Blondin

“I’d like to be more optimistic, but it’s really hard to change behavioral norms, especially when you’re in your own home where nobody else can see what you’re doing,” Stacy Blondin, a behavioral science researcher who studies food waste at the World Resources Institute, told Slate.

“But it's all relative, like they said in the time of kings: 'The king is dead, long live the king,' so we're starting again with a new groundhog,” said Roberto Blondin, an organizer of the event.

On this day in 1859, the French acrobat Charles Blondin tightrope-walked across the Niagara Gorge, 160 feet above water.

Blondin said a common language, French, and a lower cost of living in Quebec are helping attract French workers.

"We are all competing for the same people," said Blondin, CEO of Montreal-based parts maker Abipa International.