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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 21/10/2025

Jose Bautista shows up to the on field celebration wearing a hat with an LV logo. what's that? oh he's promoting the pro soccer franchise of which he is the primary investor. kind of gross if you ask me. time and place. get a Blue Jays hat on, ya jabrone.

per: https://www.sportico.com/business/sales/2024/jose-bautista-buys-usl-las-vegas-lights-1234762101/

Ex-MLB Star Jose Bautista Buys USL’s Las Vegas Lights FC

By Asli Pelit

January 16, 2024 5:55am
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Bautista is joining a list of former and current athletes who invested in USL clubs, including soccer star Didier Drogba, NBA coach Jason Kidd and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.
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Retired Major League Baseball All-Star José Bautista has reached an agreement to purchase United Soccer League’s (USL) Las Vegas Lights FC. As a primary investor,u

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 28/09/2025

I'm so happy for Lauer. and he's such a good kid, too. here he is, signing an autograph for my kid this summer. guess who my son's favourite player is now?

Eric Lauer signs my kid's ballcap at a Jr. Jays Sunday in August.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 28/09/2025

how can you even call yourself a comic if you're willing to censor yourself to participate? aren't more than half of these the hacks leading the manufactured outrage over comedy being dead because of woke? accepting this invite exposes their entire ass as phoney, hackneyed, and gross.

Screenshot of the Wikipedia entry detailing the participating acts for the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which reads:

Participating acts
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The comedians scheduled to appear at the festival include:[4][5]

Mo Amer
Aziz Ansari
Wayne Brady
Hannibal Buress
Bill Burr
Jimmy Carr
Dave Chappelle
Louis C.K.
Whitney Cummings
Pete Davidson
Chris Distefano
Omid Djalili
Zarna Garg
Ben Hart
Kevin Hart
Gabriel Iglesias
Jim Jefferies
Jimeoin
Maz Jobrani
Jessica Kirson
Jo Koy
Bobby Lee
Sebastian Maniscalco
Sam Morril
Mark Normand
Nimesh Patel
Russell Peters
Jeff Ross[6]
Andrew Santino
Andrew Schulz
Tom Segura
Ali Siddiq
Aries Spears
Chris Tucker
Jack Whitehall
Tim Dillon, who was originally intending to participate in the festival, was removed from the list of performers due to jokes he made on his podcast about slavery in Saudi Arabia.[7][8]

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 15/09/2025

and even better, i just reloaded it, and now i get this:

a screenshot of the url charliesmurderers.com displaying a DNS error. "DNS address could not be found. diagnosing the problem. DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE"

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 11/09/2025

i have now done so, and would strongly encourage anyone reading this post to do the same. you can use my email as a template if that helps you.

Body of email to abuse@namecheap.com reads the following, and in spite of a typo, you're welcomed to borrow or adapt as you see fit to send your own email as soon as possible. email follows:

Hi namecheap:
It has come to my attention that a website registered with your service today in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination is targetting people the publishers have deemed to be "Charlie's murderers." This is incitement of further violence, and must be stopped immediately.
The URL in question is Charliesmurderers.com and it was registered today put of Reykjavik, Iceland.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Mike McCulloch

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 03/09/2025

this email from VSB about protecting the kids from wildfire smoke, is, according to my son, not true. we normally walk or xycl, and instead drove to school. i asked him to stay inside for recess, but he was repeatedly pressured by multiple teachers to get out there and play in the smoke. ridiculous.

AIR Quality Alert - Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Wildfire smoke is affecting air quality in Metro Vancouver today. Based on advice from Vancouver Coastal Health, we’re taking steps to help protect the health of students and staff.

All outdoor activities were moved indoors today. We understand this may affect families in different ways. If you choose to keep your child home if the air quality advisory continues in the upcoming days, please let your school office know.

We will continue to follow the advice of Vancouver Coastal Health and will share updates as needed.

Vancouver School Board

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 02/09/2025

geez, this guy looks fit as a fiddle.

Photo of U.S. President Donald Trump sitting in the back of The Beast waving while staring forward, as posted to Twitter/X by Andrew Leyden

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 03/08/2025

it's really giving Steve Irwin X 2!

Steve Irwin image from Wikipedia. The two breast pockets on his shirt are reminiscent of the four pockets on the shirt featured in the original message.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 09/06/2025

shoutout to this guy working off a mast earlier today in False Creek.

a man climbed to the top of a boat mast, set against the skyline of downtown Vancouver as viewed from False Creek, a few hundred metres west of Granville Island.

man climbed to the top of a boat mast, set against the skyline of downtown Vancouver as viewed from False Creek, a few hundred metres west of Granville Island.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 21/05/2025

i was one of the lucky few to spot three Orcas in Vancouver's Burrard Inlet this morning.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 29/04/2025

Prime Minister Carney's readout of a call with U.S. president Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Carney speaks with President of the United States Donald J. Trump

April 29, 2025
Ottawa, Ontario

Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke with the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

President Trump congratulated Prime Minister Carney on his recent election. The leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the United States working together – as independent, sovereign nations – for their mutual betterment. To that end, the leaders agreed to meet in person in the near future.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 29/04/2025

another very inefficiently split riding: Kitchener-Centre. Green Mike Morrice and Liberal Brian Adeba appear to have split the progressive vote to potentially allow Con. Kelly DeRidder to squeeze through with just 4 polls left to record.

