The Catch-All: ICYMI July 20-26

Hello all, hope you had a good week. Not much to say in this preamble, hope you're still contributing to pro-Palestine causes and following news as best you can. Without further ado, on with the news this week.

News Round-up

Ontario

LCBO President Also Sits on Board of Big Business Group Lobbying Doug Ford to Privatize Alcohol Sales in Ontario, Luke LeBrun, PressProgress (Jul. 22)

Big booze companies suing LCBO over ‘unfair’ pricing policies, Josh Rubin, Toronto Star (Jul. 24)

Just-ratified OPP deal making them 'highest paid' Ontario cops adds new 3% front-line incentive, Charlie Pinkerton, The Trillium (Jul. 25)

Jewish group denounces monument to Nazi collaborators at Ontario kids' camp, David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Jul. 26)

Canada

Universities, police spread ‘jaw-dropping’ misinformation about encampments, Brishti Basu, Savanna Craig and Athina Khalid, The Breach (Jul. 19)

Loblaw, George Weston to settle class action over bread price-fixing for $500 million, Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press (Jul. 25)

Postmedia plans to buy Atlantic Canada's insolvent SaltWire newspaper chain, Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press (Jul. 26)

Supreme Court rules Crown owes Northern Ontario First Nations billions for ‘egregious’ treaty violations, Colin Freeze, The Globe and Mail (Jul. 26)

One-third of structures in Jasper damaged by massive wildfire, Nicholas Frew and Wallis Snowden, CBC News (Jul. 26)

US

Bodycam video reveals chaotic scene of deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help, John O'Connor, Associated Press (Jul. 22)

Elon Musk's transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child, David Ingram, NBC News (Jul. 25)

So … What’s With This Rumor That J.D. Vance Had Sex With a Couch?, Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone (Jul. 25)

World

Developing countries face worst debt crisis in history, study shows, Larry Elliott, The Guardian (Jul. 21)

China unveils world’s 1st meltdown-proof nuclear reactor with 105 MW capacity, Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering (Jul. 22)

Anti-corruption demonstrations break out in Uganda’s capital as people note Kenya’s protest success, Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press (Jul. 23)

HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient, Kat Lay, The Guardian (Jul. 23)

Big names chopped as News Corp redundancies hit newspapers and national reporting team, Amanda Meade, The Guardian (Jul. 24)

Israel-Palestine

Israel says it struck Yemen’s Hodeidah in response to Houthi attacks, Al Jazeera (Jul. 20)

‘Torn up bodies’: Israel intensifies bombing campaign in Gaza, Al Jazeera (Jul. 20)

Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt, Ruth Michaelson, The Guardian (Jul. 20)

Rivals Hamas and Fatah sign a declaration to form a future government as war rages in Gaza, Jack Jeffrey, Tia Goldenberg and Huizhong Wu, Associated Press (Jul. 23)

Israeli captives’ relatives detained during Netanyahu speech in US: Reports, Al Jazeera (Jul. 25)

More than 180,000 displaced from Gaza’s Khan Younis in four days, UN says, Al Jazeera (Jul. 26)

COVID

Staying COVID-conscious is getting harder to do, advocates say that should change, Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen (Jul. 20)

Why Covid-19 is spreading this summer, David Cox, BBC News (Jul. 20)

COVID-19 cases increase in Quebec amid ‘very, very contagious’ variant, Matilda Cerone, Global News (Jul. 23)

B.C.'s top doctor ends four-year COVID-19 public health emergency, The Canadian Press (Jul. 26)

Tech

CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft, Wes Davis, The Verge (Jul. 20)

AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission, Samantha Cole, 404 Media (Jul. 25)

Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle, Emma Roth, The Verge (Jul. 25)

OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine, Kylie Robison, The Verge (Jul. 25)

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal, Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media (Jul. 24)

AV Corner

Podcast: ICJ delivers reports on Palestine, Houthis attack Israel, and Netanyahu addresses US Congress - The New Arab Weekly
Music: Dark Legacy III - Indian Giver
Video: Understanding Caste in India (Jati & Varna) - How We Destroy Ourselves - Rohan Davis