kelownabomberfan

I wish everyone would start wearing bowler hats again.

In terms of child poverty, I think Manitoba is number one again. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/child-family-poverty-manitoba-1.3332545

Have to agree with you here ISO. My wife had to spend 4 nights in our hospital here in Kelowna and she was probably the youngest on the entire floor by about 30 years. All the rooms and beds were full of elderly folk who should have been in nursing homes but instead were long-term sitting in a hospital instead. The woman in the same room as my wife had dementia and would essentially shriek most of the time, making it almost impossible to sleep. I got her out of there after 4 nights even though the doctors wanted her to stay, but it's impossible to recover when you can't sleep. How the lunk-head politicians couldn't see this coming I don't know, as the demographics are all there. Did they think everyone would just stay healthy and mobile and then just fall over dead when their time was up? Aging is a degenerative process. Most people aren't going to be able to support themselves and will require care in their last years on earth. So why aren't we as a society ready for this demand? Just boggles the mind.

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I didn't forget them. I just don't see where there's room for all of these guys. Someone's going to have to go. Honestly, with injuries being inevitable, I don't think we'll start the season with Lemieux or our first pick this season in the starting line-up, but they may be there during the season when Perrault gets injured, like he seems to every year, and others go down, which is just the way things are in the NHL now, unless you are Andrew Cogliano. Stafford can be traded for all I care, as long as he's packaged with Enstrom.

Why did you think that? Because you get all of your energy updates from David Suzuki and Al Gore? Coal is one of the cheapest sources of energy in the world. In the US they can just pull it out of the ground and burn it. And there's just a never-ending supply of it to boot. Is it incredibly dirty? Yup. I would fully support going off of coal and going hydro and nuclear, for sure. But not because of the man-made climate change thing, only because of the particulates that burning coal generates. Just look at China. Or visit Cairo sometime. It's particulates that are the problem in these countries, not CO2.

Connor Scheif Wheeler Tkachuk Little Ehlers Petan Copp Armia Lemieux Lowry Dano

did they apply?

Health care is something in this country that is long overdue for a major overhaul. Just throwing money at it isn't the solution. There have to be some tough choices made, or the problems are just being perpetuated. I realize that everyone goes into convulsions and screams if you mention changing anything about our current system, but it doesn't work. Never really has. As my dad's cousin, who is a retired doctor, told me once "if the government made food free tomorrow, everyone would want steak every day. And they'd want that steak every day, even if they didn't eat it. That just doesn't work long-term".

Manitoba with a crap team out-draws the Marlies, with a better team and a much bigger drawing radius. Well done Winnipeg!

I really hope with Toronto getting into BMO and away from Skydome and those Rogers morons, and Sask getting a new stadium (and hopefully soon Calgary too) and with new facilities in BC, Hamilton and Ottawa, that this league is only going to get stronger as the years go by. We've seen Winnipeg now field three years of some of the worst teams in decades and still make money, because of IGF. A new facility sure makes a difference. More money should mean higher salaries which should lead to better talent which should lead to better football. I will always support investing more money into talent on the field. It all starts and ends there. As teams hopefully get even stronger financially, I really want to see those dollars invested in higher salaries for those warriors who go out there every week and put their bodies on the line for our entertainment. They deserve every penny.

yup - lying about things always comes back to bite you. Unless you say that you are going to run max a $10 billion deficit and then you run a $30 billion deficit. Then for some reason you go up in the polls instead of down.

Heaven forbid Manitoba is being run by someone who actually knows how to manage money for a change.

I think Pittsburgh made a mistake rushing Malkin back. They were just crushing it without him. Kind of like how Philly was dominating in 2000 and then brought Lindros back, and totally started tanking. Hockey is weird that way.

he's starting his 3rd season as HC and this was only his first social? Yikes! Get it together Winnipeg! Invite MOS to every social from here on in! Start the social media campaign! #MOSsocials

I wasn't an Islander fan going into my pool but now I am! If they take out Florida that will screw a lot of people in my pool, and I'm cool with that. I honestly thought that Florida was going to stick it to em but then I saw that Florida and NYI are only separated by a few points in the standings. I really hope Anaheim turns it up a notch. My Getzlaff pick is looking pretty brutal right now.

The previous government put in a carbon tax? Seriously? Sounds to me like the machinations of an NDP apologist. On Wednesday of this week, there will be only one NDP government in Canada. And the clock is ticking on them too.

I sure do. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/syrian-refugees-spending-deadline-1.3533313 The CBC is even lowering itself to report negatively on the Liberals, so perhaps the honeymoon with Mr. Selfie finally is over.

He can't win in the playoffs?

Thanks for that. Go Islanders!

I went into my playoff pool draft all smug thinking I'd just pick off Panthers and then watched as they were gobbled up in droves, so then I started thinking hey maybe the Islanders can go three rounds...and grabbed a bunch of Islanders. That's how I've won a few pools in my day, just grabbing a dark horse and going against the grain. That's also how I've lost a lot of pools in my day too. Anyway, I grabbed Tavares and Okposo while guys were taking the third line guys from Washington...

I thought Aussie-Rules paid their players pretty well.

sounds like this thread title needs to be changed...

got any info on this? Who does he play for?