ICYMI this week ...

A round-up of the headlines featured on the Daily News Podcast this week

We have the best news. Remember the GoFundMe I was organizing to pay for the passage of 8 people (including 5 children) from Gaza? Well, they’re scheduled to arrive in Canada on Monday. Monday! It’s happening! The story of how this has all happened is a long and interesting one but for now, suffice it to say that they’re coming. You can still donate to the GoFundMe — we are short of our goal and are still spending money.

Here are the headlines that I covered this week on the Daily News podcast. Take a listen, do a re-cap, see what you missed. The world may be burning but we can still learn about it. Isn’t that optimistic?

Nunavut

Fuel spill in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, prompts public warning

Ontario

LCBO union warns of 'dry summer' as it announces July 5 strike date

Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room

He was randomly targeted in a Toronto shooting. Four months later his family is struggling to get here to bury him

Truck with anti-Muslim messaging registered to Rebel News Network

Newfoundland and Labrador

Churchill Falls residents ordered to evacuate as wildfire grows out of control

Manitoba

Tragic suicide at Winnipeg Grand Mosque prompts urgent calls for mental health support

Quebec

Worker dies at construction site in Montreal's Phillips Square

Alberta

Cargill avoids damages for handling of early days of COVID-19 that left two employees dead, 951 with virus

British Columbia

Cousins found dead weeks apart in Dawson Creek, B.C.

National

Trudeau says Russia is committing 'an element of genocide' by taking Ukrainian children from homes

'They follow us everywhere': Canadian citizens accuse Algeria of spying, intimidation at home

New national school food program could be in place before end of next school year

International

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard is a terrorist group, says Canada

Shipping industry groups call for action after Houthis sink second vessel

Nine patients killed in hospital fire in northern Iran’s Rasht

UN officials warn of ‘miscalculation’ along Israel-Lebanon border

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

Six killed in Ecuador as heavy rains trigger landslide

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

Thailand becomes first Southeast Asian country to allow same-sex marriage

Global spending on nuclear weapons up 13% in record rise

Israel’s pledge to guard an aid route into Gaza falls flat as lawlessness blocks distribution

Kenya police use tear gas, water cannon as hundreds protest over tax hikes