Preliminary Results
Kitchener Centre
Party Candidate Votes
Conservative Kelly DeRidder 19,420
Green Party Mike Morrice 18,731
Liberal Brian Adeba 16,406
NDP-New Democratic Party Heather Zaleski 1,094
People's Party - PPC Wasai Rahimi 318
Animal Protection Party Ellen Papenburg 102
United Party of Canada (UP) Margaretha Dyck 93
Total number of valid votes: 56,164
Polls Reporting: 209 of 213 (98.12 %)

Voter Turnout: 56,164 of 85,885 registered electors (65.39 %) -- does not include electors who registered on election day.

Population: 113,404

Number of electors on list: 85,885

Last updated at 01:30 ET

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 29/04/2025

like ... frankly, bordering on delusional. and i bought that, assuming the Lewis campaign had some sort of data or insight. dangerous shit to peddle. i think that's why i'm so pissed off.

Preliminary Results
Vancouver Centre
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Hedy Fry 9,840
Conservative Elaine Allan 7,174
NDP-New Democratic Party Avi Lewis 2,726
Green Party Scott MacDonald 333
People's Party - PPC Christopher Varga 100
Independent Drew William McPherson 46
Total number of valid votes: 20,219
Polls Reporting: 174 of 201 (86.57 %)

Voter Turnout: 20,219 of 85,775 registered electors (23.57 %) -- does not include electors who registered on election day.

Population: 115,964

Number of electors on list: 85,775

Last updated at 00:46 ET

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 29/04/2025

incredibly inefficient use of the progressive vote in Nanaimo-Ladysmith. heck, even third and fourth place Green Paul Manly and NDP Lisa Marie Barron add up to more votes than leading candidate Con. Tamara Kronis.

Preliminary Results

Nanaimo—Ladysmith
Party Candidate Votes
Conservative Tamara Kronis 17,582
Liberal Michelle Corfield 13,500
Green Party Paul Manly 9,858
NDP-New Democratic Party Lisa Marie Barron 9,512
People's Party - PPC Stephen Welton 212
Total number of valid votes: 50,664
Polls Reporting: 165 of 205 (80.49 %)

Voter Turnout: 50,664 of 102,177 registered electors (49.58 %) -- does not include electors who registered on election day.

Population: 122,857

Number of electors on list: 102,177

Last updated at 00:54 ET

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 28/04/2025

Unfortunately no, election ads are finished on election day, per Elections Canada.

Activities and spending of political entities during the election period
During the election period (starting on the day the election is called), many activities of political entities are subject to specific rules. Here is a non-exhaustive list:

All election advertising by registered parties, candidates and third parties must have a tagline stating who authorized the ads.
Election advertising in an electoral district is not allowed on election day before the close of all polling stations in that district.
Results of election surveys that have not been previously transmitted to the public in an electoral district may not be transmitted on election day before all polls close in that electoral district.
Expenses incurred by registered parties and candidates to directly promote or oppose a party, party leader or candidate during an election period are subject to a limit.
Expenses for election advertising, partisan activities and election surveys by third parties are subject to limits (in a given electoral district and overall).

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 13/04/2025

maybe too on the nose for Bluesky, because Get Smart was itself a Bond parody. reskeet with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only).

Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, aka Agent 86.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 13/04/2025

in which Andrew Sheer is cut to seemingly endorse getting high on meth?

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 03/04/2025

good news, folks. it looks like today's Dow Jones drop won't be the single greatest daily point loss in history, but is merely on pace to be nestled between some of the largest daily losses occurring at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rank Date Close Change Ref
Net %
1 2020-03-16 20,188.52 −2,997.10 −12.93 [29]
2 2020-03-12 21,200.62 −2,352.60 −9.99 [30]
3 2020-03-09 23,851.02 −2,013.76 −7.79 [31]
4 2020-06-11 25,128.17 −1,861.82 −6.90 [32]
5 2020-03-11 23,553.22 −1,464.94 −5.86 [33]
6 2020-03-18 19,898.92 −1,338.46 −6.30 [34]
7 2022-09-13 31,104.97 −1,276.37 −3.94 [35]
8 2020-02-27 25,766.64 −1,190.95 −4.42 [36]
9 2018-02-05 24,345.75 −1,175.21 −4.60 [37]
10 2022-05-18 31,490.07 −1,164.52 −3.57 [38]
11 2024-12-18 42,326.87 −1,123.03 −2.58 [39]
12 2022-05-05 32,997.97 −1,063.09 −3.12 [40]
13 2024-08-05 38,703.27 −1,033.99 −2.60 [41]

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 29/03/2025

whether you call it a purple sea star, an ochre starfish, or a pisaster ochraceus, it's beautiful.

a starfish sits on a rocky beach. the sky is cloudy and gray, a narrow band of the ocean is visible, and the purple sea star is pictured on the lower and right third of the image.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 25/03/2025

Great trailer for this important and exciting film - written and directed by the talented @kierjunos.bsky.social and hosted by some other guy.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 23/03/2025

am i on the right track to say Vancouver basically sits in the left and bottom thirds of this Venn?

