Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞

This war in the U.S. is becoming very uncivil.

Churchill on diverse opinions: "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

I had the flu once, and someone put on Friends. I was too weak to fight for the clicker. I don't even remember a monkey.

Opinion: Instead of waiting for a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup, Canada should launch its own domestic hockey league Imagine a national hockey league – a real one, not just called that – to serve Canadians from coast to coast

I'd switch in a heartbeat. With no russians.

Is there something about the NHL that saps our confidence? For example, might it be the sheer loss of pride in having ceded control of our game to the Americans? Bettman, the New York lawyer, has run the league since 1993 - when we last won the Cup.

"Raft of benefits".
#SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

Autumn vibes.
#VernonBC

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I worked environmental enforcement for years and the telltale bad actor indicator (and the easiest conviction) was always "failure to report".

Why everyone suddenly cares what Pierre Poilievre thinks about ostriches Why the Conservative leader is weighing in on the fate of more than 300 birds after avian flu was discovered in the flock.

The Silence of the Cons
Pierre Poilievre’s office told the Toronto Star he would not comment further on his position and his office declined a request for an interview "with a Conservative MP who has been more outspoken about the issue (no doubt local MP Scott Anderson)". #VernonBC

Bright green Red Alder leaves against a forest backdrop. Photo Syd Cannings

I was doing last week's @nytimes.com Sunday crossword (we get it in the Wednesday Yukon News 😀) when I was thrilled to find a Yukon clue at 24Ac!
Unfortunately it was wrong! Spoiler alert, red alders are NOT native to the Yukon, even though they grow on the Pacific slope of nearby Alaska and BC.

NYT gift article on Carpenter Media Group (owners of the Vernon Morning Star) interference in local AK journalism. Trigger is MAGA objections to Charlie Kirk characterisation as "Christian-Nationalist icon" and defender of "often racist and controversial views". #VernonBC
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Enemy number one: What Putin’s foreign policy speech says about Europe At this year’s Valdai club, Vladimir Putin gave his most anti-EU speech yet, citing his determination to see new anti-establishment politicians to come to power and improve Europe’s relations with…

In a shift, Putin has explicitly blamed Europe for russia's illegal war of aggression on Ukraine and accused the EU of anti-russian policies (i.e., supporting Ukraine) which he said threaten its security and domestic stability.
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U.S. to copy Canada’s “Loonie” one dollar coin. The only difference being, we have an actual King.

Pierre Poilievre demonstrates historical and contemporary ignorance in one tweet.

You don’t say?

Totenkopf redux.

YouTube video by BlankTV Dead Kennedys - "Nazi Punks F*ck Off" Subterranean Records - Official Live Video

NPFO, the OG.
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NYC billionaire John Catsimatidis launched crusade to save ostriches after personal appeal from farmer Even as the animal-loving supermarket mogul and his powerful friends stick their necks out for the birds, nearly 400 of the animals could still be slaughtered as soon as Friday at the Universal Ost…

🇨🇦 Science FU's MAGA/Convoy Politics
“That’s a real f–k you to everyone in the United States,” Catsimatidis said of Canada 'snubbing' the offer to take the birds for 'research'.

They took the piss out of Kristi metaphorically, not literally!

Germany to take steps to defend itself against ‘high’ threat from drones Germany is considering allowing its military to shoot down drones, a report said Saturday, after recent drone incursions around Europe raised tensions with Russia.

It's against the law, Tim! Germany will look to revise an aviation security law to allow the nation’s armed forces to get involved to possibly shoot down drones.

“It’s about being prepared so that critical infrastructure... can be protected,”
-German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt

Which state do Northerners identify as the most serious threat to the Canadian Arctic?
The U.S. was considered the most serious threat by a plurality of respondents (37%), with Russia arriving a close second (35%) and China a distant third (17%). #CdnPoli 🇨🇦

Nicaragua supports russia's illegal war of aggression to support their assault on Ukraine's territorial integrity. Time for G7 action, yes?
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Who conducted this count?

Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator

The Grand Bargin... otherwise:

Meanwhile, Enbridge’s CEO just called again (during a speech in Toronto) for industrial pricing to end, which is another reminder that the oil and gas industry is not serious about carbon capture, and Carney will need to play hardball if he is.

One day, hopefully soon, the flamingo will have a sister.
🪓otomahuk!

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social

Trump tariff rates for imported lumber which "threaten to impair the national security of the United States."
🇨🇦 > 45%
🇷🇺 = 0%

Marineland blames "the Carney government" for Marineland's inability "to pay for their continued feeding and care." I'd remind Marineland's individual officers and directors that harming animals is an indictable offence under S. 445 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

When one door closes, another door opens.
Hello OneBC.

RCMP investigate alleged assault of woman who lives beside B.C. ostrich farm The RCMP are providing round the clock protection for a B.C., resident who lives next to Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) after a masked man doused the woman in gasoline and punched her in the face.

The RCMP are providing round the clock protection for Lois Wood, a 72-year old Edgewood, B.C., resident who lives next to Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) after a masked man doused the woman in gasoline and punched her in the face. #VernonBC