The Hudak Report 05/31/25

Al Jazeera: More than 100 killed in heavy Nigeria flooding, rescue efforts ongoing

Common Dreams: 'A Betrayal': Colorado's Democratic Governor Vetoes Bill Targeting Algorithmic Rent-Setting

Techdirt: Trump, Republicans Have Fucked This Nation So Hard We’ve Created A New Class Of Refugees

teleSUR: Venezuela’s Indigenous Peoples to Elect Legislative Representatives: Advancing Participatory Democracy

The North Star: Montreal transit workers stripped of their right to strike

Canadian political news:

• Heiltsuk Nation ratification feast brings written constitution into force

• Idle No More 2.0 will be ‘fierce’ if Doug Ford moves ahead with Bill 5

• Mark Carney warns that ‘foreign threats’ mean Canada needs to move faster

Other Canada news:

• Canada Post union meets with jobs minister as it reviews ‘final offers’

• Canada’s RBC asks staff to return to office four days a week

• ‘Just unimaginable’:14-year-old boy charged with first-degree murder in random Pickering stabbing

• Wildfires force thousands to flee homes in Western Canada

Trump administration news:

• DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is 'Really Not Leaving'

• Medicare, Medicaid agency demands info on gender-affirming care for trans youth

• PBS suing Trump administration over defunding, three days after NPR filed similar case

• Supreme Court rules Trump can revoke protected status for 500,000 immigrants pending appeal

• Trump claims China has "totally violated" tariff pause deal

• Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

Other US news:

• A 4th SC death row inmate opts to die by lethal injection following concerns over firing squad

• Kentucky ACLU drops challenge to abortion law

• Strike by 950 nurses in Madison, Wisconsin over workplace safety and wages

• Striking nurses hold vigil as bargaining resumes at Meriter hospital

• Unions draw striking Butler workers, RIPTA driver in push to pass ‘tax the rich’ legislation

Other world news:

• Luis Montenegro Becomes Prime Minister of Portugal

• No permit, no hajj: Saudi intensifies crackdown after heat deaths

• Olympic boxing champ Imane Khelif must undergo genetic sex screening to fight for new governing body

• On Top of All of Israel's Other Bombs in Gaza, Study Reveals a War-Driven Carbon Bomb

• Slovakia’s PM slams judge over conviction of central bank boss

• Thousands protest in Afghanistan to support Gaza

• First Nations are closing B.C. parks. Should you be mad?

• Homeless in Gaza: Wandering the Land Amid Displacement and Death

• The Tragic History of Neoliberalism

• Who can be a fascist? Let’s look to Mussolini’s Italy, then let’s look to Israel