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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning, everyone. It's another cloudy, grey, and wet day 🌧 out there, so no Green Space this morning 𓊐🌱🌿 🍃𓊐 🥴 I pray you have a productive, safe day and are blessed.

Not much is happening here at the Tree House Newsroom 📰

˗ˏˋ BREAKINGˎˊ˗ ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ I just finished my cereal 🍚🥄 and a cup of the best coffee in town! I learned to make it exactly how I want it—good stuff, maybe even good enough to compete with Tim Hortons, eh? ☕️ 😉

This was the best I've felt during the morning in a long time, outside of my stomach reminding me a couple of times that the GERD is still there but pretty much subdued with the new meds I have. I feel more like a human now instead of a sack full of suffering pain,⚡️ ⛈️🤢🤮💥💦🫟♨️ a sack of 💩 scrunched in the corner of the couch under a stack of blankets all last winter. Until just a few weeks ago, I got a new med 🩹 I still get a queasy stomach 🍤now and again, but nothing like before. I can only pray that I am on the road to redemption and the salvation of my soul/consciousness for all this suffering 😖 I've been through, 🙏 AMEN!

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

The Fall of a Nation

Question: Sociology: Trump 2025 depression and possible fall of a nation

🔹AI Overview

Sociological and macroeconomic analyses of Donald Trump’s second presidential term examine structural strain, public mental health, and institutional stability. Sociologists, political scientists, and economists use historical precedents to evaluate these trends.

1. Macroeconomic Anxieties and "The Trump Depression"

The term "Trump Depression" originally appeared in critical sociological and economic literature during the 2020 COVID-19 economic shock. In his second term, concerns regarding a severe economic downturn center on specific policy choices:

• The Tariff Regime: In 2025, executive action dramatically raised effective tariff rates. Sociological institutions like the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) note that while the stock market remained volatile, these regressive tariffs increased the cost of living for working-class families, heightening public economic pessimism.

• Labor Force Contraction: Mass deportation policies and strict immigration enforcement have shrunk the labor force, slowing gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

• Austerity and Safety Nets: The consolidation of executive power and budget-cutting bills downsized federal regulatory bodies and reduced funding for programs like SNAP and Medicaid. Sociologists argue that removing these safety nets during periods of high inflation significantly increases systemic economic vulnerability.

2. The Mental Health Toll and Social Fractures

3. Sociological Risk Factors for the "Fall of a Nation"

• Dimension of Strain:
• Democratic Backsliding:
• Anocracy Risk:
• Elite Overproduction:
• The "Wealth Pump":

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All because of greed 💰🥷 and insanity at the helm 👺🤡⛵ and no one with a 𖠣 to stand up 🧍⬆️➡️to it 🧌

I have no doubt Canada will get around the loop, but not without a few scrapes and bruises — trying to avoid or at least mitigate the damage from the suction of the sinking ship 🚢🌊 of where greed, evil, inequity, and insanity rule, 😵‍💫👹👿🤡👺 That's going to be one big mama of a cesspool 🌀🫟💩

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

Dramatic political attack ads hitting the airwaves this year have shown a Senate candidate driving a bus of undocumented immigrants to a polling place, a governor hopeful grabbing bags stuffed full of cash, and a Republican congressman holding hands with two of his Democratic colleagues in what a narrator described as a “throuple.”

None of those compromising situations ever happened — the ads were all generated with artificial intelligence. From January through mid-September, political campaigns and groups had spent more than $16 million on TV ads that disclosed using AI-generated or manipulated images, according to a CNN analysis of ad data.

But only about half of states require campaigns to disclose AI use in political ads — and at least $38 million has been spent on ads that strongly appear to include AI imagery despite featuring no disclosure...

CHART | Included: Millions have been spent on AI ads already this year.

• Spending surge:
• States rush in as feds fail to act:

MAP | Included: Campaign adds per state

• A changing campaign playbook:

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PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

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The most self-aware question Trump has ever asked

“I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?" Trump mused during a recent Time magazine interview. He likely already knows the answer.

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

Perusing the transcript of President Donald Trump’s recent Oval Office interview with Time magazine can be disorienting. The frequency with which he ping-pongs between topics, and the extent of his tangents, leaves the reader wondering if he remembered the question he’d been asked. The closest the president came to locking in was when asked about his plans for the Kennedy Center and his many, many renovations and alterations of the White House.

