Featured News

Aftonbladet: Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

CBC News: Province will consider back-to-work legislation for Alberta teachers if strike continues to drag

Pandemic Accountability Index: Wakefielders All the Way Down

Responsible Statecraft: Israel wants to pay US pastors a stipend to spread the word

Ricochet: In B.C., progressive movement leaders feel betrayed by David Eby’s NDP

The Associated Press: UN agency says C02 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta government set to receive report into health contract scandal

• Funding for softwood industry imminent, federal minister says

• Progressive Conservatives win majority government in Newfoundland and Labrador

• Ontario college support staff reach tentative agreement to end strike

• Ottawa threatens to sue Stellantis over move to shift Jeep production to U.S.

• Sentencing of land defenders tests Canada’s commitment to Indigenous rights

• Threats of “SLAPP Suits” Undermine Student Democracy at Vanier and Dawson

• Toronto slashes single-use waste by third, plans to expand bylaw

• Two busy B.C. airports targeted by pro-Hamas hackers

USA news:

• 46,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers strike across the West Coast

• A Pregnant Amazon Employee Asked for a Chair to Sit on—and Wound Up Homeless

• As winter sets in, Alaska DOT prepares another push to remove homeless encampments

• Border Patrol Won’t Say Why It Used a Michael Jackson Song With Antisemitic Lyrics

• Federal judge extends order barring Trump from sending any National Guard troops to Portland

• Judge dismisses suit by young climate activists against Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies

• LA County declares state of emergency because of ICE raids

• New York City Sues Instagram Rather Than Teach Kids Filters Aren’t Real

• People in ICE Custody Face Invasive Strip Searches After Visits With Loved Ones

World News

• Brutal repression in Ecuador leaves dozens injured and 31 arrested

• German government attacks the welfare state: Basic support payments to be abolished

• Liz Kendall admits that digital ID would really be a digital key to access services and "much more besides"

• Pakistan Bombs Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan

• Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

• Palestinian Healthcare Workers Among Hostages Released from Israeli Torture Camps

• Peru's interim president swears in hard-right cabinet

• Trump Admin Reportedly OKs CIA Action in Venezuela Amid Growing Alarm Over Bombed Boats

• US aims to raise $20bn ‘facility’ to support Argentina’s struggling economy

• US journalist recounts Israeli torture after Gaza aid flotilla raid

• War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged Sudan city

What I’m Reading

• A call for compassion for Toronto’s unhoused

• Canada flying in lockstep with the United States

• It is Israel that must be deradicalized, not Palestine

• The Abundance Movement’s Deregulatory Deceit

• What is nihilistic violent extremism, blamed for most mass shootings in US?

• Yes, ADHD diagnoses are rising, but that doesn’t mean it’s overdiagnosed