@rodmickleburgh.bsky.social
Former reporter for the Globe and Mail, including four years in China…also a former labour reporter (sigh) and ever a fan of the Montreal Expos (sigh)
#LestWeForget #Ukraine
31.10.2025 03:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s hard to imagine a more gutsy win by the beleaguered #Canucks than tonight’s shootout victory over the Blues…improbable hat trick by Sherwood and the rest of the team ground it out…missing Hughes, Garland, Chytil, Blueger and now Boeser…all hail
31.10.2025 03:13 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As if the #Canucks haven’t had enough calamities this year, they’ve now lost Brock Boeser … unbelievable
31.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“It was a lot of fun,” understates the wonderful Trey Yesavage, after his heroic, history-making performance against the #Dodgers…. He’s still just a kid, except on the mound, of course #BlueJays
30.10.2025 03:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No rookie in the 125-year history of the #WorldSeries has ever struck out as many batters as Trey Yesavage….Just incredible #BlueJays
30.10.2025 02:59 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A mound masterpiece by the young Yesavage…incredible stuff #BlueJays
30.10.2025 02:07 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely CRAZY!!! 3 pitches, 2 homers!!! Never happened before in the #WorldSeries Schneider and Vladdy! Just nuts #BlueJays
30.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi
29.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh
29.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Meanwhile, the #Canucks are down 1-0 and may have lost Conor Garland on JT Miller night in Vancouver
29.10.2025 03:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vladdy is having a postseason for the ages….#BlueJays
29.10.2025 03:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“They came back fighting,” says admiring #Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, of the #BlueJays…deep down, I think he likes the Jays…
29.10.2025 03:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Shohei who? Hehe #BlueJays
29.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0How about this stat: Andres Gimenez is hitting .500 with runners in scoring position…another of the Jays’ great unsung heroes #BlueJays
29.10.2025 03:26 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0And was Chris Bassitt clutch, or what?? #BlueJays
29.10.2025 03:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Once again, so many heroes up and down the lineup and on the mound…#BlueJays
29.10.2025 03:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There’s just no quit in these #BlueJays
29.10.2025 03:22 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Chris Bassitt! My favourite #BlueJay. Such a pro…love the guy….#BlueJays
29.10.2025 02:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lougheed’s famous principles, which greatly influenced Norway’s take on oil development, strike at the core of Canadian life. Alberta’s own oil patch didn’t like him.
Behave like an owner
Collect your fair share
Save for a rainy day
Add value
Go slow
Practice statecraft
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012...
Vladdy wakes up at the plate with a two-run blast off the great #Ohtani…..!!!! #BlueJays
29.10.2025 00:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It doesn’t seem fair #Ohtani #BlueJays
29.10.2025 00:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, that was as crazy a ballgame as you will ever see….but a loss is a loss, and this one really hurts….#BlueJays battled so hard but it wasn’t good enough
28.10.2025 07:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really gutsy pitching by Eric Lauer….so impressive in this pressure cooker of a game…wow #BlueJays
28.10.2025 05:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Key moment in the game: Kershaw getting Nathan Lukes on a 3-2 count with the bases loaded and two out #BlueJays
28.10.2025 05:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anyone having fun? #BlueJays
28.10.2025 05:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m sorry…how could they send Schneider with Vladdy up next??? Ugh #BlueJays A lot of questionable Schneider decisions tonight
28.10.2025 03:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t understand how they could take out Barger for a pinch runner…#BlueJays and it hurt them in the 9th
28.10.2025 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There has never ever been a player like Shohei Ohtani! Might as well enjoy it, folks…you’ll never see his like again #BlueJays
28.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How a game can turn…Freeman thrown out at home…and the #BlueJays strike back on a walk, an error and Kirikian blast over the wall!!! WOO HOO!!!
28.10.2025 01:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0