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It's unfortunate what is happening in Japan. But from what I've read it seems the current spike of cases is completely unrelated to the olympics. The Olympians are probably the most tested group of people in the most secure bubble, (however porous it might be) of any community in Japan.

Yes, I’m not trying to deflect blame for the Residential Schools from Canada to Britain: they were created by politicians in Canada. I’m just pointing out that Canada was an integral part of the British Empire, which kind of did try to take over the world. Canadian Citizenship did not exist until 1947. Until then residents of Canada were either British subjects (issued with British passports) or non-subjects.

Well, in the period most of the people in the unmarked graves were buried and until the Statute of Westminster of 1931 Canada was an integral part of the British Empire with its trade policies and foreign relations largely mandated from London. And the British Empire at that time was much larger than Nazi Germany at the peak of its conquests.

Remember that is a joke...from more than 20 years ago. Society has changed a bit since then. I'm pretty sure you could find some poor white guys who would be fine with becoming a black star comedian/actor for $60 million. Interestingly, there has been a rash of white women pretending to be black in academia in the last 10 years or so.

The point is that increasing violence and militancy would probably hurt Indigenous people more than than white people, on average. Who is affected by burning down churches on reserves? Mainly the Indigenous people who attend those churches. If there is an escalating tit-for-tat of totem pole burnings for statue tear downs, the Indigenous are at a numbers disadvantage: The most $&!#ty, racist 10% of white people in Canada outnumber the entire Indigenous population, most of whom are sensible, peaceful people who want restorative justice to be achieved peacefully and for better relations with non-indigenous Canadians.

What kind of documentation is being provided to people who receive their 2nd vaccination? Surely if only people with this documentation are admitted there should be no real need to limit ticket sales.

Pop tastes better in glass bottles though.

Returning to play after this after age 45, when already dealing with health issues, is very unlikely.

The Blueberry Boys are on the verge of messing up the team for the prime years of its core players. If they don't sell for the future this season (aiming to compete for the cup in 2-3 years time) the Canucks are going to be mediocre at best for years to come.

What possible rationale can be behind this then? Bell is alienating most of the hardcore sports fans in the lower mainland with this move.

If 1040 was even remotely close to breaking even this should be viewed as a criminal act to shut the station down in the midst of a pandemic after receiving millions in government assistance.

Not really “putting children at risk”, more like trying to get their kids to catch chickenpox when the danger to them was minimal instead of in adulthood. It was almost a vaccination technique before there was a vaccine. And you’re right, it didn’t achieve herd immunity for the entire population, but did reduce the risk to the population as a whole. Obviously it’s not a comparable to Covid, as it’s a brand new disease with a much higher mortality rate and none of the population immune to it.

I think there was support for “herd immunity” for chicken pox before it’s vaccine came into widespread use: parents would have chickenpox parties to infect all the children at once and get the outbreak over with. I think the idea was to infect all the children at the ages when the disease was least dangerous. There is some point where a disease’s mortality rate makes this a losing strategy though...and it is much lower than Covid’s. Varicella case fatality rates are highest among adults (30 deaths/100,000 cases), followed by infants under 1 year of age (7 deaths/100,000 cases) and then those aged 1 to 19 years (1-1.5 deaths/100,000 cases)

Current hospitalization for Covid in the USA have reached 90,000, with no signs of peaking anytime soon. Hospitalization statistics generally precede deaths by 2 weeks or more; if things continue as they are we could see close to 3,000 deaths a day by Christmas. https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-currently-hospitalized

2013 deaths so far today in the U.S. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ That's the highest total since May. Given the huge increase in cases there in the last couple of weeks, this wave is likely going to surpass the spring one in terms of people dying.

Sucks eh...Lake Louise would have been a dream setting. Maybe they can have some games there later in the season.

I'm generally one to support pandemic measures, but this one is just kinda dumb. There is as much risk or more risk of contracting the virus fighting for a puck in the corner or battllng in front of the net as with an open ice hit.

It's not the totality of Bertuzzi's career, but it is certainly significant and worth mentioning. If you look into it it's quite interesting. Bertuzzi was playing at 227 pounds up until the 2000/01 season (age 25/26) and was at best a 50 point player. He suddenly gained nearly 20lbs and became the toughest, meanest power forward in the league. Fast-forward past his rage-induced sucker punch of Steve Moore and within a couple of years he's back down to a 225 playing weight and a 50 point pace again. No longer mean and no more rages. Of course Roids isn't the full story: playing with Naslund on the first line in Vancouver was a big part of his mid career success. But back to Virtanen. It's just generally a bad idea to expect forwards to get a lot better in their mid to late 20s. It's pretty rare when they do. Take this study for example: https://hockey-graphs.com/2017/03/23/a-new-look-at-aging-curves-for-nhl-skaters-part-1/ How do NHL players age? When do they peak? How quickly do they decline? Questions about player aging in the NHL have been debated for years, and an incredible amount of research has already been done trying to answer these questions. Within the past 3 years, however, it seems a general consensus has been reached. Rob Vollman summarizes this quite well in his book Stat Shot: The Ultimate Guide to Hockey Analytics: “Most players hit their peak age by age 24 or 25 then decline gradually until age 30, at which point their performance can begin to tumble more noticeably with the risk of absolute collapse by age 34 or 35.”

Bertuzzi had the benefit of steroid-induced Roid Rage. Virtanen is never going to go beast mode like Bertuzzi could.

I believe Petey is eligible to be offersheeted. Any offer under $10,907,735 per season would only net compensation of 2 first round picks, 1 second round pick and 1 third round pick. So I'm thinking that is the starting point for any longterm deal.

A very informative article that covers the lobster fishing dispute from multiple angles, worth reading in full. https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/environment/lobster-fishery-at-a-crossroads-3/

The only thing I can predict is that the ratings on this !@#$% are going to be through the roof.

2003 I believe. I am an old-timer.

Why is there a capacity problem on a system that has computer-driven trains? Surely they can just run more trains of the same length. Why not a train every minute?