In the process, Trump asked possibly the most self-reflective thing he’s ever uttered: “I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?” Another deluge of details about wood restoration followed, but in that question, we hit upon the essence of his second term. Trump has run into political limits he lacks the political talents to overcome. But through his ever-growing list of projects, as Time’s Eric Cortellessa wrote, “he is absorbed with the physical details of a world he can remake to his liking.”...

• Trump asked possibly the most self-reflective thing he’s ever uttered: “I say to people, am I a better builder or politician?”:

More articles

• ‘Horror show’: Trump still can’t restrain himself when lashing out at women in media:
• Trump has been trying to build his legacy as a politician in stone and steel:

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Oct. 2, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine

Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.

For months, Ukrainian officials have warned people to brace for what could be their hardest winter at war. Russia, they said, would use its ever more powerful weapons to try to cripple the country’s power grid. The first big strike was expected later this fall, with the first bite of cold.

Russia did not wait that long. Before dawn on Wednesday, missiles and drones slammed into a large thermal power plant and other energy facilities, shaking the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with explosions. By morning, several neighborhoods were without power and water.

The attack, Ukrainian officials said, marked the opening salvo of a new campaign to plunge Ukrainian cities into cold and darkness, with the ultimate goal of breaking people’s morale and crippling the war effort. Russia has waged similar campaigns each year, with mixed results, but it is approaching this winter armed with stocks of ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones that Ukraine has struggled to intercept.

The scale of Russia’s ambition to freeze Ukrainians into submission is evident in a document that the Ukrainian energy minister, ...

The ultimate goal is to cut off major Ukrainian cities from power, heat and water, which could set off a humanitarian crisis. Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa are highlighted as top targets

But his projections did not account for attacks like Wednesday’s, which can undo months of repairs. Maria Tsaturian, an energy analyst at the Ukraine Facility Platform, said

Russia’s intercepted plan appears designed to collapse Ukraine’s already weakened grid. ...

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Updated Oct. 2, 2026 - 7:25 a.m. ET

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP

It's the biggest Alberta separatist account on the internet. It has links to a movement leader

Rise of Alberta account drives 4 times as much engagement as next most popular

One of the most influential voices on Alberta separatism is not a politician or even a clearly-identified person at all, but a combination social media account and merchandise line that is among the independence movement’s breakout stars.

The RiseOfAlberta account was created in the spring of 2025 and describes itself as “accelerating Alberta’s journey towards independence.” Since then it has amassed almost 100,000 X followers with a firehose of shareable clips and AI-generated memes about Alberta.

“They’ll depict, for example, eastern Canadians as very bureaucratic, government loving people, whereas Albertans are these Wild West people that hate government and love building,” says Chris Ross, a senior analyst at the Media Ecosystem Observatory, a research initiative that studies Canada’s online world and recently released a report into the dominance of separatist influencers.

• Follow all of our Alberta referendum coverage:

Many points are punctuated by an ad for an Alberta-branded blanket or hat.

While the person posting on the Rise of Alberta account remains unclear, they frequently share video clips of Wilson, and comment positively on his activities in the separatist movement.

WATCH | University researchers study AI videos promoting Alberta separatism:

• Experts warn betting on Alberta separatism could influence results:

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Posted: Oct 02, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

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Some social networks don't accept Canadian news; they even got to YouTube; now they're blocking Canadian news on YouTube too, cockroaches! 🪳🪳🪳 The whole works of them MONEY GRUBBERS, whoever they are. Someday you will find out ya can't eat the damned stuff 🍴💵 and I can't wait for that shoe 👞 to drop. I personally would like to see the suffering reversed, useless moneybags 💰💸💩eatin' cockroaches🪳🪳🪳

'This Project...': Carney Moves To Cut U.S. Dependence, Sends Veiled Message To Trump Amid Trade War

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning, everyone. I really don't know if I should add the "Good" to make it "good morning." Not sure it means anything anymore, because each day the big yellow bus that We, the People, are pushing uphill (including Canadians) gets harder. With the Demented Orange Clown driving, the load gets heavier.*_

