Ottawa Citizen reporter, feature writer, and full-sentence tweeter. DMs open and story ideas welcome.
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
May 12
Robert Fife, one of Canada’s best-known political journalists, is retiring. Ask him your questions about his career theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
This project hits home for me as I prepare to end my daily journalism career after more than 40 years - most of it in newsrooms.
May 1
Please read our incredible media writer @dbauder's final piece in his illustrious career at the @AP:
A photographer has captured some 50 newsrooms to document places and lives endangered by the industry’s collapse apnews.com/article/newspaper…
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
Apr 20
A pancreatic diagnosis was a death sentence, with a few months to get your affairs in order.
Pancreatic cancer has one of the most suppressive tumor microenvironments in oncology.
But two pancreatic cancer results dropped today. Both matter.
1. BioNTech mRNA neoantigen vaccine: nearly all responders still alive at 6 years. 98% of induced T cells were de novo — the immune system learned to see a cancer it had always been blind to.
2. Daraxonrasib: 47% ORR, 92% disease control as first-line monotherapy. KRAS G12D, undruggable for 40 years, finally has a drug.
Different mechanisms. Same disease. Both working.
<13% of patients survive 5 years. That number is about to change.
great day for science! 🔥
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
MISE À JOUR - UPDATE
Le campus est sécuritaire! - Campus is safe!
Campus principal - Main Campus
Il n'y a aucun danger - There is no danger
info: ue.uottawa.ca/
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
Mar 23
👇🏽 in roughly last 15 years, 27,463 cases of Lyme-disease have been reported across Canada. Only getting worse with weather warming up… this could be massive! #cdnpoli #medicine #lyme @shelleyayres
Pfizer says its experimental Lyme disease vaccine was 73% effective against the tick-borne illness bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
This piece by Peggy Noonan on the demise of the Washington Post is worth your time. I gifted it so you can read it.
“Finally, losing the one major newspaper left in the great nation’s capital—and during the Trump administration no less, during a time of the easy abuse of standards and traditions, of inching up to and then inching over the law, in a pattern that promises not to get better but worse—is more than a Jeffersonian nightmare, it is a kind of sin. The kind history doesn’t easily forgive.”
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
30 Dec 2025
New Canadian based research helps scientists understand how healthy foods protect us from obesity and diabetes. ottawacitizen.com/news/local…
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
19 Dec 2025
This description is all to familiar for families like mine who have watched a love-one deteriorate quickly in overcrowded hospitals. My father struggled with delirium and never recovered after his experience, dying with stage 4 bedsores.
19 Dec 2025
How Crowded Emergency Departments Impact Patients and Staff
Overfull hospitals are worsening delirium, causing bedsores and leading to patient care in hospital bays and bathrooms.
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
8 Dec 2025
Former CP writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller. By @JimBronskill thecanadianpressnews.ca/busi… via @CdnPressNews
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
1 Dec 2025
Weird to be on the other end of a news byline - also, I only dream of looking this young, lol! Former Ottawa Citizen journalist Joanne Chianello running for city council ottawacitizen.com/news/forme… via @ottawacitizen
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11 Nov 2025
Ink and Blood: Ottawa’s William Baldwin inscribed 66,000 names into the First World War Book of Remembrance. His own name would be added to Canada’s second book. ottawacitizen.com/news/canad…
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
7 Nov 2025
Congrats to @egpayne - well deserved! ottawacitizen.com/news/citiz…
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
26 Oct 2025
The Canadian War Museum is deeply saddened by the passing of our Chief Historian and Director of Research, Dr. Tim Cook.
We invite you to read our full statement and share condolences with his family, colleagues, and friends.
🔗 warmuseum.ca/news-releases/w…
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
16 Oct 2025
This is the last post of 119,836 names of Canadian Armed Forces members who died while serving, bringing to an end @WeAreTheDead's online roll call that began on Remembrance Day 14 years ago. Thanks to everyone who followed.
16 Oct 2025
Pte. John Henry Campbell (Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force). Aug. 27, 1918. Age: 20
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
15 Oct 2025
The @WeAreTheDead projects is coming to an end. The account has been tweeting the names of Canadian fallen since 2011. After more than 119,000 hourly posts, the account will send out the final name on the list of our war dead at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
15 Oct 2025
Flight Sergeant Lawrence Merwin Hill (Royal Canadian Air Force). Jul. 26, 1943.
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Andrew Duffy retweeted
2 Oct 2025
Dr. Balfour Mount, father of palliative care, dies at 86.
Dr. Mount is widely recognized as the father of palliative care. trib.al/MPdzG1U
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25 Sep 2025
The greatest gift of my career was meeting Jonathan and Tina.
25 Sep 2025
Congratulations Andrew! You’ve always approached your stories with such care, humanity, and insight. Thank you for being such an important part of Jonathan and my journey.
What it means to be a journalist: The Newspaper Life | Ottawa Citizen - goo.gl/alerts/KJSWtX #GoogleAlert
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24 Sep 2025
After 40 years, my last story: a reflection on the newspaper life. Sincere thanks to all those who trusted me with their own stories. ottawacitizen.com/feature/to…
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22 Jul 2025
Legendary musky guide schools young Ottawa “fish heads” at popular summer camp ottawacitizen.com/news/local…
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