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Man, I thought that tie was done and dusted. I thought I wasn't missing anything (was unable to watch the match today). So much for that. Wonder if those damn Spurs can overcome and get an all England final. The Europa final also looks set to be all English, unless the Gunners be the Gunners and lay an egg like they did down the stretch in the league. Crazy.

Congrats to the PG Spruce Kings. The Spruce Kings went 16-1 through the BCHL playoffs to win the Fed Page Cup. Then they only lost 2 games to the Brooks Bandits (hosting the Royal Bank Cup) who went 57-3 and scored 5.57 goals a game in their regular season (Alberta). Hopefully, the Spruce Kings luck is better than their last time at the Royal Bank Cup (2007 as hosts). The Spruce Kings were winners of the longest overtime game (semi-final) only to run out of gas in the final. Spruce Kings capture Doyle Cup Ted Clarke / Prince George Citizen MAY 4, 2019 11:01 PM The Spruce Kings celebrate their Doyle Cup championship after a 4-2 win over the Brooks Bandits Saturday at Rolling Mix Concrete Arena. - CITIZEN PHOTO BY JAMES DOYLE The Prince George Spruce Kings saved their best for last, for their fans, and for the second time this season they are junior A hockey champions. A three-goal surge in the third period gave the Spruce Kings a 4-2 win over the Brooks Bandits 4-2 and they claimed the Doyle Cup crown, winning the series 4-2 Saturday at Rolling Mix Concrete Arena. In their last hurrah at home before they embark on the national championship as Pacific champions. Chong Min Lee scored the winner for the Kings 15:17 into the third period, cashing in a 2-on-1 pass from linemate Ben Poisson. Patrick Cozzi put the victory on ice with a long shot into the empty Brooks net with 20 seconds left. “I kind of felt like I was going to get a chance and I was waiting for that and as soon as Benny was driving the net I was waiting for that pass and he made a nice back-door pass,” said Lee, who had his family back home in Seoul, South Korea tuned in to late-morning webcast. “We wanted it more than them, I’m pretty sure that’s why we won it today. As soon as we got the tying goal we knew we were going to get another one and we got it. We couldn’t win the Fred Page Cup in a home game so we needed this one. It’s so awesome to win it in a home game.” There were about 2,100 fans who could not agree more. “This is one helluva way to close out a season at home,” said Kings captain Ben Poisson. “Obviously this was the last game in front of sold-out crowd, it was quite something.” Down 2-1 to start the third period, the Kings were buzzing and pushed the pace furiously to start the period. Finn Williams, Poisson and Dustin Manz all had great chances to score but could not apply the finishing touches. Spurred by a sellout crowd of screaming, towel-waving fans, the Kings had all the momentum going in their favour when the tying goal came, 9:55 into the third. Cozzi forced the puck in over the line surrounded by two Bandits and spun a long backhand pass over to Manz, who spotted Ben Brar standing all alone waiting for the tap-in. It was the first point of the series for Brar, the team’s second-leading pointgetter in the season. “It was a pretty good time to break out of it,” said Brar. “It was a nice play by the boys and they found me, back door. It was just a huge goal for the team. We were on the bench talking about how we were going to win his game and we found a way. This team has found a way all season.” The Kings kept pouring on the pressure after Brar scored and had the Bandits reeling when Nick Poisson started the play that led to Lee’s winner. The younger Poisson dug the puck out of the corner and got to centre ice where he chipped a pass off the boards to his brother Ben who was in full stride as he entered the zone. As soon as he got the puck he spotted Lee open on the right side and fed him the pass and Lee had an open net to shoot at for the biggest goal of his 19-year-old life. “Nick took a good hit to make the play and gave me a good pass for a 2-on-1 and I gave it to Chong and he did the rest,” said Ben Poisson. “He got really good shot and made no mistake and scored.” The Spruce Kings had the early pressure but the Bandits struck first, just 3:25 in. Tyler Campbell came off the bench and joined the Brooks rush, taking a Nick Hale pass back to the blueline at full flight. He dragged the puck into the slot and filed away a puck in over goalie Logan Neaton’s shoulder. The Kings evened it up a goal apiece before the period ended. Lucas Vanroboys gained the puck in his own end and fired a clearing shot off the boards and Corey Cunningham beat Bandits defenceman Luke Bast to the puck and got a shot on goal. The rebound came out between the hash marks and with Nolan Welsh standing in the way of defenceman Jordan Di Cicco, Vanroboys scooped up the puck and scored on a high shot. Three minutes into the second period, Bandits defenceman Ethan Lund took