The Hudak Report 05/24/25

Al Jazeera: US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike

CBC News: 'Energy is Canada's power': New federal energy minister touts past Alberta oilpatch ties

Reuters: Jailed Columbia student Khalil meets newborn son for first time

Techdirt: FTC Opens Up Bullshit Investigation Into Media Matters For Highlighting Ads Next To Nazi Content On ExTwitter

The Canadian Press: Canada Post union calls for halt to overtime as deadline passes with no agreement

Canadian political news:

• Bloc Québécois files legal challenge of Terrebonne riding results after one-vote loss

• Conservative Borrelli holds onto Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore by four votes

• Hundreds of government job losses planned at the CRA, ESDC

• Mendicino to leave job as PM Carney’s chief of staff

• Newfoundland riding flips to Conservatives after judicial recount

• RCMP, city police prepare for 'largest domestic security operation' as G7 summit nears

Other Canada news:

• Con media grasping at straws to claim Liberal bias in news coverage

• Report disputes Métis rights claims in Saugeen Ojibway Nation territory

Trump administration news:

• Harvard sues Trump administration over barring enrollment of foreign students

• ICE Raids South Dakota Businesses Three Days After DHS Head Kristi Noem’s Visit Was Greeted With Protests

• Judge Blocks Trump Ban on Foreign Students at Harvard

• Supreme Court walls off Fed from Trump firings

• Trump admin finds Columbia violated Jewish students' civil rights

• Trump signs executive orders aimed at easing regulations on and expanding nuclear energy production

• Trump threatens "straight 50%" tariff on European Union

• Trump To Impose Tariffs on Smartphones

Other US news:

• 2 workers killed in separate fatal workplace accidents in Georgia

• Bill allowing trans people to be kept out of bathrooms, locker rooms heads to Ayotte’s desk

• CT nursing home, group home strikes called off after deal reached

• Environmental groups sue over Louisiana’s ban on community air monitoring

• Federal judge rules workplace abortion accommodations should be overturned

• Federal workers say Biden’s BLM left them vulnerable to Trump

• Gov. Jared Polis signs bill protecting gender-affirming care coverage in Colorado

• Ivey heading to El Salvador to check on, keep focus on Abrego Garcia

• US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet NED

Other world news:

• AI systems may devour 49% of data center energy by 2025, study finds

• China: 2 killed, 19 trapped in Guizhou landslides

• EU anti-deforestation law could overlook big violators, NGO warns

• Germany: 12 people injured in stabbing at Hamburg train station, authorities say

• Guatemala must uphold the integrity of the justice system, end criminalisation: UN expert

• ‘Tortured’ Ugandan activist dumped at border following arrest in Tanzania

• Turkish Police Arrest 56 Military Officers, 9 Police Agents Over Ties to Gülen Network

• Ukraine and Russia exchange prisoners a week after direct talks failed to produce a ceasefire

• Alberta separatism is a ploy to increase fossil fuel profits

• China Is on Its Way to Becoming World’s First ‘Electrostate’

• FBI Visits Me Over Manifesto

• Kids Don’t Have IDs And Age-Estimation Tech Is Frequently Very Wrong

• Migrants are building Canada’s homes—while getting blamed for housing policy failures