🏳️‍🌈 John 🇨🇦 Bishop 🏳️‍⚧️ Vancouver

Love those Canadians! 🇨🇦

14 years ago we brought Sophie and Snoopy (~1-2yrs) into our lives. Last August Sophie succumbed to cancer; yesterday Snoopy just got old. Our home feels very empty right now.

The “cover” of today’s Globe & Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. #StrongAndFree

Finally, @theglobeandmail.com publishes someone who knows a lot of history, in sharp contrast to most of their sophomoric fulltime pundits.

200% tariffs on alcohol from the EU?

Looks like in addition to the bottle of Canadian wine I’ll be buying tomorrow to support my own country, I’ll be buying a second bottle of Italian wine to support our allies abroad. 🇨🇦🇪🇺

Super important reminder to ALL of us:

Carney cannot single-handedly save Canada.

He can lead. He can build bridges for new partnerships.

All Canadians are going to have to tighten our skates and get at it together.

United we stand. We will not divide. We will not fall. Elbows up. #cdnpoli

Dennis the Menace reading comic books

Thank you.

We're strongest when we are united.

YouTube video by Wildflower Sisters Dear Canada

An original tune I wrote for our friends to the North. 🎶🇨🇦🍁 #peacefulresistance #canada #nokings #nowalls #hope #originalmusic #originallyrics #unity #stopthecoup #peacemusiccollective #serenitysister #songwriter
youtu.be/BeSeCbTLSWw?...

CanuckYou.ca – A polite Canuck You to Uncle Sam! Find Canadian alternatives to American brands. A polite *uck you to Uncle Sam.

🇨🇦 Retail blackout: Feb 28 🚨 The CanuckYou.ca list currently features US brands to *avoid*. Maybe that's not the nicest way to promote Canadian, but we're all past the point of being nice.

Contribute US brands to avoid before Friday, and we'll get them into the list before the blackout! #CanuckYou

Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Spain and EU leaders all in Kyiv today

YouTube video by Seth Abramson Hounds, “Second-Story Man”

(🎵) Here’s the first single from the Hounds album METRO, out April 10.

The single will be on all streaming platforms on April 4.

Hope you’ll give it a listen!

I'll go anywhere on behalf of a good cause - and that means engaging people across all the different platforms.

Good to be connected here, @maddow.msnbc.com and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com.

Great great summary here.

Who’s from Vancouver?

They need to meet Penny!

This is kinda out in left, but I saw a quote earlier that Europe was really not thrilled having US national and international policies decided by a few thousand people in the US rust belt.
Same from this Canadian.

Anything by @nealasher.bsky.social

“Wake up: godlike powers don’t necessarily imply a godlike purpose.”
~Neal Asher, “The Technician”

Science Fiction’s deliberate examination of significant, compelling “boundary” human conditions is, to my mind, critical thinking expressed in fiction. @nealasher.bsky.social #sciencefiction

Be #Woke not dead inside.

We have lost a hero. Joe Average passed away quietly in his sleep Christmas Eve. Rest in power Brock. 💔

Twas the night before Christmas. 🌟 Can’t get enough of this…

‘2024 Holidays at the White House: A Season of Peace and Light.’

Merry Christmas, everyone!

After Midnight service at St. Andrew-Wesley in downtown Vancouver last night. Merry Christmas!

@nealasher.bsky.social Rarely do I find an author that has me totally enthralled 😳 with his writing but you sir have captured my imagination now for several months. In my view you rate up there with some of our greatest scifi authors of all time. Thank you.

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As a survivor of AIDS for 25 years, my experience is amoung the shortest of the champions I now consider friends, some who have been living with HIV for 40+ years. While no longer a life threatening illness, it can have a significant impact on daily living. #aids #worldaidsday #longtermsurvivor

Blue butterfly lit from behind, hanging onto an open dandelion seed pod over a pale blue sky at sunset.

The sheer brilliance and fierceness of 🦋 is so refreshing.
#bluesky