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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Wow! Can you believe this, eh? Four days of consecutive sunny weather. I wish I could hold this high-pressure system down with a hammer and pegs 🔨📌 like a tent ⛺️ If I could, I would. I love being able to sit outside in my Green Space 🌿🌳🌴🦜🌺🌸🪴 while I have my first coffee ☕️ of the morning 🌅. At least here in the Newsroom, all is well and peaceful when I was out in my Green Space. I wonder what they did to that sewer shitsnuffaluffagus. No roaring of the shitsnuffaluffagus today, "Grrreeat!" says Tony the Tiger. 🐯

Actually, they're more like Sahelanthropus than homo sapiens. The shitsnuffaluffagus has no relation to Mr. Snuffleupagus, Snuffy the muppet on TV. After all, no self-respecting Snuffleupagus would want even to get close to... well, maybe it went to find another sewer to suck. "Dum - dum sewer sucking truck!" - 🚚➰

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Well, for us Canadians:

Here is an update on Carney's Canada Strong Fund proposal.

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Where do you get the Canada Strong Fund?

AI Overview

Everyday Canadians will be able to get the Canada Strong Fund through a dedicated retail investment product, allowing you to invest directly alongside the private sector into major national projects.

The government is currently setting up a transition office to finalize details on how individual investors can purchase these products through their regular financial institutions.

• What you need to know:

How it works: It is being designed like a Crown corporation to finance infrastructure, clean energy, and critical mineral projects, and is expected to work similarly to government bonds.

• Investment:
• Current Status:

You can read more about the mandate and objectives in the [Department of Finance Canada Strong Fund Release]<-Link.

As the retail product is launched, you will be able to purchase it through YOUR PERSONAL BANK BROKERAGE.

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Well, there's not much more astir here in the Newsroom at this time, so we may as well go on with the local and national news. Thank you for reading the Tree House News.

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BREAKING NEWS:

Clashes continue in Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting US partial ceasefire plan

Clashes have continued in southern Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting a US plan for a partial ceasefire.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had spoken to both sides and "they agreed that all shooting will stop", after Iran warned Israeli military actions in Lebanon were a threat to the US-Iran ceasefire. Lebanon said Hezbollah had accepted the plan for it to halt attacks on Israel and for Israel not to attack the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the agreement. But he said strikes on Beirut would go ahead "if Hezbollah does not stop attacking our cities and civilians", and that Israeli forces would still operate in south Lebanon. While the ceasefire appears to be largely holding, there was further violence overnight.

Hezbollah said its fighters had targeted Israeli tanks in the southern Lebanese towns of Haddatha and Bayada with missiles and shells...

• Bowen: Trump needs this war to end, but Iran is not backing down:
• Iran attacks damage 20 US military sites since start of war, satellite images show:

June 2, 2026 - 6 hours ago

- BBC -

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Strikes continue in southern Lebanon after Trump has heated call with Netanyahu

Here's The Latest:

• Lebanon clashes: High-stakes talks between Israel and Lebanon are taking place at the US State Department after Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and the Israeli military continued to trade strikes overnight. Lebanese Authorities said Hezbollah agreed to a US proposal for a ceasefire with Israel in which strikes on Beirut would stop.

• US-Israel tension: US President Donald Trump declared Israeli forces would not move on Beirut after a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The call became heated, according to sources, as he pressed Israel to scale back its Lebanon offensive, which threatened to upend negotiations with Iran.

• Status of Iran talks: Meanwhile, Trump told ABC News he believes a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and extend the ceasefire with Iran is reachable “over the next week.” Iran’s final draft proposal is under review, Iranian media reported, indicating that negotiations are ongoing a day after reports that Iran suspended them over Israel’s offensive in Lebanon.

Read More:

23 min ago

Israel-Lebanon talks begin at US State Department

More To Read:

Why Trump’s cratering poll numbers are so remarkable

His approval rating is lower than it has been since immediately after leaving office — but you need to look beneath the hood for the real story.

VIDEO | Included:

President Donald Trump’s approval numbers have been in a prolonged slump in a way that we haven’t seen in his second term. According to The New York Times’ national polling average on Monday, 38% of Americans approve and 58% disapprove of his performance. He hasn’t broken a 40% average approval since late April. The overall figures are bad, clearly, and though Trump has had runs of horrific polling before and bounced back, there are reasons to believe he’ll have a harder time recovering this time.

