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If there ever was a time to ***** about gas prices and our national energy policy in general, it's now.

Yes, lets wait 15 years for electric vehicles and 60 dollar barrels of oil. smh

For sure that's a big factor. However, US has a ton of processing capacity for our oil if we were to ship it raw.

Good catch. Did anyone else notice that the word success almost has as many S's as the Riders have Grey Cups....and it's only a 7 letter word.

That's good news for the EU and impetus for them to cancel Russian oil. I am still unclear why Canada is not in the oil conversation.

Makes zero sense to go get Russian oil or Venezuelas when you have your best friend and ally in Canada with more oil than both of them sitting next door not taking it out of the ground. The Liberals have made a dog's breakfast out of our oil industry and now is the time to correct it.

Canada has as much oil reserves as Russia and UAE combined. Trudeau needs to get the Pipestone XL going.

The West, ALL of them, are not still buying his oil. Canada, for instance, has stopped. Biden is expected to do so in the next couple days and Germany has cancelled the Nordstream pipeline that will cost trillions to Russia in oil exports. The West's condemnation does a hell of a lot more than hurt Putin's feelings. His economy is in free fall, the rouble has crashed and so has his stock market, and China has already come out and stated that they will not be the safety net for their economy and wish to remain somewhat neutral. I am not sure where you are getting your facts from? Vladimir Putin's reign will not survive anything but absolute surrender by the Ukrainians on amicable terms that causes the West to reduce sanctions. Already powerful oligarchs are calling for his head.

Sorry man, I think you are out to lunch. Been drinking the Glenn Beck koolaid or what? China's total trade with Russia per annum is 90 billion dollars China's total trade to the US per annum 1.6 trillion China is going to stay arms length from Russia. They will attempt to leverage the situation to gain trade advantage but siding with Russia completely...not going to happen. It's simple economics really.

I've been out of the loop on video games since the PS3 really. I own all the consoles since but did very little gaming due to time constraints. I have invested in a decent gaming computer and bought a loaded hdd with Batocera and games so I can catch up on some titles and do some other retro gaming that isn't as time consuming. It took some setting up but I sure love the Batocera front end and ease of use. Having 60000 games at my disposal is fantastic. Now to find the time.....

An interesting read: https://warontherocks.com/2022/03/putin-loses-no-matter-how-this-plays-out-but-we-might-too/

Unfortunately what you are describing is a war crime under the Geneva convention now. You cannot line up people against a wall and shoot them and the world cannot pretend it doesn't know and turn it's back anymore. Life is different than in 1945, the Geneva convention outlawed all the things you are describing as war crimes and life has changed since 1991 because it is near impossible to not have that kind of information leaked and broadcast to the whole world within minutes of it occurring. The world could pretend it didn't know about such atrocities and people couldn't provide proof it was happening. Now these things occur but are broadcast in real time by anyone with an internet connection and a flip phone. Bottom line this is 2022, what was done in the past is no longer relevant. The world has changed. So long as Russia is occupying a sovereign nation with no pretext for doing so they will be sanctioned. The longer the sanctions go the more it weakens Putin's grip on power. Eventually. either his own people remove him or he can no longer fund his war machine and the rest of the world steps in and gives him his day at the end of the rope in The Hague. His only path to victory was a combination of Ukraine not putting up any resistance, and the West sitting idly by. He grieviously miscalculated on both fronts.

No. I see that as a lost battle, but certainly not the war. What is different about your scenario than what has been in place since 2014. Putin cannot win this war because the international community will never recognize his borders or sovereignty over the region. They are occupiers of Ukrainian territory and nothing more in the eyes of the world. Secondly, the need for Russia to leave massive amounts of troops in place is not f'ing off home. It is occupation...nothing more and that is not a won war.

Different now. You can't control things without at least some level of compliance from the people you are trying to control. Ukraine and it's army will not ever follow the direction of Putin or any of his puppets. In order for Putin or his puppet to have control it will take military occupation by Russia to gain compliance of the people. Russia's economy cannot survive it.

How do you suggest that there is no forseeable win condition for them? The longer this war goes the more likely they win and keep their independance. One country does not have to outgun another to win a war. Ukraine is winning this war right now and will continue to do so. The only way they lose is if they surrender.

