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      "body": "The farce that is goaltender interference continued again tonight. No one, be it goalie, player, coach, GM, media, fan or anyone else not mentioned has any idea what will be called a goal or not based on the definition established by the league. A coin flip would have better odds of success than trying to systematically figure out what is and isn't based on how things have played out.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaCC8FZV9HKUfjCJXijUH2B8XNdJ7mpF1GKSwCUHoSGE6/image.png)\n\nOf utmost concern in this issue is that the interpretation and further the application of goaltender interference is applied individually by the 34 different referees of the NHL. Not sure which suit thought this to be a good idea, but it has been nothing but an abject failure. Instead of getting some standard to be applied across every game, each referee applies his own variation of what will and won't be enough to allow or disallow a goal. What's worse, is that bar doesn't even seem to be consistent within the same referee, swinging like a pendulum seeking it's resting centre.\n\nThis was an obvious problem doomed to be created from the start. League brass has mentioned that giving the on-ice official final verdict allows them to weigh the emotion and flow of the game into the decision. Why would either of those things matter? Oh, this was a close game, and some calls have possibly gone the other team’s way, so we’ll give this team a call in their favour. Ludicrous.\n\nFrom the beginning, this should have been assigned to The Situation Room. They get to make the call on whether or not the puck crossed the line, so they should have final say on what is and isn't goaltender interference. It would promote a much greater level of consistency, but it still, to a large degree, leaves out the accountability. \n\nWhich is where I pop in, with a very simple solution. One person, sitting in The Situation Room, makes all the goalie interference challenge calls. By next day, a statement is released explaining why. We don't need full video breakdown like is released for supplemental discipline, as any appeal process is long over by next day. That would bring the pendulum of the league to its centre, and right would be restored, at least as much as possible.\n\nWhat is interesting to note though, is if all of these are goaltender interference, where’s the accompanying penalty? Sure, some of them may be incidental and not warrant a penalty, but many of them would. It seems like an oversight, but the NHL is renowned for those. The goaltender interference challenge is supposed to be applied when it prevents a goalie from making a save. On many of these, the action of the offender wasn't what was preventing the save. It has become the bargain trade of possibly losing your timeout for a get out of jail free card, all while still getting to effectively use your timeout at that moment.\n\nAnd then people wonder why scoring is down.",
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      "body": "Recreational cannabis is finally set to be legal in Canada for July 1st.\n\nOr maybe August.\n\nBy the end of the year, for reals.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTmfYDAy4FjWznWXnNLifm1egMooz1ck18hucU1ZfTPvG/image.png)\n\nGovernment getting in its own way, to the surprise of almost no one. Trudeau and his Liberal cohort were elected largely on their promise of weed legalization, and over two years later, it's finally coming. Or not. Having initially set a deadline of July 1st for legalization, the government has realized it probably can't meet this date that it definitely said it could meet. How not? It's real easy.\n\n“Don't throw people in cages or extort them for possessing cannabis.” \n\nNot the way government does things though. Not enough paperwork there. First, the feds get to make the minimum restrictions. Those include setting an age to purchase and possess, selecting the producers, how many personal plants a household can have, how many grams a person can have, etc.\n\nThen what do the provinces get to do? Take those same things, and amplify them if they want. Saskatchewan has chosen to make age of purchase and possession 19, mirroring the alcohol law. They've also stuck in some absolutely archaic and guaranteed to be removed legislation like making cannabis a last stop purchase, meaning it must be purchased and then driven straight home. No stopping for munchies, you must buy those first. Does government sometimes just make up junk laws so they have something to remove later? What a way to guarantee yourself a role in the future, and they get to claim they learned something from the experience, only so they can do it again on the next issue! The rationale behind this is that theft would increase – well if police are fining people for this, then yeah, the theft is increasing – and that this would distinguish between personal use and personal possession. How the hell do you know where someone is going? And how do you see the cannabis anyway? This just seems like they want to do more roadside checks – oh, did I just stumble on something? Infringe more on freedoms. That is the government's way!\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSmawY5xQ8EM3JNMrf2fC3Mom3y2Mb3xFxr4jZzSM9wQ3/image.png)\n\nAnd then comes everyone's favourite part. The taxes. The feds are sticking a tax of $1/gram or 10% of price – whichever is higher, naturally – and the provinces will likely follow that up with a sin tax of their own. To put this in perspective, at present time, using a quick online search, it is possible to buy cannabis for $100 for an oz (28 grams) shipped to your door. Yes, qualities will vary, but assuming the province doubles up the fed's tax, that leaves less than $40 (factor in those sales taxes!) for the vendor, producer, and everyone else along the chain. So, how will this eliminate the black market? It won't, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Black market has been operating the weed game for a while, and they've got a great product, with competition keep things... competitive.\n\nThat's not the real fun, though. I mentioned government makes things more difficult than they have to, right? Well, right alongside Bill C-45 (cannabis legalization) comes Bill C-46, a sister bill, that deals with impaired driving, including making changes to alcohol rules. Yeah, go read that one. It's getting stuck in the Senate, likely cause they want to make snooping more permissible. So much for the Charter, ya know, sections 8 & 9. \n\nRemember the days when people were presumed innocent until they did something to warrant not being thought as innocent? I don't, but I'm told they were great. Maybe common sense will prevail and we'll get back to that. Maybe people just need to sit back and chill and stop telling others what to do. Have a joint. Can't have a cookie, though. Those won't be good to go until next year. Or after. \n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbN754wGDfC7DYp7SY6szdsZFqwHFLtgS18dE3D26Hvrm/image.png)\n\nThis is just the government angle. I'll deal with the anti-weed people another day. They're a special group.",
