Episode Details

In a week where a tragedy that is begetting more tragedies dominated headlines, we find some of the BC and Canadian news that may have slipped through the cracks before drawing lines on the complex realm of responses Canadians have had to the attacks by Hamas and Israeli response. Content note for the latter half of the show (though we largely avoid getting into the more gruesome details).

Links

• BC signs health care deal with Ottawa | CityNews Vancouver
• First reforms to B.C. Police Act delayed to spring 2024 - Nelson Star
• New voices appointed to BC Housing’s board to help deliver more homes | BC Gov News 
• Major Canadian grocers won't confirm discounts, price freezes feds promised last week
• Ottawa should accommodate Google’s C-18 concerns, urges group representing Canada’s major publishers - The Globe and Mail 
• Liberals extend amnesty order for 'assault-style' firearms until after next election
• Disinvitation from École Polytechnique group sent Trudeau government into damage control mode: emails
• SCOOP: The government tried to spin us about Israel, and we have proof
• Melanie Joly: Evacuations of Canadians in Israel to start by end of week - The Globe and Mail
• First Canadian evacuation plane, privately organized, flies out of Israel
• As a deadline passes, Canadian diplomats remain in India | CBC News
• Trudeau condemns 'glorification of violence' in protests after Hamas attacked Israel | Reuters
• The worst week (so far) - CANADALAND Short Cuts
• Eyeless in Gaza - by Jeremy Appel - The Orchard
• The end of the long dash: CBC stops broadcasting official time signal