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Maybe they gave the $100 million billion to needy Montreal ad agencies. It would not be the first time a Liberal Government did that.

Of course, you failed to note I did not say the roster was the same as five years ago. The roster has been completely overhauled with the same result. And it won't change next year, because the team will be much the same according to MacTavish. There will only be a few roster changes, and those may involve bringing up more babies from junior or the AHL. They'll dump nonentitites like Fraser and Aulie, but mysteriously signed the useless, dead slow Hamilton to a two year deal. MacT has already said his first pairing will be Schultz and KLefbom, which will be undoubtedly the worst 1-2 in the league. He is hedging his bets in acquiring a 1-2 defender. His whole strategy is to trade all the draft picks to get a high quality roster player, but unless he is trading 1, 2 or 3 overall pick it won't work. As always, he has painted himself into a weak corner. He may be the second coming of Mike Babcock in five years. Then we can hire him. I don't give a shit if it's unfair, I want to see my team progress and Nelson is just another unknown at a time when we need to be moving forward, if only a tiny bit. But the last thing this team needs now is another newbie. Just like they don't need any more 19 year old players unless their name is McDavid. And we don't need our fourth rookie GM in a row either.

perhaps he is simply trying to get back the GTA ethnic vote that the Cons stole from the Libs to gain a majority.

Not what I saw for the last several years. Nobody has to 'sit back and defend' aginst a popgun offence.Teams beat the Oilers by attacking and forechecking them hard. The whole team just folds when pressured. The Oilers do OK against teams that are small skating teams. Big aggressive forechecking teams crush the Oil. There is no need to defend against the Oilers, with the exception of the first line, because they have little offence to worry about.. Watch the other team defencemen when the puck is in the Oilers zone(which is much of the game)- they pinch constantly to keep pressure on. It's hardly a risk. What they also have in common, in addition to zero NHL experience, is very similar records in the NHL in 2014-15. Their win-loss records after coaching 31 games each is nearly identical. There is really no need to expect anything different. Same people, same result. They need a strict, disciplined, experienced coach to get the team working together in a coherent consistent way. Of course, the better coaches in the league who do this have no reason to come here. Being unemployed might be better than working here, it is quite likely a career killer. They have not improved at all statistically in four years, and nearly all of this same team will be back next year. The management is dreadful, and the coaching picks are done from desperation, not from a carefully considered plan. Eakins had to go and Nelson was not picked because they wanted him but because that is truly all there was available in mid season. I full expect MacT to endorse and support his own mistakes, that is clearly his style.

Not in Edmonton or St Albert. The photo radar is not fixed in one place, as it often is in Europe. There are photo radar cameras on pedestals all over the UK. In Alberta the mobile vehicles with phot radar could be anywhere, though they tend to cluster in areas where they generate the most tickets. According to the chief of police, the purpose of photo radar is to slow down traffic. And also according to him , it works: they issue fewer tickets now than several years ago. A greater deterrent than fines, for many people, is the accumulation of demerits and eventual loss of drivers licence. You don't get demerits on photo radar because the driver cannot be identified.

You'd never get as far as US Customs and Immigration because no airline would issue you a boarding card without a passport and a proper visa if one is required for entry to your destination. And your passport belongs to the govt, case closed. That allows them to keep it, cancel it, revoke it or not issue one if they so choose.

baseball is a game of infinite subtlety. Almost none of which is shown on TV.

Baloney. Line 1 Page 1 of my Canadian passport says " This passport is the property of the government of Canada" There is nothing ambiguous about that statement. Yews, I get it that you can leave Canada without a passport. But a) how would you get on any international flight and how would you enter the US legally by land or sea without one? Hmmmmm?

On the other hand, there is no 'right' to a passport and it permanently remains the property fo the govt. And today you cannot go through land or air borders anywhere without one. So the charter right boils down to a right to leave Canada and be sent back immediately on the next carrier without being able to enter any other country. The charter does not apply anywhere else.

they practice bunting because a) every player has to know basic baseball skills, and bunting is one of them- both hitting and fielding and b ) because they play a lot of interleague games and starting pitchers come to bat in them . The Jays have been terrible at bunting, and of course had a couple of managers who just would not do it. Gose was an example of a guy who should be superb at it and was not close to that level. It is a situational skill that every player including power hitters should be good at.

You're wrong there. Cops are trained to bully people into compliance with their orders. You do not have to be a dick, but you risk nothing by refusing to be bullied. And they have no book to throw if you have done nothing wrong, or when entering your own country you have nothing illegal . Simply entering your own country is not a crime, and there is no reason to submit to bullying so they can establish their supposed command of your person. I answer questions with short truthful answer when asked with civility by cops or CBSA. If the questions exceed their brief or have no relevance, then I tell them that. The respinse is alwas the same- they get back to the business at hand instead of playing mind games. There is no 'upper hand', simply an exchange between civil servant and citizen. Once everybody realizes that, there is no strife.

ummm, no. It is incumbent on you to prove where you bought it, because you are the one importing a suitcase full of goods into the country. Yes, I understand that. And they will still have the computer. And when we all stand in front of the court on the obstruction charges, they will ask the judge to force me to supply the password. That is called a court order, and I'll be subject to further penalty if I refuse to comply. But going back to questions asked at the port of entry, there is no way they can pretend that my refusal to answer detailed questions about where I've been or what I did while there can lead to prosecution. You have no obligation to answer any arbitrary questions presented by a peace officer including CBSA officers.

