- As predicted, Israel's ultimatum demanding that northern Gaza be evacuated has not worked. Perhaps this has something to do with the need for evacuees to have somewhere to go. The siege continues, as does the hostage crisis. The prospects for peace look bleaker than ever, and the conflict is sparking tension on university campuses around the world as students take sides.
- White-nose syndrome has arrived in Manitoba, with devastating consequences for several bat species in the province. There is some possible good news, though, in that in eastern North America, where the disease became established earlier, populations of the Little Brown Bat, at least, are showing signs of recovery.
- Mask mandates have been reinstated at hospitals, personal care homes and other heath-care centres... at least for staff. Unfortunately visitors will not be required to cooperate; perhaps the authorities have concluded that hostility from the angry masses and the added stress to workers from said hostility will do more harm than the increased risk of transmission.
- Wab Kinew has announced that his new government will recognize Louis Riel as the honorary first premier of Manitoba.
- A witness at the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber has described the intolerable conditions that the convoy created for local residents. Which was almost certainly the convoy's intention; they wanted to stick it to the big city libtard ay-leets (even though many of the people who live in the area are just ordinary working people trying to get by, to those hillbillies they represent everything they hate).
- A man who killed his parents and then tried to kill his former supervisor at Seven Oaks Hospital has been found not criminally responsible due to his delusional mental state at the time of the killings.
- The Saskatchewan government has banned sexual assault centres from making presentations in schools to teach children what their rights are. Perhaps they want to protect their God-fearing Christian followers from having their crimes come to light. So who are the groomers now?
- In BC, the extremists are turning their attention to wetland conservation projects, stirring up opposition among the rural sheeple. And in New Zealand the new government they've helped elect is reversing measures to clean up the country's vehicle fleet.
- Some researchers are working on genetically modifying plants, such as trees, to increase the rate at which they sequester carbon. A risky move perhaps, but it's not like nature is going to return to its primordial state anyway, so maybe this is justifiable as a Godzilla threshold-type strategy. It does not by any means, however eliminate the need to reduce emissions; even the best sequestration measures are inferior to emissions reduction.
- A biologist at the University of California - Berkeley who was researching the effects of the herbicide atrazine on frogs began to suspect that the herbicide's manufacturer, Syngenta, was spying on him. Might sound paranoid, but in the words of Kurt Cobain, just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you.
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