Featured News

Agence France-Presse: Doctors in England launch strike over pay and jobs

CNBC: Trump cuts tariffs on goods like coffee, bananas and beef in bid to slash consumer prices

Common Dreams: ‘Reckless and Irresponsible’: Trump Plans Deep Housing Cuts That Could Leave 200,000 Homeless

PressProgress: As More and More Studies Expose Fossil-fuel Health Harms, Mark Carney Doubles Down

rabble: Ottawa’s austerity plan pushes women out — just before pay equity kicks in

The Guardian: US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• A shaky coalition and 'near-death' election put Eby under scrutiny at NDP convention

• ​​BC’s Bill 31 a pretext for US takeover of Canada’s minerals

• Carney supercharges BC's northern grid with nation-building label

• CSIS braces for possible foreign interference as Alberta, Quebec eye sovereignty

• Ontario nickel mine lands on major projects list despite major environmental and market red flags

• Ottawa fast-tracks Inuit-led hydroelectric project to power Iqaluit

• Some NDP leadership candidates report struggling to meet conditions to remain in race

• Supreme Court of Canada upholds impaired driving convictions based on breath tests

• Tuberculosis outbreak declared in Edmonton’s inner-city

USA news:

• Another Giveaway to Big Oil as Trump Wrenches Open 13 Million Acres of Arctic for Drilling

• At Trump's urging, US Justice Department to probe Epstein ties with Democrats

• Big win for News Guild in 3-year strike against Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Death row inmate set to become 3rd in SC executed by firing squad

• Epstein Files Reminder: USA has a child marriage epidemic—it's even worse than you think

• ICE to Target Migrant Children Using the 287g Program

• Jeffries Blocks Vote on Restoring Federal Workers’ Collective Bargaining Rights

• L.A. jails scale back opioid addiction treatment as fatal overdoses continue

• New Docs Show DHS Gathering Driver’s License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade

World News

• Greek dockworker faces prosecution for blocking arms shipment to Israel

• Greenland Passes Law Restricting Foreign Property Purchases

• New Zealand blocks $30 million in aid to Cook Islands

• Russian attacks on Kyiv ‘calculated and wicked’, says Zelenskyy

• Socialist Party of Malaysia leaders arrested for opposing illegal home demolitions

• Tents in Gaza Collapse From Rain as Palestinians Struggle With Massive Flooding

• The U.S. Has Supported Cameroonian Dictator Paul Biya—the World’s Oldest President Who Just Won an Eighth Term in a Rigged Election—Since the Reagan Era (Thanks to JM Hatch for sharing this article)

• Trump Reaches Tariff and Security Agreement With South Korea

• UN rights council orders probe into Sudan atrocities amid genocide warnings

• U.S. and Switzerland reach trade deal to lower tariffs to 15%

• Yellow fever and dengue cases surge in South America as climate crisis fuels health issues

What I’m Reading

• Canada’s latest defence daydream

• Collectivism or Barbarism

• How capitalism legalized Epstein

• In four minutes, Carney revealed his energy policy

• More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact (Thanks to JM Hatch for sharing this article)