ICYMI this week ...

A weekly round-up of headlines from the Daily News podcast

Feb 09, 2025

This past week, Donald Trump announced that he wanted to do ethnic cleansing in Gaza. He has promised to forcibly remove Gazans and relocate them to neighbouring regions.

That day, images of the Globe and Mail’s front page and the Journal de Québec’s front page came across my news feed. While the newspapers are very different, it’s stark to see just how little the Globe still cares about what is happening in Gaza. Where the Globe chose to highlight the death of the Aga Khan, the JdQ made Gaza the main story. Look at the difference:

Anyway, it’s late and I don’t want to write too more into what’s going on here. I just think that the Globe’s strategy of ignoring Gaza is a foolish one.

Here are the headlines that were on the Daily News podcast this week…

Ontario

Lawsuit alleges former Ford staffers promised to use 'backchannel contacts' to get land rezoned

Worker dead in fall at Barrhaven construction site

Neskantaga marks 3 decades under boil-water advisory

Alberta

‘These situations are dynamic’: 1 dead, 9 detained in separate border incursions in Alberta

Saskatchewan

Sask. RCMP investigating Carry the Kettle deaths as quadruple homicide, believed to be targeted

Quebec

Quebec government open to rekindled LNG project to ship energy from Alberta overseas

Quebec union plans legal action against Amazon over closures