Paula Tran

After days of dangerous heat, should Ottawa collect heat death data? Soaring temperatures this week led to dozens of heat related calls to paramedics and homeless outreach workers.

After days of dangerous heat, should Ottawa collect heat death data? ottawacitizen.com/news/after-d...

'A tax on sick people': Ottawa hospitals have record-breaking year for parking revenue Ontario hospitals made $35M from parking last year. Critics say it’s wrong to charge patients and families who have no choice but to pay.

'A tax on sick people': Ottawa hospitals have record-breaking year for parking revenue ottawacitizen.com/feature/hosp...

Ottawa parents test a new school commute to keep kids safe A bike bus in Ottawa is getting attention as Ottawa parents look for safer ways to get their kids to school.

Bike buses in Ottawa? They're a thing! I had lots of fun joining one this morning for a story on safer bike infrastructure for children. #ottawa

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Rebel News, other right-wing media dominate news conferences after leaders’ French-language debate Right-wing media outlets stacked the long lines and managed to get in questions to each of the leaders, though not all of them got answers

The @fpjq.bsky.social and CAJ have contacted the Leaders’ Debates Commission to address the concerns raised by many reporters and photographers since last evening. (1/2)

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It's official: I started my new job at the Ottawa Citizen this week! I will be a general assignment reporter so I'll be writing about everything and anything. Send me your news tips and secrets: ptran@postmedia.com #ottawa

Hey uh we need to take annexation threats more seriously. #Canada

From the NYT:

00:12 Mar 09 2025
WIND WARNING IN EFFECT for Southern Alberta
Expires: 17:12 Mar 09 2025
Strong winds with gusts up to 100 km/h are expected to continue.

Winds will strengthen into Sunday near the Alberta foothills, with the strongest winds occurring by ...
Visit https://weather.gc.ca for details

Why is my TikTok recommending me thirst trap edits of Trudeau, Zelensky and Macron lmao. Should I be amused? Concerned? Both???????

Absolutely bawling from Maxim Naumov's tribute to his parents 😭

girl come here we can go together

Alberta's $5.2B budget deficit could jump to $8.7B under worst-case tariff scenario | CBC News Alberta is forecasting it will end the next fiscal year with a $5.2 billion deficit but that could soar to $8.7 billion under a worst-case tariff scenario outlined in Thursday’s provincial budget.

Prospect of Trump’s tariffs cast uncertainty over preparations for today’s Alberta budget www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.

Custodial workers at Calgary's public schools go on strike - LiveWire Calgary Hundreds of custodial workers gathered in front of the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District offices on Monday morning, calling on the provincial government to increase f...

Hundreds of custodial workers working for Calgary's public schools went on strike today. They're calling for increased funding for public education and livable wages. #yyc #alberta

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The Online Warriors Calling for a Violent Invasion of Canada | The Tyee As Canadian sovereignty is undermined and an election approaches, politicians are calling for an investigation of X.

Great reporting here via @jenstden.bsky.social
The Online Warriors Calling for a Violent Invasion of Canada via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

Custodial staff at Calgary's public schools vote in favour of strike - LiveWire Calgary Custodial staff at Calgary’s public school boards have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike. According to a news release from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), 94.5 per cent of cust...

“This is a wage crisis. Our members need living wages. I’ve talked to many folks who need two, three, even four jobs just to keep the lights on. It’s not right." #calgary #yyc #alberta

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Open letter to Alberta government sounds alarm on post-secondary funding - LiveWire Calgary An open letter addressed to the Government of Alberta is calling for more funding to post-secondary institutions (PSIs) ahead of Budget 2025. The letter, which was published on Tuesday morning, calls ...

An open letter addressed to the Government of Alberta is calling for more funding to post-secondary institutions ahead of Budget 2025. The letter calls on the province to reverse budget cuts made under former premier Jason Kenney’s government. #calgary #alberta

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The reality is, most of our audience is on the other website. But given its ownership and the fascism and such, we cannot continue to utilize it in good conscience.

