The Hudak Report 04/19/25

The Rover: This Time in English : The Rover Debate Coverage

CBC News: Advance polls open across the country Friday morning

The Guardian: Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

Zeteo: Emails Show Mohsen Mahdawi Pleaded with Columbia for Protection for Months Before ICE Detained Him

Wired: DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

Dialectics of Decline: We Owe Each Other Everything

Here’s your updates on the Canadian election:

• Carney says China is a foreign interference, geopolitical threat for Canada

• Did Poilievre only build 6 homes when he was housing minister?

• Faltering Conservative support won’t stop Canada’s tech leaders

• Federal debates chief says he was unaware Rebel News had registered as advocacy group

• Liberal campaign volunteer wearing hijab says she was harassed and followed, Toronto police investigate

• Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items

• Post-leaders’ debate scrums cancelled due to security concerns

Other Canadian news:

• 'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict

• Measles outbreak in Ontario underscores spread of infectious diseases across Canada

• Police say 21-year-old ‘innocent bystander’ killed by stray bullet

• Welcome to the ‘torture chamber’: Internal document offers window into Conservative’s strategy for parliamentary committees

Here’s your updates on the Trump administration:

• Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website

• Federal judge signals she will temporarily block attempts to revoke visas for international students

• Judge Halts—For Now—Trump Bloodbath at US Consumer Bureau

• National Archives releases 10,000 pages of records related to 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

• Terror Czar Gorka Responds

• Thousands of federal workers would be easier to fire under Trump rule change

• Trump Administration Seeks Explosive Expansion of Nation's Immigration Detention System

• Unions and allies go to bat for Labor Dept.’s Women’s Bureau

Other USA news:

• Auburn says 15 international students, campus personnel had visas revoked

• Both sides claim victory as Arizona fetal personhood lawsuit dismissed

• Federal judge extends block on Florida immigration law that led to arrest of a U.S. citizen

• Federal judge in North Dakota rules in favor of Catholic employers on abortion protections

• Judge postpones hearing in lawsuit over police seizure of UCSC student protester’s phone

• Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional

• Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

• Over 850 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Filed In 2025; Most In History

• Transgender teen can't legally change name until age 21, Mississippi Supreme Court rules

• U.S. citizen from Georgia released from jail after arrest under Florida’s new anti-immigration law

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

• 420,000 Palestinians newly displaced in Gaza since Israel shattered ceasefire: UNRWA

• At least two killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon

• Children in Gaza survive on ‘less than a meal a day’: Aid groups

• Gaza humanitarian crisis deteriorating at unprecedented rate: UNRWA

• Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed by Israel

• UN: One in ten bombs dropped on Gaza Strip failed to explode

• US strikes on Yemeni oil port kill at least 74

Other world news:

• 35 Sudanese killed in Rapid Support Forces shelling on El-Fasher

• 219 rescued from human trafficking and cybercrime ring in Ghana

• Minimum wage workers will be forced to pay off student loans

• Mob Beats Man From Persecuted Ahmadiyya Minority In Pakistan: Police

• New Oil Spill Affects Ecuadorian Ecosystems

• Russia jails 19-year old for condemning its war in Ukraine

• Somaliland: British Colony, Palestinian Concentration Camp?

• Trial opens for students, journalists over Istanbul protests

• US will walk away from Russia-Ukraine peace deal if no progress made soon, Rubio says

• Abortion Bans Criminalize People — and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant

• Amid a surge of nationalism — Indigenous sovereignty must be recognized

• Chinese Students and Scholars Faced Targeting Before Trump. Now It’s Escalating.

• ‘Conspiracy trial’ restarts: What’s Tunisia’s history with death penalty?

• Military courts: The front line of Uganda’s war on dissent

• Party leader’s domestic violence policy will fail survivors and communities

• The Left Doesn’t Need a Rebrand

• The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals

• Why April 20, 2025 Could Alter the Course of American Democracy