This makes me sad and furious - how can our vulnerable newborns have no access to care? This isn’t just in Ottawa - it’s all over 🇨🇦 “around 16 per cent of babies born in Ottawa do not have primary care” Article by @egpayne.bsky.social #Cdnpoli #healthcare ottawacitizen.com/news/queensw...

Ontario primary-care medical records system should be Canadian-made, expert says https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario-medical-records-system-canadian-made ⦸ @egpayne.bsky.social @ottawacitizen.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Flu claims 5 more US children’s lives as virus continues circulating at moderate to very high levels www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

From the 'Garage' to the hallway, this is the new reality of hospital stays. Hospital overcrowding means patients are being treated in 'unconventional spaces' — a trend that is unlikely to end any time soon, by @egpayne.bsky.social Payne ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n... via @ottawacitizen.com

Ontario hospitals facing 'difficult decisions,' association warns ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

I wrote this about my former neighbour, ottawacitizen.com/news/remembe...

No imminent threat. Only Congress gets to declare war. And this sounds like a war.

Protect yourself - get vaccinated.

"the most disastrous year for US public health policy" The US faces a critical public health crossroads as recent policy shifts threaten decades of progress. What are the implications for future health security and scientific integrity? Our Editorial: spkl.io/63326AcVQy

Montreal records first measles case in latest Quebec outbreak montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

A must read, must share article dispelling dangerous misconceptions about the flu vaccine. If all health journalists were as excellent as @egpayne.bsky.social we’d be in a lot less trouble. Do consider giving her a follow. #VaccinesSaveLives #Flu #medsky ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

OMG We have had three kids already die of the flu in Ottawa this season ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n... from @egpayne.bsky.social The Children’s Hospital here is overflowing (and so is the adult hospital) #Flu #MedSky #OttNews

Three children have died of flu in eastern Ontario in the past two weeks - alarming evidence of the severity of this flu season ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

Quebec government and family doctors reach agreement in principle, putting contentious legislation on hold.  www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Rise in late-stage prostate cancer raises concerns over testing. Q+A w/ @kellygrant1.bsky.social on #TheDecibel podcast. www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Trump calls a woman reporter “stupid.” He called NYT woman reporter “ugly,” and another woman reporter “piggy.” He’s perpetrating violence against women.

"None of this is surprising: the province’s grocery oligopoly has been successfully fighting off efforts to impose any kind of deposit return scheme on beverage containers for about as long as I’ve been alive." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

Bill 60 means that we will not be able to add cycle tracks to Albert and Slater Street or extend the O’Connor bike lane to Wellington Street. It’s an absurd overreach by the Ford government that will make all road users less safe and waste millions. I hate it here. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Joshua Clatney, advocate and leader for youth with addiction, dies at 28 ottawacitizen.com/news/joshua-...

Researchers linked obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that causes temporary pauses in breathing during sleep, with Parkinson’s disease in a new study. But the researchers did find that treating sleep apnea with a CPAP machine was associated with a reduced likelihood of developing Parkinson’s.

New from me: ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

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.

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...