I’d be grateful if you’d support @jsource.bsky.social by following us where we’ll be from now on:

Incidents of hate directed at newcomers to Calgary, says CFN - LiveWire Calgary Vitriol and hate towards newcomers to Calgary is making the work of helping those same individuals more difficult, according to Calgary based Centre for Newcomers. As a result of both online and in-pe...

“We’ve had incidences at our centre where people driving by or shouting things were in the very worst case, one incident of an assault that was clearly motivated against somebody who is a newcomer.” #calgary

New from my colleague @aryn.bsky.social:

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Mandatory addiction treatment facility coming to Calgary: Smith - LiveWire Calgary Mandatory addiction treatment facilities are coming to Calgary as part of the Alberta government’s response to the toxic drug crisis. In a statement on Wednesday afternoon, Premier Danielle Smith said...

ICYMI: Mandatory addiction treatment facilities are coming to #Calgary as part of the #Alberta government’s response to the toxic drug crisis. #yyc

New from me:

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This is literally just good journalism? Targeting a journalist is gross behaviour.

Nvm it turns out I wrote this in 2023, lol. How time flies

Alberta’s involuntary addictions treatment law violates Charter rights, expert says | Globalnews.ca The policy is part of the United Conservative government's model of recovery and treatment while stripping down harm reduction resources like supervised consumption sites

NEW: Premier Danielle Smith said in a statement today that the province will be moving forward with its compassionate intervention legislation and the construction of mandatory treatment centres. #alberta #abpoli #canada

Here's a story that I did last year about this:

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NEW: The USPS has suspended inbound packages from Hong Kong and China. But what about Macau?

Calgary Catholic School District unofficial byelection results announced - LiveWire Calgary Elections Calgary announced the unofficial results of the Calgary Catholic School District byelection, which was held on Friday. According to unofficial results, Maria-Teresa Vecchio-Romano was electe...

Elections Calgary announced the unofficial results of the Calgary Catholic School District byelection, which was held on Friday. #calgary #yyc

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We need to go back to the way press conferences were held pre-pandemic in Canada. The one question one follow-up model is unacceptable and restricting press freedom.

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:

"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"

And see what happens.

Man dressed in all black holding a sign that reads “deport them all” while doing a Nazi salute on the side of the road

Three men join the first on the side of the road, all in black, each holding a sign that together read “deport them all.” They’re all throwing up Nazi salutes

The three men are now? In the same position on the side of the road, holding three separate items. The first has a sign that reads “deport them all,” the second has a red ensign flag (which has been adopted in canada by white supremacists as a symbol for a white canada), and the third is holding a glad with a Celtic cross (another adopted hate symbol used by white supremacists)

One man is seen throwing a Nazi salute at the side of the road while holding a sign that reads “import third world become third world”

A bunch of losers went out and threw Nazi salutes in Alberta, Canada yesterday while holding racist signs.

Might be time for the media to stop calling them “hand gestures” and start reporting on this big fucking problem for what it is!

Painted pillars that once lifted 16 Avenue pedestrian bridge to be relocated nearby - LiveWire Calgary Work is expected to begin next week to relocate two northeast Calgary piers adorned with a community mural metres away from where they once held an aging pedestrian bridge. Last year, LWC reported on…

Pedestrian bridge pillars once set for demolition were saved and will be relocated thanks to a community effort to preserve the murals that were painted for them just before the structure was to be torn down. #yyc #calgary

Court approves class action for Indigenous students integrated into Bonnyville school in '60s, '70s An Alberta judge has certified a class action for hundreds of former Indigenous students integrated into Bonnyville's Notre Dame school between 1966 and 1974.

New from me: a judge has approved a class action for Indigenous students integrated into a Bonnyville school in the 60s & 70s.

“They were subjected to, really, all the same things that they would have experienced in residential school, plus the endemic discrimination from the all-white school.”

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore Donald Trump's pardons just supercharged the Bad Guys

Far-right extremism is a serious problem.

Trump just made it worse.

Extremists are getting organized in the United States, Canada and Europe.

With his recent pardons, Trump sent them a message: loyalty to him washes away all sins.

Let's talk about it:
youtu.be/f8MGz4Se28g