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Mike Waddingham
@mikewaddingham.bsky.social
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IT project management.
Oilers fan. Own a lab.
📍= Vancouver-ish.
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A.
Public.
Service.
Cannot.
Lose.
Money.

how much did the military 'lose' last year?
how much did Health Canada 'lose' last year?
how much did the highway system 'lose' last year?

smdh...
Headline: Canada Post 2025 losses now exceed $1 billion
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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No, I mean the dates 2004 to 2009 and 2004 to 2024. What is significant about those date ranges that had you chart them instead of any other pair of date ranges?
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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So Canada Post 'lost' $843 million.

How much did our health care and education systems 'lose'?
How much did the Canadian Forces 'lose'? This one was easy to look up: $28.8 billion

To be clear, I'm not criticizing these expenditures! we need these services. But public services can't lose money.
• the Department of National Defence ($28.8 billion); • the Department of Indigenous Services ($20.9 billion); • the Department of Employment and Social Development ($11.5 billion); • the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs ($10.9 billion); • the Treasury Board Secretariat ($9.3 billion); • the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development ($8.4 billion); • the Department of Health ($8.4 billion); • the Department of Veterans Affairs ($6.2 billion); • the Department of Industry ($5.9 billion); • the Office of Infrastructure of Canada ($5.8 billion); and • the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation ($5.6 billion).
October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Looks familiar... Abby here is wondering if you have a treat?
September 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#nofilter
Family enjoying sunset over vancouver's silhouette 📷 from Burnaby Mountain
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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we have technology to convert voice mail messages to text and send them to the receiver. and other tech to translate from one language to another.

but our Telco overlords don't have the will (because they most definitely DO have the technology) to block what are certain to be known spammers.
August 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Great read...
Stats Canada reports that the single largest contributor to GDP per hour worked is real estate rental and leasing. Extracting wealth through rent accounts for 13 percent of annual GDP—more than manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, or retail. Under our system, landlords are the most “productive” people in the country. In contrast, nurses and teachers are considered drags on national productivity, while real estate investment trusts (REITs) are seen as pillars of the economy. This tells you everything you need to know. Productivity doesn’t measure effort, technology, or value—it measures profitability for shareholders.
August 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I'll pass thanks...
June 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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🤔
Headline: chat gpt is making you dumber
June 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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June 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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About right... 🤓
A comic showing how the Oilers are different than normal nhl teams
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Game day socks! #Oilers #letsgoOilers
Gumby socks with an oiler jersey hanging in the background
June 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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thanks Google... the warning should be more like 'use gen AI often enough, and you will create many mistakes. and prove to everyone that you are bad at the thing you are trying to do.'
text: AI responses may include mistakes
May 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Aaron and I are watching from LA!
May 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Yer not wrong. I took this pic yesterday at Warner Bros.
Batman figures all in a row at Warner Bros.
May 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Things not going well in the desert rn... #Oilers 🤓
VGK fan Hannah Kirkell @h_kirk6 The Oilers are buzzing. The Golden Knights are… the opposite of buzzing. VGK fan Karlo @Sumdood88 Wake up Vegas. Vegas Golden Knights UK 🇬🇧 @uk_vgk Bar the first 10 minutes we’ve been really poor tonight. Absolutely bossed.
May 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I met Joey once with my son (who also has Ds).

Joey was great. He signed my son's hat and definitely left an impression on him. We live in Vancouver now and he works for the Canucks Hype Team!

Repesentation matters.
Young man with Down syndrome laughing while wearing a Canucks jersey.
April 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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It's almost like monopolies are bad...
Screen grab of a ticketmaster order where they use their monopoly to gouge people with extra fees on top of fees.
April 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Perfect Sunday evening movie to watch. Or re-watch - it has gotten better each of the 50 times I've seen it! 🫨

I first got to watch 🐔 months before the release. And not long after that, we screened to @thisishoos.bsky.social. His support led to more screenings and wider awareness.

THANKS GLEN!
CBC Gem thumbnail of the movie Chicken. Shows a young man with Down syndrome next to a woman. They seem to both be a bit pissed off.
March 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Jack Michaels is the Mr Milchick of the NHL... #Oilers #Severance
Uses too many big words
March 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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You too can have shitty streaming - don't delay, call Sportsnet today! Only $279 and guaranteed to crash once per game.
TV stream showing Network error from sportsnet
March 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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CBC Gem is now playing my son Aaron's short film! Take some time this weekend and give the 19 award-winner Chicken a watch. (14 mins)

gem.cbc.ca/canadian-ref...
Chicken (2023) When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mother and disabled brother. When depression sinks in, her brother Emmett gets in her face trying to cheer her up and in doing so makes everything worse. But when Emmett is confronted with a situation at a baseball game where he is called a chicken, Sam rises to the challenge to come to his aid and is reminded of what is truly important. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15705828/plotsummary?item=ps7620983
March 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Living in BC has its privileges - bald eagle in tree next to our condo this eve! #Burnaby
Bald eagle in tree
March 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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wait until the @theglobeandmail.com's 'experts' learn what annexation would do to border ties... smdh...
headline: Provinces’ measures to limit electricity exports to U.S. could strain cross-border ties, experts say - Globe and Mail
March 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM