The Catch-all: ICYMI March 2-9

Hello all, sparse news this week. Seems like I'm not going to be super heavy into it until I finish school. Everything just keeps popping up. That being said, please don't listen to framing of the Israeli Real Estate Protests by the mainstream news. CP24, for example, steadfastly refuses to explain why they were protesting, Jesse Brown has... well Jesse Brown'd (is he going to need an update piece already?). Just, please use a discerning eye.

News round-up

Ontario

Cost of Doug Ford's failed wage restraint legislation tops $4 billion, Rob Ferguson, The Toronto Star (Mar. 6)

19-year-old charged in killing of 6 people, including 4 children in Barrhaven homicides, Ottawa police say, Josh Pringle, CTV News (Mar. 7)

Man charged after alleged nail gun assault on pro-Palestinian protesters: Police, The Canadian Press (Mar. 8)
Video on Al Jazeera

Ford vows to build more jails despite majority of those behind bars awaiting trial, Liam Casey, The Canadian Press via CBC News (Mar. 8)

Canada

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt event in Toronto involving leaders of Canada and Italy, Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press via City News (Mar. 2)

(Newfoundland) NDP calls for solutions as bodies pile up in freezers outside Health Sciences Centre, NTV (Mar. 6)

Canadians funding far-right extremists abroad, Zak Vescera, Investigative Journalism Foundation (Mar. 7)

Canada to lift UNRWA funding freeze, calls humanitarian situation in Gaza 'catastrophic', Rachel Aiello and Mike Le Couteur, CTV News (Mar. 8)

No charges as RCMP conclude probe into Alberta's 2017 UCP leadership race, CBC News (Mar. 8)

US

Governor Says National Guard, More Surveillance Coming to NYC Subways, Samantha Cole, 404 Media (Mar. 6)

Israel-Palestine

Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused”, Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim, The Intercept Mar. 4)

The Shoah after Gaza, Pankal Mishra, London Review of Books (Mar. 7)

Five killed and 10 injured in Gaza aid airdrop when parachute fails to open, Jason Burke, The Guardian (Mar. 8)

COVID

The Pandemic Treaty: shameful and unjust, The Lancet (Mar. 2)

COVID Rapid Tests Reliably Detect New Variants, Nathaniel Hafer, Anuradha Rao, Apurv Soni and The Conversation US, Scientific American (Mar. 4)

Severe COVID-19, death lowest by far among vaccinated Canadians, Mary Van Beusekom, MS, CIDRAP- University of Minnesota (Mar. 4)

U.S. suspending free COVID test distribution once again, April Rubin and Sareen Habeshian, Axios (Mar. 4)

Canadian Covid Society launches to address long-term effects, prevent further illness, Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press (Mar. 6)

COVID’s Long Haul: Virus Lingers in Blood Years After Infection, Victoria Colliver, Neuro Science News (Mar. 7)

Tech

Google’s Gemini AI Doesn’t Want to Talk About Palestine, Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media (Mar. 5)

Twitter Use Related to Decreases in Well-Being, Increases in Political Polarization, Outrage, and Sense of Belonging, Prithvi Iyer, Tech Policy Press (Mar. 7)

AV Corner

Podcast: Mulroney: Class Traitor (a proper farewell) - Blueprints of Disruption
Video: Study: Guns, Germs, and Steel was Wrong - Rebecca Watson
Music: Prophecy - Gost