- A middle-aged man died in the emergency waiting room at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre on Tuesday morning; the matter is being investigated as a critical incident. Some, however, are concerned that the role of racism won't be looked at; while the deceased has not been publicly identified and his ethnicity isn't known, many in the indigenous community have their suspicions and are drawing parallels with the case of Brian Sinclair in 2008.
- Wildfires are sweeping through parts of Los Angeles County, including the upscale Palisades neighbourhood. Over 10,000 ha (25,000 ac) have been burned so far; at least two people have died and over 1,000 structures have been burned. Some 70,000 people have evacuated so far. Intense winds of up to 160 km/h (100 mph or 86 kt) aren't making the situation any easier.
- The Heritage Foundation, a rightwing think tank perhaps best known for helping draft the infamous Project 2025, is planning to dox editors at Wikipedia because they voted to label the Anti-Defamation League as an unreliable source of information on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The methods they plan to use to identify the editors, who usually use pseudonyms, include such things as "creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links". The latter trick, in particular, sounds illegal, but don't expect anything to happen to the perpetrators.
- Donald Trump has outright said that he wants no wind turbines constructed during his presidency. Stuff like this rightly worries any sensible person, both because climate change is certain to be worse under Trump than it would had Harris won the election, and also because to the extent that we do motor through without the US, we'll be dependent on China for the transition.
- France is calling on the EU to get serious about defending the federation from foreign interference, in particular that coming from Elon Musk. New French legislation regarding such matters could allow assets to be frozen under some circumstances.
- Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc has ruled out a run for the Liberal leadership, saying he wants to focus on his current responsibilities in cabinet. Several other ministers, including Steven MacKinnon, Anita Anand, Jonathan Wilkinson, François-Philippe Champagne, and Karina Gould are still weighing their options.
- In response to Donald Trump's musings about annexing Canada, Green Party leader Elizabeth May has suggested that we should instead allow Washington, Oregon, and California to join Canada. Of course, she was probably being facetious; there is little or no chance of this actually happening, and moreover it might not be as great an idea as it seems on the surface - in particular, importing all those techbros from the Bay Area could be problematic for our politics, and importing all those guns wouldn't be so great either.
- Turns out the guy who blew up his rented Cybertruck and himself in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas was actually a Trump supporter; he left behind letters calling on Americans to rally behind Trump and Musk.
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