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Toronto, Canada
Joined September 2011
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You’ve just named three ambassadors for the 2026 World Cup in Canada. @CDNSOCCERFDN
Why are they all men? What year is this?
#WomensWorldCup
#sexisminsports
No thanks to the evil @elonmusk, Twitter is corrupt and toxic.
This is my last post here. Find and follow me at the social media site for the sane #Bluesky. My handle there is @citizentalin.bsky.social See you on the other side. #goodbyeX wired.com/story/im-going-to-…
What’s up with your on board wifi, @VIA_Rail? I’m traveling with a colleague in business class today. The Wi-Fi is not working and one of your staff just informed us that it’s been a problem for two weeks. No warning at time of booking? No discount? Not cool.
1/2 Prescient quote from Catch-22 by Joseph Heller that perfectly sums up the MAGA campaign:
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into...
Talin Vartanian retweeted
NEW: I wrote a two-part, in-depth series on HonestReporting Canada, a billionaire-funded pro-Israel organization and charity with ties to the Israeli government that is attempting to “control the narrative” on Israel in Canadian media.
readthemaple.com/meet-the-bi…
Answer me this:
Who knew a camera could be prolific?
And what is an editor?
@CBCNews cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ot…
Employees @CBCRadioCanada are in total despair about senior management's complete absence of vision, leadership, and fight.
@maxfawcett hits the bullseye in this excellent column on the future of our public broadcaster. #cdnmedia
nationalobserver.com/2023/12…
It was a shock to so many of us that the Liberals renewed Tait’s term as @PresidentCBCRC. She’s completely inept, and has no spine. The CBC deserves a leader who not only understands public broadcasting, but openly fights for it. That’s JOB ONE. @PascaleStOnge_
wow, hard to imagine anything more tone deaf! An obvious question and still she can't deliver an acceptable answer. #cbc has survived plenty of incompetence before, mostly thanks to hard work and dedication of staff. Hard to see how it survives this lot. #CatherineTate
Why are you spending charitable donations, on junky swag, @redcrosscanada?
It’s offensive.
Oh, I’ll fix this for you…
After Dishonest Reporting Canada launched yet another campaign of harassment of a responsible, smart, gutsy journalist, it’s entered stage two: summoning uninformed, ignorant comments from its supporters. In other words, business as usual.
After HRC intervening, @CBCNews' @SMohyeddin has been sensitized by senior editors about her publishing a misleading anti-Israel tweet that depicted the @IDF unjustly detaining a #Palestinian, when in fact, she was arrested for inciting #terrorism. 👇
honestreporting.ca/after-pub…
Here’s an important and tragic story leading up to Grey Cup weekend. @CFL
nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
My parents and I were born in the Armenian Quarter. This makes me profoundly sad, and angry.
"Strong media organizations confident in the righteousness of their mission do not need to offer up their employees as sacrifices to an angry mob."
A brilliant column that all media managers should read and take to heart. I'm looking at you, too, @CBCRadioCanada
Journalistic independence cannot be a public-relations or human-resources exercise, @jaycaspiankang writes. Nor can it be maintained through pledges to stop tweeting about “politics.” nyer.cm/E4Nh8oE
Heads up to all journalists:
@SidneyHillman has just opened entries for its cash prizes for investigative journalism.
New categories this year: awards for digital (podcast) and broadcast, in addition to print.
No entry fee. Details here: newswire.ca/news-releases/ca…
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Musk has said X is thriving. Third-party data are less optimistic. X’s daily active users via mobile apps dropped by 16% in September compared with the month Musk took over, according to an analysis by research firm Sensor Tower. on.wsj.com/498F4yr
