The Catch-All: ICMYI May 4-10
The news I've been consuming this week
Hello all, another big week in news. But it seems like every week is a big week in news if you're a politics and journalism nerd like me.
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As for the news round-up, lots of big headlines, but I'd like to specifically draw your attention to the COVID section. The virus still impacts our lives and, if Alberta's any indication, we may see another uptick in cases. Though it's near-impossible to tell with the complete lack of comprehensive information.
News Round-up
Ontario
A Mississauga factory is using a known carcinogen. Residents had no idea, Leah Borts-Kuperman and Urbi Khan (w/ Sid Naidu), The Narwhal (May 2)
Ford says pro-Palestinian university encampments 'need to move', CBC News (May 6)
Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just Canada’s latest Pretendian case?, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian (May 9)
Classism in the Canada Disability Benefit - and in Kingston, Franzes Kozier, Kingstonist (May 9)
Canada
Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups, Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog (May 7)
Ottawa approves B.C.'s request to recriminalize use of illicit drugs in public spaces, Darren Major, CBC News (May 7)
Pierre Poilievre called lobbyists 'utterly useless,' but they're still attending his fundraisers, Ashley Burke, Kate McKenna and Andrew Ryan, CBC News (May 7)
More Canadian cities are warming up to the car-free street, Gabrielle Huston, CBC News (May 8)
CIJA Contravened A Lobbying Requirement With No Repercussions, Davide Mastracci, The Maple (May 8)
'This is not a negotiation': Police fire tear gas and clear U of C encampment, Bill Kaufman, Calgary Herald (May 10)
Conservatives amplify anti-choice rhetoric in the House of Commons, Nick Seebruch, rabble.ca (May 10)
US
What H5N1 in US Dairy Says about the State of Public Health, Crawford Killan, The Tyee (May 7)
Why Are Columbia Protesters Charged With Misdemeanors and City College Protesters Charged with Felonies?, Nick Pinto, Hell Gate (May 8)
Exclusive: Vice Media partners with Savage Ventures to relaunch digital brands, Sara Fischer, Axios (May 9)
Police in riot gear cleared out pro-Palestinian encampment at MIT overnight. Here’s how it unfolded., Talia Lissauer, Lila Hempel-Edgers, Alexa Coultoff, Jason Laughlin, Chris Serres and John r. Ellement, Boston Globe (May 10)
Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds, Lois Beckett, The Guardian (May 10)
Biden administration moves to terminate agreement governing conditions for migrant children in US custody, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (May 10)
World
Perth stabbing: police shoot boy, 16, dead after alleged attack that has ‘hallmarks’ of terror incident, Royce Kurmelovs, The Guardian (May 5)
Rai journalists strike over ‘suffocating control’ by Meloni’s government, Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian (May 6)
Vietnam celebrates 70 years since Dien Bien Phu battle that ended French colonial rule, Associated Press (May 7)
'Hopeless and broken' why the world's top climate scientists are in despair, Damian Carrington, The Guardian (May 8)
Spanish universities to break ties with Israeli institutions ‘not committed to peace’, Alyssa Mcmurtry, Anadolu Ajansi (May 9)
Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Mark Townsend, The Guardian (May 9)
Israel-Palestine
Israel votes to shut down Al Jazeera in the country, Middle East Eye (May 5)
‘The goal is to destroy Gaza’: Why Israel rejects a ceasefire with Hamas, Mat Nashed, Al Jazeera (May 7)
The real reason Israel is invading Rafah, Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss (May 9)
Gaza’s seventh mass grave discovered at al-Shifa Hospital, Al Jazeera (May 9)
UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid, Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press (May 10)
Rocks, looting, protests: How Israelis are blocking Gaza-bound aid trucks, Middle East Eye (May 10)
COVID
Ottawa will stop providing COVID-19 rapid tests to regions, Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, CBC News (May 7)
Hospitals struggling as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations rise in Alberta: doctor, Diego Romero, CTV News (May 7)
I got COVID and the casual response I received shows we haven’t learned lessons from the pandemic, Andrew Phillips, Toronto Star (May 7)
Japan saw over 16,000 deaths from COVID-19 in May-Nov 2023, Japan Today (May 8)
Tech
Pornhub's Biggest Star Is Promoting an AI Nonconsensual 'Nudify' App, Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media (May 6)
Amazon launches a Prime-free marketplace in South Africa, its first in sub-Saharan Africa, Tage Kene-Okafor and Ingrid Lunden, Tech Crunch (May 7)
Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda, Wesley Yin-Poole, IGN (May 7)
Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claims, Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge (May 8)
OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography, Dan Milmo, The Guardian (May 9)
AV Corner
Podcast: No Pride in Genocide - Blueprints of Disruption
Video: The Truth Behind the Tiktok Ban - ethan is online
Music: Hind's Hall - Macklemore*
*YouTube's age-restricted the video like a bunch of cowards.
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