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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦
@maskedmark.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Call me a fool (and many do), but if I were a country, I would welcome with open arms people who walked, cried and died over hundreds and thousands of miles driven by hope.
Painting by Jacob Lawrence – The migration gained in momentum – 1940-41
Painting by Jacob Lawrence – The migration gained in momentum – 1940-41
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I think this is an important Jason Proctor @cbcnews.ca piece to read
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | 'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C. | CBC News
Decades ago one of B.C.'s top judges described tensions between the legal concept of Aboriginal title and the reality of private property ownership as a "cloud." Last week, just as Southin predicted, ...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I think this is an important Jason Proctor @cbcnews.ca piece to read
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
"'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
The USDA, et al, is stealing Orwell’s playbook.
“The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open…”
www.usda.gov
“The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open…”
www.usda.gov
www.usda.gov
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The USDA, et al, is stealing Orwell’s playbook.
“The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open…”
www.usda.gov
“The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open…”
www.usda.gov
There goes my novel. Was going to write about the fake murder of a guy named Charlie who reappeared three years later to run for president. It was going to be called Immaculate Deception.
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There goes my novel. Was going to write about the fake murder of a guy named Charlie who reappeared three years later to run for president. It was going to be called Immaculate Deception.
Trump’s new ballroom, I can’t wait
For the meander in chief, to lie in state
For the meander in chief, to lie in state
September 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Trump’s new ballroom, I can’t wait
For the meander in chief, to lie in state
For the meander in chief, to lie in state
I don’t know who designed this patch, but my buddy and I want to put ‘em on hats and start a Vancouver Island chapter of Prouder Boys.
August 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don’t know who designed this patch, but my buddy and I want to put ‘em on hats and start a Vancouver Island chapter of Prouder Boys.
Oh Canada
youtu.be/etGX4XKrbLc?...
youtu.be/etGX4XKrbLc?...
The Canada Song - Mendelson Joe
YouTube video by MDinToronto
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August 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Oh Canada
youtu.be/etGX4XKrbLc?...
youtu.be/etGX4XKrbLc?...
Carney, our banker, is somewhat overdrawn
already it seems, maximizing the interests
and attentions of business, rather than people,
just so fat cats and small cats too can fly
to destinations unknown ✈️🇨🇦
already it seems, maximizing the interests
and attentions of business, rather than people,
just so fat cats and small cats too can fly
to destinations unknown ✈️🇨🇦
August 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Carney, our banker, is somewhat overdrawn
already it seems, maximizing the interests
and attentions of business, rather than people,
just so fat cats and small cats too can fly
to destinations unknown ✈️🇨🇦
already it seems, maximizing the interests
and attentions of business, rather than people,
just so fat cats and small cats too can fly
to destinations unknown ✈️🇨🇦
Grizzly bear attacks make big news.
Deaths from grizzly attacks in Canada
2022-9, 2021-8, 2020-8 and 2019-10
but 2011-2021 – 1,125 gender-related homicides of women and girls in Canada. Two-thirds perpetrated by an intimate partner, 28% a family member.
Jean Beaufort Photo via Wikipedia
Deaths from grizzly attacks in Canada
2022-9, 2021-8, 2020-8 and 2019-10
but 2011-2021 – 1,125 gender-related homicides of women and girls in Canada. Two-thirds perpetrated by an intimate partner, 28% a family member.
Jean Beaufort Photo via Wikipedia
July 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Grizzly bear attacks make big news.
Deaths from grizzly attacks in Canada
2022-9, 2021-8, 2020-8 and 2019-10
but 2011-2021 – 1,125 gender-related homicides of women and girls in Canada. Two-thirds perpetrated by an intimate partner, 28% a family member.
Jean Beaufort Photo via Wikipedia
Deaths from grizzly attacks in Canada
2022-9, 2021-8, 2020-8 and 2019-10
but 2011-2021 – 1,125 gender-related homicides of women and girls in Canada. Two-thirds perpetrated by an intimate partner, 28% a family member.
Jean Beaufort Photo via Wikipedia
Massive! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Massive Attack announce alliance of musicians speaking out over Gaza
Brian Eno, Fontaines DC and Kneecap say group will support those subject to ‘aggressive, vexatious campaigns’ by pro-Israel advocates
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Massive! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
I feel something like a migrant these days
(which I am and have been for 54 years)
as the blueberries are picked for friends,
the food bank and for myself of course
to last through the discontented winter.
(which I am and have been for 54 years)
as the blueberries are picked for friends,
the food bank and for myself of course
to last through the discontented winter.
July 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I feel something like a migrant these days
(which I am and have been for 54 years)
as the blueberries are picked for friends,
the food bank and for myself of course
to last through the discontented winter.
(which I am and have been for 54 years)
as the blueberries are picked for friends,
the food bank and for myself of course
to last through the discontented winter.
he very briefly lost his mind
and while the recovery was swift
(found, of course, where it was left)
it was not completely intact
so that as days turned into days
a sort of nostalgia hovered
around the edges and in the corners
where previously emptiness occurred
and while the recovery was swift
(found, of course, where it was left)
it was not completely intact
so that as days turned into days
a sort of nostalgia hovered
around the edges and in the corners
where previously emptiness occurred
June 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
he very briefly lost his mind
and while the recovery was swift
(found, of course, where it was left)
it was not completely intact
so that as days turned into days
a sort of nostalgia hovered
around the edges and in the corners
where previously emptiness occurred
and while the recovery was swift
(found, of course, where it was left)
it was not completely intact
so that as days turned into days
a sort of nostalgia hovered
around the edges and in the corners
where previously emptiness occurred
Headline news on CBC radio this morn that Yemen had fired a missile that landed short, hurting no one. Meanwhile in Gaza… nada
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Headline news on CBC radio this morn that Yemen had fired a missile that landed short, hurting no one. Meanwhile in Gaza… nada
Semantics Sunday — Trump’s trouble with G words… first he spells Golf of America wrong. Then he continues to misspell the Grate in MAGA: 1-to reduce to small particles 2-Fret or irritate 3- utter in a harsh voice
April 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Semantics Sunday — Trump’s trouble with G words… first he spells Golf of America wrong. Then he continues to misspell the Grate in MAGA: 1-to reduce to small particles 2-Fret or irritate 3- utter in a harsh voice
Chocolate and Fawn lilies on Vancouver Island
April 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Chocolate and Fawn lilies on Vancouver Island
A trillion $$$ to invade Canada, Greenland, Venezuela, Panama, Gaza and …
April 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A trillion $$$ to invade Canada, Greenland, Venezuela, Panama, Gaza and …
“Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable And so the evidence has to be internally denied.” — Arthur Miller in The New Yorker, 1996
March 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable And so the evidence has to be internally denied.” — Arthur Miller in The New Yorker, 1996
🇨🇦 Upper North America 🇺🇸 Lower North America
March 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🇨🇦 Upper North America 🇺🇸 Lower North America