Everywhere in the free world, the past year's economic and political events have added weight to everybody's bus 🚎 People are weary of the fight for survival ⚔️🏕️ and everyone is ready to give in to the Demented Orange Clown👺🟠🤡 — yeah, the same one who was driving the yellow bus 🚌 with his foot on the brake 👞🛹 all along. Hmmmmm, in my imagination, there is this one tiny little annoying bedbug 🪲 that is only the forerunner of an infestation that covers the land from horizon to horizon of 💩 eatin' cockroaches 🪳🪳🪳 with a Demented Orange Clown 👺🟠🤡who thinks he is Kink of the universe, at the helm of humanity's ⛵ship and his Chaos Dunce Cadet followers 🙃𓉴🫡😜✠🔪𖠣 ▄︻ 💥•✧˚ ༘

_*Anyway, enough of that. If anyone remembers reading comic books as a kid, the above says it all: cartoon style with emojis, and a serious message delivered with humor. I want to tell people about what I call the hidden news. Like it's there, but you never hear about it unless you dig for it. I PERSONALLY LIKE GOOGLE SEARCH AI;

Google 🔍🔎 🤖 IT'S GOOD FOR DIGGING UP THE BURIED. I thought that it would make my news blog a little different from most. Welcome to the Tree House News 👩‍🦳👋😊😁. Thank you for visiting and reading the news 📰

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION

MAN THE BOMB SHELTERS!

If they take this 👺🟠🤡 out of commission soon and make his face disappear from the public consciousness, sanity will slowly seep back into the populace as the governing DEMOCRATIC state rebuilds itself. There will be a shortage of sanity until his face is forgotten, but it will take time to replace and repair the trust and all the damage done by this demented beast and his followers.

2: Next, environment: If you have the finances to replace a storm-damaged or flattened home, rebuild underground, above the water table, inside a hill or solid rock.

3: With the 👺🟠🤡 in charge, there's always a threat of a nuclear ☢️ holocaust. If it happens, we won't have to worry about climate change anymore because it's going to be a nuclear

💨((...🍄...))💨 = climate collapse instead 💥🔥🌪️⚡️🌩️🌬️🌊🌋♒︎🏚️🪾I//__💨

4: I haven't heard that expression in a while, and I hope and pray I never will again. If you don't know about a nuclear holocaust, you better get busy and start reading.

There are plenty of films and documentaries that cover this topic right here in Google Search AI.

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Question: nuclear holocaust

🔹AI Overview

A nuclear holocaust is a hypothetical global disaster where the mass detonation of nuclear weapons causes widespread destruction, radiation, and climate collapse.

Immediate Effects

• Fireball and Heat: A nuclear blast creates a core temperature of millions of degrees, instantly vaporizing everything near ground zero.

• Blast Wave: A massive shockwave travels at supersonic speeds, collapsing buildings and causing lethal internal injuries over several kilometers.

• Thermal Radiation: Intense heat triggers simultaneous massive fires that can merge into raging urban firestorms.

Long-Term Consequences

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You see, you're not dealing with a regular sane person; there is no sanity in insanity, psychopaths, imitators, and he's not even good at that. So now we have an already insane sadist, now a DEMENTED psychopathic old (‿ˠ‿)💨 in charge of the BIG RED BUTTON🔴 Go figure, eh! How long before he wants to play with the big red button, and all his loyal (‿ˠ‿) 🫦rs agree? What happens then? Eh?

On with the Breaking news:

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Analysis: Trump’s TIME interview shows a president consumed by his own news coverage

President Donald Trump’s new interview with TIME magazine begins and ends with his complaints about the media, reaffirming how consumed he is by his own news coverage. Even when asked about Iran or the Senate, he circled back to his feelings about the press.

“You haven’t asked me one f**king positive question,” Trump said toward the end of the interview with Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs. The entire interview was remarkably emotional. “Well, I hope I get a decent story,” Trump concluded. “I don’t think — you know, it’s hard to get a good story. Every question’s a hit. I don’t know what the hell’s wrong.”

Trump’s strong reactions may relate to his recent banning of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House...

• A familiar obsession:

"TIME: “Mr. President, your polls have never been lower.”

TRUMP: “They’re fake numbers. I would beat anybody running today by 20 points. Your numbers that you have are fake. The pollsters are corrupt. They’re almost as corrupt as the writers.”