• Trump’s cratering poll numbers are remarkable in part because they challenge a consensus about how low any politician’s numbers can rise or fall in this political climate:
• More from MS NOW Daily:
• It will be difficult for Trump to bounce back from those kinds of numbers when he’s so out of touch on the most important issue to most Americans:

Jun. 2, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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CANADIAN NEW:

Canada tells U.S., Mexico it wants CUSMA renewed

Formal letter comes as Canada-U.S. trade minister heads to Washington

Canada has given the U.S. and Mexico official notice that it wants the free trade deal between the three countries to be renewed. In a letter to his American and Mexican counterparts, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the country is seeking renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for review on July 1.

LeBlanc is in Washington Tuesday for a meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, a member of U.S. President Donald Trump's cabinet. All the signals from the White House over the past year and a half indicate that the Trump administration does not want a straightforward renewal of CUSMA and instead wants significant changes to its terms, including on automotive exports and access to Canada's dairy market...

More to come.

Posted: Jun 02, 2026 9:50 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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In first remarks after Canada enters ‘technical recession,’ Carney acknowledges ‘weakness’ in economy

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OTTAWA - While Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged weaknesses in the Canadian economy, he also defended the federal government’s economic agenda on Tuesday and did not use the word “recession.”

“This government’s been in the process of laying the foundations for a stronger, more resilient, more independent Canadian economy,” Carney said Tuesday when asked directly by reporters in Ottawa about whether Canada is in a recession.

“That process is settling in during that time as we make major investments, major changes to how the government operates, how we do major projects, how we have new trade agreements with other countries.”...

Updated: June 02, 2026 at 10:00AM EDT

- CTV News -

Israel continues to bomb Lebanon despite Trump claiming there will be a ceasefire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkrp-KFQANo

 

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THE CURSE OF THE BLACK LAGOON!

Before coffee, I felt like Lurch in the Addams Family this morning. I guess if I drag my feet much longer, it will be "Good afternoon, folks!" Jeez! "Na, I hope not, I don't want a repeat of yesterday, NO, ABSOLUTELY NO MORE GROUND HOG DAY for me! I had had enough of that yesterday, I sez; NO THANK YOU! as I whipped off my sombrero 𐚁 and held it to my midsection and bowed to the audience. Then I left STAGE RIGHT! in a puff of dust 💨 never to be seen again.

SIGNED: The Invisible Woman.

_*At least it's not afternoon yet, not quite yet." It's only 9:30 AM, and it's bright and sunny out, a bit cool but very still and silent. Like the world is holding its breath in suspense over humanity's stupidity bag that's about to burst and cover everything in an orange sticky mess, like orange molasses, but smells like 💩

Other than allowing myself to trip over that mental brick temporarily, I went out to my Green Space, and it was nice just to sit and relax in the sun for a bit. The silence and peacefulness with the sun warming my face

Given the declining viewership since about last Tuesday, the 27 th of May. I don't have much to say or comment on today. Is it The Summertime Blues? Na! If it's slow, I'm going to make more time for other things. I thank you all for visiting and reading the Tree House News.

What my plans are for the summer, with the high prices for gas, thanks to the

ORANGE SNOT BALL 🟠🫟

I believe we will be doing more staycations than going anywhere out of town. Probably do more hiking in the park and visit Grandmother Weeping Willow. Walk to the town beach, hike to the shore of Lake Ontario, by way of the trails in the park.

Other than that, we may slip up to Barrie to visit my sister sometime through the summer. My partner and I talked about going to Temagamie, an unspoiled place in the woods, the last time I saw it, but I'm not certain about this year. So, no biggie this summer, just enjoy the good weather, be happy, get through the foul, and come out as the sunshine after the storm. You and I can do it! One Day At A Time.

BREAKING NEWS:

Iran suspends talks with US over Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, state media reports

Here's The Latest:

• Talks suspended: Iran has suspended talks with the United States in protest of Israel’s actions in Lebanon, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Monday. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

• Back-and-forth negotiations: President Donald Trump had sent back changes to a proposed deal with Iran, officials said, insisting on tougher language about Iran’s nuclear commitments and its pledge to reopen to Strait of Hormuz.

