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Good morning. I'll keep the News brief today, since my partner and I have plans to go out for a little shopping excursion, a rare occasion, and just see what the rest of the world is doing or considering to do. A new song named "Do the Do-Do With Me," by the Yo-Yoets 🧶🧶 👯‍♀️ 🤣 Don't bother searching the above on Google Search, it may blow a breaker 📼 then there goes the entire AI system! Imagine the sound of a hippopotamus with a bellyache heard all around the planet 😁 It would be simpler just to add a new word to Webster's Dictionary so AI can find a reference there and prevent a disaster, see! 😂

Let us pause for a moment for prayer and meditation for the homeless, the sick, the old, the children, and the hungry. What will become of these people when the cold returns in November? YOU CAN'T LIVE IN A TENT IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE without food and medication.

NOW! Let this prayer sink ⛲ in!

I pray that my humor, or my attempt at humor, helped some. It's 8:00 am, and I haven't even begun the discussion. For today, I will leave a thought for discussion. Thank you for visiting and reading The Tree House News 🏡

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Question: CNN America as a third-world country

AI Overview

The phrase "America as a third-world country" is a political talking point rather than an economic designation. It has been used in two primary contexts by CNN and political commentators:

•1. Presidential Critiques and Media Pushback

Former and current politicians, including President Donald Trump, have famously compared the U.S. to "third-world countries".

• Elections & Media: During a combative interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Trump abruptly left the broadcast after repeatedly asserting that U.S. elections are "crooked" and resemble those in the "third world". He also attacked CNN, ABC, and CBS during this exchange.
• Infrastructure: In 2017, Trump used the term to decry the state of American infrastructure. Political leaders across multiple administrations have levied similar criticisms, with figures like former Vice President Joe Biden previously comparing LaGuardia Airport to a third-world facility

 • 2. Domestic Poverty Reports CNN has reported on studies analyzing extreme poverty and inequality in the United States. For example, a report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur examined "shameful levels of poverty" across the U.S.

While the U.S. remains one of the world's most advanced economies, these comparisons serve to highlight domestic struggles with crumbling public infrastructure, political polarization, and wealth disparity. You can read full breakdowns and political analyses on CNN Politics

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AND THAT IS THE REALITY, THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE NOW, AMERICA - NAZI REGIME Circa 1935 to 1945. How's it like to be a Nazi?

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BREAKING NEWS:

Israel launches new strikes on Lebanon

Tehran has warned Israel against continuing its offensive in Lebanon, Meanwhile, Trump says he’s still confident of a US-Iran deal.

VIDEO | Included:

Here's The Latest:

• Fresh strikes on Lebanon: Israel’s military launched fresh attacks on Tyre this morning and issued a rare evacuation order for the historic southern Lebanese city’s Christian quarter. Iran has warned Israel against continuing its offensive in Lebanon.

• US-Israel tensions: The allies have “some differences” to work out, Israel’s ambassador to the US told CNN, after Trump warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that further strikes on Iran could isolate him.

• Trump confident: Early this morning, the president said the US could be sealing a deal with Iran within days, the latest in Trump’s dozens of promises that the end of the months-long war was close.

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57 min ago

Drone rescues two US crew members after Apache helicopter went down

More To Read:

Updated 8:36 AM EDT, Tue June 9, 2026

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Hunter Biden is becoming a populist internet guy. I have questions.

The former president’s son is in his posting era. Does he know what he’s doing?

“I’m Hunter Biden. You’ve never actually heard from me,” posted the son of former President Joe Biden to X and Substack on May 19.

It was an unexpected proclamation from a long-controversial figure in Democratic politics, whose personal scandals, nepo baby tendencies and criminal conduct have long been the stuff of political culture wars and tabloid coverage — and even a factor in electoral outcomes. But Hunter Biden’s note marked the opening salvo of a deliberate bid to reinvent himself using the miraculous powers of the social Internet.

And at the moment, it’s strangely kind of working. Biden has been posting and replying to other people’s posts frequently, and getting a ton of engagement, thousands of reposts and vaguely positive media coverage for his commentary...

Jun. 9, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Stuck in immigration limbo, single father misses financial aid judge says he deserves

Judge says 'crack in the legal system' has gone unaddressed for 25 years

As a full-time single parent, Abdiweli Mohamed pours what little money he has into his two children. He gets by on provincial assistance, food banks, local charities and hand-me-downs from neighbours in Winnipeg, but money is always on his mind.

