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Hello! I co-founded The Rover, an award-winning journalism project. We tell stories that slip through the cracks. DMs open. heytitocurtis @gmail .com He/Him/Woke

Montreal, QC
Joined October 2010
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Christopher Curtis
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At The Rover, we believe journalism is worth fighting for. Whether we're in Ukraine or on the picket line, in a homeless shelter or the National Assembly, we fight to tell stories that matter. This Holiday Season, consider subscribing:
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Christopher Curtis
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Her name was Barbara Kentner. She was 34. She was a mother. She was someone’s child. She was Ojibway. She was killed because a white man threw a trailer hitch at her from a truck as she walked along the road in Thunder Bay. Her name was Barbara Kentner.
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Singh: if 2,000/month CERB is keeping people from working, we don’t have a CERB problem, we have a wage problem. #Elxn44
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2 years
If people show up to your rally with swastikas and an actual Nazi flag and they aren’t immediately shouted down/kicked out, it’s their rally.
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4 years
John A. MacDonald intentionally starved Indigenous women and children to clear the prairies for white settlers.
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3 years
Be more outraged about the 751 Indigenous children than some vandalism in downtown Montreal.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
1. When @NoLore said that the our collective reaction to the Humbolt tragedy had a lot to do with the fact that the victims were white hockey players, she wasn’t trying to denigrate them. She was speaking of our comparative indifference toward Indigenous suffering.
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Christopher Curtis
4 years
Let’s change the news. Let’s reform journalism in Canada. Let’s have fun and do something dangerous. I’m betting the farm on this project. Join me!
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4 years
Big news: Award-winning journalist Christopher Curtis has quit his job with Postmedia to launch a groundbreaking new journalism project with Ricochet. Read his op-ed on why he left The Gazette, and the kind of journalism he wants to do now. #cdnpoli #polqc
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Note to the premier, stop blaming Quebecers for your mismanagement of the pandemic. It isn’t being outdoors while the sun is still out that’s driving transmission. It’s gyms, schools, workplaces. All decisions you took.
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As 1 million Palestinian children are on the brink of starvation, I would merely (respectfully) ask: who gives a fuck what Anthony Housefather thinks and whether he chooses to continue collecting a six figure salary as a Liberal or an independent?
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"I think it's the first time in my parliamentary career that I've had a reflection like this where I truly felt, last night, that a line had been crossed," Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says when asked re: his future with party after passage of Israel-Hamas war motion. #cdnpoli
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Thought long and hard on this.
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If you can’t bring yourself to use the words ‘systemic racism’ when two nurses tell an Indigenous woman she’s garbage, promiscuous and a drain on the state and it’s all right there on film AND the woman dies shortly after the encounter, maybe you’re part of the problem.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Denis Coderre wanting to ban alcohol in parks after 8 p.m. empowers police to arrest the poor, the homeless and those without the luxury of having a yard or balcony. It is a move to comfort those who live in glass towers.
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3 years
Residential schools shouldn’t be up for debate. They were about white supremacy. They were about erasing nations, their languages, their connection to the land. Because our ancestors wanted that land, and got it, we find ways to rationalize genocide. This isn’t debate club.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Some personal news.
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I think we’ll keep her.
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5 years
Pay attention to the critiques of New York Times' visit to Nunavut. Piece provides little historic or political context for poverty/death, uses the phrase "fume-sniffing teenagers," inadvertently helps stereotypes about Inuit. Lots to unpack.
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3 years
Eight thousand people are dead. Maybe shut the fuck up?
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Christopher Curtis
7 months
Some news...
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
The Qc government calling a press conference on a Sunday morning to announce that we’re not in the midst of a sixth wave seems like a sure sign we’re in the midst of a sixth wave.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Lost my grandfather today. Was lucky to have him for as long as I did, lucky nothing was left unsaid and lucky that some small part of such a great, just, humble man lives on his grandkids and great grand children. Here he is with his great grand babies
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4 years
HOLY SHIT!
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Canadian Association of Journalists
4 years
Congratulations to @titocurtis at @mtlgazette for winning the APTN/CAJ Reconciliation Award! #CAJAwards
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4 years
Attended a vigil in Pikogan to commemorate #JoyceEchaquan . “If this is what we see when the camera is on, imagine everything we don’t see.” A lot of sadness, frustration with the gov’s refusal to acknowledge systemic racism.
