ICYMI this week ...
News round up as January froze into February
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If you wanted to go back and see the stories that the daily news brief covered this week, here they are! Maybe this list can replace that Sunday morning paper that you can’t get any more because the Globe and Mail no longer distributes East of Montreal …
British Columbia
Two B.C. Mounties charged with manslaughter, 3 others face obstruction charge
Reporters speak out after layoffs hit BC news publication Capital Daily
Alberta
Prince Edward Island
P.E.I. will see more action on housing 'once the snow's gone,' says minister
D.P. Murphy Inc. evicting six-unit apartment building to house Tim Hortons workers in Souris, P.E.I.
Nova Scotia
The Halifax Board of Police Commissioners broke the law
Quebec
6 years later, ceremony held inside Quebec City mosque to honour victims of 2017 attack
Was your car stolen? It may have left Canada through the Port of Montreal
Ontario
Doubling of inmate deaths in Ontario prompts call for correctional oversight body
National News
New national long-term care standards unveiled, but Ottawa not planning to make them mandatory
Ottawa ends up spending $450,000 per person on Calgary quarantine hotel in 2022
Health Canada reviewing safety of controversial breastfeeding drug
Dozens of International Students Are Dying in Canada. The Federal Government Isn’t Doing Anything.
Canada’s top court takes a tough stance on mandatory minimum sentences
United States
California shooting underscores strain on state’s farmworkers
House passes resolution to remove Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee
World
Human Rights Watch urges investigation of alleged use of land mines by Ukraine
Netanyahu gives Israelis ‘green light to shoot Palestinians’
An explosion at a Pakistan mosque leaves dozens dead and more than 150 injured