Featured News

Al Jazeera: US Senate passes $901bn defence bill

Common Dreams: Majority of Democrats Join Senate GOP to Pass Trump’s $900 Billion Pentagon Wish List

HuffPost: Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation (If you want to watch the whole address, Al Jazeera has you covered if you want it without added commentary. If you want commentary, Hasan Piker has you covered.)

News From The States: Moderate US House Republicans join Dems to force vote on extension of health care subsidies

The Narwhal: In Ontario, Enbridge Gas gets to build pipelines on public land for free. Waterloo Region and Guelph want to change that

The Maple: Controversial Victims Of Communism Memorial Won’t Include Names

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• B.C. premier cracks MOU Christmas joke ahead of premiers meeting with PM

• Canada sees large drop in population amid international students crackdown

• Feds, Ontario to sign deal reducing regulatory burden on Ring of Fire, other projects

• Ottawa confirms it will miss emission targets unless major policy shifts are made

• Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez is resigning

• RCMP not aware of fentanyl in illegal cannabis in Nova Scotia, despite premier's claims

• Sikh Federation Canada Calls Out Carney Government For Failing to Hold India Accountable for Foreign Interference

• Storm knocks out power for thousands across B.C.

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USA news:

• ‘Absolute Dereliction of Duty’: House Republicans Kill Venezuela War Powers Resolutions

• Brendan Carr doesn’t regret his threats to broadcasters

• Class-action lawsuit seeks to collect wages for airport restaurant workers

• Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to set aside her conviction

• Federal appeals judges allow Trump’s National Guard deployment to D.C., for now

• Judge denies US Wind request to halt Trump administration attacks

• La. Supreme Court declines to restore death penalty for convicted killer who was just shy of 18

• Maryland Legislature Moves to Create Reparations Commission

• MTG's Felony National Youth Trans Ban Passes House; 3 Dems Vote For It, 4 GOP Vote Against It

• Pam Bondi wants FBI to offer bounties for ‘radical gender ideology’ groups, leaked memo shows

• These Seven Democrats Voted for Pervy GOP Bill Allowing Strip Searches of Migrant Children

• US judge says Trump cannot ban lawmakers' surprise visits to ICE facilities

World News

• Drone attacks kill over 100 civilians across war-torn Sudan’s Kordofan

• Morocco steps up nationwide response to extreme winter weather

• S.Africa to expel Kenyans working on US Afrikaner 'refugee' applications

• The Israeli army is creating a ‘new security reality’ in the northern West Bank to advance colonization

• Trump aide Stephen Miller suggests Venezuelan oil belongs to US

• ‘Unquestionably an Act of War’: Trump Declares Naval Blockade Against Venezuela

What I’m Reading

• Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems

• Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting

• The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics

• The US-Backed Destruction of Sudan!