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For me being fiscally conservative means being fiscally responsible. Keeping deficits low/nil when not in a crisis. Using science and research to fund social programming. Using deficit spending to keep the economy moving. Finding a balance between taxation and growth.

I always thought Gary Doer was a good example of fiscally responsible and socially left. There was a good reason Harper sent him off to be the US ambassador . I think he scared the hell out of him. If the Federal Libs had got a hold of him he would have been tough to defeat.

My theory on UBI is it is an absolute must. Robotics ( or whatever term you choose ) is ending jobs worldwide. The answer to that has always been " but it opens high tech jobs ". Those jobs will dwindle as well as our technology begins to both repair and develop itself. And thats here. It is one of the main reasons that the very, very rich are increasing their wealth. At a unprecedented rate. It no longer trickles down and the tap is getting shut off. Alot of our current social unrest both left and right can be attributed to this. Fair and equitable taxation for Corps, rich and Joe shmoe and UBI can solve or perhaps halt some of the ugliness we are seeing. Or we continue on as we are and tailspin to oblivion.

Bingo. I consider myself fiscally conservative, and socially liberal.....likely somewhere just left of Centre, on the political spectrum......and JCon explained perfectly how I generally feel.

Eventually, the Oilers will win the SC with McDavid. Even an org as incompetent and undeserving as they are, McDavid will drag them to a championship. It's why they're loathed so much. So undeserving.

Stupidity is writing another chapter

100% why he was sent to that post, IMO..... Doer would have been a nightmare for Cons if he was a federal leader...

As much as I loathe the Oilers,seeing McDavid in an Olympic Team Canada uniform is gonna be awesome.

I feel like I'm standing at a roulette table. " Come on 63 ! Aw, 65 again. Damn it ! "

Just how much do the 'Riders suck? The longest period of time a single team has been Grey Cup Champions is 1841 days,, this was the 1915 Hamilton Ti-Cats. They won it on November 20, 1915, and the trophy wasn't rewarded again until December 4, 1920 due to WW1 and the global flu pandemic at the time. By comparison, in their entire existence, the Roughriders have been champs for only 1470 days (1966 - 371 days , 1989 - 364 days, 2007 - 364 days and 2013 - 371 days TLDR; A lot.

Actually I don’t think so. I don’t think that would even do it.

Makes sense. You would have to cut the redundant programs. Personal tax exemption levels would have to be looked at... probably the easiest way to start implementing it...

Here's an interesting story. I know a former high ranking cabinet member in Filmons government. About as co servative as you get. We were sitting around having coffee after dinner and I asked " what's your opinion UBI ? " His answer was " It all depends on what it replaces "

Think Jean Chretien and Paul Martin . They worked hard and succeeded reducing a debt built by Pierre T. Caring for people doesn't necessarily equate with throwing money at whatever makes you popular. That's it ! Interestingly there is a conversation on CJOB about being a " political orphan." Which is a good way to describe it.

Yeah, I just shut down the part of my brain that recognizes colours when I watch him. He's just so, so good. Amazing to just watch move around the ice with and without the puck.

If the NHL operated like European soccer, the Oilers would have been relegated to the WHL, not been given 1st round draft picks for losing.

But they would still vote for the GOP.

The ones attacking the Capital building. The ones with the red and blue loser flags. I have to say that I truly appreciate when people show up when there is non-white shooter. Nothing on the white supremacist attack last week. So, efin' predictable.

There's just so much I enjoy about this tweet....

It shouldn't, which is why those guys are or at least should be the focus for the players. Executives don't fall under the football ops salary cap so unless they also volunteer to take a paycut, I think this proposal is D.O.A.

Today on Facebook, the PCs and/or O'Toole posted about the importance of Canadians keeping their guns. I was stunned that such a brain-dead posting would be made so soon after the killings in the US. The lack of sensitivity and common sense says a lot about the 2021 Conservatives.

It's been well documented that most coaches already have taken a cut. The focus, from player responses I've seen, seems to be more on if GM's and Team Presidents are going to take a cut as well.

Our biggest source of vaccines is going to be murican leftovers. With 10% guaranteed to not take it that will work for us.

Maybe then they'll take it a lot more seriously instead of the way they see it now.

excellent - thanks for sharing that. As mentioned, tho....doesn't seem super confident.

"Does not believe". Not the most confident statement.

