Featured News

Al Jazeera: Palestinian journalist Mustafa Ayyash to be extradited to Austria

Canadian Dimension: Remembrance Day, redacted

Common Dreams: Advocates Applaud as Pro-Palestinian Commentator Sami Hamdi Released by ICE

NBC News: Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds

Responsible Statecraft: US to build major new base near Gaza: Israeli media

The Guardian: Israeli embassy writes to US senators defending detention of Palestinian American teen

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Budget signals lower increases to health transfers, end of funding deals

• Finance minister says critical minerals refining is the ‘name of the game’

• Heavy snow causes widespread power outages, school closures across Quebec

• New nation-building projects list to include mines, LNG, Iqaluit hydro: sources

• Ontario, feds agree to 1-year child-care extension; average fee to stay $19/day

• Over 260 Quebec doctors apply for Ontario licences in weeks following Bill 2

• STM strike: Quebec labour minister plans to table bill to issue back-to-work order

USA news:

• 14 Suburban Moms Stand Up to Ice and Get Arrested

• ACLU pushes to overturn Addison death sentence, citing racial bias

• Adelita Grijalva Will Finally Be Sworn In, After Being Blocked From Taking Office for Record 7 Weeks

• Bari Weiss wants to take down CBS News’ Standards and Practices unit for having ‘too much power’: sources

• Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret

• SC Supreme Court turns down inmate’s final appeal as execution nears

• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues against pipeline lawsuit dismissal in latest DAPL filing

• Trump administration planning to allow oil and gas drilling off California coast

• University Medical Center nurses in New Orleans to launch 3-day strike over staffing

• West Virginia teen files response in U.S. Supreme Court challenge of transgender athlete ban

World News

• At least 21 Rohingya refugees dead and dozens missing after boat sinks near Thailand–Malaysia border

• Belgrade protests plan to turn historic NATO bombing site into Kushner luxury hotel

• Eight arrested, over 1,000 suspended in Turkiye football gambling scandal

• Israel parliament passes first reading of death penalty for ‘terrorism’ law

• Post-election repression in Tanzania as President Suluhu “wins” with 97.66%

• Protests erupt in Pakistan against expansion of military powers

• Suicide bomber kills 12 outside court in Pakistan capital

• Turkey seeks more than 2,000 years behind bars for Erdogan rival

• Turkish military plane with 20 on board crashes in Georgia

• UNICEF says vital child vaccines blocked from entering Gaza

• U.S. and Panama Conduct Joint Military Exercises

• Victorian parliament passes Australia’s first Indigenous treaty legislation

What I’m Reading

• 47% of those on the right believe it's best to choose a new leader for the Conservative Party

• Abortion Restrictions on Young People Cause Trauma

• Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident

• In the age of selfishness, let’s rediscover our sense of shared sacrifice