Mohamed, 36, had to stop working to care for his children, both under five years old, after separating from his wife two years ago. He worries about affording essentials like winter clothes, school supplies and dental appointments. He buys nothing for himself.

Mohamed, an immigrant from Somalia, once received monthly $1,236.50 payments through the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) because his wife, the children's mother, is a Canadian citizen. The benefit is a tax-free payment from the government to help eligible families with the cost of raising children under 18...

WATCH | Canadian immigration applications can take decades to process:

• An undocumented upbringing:
• Not a refugee, citizen or permanent resident:
• 'The people who suffer are the kids':

WATCH | Ottawa announces one-time GST top-up:

• Issue left unaddressed for 25 years:

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Posted: Jun 09, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

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A who’s who in Alberta’s separatist fight

CBC News · Posted: Jun 09, 2026 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

s Alberta hurtles towards a referendum on whether or not to hold a separation referendum, we wanted to take a look at how the campaigns on both sides are shaping up.

Who are the players? Are they cohesive? Organized? Charismatic?

Jason Markusoff, who covers Alberta politics for CBC, is here to walk us through it.

Quebec would withdraw from high-speed rail project if PQ forms next government, party leader says

1st phase of construction, linking Montreal to Ottawa, scheduled for 2029

The leader of the Parti Québécois Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says, if elected, his government would prevent the province from being involved in the high-speed rail train, which would link Quebec City to Toronto. In a post on X, the party leader said the project does not address Quebecers' needs.

"The real problem with transit is not that Quebecers can't efficiently commute to Toronto, but that they're unable to effectively commute within their own city," the party leader wrote in French...

Developing story

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Posted: Jun 09, 2026 9:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

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MY GREEN SPACE AT 6:15 AM THIS MORNING June 9, 2026

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Another beautiful sunny day here at the Tree House Newsroom, which I am doing from my laptop in the kitchen next to the open sliding glass doors, that's as close as I can get to being outside. I would be if it weren't for the outside glare wiping out all visual on the laptop monitor.

I am late getting started again this morning. I had a rather shocking awakening that would be very close in description to a PTSD experience this morning. I was just quietly taking the coffee apparatus out of the dishwasher when there was a loud metallic BANG! 💥loud enough to create like an echo inside my head, that instantly made me think... EXPLOSION! I jumped back, hitting the back of both hands on the top of the door opening to the dishwasher.

Now I am sitting here with two bruised hands, feeling as shocked as anyone does after a close encounter with extinction. My extinction event was the action of gravity on the aluminum plate for the outdoor grill. Its balancing act on the kitchen counter was abruptly terminated, and it made one hell of a noise, like it was dropped on the countertop from the sky! I felt more disoriented than shocked. I spent the first hour getting my stuff back together sufficiently to get started over again.

I was like the defunct robot 🤖 that kept bouncing off the wall and repeating over and over: DOES NOT COMPUTE! Tube 94-B in conduit level 3, leading to port 26A, POPPED ITS TOP 💡💥⛑️ That is about all I have to report from the Newsroom at the moment. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡 Now it's on with the discussion of the day.

Iran halts strikes on Israel but issues Lebanon warning

Tehran said its attacks would resume if Israel struck southern Lebanon. Trump demanded Iran and Israel stop 'shooting' after fresh strikes imperil ceasefire

That Little War Lord Netanyahu?

He won't stop bombing anything that he hallucinates to be where Hamas is, and to (Yahoo, in a Net,) That's what I named the little marauding cockroach 🪳 he hallucinates Hamas is behind every tree, lamp post, fire hydrant. and whatever is behind them, dogs, cats, and children, mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers, cows, crops, no jobs, killed by starvation, doom and gloom, that's ALL I'VE SEEN come out of that Little Fn. WAR LORD and that fat bag of Orange 💩 is no better, they belong together in the same sh-t hole in the outhouse.

If YOU can't see that you are deaf, blind, and dumb, a no-brainer, and what would be the sense of me wasting my time with a dum dum 🗿 no-brainer MAGAt 🐛

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Question: schizophrenic obsession

🔹AI Overview

Schizophrenia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) have a significant overlap, with up to 25% of individuals with schizophrenia experiencing obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS). This co-occurrence—often called "schizo-obsessive disorder"—requires careful clinical differentiation, as obsessions can blur into the fixed, unshakeable beliefs characteristic of delusions.

