ICYMI this week
A news roundup from the new daily headlines podcast
I’ve now been doing daily news headlines through my podcast Sandy and Nora for two weeks. If you haven’t started listening, make sure you tune in: https://play.acast.com/s/sandy-and-nora-talk-politics. Episodes are shorter than 10 minutes and are released around 9:05 EST daily.
It’s amazing how much news passes under the radar. With fewer and fewer locations for people to get a breadth of news coverage, lots of people have said that the news round-up is exactly what they’ve been looking for: something where they can get a few headlines and then go about their day after.
It’s hilarious to think about but I used to refresh the homepage of the Toronto Star every 20 or so minutes to see new stories break. When they redesigned the homepage to hide how much content they would evetually remove, I felt a very serious feeling of doom that digital news as it had been known up until then (this would have been 2009 or so) was over. As so many of us have come to rely on Twitter for a steady stream of news, as as our feeds seem to be increasingly throttled, it’s harder to catch the news that we used to.
Anyway, here’s the news you may have missed this week.
Provincial stories
Saskatchewan government expected to oppose bail for Quewezance sisters (with an update here: https://globalnews.ca/news/9420547/quewezance-sisters-bail-hearing-yorkton-jan-18-2023/)
New Sask. marshals service to be based out of Prince Albert
Migrant worker facing bill from Nova Scotia after insurance for cancer treatment cancelled
Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to get $253K to chair Alberta COVID-19 panel
Nurse believes she was fired for criticizing Chatham-Kent Public Health's anti-abortion connections
Nearly 200 stolen appliances recovered by Peel police
National stories
Postmedia announces plan to move 12 Alberta papers to digital-only, layoff staff
Pierre Poilievre nie avoir courtisé les ministres caquistes Girard et Guilbault
Les contrats octroyés à McKinsey dépassent 100 millions de dollars sous Justin Trudeau
Canada performing more organ transplants from MAID donors than any country in the world
French demonstrators demand Rivoire be extradited
Number of commercial pilot licences issued in Canada has collapsed since 2019
Pierre Poilievre nie avoir courtisé les ministres caquistes Girard et Guilbault
International stories
Burkina Faso: 50 women abducted by suspected rebels
Albuquerque police make arrest in shootings at 4 lawmakers' homes
Nepal plane crash: Pilot didn’t report anything untoward, official says