Featured News

CBC News: With flight attendant strike looming, union accuses minister of speaking 'on behalf' of Air Canada

Dialectics of Decline: You Can Only Watch

Mongabay: PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested

The Globe and Mail: Nearly 150 Canadians held in ICE custody this year, including two toddlers, data show

The Verge: Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US

Canada & USA

Canadian political news:

• Advance voter turnout in Poilievre’s Alberta byelection on par with early votes cast during general election

• Alberta judge upholds review of proposed separatist referendum question

• Canadian government plans to reduce size of public service through attrition: Lightbound

• Conservatives plan national campaign against federal electric vehicle mandates

• Ford government says Ontario public servants will return to office full-time in 2026

• U.S. State Department targets Online News Act in human rights report

Other Canada news:

• Air Canada plans to cancel 500 flights by Friday as cabin crew strike looms

• ‘Common sense prevailed’: Burgundy Lion pub can keep sign after Quebec’s language watchdog admits mistake

• Compensation for First Nations child welfare claimants now flowing, says AFN

• For 19 years, Nunavut has been working on the largest land use plan in the world. Industry is moving faster

• N.S. wildfires: Evacuation order issued for some in Annapolis Valley, Halifax blaze contained

• Reconciliation on hold as BC blocks Cowichan land win

Trump administration news:

• 'Corporate Crime Pays' Under Trump as His Agencies Drop Enforcement Against 165 Companies

• Trump Administration Is Said to Discuss US Taking Stake in Intel

• Trump May 'Fabricate a National Emergency' to Extend DC Takeover Without Congressional Support

• Trump Plans Raids on DC’s Homeless Tonight, Sources Say

Other US news:

• Arizona is still guilty of unconstitutional school underfunding, court rules

• Gavin Newsom says California will move forward with map redrawing plan in response to Texas effort

• Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows

• Illinois Governor signs new laws to protect workers

• Judge denies Ralph Menzies’ request for another competency evaluation

• Louisiana’s legislative maps violate Voting Rights Act, 5th Circuit rules

• New Mexico governor declares crime ‘emergency’ in Española, authorizes National Guard to assist

• Pennsylvania Nurses Get Union Election Despite Trump’s Delays at Labor Board

• Texas Democrats say they will return to state once session ends, California unveils retaliatory map

World News

• At least 37 killed after torrential rains trigger flash floods in Kashmir

• China falls back on gasoline to drive its global EV conquest

• Former Peruvian president imprisoned over corruption allegations

• Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 23 people as four more die from malnutrition

• Israel's Smotrich to approve E1 settlement plan to 'bury Palestinian state'

• Serbian antigovernment protests escalate in third night of clashes

• Sexual violence surged amid war in DRC’s North Kivu last year: UN

• Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes

• Turkey to help Syria with weapon systems, equipment under new accord, source says

What I’m Reading

• From Pulitzer Prize Winner to 'Terrorist': The Unending Shamelessness of Western Racism

• Italian Amazon Workers Strike and Win. Will Unions Elsewhere Follow Suit?