@laughingloki.bsky.social
Canadian Vet, a trust but verify kind of guy and, of course, critical thinker
Forget all the noise from MAGA and MAPLE MAGA.
I have traveled the world, and never once did I ever feel uncomfortable saying I'm Canadian.
This is how we are perceived around the world,even when we forget.
Best description of us that I ever heard
youtu.be/d16SzzVAk0Y?...
I have traveled the world, and never once did I ever feel uncomfortable saying I'm Canadian.
This is how we are perceived around the world,even when we forget.
Best description of us that I ever heard
youtu.be/d16SzzVAk0Y?...
On Canada
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Forget all the noise from MAGA and MAPLE MAGA.
I have traveled the world, and never once did I ever feel uncomfortable saying I'm Canadian.
This is how we are perceived around the world,even when we forget.
Best description of us that I ever heard
youtu.be/d16SzzVAk0Y?...
I have traveled the world, and never once did I ever feel uncomfortable saying I'm Canadian.
This is how we are perceived around the world,even when we forget.
Best description of us that I ever heard
youtu.be/d16SzzVAk0Y?...
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!
how long do you think it will last?
Hamas was bad, Isreal was worse .
The suffering of the Palestinian people is immeasurable.
This only created another generation of fighters and hatred from both nations
Cool realistic minds are needed from both sides
how long do you think it will last?
Hamas was bad, Isreal was worse .
The suffering of the Palestinian people is immeasurable.
This only created another generation of fighters and hatred from both nations
Cool realistic minds are needed from both sides
October 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!
how long do you think it will last?
Hamas was bad, Isreal was worse .
The suffering of the Palestinian people is immeasurable.
This only created another generation of fighters and hatred from both nations
Cool realistic minds are needed from both sides
how long do you think it will last?
Hamas was bad, Isreal was worse .
The suffering of the Palestinian people is immeasurable.
This only created another generation of fighters and hatred from both nations
Cool realistic minds are needed from both sides
Vaccine free Florida??
I assume that they currently have decent immunization levels.
And for the next few
years, that might help them when they do their victory dance against vaccines, but the deseases will eventually win.
Florida is ending vaccine mand...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
I assume that they currently have decent immunization levels.
And for the next few
years, that might help them when they do their victory dance against vaccines, but the deseases will eventually win.
Florida is ending vaccine mand...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Florida is ending vaccine mandates. What do Canadian travellers need to know? | CBC News
CBC News asked doctors what Canadians should know before flying south, in light of Florida's plan to end vaccine mandates.
www.cbc.ca
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Vaccine free Florida??
I assume that they currently have decent immunization levels.
And for the next few
years, that might help them when they do their victory dance against vaccines, but the deseases will eventually win.
Florida is ending vaccine mand...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
I assume that they currently have decent immunization levels.
And for the next few
years, that might help them when they do their victory dance against vaccines, but the deseases will eventually win.
Florida is ending vaccine mand...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
SANFORF EXPERIMENT
I've been following the craziness in the US.
I am amazed at how many I assume are descent people in ICE and border agents. But they are showing extreme levels of aggression.
That's not normal.
ARE WE WITNESSING THE 1971 SANFORD EXPERIMENT?
I've been following the craziness in the US.
I am amazed at how many I assume are descent people in ICE and border agents. But they are showing extreme levels of aggression.
That's not normal.
ARE WE WITNESSING THE 1971 SANFORD EXPERIMENT?
August 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
SANFORF EXPERIMENT
I've been following the craziness in the US.
I am amazed at how many I assume are descent people in ICE and border agents. But they are showing extreme levels of aggression.
That's not normal.
ARE WE WITNESSING THE 1971 SANFORD EXPERIMENT?
I've been following the craziness in the US.
I am amazed at how many I assume are descent people in ICE and border agents. But they are showing extreme levels of aggression.
That's not normal.
ARE WE WITNESSING THE 1971 SANFORD EXPERIMENT?
If a doctor changes jurisdictions often one would think the new jurisdiction doing its homework on a new doctor.
Case in point.....
