The Hudak Report 04/28/25

National Observer: Counting the oil lobbyists in Poilievre's orbit

The Province: Driver charged with 8 counts of murder in Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy

Common Dreams: DOJ Memo Shows Trump Admin Ordered ICE to Conduct Warrantless Home Invasions

The Guardian: Harvard labor unions rally behind non-citizens and workers amid Trump attacks

Middle East Eye: Palestine: Abbas appoints Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president and likely successor

Canada election updates:

• Blanchet stands by comments calling Canada an ‘artificial country’

• Conservative MPs used parliamentary privilege to seek details on DEI initiatives ahead of election

• Got accessibility issues with voting? Here's what you might need to know

• Greens fight for survival as federal polls predict worst results in recent history

• Remote Alberta First Nation awaits helicopter delivering its ballots

• Strange bedfellows: In Québec, Trump’s threats driving sovereigntists into the arms of the Liberals

Other Canada news:

• Canadians average more work-from-home days than any country, global survey finds

• Carney condemns Israeli blockade on food to Gaza

• First Nation Leads Fight Against Nuclear Dump

• Grass fire burned 4 homes in Samson Cree Nation, Ermineskin Cree Nation

• Manitoba Progressive Conservatives choose Obby Khan as new party leader

Trump administration updates:

• Pam Bondi revokes Biden-era protections for journalists

• Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana

• Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia

• Trump Says US Ships Need Free Travel Through Panama, Suez Canals

Other USA news:

• An infamous group of Russian-linked hackers appears to have launched a crippling cyberattack on WNMU

• Experts cast doubt on state’s report that undocumented immigrants cost Texas hospitals $122M in a month

• Ohio food banks are serving more people than ever, budget would maintain funding at 2019 levels

• Striking worker unemployment benefit bill headed to WA governor

• The DEA says 114 immigrants in the U.S. illegally were arrested at a Colorado nightclub

Palestinian genocide and other Israeli and US aggressions in the Middle East news:

• 51 new martyrs in Gaza in 24 hours: Gaza Health Ministry

• Al Mayadeen receives Hamas' vision for Gaza ceasefire: Exclusive

• Israel says it strikes Hezbollah missiles in southern Beirut

• Israeli Assault on Gaza Tent Kills At Least 8, Including Children

• Israeli army extends compulsory military service by 4 months amid manpower shortage

• New Horrific Testimonies Reveal Systematic Torture and Rape of Gaza Detainees in Israeli Detention Centres

Other world news:

• At least 11 killed in suspected RSF drone attack on Sudan displacement camp

• At least 14 killed, hundreds injured in explosion at Iranian port

• Counter terror probe launched after two women injured and man with crossbow and firearm arrested

• Francis laid to rest as 400,000 mourn pope 'with open heart'

• Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize

• Iran's Khamenei orders probe into port blast that killed 40

• ‘One mistake and their Germanness is gone’: how idea of stripping citizenship for crimes spread across Europe

• Rwanda and DR Congo set May 2 deadline for peace deal

• Sudan Doctors Network accuses RSF of ‘war crimes’ after 31 killed

• Syrian Government Rejects Any Kurdish People’s Plan For Autonomy

• Turkey's opposition says Erdogan's canal plan behind latest arrests

• Uganda declares end to latest Ebola outbreak

• UK activist group Just Stop Oil holds its last climate protest

• Yemen strikes Nevatim airbase with Palestine-2 hypersonic missile

• Canada’s tech executives aren’t scared of Mark Carney

• Red scare on the federal campaign trail

• The Conservatives love battered women

• The propaganda machine: how far-right media has warped Canada’s political discourse

• The United States is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment

• They deported a two-year-old citizen and arrested a judge

• Trump shows us what a rash narcissist can do to harm a country.

• Where is gender equality in the federal election?