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I really don't think there's any intent to encourage people to drink their alcohol at restaurants/bars. You're still paying significantly more to buy alcohol at a bar than you would at a liquor store. There just isn't cheap alcohol here like there is in the USA.

I don’t believe this is true. $20 million? No way. The CFL as a whole doesn’t make much profit but there’s no way they’re losing $20 million in a typical season. This was a bad decision. The CFL wasn’t asking for much anyway (literally just no interest). To the argument that “we shouldn’t be bailing out professional athletes”— what makes professional athletes less important than artists and other performers that have been bailed out? And 3 of the 9 teams are community owned so it’s not really fair to describe it as bailing out billionaires either.

It is a troll job.

Venezuelan court sentences two former US Green Berets to 20 years in prison for failed coup

from what i understand they’ll only do that if the feds give them a loan which the government doesn’t seem to want to do. so it’s unlikely we’ll have a season this year at all.

you’re a lot more optimistic than i am. forget the 2020 season. i don’t think i’d be willing to make an even money bet that the CFL will put on another season ever again (at least not without being down multiple franchises).

if things continue like they are, and we don’t have a vaccine developed for 12 months, things are going to get wild. i really hope the oxford vaccine proves effective.

Oh jeeze

She probably couldn’t afford to take time off work.

It's bad enough that Freeland is pulling the strings right now. A Freeland led government would be even worse for marching in lockstep with American foreign policy. At least with Trudeau in power I can hope that he wouldn't send troops into some disastrous war in the future. People said that if Harper was PM in 2003 that Canadians would be in Iraq. Well if Freeland ends up leading the LPC it won't matter what party is in charge in the future, we'll back up the Americans in whatever military adventurism they wish to undertake.

It will be a dark day if Christia Freeland becomes PM.

holy

I agree that trucks should be engineered better. I just disagree that they should require a separate license. I also disagree that these blind spots themselves are some huge pedestrian killer. The research you linked to backs up that trucks are more likely to severely injure or kill a pedestrian when a collision occurs. It does not say in any way that the blind spots themselves cause collisions with pedestrians. Your link also said that the typical pedestrian fatality occurs mid block, on an arterial street, in the dark. Not the kind of scenario that being able to see exactly 1 foot in front of the bumper would prevent. This is a far more reasonable criticism, IMO. To add some context to that picture, that's a Toyota Tacoma (so not even a full-size truck) and it doesn't look lifted to me. The picture would be worse if it was a full size truck and far worse if it was a full size truck with a lift kit.

Okay first of all I agree with you guys in general about the anti-car sentiment and I don't really like this trend of trucks getting bigger and bigger either. THAT BEING SAID... it's pretty obvious some of you guys have never driven a pickup truck before. You're acting like the average truck driver is completely blind, incapable of any level of situational awareness and is driving over pedestrians left and right. Even in the case of that monster truck above (that thing absolutely has an aftermarket lift kit), while you wouldn't be able to see a kid that was literally a foot in front, you would see them before they walked in front of the truck and after, and under most circumstances you WOULD see them in front of your truck because they're not going to be literally one foot away from you. If someone can: A) be licensed to drive a passenger vehicle AND B) be so unaware of what's going on around them that they would be likely to drive over someone directly in front of them, that speaks to a major problem in the licensing system itself that will not be solved by simply saying "pickup trucks need additional licensing." I am not okay with that person driving a Corolla.

holy shit

oh good

I have a friend with strabismus (lazy eye) and it makes her feel uncomfortable and stigmatized when people mock Crenshaw for only having one eye.

hell yeah

Six people test positive, so they test hundreds more, find 45 asymptomatic cases and plan to test 10,000 more that work at the market where the outbreak occurred, all the while reimposing lockdown measures. That's how this pandemic should be handled everywhere. Sadly, we'll suffer with this for far longer than we need to because few countries are responding in such a manner.

What do you want me to respond to? edit: this seems like a bad faith mention. Isn’t that supposed to be against the rules. edit2: I don’t think I explain how it’s not really that bad as much as I ask for clarification when people (especially you) say it is REALLY REALLY BAD. If that makes me a china defender then so be it. I’m still waiting for you to tell me how much community spread is actually occurring in China. But I guess I’m such a defender to even ask for clarification on that point.

Shit

If he donated to Bernier he’s a fucken chud I don’t give a shit about any board he sits on

170,000 hot damn

so when do people start getting militant.

Darn! I was hoping they’d pull a challenger and go forward regardless of the weather.