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News roundup, 6 May 2026

- Longtime Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour has been appointed as Canada's next governor general . Hard not to approve of the choice, not...

News roundup, 5 May 2026

- The US military is making moves to open the Strait of Hormuz to their vessels by force . This is going about as well as you might expect. ...

News roundup, 4 May 2026

- An outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship has killed three people so far and sickened at least three others, one of whom is now in inten...

News roundup, 1 May 2026

- New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, long a bogeyman for the political right and centre, is now taking some flak from left-identifying folks ov...

News roundup, 30 April 2026

- The price of oil has reached its highest level since 2022 following reports that the US is considering new attacks on Iran and that the c...

News roundup, 29 April 2026

- Former FBI director James Comey has been charged with threatening the life of the president  with a picture he briefly posted to Instagram...

News roundup, 28 April 2026

- The suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner incident has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president as well as s...

News roundup, 27 April 2026

- Trump was rushed out of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday after a shooting incident . He escaped unscathed; a suspect is ...

News roundup, 24 April 2026

- Some reports allege that Donald Trump wanted to use nuclear weapons in Iran and was blocked from doing so by a general, Dan Caine. Fact c...

News roundup, 23 April 2026

- Danielle Smith's government in Alberta has passed a motion to select a committee to draw up new constituency boundaries , having rejected ...