ICYMI this week ...

A weekly round-up of headlines from the Daily News podcast

I have finally got my act together to organize a book tour.

After events in Montreal and Ottawa, I was reminded that it is ultra important to actually head out and see people. The trouble is that my publisher is an independent publisher. That’s great for a lot of reasons. Just like when I published with Fernwood, independent publishers attract the best people and produce some of Canada’s best books. But it’s less great when you need to actually do promotion and publicity. Look at a big name with a big publishing house’s book tour list. They aren’t organizing that alone. Then imagine that I have to do everything from finding a venue to pushing people to come see me. Oh, and did I mention I also have to find a way to get myself, physically, out there?

That’s why you may of heard me, a few weeks ago, on the Daily News wish everyone a happy Friday when it was actually Wednesday. I was sure it was Friday. I flew to Ottawa on Aeroplan points, chaired a very in/tense meeting of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and then did a book launch event. I have little choice but to over crowd my days, lest I need to be further out of pocket for my promotion. Oh, and did I mention that I was also hiding under covers in a friend’s guest room to record the episode? Maybe I’m doing too many things.

But in the spirit of doing too many things, please come and celebrate at one of my next, probably over-packed but certainly fun book events coming up. I will be in Winnipeg, Hamilton, St. Jacobs, Toronto and Edmonton in the next few weeks.

To see a list of the events, please check out my website: http://www.noraloreto.ca.

Here are the headlines I featured on The Daily News this week:

Ontario

New Far North hospital moves closer to being built after $1.8B design, build contract awarded

Opposition to potential nuclear waste storage site in northwestern Ontario mounts as decision nears

Toronto cop demoted for unlawful arrest of Black U of T student

Quebec

McGill agrees to drop legal challenge of law faculty union, officially ending strike

Manitoba

Human smuggling charge laid against Winnipeg man: RCMP

Winnipeg landlord facing fines over mass apartment evictions

British Columbia

B.C. candidate apologizes for 'unacceptable' comments about Muslims, Palestinians


Alberta

More than 4,000 Edmonton public school workers could take strike votes next week

National

TD Bank hit with record $3 billion fine over drug cartel money laundering

Poilievre calls on Liberal government to designate Houthis as a terrorist group

Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say

Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley alleges sexual coercion by former manager in new memoir

Honda recalls 239,000 vehicles in Canada over defective part in steering system

If Bay Street were a country, it’d be the fifth biggest climate polluter in the world

Downtown businesses association demands bail reform to restore public safety on urban streets

International

At least 22 killed in airstrikes in central Beirut, with Israel also firing on UN peacekeepers

Saudi businessmen sign 27 memorandums of understanding with Pakistan valued at $2 billion

‘They tried to murder everyone’: Haiti reels after deadly gang attack

Thousands flee Hurricane Milton, causing traffic jams and fuel shortages

Rio Tinto goes all in on lithium with $6.7 billion Arcadium buy

Israel’s Netanyahu warns Lebanon could face destruction ‘like Gaza’

North Korea says will ‘completely’ cut road and rail links with South Korea

Google says it will stop linking to New Zealand news if a law passes forcing it to pay for content

Tunisia's Kais Saied poised for landslide election victory after crackdown on opposition

Palestinian journalist, 19, killed in Israeli raid after receiving threats

France’s Macron calls for arms sales ban on Israel as Gaza war nears a year