• Fresh strikes traded: The US attacked Iran over the weekend, targeting radar and command and control sites, as a response to “aggressive Iranian actions,” US Central Command said. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, meanwhile, said it struck a US air base used to attack a telecommunications tower. The announcement came after Kuwait said it repelled strikes...

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8 min ago

Iran suspends talks with the US in protest at Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, Iranian media reports

More To Read:

Updated 9:52 AM EDT, Mon June 1, 2026

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Trump’s newest unfortunate obsession is the number ‘250’

The president is fixated on the upcoming semiquincentennial — and using it as an excuse to build, renovate and self-promote to his heart’s content.

“Donald Trump is a numbers guy” is not a phrase one would normally use without a certain amount of irony. (Fortunately, that is exactly how it is being deployed here.) The details of the federal budget may elude him, but Trump is a big fan of branding, as evidenced by his penchant for slapping his name on every edifice and product available.

In the run-up to the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday, Trump has expanded into numerical iconography, treating this year’s semiquincentennial as yet another excuse to put the spotlight on himself.

It’s well-established that Trump loves a big number, no matter how inaccurate it may be, and the bigger the better...

• It’s well-established that Trump loves a big number, no matter how inaccurate it may be, and the bigger the better.:
• The pending anniversary has been a useful shield for criticism against Trump’s projects, as it has given him another semiplausible justification for his actions:

Jun. 1, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Alberta considering 3 oil pipeline routes through northern B.C., documents show

Documents used in private consultations show 3 routes and 6 ports in northern B.C.

The Alberta government has considered three different pipeline routes through northern British Columbia for a new major oil export pipeline, according to documents obtained by CBC News which provide a first glimpse into where the project could be located.

Several ports on the northern coast are highlighted as options, according to the documents, which were shown to local community leaders during private consultations on the proposed project this spring. The provincial government is also exploring the idea of a fourth route through southern B.C. and a port in the Vancouver area.

Potential northern pipeline routes

Map Included:

• Major Projects Office submission:

Map Included:

• Indigenous consultations:
• B.C. government remains opposed:

WATCH | West Coast pipeline build could start by September 2027, Smith says:

Posted: Jun 01, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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Canada's population shrank last year — a first for the country, StatsCan says

Agency says it recorded the first 1-year population decline since Confederation

Canada's population dropped last year, marking the first time the country has seen an annual net decline in residents since Confederation.

According to the latest quarterly estimate from Statistics Canada, the population of citizens, landed immigrants and non-permanent residents in Canada stood at 41,472,081 on Jan. 1, 2026 — a decrease of 0.2 per cent, or just over 102,000, from Jan. 1, 2025.

StatsCan said that even though the population increased by just over 77,000 people in the first six months of last year, it wasn't enough to outweigh the decline of almost 180,000 in the second half of 2025...

* Cutting immigration and temporary residents:*

Posted: Mar 18, 2026 3:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 18

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Defence deal with Sweden tells the U.S. ‘keep your stuff, we’ve been through enough,' Mulcair says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPdm7bLc3e8

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning, everyone. It's another beautiful, bright, sunny day out there again today, and I love looking out at all the verdant scene from the Tree House. Physically, I feel much better, but mentally there's a storm brewin'.

Maybe blowing a couple of vacuum tubes may help.

Sorry, but I had to take the day away from the news yesterday, hearing about that ORANGE BUTTHOLE'S IDOCY every day kind of gets on my noives," as Bugs Bunny would say 🐰🥕 I thought today was as good a day to let out some of the pent-up bile that has collected within me in the mildest manner I can.

It's bad enough that the warped behavior and corruption that Trump has brought to the presidency have been accepted as normal by the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, and that Trump has so many of us confused whenever he says something is "fake news." There are so many fools who don't question it!

Now, he has taken to destroying entire news organizations by forcing them to act as his propaganda outlets. Fox "News" has been serving up its codswallop for years. They are his voice in the news biz. Recently, he added CBS News to his propaganda organs by exercising his influence over the then-pending Paramount-Skydance merger. Paramount is owned by billionaires Larry Ellison and his son, David. The Ellisons wanted that merger. Trump could "advise" the regulators to keep it from happening.

