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Kevin Gould

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News Producer for CTV Montreal. Motorcycle rider. Chef. Views expressed are mine.

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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 13h
Absolute tragedy.
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Sass Jordan, Montreal Rocker Behind 'Racine' and "Make You a Believer," Dies at 65 - That Eric Alper
It is with profound sorrow that the family of Sass Jordan announces that the singer, songwriter, Juno Award winner and longtime Canadian Idol judge died peacefully on October 2, 2026, surrounded by th...
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CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Montreal police (SPVM) have arrested a suspect in Mexico in connection with a 2025 unsolved murder.
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Murder suspect arrested in Mexico in 2025 Montreal killing
Montreal police (SPVM) have arrested a suspect in Mexico in connection with a 2025 unsolved murder.
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THIS
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"And here’s the funny thing about the Norway experience: it works. The domestic fund has returned 8.09 per cent a year over the past decade"
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CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A patient is currently being evaluated at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) for a potential case of Ebola, according to the hospital.
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Patient being evaluated for suspected case of Ebola, Montreal hospital says
A patient is currently being evaluated at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) for a potential case of Ebola, according to the hospital.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There has never been a more money-losing technology than the large language model, and yet it is aimed mainly at creating business problems rather than solving them:" productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/llms-are-j...
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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.
The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.
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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean, that's the question. Maybe the only one. @dansinker.com
dansinker.com
What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On this day in 1986, Canadian author Robert Munsch released his book Love You Forever. It is a book that originated from tragedy but from that tragedy came something wonderful and beloved around the world. This is the story of one of Canada's most acclaimed books. 🧵1/10
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I remember being taught back in the day* that something asking for your bank account information is a hallmark sign of a scam *two weeks ago
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Who is Daniel Robson? Canadian websites take down articles by suspected AI-generated writer | CBC News
Several Canadian websites have taken down articles published under the name Daniel Robson, saying the writer's identity cannot be verified and was likely generated by AI.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
4 more years behind bars, and a ten-year driving ban
ctvnews.ca
Truck driver sentenced to 6 years for causing deadly pile-up near Montreal while playing cellphone game
An Ontario truck driver who admitted to playing a game on his cellphone while driving and causing a deadly, seven-car pileup near Montreal has been sentenced to six years in prison.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“This situation really spoke to me, because we’re getting to the point here where we’re talking really about voter suppression,” he said
ctvnews.ca
French-only Quebec election voter guides prompted 160 complaints over five days
When Derek Heatherington, a retired college professor living in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, heard that the provincial elections agency was sending out unilingual French information guides ...
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“More importantly, if Quebec wishes to pursue an independent future, they will need to figure out how to do so without any of our lands.”
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has responded to the PQ’s Blue Book, calls on Quebec to recognize First Nations rights. “The future of Quebec cannot be determined as though First Nations do not exist,” it reads.
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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
La carte d'électeur que je viens de recevoir pour les élections municipales de Toronto. Uniquement en français car mes taxes scolaires soutiennent le réseau francophone.
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CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When Quebecers go to the polls Monday, for many, sovereignty will be on the ballot. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon appears poised to form government after the Oct. 5 election and has promised to hold a third referendum during his first term in office, but only after Donald Trump leaves the White House.
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Quebec sovereignty back on the ballot as PQ eyes majority government
When Quebecers go to the polls Monday, for many, sovereignty will be on the ballot. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon appears poised to form government after the Oct. 5 election and has promised to hold a third referendum during his first term in office, but only after Donald Trump leaves the White House.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A “radicalized” subculture formed among the ranks of officers at a Montreal police station in a multicultural neighbourhood before it was rocked by allegations of racism and criminal misconduct, newly released internal briefing notes say
ctvnews.ca
Internal Montreal police documents describe ‘radicalized’ subculture among officers
A “radicalized” subculture formed among the ranks of officers at a Montreal police station in a multicultural neighbourhood before it was rocked by allegations of racism and criminal misconduct, newly...
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A virtual power plant hidden in Vermont homes is keeping the lights on during storms
bbc.co.uk
The US state replacing power plants with home batteries
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...
nationalobserver.com
America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Yeah that part affects EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER MESSAGED WITH, WHETHER THEY HAVE MUSE OR NOT. Seriously: do not use muse. Ever.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026
arstechnica.com
Connected car data privacy is still abysmal, study finds
Between the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers.
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KrystynT @krystyntully.com · 29/09/2026
Good grief. This story needs to get out because more people need to know that (a) your friends are giving away your contact info and (b) this is one way that political discourse has been mechanized. Don’t trust social media. (she says, on social media)
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CBC journalist Neil Herland was pulled from the air and sent to a disciplinary hearing over an accurate tweet thread about being taunted on his way into Yom Kippur services. Wrong target. CBC should be asking about the protesters, who may have broken the law. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/the-...
michaelgeist.ca
The Wrong Target: Why the CBC Should Be Asking About the Yom Kippur Protesters, Not the Journalist Who Reported on Them - Michael Geist
