The Hudak Report 05/05/25

The North Star: Proposed Toronto Bylaw Threatens Right to Protest

IndigiNews: Tiny House Warriors given conditional sentences, but no jail time, after 4-year TMX case

Common Dreams: Asked If He Must Uphold the US Constitution, Trump Says: 'I Don't Know'

Marginalia Subversiva: Criminalizing Conscience: H.R. 867 and the Zionist War on Dissent

CBC News: Children face starvation in Gaza as Israel's blockade of food, medication reaches 2 months

The Guardian: Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed

Canadian political news:

• Alberta NDP vote to allow opting out of federal party membership

• John Hogan named Newfoundland premier after winning Liberal leadership

• Milton East–Halton Hills South riding flips to Liberals after validation process

• Smith describes first meeting with Carney after the election as ‘positive’

• Trump reiterates 51st state threat as Carney prepares for critical White House meeting

Other Canada news:

• Albertans rally for separation, saying things won't change under Confederation

• B.C. company wants to open $300M made-in-Canada sand mine to fuel anticipated fracking, LNG boom

• Decades after his death, family repatriates First Nation man's remains 1,200 km back home

• Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’

• Palestine activists and Amazon boycotters clean up the CDPQ

Trump administration news:

• Judge strikes down Trump executive order punishing prominent law firm

• Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies

• Trump ‘delighted’ by his influence on Canada’s election: U.S. journalist

• Trump says he’s willing to delay TikTok ban again

Other US news:

• Abbott signs Texas school voucher program into law

• Hawaii Legislature ends with tax on tourists to help mitigate climate change

• Police disband pro-Palestinian camp at Swarthmore College and arrest nine activists

• Scientific societies to do climate assessment after Trump administration dismissed authors

• Texas strips protections for teachers, parents who share “obscene” material with children

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

• 49 Palestinian Journalists Held in Israeli Jails: Prisoner Advocacy Groups

• 290 Palestinians detained in the West Bank last month by Israelis

• Four-month-old Palestinian infant killed by malnutrition in Gaza

• IOF bombs Khan Younis, Gaza City, paralyzing health sector

• Iran rejects accusations over Yemen, slams US aggression

• Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists for Gaza offensive

• Israel promises retaliation against Iran, Yemen's Houthis over airport attack

• Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 people in Gaza, officials say

• Israeli soldiers and settlers raid home of Hebron activist for participation in BBC film

• Palestinian detainee becomes 66th to die in Israeli custody

• Palestinian detainees report escalating abuse at Israel's Gilboa Prison

• US aggression targets Yemen's Sanaa, al-Jawf, Amran

Other world news:

• Argentine Human Rights Groups Denounce Transfer of Dictatorship Repressors to “VIP Prison”

• At least seven reportedly killed in South Sudan hospital bombing

• Australian PM basks in win, vows 'orderly' government

• England: Eight arrests in connection with two separate terrorism investigations

• Far right candidate leads Romania's presidential election rerun: exit polls

• Former Tunisian PM handed 34-year sentence, rejects ‘terrorism’ charges

• Gabon swears in ex-junta chief Oligui as president

• Lady Gaga bomb plot targeted LGBTQ crowd, third person planned ‘satanist ritual’ child killing, Brazil authorities say

• Mexican mayor arrested in probe of alleged drug cartel ranch: govt source

• More than 5,000 doctors strike in New Zealand

• PM of Yemen's internationally recognised government resigns

• S Korea’s conservative party picks Kim Moon-soo as presidential candidate

• Singapore's long-ruling party wins another landslide in election boost for new prime minister

• Thousands detained, homes blown up: Kashmiris tell of crackdown ‘living hell’

• World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says

• A Willful Amnesia

• "An independent journalist" who won't remain nameless

• How to Profit from a Hate Crime: Shiloh Hendrix and the Economy of White Supremacy

• No, Trump is not a fascist. He is a hypercapitalist and just as dangerous

• The world is too small

• US Elites Learned Much From the Vietnam Defeat