Featured News

Advocate: RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce sweeping measures to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth

Bloomberg: US Approves $11 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan, Drawing China’s Ire

CBC News: CBSA employees involved in 259 founded misconduct cases last year: report

New York Times: Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship

WIRED: Terrifying New Photos Emerge From the Jeffrey Epstein Estate

Canada & USA

Canadian news:

• Alberta increases fee for citizen-led initiatives to $25K to discourage 'frivolous applications'

• Carney says U.S.-Canada trade deal unlikely to happen in near future

• Canada Life denied amputee coverage to RCMP officer injured in the line of duty. Advocates say he’s not alone

• China, Russia pulling ahead of NATO in Arctic drone capabilities: report

• Christian Dubé resigns as health minister, leaving CAQ to sit as independent

• Making lawyers swear Oath of Allegiance to monarch unconstitutional: Alberta court

• Melanie Joly rules out run for Quebec Liberal leadership

• Winnipeg schools closed as blizzard blasts southern Manitoba

USA news:

• Federal appeals court gives Catholic groups new chance to overturn Michigan’s conversion therapy ban

• Florida Supreme Court upholds death sentence in challenge to 8-juror law

• FTC Opens Investigation Into Instacart Pricing After ‘Bombshell Report’

• Man sues Tennessee county after he was jailed over meme related to Charlie Kirk killing

• NASCAR great Greg Biffle believed to be among 7 killed in North Carolina plane crash

• November consumer prices rose at a 2.7% annual rate, lower than expected, delayed data shows

• SC settles lawsuit with DOJ over claims of warehousing people with mental illness

• Trump signs order to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana, but it’s still illegal

• Trump’s $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ repurposed from military housing aid

• UMaine graduate workers vote to ratify first union contract

Social Media:

The only Republicans who voted against US forces in Venezuela (Thanks to JM Hatch for sharing this)

World News

• 4 More Killed in Pacific Boat Strike as White House Ramps Up Demands for Venezuelan Oil

• Albanian parliament in chaos as politicians fight each other and set off flares

• Another break from Françafrique: Burkina Faso suspends participation in francophone judicial body

• Casualties reported after intensive RSF airstrikes on power station in northern Sudan

• Farmers from 27 EU countries protest and clash with police in Brussels over EU-Mercosur trade deal

• French court jails doctor for life for poisoning 30 patients, killing 12

• Israel approves $35 billion gas deal with Egypt, three months after it was halted

• New Israeli airstrikes hit sites in southern, eastern Lebanon despite ceasefire

• New Somalia e-visa security flaw puts personal data of thousands at risk

• UK police arrest four people for pro-Palestine ‘Intifada’ calls

• Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Rostov Region Kill At Least 3

What I’m Reading

• Alberta renters don’t need more ‘supply’ — they need non-market housing options

• Christian Nationalism and the Remaking of Canada’s Political Right

• Extrajudicial Killings From Barack Obama to Donald Trump

• In Venezuela, we have not been invaded

• Is Neera Tanden the most brazen liar in DC?

• The lasting harm of the politics of disconnection