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  1. Funny how you didn't say crap about the new coaching changes.
  2. You can't spell worth a damn either. Keyboard warrior here with the "You gonna do something about it?" line, knowing you're safe behind the keyboards. You are a joke.
  3. Yeah. It's really painful to see white people get targetted for this $&!#, and I'm not even white. This is stupid finger-pointing, and we'll likely never see the end of this type of behaviour until we all die. All of us die.
  4. I thought Bates was only involved in the NCAA free agents, not the scouting of draft picks. I think Judd Brackett had way more influence on the picks than Bates ever did.
  5. No offense, but if you truly believe this, you are drinking Dhali-laid.
  6. Yeah. I don't think our NCAA record has really been that great, aside from Tanev and a few other picks, over the course of a decade.
  7. Bates is credited for helping to find Tanev. The rest of the players have largely been misses. Seems like he's a good guy though.
  8. @filthycanuck You are an embarrassment to our fanbase. Get out! EP40 is the best damn thing we've seen in years.
  9. if there's any justice at all, Tampa will lose all their games from this point onward.
  10. Mike Gillis screwed this team so hard. In fact, we are still paying for his mistakes. We have no defensive replacement for Edler. That's on Gillis, among many other things. The only drafted piece of significance that we got from Gillis was Horvat, and he traded away yet another drafted player that had nothing to do with Gillis (Schneider - Nonis pick). Gillis overpaid on some UFA players too (cough - Garrison). Also threw away draft picks while failing to draft. Just absolutely brutal GMing. Sure he had some good years, but the heavy lifting was already done for him by Burke + Nonis. What Gillis could do in the UFA, namely filling the team with cheap players, he could not draft/develop players worth a damn.
  11. There's bullcrap rumours about him wanting to be traded too.
  12. I really hate to say this, but I agree with you. It just sucks because they're the ones showing outrage right now. That being said, I think blaming white people (not saying you are doing that now), as some people are doing, is very counterproductive. The idea of race is a man-made concept, and seeing the comments directed to people about race and privilege does not promote healing. Rather, it divides people.
  13. I disagree. Drafting a goalie will mean that we will no longer have any goalie question marks and can focus entirely on defense + forwards.
  14. Dhaliwal, just like other media figureheads in this city, have been making up news, disguised as legitimate rumours. If Benning said that no one has asked for a trade, and yet this story 'confirms' a longstanding rumour that he wants out, who are we to believe? Benning who has never told a lie so far, or Dhaliwal, whose trackrecord has been sketchy? Umm... I think it's an easy decision. So how about that story about Hughes on IV? Our media's reporting on "rumours" has been whiffing badly and there's zero accountability for it.
  15. Yeah, I just read your lengthy post. Great points. Obviously these graves are not a new thing, but the discoveries of them are continuous developments. I must admit I didn't hear about the ones you mentioned in your posts, yet, as you correctly pointed out, little has been done to address it.
  16. That's not true at all. Given the reactions of people right now, they DO care, which goes against what you just said about them not caring. It's not like these graves appeared out of nowhere. The timing of this - the search/recovery - could've been anytime. Why now? Canada has a whole hasn't been open about how they treated the indigenous people. If they had been more open about it, then maybe people could've had more time to grieve. You say it's been in the press all this time, yet people "don't care". Wouldn't this mean that people won't care after this blows over, using your logic? Anyway, I'm not really here to pick an argument over this. I think we're both in agreement that Canada did some bad things and they didn't deal with it well over these years. It seems we all have to pay the price now.
  17. Um. I think people want to hear it, don't you think? Residential schools are not 'news', was my point. Our inconsistent education system is a big part of the reason why some Canadians don't know much about it. Canada should've dealt with this residential school thing much earlier.
  18. No one should be telling anyone to "get over it" That being said, the media's obsession over this is disingenuous. Where was this level of coverage before the graves? There was plenty of academic and historical evidence for them to do research. Now these journalists think they're historians.
  19. Not the same thing, at all. But that's all you got out of my post, just the one detail and ignoring the rest? The comparison between Hitler and residential schools is a poor one, period. You'd have to extrapolate certain details to fit the mould, and by that point, the history is not there anymore. Let's just end that comparison here. It's not helpful at all for understanding stuff. But I get the feeling people want to make these broad comparisons because of emotion. Residential schools will always be a dark aspect of Canada, but healing will happen. Canada just needs to actually address it. Germany actually doesn't hide its past. It's one of the few countries that talks about Nazism very openly. The purpose is to never have that happen again.
  20. Not really. Hitler went to great lengths in pursuing blood purity. Jews were not part of this equation. Canada, on the other hand, did not base their policies like that. Furthermore, concentration camps were designed for one purpose - to kill and torture Jews to death. There was no 'reformation' phase. Jews/cripples and Communists were not welcome in Hitler's society. There was no reforming them. We also are ignoring the gypsies and the Poles. All of this is where the Hitler comparison absolutely falls apart, but there's other factors. Hitler had the secret police. Canada didn't have that for the indigenous. They also didn't have rogue agents pursuing the country's agenda as dictated by the respective leaders. The people in charge of the residential schools, though, were racist. The goal wasn't to murder the indigenous, but to reform them. In this process, they did kill them. Cruel, sure. Intent, no. See above. They fed them, but they didn't feed them well. In addition, the residential schools did not lead to mass graves. Hitler, on the other hand, had entire villages cleared. Hitler didn't have to gas or torture people himself - his agents did. Canada did not have agents gassing Indian people, thus a poor comparison. I'm not saying Canada is great at treating them. Make no mistake. You just can't make the comparison. You can't make a square peg fit a circle hole. But in making these comparisons, that's what people are doing. They are willingly ignoring historical evidence, and extrapolating them when necessary to fit a political one. That's dishonest discussion.
  21. True; you are completely correct that almost all of them are specifically saying "unmarkeed graves". However, you can see some of the language that is being used, found under this article title: "Hundreds More Unmarked Graves Found at Former Residential School in Canada" (article found here) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/world/canada/indigenous-children-graves-saskatchewan-canada.html For Canada’s 1.7 million Indigenous citizens, who make up about 4.9 percent of the population, the finding of yet another mass burial site is a visceral reminder of centuries of discrimination and abuse, which has led to intergenerational trauma among survivors of residential schools and their families. Granted, this is only one article that say something like this.
  22. Exactly. Mass graves occurred when Hitler's forces systemically cleared out villages, so we had hundreds, if not thousands, of people being killed at that moment, or in short succession. The reality with residential schools did not operate in that same way. This was a long term experiment. The poster that you're quoting has clearly made up his mind based on the news he has read though.
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