The merger happened, and CBS News was promptly gutted of its expert talent, with Bari Weiss taking charge. Weiss turned CBS into Trump News. Weiss interfered with the production and reporting of 60 Minutes, the crown jewel of investigative news programs, since 1967, causing their best reporters to resign or be booted out to make room for Trump propagandists.

Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes delivered what Fox News was to Trump. Now, it's Faux News. The Ellisons have remade CBS to please the one who threatened to put the kibosh on their merger. Can you imagine what might be next?

Cell phone providers eavesdropping on text messages or conversations? Cameras with facial recognition software running them? Banks sharing your personal data with Trump's lackeys. Don't say it won't happen because we don't know how much and what kind of information was stolen at Trump's command by Trump's buddy, Elon Musk, and his DOGE thieves.

And on those happy thoughts I say, sleep well, little children. The government watches over you.

So🖕America!

Bunch of sick in the pants butt-kissing Trumpo The Typo's Dunce Cadets. I sincerely pray that as many as possible of the good Americans, like the people I used to know when I was there. I pray they have moved somewhere safe or moved here to Canada.

Over 50% of people who moved to Canada in the past year were Americans.

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Question: Is it true that half of the New citizenship rules for Canadians were about 50%?

The Government of Canada introduced citizenship-by-descent legislation for Canadians.

🔹AI Overview

Yes, that is true. Following the implementation of Canada’s expanded citizenship-by-descent legislation (Bill C-3), data shows that nearly 50% of the new citizens approved under the broader rules were born in the United States.

• key details regarding this recent surge: The New Rules:
• The 50% Stat:

* Other Applicants:*

• The Driver:

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America has become too much overrun by a vicious, unfeeling cesspool of apathetic, sadistic, Narcistic, psychopathic, Nazi dunce cadet pedophiles. A bunch of Nietherthals 🧌 with clubs and stones 🪨 "Coo - coos! " The lot of them! Just like the rest of those Fn coo - coos in those banana republics, Hi there! Eh! Just put a mustach on that Hi! like, "Hi Hitler! Trumpo says, Hi, I am Kink of Nazimerica, don't you know, don't a 💩🥫 it's just like the other coo - coo bird 🤪🐦 countries with coo - coo Tin Can God dictators at the helm. May your 👖 catch 🔥 at the crotch of course! Thank you!_

They have reversed and perverted the law and removed all the bylaws and regulations, and it is an Fn PIRATES DEN. I loved America, and the old America will always remain in my heart. But I Vehemently HATE this new regime with all the contempt a body can contain

Forgive me, Great Spirit, for hating.

GREAT SPIRIT, MY SOLEMN PRAYER TODAY IS THAT TRUMPO THE TYPO GETS HAUNTED IN HIS DREAMS BY ALL THE GHOSTS OF THE PEOPLE HE HURT!

I wouldn't want that on my conscience.*_ I pray I have already suffered sufficiently to empty my bag of sins. AMEN!

BREAKING NEWS:

Exclusive: Power struggles and paralysis: Inside FEMA’s lost year as storm season approaches

In late December, the chief of staff for Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley sent a sharply worded email to the White House, subject line “Five Alarm Fire.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s “ridiculous” stranglehold on FEMA was choking off funds his California district needed — a district, the email noted, that President Donald Trump had carried.

At issue was a $2.5 million grant to help fortify homes against wildfires. Stalled for months awaiting Noem’s signature, the payment was one of thousands of grants and contracts nationwide caught in the same logjam.

“It’s going to be hell to pay if this simple grant doesn’t get done,” the chief of staff wrote. “Can you help spare the Secretary some bad press and jiggle the handle on this?” The email came as Noem’s tenure at the Department of Homeland Security careened toward its end. Numerous factors led to her downfall in March, ...

• ‘Completely dumbfounding’:
• Eliminating FEMA:
• The politicals take over:
• ‘Bureaucratic stupidity’:
• The Republican rebellion:
• Fixing FEMA:

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PUBLISHED May 31, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 6 hr ago

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Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’ is anything but. Bret Michaels and Martina McBride proved it.

The pair’s refusal to participate in this summer’s White House-backed event reveals something striking about the current toxicity of the president’s brand.

VIDEO [ Included ]

To be fair, it was never going to be great.

The “Great American State Fair,” part of the 250th birthday party for the United States that will take over the National Mall for two weeks in Washington, D.C. this summer, began to unravel in spectacular fashion last week when the headlining musical acts – such as they were – began to bow out, one after another, barely hours after being announced.

