Featured News

CBC News: Piercing cold across Canada brings heavy snow, leaves thousands in the dark

Common Dreams: When Peace Collapses, So Does Climate: A Call for Peace Ecology

Drop Site News: Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier

The Guardian: US winter storm leaves seven people dead as more than 1 million lose power

Truthout: State Dept Memos Admit It Had Almost No Grounds to Deport Pro-Palestine Students

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announces closure of research operations, job cuts

• ‘Leave Ice Hockey alone!’: Trump says China is ‘taking over’ Canada

• ‘I agree with him’: Australian prime minister says PM Carney will visit Australia in March

• Liberals welcome 'spirit of co-operation' from Tories as Parliament returns: House leader

• Parti Québécois rallies around independence at Quebec convention

• Trump threatens to impose 100% tariff if Canada makes deal with China

USA news:

• After seeing discouraging poll numbers, Trump eyes conspiratorial new lawsuit

• Bondi Demands Walz Turn Over Minnesota Voter Rolls to ‘Restore Rule of Law’ to State

• Class action lawsuit filed against federal operation targeting Minnesota’s legal refugees

• Deadly gas explosion kills 1, injures 14 in the Bronx

• ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations

• Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

• Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage

• ‘We need Target to stand up’: activists in Minneapolis press retailer amid ICE arrests at its stores

World News

• 5 killed, 10 injured in suicide blast at wedding ceremony in NW Pakistan

• 9 killed in road accident in southern Pakistan

• A landslide on Indonesia’s Java island kills at least 8 people and leaves more than 80 missing

• Dozens supporting Palestine hunger strikers arrested at London prison

• Homes threatened as landslide hits southern Italy town; 500 evacuated

• Israel extends ban on Al Jazeera’s operations by 90 days

• Israeli drone strike kills two children collecting firewood in Gaza

• Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election

• Power outage reported across Greenland capital Nuuk

• Russia unleashes ‘brutal’ strike on Ukraine as peace talks continue

What I’m Reading

• Canada is going all-in on AI, without the guardrails workers need

• Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders

• Intolerable Things

• Israel Has Forfeited Its Right to Exist

• The Algorithms of Collapse

• We need your Rage