The Hudak Report 05/26/25

Since today is Memorial Day, a federal holiday here in America, I will be taking the day off, as I will be with every federal holiday. So, there will be no edition of The Hudak Report tomorrow, but there will be one on Wednesday that covers the news from Monday and Tuesday.

CBC News: Canada achieved measles elimination status in 1998. Now, it could lose it

Liberation: Five years after the murder of George Floyd: The fight for Black liberation continues

Middle East Monitor: At least 94% of hospitals in Gaza damaged or destroyed: UN

NB Media Co-Op: Collective agreements signed with two New Brunswick public service unions

teleSUR: Argentina’s SIDE Expands Surveillance to Suppress Dissent Under Milei Government

The Associated Press: Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

The Guardian: Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations

Canadian political news:

• Canada, Norway to deepen Arctic, defense ties amid Ukraine war

• Glen McCallum re-elected as Métis Nation—Saskatchewan president, according to preliminary results

• Liberal government appoints 12 ministerial chiefs of staff

• Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim launches defamation lawsuit against former chief of staff and local businessman

Other Canada news:

• 800 jobs to be cut at the passport office across Canada

• Canada Post, union expected to resume talks in a few days as overtime ban continues

• Ontario man recounts ordeal after being stuck in Dominican Republic on 'bogus' drug charges

• ‘Sudden and heartbreaking loss’: Four Walkerton teen students, school staff member killed in crash near London, Ont.

• This Canadian 'content farm' topped the politics charts on YouTube — before it was taken down

Trump administration news:

• Trump Brags That He's 'Not Cutting 10 Cents' From Pentagon as GOP Guts Medicaid

• Trump pauses threatened EU tariffs until July

• U.S. Government Uses Elon Musk’s AI Service Grok, Raising Conflict of Interest Concerns

Other US news:

• Colorado governor vetoes Uber, Lyft passenger safety bill

• 'Could Amount to a Bribe': Group Threatens Lawsuit If Paramount Caves to Trump

• Critics say the movement to defund the police failed. But Austin and Seattle are seeing progress

• Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Man for Weeks

• US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake

• Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

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

• Armed Groups Loot Humanitarian Aid in Gaza Amid Israeli Blockade

• Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike

• Gaza Ministry reports 38 martyrs, 204 wounded in 24 hours

• Gaza’s youngest influencer among children killed by Israel in last two days

• Head of controversial US-backed Gaza aid group resigns

• ICRC says 2 of its staff members killed in Israeli strike on Gaza home

• Ireland plans legislation to suspend trade with Israeli firms based in occupied Palestinian territories

• Israeli blockade on Gaza leads to over 300 miscarriages

• Swiss authorities exploring probe into US-backed Gaza aid group

• Thousands of people in Sweden, France, Germany protest Israel’s aid blockade, attacks on Gaza

Other world news:

• 5 killed and thousands affected by latest Australian floods

• German defense chief commands fast expansion of warfare capabilities

• Over 400 Rohingya feared drowned in two shipwrecks off Myanmar coast: UN

• Power outage disrupts last day of Cannes Film Festival; police investigating possible arson

• Sexually assaulted and smeared in excrement: Uganda activist details torture in Tanzania

• UK renationalises first train operator under Labour reforms

• US formally lifts sanctions on Syria, aiming for reconstruction

• Cooking in Gaza is now a toxic affair

• Fighting for the Planet means Sovereignty for the Sahel

• We Carry Them Still: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the South’s Reckoning With Reform

• Why the Canada Post strike is not just a ‘labour dispute’

• Will Mexican GM Workers Get a Fair Union Election?

• York University Needs to Quit Stalling, Respond to anti-Palestinian Racism Report