Featured News

Agence France-Presse: General strike hits planes, trains and services in Portugal

Jake Landau is Getting Tired: In Toronto, it is now legal to try and run people over with a snowplow

News From The States: Trump administration disputes court order for release of Abrego Garcia from ICE custody

Mother Jones: Senate Republicans Blocked Yet Another Chance to Save Obamacare Subsidies

Reuters: U.S. preparing to seize more tankers off Venezuelan coast, sources say

The Gazette: Quebec strikes tentative deal with family doctors, will postpone Bill 2's application

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• B.C. evacuation order from flooding expands in Fraser Valley as some highways reopen

• Canadian Forces member charged in foreign interference probe

• Carney’s finances ignite showdown over conflict-of-interest laws

• House of Commons rises for six-week holiday break

• Longueuil, Que., police chief allegedly gave police watchdog erroneous information about fatal teen shooting

• New rifles on the way for Canada's soldiers as defence spending ramps up

• Racism, misunderstanding block Indigenous access to HIV care in Canada

• Rob Lantz expected to step down as P.E.I. premier to run for provincial PC Party's permanent leadership

• Saskatchewan Premier Moe shuffles cabinet, brings in new faces, drops three ministers

• SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School

USA news:

• Appeals court mulls upholding ruling that struck down Pentagon’s HIV enlistment ban

• California: Explosion, fire in Hayward leaves at least 6 injured

• Florida sues leading medical groups for supporting gender-affirming care

• Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests

• Indiana Republicans block Trump’s redistricting push in a rare break with the president

• South Carolina: York County Library becomes latest to move books about gender from children’s section

• Tennessee executes man who killed college student

• The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk appears in court for 1st time as a judge weighs media access

• Trump administration omits data about trans people from prison sexual violence reports

• Trump Tariffs Have Cost Average US Family Nearly $1,200 So Far

Social Media:

World News

• Austrian lawmakers pass headscarf ban for under-14s in schools

• Bangladesh to hold first general elections since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster in 2024, announces date

• Bulgaria's government resigns after mass protests and just weeks before nation due to join eurozone

• Denmark’s government aims to ban access to social media for children aged under 15

• Displaced Gaza families struggle as winter storm hits

• Fate of 11 Nigerian troops unclear after ‘unauthorised’ plane landing in Burkina Faso

• Germany revokes pledges to grant asylum to Afghans

• Myanmar junta air strike on hospital kills 31, aid workers say

• Over 400 civilians killed in eastern DR Congo as US peace deal falters

• Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity

• Pentagon Weighed Sending Boat Strike Survivors to Salvadoran Prison To Avoid Defending Bombings in Court

What I’m Reading

• The right-wing mainstream media coup has begun

• Why Walgreens’ New CEO Should Alarm Us