Featured News

BNO News: Tsunami alerts for Pacific, including U.S. West Coast and Hawaii, after Russia quake

CBS News: CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies

Common Sense: US Gaza Freedom Flotilla Members Say No Consular Support Given After Abduction by Israeli Forces

CTV News: Canada to recognize state of Palestine in September, Carney says

Ricochet: Canada is letting Tuktoyaktuk drown

The Guardian: Only 0.5% of 90,000 oil slicks reported over five-year period, analysis finds

Canada & USA

Canadian political news:

• Elections Alberta approves petition seeking referendum on Alberta remaining in Canada

• Judge strikes down Doug Ford’s plan to remove Toronto bike lanes as unconstitutional

• Poilievre squares off in debate with 9 other candidates vying for seat in Alberta byelection

Other Canada news:

• Bank of Canada holds key rate at 2.75% but opens door to future cuts

• Canada is letting Tuktoyaktuk drown

• ‘Continuum of genocide’: Pentagon funding of Sisson mine provokes renewed opposition from Wolastoq Elders

• Crown attorneys issue rare public response to Pierre Poilievre attack on ‘freedom convoy’ prosecution

• Extremist influencers ‘weaponizing femininity,’ warns Canadian intelligence report

• Migrant worker calls proposed spike in housing cost payroll deduction 'wickedness'

• Nuclear power is coming to Sask., Premier Moe says at bi-lateral conference

• Ontario government agrees to fee to formally rip up $100M contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink

• Toronto tenants win fight over rental increase they argue was for redevelopment costs

Trump administration news:

• Bessent Admits Trump Tax Scam Offers 'Backdoor for Privatizing Social Security'

• Bove confirmed by US Senate as federal appeals judge, despite misconduct complaints

• Brown University strikes agreement to resolve discrimination complaints and restore federal funding

• Lawmakers must be allowed immigration detention visits, US House Dems’ suit says

• Lawsuit challenges EEOC's failure to investigate anti-transgender discrimination

• Trump Quietly Preps Birthright Citizenship Rollback

• Trump’s explosive new claim about Epstein at odds with past statements

Other US news:

• Arizona: ACLU sues Pima County sheriff over immigration contact records in traffic stops

• Divided Fed holds key interest rate steady, defying Trump’s demands for aggressive cuts

• Federal Prisons Are Restraining People for Weeks on End, Investigation Reveals

• ‘I voted no, passionately no.’ Butler Hospital strikers reject latest contract offer

• NYT Condemned for Clarifying Starving Palestinian Child's 'Preexisting Health Condition'

• Ohio: Local labor unions decry exclusion from jobs at $100 million solar job site in Morrow County

• Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy

• US Democrats use obscure law to pressure Trump on Epstein case

• Utah death row inmate will get a commutation hearing

• Warrantless search of car in police parking lot was improper, NJ Supreme Court rules

World News

Palestinian genocide and other Israeli and US aggressions in West Asia:

• Norway, Palestine sign memorandum of understanding: MFA

Other world news:

• Border clash between Ugandan, South Sudanese troops kills at least four

• Fugitive Brazilian Lawmaker Carla Zambelli Arrested in Italy

• Fukushima nuclear plant clean-up faces another delay

• Labor seeks to ban pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge

• Magnitude 6.2 Quake Strikes Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula Amid Ongoing Aftershocks

• Myanmar military government sets long prison terms for election protests

• Trump announces 25% tariff on India plus ‘penalty’ for trade with Russia

• UK court rules Palestine Action may challenge ‘antiterrorism’ ban

• UN court denies Mladic, who led Bosnia’s Srebrenica massacre, early release

What I’m Reading

• ‘Alien land laws’ are a modern-day Chinese Exclusion Act

• Anonymity as cosplay in leftwing debate

• Federal government cuts are a gift to Canada’s authoritarian populists.

• The collective West decided to censor the entire internet instead of not doing genocide

• Toronto mayor shows shameful opportunism by welcoming Gaza refugees while stifling pro-Palestine demonstrations