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Lawler does not love that organization too much.

NICE! LOL

Now I will await their follow through because it's been what 2 years now? Talk is cheap. If they actually follow through I will give kudos, but color me skeptical right now. All I want to see is some actual movement on this. I want the government of the day to step up the efforts in collection and prosecution for offenders, I want the dirt released on all the slimy corporations and citizens that took advantage of a well meaning program, and I want an all parties non-partisan committee to come up with solutions for it not happening again. Before anyone says it, yea I know that all of this is a pipedream.

The premise of his article was that the Bombers have too many players over 30 and need to get younger. He identified Bryant and a few others as players the Bombers might move on from. He is right that we have a few guys on the wrong side of 30, but Bryant is not one that should be discussed in this particular conversation. Said the Bombers might move on from him. At no point did I suggest he said the Bombers should move on from him. It is beyond stupid to think that the Bombers might move on from Bryant. If the GOAT wants to return Walters will hand him a contract 2 seconds later. Just an idiotic premise that the Bombers might look at moving on from him. Bryant will be a Bomber until his play dictates we need to move on, or he doesn't want to be. There is zero chance that we have a TIMEX on his career. Also, I am not quite clear why he is worrying about us aging out. We will play our vets until they cannot play at a level their contract dictates they should be at, and just as we have always done we will draft, scout, develop and sign players in FA to fill their spots when they no longer can go. How do the Bombers get younger was the premise of the article. The answer is pretty obvious and it doesn't involve putting a stop watch on players careers for the arbitrary reason of getting younger. We will get younger when we have to by superior scouting, drafting, and FA and through superior roster management, and having the best depth in the league that are ready to go and even push vets out of their way. The only time any team needs to worry about their core aging out is if they don't have quality depth behind them. Our depth has been unparalleled over the past few years, aging out is not a concern.

Just a really bad reach even by his standards.

Totally agree. I want an inquiry to fix this problem for the future, and I wanna know why so much is unrecoverable. I am not opposed to the pandemic stimulus spending, and I am not opposed to getting it out in a rush. What I am opposed to is how the hell billions of dollars were paid out to people who didn't qualify but is somehow unrecoverable. I get the predicament the government was in, and I just wanna make sure that some answers are given and some planning is in place so that the next time this happens we get full value without the financial abuse. Not trying to pin one on the Liberals here.

The auditor general revealed today that 27.4 BILLION dollars went out to ineligible recipients of various covid relief programs and that a lot of it will be unrecoverable. As a taxpayer of this country this concerns me. I don't care what political stripe you are, this should concern you too. I hope Trudeau does the right thing and calls a public inquiry into this for the sake of transparency, and to make sure that such disastrous roll out of benefits will never be repeated. This is gross mismanagement on a historic level and I would like to know who needs to lose their jobs for this.

Hodge has an article in 3DN suggesting the Bombers will move on from Bryant because of his age. Smoke some more crack John. Good gravy.

I have to wonder how much the weather was a factor on Leggs. Perhaps, he is not a cold weather kicker. This was the first year we got to see him play in the cold and the results both K and P were not good. This is the only thing that gives me pause about his future as a Bomber. If we got a kicker that can't play in the elements we need to figure out a different plan. Certainly not saying that definitely was the problem in the GC, but a lot of players turn into busts when the mercury drops to -10, Leggs wouldn't be the first one.

They certainly rebounded from the Ignatieff, Dion years. I strongly believe that turnover of government is a good thing, so I applaud their renaissance as the NDP are not fit to rule imo. Cruel...I disagree. Angry...for sure...with good reason imo. I am absolutely seething with the Liberal government right now who have included one of my bolt action long rifles and two of my hunting shotguns on the list for c-21. Believe me....they are going to get decimated in rural Canada for this and I will never give up these guns. They will have to take a treaty Indian to court and prosecute him for owning hunting rifles.

I would hope any government learns from being tossed out of office. If not, Manitoba is in real trouble when the NDP win the next election. Disagree all you want WL, but the fact of the matter is that the last NDP government we had was terrible. I am willing to choke on my own political beliefs to give them another chance because the Tories are not good right now and I believe parties can learn from defeat. If I thought for one second that the Manitoba NDP now was the same party as then, there is no way in the world I would vote for them and I suspect neither would a lot of Manitobans.

SSHHH! Barron Washington does not appreciate you spreading around info that may effect his ability to double dip.

