Robin Cantin
@rcantin.bsky.social
Personal account. If an opinion strays in here, it's simply mine. In Montréal, mostly. 🇨🇦
Experience Reason Compassion
Experience Reason Compassion
The Chains, with apologies to Fleetwood Mac
Listen to the wind blow
Watch the snow fall
Pushing through a snowbank
Damn the sleet
Damn the ice
And if
You need to get out now
We might never see you again
I can almost hear you yelling
“I forgot my tire chains”
www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...
Listen to the wind blow
Watch the snow fall
Pushing through a snowbank
Damn the sleet
Damn the ice
And if
You need to get out now
We might never see you again
I can almost hear you yelling
“I forgot my tire chains”
www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...
Winter storm hits Prairies, closing schools and universities in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG — Vehicles were stranded in snow, schools and highways were closed, and some government services were delayed as an Alberta clipper continued to move eastward across the Prairies Thursday.
www.timescolonist.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Chains, with apologies to Fleetwood Mac
Listen to the wind blow
Watch the snow fall
Pushing through a snowbank
Damn the sleet
Damn the ice
And if
You need to get out now
We might never see you again
I can almost hear you yelling
“I forgot my tire chains”
www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...
Listen to the wind blow
Watch the snow fall
Pushing through a snowbank
Damn the sleet
Damn the ice
And if
You need to get out now
We might never see you again
I can almost hear you yelling
“I forgot my tire chains”
www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...
Boring name. They missed an opportunity to call it "The Overton Window" as a wink to The View.
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Boring name. They missed an opportunity to call it "The Overton Window" as a wink to The View.
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A genuinely great Christmas story out of Montreal this morning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves steal $3K worth of goods from Montreal grocery store | CBC News
Several people dressed as Santa and a group of masked elves were filmed at a grocery store in Montreal on Monday night filling up carts with food. An activist group calling themselves Robins des ruell...
www.cbc.ca
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A genuinely great Christmas story out of Montreal this morning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Another amazing Wikipedia article written by @GSoW_team editor Robin. This article took months of research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-va...
Anti-vaccine activism in Canada - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Another amazing Wikipedia article written by @GSoW_team editor Robin. This article took months of research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-va...
What... ?!
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
What... ?!
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This mixed metaphor is killing me.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This mixed metaphor is killing me.
My wife and I have a concept for a TV show (Coma) where the President is incapacitated for an extended about of time (ideally 5 seasons) while his inner circle jostle for power. The main character is the nurse interpreting his incoherent mumblings. Tragedy, comedy or both. DMs open if you have $$$.
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My wife and I have a concept for a TV show (Coma) where the President is incapacitated for an extended about of time (ideally 5 seasons) while his inner circle jostle for power. The main character is the nurse interpreting his incoherent mumblings. Tragedy, comedy or both. DMs open if you have $$$.
BREAKING: Good newspaper gets better by hiring excellent journalist.
A little bit of 🌈💫🦣personal news🦣💫🌈
After years in the freelance game, I'm joining The Toronto Star as a full-time columnist. I'll be covering my usual beats: Security, politics, global affairs, policy, misinfo, etc, but with a new accent on Big Tech.
After years in the freelance game, I'm joining The Toronto Star as a full-time columnist. I'll be covering my usual beats: Security, politics, global affairs, policy, misinfo, etc, but with a new accent on Big Tech.
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BREAKING: Good newspaper gets better by hiring excellent journalist.
"Since Gallup began measuring this question globally in 2007, few countries have shown gender gaps this wide in the desire to migrate. Before the U.S. in 2025, no country had recorded a gap of 20 points or more between younger men and women."
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Since Gallup began measuring this question globally in 2007, few countries have shown gender gaps this wide in the desire to migrate. Before the U.S. in 2025, no country had recorded a gap of 20 points or more between younger men and women."
A good wallop to get winter started in Montréal.
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A good wallop to get winter started in Montréal.
It's going be a neo-classical monument to Trump, straight out of Albert Speer's sketchbook.
‘It’s your house. And he’s destroying it’: Trump demolishes White House East Wing
President Donald Trump is tearing down the East Wing to build a $250 million ballroom. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
President Donald Trump is tearing down the East Wing to build a $250 million ballroom. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘It’s your house. And he’s destroying it’: Trump demolishes White House East Wing
President Donald Trump is tearing down the East Wing to build a $250 million ballroom.
www.politico.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's going be a neo-classical monument to Trump, straight out of Albert Speer's sketchbook.
Episode 3 of the new season of #TheDiplomat features the Treaty of the Law of the Sea. So of course I had to look that up on #wikipedia.
Turns out 15,000 people viewed that article since the episode came out 5 days ago, when its usual daily traffic is 500!
Turns out 15,000 people viewed that article since the episode came out 5 days ago, when its usual daily traffic is 500!
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Episode 3 of the new season of #TheDiplomat features the Treaty of the Law of the Sea. So of course I had to look that up on #wikipedia.
Turns out 15,000 people viewed that article since the episode came out 5 days ago, when its usual daily traffic is 500!
Turns out 15,000 people viewed that article since the episode came out 5 days ago, when its usual daily traffic is 500!
The head of American public health expressing the fertility rate in %. He knows nothing and isn't interested to learn.
RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."
October 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The head of American public health expressing the fertility rate in %. He knows nothing and isn't interested to learn.
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Immigrant families in Quebec say they were shunted into English Protestant classrooms, but francophones say these families freely chose English in the pursuit of economic advantage. “The stories clash,” writes @mtltoula.bsky.social. “They also feed each other.” thewalrus.ca/were-immigrant-k...