Doctor charged with sexually a...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Case in point.....
Doctor charged with sexually a...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Doctor charged with sexually assaulting patient at Amherst ER | CBC News
A former Nova Scotia physician who now practises in New Brunswick has been charged with sexual assault after allegedly assaulting a patient during an emergency room assessment at the Cumberland Region...
www.cbc.ca
August 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If a doctor changes jurisdictions often one would think the new jurisdiction doing its homework on a new doctor.
Case in point.....
Doctor charged with sexually a...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Case in point.....
Doctor charged with sexually a...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
what are the covid(measles) conspiracies on this one?
Alberta's measles outbreaks su...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta's measles outbreaks su...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta's measles outbreaks surpass case counts reported for entire U.S. | CBC News
Alberta has now confirmed more measles cases than the entire United States has reported this year.
www.cbc.ca
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
what are the covid(measles) conspiracies on this one?
Alberta's measles outbreaks su...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta's measles outbreaks su...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Trump said this on Fox News
"Canada relies entirely on the United States, we don't rely on Canada,"
Then, one might wonder why he wants us to become a state and further drag on their economy.
That must be my silly critical thinking breaking through.
"Canada relies entirely on the United States, we don't rely on Canada,"
Then, one might wonder why he wants us to become a state and further drag on their economy.
That must be my silly critical thinking breaking through.
July 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trump said this on Fox News
"Canada relies entirely on the United States, we don't rely on Canada,"
Then, one might wonder why he wants us to become a state and further drag on their economy.
That must be my silly critical thinking breaking through.
"Canada relies entirely on the United States, we don't rely on Canada,"
Then, one might wonder why he wants us to become a state and further drag on their economy.
That must be my silly critical thinking breaking through.
One of 3 things will happen to our southern friends this this W/E.
1. The people will back down,retreat and accept their fate
2. Trumps backs off and goes full TACO.
3. Someone says enough and with the people pushes back against DT
Thoughts?
1. The people will back down,retreat and accept their fate
2. Trumps backs off and goes full TACO.
3. Someone says enough and with the people pushes back against DT
Thoughts?
June 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
One of 3 things will happen to our southern friends this this W/E.
1. The people will back down,retreat and accept their fate
2. Trumps backs off and goes full TACO.
3. Someone says enough and with the people pushes back against DT
Thoughts?
1. The people will back down,retreat and accept their fate
2. Trumps backs off and goes full TACO.
3. Someone says enough and with the people pushes back against DT
Thoughts?
Measles, who would have thought it could make a comeback.
It was considered eliminated in Canada back in 1998.
Are people that stupid to rely on Dr.Google who BTW does not have a medical degree. You get what you search for.
Get the damn vaccine!
What's next? Smallpox
It was considered eliminated in Canada back in 1998.
Are people that stupid to rely on Dr.Google who BTW does not have a medical degree. You get what you search for.
Get the damn vaccine!
What's next? Smallpox
May 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Measles, who would have thought it could make a comeback.
It was considered eliminated in Canada back in 1998.
Are people that stupid to rely on Dr.Google who BTW does not have a medical degree. You get what you search for.
Get the damn vaccine!
What's next? Smallpox
It was considered eliminated in Canada back in 1998.
Are people that stupid to rely on Dr.Google who BTW does not have a medical degree. You get what you search for.
Get the damn vaccine!
What's next? Smallpox
Is PP indicating that the CPC is really Maple MAGA?
He wants a million more people to join this "growing movement"
‘Our electoral map has changed’: Poilievre pledges to listen after Conservative election loss
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
He wants a million more people to join this "growing movement"
‘Our electoral map has changed’: Poilievre pledges to listen after Conservative election loss
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
‘Our electoral map has changed’: Poilievre pledges to listen after Conservative election loss
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says what he’s learned from the 2025 federal election is that 'the map has changed dramatically' and the party needs to plot out a path to pick up enough additiona...
www.ctvnews.ca
May 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Is PP indicating that the CPC is really Maple MAGA?
He wants a million more people to join this "growing movement"
‘Our electoral map has changed’: Poilievre pledges to listen after Conservative election loss
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
He wants a million more people to join this "growing movement"
‘Our electoral map has changed’: Poilievre pledges to listen after Conservative election loss
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
The roots of the CPC are in Alberta they started with the Reform and the Canadian Alliance party, and then the federal PC's sold their souls to them.
Now, the provincial PC parties are distancing themselves from CPC.
Will we see another morphing?
Now, the provincial PC parties are distancing themselves from CPC.
Will we see another morphing?
April 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The roots of the CPC are in Alberta they started with the Reform and the Canadian Alliance party, and then the federal PC's sold their souls to them.
Now, the provincial PC parties are distancing themselves from CPC.
Will we see another morphing?
Now, the provincial PC parties are distancing themselves from CPC.
Will we see another morphing?
We should have a hip-flip contest for all our politicians to weed out the uptight anal retentive ones.
So far, those didn't are,
Harper (anal retentive)
Dion (egg head)
Poilievre ( bad vibes, Mr. negative)
A little fun is good
Nardwuar the Human Serviette d...
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
So far, those didn't are,
Harper (anal retentive)
Dion (egg head)
Poilievre ( bad vibes, Mr. negative)
A little fun is good
Nardwuar the Human Serviette d...
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
Nardwuar the Human Serviette desperately wants to play Hip Flip with Pierre Poilievre | CBC Radio
For more than two decades, Nardwuar the Human Serviette has been on a mission to play the 1960s party game Hip Flip with every single Canadian prime minister and would-be prime minister he crosses pat...
www.cbc.ca
April 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We should have a hip-flip contest for all our politicians to weed out the uptight anal retentive ones.
So far, those didn't are,
Harper (anal retentive)
Dion (egg head)
Poilievre ( bad vibes, Mr. negative)
A little fun is good
Nardwuar the Human Serviette d...
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
So far, those didn't are,
Harper (anal retentive)
Dion (egg head)
Poilievre ( bad vibes, Mr. negative)
A little fun is good
Nardwuar the Human Serviette d...
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
The CPC forgot to add their anti-woke promise, but it's there now.
I wonder what else they forgot and not publishing?
For a party that has been on a campaign footing for the past 2 years, one think they had their manure together by now
Conservatives update platform ...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I wonder what else they forgot and not publishing?
For a party that has been on a campaign footing for the past 2 years, one think they had their manure together by now
Conservatives update platform ...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservatives update platform to include omitted 'anti-woke' promise | CBC News
The Conservative Party has republished the English-language version of its platform after what it says was a "publishing oversight" resulted in the omission of a previous commitment to crack down on "...
www.cbc.ca
April 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The CPC forgot to add their anti-woke promise, but it's there now.
I wonder what else they forgot and not publishing?
For a party that has been on a campaign footing for the past 2 years, one think they had their manure together by now
Conservatives update platform ...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I wonder what else they forgot and not publishing?
For a party that has been on a campaign footing for the past 2 years, one think they had their manure together by now
Conservatives update platform ...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Something non-political
3 years ago, I suffered a cardiac failure while playing squash.
I survived thanks to a nurse who was nearby and performed CPR on me for 6 min.
I can now enjoy my grandchildren and stay active.
Learn CPR, you might save a life.
3 years ago, I suffered a cardiac failure while playing squash.
I survived thanks to a nurse who was nearby and performed CPR on me for 6 min.
I can now enjoy my grandchildren and stay active.
Learn CPR, you might save a life.
April 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Something non-political
3 years ago, I suffered a cardiac failure while playing squash.
I survived thanks to a nurse who was nearby and performed CPR on me for 6 min.
I can now enjoy my grandchildren and stay active.
Learn CPR, you might save a life.
3 years ago, I suffered a cardiac failure while playing squash.
I survived thanks to a nurse who was nearby and performed CPR on me for 6 min.
I can now enjoy my grandchildren and stay active.
Learn CPR, you might save a life.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a rally for our local candidate with Jean Chretien as a speaker.
This man is a living Canadian history.
Look up his Wikipedia profile. It is impressive!
