Brandon

https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2024/02/26/ole-anderson-dead-at-81/

It's in bad taste but far from RAGE inducing. Anyone who gets to a point of being RAGED by this should probably self reflect on why they get angry over the smallest things in life.

Looks good with the exception of a name missing at the FB position 😭

Are you trying to tell us that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" and that in happens in real life.... Noooooooooooooo waaay!

No thanks, I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier. I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %.

With how vague they were on identifying the shooters for the longest time, I'm wondering if they are scared that if they are convicted that it might incite another BLM riot?

The level of love for football in the States compared to the love for hockey in Canada is not even close. As times goes by and less people can afford Hockey and with Canada becoming more multi-cultural (i.e. immigrants with zero interest in hockey) , hockey is kind of slowly fading away from being a religion and into just another sport. In the States the people are still insane for football... when High School football teams in small tiny towns can outdraw the Argos by a large margin it's pretty indicative that the love for football up here isn't all that much.

This is my point, we can't call the guy a scumbag criminal when so little of the facts is known. Same goes with the club. Unless he has admitted guilt.

Has Kelly been convicted yet or admitted guilt? I am not a fan of the guy but I wouldn't quite call him a criminal until proven guilty. I wouldn't expect the Argonauts to go public about something that isn't out of the realm of possibility of being a complete lie. More information (or a court case) would be needed before truly reserving judgement. Now with Kenny Lawler it's black and white... the dude was caught drunk driving. Not much needed in that for proven guilt.

It's not downtown and also that stretch is slowly fading away. A few of the business owners wanted to create more patios and more foot traffic but the locals in the area put up a stink against it because they didnt' want the increased noise at night.

Very true! PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.

Winnipeg is a poor city, with inflation and the rising cost of everything it will be a forever challenge to fill those seats at those prices.

Considering the internet has several public articles about Toronto hiring the first woman assistant strength coach for the team, it was only a 2 second google search to find the answer. After seeing the pictures of her I would more then likely wager that a narcissist like Chad Kelly would hit on a very beautiful young lady. I do agree @bluto that innocent until proven guilty and that she could just be trying to play victim and screw the company and him out of money. But if I were a betting man , I'd feel way more comfortable putting money on this being the truth.

How does Toronto go from MBT to an even crazier guy?

Significantly worse and this is why the City/Province is trying to force people to come back to work downtown. I can only speak looking in from an IT perspective, but with everything moving to the cloud and without the need of having IT equipment on site and the ability to staff your positions across the country (or world). The need for a physical building decreases every day. On one project that I was involved with they moved 100 staff out of a floor in a building downtown to work from home and the cost savings was approximately 5 million per year. It is so much cheaper for a company to buy desk/chair and pay for everyones internet then for them to maintain a building and the infrastructure. It needs a radical change, they need to make downtown an area that people want to hang out or preferably live in. They attempted to revive downtown in the 80's with Portage Place failed and retail now is even further dead so retail is out of the question. My radical idea to revitalize downtown is the following: 1 - Zero tolerance on public intoxication/drugs and pan handling harassment. It's absolutely critical that they crack down on this before anything else. Ideally the Federal Gov't/Provincial Gov't would update the justice system so rather then sending people to jail they would be forced to get clean at a rehab facility. Build a rehab facility out of town (NIMBY naturally) where people can get clean and healthy. I just came back from Mexico and when we went to the downtown for tourists I saw plenty of security and was approached by zero drunk/methed up people. I felt significantly more safe despite seeing a guy with an AK-47 protecting the jewelry store. 2 - Close down motor traffic on Broadway from Donald to Osborne from May - September or maybe even year round. Make this our version of Sparks St in Ottawa. Have street festivals and restaurants with extended patios in the summer. The city has loads of parking nearby and make this a place that people to visit and walk up and down the strip. 3 - All 3 levels of the Gov't work with buying Portage Place and making this a University of Winnipeg International students destination. From what I understand Portage place was designed so that condos/appartments can be build on top of each end. The U of M have a large amount of international students coming in with huge money behind them crowding into houses and attending schools. Get these students to come downtown with their big money and live in the housing that will be build atop Portage Place. It would be in close proximity to the current U of W and the injection of cash from young 18 - 30 year olds living downtown would be a huge boom that would help fill out all those empty buildings along Portage. 4 - Launch a new "touch the universe" / science museum / childrens / agriculture Manitoba museum. The current childrens museum we have is absolutely garbage. Over the last five years we visited a number of other childrens museums in the States that were heavily packed full of tourists and families. It wasn't like they were doing anything insanely expensive but had really fun interactive activities and educational. 5 or so years ago I was fortunate to attend the Opaskwayak Indigenous days and they had really neat little activities such as learning how to bead , cook, hunt, dance , etc... It's a huge miss opportunity to do something similar in town with fun interactive stations. They could have a section on farming with large interactive exhibits which many other childrens museum already have. Etc... A place to bring families to Winnipeg or into downtown for the local citizens. But alas all of that cost money and Winnipeg is broke and is extremely poor so it would require the Feds to pump in huge dollars. Instead the city will be to scared to fight the homeless/drunk/panhandling epidemic and will suggest cheap stupid ideas such as opening Portage and Main and will continue to stall on making any drastic changes and downtown will continue to rot. For fun I include a few pics of Sparks street to show what it is like:

