Mr Dee

So, Muamba isn't on Montreal's depth chart, so he's not dressing, Shortill is listed as the starting MAC. Tanner Marsh is backing up up Cato at QB....Anthony Boone is next up. And Brouillette hasn't sold his # to Muamba yet, as he's listed as #10. You think we dress a lot of D-linemen? Ottawa has 12 listed on their depth chart and only 4 LBs and 6 DBs. Someone better be versatile. Ottawa has used 6 different kickers and 6 different punters this year. Kickers - Alix, Alvarado, Maher, Pfeffer, Milo and Wilder. Punters - Alix, Maher, Milo, Pfeffer, DeMarco and Wilder. 80.8% of MBB voters want Ottawa as their pick. Chris Schultz has Montreal by a FG. But keep in mind, he believes Hamilton, with Matthews at QB will defeat Calgary by 3, so, we'll see.

Maybe you're referring to the board being stacked with sell-friendly officers...I'm looking for that now. OR...both "Since coming to power in 2006, the Harper government has waged an all-out war on the Wheat Board as a public enterprise, purging its farmer directors and replacing them with government appointees, overturning legislation in place for decades, refusing to recognize the vote of its farmer members, and putting the organization on the road to complete privatization." - 250 News April 2015

Don't let the "nuanced" "ridiculous" posts take attention away from seeing what Harper has done during his "reign". It's important to know what the PM has done while in power.

So, full pint is the best then?

Montreal at Ottawa Rakeem Cato starts for Montreal. Ottawa - Had their 3-game win streak snapped last week by Toronto 35-26; that loss also ended the REDBLACKS’ home winning run at 3 in a row. Ottawa fell behind 14-0 after just 6:52 of the game and never led as they made seven two-and-outs on 14 possessions against the Argos. Montreal - The Alouettes will also be coming into this game after a loss, a 33-21 defeat at Regina in which they trailed for all but 3:15. Rakeem Cato came off the bench at half-time and generated 206 yards of offence and 2 TDs compared to 135 by Crompton in the first half after which they trailed 15-1. Thanks to a strong defence and an offence that has controlled the ball for a league-high 32:16, the Ottawa defence has been on the field for the fewest plays of any club (636, 53.0 per game). Likewise, their offence is #1 in plays from scrimmage at 61.3 per game, a gap of +8.3 plays per game. Henry Burris Is on one of the finest runs of his career having thrown for 300+ yards in 6 of his last 8 games (first time since 2007) and for 400+ twice in his last 5 games. He is on pace for a career high 5,416 passing yards and has the lowest interception %of his career at 1.8% (previous best 2.4% in 2008). Burris’ completion % of 69.5 is far ahead of his career best of 65.8 in 2013 and over his last three games he has gone 88-of-120 for 73.3%. he needs 132 more yards to reach 59,000 for his career. We need this Henry ^^^ in their game tonight against Montreal.and more of J. Johnson's running the ball. Anything to keep those pesky Alouettes in the losing column.

It's a tough question, isn't it? Jobs versus human rights issues.. But one thing it isn't, is....a laughing matter.

- Last week, all four winning clubs outrushed their opponents, took fewer penalties, had more Time of Possession, ran more plays from scrimmage, were more successful in 2nd-&-long (combined 41% conversion rate versus 28% by the opposition), and held an edge in starting field position. - The Tiger-Cats loss of Zach Collaros raised the count to 7 out of 9 clubs now having lost their #1 QB starter at some point this season. Only Ottawa and Calgary, a combined 17-8, have not lost their #1 quarterback for at least one game this season. Since 2012, only six times has any club had the same QB start all 18 games (out of 34 team seasons) – and Henry Burris has four of those having now made 66 straight starts (the others are Mike Reilly in 2013 and Bo Levi Mitchell in 2015). - Week 14 contests averaged 53.8 points per game, the third consecutive week that scoring has increased over the previous 4-game set, and ended up as the fourth-highest of the season. Scoring was consistent across all four games and none had any less than 48 points for the first time in any week of the 2015 season. Net offence average 334 yards per team, the best average in the past six weeks of play. - Last week’s games averaged 23.5 penalties reducing the season average to 24.4 per game, the lowest it has been all year. Over the last 11 CFL games, penalty totals have averaged only 22 per game. - An in-depth look into Week 14 game rosters showed that BC’s 46-man squad averaged just 26.6 years of age, by far the lowest of any club. Of the 368 players declared eligible to play in Week 14, 137 were born in 1990 or later i.e. 25 years old or younger. Half of BC’s 46-man group were in that category while Montreal had only 12.

