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Doug Fischer

@carpnine.bsky.social
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Jazz fan, writer, editor, newspaper survivor, riverman. "There must be some kind of way out of here ..." OTTAWA

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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Very sad to hear this. A big loss. I was on a Southam Fellowship with Helen in the early 1990s and she was hard working, focused - and a ton of fun. Not much of a karaoke singer though!
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Better than lovely. The best!
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A liar right to the end.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ford leads the worst government in Canada, and it's not even close (with apologies to Albertans).
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Nine years later I still play this at least a couple of times a month. Terrific recording.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"There must be some kind of way out of here."
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Prez and the pork-pie hat
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Half a sex scene, LOL? First half or last?
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Lorne Trout
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You say hi
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's called cheating.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Lee Morgan, The Procrastinator
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tough shit
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
One of the absolute greats. RIP
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Worst government in Canada, and it's not even close.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Is it OK to laugh if he just keels over?
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
There is an easy answer: don't go.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ah Um is a desert island disc. Not a weak moment on the entire album.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Yep, 100 per cent
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Great news! My Friday evening is set.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
He's 100 per cent correct
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Worst government in Canada. And it's not even close.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Nancy to the rescue!
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Quick fact context. Norway, a country of 5.6 million people, won 41 Olympic medals at the Milano Cortina games, 18 of them gold. The United States, a country of 350 million people, won 33 medals, 12 of them gold.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Exactly. In Canada we think of Mamdani as a normal slightly left-of-centre guy who could easily lead two of our mainstream federal parties.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is excellent work, something to be proud of.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The Mark Langston era in Montreal.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
His book, Jazz and its Discontents, has been a music bible for me for decades. A huge loss. RIP
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Desert island disc.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Pick 'em: Lee Morgan, Live at the Lighthouse Miles Davis Quintet, Live at the Plugged Nickel
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
That explains it. Thanks.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Mingus Ah Um Coltrane, A Love Supreme Lee Morgan, Live at the Lighthouse
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Impossible question, really, but I'll play along: Fables of Faubus from Mingus Ah Um
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Nancy to the rescue!
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
... and Bobby Orr
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Dolphy, but it's close. That Clifford-Roach album is a classic.
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Ouagoudougou, Clifford Jordan; The Sixth Sense, Lee Morgan; Helen Butte/Mr. FreedomX, Miles Davis; Just One of Those Things, Freddie Hubbard; Boston Bernie, Dexter Gordon
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Doug Fischer @carpnine.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Just for fun I made a playlist of the five representative pieces you list in TT 478 and played them while I exercised. Later I noticed the Amazon Music algorithm had come up with five suggestions based on your list. Not sure how these algorithms work but here they are:
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William van Geest @wvangeest.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I’m begging the #Ottawa pundit class to please just once care more about people in a tough spot than other people who feel uncomfortable about them. ottawacitizen.com/news/letter-...
Screenshot of a portion of the article linked, which reads, “Over the last decade, I’ve watched this neighbourhood slowly dim. The streets have become less comfortable to walk alone with the increase in opioid use, homelessness and high-profile violence. The buzz has been dampened by the COVID-19 pandemic, a slow exodus of public servants and the closures of longstanding businesses.”
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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
If you wonder why Trump thinks what he thinks about Canada, check out the Canadians he hangs out with at Mar-a-Lago. 🇨🇦
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We are also in a political/media environment in which the legacy media titles like the Globe and Mail still carry heft, but they are not where people in their 20s or even 30s turn to be politically informed. The people who run campaigns pay attention to the Globe and Mail. The people who vote don’t.
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Ottawa Mission @ottawamission.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We are disappointed to learn of a report suggesting a one year delay in the introduction of a renoviction bylaw for Ottawa. We have clients whom we have housed, only to return to our shelter due to renovictions and bad-faith evictions. Vulnerable people cannot afford another year of delays. 🕒❌
ottawa.ctvnews.ca
Staff recommend Ottawa delay study of anti-renoviction bylaw
City of Ottawa staff are recommending the city temporarily shelve plans for an anti-renoviction bylaw to allow time to monitor new bylaws in other Ontario cities and review provincial legislation to a...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 14/12/2024
It is shocking that politicians complained about this important work out of utter ignorance. More shocking that the film's TV premiere was cancelled. Shame on TVO, shame on Minister Freeland. Watch the damn film and let's discuss it - that's how democracy and free speech work.
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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 04/12/2024
Last year, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an article on a scurvy case in Toronto. Scurvy is almost never in advanced countries like Canada. This year we learned of 27 more cases in the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Saskatchewan.
thetyee.ca
Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics | The Tyee
And it reveals much about how we approach fairness and human rights.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
As foreign reporting shrinks in Canada, the Travers Fellowship is one light keeping it alive
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montrealexpos.bsky.social @montrealexpos.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Happy Birthday to anyone born on this day Except Rick Monday. Also Jeffery Loria & David Samson just in case it is their birthdays as well.
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Jody Vance @jodyvance.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It will be interesting how the right wing types fill hours of live TV with no one to blame…..but…themselves. Projection is next to impossible when you have full control.
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