Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵

Maker of award winning content and listener of music. Mostly from the 80s and 90s. Fan of LFC, EPL, F1, & more. Gen-X. Views=own

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

Taking some time to slow it down…

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@HawkEmDownChris

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@JATetro Yea. Saw that one earlier too!

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

That’s impressive…but why lay it out sideways?

[Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan]

Sweeping aerial video footage provided by Grouse Mountain showing the world's largest Canada flag on a ski run, visible from across Metro Vancouver. 🇨🇦

It took 70+ people to unfurl this summertime installation. #FIFAWorldCup #WeAreVancouver 2/2

https://t.co/ADi6WN4Mzn

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@SpeedSportLife That’s the Toronto track ;)

[SPIN @SPIN]

Michael Stipe, with Andrew Watt, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Pearl Jam touring instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer, Jane’s Addiction/AC/DC bassist Chris Chaney & Queens of the Stone Age member Troy Van Leeuwen on @JimmyKimmelLive
https://t.co/843t79sge8

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@Sall_Goodman Fauxster

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

Back at one of my favourite places for the summer.
Patio at the Balmy Beach Club.

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@Sall_Goodman so you were out in B.C. yesterday?

[604RAW @604RAW]

Crazy views on the BC ferry yesterday 😳

Hopefully this video finds the legend in the boat 🤣

[Instant Weather Ontario ⚡️ @IWeatherON]

#ONStorm #ONwx 🔥 Wildfire Risk Increasing Across Southern Ontario with Widespread High to Extreme Danger Expected Thursday

Heads up! While we’ve been enjoying a stretch of warm, sunny and dry weather, those same conditions are causing wildfire danger to steadily increase across much of Southern Ontario.

Over the past few days, wildfire danger ratings have already climbed into the “high” category in many areas. By Thursday, the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) is forecasting widespread “extreme” wildfire danger across Southern Ontario.

An extreme wildfire danger rating means fires can start very easily, spread rapidly, and become difficult to control. Even a small spark from a campfire, cigarette, ATV, trailer chain dragging on pavement, or outdoor equipment can quickly ignite dry grass and brush.

If you’re planning any outdoor burning, be sure to check with your local municipality first. Fire bans and burn restrictions may already be in place, or could be issued as conditions continue to worsen.

You can also help reduce the risk by properly extinguishing campfires, avoiding the use of fireworks where permitted, disposing of smoking materials safely, and keeping vehicles off dry grass whenever possible.

The good news is that slightly cooler temperatures and the chance of more widespread rainfall this weekend should help lower the wildfire danger, at least temporarily. However, current forecasts suggest next week may trend fairly dry again after the weekend rain, so we wouldn’t be surprised to see the wildfire risk climb once more.

Stay safe and be extra cautious with any activity that could create a spark. 🔥

- Brennen

Source: CWFIS

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

NEWS: K-Mag takes on the Cup Series!

@KevinMagnussen will drive the @Qualcomm Chevrolet for @TeamTrackhouse at @NASCARSanDiego.

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

It's because he's swearing all the time...those are just tone beeps to cover the vocabulary

[I. Noah Guy @Decentguyusedto]

Why doesn't R2 just talk? What lunatic in a society so advanced designs a robot that just beeps?

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@Dohboy6969 a prime example of a legacy media brand who could not/did not pivot to the new media ecosystem.

By the time they tried, the new audience they wanted had found a home and "Sports Illustrated" was that "old magazine I saw in waiting rooms of sports clinics"

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@F1GuyDan Cars are too big, and the track too narrow.
The new regs and size won’t do much of anything

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@Dohboy6969 @CaddieNetwork I had completely forgotten about SI.
They’re holding onto the “swimsuit” editions to try and maintain a spot on the radar.
They get a week or two out of that every year, and then people move on.

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

ESPN is very, very good at this.

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

Regardless of your hockey team, this Stanley Cup Finals intro is absolutely unbelievable…

Ray Bourque interview, @TheKillers ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ playing, Jon Hamm narrating… Just perfection. Made me tear up.

Extremely well done 👏🏽👏🏽

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@V_arrell WTF!!!

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

🚨 This is terrifying. A guy bought a 7-OH pill from a gas station, sent it to a lab for testing, and the results confirm what experts are warning about: it's extremely dangerous and highly addictive.

These "gas station heroin" pills are sold openly as harmless supplements but act like potent opioids on your brain. They can lead to addiction, severe withdrawal, overdose, and serious health damage.

FDA and doctors are sounding the alarm: avoid 7-OH products completely. They're not safe, not natural in these concentrated forms, and way riskier than people think.

If you or someone you know is using this, get help. This stuff is destroying lives.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool Football Club celebrates its 134th birthday today 🎈

The club officially came into existence on June 3, 1892, after founder John Houlding set about creating a new team on Merseyside that year 🔴

A special story was underway... ✨

[Rob Johnston 🇨🇦🎧🎵 @Robbie_J]

@SimonOstler Ran into two different people i know, in my area, on consecutive Thursdays last month.
Hadn’t seen each in a few years.
Actually made plans to connect properly this week!
It’s a miracle!!!
But yea…the “we need to catch up” saying tracks.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley