The Catch-all: ICYMI September 28-October 4

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News Round-up

Ontario

TDSB cancels Truth and Reconciliation Day field trips to Nathan Phillips Square citing ‘abundance of caution’, Morgan Sevareid-Bocknek, Isabel Teotonio and Reagan McSwain, Toronto Star (Oct. 2)

Classroom crisis: Ontario student, teacher disparity to ‘widen’ more, internal document warns, Isaac Callan and Colin D'Mello, Global News (Oct. 2)

Schools with roof panels that shut Ontario Science Centre have no budget to replace them, Isaac Callan and Colin D'Mello, Global News (Oct. 4)

Canada

Orange Shirt Day’s founder fears Sept. 30 being co-opted from residential ‘school’ survivors, Aaron Hemens, IndigiNews (Sep. 30)

The Devastating Attack on Safe Consumption Sites, Neha Chollangi, The Rover (Oct. 1)

Legal action underway to force Canadian Forces to release propaganda documents, David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Oct. 2)

The Before and After, Lauren Watson, Columbia Journalism Review (Oct. 2)

Lululemon Founder Erects Billboard Outside Vancouver Mansion Denouncing BC NDP as 'Communists', Rumneek Johal, PressProgress (Oct. 4)

US

A Secretive ICE Program Trains Civilians on Firearms and Surveillance, Documents Show, Maurizio Guerrero, Documented (Oct. 1)

US south-east reels from ‘catastrophic’ devastation from Hurricane Helene, Anna Betts, The Guardian (Oct. 4)

World

Labour used water industry analysis to argue against nationalisation, Helena Horton, The Guardian (Sep. 29)

Girl, 14, left with life-changing injuries after 'shocking' acid attack outside school, Amy Watson, The Scotsman (Oct. 1)

Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as 1st female president of Mexico, Fabiola Sánchez and Mariana Martínez Barba, Associated Press (Oct. 2)

Georgian parliament speaker signs law curbing LGBT rights, Felix Light, Reuters (Oct. 3)

Namibia: New Hospital to Tackle Maternity, Child Health Issues Opened, teleSur (Oct. 4)

Israel

US officials quietly backed Israel’s military push against Hezbollah, Erin Banco and Nahal Toosi, POLITICO (Sep. 30)

Gaza: More women and children killed by Israel in one year than in two decades, Alasdair Ferguson, The National (Oct. 1)

Iran says missiles fired at Israel in response to assassinations, Al Jazeera (Oct. 1)

Hezbollah kills at least eight Israeli soldiers after south Lebanon infiltration attempt, Middle East Eye (Oct. 2)

‘The record-breaking killings of journalists in Gaza exceeds any imagination’, Bethany Rielly, New Internationalist (Oct. 3)

Death toll from Israeli assaults on Lebanon since last Oct. 8 reaches nearly 2,000: Health minister, Wassim Saifeddine, Anadolu Ajansi (Oct. 3)

COVID

Canadian government not ordering Novavax's protein-based COVID-19 vaccine this year, Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press (Oct. 1)

Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help, Amy Maxmen, The Sick Times (Oct. 3)

COVID-19 boosters start rolling out to some Canadians. Who can get them?, Saba Aziz, Global News (Oct. 4)

COVID-19 Affects Memory and Cognition for Up to a Year, Neuroscience News, (Oct. 4)

Tech

On The Verge of a Paywall, Oliver Darcy, Status News (Sep. 30)

Paypal Opted You Into Sharing Data Without Your Knowledge, Samantha Cole, 404 Media (Oct. 1)

Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers, Joseph Cox, 404 Media (Oct. 2)

Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow, Mia Sato, The Verge (Oct. 4)

AV Corner

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