Ontario College’s Back-to-Work Bill Stalled in Legislature: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Ontario NDP vow to stall colleges’ back-to-work bill until Sunday
“The New Democrats will use procedural tactics at Queen’s Park to delay until Sunday the passage of back-to-work legislation ending the five-week-old college strike.
“‘We’re not prepared to fast-track the Liberals’ anti-labour legislation. Will we deal with that legislation through the course of the weekend? We will,’ a defiant NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Friday.”
+1: Toronto students describe ‘anxiety and turmoil’ of Ontario college strike, blast government response – CBC News
2. Alex Trebek, Tragically Hip receive Order of Canada
“After putting their music to work for more than three decades, the surviving members of the Tragically Hip received one of Canada’s top honours on Friday: appointments to the Order of Canada.
“Governor General Julie Payette presented the order’s insignia to Robert Baker, John Philip Fay, Paul Joseph Daniel Langlois and Robert Gordon Sinclair in a ceremony at Rideau Hall. They received the distinction of members of the order.”
– CBC News
3. Downing North Korean missiles is hard. So the U.S. is experimenting.
“Buried in an emergency funding request to Congress lie hints of new ways to confront Pyongyang, like cyberweapons and armed drones.”
4. The US-led war against ISIS is killing 31 times more civilians than claimed
“The Pentagon claims that its air war against ISIS is one of the most accurate in history and that it is so careful in who it targets that the 14,000 US airstrikes in Iraq have killed just 89 civilians.
“It turns out that the military’s assertion is a stunning underestimation of the true human cost of Washington’s three-year-old war against ISIS. An 18-month-long investigation by the New York Times has found that the US-led military coalition is killing civilians in Iraq at a rate 31 times higher than it’s admitting.”
– Vox
+1: Millions of people may die if Saudi Arabia doesn’t allow aid to enter Yemen immediately – Time
5. Norway is selling off $35 billion of oil and gas stocks to spur investors into fighting climate change
“Norway’s proposal to sell off $35 billion in oil and natural gas stocks brings sudden and unparalleled heft to a once-grassroots movement to enlist investors in the fight against climate change.
“The Nordic nation’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund said Thursday that it’s considering unloading its shares of Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and other oil giants to diversify its holdings and guard against drops in crude prices. European oil stocks fell.”
