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  1. Aren't player salaries paid in USD? Since your ticket revenue is $125 avg (in CAD I assume) you need to convert the salaries to CAD as well. That chops into your other expenses even more than you had originally anticipated. I don't think most people invest in sports teams to make a profit. I'd be willing to bet it's more about the prestige of owning your own team, the contacts you make and how it affects your other business ventures.
  2. "The liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done. That migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants have to be protected," Weird, but I'm pretty sure if an immigrant is convicted of any of those crimes they will be on the next boat out of Canada faster than you can say fake news.
  3. Yeah looking back on that situation is tough. Horrible way to treat your #1 goalie and former captain. Lu should have played in that game hands down.
  4. Huge win if we get him signed. We don't have the defensive depth to lose Edler, love him or hate him.
  5. still trying to find this "report" that his article is citing... because go figure they don't actually provide any link to it whatsoever.
  6. Robb, I didn't Google anything. Perhaps you need to go back and read my post again. I'm quoting the article you originally posted (or at least the link to the science behind it). It's okay for you to post an article based on old research, but then when someone finds facts within that article that debunk the entire statement it's that I haven't done my research? Not to mention you've just quoted another opinion piece rather than the underlying science behind it. All your article quotes is a bunch of one liners from other newspapers that have drawn their own conclusions. That is NOT science. Get it straight.
  7. Read the science behind the article you posted at the start of this thread. it LITERALLY says otherwise. "For future decades the IPCC (2001) expects increases in the occurrence and/or intensity of some extreme events as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Such increases will further increase losses in the absence of disaster reduction measures"
  8. The scientist didn't even claim to prove what the title implies. It's just the opinion of Ross McKitrick, an economics professor
  9. What a misleading article. The whole point of this guy's project is to determine if there is an increased ECONOMICAL cost of weather events. He argues that the cost as a percentage of GDP has actually decreased, but in his own research admits that climate change has a significant human component and that climate change is a factor that influences trends in disasters. They also go to say that for future decades that we will experience increases in the occurrence and intensity of extreme weather events, as a result of anthropogenic climate change. The author of this article tried to spin the research as "Climate change ain't real" BS you'd expect from Trump's mouth. Straight from Pielke's research if you follow his link through... https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/research_areas/sparc/research/projects/extreme_events/munich_workshop/ccdl_workshop_brochure.pdf "Summary Report In summer 2005 Roger Pielke, Jr. of the Center of Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado and Peter Höppe of the Geo Risks Research Department of Munich Re learned from each other that each planned to organize a workshop on the assessment of factors leading to increasing loss trends due to natural disasters. Both agreed that such a workshop was timely, especially given the apparent lack of consensus on the role of climate change in disaster loss trends. Roger Pielke, Jr. and Peter Höppe decided to have a common workshop in 2006 in Germany to bring together a diverse group of international experts in the fields of climatology and disaster research. The general questions to be answered at this workshop were: What factors account for increasing costs of weather related disasters in recent decades? What are the implications of these understandings, for both research and policy? Consensus (unanimous) statements of the workshop participants: 1. Climate change is real, and has a significant human component related to greenhouse gases. 2. Direct economic losses of global disasters have increased in recent decades with particularly large increases since the 1980s. 3. The increases in disaster losses primarily result from weather related events, in particular storms and floods. 4. Climate change and variability are factors which influence trends in disasters. 5. Although there are peer reviewed papers indicating trends in storms and floods there is still scientific debate over the attribution to anthropogenic climate change or natural climate variability. There is also concern over geophysical data quality. 6. IPCC (2001) did not achieve detection and attribution of trends in extreme events at the global level. 7. High quality long-term disaster loss records exist, some of which are suitable for research purposes, such as to identify the effects of climate and/or climate change on the loss records. 8. Analyses of long-term records of disaster losses indicate that societal change and economic development are the principal factors responsible for the documented increasing losses to date. 9. The vulnerability of communities to natural disasters is determined by their economic development and other social characteristics. 10. There is evidence that changing patterns of extreme events are drivers for recent increases in global losses. 11. Because of issues related to data quality, the stochastic nature of extreme event impacts, length of time series, and various societal factors present in the disaster loss record, it is still not possible to determine the portion of the increase in damages that might be attributed to climate change due to GHG emissions. 12. For future decades the IPCC (2001) expects increases in the occurrence and/or intensity of some extreme events as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Such increases will further increase losses in the absence of disaster reduction measures. 13. In the near future the quantitative link (attribution) of trends in storm and flood losses to climate changes related to GHG emissions is unlikely to be answered unequivocally
  10. To be fair, Hawaii (or at least some of the islands) has many of the same real estate issues that we have in BC. Property prices and rents are through the roof and people who work in the state have a hard time finding affordable accommodation. As much as I'd love my own little vacation property in a tropical destination, I believe that the people who live and work in there should be able to afford their own place to live as well.