advantage of slow Spruce Kings line change and hit Mack Hancock with a cross-ice stretch pass and with three Bandits closing in on one King defender Hancock let go a high wrist shot from the right circle that sailed into the net. The Kings locked it down the rest of the period and in the third period did not allow a single dangerous chance while outshooting the Bandits 11-4. “It doesn’t get any better than this,” said Kings defenceman Dylan Anhorn. “We’ve got our eyes set on the national junior championship for sure but we’d like to enjoy this with our fans. Credit to Brooks, they’re an unreal team, they lost three games all season so we knew we had quite a test and we wanted to do it for our home fans here. We knew we had it in our group, we wanted to finish it tonight so we came out for the third period and got the job done. We trained all year for this moment and we showed it today.” It was much tougher for the Spruce Kings to win the BCHL title and despite the apparent ease of winning the Fred Page Cup with a 16-1 playoff record it took them month of playoffs to get there. They clinched that trophy on the road in Vernon and that made winning the Doyle Cup at home that much sweeter. For the Kings players it was their way to reward the fans. “It’s a pretty surreal feeling, honestly, and to do it front of these fans and give back to the community with how much they’ve supported us and been there for us means the world, just to be able to celebrate it with them,” said Kings goalie Logan Neaton. “We just had to stick to our gameplan. We know what we need to do to be successful and we weren’t going to change anything, we were just going to lay our defensive style and create offence from it. (The Bandits) are a phenomenal hockey team and they deserve a lot of respect, it was a good battle, it was a great series.” The Bandits averaged 5.57 goals per game while going 57-3 in the regular season but the Kings made it extremely difficult to score in the Doyle Cup. In the six games they potted just 11 goals and were held to just four in the three games in Prince George. “It was a good series and hat’s off to them for coming away with it, we’re looking forward to next week,” said Bandits captain Nathan Plessis. “It was definitely our most fun matchup to play against this year. At times we were the better team in our building and at times here as well, but for the most part they came out of top. “It was good to get a feel for these guys, they’re definitely a team we’ll see down the road knowing both teams are going to the national championship. It was an amazing atmosphere here to play in for them and we hope to get that from our fans as well.” Both teams will move on to the five-team national championship, May 11-19 in Brooks, Alta. – the Kings as Team Pacific and the Bandits as the host team. “It’s always nice when you earn your way to the championship,” said Kings head coach Adam Maglio. “Most team have to go through Doyle Cup and win to get to the nationals so this definitely builds confidence going into that championship, winning another series. “They’re a very good team, they’re ranked Number 1 in the country all year and that the team we’re going to have to go through in the nationals to win.” The Kings defence was depleted by injuries to veterans Jay Keranen and Liam Watson-Brawn and that put the onus on Anhorn, Layton Ahac, Nick Bochen, Max Coyle and Jason Chu to play additional minutes and they withstood the punishment and were a key factor in the series. “They were playing a lot of minutes and I think they’re pretty happy to get this thing done in six and not have to go seven,” said Maglio. The series pitted two closely-matched champions of their respective leagues and easily could have swung in the Bandits’ favour. Neaton’s shutout 2-0 win in Game 1 in Brooks set the tone and he was outstanding throughout the six games and would have been worthy of series MVP honours. He didn’t get tested often in Saturday’s clincher, making 22 saves, but he was there when the Kings needed him most. Playing on home ice on a rink that’s 10 feet shorter than most, the Kings used that familiarity to their advantage, winning all three games in Prince George. “It could have been a seven-game series and full marks to them, they were the better team in this building without question, we struggled to maintain leads in this building once we got them and when we were behind we just didn’t have enough pushback” said Bandits head coach Ryan Papaioannou. “I think it’s a good learning experience for our guys going into next week, we learned about the team we’re going to play and learn a little bit more about ourselves. I don’t think there was anything wrong about the series. It was two good teams and tough building to play in, great fans. We’d like to play these guys again in a meaningful game.” The Kings bus leaves Wednesday for Brooks, Alta., where they play their first game at the national tournament on Sunday, May 12 against the Central champion Oakville Blades.

