ICYMI this week ...

A round-up of news from the Daily News podcast

Just as I was going to bed last night, I saw that a bunch of National Post employees, losers, were making fun of me online. There’s been an increase of this recently — insisting that I’m insane or that I’ve lost my mind or whatever. It’s really bizarre to see a version of yourself that … doesn’t exist … be propped up by people who I’ve never met. I’ll probably write more about that later.

But something that is surely unrelated (surely!) — I had a video surpass 1000 views for the first time since I started posting them two weeks ago. Now, I know, this is small beans. Even these Substack posts are read by more people than that. But I think that it’s such a delightful takedown of Pierre Poilievre that it is making a few people nervous. So, please share it and this blog and everything else because the forces out there who are being paid to silence me, well, they’re still going hard.

As for the Daily News — it feels like every week this is just a list of signposts on the path to our collective destruction. Ha, how’s that for me enticing you to read on? Here are the headlines that I covered this week on the Daily News. And a hearty shout-out to all the journalists who’s work went into making these stories.

New Brunswick

Absentee landlord sits on empty units as St. Stephen struggles with homelessness

Manitoba

Man in custody after 5 people, including 3 children, found dead in southern Manitoba

Manitoba man charged with 1st-degree murder in deaths of partner, 3 children and partner's relative

Quebec

Opioid 25 times more powerful than fentanyl detected in Quebec City region

Québec lance une formation plus courte et payée pour les préposés au soutien à domicile

Ontario

Ontario to repeal wage-cap law after Appeal Court rules Ford government's Bill 124 unconstitutional

Off-duty police officer accused of assaulting young Ontario hockey player while coaching

Nunavut

Whiteout conditions, lack of regulations contributed to fatal 2021 helicopter crash in Nunavut, TSB says

British Columbia

The Solved Sugar Strike Has a Hero: Striker the Goose

Two teens intentionally run down by Abbotsford, B.C. driver, police say

National

Some members of Parliament, ministers assigned police protection as security tightens

Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

Trudeau Government Authorized $28.5 Million Of New Military Exports To Israel Since October

Rent hits another record high in January as average asking price reaches $2,196

Canada working to raise defence spending, NATO warns 'never take peace for granted'

Joint Statement by the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand

'We paid too much': Canada's AG blasts CBSA over ArriveCan app

Canada suspended all contracts with ArriveCan app company late last year, minister says

Feds announce $176 million in housing deals with more than 60 rural communities

International

Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Calls to stave off Rafah offensive grow

Ethiopian forces killed ‘at least 45 citizens’ in Amhara, rights body says

Israeli snipers kill civilians and shoot medics at Gaza hospital

Israel-Gaza war brings 2023 journalist killings to devastating high

You will pay for this mess, ship owners told

Pakistani protesters block highways to demonstrate against election results

Rhinos are returned to a plateau in central Kenya, decades after poachers wiped them out

Prabowo Subianto claims victory in Indonesian presidential election