The Hudak Report 05/03/25

PressProgress: Alberta Wants to Loosen Restrictions on Corporate Financing of Elections

The Globe and Mail: Carney urges national unity, details next steps on trade and Trump

Common Dreams: 'A Disgrace': Trump Budget Gives $1 Trillion to Military While Slashing Programs for Working Class

Antiwar.com: Flotilla Coalition Ship to Gaza Attacked in International Waters

Middle East Monitor: Israel targets food distribution point in north Gaza

Blood in the Machine: The AI jobs crisis is here, now

Canadian political news:

• A 250-year plan is in the works to protect Okanagan-Similkameen watersheds

• Canada’s Parliament just got a lot less queer

• Closing arguments heard in $5B First Nations housing class action lawsuit

• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to contest byelection in Alberta riding after losing Ottawa seat

• Danielle Smith's reform is nudging Alberta separation vote from 'if' toward 'when'

Other Canada news:

• A pan-Canadian power grid could prevent blackouts, report says

• Alleged leaders of child exploitation cult known as 764 arrested, charged

• Environment Canada lays 200 Fisheries Act charges against ArcelorMittal

• GM Cuts Workers at Canada Truck Plant, Citing Trade Turmoil

• Indigenous-led partnerships powering 2 new Sask. renewable energy projects

• These former farm workers won a standards case in B.C. They told CBC about their working conditions

• Three people stabbed at downtown Hamilton mosque; two suspects wanted

Trump administration news:

• A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students

• Door knocks and DNA tests: How the Trump administration plans to keep tabs on 450,000 migrant kids

• Judge extends emergency order for MSU international students

• On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages

• The New Placebo Mandate for Vaccines: Unethical, Unscientific, and Impossible

• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security data

• Trump says he's 'taking away' Harvard's tax exempt status

• Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

• Trump to rename Veterans Day as ‘Victory Day for World War I’

• U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants

• US Designates Gangs Destabilizing Haiti as Terrorist Groups

Other US news:

• Director of Arizona Medicaid Agency Resigns Following Fraud Scheme Response

• Illinois Man Gets 53 Years in Prison for Vicious Hate-Crime Killing of 6-Year-Old Wadee Alfayoumi

• Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil

• Rights groups file a lawsuit on behalf of the family of an 8-year-old immigrant who died in custody

• Sewage flooding cells inside Torrance County ICE prison again, advocates say

• Texas Gov. Abbott threatens to pull San Marcos funding over Israel ceasefire resolution

• Utah governor, state courts hit with lawsuit over new disability law

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

• Israel issues demolition notices for 106 structures in 2 West Bank refugee camps

• 'Israel' launches strikes near Syrian Presidential Palace

• 'Israel' rejects temporary truce, plans to escalate action in Gaza

Other world news:

• A Honduran reef stumps conservationists with its unlikely resilience

• Car Rampage in Stuttgart Leaves Several Germans Injured

• Ecuador’s President Emulates El Salvador’s Bukele as He Builds Ties With Trump

• EU wins post-Brexit fishing row with Britain

• Justice Mugambe jailed in Britain for more than six years for forced labour offence

• Radical-right Reform party makes gains in UK elections

• South Korea appoints new acting leader as ex-PM enters election race

• Sudanese paramilitary RSF kills 19 after taking city of al-Nahud: Sources

• The AfD is a right-wing extremist group, German intelligence agency says

• Uganda: Wangadya orders Gen Muhoozi to release Bobi’s bodyguard

• Back Home Again In Gilead

• Election results ring alarm bells – time for labour to wake up

• Fact Check: Trump's HHS Review On Trans Care Filled With Pseudoscience, Pushes Conversion Therapy

• How Canada could modernize and streamline its asylum claims system

• Talking Our Way Forward

• The ‘strategic voting’ election and its undemocratic consequences

• Washington Is Once Again Weaponising the IMF to Try to Reclaim Its “Back Yard”