Talin Vartanian

Find me on BlueSky @citizentalin.bsky. Twitter is toxic.

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

@CanRevAgency I appreciate the reply. Please inform your managers that this level of service is UNACCEPTABLE.

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

@CanRevAgency It now seems IMPOSSIBLE to reach an agent on the phone. I need help. What do you suggest? Every attempt results in "An agent is not available to assist you at this time.” You used to have a call-back service. Why is that no longer active?

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

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

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

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 https://t.co/ru2DDrV0Fr

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

@VIA_Rail No reply?

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

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.

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

@AMBERAlertONT I’m very glad she was found. Would you PLEASE stop the alerts that continue to pop up in my home, every two minutes for the past hour.

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

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 @CitizenTalin]

@CanRevAgency @mclaudebibeau All day, it has been impossible to talk to someone at CRA, despite multiple tries.

This has been the message each time I've called: "All are agents are currently busy, and our agent queues are full." How is this acceptable? #epicfail

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

@SMohyeddin @_Davies_ “Ray Rubin, a founding director of HRC’s charity who remained on the board until 2020, is a partner at the Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP law firm in Toronto…”

DIShonest Reporting Canada strikes again. Clear connection with @_Davies_
https://t.co/yQwjXxwu5E

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

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.

https://t.co/A23iFZiCrv

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

Answer me this:
Who knew a camera could be prolific?
And what is an editor?
⁦@CBCNews⁩ https://t.co/lkxTHWMxRw

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

@rachel_askinasi Would you mind following me back so I can DM you about something? It's about one of the photos you shot for an article in @BusinessInsider. Thanks!

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

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
https://t.co/XtUElCm0nb

[Brittlestar @brittlestar]

EXECUTIVE BONUSES

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

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_

[Gillian Findlay @GillianCBCfifth]

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

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

@cbcdaveseglins @CMGLaGuilde @CBCNews Coincidence? Nope.

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

Why are you spending charitable donations, on junky swag, ⁦@redcrosscanada⁩?
It’s offensive.

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

During my many years as a CBC journalist, I saw the chilling effect of Dishonest Reporting. People asked me repeatedly why the CBC wasn’t telling both sides of the Israel/Palestine story. This was why.

Its very name is a joke. This group has NOTHING to do with honesty.

[Talin Vartanian @CitizenTalin]

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.

[HonestReporting Canada @HonestRepCanada]

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. 👇

https://t.co/c7URYcutRQ