  11. Edmonton didn't win 1st overall. That's a win for me. I thought the hockey gods might be a little nicer to us this year given that we are hosting the draft, but it's hard to complain when you see the pieces that we have in our system now. Elias is a 1st overall pick in my books.
  12. Telus usually has the faster plans (and occasionally better pricing) but when it comes to customer service and the overall business model I choose Shaw everyday. Telus sends out their con artist sales people door to door, to prey on typically older folks, promising them better service than they have at a better price (usually before even knowing what kind of plan that person is currently on). Once they get your signature (and they won't leave your door without a signature - good luck getting them to leave info so you can do your own research, they won't), you usually find out months later that there was some "key" detail that sales person left out. But too late, you're on a 2 year contract now! If you can live with a company that preys on seniors (amongst other people) with tactics like I described above, then by all means choose Telus. Just hope that you never have to call one of their customer service centers. They have no concept of customer loyalty. Whether you're a 10 year customer or just signed your contract, prepare to be treated like crap. Shaw isn't perfect, but they are a much more pleasant company to deal with.
  13. He'd offend too much of his base if he spoke the truth. Everything Trump does/says is for political gain. There isn't an honest bone in his body.
  14. I don't agree with this at all. We aren't talking about right wing opinions here. We're talking about promoting hate in ways not unlike the nazis of the 1930s and 40s. I don't care which side of the political spectrum they fall on.
  15. Alex Jones banned from Youtube, Facebook and Apple. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/6/17655658/alex-jones-facebook-youtube-conspiracy-theories This needs to be happening a lot more, and to a lot more of these people. People will complain about free speech rights being violated, but you are sadly mistaken. Free speech does not give you the right to promote the kinds of ideas that these guys are pushing. If you want to make a website and podcast pretending the world is flat, fine go right ahead, but when you start grouping people together based on skin colour, religion, race, country of origin, and suggesting they are somehow the "problem".... well, maybe people should have a good look at human history and see where that ALWAYS gets us. Good on those companies for FINALLY doing the right thing, but they need to be doing a lot more of it and faster. This goes for the pieces of trash in the middle east using twitter and other platforms to promote and recruit for terrorist organizations too. There isn't a muslim vs. non-muslim war going on, it's a war of hate.
  16. It's been obvious to a lot of people for a long time. Unfortunately there is a large proportion of the population, and some very greedy people in power that sit on the sidelines doing nothing, that support people like Senator Fraser amongst others. Trump hasn't come out and made a statement quite as stupid and dangerous as what the Senator did today, but he's been pretty damn close. And he's certainly shown his support to people with those same ideologies.
  17. I started to, got about 4 tweets down and I had to stop. He's just one person of a whole pile of these "types" in politics these days. It's absolutely disgusting.
  18. It's way past time to start holding people who promote and spread this kind of hate responsible. Australia (where the shooter was from) has a SERIOUS problem with far right nationalists. You have news stations hosting borderline nazis on their programs https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2018/aug/08/why-is-the-australian-media-promoting-white-nationalist-ideas just to get more viewers. You have an Australian senator (Fraser) making these comments after 49 people were brutally gunned down: “The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place,” It's just sickening.
  19. If Pettersson continues on this trajectory, they might as well start building the statue of Jim Benning. It's amazing to get that calibre player at 5 overall.
  20. Virtanen has more points than ehlers and nylander combined this season. #draftwin
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