Doug Johnson 🇨🇦
@smikooman.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Physical Geographer | Air and Water Resource Manager | North Okanagan (cf. @okgn-environment.bsky.social) | #NAFO Fella 🇺🇦
Disinformation on Meta and TikTok falsely claimed that Spain's border was completely open, sparking a massive surge of up to 72,000 migrants rushing into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta. 70 people died.
Fact check: Did disinformation trigger the Ceuta crisis?
More than 70 people died after thousands of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. The crossings have been linked to misleading claims about a recent Spanish Supreme C...
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Imagine if the Conservatives were in government during SARS/COVID? My MP fought against these revolutionary, new life-saving technologies. (Arnold is still an MP). Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) technology plays a fundamental, indispensable role in Moderna's investigational Ebola vaccine. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
Health Canada authorizes mRNA vaccine trial for Ebola virus causing huge outbreak in Congo | CBC News
Health Canada has given Moderna the green light to launch a clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo form of the Ebola virus, which continues to surge throughout the Democratic Republic o...
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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦@smikooman.bsky.social · 2y agoWait, there's more! Mel Arnold also petitioned the House of Commons with a disconcerting piece of anti-science and anti-government disinformation, which implied corruption, coercion, and intimidation around LNP-based mRNA vaccine use. (LNP-based mRNA vaccines have an excellent safety profile).
Does anyone know if Iran surrendered unconditionally? They seem to have ghosted Trump. 🤷♂️
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoMiddle East crisis live: Iran denies Trump’s claims that talks due to take place
CBC Music has put out an open call for venues, bars, and community spaces that want to stream the 10th anniversary re-broadcast of "The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration". Venues cannot charge an entry fee unless proceeds are donated towards a registered charity. 🇨🇦🤘 #VernonBC
CBC Public Screening Agreement for the 10th anniversary of "The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration"
Yay!!!! We are so happy that you have chosen to host a public exhibition of CBC’s 10-year anniversary re-broadcast of “The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration” (the "Broadcast")! It’s important to ...
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Given Vernon had only minimum detection levels of precipitation throughout the entire month of July, it's not surprising that the Okanagan (and Nicola) are experiencing Level 5 drought, the most severe category. The North Okanagan region will be extremely prone to fires for weeks to come. #VernonBC
Doug Johnson 🇨🇦@smikooman.bsky.social · 4d ago2026 Climate Variance (1/2) Monthly temperature (l) and precipitation (r) compared to the 1961-1990 climatological reference normals. The year's above normal temperature and extreme precipitation shortfall trends continue this month. The charts speak for the grim 2026 climate statistics. #VernonBC
Respecting this pilot. Thank you for your service Kootenay Valley Helicopters. Sikorsky S-61N helicopter and bucket from Nelson serving the North Okanagan. 🫡 #VernonBC
CPC leaders Pierre Poilievre and Andrew Scheer have so contaminated the conservative brand, I'm skeptical to the extreme about taking serious anything their supposedly credible MPs have to say. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
Surrounded by Out of Control Forest Fires 🧭 North - K41351 Bradley Creek FSR (left pic). Looking north from Vernon to Armstrong 🧭 South - K51402 Quilpituk Creek (Fintry) with bonus Washington State megaplume in behind it (right pic)! Looking south down Okanagan Lake (over Crystal Springs) #VernonBC
Today's fire weather satellite view of the Pacific Northwest's intense smoke emitters. Northern WA and ID bottom, BC South Interior top.
As if the "Gulf America" (sic) wasn't bad enough. Now the U.S. State Department is renaming countries in Africa? Côte d'Ivoire is going to need a new coast! #GeoSky
Pro Travel Tip Take a burner phone, tablet, and laptop to the U.S. if you dare travel there anymore. This is what they do to their own returning home.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 7d agoUS citizen accused of destroying evidence by wiping phone at airport. Activist Samuel Tunick is accused of supplying US Customs and Border Protection agents with a passcode that erased the contents of his phone during an airport interrogation u.afp.com/SrrQ
👀 N.B. 🇨🇦 1. Be not afraid 2. Tie goes to the defender 3. Deny the other side a quick victory 4. Play for time 5. Preserve second-strike capability 6. Demonstrate a superior willingness to endure pain 7. Speed and mobility beat massed power 8. Limit our war aims 9. Unity is everything #CdnPoli
For All Mankind Space data centres proposed by SpaceX and Blue Origin would release staggering levels of pollution that would alter the Earth's atmosphere and be "catastrophic" for the planet. No wonder Elon and the Plutocrats want to control us from Mars.
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction
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Fleeced U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that the new U.S. import tariffs on 60 trading partners will not have an economic impact on U.S. inflation.
Trump's end game is for Canada "to go from being an ally and a partner, in a relationship governed by treaties and rules, to being a vassal, subject to Washington fiat - like the Venezuela of Delcy Rodríguez, only with snowdrifts and hockey." - ex-Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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UK Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump's administration, and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of "normalising" the risks they face. "The research findings make for grim reading."
UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’
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I🫡🇱🇻 #StandWithUkraine #UkrainianView
REP Fella - Beaver Brigade Czar 🇨🇦🇺🇦@drkatems.bsky.social · 2w agoWe had a special visitor yesterday, the outgoing Ambassador of the Embassy of Latvia in Canada H.E. Kaspars Ozoliņš, on his final day. He started his tenure Feb. 24, 2022 the same day of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, so our sign's number. 1612, is special for more than 1 reason. 🇱🇻🇺🇦🇨🇦
No Representation Without Taxation Canadian billionaire and proto-fascist Tobi Lütke endorses a twisted "democratic" system whereby anyone on social or disability assistance does not get a vote.
Doug Johnson 🇨🇦@smikooman.bsky.social · 3w agoTobi Lütke, Canadian billionaire and CEO of Shopify, defender of Trump's economic war of aggression on Canada, swooning over the National Post, part of the Postmedia Network Inc. American-owned media conglomerate. The Canadian-owned Globe and Mail, meanwhile, is a "propaganda rag". #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
James Suckling came to the Okanagan expecting good wine. He left calling the trip "epic." World-class wines, breathtaking scenery, welcoming people and incredible value. He vows to return next year with his family. #Okanagan 🇨🇦🍷
International wine critic gives the Okanagan an excellent report card
American wine critic James Suckling spent five days in B.C., trying more than 200 wines
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If Iran enters russia's illegal war of aggression on Ukraine, they are quickly going to discover Volodymyr Zelenskyy is no Donald Trump.
Ukraine has offered Canada a strategic energy security bridge for LNG supplies and a long-term 30-year agreement. Canada's grant support of $650 million gas purchases is also being discussed between energy ministers Tim Hodgson and Denys Shmyhal. 🇨🇦🤝🇺🇦
Ukraine proposes to create a 30-year partnership with Canada in the energy sector and to supply Canadian LNG
УНН Economy ✎ Україна запропонувала Канаді стратегічний міст енергетичної безпеки з постачанням LNG та укладення довгострокової угоди на 30 років. Також обговорюєть…
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Inside Ukraine's Kill Zone is a brilliant, immersive digital reconstruction published by @reuters.com It visualises a terrifying 30 kilometre wide corridor straddling the front lines, completely dominated by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A fantastic, comprehensive explainer.
Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone
Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...
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Does the news media really need to get a statement from NDP MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social to confirm she is sipping from "what appears to be" an FYFP coffee cup? It's a screen grab of a video she posted! Anyway, FYFP Dani! #ABpoli
