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no it is flexing the muscles because it hurts American production and forces them to come crawling back to the middle east. It's all about trying to stay relevant.

But it rose to the surface as his career wore on... I still haven't forgiven him for showing up to the 07 Grey Cup hungover. Has that every been confirmed as fact? I know it's been rumoured but is this just a players history causing speculation? I don't know if it's confirmed but I heard it from places I'd put enough weight in to believe it's a fact.

But it rose to the surface as his career wore on...

It's not about blinking first. Everyone wants higher price oil, this is purely about OPEC nations feeling threatened because there are other oil producers now. They're just trying to flex some muscle. As I said, US oil shale production will be the first to go, there's already too much invested in the Canadian oil sands for them to shut down. So it'll be a temporary lowering of the price and then it'll rebound. Overall if no one panics it might be for the best. Keeps the Alberta economy from over heating, draws out production for longer etc etc.

OPEC won't keep the same production at low prices forever. They'll be trying to put some pressure on Western countries for a while but they'll eventually want to get back to higher prices, they rely on oil money to fund their countries. Supply can change pretty quick. Unconventionals are more costly and if the price stays low it won't make as much sense economically to keep producing it. I just don't see this being a long term thing, it's a short term hiccup while producers wave their dicks at each other.

Again though, don't get into too much of a panic over a short term drop in the price of oil. It's not bloody likely to stay low forever. It'll be a little blip and likely bounce back before too long. There will still be production of oil in Alberta and there is even more natural gas in the province than there is oil so companies might shift their focus to that if new projects in the oil sands don't get developed. It will be a slow down but if managed right it might not be a bad thing. The bottom isn't going to fall out in Alberta unless the price gets down to like $50 a barrel and stays there for years.

Prices will bounce back before too long. The reason there is so much oil out there now is because the US is doing a lot of oil shale production and they don't need to buy as much foreign oil. How it works is the middle east has huge conventional oil reserves, cheap and easy to get out of the ground. Oil shales and oil sands are much costlier to extract and turn into something useful so it's basically a power play by OPEC. Try and get the price low so people will be forced to go back to them. They rely on all that oil money to fund their own countries though so I don't see them keeping the price low for too long. I don't know if it will have a big impact on Canada simply because a lot of the oil sands projects require big investments that have already happened so they won't just shut down major projects. There will be a slow down in some areas to be sure but it could be a good thing if it's handled well and the price isn't low long term. Cool down an over heated economy in Alberta a bit. The States will likely be hit harder because their oil shale production is much easier to just shut down. In summary this is happening because the states got themselves to a point where they're basically self sufficient in oil and the middle east doesn't like it so they've getting into a **** waving contest. I forsee it being similar to what happened 2010ish. be a brief dip and things should pick up before too long. Now I could very well be talking out of my ass and maybe it'll be a big game changing thing with long lasting effects but I just don't see it. The world isn't lessening it's demand for oil, especially if the price is going to be cheaper.

I don't know about the last time but the Riders did it when Hamilton fired Cortez.

Give the man as much money as he wants to coach here. Would be the best offensive coordinator this team has had since I don't know when.

I had thought it was abundantly clear this was the intention, apparently not.

Pretty much by the book as expected.

I just find it ridiculous that his orientation is the thing that always gets brought up... Seriously who cares? Can he play football? Just seems that there's too much intolerance out there. I'd be awfully shocked if there weren't a hell of a lot of gay men playing football already.

There is so little difference between the systems, it really comes down to I think their online system since that seems to be the big thing these days and the controllers. I've never tried the xbox really so I can't say but I found the playstation controllers always seemed to be too small and hard to hold. Best controllers for a system in my mind was the gamecube. Just so smartly laid out, shame that people loved to crap on that system cause they were too cool for Nintendo. Was a real nice piece of work that got ignored by developers because the playstation was the hip thing.

Proulx has been the best ref in the CFL for a while now.

If Dave Dickenson wanted to be a CFL head coach that badly he would be one already. His career goals though seem to be Calgary Stampeders Head Coach and he's happy to wait for his turn once Hufnagel steps back from the sidelines.

I'd even take another Mike Riley (Coach not QB) era! Who are we trying to fool, at this point we'd take a Dave Ritchie era

looking down your nose at community (clown) college types is a required course for completing any degree, though McArts degrees are doing it purely to have that sense of smugness and no real career prospects.

There's legit science behind the winter blues. Lack of vitamin D can mess up people like that. In a climate like we have in Canada where sunlight hours in the winter are so short lots of people suffer a vitamin D deficiency.

As if the mocking of Reilly and EDM for losing wasnt enough. A significant % of Riderfans are complete dickbags. The number is barely shy of 100%, so yes...agreed...it is a significant number. Still wringing hands over Austin leaving - the better he does the petty jealousy and general dickbaggery increases equally. Desperately need another Al Ford era...thin out their ranks a little... All I really want for Christmas is another Al Ford era in Regina.

Guys who are most likely friends using social media to comment on things only they know about? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!!!!

Bellefeuille probably already has one.

Not to mention BLM doesn't appear to be a guy who chokes in big games like Burris & Glenn. Very true, those two are the biggest fair weather qbs the league has seen in quite some time. BLM just seems like a winner.

Can't really see the Stamps having problems with the Ticats in the cup... unless they just flat out choke. That Calgary team is playing too well and I think they recognize the importance of shedding that image of a team that can't seal the deal after a great regular season.

the very definition of a first world problem.

No idea why the Bombers felt that they couldn't have held a Grey Cup this year. It's obviously a league payoff to Braley. Didn't the Bombers feel that they weren't ready to host it? yeah and that may have some truth, but come on, Braley gets what is it 3 of the last 4 cups while owning two teams? You think that's not the league doing what they can to funnel money to the guy?