Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦
@bobmakichuk.bsky.social
Edmonton guy in Ottawa. Also a hack guitarist, reformed journalist, and GC head of comms.
Views expressed in posts are mine.
Views expressed in posts are mine.
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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦
@bobmakichuk.bsky.social
· Nov 18
a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock saying welcome home !!
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock saying welcome home !!
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Making the pivot from the dirty bird. Bear with me while I boot up this feed. Appreciate follows as I reconstitute ten years in the other place and revel in some sanity here.
You can always catch the more professional side of my life over on Li. @BobMakichuk
You can always catch the more professional side of my life over on Li. @BobMakichuk
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A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A few more photos from tonight’s incredible #aurora. I’m fascinated by the amount of red light tonight. This is generated by oxygen molecules being excited by light plasma at least 600 km above the Earth. The green is also oxygen molecules, but much lower (100-250km). Definitely a great night.
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The sheer number of people Trump pardoned — 1,500+ — and the magnitude of violence many (most?) of them committed means it is statistically likely that a fair number will be revidivists, potentially for more egregious crimes. The pardons should be a top story EVERY DAY
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The sheer number of people Trump pardoned — 1,500+ — and the magnitude of violence many (most?) of them committed means it is statistically likely that a fair number will be revidivists, potentially for more egregious crimes. The pardons should be a top story EVERY DAY
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Northern lights were spectacular in Edmonton tonight.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Northern lights were spectacular in Edmonton tonight.
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#AOC: “What makes the leadership of this moment so crucial, is about trust and cooperation — we will need to work together and as a team in order to usher our country through this very dark time.”
AOC laying the groundwork for her Senate run — time to put #Schumer out to pasture
AOC laying the groundwork for her Senate run — time to put #Schumer out to pasture
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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A county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize for a 2023 raid on a small-town newspaper.
A Kansas county agrees to pay out $3 million and apologize for a raid on a small town newspaper | CNN
A county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize to plaintiffs in lawsuits in connection to a raid on a small-town newspaper, the newspaper’s editor and publisher told CNN.
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
A county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize for a 2023 raid on a small-town newspaper.
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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Tonight we remember our dear friend and bandleader Cleto 💙
Jimmy Kimmel Remembers His Best Friend and Bandleader Cleto Escobedo III
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Tonight we remember our dear friend and bandleader Cleto 💙
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One of Manitoba's greatest traditions is honouring their fallen by naming lakes after them.
Proud to say there is a Makichuk Lake in the northwestern part of the province, commemorating my Uncle Mike, a Portage la Prairie boy KIA landing on Juno Beach with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
#RememberThem
Proud to say there is a Makichuk Lake in the northwestern part of the province, commemorating my Uncle Mike, a Portage la Prairie boy KIA landing on Juno Beach with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
#RememberThem
ICYMI: here is my Remembrance Day feature about the province’s monuments to past wars - including our living monuments @winnipegfreepress.com www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Our monuments, statues and memorials give form to honouring, grieving lives lost in war
Tucked at the end of a walkway, which dead-ends between the University Centre and the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing on the University of Manitoba campus, stands a monument in memory of students who n...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One of Manitoba's greatest traditions is honouring their fallen by naming lakes after them.
Proud to say there is a Makichuk Lake in the northwestern part of the province, commemorating my Uncle Mike, a Portage la Prairie boy KIA landing on Juno Beach with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
#RememberThem
Proud to say there is a Makichuk Lake in the northwestern part of the province, commemorating my Uncle Mike, a Portage la Prairie boy KIA landing on Juno Beach with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
#RememberThem
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Today we are honouring those who served and are serving in uniform.
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
There are graves for people who never got to come home and grow old. Remember then today. 🪖
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
Vimy Ridge: Where a Nation Was Revealed
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today we are honouring those who served and are serving in uniform.
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
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Today, we honour the service of the brave women and men who answered the call.
Those who sacrificed years away from loved ones, those who returned from combat forever changed, and those who never came home — the veterans who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Those who sacrificed years away from loved ones, those who returned from combat forever changed, and those who never came home — the veterans who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today, we honour the service of the brave women and men who answered the call.
Those who sacrificed years away from loved ones, those who returned from combat forever changed, and those who never came home — the veterans who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Those who sacrificed years away from loved ones, those who returned from combat forever changed, and those who never came home — the veterans who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Anyone who posts Vivian Maier pix is worth following.
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Anyone who posts Vivian Maier pix is worth following.
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©Vivian Maier
New York, 1953
New York, 1953
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
©Vivian Maier
New York, 1953
New York, 1953
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The last movie left a superb story arc open for the writing team, imho.
Fast forward 15 or 20 years.
Bond's daughter, herself recently orphaned, is recruited by Mi6.
Fast forward 15 or 20 years.
Bond's daughter, herself recently orphaned, is recruited by Mi6.
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The last movie left a superb story arc open for the writing team, imho.
Fast forward 15 or 20 years.
Bond's daughter, herself recently orphaned, is recruited by Mi6.
Fast forward 15 or 20 years.
Bond's daughter, herself recently orphaned, is recruited by Mi6.
