Featured News

Al Jazeera: Is Trump launching a new nuclear arms race with first US tests in 33 years?

Edmonton Journal: 'We're packed like sardines': Students walk out of their classes in support of Alberta teachers

Migrant Insider: Biometric Exits Coming to Every U.S. Border

Naked Capitalism: Sudan War: Gold, a Key Port, and Two Armies With No Legitimate Claim

Toronto Star: Trigger for new immigration powers ‘intentionally not defined’ in border bill: Diab

Truthout: Trump Admin’s New Rules Seek to Ban Affirming Care for Trans Youth Across US

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Budget to include funding for women, LGBTQ initiatives: Champagne

• Canadian Armed Forces apologizes for racial discrimination and harassment

• Cost estimate more than triples to $1.3B for new federal inmate hospital

• Controversial Ontario landfill will move ahead without federal assessment

• Legault stands firm on doctor payment reform, despite minister’s resignation

• MPs urge Carney government to release special agency governing documents

• Premier Eby says B.C. will ask court to stay implementation of Cowichan Tribes case

• Religious symbols ban: Quebec passes law to prevent students, staff from covering their faces

• Young, proud, online: Quebec's newest sovereigntists hope to revive an aging movement

USA news:

• After Years of Scandal and Drama in Oklahoma, Ryan Walters Sets His Sights on “Destroying” Teachers Unions

• Even During Shutdown, Senate GOP Does Big Oil’s Bidding With Vote to Gut Arctic Protections

• Losing SNAP could mean more pregnancy complications as food insecurity grows

• Runoff from Atalco alumina refinery into Mississippi River raises environmental concerns

• Trump Blames Obamacare for Premium Hikes His Own Policies Created

• Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off

• Trump sets lowest refugee cap in US history

• US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester

• Wilmington to restrict homeless encampments, open day center

World News

• Andrew loses Prince title and will leave Royal Lodge, Buckingham Palace says

• Bolivian Senate Approves Law to Protect Children Orphaned by Femicide

• 'Dead bodies in the streets': Survivors describe fleeing Sudan's El-Fasher

• Dutch centrist D66 party wins big in election as far right loses support

• Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destruction

• Malaysia and the U.S. Sign Defense Cooperation Deal

• ‘No way out’: the closing spaces for Rohingya livelihoods

• Pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson knowingly selling carcinogenic talcum powder prompts UK’s biggest class action

• Protests in Tanzania spread after a disputed election, with the military on the streets

• Ukrainian conscription crisis sees 100,000 youth flee in 2 months

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What I’m Reading

• Democrats, Sanders, Jacobin defend Maine’s Graham Platner following Nazi tattoo revelation

• In 1995 Quebec nearly separated. We could soon relive that nightmare

• Mamdani's Big Secret

• Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose

• The big crime lie

• The first honest American president

• The leftwing defense of Graham Platner is rooted in a false Democratic vision

• They’re already here: How U.S. corporations have been eroding Canada’s economic sovereignty