ICYMI this week ...

A round-up of news from the Daily News podcast.

I don’t have much to say this week. If ever you wanted to see me on Infoman, you can watch this really excellent segment here. This week, I will write something for you about national identity and iconic bands, looking at two bands who lost their front man way too young — The Tragically Hip and Les Cowboys Fringants. Really, even their respective names could be a study in The Two Solitudes.

But I’ll leave you with this classic video — one of my favourite Cowboys songs — that ends with the perfect line:

Et le gars d'la compagnie rit dans sa barbe
C'est qui le con qui a dit que l'argent poussait pas dans les arbres

Here is the news that I covered this past week on the Daily News podcast:

Ontario

Workers at 17 Ontario No Frills stores set Monday strike deadline

Hamilton Wentworth District School Board of Trustees Launches External Investigation into my Advocacy in support of Palestinian Human Rights

Senior Ford government cabinet ministers barely using work phones, docs show

1 in 10 Torontonians now using food bank amid 'skyrocketing' costs, stagnate wages: report

'Silence our dissent': Doctor charged in vandalism at MP's office speaks out

Quebec

250 employés de la SQDC rentreront au travail après un an et demi de grève

Karl Tremblay, singer of Cowboys Fringants, dies at 47

Alberta

Edmonton police release suspect images from deadly gang-related shooting of father and son

AHS numbers don’t match public numbers on COVID-19 hospitalizations.

National

Canadian special forces to again train African troops despite concerns about such soldiers previously overthrowing civilian governments

Loblaw reports profit and sales up as shoppers continue to flock to discount stores

Canada's richest 1% saw largest leap in annual income in years, while lower earners' wages declined

Air Force major charged in firearms bust in Kingston, Petawawa

Peter Nygard found guilty of 4 sexual assault charges, acquitted on 2 other counts

CTV reports on Gaza with anti-Palestinian double standard, data shows

Fermer le chemin Roxham n’a rien réglé: record de demandes d’asile à l’aéroport de Montréal


International

Les décès dus à la rougeole ont bondi de 40 % l’an dernier

Glitches are delaying the rescue of 40 workers trapped in India tunnel collapse

DRC: M23 rebels recapture Kishishe, where they are accused of a massacre in 2022

UK minister Suella Braverman fired: Here’s what to know

Israel signs landmark deal to sell David’s Sling air defense system to Finland

Canadian mining company at centre of deadly Panama protests has no plans to scale back

Protesters demonstrate across Canada as Israel-Hamas war rages