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No I don't. I just know a crap load of them that all share my opinion from all parts of this province. I know many chiefs from around the province and Wab will not be getting their endorsement. I work a ton in native circles as a volunteer, and politically. Politically, I have ran campaigns for 2 AMC chiefs, and 1 MKO chief. I know all the players in the room and I have had discussions on many topics with all of them. I have a ton of insight into this. Do I speak for every native, of course not, NO ONE speaks for everyone, but I am confident that I speak for enough of them. They don't know. This is going to be a retaliation move for some perceived greasy back room politics at the AMC orchestrated by Wab and Nahanni. It has nothing to do with the PCs at all.

I agree on the latter and I will be voting NDP this election. I just wish I could vote NDP in and Wab out....although I have a feeling he may have to resign in the near future. There is a smoking gun out there and he betrayed the man holding it.

The damage to Wab's reputation has not even begun yet and it's not going to come from the PCs although I suspect they will absolutely jump on it afterwards. There is a certain AFN ex-Chief that is going to drop a couple of big bombs during the election campaign on Wab and Nahanni. Its going to be political dynamite. You heard it here first.

Did he? We don't know that definitively unless someone here has XRay vision. We do know that Wab refused to be gracious, and instead was confrontational, and then refused to disengage by physically not letting Khan go. The push we don't know. However, if you are looking to absolve Wab, the evidence is very clear that he assaulted Khan. Whether it is a push, or pull it really doesn't matter. Reprehensible behavior. Khan was visibly upset and disturbed by this, and I don't blame him.

Yes, and as a native person, I can tell you he is especially unpopular amongst his own people. He is not a guy that garners much respect in native circles. I have no doubt anytime that someone criticizes Wab that it will be labelled racism though, and in many cases it might be, but he is a stinker that has hid behind that for a long time and I hope he is raked over the coals for his actions. However, I'm not sure this will translate into a big vote loss for the NDP. The PCs are equally unpopular for different reasons, However, with a different leader the NDP would be so far out front right now they wouldn't even need to campaign come the fall. Man....I still wish Teresa Oswald would have won the leadership. Manitoba might look a lot different right now.

Yes. It was bizarre that Kinew even chose to engage and refused to end the engagement at that point and time during a ceremony. The video doesn't show a shove, although the angle is very poor, but it does very clearly show Wab refusing to let go of Khan and pulling him back into a conversation he was trying to leave. I would have been upset if I were Khan too.

The accusations are not BS. Not at all. I know the woman, I know her family, and I know many who at one time called them (Wab and the victim) both friends. Not a single one has any doubt as to what happened. I saw Wab very clearly refuse to let Obby go when he tried to walk away. It wasn't a push but still unacceptable. Not really a lie, but an exaggeration imo.

Wab needs to wear his history. He has remained pretty unscathed by it so far. Despicable actions and I don't care how long ago they were or how he has "reformed" his temper. He has never shown an ounce of contrition for what should be a crime that garners automatic jail time. I have no respect whatsoever for that man. Wab very clearly pulled Khan back into a conversation he was trying to disengage from. I didn't see any shove in the video, but not allowing another person to disengage by use of force is called assault.

Hard money can also include signing bonuses. Non-hard money is defined as performance and games played bonuses. You get players cheaper with big up front bonuses and stable salary that is non-performance based. Better players for cheaper. However, it does not open up as much cap savings when injuries hit or players have a down year is the trade off Walters makes to get guys signed below market rate. The fact he is able to retain year end money, despite being at a disadvantage due to the type of contracts he offers is a testament to recruitment. You keep thinking that hard money is definitive advantage to saving SMS room at the end of the year. That is only true if it comes without signing bonus and players don't play up to their contract. As I clarified earlier, signing bonus is included in hard money and once paid it does not give any cap savings at all.

The fat. We have seen government bloat since Trudeau took charge. Reign it in. The size of the public service has increased 31% in the past 7 years at a cost of 151 billion dollars. I would start there.

