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Paula Tran

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Economics Reporter @ Financial Post’s Parliamentary Bureau | Lover of doggos Tell me your secrets: ptran@postmedia.com Website: paulatran.me

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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Some ✨personal news✨: This is my last week with the @ottawacitizen.com I'll be joining the @financialpost.com’s parliamentary bureau on April 27, where I'll write about the economy, Bank of Canada and Parliament Hill 🎉 I’ll miss this wonderful team, but I’m excited to star a new chapter!
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
An #Ottawa police officer who was found guilty for assault after stepping on a man’s neck and striking him with a baton made Ontario’s Sunshine List this past year despite being suspended with pay since 2023. I dig into that a bit here: ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
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Ottawa police officer suspended since 2023 makes Ontario's Sunshine List
Const. Goran Beric was convicted of assault for stepping on a man's neck and striking him with a police-issued baton.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Which outlet is this?!
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
NEW: The State Dept. has ordered diplomats in Saudi Arabia to leave. It's the first mandatory ordered departure issued by the agency during the US-Israel war on Iran, and indicates US officials fear more violence. Iranian drones hit the embassy in Riyadh. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
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State Dept. Said to Order Diplomats in Saudi Arabia to Leave
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'm looking to speak to Ottawa parents who are concerned about their kids' safety online, particularly around hate content and the manosphere. Email me: ptran@postmedia.com. Signal also available upon request #ottawa #cdnpoli
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3
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Shawn Micallef: Toronto is facing its worst police corruption scandal in decades. Here are three things that need to happen soon
The corruption revealed by Project South undermines the public trust that is the foundation of policing.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
ICYMI: the Ottawa Police Service said it will not participate in the federal gun buyback program because of operational and staffing pressures. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
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Ottawa Police Service will not participate in federal firearms 'buyback' program
Ongoing staffing pressures and rising demand for police services were key factors that contributed to the decision, the OPS said.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Are you an Iranian living in Ottawa with family back home? I would love to speak with you for a @ottawacitizen.com story. DM me or email me at ptran@postmedia.com if you are interested in sharing your story. I also have Signal/Whatsapp. #ottawa
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Ottawa Citizen @ottawacitizen.com · 16/06/2025
Ottawa news starts with these journalists. Follow the Citizen team on Bluesky.
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Ottawa Citizen @ottawacitizen.com · 26/06/2025
After days of dangerous heat, should Ottawa collect heat death data? ottawacitizen.com/news/after-d...
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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.
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Ottawa Citizen @ottawacitizen.com · 02/06/2025
'A tax on sick people': Ottawa hospitals have record-breaking year for parking revenue ottawacitizen.com/feature/hosp...
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'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.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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 ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
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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.
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Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) @cajournalists.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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) www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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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
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Hey uh we need to take annexation threats more seriously. #Canada From the NYT:
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Alberta Weather Alerts @abwxalerts.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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 weather.gc.ca for details
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Why is my TikTok recommending me thirst trap edits of Trudeau, Zelensky and Macron lmao. Should I be amused? Concerned? Both???????
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Absolutely bawling from Maxim Naumov's tribute to his parents 😭
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Michelle Bellefontaine @mbellefontaine.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Prospect of Trump’s tariffs cast uncertainty over preparations for today’s Alberta budget www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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 livewirecalgary.com/2025/02/24/c...
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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...
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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...
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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.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“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 livewirecalgary.com/2025/02/12/c...
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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...
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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 livewirecalgary.com/2025/02/11/o...
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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 ...
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Steph Wechsler @stephwechsler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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:
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“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: livewirecalgary.com/2025/02/07/i...
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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...
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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: livewirecalgary.com/2025/02/06/m...
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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...
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is literally just good journalism? Targeting a journalist is gross behaviour.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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: globalnews.ca/news/9633088...
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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
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NEW: The USPS has suspended inbound packages from Hong Kong and China. But what about Macau?