Yes most big cities do have terrible areas within downtown that normal people would avoid at all costs , the "bad" area. But would you say 100% of Vancouver downtown is like this? I have never directly gone to East Hastings so I can go only go by stories and the videos on the net, but from what I understood it is a small area full of heroin addicts and it's terrible... but then you cross the tracks or move a few blocks and you are back to million dollar beautiful buildings and back to normal people. It's funny that you say Garden of Eden.... I have gone to Stanley Park and it's a beautiful area that I found completely safe so... yes Vancouver does have a garden of eden lol. Vancouver downtown has large areas with a huge amount of foot traffic and extremely nice and expensive places to live. Clearly far more people desire to visit and live in downtown Vancouver then Winnipeg and it's not because of "perception". Once again... I challenge you to name me any area of Winnipeg downtown that is the "hot" place to visit and where at all times it has foot traffic and people wanting to live. Winnipeg downtown from every corner is dead and a dump. Maybe the Forks if that counts as downtown is the only area with a pulse.

1 - Yes but in the context of tourism and attracting people, extremely poor ticket sales is an indicator that it is not bringing in tourists. So it is a complete failure in that regards and in the context of "profitability" it's an even bigger failure. I didn't even go into the scandals within the museum and the racism issues it has experienced within. In all facets this museum is a huge fail. 2 - I pointed this out earlier.

The old post a gif because you can't prove me wrong.

How about the source being the official CMHR year end report of the financials and futures. Boy it really is getting tiresome always being right. Also the earlier comment about the suburbs... Any normal person driving through our downtown can clearly see it is a dump. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional and suffering from denial. Face it, downtown is a dump and Winnipeg is not a place where people want to come and visit. It's the truth.

During the development of the Museum and after receiving the money from the various levels of Gov't they dropped the forecasted attendances considerably from the lack of interest and public response of the museum. It went from an Asper vanity project to the city/province/feds trying to salvage the money pit that it became. A more recent update on the financials : Not every museum is going to turn a profit but when you have a museum that isn't bringing any tourists and where it depends on free tickets or kids in school to fill it up. It is a money pit. The latest angle that they are doing now is pushing "online visitors" which is useless for the city. Someone visiting the web page is not bringing in any tourists dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi's It has the full story of who owns what on wiki. Apparently it was Hep-A outbreak! I can see why they never recovered from that.

Watch him post a sad face tweet when he is cut and Rourke is brought in to replace him.

Well it appears Kenny Lawler was given a "promo" vehicle from a local dealership... I'm sure it still happens around the league.

Terrible news I would of thought that retired NFL players had some kind of enhanced medical coverage? If not then they should.

I remember going to the Regent location and it was always busy and it was your standard tex-mex which at the time was good since back in the 80's Winnipeg didn't have nearly the amount of diverse food options. I remember them using super soakers and shooting Tequila into peoples mouthes. The owner sold his franchises in town and the people/group who took over had no idea how to run a restaurant and destroyed the business within a few years. Eventually the new owners lost the franchise and changed the name to something else (name escapes me) and the place closed soon after. In the States during the early 2000's Chi-chi's had e-coli at several restaurants or something along those lines and the company died. Eventually someone used the name to sell Salsa and Chips and I used to see it at the grocery stores in Fargo. Modern day if you go to Paradiso in the States it is kind of close to the same experience as Chi Chi's.