I'll bite. Could this be a.major cost to AB and Canada? https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/11/13/opinion/silence-albertas-260-billion-environmental-liability-deafening The silence on Alberta's $260 billion environmental liability is deafening

He got his win. The Marks are not needed for a few years. Then he'll puff his chest and start spitting vitriol to bamboozle those marks into giving him another term.

That was lil Ned Umber. House Umber. Located just south of the wall. Their "castle" is called the Last Hearth.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-computer-hacking-conspiracy Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 11, 2019 WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Computer Hacking Conspiracy ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested today in the United Kingdom pursuant to the U.S./UK Extradition Treaty, in connection with a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer. According to court documents unsealed today, the charge relates to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. The indictment alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications. Manning, who had access to the computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analyst, was using the computers to download classified records to transmit to WikiLeaks. Cracking the password would have allowed Manning to log on to the computers under a username that did not belong to her. Such a deceptive measure would have made it more difficult for investigators to determine the source of the illegal disclosures. During the conspiracy, Manning and Assange engaged in real-time discussions regarding Manning’s transmission of classified records to Assange. The discussions also reflect Assange actively encouraging Manning to provide more information. During an exchange, Manning told Assange that “after this upload, that’s all I really have got left.” To which Assange replied, “curious eyes never run dry in my experience.” Assange is charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement after the charges were unsealed. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Doherty-McCormick, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kellen S. Dwyer, Thomas W. Traxler and Gordon D. Kromberg, and Trial Attorneys Matthew R. Walczewski and Nicholas O. Hunter of the Justice Department’s National Security Division are prosecuting the case. The extradition will be handled by the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs. A copy of this press release is located on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Related court documents and information are located on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or on PACER by searching for Case No. 1:18-cr-111. An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court. Attachment(s): Download assange_indictment.pdf Topic(s): Cyber Crime National Security Component(s): USAO - Virginia, Eastern Contact: Joshua Stueve Director of Communications joshua.stueve@usdoj.gov Updated April 11, 2019

The response will be: Do as I say, not as I do. That is how it will be reasoned by the Kenny marks.

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I'm sure that this won't sway a certain poster. Giving us shade for our "bias", but then goes all in defending Kenny and his voodoo economics laden platform. All because the NDP are bad cause REASONS.

If only we had examples of how voodoo economics work out for public services. Kansas comes to mind. As does TRUMP'S tax cuts. Any reason why they proposed to gut 10% of the education budget, including funding for special Olympics? The tax cuts led to the deficit ballooning. Now they come with empty pockets for social programs saying they have no money and need to cut. The ONLY way this isn't repeated is if oil prices rebound to near record levels. Kenny will have nothing to do with that. He'll spin it his way and the moron marks will buy it up. There's one poster who will be right there.

If I'm far lefty then you are an alt-right, Proud boy fan boy. We both know that not to be true. I provide a source for my claim. You provide nothing to support your claim that the conservatism is the majority except: Believe me, look for the info yourself. you will see. Stromey did all sorts of research but Stromey doesn't have the sources. LOL

I am far from a far lefty. Conservatives are far from the majority. National vote for Cons: 31.9 % in 2015, 39.6 % in 2011 (Majority government with less than 40%), 37.7% in 2008, 36.3 % in 2006, 29,6% in 2004, 25.5 % in 2000. The MAJORITY of Canadians hare left leaning, split between 2-3 parties (Liberal, NDP, Green). So the people pushing a minority ideology are the CONSERVATIVES. Your move partisan cupcake. http://www.thecanadaguide.com/data/federal-elections/

Watching Strome defend the voodoo economics of Kenney's platform has been enjoyable. Considering the shade he threw my way about how "biased" I was. Nice.

Like ROME, kinda got the shaft. Too bad there wasn't more.

I'm surprised that it took them this long. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47691296 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer appointed Manchester United manager

Two words: voodoo economics. I love how conservatives say they will cut taxes and balance the books. Pray tell how does that gets accomplished? History tells us that massive cuts to social programs is the way they try to get it done, at least on the budget side. History also tells us that the books and the economy don't bounce back as quickly as conservatives demand when the other party takes over.

Here is another angle: There are many medical researchers who are not funded by Big Pharma, who routinely research long-term effects of medications. There was a major study regarding the MMR vaccine and autism posted here earlier (https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2727726/measles-mumps-rubella-vaccination-autism-nationwide-cohort-study). There are numerous law firms globally who are set up for major class action lawsuits. These two groups would go to town on any Big Pharma conspiracy. They would go to town on any medication that was harming people while that harm was being covered up. So yes, Big Pharma conspiracy = FAKE NEWS.

That's horrible. Anecdotal stories like yours would be scary for even the most level headed person. However, they do not represent the norm. Serious adverse reactions (like your wife had as a child) to many vaccines represent like 1 in a million at worst. Even Tylenol has side effects. The stuff that happened to your child at birth sound more like medical malpractice, rather than anything to do with vaccines, which is what is being discussed here. Horrible none the less. They do keep track of reaction rates to vaccines, and not cover it up as you suggest. Here are the WHO info sheets https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/tools/vaccinfosheets/en/

My post still stands. That could easily occupy its own thread.

Let's try and keep this centered around one tin foil hat topic. We don't need to derail this thread with GMO/Monsanto talk. I'm sure if ya dig, you may find a thread centered around GMO's and Monsanto.

But,But, But... What about maaaaaa FREEEEEDOOMMMM!!!!!!!!! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536981 Italy bans unvaccinated children from school

And now you will have a bunch of CONservatives going out of their way to spin this, since this "scandal" has all but fizzled. Your move Sneer, leader of the C.R.A.P. (Conservative Reform Alliance Party).