Mike Vlasic
@mikevlasic.bsky.social
Ottawa, Ontario.
Mean & nasty wilderness camper, fisherman, canoeist, & hiker.
I've got thirsty ears.
Non-partisan. Dump FPTP and give us PR.
I do NOT stand with LPC or CPC.
Here since 24 Jul 2023
Mean & nasty wilderness camper, fisherman, canoeist, & hiker.
I've got thirsty ears.
Non-partisan. Dump FPTP and give us PR.
I do NOT stand with LPC or CPC.
Here since 24 Jul 2023
Pinned
Mike Vlasic
@mikevlasic.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Carney says Canada's trade with U.S. is mostly tariff-free. But that's not the whole story | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney said "85 per cent of the trade between Canada and the United States is tariff-free" despite U.S. President Donald Trump imposing 35 per cent tariffs on goods that aren't com...
www.cbc.ca
A reminder that when Carney says 85% of our exports are covered by CUSMA, he's wrong & they're weasel words. It's actually somewhere between 38 and 50%.
It's also not easy to be certified, which hurts small businesses.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
It's also not easy to be certified, which hurts small businesses.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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I wish empathy was airborne.
(That was my pinned post at the other place for years, but it's happier here ❤️)
(That was my pinned post at the other place for years, but it's happier here ❤️)
November 11, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I wish empathy was airborne.
(That was my pinned post at the other place for years, but it's happier here ❤️)
(That was my pinned post at the other place for years, but it's happier here ❤️)
Giving Tuesday is on 2 December 2025. Your donations will be doubled with participating charities.
It's a damn shame what our governments allow poverty & homelessness but here we are.
I'll be donating to the Ottawa Food Bank and Snowsuit Fund.
It's a damn shame what our governments allow poverty & homelessness but here we are.
I'll be donating to the Ottawa Food Bank and Snowsuit Fund.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Giving Tuesday is on 2 December 2025. Your donations will be doubled with participating charities.
It's a damn shame what our governments allow poverty & homelessness but here we are.
I'll be donating to the Ottawa Food Bank and Snowsuit Fund.
It's a damn shame what our governments allow poverty & homelessness but here we are.
I'll be donating to the Ottawa Food Bank and Snowsuit Fund.
It's supposed to be +4°C tomorrow, so the snow will melt, right?
I also want to curse our linden tree that took its sweet time dropping its leaves. Looks like I'll deal with the layer of leaves in the spring.
I also want to curse our linden tree that took its sweet time dropping its leaves. Looks like I'll deal with the layer of leaves in the spring.
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It's supposed to be +4°C tomorrow, so the snow will melt, right?
I also want to curse our linden tree that took its sweet time dropping its leaves. Looks like I'll deal with the layer of leaves in the spring.
I also want to curse our linden tree that took its sweet time dropping its leaves. Looks like I'll deal with the layer of leaves in the spring.
Jenni Byrne is out and Steve Outhouse is in as CPC campaign manager. Yep, his name really is Outhouse, I shit you not.
torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
LILLEY: Steve Outhouse in as next Conservative campaign manager
Conservative Party turns to a man with an impressive track record of winning to guide them in the next campaign. Read more.
torontosun.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jenni Byrne is out and Steve Outhouse is in as CPC campaign manager. Yep, his name really is Outhouse, I shit you not.
torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
A repubnican asshole is demanding that Canada pay $500 billion for past defence. If it's not extortion, it's a protection racket with these baboons.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
GOP lawmaker demands $300B in defense dues from Canada
Canada defends NATO commitment as forward progress at 'breakneck' speed
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
A repubnican asshole is demanding that Canada pay $500 billion for past defence. If it's not extortion, it's a protection racket with these baboons.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
"At the very least, you need to stop handing over your lunch money every time he asks while apologising that you didn’t have more on you."
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
Carney Promised Defiance. All We’re Getting Is Deference | The Walrus
How far are we willing to go to preserve our relationship with the US?
thewalrus.ca
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"At the very least, you need to stop handing over your lunch money every time he asks while apologising that you didn’t have more on you."
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
thewalrus.ca/carney-promi...
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
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Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed
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November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed
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New incentives announced today in Ontario for ENERGY STAR appliances, including induction stoves and heat pump dryers.
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New incentives announced today in Ontario for ENERGY STAR appliances, including induction stoves and heat pump dryers.
The perfect paraphrase of any rambling, incoherent speech by the piggy prez...
person woman man two all beef patties special sauce camera TV lettuce cheese Hannibal Lecter pickles onions Arnold Palmer's schlong shark electricity on a cofveve sesame seed bun
Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The perfect paraphrase of any rambling, incoherent speech by the piggy prez...
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Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
TORONTO - With newly released files from notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein implicating President Trump in a world of elite, amoral power players, Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary has formally...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
“The Prime Minister is to be addressed only as Prime Minister, My Lord or Your Royal Bankness"
Carney orders staffers to bow before speaking to him
Carney orders staffers to bow before speaking to him
OTTAWA – The Prime Minister’s Office has issued a directive that all staffers and civil servants must bow before speaking to Prime Minister Carney. “Upon entering a room in which his excellence, Mark ...
thebeaverton.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“The Prime Minister is to be addressed only as Prime Minister, My Lord or Your Royal Bankness"
Another review of Gripen vs F-35.
