Colin Walmsley

Maître de langue en anglais @ScPoLille. RTs = complete & utter endorsements, views reflect the deepest, darkest beliefs of my employer. 🇨🇦. 🏳️‍🌈. He/Him

[Colin Walmsley @ColinWalmsley]

Now we can only wait for Ford to inevitably win the next Ontario election by 15 points again, as per tradition

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Premier Approval Polling:

(Current Approval // (Previous Approval))

Kinew: +28% // (+26%)
Wakeham: +11% // (-2%)
Moe: +6% // (+7%)

Frechette: -1% // (New)
Holt: -8% // (+14%)
Smith: -14% // (-6%)
Houston: -29% // (-19%)
Eby: -30% // (-21%)
Ford: -51% // (-32%)

Angus Reid / May 11, 2026

[Colin Walmsley @ColinWalmsley]

I think the essential disconnect in the stadium discourse is that for Americans, atmosphere is created by the team/venue, and for Europeans, atmosphere is created by the fans. For Europeans, this stadium is dead af

[The Next Round @NextRoundLive]

This atmosphere 🔥

Why aren’t they doing actual World Cup games at any college stadiums again?

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

haha, funny joke––wait

[Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrabb]

To contextualize how insane this movie's weekday performance has been:

Obsession made more money on its 25th day of release than Avengers: Endgame did on its 25th

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[David Eby @Dave_Eby]

Mr. Artan would be welcomed and celebrated in British Columbia for what he’s overcome and where he is today. Let’s have him referee in Vancouver.

[Alfie | HITC Sevens @HITCSevens]

When the U.K. Foreign Office considered denying North Koreans visas to play at the 1966 World Cup, FIFA told the FA that they would immediately relocate the tournament.

That was when FIFA still had something remotely resembling a spine.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

10 years ago.

[EmpireCity Box Office @EmpireCityBO]

I cannot believe I'm saying this, but a 4th weekend INCREASE is actually a legitimate possibility. I'm not even kidding when I say this, but maybe a Top 3 all-time box office run if that happens. I don't think will ever see something like this again. #Obsession @FocusFeatures

[seosamh 🇵🇸 @dayglowj0e]

for forty years there were just six star wars films. at one point, something new from star wars had an air of mystery about it. then disney took over and churned out so much shit in a decade that no one cares anymore.

[Colin Walmsley @ColinWalmsley]

Obsession looks set for a generational run. Two weekend-over-weekend increases in a row, first film to do that outside the xmas corridor since ET (1982)

And this weekend was against direct genre competition from Backrooms' biggest opening ever for an original horror. Just insane

[Variety @Variety]

This weekend was one for the box office history books.

A24’s “Backrooms” collected a record-breaking $81 million in its opening weekend. That’s as ticket sales for the Focus Features breakout “Obsession” jumped again in its third frame with $26.4 million and crossed the $100 million mark domestically. Both movies were directed by YouTube stars and cost nearly nothing to produce, upending conventional wisdom about the necessary components for a hit. https://t.co/M1XLZt5SBb

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

John Fetterman (D-PA) has a higher approval among Pennsylvania Republicans than Dave McCormick (R-PA)

(PA Republicans sampled)
🟦✅Senator Fetterman: 74%
🟥✅Senator McCormick: 66%

(Bravo/PennLive poll)

[Ted Rutland @TedRutland]

If we are going to call the cost of public services a “loss,” then Canadian police forces lost $20 billion last year while delivering no birthday presents and also killing a lot of people.

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

The answer is the separatist movement. Companies relocated from Montréal to Toronto because the potential for Québec to separate and trap their HQ in a different country was a high level of systemic risk.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Mitt Romney text to McConnell, January 2nd

[Jam 🏒🫍 @hoglandsko]

My home crowd too loud my steak too juicy my lobster too buttery

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv

[Parmita Mishra @parmita]

I don’t know how this claim has gone so viral.

This was actually completely intentional by Novo.

Novo Nordisk does not operate in an “oops. lawyer forgot the $250 CAD fee” manner.

This is, with all due respect, a shallow read of Novo’s actual corporate strategy.

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[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Most important quote about politics in the last 15 years

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

You see recurrent versions of this everywhere, i.e. the idea people get more conservative as they get older. This is broadly true of exactly one generation blessed to grow up with shared prosperity and a welfare state that then decided no one else deserved those things.