- Two single-engine Cessna aircraft collided in midair in the Rural Municipality of Hanover, Manitoba, just outside Steinbach. Both pilots were killed.
- Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, is condemning Greece, Italy, and France for allowing Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through their airspace when as signatories to the Rome Statute they are obligated to hand wanted war crimes suspects over to the International Criminal Court. One can't help but contrast this with the time when several countries, including France and Italy, refused to allow Bolivian president Evo Morales' plane into their airspace because they believed (wrongly) that Edward Snowden was aboard.
- Toyota is considering possible "adjustments" at their plants in Cambridge and Woodstock if US tariffs aren't scaled back. It's a pretty good bet that any such "adjustments" will involve job losses.
- The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, a federal agency that investigates accidents involving hazardous substances, is the latest agency on the Trump regime's chopping block.
- A series of widely circulated TikTok videos of a white guy who says he can't get a job at Tim Hortons because all those dirty brown people are taking all the jobs has been found to be an AI-generated hoax. TikTok has now taken them down, not because of the racially charged claims but because of the undisclosed use of AI. Ironically, AI is likely to be a much bigger threat to the job market than immigration ever was.
- A man drove the wrong way up to the terminal at Milan's Bergamo airport, abandoned his car, then ran through a security door and threw himself into an engine of an Airbus A319 that was waiting on the taxiway. As suicide methods go, this is an expensive one; I do hope that the airline and/or their insurers aren't so callous as to go after the estate for the cost of repairs to the engine, but I'd be surprised if they don't at least consider it.
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