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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 6h

I really notice “fruit flies” when my jumping spider vacates the kitchen. 😖

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 7h

Two grammatical errors in one sentence for this "best job in the Okanagan" with a "leading North American local news champion." #VernonBC

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 7h

a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags

ALT: a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags

media.tenor.com

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 7h

I'd invite you to submit an opinion piece to my local news media, but I speculate they'd reject it. "We need on-site colour, not facts." #VernonBC

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 8h

I loathe this time of year.
Lest we forget 🌺

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 8h

Noticed the resilience as well. Incredible.

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 8h

Expendable drone fodder. The zero-sum value russia places on their own people.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 9h

The human face behind russia's terror attack.
Щирі співчуття родині загиблого.

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 9h

Russia keeps stealing joy, freedom, and life from people until we help Ukraine stop them and roll the war criminals back to the dark land where they came from.

Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 22h

Tragedy in Zaporizhzhia where a young child was killed.

Even more heart-breaking, the 7 year old boy was the son of a Ukraine soldier, who'd only recently been released from 3 years as a POW in Russia.

He and his wife are both injured and in hospital.
#RussiaIsATerroristState

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 12h

Good bye to Michael McLeod, one of five members of Canada's 2018 junior team recently acquitted of sexual assault charge. Enjoy your new life and everything it has to offer in Omsk, russia, Michael.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 13h

It is interesting to see Ukraine-related media coverage from sources that don't typically cover it in detail. In some cases, it shows.
@thetyee.ca @canadaland.com @jaymepoisson.bsky.social

Russian President seated at a meeting in the Kremlin, discussing military ambitions and potential threats to Canadian troops.

Podcast episode titled "Chrystia Freeland's Ukraine Doctrine," discussing Ukraine support, featuring Jesse Brown and team.

Podcast episode "Front Burner" with Jayme Poisson discussing the escalating shadow war in Ukraine, featuring insights from Ben Makuch.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/sobi...

Paranoid
Studio album by Black Sabbath ‧ 1970

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

Rohini Arora, MLA for Burnaby East, cf. Tara Armstrong's threat.
#BCpoli
bsky.app/profile/noco...

No Context BC Gov @nocontextbcgov.bsky.social · 2d

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

I had the option of private phone with a government wireless plan (employee, not MLA)... still, this is a mega MAGA move by Rustad. Not even Hegseth has done this (that we know).

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

Mel Arnold even struggles with the slogans.

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

🤔🔍

Circumcision 'highly likely' linked to autism, RFK Jr. says in wild new Tylenol claim

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

#russiaIsATerroristState

Photo from Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary FB-page

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

If these phones are employer-provided, they are considered the property of the Legislative Assembly. This includes wireless services arranged for members (and their caucus staff). #BCpoli

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 1d

B.C. Conservative Leader Rustad confirms search of MLA phones to find leak nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/09/b...

B.C. Conservative Leader Rustad confirms search of MLA phones to find…

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

nationalnewswatch.com

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

“The real underlying issue is this anti-government belief that these public health orders are optional." That's why the far-right ecosystem is involved, to weaken government sovereignty - exactly the kind of thing that happened in the U.S.
-Dr. Angela Rasmussen U. of Sask
@brucearthur.bsky.social

Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birds

This isn’t really about the ostriches, but rather it's about basic biosecurity in the age of viruses, and whether a government can make and enforce laws and policy.

www.thestar.com

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

“The real underlying issue is this anti-government belief that these public health orders are optional." That's why the far-right ecosystem is involved, to weaken government sovereignty - exactly the kind of thing that happened in the U.S.
-Dr. Angela Rasmussen U. of Sask
@brucearthur.bsky.social

Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birds

This isn’t really about the ostriches, but rather it's about basic biosecurity in the age of viruses, and whether a government can make and enforce laws and policy.

www.thestar.com

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

Binary choice from The Hub: Is Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, a traitor or our best diplomat?

If I could fill in the blank: her "warm, chummy mood" with reviled U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, garners her a "Vichy Canadian" label from me.
thehub.ca/2025/10/09/i...

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

Copernicus' satellite-derived Global Land Cover mapping product. Note two countries dominated by croplands: Ukraine and India, which emphasises why russia puts so much effort into attacking Ukraine's world-feeding Black Sea saltwater ports.

This data visualisation is based on the Global Land Cover product from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), released in June 2025 as part of the new Land Cover and Forest Monitoring (LCFM) suite.

Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 1d

Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, suggested Canada should take a U.S.-first, Canada-second policy when it comes to manufacturing cars. This, of course, is a direct conflict with CUSMA.

Trump commerce secretary takes ‘aggressive’ stance against Ontario auto industry, sources say | Globalnews.ca

Howard Lutnick suggested the Trump administration is increasingly focused on vehicle assembly based in the United States, according to multiple sources who heard the discussion.

globalnews.ca

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 2d

Hockey Moon. 🏒
#VernonBC

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 2d

What did Tara Armstrong, OneBC MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, threaten in the BC Legislature today and why? (The Speaker didn't hear the exchange). 🤔

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