ICYMI this week ...
A round-up of the headlines featured on the Daily News podcast last week
Well, I’d be lying if I said I was feeling good about things these days. The world feels so impossible to penetrate. Things collapse and yet we build nothing in its place — we’re unable to. Lost the skills or have no time, whatever. It feels … bad.
I’m also half-way through writing my next book. It’s the second part of a series called Canada In Decline and this one is on the corporate control of our country. It’s that that’s mostly putting me in a bad mood these days. While we all know how bad it gets out there, it’s another level to be staring at it all the time as you try to write about it in a way that doesn’t feel hopeless (especially if I am feeling hopeless).
But it’s also the weekend so I’ll put my feelings of hoplessness on pause and do a crossword puzzle. Is there a greater act of optimism than that?
Anyway, here’s a video I made this week about a federal government module on disinformation that actually features disinformation (but like, ironically) and under that are all the headlines that you either caught or missed this past week.
Stay hopeful!
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
'Starlight tour': Mi'kmaq fisher allegedly dumped without boots or phone feared death
Patients, staff struggling as Halifax’s largest hospital without running water
Québec
Longtime Quebec civil rights activist Dan Philip dead at 87
Un policier de Longueuil accusé d’avoir couché avec une victime d’agression sexuelle
Yukon
Emails reveal forecast impacts, 'dire' staff concerns during Yukon hospital cuts last year
Ontario
'Frustrated, scared, uncertain': Encampment residents worry as Kingston enforces daytime camping ban
National
Stat Can Data Raises More Concerns About ‘Non-Lethal’ Israel Exports
Canada, Australia, U.K. demand answers after Israeli strike kills 7 aid workers in Gaza
Home prices could hit peak levels by next year, set new highs in 2026: CMHC report
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to enter commercial service May 1
International
Eastern DRC ‘at breaking point’ as security, humanitarian crises worsen
Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital after two-week raid leaving facility in ruins
Israeli government says it will block Al Jazeera from broadcasting
Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in 25 years kills at least nine
A Ghost Ship’s Doomed Journey Through the Gate of Tears
Key India opposition leader sent to jail until April 15 in corruption case
Turkey’s election authority reinstates pro-Kurdish mayoral election winner
Thai Court Accepts Case Seeking to Dissolve Popular Opposition Party Move Forward
Peru’s President Boluarte avoids impeachment effort over Rolex watch probe
Myanmar anti-coup forces claim ‘success’ in Naypyidaw drone attack
I believe the best way for average workers like myself to avoid/manage/identify the constant assault of propaganda we are exposed to via the little black box in our pocket is to ditch the silicon valley socials.
I know many will speak out against this but since taking this step myself I am far better informed because I now spend time investigating strands of the web I never would have discovered if I had remained a receptacle for the handful of algorithms designed to exploit me rather than benefit me.
Of course, I understand that as a journalist, activist, and organizer, your in a very different place, but I think this may be a channel worth investigating.
Thanks for what you do. So much more to say but I'll wait till you and Sandy make it back to London,ON in the future. This old worker is looking forward to that.
A book about Canada?! But I thought you were an expert on the Middle East and a social media pundit on Israel/Palestine relations? Wow Nora how do you ever keep up on such a wide swath of international news and information? You're amazing. Keep up. Looking forward to finding your next best seller on the shelf next to Naomi Klein.