Mr Dee

Lirim's numbers...broken down a bit more... Just FGs - 14-17 82.4% - 5-5 20-29 yds, 2-3 30-39 yds, 2-3 40-49 yds, 3-4 50+ yards - longest 53 yards. Lirim has missed 5 converts, Bede and Shaw have missed 4, Paredes 3 Medlock is a phenomenal 33-34 on converts Hajrullahu however, leads in KO singles with 5

I did ask myself why, but I'm not on good speaking terms with myself, so, I didn't get an answer.

Let's face it, if our special teams made just a handful less mistakes so far this year, we'd have 5 wins, and nobody would even be talking about it.

Toronto @ Edmonton........Game Day Notes - CFL.ca Previous home game - Toronto at Fort McMurray Toronto won 26-11 James Franklin will start at QB for Edmonton. Toronto will try to add to,their sack total of 18 against Mr Franklin. Edmonton still has the best Defence in the league, and the best secondary. Edmonton had 8 turnovers last game...but still managed 464 yards on offence. Mostly due to Derel Walker' s14 catch 183 yards. Toronto is 3-2 on the road. The Argos feature three highly successful first-year CFL players in Vidal Hazelton, Kevin Elliott and Tori Gurley. They have now combined for 14 of Toronto’s league-high 20 TD receptions. Each is on pace for at least 9 receiving touchdowns this year – and only two teams have ever done that; Calgary in 1993 (Sapunjis 15, Moore 12, Crawford 10) and Edmonton in 1991 (Craig Ellis 10, Jim Sandusky 10, David Williams. - Despite the 398 yards allowed last week, Edmonton still leads the CFL as the only club to allow under 300 yards per game (287.8). Their opponents have the fewest first downs, passing yards and lowest pass efficiency rating at 74.8 They lead the CFL with 27 sacks. - The last time Toronto won 4 games in a row came back in September 2013 when they ended the month with a 4-1 record. The last time that the Argos were as good as 7-2 at the halfway point was in 1997 on the way to 15-3. - In the last 3 games Trevor Harris was sacked 11 times, as many as in the season’s first 5 games. His 22 sacks against is the most in the CFL. Despite that, he leads the CFL in completion % at 74.1, in rating at 115.7 and with 19 TD passes. - Hazelton: Ranks #2 in the CFL with 38 catches and #3 at 501 yards on pace for 1,127 for the year. He is #4 in targets at 59. 6 Argo Comebacks: Toronto has come back from a deficit in all six of their wins. They lead the CFL in comeback victories in 2015 including 4 wins when trailing after the 3rd Quarter. Toronto has been outscored by 35 points across Q1-Q3 (121-156), but are +49 (88-39) in the 4th Quarter. 6-0 vs 0-2: When Toronto wins the turnover battle they are 6-0; when they do not in 2015 they are 0-2.

I just read that now, about the $15/hour, (it starts at 12, 15 by 2019). That does seem to be a scary proposal but many countries do have a higher min. wage and are doing quite well. What is interesting is that Canada should be looking at what other countries are doing, especially in the area of Health Care. We have a lot to learn in this area and it may be worth our while to study this issue because there surely must be better ways. (Even taking into consideration the Country's size).

Must be MOS's propensity to use "his" players.

This talk about MOS' s loyalty to players ends, IMO, when the Coaches get together and go over the potential starting lineup for the team they are playing, taking into account, minor injuries, practice performance, past game performances, ratio issues, readiness and the game plan. We can question Turner over Collins, and such moves, but if we don't know the facts behind the reasoning, and, the defence is showing signs of good performance consistently, then what the hay, why can't it be done?

Tidbits.. Sacks - Mtl 6 Ham 1 Turnovers - Mtl 2 Ham 3 Rushing yds - Mtl 123 Ham 29 Smirks - Popp 1 Austin 0 Zachary Collaros was still the best QB out there, but Mont. kept him contained, sacked him 6 times, and kept him off balance just enough. But raise your hand on who expected Tanner Marsh to come in and manage the game just enough to squeak out a win? The best thing about this game? - Now we don't have to listen to that "unbeatable at home" stat any longer.

It is far better to suck...with a win, than to suck, well, in any other way. But, I made all the tough picks this week...so we'll see how quickly the vacuum stays quiet.

You can't be serious...

No, he and DR. NFL confer regularly.

