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Common Dreams: ‘Absolutely Vile’: ICE Snatches Young Kids From Minnesota Schools, Sends Them to Texas

Fox Weather: Historic winter storm: 235 million in path of dangerous snow, ice with first impacts in less than 24 hours

Mondoweiss: Trump unveils so-called ‘Board of Peace’

NewsNation: Mahmoud Khalil will be deported to Algeria, DHS official says

The Narwhal: Canada failed to protect 25% of lands and waters by 2025

World Socialist Web Site: Quebec intensifies assault on worker rights with its Bill 3

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Carney back home after trips to Davos, China, Qatar, focused on non-US trade

• Carney bites back at Trump's 'Canada lives because of' U.S. remarks at cabinet meeting

• Chinese envoy says PM's claim that Beijing agreed to visa-free entry not yet official

• Civic union members with Edmonton police face 'systemic culture of workplace sexual assault, harassment and violence,' letters claim

• Inflation Pushes 150 Kruger LaSalle Workers Into an Unlimited Strike

• Iranian Canadians suing B.C. currency exchange they allege owes them thousands

• Montreal Leans on Condo Developers to Fix the Housing Crisis

• Threats against Greenland are attacks on Inuit, says Nunatsiavut leader in Labrador

• Worker dies at Suncor oilsands site after machinery sinks into muskeg

USA news:

• DOJ Admits DOGE Team Caught Sharing Social Security Data With Election Denier Group

• Federal appellate court pauses protester protections against ICE retaliation

• Fed’s main gauge shows inflation at 2.8% in November, edging further away from target

• Immigrant’s death in ICE custody ruled homicide by El Paso medical examiner

• Many Dems refuse to vote to fund ICE as US House passes 4 spending bills

• Minnesota magistrate judge rejects charges against Don Lemon over anti-ICE church protest, blocks some charges for 2 protesters

• Renee Good shot in left temple, per independent autopsy

• Union bureaucracy seeks to block strike action against ICE rampage in Minneapolis

• US House votes down measure to rein in Trump action against Venezuela

Social Media:

World News

• Bolivian union bureaucracy calls off general strike, betraying workers and peasants

• British government pressures NHS institutions to adopt Palantir plan

• Indonesia revokes forest and mine permits over role in deadly Sumatra landslides

• Jared Kushner unveils ‘free market Gaza’ with coastal towers and data centres

• Jordan Used Israeli Tech to Crack Phones of Gaza War Protesters: Report

• Pact with Trump calls for allies to step up fast on Arctic security, says NATO’s Rutte

• Six injured after knife attack at Kurdish demonstration in Antwerp

• Syrian Government Gains Ground in Northeast Syria After Arab Tribes Defect Against Kurdish SDF

• Torrential rains displace thousands in Mozambique as floods wreak havoc

• Trump touts 'total access' Greenland deal as NATO asks allies to step up

• UK confirms phone call between Cameron and ICC’s Karim Khan

Social Media:

What I’m Reading

• A world on its knees: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and the darkness it promises

• China-Canada deal highlights need for labour campaign to nationalize auto

• How Israel and the U.S. are using the ‘shock doctrine’ to impose a new administration in Gaza

• In response to the Renee Good killing, Dems propose ICE reforms that would have done nothing to prevent the Renee Good killing

• Monsanto’s shadow still poisons Canadian policy

• Will Bari Weiss Condemn Israel’s Killing of CBS Contributor in Gaza?