Last week, CBC journalist Neil Herland was reportedly pulled from the air and brought before a disciplinary hearing after posting a tweet thread about being taunted on his way to the Song Shul's Yom K...
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
automating the bigotry is one of the main goals of the "AI revolution"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
McDonald’s uses “machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls ‘the optimal price’ at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs ‌to discounted coffee for seniors.”
reuters.com
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and...
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reupping for Cancon purposes
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For those who were wondering « why would someone go to that trouble » in the matter of my unidentified writer. www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...
turkiyetoday.com
Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GUS NEEDS SURGERY but he should be okay afterwards naturalhistory.novascotia.ca/gus-gopher-t...
Gus the gopher tortoise sitting on the lawn outside Halifax's Natural History Museum
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CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 49-year-old man was sent to hospital after being stabbed Monday night, Montreal police say.
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Man, 49, stabbed in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
A 49-year-old man was sent to hospital after being stabbed Monday night, Montreal police say.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Keanu Reeves learned to ride in Munich, then spent decades proving his motorcycle philosophy through the bikes he rode and the ones he helped create.
fortnine.ca
What Keanu Reeves Understands About Motorcycling
Keanu Reeves learned to ride in Munich, then spent decades proving his motorcycle philosophy through the bikes he rode and the ones he helped create.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 28/09/2026
Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon once pledged to be the antidote to the PQ’s xenophobia. Today, writes Martin Patriquian, he’s an “ideologically rudderless ambitionist” leading a hardline nationalist movement. ow.ly/hW1E50ZS5W8
On the left: Black and white images of politician Paul St-Pierre Plamondon crowded around each other on a red background. On the right: text that reads “How Paul St-Pierre Plamondon learned to stop worrying and blame immigrants. The Parti Québécois leader built his comeback on the bigotry he once condemned.”
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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Doremus Schafer
@DoremusSchafer
The awesome thing about social media is that it lets ppl with niche interests connect with like-minded fellows across the world.
The HORRIBLE thing about social media is that it lets ppl with niche interests connect w like-minded fellows across the world.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I get why gatekeeping in its negative sense is bad but also it feels an awful lot like gatekeeping in the positive sense was a load bearing pillar of society.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Uncle Bill’s not handing out mimeographed John Birch society flyers anymore, he’s forwarding slickly produced shit that looks convincing by its seeming professionalism.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The rule of the three is one of the oldest forms of telling a story, and claiming that using that method as proof something was written by AI is just batshit crazy. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
ctvnews.ca
Spotting AI writing: how reliable are the detectors?
Claims that Canadian-Haitian writer Thelyson Orelien used AI tools to write his best-selling debut novel are rocking the French literary world and posing questions about how AI can be detected.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How did we ever confuse "not wanting to wear a suit" with having an *actual* counterculture politics beyond being high or co-opting meditation. Very very few of these people actually had a **political** orientation that backed up their techno-practices
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Woz attributes everything he learned about how to be an engineer from his father. As a young man he had limitless access to computer tech because it was literally the water he swam in. All of it underwritten by DARPA.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Levy writes: "And the shoulders that Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and others stood on were not those of pocket-protector-wearing nerds clocking into jobs at Lockheed..." Except Woz's dad **worked** at Lockheed. Lockheed was the reason Woz grew up around the densest population of engineers on Earth
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Noovo Info @noovo.info · 27/09/2026
Un motocycliste gravement blessé dans une collision à Montréal www.noovo.info/nouvelles/pa...
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Un motocycliste gravement blessé dans une collision à Montréal
Un motocycliste a subi des blessures importantes samedi après-midi alors qu’il est entré en collision avec une voiture dans l’arrondissement de Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve à Montréal.
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Steve Faguy @fagstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tonight is the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, which in Canada will air on CTV for the first time. (Double check your PVRs.) CTV's late local news, where applicable, moves to 10:30pm to make room on the schedule.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I keep meeting smart informed Albertans who tell me they do not intend to vote, because they don’t want to legitimize the process, or because they know the premier is not bound by the results. But what if making us give up on voting is the whole point? My argument to vote - no matter the absurdity.
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...
lapresse.ca
Un homme installé au Québec doit refaire sa vie en Ontario après l’abolition du PEQ
Après cinq ans au Québec et des espoirs d’immigration déçus, Mehdi a décidé de refaire sa vie en Ontario. Pour son employeur, propriétaire d’une petite PME montréalaise, la perte est énorme : « J’en s...
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
nypost.com
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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🍁Nasty Canadian @thegrumpypenguin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Changing clocks is, in fact, bad. But leaving them at DST is worse. They should be on standard time and stay there.
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A cautionary tale for my editor friends (and probably many others in this new world.) Why Policy Options removed an article published under the name Daniel Robson policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/09/dani...
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Why Policy Options removed an article published under the name Daniel Robson
Policy Options removed an article after concerns about the contributor’s identity could not be resolved. Here is what happened and why.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is anyone listening to what is obviously the stupidest person in existence about how to develop the future?
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...


What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.
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Kevin Gould @kevingould.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl Guide units across Canada are beginning their seasons this month, with cookie sales starting this week.
ctvnews.ca
Girl Guides celebrate 100 years of Quebec camp
Joanne Millette remembers looking forward to going to Camp Peaceful Waters in Quebec’s Laurentians every summer as a Girl Guide in the 1960s.
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