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Elections Calgary announced the unofficial results of the Calgary Catholic School District byelection, which was held on Friday. #calgary #yyc livewirecalgary.com/2025/02/01/c...
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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...
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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!
Man dressed in all black holding a sign that reads “deport them all” while doing a Nazi salute on the side of the roadThree 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 salutesThe 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”
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LiveWire Calgary @livewirecalgary.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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
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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…
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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.”
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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.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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
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Donald Trump's pardons just supercharged the Bad Guys
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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LiveWire Calgary @livewirecalgary.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Calgary city councillors will be asked to consider at least a one-year delay in the approval of the Calgary Plan, putting it after the October 2025 municipal election.
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Calgary Plan likely to be delayed another year - LiveWire Calgary
Calgary city councillors will be asked to consider at least a one-year delay in the approval of the Calgary Plan, putting it after the October 2025 municipal election. A verbal update on the plan is…
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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
As the Calgary municipal election gets closer, one councillor is bringing up misinformation about the city's climate strategy. We fact checked that false $87 billion dollar claim made by Coun. Dan McLean, and provide context for how that number came to be. livewirecalgary.com/2025/01/22/d...
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Does the City of Calgary have an $87 billion climate strategy? 'No, we do not.' - LiveWire Calgary
Nearly four years later, and multiple efforts to clarify, some councillors are still trotting out the misinformed $87 billion climate emergency declaration cost for a sound bite. It happened once agai...
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LiveWire Calgary @livewirecalgary.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Calgary rises to the 5th best place in North America to be a filmmaker, according to MovieMaker Magazine. The increased ranking comes as no surprise to Calgary's film commissioner, or the Calgary International Film Festival, thanks to the quality of talent in the city.
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Calgary rises to 5th on list of best places to be a filmmaker in North America - LiveWire Calgary
Calgary’s reputation as a place to not only create films, but live as a filmmaker, has been on the rise. This year the city placed fifth on MovieMaker Magazine’s best places to live and work as a…
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The end of DEI federally will also mean the end of DEI across a lot of private sectors. Equity and diversity enhance workplaces, and this will take us a step backwards. I am terrified for what this might mean for my BIPOC friends in the US.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
it hasn't been 24 hours since he was inaugurated and i feel like i've aged 5 years
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Y'all really gonna go to an app developed by CHINESE people for CHINESE people and complain that it's too hard to navigate? Are y'all for real? Xiaohongshu/REDnote were not meant for you originally. Get a translator app.
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Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) @cajournalists.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It’s official. The CAJ is now on Bluesky! While we will continue to share program and advocacy news on that *other* platform, we’re happy to join other journalism groups that are migrating to a more thoughtful, less toxic space to engage with our members and community.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
meme of calling Edward Said
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Maybe I'm selfish, but I don't want Xiaohongshu (RedNote) to be Americanized. The beauty of Xiaohongshu is that it's a relaxing, chill space for Chinese and Asian folx, and we don't have a lot of spaces for us irl and on the internet.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Vulture article on Neil Gaiman is exceptional journalism, but I had to take breaks reading it. Good lord.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It is equal parts interesting and frustrating when Canadian politicians make American media appearances and ignore Canadian journalists. We rarely get access to politicians nowadays, and this is just making our jobs a lot harder.
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The Calgary Board of Education informed parents of a data breach involving PowerSchool, a software used for student information, potentially impacting thousands of students and teachers. livewirecalgary.com/2025/01/09/p...
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PowerSchool data breach potentially exposes info on students, staff at Calgary public schools - LiveWire Calgary
The Calgary Board of Education informed parents of a data breach involving PowerSchool, a software used for student information, potentially impacting thousands of students and teachers. According to ...
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Paula Tran @paulatran.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
BREAKING: Calgary Board of Education officials say a data breach involving PowerSchool "may have affected" students and staff. In an email to parents, officials said they were notified about the breach on Jan. 7. PowerSchool tells me they were aware of the breach on Dec. 28. #yyc #calgary
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