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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here’s her getting the news while “listening to the wind” in Iceland

SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My only surviving photo from the Ali-Chuvalo fight in 1972 at the Pacific Coliseum in Van. Got ringside seat as reporter from Nanaimo daily paper, surrounded by Sports Illustrated, Time, etc. He got beat up, but didn’t go down. Ali’s stand against Vietnam war had a lot to do with my coming to 🇨🇦

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My only surviving photo from the Ali-Chuvalo fight in 1972 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, BC. Got a ringside seat as reporter from small Nanaimo daily newspaper, surrounded by Sports Illustrated, Time, etc. He got beat up, but didn’t go down.

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When did the USA start treating Cuba… like Cuba? Now I see why DJT revers Teddy Roosevelt et al.

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When did the USA start treating Cuba… like Cuba? Now I see why DJT revers Teddy Roosevelt et al.

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The human race - Tsleil-Waututh nation, North Vancouver, 2014

Canoe races hosted by Tsleil-Waututh nation, North Vancouver, 2014

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

But we've got the Shield!!! ids.si.edu/ids/delivery...

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

And we've got the Shield! ids.si.edu/ids/delivery...

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

‘Minneapolis can be the coldest place in the heat of July and the hottest place in January.” - From Shinders to Shinders, Twin Cities PBS, 2019 youtu.be/gfQdJrlqdmw?...

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Ha, ha, ha… I love oil money more than anything Photo: CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I don’t know who designed this patch, but my buddy and I want to put ‘em on hats and start a Vancouver Island chapter of Prouder Boys.

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Grizzly bear attacks make big news. Deaths from grizzly attacks in Canada 2022-9, 2021-8, 2020-8 and 2019-10 but 2011-2021 – 1,125 gender-related homicides of women and girls in Canada. Two-thirds perpetrated by an intimate partner, 28% a family member. Jean Beaufort Photo via Wikipedia

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

this migrant, the most privileged kind, working for no pay other than the quietly valuable meditative… the neighbourhood rabbit and a covey of quail amuse themselves unaware of the migrant in their midst

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Chocolate and Fawn lilies on Vancouver Island

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SalishSeaSam 🇨🇦 @maskedmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Call me a fool (and many do), but if I were a country, I would welcome with open arms people who walked, cried and died over hundreds and thousands of miles driven by hope. Painting by Jacob Lawrence – The migration gained in momentum – 1940-41

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