The Hudak Report 05/09/25

I released two political op-eds yesterday. The first was here on The Hudak Report and about Bari Weiss’ The Free Press and how it’s a disgrace to humanity. The second was over at my new op-ed blog: The Indiana Report and how Indiana is barbaric towards children.

Axios: Ontario modular reactor to be first in "Western world," GE predicts

Mongabay: More than one in 10 Americans lives in a sinking city, study finds

National Catholic Reporter: HABEMUS PAPAM: Leo XIV is 1st American pope chosen to lead Catholic Church

Ottawa Citizen: Losing Carleton: Poilievre's defeat in rural Ottawa was years in the making

WIRED: US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

Zeteo: Zeteo Documentary Exposes Identity of Israeli Soldier Who Killed Shireen Abu Akleh

Canadian political news:

• Conservatives Made Gains Where Cost Of Living And Tariffs Loomed Large

• Cooper to resign as MLA and Speaker to take on job as Alberta representative in D.C.

• More details needed about Carney's plans to revamp foreign service, union head says

• NDP will face a 'Parliament from hell' without official party status, says former MP

• What Trump and Carney discussed over lunch in Washington, according to a senior official

Other Canada news:

• At least 12 homes destroyed as wildfire state of emergency continues in C.B.N.

• Innu Nations in northern Quebec want better protection of the woodland caribou

• Ontario reports almost 200 new measles cases as virus spreads across Canada

• Quebec reports high immigration, record-low fertility in 2024

• Sask. NDP say leaked letter reveals deaths at Regina General Hospital due to severe staffing shortages

• Turned away, then jailed, family makes third attempt to enter Canada

Trump administration news:

• FEMA leader ousted, one day after publicly opposing agency’s elimination

• Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.

• The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves

• Trump admin invokes "state secrets" privilege in Ábrego García case

• Trump unveils United Kingdom trade deal, first since ‘reciprocal’ tariff pause

• Trump's NOAA Will Stop Tracking Costliest Climate Disasters

• US military to start kicking out transgender troops next month, memo says

Other US news:

• 100s of Coloradans could be back on the streets with end of housing voucher program

• Columbia University Library Occupied by Pro-Palestine Protesters

• Convicted Kentucky murderer remains on death row after federal court denies appeal

• Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed anti-trans student-athlete bill

• Hawaii: Court rules Navy liable for Red Hill fuel leak

• New Mexico Supreme Court reverses Whistleblower Protection ruling

• SC firing squad execution was a ‘massive botch,’ inmate’s attorney says

• St. Paul City Council votes to exempt more properties from rent control ordinance

• Union nurses plan picket at North Hawaii Community Hospital

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

• Iran says US admits it has no nuclear weapons ahead of new talks

• Israeli Airstrikes Decimate the Last Restaurant in Gaza City in Nightmarish Bloodbath

• One killed, eight wounded as Israel hits Lebanon in major post-truce attack

• Trump cut off contact with Netanyahu: Israeli media citing official

• Trump operation against Houthis cost more than $1 billion

• UNRWA condemns ‘storming’ of schools in East Jerusalem

Other world news:

• ‘A step too far’: Mali military’s move to hold on to power prompts revolt

• Ethiopia, 'Israel' push economic pact amid genocide protests

• Indigenous communities near Panama Canal have a bigger problem than Trump

• Irish woman detained by US immigration released after 17 days in custody

• Plotting a comeback, Bolivia’s ex-leader defies arrest warrant in jungle hideout

• Russia, Ukraine trade accusations of attacking each other, despite Moscow's unilateral 3-day ceasefire

• Uganda: UN halts rations for 1 million refugees, Trump aid cuts blamed

• Warming climate is already too hot to handle for 2% of amphibians, study shows

• Parenting at the End of Empire: Reflections on Homelessness in Santa Fe

• Pope Leo XIV faces limits on changing the Catholic Church − but Francis made reforms that set the stage for larger changes

• Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began

• Real Threats to Religious Freedom

• Rural areas need real public transit and transportation, not municipal “partnerships” with Uber

• Saving the NDP in a few simple steps

• The supply and demand myth of housing

• West Bank Settlers Echo North American Settlers