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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 14h

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 14h

Rohini Arora, MLA for Burnaby East, cf. Tara Armstrong's threat.
#BCpoli
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No Context BC Gov @nocontextbcgov.bsky.social · 1d

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

Mel Arnold even struggles with the slogans.

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 15h

🤔🔍

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

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 15h

#russiaIsATerroristState

Photo from Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary FB-page

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 18h

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.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 19h

“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 · 19h

“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 · 19h

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 · 1d

Hockey Moon. 🏒
#VernonBC

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

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

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

And here we have it. Pierre Poilievre, official coffee and doughnut suppler to the Convoy Party of Canada, laments the judicial system's anti-freedom persecution of the "peaceful protests".

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

There is a new confidence that Ukraine is reorienting its institutions for a long war, learning quickly from the battlefield and continuing not just to inflict steady losses on the enemy but also to limit its own. Time, which has until now favoured the russians, may be shifting to the Ukrainian side

How Ukraine Turned the Tables on Russia

Russia assumed time was on its side, but a new Ukrainian strategy is yielding surprising results.

www.theatlantic.com

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

Canadian rock group Rush, who last toured in 2015, have announced they will reunite for a short headline tour in 2026. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members will play a dozen shows in seven cities next summer. I last saw them in Hamilton! 🇨🇦🤘

Rush Fifty Something Tour — Rush.com

RUSH ANNOUNCE 2026 TOUR GEDDY LEE & ALEX LIFESON TO CELEBRATE 50 PLUS YEARS OF RUSH MUSIC, THEIR LEGACY, AND HONOUR LATE BANDMATE NEIL PEART RUSH ‘FIFTY SOMETHING’ TOUR CONSISTS OF MULTIPLE SHOWS ACR...

www.rush.com

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

Fabian is the bomb.

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

I saw the viscous Chicken of Bristol down there! Not-So-Brave Dame Kristi.

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

Convoy-style Grift
The Universal Ostrich farm has sought public support and donations; meanwhile creditors claim the business owners have ignored B.C. Supreme Court orders to repay debts worth more than $250,000.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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

If Trump escalates, Canada’s choice may well be to submit and suffer, or resist and suffer more. Even if we maintain our democracy, collateral damage from US decline is likely.

“I’m sure they are thinking thoughts that have seldom ever been thought in the Canadian Government”
- @gmbutts.bsky.social

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

www.bloomberg.com

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

Why is the discussion restricted to the tanker-banned north coast? E.g., why not triplet the TM footprint?

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

I tell ya, I have some choice un-Canadian words for Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta. She's one to talk. 🤬

Danielle Smith criticizes BC Premier David Eby's stance on Alberta's oil pipeline, calling it un-Canadian.

Danielle Smith criticizes BC Premier David Eby's stance on Alberta's oil pipeline, calling it un-Canadian and urging swift action.

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

"Jail not House Arrest!" - What I am not seeing from the Conservative Party of Canada today.
Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber and Tamara Lich conditionally sentenced to 12 months house arrest and 6 months curfew. The judge cites the principles of "deterrence and denunciation" of their activities.

'Freedom Convoy' leaders Tamara Lich, Chris Barber given conditional sentences | CBC News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time.

www.cbc.ca

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