ABH.... Since winning his majority, Stephen Harper’s government has signed or finalized 23 new trade or investment deals. The right trade agreements can create opportunities for Canada. But the Harper government has seemed more interested in getting lots of deals than in making sure each is good for Canada’s economy. Of all the deals facing Canada, three are by far the most important. They are the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Europe, and the U.S.-led trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Considering the financial transfers they tend to create, a more precise name for these deals might be: A Locked-In Agreement to Transfer Public Money to Large Companies, Lawyers and Arbitrators. The deal we know the most about is the FIPA with China. Of the big three, it is the only one that has been finalized. Some details of the FIPA will illustrate my point that the government has been behaving like a salesperson who gets lots of orders by selling at a loss. For example: 1. The Harper government gave Chinese investors “market access” to Canada — meaning a right to buy what they want in our economy — without getting the same for Canadian investors in China. That is the most lopsided concession I had ever seen by Canada or, for that matter, any other country across hundreds of similar agreements. 2. When he announced the FIPA, Harper said that a FIPA “ensures non-discriminatory treatment” for foreign investors. But the actual terms of the FIPA (Article 8(2)(a), to be exact) let China keep all its existing laws, policies, or practices that discriminate against Canadian investors. No one could fact-check Harper’s misleading claim at the time because the text was kept secret for about eight months after he made it. 3. In the FIPA, the Harper government exposed Canada to potentially massive financial liabilities due to the generous protections it gives to foreign companies, including a right to seek uncapped amounts of compensation from governments directly before international tribunals. AND Harper was clearly desperate to finalize the CETA before the election. Several times he has announced it with fanfare. Yet, despite various concessions, he could not get it done in time. This is mostly because the Europeans looked closely at the deal’s generous protections for foreign investors and asked about the consequences for domestic courts, democracy, and public budgets. ALSO Harper is poised to compromise Canada’s dairy and auto industries in a bid to finish the TPP negotiations before the election. The Americans seem to have sensed his political vulnerability and played him to Canada’s expense. My guess is that, if the TPP is concluded before the election, its text will be kept secret until after the election. Voters will not have a chance to learn from outside experts what the government gave up. http://t.thestar.com/#/article/opinion/commentary/2015/09/30/selling-canada-out-one-deal-at-a-time.html

Yes, that's true, but surely the same could be said of these magnificent QB specimens that grace us with their presence, and yet, they still fail, and they are retained to 'develop' with CFL clubs. I don't know if any CIS QB could ever be a starter in the CFL again, but, with their knowledge of the CFL game, they are already ahead of a lot of 'Merican-football-locked-in-thinking prospects. It's just too bad there isn't a mechanism in place to allow for more development.

What, then he does the tour again? I'm beginning to see reasons why the Bombers ended their interest, if this source is for real.

Walters has more than one tough decision to make this off season. If he truly wants to remain as the GM, and not put his name in at Guelph, then a total review of operations must be undertaken. Start with MB. He must be replaced. If O'Shea balks at that, then , I'm afraid he must go too. He won't. Extend who we have to extend, and by gum, get some decent players in here on the O-line, D-Line and get one of those circus-catch receivers who will entice other coaches to throw the challenge flag. Simple, right?

Quite a few facts left out there. Willy went down early in the 3rd quarter. And the score? 4-3 Edmonton. Then Brohm came in and game went out. 1st play after Brohm didn't move the ball....Lirim punts for 47 yards and Lawrence returns it for 53 yards to the Bomber 3... TD Edm. - Next Bomber possession, Brohm intercepted....Edmonton TD...and the rout is on. Reilly may play better this week, but he sure hasn't looked impressive lately.

Every GM in the league disagrees with you. If he were a CFL calibre QB he would be on a roster or PR somewhere. He is not being blackballed because he is Canadian. Every GM in the league has backup QBs that shouldn't be on a roster or PR somewhere...because they aren't very good at all, so, that doesn't make your statement about Yantz any more true. QBs don't count against the roster do they?, so there's no incentive to keep an NI QB stashed somewhere? Yantz can't be any worse than some of those bozos that we've seen.

