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BettBeat Media: We Embraced Psychopathy as Culture—And We Call It Capitalism

CNBC: Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most since 2020 pandemic, Challenger says

CTV News: Racialized immigrants report lower well-being in Canada, study shows

rabble: Ottawa strengthens UAE partnership as atrocities continue in Sudan

The Guardian: US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC – report

The Texas Tribune: Supreme Court keeps Texas’ new congressional map while legal battle continues

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta proposing sweeping changes to election and referendum laws

• Climate change advisers quit over Carney government’s energy deal with Alberta

• John Rustad officially steps down as leader of B.C. Conservatives after dramatic 24 hours

• Joly says feds will serve Stellantis with notice of default on funding contracts

• Military adds new command to oversee readiness for future conflicts

• Money a key factor in using Charter override on teachers, 2 cabinet ministers say

• Protest continues over Ford government suspension of immigrant skilled trades program

• Study that said glyphosate herbicide is safe retracted 25 years after publication

• U.S. approves potential $3.8-billion sale of air strike weaponry to Canada

USA news:

• Amazon reportedly considering dropping USPS and building a competing postal service

• CDC advisers delay planned vote on hepatitis B vaccine for infants

• ‘Copy of Guantánamo’: Human rights group alleges torture, inhumanity at ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Krome

• Dozens of Cities, States Hiking Minimum Wages in 2026 Amid Federal Inaction

• Mamdani could revoke Adams’ order aimed at stopping boycott or divestment from Israel

• Missouri appeals court rewrites ballot proposal to clarify a ‘yes’ would end right to abortion

• Missouri attorney general calls for ICE investigation of company gathering signatures on behalf of anti-gerrymander referendum

• Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill that would have let 14, 15 year olds work till 9 p.m. year-round

• Suspect arrested in January 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case, DOJ says

• The War on Terror Turns Left

• Trump admin may deny H-1B visas to people who worked in content moderation, report says

• Tyson Foods Moves to Block Shareholder Vote on Deportation Risks

World News

• Australia: Two workers killed on Queensland building sites in 24 hours

• DRC and Rwanda ink Trump-brokered peace deal as US seeks unhindered access to key Congo minerals

• Election results withheld after “staged” coup in Guinea-Bissau; opposition cries foul

• Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israel’s inclusion

• Mexican Lawmakers Pass a Proposal to Change Water Rights Governance

• Outcry in Italy over sex education bill to crack down on ‘gender ideology’

• Poverty in Latin America is declining, but not evenly

• Sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa had direct access to government espionage victims, researchers say

• Right-Wing Resurgence in Bolivia Clears Añez of Nine Charges

• Tunisia arrests top opposition leader Nejib Chebbi in widening crackdown

What I’m Reading

• Ahmed al-Sharaa’s first year in power bodes ill for Syria’s future

• Canadian-built machines of war

• How the Hell Did We Get Here?

• Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Finally Arrested Half Decade Later

• New York prisons are still struggling to resume normal operations nearly a year after illegal officers’ strike

• Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners