The Catch-All: ICYMI April 6-12
The news I've been consuming this week
Good morning, all. This week was eventful on my end, I finished the last semester of my journalism program. I still have summer courses to finish, but once that's done I'll complete my degree and finally be out of the academia cycle! Very excited on that front.
A quick note: I changed the description of the site from "Covering news media in Canada from a materialist analysis" to "Analyzing Canadian news media and its capitalist ideology." I realized the work done here wasn't exactly evaluating how newspapers were made, servers hosted or funding provided, and therefore not materialist. There still may be some of that analysis done in the future, but the new description fits what The Catch does far better. Not a huge thing but transparency and all that. Anyway, on with the news.
News Round-up
Ontario
Suspended police officers cost Ontario taxpayers $134M over past decade, Julie Ireton and Valerie Ouellet, CBC News (Apr. 9)
Ontario looking to add student accommodation to its definition of new housing, Isaac Callan and Colin D'Mello, Global News (Apr. 9)
Toronto police suspensions have cost public $1.3M so far in 2024, Clara Pasieka, CBC News (Apr. 12)
Canada
Canadian embassy in Syria damaged in Israeli strike on Iranian embassy next door, Evan Dyer, CBC News (Apr. 9)
The Big China Con: How Canada’s establishment media manufactured the foreign interference scandal, Bruce Livesey, The Breach (Apr. 9)
Water is in short supply in southern Alberta. Is a massive expansion of irrigation possible?, Joel Dryden and Carla Turner, CBC News (Apr. 9)
Jagmeet Singh backpedals on consumer carbon levy, distances NDP from support for Justin Trudeau’s policy, Mark Ramzy, Toronto Star (Apr. 11)
Canada broke its treaty promise, but Blood Tribe is barred from suing, Supreme Court rules, Brett Forester, CBC News (Apr. 12)
Foreign landlord fails to pay taxes, CRA goes after tenant, Kerry Gold, The Globe and Mail (Apr. 12)
US
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms, Ava Sasani, The Guardian (Apr. 9)
Norfolk Southern reaches $600 million settlement to settle East Palestine derailment suit, David Goldman, CNN (Apr. 9)
Louisiana High Court: Priests Have a “Property Right” Not to Be Sued For Sexual Abuse, Steve Kennedy, Balls and Strikes (Apr. 9)
Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis?, Lev Golinkin, The Nation (Apr. 10)
Bird flu detected among chickens in Texas and Michigan, Melody Schreiber, The Guardian (Apr. 12)
Fox News, Far-Right Podcasters Sued For Linking Wrong Man To Neo-Nazi Shooting, Sebastian Murdock, HuffPost (Apr. 12)
World
Indigenous leaders want to protect whales by granting them legal personhood, Julie Depenbrock, NPR (Apr. 8)
Vietnam tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in $12.5bn fraud case, Al Jazeera (Apr. 11)
Biden Administration Fears Iran Might Target U.S. Forces Over Israel Strike, Ken Klippenstein, The Intercept (Apr. 10)
Israel-Palestine
Gaza's largest hospital 'an empty shell with human graves': WHO, Al-Monitor (Apr. 6)
Charities Are Paying Student Journalists For ‘Pro-Israel Content’, Davide Mastracci, The Maple (Apr. 9)
‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened, Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss (Apr. 11)
Will Gaza be safer if Netanyahu quit as Israel PM? Likely not, say analysts, Simon Speakman Cordall, Al Jazeera (Apr. 12)
COVID
Severe COVID leads to higher risk of pulmonary fibrosis: research, CBC News (Apr. 8)
Toward A Universal Covid Vaccine, William A. Haseltine, Forbes (Apr. 10)
Tech
Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments, Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press via CBC News (Apr. 7)
‘AI Instagram Influencers’ Are Deepfaking Their Faces Onto Real Women’s Bodies, Jason Koebler, 404 Media (Apr. 9)
Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets, Victoria Song, The Verge (Apr. 12)
Exclusive: Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry, Billy Perrigo, TIME (Apr. 12)
AV Corner
Podcast: (Australia) Supermarkets could finally be fined billions if they price gouge - The Morning Edition
Video: What Happens If Israel Goes To War With Iran? - First Thought
Music: Arcane Demolition - Burning Lord
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