Talin Vartanian

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

@CitizenTalin We understand your frustration, Talin. Due to high call volumes, callback spots are limited. Please call only when wait times are shown or you'll be redirected to our automated services. You can find our wait times here: Canada.ca/CRAWaitTimes Thank you for your patience.

@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 Why is that no longer active?

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

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 wired.com/story/im-going…

@VIA_Rail No reply?

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.

@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.

Ontario AMBER Alert a été annulée. L'enfant a été retrouvé sain

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.”

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...

@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

@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_ readthemaple.com/meet-the-billi…

I was scheduled to give an International Women’s Day #IWD talk at law firm @_Davies_ on March 7 about gender apartheid. 🔴 Last night, employees at the law firm, whom I don’t know, reached out to say how disappointed they were that the talk was cancelled; I didn’t know it was. 🔴 Today, I reached out to Davies, Ward Phillips & Vineberg to ask what was going on. I was told it was cancelled over “internal issues.” 🔴 Here’s the note their staff received: “Due to new information raised with our D&l team regarding the invited guest, we will have to cancel this session.” 🔴They have yet to give me an explanation.

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. readthemaple.com/meet-the-billi…

Answer me this: Who knew a camera could be prolific? And what is an editor? ⁦@CBCNews⁩ cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

@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!

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 nationalobserver.com/2023/12/07/opi…

EXECUTIVE BONUSES

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_

@cbcdaveseglins @CMGLaGuilde @CBCNews Coincidence? Nope.

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

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.

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.