The Hudak Report 04/18/25

The Rover: The Rover’s Magical Mystery (French) Debate Coverage

CBC News: Right-wing media including Rebel News dominate post-debate news conferences

MSN News: UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione indicted on death penalty-eligible charges

Ken Klippenstein: Trump's Counterterror Czar Proposes Terror Charges for Political Opponents

The Verge: Brendan Carr threatens Comcast over coverage of Abrego Garcia

We’ll start with Canadian election updates:

• Conservatives Claim ‘Do You Believe the Polls?’ Group is a ‘False Flag’ PsyOp Run by the Liberals and Doug Ford

• During leaders' debate, Carney praised a nuclear firm he bought while at Brookfield

• Green Party of Canada exploring legal options after debate exclusion: Pedneault

• Housing, democratic renewal and misbehaved candidate dominate Edmonton Centre election forum

Other Canadian news:

• Canadians evenly split on whether retaliation is best way to fight Trump, says poll

• Gender-based violence spikes five years after Nova Scotia mass shooting

• On the banks of a N.S. river, elver fishers from a Mi’kmaq First Nation defy Ottawa

• Ontario Greenbelt’s controversial ‘Mr. X’ is banned from lobbying for two years

• RCMP arrest 3 for crossing border into Canada; search underway for woman, 2 kids in Quebec

Here are your updates on the Trump administration:

• Donald Trump’s crusade against offshore wind just got more serious

• Earth Day Massacre? Environmental Groups Fear Trump Ready to Take Aim at Nonprofit Status

• FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

• Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’

• Probe of Trump team's compliance with order on deported man can proceed, court rules

• Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on whether Trump can implement birthright citizenship plan

• The CFPB Has Been Gutted

• The State Department Relied on Columbia University’s Mischaracterization of Protests to Arrest Mohsen Mahdawi

• Trump Admin Orders Social Media Review on Gaza

• Trump Administration Asks IRS to Start Process to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status

• Trump Is Assembling a Deportation Army of Local Cops

• Trump Says US "Talking" To China On Tariffs

Other USA news:

• Arkansas governor signs first-in-the-nation ban on drug middlemen owning pharmacies

• Bill to hold charities liable for providing housing to certain immigrants heads to governor’s desk

• FSU mass shooting kills 2 people, injures 6; suspect in custody

• Google loses ad tech monopoly trial, faces additional breakups

• Judge blocks Ohio’s online parental consent law

• U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law

• Whistleblower’s Account of Corruption and Administrative Abuse Within Cook County Jail

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

• Children's charred remains found in aftermath of Israeli strike on 'safe zone'

• Hamas insists that any Gaza resolution be comprehensive: Exclusive

• Israel Executed Paramedics in Gaza With Gunshots to the Head, Autopsies Show

• Massive leak exposes personal data of thousands of Israeli soldiers

Class war updates:

• A Challenge to Giving the US Military Control of the Panama Canal

• El Salvador’s Bukele Plans to Double Giant Prison Holding U.S. Deportees

• French-Haitian panel to study ex-colony's history

• German police arrest university students showing solidarity with Palestine

• Labour council demands Unite accept surrender deal already rejected by Birmingham bin workers

• Nicaragua's stateless people seek justice

Other news:

• About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers

• American Man Shot Dead After Hijacking Plane

• China's Xi meets Cambodian leader as part of regional diplomatic blitz

• Colombia Does Not Extend Ceasefire With FARC Dissidents

• Four killed as cable car crashes to ground near Naples after wire snaps

• Italy to hit NATO spending target this year as Meloni preps for Trump meeting

• Russia lifts ban on Taliban

• Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds

• Faux feminism has left the planet

• In face of British court decision, Canada’s parties need to be pressed to protect trans rights

• The Patriotism Trap

• W.Va. Rep. Riley Moore gives El Salvador prison CECOT two thumbs up

• What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap