ICYMI this week ...
A round-up of news featured at the Daily News Podcast this week
I took a few weeks off from this round-up because I was gallavanting. But that’s all done now. Kids have been home due to strikes since November 21. That’s a long time, in case you don’t instantly realize it. A long time. A lot of kids being home time. It’s like COVID-19 but nice — we don’t fear death from the groceries. So I’ll take it.
This past week, the Sandy and Nora podcast hit number ten on the Canadian podcast chart for politics podcasts. We usually peak somewhere beteen 10 and 20 each week. But this week, I actually paid attention and counted how many Canadian podcasts were ahead of ours. There were only two: Peter Mansbridge’s podcast and Pall Wells’.
We’re in the bigs now, folks.
Sadly, the bigs don’t pay anymore. Nor do they come with cohesive national platforms. We owe our popularity to word of mouth. Thanks, if you’ve ever told a friend to check us out.
Here’s the stories that I featured on this week’s Daily News Podcast. The common theme? Deportation and police violence — two related issues that seem to be getting more brutal and cruel.
You can listen to past episodes of the Daily News podcast here.
Quebec
Quebec adopts sweeping health-care reform bill
Common Front unions determined to see things through
Ontario
Kenneth Law charged with 14 counts of murder in Ontario sodium nitrite deaths
2 Ontario men charged after allegedly producing recruitment videos for listed terrorist entity
3-year-old boy allegedly assaulted in Toronto CAS building before death: sources
Alberta
Fourth Calgarian arrested for terrorism-related offences in ongoing investigation
Gay man set to be deported from Edmonton to Uganda: ‘I’m in a nightmare’
Judge dismisses latest bid by driver who caused Humboldt Broncos crash to stay in Canada
Family of woman killed by police says her death was 'unnecessary'
Nunavut
Inuk member of Nutrition North advisory board resigns over Canada’s support of Israel
Manitoba
Former Manitoba missionary couple convicted of child sex crimes in Dominican Republic
Newfoundland and Labrador
No charges for police officer who fatally shot Sudanese man in Newfoundland
British Columbia
Worker dies at log sorting facility on Vancouver Island
Canada
5 now dead in 'major' cantaloupe salmonella outbreak as Canadian cases nearly double
Entire Indigenous advisory council for CN Rail resigns
Dollarama sales, profit way up after growing total number of stores
Price of baby formula spiked more than 20 per cent in one year amid shortages
Canadian miners accused of indirectly supporting Wagner Group in Mali
International
WHO calls for immediate passage of humanitarian relief into Gaza
Dead Alabama prisoner’s body returned without a heart, family says
Yemen’s Houthis claim missile attack on Norwegian ship Strinda
Washington Post: Israel Used U.S.-Supplied White Phosphorus to Attack Civilians in Lebanon
One-fifth of troop fatalities in Gaza due to friendly fire or accidents, IDF reports
Asylum seeker dies on UK barge housing migrants and refugees