ICYMI this week ...

A weekly round-up of the headlines featured in the Daily News podcast

Friday, I had a a hell of a few hours. A good hell. A hell of describing history, society, free trade, Canadian identity, capitalism and profits, Canada Post — all in 8 minutes and six separate times. It’s been a long time since I’ve done CBC syndication, though I think the last time I had 21 interviews, rather than 6.

The great thing about doing the weekend morning shows is that there are fewer shows. The greater thing? I have more time. The difficult thing? Well, my new book covers a lot of ground. Maybe too much ground. It felt like a 2-hour marathon.

I haven’t seen it posted online anywhere and I don’t really know if their aired yesterday morning. Or this morning. British Columbia should hear me in a few weeks.

I didn’t get a single interview from mainstream media for The Social Safety Net. And it’s probably been two years since I did syndication, so this was a real treat. I don’t think I’ve ever talked about anticapitalism and corporate greed so directly and radically on CBC before. I guess I look forward to the Ombuds complaint. I hope people hear it. And in the mean time, you can check out this great review from the Seaboard Review of Books. And below that? Last week’s headlines from the Daily News Podcast.

Corporate Control by Nora Loreto

Newfoundland and Labrador

Student advocates outraged as MUN uses money set for tuition reduction elsewhere

Prince Edward Island

First Nation on P.E.I. says fisheries officers seized 300 Indigenous lobster traps

Alberta

Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle in Calgary drive-thru

Quebec

Quebec to impose French-language quotas on streaming giants

Encore trop long pour une ambulance à plusieurs endroits au Québec

Ontario

Police-involved shooting in Collingwood, SIU investigates

Wildfires force more than 800 to evacuate northwestern Ontario First Nation

Israeli weapons company wants Ontario to use its drones to manage forest fires

Canada, Britain, France threaten action if Israel does not stop military offensive and lift aid restrictions

As Canada Post workers issue strike notice, here’s when the strike is expected to start

Bell says services fully restored after widespread outage hit Ontario, Quebec

'Totally unacceptable' that IDF fired shots near Canadians, Carney says

Canada Pension Plan Investments drops net-zero target after initially aiming for 2050

International

Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation

An adviser to an ex-Ukrainian president is killed near an American school in Spain, officials say

Member of Irish rap band Kneecap charged with ‘terrorism’ offence

Peru court rules in favor of Kichwa territorial rights in the Amazon

UK government suspends free trade talks with Israel over Gaza war

Sudan’s army declares Khartoum state ‘completely free’ of paramilitary RSF