I don't think it really matters. Carney is all in on appeasement so we'll likely get the F-35 bricks.
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
I don't think it really matters. Carney is all in on appeasement so we'll likely get the F-35 bricks.
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Canada’s battle of the fighter jets: F-35 vs the Gripen
Everything you need to know about the F-35 and Gripen fighter jets.
ottawacitizen.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Another review of Gripen vs F-35.
I don't think it really matters. Carney is all in on appeasement so we'll likely get the F-35 bricks.
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
I don't think it really matters. Carney is all in on appeasement so we'll likely get the F-35 bricks.
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
This is how we should all be doing it. Let the cops deal with guarding Timmies.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Centretown crisis response team handled thousands of calls in its 1st year, report shows | CBC News
Launched in August 2024, the Alternative Neighbourhood Crisis Response (ANCHOR) team responded to 4,464 calls in its first year, according to numbers in a new city report. The pilot program aims to pr...
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is how we should all be doing it. Let the cops deal with guarding Timmies.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We finished watching The Iris Affair last night. The theme song was by Siouxsie Sioux, called Here Comes That Day. So damn catchy with a great brass beat. Goes back to 2007.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h25M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h25M...
Here Comes That Day - Siouxsie
YouTube video by Peter Dabinett
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November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We finished watching The Iris Affair last night. The theme song was by Siouxsie Sioux, called Here Comes That Day. So damn catchy with a great brass beat. Goes back to 2007.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h25M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h25M...
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30 years under longest boil-water advisory in Canada, Neskantaga First Nation pushes for new treatment plant. Ottawa's spent $30M on upgrades to treatment plant, but chief says clean water not getting to homes.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'It's been traumatic,' says chief of First Nation now 30 years into longest boil-water advisory in Canada | CBC News
Neskantaga First Nation in northwestern Ontario is marking the 30th anniversary of being under a boil-water advisory — the longest in Canada — by renewing calls to fix the crisis once and for all. As ...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
30 years under longest boil-water advisory in Canada, Neskantaga First Nation pushes for new treatment plant. Ottawa's spent $30M on upgrades to treatment plant, but chief says clean water not getting to homes.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Some comments about immigration & Carney from Lloyd Axworthy. I'm sure Carney could care less, but the Safe Third Country Agreement should've been terminated in Drumpf's first term.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Former immigration minister says Canada’s reputation on welcoming refugees is at risk
Former immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy, a prominent global champion for refugees, said he believes Canada is putting its reputation as a welcoming place for refugees at risk through recent federal...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Some comments about immigration & Carney from Lloyd Axworthy. I'm sure Carney could care less, but the Safe Third Country Agreement should've been terminated in Drumpf's first term.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Anand washes her hands from everything possible. She was once a rising star & now she's an empty shell.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Anand washes her hands from everything possible. She was once a rising star & now she's an empty shell.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Potatoes ― not just for poutine anymore.
(aka people will do the dumbest things)
(aka people will do the dumbest things)
Future medical historians, rejoice! There will be much to say about 2025.
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Potatoes ― not just for poutine anymore.
(aka people will do the dumbest things)
(aka people will do the dumbest things)
I had a doctor's appointment today for my annual physical. We both noted that almost no GPs do them any more.
He's now letting patients come in unmasked. But he and his admin assistant were both masked, and I always mask when going indoors anywhere but home. I don't care what anyone else does.
He's now letting patients come in unmasked. But he and his admin assistant were both masked, and I always mask when going indoors anywhere but home. I don't care what anyone else does.
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I had a doctor's appointment today for my annual physical. We both noted that almost no GPs do them any more.
He's now letting patients come in unmasked. But he and his admin assistant were both masked, and I always mask when going indoors anywhere but home. I don't care what anyone else does.
He's now letting patients come in unmasked. But he and his admin assistant were both masked, and I always mask when going indoors anywhere but home. I don't care what anyone else does.
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We lost George Logan on 9 Apr 1917 at the beginning of the battle for Vimy Ridge. Richard Gregory died in a later battle & was buried in a shell crater.
My Uncle Gord Logan was tail-gunner on Halifax & Lancaster bombers. He somehow survived WWII but never talked about it.
Lest we forget.
My Uncle Gord Logan was tail-gunner on Halifax & Lancaster bombers. He somehow survived WWII but never talked about it.
Lest we forget.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We lost George Logan on 9 Apr 1917 at the beginning of the battle for Vimy Ridge. Richard Gregory died in a later battle & was buried in a shell crater.
My Uncle Gord Logan was tail-gunner on Halifax & Lancaster bombers. He somehow survived WWII but never talked about it.
Lest we forget.
My Uncle Gord Logan was tail-gunner on Halifax & Lancaster bombers. He somehow survived WWII but never talked about it.
Lest we forget.
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😬😬😬
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Mavis Staples, Sad & Beautiful World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
Mavis Staples - "Sad and Beautiful World"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Mavis Staples, Sad & Beautiful World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...
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Tell me more about 'sleepy Joe'
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Tell me more about 'sleepy Joe'