Most teams do the same when they actualize savings from the cap. Walters did not invent this, nor is he alone utilizing it. He has been very disciplined at maintaining it though. In order to do so, a team must spend quite a bit under the cap one year to be able to keep deferring it forward. That means losing some really good players to injury for extended periods and not replacing them in-season. It's a trade off. It is more a testament to his ability to provide depth behind good players so that we don't have to spend in season on injury replacements then it is a testament to his financial acumen. When you lose a Matt Nichols, for instance, mid season and don't have to replace him until the last couple games of the season it opens up an opportunity to save some cap space the next year. Kyle is very disciplined at not losing a high price player and immediately signing another one mainly because he has been very good at providing quality depth that doesn't compromise our ability to win when injuries to high priced players occur.

Historical context does matter and population growth may help keep the numbers more manageable but as a % of GDP the debt has increased at the highest rate since WW2 under Trudeau by a substantial margin. What you will notice is that governments reigned in spending and brought down the debt after each significant spike, and that is vastly important to our economic success. The Liberals seem intent on not doing so. I am not criticizing pandemic spending, it was very much like a world war in terms of effect on the economy and the need for spending. What I will criticize is that there has been zero effort made to reign in spending since and that is very troubling to me. She is an absolute wingnut and I hope she is defeated thoroughly.

We trade risk for reward on that. The reward is that we get players a little cheaper for giving them a straight up contract. The risk is that we only retain salary savings through the 6 game and do not have unrealized bonuses to add to our end of season SMS savings.

I don't know...I mean it could...but it doesn't have to. I have been in many cities with very nice pedestrian overpasses. I can't see why they couldn't build something a little nicer than that.

Deficit spending is not one size fits all....hard to compare an 8 billion deficit to 300 billion deficit, and as I have stated earlier having a recovery plan AND STICKING TO IT, is massive. But yes, I was not a fan of Harper doing it either, nor did I excuse it. I voted against Harper's government for failing to return to balanced budgets.

It's a little overcooked, but I do like the idea of pedestrian overpass. Everyone wins.

3 things....1. Without pandemic related spending the Liberals still posted deficits that were twice as high as any year in history 2. Has the economy bounced back? The upcoming recession tells me no. 3. Deficit spending in isolation is not a bad thing when necessary. However, continued deficit spending without a recovery plan is not good financial management. Everybody is so willing to give the Liberals a free pass on their free spend because of the pandemic. Look at what was spent on the pandemic and what the overall spend is. The number is staggering.

Not great. Uneasy about the entire state of politics right now. Yes, the whole trans thing is gross. The far right is gross....as is the far left. Harper never ran deficits even remotely comparable to Trudeau's. As progressive as Alberta will ever allow her to be for sure.

I agree that the right seems to be going more right, but I disagree that the Liberals are not experiencing a sharp turn to the left since Trudeau became leader. Identity politics and massive deficit spending are things I closely associate with left of center politics and the Liberals are giving that to us in spades.

I don't think there is centrist anymore, at least at the party leadership levels. It has been completely abandoned in this polarized era of politics, and that is unfortunate. It's just too boring a style of government nowadays in this age of social media that requires soundbites that grab and a mostly uninformed electorate. There is Alberta left/right/centrist and there is the rest of Canada. All three would be considered right of centre by any other province's traditional definition imo.

EVERYBODY needs this. Particularly, anyone who advises, works on, or sets policy. It should be mandatory learning in public school and not just the obligatory virtue signalling type of course. Real in depth and unadulterated right from the grade school level. Generations were destroyed by this policy and the impact needs to be understood, so that the generations that follow don't just see the dirty, drunken Indian on the corner and instead feel a profound sense of guilt, and maybe...just maybe a desire to help this individual. Shameful piece of our shared history that must be taught and understood for reconciliation to truly happen. We don't get there without it. At this point it's worse than racism, it's combatting willful ignorance and widespread apathy along side the racism.

She would be considered slightly right of centre in almost every other province but Alberta I would think.

I agree with most of your assessment of centre with one caveat. I believe that a centrist government is one that works hard to minimize deficit spending and has plans for recovery of said deficits, and is also a government that remains pretty neutral on the size of government. The Chretien/Martin Liberals were centrist. I do not consider this free spending version of the Liberal party to be centrist. They aren't far off, but they are definitely more left leaning than centrist. Too much free spend to be considered centrist, at least by my definition.

You can cut taxes without increasing debt....especially when you are following up a Liberal government, such as this one, that it spending like a drunken sailor. By any metric, their spending levels would be a cakewalk to reduce.

The top 5 are definitely all future picks. All are likely to be NFL drafted.