Fact Check: Mitch McConnell’s Health and How He’ll Likely Be Replaced
Death rumors spread through June, but McConnell’s Senate exit was decided over a year ago — and Kentucky already rewrote the rules for what happens next.
House Votes 420-0 to Force Release of Sexual Harassment Settlement Records
Three months after shelving a similar push, the House voted unanimously to make lawmakers’ settlement records public within 60 days.
Commerce Department Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5, Mythos 5
A jailbreak discovery, a foreign-national access ban, and a staged government reversal — the Fable 5 saga is over, for now.
“David Yin”: David Eby Met With Chinese Housing Deputy
Less than two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney and BC Premier David Eby announced a federal-provincial plan to convert more than 2,200 vacant condo units into affordable homes, the premier appeared in Chinese-language coverage of a recent meeting with Song Youchun, China’s deputy minister of housing and urban-rural development. The meeting was framed around […]
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FAA Moves To Open US Land To Supersonic Flights
The Trump administration’s new supersonic flight push could hand its biggest near-term win not to passengers, but to companies trying to raise money, certify aircraft, and convince airlines that high-speed jets can finally fly domestic routes without breaking noise rules. The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed replacing the US ban on most civil supersonic flight […]
Carney Pivots Climate Plan, Admits Emissions Will Run Higher Than Planned
In a video address, Prime Minister Mark Carney says the climate plan inherited from the previous government was “well intentioned” and suited to its time, but argues that the assumptions behind it no longer hold. He says Canada cannot “restrain the growth” of oil and gas to meet a short-term goal and plans must change, […]
Court Blocks BC Landowner’s Cowichan Case Reopening Bid
A Richmond landowner’s failed attempt to reopen the Cowichan Aboriginal title case has shifted the fight from who should have been heard at trial to what higher courts will do with one of Canada’s most disruptive land-title rulings. BC Supreme Court Justice Barbara Young rejected Montrose Properties’ bid to reopen the Cowichan Tribes case and […]
Canada’s GDP Jumps 0.5% in April, Led by Oil Sands Rebound
Canada’s economy expanded 0.5% in April, topping analyst forecasts of 0.4% and ending a stretch of contraction that had stoked recession fears, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. A surge in oil sands activity did most of the heavy lifting. Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction posted a 2.9% monthly gain, the sector’s best result since […]
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U.S. Expected to Trigger USMCA Sunset Clause, Starting 10 Year Countdown
The Trump administration is expected to formally decline extending the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on Wednesday, activating a sunset clause that sets a hard expiry for North American free trade, as reported by Reuters. Should the three countries fail to agree on revisions before the clock runs out, the pact terminates on July 1, 2036. Under the […]
Supreme Court Shut Down Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Crackdown
The Supreme Court did more than block one of Donald Trump’s most aggressive immigration orders. It forced the president’s birthright citizenship fight back onto the same constitutional ground that helped define generations of American families, including families built through immigration like his own. In a 6-3 ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected President Donald […]