Elizabeth Payne 🇨🇦

This is a huge blow to border towns trying to convince visitors from Canada to come back. No one is paying $250 to do a little shopping.

Gaza’s Government Media Office has announced the killing of photo-journalist Adam Abu Harbid, raising the journalist death toll during Israel’s war on the bombarded enclave to 232 people. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dqio5f

“Children in the Gaza Strip are starving to death," reports @unicef. And the U.S. is complicit. We can debate the terminology to apply, but it is unconscionable that in 2025 the United States and most of the international community are averting their eyes from this.

Gotta love the Scottish

Rolling Emergency Department closures are hitting the Blind River, Thessalon and Richard's Landing hospitals. The crisis in staffing rural and northern hospitals continues and the Ford government has not put a viable plan in place to address it. It's urgent that this happen.

scoop: Gannett is offering buyouts to its staff, per email just now from CEO Mike Reed. "...We need to adjust our organization to efficiently meet the needs of our business today...as we continue to use A.I. and leverage automation to realize efficiencies."

Reuters, AFP, AP and BBC News issued the following joint statement on July 24, 2025: reutersagency.com/media-centre/j…

AGE-WELL, a federally funded national not-for-profit organization supported by #UofT, has opened its new innovation studio to support independent living & healthy aging. The immersive space was made possible with the support of @UofTEngineering & IKEA Toronto Downtown.

Citizen's Liz Payne highlights one of the Kafkaesque consequences of the fee for service billing system. No access to a physician and none to diagnostics. Many of those without doctors are the most marginalized. "We're working on it" is not good enough. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

Ottawa and Gatineau will 'bear the brunt' of public service cuts: report ottawacitizen.com/public-service…

Mass starvation is spreading in Gaza. Our colleagues and the people we serve are wasting away. It is time for governments to take decisive action and save lives: msf.org/mass-starvatio…

Over 5.2 million pools sold across the U.S. and Canada are under recall after reports of nine deaths ctvnews.ca/canada/article…

UK battles anti-vax misinformation after child's death f24.my/BKKI.X "...urgent calls from British public health officials to get children vaccinated, as the UK faces an onslaught of misinformation on social media, much of it from the United States."

Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward. But targeting a reporter - hi! - with surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

Ottawa woman waits six months for an MRI and then is turned away. Why? Her doctor had retired and there was no way to bill for the procedure. This is paywalled. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

Once again, @WCKitchen we have run out of food in Gaza. Our brave teams on the ground report the security situation has deteriorated significantly, and our ability to operate is severely constrained. We need to get trucks of supplies safely to our field kitchens ASAP so that we…

WFP Statement | #Gaza On the morning of 20 July, a 25 truck WFP convoy carrying vital food assistance crossed the Zikim border point destined for starving communities in northern Gaza. Shortly after passing the final checkpoint beyond the Zikim crossing point into Gaza, the…

They’re trying to make the US unvisitable Travelers to the US must pay a new $250 ‘visa integrity fee’ – NBC New York cnbc.com/2025/07/18/vis…

🚨Israel just bombed the very Gazan church Pope Francis used to call daily during the genocide They injured the very priest, Gabriele Romanelli, who used to update the Pope on the situation. 2 church goers were killed, 6 wounded.