Joel Johannesen
Writer and Executive Editor for ProudToBeCanadian.ca.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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ArriveCan app needs to DEPARTcan (catch the same flight as the state-owned CBCan!)
This story had the unfortunate effect of having made me say, Uh oh, a Republican urges this? oh boy, now we're stuck with it forever! And we'll have to start using it at every...
Liberals’ “Canada Child Benefit” program shown to be another govt fail: favors rich rather...
Are ya old like me? Do you remember phone books? Whhooo boy they were big if you lived in a big city. Like several inches thick. And tiny, tiny writing. And this is because...
New Coke —hold my beer. Here’s New Woke.
We watch TV for a couple of hours every evening, and can't stand much more than that — unless we're watching a golf tournament and Tiger Woods is making another amazing comeback. It's not...
Vancouver & BC under left-wing/NDP admins: how it’s going so far
Since we're talking about Vancouver and BC... yoga's "Downard Dog" rang a bell with me when thinking about the state of affairs in Vancouver and BC. (Also the word "dope.")
A scan of the news...
What in tarnation (or Southpark)?
I'm on vacay, as I explained here, but I had to post this because, well, because what in tarnation?
The graphic tweeted out by UBC (apparently now to be known as Woke University) is like...
Vacay, in case you didn’t notice
When I write new articles, this site's daily visitor numbers spike. Duh, you say. But it's weird how sometimes, this site's daily visitor numbers are huge when I'm on vacation. Not so "duh," right?...
Anti-Canadian oil idiot Sebastian Vettel set to retire now. Aww.
His name has come up at PTBC here and here recently. Suffice it to say I'm not a fan of this anti-Canadian idiot.
Perhaps Vettel, the F1 race car driver whose job is literally to...
NEW: Two negative quarters is a recession only when Republicans are in power.
This is a lie. Misinformation.
Until they change the dictionary, which I have no doubt they will to protect Biden and big-spending Democrats and their progressive-left base, this is, in fact, the definition — precisely,...
Tweets that go together
We could say "one thing leads to another." Or we could say "if this, then that." Or we could say choose Kamala Harris as your VP pick and this is exactly what you get.
Which...
“News” story leaves out pertinent details about communist extremists; an independent journalist fills in...
Amazing difference between what you read and what is actually happening. Or in this case, what's actually happening, and what you aren't reading about it.
The story sounds like another random murder or suicide. Horrible...
UPDATE 1: Young woman allegedly shot dead by a known criminal who wasn’t in...
UPDATE to my July 18 2022 article
The Vancouver Sun has (weirdly — read on) updated their story to indicate that the victim, Cashmere Ali, was known to police as a gang member and a...
Young woman allegedly shot dead by a known criminal who wasn’t in jail, for...
It was all over the news (at least on the west coast) on Friday when the latest horrid crime took place — a young woman was shot dead in her Maple Ridge BC (a...
F-1 team Aston Martin has a bigger problem than idiot virtue-signaling drivers like Sebastian...
I grew up in the Age of Aquarius. That's how old I am. But we now live in the Age of Hypocrisy and Dumbassery.
I wrote about this when it happened, but the idiot F-1...
We’re sorry to inconvenience you, but Rogers is down, so please hold your calls...
Whoo boy. There will be ramifications from this, no doubt. I just hope they're the right ones.
Rogers — the cell phone carrier in this household (which relies to a very large degree on its...
Who’s running for the “Ottawa” party?
"Ottawa's" hypocrisy. Oh dear. Spot the irony.
"Ottawa" is code for "Liberals and NDP," and is used by the "news" media whenever there's something going on in Big Government Ottawa — when Libs or NDP...
