Featured News

Al Jazeera: Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

Anadolu Ajansı: US judge drops deportation case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk

CBC News: Canada discreetly puts money down on 14 additional F-35s

Peoples Dispatch: India is gearing up for a historic worker-farmer’s strike on February 12

The Globe And Mail: Autopsy of Canadian in ICE custody indicates his death was preventable, experts say

The Guardian: Jeffrey Epstein plotted with lawyer to try to have woman deported, documents reveal

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta reconsiders cutting health coverage for some temporary foreign workers after concerns raised

• Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada

• Bell signs with SAP Canada to establish sovereign cloud service

• Canadian ICC judge says Trump's sanctions won't stop her from doing her job

• Olivia Chow defends $94-million increase in Toronto police budget amid corruption scandal

• Ottawa commits $84M to install more than 8,000 EV chargers

• Quebec’s Caisse suspends dealmaking with DP World in wake of Epstein revelations

• The Canadian-American Health Influencer Who Hung Out with Jeffrey Epstein

• U.S. FAA expects Canada to certify Gulfstream jets: Reuters

USA news:

• Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show

• Family Says DHS Is Withholding Location of Hospitalized Pro-Palestine Protester

• Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics

• Judge blocks California’s ban on federal agents wearing masks but requires badges be clearly seen

• Leqaa Kordia, Palestinian detained for one year, suffers medical emergency at Texas ICE facility

• More than 10,000 nurses end largest strike in New York City history, others continue striking

• New McCarthyite Campaign Against Mamdani and DSA

• Protest set at NYC’s Stonewall after Trump administration removes Pride flag from national LGBTQ+ monument

• Trump Commerce Secretary Admits He Did, In Fact, Go to Epstein’s Island

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World News

• Colombia: Ruling-party candidate to file criminal complaint against ex-President Pastrana over Epstein files

• Dozens arrested in Australia during violent police crackdown on anti-genocide protests

• Ethiopia builds secret camp to train Sudan RSF fighters, sources say

• EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers

• Ireland rolls out pioneering basic income scheme for artists

• Mexico sends shipment of humanitarian aid to Cuba

• Nigerian military kill over 30 terrorists, repatriate 700 refugees

• Pilots, cabin crew at German airline Lufthansa to strike on Thursday

• UK loses measles elimination status amid sustained assault on public health

• UN report calls for action on “water bankruptcy” affecting billions of people

• U.S. strike on alleged drug boat kills 2 and leaves a survivor

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What I’m Reading

• Canada must support Cuba

• Iran and the distorted accusation of ‘campism’

• The Banality of Good