Rich

Jets have seeded the 50/50 tonight with 20k. This is not at all likely to hit the craziness that has been seen in Edmonton, but if anyone is interested: https://wjets.bump5050.com//

Nothing official but quite a few rumours out there Red Wolves is a front runner and gaining support. Wildlife groups are apparently supporting the name as they think added visibility can help the endangered species. https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/07/13/red-wolves-what-you-need-to-know/

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/rogers-place-sees-water-damage-in-severe-thunderstorm-wont-slow-hub-city-plans Article says it won't affect Edmonton being a hub city, but......

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/07/15/joe-biden-elon-musk-twitter-accounts-among-dozens-hacked-in-bitcoin-scam/#2c470c213696

I'd also point out that changing racist team names is not anything new, this list highlights name changes as far back as 1935.. https://www.businessinsider.com/offensive-sports-team-names-and-how-they-came-about-2020-2 As language and norms change and evolve, there is no reason to keep racist sports names because of history. Imagine if the names on this list were never changed. The same will be said of the names we are only starting to change now.

Have seen some mentions out there that this should be changed as well, but curious on people's thoughts on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

I've split this off into its own topic and have cleaned up some posts in it. Please be respectful when posting.

The team was originally called The Winnipeg Winnipegs of all things.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_Blue_Bombers

Don't know why it was locked, unlocked now.

Many of these players have been mentioned, but many of the Alouettes during the Calvillo days. Will never forgive Nate Davis for the mock urinating on Khari.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/people-in-alabama-are-throwing-covid-19-parties-with-a-payout-when-one-gets-infected-official-1.5007903

Brandon Dyson

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/spacex-high-speed-internet-1.5618918

https://thehockeynews.com/news/article/former-ohl-players-explosive-allegations-now-being-investigated-as-a-crime

Just a reminder to periodically check the location services on your phone and which apps you’ve agreed to track you. There is no reason to give this level of data about yourself to a company you are paying to be a customer of. https://business.financialpost.com/technology/tim-hortons-app-tracking-customers-intimate-data

Apparently he has been on our neg list since 2016.

For anyone who doesn't think racism is in Canada, and it isn't contained only to indigenous people, here is an article that may hit closer to home. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-khari-jones-death-threats-winnipeg-1.5595506 I don't know what kind of person you have to be that you would go out of your way to send death threats to two people, who you likely don't even know and really have no impact of effect on your life, but just because the colour of their skin differ..... I also have black friends here in the city who have been racially profiled by the police. Will not go into all of the details, but he was in a financial position to fight it, and force the issue to go to court, and after being overtly followed by police while this whole thing was happening (which he assumed was supposed to be some form of intimidation), constant delays in the system and being told by prosecutors and even his own lawyer to just give it up it isn't worth it, paying tens of thousands of dollars in legals fees, and while he ultimately won the court case, the cop ended up retiring before the court date and in the end, there was no real impact to the cop. But he fought it and paid the money to prove a point ... and won. There is no doubt that we hear lots of stories of black football players that come up to Winnipeg, and do love it here, embrace it, and find how they are treated here better then back home, and that is great, we all love hearing those stories. But that is not an excuse to say we are all good here, that racism doesn't exist, or it isn't as bad. It is a very ugly fact that if history is a predictor of the future, racism will always exist, and everyone needs to do their part so it doesn't grow and flare up into something even uglier.

Why do they do these things to make me handover more money......

https://illegalcurve.com/winnipeg-jets-sign-2018-5th-rounder-declan-chisholm-to-a-three-year-elc/

Crazy what is going on in Minnesota right now. The States is such a huge mess right now. Checkout this CNN article and video. A reporter is arrested live during a broadcast. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protest-updates-05-28-20/h_4ed08403663fa4ed3518221d0f2a1552

If by innovation you mean stealing shamelessly from Canadian companies.... http://natoassociation.ca/why-canada-should-be-wary-of-huawei-lessons-from-nortel/ Regardless of what may or may not be in Cisco servers and US companies, with what China has shown in recent relations with Canada, I would be very very weary of getting into bed with Huawei at this point. Also, the EU has recommended "limiting" Huawei 5G and still considers them "high-risk". Time will tell what the outcome of using this technology will mean for these countries. Given our lack of military and geographic location, we are pretty much in bed with the US good or bad. China has proven not to be a friend.

Possibility a vaccine could be read by the end of the year https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/moderna-vaccine-researcher-it-mind-boggling-to-be-done-in-2020.html

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