The Hudak Report 05/17/25

Common Dreams: 'A Failure of Humanity': Acute Food Insecurity, Child Malnutrition Climb for Sixth Straight Year

Erin in the Morning: Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces

Global News: Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures

Middle East Eye: Israel kills more than 100 in one of deadliest days since Gaza war resumed

NJ.com: NJ Transit is on strike, crippling mass transit. Here’s what you need to know.

The Rover: When Letter Carriers Break Down

Canadian political news:

• Alberta separatism threats spur First Nation to revive lawsuit against Sovereignty Act

• Leaked Canadian military report shows many new recruits are quickly leaving

• NDP caucus members dispute appointment of interim leader Don Davies

• New Indigenous Services minister says she's been handed the 'toughest task'

• Ontario budget weighs tariff threats, ignores climate threat

• Recount confirms narrow Liberal victory in Milton East--Halton Hills South

Other Canada news:

• Commission report recommends Canada Post phase out daily door-to-door mail delivery

• Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ+ Protest at Elementary School

• Patients in Quebec's Nunavik region evacuated over persistent water shortages

• Small businesses gear up — again — for a possible Canada Post strike

• With US trade war, China now top buyer for Canadian crude on Trans Mountain pipeline

Trump administration news:

• DHS Is Reportedly Considering “Reality” Show for Immigrants to Win Citizenship

• Judge in Abrego Garcia case to review whether Trump administration can keep case details secret

• Trump Admin Forcing Schools to Report International Students for Protest Activity or 'Antisemitic Actions'

• US army parade could cost up to $45m and involve 6,600 soldiers

Other US news:

• Charter-Cox $34.5 Billion Megamerger the 'Last Thing' Consumers Need: Watchdog

• Dockworker unions back trade war amid collapse of traffic on US docks

• Execution scheduled for SC inmate with 2 death sentences

• House GOP regroups after budget bill tanks

• Jared Polis vetoes Colorado labor movement’s priority bill. Union leaders say they’ll be back.

• Missouri Republicans Just Overturned Abortion Rights and Paid Sick Leave

• The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair

• Verizon’s $20 billion Frontier acquisition wins FCC approval

Other world news:

• Australian Labor state government charging protesters over anti-Zionist slogan

• Cambodian environmental journalist Ouk Mao arrested

• Global recycling rates have fallen for eighth year running, report finds

• ICC prosecutor to step aside until probe into alleged misconduct ends

• JSO activists spared jail after Heathrow glue plot

• Police send file on British independent journalist Richard Medhurst to Crown Prosecution Service

• Portugal snap general election prepares rightward lurch by ruling elites amid mounting social crisis

• Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks End After Less Than 2 Hours With Deal to Swap POWs but No Ceasefire

• Spain's leader labels 'Israel' as genocidal, denies business ties

• UN rights chief warns of 'ethnic cleansing' in Gaza

• Logan Rozos Is a Real One

• Republicans Are Using Immigration to Bolster a Police State

• Seventy-seven years after the Nakba, we are naming our new ruin

• Unions are the first line of defense against wage theft