The Catch-all: ICYMI December 14-20

Hello all. This will be the last Catch-all for 2024. Probably won't be much news going on from now until the end of the year. Come to think of it, this is probably the last Catch post until 2025, as well. I hope you take some time at the end of the year for yourselves. Rest up, we're going to need to stay strong for 2025 together.

News Round-up

Ontario

Toronto bike lane removals to start in March at the earliest, Jack Hauen and Aidan Chamandy, The Trillium (Dec. 17)

Kingston Police confirm suspension of deputy chief, Tori Stafford, Kingstonist (Dec. 17)

FIFA asks that players, VIPs get priority at hospitals in 2026, Patrick Cain, The Trillium (Dec. 20)

Canada

Canada’s finance minister resigns as unpopular Trudeau faces biggest test of his political career, Rob Gillies, Associated Press (Dec. 17)

Dying to win: Canadian provinces are expanding legal gambling despite one death every nine days, Rob Csernyik, Ricochet (Dec. 17)

Beth Tikvah synagogue in D.D.O. hit by a firebomb, Leora Schertzer, Montreal Gazette (Dec. 18)

[Pay-walled] Corus paid bonuses to executives this year as its shares collapsed, David Milstead and Jameson Berkow, The Globe & Mail (Dec. 19)

Poilievre says House should be recalled as NDP vows to vote down Liberal government, Darren Major, CBC News (Dec. 20)

US

Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk’s Meddling, Nikki McCann Ramirez and Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone (Dec. 19)

Texas governor buys billboards warning migrants they'll be raped if they illegally cross border, Michael Karlis, San Antonio Current (Dec. 19)

NYPD Arrests Amazon Workers During Historic Strike, Luis Feliz Leon, In These Times (Dec. 19)

World

Pelicot mass rape trial ends with 51 guilty verdicts - and fears justice hasn’t been served, Saskya Vandoorne, Kara Fox and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (Dec. 19)

Two killed and scores injured in Germany as car ploughs into crowd at Christmas market, Kate Connolly, The Guardian (Dec. 20)

100 Women Killed in Kenya in Just Four Months, teleSUR (Dec. 20)

Israel-Palestine

I resigned from CNN over its pro-Israel bias, Ana Maria Monjardino, The Electronic Intifada (Dec. 15)

'No Civilians. Everyone's a Terrorist': IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim Corridor, Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz (Dec. 18)

Human Rights Watch finds Israel guilty of extermination and ‘acts of genocide’, Jonathan Ofir, Mondoweiss (Dec. 19)

Israeli settlers set mosque on fire in occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera (Dec. 20)

COVID

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted, Cathleen O'Grady, Science Adviser (Dec. 17)

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots, Rosemary Westwood, NPR (Dec. 20)

Tech

Pierre Poilievre is cozying up to Canada’s far-right broligarchs, Paris Marx, The Breach (Dec. 19)

Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet, Jason Koebler, 404 Media (Dec. 19)

AV Corner

Podcast: Jews Say No to Genocide - Blueprints of Disruption
Music: III - Uprising
Video: Family Abolition - JohntheDuncan