- US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a meeting on Tuesday with the military's top leaders, and told them to "prepare for war". He also fulminated about "woke" culture in the military and said that he doesn't want to see "fat generals and admirals" or efforts to contain bullying and hazing.
- An open letter from over 200 prominent politicians and scientists, including several Nobel Prize winners, was presented to the UN General Assembly calling for binding international measures to contain hazardous uses of artificial intelligence. Given the pace of AI development, they're calling for an agreement to be reached by 2026. This is probably a bit much to hope for, especially given the current US regime's hand's off approach to the technology. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is particularly concerned about possible military uses of AI such as autonomous drones.
- Marjorie Taylor Greene, long one of Donald Trump's staunchest allies, is not backing down on the Epstein issue. She is refusing to take her signature off the petition calling for Congress to vote on the release of the files, even after an official said that any support for the petition by Republican representatives would be viewed as a "hostile act".
- One of the owners of the house on the outskirts of St. Thomas, Ontario that had a swastika mowed into its lawn worked as a nurse at Homewood Health Centre in Guelph until she was suspended by the College of Nurses of Ontario following a disciplinary hearing for multiple racist, homophobic, and other hateful statements made on the job. The swastika was added the same day by her partner. Both of them are now facing charges for criminal harassment and incitement of hatred; neighbours report that the couple frequently "blared loud white supremacist music" from the house.
- A staffer with the BC Conservative Party has been fired after calling a flag honouring residential school survivors a "fake flag" after it was flown at the legislature for National Truth and Reconciliation Day. The staffer, Lindsay Shepherd, has a history; she's the former teaching assistant who created a stir by playing Jordan Peterson clips for a communications class at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2017.
- A radio station in Surrey that serves the south Asian community was hit by gunfire on Tuesday; nobody was injured. The station had covered extortion threats in the community; Surrey, like numerous other cities across the country, has had a big problem with this of late.
- Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.
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