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      "body": "Probably should have written this part earlier, but that's ok.\n\nI am a freedom-minded individual who will write about whatever crosses my mind at that particular time. I have previously run as a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada, and will likely do so again in the future. I watch hockey and football, I tinker with cars, and I like to go camping in my self-reno'd trailer.\n\nFrom the campaign trail\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZuMsMNm17XdPjJPaLBy56NbgbGjMku2ba2YGAJ8Hcoqr/image.png)\n\nCamping out\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYEQgHx3xREtjByZnqMTvuSbRheiQZHG9YAHAnXRg5y4Y/image.png)\n\nTaker, my canine companion\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSD1KGVu5JdtTYxg79Vnag47pAm5Bv834wzi26oq71j1Z/image.png)\n\nThe work in progress\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYh35aCeeCUbXz16d7poobvjd6jxyRgZGtNDbsXhTCpcB/image.png)",
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      "body": "The Fight for Fifteen has grown, and we're starting to see the effects that every economist without an agenda predicted – machines will replace overpriced low-skilled workers. It has happened. In fairness, it was just a matter of time before that technology came out and replaced these jobs, but the overvaluing of the labour by the employees sped up the process drastically. It was worth the R&D costs to get these machines to market now rather than to invest a little in them over time and have them come out in the future. The burger flipping robot is one example. Self-serve kiosks (which certainly do speed up the checkout process) is another. The scan-as-you-cart-it method another investment replacing workers. At one point in time, the combine replaced workers, much like automation took many manufacturing jobs. These are all technological progresses that will continue to occur, and that's a good thing.\n\nThe important thing is, people survived. They found other things to do, other ways to be productive, other ways to be creative, other ways to find purpose with their day. After a period of adjustment, everything got better for everyone.\n\nBut that's not what I'm discussing. What I'm tackling today is that wages don't really matter. Yes, you'd rather make $15 am hour than $10 an hour if all things were equal, but things don't have to be equal. What if the average wage was only $1 an hour? Most people would find that to be a terrible thing. But what if a new house only cost $1,000? That's a thousand hours of working, or 25 FT weeks. At $15 and 25 weeks, that might buy you a new entry level car, but $15,000 isn't buying you a house.\n\nThis is the issue. Wages don't really matter. What does matter, is purchasing power, and it has been going down for a long time. Purchasing power doesn't just affect the price of a house or a car, but all the daily transactions that one makes, from groceries, to clothing, to utility bills, and every other purchase on top of that.\n\nLegislators don't seem to want to talk about the decline of purchasing power. It is simply not in their best interest to say that no matter who was in office, government has failed the people. There are outliers like the Ron and Rand Paul who have spoken up, but their still in the minority despite the power their voices have generated.\n\nThe cause of that is, of course, government. Since backing off of the gold standard, purchasing power has gradually been reduced and reduced. A dollar doesn't buy what it once did, not even 10 years ago, and remuneration has not kept pace with it either for anyone in the working world. This isn't the fault of the CEO. The CEO doesn't control the value of the currency. That is straight from government and its lovely printing press.\n\nThis chart, provided by coinflation.com (time marked) show the face value of coins and what their value would be had the rare metals been kept in the coins. The ability to print money without backing it to anything has become a massive hindrance to everyone. This isn't breaking news to anyone, and the government certainly isn't going to stop it anytime soon. Wages and salaries might keep rising a little bit, but that's just masking a greater problem, which is that the money is broken. \n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYptHXrz1h6NgxPVekHKZCzXeHzsWydYMCpRd6G6ykFWP/image.png)\n\n\nSo how does it get fixed? Well, we could fix the currency, but that would take a global effort from government, since they are pretty much all broken, and unifying a world government is certainly not a step I wish to take. The globalists have done enough wrong to this world already. \n\nThe other option, and the one that anyone reading this on its original upload would be contributing to, is to take power of currency via a decentralized platform. This is where cryptocurrencies come in. The purchasing power isn't going to be fixed by government, but when crypto coins stabilize, and they will, they will become the greatest source of maintaining purchasing power. I'm simply waiting for the day where I can be paid in XMR. So until then, go forth and spread the good word.",
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      "body": "I'm thoroughly impressed with the ability of McKenna to stick to the agenda regardless of the amount of mental gymnastics it takes to stay in position.\n\nNot only is the concept of anthropological climate change sketchy at best and willfully ignorant at worst, this idea promotes that everyone is a victim, but some are more victimed than others. Oppression by nature! \n\nSomeone turn down the temperature, it's hot in here.",
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