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

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Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 8h

Half of surveyed Canadians believe Pierre Poilievre, ex-newspaper delivery boy and Member of Parliament, has deep/useful experience. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
@spocksky.bsky.social
sparkadvocacy.ca/insights/202...

A comparison chart shows public perception of Canadian politicians Carney and Polievre, rating various traits and attributes.

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

Convoy crowd now anonymously threatening CFIA employee families. Not just local+ businesses anymore.

“The biggest problem is that some of our (union) members are then having their partners tracked down, their children tracked down. It’s very, very concerning.”
#VernonBC #CdnPoli 🇨🇦

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence | The Tyee

The CFIA union head says members and their families are being threatened.

thetyee.ca

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

Big ostrich-flu exposé on CBC tonight. #VernonBC

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

@mlb.com if it's "Canadian Thanksgiving", why is it not "Canadian baseball" since ours predated the U.S. on both counts. 🤔
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

In Ontario, Beachville’s field of dreams defies the myth of baseball as an American pastime

One of the first documented baseball games in North America was played in the southwestern Ontario town in 1838

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 10h

Worked for me! Tonnes of openings this week in #VernonBC.

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 16h

FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 10h

Assasination attempts as well. #RussiaIsATerroristState
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Russia tried to assassinate CEO of German arms firm sending weapons to Ukraine, reports say

U.S. intelligence discovered that Russia planned to assassinate the chief executive of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall which has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine, CNN and the New York Times reported on Thursday.

www.reuters.com

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 11h

Russia gets very nervous when the asymmetric fight may get even. The fire Kh-101/555/55 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS bombers all the time. This precision strike weapon is what russia used to what hit the Okhmatdyt Children's Cancer Hospital in Kyiv. (Ukraine will not target civilians.) #ArmUkraine

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 11h

UN in Ukraine did as did ungeneva.org
"Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to Bilozerka Town in the Kherson Region."

UN CONVOY CAME UNDER ATTACK WHILE DELIVERING AID TO A FRONT-LINE COMMUNITY IN THE KHERSON REGION

Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to B...

ukraine.un.org

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

Combat Highway Patrol
CF-188 Hornets successfully landed on Estonia's Jägala-Käravete Highway, demonstrating Agile Combat Employment. This marks the first highway landing for Canada’s Fighter Force, showcasing the ability to operate in austere environments and rapidly redeploy.
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#WeAreNATO

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

😉
Like President No One.
www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

www.npr.org

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

Fascist says "D'oh!"

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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

Twas MacDonnell raised the banner then
And set the Heights aflame

But not one in ten thousand knows his name

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

"Deb" looks sketchy.

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

I am grateful for the team's steadfast presence standing for Ukraine in front of that dark and evil place.
#YellowBlueCrew 💛💙

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

Interprovincial Trade Barriers
Is fine Okanagan wine now available at the LCBO? (14 s). #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
bsky.app/profile/airq...

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

"If it doesn’t go through the north coast there is a potential option for to do it down the down most of the right way that the new TMX twinning has gone down, and do it down as spur line down through Tsawwassen."
- Christy Clark
bsky.app/profile/airq...

Air Quotes Media @airquotesmedia.bsky.social · 3d

🗣 🎙 Premier Perspectives: Clark, McNeil, and Wynne. #TheHerleBurly

YouTube youtu.be/DWFk4DMdzDc?...

Apple podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Spotify open.spotify.com/show/0tiRBlL...

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

Local Indiginous leader "Wabski Kinew" issues CFIA/RCMP cease and desist letter cf. ostrich cull. Katie Pasitney of Universal Ostrich maintains that there is First Nations support for her ostriches but won't do interviews specific to the letter.

Letter from the Secwepemc Signatory Tribe addressing agencies to cease ostrich slaughter on their protected territory.

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

Trump to consult with Putin on whether the U.S. can supply Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles to attack russian military infrastructure. Hopefully Putin gives his blessing. 🙏

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on Tomahawks for Ukraine:

Well, I don't know. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you about Tomahawks. Do they want to have tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so.
I think I might speak to Russia about that, in all fairness.

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

Oct. 7-9 2025; randomized sample of 1,673 Canadian adults who are members of Angus Reid Forum

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

The International Energy Agency expects greenhouse gas emissions from data centres' energy consumption to double in the next five years as a proportion of emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The tech bros motto should not be "move fast and break things," but "burn, baby, burn."

Opinion: Artificial intelligence: the good, the bad and the ugly environmental costs

AI data centres’ insatiable need for energy is driving quickie solutions that aren’t good for the planet

www.theglobeandmail.com

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

✔️ CUSMA
✖️ USMCA

✔️ Strategic Missile Defence (or Continental Defence)
✖️ Golden Dome

Please.

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

🤪 SilverStar
#VernonBC

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

The majority of Canadians, including B.C. residents, support the idea of an oil pipeline to the north coast. Québec opposes it the most. Angus Reid uses opt-in online surveys (margin of error can not be calculated). #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
angusreid.org/pipeline-pus...

Bar chart showing regional support and opposition levels for an Alberta-to-B.C. oil pipeline, detailing responses from seven provinces.

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