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3 years
1. J’habite au Québec toute ma vie. Je me sens québécois, parle français, j’écoute de la musique en français, j’adore cette place et ça me manque quand je suis ailleurs. Je ne suis même pas sûr si — ethniquement — je suis Anglo Saxon. J’ai pas l’intention de quitter cette place
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Christopher Curtis
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It’s difficult for me to get over this
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
Guy Lafleur avait des partisans anglophones dans le reste du Canada. Il avait des coéquipiers anglophones, des amis anglophones. Je ne pense pas que quelques remarques à ses funérailles, en anglais, diminue la cérémonie.
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
Bad Parenting Ideas, Vol. 1, Issue 33
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Christopher Curtis
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À ce point là, si t’as pas été vacciné ET t’es un professionnel de la santé, est ce qu’un autre 30 jours va vraiment faire la différence? Me semble que t’as déjà fait un choix de mettre la vie des autres en danger. Me semble que des actions ont des conséquences.
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
Nothing will ever prepare you to see children fleeing their country on a cold winter night, clutching their parents hands, clearly confused, some with teddy bears and dolls. Flooring. 🇺🇦
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6. Je suis autant québécois que Sophie et Richard. J’ai une affinité pour ceux qui subissent de la haine, qui vivent dans la pauvreté, qui milite pour un avenir juste. Si ce n’est pas québécois ça , je ne veux pas l’être.
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Christopher Curtis
4 years
1. The Mohawks in Kanesatake shut down their community to the outside world, disrupting their own economy to show solidarity with the people of Tyendinaga arrested in today's OPP raid. People left school, left their jobs, put their lives on hold to mount a resistance.
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Christopher Curtis
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Imagine being picked up by police, thrown into the back of a squad car and driven miles outside of town. They cut you loose and force you to walk home. It's called a Starlight Tour and it's what I'm working on in Val-d'Or.
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Christopher Curtis
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2. A few years later, we learn of a clear act of genocide against Indigenous — something akin to a war crime — and the hockey world is silent. Nora received death threats for what she said. She was right.
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
How does one negotiate with this?
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Wrong Liberal party, genius.
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Jesus, I’m someone’s father now.
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Legault qui demande aux québécois de supporter les conservateurs donc la moitié de leurs élus nient le changement climatique, avec plusieurs qui sont anti avortement, anti syndicat, anti vaccin, c’est quand même un beau retour vers la grande noirceur.
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Je suis f**king ému après mon expérience sur le Twitter Québécois dernièrement. C’est une expérience inoubliable et ça me remplit d’espoir mais je ne suis pas un Anglo magique. Il y en a plusieurs qui ont une ouverture d’esprit/le sens du bon vivant de cette belle province/nation
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Christopher Curtis
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Coming across tourists in Montreal is the most stressful experience. They ask you for a recommendation and you’re desperately trying to think of the coolest most Montreal thing but your brain breaks and you end up sending them to PeelPub.
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2 years
The joy of waking up in your own bed, next to the woman you love and then hearing this one coooooooing the start of a new day. Complicated feelings, being back from Ukraine but sipping coffee and listening to music with Wenzie is something I dearly missed.
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Pour les gens qui insistent que je ne suis pas québécois ou moins québécois parce que vous n’aimez pas mes opinions. Je suis né ici. Je vais mourir ici. J’essaie de faire ma part pour aider des gens vulnérables. Si ça fait pas de moi un québécois, vous êtes fasciste.
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1. Our baby has been experiencing what look like short brain seizures and one episode that seemed to last an entire morning (on and off). Took her to Hôpital Ste-Justine yesterday so they could try to get a handle on what’s up. They need to run more tests.
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Christopher Curtis
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J’ai appelé un resto pour du « pour emporter » et la serveuse et moi étions tout les deux clairement sur des anglophones mais on été trop gêné pour switcher en anglais alors on s’est juste parlé avec nos accents de bloque. Ça m’arrive souvent. Ça me fait sourire.
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One of the best parts about living in Quebec is that we can drop our kids off at a daycare in the morning because it's affordable and the workers care for those babies as if they were their own. For someone to bring violence to such a place is unconscionable to me.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Just wanna put it out there that healthcare workers are keeping the world from falling apart right now. ❤️
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Christopher Curtis
6 years
J'ai pas de mots pour décrire cette aventure que j'ai vécu avec les Québécois, les péquistes, les indécis et mes amis les bloques pendant 39 jours. Matière à réflexion pour les journées à venir mais je veux juste remiercier tout le monde pour leur ouverture d'esprit.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Props to Hadrien for rocking Crocs to the big meeting. Power move. #Elxn44
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Christopher Curtis
1 year
Seems like a great use of everyone’s time
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Am I on acid?
