Story 1 – tenants facing eviction by DP Murphy Inc. so DP Murphy Inc. could house temporary foreign workers that they brought to Canada to work inside a Tim’s that they own, win!

Story 2 – Police shoot man in Vancouver. Their defense? They got the wrong guy!

Story 3 – Police punch man repeatedly in Edmonton. Their defense? He had “a number” of traffic summons! But oops, it was caught on tape

Story 4 – fire in Pikangikum claims the lives of three people; none of the fire fighting equipment was working due to cold weather. This community lost 9 people to a house fire in 2016.

Story 5 – More than 100 people are feared dead as a boat capsizes near the cost of southern Italy

Story 1: Nearly 13% of Manitobans left an emergency room or urgent care centre without receiving care. This is the highest since … before the pandemic, 5 years ago.

Story 2: Victoria City Council asks all departments to hold budet increases to 6.96% The Victoria Police Department responds with “fu i won’t do what you tell me,” basically.

Story 3: Inuit are 15 times more likely to be jailed in Quebec, 1 out of every 20 Inuit was detailed *in a single year,* double the rate of other Indigenous people.

Story 4: Roosevelt “Rosie” Douglas was targeted by the RCMP’s so-called “dirty tricks” campaign in the 1960s, new documents reveal

Story 5: @ACTRAnational calls out the federal government for using scab labour in government advertising while they’re promising to ban scab labour in the federal industries

Story 1 – City of Edmunston and police officer who murdered Chantel Moore argue that her death was her own fault

Story 2 – Academic researchers have created a database of all police-related death in Canada going back to the year 2000. Deaths average nearly three per month, though have spiked since 2019

Story 3 – Allegations that the federal minister of health @jyduclos interfered in Canada’s drug price regulator to stop consultations to reduce drug prices

Story 4 – Canadian Press does PR for Galen G. Weston on day that Loblaw’s Q4 and 2022 net profits are released

Story 1: Man who shot and killed someone who entered his home at 5:00 AM claims it was legal

Story 2: Melanie Mark resigns, calls the BC Legistlature like “a torture chamber”

Story 3: Trudeau vows to close Roxham road by re-negotiating the Safe Third Country Agreement even though whether or not the agreement is even legal is in question

Story 4: Brian Mulroney is on the board of the investment firm that owns PSSI — a cleaning company accused of hiring children to work in a slaughterhouse in Nebraska

Story 5: In two days Nigerians head to the polls. Here are the leading candidates to replace President Muhammadu Buhari

Story 1 – New unmarked graves found by Tseshaht First Nation at the site of the former Alberni Indian Residential School

Story 2 – Despite the freezing temperatures, omelessness in Saskatoon reaches crisis levels

Story 3 – Canada outsourced the management of the CEBA loan project to Accenture and we’re only finding out about it now

Story 4 – Daughter of Malcolm X plans to sue NYPD, CIA and FBI over death of her father

Story 1: Community rallies to demand answers from @CalgaryPolice in death of Latjor Tuel

Story 2: 240 jobs to be cut at Groupe TVA

Story 3: Portugal’s government tries to rein in AirBnBs, end the so-called Golden Visas program to stop a runaway housing market.

Story 4: 18 Afghan refugees found dead in a truck near Sofia in Bulgaria, 34 others treated for carbon monoxide inhalation. Six Bulgarians indicted.

Daily news for Feb. 23

Story one: Former leader of a neonazi group (and let’s be serious, near certainly current neonazi) given discharge after breaking into Vice office to intimidate journalists

Story two: One day after an SIU report into the death of someone falling from a high rise during a Toronto Police intervention, two men are seriously injured after falling from a high rise during a police intervention

Story three: 86,000 square kilometres of forest has been lost in BC over 20 years due to logging and forest fires

Story four: Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report on the US’s likely involvement in bombing Nord Stream.

Story 1 – An injunction blocks striking workers in Yellowknife from picketing their workplaces in groups larger than six.

Story 2 – a Campaign 2000 report finds that child poverty is highest in Manitoba

Story 3 – lion’s share of money flowed to clean up oil and gas in Alberta went to private oil and gas companies

Story 4 – JTF2 sniper goes on US podcast, they air video of the assumed world record long range sniper kill (3500 m), the Canadian military insists video is taken down

Story 5 – Pablo Neruda was poisoned

Story 1: almost no complaints to Quebec’s police ethics commission about racial profiling actually result in punishment — of 780 complaints in five years, just four police were sanctioned.

Daily news headlines for Feb. 15 2023

Story 1: Story 1 – Imperial Oil submits plan to clean up the largest oil spill in Alberta’s history (the largest oil spill in Alberta’s history … yet!)

https://t.co/FE61aBWbUg

Story 2 – Airdrie RCMP shoot and critically injure woman in mental distress

https://t.co/Eje9DCAjA3

Story 3 – Horrifying details in a Feb 3 decision from an Ontario judge about sadistic abuse in minor hockey

https://t.co/XJL8ul41ti

Story 1: What was the Friday shelter-in-place order in eastern Ontario about, and how come five journalists could not get the OPP to spill?

https://t.co/FkFda1dcFY

Story 2: Anglo Montrealers plead to businessmen who do not *at all* care that the Montreal Gazette is important to English speakers, asks for help from Trudeau rather than looking to buy the newspaper (ok this is me editorializing)

https://t.co/V554dUsDIr

Story 3: Canada’s army will fast track the purchase of new military equpment, no procurement, for ongoing operation in Eastern Europe

https://t.co/XyXx6Bezn6

Story 4: Turkey goes after building developers as the death toll from last week’s earthquakes rises above 33,000

https://t.co/3EZy8hzajT