Featured News

Common Dreams: Trump Proposal to Weaken Endangered Species Act Will ‘Accelerate the Extinction Crisis,’ Green Groups Warn

Edmonton Journal: Alberta announces plans to allow surgeons to work in both public and private sector

Edmonton Journal: 'No choice': Alberta nurses, health-care aides set to strike Saturday morning

NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS: The spooked up builders of Vampire Valley

The New York Times: Trump Said to Authorize C.I.A. Plans for Covert Action in Venezuela

World Health Organization: Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report

• B.C. abandons EV rebates to the Feds as it scraps sales mandate of 100% by 2035

• Border guard used service weapon to gun down ex-fiancée in Prince Rupert, B.C., CBC learns

• Carney, Smith moving closer to a deal that could include B.C. oil pipeline: source

• New trade deal to chop red tape, knock down trade barriers across Canada

• Pascan aviation manager tries to ram striking flight attendants

• Quebec Liberal leader calls for external investigation into report on cash for votes

• Watchdog calls for changes to how justice system treats sexual violence survivors

USA news:

• At the Justice Department, Civil Rights Now Means Gun Rights

• Big Pharma Army of 500 Lobbyists Is Coming for Medicare Prescription Drug Negotiations, Watchdog Warns

• Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Push to End TPS for Syrians

• Gov. Kotek orders state agencies to move faster on clean energy projects, electrification

• Saudi Arabia releases jailed US citizen after Trump, Crown Prince Mohammed meeting

• Trump Calls for GOP to Ram Through AI Regulation Ban in Must-Pass Military Spending Bill

• Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor

• Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.

World News

• Argentina Unions Announce New National Strike Against Milei’s Labor Reform

• Civil Society Warns of New Land Grabs as World Bank Pushes for Tenure Reforms in Africa

• Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws

• Heavy Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least 26 people, injures nearly 100, officials say

• Indonesia raises alert level as volcano near Bali erupts

• Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest

• New Israeli massacre leaves at least 28 Palestinians killed in Gaza

• NZ Right-Wing Government Bans Puberty Blockers: "Sacrificing A Generation Of Trans Youth"

• Thousands of Tunisian doctors strike, say health system close to collapse

What I’m Reading

• Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger

• Democracy is quietly slipping away in Ontario

• How Trump’s trillion-dollar war machine enriches the 1%

• Nick Kakeeway: a story of Indigenous survival

• Olivia Nuzzi's Nine Lives

• Quebec independence movement’s anti-immigrant agitation sparks concern among some of its big business backers

• Social media’s Trojan horse of reactionary gender politics

• The Anti-Vax Movement’s Wildest Claim Yet: Polio Wasn’t So Bad

• Tierra Walker Didn’t Have to Die

• True climate justice demands a reckoning with colonialism

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