The Catch-all: ICYMI March 16-22

The news I've been consuming this week

The Catch-all: ICYMI March 16-22
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Hello all, hope you had a good week. We're all plugging away but I've noticed that peoples' feeds (at least in my experience) are not highlighting the Palestinian genocide as much lately. Though it may be fatiguing to keep these horrors top of mind, it may be worse now than it was before. Please continue speaking up, attending rallies, applying pressure to politicians and donating to (appropriate) agencies that can aid Palestinians if you have the means.


News Round-up

Ontario

Nearly 300 Ontario patients moved to LTC homes they didn't choose, Allison Jones and Liam Casey, The Canadian Press (Mar. 20)

‘Massive mistake’: Premier Ford rules out Ontario-wide fourplex policy, Colin D'Mello and Isaac Callan, Global News (Mar. 21)

Feds, Ford government reach deal to proceed with building controversial Hwy. 413, Richard Southern and John Marchesan, CityNews (Mar. 21)

Names of Ontario health-care clinics found to have extra-billed being kept secret, Katherine DeClerq, CTV News (Mar. 22)

Liberal government threatens to withhold Ontario funding due to lack of affordable housing, Katherine LeClerq, CP24 (Mar. 22)

Woman shot by police after fleeing traffic stop, SIU says, CBC News (Mar. 22)

Canada

'Guardians of Humanity' training in Kelowna for when 'hell breaks loose', Marshall Jones, InfoNews.ca (Mar. 18)

Trudeau Government Will Not Revoke Existing Permits For Israel Military Exports, Alex Cosh, The Maple (Mar. 20)

'Beyond shameful': Bell reportedly laid off hundreds of workers in virtual group meetings, union claims, Joshua Chong, Toronto Star (Mar. 20)

US

Court order puts Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants who cross illegally back on hold, Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press (Mar. 20)

Bezos Cuts $50M Check to Celebrity Admiral as Washington Post Flounders, Ken Klippenstein and Daniel Boguslaw, The Intercept (Mar. 20)

Biden Agrees to Ban LGBTQ Pride Flags at US Embassies, Mike Dorning, Bloomberg (Mar. 21)

Trump poised for billions as stock market deal passes, Natalie Sherman, BBC Newsi (Mar. 22)

World

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says, Boureima Balima and Bate Felix, Reuters (Mar. 16)

Coffee’s in danger: Can Vietnam’s Robusta save it from climate change?, Jenny Gustafsson, Al Jazeera (Mar. 17)

Leo Varadkar steps down as Irish prime minister in shock move, Jon Henley, The Guardian (Mar. 20)

Mass grave with bodies of at least 65 migrants found in the deserts of western Libya, Associated Press (Mar. 22)

Gunmen kill more than 60 in concert attack near Moscow, Islamic State claims responsibility, Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn, (Mar. 23)

Israel-Palestine

War on Gaza: Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes, Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye (Mar. 15)

Al Jazeera journalist freed after 12-hour arrest by Israeli forces in Gaza, Al Jazeera (Mar. 18)

Israeli military forced journalists and health workers to strip in Gaza hospital raid, eyewitnesses say, Abeer Salman, Khader Al Za'anoun, Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq, Kareem Khadder, Lauren Izso and Tim Lister, CNN (Mar. 21)

Israel set on launching Rafah assault in Gaza, Netanyahu tells Blinken, Abdelraouf Arnaout, Anadolu Ajansi (Mar. 22)

COVID

'It feels like a mountain you never get done climbing’: COVID isn’t over for disabled and older adults, Sara Luterman, The 19th (Mar. 18)

(UK) Thousands of disabled people died after ‘Covid treatment withheld’, inquiry to probe, Jane Merrick, iNews (Mar. 22)

Tech

Facebook’s Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms, Jason Koebler, 404 Media (Mar. 19)

Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identity, David Gilbert, WIRED (Mar. 20)

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones, Lauren Feiner, The Verge (Mar. 21)

Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks, Thomas Germain, Gizmodo (Mar. 22)

AV Corner

Podcast: 1. Introducing Expats & Allies - The Maple
Video: How The Media Controls The Masses - Second Thought
Music: 666666- The Hell