The Hudak Report 04/22/25

rabble: Halifax’s role in enabling the Palestinian genocide

The Montreal Gazette: Poilievre backs Montreal candidate’s call to cut university funding over antisemitism

CNBC: Education Department to resume ‘involuntary collections’ of defaulted student loans

Common Dreams: Four House Dems in El Salvador to Secure Release of 'Wrongfully Deported' Abrego Garcia

Jamaica Observer: Gang-ravaged Haiti nearing ‘point of no return’, UN warns

Here’s your updates on the Canadian election:

• Canadians heading to vote face sticker shock for primary care at private clinics

• Carney defends deficit spending amid ‘worst crisis of our lifetimes’

• Conservative candidate Larry Brock's campaign team issues apology for social media post

• Liberals pledge to lower Confederation Bridge tolls to $20, cut ferry tolls in half

• Poilievre vows not to impose a home equity tax as Liberals, NDP talk health care

• Reproductive health advocates praise Liberal pledges but caution more details needed

Other Canada news:

• Organized Crime Could “Take Advantage” Of Political Turmoil on Mohawk Territory

• 'Overwhelming': Saskatoon drugs crisis far reaching with deaths and hundreds of calls

• Some emergency departments installing AI weapons detection amid rising violence

• The final Canada Carbon Rebate payments will go out this week. Here’s what you need to know

• ‘The vehicle is littered with bullet holes:’ 1 person critically injured after being shot by Toronto police officer

Here’s your updates on the Trump administration:

• Harvard sues Trump administration to stop the freeze of more than $2 billion in grants

• The ACLU Is Suing the Government to Get Access to DOGE Records

• Trump stands behind Hegseth after attack plans shared in second Signal chat, White House says

• Trump’s NSC Director for Israel and Iran Previously Worked for Israeli Ministry of Defense

• Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders

• Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act deportations face legal test in Colorado federal court

• Utah lawyer among citizens DHS directed to self deport

Other USA news:

• El Paso Walmart shooter pleads guilty to state charges, sentenced to life in prison

• Indiana: Morales, Rokita sue Trump's DHS for not verifying citizenship of nearly 600,000 voters

• Judge blocks new Wyoming abortion laws, clearing way for Casper clinic to resume services

• Police investigate shooting on subway platform that led Harvard students shelter in place

• Seattle Cops Who Attended Jan. 6 Rally Ask Supreme Court to Keep Their Names Secret

• Supreme Court hears challenge to Obamacare no-cost preventive health benefits

• Two Boys, One Agenda: How a Texas Far-Right Rally Went Left

• Wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez convicted in bribery scheme

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

• Al-Qassam operation injures Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoun, Gaza

• Israeli police permit anti-war protest on condition of no child Gaza photos

• Netanyahu Ordered Shin Bet to Spy on Anti-government Protesters, Agency Chief Tells Court

Other world news:

• Burkina Faso: Coup Rumours - Several Army Officers Arrested

• Critically endangered right whales spotted in the Bahamas for first time

• Forced displacement in Sudan’s North Darfur overwhelming aid operations: UN

• How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce

• Police detain Cambridge academic who criticised Israel's genocide

• Putin enacts key treaty with Iran

• Putin says he is open to direct peace talks with Ukraine

• Russian journalist on the run after escaping house arrest

• The 89%: New Media Collaboration Calls Attention to 'Climate Change's Silent Majority'

• Transnational Crime Steals Billions in Southeast Asia

• UN condemns North Darfur bloodbath: call for all belligerents ‘to comply with their obligations under international law’

• A giveaway to the rich, disguised as school choice

• A leftist’s guide to strategic voting

• Ashes of Knowledge

• How the West Plays Politics With International Terrorism

• Left behind, Afghanistan is now an environmental hellhole

• On healthcare, you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone

• Rebel News again proves that it’s not doing journalism

• Trump's Lawlessness Comes From Seeds Planted by Bush-Cheney

• Unlike RFK Jr., I Don’t Want A Cure For My Son’s Autism