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This triple-bylined, complex, deadline- driven news story is a master class in how to write with finesse amid all the constraints of daily journalism. Beautifully written: Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Of the many Remembrance Day stories i wrote, this was my favourite ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

How to read In Flanders Fields correctly | Letters to the Editor ottawacitizen.com/opinion/how-...

It is all a fait accompli by now - built its official - we have lost our measles elimination status www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

A roadmap for change: Building the health workforce Canadians deserve healthydebate.ca/2025/11/topi...

I was a coms staffer at PSAC when the Harper government slashed the public service — a miserable time for everyone. All it led to was layoffs, followed by the fed govt hiring more temps and expensive consultants. And then eventually hiring back even more people. It takes humans to run a country 🤷‍♀️

A reminder that the Ford govt closed the supervised consumption site in Chinatown and refuses to approve injectable opioid agonist treatment for people with serious addictions. Right now, private addiction clinics are proliferating and the whole community is suffering. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Absolutely gutting news. And a call to action to keep fighting for safer streets. This kid was killed by a dump truck. Saloni Aitawadekar was killed by a pickup truck, right beside City Hall. Better road design prevents accidents from becoming tragedies. Every life is a universe.

Ontario hospital budget woes ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario... from @egpayne.bsky.social Excellent discussion, not buying the MOH line. It is chronic underfunding - and healthcare waits are about to get worse #onpoli

Terrific story about the revunenation of the NCC in the @ottawacitizen.com today as reported by @egpayne.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/news/ncc-rep...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

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...

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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 👇