Featured News

Al Jazeera: Assata Shakur, US Black liberation activist exiled in Cuba, dies at 78

CBC News: Canada Post reassessing latest offer to workers due to Ottawa's announced reforms

SCOTUS Blog: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to withhold billions in foreign-aid funding

The Canadian Press: Quebec labour tribunal to hear case against Amazon over warehouse closures

World Socialist Web Site: Judge gives US government deadline to comply with order in Will Lehman’s UAW elections case

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• A Community Centre Evicted, Grassroots Groups Dispersed

• Alberta legislating authority to ignore international agreements signed by Canada

• Dozens of nations move to safeguard international waters, but not Canada — yet

• Economic growth in July could give way to stall in August: StatCan

• Ontario’s plan to eliminate school boards is anti-democratic

• Ottawa tries — again — to strip military of power to investigate sexual offences

• Out-of-control Munro Lake fire forces hundreds of evacuations near Peachland

• Quebec softens ZEV mandate, turfs 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicles

USA news:

• Alabama executes Geoffrey Todd West in fourth execution of 2025

• Beshear announces updated isolation policies for Kentucky juvenile detention

• Ex-FBI head James Comey indicted on false statement, obstruction charges

• ICE agents point guns at bystanders during violent arrest in Maryland

• ICE Detains Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent

• In ‘Crucial Victory for the First Amendment,’ Charges Against Journalist Timothy Burke Dismissed

• Indiana’s AG Makes It Clear He’s Going To Target Anyone Who Isn’t Reverential Enough Of Charlie Kirk’s Corpse

• Jimmy Kimmel Live! Returns Friday Night to Nexstar and Sinclair Stations

• Musk, Thiel And Bannon Mentioned In Latest Epstein Files From Oversight Committee

• Trump orders prosecutors to pursue death penalty in DC

World News

• 400,000 evacuated, 3 dead as fresh storm batters Philippines

• Attempted prosecution of Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh collapses

• Doctors Without Borders Suspends Operations at Gaza City Clinics ‘Encircled by Israeli Forces’

• Israeli aggression on Sanaa kills 9, injures 174: Yemeni MoH

• No medicine, no beds, no food or water: inside Gaza City’s main hospital

• Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption

• Triple femicide shocks Argentina, analysts cite neoliberal policies, surge in drug trafficking

• Trump proposal to permanently end war abandons 'Gaza Riviera' plan: Report

What I’m Reading

• Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman

• Battle of the Sexes (Thanks to JM Hatch for this submission)

• The Killing of Nooran and the End of Community Policing

• The Mamdani campaign, left horizons, and the “defund the police” question

• The Real Violent Extremists Are The Freaks Who Run The US Empire