The Hudak Report 04/26/25

Financial Times: Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting

The North Star: Provincial rent increase reform appeases big landlords

Common Dreams: After Uproar, Trump Reverses on Mass Suspension of Student Visas

NBC News: Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil was detained without an arrest warrant, Trump administration says

Marginalia Subversiva: The Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan: When Sanctuary Becomes a Felony

teleSUR: Displacement crisis deepens: UN warns world at breaking point

Canadian election news:

• Battle for Victoria pits national trends against local dynamics

• Blanchet calls Canada ‘an artificial country with very little meaning’

• Election 2025: Where the major parties stand on labour

• Green Party accuses NDP of spreading misinformation in complaint

• Poilievre pitches doubling offshore oil production and new East Coast LNG

• Poilievre’s Carleton riding sees highest voter turnout in Canada during advance polls

Other Canada news:

• New B.C. corrections unit offers involuntary care for mental health, addictions

• Ontario man arrested for allegedly trying to join a terrorist group outside Canada: RCMP

• She only learned her privacy had been breached by filing an access to information request

• The site of an infamous B.C. mining disaster could get even bigger. This First Nation is going to court — and ‘won’t back down’

• This Viral Photo of a ‘Liberal Boomer’ is Missing Context. He Was Being Harassed by Far-Right Activists.

• Why fewer Canadians are considering buying an electric vehicle

• Yukon politicians threaten contempt over mine manager's refusal to answer questions

Trump administration updates:

• Colorado students sue Trump administration after legal status revoked

• Federal judge bans Trump’s withholding of funds from sanctuary cities

• GOP Wants $27 Billion for Trump's Golden Dome 'Fantasy' While Working to Gut Working-Class Safety Net

• ICE abducts Montana resident with legal humanitarian status

• Signal chat participants sued for three months of app records

• The U.S. takes a step toward allowing mining on the ocean floor, a fragile ecosystem

• Trump denies disaster aid, tells states to do more

• U.S. Deports 82 Cuban Migrants.U.S. Migration Policies Exacerbate Crisis for Cuban Migrants

Other USA news:

• Alabama inmate executed for rape and murder of Chilton County woman

• Alaska Department of Corrections reports three in-custody deaths in April so far, one a suicide

• Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails

• Ex-US Rep. George Santos sentenced to 7+ years behind bars

• Hamptons Beekeeper Is Charged With Concealing a Genocidal Past in Rwanda

• Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal murder and stalking charges

• ‘Our prayers were answered’: After 25 years of advocacy, a small Navajo community has water

• Superior Court judge rejects Chevron’s motion to dismiss landmark climate change lawsuit

Palestinian genocide news:

• 'Israel' killed 212 Palestinian journalists since October 2023

• 'Israel' stuck in limbo over security in North, mayor says

• UN Food Agency Runs Out of Stock in Gaza as Famine Looms

Other world news:

• Brazil’s former President Fernando Collor arrested in Maceió

• Chad faces crisis as Sudan war drives refugees into hunger

• China's wind and solar power capacity surpasses thermal power for the first time

• Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on voluntary isolated peoples

• Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes near coast of Ecuador

• Namibia will offer free university education starting in 2026

• Pakistan and India Exchange Fire Along the Line of Control

• Trade unionists build solidarity for Birmingham bin strike

• Trinidad and Tobago votes for parliament, PM, with opposition in lead

• What it’s like for minority Christians in Syria, after the fall of the longtime dictator

• 48 years ago a militant sit-in redefined the fight for disability justice

• A thank-you across the border, from the rich to the rich

• Is America Pissed Off Enough at Trump and Musk for a General Strike?

• Social movements need to bring into focus the crisis of capitalism

• Who Needs The CIA When We Have Each Other?

• Whose side is Danielle Smith really on?