ICYMI this week ...
A weekly round-up of headlines from the Daily News podcast
On Friday, Melanie Joly told CBC News that Canadians should leave Lebanon immediatetly. She suggested that the fastest way out was a commercial flight — she doens’t mention that seats right now range between $5000 and $15,000 and regularly cancelled since Israel started its onslaught — and the interviewer didn’t seem to think that was a suggestion that should be challenged. If you can’t afford it, Canada has loans available, she explains.
The CBC article that reported all of this didn’t challenge Joly. It didn’t look at the claim that flights are operating regularly. It didn’t put blame squarely on Israel, and ask whether or not Israel’s desire to provoke a regional war to demonstrate its war supremacy was a good idea. Just stenography. And when they mentioned that Canadian troops — 150 of them — will be joining other Canadian troops already stationed there, I guess we are just expected to think that’s normal and not at all strange.
I detail this further on Twitter.
Yes, Hezbollah’s Nesrallah is dead. CBC is asking the important question tonight: “What the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah could mean for Israel and wars on its borders.” Lebanon doesn’t matter. The Lebanese don’t matter. The only thing that matters is what might happen to our out-of-control bestie over there. Watching all of this from Quebec is especially disassociating, knowing how many of my relations’ families are being offered up as sacrifice for Israel’s war obsession by the west.
And we’ve sent 150 troops for some reason.
The news isn’t great these days and last week was especially bad. But, in case your desire to be sane is at odds with your desire to informed, well, you can decide to read on and see what was in the news this week that made it to the Daily News podcast.
Oh, and shoutout to the folks in Ottawa who came to my book launch last week. My agent tells me that I need to insist you all purchase 3 copies. That would make me a best-seller several times over. Please. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459753105-the-social-safety-net
Saskatchewan
22 cattle die following semi rollover near Midale, Sask.
Alberta
Delays in family doctor pay deal put lives at risk, says Alberta Medical Association
British Columbia
Grain farmers urge intervention as Metro Vancouver terminal workers prep strike
Newsroom cut by half as Kamloops' Radio NL transitions to music
'Atrocious' comments by RCMP officers alleged in internal probe
Quebec
Port of Montreal dockworkers approve strike mandate
Under pressure from McGill, student union revokes Palestinian group's club status
Veteran Montreal police officer says racism a 'cancer eating away' at the SPVM in resignation letter
Ontario
University of Windsor president announces early departure amid controversy
ArcelorMittal Dofasco worker killed in ‘industrial accident’
Ontario truckers say wage theft plaguing industry
National
NDP sees 'opportunity' to push Liberal government on Palestinian statehood
Disability rights groups launching Charter challenge against MAID law
Canada’s fertility rate has hit a record low. What’s behind the drop?
'They were amazing people': Canadian man remembers parents killed in Lebanon
International
Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah
Oil climbs 2% to three-week high on China stimulus, Mideast conflict
Lebanon sees deadliest day since civil war as Israeli attacks kill 492
Tension in Bolivia as Morales issues 24-hour ultimatum to Arce government
Missouri executes Marcellus Williams after two decades on death row
Tunisian presidential candidate Zammel sentenced to six months in prison
Israel slammed for sending 88 unidentifiable bodies of Palestinians to Gaza
Shippers scramble for workarounds ahead of looming US East Coast port strike
X requests it be reinstated in Brazil after complying with judge’s orders, sources say