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We struggled with vaccine supply right up until 3 weeks ago. Pop ups were cancelled, super sites ran out right in the heart of the beginning of the 3rd wave. There was a period of time that Biden was saving the vaccine program from completely crashing by giving us vaccine. The one dose was a very smart move and thankfully we did so. However, botching our vaccine supply initially set us back badly.....and yes a big part of that was the Conservative and Liberal governments of Canada not learning a damn thing from SARS and H1N1 so as to stabilize our pandemic vaccine readiness.

Yes, it's bad, the whole world is in a similar boat. People need to wake up and get vaccinated. Trudeau really screwed up the vaccine roll out in Canada and the third wave is squarely on his shoulders imo.

Nice job by Cornell....if you go down the rabbit hole you can find a ton of Cornell acoustic covers that are just outstanding. Saw him live both times he came here on his acoustic tours and he is even better live. Goosebumps when he hit certain notes.

Not disagreeing with you but what would you have had the government do differently? Just a question. Please be specific. What should the government have done? What would the challenges be to doing so, how could they have mitigated that? Not picking on you in particular, I challenge all to answer those questions. I'm seeing a lot of people saying things should have been done different but I see crickets as to what that should have been.

I don't know. It was an off the wall pick to be sure but if he could have bulked up a bit he may have had a CFL career. He wasn't our worst first round pick ever. I don't even think that pick was as bad as Faith Ekakitie. Sometimes you just whiff on a player even Walters, who btw, was our assistant GM for the Etienne, Mulumba, Poblah, and Penser picks and GM for Ekakitie. Not saying the previous players are Walter's fault but you can't completely absolve him of responsibility for them either. As our head of CDN scouting and ass't GM he had more than a little input too. Mack picked guys brought to him by Walters he didn't pull these names out of a hat. They shouldn't have been on the list, particularly Penser and Etienne.

That demographic tends to be a pretty good market to advertise to as well. Dude...just retire and live the dream...lol. I agree with WIebe being Magoo but without him there would be no Wiebe. He does excellent production in every aspect of his and Aaron's videos. Schick is an up and comer, a Saskatchewan boy who quickly realized that fishing Manitoba is better. I've had this property for nearly 25 years now and had some businesses (now only one seasonal) in Thompson so I purchased it as a place to stay when business needed me North. Now I spend most of my spring/summer/fall there and drive to Wpg only for Bomber games in the summer. Lol.

I'm an avid fisherman as well, even bought a place 700 km north of winnipeg because of the fishing, so thanks for the tip. I will check it out for sure. I love watching Aaron Wiebe, and Jay Siemens on YT to get my MB fix as well.

Based on the dumb crap I am hearing from many people that I respect as fairly intelligent people, I think any and all stops is what it's going to take to get vaccine uptake anywhere near herd immunity in many places. Do what you gotta do...if that means incentivizing the process so be it. I don't want us hovering at 65% for a month....do something and get those needles in the arms of those too stupid to do it without incentive.

We will leave Bill out of it, we will deny the laptop evidence, we will deny the corruption of the Clinton foundation but every trope trotted out about the right is gospel. Got it. Now I know this exchange is a waste of my time.

The left defines anything that may be private/public as two tiered. The unions made sure of that.

No it doesn't. Trump just wore it more publically. The Clintons were despicable, so much so that she couldn't even beat Trump. There are hundreds of articles about the Clinton foundations corruption...look into it. As for Biden, if you think he and Hunter are innocent of corruption you will be surprised once the investigation turns in its findings. Totally agree the opposition here is doing a horrible job and is in a leaderless shambles right now. If they weren't perhaps Trudeau would have been forced to resign and been prosecuted by now. Its a **** show over there. The electoral college needs to go.

It is a terribly sad state of affairs when we have a scandal ridden federal government that has proven to be borderline incompetent in it's handling of the pandemic and the CDN politics thread is 180 pages compared to US politics, that quite frankly, are none of our concern reaches close to 900. I guess if your guy is no good then draw the attention away...

This is what Biden is banking on as well. Like he is above the fray, or the Clintons were....smh.