On Saturday, a clearly enraged President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to mock the artists who canceled, musing that he should replace them with himself: the “number one attraction anywhere in the world.” Not long after a spokesperson for Freedom 250,..

• Not exactly an inspiring start to the festivities, certainly, but it did offer a fairly revealing look at what has happened to the Trump brand:

Read More from MS NOW Daily

May. 31, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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AI deepfakes of dozens of Canadian women in violent and sexual images shared online

N.S. man facing 79 charges including harassment, uttering threats, creation of obscene matter

Listen To This Article

WARNING:* This story contains details of violence and *sexual exploitation, including rape

Multiple women across Canada say they feel confused, violated and terrified after learning pictures of themselves were allegedly taken from their social media profiles and manipulated using artificial intelligence to generate realistic photos and videos of them engaged in violent scenes and sexual acts.

"It was disgusting to see that like an innocent photo of myself, he had turned to something so vile," said one woman, whom CBC News is identifying only as C.M. because she fears for her physical safety.

• Stephen Lowe, 60, of Maitland, N.S., is facing 79 charges, police say, including:
• AI-generated rape, torture scenes:
• Wife says she had no idea:
• 'This is never going to go away':
• Calls for stronger laws:

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Posted: May 29, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 29

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Israeli army captures strategic castle in Lebanon in deepest incursion into the country in a quarter-century

Capture follows days of intense attack exchanges, marks major development in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war

Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter-century, the military said Sunday.

The capture of Beaufort Castle, near the city of Nabatieh, came after days of airstrikes and intense fighting in nearby villages where Israeli troops fought Hezbollah members in the rugged area. Its capture marks a major development in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, which began on March 2 when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the U.S. and Israel attacked its main backer, Iran.

• A historic and strategic fortress:
• Israel expands invasion in Lebanon:
• Exchanges of fire across the border continue:

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Posted: May 31, 2026 9:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

- CBC -

Latest from CBS News

Waiting for President Trump's decision on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMGV2Hg3WJI

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, at least it looks like a good morning! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and it's getting closer to summer-like temps out there, though it's still chilly when it's windy. Not as much wind up in my Green Space, it's just nice for sitting out in the sun.

The big story today is MAINLY ABOUT CANADIAN HEALTH CARE NEWS, so I don't expect a lot of views from viewers; I usually don't see many, but I hope the few I do get are a productive few that will take action.

About Ontario Health Care - It's underwater, and it's going down faster than the Titanic. Action needs to be taken, LIKE GET YOUR BUTT OUT THERE WITH THAT PICKET SIGN IF YOU CARE ABOUT KEEPING HEALTH CARE ALIVE, or you may find yourself having to sell your house to see a doctor. Action needs to be taken immediately

A bit about (NU) National Union of Public and General Employees.

(NU) National Union of Public and General Employees

WHAT (NU) is about:

The solidarity of our over 450,000 members is with these critical striking workers. Chronically underfunded, successive governments have robbed community-based social services of the resources needed to care for those who rely on these services. Autistic services. Women's shelters. Child care services. Not only is the system drastically underfunded, but Ford is withholding back wages to some of the lowest-paid workers in our communities. These workers need justice today!

(NU) Means: National Union of Public and General Employees

HEARTBEATOFCARE•CA

Protect the heartbeat of care

The Heartbeat of Care campaign is shining a light on these specialized workers who have been overlooked for too long. When more than half of the team is working short-staffed every single day, everyone feels it.

HEALTHCARE ONLY WORKS WHEN EVERY WORKER IS VALUED

Healthcare is a team effort, yet many indispensable roles often go unrecognized and undervalued. From the lab technicians processing life-saving results to the environmental services workers sanitizing surgical suites and the health records clerks managing vital patient data, these workers are the backbone of our hospitals, clinics, and communities. SIGN UP!

THANKS FOR SIGNING UP.

The Federal government should know that Ontario health care funds are NOT getting to HEALTHCARE and Hospitals in Ontario... who knows, maybe the funds for hospitals, doctors, and nurses are going to Ontario Place spa that no one can afford to visit or private health care. Ontario Health received two transfusions from the Federal Government, yet they remain anemic. Is there a vampire in the room? Yeah, a big fat one, Ford.