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
This is really unfortunate and not just for Ottawa visitors. Back when we used to travel to NYC, Sonder was the way to go. Even found one in Nashville for longer term post-Trump vacation plans. Now the whole chain is kaput.
Guests forced out as Sonder shuts down Ottawa suites without warning ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This is really unfortunate and not just for Ottawa visitors. Back when we used to travel to NYC, Sonder was the way to go. Even found one in Nashville for longer term post-Trump vacation plans. Now the whole chain is kaput.
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Communities commemorate veterans and our fallen in ways as simple as paint on the roadway in Ottawa or as elaborate as personalized banners on light posts in towns like Perth.
It is heartening to see more municipalities help all of us to #RememberThem.
It is heartening to see more municipalities help all of us to #RememberThem.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Communities commemorate veterans and our fallen in ways as simple as paint on the roadway in Ottawa or as elaborate as personalized banners on light posts in towns like Perth.
It is heartening to see more municipalities help all of us to #RememberThem.
It is heartening to see more municipalities help all of us to #RememberThem.
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George Conway ought to get a side hack writing cold openers for Saturday Night Live. 🧵
UNITED 217: Trump Tower, United two-seventeen, request change runway, and clearance to land on two-niner-right.
(TRUMP
INTERNATIONAL) TOWER: United two-seventeen, Trump. That's a beautiful number, two-seventeen, really rolls off the tongue, "United two-seventeen Trump," especially that last "Tr—
(TRUMP
INTERNATIONAL) TOWER: United two-seventeen, Trump. That's a beautiful number, two-seventeen, really rolls off the tongue, "United two-seventeen Trump," especially that last "Tr—
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
George Conway ought to get a side hack writing cold openers for Saturday Night Live. 🧵
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Nice piece from CBC Ottawa about a Logistics Branch CAF vet whose career was similar to my late father's. Dad was ten years older - also from rural Manitoba - and joined up in time to start military life in Korea. Let's commemorate their service to peace.
#RememberThem
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#RememberThem
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Retired major kept supplies flowing in Cold War Canada and beyond | CBC News
Ottawa's Roy Martel looks back on a 37-year military career as he prepares to mark another Remembrance Day.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nice piece from CBC Ottawa about a Logistics Branch CAF vet whose career was similar to my late father's. Dad was ten years older - also from rural Manitoba - and joined up in time to start military life in Korea. Let's commemorate their service to peace.
#RememberThem
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#RememberThem
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Retired Able Seaman Marty Jones was honoured before last night's Oilers game.
He was there on June 6th, 1944, at Juno Beach on D-Day during WWII.
Thank you to you and all the men and women for your service, and to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
#LestWeForget | 🎥: SportsOnPrimeCA
He was there on June 6th, 1944, at Juno Beach on D-Day during WWII.
Thank you to you and all the men and women for your service, and to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
#LestWeForget | 🎥: SportsOnPrimeCA
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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‘Just overwhelming’: 103-year-old veteran reflects on his first Remembrance Day in Ottawa
‘Just overwhelming’: 103-year-old veteran reflects on his first Remembrance Day in Ottawa
Elmer Friesen has attended a lot of Remembrance Day ceremonies in his lifetime, but the 103-year-old had never been to Ottawa for Nov. 11 until today.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
‘Just overwhelming’: 103-year-old veteran reflects on his first Remembrance Day in Ottawa
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smash cut to Derek Guy's cellphone vibrating on his desk
Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar:
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
"So I'm putting a team together..."
Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
smash cut to Derek Guy's cellphone vibrating on his desk
Today we are honouring those who served and are serving in uniform.
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
There are graves for people who never got to come home and grow old. Remember then today. 🪖
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
Vimy Ridge: Where a Nation Was Revealed
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today we are honouring those who served and are serving in uniform.
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
We are commemorating those who gave their lives in the fight against aggression.
Two minutes of silence to #RememberThem.
You can also take a few minutes more to learn about the WWI roots of #RemembranceDay in Canada. 👇 🇨🇦
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There are graves for people who never got to come home and grow old. Remember then today. 🪖
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
Vimy Ridge: Where a Nation Was Revealed
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There are graves for people who never got to come home and grow old. Remember then today. 🪖
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
#RemembranceDay #veterans #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkF...
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Retired Able Seaman Marty Jones was honoured before last night's Oilers game.
He was there on June 6th, 1944, at Juno Beach on D-Day during WWII.
Thank you to you and all the men and women for your service, and to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
#LestWeForget | 🎥: SportsOnPrimeCA
He was there on June 6th, 1944, at Juno Beach on D-Day during WWII.
Thank you to you and all the men and women for your service, and to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
#LestWeForget | 🎥: SportsOnPrimeCA
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Retired Able Seaman Marty Jones was honoured before last night's Oilers game.
He was there on June 6th, 1944, at Juno Beach on D-Day during WWII.
Thank you to you and all the men and women for your service, and to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
#LestWeForget | 🎥: SportsOnPrimeCA
He was there on June 6th, 1944, at Juno Beach on D-Day during WWII.
Thank you to you and all the men and women for your service, and to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
#LestWeForget | 🎥: SportsOnPrimeCA