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
☘️
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Islamophobia goes unchallenged far too often in Canada: we see it in our newspaper columns, our politicians and even within our own families. Today four people were killed because they were Muslim. It is unacceptable and we need to demand better of ourselves as Canadians.
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Christopher Curtis
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Mohawk source: the protest camp at Kahnawake has a kitchen tent, a bonfire, a propane stove and a fish smoker. There are children running around and families holding it down. * No AK47s or weapons of any kind * People are "pretty chill" * Community is united
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
This may be the first debate in North American history where the moderator insisted on getting a candidate to say n***er and I find that so profoundly disgusting. #qc2022
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Christopher Curtis
4 years
Appointing a former police commander as Indigenous affairs minister is almost too perfect a metaphor for the CAQ’s grasp of this particular issue
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
When the premier or QC says not all cultures are equal, I’d be curious to know which cultures are supreme, who gets to rank said cultures and whether those supreme cultures are white. Anyhow, the guy ran a discount airline so he must know what he’s doing.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
In lighter news. 📰
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Don't forget that this campaign started with Legault associating immigration with extremism and chicanerie. Now the premier says 50,000 immigrants a year would be "suicidal" for QC. There is no misunderstanding here, no quotes taken out of context, this is how they see the world.
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2 years
“I’m a critical thinker”
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🧵Montreal police want to charge a journalist with criminal mischief for covering a pro-Palestinian sit at a downtown bank. The odds of them convicting a journalist for doing journalism are slim. So why bother charging her? "Intimidation" says the @caj
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Is it just me or does it seem borderline insulting to their own voters that the CAQ would just fork over $7 million of our money to pay for two meaningless preseason games in Quebec City while the government shortchanges nurses, teachers, transit workers and food banks?
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
Earlier this month, a CAQ minister blamed the rise in cases on a handful of refugee claimants. Suffice it to say, when you’re scapegoating refugees, I don’t think you have the crisis under control. Fier.
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Christopher Curtis
5 years
Montreal during Grand Prix weekend is like the city applied a military-dose of Axe Body Spray spiked with cocaine, alligator meth, qualuudes and the soul of a club promoter — dressed in a white suit with no shirt — who uses club as both a noun and a verb.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
You’ve just described what Quebec journalists face on a daily basis, Steve.
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Marc Bergevin is doing his Stanley Cup media day conference right now and non of the French questions or answers are being translated to English. That’s an error by the NHL and the Canadiens.
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1. Any doubt I had about coming to Ukraine went up in smoke when I saw this child’s face. She is maybe five or six years old. I know this because when she smiled she had no front teeth. It was a great big smile. Coming over from Poland was an ordeal.
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I love this question. Should Indigenous languages be included in Canada’s official languages? YFB: yes. Trudeau: I named a GG who speaks English and Inuktitut. Doesn’t answer. Singh: Yes. Paul: Yes. O’Toole: says Migweetch instead of nia:wen to a Mohawk.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
What?
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
They aren’t even trying to pretend they’re not in lockstep with the fascists
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Coutts police honors, greets and hugs truckers who have blocked the US - Canada border for 18 consecutive days.
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Liberté d’expression!!! Mais pas pour toi.
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Christopher Curtis
6 years
RADICAL IDEA: if you’re a white playwright whose closest connection to an Indigenous community was watching The Last of the Mohicans, maybe you don’t get to tell the story of Residential Schools to an all-white audience with a mostly white cast.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Denis Coderre depicting Montreal as a lawless, violent place is perhaps the most unforgivable sin of this campaign. Not only is it a vast oversimplification that isn’t borne out by any serious data, it’s also a dog whistle aimed at Montreal’s Black neighbourhoods. Shameful.
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6 months
Une énorme perte. Ses paroles captaient un Québec parfois en crise, parfois en déclin mais aussi d'un peuple qui rêve, un peuple attaché à leur coin du monde et toute la magie qu'elle contient
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Director: Just act normal Blanchet:
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Christopher Curtis
7 years
#Habs line pairings: Misery - Despair - Pacioretty Resignation - Danault - God Is Dead An empty bottle of Jameson - Your Tears - Gallagher
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3 years
Je le sais que c’est important d’écrire 400 chroniques sur “les wokes à l’université” mais ça serait le fun qu’on se parle de Réjean Tremblay et d’autres chroniqueurs qui semblent jamais faire face à des conséquences pour leur racisme.
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
So far they’re at -1 hires
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CTV Montreal
2 years
Quebec wants to increase hiring of visible minorities in the public service as part of anti-racism strategy
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3 years
So if you’re a CBC reporter you can’t sign a petition but if you’re Peter Mansbridge you can officiate the wedding of a the Liberal party’s head of communications. Cool, got it.