"The federal government says it does not believe COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Canada would be affected by export restrictions being considered by the European Union. A report in the New York Times says the EU is finalizing emergency legislation that would give it broad powers to curb exports of COVID-19 vaccines for the next six weeks, as part of its response to supply shortages at home. The report says that would make it harder for pharmaceutical companies producing COVID-19 vaccines in the EU to export them. In an emailed statement, the press secretary for Mary Ng, minister of small business, export promotion and international trade, said Ng's counterparts have assured her that these measures will not affect vaccine shipments to Canada." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vaccine-shipments-canada-eu-1.5961888

This is reassuring: "Last week, Manitoba announced it was piloting a new model at its supersites in Morden and Winnipeg, which it said will streamline delivery by having patients sit in one area while immunizers move between them. On Wednesday, task force members said the new model will increase the number of doses each immunizer can deliver from between six and eight per hour to around 60."

In that case i dont see a problem. Every CBA negotiation PA's talk about wanting a partnership and to have their stake scale with growth. In times like these the hair cut should be across the board as well. Im sure not all players would get that 20% back when fans came back, some would be cut etc. But 20% is not a big cut for a short term loss to prevent missing a whole other season of football and salaries. I also feel like in our stadium we could socially distance 10k people. Leaving would be a bit of an issue, but if you taper exits and have people guided through to different exits I think it could work OK. I know plenty of people who would pay a premium even to bein the 10k (my self included)

As per CBC News this morning, there has been an explosion of COVID variant cases in Regina, leading to a severe clampdown. Scary- it could happen here, too if we are not vigilant and respect the restrictions.

As Dave Naylor pointed out this morning -- front office staff already took the 20% cut during the pause, and continue to do so.....

not sure about MB, but with variants raging out of control in AB, the Minister of Health (a real ******* moron, but that's neither here nor there...) said the other day that half of all hospitalizations are people under 65, and nearly 80% of ICUs are under 65..... the variants are attacking "younger" populations hard. The 3rd wave that we're seeing develop is going to decimate a "younger" population much worse than we saw with the initial strain...

Terrible proposal by the CFL at first glance.

First off: "The news comes as members of Manitoba's vaccine task force announced they will pause expanding vaccine eligibility criteria as appointment capacity has reached its limit. " They need to start ramping up their vaccination plan to accommodate the steady supply of vaccines. Also, is it just rose-coloured glasses or are the covid related deaths going down- a lot?

Ontario researcher helps capture important image of monstrous black hole

Could we see mass player retirements because of this new CFL announcement? F*** Ambroise. I avoided this discussion board since the CFL/XFL new surfaced. Makes me depress to think the CFL is slowly dying. Oh well, back to the NHL Jets board.

you mean like this ? Mincome, the "Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment", was a Canadian Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) social experiment conducted in Manitoba in the 1970s. The project was funded jointly by the Manitoba provincial government and the Canadian federal government under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. It was launched with a news release on February 22, 1974, under the New Democratic Party of Manitoba government of Edward Schreyer, and was closed down in 1979 under the Progressive Conservative of Manitoba government of Sterling Lyon and the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Joe Clark.

I agree. I don't really have a problem with Crosby being a whiner, though. His whining is correct, IMO. Just like the skilled players before him, he has played with so much obstruction and interference through his career, it's crazy. CMcD doesn't complain the same way but he deals with the same thing and the NHL just won't actually enforce the rules.

some interesting stuff in here: https://3downnation.com/2021/03/24/insider-talk-betting-losing-money-the-cfls-business-model/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/labrador-nunatsiavut-sea-ice-1.5951551

The NRA sends million buying votes. They spend millions indoctrinating people to believe that owning an AR15 is a normal thing. It's a weapon of mass destruction. I don't give a **** what any pro-gun nutjob says. Ef them. In case it's been lost in translation, I don't want anyone, white, black, or brown to own assault rifles.

Well....there's elite talent, and then there's McJesus. The kid is a freak of nature. There's nobody even in the same realm as this guy in the league. Not being able to defend him is no real crime. There's nobody in the league that can do it effectively (the Leafs series was clearly an aberration). I have full faith that if the Jets and Oilers meet up in the North Final (certainly my hope) then the Jets are absolutely going to find a way to defend McDavid and the Oilers much better....and if we're all lucky it's a 7 game series, because that'd be an absolute dandy reminiscent of the late 80s...

sorry can you show us which mass shooters were apart of bloods or crips? or are mass shooting irrelevant? I'm honestly confused by his point though. Yeah gangs have guns and kill a lot of people...? They should really focus on fixing up those neighborhoods. Yup...they should. I don't understand how that reflects on mass shooters. Maybe I'm missing something.

I don't even think the Liberals are that organized either.

I'm fairly conservative and have voted conservative but yes, totally believe climate change is real.

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