They'll need a warrant to force me to reveal my password, since they will not get past the encryption. I did not say they could not search it, but when they are unavble to do so they'll have to do something other than shout at me. In the meantime they cannot detain me because i refuse to reveal my passwords. Charge me, yes, but there is no reason to detain me because the crime is not worthy of detention for a citizen and we both know it. And of course, they simply cannot deny entry to a Candian citizen returning home. Delay briefly, but they cannot stop it. I don't respond to their liking to many fo their questions, but they give up when they realize a) I am not a criminal and more inportantly, I am not intimidated by them. It is the oldest cop trick in the book, to buly and attempt to fluster people. There is no Plan B for them when that fails, though when it does work(almost always) it is very effective. Answering questions from a CBSA officer is no different than those of any peace officer, as long as you are a citizen and cannot be denied entry. You do not have to explain where you've been or what you were doing. You do have to explain how long you were gone, since it has a bearing on customs duties. All the info they need to process you is on two documents: your passport and the entry card you are obliged to fill out.

Because they replaced an inexperienced AHL with another one that looks exactly the same. This is not a time or place for a coach to audition for the big team. The Oilers need an experienced NHL coach that will bring structure and discipline to their game. An example of a coaching change vastly improving a mediocre team is just down the road- Calgary flames. They are not deep in talent, but they play a solid system hard under an experienced hardnosed Bob Hartley, and it has given them some success. Bringing in Nelson is no different than starting Dreisatl as second line center, or having a blueline full of AHL rejects. Desperate and clueless moves. They got Pouliot because he is pretty big, pretty aggressive, willing to go into the corners, had a great Stanley Cup run with the Rangers, and was one of the few free agents willing to come here. They got Nikitin because that was all MacTavish could get in the offseason on defence. He showed up fat and out of shape, played terribly and luckily got hurt so he could not continue to play like a reeking turd. One of the reason the OPielrs have played better lately is because he is not on the ice. Another horrible blunder by Mactavish, though he continues to tout Nikitin as a top four NHL caliber defenceman.. I guess he has to do that. They have big holes in goal where they need a starter, though Scrivens might be OK as a backup., On defence, they need at least two top defencement, since they have none now. MacTavish has already named Schultz and Klefbom as his 1-2 defenders next year. God help us. And of course, they need a second line center and likely a third line center too. And a coach. And a GM. And a .........

Only the first part will happen, and only if they have some reason to eblieve it may contain something illegal such as child porn. Once CBSA has determined your identity/CDN citizenship and seized the phone/computer while they obtain a warrant o search it- you'll be released. Of course, they will have to provide evdience before a court to get a warrqant to break into the phone/computer. Charges may come from failing to provide a passowrd, or from the actaul contents of the device, but they cannot detain you more than a short time.

Yebbut... systems aside, a big reason for the utter hopelessness of the Oilers under Eakins was the players. When your defense consists of people like Cory Potter, Anton Belov, Grebeshkov, Philip Larsen and Mark Fraser......plus a couple more that are not much better- what do you expect? Oh, and your forwards are all so tiny they never, ever win a puck battle.... Dubnyk was absolutely f**ing awful that year, even with a dreadful group in front of him. MacTavish cannot ever indicate publicly that Eakins was mistake, or that Nelson probably is as well. His first mistake was firing Krueger. GMs generally get to fire/hire two coaches before they come under scrutiny themselves, and MacT is on his third in leas than 2 years. There will likely be a fourth in June.

You must have been unconscious then. There were scores if not hundreds of hijackings, the Middle East was doing its Dance of Death(as always), random bombings all over the place..... If you were wondering when actual and real airport security began- it was then and it was because of terror inflicted on innocents, all over the world. Hope that helps.

Yet nobody in the league thinks that he is enough of an asset to take him take him in a trade. Maybe it's just you that thinks he's fantastic. The Leafs don't. The rest of the league doesn't. This an anonymous board, you can speak the truth without jeopardizing your spot on the executive of the Phil Kessel Fan Club.

That makes no sense. Saudi Arabia is hardcore Sunni and does not need to be warned about getting into bed with ISIS(even more hardcore Sunni), since they have been in bed for decades with their very own Wahhabi loons. The only reason they oppose ISIS is that they are destabilizing and impossible to control. The homegrown Saudi nutcases- who export their own brand of well funded extremism from their base in Saudi Arabia around the Muslim world- are allowed to operate within KSA is because they promise to support the ruling class in KSA.

If Kessel was such a valuable player to the other 29 teams, he'd have been traded already.

Now would be a good time to post your evidence that any of that happened. Wright is guilty because you really, really want him to be guilty. The police must be corrupt for failing to lay charges. Gotcha.

Duffy is charged with bribery, not Wright.

I hope there won't be too much crying here if Harper does not go to jail right after the Duffy trial ends.

Now that is not true. They hate us because we exist. Our disdain is not required, we are required to convert or die. Simply loving them is not enough. What is awkward or difficult to understand? It has been known for a long time that Iran hates and fears ISIS, though for different reasons than us. It's because Iran is a Shia bastion, by far the largest and strongest proponent of that brand of the religion. ISIS are Sunni nutcases, and they are cheerfully killing Irans Shia brethren in Iraq. Iran has been talking to the west and to other ME nations for a long time about direct involvement in fighting ISIS, and here it is happening.

I thought Duffy was on trial. Forgive me for not understanding our justice system. If Harper does not testify, then Harper is guilty of something awful. But we already knew that, for he is Satan incarnate. Where is jacee on this?