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
"YOU CAN’T BLAME JOURNALISTS and academics for trying to ascribe a single, rational theory to the president’s foreign policy. (...) We’re not trained to treat “batshit crazy” as an actual worldview."
Trump’s Greenland Strategy: Manifest Masculinity www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com
Trump's Greenland Strategy: Manifest Masculinity
Donald Trump's push for Greenland can be understood in part by looking to the forgotten Norman Mailer novel "Why Are We in Vietnam?"
www.rollingstone.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:51 PM
"YOU CAN’T BLAME JOURNALISTS and academics for trying to ascribe a single, rational theory to the president’s foreign policy. (...) We’re not trained to treat “batshit crazy” as an actual worldview."
Vance and Rubio are planning to go to Italy with ICE agents as bodyguards.
ICE is truly the regime's political police.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE is truly the regime's political police.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics
Milan mayor says agents ‘not welcome’ in co-host city and Italy can take care of security itself
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Vance and Rubio are planning to go to Italy with ICE agents as bodyguards.
ICE is truly the regime's political police.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE is truly the regime's political police.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
If nothing else, Canadian PM Mark Carney got people to google Thucydides...
January 23, 2026 at 8:47 PM
If nothing else, Canadian PM Mark Carney got people to google Thucydides...
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Canada was supposed to crater under Trump’s tariffs. It didn’t. So what actually saved us? https://macleans.ca/economy/why-trumps-tariffs-didnt-break-canada/
Why Trump's Tariffs Didn't Break Canada - Macleans.ca
How did we survive the trade war? Hint: It wasn't Buy Canadian.
macleans.ca
January 19, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Canada was supposed to crater under Trump’s tariffs. It didn’t. So what actually saved us? https://macleans.ca/economy/why-trumps-tariffs-didnt-break-canada/
Learned today about the 1958 Battle of Hayes Pond, where Lumbees kicked some KKK butts in North Carolina. N.C. Representative Charles Graham tells the tale in this 2022 ad. Inspiring, with everything that's going on.
www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...
www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...
Charles Graham for Congress: 'Hayes Pond' | Campaign 2021
Democratic North Carolina congressional candidate Charles Graham released the "Hayes Pond" campaign ad on Oct. 4.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Learned today about the 1958 Battle of Hayes Pond, where Lumbees kicked some KKK butts in North Carolina. N.C. Representative Charles Graham tells the tale in this 2022 ad. Inspiring, with everything that's going on.
www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...
www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...
Fascinating. U.S. Border Boss explaining his agents are going to murder more people.
Don't go to the United States.
Don't go to the United States.
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Fascinating. U.S. Border Boss explaining his agents are going to murder more people.
Don't go to the United States.
Don't go to the United States.
Ah! Tagging @ourfakehistory.bsky.social on this.
“Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame among paranormal enthusiasts and scorn from the scientific community, has died. He was 90.”
apnews.com/article/swit...
apnews.com/article/swit...
Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90
Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both fame and scorn, has died at age 90.
apnews.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Ah! Tagging @ourfakehistory.bsky.social on this.
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My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
A look back with @maargentino.com's book on QAnon before plunging into 2026. Q isn't posting anymore but the movement sure changed the landscape.
December 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A look back with @maargentino.com's book on QAnon before plunging into 2026. Q isn't posting anymore but the movement sure changed the landscape.
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.
🧵 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
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...