It’s been a surprisingly heavy week for news (or maybe I’m just reading more), and a lot of it was important. Obviously you can’t read it all at once, but check over the headlines and click on the ones that affect you most.

I also am proud to announce that my piece with The Green Line diving deep into the state of Toronto’s stand-up comedy scene is now live! I put months of work into this and I can’t thank Anita Li enough for her work editing my piece and helping develop it into the best it can be. It’s a long one, but I’d appreciate if you checked it out.

No Laughing Matter: Why toronto’s Comedy Scene is Much More Than It Seems- The Green Line

Once again I reiterate my weekly call-to-action for Palestine in your local areas. Check out the Palestinian Youth Movement socials for updates.

News Round-up

Ontario

Richmond Hill Deputy Mayor Apologizes for Cheering On Pierre Poilievre’s Homophobic and Transphobic Speech, Luke LeBrun Press Progress (Nov. 12)

Ontario transit service wants inspectors to fine 6,000 train riders a month for fare evasion, Nicole Brockbank and Angelina King, CBC News (Nov. 13)

(Kawartha Lakes) Welcome to the Denbys, Pants On Fire (Nov. 13)

Doug Ford government paying for-profit clinic more than hospitals for OHIP-covered surgeries, documents show, Mike Crawley, CBC News (Nov. 14)

‘The world is on fire and the last thing we should do is build gas plants’: OPG offers Napanee $4.8 million to host plant, Marco Chown Oved, Toronto Star (Nov. 14)

Ontario to ban unpaid restaurant trial shifts; part of new labour law, Allison Jones, The Canadian Press (Nov. 14)

Senior Ford government cabinet ministers barely using work phones, docs show, Isaac Callan and Colin d’Mello, Global News (Nov. 14)

1 in 10 Torontonians now using food bank amid 'skyrocketing' costs, stagnate wages: report, Codi Wilson, CTV News (Nov. 14)

Loblaw reports profit and sales up as shoppers continue to flock to discount stores, Rosa Saba, The Canadian Press via CTV News (Nov. 15)

TVO bought out 13 employees too angry to stay after the strike, Alan S. Hale, Politics Today (Nov. 14)

Air Force major charged in firearms bust in Kingston, Petawawa, William Eltherington, CTV News (Nov. 15)

More than 1,200 No Frills workers could go on strike in Ontario next week, Abby O’Brien, CTV News (Nov. 16)

Only 4 of 13 landlords busted for bad faith evictions have paid the fines they owe, Olivia Bowden, CBC News (Nov. 17)

Canada

CTV reports on Gaza with anti-Palestinian double standard, data shows, Emma Paling and Katia Lo Innes, The Breach (Nov. 11)

Palestine Solidarity Activists Reject Claims About Concordia Altercations, Nora Loreto, The Maple (Nov. 11)

Canada must stop treating climate disasters like unexpected humanitarian crises, Will Greaves and Yvonne Su, The Conversation (Nov. 12)

Meet the lawyer leading the charge to protect trans kids’ rights in Saskatchewan, Charlotte Dalwood, Xtra Magazine (Nov. 13)

Calgarians Continue Calls For Palestinian Freedom Despite Organizer’s Arrest, Alex Cosh, The Maple (Nov. 13)

Drug-resistant salmonella outbreak spreads across Canada, affecting many kids, Katie Dangerfield, Global News (Nov. 13)

Media outlets converge to build new platform tackling C-18 fallout, NB Media Co-op (Nov. 15)

A List Of Some People In Canada Fired For Pro-Palestine Views, Davide Mastracci, The Maple (Nov. 10, updated Nov. 15)

Rights group seeks prosecution of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, other ministers for Gaza war crimes, Ray Hanania, Arab News (Nov. 17)

Study finds Alberta underestimates methane emissions by 50 per cent, The Canadian Press (Nov. 17)

World

Israeli Ambassador to UN Accuses UNRWA Workers, Local Journalists of Being Hamas Members, Egyptian Streets (Nov. 11)

A military jet crashes in eastern Myanmar. Ethnic resistance groups claim they shot it down, Gran Peck, The Associated Press (Nov. 11)

Ukrainian military officer coordinated Nord Stream pipeline attack, Shane Harris and Isabelle Krushudyan, The Washington Post (Nov. 11)

Latvia’s president says West must arm Ukraine to keep Russia from future global adventures, Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press (Nov. 11)

Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab, Jim Vandehei, Mike Allen, Axios (Nov. 13)

Jesús Ociel Baena: Mexico's first non-binary magistrate found dead, Kathryn Armstrong, BBC News (Nov. 13)

(Vietnam) Booming Airbnb service a displeasure to apartment residents, Ngoc Diem, vnExpress (Nov. 13)

Only 10 Percent of Peruvians Approve of President Boluarte, Telesur (Nov. 13)

World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian (Nov. 14)

Argentina inflation hits 143% as election runoff looms, DW News (Nov. 14)

Ukraine war: EU set to miss target of a million shell rounds, Paul Kirby, BBC News (Nov. 14)

GOP Senator Stands Up and Tries to Fight Witness During Hearing, Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone (Nov. 14)

Amnesty says Qatar worker abuses persist one year after World Cup, Agence France-Presse via Al-Monitor (Nov. 16)

Mexican journalist shot dead in his car, motive unclear, Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters (Nov. 16)

Queensland health minister orders hospitals to see sexual assault victims within 10 minutes, Eden Gillespie, The Guardian (Nov. 16)

LA Times blocks reporters who signed open letter criticizing Israel from covering Gaza, Max Tani, Semafor (Nov. 16)

Tech

A Google witness let slip just how much it pays Apple for Safari search, Wes Davis, The Verge (Nov. 13)

Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits From Nonconsensual AI Porn, Emanual Maiberg, 404 Medi (Nov. 14)

YouTube will tell users when content was created with AI, Kat Tenbarge, NBC News (Nov. 14)

Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ Goes Viral 21 Years Later — on TikTok, Miles Klee, Rolling Stone (Nov. 15)

Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged, Chris Michael, The Guardian (Nov. 15)

Cybertruck's Launch Is Already an Exhausting Joke, Aaron Gordon, Vice News (Nov. 15)

Musk on Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory: ‘The Actual Truth’, Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone (Nov. 15)

Israel-Palestine

The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers, Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker (Nov. 11)

Billionaires are teaming up for pro-Israel, anti-Hamas media drive: Report, Al Jazeera (Nov 12)

Only Israeli military failure will stop the genocide in Gaza, Mouin Rabbani, Mondoweiss (Nov. 12)

Israelis offer war criminal Tony Blair to be Gaza humanitarian coord., Al Mayadeen English (Nov. 12)

How America’s bloodthirsty journalism cheers on Israel’s war on Gaza, Belén Fernández, Al Jazeera (Nov. 12)

Journalists in south Lebanon say targeted in Israeli strikes, Agence France-Presse via Al-Monitor (Nov. 13)

Stray dogs eat corpses at al-Shifa hospital amid total siege, Rayan Uddin and Lubna Masarwa, Middle East Eye (Nov. 13)

Israel’s attacks on hospitals ‘should be investigated as war crimes’: HRW, Al Jazeera (Nov. 14)

Who is John Hagee, the Christian Zionist pastor who spoke at the March for Israel?, Mira Fox, Forward (Nov. 14)

Evidence Points to Israeli Shells in Strikes on Gaza’s Largest Hospital, Malachy Browne and Neil Collier, The New York Times (Nov. 14)

In Gaza's mental health crisis, no respite from the cycle of trauma, Emad Moussa, The New Arab (Nov. 15)

CNN Quietly Cut Disputed Israeli Military Claim From Some Video Reports, Matt Shuham, HuffPost (Nov. 15)

What has Israel ‘found’ in Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital?, Al Jazeera (Nov. 16)

“A Wall of Fire Smashed Into Me”: Dispatches From a Month in Gaza, Atef Abu Saif, The Nation (Nov. 16)

Escape from al-Shifa: How a Gaza medic dodged Israeli patrols, snipers, Abdelhakim Abu Riash and Maram Humaid, Al Jazeera (Nov. 16)

Al-Shifa: Gaza hospital director says no water or oxygen left, BBC News (Nov. 16)

HRW: Israeli evidence so far insufficient to revoke Shifa's protections, Reuters (Nov.16)

COVID

We Interrupt This Mood of Denial to Update COVID’s Threat, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee (Nov. 10)

Why does COVID-19 cause brain fog? Scientists may finally have an answer, Sanjay Mishra, National Geographic (Nov. 13)

Province tightens masking rules in long-term care, critics say more needs to be done, Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen (Nov. 14)

Welcome to The Sick Times, a letter from our co-founder Miles W. Griffis, Miles W. Griffis, The Sick Times (Nov. 14)

‘It’s here’: COVID subvariant HV.1 growing in Canada. What to know so far, Katie Dangerfield, Global News (Nov. 15)

Facility-wide COVID-19 outbreak declared at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital, Cheryl Browne, CTV News (Nov. 15)

COVID outbreaks continuing as Ottawa heads for repeat of triple-demic, Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen (Nov. 16)

Another COVID outbreak declared at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, City News Kitchener (Nov. 17)

AV Corner

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