Rapid Recap: Ontario Signs $3.1 Billion Health Care Agreement with the Federal Government

February 9, 2024

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🔹AI Overview

Federal funding for Ontario health care is primarily managed through the Canada Health Transfer and targeted bilateral agreements. The most recent major injections are directed toward expanding family health teams, boosting primary care networks, reducing surgical wait times, and supporting health infrastructure. These recent federal fund distributions are allocated to specific priority areas:

Primary Care Teams & Family Doctors: Over \(\$3\) billion in bilateral funding has been rolled out to expand interprofessional Primary Care Action Plan teams. The goal is to connect hundreds of thousands of Ontarians to a family doctor or primary care team by 2029

Since that FUNDING was dispersed by the Federal Government in 2024, shouldn't we expect some improvement in the healthcare system by now? All we have for that disappearing, imaginary 🧚‍♀️ °*.\3 billion dollars\.•° is a bag 🛍 of fresh air. The hospitals continue to cut staff; the closing of Emergency Rooms and complete hospitals continues unabated. Then Mr. Ford goes out and buys himself a private jet on the government's money, our money that could have gone towards improving the Ontario health care system. Should there be a new Ontario Place spa for the rich? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE WHEN WE'RE IN A HEALTHCARE CRISIS CAUSED BY THE FORD GOVERNMENT???

_**WHERE IS THE $3,000,000,000? Where did it go? What did they do with it? What did they improve with it? What did they accomplish? Where's the accountability for where every G.D. cent went? IT'S OUR MONEY, and our health, MR. FORD, you fat old greedy cockroach.**_

BREAKING NEWS

They were trained for a high-stakes underwater rescue. Instead, these villagers walked out of a cave to freedom

Xaisomboun province, Laos — After a long and complex operation inside a flooded cave in a remote area of central Laos, on Saturday, the men at the center of the mission did something few expected: they walked out.

It wasn’t what the international rescue operation had planned for. When the first of the trapped group of five men dived through the flooded tunnels on Friday, the efforts were paused and there was expectation it could be hours, even days before the others emerged.

Instead, after water levels dropped, the group scrambled their way out, taking even rescuers – who had planned a high-risk strategy to guide the villagers through flooded, zero-visibility tunnels to safety – by surprise...

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PUBLISHED May 30, 2026, 10:21 AM ET - 19 min ago

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James Clyburn says Democrats are misreading their own base. Here’s his fix.

At 85, the South Carolina congressman is fighting to protect his seat, his state’s place in the primary calendar and the future of a Democratic Party he believes is not paying attention to voters.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — If you ask James Clyburn why the Democratic Party has such low approval ratings, he won’t start with the platform. He won’t even start with the candidates. He’ll start with a critique of the chattering class. “We pay too much attention to the consulting class and not enough attention to our constituents,” the 85-year-old congressman said in a wide-ranging interview ahead of his annual fish fry this weekend, which has become a rite of passage for every Democrat mulling a presidential run. “Our constituents know what they feel, and we have to pay attention to people’s feelings.”

For someone who has spent decades inside the machinery of Democratic politics, Clyburn’s prescription is striking. He was the majority whip who counted the votes for the Affordable Care Act, the highest-ranking Black member of Congress and the man credited with reviving Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. He has been, in other words, the kind of power broker he’s now critiquing.

Maybe it’s all that experience that gives him the standing to say out loud what many Democrats only say behind closed doors. His diagnosis: The party is losing a fight over perception that it doesn’t fully understand it’s in — and that’s true despite Democratic overperformance in nearly every race since Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President Donald Trump. The data isn’t on the party’s side, and Clyburn knows it. A recent New York Times/Siena poll found that 70% of respondents were dissatisfied with the Democratic Party, including 54% of people who voted for Harris...

• A calendar fight:
• A map fight:
• Looking toward 2028:
• One more term?:

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May. 30, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

Thousands are now Canadians under new citizenship law. Half of them are Americans

Sharp increase in applications after court required Ottawa to change rules

Thousands of people around the world have received Canadian citizenship certificates as a result of a change late last year to federal law.

Half of them Americans, CBC News has learned.