Well, he did cut his hair..

Agenda still going strong, but wrong, wrong, and still wrong.

I just got here, so I'm blameless This is fantastic news and only acknowledges what us Bomber fans have been seeing all year. This guy is a player...and HE wants to be here.

One doesn't just find parlour coffee, one must be introduced to it.

That's Conservative Mulroney speaking. And he's not alone on Harper's Foreign Policy issues. Paul Heinbecker is a senior advisor to the School of International Policy and Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University and a fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. A former chief foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, he was appointed ambassador to Germany by Mulroney and ambassador to the United Nations in New York by Jean Chrétien. Excerpts International Experience - With the exception of David Emerson, who served briefly, Harper has appointed foreign ministers as bereft of international experience as he was. Furthermore, the Harper government made clear it neither valued the expertise of Canada’s foreign service, aggregated across geography and time, nor trusted it. His government sold off irreplaceable diplomatic real estate abroad—important multipliers of diplomatic access and influence, that had been acquired over generations—and willfully diminished our diplomats’ standing, both in the countries in which they served and at home. Personal Diplomacy - The Harper government got a hard lesson in the importance of personal diplomacy recently when it was revealed that American negotiators in Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations had concluded a bilateral deal with Japan that would let Japanese automakers ship cars and auto parts into North America duty free using materiel from Japan’s low-cost non-TPP partners, handicapping the crucial Canadian car and auto parts industries. Washington apparently did not give Ottawa advance warning, a breach of trust that would have been inconceivable in Mulroney’s day. Spin and Reality - Unlike preceding prime ministers, Harper did not conduct a foreign policy review when he came to office. Other Headings Relations with Washington Mexico China The Middle East Ukraine Foreign Policy Outside In - The Harper government has talked a lot and accomplished a little. Stagecraft has trumped statecraft. Relations with Washington rival the dysfunctional Trudeau-Nixon days. With Beijing, our second most important and fastest growing economic partner, the Harper government has been pursuing an on-again, off-again light-switch diplomacy. Its interest in Asia has generally been more transactional than strategic, and we have been excluded from the East Asia Summit. Harper has needlessly, deeply alienated Mexico, our third-largest trading partner. It has subcontracted our Middle East policy out to Israel’s Likud. Its vaunted Arctic defence priority is window dressing. Harper and Baird’s posturing on Ukraine is not impressing anyone, certainly not the Russians. Of the major trade deals the Harper government has negotiated, only the one with Korea is in the bag, albeit several years late. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Europe is awaiting ratification by EU member states—not a sure thing—and the TPP is held up on two issues vital to Canada—the auto industry and the dairy industry. Stephen Harper’s (and John Baird’s) lecturing at the UN have made us the world’s scold, and lost us a Security Council election. Foreign posture has replaced foreign policy. Oh Canada. http://www.theharperdecade.com/blog/2015/9/27/foreign-posturing-how-does-harpers-foreign-policy-stack-up

I remember that Brink play distinctly. It was impossible for Brink not to have scored a TD by crossing the goal line. Ref might have said he forgot where the goal line though. So, there's that.

Or, they're going to try and keep him in the fold...like they said.

I have to disagree to an extant. I do like how Peach contains. He is usually in position to make plays. He is definitely not the 'rush end' type of player all teams covet, but to say he sucks is not true. He is an average DE, who, in rotation with a player like Cole or Gibson, can be effective. Unfortunately, both Gibson, and now Cole are not available. Let's hope this Vaughn guy is magic. Yeah, right eh.

That is awesome and totally seems to be what he is suited for.

I'm totally against that idea. I like our NI ratio and the draft process and the emergence of young Canadian prospects. I don't like the idea of athletes making choices other than playing football if there are less spots on CFL rosters for them. I don't like the fact that Import players can, and will leave after one year. I don't want this league to become a 'feeder' league. Reducing the NI ratio now would lead to more reductions in the future. That would be inevitable. More reductions lead to less football interest at the college level. You get the picture. I like our brand of football. Maybe some of the signing requirements and contracts can be adjusted - such as failed NFL tryouts return to their drafted teams, but 2 less roster spots doesn't interest me. Fix the contracts, work on the officiating, but leave my NIs alone.