Copy of the original Venn diagram with "I want stable services," "more density," "I want low taxes," all circled, with the word Vancouver added.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 23/03/2025

it's not too far flung a thought!338Canada shows the trend in the riding is rapidly shifting, reflecting the national sentiment. per this: 338canada.com/35020e.htm

Popular vote projection per 338canada.com.
Current polling projections are as follows.
CPC: 53% ±8%
LPC: 33% ±7%
NDP: 7% ±3%
GPC: 4% ±4%

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 21/03/2025

I asked Global Affairs Canada about issuing a U.S. travel advisory due to recent events, citing the detention of Canadian Jasmine Mooney, and counterpart governments issuing travel advisories related to the danger posed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I received the following response:

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 20/03/2025

This week on Sovereign Canada: Nasser Nabahat, the owner of Ivanhoe Hotel and Pub in Vancouver, wants to see a mass protest against U.S. president Donald Trump's continued annexation threats. full episode: sovereigncanada.fyi/never-51-and...

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 18/03/2025

for those unable to give tiktok clicks.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 18/03/2025

Obama's Verizon BlackBerry 8830 World Edition:

an image of a silver Verizon BlackBerry 8830 World Edition handset.

President Barack Obama, early in his first term, holding what appears to be his trademark silver Verizon BlackBerry 8830 World Edition.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 17/03/2025

another subtle dig? the border guard is turning the open sign over to reveal a 'closed' sign. ha. Canada is closed.

a border booth, with a guard inside, flipping the sign over to read "closed," while in his other hand, he holds a white bowl, which the viewer can surmise is filled with soup that he will proceed to consume in the following scene.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 17/03/2025

obviously the white and red bars next to the tomato is a visual reference to the bars on the American flag. but are the white, blue, and red horizontal bars a reference to the flag of Russia? obviously not perfectly so, as the three bars on the Russian flag each make up equal thirds. but i wonder?

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 17/03/2025

did anyone notice the colours on the can of soup that leaves a tariff aftertaste? yes, there are horizontal red and white bars. but from the top to bottom along the left, what flag does that look like to you?

white, blue, and red horizontal bars. The middle blue bar is narrower, with an image of a tomato in the centre, with red and white horizonal lines to the right of the tomato. there are two thicker white and red bars on the top and bottom of the label. And the words Tomato Soup are written on the bottom third of the label in white and yellow text, respectively. Next to the can reads the sentence "some soups leave a tariff aftertaste."

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 17/03/2025

this Aylmer soup ad is so good.

elderly man, sporting glasses and a bushy white beard, mid spit take. American tomato soup flies from his mouth toward the camera.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 10/03/2025

a service outage on Musk's website? couldn't have happened to better people. the fewer minutes in a day for propagandists to needle their way into our brains, the better. anyway, i'm way late to deactivating my twitter account, which i don't use anyway. so long, Nazi creeps.

Deactivated
Your account is deactivated
Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 08/03/2025

hmm, good question. i believe that one depends upon your carrier. here are the Rogers instructions:

Use the Three Way Calling Feature
With three way calling, you can conference a call with two other callers with local numbers.

Dial the first person’s phone number as you normally would.
Once they have answered, ask the first person to hold while you conference someone else into the call.
Press and release the hang-up (link/flash) button quickly. You will hear a new dial tone.
Dial *71, followed by the second person’s phone number.
Once the second person has answered, press and release the hang-up (link/flash) button quickly. Both the first and second parties should now be on the line with you.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 08/03/2025

I knew that episode of Severance looked familiar! Severance, buying Canadian before it was cool.

a screengrab from the credits of Severance season 2 episode 8 (208) crediting Newfoundland & Labrador (N.L) as the location.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 08/03/2025

"It has taken eight years to get to today," Rosalind Campbell, Musqueam elected councillor, led negotiations. Recognizing others who have contributed to her growth and development as a leader, becomes emotional, as well as broadly toward this deal. "Without their guidance, we wouldn't be here today"

Rosalind Campbell, lawyer and Musqueam elected councillor, puts her right hand to her chest and glances up as she experiences a wave of emotions.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 08/03/2025

Musqueam Elected Chief Wayne Sparrow: "We have a lot of work in front of us," after initialing the agreement, before implementation, including consultations.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 08/03/2025

Major reconciliation actions today between Canada and Musqueam First Nation. Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations will initial self-government agreement. Will establish a wide range of legal rights, including governance, land, natural resources, fish and wildlife, and more. More work to implement.

Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations at Musqueam Community Centre, announcing self government agreement between feds and Musqueam First Nation.

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Mike McCulloch 🇨🇦 @vancitymike.com · 03/03/2025

Elbows up! Here's the moment in question:

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