The Hudak Report 05/13/25

Drop Site News: The Unbearable Pain of Leaving Gaza

MSN News: University of Toronto Faculty Association votes to divest from Israel

The North Star: Strike at IKEA Montreal against “insulting” 0% annual increase

The Verge: Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture

Truthout: Newsom’s Model Ordinance Pushes Homeless Sweeps Across California

Canadian political news:

• Alberta places 'indefinite freeze' on industrial carbon tax

• ‘Sets the tone’: More than half of PM Carney’s new cabinet will be fresh faces

• First Nations leaders want drinking water bill within 100 days of Parliament's return

• Recount underway in rural Newfoundland riding where Liberal had 12-vote lead

• Separatist group releases potential Alberta referendum question

Other Canada news:

• Indigenous entrepreneurs explore 231-year old treaty as a way around US tariffs

• Montreal sees sharp increase in tuberculosis, syphilis cases

• N.S. Indigenous leader calls on feds to review Mi’kmaq fishers’ arrest

• Rise in for-profit agency nurse costs in Ontario hospitals 'exorbitant,' says researcher

Trump administration news:

• DOJ Voting Rights Unit Shifts Focus From Ballot Access to Investigating “Fraud”

• Inside Trump's $1 trillion military bonanza

• Pentagon orders immediate stop to gender-affirming care for transgender troops

• Trump signs order aiming to lower U.S. drug costs to match prices abroad

• U.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days in major trade breakthrough

Other US news:

• Continuing injuries at Stellantis and StarPlus plant expose UAW’s claim of an EV “just transition”

• Dana Nessel Pins Blame for Failed Prosecutions on Rep. Debbie Dingell

• Leftist Online Creators Say They've Been Detained and Questioned Over Anti-Trump Content

• 5.5-magnitude quake strikes China's Xizang

• Angola Battles Worst Cholera Outbreak in 20 Years

• Campaigners sue UK government to stop jet-part exports to Israel

• Deforestation and illegal evictions threaten Malaysia’s Indigenous peoples

• Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues

• Hamas releases Edan Alexander, last living American hostage in Gaza

• Ivory Coast opposition leader resigns but vows to still fight for victory

• Jihadist attack kills 'several dozen' in Burkina Faso

• Junta bombs a school in central Myanmar, kills at least 20 students

• Military expansion on Guam sucks up housing resources as Indigenous residents struggle

• Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippines mayoral election from jail cell in The Hague

• Russia Rejects 30-Day Truce Due to Threats of Sanctions

• State of emergency declared in Tripoli after senior officer’s death

• Conservatives need to start acting responsibly and get off the MAGA pathway

• How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

• It's Interesting How the Past Can Make You Think About the Present

• Multiple Western Press Outlets Have Suddenly Pivoted Hard Against Israel

• Trump Doubles Down on Gaza Cruelty With Threat to Cut UN World Food Programme Funding if the UN Rejects US Scheme (and a BRICS Note)