This man is a living Canadian history.
Look up his Wikipedia profile. It is impressive!
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a rally for our local candidate with Jean Chretien as a speaker.
This man is a living Canadian history.
Look up his Wikipedia profile. It is impressive!
This man is a living Canadian history.
Look up his Wikipedia profile. It is impressive!
US says they will find the cause of Autism by Sept.
Any bets it will find that vaccines are the culprit.
This post is NOT about discussing vaccines but about pseudo science going mainstream by conspiracy people.
RFK Jr. vows to find cause of ...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Any bets it will find that vaccines are the culprit.
This post is NOT about discussing vaccines but about pseudo science going mainstream by conspiracy people.
RFK Jr. vows to find cause of ...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
RFK Jr. vows to find cause of autism by September. Experts have doubts | CBC News
The U.S. is launching a massive effort to determine the cause of autism, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said Thursday, sparking concern among medical experts and advocates, who question the feasib...
www.cbc.ca
April 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
US says they will find the cause of Autism by Sept.
Any bets it will find that vaccines are the culprit.
This post is NOT about discussing vaccines but about pseudo science going mainstream by conspiracy people.
RFK Jr. vows to find cause of ...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Any bets it will find that vaccines are the culprit.
This post is NOT about discussing vaccines but about pseudo science going mainstream by conspiracy people.
RFK Jr. vows to find cause of ...
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Is US gun culture coming to Canada?
The article below is alarming not that firearms are inherently bad but the culture around it.
The article it shows a 13 y/o proudly displaying his shooting skills on a human outline target.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The article below is alarming not that firearms are inherently bad but the culture around it.
The article it shows a 13 y/o proudly displaying his shooting skills on a human outline target.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A surge in teen gun owners brings concerns about U.S. social media influence in Canada | CBC News
Canada's newest gun owners will also be some of the country's newest voters in this federal election, and some are looking to loosen gun restrictions. Sociologists say gun culture is seeping over the ...
www.cbc.ca
April 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Is US gun culture coming to Canada?
The article below is alarming not that firearms are inherently bad but the culture around it.
The article it shows a 13 y/o proudly displaying his shooting skills on a human outline target.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The article below is alarming not that firearms are inherently bad but the culture around it.
The article it shows a 13 y/o proudly displaying his shooting skills on a human outline target.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Here's a question:
With the last season of a "Handmaid's Tale," due to come out what is the US government going to do?
Prevent it from happening because it will be about resistance to a scary government?
Or will they allow it?
With the last season of a "Handmaid's Tale," due to come out what is the US government going to do?
Prevent it from happening because it will be about resistance to a scary government?
Or will they allow it?
April 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Here's a question:
With the last season of a "Handmaid's Tale," due to come out what is the US government going to do?
Prevent it from happening because it will be about resistance to a scary government?
Or will they allow it?
With the last season of a "Handmaid's Tale," due to come out what is the US government going to do?
Prevent it from happening because it will be about resistance to a scary government?
Or will they allow it?
Job losses and manufacturing losses to other countries are the consumers' fault because we the consumer want cheap stuff and companies have listened.
You can not bring back manufacturing when labor cost are 50-75% higher.
No one will be willing to work for 5-6$ an hour
You can not bring back manufacturing when labor cost are 50-75% higher.
No one will be willing to work for 5-6$ an hour
April 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Job losses and manufacturing losses to other countries are the consumers' fault because we the consumer want cheap stuff and companies have listened.
You can not bring back manufacturing when labor cost are 50-75% higher.
No one will be willing to work for 5-6$ an hour
You can not bring back manufacturing when labor cost are 50-75% higher.
No one will be willing to work for 5-6$ an hour
All four major parties have put forward good or reasonable ideas to help Canada some better than others.
It's too bad they don't sit down and talk with each other for the benefit Canada instead of their parties
Hopefully the next govt. will take a bit of each and go with it.
It's too bad they don't sit down and talk with each other for the benefit Canada instead of their parties
Hopefully the next govt. will take a bit of each and go with it.
