Featured News

Mother Jones: A Revolutionary Way to End the Incarceration of Girls

People’s Voice: 80 years later, the first nuclear weapon blast is not forgotten

rabble: Paramedic fired for pro-Palestinian speech fights for reinstatement

The Guardian: Caribbean LGBTQ+ activists celebrate as court strikes down colonial-era laws

World Socialist Web Site: Angola’s MPLA regime kills 22 anti-austerity protestors, arrests 1,200

Canada & USA

Canadian political news:

• Elections Canada adds security ahead of Alberta byelection amid reported threats

• Ottawa's top HR official aims to reduce excess senior executives in public service: memo

• Trump signs executive order pushing tariffs on Canada to 35 per cent

• Viable trade deal wasn't on the table ahead of deadline, Canada-U.S. trade minister says

Other Canada news:

• Alberta's coal mine reclamation standards failing to protect water, fish: study

• B.C.’s environmental assessment office won’t review a proposed ski resort in the Kootenays

• Heat, lightning spark dozens of new fires in B.C., prompting evacuations and alerts

• Horse killed, 7 others injured in ‘disturbing’ stabbing attack at Ontario farm overnight, police say

• Is Canada's pollution database hiding toxic spills in plain sight?

• New Brunswick: Labour board rules that province bargained in bad faith, orders reversal of school librarian layoffs

Trump administration news:

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close its doors after loss of funding

• FBI Officials Redacted References to Trump From Epstein Files: Report

• More than a dozen states sue to protect gender-affirming care from federal investigations

• Trump administration reportedly suspends $200m in grants to UCLA

• Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets

• Trump rejigs tariff rates ahead of deadline, levies 40% duties on all transshipped goods

• US Abducts, Illegally Deports Mother, Child with Cancer, Suit Says

Other US news:

• Arkansas Democrats call for investigation into “Whites Only” community

• Few released under NJ law meant to allow gravely ill inmates to die at home

• Florida carries out record 9th execution of year on man convicted of killing his family

• Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent

• Gavin Newsom may call special election to redraw California congressional maps

• Ghislaine Maxwell moved to federal prison camp in Texas

• Utah Supreme Court backs dismissal of case claiming Salt Lake City isn’t enforcing anti-camping laws

• Utility Bills Hit Record Highs Under Trump

• 'Very Significant Sign of Weakening': Bad Jobs Report Sets Off Alarms About US Economy Under Trump

World News

• Anger erupts as strike by 2,100 miners in Turkey is effectively banned

• Angola’s MPLA regime kills 22 anti-austerity protestors, arrests 1,200

• At least 60 dead in northern China due to extreme rainfall and floods

• Caribbean LGBTQ+ activists celebrate as court strikes down colonial-era laws

• El Salvador approves indefinite presidential re-election

• Ex-Colombian President Álvaro Uribe given 12 years of house arrest

• Germany deports family to Iraq despite legal ruling declaring they can remain

• Israel Is Imprisoning Florida-Born Cousin of American Slain by Settlers

• Over 1,500 Haitians Killed in 1S 2025: BINUH

• Trump Orders Deployment of Two Nuclear Submarines Near Russia

• Worker resistance stops Karnataka government’s plan to increase IT work hours

What I’m Reading

• Burlington penalizing two residents with a naturalized garden

• The global economic benefit from the genocide of Palestinians