Featured News

Middle East Eye: Doctors Without Borders: Sudan's el-Fasher largely destroyed and empty

MS NOW: Justice Department releases 3 million more pages of Jeffrey Epstein files

NBC News: Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty after judge nixes two federal counts

Reuters: More Than 200 Killed In Coltan Mine Collapse In Congo

The Canadian Press: Alberta separatist says members of Smith's caucus have signed referendum petition

The Canadian Press: Canada denied Jeffrey Epstein permission to visit BC in 2018: documents

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Appeal court rules in favour of Ottawa's toxic plastic listing

• Canada Economy on Track to Shrink 0.5% in Fourth Quarter

• Damage, disruption and 2 deaths under investigation following Montreal power outage

• Federal deficit $26.4B for April-to-November period: fiscal monitor

• Former MP Findlay joins BC Conservative race amid donation row

• “If We Have to Go on Strike, We Will,” Say Nova Scotia’s Long-term Care Workers

• Jim Pattison Developments will not sell Virginia warehouse for use by ICE

• More than 100 Canada Revenue Agency employees fired for misconduct and CERB payments

• Trump threatens Canada with more tariffs on private jet snag

USA news:

• Department of Justice opens civil rights investigation into killing of Alex Pretti

• ‘Disgusting Act of Corruption’: Trump Sues IRS, Treasury for $10 Billion Over Tax Return Leak

• Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show

• EPA set to reapprove dicamba, an herbicide previously banned by courts

• Federal court reverses decision on Idaho’s ‘harmful’ library law, returns case back to lower court

• Feds arrest journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for filming protest at St. Paul church

• Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after.

• ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler

• Trump nominates Kevin Warsh for Federal Reserve chair to succeed Jerome Powell

World News

• Dockworkers in Mediterranean ports announce coordinated action against war

• Five killed as Israeli strikes persist in Gaza despite ceasefire

• Gaza-based journalist Bisan Owda regains TikTok account after outcry

• Islamic State claims deadly attack on airport in Niger capital

• Israel declares S.African diplomat persona non grata, orders departure within 72 hours in reciprocity

• Italian officials go on trial over deadly migrant shipwreck

• Pakistan says 41 suspected militants killed in operations in restive Balochistan province

• Palestinians in Israel amongst poorest amid increasing poverty rates, report says

• Panama Supreme Court axes port contract with Hong Kong

• Syrian government and SDF agree ceasefire and integration deal

• Venezuela's acting president signs overhaul easing state control of oil industry into law

What I’m Reading

• “Don’t Come Here to Live”

• ICE is terrorizing Americans — Canada must not be complicit