The Dems are EXACTLY the same. Are you some kind of noob to politics. You are dreaming in technicolor if your think that the likes of Biden and co. aren't behaving just as despicably as the GOP has. Honestly, give your bias a rest. Pelosi led a witch hunt for years against Trump doing exactly the same thing. That's politics in 2021. Don't be so naive to think the left are some kind of virtue signallers. The far right and the far left factions of both parties are a disaster.

It was inevitable. We may 3-4 open positions on our entire roster for NAT players realistically. If we were to draft ready to go players we would be releasing 2-3 really good NAT players with 2 draft classes coming in the same year. Other teams will all be in that same boat too. This is a year that can see some teams close the disparity gap between the NAT haves and have not teams because a higher proportion than normal good draft picks will be getting their walking papers because they just aren't ready to displace the NAT vet ahead of them. Take a team like Hamilton who has 6 top 20 draft picks over the past 2 years and already really good NAT talent, how do they roster them all if they all come to camp this year. Sometimes you just don't have a choice but to take futures from an asset management POV.

Yea...I saw no difference from management on this pick than any other 1st round pick we've ever made.

Dobson flat out said that he will pursue the NFL so I'm not sure where you get the notion that he exuded confidence at being blue and gold. He said all the right things after being drafted and was very complimentary to the Bombers but he made it very clear he desires to play the highest level of football he can. That doesn't mean he is a shoe-in for the NFL, but he will keep that option open as long as he can. He is a very similar type of pick to Dakoda Shepley imo.

For sure. Lots of competition for Neufeld's spot though. Gray, and Eli are not chopped liver. I agree. I view the Dobson pick as very risky. The NFL loves to keep a lot of OL around a lot longer than any other position. Dobson is a guy we may never see. Far riskier than DB future picks. In my mind this pick is just a hair less risky than a pick that we destroyed Joe Mack about.....Andy Mulumba.

Love and hate the Dobson pick....but closer to loving it. He is a bluechipper. Best OL in the drsft and has a mean streak a mile long. I dont mind taking the futures approach to the 1st 2 rounds.

Helle was flat...it happens occasionally. At least we don't have to pray for goaltending on a nightly basis like the Laffs.

Some of their church leaders are leading them down a bad path. It's too bad really.

There is zero chance that 38 million Canadians will be vaccinated by September. We could have 100 million doses available and we won't get that kind of vaccine uptake ever. I am hoping we can get 70% of Canadians immunized and I think the government will have to be heavy handed with no-vax restrictions to achieve that. There are just too many people who are being down right stupid on the whole vaccination process. The last 10-15% to herd immunity will be a trickle and will only be coming in kicking and screaming because they don't have a vax ID card or vax passport. At a time we are entering the 3rd wave caused primarily by a dangerous variant we have a lot AZ just sitting on the shelves. If the current state of our pandemic doesn't inspire people to go get it I don't foresee the vaccine hesitancy getting any better when case numbers fall.

Yea...I can believe that. They are trained to have each others backs and the lines can become easily blurred between when to do so, and when not to do so very easily I would think.

I am of two minds on this whole police racism thing. Part of me is appalled by any racist behavior on the part of police, particularly when it manifests itself in a tragedy or excessive use of force. The other part of me wonders how much of it is actually racism though as opposed to just a cop using excessive force and exercising extremely poor judgement. Let's face it, the reality is that 90% of police calls come from socio-economic disadvantaged areas of their jurisdiction. When 90% of your time is spent in areas that are predominantly populated by black, native, or other visible minorities due to the fact that statistically they have large communities of economic disadvantage and therefore crime, then that is where the poor policing is most likely to occur. I'm not sure if this behavior is overtly racist, just bully police officers who finally get their chance to be bullies.

I like both of those ideas, but realistically as a struggling ex-smoker, I still feel very strongly about government stepping in on the nicotine issue. Most smokers are completely aware of the effects of their choice to smoke. Quitting would become exponentially easier if the tobacco/vaping companies were forced to gradually decrease nicotine levels in their products. Couple that with what was described above and some meaningful change might occur. I think big tobacco must be paying for some of these studies on how to reduce smoking because by far the largest impediment to decreasing smoking is nicotine addiction....anyone who smokes and has quit or has failed to quit will tell you that. Only a very small % of smokers do so because they actually enjoy it. They may enjoy the cigarette because of the nicotine relief they get but nearly no one will tell you that the flavor and sensation of smoking tobacco is addictive.