Understanding how obsessions and schizophrenia connect requires looking at several clinical features.

The Overlap: Schizo-Obsessive Features

Obsessive and compulsive phenomena have been recognized in schizophrenic spectrum disorders for over a century.

Obsession vs. Delusion

Common Themes in Schizo-Obsessive Thought

Management and Support

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For localized support, you can connect with resources through ConnexOntario* or the *BC Schizophrenia Society

Ever notice that Trumpo The Typo and Company, the company in this case, is the CONGRESS... WHAT CONGRESS??? All of his picks have some kind of mental disorder like him; they are all psychopaths, schizophrenics, demented, narcissistic, and greedy individuals, fitting those shoes with those qualities, all kissing the orange maggot's 🐛diaper. That fact stands out for any layman to detect just by listening to those idiots.

WAKE UP AMERICA!🔊၊၊||

In MY OPINION ONLY: If you don't get the above, I would say that you are in serious need to see a shrink.

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BREAKING NEWS:

Iran halts strikes on Israel but issues Lebanon warning

Tehran said its attacks would resume if Israel struck southern Lebanon. Trump demanded Iran and Israel stop 'shooting' after fresh strikes imperil ceasefire

VIDEO | Included

Updated 10:59 AM EDT, Mon June 8, 2026

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Sagrada Família’s 144-year journey nears its end with the Tower of Jesus Christ

Barcelona, Spain — It’s inevitable — everyone looks up. When visitors arrive at Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, their eyes instinctively follow the

surreal twisting lines of the basilica’s sculptural towers until they reach the tip of each spire. Their gazes now extend higher than ever: More than 144 years after construction began, the world’s tallest church reached its final height of 566 feet upon the installation of its last major structural element, a cross atop the central Tower of Jesus Christ, in February.

Delayed by wars, politics and funding shortfalls, Sagrada Família’s imposing but unfinished presence has dominated Barcelona’s skyline for decades. Now, the long-awaited final tower is, at last, ready for its inauguration. On Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV — the 11th pontiff to reign since the project broke ground — will lead Solemn Mass and a ceremonial blessing...

• Faith in the sky:
• Controversy simmers:

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Updated Jun 8, 2026, 2:59 AM ET

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Louise Arbour installed as Canada's 31st Governor General | CBC News Special

Live coverage of the installation ceremony of Louise Arbour as the 31st Governor General of Canada, hosted by CBC News Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton from the Senate of Canada Building in Ottawa. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available.

VIDEO | Included:

Started 3 hours ago - June 8, 2026

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CUSMA a blessing for some Canadian businesses, a pain for others despite escaping U.S. tariffs

Some small companies find tariffs 'less bitter pill' to swallow than CUSMA compliance, CFIB head says

A sigh of relief might have been expected when Canadian businesses learned the Trump administration's latest tariffs would spare companies that comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). But after scrambling to become CUSMA-certified in the face of last year's U.S. tariffs, some business owners say compliance has brought its own set of frustrations.

Ray Kanani, co-owner of Good Fortune Puzzle Co. in Ottawa, said brokerage fees that shippers are charging to certify CUSMA goods, and other complications around cross-border shipping, have forced his business to restrict where it sends its products...

"We love our Canadian customers, and we love being in Canada. It pains us not to be able to serve the Canadian market because of what's happening."

• CUSMA challenges facing small businesses:
• Shippers face 'complex' situation:

WATCH | Analysis of CUSMA negotiations:

• Getting around tariffs:

Posted: Jun 08, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

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No Healthcare. Undrinkable Water | Millions of Americans are Living in Third-World USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhYMh3GVDts

 

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BREAKING:

ONTARIO HEALTH CARE UPDATE JUNE 7, 2026

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Question: UPDATE, ONTARIO HEALTH CARE, JUNE 7, 2026

🔹AI Overview

Ontario's healthcare sector features several major recent developments, including a massive

3.4 BILLION DOLLARS

investment into the Primary Care Action Plan to connect residents to doctors. Upcoming changes include the expansion of pharmacist vaccine and prescription powers, new colorectal cancer screening guidelines, and changes to auto insurance benefits.

