Featured News

Al Mayadeen: Five killed, 100s injured as Pakistan suppresses pro-Palestine rally

Middle East Eye: Hamas and Israel swap prisoners as Trump declares war's end

NBC News: U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says

Peoples Dispatch: World Bank acknowledges poverty increase in Nigeria, but doubles down on the reforms causing it

The Canadian Press: 'We'll be moving': Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• AI sovereignty in the spotlight as Microsoft Canada gets new president

• Anita Anand meets Prime Minister Modi; agrees on trade road map for Canada, India

• Major winter storm hits parts of northern Manitoba

• Newfoundlanders detained by Israel have been freed, family member says

• PM Carney risks trouble without loyal ‘palace guard,’ say political players

• Province denies responsibility in Brandon jail beating death

• The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. But Ottawa can stop it

• Toronto Police Association pushes tougher sentences for young offenders

USA news:

• California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots

• Governor denies clemency to a man sentenced to death by a Missouri judge

• Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

• Local Governments Worked Hard to Hedge Against Climate Disaster. Florida Leaders Bigfooted Them.

• Missouri governor launches attack on SNAP recipients under guise of “nutrition reform”

• North Carolina GOP Plans to Rig US House Map for Trump

• Northeast swamped by storm, while 50 rescued and 3 missing in Alaska

• Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

• Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

World News

• Australian “contempt of court” threat to all protest rights

• Bus crash in South African mountains kills at least 42

• Ecuador Enters 4th Week of Protests Against President Noboa

• French ex-president Sarkozy to go to prison on October 21: sources

• Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza

• President of Madagascar flees to ‘safe location’ amid deadly protests

• Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

• Trump addresses Israeli Knesset, boasts war crimes in region

• Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care

• Várhelyi ‘not aware’ of Hungary’s alleged attempts to recruit spies in Brussels

• Zelensky to visit Washington this week seeking long-range weapons and a Trump meeting

What I’m Reading

• Constitution does not protect malpractice, fraud or conversion therapy

• Fragility Is Getting Scary

• Gaza Still Needs You

• Indigenous Peoples' Day Must Replace Columbus Day

• Loser supremacy