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

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 · 20h

😉
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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

"Deb" looks sketchy.

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 21h

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...

AirQuotesMedia www.airquotesmedia.com/thb

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

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.

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

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

✔️ CUSMA
✖️ USMCA

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

Please.

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

🤪 SilverStar
#VernonBC

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

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

Over the week, Pierre Poilievre repeatedly invented promises to set up Prime Minister Mark Carney to "fail:" i.e., it's disinformation politics as usual for the Leader of the Opposition. Poilievre "isn't stupid. He just thinks the people listening to him are."

Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 3d

Pierre Poilievre sure had himself a time this week after the White House visit, blaming Mark Carney for everything under the sun - including sunburn.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Opinion: After Trump visit, Poilievre blames Carney for everything under the sun, including sunburn

The Conservative Leader isn’t stupid. He just thinks the people listening to him are

www.theglobeandmail.com

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

I really notice “fruit flies” when my jumping spider vacates the kitchen. 😖

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

Two grammatical errors in one sentence for this "best job in the Okanagan" with a "leading North American local news champion." #VernonBC

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

a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags

ALT: a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags

media.tenor.com

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

I loathe this time of year.
Lest we forget 🌺

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

Noticed the resilience as well. Incredible.

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

Expendable drone fodder. The zero-sum value russia places on their own people.

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

The human face behind russia's terror attack.
Щирі співчуття родині загиблого.

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

Russia keeps stealing joy, freedom, and life from people until we help Ukraine stop them and roll the war criminals back to the dark land where they came from.

Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 4d

Tragedy in Zaporizhzhia where a young child was killed.

Even more heart-breaking, the 7 year old boy was the son of a Ukraine soldier, who'd only recently been released from 3 years as a POW in Russia.

He and his wife are both injured and in hospital.
#RussiaIsATerroristState

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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 4d

Good bye to Michael McLeod, one of five members of Canada's 2018 junior team recently acquitted of sexual assault charge. Enjoy your new life and everything it has to offer in Omsk, russia, Michael.

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