CFL game notes…and bits and pieces... - The Ticats have scored 292 points this season, the most in the CFL by far, and allowed 156 points for a whopping differential of 136 points. - Hamilton leads the league with eight defensive touchdowns this season and 11 overall, leaving the Ticats within reach of two single-season all-time records: 1) Defensive touchdowns in a season, which the Ticats can break with four more touchdowns. They sit three behind the Lions' 11 defensive touchdowns in 1987. And, 2) Non-offensive touchdowns, which combines defensive and special teams touchdowns. With a high-scoring defence combined with the talent of Brandon Banks, the Ticats have 12 non-offensive touchdowns through eight games. The record for that in a season is 15 by the very same Lions back in 1987, another record well within the Ticats' reach. - Mike Daly, Zach Collaros and Terrell Sinkfield Jr. were named the Shaw CFL Top Performers of the Week for Week 9 of the CFL’s 2015 season. A Hamilton sweep. - Ti-Cats have 30 takeaways for 118 points this year. - Quarterback Zach Collaros leads the league in passing yards with 2,314 and arrives at the stadium ready to roll: the Ticats have outscored opponents 70-6 in the first quarter of their last five games, and held halftime leads of 31, 21 and 21 points the last three weeks. They also lead the league in touchdowns with 22 and points per game at 36.5. - Not much happening with the Alouettes - oh wait, they have a new Coach after firing Tom Higgins. Jim Popp takes over..again. Oh, and A. Calvillo is now the QB Coach. Which begs the question..why'd it take so long? - Montreal used seven different running backs last week to gain 251 yards on the ground, As C Schultz says - "This is a tough first game for Jim Popp to begin his fourth stint as head coach of the Alouettes. Montreal has to survive the first quarter if they have any chance of winning this game. Hamilton has out-scored opponents a combined 63-3 in the first quarter of their last four games." He thinks the Ti-Cats will prevail as do 96.7% of MBB posters who bothered to vote. The Montreal vote? Me.

I'm glad you asked KBF. Could it be because Stephen Harper may very well be the worst Prime Minister ever? - Citizen Action Monitor "Still, given his longevity in power, and in regards to the fundamental things people grade a government on – such as the economy, democratic practices, the environment, corruption, foreign policy, culture, civil liberties – Harper’s record might very well place him as the worst prime minister in Canadian history." -Bruce Livesey "A laundry list of undemocratic actions, which include": - Proroguing Parliament 4 times shutting it down for a total of 181 days In 2008, Harper prorogued Parliament after opposition parties threatened to bring down his minority government. He did it twice more in 2009 when Harper claimed he wanted to keep Parliament in recess during the Winter Olympics (while opposition members felt it was to avoid investigations into the Afghan detainee affair)— and the fourth time was in 2013 after the opposition said he was avoiding questions over the Senate spending scandal. - Omnibus bills Starting in 2010, Harper tabled a bill with 883 pages that included changes to Canada Post and environmental assessments. Since then, Harper has passed 10 more omnibus bills to circumvent debate in parliament, often making sweeping changes to laws and regulations. “All have been an abuse of process and shown contempt for Parliament by subverting its role,” editorialized The Globe and Mail last fall. “Major changes to policy and law that should have been examined by MPs have been pushed through with almost no debate, sometimes with disastrous results.” One bill attempted to appoint Justice Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court, although he was not eligible. In 2012, one of the omnibus bills, C-38, completely gutted Canada’s environmental laws, cut $36-billion from health care funding, weakened Canada’s food inspectors through job cuts, and made it harder to qualify for EI benefits. - Robocalling during the 2011 election Michael Harris, in his book Party of One, calls it “Canada’s worst election scandal.” Just prior to election day, some voters across Canada received recorded calls that either told them to go to the wrong polling station, or were of a harassing nature, purportedly made by opposition parties. The targeted voters didn’t support the Conservatives. Investigations revealed the involvement of RackNine Inc., a political consulting firm the Conservatives hired, and Michael Sona, a low-level Conservative party staffer who was sentenced last year to nine months in prison for his role. Two judges found that it was likely other senior Tories were involved. - Fair Elections Act Last year the Harper government overhauled Canada’s election laws to deal with electoral fraud. But its critics soon labeled it the “Unfair Elections Act” because it weakened the power of Elections Canada, effectively muzzling the chief electoral officer from communicating with the public and MPs about investigations, and cut off the agency’s investigations arm, while polling supervisors were now to be appointed by the incumbent party’s candidate or party. (Elections Canada used to appoint them.) - Gagging scientists from speaking freely about their research Numerous scientists have been prevented from speaking to the media, especially those researching the environment. The government has also been accused of sending “minders” when some scientists have attended international conferences, along with speaking points, to ensure they stay on message. - Spying on environmental and aboriginal activists Jeffrey Monaghan, a criminologist at Carleton University, has obtained documents from CSIS and RCMP through access to information laws that reveal how these agencies are spying on the environmental movement, especially those opposed to pipelines or who participate in National Energy Board (NEB) hearings. - Auditing environmental and civil society groups In the 2012 budget, the government announced it was going to earmark $8-million so that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) could begin auditing selected charities. Seven environmental groups were soon targeted. This sum has since been increased to $13-million a year and expanded to anti-poverty, foreign aid and human rights groups, such as Amnesty International, as well as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and United Church of Canada. Last fall, the Broadbent Institute issued a report that said these audits were politically motivated – because no conservative think tanks or groups had been targeted. - Taxpayer-funded political ads This spring, Finance Canada is planning to spend $13.5-million on ads to boast about the government’s budget. The Toronto Star estimates that $500-million has been spent by the Harper government since 2009 promoting its programs – $75-million in 2014 alone. Finance spent $7.5-million on Economic Action Plan ads, Employment and Social Development spent $7-million on a skills initiative campaign, and the CRA spent $6-million on ads about new tax measures. Queen’s University political science professor Jonathan Rose told The Globe and Mail recently: “What’s so egregious is the blatant way that they’re priming the electorate before an election.” And there's more…so much more, but let's take a break for awhile to digest this...