In the first three months since the change, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued proof of citizenship certificates to 4,075 people under citizenship by descent provisions in Bill C-3. The law allows people living in other countries who can trace their lineage from Canadian ancestors to qualify for Canadian citizenship even if their Canadian ancestor left Canada...

• Citizenship by descent country of birth:

Successful applications for citizenship certificates in 2026 (Hover for details)

• Toggle between generation groups:

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• Canadian citizenship certificates:

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Posted: May 30, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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All for one: Norway, Germany sell Canada on shared submarine fleet

Willingness to give up production slots shows they're serious about winning: analyst

Both Norway and Germany invoked an all-for-one, one-for-all approach as they this week sharpened their public and private pitches for Canada to select the Type 212CD as the navy's next submarine. Both long-standing NATO allies, the two European powers are now putting more emphasis on what it means for Arctic and North Atlantic security for three nations to operate the same boat.

"We are thinking of the submarine fleet not as a Norwegian fleet and a German fleet and a Canadian fleet, we were thinking of a common fleet," Marte Gerhardsen, the state secretary to Norway's minister of defence, told CBC News in an interview this week. The Canadian navy is in the market for 12 conventionally powered submarines...

WATCH | Germany's submarine bid pledges jobs, investment:

WATCH | Korean submarine makes journey to B.C.:

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Posted: May 30, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHCf6sjBgo

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Well, it certainly is a beautiful morning, weatherwise. Bright sun and clear blue sky... "Hey!" The good part is, NO SICK STOMACH SYNDROME, just the usual brain fog. I sat at the patio table with my coffee in my Green Space; "Look Ma! No sweater or coat, Wow!" The only fly in the ointment is that cursed machine they have on the next street. I don't know what it's for, but it's a big yellow diesel truck with a large containment box on the back and a long hose that goes down in a manhole in the road and just sits there and roars at you all day long, like someone dropped a boat anchor on a dragon's tail. I christened it my pet shitsnuffaluffagus. Put that one in the dictionary.

I got up with a kind of feeling I was lost in that foggy swamp full of alligators again, and at least I haven't tripped over any of them - so far! After sipping coffee, the fog cleared, and I was back in my Green Space. Here I am a' sittin' and a' thinkin' how relieved I am that there's not a foghorn on top of my pet shitsnuffaluffagus next door. PTSD City, here we come! - 🤔

That's how feeling things are intensified if you're as sensitive and empathic as I am. It's like my sensory receptors for outside occurrences are honed tighter than a fiddler's bowstring. I'm subconsciously open to feeling - not hearing - a flea falling from the ceiling and bouncing off a pillow - in the next room! And not just sudden sounds but also tiny, sudden movements. My response is instantaneous, and what some may call an overreaction that's kind of close to PTSD. I'm also able to feel the emotions of people and animals, even insects; they're topic of its own. I had 80 years to experiment with these feelings.*_

BELIEVE ME! EMPATHS ARE FOR REAL. I also call them EARTH ANGELS. I am quite certain everyone has met at least one of those in their lifetime. I had many teachers, but the wise ones, Earth Angels, I only met three. Two of them, I didn't realize who they were until many years afterward. I don't have much more to share today. (There isn't as much spectacular stuff as I have published in the last couple of days, especially in The Canadian News.) And I have received the fewest views since I began this news blog. I think I'll take it a little easy today. Thank you for dropping by to visit and read the Tree House News

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Well, not done quite yet, stay tuned for the Breaking News.

BREAKING NEWS:

Blue Origin rocket explodes during ground test

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a ground test known as a hotfire Thursday, the company shared on X.

Video captured from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Thursday evening appears to show a rocket exploding on its launchpad.

VIDEO | Included:

• New Glenn’s highs and lows:
• Blue Origin’s lunar ambitions:

1 hr 2 min ago

Updated May 29, 2026, 9:13 AM ET

- CNN -

Both Iran and US are waiting for the other to sign off on deal to end war

Trump tells advisers he wants assurances from new supreme leader but a key Iranian official says 'no step will be taken before the other side acts.'

Here's the latest

• Waiting game: Iran’s chief negotiator says “no step will be taken before the other side acts,” signaling that Tehran is waiting for the US to move on a tentative agreement reached Thursday to open the Strait of Hormuz and start nuclear talks.

