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“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.