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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 3h

Hockey Moon. 🏒
#VernonBC

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 9h

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 15h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Fabian is the bomb.

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

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

If you can listen to Scheer's grating disinformation, you have a stronger stomach than I!

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

Trump reveals why there's no trade deal with Canada yet.
"So then what's holding things up? If (Prime Minister Mark Carney is) a great man and you want to do a deal with Canada, why aren't you?"
#CdnPoli 🇨🇦

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

Will Danielle Smith allow a referendum to proceed to a vote? This would derail the nefarious scheme by the Alberta premier to blackmail Canada into conferring near-national status on Alberta by threatening a separation referendum followed by quick recognition by the premier's MAGA allies.

The ‘Forever Canadian’ Petition Could Bring a Snap Alberta Election | The Tyee

Danielle Smith is unlikely to allow a referendum based on the pro-Canada question promoted by Thomas Lukaszuk.

thetyee.ca

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

In BC's highlands above Osoyoos, the Okanagan Nation Alliance is rebuilding lost wetlands by mimicking beaver dams. These "beaver dam analogues" slow streams, restore habitat, and may one day invite beavers to return back home. #Okanagan #Wetlands

Across syilx territories, people are imitating beavers — and hoping for their return

Often seen as a ‘nuisance’ species to be trapped and removed, stunx — beaver in nsyilxcən — may be a key to restoring wetlands and watersheds amidst deforestation and climate change

indiginews.com

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

🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Washington, D.C. today for a working visit with U.S. President Donald Trump. This marks his second meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, after surviving a visit in May.

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

Ice Calving, Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica
Late winter hi-res image of the glacier that flows into the Amundsen Sea, producing this spectacular calving event (ice floes). If Thwaites were to collapse from climate change, it could raise global sea levels by 65 centimetres.

Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-1 imagery acquired on 2 October 2025, reveals the ice tongue of Thwaites Glacier, along with newly calved ice fragments drifting nearby.

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

That's odd. She said CFIA was conducting a "massive government overreach." So then what would it be for the provincial government to intervene in this federal jurisdiction?

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

A lively, spicy meatball of a show this week. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦 🔞🛢
@airquotesmedia.bsky.social

They don't have a 🤬 narrative | Curse of Politics

YouTube video by Air Quotes Media

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

Gold, the colour of MAGA. Oddly enough, The Bible repeatedly portrays golden idols as worthless, powerless, and an insult to God.

A woman is holding her phone while wearing a $4,000 gold metallic Tom Ford Croc-Jacquard blazer in front of a green background.

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

The Fascist Within?
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is a contributor to Project 2025, the extremist political initiative that serves as a detailed blueprint for the U.S. federal government to consolidate executive power and push out an insular "America First" agenda.

13 Conservatives With Ties to 'Project 2025'

From Russell Vought to Karoline Leavitt, these close Trump officials have been linked to 'Project 2025," despite the president distancing himself.

www.theroot.com

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

The Fascist Within?
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is a contributor to Project 2025, the extremist political initiative that serves as a detailed blueprint for the U.S. federal government to consolidate executive power and push out an insular "America First" agenda.

13 Conservatives With Ties to 'Project 2025'

From Russell Vought to Karoline Leavitt, these close Trump officials have been linked to 'Project 2025," despite the president distancing himself.

www.theroot.com

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