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PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2026, 11:15 AM ET - 43 min ago

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Renee Good’s family sues the Trump administration over her fatal shooting in Minneapolis

Good was killed by ICE officer Jonathan Ross while driving away from federal officers, according to bystander video. Trump officials have sought to paint her as the aggressor and said Ross acted in self-defense.

Renee Good’s family is suing the Trump administration and several federal officials over her fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an operation in Minneapolis in January, her family announced on Thursday.

In two civil lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, Good’s family asserts a wrongful death claim against the United States and accuses federal officials and immigration enforcement agents of violating her civil rights, respectively.

White House aide Stephen Miller, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her former aide Corey Lewandowski, former Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, and ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who killed Good, are named as defendants in the second lawsuit.

More articles

• ICE agent charged with assault in Venezuelan immigrant’s shooting:

Good’s killing led to an outpouring of anger across Minneapolis,

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Oct. 1, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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CANADIAN NEWS RECAP:

West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest

Classification under Building Canada Act will fast-track approval process, environmental assessments

A proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the national interest, the federal and Alberta governments have announced.

Listing the West Coast Pacific Link oil pipeline on Schedule One of the Building Canada Act means the federal government has moved from considering whether it should be built to how it will be built by fast-tracking the approval process, including environmental assessments.

"Before the Building Canada Act, proponents would have to spend years and potentially billions of dollars doing this work before even knowing where the federal government stood on the project," Carney said in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Thursday...

Ottawa faces deadline on whether to fast-track new West Coast pipeline

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Posted: Oct 01, 2026 11:11 AM EDT | Last Updated: 38 minutes ago

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Canadian Joshua Kutryk and Crew-13 astronauts launch, heading to International Space Station

2 Americans and 1 Russian also part of crew on board Space X's spacecraft

The Latest

• Four astronauts, including Canadian Joshua Kutryk, are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) in a joint NASA-Space X mission.

• "I don’t really believe it yet," Kutryk said of entering space. "It does feel weird, though."

• NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov make up the rest of the crew on board SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

• The team will join several astronauts who are already on the ISS to conduct several experiments, some of which are Canadian.

• The spacecraft’s journey to the ISS takes roughly eight hours.

28 minutes ago

Astronauts are 'the calmest people today,' says former mission pilot

More To Read:

Updated October 1st 2026 - 29 minutes ago

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PM Mark Carney makes a pipeline announcement in Alberta Soranzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX9yGchrxzw

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning all, it's another beautiful sunrise 🌅 here at the Tree House 🏡 It feels more like early spring than early fall. The leaves are still quite green, and I can comfortably sit out here in my Green Space 𓊐🌱🌿 🍃𓊐 without a jacket or sweater 🥼 sipping my coffee ☕️ That's one of those small blessings in life that I don't forget to be grateful for: to sit back, enjoy the green around me, the rising sun over the treetops, peace; then I simply let my thoughts drift to wherever they will. 〰️⛵〰️ You might try this journey, too.

While my mind is drifting to a comfortable place, call it "Inspiration Ville" or "Dreamland," wherever I find my inspiration to write, I allow random thoughts to become whatever materializes in my conscious mind. The returning thoughts formed in my conscious mind take shape. It's like recording feedback. Or getting a return text message from The Master Of All Consciousness 🌌

All that in only about 5 minutes or so of sitting, relaxing, and allowing my thoughts to flow, instead of keeping them caged in a melee fighting for attention, like the speech bubble filled with little stars, lightning, and little fists flying around, like in a cartoon strip ➡️ 🗨✊✨*•.°💫✊

It's important to have some quiet time to yourself, a place where you feel most comfortable to sit, release, and let the strained mental pathways drift for a few moments.

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TODAY'S TOPIC:

Cleveland-Cliffs Leaving Ontario**_

THE GREAT CLEVELAND CHICKENS IN RETREAT FROM ONTARIO! BUNCH OF CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCKS🐓🍗🐔🐥🐓🫟💩and🪶

Prime Minister Carney should throw all the US companies 👅 that are potentially 🔪𖠣 cockroaches 🪳🪳🪳 out of Canada 🍁and nationalize their property. BEAT THEM TO THE PUNCH🥊💥🥊

NOTE: STELCO WAS OFFERED FEDERAL HELP WITH THE TARIFFS BY MARK CARNEY! INSTEAD, THEY ARE CLOSING THEIR HAMILTON PLANT!

