The Hudak Report 04/17/25

Calgary Herald: Alberta seeks to implement involuntary treatment, patients will be unable to refuse certain treatments

MSN News: Homelessness is getting worse, but advocates say it's all but forgotten in election

NLRB Edge: Anti-Union Trade Association Urges Attorney General to Invalidate 15 NLRB Cases

Utah News Dispatch: Labor coalition shatters threshold to qualify for referendum in effort to repeal union bill

Socialist Worker: Trans women are women, resist the Supreme Court ruling

We’ll start with updates on the Canadian federal election:

• Conservative plan to close overdose prevention sites would cost lives, researcher says

• First Nations leaders, candidates reach out to mobilize Indigenous voters

• Green Party removed from both election debates

• Hundreds of People Protested Outside Conservative Candidate Andrew Lawton’s Office. Here’s Why Local Voters are Speaking Out.

• Poilievre Getting Easier Ride At Media Events Than Carney: Analysis

• Survivors urge all political parties to support residential school burial investigations

• What people with disabilities want to hear from party leaders in this election

Here’s your updates on the Trump administration:

• Federal court halts Homeland Security’s attempt to remove two Montana graduate students

• HHS Launches Snitch Form to Report Gender Affirming Care Providers

• Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in contempt over deportation flights

• Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s termination of UW-Madison student’s visa

• Justice Department suggests it will sue Minnesota over trans athlete policies following Maine suit

• Memo shows U.S. can send migrants without criminal records to Guantanamo, despite Trump's promise to hold "the worst" there

• Newsom to announce California lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs

• 'Trump Just Caved to Big Pharma—Again': New Order Aims to Delay Drug Price Negotiations

• Truth Social launches scheme to profit from Trump's tariff policies

Other news:

• After Backlash, Planned Parenthood Arizona Resumes Gender Affirming Care

• Alberta separatists getting organized — a unity challenge for Canada and Danielle Smith's party

• Bank of Canada Holds at 2.75%, Seeks More Clarity on Tariffs

• Doug Ford unveils legislation to boost trade within Canada to fight Donald Trump’s tariffs

• Gas firm says a contractor died in a gas plant fire near Fort St. John, BC

• How labor killed a bill to let California wildfire victims sue Big Oil for climate change

• LifeLabs workers enter eighth week of strike

• New B.C. hydro dams could be on the table: energy minister

• New York prison guards indicted in inmate's death during strike

• Report: At least 277 people died in Alabama prisons in 2024

• RFK Jr. Is Using a New Study on Autism Rates to Push His Anti-Vaccine Agenda

• Van Hollen denied meeting, phone call with Abrego Garcia during El Salvador visit

• ‘We believe this individual is dangerous’: Toronto police search for suspect in Tuesday’s hit-and-run at TMU

Here’s your updates on the Palestinian genocide and other Israeli and US aggressions in the Middle East:

• Iran confirms next round of nuclear talks with US set for Rome on Saturday

• 'Israel' blocked 4 of 6 Gaza aid missions today: UN

• Israel holding Gaza hospital chief in ‘inhumane’ conditions: Lawyer

• Israel says 30 percent of Gaza turned into buffer zone

• No plans to allow any aid into Gaza, says Israeli minister

• Palestinian Resistance confronts Israeli forces in eastern Gaza

• US bombs Yemeni capital, surrounding regions

• US tells Israel it will begin withdrawing troops from Syria within 2 months

Here’s some updates on Europe:

• EU names seven countries as safe in plan to fast-track migrant returns

• Germany: Berlin doctor charged with 15 counts of murder

• Google faces £5 billion lawsuit in UK over alleged abuse of search market dominance

• Muslim prisoners in England more likely to be subjected to force, charity finds

• NATO chief says no Ukraine membership in peace deal

• UK police accused of being heavy-handed at protest against BBC coverage on Gaza

Other news:

• A boat catches fire in Congo and capsizes, leaving at least 50 people dead, a local official says

• Brazilian Agrarian Reform Activists Are Run Over During a March

• Entire island of Puerto Rico without power for 2nd time in months

• Landmark agreement reached at WHO a booster shot for tackling future pandemics

• Mass protests erupt in high schools in Turkey

• Sudan paramilitary declares rival government two years into civil war

• Canada’s ruling class doubles down on support for Gaza genocide amid federal election campaign

• Embracing Climate Change to Hurt China

• Is the Liberals’ promise of a wartime housing effort enough?

• Poilievre just added another plank to his Trump 2.0 agenda

• Political policing in Canada

• The Making of a Gang Member

• The Real Cause of Alberta's CorruptCare Scandal