- They always used to say that "the Mounties always get their man", but this guy apparently spoke with someone who had an active warrant out for his arrest, and then lied about it. Now it's not a big secret that cops often lie, but lying to your colleagues is verboten in pretty much any police force. Given that he's previously been caught driving while impaired as well as using RCMP computers to mine bitcoin, this just might be the last straw that gets him fired.
- A record 18 candidates are on the ballot for the Kitchener Centre byelection. And Julian Ichim isn't one of them, despite having been a perennial candidate for years. Astounding.
- Dairy farmers represent only 1% of the Netherlands' GDP, but when a government-commissioned report indicated that it would be necessary to rope in the emissions from dairy farms, it unleashed a torrent of populist rage, complete with bogus stories about supposed plans to replace farmland with housing for migrants, that is rocking that normally stable country.
- More than 20 patients at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza have died in the last two days, as life support equipment shut down due to the lack of power. Israel is claiming that the hospital was being used for military purposes and was thus not subject to the prohibitions in international law against targeting such facilities. They can't be counted on to tell the truth about this, of course; then again, neither can Hamas. And the UN is warning that starvation is looming for the citizens of Gaza.
- In San Francisco, at least 50 people have been arrested following a pro-Palestinian protest that that shut down the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Elsewhere in the same city, supporters and opponents of the Chinese regime clashed near hotels where China's representatives are thought to be staying.
- Ukraine is claiming some success in repelling the Russians from the east bank of the Dnipro River. Whether this will help them in the long run remains to be seen.
- Winnipeg's Executive Policy Committee has voted to continue the present work from home regime; the fact that the program has saved the city money with no loss in productivity probably helped. There will still be a vote by the full council next week.
- Workers at Manitoba's land titles office have ratified a new contract.
- A centre-right member of France's Senate has been arrested on suspicion of spiking the drink of a member of the lower house with intent to sexually assault her.
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