Featured News

Al Jazeera: Israeli military plans to occupy Gaza City in major escalation of war

Common Dreams: After Initial Arrests, As Many As 1,000 Ready to Defend Palestine Action in London Saturday

Maryland Matters: VA says it’s ended most collective bargaining agreements

The Orchard: Canada's Israel lobby is cracking up over Palestinian statehood recognition

The Tyee: The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Canada & USA

Canadian political news:

• Canada announces $2 billion investment in military salaries

• Canada will lower price cap for Russian oil

• Jenni Byrne stands by not pivoting Poilievre to Trump, but won't run next election campaign

• Military's hateful conduct reports spiked in 2024 after years of steady decline

• Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside Joly’s home, raising security concerns

• Some U.S. Republicans want Canada to axe its Online Streaming Act

• Yukon will ask its citizens if they want to ditch first past the post in future elections

Other Canada news:

• Air Canada flight attendants to hold ‘national action’ across airports on Monday

• Canada sheds tens of thousands of jobs as tariffs dent hiring plans

• Montreal police stopped a Black woman for impaired driving. She was having a stroke

• On the Eve of Montreal Pride, LGBTQ Advocate Faces Backlash over Gaza Comments

• P.E.I. capital hires private crews as striking city workers demand higher wages

• U.S. increases duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing total to more than 35 per cent

Trump administration news:

• New lawsuit presses DOJ to release communications about Epstein files

• Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA

• Trump DOJ subpoenas AG Letitia James in new revenge push

• Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels

• Trump to meet Putin next week in Alaska, he says on social media

Other US news:

• Charges dismissed against Salt Lake protester in a ‘significant’ First Amendment win, ACLU says

• Fired Pediatricians Accuse Employer of Retaliating for Union Organizing

• Ken Paxton asks Texas Supreme Court to expel 13 House Democrats over redistricting standoff

• Massachusetts lesbian Gov. Maura Healey signs abortion and gender-affirming care shield law

• Rapidly spreading brush fire prompts an evacuation order for thousands north of Los Angeles

• Top Democrats Smear Palestinian-American Politician for Criticizing Zionism

• Trans people in Georgia prisons are being forced to detransition. Now they’re suing.

• Wheelchair Users Are Finally Winning the Right to Repair

World News

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

• Germany to Halt Arms Sales to Israel After Netanyahu Cabinet Approves Gaza City Takeover

• ‘I will live here, and I will die here’: Palestinians defiant as Israel plans to seize control of Gaza City

• Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives

• Lebanese Cabinet Approves U.S.-Backed Plan to Disarm Hezbollah Amid Rising Tensions

• Vice President Vance confirms UK, US have 'disagreements' over Gaza policy

Other world news:

• A new leadership is appointed in Haiti as gangs threaten to overthrow the government

• At Least 17 Killed, 33 Missing In Flash Floods In China

• Azerbaijan and Armenia sign accord brokered by Trump at the White House

• Far-right Israeli football fans set off pyrotechnics in Latvia’s capital

• France’s Largest Wildfire in Decades Leaves Thousands Displaced

• Grenada government and opposition join forces to drop oath of allegiance to King Charles

• Satellite images show surge in rare earth mining in rebel-held Myanmar

• South Africa’s ANC government arrests 1,000 miners

• Taiwan reports first case of chikungunya virus from China outbreak

• UK homelessness minister resigns over claim she evicted tenants, hiked rent

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