- Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are holding a summit in Alaska to discuss the fate of Ukraine. Trump says it will take at least one more meeting, possibly involving Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to finally settle the matter, though. There are reports that Trump is offering Putin access to resources off the coast of Alaska to sweeten the deal. Many Alaskans are probably tying themselves in knots trying to decide if they support that or not; on the one hand, it could be a threat to their fisheries, but on the other hand it's Trump doing it, so...
- A New Zealander living in the US has been detained by ICE with her 6 year old son for the last 3 weeks, apparently because of a clerical error. She had been living in Washington State, and in fact was as state employee, but when she crossed the border to drop off her two older children at Vancouver International Airport to catch a flight back to New Zealand to visit family, she and her child were detained by ICE and sent to an internment camp in Texas. There's a message in that, folks - even if you're white and from a developed country, you aren't safe visiting the US. Canadians, at least, seem to have mostly figured it out (except for the loogans posting comments to that article); places like Las Vegas that are heavily dependent on tourism are losing huge amounts of business.
- Manitoba has had a net gain of 201 doctors since Wab Kinew's NDP took power. Only two of them were the result of a contract with a private recruiting firm signed by the previous government in 2023, which was supposed to bring in 150. Tory deputy leader Jeff Bereza is trying to accuse the NDP of "setting it up to fail", which sounds pretty rich given that even had it succeeded it wouldn't have brought in as many doctors as the government did through other means.
- A Minnesota teenager was humiliated after going for dinner with a friend at the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Owatonna when a server barged into the women's washroom and made her prove that she was female. One thinks of Minnesota as better than that, but Owatonna is a city of only 25,000 and is represented in Congress by a Republican, so...
- A teacher in Manitoba's Interlake region was charged last month with luring a child via telecommunications and sexual interference after texting a 16 year old student to invite her to a hot tub party, but all charges have been withdrawn after the Crown concluded that there was insufficient evidence to go ahead with the prosecution. To make matters worse, her parents say that the principal seemed to be trying to blame her. Folks in this Reddit thread say that the teacher is popular with students, but one poster alleges that he once locked a disabled student outside in cold weather as a punishment for getting muddy. I guess they're really desperate for teachers up there. The desperation is understandable, actually; it doesn't sound like the kind of place where most people with any higher education would want to live if they could help it.
- Two bronze headstones were stolen from cemeteries in Norfolk County, Ontario. You'd expect a scrap dealer to know better than to buy them, but you never know with scrap dealers.
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