Primary Care & Physician Funding

• Action Plan Progress:
• 2029.Physician Compensation:

Pharmacy Scope of Practice (Effective July 2026)

• Vaccines:
• Minor Ailments:

Cancer Screening Expansion (Effective July 1, 2026)

Auto Insurance & Benefit Changes (Effective July 1, 2026)

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Service Ontario Updates

KEEP AN EYE ON THE G.D. MONEY FOLKS

The last time, all we got for our money was a glass of water and an air sandwich 🥪🫗 then along comes Calamity, the server, spilling the water on the air sandwich, and no refund! Now here you are holding a nothing burger 🍔

I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR AGAIN OF A HOSPITAL CLOSING OR THE SHORTAGE OF STAFF GETTING SHORTER SORT OF CRAP AFTER THIS SHOT IN THE ARM!

DO YOU HEAR 🔊👂 THAT, MR. FORD?

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, everyone! It's another beautiful, sunny Sunday morning, with an expected high of 80°F today. We had a good soaking last night, so no drought conditions yet. Actually, it was still pretty wet from the cold, cloudy spring we had. The swamps 🌾🫟🐸🌾 will do well for breeding mosquitoes 🦟 this year. If you have a moment, you may wish to pray and meditate for the folks out West, especially on Vancouver Island and in British Columbia, and the western Alberta area, who are already on forest fire alert 🌲🌳🔥 once more this summer season.

All that dry, dead fall from the last two forest fires makes excellent fuel for the next fire. Prime Minister Carney wants to find jobs for the people. I know that hiring a workforce to do the forest cleanup would be prohibitively expensive, especially to clear the dead, scorched, dry, deadfall. Opening up the burned areas so people can go in and cut down the burned deadfall for firewood would be one way to handle a good part of the problem. North of the border, everyone needs firewood.

I'm sure that would also keep the firewood businesses busy. I was in the firewood business myself when I lived on the res. Two Injuns and a chainsaw 😉 Cleaning up the forest floor and reseeding would make another good part of the solution. Well, that's about it for my daily Newsroom report.

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Climate Change:

As I see it, all the changes in the usual patterns of rain, storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes are Mother Nature's response to air contamination. They are like air scubbers at work, cleaning out the bad air through a natural environmental change to relieve the disturbed elements. It's similar to getting a speck of dust in your eye; your eye will water and cry, turn red, and even become swollen and sore in the process of rejecting the foreign element in your eye.

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An eye"foreign object sensation," typically caused by an irritant

🔹AI Overview

Those symptoms describe a classic "foreign body sensation," typically caused by an irritant like dust, a blocked tear duct, or an allergic reaction. The eye's natural defense to wash out the speck is to flood with tears, leading to redness, pain, and swelling.

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Question: Atmospheric disturbances arise from the interactions between thermodynamics

🔹AI Overview

Atmospheric disturbances are generated by the complex interplay of thermodynamic phase changes, dynamic atmospheric forces, suspended dust, and gas compositions. These factors drive localized weather events, planetary wind systems, and larger climate cycles.

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The air contaminants will eventually be washed away by torrential rains, which will also cleanse the earth, and then the sun will shine brightly in a refreshingly clean, crispy blue atmosphere, and all will be green and vibrant again. I feel that inside, like a vision in my mind, but I'm not so certain about humans; they're such fragile creatures. This entire discussion is my own opinion only.

Well, friends, that's about it for today. Thank you for reading and visiting the Tree House News.

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BREAKING NEWS:

Ukraine’s deadly strikes are bringing the war home to Russians, and discontent is bubbling up

Zelenograd and Khimki, Russia — When Elena Vladimirovna woke up around 4 a.m. to the sound of loud buzzing over her Moscow region apartment, she looked out of the window to see multiple drones overhead.

The noise quickly faded, and she thought the danger had passed. But then came a loud bang from close by. “Below us, under the balcony, there is a canopy like a ledge. The drone fell on this canopy, and then it burst into flames, black smoke started coming,” she recalled. A room in her fifth-floor apartment caught fire...

• ‘There is no war for you, dear Muscovites’:
• ‘Slavs are killing Slavs’:
• ‘I flinch at everything now’:

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Updated Jun 7, 2026, 3:39 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Democrats can maintain their lead over Republicans on the economy if they don’t make this disastrous mistake

A bill that would raise the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from $250,000 to $5 million is being wrongly promoted as a benefit to “Main Street.”

