Benson Cook

Delawarean in Chicago via Montréal

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Me [on the phone]: “I don’t know why everyone always worries I’ll get us kicked out of places because I’m so loud! Like I know I’m loud, but I’m not that loud!”

Random man next to me in line at Urban Outfitters: “You’re pretty loud, man.”

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

@SpeakerWelchIL Turn around and head back — you forgot to deal with the transit fiscal cliff

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Update they already took it away again can we PLEASE stop with this A/B testing nonsense

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Issuing a personal shoutout to @Grindr for quickly listening to all of our complaints and quickly restoring the old Favorites tab. We missed it, and we thank you!

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

I’m coming out of Twitter retirement to ask the world who at @Grindr I need to cyberbully to get them to restore the old Favorites tab, because this new arrangement is a disaster and actively makes me want to use the app less

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

@AndrewFiggy @Cadeyrnn The fact that Beauce is one of the only ridings off the island of Montréal that has *never* elected a Bloc MP is wild

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

@Bay_St_Wiseguy @acoyne @fordnation That is literally how the system works at present, my guy

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

It got too out-there this season, to be honest. The fun thing about seasons 1 and 2 was that it was wild satire that still felt so real — season 3 felt off-the-rails insane. I’m kind of glad tomorrow’s episode will be the end.

[Variety @Variety]

“The Other Two” will not return for a fourth season. https://t.co/vjkKsvRkki

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

And yes, there are certain people I’m subtweeting here but won’t name, and yes, they’re all Francophone members of the Québec press corps

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Already bored of your “Jack Layton’s widow elected Mayor of Toronto” Tweets. She served in various offices in municipal government there for like twenty years and was a popular Member of Parliament for a decade. She’s her own person.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

There's less than 100 polls left to report, Olivia Chow leads Ana Bailão with 657,578 votes counted. https://t.co/HpQrgMSwQW

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Final Toronto Mayoral Polling Average:

Chow: 32.6%
Bailao: 23.4%
Saunders: 12%
Furey: 8.9%
Matlow: 8%
Hunter: 6%
Bradford: 1.8%
Brown: 1.7%

Others: 6%

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Woah.

[Steve Faguy @fagstein]

Bell Media asks #CRTC to eliminate all local news requirements for CTV, CTV2 and Noovo stations https://t.co/Q43NaWmNNp

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Few things bring me more joy than telling random tourists from Iowa on the street “this isn’t New York, that’s not how you hail a taxi here.”

[Adam Kovac @AdamJKovac]

The Gazette was founded in 1778 at the urging of Benjamin Franklin, who sought to win over French Canada's support to the American cause during the Revolution. It predates Canada by almost a century. It is a disgrace that some hedge fund has reduced all that history to this.

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Most English-speaking Canadian provinces celebrate a random “Civic Holiday” the first Monday in August, that could totally work

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Juneteenth has been such a huge success as a day off holiday, what can we figure out for early to mid August? That’s all that’s missing in the Memorial Day Juneteenth July 4 Labor Day run

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

I think River North is growing oversaturated by fitness studios. In a three-square-block radius of my apartment there are now ten (a new one just opened). There’s no way a clientèle exists to support all of them.

[Jon Pole - RADIO ATHLETE 🥇 @jonpole]

As a radio nerd, it's a bummer to hear about the cuts & stations closures announced by Bell.

I remain a fan of so many of their people and the iconic brands they inherited and continue to run.

If I can help. Let me know.

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

Bell is a truly evil company.

[CP24 @CP24]

Bell cutting 1,300 positions, shuttering six radio stations https://t.co/XaUgcD5bok

[Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes]

Public health officials are warning Chicagoans to take precautions this summer after West Nile virus has been detected in a batch of mosquitoes.
https://t.co/U9rgpG5dBn

[Benson Cook @bensonhcook]

I, for one, see no issues with the Canadians holding an early election next January or February. I think we can all agree those are the two nicest months of the year in that country.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

The New Democrats dialed up the heat on the federal government Tuesday to swiftly introduce pharmacare legislation, warning the Liberals it is “absolutely required” that such a bill pass by year’s end, but the federal health minister makes no promises. https://t.co/7lPylgt4bR