Featured News

Common Dreams: Medicare Advantage, Privatized Medicaid Could Cost Americans $2 Trillion Extra Over Next Decade

Liberation: When US government abandoned its working class, Cuba and Venezuela extended solidarity

National Newswatch: Lamenting in Uncertainty: Why Climate Justice Must Begin at Home

People’s World: Communist Councilwoman from Ithaca: Hannah Shvets defeats landlord candidate

The Associated Press: Multiple explosions shake a mosque in an Indonesian high school and injure 54

The Canada Files: Could a Conservative government persecute Canadians for holding the Palestine flag? (Thanks to JM Hatch for sharing this article)

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• B.C. gov't fined $759K by workplace safety agency after death of wildfire fighter

• Canada Employment Rises by 66,600, Jobless Rate Dips to 6.9%

• For the first time, Yukon's Legislative Assembly will have more women than men

• Hamilton residents request Ontario investigate ArcelorMittal Dofasco for releasing emissions far above limits

• Liberals survive second confidence vote as MPs break for a week

• Nearly 400 ostriches shot dead at B.C. farm to end avian flu dispute

• Ottawa and Alberta in formal talks to reset relationship after years of acrimony

• Tenant groups ‘horrified’ as Doug Ford skips public hearings on changes to Ontario’s eviction system

• The axe falls on 100 Mile House mill: West Fraser to shutter facilities on both sides of the border

• ‘Things are crumbling’: changing caucus landscape, external pressures spell bad news for Poilievre’s leadership review, say Conservatives

USA news:

• AG Coleman asks court to overrule Gov. Beshear on death penalty

• Cornell Becomes Latest University to Submit to Trump’s ‘Extortion’ Over Student Protests

• Fatties and Diabetics Not Welcome! Immigrants With Health Conditions May Be Denied Visas Under New Trump Administration Guidance

• Kentucky: State juvenile justice department sued over record access

• Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce

• Missouri anti-LGBTQ+ laws linked to population loss and decline in tax revenue, studies find

• Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks

• Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Galveston ISD for not displaying Ten Commandments in classrooms

• Trump Administration Won’t Stop Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Despite 200 Court Rulings Calling It Illegal

World News

• At least 240 charged with treason after Tanzania election violence

• Brazil's Supreme Court panel unanimously rejects Bolsonaro's appeal, upholding 27-year sentence

• Cross-border bomb plot linked to far-right anti-migrant group

• Eleven arrested as protests erupt before Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match

• Europe’s Palestine solidarity movement strengthens call to boycott Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva

• ICC confirms war crimes charges against Uganda's Kony

• Trump weighs Hungary's request for exemption from Russian energy sanctions

• Turkish court issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu over Gaza genocide

• Turkey drafts PKK reintegration Law as peace process advances

What I’m Reading

• A tale of two visions for Canada’s future

• Resignation is Not Enough.

• The assault on the left: Trump’s crackdown in context

• The Canadian government is not interested in preventing nuclear war

• The Gerontocracy Is Dead

• The Government Shutdown Will Hurt Students With Disabilities

• The myth of the immigrant threat