Debit and credit down across Loblaws, I am told. Bring cash snd prepare to line up.

Today, I submitted an inquiry to the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, to get the data on accidents involving conflict between cars and pedestrian and cyclists when turning right on red. This is the first step in considering on a possible ban on RTOR, specifically in downtown Ottawa.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Pretty ironic to be in a meeting about the city’s budget directions (which I believe ignore the reality of our city’s aging infrastructure) on a day when my kid’s first day of school was cancelled due to a water main break. Ignoring this stuff has real-life consequences.

The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World. I wrote essays about both of those books in high school. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Production in Ontario/Quebec #Canada #MadeInCanada #cdnpoli 🍁 Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’ globalnews.ca/news/1134908...

"Ontario facing shortage of #rabies treatments amid record demand" c/o @egpayne.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario... (shortage of rabies immunoglobulin; vaccine supply currently ok)

Most of the renovictions that my office hears about involve seniors — long-term tenants who have paid their rent for decades and then are evicted so the landlord can jack up the rent. Glad that the @ottawacitizen.com delved deeper into to this issue. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

The Ottawa Citizen also tried to find the source of the statistics shared last year that prompted my story this week. They were told "the number speaks for itself." h/t: @egpayne.bsky.social

Female graduates in the UK fall behind men from the very start of their careers, even when they have taken the same courses, and are out-earned after studying more than four-fifths of university subjects (1/3) www.ft.com/content/cb0e...

When the Ford government announced that it was forcing the Somerset West Community Health Centre to close its supervised consumption site, they quoted unsourced stats about local crime rates. They lied. Crime actually went down significantly when the CTS was open.

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

Wawa organizes ‘Boob Bus’ to fill gap in breast cancer screening -- a temporary solution to transport women to Sault Area Hospital for mammograms #Ontario www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont...

@arieltroster.com Hi Ariel. If you are free today or tomorrow (Aug 11-12) could you contact me? Thanks Liz Payne. [email protected]

Stephen Marche

This excellent piece by Steven Marche captures the Canadian zeitgeist right now in a way few others have.

‘Acute, Sustained, Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada Finds Its Voice www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

Health groups are mobilizing behind the scenes to preserve access for vaccines as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to upend the nation’s decades-old vaccine system, according to public health experts.

Why healthcare and parking are inextricably linked in Ontario.

The Canadian hospital parking revenue stream, focused on Ottawa this time, by @egpayne.bsky.social - main issue is that provincial funding is lowest in Ontario per capita so every penny helps for cash strapped hospitals ottawacitizen.com/feature/hosp...

New from me: ottawacitizen.com/feature/hosp...

When women’s health loses, we all lose - Policy Options “Canada has a window of opportunity to do what the United States will not: invest in women’s health and the talent behind it.” #WomensHealth 🧪 #Canada policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

"The largely rural riding had a huge shift in demographics as suburban neighbourhoods grew and more people moved out of central Ottawa during the COVID-19 pandemic," writes @egpayne.bsky.social. Great story.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Time to beat back the anti-vax fanatics: Amid concerns over shifting US policy on vaccination, the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at the Univ of Minnesota has launched the Vaccine Integrity Project, designed to SAFEGUARD vaccine use nationwide www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social

You asked, I listened As an act of civic journalism, I contacted the Privy Council Office and the Speaker of the House of Commons to clarify if Pierre Poilievre can still serve as Leader of the Opposition and if he can continue living in his public mansion The official answers: No and no

Where do each of the federal parties stand on the biggest healthcare issues? The Canadian Medical Association has compiled this scorecard. www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...

Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

Hundreds of professors are asking #Canadian federal party leaders to provide a safe sanctuary for “academic refugees” and safeguard academic freedoms on campuses, as American universities face mounting pressure from the United States government. www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

It woke to revise a platform after public questions. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

@mikebednarski.bsky.social Hi Michael. This is Liz Payne from the Ottawa Citizen. Could you contact me for an election story I am working on? [email protected] thanks

Scientists at the Nat'l Institutes of Health have produced a cancer breakthrough. The Trump regime's draconian layoffs are delaying it. The big step forward is a personalized immunotherapy regimen that shrinks tumors. It's still early in development but can't proceed due to the Trump purge 👇

Welcome to the Pro-Death Administration. From climate change to lethal disease, the Trump administration seems to have decided that preventing mass death isn’t really government’s business anymore, by @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1932... via @newrepublic.com ‪‪ #cancer

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies (NIH, FDA, CDC etc). Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email. Line outside Health Resources and Services Administration this AM shared with me:

Map has been updated with 2 ER closures in #Ontario in 1 week Everyday we scan the internet to track what Doug Ford won’t Pls take this info to your family,friends,co-workers - someone you know and love will be profoundly affected by this malfeasance www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

Huge news for my neighbourhood (OOE) and beyond.

There's such a chill settling over colleges & universities in the US of Russia. They're afraid of the vengeful orange president & his lackeys. Disgusting.

From @dailymail.co.uk: The US will cut aid to @gavi.org, which has helped prevent nearly 19M deaths through immunization efforts. This move risks reversal for decades of work. @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social warns this will have "devastating consequences for the health of children everywhere." More ⤵️

Yesterday when I talked to @maxkozlov.bsky.social about this, I wondered which of my NIH-funded colleagues would have their grants cut. All of them. Research on pandemic viruses has now ground to a screeching halt in the US. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While many of my American colleagues had their grants to make vaccines and antiviral drugs terminated yesterday, RFK Jr instead put those taxpayer funds toward hiring an anti-vaxxer to run a pointless study investigating the non-existent link between vaccines and autism.

Now that doctors have changed the way they screen for cervical cancer, many women are being told they tested positive for “high-risk” HPV. What does this mean? Does it give you a high risk of cancer? Does it mean the HPV shot failed? Learn more in my latest story! www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

These men were not just deported, they've been incarcerated without trial in a brutalist megaprison. What is the plan for them now? Are they awaiting trial? Where? Are they facing sentences? How long?