- Doug Ford declared on a Toronto radio station that Donald Trump "can kiss my ass" in response to the latest tariffs from the US. Wab Kinew, who doesn't agree with Ford on very much, doesn't fault him at all for his comments. For his part, the Mango Mussolini now says that he wants to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America", saying "we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer".
- Jeff Leiper, an Ottawa city councillor turned mayoral candidate, is promising to end return-to-office mandates for municipal employees where possible, if elected. Incumbent mayor Mark Sutcliffe is crying foul - a statement from his campaign bleats that this matter is "the decision of the city manager"; another source cites him as calling the promise "counterproductive and performative". Despite this, though, the folks on Reddit say that Sutcliffe has been a vocal supporter of RTO at the federal level.
- The American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is heading home from a lengthy deployment in the Middle East due to the ongoing war in Iran, having been relieved by another carrier, the USS George Washington. The deployment has become notorious for the horrific living conditions on the vessel; many sailors apparently reported suicidal thoughts, with at least one having to be stopped from jumping overboard. Democratic senators are demanding that the Pentagon investigate; the Pentagon's response so far has been to fire the editor-in-chief, publisher, and a reporter from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes which reported on the conditions, allegedly for "insubordination".
- Two MLAs who left the BC Conservative caucus intend to form a new party. Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar, considered one of the party's moderates, left the party earlier this month in response to the hard-right shift under leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. He was joined on Monday by Ian Paton, who represents Delta South and who, like Milobar, previously represented the centre-right BC United (the former BC Liberals). They acknowledge concerns about vote splitting but say they want to "give a home to those who feel politically homeless" in the province.
- There's an old joke about a guy who's coming out of anesthesia and the doctor says to him "Well, I have some good news and some bad news. What would you like to hear first?" The patient says "Give me the bad news first", so the doctor says "We amputated the wrong leg." He asks what the good news is, and the doctor says "Your other leg might not need to be amputated after all. Unfortunately, this scenario played out for real at a Winnipeg hospital, according to a lawsuit currently before the courts.
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