Thank you all for your patience as I took last week off. It was a much needed break and I feel refreshed after it. I’m ready to get back into the swing of things.

Featured News

CBC News: Canadian injured in West Bank settler attack says they were beaten, passports were stolen

CTV News: Corrections Canada disciplines employees for 400 misconduct cases, 12 fired

Independent: Will Trump really attack Venezuela? US president ‘issues Maduro with ultimatum’ after threatening strikes

News From The States: Congress to probe U.S. strikes on boats in Caribbean

The Associated Press: Luigi Mangione in court: Prosecutors play 911 call, new videos from McDonald’s where arrest took place

TRT World: UN agency says over 1,600 civilians fled Sudan's Kordofan in one day

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• ‘Alberta Forever Canada’ petition verified by election officials

• Alberta UCP delegates reject key provisions of Smith-Carney deal

• ‘Balance it out’: First Nations call for protected area as Doug Ford signs Ring of Fire deal

• Canadian steel company Algoma to lay off 40 per cent of workers, blames Trump tariffs

• Carney brings Trudeau-era minister back into cabinet, adds responsibilities to 2 others

• Concerns raised that another Canadian Army project is being tailored just for U.S. equipment

• Ford government fires entire RECO board following iPro scandal

• 'Hard pill to swallow' — Amherstburg Diageo workers reach plant closure deal

• May says voting for budget was 'mistake' and it won't happen again

USA news:

• A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress

• Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035

• Dem. Senator Gallego's Leaked Texts Echo Far-Right Gender Panic And Misogyny

• Federal funding changes could push thousands into homelessness in North Carolina

• Indiana House Unveils New Map Rigged for GOP After Months of Trump Threats

• North Dakota on track to be first in nation with 100% broadband internet access

• Pete Hegseth post turns Canadian book character Franklin the turtle into soldier targeting 'narco-terrorists'

• Pipeline developer asking North Dakota Supreme Court to weigh in on foreign Greenpeace case

• Several protesters arrested after ICE raid thwarted in New York City

World News

• Australian governments invoke Nazi actions to crack down on democratic rights

• China cancels 1,900 flights amid row with Japan

• Gangs launch large-scale attack in Haiti's central region as hundreds flee gunfire and burning homes

• Gaza faces medical blackout as 'Israel' cuts vital fuel supplies

• Greek farmers clash with police amid protests over delayed payments

• Israeli Occupation Forces Land by Air in Tubas, Impose Curfew and Mass Raids

• Israel’s war forces Gaza children into work as breadwinners

• Kenya’s High Court rules in favor of smallholder farmers and indigenous seeds

• Thousands March Across Croatia to Protest Rising Far-Right Tendencies

• US approves $1.4B in military sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain: What to know

• U.S.-founded neo-Nazi group designated as terrorist organization is busted in Spain

Video:

What I’m Reading

• Breaking down the bills some Alberta oil and gas companies aren’t paying

• Hurricane season is over. Here’s why the US never got hit.

• Make Amazon Pay For Its Abhorrent Labour Practices

• Protestor Confrontation with ICE in New York City Appears to Have Stymied Raid; Is There Any Hope for ICE Opposition?

• Public service job cuts are a self-inflicted wound that affects everyone

• The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism

• The Words We Use to Describe Homelessness Will Get People Killed

• Which Parents Get “Parental Rights?” In This Ohio School, It’s Those Who Hate LGBTQ+ People

Video:

A Few Things From When I Was Gone

(Thanks to JM Hatch for all these links and Twitter post. Check out these for some things I would’ve posted if I hadn’t been gone last week)

• Blackfeet Nation Tries to Overcome Legacy of White Settler Colonialism By Bringing Back the Buffalo

• Canada pursues Gulf markets as its weapons fuel war in Sudan

• He killed the ex-Prime Minister of Japan to put a bullet in a cult: the trial of Yamagami sheds light on the path from suicide to homemade gun

• No Kings Day: The Diversion Circus

• NYT Mourns Lost Glamour of Jeffrey Epstein’s New York

• US Is Aware of Reports That It Killed a Civilian Clan Elder in a Somalia Airstrike