Going into November’s midterm elections, Democrats have put together a strong message that the prices of food, gas, healthcare, housing and utilities are too high and that Americans need to elect members of the party who take their financial struggles seriously. And that message has been working.

Since President Donald Trump was elected in 2024 and embarked upon a term that has unsettled even those of us who were expecting the worst, Democrats have consistently overperformed in special and off-year elections.

Just ask Mikie Sherill and Abigail Spanberger, the recently elected Democratic governors of New Jersey and Virginia, respectively. An April Fox News poll showed Democrats edging Republicans 52% to 48% on which party would better handle the economy. That was the first time Democrats have had an advantage on that question in 16 years.

• Democrats may be walking blindly into a buzzsaw and risking giving away the advantage they have established over Republicans.:
• We lose when the party is seen as too cozy with Wall Street and other wealthy supporters:Read More:

Jun. 7, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

What's behind the growing backlash towards AI data centres?

Breaking down the opposition mounting in Canada and the concerns behind it

As AI data centres rapidly multiply across North America, so too does the opposition towards them. While there are currently only five hyperscale data centres in Canada, there are 96 facilities either proposed or under construction across the country, according to a recent York University study.

But protests against these projects have been growing across the country, driven by concerns about how much land, electricity and water these massive facilities consume...

• Mounting opposition:
• What opponents are worried about:
• AI anxiety:

WATCH | AI's impact on the job market:

Posted: Jun 07, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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**Aid cuts have slowed fight to contain Ebola in central Africa, doctors say**

*D.R.C. doctors forced to adapt as drop in funding limits testing, infrastructure*

Oxfam country director Dr. Maneji Mangundu recently returned from the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. When asked how aid cutbacks affected the response, he didn't hesitate.

"The flow of funding is so slow into the country," he told CBC News from Kinshasa. "By now we would have have a lot of teams on the ground responding, doing contact tracing. But because of the limitation of the resources, it's difficult."

Mangundu compares the recent response to the Ebola outbreak of 2018, when he says the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, rapidly sent a disaster support team that provided funding and support. "At the moment we don't have that," he said. "The mechanism is broken." ...

• A perfect storm:
• Combat and chaos:
• Dramatic drops:
• U.S. says response unaffected:
• Suspected cases drop:
• Response and the global risk:

Posted: Jun 07, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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How foreign aid cuts are impacting the Ebola response

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Db5UsdmmSBI

 

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Good morning, everyone! At the moment, it's mostly sunny, warm, and breezy with gusty winds, but it's a nice cooling breeze, not that Chilly Willie stuff. Anyway, it's supposed to get up into the high 80 °'s and low 90s °F next week. That's more like normal for June, but then, WHAT IS NORMAL ANYMORE?

We, the People, have the power to decide WHAT IS NORMAL. It's not normal for We, the People, to be forced to accept that the regime is the new light of truth, the savior, when it's really the enslaver. You work hard for the Mother Trucker 👩‍🎤 in charge, the Orange Jabba the Hutt, the cause of chaos, misery, and suffering.

IT'S YOUR DECISION IF YOU TRULY BELIEVE THIS BIG ORANGE PLOP OF SPACE SLUG S--T 🐛💩

Then you wouldn't know the difference between a stick of dynamite 🧨or a candle 🕯️. Light the wick?? What's the difference? As the DUNCE CADETS would say, DUHHH! scratching their heads! Then hand them a match, and they'll light up the wick on the dynamite 🖌️🧨 That would certainly light 💡 up their life with a bang 💥

Well, I had my second cup of Java, great stuff if one just measures the content of coffee in proportion to the amount of cups of water. Not a mug, I'm talking about a measuring cup of coffee. The result is just as good as Tim Hortons Dark Roast Coffee! I just made a little science research project out of coffee making ☕️😊. That about wraps it up for me in the Newsroom. Have a pleasant day, and thank you for visiting and reading The Tree House News.

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

First Nations demand Alberta premier terminate separation referendum

VIDEO | Included:

Treaty 8 First Nations have penned an open letter to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith objecting to her government's separation referendum.

The letter comes after a separation petition was overturned in court in favour of First Nations last month. Justice Shaina Leonard ruled that the province had a duty to consult with First Nations under Section 35 of the Constitution before legitimizing the petition spearheaded by separatist group Stay Free Alberta.

Now, a question on separation will be posed to Albertans in a referendum on Oct. 19, despite the court ruling. "The courts have already ruled in our favour when it comes to the referendum, and those rulings have been ignored," said Treaty 8 First Nations Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi at a press conference Thursday.

"The goal posts have been consistently and constantly moved back to accommodate the separatists, and it's something that we feel is very detrimental to Alberta and Canada." During a press conference at the annual meeting of western and northern premiers last month, Smith said the judge exaggerated the duty to consult, adding that arguments will be made in a court appeal on what the limits of duty to consult ought to be...

• 'Swimming in muddy water':

The chief said they'll be taking every means necessary against the referendum, including legal and civil disobedience.

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Published: June 04, 2026 at 4:42PM EDT

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I'm in favor of the chiefs. Let us pause for a moment for prayer and meditation that Injun doesn't get bit by the white snake again.

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BREAKING NEWS:

Vulnerable Republicans increasingly willing to defy Trump’s agenda as midterms approach

President Donald Trump remains the clear leader of the Republican party. Yet his grip is weakening among Republicans on Capitol Hill who’ve grown frustrated by what they view as increasingly brazen decisions in his second term.

Republicans are still on track to muscle through a top party priority next week, delivering $70 billion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection funding. But even that measure had been at serious risk of collapse in recent weeks after Republicans revolted over Trump’s insistence for a $1.8 billion settlement fund that critics say is intended to reward his political supporters.

While Senate GOP leaders successfully quashed much of that dissent, the days of bitter wrangling exposed cracks in Trump’s base of support on Capitol Hill. There is now a growing chorus of Republicans — and not just the usual defectors — willing to defy him as they seek to rein in his pursuit of his agenda, ranging from projects like the White House ballroom and exacting political retribution on his enemies to his handling of the Iran war and other foreign policy issues...

“They see the realities,” the person familiar with the private discussions said of Trump’s top aides. “But the president is his own comms director, legislative director, chief of staff, etc.” ...

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PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2026, 6:30 AM ET - 2 hr ago

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Democrats can do better than Graham Platner. They must demand he drop out.

The party risks betraying its own values if it won’t denounce the embattled Maine Senate candidate.

VIDEO | Included:

Graham Platner needs to drop out of the Maine Senate race — and Democrats should be the ones to coax him toward the door. When Platner first threw his hat in the ring last year, there was a reasonable argument for his candidacy — here was a political outsider with a fresh perspective who represented a new generation of political talent for Democrats.

But everything we have learned about Platner over the past several months suggests that he is a moral and political trainwreck, with enough skeletons in his closet to fill a graveyard.

• Platner has been caught in so many lies that it’s difficult to take anything he says seriously:
• Where will Platner’s numbers be in November after five months of GOP ads hammering him?:

More from MS NOW Daily

Must reads from Today's list: ...

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Jun. 6, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is 'essentially complete.' The fight over it is not

Document shows decades-long fight to build rival Windsor-Detroit crossing

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The Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit has been "essentially complete" since February, but a major lawsuit challenging Canada's decision to build it may not reach trial until 2027 or 2028, according to a newly obtained federal briefing note.

The information was contained in the heavily redacted briefing note prepared for federal Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson by deputy minister Paul Halucha. The note is dated Feb. 17, 2026, and was obtained by CBC News through an an access-to-information request...

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is silhouetted against an orange sky over the Detroit River between Windsor and Detroit. (Pratyush Dayal/CBC)

• 'Can't come soon enough' for truckers:

WATCH | The pressure is on to open Gordie Howe Bridge:

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Posted: Jun 06, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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YES! Finally 💪🍁

Ottawa's mixed fleet of F-35s and Gripens could total more than 100 aircraft, sources say

Global Eye supply chain could be used for major Gripen project as negotiations continue ilitary objections:

WATCH | Canada to purchase GlobalEye surveillance planes:

• The lesson of 2023:

WATCH | More about the F-35 deal:

Posted: Jun 06, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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PM Carney Announces Canada's AEW&C Preferred Supplier: Saab GlobalEye | CANSEC 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxUYT7KFrx0