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Question: Google AI: U.S.-owned Stelco leaving Hamilton, Ontario.

🔹AI Overview

Stelco is not fully leaving Hamilton, Ontario, but its U.S. parent company, Cleveland-Cliffs, has announced it will indefinitely idle a major portion of the Hamilton Works facility. Beginning October 9, 2026, the company will shut down its cold-rolled and coated steel finishing operations in Hamilton, resulting in the layoff of 350 to 500 workers across its Ontario footprint.

Key Details of the Shutdown

• The Cause: Cleveland-Cliffs blamed the decision on severe U.S. tariffs (including a 50% tariff imposed on Canadian steel in August 2026), a collapsing export market, and an influx of cheap foreign steel dumping into Canada. Demand for Stelco's cold-rolled and galvanized products reportedly dropped by nearly 25%.

• Shift to Lake Erie Works: Cleveland-Cliffs is concentrating its remaining raw steel production at its Lake Erie Works facility in Nanticoke, Ontario. The company stated that total steel tonnage will not change, but the product mix will shift to hot-rolled steel. It has promised to offer replacement jobs at the Lake Erie facility to affected workers in Hamilton.

• Political Backlash: The decision sparked intense outrage. Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned the layoffs as a "betrayal" of Canadian workers. The federal government has threatened legal action, noting that Cleveland-Cliffs’ $3.4-billion acquisition of Stelco in late 2024 carried strict legal commitments to protect unionized Canadian jobs until 2029. Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath also strongly criticized the move, calling it "unacceptable and unfair".

Would you like more details on how the Canada-U.S. trade disputes are impacting other Canadian steel manufacturers, or more information on the legal terms of Cleveland-Cliffs' acquisition of Stelco?...

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Mark Carney blasts U.S.-owned Stelco after Hamilton layoffs, says workers were ‘betrayed’

“We intend to use all powers that we have and pursue them to the full extent of the law,” Carney said.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a terse rebuke Tuesday to steelmaker Stelco and its parent company for breaching “legal obligations” to maintain jobs in Canada, saying Ottawa will pursue legal action against the company if it fails to meet those obligations.

The day after Stelco Holdings announced it would lay off up to 500 workers at its Hamilton and Lake Erie facilities, citing the import pressures of the tariff dispute and weak demand, the prime minister laid the blame squarely at the feet of the Trump administration and its corporate allies.

Yet Carney insisted Canada remains ready to negotiate “in good faith” with the U.S. president, saying Ottawa believes a “mutually advantageous trade arrangement that respects both our countries’ sovereignty” is still possible, even as evidence mounts that President Donald Trump‘s tariff sledgehammer is drawing investment south of the border...

• ‘Spitting in our face’: Up to 500 Stelco workers face layoffs:
• Donald Trump’s tariff war on Canada won’t achieve what the president promised — and it was never meant to:

In a more “dangerous and divided world,” Carney said fundamental issues of energy security, food security, information security, and financial resilience and security “are best addressed through reliable partnerships.

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Updated Sept. 30, 2026

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Pilot may have sought to crash Israel-bound flight after stabbing other pilot, Netanyahu says

The Flydubai flight was diverted to Saudi Arabia after a struggle in the cockpit in what the Israeli PM called "a most serious security incident."

• Hijacking attempt: A pilot on the Israel-bound Flydubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia stabbed the other pilot and appears to have tried to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. He said passengers and crew subdued the assailant, who has been arrested.

• Passengers’ fear: The incident caused the aircraft, traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv, to plummet 17,400 feet in less than two minutes, flight tracking data shows. One passenger told Israeli media there were moments she believed she was going to die.

• Repatriation flight: A replacement Flydubai flight carrying most of the stranded passengers just landed in Tel Aviv. Saudi Arabia earlier rejected an Israeli request to send a military or civilian plane to bring passengers home...

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Breaking news: Passengers from diverted flight land at Tel Aviv airport

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Updated 11:49 AM EDT, Wed September 30, 2026

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Mike Johnson picked a terrible time to tell the truth

The speaker told CNBC that the GOP keeping control of the House would lead to two more years of the same situation that voters seem eager to reject.

NEWS VID | Included:

making. Five weeks before Election Day, he’s crisscrossing the country, attempting to shore up the dwindling odds that the GOP keeps its House majority. Johnson took a break from that sprint Tuesday morning to chat with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” and share what amounts to a closing message for House Republicans.

