The Catch-all: ICYMI October 28-November 3
The news I've been consuming this week
After attending many different rallies, and continuing to follow the coverage of Israel-Palestine, it’s become very clear that we are at a new level of popular sentiment for Palestine. Despite this, our leaders have kept to the same track they always have. Keep the pressure up. Sign petitions, attend actions, attend rallies, phone our representatives. This won’t end until we end it. We’ve failed Palestine for too long.
News Round-up
Ontario
Ontario Court reinforces archaic stigmas against sex workers, Natasha Darling, rabble.ca (Oct. 30)
‘Pandora’s box is open’: 6,972 pages of internal documents show Ford’s ties to land swaps and staff’s focus on secrecy, Fatima Syed and Emma McIntosh, The Narwhal (Oct. 31)
Expansion of private clinics likely to increase wait times in Ontario, report suggests, Katherine DeClerq, CP24 (Nov. 2)
Ron Taverner dissuaded Toronto police from staffing Ford family stag and doe: emails, Charlie Pinkerton, The Trillium (Nov. 3)
Canada
‘Air Canada needs to step up’: Disabled B.C. man forced to drag himself off plane, Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press via Global News (Oct. 29)
Activists occupy 17 MPs’ offices, read names of dead Palestinian children, The Breach (Oct. 30)
Canadian company’s Israeli subsidiary sold more deadly weapons than advertised, Tim Groves and Emma Paling, The Breach (Oct. 31)
‘Victims Of Communism’ Monument Unveiling Postponed, Taylor C. Noakes, The Maple (Oct. 31)
Basic income 'unlocked dozens of doors for me,' supporter says amid call for national program, Justin Chandler, CBC News (Nov. 2)
F-35 fighter jet to cost Canada $74 billion, says PBO, David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Nov. 2)
The Trudeau Government Has Condemned Every Peaceful Method Of Palestinian Resistance, Alex Cosh, The Maple (Nov. 2)
World
Second snow crab season canceled as researchers pinpoint cause, Conrad Swanson, Seattle Times (Oct. 28)
Police say armed man killed himself instead of carrying out apparent plan to attack amusement park, Colleen Slevin and Matthew Brown, Associated Press (Oct. 30)
Walt Disney Animation Studios Staffers Vote To Unionize With Animation Guild, Erik Pederson, Deadline (Nov. 1)
Sudan: Violent Clashes in the Capital and West of the Country, TeleSur (Nov. 2)
Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000, Alex Konrad, Forbes (Nov. 3)
Israel-Palestine
We are witnessing the largest U.S. anti-war protests in 20 years, Michael Arria, Mondoweiss (Oct. 28)
Bernie Sanders’s failure to back Israel-Gaza ceasefire upsets US followers, Ali Harb, Al Jazeera (Oct. 30)
Dozens killed after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza refugee camp, Rory Carroll, The Guardian (Oct. 31)
Israel-Palestine war: Likud MP calls for Gaza to be 'erased from the face of the earth', Middle East Eye (Nov. 1)
Israel’s deadly attack on the Jabalia refugee camp: What we know so far, Al Jazeera (Nov. 1)
Neo-Nazis and the Far-Right Are Trying to Hijack Pro-Palestine Protests, Tess Owen, Vice News (Nov. 1)
Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Sharon Zhang, Truthout (Nov. 2)
Israeli police storm hospital in East Jerusalem, detaining Gaza visitors, Fayez Abu Rmaileh, Middle East Eye (Nov 2.)
‘Unsafe in own home’: Israeli settlers spread terror in South Hebron Hills, Al Jazeera (Nov. 3)
COVID
Study: Regardless of variant, half of long-COVID patients fail to improve after 18 months, Stephanie Soucheray, CIDRAP- Univeristy of Minnesota (Oct. 30)
‘Nature’s way of dealing with old people’: the damning messages revealed to Covid inquiry, Matthew Weaver, The Guardian (Oct. 31)
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?, Michael Le Page, New Scientist (Oct. 31)
40% of Canadians don’t plan on getting updated COVID booster, flu shot: poll, Katie Dangerfield, Global News (Nov. 1)
Boris Johnson asked if blowing hairdryer up nose could kill Covid, says ex-aide Cummings, Jane Dalton, Adam Forrest, The Independent (Nov 2)
Poverty and Long COVID Go Together, Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main (Nov. 2)
Can We Still Contain, and Possibly Eliminate, COVID-19? Yes, and Here Is How, William A. Haseltine PhD, Inside Precision Medicine
AV Corner:
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