ICYMI this past week...
News from the Daily Headlines podcast
Hey. Happy Saturday morning. Saturday mornings used to be CBC Radio and a newspaper in my hands. I stopped torturing myself with the radio which, if I think about it, is something I miss. Though, I miss it like I miss other things embued with nostalgia: I miss it until I turn it on. Then I regret having missed it at all.
And the newspaper. My local newspaper will cease printing at the end of the year. I have no tablet and will not sit at my laptop on weekend mornings and so I’ll soon be over that part of the routine as well. Sunday mornings used to be for the Globe and Mail but that stopped during the pandemic, when Canada’s national newspaper cut circulation east of Montreal.
Anyway. Maybe you’ve missed some of these stories this week. There are a lot of national news. Take your time with them, read what interest you and pretend that I’ve just cut and pasted these clippings into a zine that you can pour over with a coffee in hand.
Ontario
Inside Toronto’s ‘sweetheart deal’ with MLSE to host 2026 World Cup
Child welfare agencies failed to protect vulnerable Indigenous child: Ombudsman
Toronto man on hunger strike to get Niagara town to restore headstones at cemetery for Black settler
'We will not be intimidated': Mosque officials want help from province, feds after Markham incident
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
N.S. shooting report warns courts about Mounties' shoddy note-takin
Watchdog rips Mounties for preventing a woman in custody from showering for nearly a week
Alberta
Multiple sexual assault, kidnapping charges laid after rural property searched east of Calgary
RCMP investigating deaths of 2 girls found in central Alberta hotel room
Quebec
Un homme arrêté après avoir vandalisé une mosquée à Montréal
National
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug celebrates First Nation-led family law, one of the few in Canada
Saskatchewan warns of risk to children as tuberculosis cases rise
Canada is sitting on a critical minerals mother lode. But is it ready for the new gold rush?
Canada spending $59M on assault rifles, machine guns for Ukraine
More federal public service union members vote for strike mandate
RBC biggest fossil fuel funder globally in 2022 at US$42B: report
International
Chilean Congress approves bill reducing work week to 40 hours
Texas dairy farm explosion injures 1 person, kills 18,000 cattle
Saudi, Omani envoys hold peace talks with Houthi leaders in Yemen
I switched from CBC to NPR for most of my weekend radio listening. I still listen to Because News and The Debaters, but the rest of the time it's NPR. North Country Public Radio is right across the St. Lawrence River from me so it has some local ish content. I also like Vermont Public Radio.