Asked just what Americans should expect if they were to vote to keep the GOP (or, as Johnson put it, “the grownups”) in charge, he said, “What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already, and that has been putting the conditions in place for a strong America again.”

Johnson filled his nearly 15-minute “Squawk Box” appearance with less-than-credible assertions, but his vow that House Republicans would keep doing what they have been doing was most honest...

• “Squawk Box” appearance with less-than-credible assertions, but his vow that House Republicans would keep doing what they have been doing was most honest.:

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• House paralyzed as Speaker Johnson confronts another revolt from his own members:
• As bad as things look for his party, the speaker said, unconvincingly, “I’m convinced my team, the Republicans, are going to keep the majority in the House and the Senate.”:

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Sept. 30, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Stelco's U.S. owner to face 'fullest extent of the law' over layoffs: PM Carney

Stelco, owned by Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, directly linked its layoff plans in Hamilton to trade war

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada's federal government will "use all powers that we have" against the U.S. owner of an Ontario steel plant that announced hundreds of layoffs on Monday. Stelco, owned by Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, directly linked its plan to cut up to 500 jobs in Hamilton with U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada.

The Trump administration imposed 50 per cent tariffs on foreign steel under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act last year. Canada has retaliated with duties on many U.S.-made steel products. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Carney singled out the company's CEO, Lourenco Goncalves, for "applauding" Trump's move to impose punishing tariffs on Canadian steel...

'It's devastating': Hundreds of Stelco workers in Hamilton and Nanticoke face uncertain future due to layoffs ...

Posted: Sep 30, 2026 11:32 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

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Stelco ‘betrayed’ workers at Hamilton, Ont. plant: PM Carney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynXSSTDA9EU

 

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NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning, everyone. It's another grey ☁️boring ☁️ morning. I pray you all have a good day and are blessed 🙏 Not much new here in the Tree House Newsroom 🏡📰 just sipping my morning coffee and winding up to do the news of the day.

No matter what news I bring up, it's going to be negative. From either side of the border, it's all negative, like a runaway busted cesspool. "WHO BLEW THE 💩 DAM?" The master of cesspools himself, the Orange Slime Bag 🟠🫟 👛 is corrupting everything that's good, which will remain corrupted for many years to come because human values will not be the same. GO VISIT ANY WAR-RAVAGED COUNTRY AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.

Why isn't anyone getting off their butts and doing something about it? Aside from doing nothing, like in "nothing burgers" 🍔or "air sandwiches," 🥪 the Democrats are too busy hiding like worms under their desks 🪱⛩ 🪑 YOU, THE PEOPLE, are the ones allowing this insanity to continue; It's your country, society, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE!

IF you wish to be recognized as a satellite nation of Russia, then so be it! Go ahead and kiss Russkie butt all you want and leave the rest of the free world alone; we're better off alone. Less dead meat on the wagon to pull for the rest of us.

SAME GOES FOR CANADA;

WATCH IT, YOU'RE SLIPPING TOO! Major car industries either left it off or are considering it. Steel Industry shutting down, Layoffs high, fuel prices, which in turn means more for groceries and many other goods... etc. But THE MOST IMPORTANT:

HEALTH CARE ACROSS CANADA 🍁 IS GOING TO THE DUMPSTER FIRE 🚛🔥

Isn't that the same as what's going on south of the border? Only people who have money can afford a doctor. Are we 🍁 going Fascism as well? Has FASCISM become the rage of the age?

·˚ ༘💥🚀₊· 💫♫♭｡♪˚♬🎷➳Age:

Hey everyone, which wannabe fascist country do you wanna live in? Ain't going to be much of a choice, is there? The final showdown will have to be: We, the People, expect to fight for what's right.

Why Ontario's MRI wait times keep rising

September 28

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Duration2:31

A new report by The Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives found that wait times for MRIs in Ontario have increased since the province moved more of them out of hospitals and into outside clinics. And as Queen's Park reporter Lorenda Reddekopp tells us, it's not the only medical procedure seeing increased wait times.

VIDEO LINK BELOW: ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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Question: Why Ontario's MRI wait times keep rising

🔹AI Overview

According to a September 2026 report by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, MRI wait times in Ontario continue to rise because government policies have increasingly outsourced services and funneled billions into private, for-profit clinics rather than expanding public hospital capacity.

