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It's a starting point Mike. You counter and they counter and in the end it's like 3 years for 320k....and that's reasonable.

I'll take Bowman on my team every day and twice on Sunday. He has his flaws but you can't argue with his production. However, I was referring to his ability to be uncoverable on some routes by a single DB.

Of course they would. There is a huge love-in right now for him from some of the internet bullies over there. I see a ton of HUGE similarities between them and I will list them so that Ripper can't say their are none: Both men hired into more than one position despite a lack of experience in them. Both men known for having big egos and being bullheaded Both men arrived on the job and immediately started getting rid of fan favorites Both men hired John Murphy to provide the talent Both men highly polarizing amongst the fan base Both men controversial in their approach to negotiating contracts Both men with record turnover of players from the previous year Both men taking over from Taman and his SMS horror show Both men saying that the mess left behind will impact operations for this year Both men highly opinionated Both men signing players known for being questionable in the dressing room

Not an outrageous starting point with bonuses. The folks at Riderfans are screaming bloody murder that a first overall draft pick might cost them 100k a year if he plays well on his initial contract. Are they totally clueless as to how cheap that is if he is a productive starter? If he signs say for 90k+20k playing bonus and doesn't win a job, they have an excellent young backup with upside for 90k per. If he starts they have a starter for 110k. I'm not sure why they are so angry at JSJ. They should be mad at Jones. He needs to get his first overall into camp and quit chasing players away because he doesn't agree with the market value they have.

McCormick is a world class flake and is inferior in accuracy to even Pederson. There isn't a member of the Regina media worth a lick of salt, They are all hacks. That's what happens when your city is small enough to throw Frisbee across....you don't get the cream of the media crop.

WR Lestar Jean is a very good prospect. Lots of similarities in style and ability ot Adarious Bowman. I have watched him since college. He will impress. He has a couple of routes that he just can't be covered on by one person.

I personally love the fact that Jones is willing to butt heads with Hardaway. Go get 'em Jonesy!! Do the league a favor and put him in place. Sure it will probably cost you the loyalty of your first overall pick, and cost you huge in trying to sign any Hardaway client in the future, but you're the man Jones...common sense and bridge building need not concern you. I really am seeing some striking similarities in the management styles of Mike Kelly and Chris Jones....and I like it.

Well I oughtta....back in the day we didn't need TVs....we would all huddle around the fire and turn on the floor model transistor radio and listen to Foster and Perc call the Canadians vs. Leafs game when the broadcast started midway through the 2nd period.....the back of our eyelids was our TV screen. Yessir...you whippersnappers and your newfangled screens...use your imagination like we did back in the day. That was our entertainment I tell ya.

They should make them do PD during the summer months to a minimum standard with no extra pay. The summer months of holidays used to be a trade off for the extra home hours worked and the volunteering done by teachers. However, since the unions have managed to kibosh a great deal of that, the teachers should be doing their PD in the summer. If it's 10 days throughout the year...then it should all be in the summer instead of sacrificing our children's education any further to appease the unions. Teachers who want to do more than 10 days in the summer could be rewarded for their effort with some sort of qualification pay upgrade.

I think you misheard him. I clearly heard him say "why did they do that?"

I wish the Bombers made trades as good as that.

Tell that to Brian Mulroney. He is the most reviled PM of the last few decades. Ironically, it was the left that screamed bloody murder when it was introduced on the heels of the drunken spending spree that was the Liberal government. I don't think you will find too many people who will argue the GST was a good thing, I think you will find a lot that will agree that given the circumstances there was little alternative. The bottom line is that in Canada we do not have a strong aversion to taxation. We are used to it. What we do have a strong aversion to is raising taxes, increasing spending, and ballooning the debt at an astronomical rate, all at the same time. Not too many governments survive that....and rightfully so.

True enough....and the vote has taken place on that. In October they were turfed and deservedly so. However, I find it amusing how people would try to use the federal CONS to defend the Manitoba NDP. At least the federal CONS spending came with tax cuts, and was nowhere even remotely close to the level of spending per taxpayer, of the Manitoba NDPs. The federal CONS got trounced for their deficits, among other things, but some people want to give the NDP a pass for spending and taxation that would make Karl Marx blush. It makes no sense. Both of these were governments that needed to be shown the door. They got big heads and stopped governing for the people. Perhaps, this will bring much needed rejuvenation to both parties involved.

I agree. Nothing could have damaged the Tory brand more than a conviction on all charges of a former high ranking member of their party. A complete exoneration only makes this all look more like it was politically motivated.

No kidding. History itself has proven they can run things with far more efficiency. It's why the Cons have the reputation of being better money handlers....because it's time proven.

Correct. Civil servants are very hard working people, that contrary to popular belief, for the most part get paid below the average industry standard for their area of expertise. The biggest difference between the civil service and private sector is not work ethic, it is the amount of hurdles each must overcome to see similar results. The Cons need to clear out the bloated bureaucracy and the civil service will produce results that Manitobans will be far happier with. It's just paper pushing up and down right now in our civil service and that creates huge inefficiency.

