I want to apologize: there will be no new edition of The Hudak Report on Wednesday. Tonight is the NHL’s opening night and as someone who’s job it is to cover hockey, I’ll be watching the opening night games which start as early as 5 pm local time (eastern standard time). Since I usually am working on this newsletter until 7 pm or a bit later, I decided to not try to juggle both and instead focus on my job.

Featured News

Al Jazeera: North Darfur displacement worsens as Sudan paramilitary tightens siege

CBC News: Canadian tech helped U.S. strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats: report

News From The States: Trump administration wants to remove wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini

POLITICO: Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act

Socialist Worker: French prime minister Lecornu resigns in spiralling government crisis

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Climate change threatens accuracy of gas pumps and electricity meters, federal agency finds

• Federal government will release budgets in the fall instead of the spring: officials

• Ford renews threat to pull Crown Royal and Smirnoff from LCBO amid production spat

• Military’s own study finds harmful contaminants in Moose Jaw base building

• Number of temporary worker applications falls as fines rise, government says

• Passport service cuts target minorities and people with disabilities, union says

• Petition for Alberta to remain in Canada seeing success

• Quebec and Alberta united in pushing back against Ottawa, Premier Danielle Smith says

• Quebec law to promote the sustainability of goods comes into force

USA news:

• Austin, Texas to close 13 schools, sell corporate sponsorships to close funding gap

• BlackRock’s Minnesota Power takeover splits DFL coalition as corporate giant seeks bigger targets

• CBS News was just taken over by a Substack

• Illinois sues Trump administration over U.S. troop launch in Chicago

• Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

• South Carolina judge's house burns down after ruling against Trump administration

• Supreme Court refuses to hear Ghislaine Maxwell appeal

• Trump plans to deny Social Security disability payments to hundreds of thousands of workers

• Trump Says US Tariffs on Heavy Truck Imports to Begin Nov. 1

Social Media:

World News

• Australia: Alleged Croydon Park gunman Artemios Mintzas charged with 25 offences

• Australia, Papua New Guinea sign mutual defence treaty

• Hundreds of Thousands Flood Cities Across Europe to Demand End to Genocide in Gaza

• Hundreds rescued from Tibetan side of Mount Everest after blizzard stranding

• Hurricane Priscilla lashes western Mexico with heavy rain and strong winds

• New “Gang Suppression Force” to replace Kenyan police’s Haiti mission

• Shoe thrown at India's top judge in religious row

• Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide

• Trump is using Egyptian airport to spy on Gaza under guise of peacekeeping

• UK Grants Police New Powers to Crush Peaceful Protests as Palestine Action Demonstrations Continue

• World War II Era Weapons Still Threatening Lives and Development in the Solomon Islands

What I’m Reading

• Millions in subsidies for mineral exploration undermine Indigenous rights

• The Minimum Wage Increase In 5 Provinces Isn’t Enough