📊 Key Findings From the Report

• Longer Waits: Median MRI wait times jumped 34% from 35 days (2017) to 47 days (2025).

• Severe Delays: Wait times for the 90th percentile of MRI patients surged by 95%.

• Funding Shift: The province paid out $4.1 billion to for-profit private facilities (integrated community health services centers) between 2017 and 2025.

• Public Drain: Critics argue that shifting resources to private clinics hollows out public hospital staffing and fails to improve overall system efficiency.

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I really do think it's time for the picket signs again. Maybe bring your pitchforks and torches to Queen's Park because the Ford government is not improving healthcare delivery by any measure. Our tax money goes in, and what I think is planned failure comes out as longer waiting times for us to get help.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee

What we're watching

• Former special counsel Jack Smith is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee said the hearing will examine his alleged “abuse of authority” and targeting of Republicans. You can watch it in the livestream at the top of this page.

• Smith is expected to be questioned about not divulging that his office had seen the content of members’ text messages sent to White House staffers around the 2020 election and obtained through the White House phones.

• Smith has confirmed that his special counsel’s office sought records from phone companies of members of Congress’ call logs — an effort that’s lawful and typical of federal criminal investigations, but which members have heavily criticized.

• In his opening remarks, Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley — who has has released several rounds of documents from Smith’s investigation over the past year— accused Smith of undermining the rule of law.

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Grassley accuses Smith of acting as a "partisan weapon" in opening remarks

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Why it’s mind-boggling that Trump may have offered weapons to China

U.S. ambassador to China David Perdue’s shocking statement Sunday to Fox News that President Donald Trump has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy American weapons has spurred denials from Trump. But regardless of what exactly happened, Perdue’s claim speaks to something profoundly amiss in the Trump administration’s approach to navigating U.S.-Chinese relations.

Let’s consider the possibility that Perdue was accurately conveying something that happened. While discussing Xi’s state visit to Washington last week, Perdue said on Fox that Trump and Xi talked about U.S. arms sales to Taiwan — a long-running point of frustration for Beijing, as China opposes Taiwanese independence...

“Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,”

• It would not make sense to boost Beijing’s arsenal:*

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• Trump asked China’s president if he wants to buy U.S. arms, ambassador says: ...

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Sept. 29, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Deloitte Canada cuts GDP forecast by 20% as tariffs grip economy amid Trump's trade war

Statistics Canada says economic growth stalled in July

Deloitte Canada has shaved 20 per cent off its growth forecast for Canada's economy in 2027, citing increasingly tough conditions for consumers and businesses.

The accounting firm's latest outlook comes as a new American ban on select Canadian imports took effect on Tuesday. Deloitte sees the fallout of recent escalations in the Canada-U.S. trade war causing a sharp economic slowdown in the final quarter of this year and into early 2027.

Chief economist Dawn Desjardins says the weight of billions of dollars in U.S. tariffs and Canada's reciprocal measures will not fall evenly across the Canadian economy, hitting some sectors hard, while others prosper...

• Canada's economic growth flat in July:

Posted: Sep 29, 2026 8:53 AM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago

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LNG Canada expansion gets go-ahead, as Carney set to highlight 'historic investment' in Canadian energy

Expansion of LNG Canada project would double exports from Kitimat, B.C., to overseas markets

LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to overseas markets.

In a statement Tuesday, LNG Canada CEO Chris Cooper said the project will create thousands of jobs and further strengthen Canada's role as a trusted energy partner.

"LNG Canada Phase 2 is another nation-building investment that demonstrates Canada can build big things when governments, First Nations partners, local communities, skilled trades, contractors and investors work together with shared purpose," Cooper said.

It comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Vancouver on Tuesday to highlight what his office calls a "historic investment in Canada's energy industry."

Under Carney, and has support from both the B.C. NDP and B.C. Conservative Party — who have each pledged to ramp up LNG production should they form government following the Oct. 24 election.

WATCH | Expanding LNG Canada plant is a major priority, Carney says:

WATCH | Is LNG an example of greenwashing?

• What is the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion?:

WATCH | Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Maureen Nyce on LNG:

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Posted: Sep 29, 2026 7:13 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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Ontario private clinics haven't cut wait times: report

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