Western Expresso - Page 236

Biff · #**4701** Posted **Dec 21, 2021, 8:34 PM**

Apparently Fun Mountain is conditionally sold.

From Colliers website.

esquire · #**4702** Posted **Dec 21, 2021, 8:40 PM**

I hope the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought it... that would be our best chance at getting a new slide added to the lineup this summer. Maybe they'll add a new slushie machine too.

djforsberg · #**4703** Posted **Dec 21, 2021, 9:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I hope the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought it... that would be our best chance at getting a new slide added to the lineup this summer. Maybe they'll add a new slushie machine too.

And it will be called the Bone Cutter.

Kinguni · #**4704** Posted **Dec 21, 2021, 11:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I hope the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought it... that would be our best chance at getting a new slide added to the lineup this summer. Maybe they'll add a new slushie machine too.

Saudis would put a dome over it and keep it going year round.

peg · #**4705** Posted **Dec 22, 2021, 2:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Kinguni

Saudis would put a dome over it and keep it going year round.

Sounds like... Dreamscape...

The Jabroni · #**4706** Posted **Dec 22, 2021, 5:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Apparently Fun Mountain is conditionally sold.

From Colliers website.

Yeah, it's been known for a while now around the social media.

The now former owner of Fun Mountain was a nut job anyway. Hopefully the new owners will bring it back to its former glory, and maybe fix it up and maintain upkeep for once.

Kinguni · #**4707** Posted **Dec 22, 2021, 9:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by peg

Sounds like... Dreamscape...

Ack! Forgot about that. Could be!

pspeid · #**4708** Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 3:23 PM**

I don't know if any NHL fans have been following the Calgary Flames' quest for a new arena, but it seems to be following the standard trajectory of demands, threats and brinksmanship we always tend to see at times like this. Here's a recent media report:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7agU5FHLms

What is really interesting to me are the comments below the video. I knew a number of people in Calgary back in the "boom" days, and their attitude towards public finding of projects tended to be "hang the cost/just build it". Now the comments could have been from Hamilton or Winnipeg or any other city, ranging from "please just build it" to "let them go to Quebec City/who needs them?". While I'm not a Flames fan, and I'd love to see another franchise in Quebec City, it would be a shame to lose the Edmonton/Calgary dynamic.

esquire · #**4709** Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 6:48 PM**

^ The "we're moving the team" bluff won't work in Calgary because everyone knows that even if CSEG ended up selling the Flames to someone who ultimately moves them out of town, someone else would move a team there instantly. It's too lucrative a market to not have a NHL team.

These gun to the head tactics by NHL owners tend to work best in smaller hockey markets that feel the most vulnerable. Calgary is not really in that boat.

1ajs · #**4710** Posted **Jan 20, 2022, 11:25 PM**

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...ance-1.6318629

Nurse in Lynn Lake fired for reasons outside her practice, says union
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Manitoba Nurses Union says employers should be doing everything they can to retain nurses
Peggy Lam · CBC News · Posted: Jan 18, 2022 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 18

The Manitoba Nurses Union said a nurse who recently moved to work in Lynn Lake, Man., was terminated by the Northern Regional Health Authority for reasons outside of her practice.

"We're in a situation where we need to be retaining every nurse possible in the system, so it's worrying that employers are not doing everything they can to retain nurses," said Darlene Jackson, the union's president.

Lynn Lake is a town of approximately 500 residents, located more than 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

Jackson said she can't disclose more details about the incident because the Manitoba Nurses Union has filed a grievance on this person's behalf and the case will be going to arbitration.

what happend it wasnt good as all the local nurses quit within a month of this happening

bomberjet · #**4711** Posted **Jan 21, 2022, 2:00 PM**

Of course the union is looking our for their employees.

But why are there so many staff shortages in the north. Are people sick? People quit? I haven't paid a lot of attention lately.

esquire · #**4712** Posted **Jan 21, 2022, 4:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

Of course the union is looking our for their employees.

But why are there so many staff shortages in the north. Are people sick? People quit? I haven't paid a lot of attention lately.

There is difficulty on two fronts... not a lot of graduates from the region, and recruiting people from elsewhere is damn hard. I know some UM nursing graduates, they're mostly in Winnipeg and other cities but some are in glam locales like Hawaii. When you're competing with that, it's tough to recruit people to Thompson.

The current situation has only exacerbated those challenges.

bomberjet · #**4713** Posted **Jan 21, 2022, 4:44 PM**

Need to train locals and pay people. I guess if they just decide to leave than we're hooped.

If someone offered me 200k / year to go work in Thompson, I would strongly consider it.

1ajs · #**4714** Posted **Jan 21, 2022, 6:23 PM**

there was a public health nurse and every thing in lynn then all sudden they started quiting. around feb. when this nurse got canned it was the last straw from what i understand in a long list of toxic work place bs comming from the nrha that had impermiated the hospital inn a bad way.. i dont know exact details just tidbits

up till that point it was 80% local nurse's who owned houses and live here and still live here but they all work in the far north now month on month off

1ajs · #**4715** Posted **Jan 21, 2022, 6:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

Need to train locals and pay people. I guess if they just decide to leave than we're hooped.

If someone offered me 200k / year to go work in Thompson, I would strongly consider it.

thompson hospital is worn out depressing place and they dont make 200k to be a nurse there

its faster to drive to lynn lake from thompson and back then it is to see a doc in thompson

peg · #**4716** Posted **Jan 26, 2022, 3:20 AM**

Saw this while browsing google images... lmao

bomberjet · #**4717** Posted **Jan 26, 2022, 6:01 AM**

If the freedom convoy has their way, it will be.

1ajs · #**4718** Posted **Jan 26, 2022, 6:11 AM**

what a tax nightmwar that be

esquire · #**4719** Posted **Jan 26, 2022, 12:50 PM**

Reminds me of when the Raiders came to town and their punter wore this shirt:

I like the drawing, though... I like how all the surface parking lots are green

bomberjet · #**4720** Posted **Jan 26, 2022, 2:43 PM**

On the health care topic again.. That's what I mean. Build hospitals like they plan to in the south. Pay people to be there. If it's toxic, get the toxic out. Figure it out. It's not like we can't control what's going on in the Province.