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  1. that project was overkill, something needs to be done there tho.
  2. great news for BC. I'm sure the feds will waive the import duties on the steel needed for the project.
  3. ^^ this. A big part of the problem is Canada seems to love to stumble into things project by project. We have no framework in place for all the partners (we know will be involved) to work under, if we did we would be looking at a very different scenario. We seem to want to reinvent the process every time a major project comes up. The pissy attitude of Albertans doesn't help, but the more they act that way the less support they get so its self defeating anyway. At some point you'd think that would be understood but not in my lifetime so far.
  4. ...but...but.... asset management!!!
  5. Benning draft strategy - BPA. 

     

    "“It has been my experience that if you go for position, you make mistakes,” said Benning. “You want to take the best available when you pick and that will be our strategy. Positional needs? We can find other ways to find those type of players.”

     

    http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/ben-kuzma-a-bevy-of-blueliners-may-await-canucks-in-nhl-draft-lottery

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    2. JM_

      JM_

      I think he might be alluding to missing out on Pastrnak more than OJ/Tkachuk. Jim may have been thinking more about C depth and picked McCann by mistake vs the more skilled winger, and he had already selected a RW with Jake. 

       

      Anyway interesting to see the BPA statement flat out, no grey area there moving forward. 

    3. Tortorella's Rant

      Tortorella's Rant

      Always do BPA.. trade for what you need later.

    4. Jaku

      Jaku

      Good strategy. I think it makes the most sense. If the Canucks do land the 2nd or 3rd overall pick I think it would be silly to pass on Svechnikov or Zadina to pick a Dman. 

  6. its also not dil bit. No one knows how to clean that up yet. That fact, along with the hypocrisy of Trudeau on this is more than enough justification to kill this project imo.
  7. I'm sure Forsberg will find some reason for you to not pay attention to this With Horgan filing the reference case today I think we're in for a long summer of action against this project. My prediction is KM ultimately pulls out and then federal investment to keep it going will become a major election issue for 2019.
  8. I was initially OK with this if all the safety was in place, but after reading a "memo" from the environment minister posted above I'm more convinced than ever that the gov't has no idea how to clean up dil bit. There's no way that they are going to have that knowledge in time for the dil bit to start flowing, so I want the whole thing scrapped. Let Kinder Morgan walk. If that ends international oil investment here so be it, it will force us to invest in higher paying manufacturing jobs.
  9. and we're going to find out if provinces have the right to protect their environments. Your CPC started a failed process and now you see the results. This is on your boy Harper.
  10. Oh really? so when it serves you its all of Canada thats involved but then you get to define who's a partner when you don't want them involved. Thanks for the lesson in AB hypocrisy, you're quite good at it. That "memo" isn't nearly enough. Think of it this way, if you wanted to form a consulting group with some partners, would you sit down with all of them first, define how you'll work together, what kind of opportunities you'll go after and ones you won't, and how everyone gets paid? Or would you go out and just take the first thing that came along and then get into endless arguments over how it will all work? I'm pretty sure I know what you'd pick.
  11. @Warhippy made a nice case for offshore production in BC. Its now gone beyond the point of no return imo. Its either going to reward some pretty crappy behaviour by AB, or endless protests and who knows what else here. This whole industry needs a reset. We need the companies, AB, BC and first nations to sit down and figure out a framework BEFORE these projects are designed and approved. We keep re-inventing the same issues over and over again to no one's benefit really. My hope is this tanks and forces a new approach to these projects. Its clear that there is a lot of first nations support, but from some reason successive governments and companies keep trying to ram through projects the same way.
  12. I guess the lesson here is to actually talk to your partners in good faith from the beginning eh? you know, like actual business partners do.
  13. yah its quite something to witness the attitudes coming out of AB. BC should be vilified for looking for cheaper gas, but its OK for Alberta to drive up our prices? huh? At this point I want this project to fail because I don't want Alberta's antics to be rewarded. If KM backs out, Alberta is going to be forced to act more like a business partner than a spoiled bully.
  14. and.... of course this rears its head again: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-alienation-poll-surging-1.4633985 Alberta alienation from rest of Canada surges once again, poll suggests Oh no, Alberta has a high concentration of high paying jobs, they buy a lot of things, have valuable property and their oil companies pay royalties... the horror. This is a great example of just how silly things have become inside AB. Alberta is alienating itself with this kind of 'logic'.
  15. it might smell like cedar for a while instead of dil bit... we should get paid extra for that.
  16. don't forget jet fuel from Asia. yes I'd like BC to have more than our current supply chain, its given us ridiculous gas prices for years and its only going to get worse when the KM line only ships dil bit. So yeah, I'd like a choice. So would you.
  17. Toronto HF boards desperate for a trade for better D.... 

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    2. J.I.A.H.N

      J.I.A.H.N

      Oh, you can be certain they want Tanev....and willing to gladly pay that 3rd round pick!

    3. Phil_314

      Phil_314

      "fire up the rumour mill, boys!"

      Oh and if they would want to move Gardiner I'd probably be down to buy low.

      Remember the good ol' days when we had the Hoff?  Jake's pretty much the same kind of asset already (50 point D-man, and those don't grow on trees but with the right sheltering he could flourish)

       

    4. Dazzle

      Dazzle

      Gardiner was really flashy in the offensive side but absolutely horrid in the defensive zone. He had so many giveaways in a crucial playoff game, YUCK.

  18. we're doing what we want with our provincial resources. Just like you say is fine for AB. Anything but accepting that you need to act like a real business partner eh?
  19. yeah.... as usual your fantasies over this issue don't match up with reality. None of that comes close to the legal definition of terrorism (http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-12.html).
  20. just want to know how you justify calling people terrorists. Because its not good for Alberta?
  21. so now you backtrack on your statement?
  22. how do you justify calling people terrorists?
  23. there's a point to be made there for sure. If (and I have no idea) he doesn't buy a boatload of carbon offsets to balance it all off you'd have something there.
  24. courts are courts, they aren't "liberal".
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