If Manchester City are found guilty on appeal, then the argument is essentially that they won everything by not being constrained by arbitrary financial rules and were therefore able to outspend their rivals. So… exactly what Manchester United did throughout the 90s and 00s? If City’s trophies are “tarnished” because they had a financial advantage over their rivals, what does that make United’s?

Canadians are aghast at this story and wonder how could Americans do this. In Canada, we are much more efficient at this and just call it MAID.

Let’s be clear. Europe can buy what British Columbia produces. That is good business. We are not joining the European Union. What Ursula von der Leyen offered this morning is a title that does not exist. Associate member. There is no such thing in their treaties. Mark Carney was in the room for a standing ovation. Canadians should not confuse applause in Strasbourg with a deal that is good for this country. If Europe wants our LNG, our lumber, our minerals, our food, sell it to them. We have been trying to get product to market for years while Ottawa tied itself in knots. A customer is a customer. Take the order. What we will not do is hand our laws to Brussels. We will not take their labour rules, their climate paperwork, or their immigration system and drop them on a province that is already buckling under housing costs and red tape. People in this province cannot get a mine permitted, cannot find a family doctor, and cannot afford a home. The last thing they need is another layer of government they did not elect. Carney said on Sunday Canada is not applying to join the EU. Then this morning the head of the European Commission used the membership word anyway. That should concern anyone who still thinks this country makes its own decisions. Trade with Europe. Stand with our allies. Do not outsource the country. B.C. workers need buyers, not a new capital.

BREAKING: Calgary city council will hold a special meeting Tuesday morning to receive legal advice after the release of confidential, preliminary budget documents. globalnews.ca/news/12047944/…

Thanks Premier Kenney. I am impressed by your unwavering patriotism and collaboration with Premier Notley. Allow me to correct you on some much-debunked fallacies. 👇👇👇 1) You can't queue jump to see me if you're wealthy. That's essentially what Alberta Conservatives have enacted. If you're homeless, intoxicated and with unstable vital signs I attend to you before a housed patient, with stable vitals and abdominal pain. That's the Canadian way. We put acuity and medical need over ability to pay. That's what we consider fair. That's what most Canadians want. That's the opposite direction of the Smith Conservative government. Would you tell a farm hand they are less important than an oil executive, Premier Kenney? 2) Profiteering is different than profit. I apologize for nothing that I work and I profit. Profiteering is taking undue advantage of people in need, and gouging them for additional fees. That's not what I do. You can't bribe me $500 extra in the ER to be seen faster when the waiting room is packed. That would be unprofessional, immoral and stupid. That's what the Smith Conservative government is doing. 3) Queue-jumping solves zero. Doctors are a fixed resource in Canada, as you know Premier. If you pull us doctors out of the public system for people willing to slip in extra money, you reduce the capability of the public system. That's not how I operate but that's what Alberta Conservatives are doing. You're right that profit (also called a job) is fine. You do it, I do it, anyone with a mortgage or pays rent does it. The difference is profiteering, queue-jumping and prioritizing those who can essentially bribe the doctors. I would hope you would agree those are fundamentally un-Canadian values. Let me explain a medical corporation to you. It's legal. It was put in place by your Conservative Premier colleague Mike Harris in 2000. The government put this in place in lieu of increasing physician compensation. It violates no Canadian or provincial laws. Most doctors in Ontario do it. It defers taxes to when you are earning nothing. I'm not apologizing for it because it's how most Ontario doctors are compensated for their services. Unlike you Premier Kenney, I'm not getting a federal government generous pension when I grow old. My savings are all I have for my family and I. A medical corporation doesn't violate in any way the Canada Health Act which is what the Alberta Conservative government is doing. Let's now shift to Europe which I'm glad you raised. I agree with you, let's be more like Europe. Europe invests far, far more than we do in publicly funded healthcare and related social services. That's why multi-payer systems there is fine. Because they take care of the basics first, better than us. You negate to mention this crucial difference. I'm not against white-glove profiteering healthcare if we take care of the basics first. I hope this clears this up. There's no hypocrisy. It's one thing to attend to patients based on need, not gouge them at their time of need, not pick favourites based on essentially a bribe, knee-cap the publicly funded system and bill the government for services rendered through a law-abiding corporation. I'm ashamed of nothing Premier Kenney. Alberta Conservatives, on the other hand, have enacted policies that are frankly disgraceful to the average Albertan who make about $52,000/year after taxes. @jkenney

Doctor who profits from health care protests the idea of people profiting from health care.👇 The vast majority of doctors in Canada are paid through their own professional corporations, ie businesses that profit from health care. How did the Canada left become so enthralled to the bizarre idea that the universally insured multi payer systems of Europe’s social democracies are some kind of health care dystopia? Why the religious devotion to one of the worst performing health care systems of any developed country, a system that is consistently in the bottom quartile of results and the the highest quartile of costs in the OECD? Any why the hypocrisy? None of the doctors or unions who protest greater choice in health care work in the system for free. They all profit from their work. There is nothing shameful about that.

Toronto-Quebec high-speed rail project could cost over $150-billion, internal document shows theglobeandmail.com/politics…

Those who complained knew the Calgary Stampede existed prior to moving to the area. I used to live near the Stampede grounds before moving to Ward 2 and this is part of living in an urban area of Calgary. Your Wyness wish-washiness is consistent at least.