- You know how they were claiming that they had to bomb that hospital because there were Hamas tunnels under it? Well, maybe not. Meanwhile, the WHO is warning that conditions in Gaza are perfect for disease outbreaks, and the Washington Post has taken down a cartoon related to the conflict that has been condemned as racist. The cartoon can still be seen here, for the curious. Disturbingly, shots were fired at two Jewish schools in Montreal, although nobody was hurt. On the positive side, Israel has agreed to a few "pauses" in the campaign on humanitarian grounds.
- The use of drones to deliver contraband to prisons is getting out of hand, and has led to a surge in violence. Besides making the job of prison staff much more difficult, there are so many lockdowns that there are concerns about the disruption of rehabilitation programs for the prisoners.
- The Kinew government's clean energy plans are getting mixed reviews. The plans to increase the use of heat pumps, including subsidized installation, are being praised, but the feasibility of producing hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas for home heating is being questioned. And the mixed messaging on the carbon tax is raising eyebrows as well.
- Flin Flon MLA Tom Lindsay has been acclaimed as speaker of the Manitoba legislature.
- LRSD trustee Francine Champagne has been suspended yet again, this time for using racist language on social media. She shows no sign of resigning, though; presumably she's a "true believer" and/or Karl Krebs has some kind of sway over her.
- The Minnesota Supreme Court has dismissed a petition to keep Trump off the Republican primary ballot, on the grounds that no law prohibits an ineligible candidate from appearing on a primary ballot. This does keep the door open for keeping him off the general election ballot, though.
- Speaking of the Republican primaries, candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to build a wall at the Canadian border, because there's no way good old Americans could be the source of all that fentanyl.
- In Kingston, a pilot project that provided small "sleeping cabins" for homeless people has been cancelled, but users of the program are worried about the lack of alternatives.
- The actors' strike has ended after almost four months. How this will affect Hollywood in the long term remains to be seen. Plenty more strikes going on, though, most recently Hamilton's transit workers.
- Repossessing vehicles is a dangerous job; repossessing a pickup truck in a rural area doubly so.
- The US Marines have equipped a robot dog with a rocket launcher. I can't see anything going wrong with that, can you?
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