- A new poll from Nanos puts the Liberals at 34% and the Conservatives at 38%, with the NDP at 16%, and the Bloc at 8%, with the Greens and People's Party bringing up the rear at 4% and 2% respectively. The gap between the Cons and Liberals is not much more than the poll's margin of error.
- A major measles outbreak is spreading across Canada, with 95 cases reported in several provinces since the start of the year. Last year there were 147 cases total across the country; the disease was considered eradicated in Canada in 1998, but that was the year that Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent paper alleging a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism was published, and the rest is grim history.
- A Southwest Airlines flight attempting to land at Chicago's Midway Airport was forced to make a last-minute go-around in order to avoid colliding with a business jet that had strayed onto the runway. Fortunately, the crew's reflexes were faster than they would have been if they'd carried on like another Southwest pilot last month. Video of the incident, as well as some analysis, can be found here. And now there are reports that American Airlines had a similar close call on the same day at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
- Searchers at the Prairie Green Landfill in Rosser, Manitoba have found possible human remains. Families of serial killer Jeremy Skibiki's victims have been notified but the identity of the remains has not yet been confirmed.
- A parkade in Ottawa partially collapsed on Wednesday morning; fortunately nobody was hurt, in contrast to a similar accident at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake in 2012 which killed two people and injured over 20.
- David Shipley, the Washington Post's opinion editor, has resigned rather than preside over Jeff Bezos' new vision for the newspaper's opinion section. Bezos wants the paper to have a consistent rightwing libertarian stance and has declared that opposing views will no longer be published.
- Toronto's Pride festival is facing a substantial shortfall and is scaling back events for 2025 after several corporate sponsors pulled out. Evidently the sponsors decided, after reading the public mood, that they had more to lose than to gain by associating themselves with anything that might be connected to diversity. Organizers have not named the sponsors who pulled out, apparently hoping to avoid antagonizing them so as to win them back. If I were to guess, though, I'd assume that they're American, or at least do a lot of business in the US, and are more afraid of the MAGA crowd than they are of LGBT* folks.
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