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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Happy Alexander Keith's birthday to all who celebrate! #Keiths #IPA #beer #NovaScotia

A can of Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale, condensation showing it's cold from the fridge

M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Today is the patronal feast of my parish, and its 70th anniversary. A blessed Sunday to everyone! #StFrancis #StFrancisOfAssisi

A rectangular cake, with yellow icing flowers. It is labelled "Happy 70th Saint-Francis"

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The wall of the Bell Centre still has a big picture of Gallagher. It's a shame things ended the way they did. #GoHabsGo

Brendan Gallagher, dressed to play for the Canadiens in Montréal, on the wall of the Bell Centre.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

La boussole électorale de Radio-Canada. #polqc

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Pollara Strategic Insights: "The latest Pollara Trump Tracker will be released soon. Here's a sneak peak. Conservative voters are souring on Trump, after being mixed towards him earlier in his mandate." | nitter […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Graph of positive and negative feelings towards Pres. Trump among CPC voters. They were roughly equal in January 2025, 64% negative and 20% positive in August 2026.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Daniel Keller: "Is nothing sacred to these AI freaks???? Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison just built this monstrous data center in the very heart of Paris—only steps away from Notre-Dame and the Louvre. Can’t the EU do something?" | nitter […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

An aerial photograph of Paris, showing the Centre Pompidou, opened in 1977. The building exterior is covered in pipes and conduits.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

max tempers: "In the past 25 years, Britain's pay differentials have collapsed. Everyone's earnings are bunched together within a smaller band. The top 10% now earn only three times as much as the bottom 10%. A quarter of the population earns within 10% of the […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Chart showing the ratio of top decile, 75th percentile, median and 25th percentile hourly pay to bottom decile hourly pay in the UK in 2000 and 2025. The top decile to bottom decile ratio has fallen from 3.98 to 2.99.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Alec Stapp: "It’s hard to find something economists agree on more than “rent control is a bad idea” And that’s because of empirical research results like this:" | nitter nitter.net/AlecStapp/status/2070869… #RentControl #economics

"The most careful study of modern rent control, published by Rebecca Diamond, Tim McQuade, and Franklin Qian in the *American Economic Review*, found that extending rent control in San Francisco reduced the supply of rental housing by 15 percent as owners converted units to condominiums or redeveloped them for other uses. Tenant mobility fell by 20 percent. The lost supply pushed up market rents across the city, offsetting the gains to protected tenants."

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Seminary, 1982. Robert Francis Prevost, future Pope Leo XIV (wearing sunglasses), when he was 25 years old. From nitter.net/deusimpera/status/205354…

A photo of a group of young men. In the centre, wearing a Roman collar, black trenchcoat, black fedora, and large black sunglasses, is Elwood Blues, before he was thrown out of the seminary — wait, no, it's Robert Prevost.

The photo is encaptioned, "I'm from Chicago, and I'm on a mission from God."

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Today, let us remember the life of Queen #ElizabethII, on what would have been her 100th birthday. May her life of service be an example to us all. #Queen #Elizabeth #Canada

A photo of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, in a white dress, in front of the Maple Leaf flag. She is perhaps 70 years old in the photo.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Vendredi, j'ai marché dans une foule des fidèles dans les rues de #Montréal, entre Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, la Basilique Notre-Dame, St Patrick's, et la cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde. (Nous avions un permis pour l'empêchement de la circulation véhiculaire.) #VendrediSaint #GoodFriday

Procession du Vendredi saint dans le Vieux Montréal.

Good Friday procession through Old Montréal

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

0.005 Seconds (3/694) (@seconds_0): "when the music stops apple will be either be regarded as the smartest (ai is now a commodity, buy the milk not the cow save 10 trillion, pick the winner) or the dumbest (they sat out the most important technological race in […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Chart showing quarterly capital expenditures from 2014 to 2026. Amazon has grown to $40B, Microsoft to $30B, Alphabet (Google) to $28B, Meta (Facebook) to $22B; Apple is at about $3B, roughly where all the companies started.

Chart title: "Apple on Cape: 'Nah, we're good'"

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

The #NYTimes is a newspaper that has successfully made the financial transition to the Internet, from advertising to digital subscriptions. I hope more #newspapers and #magazines have the same success: societies need journalism, ideally from competing sources.

Stacked bar charts of the revenue of the *New York Times* from 2003 to 2022, with different colours for print copies/subscriptions, digital subscriptions, advertising and other.

Revenue was about $2B in 2022, mostly advertising. Revenue fell to about $1.6B in 2008, but began rising after around 10 years, reaching $2.2B in 2022.

Advertising was initially the largest source of revenue, but has fallen from $1.2B to $0.6B; digital subscriptions (and the paywall) started in 2011 and have grown to $0.9B. Print copies/subscriptions have declined slightly over the period of the chart.

(Figures in alt-text are approximate.)

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@jkenney): "“Beauty will save the world,” Prince Myshkin famously says in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. We need a lot more beauty on social media as an antidote to the nasty stuff. So I’ve decided to do my little part with a New Year’s resolution […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

A painting of a farmer, on a sled dragged by a horse across snow, gazing up into the sky on a Prairie Winter night.

The painting is dark, mostly in blues. The top three quarters are the sky, flecked with stars.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

Le parti Conservateur du Québec accueille les anglophones; voici leur publicité dans @mtlgazette : #polqc #PCQ

Une publicité d'une demi-page dans *The Gazette*. La photo montre Éric Duhaime; le texte : "No referendum. No corruption. Join the Conservatives."

