- Healthcare workers are subject to protections under the Geneva convention in times of war, whereby they are supposed to be protected from attacks and permitted to continue their work. The IDF don't seem to think those rules apply to them; as of last month over a thousand healthcare professionals had been killed by them (comparable to the total number of Israelis killed in the October 7 attacks). 22 hospitals had been more or less destroyed as well. Over 500 doctors were taken prisoner; some of them now report that the Israelis subjected them to what their American friends like to call "enhanced interrogation techniques". Sadly, it's almost certain that the perpetrators will not be punished. And if they are, it will probably be a punishment based on vengeance rather than actual justice.
- A resolution before the UN General Assembly condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine passed by 93 to 18 with 65 abstentions; the US voted along with Russia against the resolution. Meanwhile Ukraine has expressed willingness to pay protection money to ol' Don in the form of critical minerals.
- Danielle Smith's Minister of Infrastructure, Peter Guthrie, has resigned in protest of his own government's procurement policy, including problematic and potentially criminal insider deals with private healthcare companies.
- On the other side of the border, 21 civil servants, including engineers, data scientists and product managers, who had been seconded to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have also resigned, saying that the Muskrats' Silicon Valley-inspired "move fast and break things" approach threatens to "dismantle critical public services" and create a privacy nightmare.
- Doug Ford's cop son-in-law is facing charges under the Police Act for insubordination, discreditable conduct, and breach of trust for leaking inside police information. Apparently confidential information about a sexual assault case was leaked to the victim; while this is easy to sympathize with it could very well make it harder to get a conviction in the case.
- A man who stood outside near the courthouse where serial killer Jeremy Skibicki was being tried and hurled abuse and threats at friends and relatives of the victims has pleaded guilty to uttering threats in that and another incident.
- Green Party candidates in Ontario's upcoming provincial election in the constituency of Kitchener-Conestoga, as well as in Waterloo where NDP incumbent Catherine Fife is running again, have called on their supporters to cast a tactical vote for the NDP in order to try to keep the Tories from winning those seats.
- Last month police were called to remove a pilot from a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that he was about to attempt to fly from Savannah to Chicago after a TSA agent noticed that he appeared to smell of alcohol. I daresay this was not a good career move.
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