ICYMI this week ...

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Jul 28, 2024

In compiling this week’s list, I was reminded of the silence from Canadian politicians over the fact that a Canadian citizen was shot and killed by the IDF near the border with Gaza. Nothing. No need to comment om the guy — the IDF said he was threatening them. His sins absolve the government’s need to say anything about it.

Except what it if was, what is most likely, a protest? What if he was just expressing what the vast majority of Canadians believe but was also close enough to Gaza to express himself on the other side of what sounds like is a modern concentration camp?

This week, I wrote about the earliest concentration camps — coordinated by Spain in Cuba, where some number (hundreds of thousands) of people were killed. The United States used these camps as the excuse to invade Cuba, starting their broader war with Spain in the last 1800s. Anyway, don’t miss reading that and don’t miss the stories that were featured this week on the Daily News …

Newfoundland and Labrador

Occupational health and safety charges laid in fatal Come By Chance refinery blast

Nova Scotia

Halifax Pride parade disrupted by pro-Palestinian protests

New Brunswick

Influx of anti-drag 'grooming' emails preceded N.B.'s pronoun policy review, documents reveal

Ontario

Two inmates of Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay charged with first-degree murder

LCBO strike to end Monday after workers ratify tentative agreement

‘Massive Conflict of Interest’: Opposition Parties Say LCBO President Should Resign, Face Investigation Over Role With Big Business Lobby Group

Woodstock police cleared of wrongdoing after suspect gets broken nose during arrest: SIU

Ontario police officer shot colleague 10 times in violent dispute in 2018. Both walk away conviction free