many NDP apparatchiks have been fleeing Manitoba to the greener pastures of Alberta, as they've seen the writing on the wall in Manitoba (they will be canned immediately) and so have joined the ranks of the over-paid bureaucrats in Alberta. Notley's been hiring all of them. According to my family member, the unofficial NDP mantra is "why hire 3 people to do the job when you can hire 5?" That's one of the reasons Alberta's spending is out of control, their civil service is ballooning, much like Manitoba's did and BC's did in the 1990's. When the Liberals were elected here in 2001, they canned thousands of useless employees that were literally doing NOTHING. I expect that Manitoba will go through the same cleansing soon.

is Wolseley going to go Green?

yes. I don't think the NDP is blowing their brains out spending money in ridings like Arthur-Virden.

I can agree with this assessment.

ISO - you mentioned several times that you were in hospital and no one said "Hope you are ok now". Hope you are ok now.

having been involved in a few campaigns myself I can verify that this is true. Allocation of resources.

yeah well it's not that hard to forget - just look for the guy coughing up the puck in his own end, over and over and over again.

and it's the same coincidence that we went out in four games straight, while I watched Silfverberg, Kesler, Getzlaf and Perry just skate up and take the puck right off of his stick.

I am no Trump supporter to be sure, but I'd be the first to say that all of the lunatics showing up to protest at his rallies are doing nothing to help their Anti-Trump cause. I find it very anti-democratic to protest candidates running in elections. If they aren't popular they won't be elected, but if you show up and deliberately provoke altercations you really cause people to lose focus on the issues and just get mad that someone who seems crazy is telling you how to vote, and preventing others from hearing all of the issues. Imagine the cries of "undemocratic!!" if people had showed up and protested at Obama rallies. Just let Trump hang himself with his big mouth, and let him hold his campaign rallies in peace. And if you need something to do, rather than go be a jerk at rallies, try getting a job.

This was in response to Iso complaining about the carbon tax, and the Leap Manifesto. So how was Alberta screwed by the previous government such that they now have a horrible carbon tax jammed down their throat? I agree that the previous government made terrible mistakes and had to go. The NDP every once in awhile gets in just because they aren't the other two parties. That happened in Ontario back in the 1990's too, and Nova Scotia recently. But I've yet to see an NDP government elected "by accident" to last more than one term. We will see if Notley can break the trend. Right now it's not looking good.

that is a major problem here for sure - people pay taxes all of their lives in Alberta, Sask and Manitoba and then move to BC when they are in their government pension years. Yet they cause the biggest drain on resources in that stage of their lives. So it's lose-lose for BC. They should do what Quebec does and charge a moving to BC fee. It wouldn't compensate fully but it would help.

if Enstrom is truly our "best" LHD then no wonder we are not in the playoffs. Is it a coincidence that the Jets started winning as soon as he came out of the line-up?

exactly

doing a co-marketing campaign with President's Choice?

I wish everyone would start wearing bowler hats again.