April 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
All four major parties have put forward good or reasonable ideas to help Canada some better than others.
It's too bad they don't sit down and talk with each other for the benefit Canada instead of their parties
Hopefully the next govt. will take a bit of each and go with it.
It's too bad they don't sit down and talk with each other for the benefit Canada instead of their parties
Hopefully the next govt. will take a bit of each and go with it.
Trump wants to bring the US to 1913,
It was a great time when they had no income tax, women could not vote, and Jim Crow laws were in full swing.
Ah yes, the good old days......
It was a great time when they had no income tax, women could not vote, and Jim Crow laws were in full swing.
Ah yes, the good old days......
April 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trump wants to bring the US to 1913,
It was a great time when they had no income tax, women could not vote, and Jim Crow laws were in full swing.
Ah yes, the good old days......
It was a great time when they had no income tax, women could not vote, and Jim Crow laws were in full swing.
Ah yes, the good old days......
Is the CPC now rejecting candidates who were once acceptable when they wereriding high in the polls and now realise that choices are now longer after reading the room and see what direction Canadians are leaning?
Or is it just poor vetting?
Or is it just poor vetting?
April 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Is the CPC now rejecting candidates who were once acceptable when they wereriding high in the polls and now realise that choices are now longer after reading the room and see what direction Canadians are leaning?
Or is it just poor vetting?
Or is it just poor vetting?
Housing proposals offered by all 3 parties.
Conservatives, as usual, tend to go towards business.
NDP is anti business with a few good ideas.
Liberals have blended business and govt. No surprise there. But their pre-approved house plans is very intriguing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservatives, as usual, tend to go towards business.
NDP is anti business with a few good ideas.
Liberals have blended business and govt. No surprise there. But their pre-approved house plans is very intriguing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Housing proposals during federal campaign hearken back to a different kind of war | CBC News
A housing crisis mixed with a need to house the people working in wartime industries in the early 1940s prompted the creation of Wartime Housing Limited, essentially a federal developer. Some policy p...
www.cbc.ca
April 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Housing proposals offered by all 3 parties.
Conservatives, as usual, tend to go towards business.
NDP is anti business with a few good ideas.
Liberals have blended business and govt. No surprise there. But their pre-approved house plans is very intriguing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservatives, as usual, tend to go towards business.
NDP is anti business with a few good ideas.
Liberals have blended business and govt. No surprise there. But their pre-approved house plans is very intriguing.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Elbows up!
A US military invasion of Canada would look like this , fast US takeover of Canada followed by years of resistance.
Remember that the US has not won a war since WW2. They have won battles, think Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
Please read
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
A US military invasion of Canada would look like this , fast US takeover of Canada followed by years of resistance.
Remember that the US has not won a war since WW2. They have won battles, think Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
Please read
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
American invasion of Canada would spark decades-long insurgency, expert predicts
If U.S. President Donald Trump fails in his stated goal of annexing Canada through economic force, what would happen if he ordered the world’s most powerful military to invade?
www.ctvnews.ca
March 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Elbows up!
A US military invasion of Canada would look like this , fast US takeover of Canada followed by years of resistance.
Remember that the US has not won a war since WW2. They have won battles, think Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
Please read
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
A US military invasion of Canada would look like this , fast US takeover of Canada followed by years of resistance.
Remember that the US has not won a war since WW2. They have won battles, think Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
Please read
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
A very informative info graphic.
Kinda call PP's comments BS.
Of course hewoll call it fake news.
How much have food and gas pri...
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...
Kinda call PP's comments BS.
Of course hewoll call it fake news.
How much have food and gas pri...
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...
Draw it! Compare food and gas prices under the Liberals and Conservatives | CBC News
What do the numbers show us about grocery and gas bills in the years Justin Trudeau was prime minister? How do these compare to the period Stephen Harper was in office?
newsinteractives.cbc.ca
March 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A very informative info graphic.
Kinda call PP's comments BS.
Of course hewoll call it fake news.
How much have food and gas pri...
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...
Kinda call PP's comments BS.
Of course hewoll call it fake news.
How much have food and gas pri...
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...