I doubt we see any marquee signings, but Walters will pick the value bins to shore up holes or we may see a returning player or two after they have found the grass is definitely not greener. For every high priced guy we sign one has to go I would think.

Exactly right. And he paid for it at the polls. It's such a red herring to dig up previous governments follies from close to a decade ago. The voters have spoken on that already.

Probably just a matter of Dyce feeling that Miles will be a better fit with him and his coaching team..not necessarily a better coach.

Well..So far Jeffrey is the only one who hasn't given a hard no to the Riders, so like you say..OC by default. In fact that is how I will refer to him. Default Jeffery..or DJ for short.

I think it's also the fact that Rene got beat out for his job.

Rourke is going to the NFL, but even a Vernon Adams earning his full season cheque with them loses them cap room. Heck, even a backup is going to cost more than Rourke did this year.

Singh got rooked.

Completely support abortion rights and believe they should be constitutionally protected, completely support gun control but NOT what the current government is putting forward. Just because someone doesn't agree with how the government is implementing something like gun control currently does not make them anti-gun control. That is what is completely laughable. A person can agree with an ideology but not the implementation the government chooses to go forward on the same ideology. To suggest otherwise is ridiculously myopic. When single shot .22s are being outlawed then the gun control legislation needs to be looked at. I am in favor or gun control for handgun and assault weapons. The "plinker" is not either. Apparently it is laughable to be in favor of some progressive ideologies and still be right leaning. SMH. Scares the far left to hear that for many, in fact most, the economy is just as important as progressivism is to them.

A significant majority of those who consider themselves right, or centre right, also agree with a lot of those same things. The devil is in the details though. I fully support gun control, I DO NOT support what Trudeau is doing with gun control. I fully support abortion, as do every CONS supporter I know, I fully support climate change mitigation...I do not believe a carbon tax is how we get there, I would love to see homelessness eradicated, I don't believe a super heated housing market and massive inflation as the solution. You are speaking in generalities, as if the right opposes all these things and the fact of the matter is that only the extreme right does. The vast majority of the right-centre right is in favor of all these things to some extent, the disagreement is mainly how we get there. It is boogeyman politics of the highest order to suggest that every CONS voter is an anti-abortionist, polluting, rich troglodyte....just as it is boogeyman politics to say that progressive agendas will lead to communism. Both are stupid exaggerations by those who can't see that Conservatism, Liberalism, and Progressivism all have a place on our political spectrum.

There is no feasible and workable centre/left coalition. Left is left, and for it to remain so it will never have the support of centre. The only way you get a LIB/NDP coalition is if the current NDP abandon the unions. Not going to happen. Sure...that's what wealth distribution means to you perhaps, not what others in the far left have in mind though and that is what scares us centrists. No the centre is not getting more progressive. The centre is being dragged to the left to be sure, but make no mistake too far left and the whole thing will go kaflooey. Don't mistake acceptance of progressive politics as unconditional endorsement by the centrists. There are a ton of displaced centrists right now who have not parked their vote yet, I can tell you that. A crap load of them who voted Liberal and are not happy with the LIbs heading further and further left. Centrists do not like the far left any more than they like the far right.

Most progressive don't understand what centre is. Centre is definitely NOT wealth distribution, that is left of centre. The problem with progressives is that they are trying to claim center as their baseline, and that simply is not true. You can try to claim it, probably will continue to claim it, but the fact of the matter is that it is not centrist. You don't get to move the goal posts.

The NDP are ran by labor, no merger will come until those ties are cut. There is only so far left or right the average voter is willing to go and it is why the NDP will never gain power federally. Even Trudeau's own MPs are telling him to start moving back to centre. The majority of Canadians are not progressives despite the popular belief on this forum. The majority of Canadians walk the centre of the political spectrum in this country. Maybe that will change in the next 15-20 years when millenials start voting in numbers, but right now it certainly isn't the case. Most Canadians want a healthy sprinkling from each side of the political spectrum. Any vote to the extreme left or right is usually just a protest vote. The Liberals have generationally held the centre line, and it is why they have spent so much time in government. Trudeau has veered off centre and if not for the CONS taking a hard right turn with even more speed than Trudeau's left turn, the Liberals would be paying for it in the polls. In fact, they are paying for it in the polls the last few months. People aren't happy with the Liberals, and they aren't happy with the opposition. Polarization is to blame for a lot of it. Heading any further left for the Liberals would be a very big mistake.

Yes, every and any player leaving for the NFL in their option year window has his rights retained by the CFL club they are departing until the end of his existing CFL contract.