- The Kinew government continues to work on undoing the damage done by the previous government. They're looking to make it easier for nurses who have left the profession to return if they did so in the last 5 years. They also providing a new mandate for Efficiency Manitoba, which has failed to meet its most recent targets in reducing energy consumption.
- NDP MP Daniel Blaikie is resigning his seat to serve as Premier Kinew's senior adviser on intergovernmental affairs. Can't blame him, but I do hope that the party can come up with a good candidate for the byelection; false consciousness is a powerful force, and Poilievre is disturbingly good at exploiting it. And some misguided tactical voters will doubtless vote for the Liberals in order to stop the Cons, not understanding that in Elmwood-Transcona this would actually help the Tories rather than hurting them. It's possible, though, that Blaikie is just reading the writing on the wall; in addition to the aforementioned factors, under the new riding boundaries (which will be used for the general election, though not the byelection) most of the RM of Springfield will be included, which also favours the Tories.
- The Manitoba Nurses' Union is calling for the emergency ward at Health Sciences Centre to be equipped with metal detectors following numerous incidents involving weapons, most recently a stabbing last week. No doubt this will make some social justice types uncomfortable, as with the scanners at the Millennium Library, but it's probably a necessary evil, and apparently a similar move at Windsor General Hospital has been well-received.
- Alberta is making it harder to build solar and wind farms, even as they continue in their gung-ho push for more oil drilling. This is similar to what is happening in many places in the US. Perhaps not coincidentally, Danielle Smith recently gave a private audience to Wind Concerns, an organization noted for disinformation about climate change and clean energy.
- A disturbing number of Michigan residents don't see enough difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump to care. This is ungood, because Michigan is a key swing state. Among other things, the state's large Muslim community is (understandably) quite dissatisfied with Biden's response the Gaza war. It's not that they think Trump is better, mind you, but it seems awfully short-sighted to say "well, my people are going to be screwed either way, so I won't bother comparing them on any other issues" and thus potentially allow Trump to win, ensuring that a lot more people are going to be screwed.
- Speaking of Michigan, many think that the major US automakers are woefully unprepared for an impending influx of Chinese-built electric cars.
- Lauren Boebert's teenage son has been arrested on numerous charges, following a string of thefts and related crimes.
- A bill before the Arizona legislature would allow the use of lethal force on someone trespassing on your property. Since migrants crossing the border usually end up on someone's private property, it's not hard to see who most of the victims of this bill would be. Fortunately Governor Katie Hobbs is expected to veto the bill in the event that it lands on her desk.
- Not quite in the Mexico City class, but the city of Morden, Manitoba is significantly short of water.
- Nearly 75 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of over $9 million, was found in some suitcases which entered the country earlier this month and were left unclaimed at Winnipeg International Airport.
- The Province of Manitoba is cutting ties with Spirit Rising House, a for-profit company that owns numerous foster homes, following revelations that the company was providing its wards with marijuana. Supposedly this was for the sake of harm reduction; there's a kind of logic to it but on the face of it this doesn't seem to be a good idea.
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