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Laura Payton

@laurapayton.bsky.social
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Lover of plain language and clean writing. Baking, cooking, parenting. Also maybe cyber security. Beginner runner all over again. Former owner of a blue checkmark.

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Shawn Menard @shawnmenard.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We did it- 18 and Under Youth Pass is coming to #Ottawa as of July 1st, 2026. It will bring free transit for youth on weekends, holidays, after 5pm on weekdays and all day every day in the summer (July and August)!
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Laura Payton @laurapayton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I stopped in the Lego store at Rideau Centre last week, where the wonderful staff mentioned the #buildtogive program. For every social media post, Lego will provide a set to a kid who needs it 🩷🩷🩷
A pink, orange and red heart built out of Leg sits in front of a pile of assorted Lego pieces
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Stuart Benson @lefthandstu.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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City of Ottawa @en.ottawa.ca · 25/05/2025
Tomorrow, their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla are visiting #OttCity! Expect traffic and transit delays in certain parts of Ottawa. Check out our interactive traffic map for live updates: traffic.ottawa.ca/map Planned impacts: bit.ly/4ka1QLG
Traffic impacts due to the event
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Cherie Wong 王卓妍 @chercywong.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
‼️ FYI to friends & colleagues ‼️ Alliance Canada Hong Kong ACHK's archive was updated- linktr.ee/alliancecana... All of our past reports, issue briefs, training materials and other submissions were uploaded for public access. I hope you find these resources helpful 💛 in solidarity
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Alliance Canada Hong Kong | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Back to back dingers from Robert Deniro and Liev Schreiber in the area of Hollywood tough guys shrugging their shoulders going “yeah why wouldn’t I love my child?”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This memorandum drives home how the "censorship" narrative has ALWAYS been a project to "prove" Trump's Big Lie in 2020. For researchers, platforms, and gov folks caught up in censorship accusations, no amount of ducking & covering was ever going to stop them. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Addresses Risks from Chris Krebs and Government Censorship
RESTORING TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum revoking any active security clearance held by Chris
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10/04/2025
Librarians changed my life. So I’m so glad we can honour them. Here’s Toronto librarian Frances Trotter leading story time at a branch in 1935.
A librarian is seated near a fireplace with a number of children sitting on the floor in front of her
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
U.S. tariffs could utterly destroy the terms Canada thought it was getting when it agreed to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets. thelogic.co/news/trump-t...
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Trump's tariff mania shoots holes in economic case for buying F-35s - The Logic
Competing bid from Sweden would bring production, engineering and maintenance of fighter jets to Canada—if it's still on the table.
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 26/03/2025
New: The 19-year-old technologist who has become one of the best known members of Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service was providing digital infrastructure to a cybercrime ring as recently as two years ago. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
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Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
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Laura Payton @laurapayton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
ottawacitizen.com/opinion/ocds...
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Gibbs: OCDSB is breaking its promise of 'community-based' schooling
In urban communities, especially, would force students out of their neighbourhoods and into schools far from home.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 25/03/2025
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Federal officials vow greater transparency around foreign interference
Canadians can expect regular briefings on potential threats during the election period, officials say
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Laura Payton @laurapayton.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Ottawa’s English-language public school board is holding a virtual consultation tonight on a major change to elementary schools, except without any capacity for parents to provide feedback. So calling a Q&A a consultation. And have referred a couple of times to amendments coming Friday.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/03/2025
"why does the American public not understand what's happening in their own country" I shout over the hedge fund dessicated corpse of local journalism
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The U.S. Army and Defense Department removed a mention of the Navajo code talkers from its website. They are a group of Navajo U.S. marines who were essential during the Second World War for developing a code using their native language.
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Mention of Navajo code talkers removed from U.S. Army website | APTN News
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Health officials highlight accelerated #MMR vaccine guidance in response to #measles outbreak areas of Ontario, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #pediatrics #vaccination
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Health officials highlight accelerated MMR vaccine guidance in measles outbreak areas of Ontario
New recommendations from Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health apply to individuals who live, work, travel, worship or spend time in the areas covered by the Grand Erie and Southwestern public hea...
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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 17/03/2025
The Prime Minister and the President highlighted the launch of a new bilateral partnership on intelligence and security. The partnership will focus on enhancing cybersecurity and intelligence sharing on significant threats. LES DEUX YEUX 👀 www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/read...
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Prime Minister Carney meets with President of France Emmanuel Macron
Prime Minister Carney and President Macron discussed their intention to build stronger economies and defence and commercial ties between Canada and France – including in the areas of responsible and s...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
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Cat Tunney CBC @cattunney.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Canada's cyber intelligence agency is warning that countries including China, Russia and Iran will "very likely" lean on artificial intelligence to try and interfere in the upcoming federal election and mislead voters. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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China, Russia will 'very likely' use AI to target Canadian voters: Intelligence agency | CBC News
Canada's cyber intelligence agency is warning that countries including China, Russia and Iran will "very likely" lean on artificial intelligence to try and interfere in the upcoming federal election a...