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Le 31 décembre est le 250e anniversaire de la bataille de Québec, quand nous avons vaincu les envahisseurs américains. Le Canada est libre et indépendant, et il le restera ! #BatailleDeQuébec #BattleOfQuébec #Canada #histoire #history

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Jordan Kunni (@JordanKonek): "That’s her when she was 17. Walking into her igloo, that her dad made. It went viral in 2018. She’s now 93 years old." | nitter nitter.net/JordanKonek/status/20031… #Inuit #igloo

A black and white photo from the inside of an igloo, showing a teenaged Inuit girl entering. The light comes from behind her.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

David Coletto 🇨🇦 (@DavidColetto): "Age continues to define the electoral divide. Among those aged 18 to 29, the parties are virtually tied. Among voters 30 to 44, the Conservatives lead the Liberals by 17 points, 48 to 31. That pattern continues among voters aged […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Bar charts dividing federal vote intention by age. The intentions are as described in the post by David Coletto: Liberals dominate the Conservatives only in the 60 and over age group.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

Sam Freedman (@Samfr): "I was really struck by this chart showing drop off in newspaper circulation just since 2019. Obviously no surprise it's happening but it's stark seeing it visually." | nitter nitter.net/Samfr/status/19962186861… 1/2 #newspapers #ukpol

A chart showing changes in circulation in UK newspapers, comparing 2019 and 2024. Circulation overall has fallen by about half, from 4578 to 2538. Tory-leaning papers have fallen by two-thirds, whereas Labour-leaning papers have increased by about one-third.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

The first item I've seen packaged with His Majesty's #RoyalWarrant: Walker's cookies. Good enough for the King, good enough for me.

A box of cookies. On the label, "By appointment to His Majesty the King, suppliers of shortbread & patches. Walker's Shortbread Ltd. Aberlour, Scotland"

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

LiorLefineder (@lefineder): "The abolition of slavery was advanced by Capitalists and industrialization. British MPs who were industrialists or were sons of industrialists were the most supportive of anti-slavery bills. For other elites, there was "no correlation […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Chart showing support for the abolition of slavery by group of UK MPs:
"Industrial interests" most likely to support abolition
"Gentry" and "Merchant": roughly neutral
"Aristocracy" tends to oppose abolition
"Slave owner" opposes abolition

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Hei Wa Wa (@yaqobhyndes): "A lot of 18th century portraits are slop but occasionally you come across a gem like this. The patron paid good money to paint his daughter bothering him with a barbie" | nitter nitter.net/yaqobhyndes/status/19935…

A portrait shows an 18th century English gentleman behind his desk, quill in hand, poised above a paper. He gazes out of the painting, while to his right a girl (10 years old?) tries to draw his attention with a doll.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban): "Much of the world is greener than it used to be even within living memory." | nitter nitter.net/StatisticUrban/status/19…

Map of the world showing % increase in leaf cover per decade, 2000-2017. Many places, including the Great Plains of North America, Europe, Asia Minor, India and China are greater than 16%. Areas with declining leaf cover include eastern Brazil, East Africa, and central Australia.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

Dr Francis Young (@DrFrancisYoung): "This has to be the funniest @ChurchTimes headline of the year, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️" | nitter nitter.net/DrFrancisYoung/status/19… #anglicanism

The headline:
'God is not in the business of hierarchies', Archbishop Vann says at her enthronement

Photo shows the new archbishop in her ornamented cope, in the midst of clerics and other laity.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ): "Woah! New polling. Reform 33% Greens 17% Tories 16% Source - FindOutNow 12 November 2025" | nitter nitter.net/GoodwinMJ/status/1988964… Labour at 15%; the LibDems at 11%. #ukpol

Bar chart of current support for UK political parties, with figures as described in the body of this post.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025

I'm not sure whether I believe UK taxes function this way, but the chart appears to come from #TheEconomist. Armin Ronacher ⇌ (@mitsuhiko): "One of the most bizarre things in the UK is that it has a maximum wage for high income families. You have to push through […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Des souffleuses à neige à batterie / Battery-powered snow blowers. #Hiver #Winter

Des souffleuses à neige à batterie à vendre dans la quincaillerie

Battery-powered snow blowers on sale at the hardware store.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Ben Rabidoux (@BenRabidoux): "Three years ago all the street corners in the Toronto suburbs had signs saying “we buy houses for cash” or “no income mortgages”. Today it’s a different vibe" | nitter nitter.net/BenRabidoux/status/19796… #Toronto #crime

Sign on a Hydro pole: "Proactive Home Fortification, 416-XXX-XXXX"

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Bobbie (@bo66ie29): "The scale of the enormous flag flown on the Spanish ship, the San Ildefonso, during the Battle of Trafalgar. It was captured by the Royal Navy on 21st October 1805 and measures nearly 33 feet wide and 47.5 feet long." | nitter […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

The Spanish flag flown by the San Ildefonso at the Battle of Trafalgar. It is in a British museum, dwarfing the ten onlookers.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

"The chart is usually used to demonstrate that most swing voters are left of center on economic issues and right of center on cultural issues" [...] "But the most important thing to note about the chart, from the perspective of hypothesizing a shift in […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Scatterplot of voters in the 2016 US Presidential Election. Economic left to economic right on the x-axis; the y-axis shows social conservative on the top, social liberal on the bottom.

Trump voters are shown as red dots, mostly centred on the top middle. Clinton voters are shown as blue dots, mostly in the bottom left. The bottom right quadrant is mostly empty: there are few economically right and socially liberal US voters.

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

When I was a boy, I used to see quarters with the head of George VI. #CharlesIII #numismatics #Canada

The obverse of three Canadian quarters, from 1992, 2006 and 2023. The first two feature Queen Elizabeth II, the third King Charles III. Photographed on a page of the (Montréal) Gazette.

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