• A few more days: Trump has told advisers that he wants a few days to decide whether to sign the deal, officials said. The president appears unlikely to sign off before receiving definitive word that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has given his approval to the document, according to one official.

• Warning shots: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy said it fired warning shots at four vessels near the Strait of Hormuz as they were reportedly trying to pass through the waterway “without prior coordination or authorization,” according to a post on an affiliated Telegram account...

*Read More:*

46 min ago

Historic sites in biblical town under threat, Lebanon's culture minister says

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Both Iran and US are waiting for the other to sign off on deal to end war

Trump tells advisers he wants assurances from new supreme leader but a key Iranian official says 'no step will be taken before the other side acts.'

*Here's The Latest:*

• Waiting game: Iran’s chief negotiator says “no step will be taken before the other side acts,” signaling that Tehran is waiting for the US to move on a tentative agreement reached Thursday to open the Strait of Hormuz and start nuclear talks.

• A few more days: Trump has told advisers that he wants a few days to decide whether to sign the deal, officials said. The president appears unlikely to sign off before receiving definitive word that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has given his approval to the document, according to one official.

• Warning shots: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy said it fired warning shots at four vessels near the Strait of Hormuz as they were reportedly trying to pass through the waterway “without prior coordination or authorization,” according to a post on an affiliated Telegram account...

Read More:

54 min ago

Historic sites in biblical town under threat, Lebanon's culture minister says

More To Read:

Updated 10:19 AM EDT, Fri May 29, 2026

- CNN -

More artists drop out of Trump-backed event for America’s 250th

Martina McBride and Young MC said they were not aware the event would have political affiliations. Jodie Rocco of Milli Vanilli said she was “shocked” to see the band listed as a performer.

VIDEO | Included:

At least six artists who were slated to headline the “Great American State Fair” in Washington this summer have backed out or said they never signed on for the White House-backed event to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary.

Performers Morris Day and The Time, rapper Young MC, Jodie Rocco of Milli Vanilli, country singer Martina McBride, The Commodores and former Poison frontman Bret Michaels have said they won’t attend the event. The two-week event, put together by White House initiative Freedom 250, is scheduled to take place from June 25 to July 10 on the National Mall. The musical lineup was released Wednesday and met with sweeping criticism.

McBride said in a post on X on Thursday that she initially believed the Great American State Fair was a nonpartisan event but was told Wednesday that was not the case. “I saw it as just a bigger version of so many state fairs I have performed at over the years …

• News Rep. Sarah McBride makes rare personal remarks in opposing anti-trans bills:

May. 29, 2026, 9:14 AM EDT

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Poison seller Kenneth Law pleads guilty to abetting 14 suicides in Ontario

Law ran websites that sold toxic substance, other suicide paraphernalia

The Latest:

• Mississauga, Ont., man Kenneth Law pleaded guilty in a Newmarket court today to counselling or aiding 14 suicides in the province.

• Law operated websites that sold packets of a toxic substance and other suicide paraphernalia to vulnerable people.

• Crown prosecutors said today they were withdrawing all 14 murder charges laid against Law.

• A CBC News investigation has found Law is suspected of being tied to at least 147 deaths worldwide.

• A family whose daughter was part of the case say they're livid that Law avoided murder charges.

• If you or someone you know is struggling, you can use Canada's Suicide Crisis Helpline by calling or texting 988. Kids Help Phone is available at 1-800-668-6868, or text 686868.

Updated7 minutes ago

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Canada slipped into a technical recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in 1st quarter

Real GDP has declined for 2 consecutive quarters

Canada's economy ‌contracted in the first quarter of the year on an annualized basis by a slim margin, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday, making it two consecutive quarters of annualized decline, which some would call a technical recession.

However, on a quarterly basis, the first quarter GDP was unchanged against ​a decline in the fourth quarter of last year, closely ​escaping the definition of a technical recession on a quarter-on-quarter basis.

Gross domestic product declined at an annualized rate of 0.1 per cent in the first quarter, Statistics Canada ​said, compared with a downwardly revised contraction of one per cent in the fourth quarter ⁠of last year. Two consecutive quarters of contraction in economic growth is termed a technical recession...

• Chart: Quarterly change in GDP in Canada:

WATCH | What's a technical recession, and does this meet the bar?:

• Chart: Tracking Canada's economic health:

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Posted: May 29, 2026 8:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

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