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RCMP, when Indigenous people occupy their traditional territory: GET YOUR GUNS, BOYZ. RCMP, when a white guy runs into Indigenous people with his truck: WeLL yOu sEe tHiS gEntLeMan wAs iN a rUsH aNd hE diD a OOPSIE DOOPSY
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Christopher Curtis
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Wow, se moquer ainsi du français d’une femme autochtone qui n’a pas choisi d’être coloniser par des européens c’est deguelasse. Elle essaie d’apprendre et @LeDroitca rit d’elle avec un genre de faux accent incroyablement condescendant et raciste.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Ni sitting in the National Assembly.
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon
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Ni woke. Ni duplessiste. 😉
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It’s a day off. How can you be against a day off? Even people who hate Indigenous folk like days off. The province shuts down for two weeks in July because construction workers need a break. We can’t honour First People for 1 day?
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
Remember when the CAQ used a curfew to make homelessness illegal? And then they were taken to court and embarrassed? Remember! “Fier!”
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
At the risk of an overshare, I am so unbelievably in love with my partner. It took like 39 tries to get these photos because she makes funny faces but Marie-Pier is just stunning. And I imagine women struggle with being pigeonholed as “mom” after giving birth but she’s my love.
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Dennis Coderre consulting for a development firm and then running on a promise to allow developers to build taller buildings in Montreal is some real on brand Tremblay-era politics. Even worse, he tried to hide it. Big ups to @LP_LaPresse for uncovering this.
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
I’ll never get over people filming themselves doing a crime AND broadcasting it on the internet. It’s my favourite
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
Freedom Convoy
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Christopher Curtis
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Met up with someone for a story in Montréal Nord and he brought me this lovely platter of Haitian food. Always blown away by the hospitality and kindness of our Haitian-Canadian brothers and sisters. 🇭🇹
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Christopher Curtis
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One of the more upsetting you parts of the anti vaccination/anti lockdown/pro death movement is learning how many people you grew up with, shared your childhood years with, broke bread with are willing to place individual desires over collective good.
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Christopher Curtis
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Bonne St-Jean! Malgré mes anglicismes et certaines critiques de ce gouvernement, je suis fier de vivre dans ce coin du monde, parmi les francophones de l’Amérique du Nord, un peuple (mon peuple) qui fait de moi la personne que je suis — curieux, en amour avec la vie et baveux. ⚜️
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Christopher Curtis
4 years
Tried to do the Italian COVID thing where I serenade my neighbours from a balcony but it turns out no one is into Ace of Base.
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Christopher Curtis
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I’m in the middle of a mental health crisis. My partner suffered a debilitating back injury last month, the stress of being the main childcare provider and running a business that’s under attack from Meta have done a real number on me. I’m not myself and for that I apologize.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Today, the son of a Prime Minister who is now Prime Minister will ask the representative of the representative of God if he can no longer be Prime Minister so that he can try to become Prime Minister again (but with more power) in six weeks. I’m dizzy.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Non, il y a trop de Mathieu Bock Côté au Québec
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Mathieu Bock-Côté
3 years
Il y a trop de Québécois au Québec. Ma chronique du JdM.
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Cat left bedroom, Danault scores. Cat no longer allowed in bedroom. #GoHabsGo
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
WHY IS BLANCHET COMPARING FIRST NATIONS TO QUEBECERS IT’S SO DUMB #Elxn44
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Christopher Curtis
4 years
Elles étaient à un lac, en train de se mêler de leurs affaires, de se beigner et vous vous permettez de juger ce qu’elles peuvent porter? Sans les parler, les interroger vous les jugés, vous les ridiculisé dans un forum publique pourquoi? C’est tellement haineux et honteux.
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Christopher Curtis
4 years
Can't say how touched I am but everyone's support. Friends, family but also Twitter pals I've never met in real life. Just want you guys to know I'll work hard to reward the trust you've placed in me. So excited.
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
Thinking of opening a French bakery called House of Pain 🥖
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Christopher Curtis
3 years
Being polite isn’t a substitute for treating people equitably. If you draft laws that bar Muslim women from access to employment, you don’t get to just show up at a vigil and expect to be treated like royalty.
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Christopher Curtis
2 years
No one walks into the debate over language in Quebec unscathed. Francos, anglos and allophones all know what it's like to feel unwanted or unwelcome in their own home. Multiply that by 1,000 for Indigenous people. I don't know if I have it in me to write about this anymore.
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