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- The Hudak Report 04/09/25
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NBC News: Trump signs executive order to boost U.S. coal industry, in part to fuel artificial intelligence
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Canada & USA
CBC News - The Alberta government wants to create a new provincial police service using about half of the sheriff workforce, to offer municipalities an alternative to the RCMP.
Public Safety and Emergency Services Minister Mike Ellis tabled a bill Monday that would take the next step toward creating a provincial police entity, by empowering the province to create a police Crown agency.
CityNews - A new Calgary police pilot project means that officers won’t be required to share their name if asked.
Officials say the pilot is aimed at keeping their officers safe and reducing the risk of being doxxed.
Common Dreams - President Donald Trump on Monday publicly backed an annual budget of roughly $1 trillion for the U.S. military as his administration rushed ahead with a destructive tariff scheme that amounts to a major tax increase on American households, with working-class families set to bear much of the pain.
MSN News - The province’s human rights commissioner said it's one example of the lack of transparency in the process that detains people under B.C.’s Adult Guardianship Act, leaving families in the dark, those in care without their rights and government authorities standing on questionable legal footing.
NBC News - The National Weather Service is no longer providing language translations of its products, a change that experts say could put non-English speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme weather.
The weather service has “paused” the translations because its contract with Lilt, an artificial intelligence company, has lapsed, NWS spokesman Michael Musher said. He declined further comment.
The Associated Press - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States.
The Canadian Press - There has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a major border crossing south of Montreal, border officials said Tuesday amid concerns that Trump administration policies could drive another massive influx of migrants to Canada.
The rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing coincides with the looming expiration of the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States.
The Narwhal - The trouble started up again as winter gave way to spring last year, and walleye gathered at their spawning grounds in White Lake in northern Ontario.
For years, people in Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg — an Anishinaabe community tucked along the lake’s eastern shore — had alleged poachers were catching huge quantities of fish from the waters. For about as long, the nation says it asked the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, which enforces fishing-related laws, to investigate and charge the people responsible. Most of the time, the requests had gone nowhere.
The Verge - The Trump administration is disbanding a Department of Justice unit dedicated to enforcing cryptocurrency fraud, ending what it calls “regulation by prosecution.”
In a memo obtained by The Washington Post, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche directed federal prosecutors to cease “litigation or enforcement actions that have the effect of superimposing regulatory frameworks on digital assets.” Prosecutors were told to “no longer target virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and offline wallets for the acts of their end users or unwittingly violations of regulations.” Blanche ordered prosecutors to close ongoing investigations that are “inconsistent” with the new policy.
World Socialist Web Site - A 62-year-old skilled tradesman at the Stellantis engine plant in Dundee, Michigan was killed early Monday morning when he was crushed by a mechanical arm that pinned him against a conveyor on the assembly line. According to his co-workers, the victim of the tragic incident was Ronnie Adams, a Detroit resident.
Rest of the World
Al Jazeera - Israel has shut down six schools run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees after moving to banish the organisation from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem early this year.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement that Israeli police forcibly entered schools in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Shuafat, Silwan, Sur Baher and Wadi al-Joz on Tuesday.
BBC News - The government is considering nationalising British Steel as fears grow among ministers that the company's blast furnaces in Scunthorpe could run out of raw materials within days.
BNO News - At least 79 people have been confirmed dead after the roof of a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic collapsed during a concert in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the country’s emergency authorities.
The tragedy occurred shortly before 1 a.m. at Jet Set, a well-known nightclub in Santo Domingo, where merengue singer Rubby Pérez was performing. A large portion of the roof collapsed over the stage, dance floor, and surrounding seating areas, trapping dozens of patrons beneath the rubble.
DW - Germany has ordered a temporary halt to a UN refugee resettlement program it has been participating in for years, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) confirmed on Tuesday.
The program is designed for refugees in particular need of protection, such as children, victims of torture, or people in dire need of medical treatment, who cannot stay in their first country of arrival.
Haaretz - After hearing petitions against the government's dismissal of Shin Bet security service chief Ronen Bar in March, Israel's top court decided on Tuesday to wait until after Passover to allow the government and attorney general to reach a "creative solution" while keeping Bar in his position.
The decision came after Judge Noam Sohlberg suggested to government representative attorney Zion Amir that it was "worth considering" turning to the Senior Appointments Advisory Committee in order to "lower the flames" for the parties involved and "the public as a whole."
Socialist Worker - School workers at Dunraven Education Trust, south London, have won their fight for better maternity pay, union recognition and an improved pay policy.
The victory is of “national significance”, says Jess Edwards, NEU education union secretary for Lambeth, and member of the union’s national executive.
The Guardian - The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.
Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
The Korea Herald - South Korea's Cabinet confirmed that an early presidential election would be held June 3, following former President Yoon Suk Yeol's ouster through parliament-led impeachment over his botched imposition of martial law last December.
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