Story 1 – The biggest earthquake in Alberta’s history? Turns out it was caused by the practice of shooting toxic tar sands water 2 KM into the ground.

Story 2 – Residents of Fort Chip are angry with Imperial Oil after finding out that tailings ponds from the Kearl site had been leaking for almost a year and they weren’t told, meeting with Imperial Oil goes poorly.

Story 3 – Canadian politicians and organizations are having their Tweets blocked by Twitter in India, hiding their critical messages of oppression in Punjab.

Story 4 – Investigation into how Qatar successfully wooed the ILO in advance of the World Cup so that labour practices would be downplayed

Story 1 – violent, dog abusing fake pastor is in front of a judge in a bail hearing in Calgary for yelling homophobic and transphobic things at children.

Story 2 – Another allegation of sexual assault in Quebec’s junior hockey league comes out at commission

Story 3 – Canada wanted to edit a statement condemning the death of Palestinian journalist to say that her murder, by the Israeli army, was “accidental”

Story 4 – homosexuality punishable by death if Uganda’s president signs a bill that parliament just voted overwhelmingly to pass.

Story 1 – residents at a seniors’ facility in Nelson have been slapped with an illegal 10% rent increase. The owners try to get cute with what is the definition of rent.

Story 1 – Explore Regina pulls a boner with new tourism campaign.

Story 2 – PEI PC leader Dennis King caught on camera not challenging transphobic comments, just days after he pledged to defend trans islanders in a debate

Story 3 – Gagandeep Singh, an international student, is swarmed, attacked, has his turban stolen and is dragged across the sidewalk by his hair in shocking hate crime attack by 12-15 people in Kelowna.

Story 4 – More than 500 people have been arrested protesting the South African government for failing to address high unemployment and unteneble rolling blackouts.

Story 5 – Protests across Kenya against the government for not dealing with the increasing cost of living or fulfilling any promises to help Kenyans with the cost of food.

Story 1 – three unhoused Torotonians died per week in 2022. Most from toxic drugs though the second most common cause of death was “unknown/pending”

Story 1 – Vigilantism is on the rise in BC, advocates remind people that forming relationships in your communities goes a long way if ever you need to work something out with your neighbours

Story 2 – Calgary Police issue an alert looking for man who had not been in contact with his family for a few days, three days later, the man is shot by Red Deer RCMP

Story 3 – Reuters republishes a very condensed DND media release about new shipments of ammo being sent to Ukraine

Story 4 – Honduras to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan, seek financial help from China

Story 1 – the death of three German tourists brings the deathtoll from avalanche season this year up to 12

Story 2 – Charges dropped after man charged with squatting on public land. No word on whether or not RCMP have to re-build the shelter they destroyed

Story 3 – Falls are the leading cause of accidental death in Quebec. 375 Quebecers aged 65+ died from a fall while receiving care in 2020-21.

Story 4 – At least 36 were killed in a machete attack in the DRC near Uganda.

Story 5 – Contrary to the official police line, Tortugita’s hands were up in the air when police shot them at a Stop Cop City protest

Story 1 – workers sent to hospital after ammonia leak inside a slaughterhouse in Burlington

Story 2 – RCMP oversight body to probe the special RCMP unit set up specifically to bother and harass Indigenous and enviromental land defenders

Story 3 – Two charged with corruption over a contract awarded to renovate St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto

Story 4 – French workers cut power to an Amazon facility, reduce power generated across the country, to protest pension reforms that will steal two years from their public pensions

Story 5 – Pedro Castillo, Peru’s leftwing ex-president has his pre-trial jail sentence doubled

Story 1 – Investigation into Mi’kmaw claims of MUN’s president Vianne Timmons shows that Timmons is a white woman playing fast and loose with the facts.

Story 2 – Scholars call for international academic conferences in Canada to be put on hold because visa delays and refusals threaten the participation of academics from Pakistan, India, Iran, Turkey and many other countries.

Story 1 – Should the mismanagement at Laurentian University result in criminal charges?

Story 2 – O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation declares state of emergency after three deaths in two weeks

Story 3 – hate crimes jumped during the early days of the pandemic, finds a new report from British Columbia. Of an estimated 20,000 hate crimes, only three people were convicted of hate crimes

Story 4 – About 100,000 jeepney drivers in the Philippines go on strike to protest the modernization of their fleet — at the expense of the drivers themselves

Story 1 – former child residents of Hatts Off-owned group homes in Ontario launch a class action over abuse and trauma they experienced while living there.

Story 2 – 43 witnesses to the parliamentary committee studying MAID issue and open letter, warning that the committee has not done enough work to approve MAID for mental illness and minors.

Story 3 – 23 people, a Canadian included, have been charged with domestic terrorism charges after a protest at a police training facility that’s currently under construction in Atlanta. HRW calls for the spurrious charges to be dropped.

Story 4 – A rise in violence and harassment against migrants in Tunisia has triggered the leadership of Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger and Guinea to repatriate their citizens.

Story 1: A man gets severe burns after falling asleep on a heater in his long-term care facility room.

Story 2 – Dying woman is evicted from her residence. The landlord cut her power, turning off her oxygen machine. CHEK makes confounding decision to not name the landlord.

Story 3 – very, very few cops participate in police-related death investigations that involve them. But is the issue really that they have the right to remain silent?

Story 4 – Athabasca Fort Chipewyan First Nation furious that Imperial Oil and Alberta’s Energy Regulator did say that a tailings pond had been leaking for months and months

Story 5 – Canada’s top soldier went to Ukraine this past weekend. The Canadian Press reports on the DND readout and gives us nearly no additional information. Which begs question: why not just copy and paste the readout and throw some quotes around it?

Story 1 – RCMP release information related to a massive weapons seizure back in November in Vaudreuil-Dorion, the weapons were found alongside a cache of far-right hate materials, something that only gets a short mention by Canadian Press.

Story 2 – Abuse protected and perpetuated by the Catholic Diocese of Hearst looms large over the town, as investigated by the Radio-Canada show Enquête

Story 3 – Canada Pension Plan Investment Board boosts its shares in Tesla by 160%, also invests in BCE, Rogers and Telus, making it such that profits from our high cell phone bills help fund the CPP we might get one day

Story 4 – Unions decry $500M contract given to company half-owned by Loblaw to coordinate health and employment services for veterans

Story 5 – Indigenous leader in Ecuador, Eduardo Mendua has been assassinated. He had been resisting expanded oil drilling on his territory against the state petro company Petroecuador

Story 1 – CTV News journalist is struck and critically injured while reporting. I ask — what was the failure by police to properly secure the site?

Story 2 – Montrealers who were arrested and/or detained in 2012 and 2015 might be eligible to compensation, the city will apologize for trampling on people’s rights

Story 3 – 43 people dead after head-on collision of two trains in Greece. The Minister of Transportation has resigned. The sysem was privatized as part of the international bail out package in 2017

Story 4 – Dow, the petrochemical giant, is not recycling shoes, as per their program’s promise in Singapore. Instead, shoes are showing up in Indonesia’s second-hand market

Story 1 – former Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt pleads not guilty to obstructing police, media has nearly no information about what happened.

Story 2 – Girl dies from hit and run at Norway House Cree Nation.

Story 3 – Mexican man dies at the border between Quebec and Vermont after interaction with US border agents

Stroy 4 – Governor of the Bank of Canada isn’t sure who is supposed to set his salary, nor does anyone seem to know what he’s paid.

Story 5 – Attacks against Palestinians intensify near Nablus and Jenin, only 8 Isralies of the some 400 who went on a rampage through Palestinian villages were arrested, and all have been released already.

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