The Catch-All: ICYMI June 1-7

Hey everybody, I hope you had a good week. Lots of news to check out, and as always please keep tabs on more up-to-date news coming out of Gaza. I do my best to include the main points but there's so much every week that gets missed.

On another note, a piece I worked on with the team at the Investigative Journalism Bureau on lead in drinking water at Ontario schools and daycares has been released. This investigation includes a searchable database for results in every Ontario school listed, so check it out!

News Round-up

Ontario

Province’s financial watchdog launching inquiry into Ford government’s ServiceOntario changes, Richard Southern, CityNews (Jun. 3)

Grassy Narrows First Nation files lawsuit against Ontario, federal governments over mercury contamination, Sarah Law, CBC News (Jun. 4)

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces new education minister, cabinet reshuffle, Isaac Callan and Colin D'Mello, Global News (Jun. 6)

Police dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment at York University, Adam Carter, CBC News (Jun. 6)

Prisoners in Hamilton put in segregation at far greater rate than any other Ontario jail, data shows, Bobby Hristova, CBC News (Jun. 7)

Canada

In Kanesatake, “Our Land Has Been Traumatized", Christopher Curtis, The Rover (Jun. 1)

Top Canadian scientist alleges in leaked emails he was barred from studying mystery brain illness, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian (Jun. 3)

Israel denies link to Islamophobic campaign in Canada that Meta says originated there, Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press (Jun. 5)

Documents show police chiefs used police resources to help elect the UCP. Now what?, Duncan Kinney, The Progress Report (Jun. 7)

Google signs deal with organization to distribute $100M to Canadian news companies, Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press (Jun. 7)

'We are at risk of running out': Calgarians asked to use 25% less water than yesterday, CBC News (Jun. 7)

US

After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review’s website is shut down by board, Jake Offenhartz, Associated Press (Jun. 4)

Burlington Police Terrified High School Students With Mock Shooting, Courtney Lamdin and Colin Flanders, Seven Days (Jun. 6)

'Washington Post' CEO tried to kill a story about himself. It wasn’t the first time, David Folkenflik, NPR (Jun. 7)

Alex Jones seeks permission to convert his personal bankruptcy into a liquidation, Dave Collins, Associated Press (Jun. 7)

World

Final results in seismic South Africa election confirm ANC has lost majority, Rachel Savage, The Guardian (Jun. 2)

Modi’s BJP loses majority in India election shock, needs allies for gov’t, Yashraj Sharma, Al Jazeera (Jun. 4)

Villagers flee in terror as 150 reportedly killed in Sudan rebel attack, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Hamdi Alkshali, CNN (Jun. 6)

Property tycoon Truong My Lan launders $17.5B: police, Viet Tuan, vnExpress (Jun. 6)

Bolivia Confirms Its Interest in Joining BRICS at the St. Petersburg Forum, teleSUR (Jun. 7)

Israel-Palestine

Hamas still strong in areas ‘cleared’ by Israel in northern Gaza, say experts, Jason Burke, The Guardian (Jun. 3)

From Guantanamo to Gaza: Israel takes a leaf out of the US torture playbook, Frank Foley, The New Arab (Jun. 4)

Israel says Hamas weaponised rape. Does the evidence add up?, Catherine Philp and Gabrielle Weiniger, The Times (Jun. 7)

Israel bombs another UN-run school in Gaza, a day after strike on school killed 33, Associated Press (Jun. 7)

Israeli Police Detain Palestinian Journalist Attacked by Settler Mob, Sharon Zhang, Truthout (Jun. 7)

COVID

A Guide to Managing Covid This Summer, Dani Blum, The New York Times (Jun. 3)

How A Luxury Trip For Trump Judges Doomed The Federal Mask Mandate, Molly Redden, HuffPost (Jun. 3)

'I was shocked': Ontario to cancel widely praised wastewater surveillance program, Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen (Jun. 4)

Retiree calls out Sask. gov't for not communicating changes to accessing COVID-19 drug Paxlovid, Laura Sciarpelletti, CBC News (Jun. 4)

Irish health chiefs sound alarm amid spike in Covid cases and hospitalisations, limericklive (Jun. 5)

Tech

Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents, Joseph Cox, 404 Media (Jun. 3)

Instagram is testing ‘unskippable’ ads that you can’t scroll past, Emma Roth, The Verge (Jun. 3)

Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds, Jules Roscoe, 404 Media (Jun. 5)

Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in, Tom Warren, The Verge (Jun. 7)

AV Corner

Podcast: Always Shoot Down Range - Canadian Socialist Rifle Association - Blueprints of Disruption
Video: What's the Best Streaming Site (And Why is it Tubi)? - Cold Crash Pictures
Music: All Hard Feelings - Cross Dog