The Catch-All: ICYMI August 3-9

Hello all! Not much preamble this week, but when I was compiling these headlines I had a weird moment of deep appreciation. I love reading through and sharing news, and it really just hit me in a poignant way as I was doing this round-up today. So thank you for allowing me to do this with purpose. Now on to a round-up where the first headline contains the word "pooping."

News Round-up

Ontario

‘Don’t be pooping on the beach,’ Doug Ford says of Ontario town saga, Gabby Rodrigues, Global News (Aug. 7)

Ford government close to completing Greenbelt checklist, key recommendation will go to committee, Isaac Callan and Colin D'Mello, Global News (Aug. 8)

Most Ontario 7-Eleven’s to offer booze for takeout and in-store drinking, Richard Southern and John Marchesan, CityNews (Aug. 8)

Mayor says Ottawa facing 'financial crisis,' blames feds for shortchanging city, Arthur White-Crummey, CBC News (Aug. 8)

Canada

More than 300 Canadians filing for bankruptcy each day as insolvency filings hit four-year high, Marisa Coulton, Toronto Star (Aug. 3)

Canadian firefighter dies battling blaze in Alberta, Reuters (Aug. 4)

Pierre Poilievre Claims He’s Never Heard of ‘Diagolon’. He’s Not Telling the Truth. Here are the Receipts, Luke LeBrun, PressProgress (Aug. 6)

Ultrafine particles linked to 1,100 deaths per year in Montreal, Toronto: study, Joe Bongiorno, The Canadian Press (Aug. 7)

Public Safety Lists Israeli ‘Torture Camp’ Minister As Key Contact, Alex Cosh, The Maple (Aug. 8)

RCMP hired private spies to monitor Fairy Creek activists, Jimmy Thomson, National Observer (Aug. 9)

US

What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?, Clare Malone, The New Yorker (Aug. 5)

Revealed: US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities ahead of election, Ben Makuch, The Guardian (Aug. 6)

US releases $3.5 billion to Israel to spend on US weapons, military equipment, Kanishka Singh, Reuters (Aug. 9)

World

Far-right mob storms Rotherham hotel and attacks police amid escalating violence, Middle East Eye (Aug. 4)

Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina resigns as widening unrest sees protesters storm her official residence, Julhas Alam and Krutika Pathi, Associated Press (Aug. 5)

Cambodia starts work on China-funded canal, DW (Aug. 5)

Venezuela: CNE Turns Over Electoral Data to Supreme Court, US Walks Back González Recognition, José Luis Granados Ceja, Venezuelanalysis (Aug. 6)

Thai Constitutional Court dissolves election-winning Move Forward Party, Al Jazeera (Aug. 7)

Israel-Palestine

Israeli media publishes video of soldiers allegedly raping Palestinian detainee, Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye (Aug. 7)

Nagasaki defends decision not to invite Israel to atomic bomb memorial, Al Jazeera (Aug. 8)

Israel steps up attacks in Lebanon, kills Hamas official, Al Jazeera (Aug. 9)

‘Shrapnel, stones and scattered human flesh’: Testimonies from survivors of Gaza school bombings, Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss (Aug. 9)

‘Everything is legitimate’: Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of rape, Simon Speakman Cordall, Al Jazeera (Aug. 9)

COVID

Nassau County Republicans pass mask ban after raucous debate, Charles Lane, Gothamist (Aug. 5)

David Lynch says he can no longer ‘go out’ due to Covid fears after health diagnosis, Jacob Stolworthy, Independent (Aug. 6)

Hundreds of long-COVID sufferers affected as AHS abruptly closes outpatient program, Krista Sylvester, Global News (Aug. 8)

COVID drops to 10th leading cause of death in US, Stephanie Soucheray, CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota (Aug. 8)

Noah Lyles’ collapse with Covid: How not to manage health at the Olympics, Arthur L. Caplan, Stat News (Aug. 9)

Tech

YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI’s scrape of creators’ transcripts, Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch (Aug. 5)

Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI, Samantha Cole, 404 Media (Aug. 5)

Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case, Lauren Feiner, The Verge (Aug. 5)

Warner Bros. Discovery pretty much wiped the Cartoon Network website, Jay Peters, The Verge (Aug. 9)

President Maduro blocks access to X in Venezuela for 10 days, Al Jazeera (Aug. 9)

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