Featured News

Ars Technica: Elon Musk wins $1 trillion Tesla pay vote despite “part-time CEO” criticism

CBC News: Liberal budget clears first confidence vote

Common Dreams: Senate GOP Kills Bill That Would Block Trump Boat Bombings and War on Venezuela

Edmonton Journal: Alberta teachers union launches two court challenges against province's back-to-work legislation

naked capitalism: Call Your Congresscritters: OpenAI Laying the Groundwork for Massive Federal Bailout (Thanks to JM Hatch for letting me know about this)

The Associated Press: Sudan’s paramilitary forces agree to truce proposed by U.S.-led mediator group

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta let an oil and gas company ‘in survival mode’ take over 170 wells. Now it’s not paying its bills

• Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan

• BC and First Nations unite to defend tanker ban

• Cull at B.C. ostrich farm will go ahead, says Supreme Court of Canada

• Edmonton Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux resigns from Parliament

• Feds faced intense lobbying pressure before budget

• Liberal MP Jaime Battiste fined $600 for breaching elections financing law

• Statistics Canada disciplines 65 employees for harassment, theft and other misconduct

• Supreme Court to decide whether it will weigh in on Saskatchewan’s school pronoun law

USA news:

• California Republicans Sue to Overturn Voter-Backed Prop 50 Redistricting Vote

• DC ‘sandwich guy' found not guilty of assault after throwing sub at federal agent

• DHS Falsely Labels Journalist a “Terrorist Sympathizer” After Wife’s Op-Ed

• Federal appeals court breathes new life into Texas drag ban previously struck down as unconstitutional

• Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to retire from Congress

• Judge orders ICE to clean up conditions in Broadview facility that’s ‘become a prison’

• Rutherford County Library System (TN) Temporarily Shuts Down to Ban Books

• Senators call on Trump to continue banning Nvidia from selling its best chips in China

• Supreme Court allows Trump administration's anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy (for now)

World News

• 10,000+ Palestinians Buried Beneath Gaza Rubble in ‘World’s Largest Mass Grave’

• Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity

• Dutch court rejects bid to halt arms exports to Israel over Gaza war

• FIFA Announces New “Peace Prize,” Weeks After Trump Fails to Win Nobel Award

• Greek coastguard chief to be prosecuted over deadly migrant shipwreck

• 'Israel' attacks South Lebanon in glaring breach of sovereignty, truce

• Kazakhstan will join Abraham Accords, Trump announces

• Peru breaks diplomatic relations with Mexico

• RSF shells Sudanese town, killing 43 and injuring dozens

• Trump Says Bombings Target ‘Terrorist Cartels’ Beyond Venezuela

• Typhoon Kalmaegi kills three in Vietnam after leaving 114 dead in Philippines

What I’m Reading

• How a flock of Canadian ostriches became a favorite MAHA cause

• Kyrgyzstan's Forgotten Colour Revolution

• The conservative (d)evolution of Teamsters for a Democratic Union

• The feud between Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes is now mainstream GOP politics

• Why Mamdani’s Win Isn’t a Total Victory