CBJAlberta
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CBJAlberta
@cbjalberta.bsky.social
PDGA Alberta 🍁 🇨🇦 Disc Golfer 🥏

Tour Official/Player/Course Designer

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My family moved to #Alberta in 1903.

When travelling in the South Pacific Emergency Consular Services are available at both British High Commissions 🇬🇧 and Australian Embassies. 🇦🇺

You cannot beat a #Canada passport,
possibly the best in the world? 🌎 👍
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Ekasup is the name of a village deep in the jungle of Vanuatu 🇻🇺

#FirstContact
February 1, 2026 at 3:43 AM
My first contact with a Stone Age tribe on Vanuatu 🇻🇺 got off to a poor start.

The head man in the village told me they ate the first Christian Missionary they encountered in the 1850s… 😳

#cannibals
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 AM
On the war memorial in #NewCaledonia the name of Melam Baouma, a soldier of #France, who obviously didn’t stay ‘far behind the front lines’ fighting with the #USA in #Afghanistan 🤨
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Stopped to pay my respects to the war dead of our ally #France in Noumea #NewCaledonia today.

500+ names 1914-18 on the memorial for the “war to end all wars”, or as #Canadian author Margaret MacMillan put it:

The War That Ended The Peace
January 28, 2026 at 1:22 AM
#Fiji 🇫🇯 is one of the rugby playing nations.

A fast moving hard hitting #sport played without protective gear and none of the incessant stoppages in #play that
makes #American #football so
bloody boring! 🥱
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I found a #Canadian connection in Thurston Park Suva #Fiji.

A monument dedicated to the memory of O.J. Marks, of Marks and Co. who drowned in the St. Lawrence River in the disastrous sinking of the Empress of #Ireland.

Read about it and weep 😪

BTW the water fountain still works.

Yay 😅
January 23, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Travelling and looking for strong WiFi?

Check out the local #library, even one that still has its old card catalogue. 😂

🤔

Without checking Google your trivia question for today is:

How many libraries around the world were funded by Andrew Carnegie?
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Reposted by CBJAlberta
Alberta's Risky Experiment to Sell Bitumen on World Markets

As China and India rapidly accelerate the electrification of their economies, Danielle Smith somehow thinks she'll sell them more oil.

She's delusional.
#ableg #abpoli
youtu.be/PulRlAfKH8s
Alberta's Risky Experiment to Sell Bitumen on World Markets
YouTube video by Energi Media
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Reposted by CBJAlberta
#Cdnpoli #USpoli

Something to keep in mind.
<< RageCheck is a free tool that analyzes online content for linguistic patterns commonly associated with manipulative framing—the kind of language designed to provoke emotional reactions rather than inform. >>

www.ragecheck.com/
January 23, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Made a pilgrimage to the house of Robert Louis Stephenson in Apia #Samoa, another one of my heroes.

IMHO this bronze statue is artwork of the highest quality.

I can just him sitting at his desk writing..

✍️

“Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter is home from the hill.”
January 23, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Reposted by CBJAlberta
It’s striking how, in the space of a year, the self-proclaimed democratic light on the hill has allowed itself to descend into a lawless dictatorship.
🤷🏼🇺🇸🤷🏼
January 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by CBJAlberta
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Next stop for me will be Cook’s Monument on the Big Island of #Hawaii.

TBH he’s one of my heroes. 🤷‍♂️

History’s greatest navigator/explorer worked his way up from very humble beginnings and poverty in #Yorkshire.

His advancement and accomplishments in the Royal Navy were entirely due to #merit.
January 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
A statue of King Kamehameha I in front of the Hawaiian Supreme Court

In the early 1800s he united this archipelago into a unified kingdom.

In the 1890s American planters led by the Dole family staged a coup d’état and overthrew the government, leading to the annexation of #Hawaii by 🇺🇸 in 1893.

🤔
January 12, 2026 at 8:52 PM
As the article states #Canada 🇨🇦 would be a stable, reliable and congenial host.

Cashing in on the #NewYork real estate and moving #UnitedNations HQ north of the border might also be quite cost effective. 😉
Great idea - why not?
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Merino you should never throw if there is the slightest chance of hitting another park guest. 😉
January 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Attended services yesterday at the #Episcopal Cathedral in the historic centre of #Honolulu #Hawaii.

An outstanding example of Gothic Revival #architecture built from locally quarried stone; exception being the arches, pulpit and font, carved in #England under the direction of HM Queen Victoria.
January 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Remember Pearl Harbour?

BTW the #USA Parks Service is doing an outstanding job here, befitting what is essentially a mass #war grave.
January 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
The first two sea days out of San Diego were rough but finally the #Pacific started living up to it’s name.

😉

Spotted a bird today, an indicator that we’re approaching #Hawaii.

The ship is spotless. The crew is excellent.

Full marks to the Dutch and Holland America’s MS Zaandam.

#cruising
January 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I just renewed my #PDGA membership 1996-2026,
so this is an opportunity to reflect.

-28 #discgolf courses designed and built in 30 years.

-founding member of the #Calgary and #Lethbridge #Sport Councils.

-founder of the Bridge City Gunners Disc Golf Club (now #Lethbridge DGC).

It’s been fun! 😉
January 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Prescient
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed can never be supplied.

The Deserted Village, Oliver Goldsmith, MDCCLXX.
January 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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So petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre formally endorses Trump’s neofascist international lawlessness.
Next peewee will be encouraging Putin to kidnap Vladimir Zelenskyy and his spouse to face a show trial in Moscow.
Remember when he ordered his grisly henchmen to vote against 🇺🇦Ukraine?
🤷🙄🤷
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
💯

Then add a sprinkling of Jeffrey Epstein to DJT’s illegal sauce, and you have a recipe for disaster.
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 4, 2026 at 4:53 AM
We flew down to San Diego today to start a Pacific cruise with Holland America on the MS Zaandamn.

I beginning to wonder if cruising would be a good alternative to going into the old folks home, when the time comes. 😂 😉
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 AM