- The Trump regime is deferring some of its tariffs, specifically those on Big Three automakers, for another month. Whether this is a result of Trump seeing the impact of tariffs on share prices, or if it's just another move meant to confuse us isn't clear.
- The regime has stayed its decision to fire nearly 6,000 employees of the US Department of Agriculture, following an order from Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to reinstate the employees pending an investigation of the legality of the layoffs. Of course, knowing who we're dealing with, this might just mean the regime has to dissolve the MSPB before they re-fire them.
- The US has stopped sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine. Whether they are sharing intelligence on Ukraine with Russia is another question, of course.
- A Canadian teenager who was backpacking through Europe was recruited by the FSB after volunteering with what he initially thought was a humanitarian organization in Donetsk; he then went to Poland so he could make contact with the Polish military. He was caught after getting drunk and spilling the beans to hotel staff in Warsaw, and has now received a 20 month sentence.
- Manitoba's interim opposition leader, Wayne Ewasko, has belatedly apologized on behalf of the entire Progressive Conservative party for their stance in opposition to searching the Prairie Green Landfill for the remains of murdered indigenous women. The fact that human remains now appear to have been found probably meant that the party's previous position was even less tenable than it was when they were defeated in the election in which they campaigned on that.
- Winnipeg mayor Scott Gillingham has rejected a recommendation from city administrators that the upgrade of the North End Sewage Treatment Plant be financed by hiking water and sewer rates. The upgrade definitely is needed; Gillingham favours a more modest increase to keep the work moving along while trying to find another source of revenue.
- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports an increase in the number of complaints about inaccurate or misleading country of origin labels in grocery stores.
- Two people have been arrested after driving their cars into a picket line at the Region of Waterloo International Airport. Nobody was seriously hurt.
