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CBC News: 41 more potential unmarked graves found at former B.C. residential school, shíshálh Nation says

Secular Talk: Corporations Bring INDENTURED SERVITUDE Back (Video)

The Associated Press: No end in sight to plastic pollution crisis as treaty negotiations in Geneva fail

The Guardian: Judge drops domestic terrorism charges against Atlanta ‘Cop City’ protester

The Narwhal: Drought is a big problem in Canada — and it’s getting worse

Canada & USA

Canadian political news:

• Canada’s counter-tariffs ‘pulled the rug out from’ CUSMA, U.S. envoy says

• Canadian premier to meet with Mexican president in Mexico next month

• China files WTO complaint over Canada steel duties

• Doug Ford’s back-to-work edict for Ontario public servants is now spreading

• Smith says policy to stop disclosing government expense receipts could be reversed

• Yukon government approves $31.7 million in extra spending for wildfires, health

Other Canada news:

• Air Canada, flight attendants in final day before strike deadline

• B.C. nurse gets suspension, fines for comments about transgender people

• Hampstead, Que., resident challenges Israeli flag in front of town hall

• Kingston fire destroys Cabot Academy elementary school

• Pilot conscious, talking after helicopter crash at Long Lake wildfire

• “Rejecting Canada Post’s offer was the right thing to do”

• Toronto pursuing sole-sourced deal for new TTC trains in wake of U.S. tariffs

Trump administration news:

• Trump’s DEI ban in K-12 schools, higher ed ruled ‘unlawful’ by federal judge

• Vast Majority of 'Refugees' Accepted Under New Trump Plan Will Be White South Africans

• Washington DC and White House agree to scale back Trump ‘takeover’ of city police

• White House propaganda video shows SWAT team swarming D.C. home of DOJ employee charged for throwing sandwich

Other US news:

• Big Pharma sues Maine over new law protecting federal drug discount program

• California company receives probation and fine for two workers suffocated in 2020 nitrogen leak

• Centrist Ruben Gallego Circulating Letter Pushing Trump to Investigate Israeli Settler Violence

• Florida judge strikes down state law used to ban books: 'None of these books are obscene'

• Government Documents Show Police Disabling AI Oversight Tools

• North Ogden fire forces evacuations as forecast calls for wind and dry thunderstorms

• SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.

World News

• Argentine Prosecutor Charges President Milei Over Threats Against Journalist

• Ecuadorians Rally in Quito to Defend Constitutional Court Judges

• Exposure to some common Pfas changes gene activity, new study finds

• Hurricane Erin Forms Ahead Of Heavy Rainfall In The Caribbean; East Coast Likely To Face Rip Current Threat

• Israel's Ben Gvir seen threatening Marwan Barghouti in prison in new video

• JSO activist Roger Hallam released from prison

• Lula’s “Security Bill” strengthens police state in Brazil

• Malaysian plantation workers mobilize to demand housing rights

• Malian junta arrests generals, French national over reported coup plot

• Nearly 200 Killed in One Day in Pakistan Flooding Fueled by Climate Crisis

What I’m Reading

• The “Drop in Housing Prices” is a Media Smoke Screen

• The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us?