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Laura Payton @laurapayton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ah, yes, here is our daily ritual of my son telling me he has no clean underwear and me telling him to check the pile of clean laundry that we still haven’t folded
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CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Governments of the United States’ chief adversaries in cyberspace, especially Russia, have increasingly been relying on cybercriminals and their tools to advance their goals, according to a Google report published Tuesday. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/u-s-adversar...
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U.S. adversaries increasingly turning to cybercriminals and their malware for help
A Google Threat Intelligence Group report notes that Russia in particular has been doing this since the Ukraine war began.
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Laura Payton @laurapayton.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Camp registrations, constant news-related stress and 40cm of snow coming as of tomorrow night. That primal scream you hear in Ottawa is all the parents realizing that they now have to add swimming registration tonight, on top of everything else
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude 🧵
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James Temperton @jtemperton.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
SCOOP: Shopify support staff were told to give “no comment” and to end online chats if customers asked about the company’s technology being used by the musician Kanye West to sell a T-shirt bearing a Nazi swastika. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...
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Shopify tells support staff to give ‘no comment’ on Kanye West Nazi T-shirt - The Logic
One former Shopify employee told The Logic it was ‘heartbreaking to see your life’s work perverted by full-on friggin’ Nazis’
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Place where cat shouldn't be @catshouldnt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
i want to be a bookstore cat in my next life
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Dr. Fiona Mattatall @fionamattatall.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
All of this 👇 theconversation.com/beyond-birth...
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Beyond birth statistics: Why measuring caesarean rates misses the mark
As a standalone statistic, the rate of ‘low risk’ caesarean births lacks the nuance needed to inform and improve individual care. Childbirth metrics must adopt a broader, patient-centred perspective.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
THREAD: How to check if the screenshot of a social media post is real or fake? Fake screnshots of online posts regularly mislead people. So, here's a simple guide on how you can quickly check if a screenshot of a post attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.
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David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is a big deal: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, FBI, and four other US agencies are jointly warning US defense companies to bolster security precautions in anticipation of possible Russian sabotage. Not an alarm to hit snooze on.
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Laura Payton @laurapayton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Yesterday we took our kids to the Canada Science and Tech Museum. Not only did they have a blast with all the hands-on exhibits, but this am my 4yo told me she wants to be a scientist when she grows up
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 23/11/2024
"I can't believe that, in 2024, we still have defend the contribution of women to defence and security," says Gen. Jennie Carignan, Canada's Chief of Defence staff. In a jab to incoming defence secretary Pete Hegseth, Carignan says women in the military is not some kind of "expirement."
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Bill Robinson @billrobinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Supplementary Estimates (B), tabled yesterday, show CSE 2024-25 budget increased to $1.127 billion, up $85M from the original $1.042B, including $26M carried forward from the previous FY and $48.4M added "to invest in Canada as an effective cyber power". www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...
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Supplementary Estimates - Canada.ca
Supplementary Estimates present information to Parliament on the Government of Canada’s spending requirements that were not sufficiently developed in time for inclusion in the Main Estimates, and will...
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Politico @politico.com · 29/12/2023
A commercial boom around using AI in the classroom is creating a slew of privacy and safety hazards well before Washington grapples with the fast-moving technology.
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Artificial intelligence stirs privacy challenges for schools
State and local leaders are navigating protections for students despite a lag in federal support.
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Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Irwin Cotler under 24-hour police protection due to threat to his life
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Irwin Cotler under 24-hour police protection due to threat to his life
Former justice minister and human rights advocate has criticized many foreign governments including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea in a Globe and Mail column last month
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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Re. the current wildfires, something I learned last year while researching building codes and climate change: Canadians are particularly vulnerable. As urban sprawl expanded residential zones into forested areas, we have a lot of wildland urban interface (WUI). (a thread)
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Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
BREAKING: Elon has blocked Catturd
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Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
One factor in Barbie's success that I feel is being overlooked is how starved audiences are for a film that's bright enough to actually see what's on screen.
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Place where cat shouldn't be @catshouldnt.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
maybe the machines ARE trying to kill us. don’t use AI recipe generators for the love of god gizmodo.com/paknsave-ai-savey-recip…
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Supermarket AI Offers Recipe for Mom's Famous Mustard Gas
An AI from a New Zealand grocery chain gave one user a recipe for an “Aromatic Water Mix” that included bleach and ammonia as ingredients.
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