Featured News

Antiwar.com: How the ‘Blood Libel’ Paradox Keeps the West Silent on Israel’s Genocide

Reuters: Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture, UN report says

The Maple: CBC Agreed To Follow Israeli Censorship Order On Gaza Aid Drop Flight

Washington Post: Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest

World Socialist Web Site: Homeless population in Canada’s largest city doubles in less than four years

Canada & USA

Canadian political news:

• Doug Ford vows to ‘legislate’ end to medical testing on dogs after Ontario hospital caught using beagles

• ‘I know there are buyers’: Natural resources minister insists Canada can export more LNG

• Ottawa Imposes Hard Deadline for Mohawks to Resolve Political Crisis

• PQ wins Arthabaska byelection, denying Conservative Duhaime a seat

• ‘We are taxed to death:’ Doug Ford says he will ask PM for tax cuts amid ongoing trade war

Other Canada news:

• Air Canada says negotiations with flight attendants' union are at 'impasse'

• Bayers Lake wildfire threatens Halifax community prompting evacuation

• B.C. wildfires: Wildfire near Port Alberni triggers evacuations, road closure | Osoyoos wildfire held

• China announces preliminary duty on Canadian canola after anti-dumping probe

• Evacuations ordered as wildfire roars near Newfoundland's largest city

• Parks Canada will share stewardship with Indigenous nations

• Quebec orders restoration of farmland after ‘illegal’ golf course construction in Eastern Townships

• Toronto: Citywide pro-Palestinian rallies planned Tuesday at major intersections along Bloor, Danforth to demand arms embargo

Trump administration news:

• Leaked DC Troop Deployment Order

• Trump law will cut food stamps for 2.4 million people as work rules widen

• Trump’s Claims on Illinois Bail Reform, DC Crime Shown to Be False

• White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision

Other US news:

• ‘Devastating’: troubled federal correctional center failed to prevent death of man in medical crisis

• Federal appeals court endorses Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for minors

• Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas

• Ken Paxton asks judge to jail Beto O’Rourke for fundraising Texas Dems' walkout

• ‘Petri dish for disease’: attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

• Six former cult leaders sentenced in Kansas City forced labor case

• 'These Officials Abused Their Power': Texas Woman Unlawfully Arrested for Murder Over Abortion Seeks Justice

• U.S. deficit grows to $291 billion in July despite tariff revenue surge

• Ward seeks execution pause over lethal injection concerns; AG argues date should stand

World News

• Argentine Public Universities Stage Nationwide Protest Over Funding Cuts

• Ceasefire deal fails to stop fighting in Congo

• Georgian journalist sentenced to two years in prison, sparking outrage at home and abroad

• Israeli military faces shortage of at least 10,000 soldiers

• Macron admits France’s role in brutal Cameroon decolonization war

• Mali soldiers arrested over coup allegations: What we know

• South Korean court orders arrest of wife of jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol

• Swedish police probe over 700 war crime cases in Gaza

• Thailand accuses Cambodia of planting landmines after soldier injured

• UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'

What I’m Reading

• Mark Carney seems to have given up on his climate change agenda

• No matter what excuse you come up with, or evidence you fake, killing journalists is never okay

• Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy

• The Dems Could Have Shielded DC From Trump By Pushing for Statehood When It Mattered

• The futility of Canada’s symbolic recognition of Palestine amidst ongoing support for Israel’s genocide

• What if productivity isn’t the problem?