Featured News

Bloomberg: Congo conflict forces 200,000 to flee despite Trump peace deal

Canada’s National Observer: Ford moves to let mining companies take water — no permit required

Common Dreams: Trump Says Ground Attack on Venezuela Imminent—Plus Colombia, Mexico Also in US Crosshairs

The Associated Press: Judge grants Justice Department request to release Ghislaine Maxwell records in sex trafficking case

The Globe and Mail: Liberals to accept Bloc amendment to remove religious exemption from hate-speech laws

WGBH: Judge orders Trump administration to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's federal student record

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Canada’s Big Banks are a ‘culprit’ driving housing prices out of control

• Ford defends funding to company now in the midst of police investigation

• Immunity for Alberta attorney general necessary to ward off ‘political activism,’ attorney general says

• Inquest announced into fatal police shooting of Surrey, B.C., teen Chase de Balinhard

• Justice bill takes aim at femicide, coercive control, pornographic deepfakes

• Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to U.S., to leave post in new year

• Liberals to vote against Poilievre's pipeline motion, calling it 'immature' and an 'insult'

• Microsoft vows to protect ‘digital sovereignty’ in $7.5-billion Canadian data-centre expansion

• Top Ontario union official defends Tory government’s multi-billion-dollar training program amid fraud scandal

USA news:

• Federal Court Strikes Down Georgia’s Ban on GAC for Incarcerated Trans People

• Federal judge declares Trump wind memo unlawful

• Federal judge rejects Missouri AG’s push to block referendum on gerrymandered map

• Florida lists Muslim rights group CAIR a ‘terror organisation’

• Google is powering a new US military AI platform

• Indiana appeals court upholds privacy of abortion reports

• Infant Death Rate 3 Times Higher Near PFAS-Contaminated Sites in New Hampshire: Study

• Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse

• One dead, multiple injured after shooting on Kentucky State University’s campus; suspect in custody

Social Media:

World News

• Australia’s Social Media Ban for People Under 16 Takes Effect

• BBC's new guidelines treat anti-Zionism as antisemitism

• Cuba hands life imprisonment to former economy minister in explosive spy trial

• DRC President Tshisekedi accuses Rwanda of violating peace deal

• Elbit Systems at center of NATO corruption investigation, reports suggest

• Honduras Issues Arrest Warrant for Former President Hernandez Following U.S. Pardon

• ICC sentences Sudan militia chief to 20 years

• Israel attacked Syria more than 600 times over the past year

• Israel launches new wave of air attacks on Lebanon, straining fragile truce

• Israeli plot to assassinate Marwan Barghouti sparks international outcry

• More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says

• Record numbers of Ukrainians desert army amid losses to Russia

• Six Pakistani Soldiers Killed in Militant Attack

• Spanish Doctors Set to 4-day Strike Over Health Ministry Reforms

What I’m Reading

• Benin’s real coup already happened under President Talon

• Conservatives choose rage-bait over real debate on hate speech

• Trump’s Enemies List Meets Media Blackout