- Stock markets around the world continue to tank as investors respond to Trump's reckless tariffs. Even CEOs on Wall Street, who usually are reluctant to criticize Trump, are warning of the damage that could result, both in economic and geopolitical terms.
- Not satisfied to fire people currently working on DEI projects for US government departments, the regime now appears to be firing people for past work on such initiatives.
- Canada has imposed a new travel advisory on the US, warning that "If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation"; this has already happened to a number of people.
- After killing 15 paramedics and rescue workers in an attack last month, the IDF has admitted that their initial account, which claimed that the victims were "advancing suspiciously", was "mistaken". The "mistake" was corrected only after video of the incident emerged.
- The Yale philosophy professor who moved to Toronto to take a job at U of T was not the only one to do so. Two historians from the same university did so last fall. There are limits to the Canadian university system's ability to take advantage of the troubles in the US, though, since many institutions here are making cutbacks as the supply of international students upon which they depended dries up. In Manitoba, researchers are urging the government to reverse the Tory cuts to Research Manitoba in order to ensure that there's work for these people.
- Canadian retailers are starting to follow the lead of their customers and are turning away from American products.
- It has emerged that Andrew Lawton, the Conservative candidate for Elgin-St. Thomas-London South, was part of a secret chat group on Signal with "Freedom Convoy" organizers.
- The outbreak of "freedom freckles" in southern Ontario has exceeded 600 cases, and is serious enough that the New York State health department is taking notice.
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