I want to apologize for a lack of a new edition of The Hudak Report yesterday. Unfortunately, on Monday, when I would’ve worked on it, I ended up being so busy, and as a result, so exhausted, that it just wasn’t feasible.

Featured News

CounterCurrents: 95-Year-Old Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Interrogated for Hours by Canada (Thanks to JM Hatch for sharing this)

Edmonton Journal: Bill 9: Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on its three laws impacting transgender people

Liberation: Outrage at the UN: Gaza resolution tramples Palestinian sovereignty

NBC News: Congress passes bill to force the release of the Epstein files

Peoples Dispatch: Gen-Z protests in Mexico or coordinated chaos?

Zeteo: ‘Things Happen’: Trump Defends MBS Over Murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services

• Canada Post ‘effectively insolvent,’ CFO says as losses top $1B in 2025

• Emissions up in Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area as reliance on gas power deepens: report

• Jet fighter maintenance parts, bombs shipped to Israel via U.S., groups say in new report

• John Main selected as Nunavut's premier, marking territory's first non-Inuk leader

• Proposed resort threatens critical wildlife corridor in BC, study says

• Sweden’s Saab offers to build entire GlobalEye military surveillance plane in Canada

• There’s a Wave of Violence Targeting Canadian Sikhs, and the Government Seems Powerless to Stop It

• Transport Canada fleet moving to DND?

• Why is Quebec Selling Public Land During a Housing Crisis?

USA news:

• 40,000 University of California hospital system workers in two-day strike

• EPA proposes narrowed rules for Clean Water Act jurisdiction

• Framed-up University of Michigan researcher Yunqing Jian sentenced and deported

• Gov. Greg Abbott seeks to ban two Muslim groups and their members from owning land in Texas

• How the Trump administration sparked a health crisis for ICE detainees

• Meta is not a monopolist, judge rules

• Missouri court strikes down 2022 law that pulled library books off shelves

• “National Security” Blocks Epstein Files Release

• Philadelphia transit workers vote to strike as union officials seek to block action

• Trump administration unveils plan to try to dismantle Department of Education

• Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Texas Gerrymander

• Trump officials wrongly deport trans woman in violation of court order

World News

• At Least 12 Somali Civilians – Including 8 Children – Killed in Suspected US Airstrikes

• Ecuadorian people deal a crushing blow to neoliberalism in Noboa’s referendum

• Fascists violently attack activists in Manchester

• 'Israel' appeals to cancel ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

• Israeli airstrikes on east of Khan Younis, attacks on fishermen

• Israeli attack on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills at least 13

• Nigeria steps up search for 25 abducted schoolgirls in northwestern Kebbi region

• Palestine Action activists on trial in UK over attack on Israeli arms maker

• Poland Repurposed a Nazi Factory Site to Make TNT to Drop on Gaza

• Syria launches first trial over coastal violence that killed thousands

• UFAWUZ pickets Nestlé Zimbabwe demanding the company pay workers a living wage

Video:

• Japan is not an independent country (Thanks to JM Hatch for sharing this)

What I’m Reading

• Another truck convoy protest is in the works — this one sparked by farmers and feathers

• Is international development dead?

• Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field

• Somehow, only the Bloc survive Budget 2025 with their integrity intact

• The AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons

• Trump's Gaza Colonization Coming To Fruition