Kelley was used as a DB in their e-camp so I'm thinking he will not be the answer for them at receiver. More than likely if they are going to start a 3rd import it will be a rookie. Their current receiving corps looks below average imo, assuming that Chiles can play at a level near what he did before. If Chiles is not the same receiver he was before, that is one uninspiring collective of receivers.

This is page 3 of the speech Selinger tried to sell to Manitoba a couple weeks ago. Did you write it or are you just quoting it? Manitobans didn't fall for the boogeyman Tory propaganda then, and they won't now. Literally nothing of what you have said could be further from the truth imo.

Lots of union support to shore up, token patronage payrolls to meet etc. There is so much fat to cut that Pallister could literally throw a dart at any type of government department or expenditure taped to a dartboard and find millions in savings in minutes. He doesn't need to run with scissors...the fat is oozing out of every pore. There is a time and a place for an NDP government in this province occasionally. Unfortunately, we let them stick around far too long. It is a party that should only hold power every couple of decades for one term just for balance. If the Conservatives have truly learned their lesson from last time around then maybe even less than that.

It takes a good pension to attract our elite into government. Not sure that applies to Ashton but you get my point. I don't begrudge him his government pension either. It's his TigerDam and OmniTrax pension funds that bother me.

It's a fair question. The answer is this was in Thompson. There is only one hospital. Had I another option after around hour 5 or 6, I would have tried it.

Its the NDP way. Big government and big government control. Cow tow to CUPE and all it's affiliates. Pallister was not joking when he said CUPE controlled our province under the NDP. They really did.

I am fairly sure that it will start with a audit and savings venture and end in investigation.

Lots of misinformation about the Manitoba Civil Service and CFS problems in this thread. The jist of it is correct on many points but let me clarify some details. My wife is a front line civil servant and is an incredibly overworked and underpaid person. The no-layoff clause is not extended to every civil servant under the master agreement. Besides the components that did not negotiate a no layoff clause those components that did still have many employees not covered by the clause. The clause only extends to those hired before a certain time (about 3 years ago). All others do not have the layoff clause. When the NDP took over power, they started forming a network of incredible bureaucracy designed to establish the need for more management. In 1999 there was one manager for every 11 frontline workers on average. In 2016 there is 1 for every 5. Amounts of paperwork, and redundancy in reporting systems led to front line service working at an incredibly reduced efficiency rate solely due to unnecessary bureaucracy. All in the name of unnecessary management creating the necessity of their positions. It began a spiral effect that took front line workers away from dealing with the public to dealing with management instead. Early in their tenure as government, the NDP introduced very strict guidelines that would affect CFS to this day. Instead of working with the parents of children at risk, children were seized at an astronomical rate. We are all aware of the children in care numbers. To deal with this....you guessed it...more bureaucracy and management, less front line time spent on the actual clients of CFS. In around 2011, after taking a beating by the press and opposition about the size of the civil service, the NDP made the wise decision to put an unofficial hiring freeze in effect on non-essential positions to allow for the aging civil service to get retirement of civil servants to create a smaller civil service. Unfortunately, most of this protraction came at the expense of the front line workers. You see....management decides what's essential and non essential to their departments and in true NDP fashion replacing front line workers took a back seat to replacing management. This is when government records will show that the size of management truly started to spiral out of control in comparison with front line workers. This created a double edged sword. Managers needed to justify their jobs with less staff and they created more bureaucracy to do so. An already stretched thin front line service was asked to answer the bell of the increased bureaucracy and take on a huge workload to keep front line services working. When there is only so much time in the day to get the work done and not enough to get it done what happens? You guessed it....overtime. Let's pay them double but burn them out. Therefore, as most NDP supporters will proudly point out....the civil service hasn't actually increased in number in the past several years. What they won't tell you is that overtime costs in the civil service have expanded by nearly 400% over that time frame. Why? Because instead of doing some strategic hiring of casual employees in times of need, the NDP thought this would look bad on them politically and more importantly the MGEU does not get their money from casual hires. I can guarantee that not only will Pallister open up the books and find massive redundancy and an overstock of management, but he will find tremendous and needless spending on overtime. Some smart management of the civil service and he easily find the tens of millions of dollars necessary to help us reduce our staggering debt....AND he is able to do so without even laying off one front line worker while dramatically improving the civil service efficiency and thus overall effectiveness. This is where the fat will be cut. Hey dippers...other than ideologically....where is the boogeyman in that? I would imagine the MGEU will be squealing like a pig as management is protracted vs. the front line and therefore the NDP will be squealing about it. However, to the rest of Manitobans and the civil servants working the front line it will be relief that has been a long time coming. If the NDP ever want to show they are a party of the people they need to cut ties with the unions. Their management of our province would become infinitely better.

Don't take extreme positions and they won't be satire afterwards. Just saying....