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Immigrant families in Quebec say they were shunted into English Protestant classrooms, but francophones say these families freely chose English in the pursuit of economic advantage. “The stories clash,” writes @mtltoula.bsky.social. “They also feed each other.” thewalrus.ca/were-immigrant-k...
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From May to September 1967, 100 men on 10 provincial/territorial teams took part in the Voyageur Centennial Canoe Pageant.
The longest canoe race in history, it went from Rocky Mountain House, AB to Montreal.
This is the story of one epic competition.
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The longest canoe race in history, it went from Rocky Mountain House, AB to Montreal.
This is the story of one epic competition.
🧵 1/12
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
From May to September 1967, 100 men on 10 provincial/territorial teams took part in the Voyageur Centennial Canoe Pageant.
The longest canoe race in history, it went from Rocky Mountain House, AB to Montreal.
This is the story of one epic competition.
🧵 1/12
The longest canoe race in history, it went from Rocky Mountain House, AB to Montreal.
This is the story of one epic competition.
🧵 1/12
"The Catholic Church, which the counter-protesters claim to “protect,” neither asked for their protection, nor supports a prayer ban. Quebecers’ Catholic heritage is being instrumentalized here."
Read more at: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
Read more at: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
September 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"The Catholic Church, which the counter-protesters claim to “protect,” neither asked for their protection, nor supports a prayer ban. Quebecers’ Catholic heritage is being instrumentalized here."
Read more at: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
Read more at: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
They attested the whole gang. Lets see what happens now. www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
Sask. RCMP arrest 16 people, including self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Canada’
Saskatchewan RCMP have arrested 16 people in connection to an ongoing investigation in Richmound, the community where the self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Canada’ has taken residence since 2023.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
They attested the whole gang. Lets see what happens now. www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
I tried GPT 5.0, the chatbot that's supposedly at PhD level. I asked it a question similar to the one I use for staffing in my unit.
The beginning of the response is fine but it got lost, mixing in a concept that ceased existing in the 1970s. I would have to fail GPT as candidate.
The beginning of the response is fine but it got lost, mixing in a concept that ceased existing in the 1970s. I would have to fail GPT as candidate.
August 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I tried GPT 5.0, the chatbot that's supposedly at PhD level. I asked it a question similar to the one I use for staffing in my unit.
The beginning of the response is fine but it got lost, mixing in a concept that ceased existing in the 1970s. I would have to fail GPT as candidate.
The beginning of the response is fine but it got lost, mixing in a concept that ceased existing in the 1970s. I would have to fail GPT as candidate.
The regime will probably announce subscribing the the Annals of Internal Medicine is grounds for deportation.
A large-scale, government-funded study tracking 1.2M children over two decades found something Kennedy doesn't like, so he wants it retracted.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study
An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The regime will probably announce subscribing the the Annals of Internal Medicine is grounds for deportation.
New piece by @kathryn-may.bsky.social in Policy Options. Public Service leaders speak to her because she spent decades getting things right and earning their trust. She's worth your time.
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...
Carney’s 15-per-cent public-service challenge
Departments grapple with conflicting data as they race to finish the pivotal expenditure review the prime minister will use to reallocate resources.
policyoptions.irpp.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
New piece by @kathryn-may.bsky.social in Policy Options. Public Service leaders speak to her because she spent decades getting things right and earning their trust. She's worth your time.
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...
Trump was never a nice guy. Or a good guy, or an ok guy. He was never all right. He was never "tough but fair".
He was always cruel, mean, uninterested in people.
He was always cruel, mean, uninterested in people.
Donald Trump demanded that unhoused Washington, D.C., residents “have to move out [of the city] IMMEDIATELY.”
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trump was never a nice guy. Or a good guy, or an ok guy. He was never all right. He was never "tough but fair".
He was always cruel, mean, uninterested in people.
He was always cruel, mean, uninterested in people.
Vraiment surpris de voir qu'ils oubrent encore des Kentucky Fried Chicken.
La dernière fois (voilà 10 ans+) ma conjointe et moi avons été malades. Juste trop gras.
La dernière fois (voilà 10 ans+) ma conjointe et moi avons été malades. Juste trop gras.
August 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Vraiment surpris de voir qu'ils oubrent encore des Kentucky Fried Chicken.
La dernière fois (voilà 10 ans+) ma conjointe et moi avons été malades. Juste trop gras.
La dernière fois (voilà 10 ans+) ma conjointe et moi avons été malades. Juste trop gras.
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📅 8 Aug 1914: Unity Mitford was born — fascist fangirl, Hitler devotee & Nazi sympathiser. Historian @guywalters.bsky.social rages it’s time we stop glamourising the Mitfords once and for all.
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2a19c6
#onthisday #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #WW2 #Nazis
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2a19c6
#onthisday #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #WW2 #Nazis
August 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📅 8 Aug 1914: Unity Mitford was born — fascist fangirl, Hitler devotee & Nazi sympathiser. Historian @guywalters.bsky.social rages it’s time we stop glamourising the Mitfords once and for all.
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2a19c6
#onthisday #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #WW2 #Nazis
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2a19c6
#onthisday #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #WW2 #Nazis
We need a wellness check at 1600 Pensylvania Avenue, please.
August 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We need a wellness check at 1600 Pensylvania Avenue, please.
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On this day in 1874, J.S. Woodworth was born in Etobicoke, Ontario. A leader during the Winnipeg General Strike, he founded the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (which became the NDP in 1961). As an MP, he pushed the government to develop social programs for Canadians.
July 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
On this day in 1874, J.S. Woodworth was born in Etobicoke, Ontario. A leader during the Winnipeg General Strike, he founded the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (which became the NDP in 1961). As an MP, he pushed the government to develop social programs for Canadians.