????⁉❓⚠❓⁉⚠ Of all the puzzling statements in all the puzzling lands, this must be the puzzliest statement by anybody's hand.

Toronto, Calgary...makes no difference to me. Marve just has to play at least as good as he did vs TO. The defence played well against the hottest passer in the league. BLM is no slouch, but, so far he isn't having his best season. And no Cornish, but I wonder if they don't activate Keith Toston against U.S. and our run D. Special teams? They owe us...here's hoping for a great game from them.

You think a list of 100 things that Harper brought in is something? I'll link you to a list…in one category, that is scary. Posted on August 23, 2015 | James O'Grady | Written on May 20, 2013 - See more at: http://unpublishedottawa.com/letter/8548/canadian-war-science-long-unexaggerated-devastating-chronological-indictment#sthash.ZAI5blSN.dpuf The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment Hundreds of examples of the current Conservative Canadian government’s long campaign to undermine evidence-based scientific, environmental and technical decision-making. ​Scan this list…it is very long and kind of unsettling.

Well, let's see how the Harper balanced the last budget... - cut 36 billion for health care over 10 years. - closed veteran centres and cut the Coast Guard. - dumped Canada's GM stock...at a huge loss, 2.1 billion - raided the Federal Emergency Contigency Fund, 2 billion - over-charge EI premiums and spend the surplus, 3.4 billion - over-estimate tar sands revenue?, 1 billion - ignore 700 billion in infrastructure investment - cut billions from environmental, food inspection, aviation safety.... Voila...done.

The numbers are still there, those are facts. Just because you don't like how they're presented doesn't mean they aren't relevant. And aren't you doing the same thing of slanting your words to suit your bias?

It's not like the Cons aren't trying for that majority, what with the electoral redistributions. With the newly drawn electoral districts, the Cons would pick up an extra 22 seats when transposed in the new districts. Gee, I wonder whose idea this was for the re-distribution? http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/07/20/Harpers-Tories-Winning-Bet/ The Cons are also putting $1.2 Billion of taxpayer's money into local improvement projects….the vast majority into mainly Conservative ridings. $839 million, to be exact. This isn't new, of course, but wasn't it Harper who called out the Liberals, promising an end to political corruption, (pork-barreling is one element of it) and yet here they are... http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/05/harpers-pork-a-palooza-a-disgrace

Well, what I get from this is that the leaders of the other parties are willing to answer question from the media, whereas Stephen, answers maybe 5 questions. But there's a catch. Justin Ling reports That four of the five questions go to tour media—those journalists who are on the official Conservative campaign bus—and one goes to the local media. And....to get on that bus you'll need to shell out $3,000 a day. Or, alternatively, you can get discounted long-term rates of $12,500 a week, or $78,000 for the entire two-and-a-half-month campaign. Local reporters, on the other hand, have their questions vetted to ensure they're "local" enough. Local reporters are not permitted to ask national questions. Kory Teneycke (Conservative communications apparatchik) vets their questions. Sounds fair, right?

At this point, with the injuries and all, I see: Hamilton Edmonton - Calgary Toronto Winnipeg- Montreal - BC - Ottawa - Sask.

It's the same argument this particular poster is trying to push on this forum, that he tried in TEP. It didn't work there, and it won't work here. He dislikes MOS and tries to push that ridiculous notion that Willy should have been kept out of the lineup, even though that would not have kept him from getting hurt in the Ham. game.And Doug Brown? Well, I see see he's pulling up year-old columns to try to connect the dots. It won't work here, either JV....these posters are too aware of what's going on.

Yeah, I know....hire the right Coaches. Why didn't we think of that? It's so Captain O*ish..

Yes, we've had a bad run of hiring coaches, no doubt.But you simply can't say - "hire the right coaches", there is no such magic concoction...unless it's a fairy tale book.