Pretty much. The tour bus is what I went on. Got to Regina to find out that my hotel room included a stranger as a room mate for the weekend. Went downstairs to the hotel lobby to see if they had any rooms available by cancellation and was told that the tour bus operator had first dibs on any cancellations as he had overbooked his bus tour. I ended up finding a room at a fleabag hotel, it was old but clean and private, as I did not want to be sleeping with a stranger in the next bed. That was just a start to the nightmare though, throughout the weekend I had a terrible time accessing taxis, or even getting a bite to eat without long lineups. I have been to many LDCs prior, and since, and never experienced anything like that in Regina. They can handle a football game, but they sure as heck can't handle the Grey Cup. It's beyond their scope.

Yep. That is not a possibility anymore. Zelenskyy is insanely popular in Ukraine. They topple him and the Ukrainians will fight to the death, if they don`t the Ukrainians will fight to the death. Putin cannot win this war over the long term. He can occupy Ukraine but he will have to do so forever. Right now, I would think Putin is considering what he needs to do to save face and get the hell out of there. Ukraine would be wise to take that approach in peace talks today, I think the Yanukovych train is dead at the station now no matter what. No way the Ukrainian people support him in any way, they know he is Putin`s puppet.

Ukraine is not going to surrender. I would think that much is clear by now. Russia likely takes military control of Ukraine at some point but there is zero chance of surrender and that is the biggest problem for Putin in all of this. He thought they would surrender and he was wrong. This is either a long term military occupation with severe consequences for Putin and Russia, or he saves face and leaves with some minor concessions from Ukraine. There is no chance that Russia wins the war, plants their flag, takes it`s military home and Ukraine is now part of Russia. That was Putin`s plan and it has badly blown up in his face.

That`s crap, and Hamilton has twice the hospitality infrastructure of Regina so this could get even worse. In 2013, I had the worst experience of my life at a Grey Cup game. I used to go to every Grey Cup and had a great time. The Regina debacle ruined it for me and I have only been to 2 since. It was a nightmare.

They will have to if they want to install a puppet regime. The Ukrainian people will not sit idly by and let Putin install his government and then go home like nothing happened. If Russia kills Zelenskyy he will be a martyr that will galvanize Ukraine, if they don`t there is zero chance anybody could beat him in an election and zero chance that a puppet regime will be in place without vast military support if he is in exile somewhere.

https://3downnation.com/2022/03/02/cfl-fans-accuse-regina-hotel-of-cancelling-grey-cup-reservations-without-notification/ The world is such a different place since 2013....but Regina isn`t. Same old crap and the main reason they shouldn`t be hosting Grey Cups. I am still traumatized by how bad the Grey Cup experience was there in 2013. Price gouging being my main, but not only, complaint....and here we go again.

You are right, your take is unpopular and yes, Ukraine's cities are being rolled up on and some have fallen. Many have not. All of that is irrelevant. A war is not won when one side occupies the other, a war is won when the people being occupied lay down their weapons and no longer resist the occupation. Russia may occupy Ukraine but the Ukrainians have made it very clear they will not be conquered and they will not live peacefully under a Russian banner. This war will be fought for many, many years just less publicly, and it will take significant Russian military engagement to hold Ukraine.

Nope just making a point that there are dark clouds out there everywhere and you seem particularly adept at finding them all and pointing them out. You must be a real hoot at parties. I would say that with Dobson's signing in the USFL that the odds of Tui being resigned went up significantly. We may have been a little gunshy about resigning him before with Dobson expected to come, but now Tui almost becomes a necessity.

Sure does sound like SFU had a terrible time under Bates, and your son had unfortunate timing to transfer there. I am sure many other programs have had similar ups and downs and hopefully SFU recovers fully. Undrafted Canuck, I'd be happy if he had any positive impact on STs and made our team. If he is the next Mike Miller...that would be gravy.

You are the one arguing about it. I'm sorry your son had a bad experience at SFU. It happens to all programs once in a while that they hire a dud. However, I did not state that ALL NCAA teams operate like the pros, I said Div 1 teams do. Massive drop off from Div 1 to Div 2,3 obviously. That's why it's rare air for Div 2 and 3 QBs in the pros. They simply are not the same calibre of QB as a Div 1 QB as a general rule. All the "farm team" time in the world isn't likely to make a difference in their chances of playing any meaningful snaps as a pro unless they are specialists like Streveler etc. With 130 Div 1 teams churning out QBs year nevermind Div2.3 it is simply a numbers game for the vast majority. NFL will almost always take the Div 1 guys, CFL will take what's left and the cream of the crop of Div 2 or 3 and the rest have to look at life after football because they simply weren't good enough to go pro. That's life. No one is going to spend millions of dollars trying to develop Div 2 or 3 QBs, why would they, there is a bumper crop of new Div1 ones every year.