The Hudak Report 05/29/25

Common Dreams: Driven by Groundwater Depletion, Colorado River Basin Has Lost Equivalent of Underground Lake Mead

MSN News: Levy charged to Alberta oil companies too low to cover orphan well costs: report

National Observer: Ontario promises to amend mining bill, add Indigenous economic zones amid First Nations uproar

The Verge: US will ban foreign officials to punish countries for social media rules

Truthout: New Israeli Law Allows Palestinians as Young as 12 to Be Imprisoned for Life

Canadian political news:

• A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation

• Bill 15 is poised to become law. B.C. First Nations leaders say that would be a step back for reconciliation

• Defence minister says cost of Trump’s proposed missile defence project still unknown

Other Canada news:

• Canada Post puts forward ‘final offers’ to union, posts $1.3B loss for 2024

• ‘Death Before Detransition’: Trans Americans seek safety in Canada

• Doctors group challenging constitutionality of Alberta transgender law

• Flin Flon could evacuate over wildfire as hotels ‘already full’ of evacuees

• Hamilton landlord fined $100K for illegal renovictions that had 'devastating' impacts on tenants, court hears

• RFK Jr offers to save Canadian ostriches with suspected bird flu and move them to US

• Student sues University of Manitoba following dorm room sexual assault

Trump administration news:

• Feds green-light uranium mine in Utah, first project approved under Trump’s energy declaration

• HHS presses health care providers, hospitals to curb gender-affirming treatments for kids

• Judge temporarily blocks White House from ending congestion pricing

• RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

• Trump administration contends U.S. courts can’t rule on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Other US news:

• CA School Sports Authority Panders to Trump, Offers Consolation Spots to Cis Girls

• Missouri appeals court upholds $611M judgment in Roundup liability case

• Multiple inmates sent to hospital days after protests over prison security and inmate treatment

• Nearly half of REI workers reported racial discrimination on the job, survey finds

• Pipeline spill in northwest North Dakota releases over 3 million gallons of brine

• Supreme Court declines to hear case involving Massachusetts school's ban on 'only two genders' t-shirt

• Texas will require state documents to reflect sex assigned at birth

• Workers walk out of ratification meeting as IAM bureaucrats push through sellout to end Pratt & Whitney strike

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

• Chaos and killings: Israeli army kills three during Rafah aid distribution

• ICC Top Prosecutor Was Preparing Arrest Warrants for Far-Right Israeli Politicians

• Israel is pretending to feed Palestinians while continuing to starve them

• Israeli Airstrikes Hit Sana’a Airport, Yemen Demands International Condemnation

• Israeli Forces Kill 17 Civilians in Two Separate Attacks on Gaza Families

• Netanyahu Says Hamas Gaza Chief Mohammad Sinwar Has Been Killed

Other world news:

• Boko Haram’s Resurgence Sparks Alarm in Northeast Nigeria

• England: Thames Water hit with largest-ever fine issued by regulator Ofwat

• French surgeon handed maximum 20-year term in paedophilia trial

• German Court Tosses Farmer's Case But Climate Groups Cheer 'Remarkable Precedent'

• J.K. Rowling uses 'Harry Potter' wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

• Lithuania sues Belarus for €200mn over border crisis

• Media groups call for repeal of Samoa’s defamation law

• More than 40 killed in attacks in Nigeria's Benue state

• 'Shocking': UN Report Shows Small Chance of Breaching 2°C of Warming in Near Future

• Venezuela Neutralizes Nearly 60 Attacks on Its Oil Facilities: Cabello

• Alberta gov’t seeks to ban books to distract from scandals

• Could a Bold Anti-Poverty Experiment From the 1960s Inspire a New Era in Housing Justice?

• “Noboa’s Victory in Ecuador is Mathematically, Statistically And Electorally Impossible”

• Since when is a foreign king a symbol of sovereignty?

• Throne Speech Signals Canada To Re-Militarize At U.S. Behest

• Why does Alberta yearn for the coal mines?