Friday, 24 April 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

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Good morning, everyone! Well, I got out of bed twice this morning. The first time I got up, I felt sick to my stomach, so I turned on the small heater in the kitchen while I went to spray whatever wasn't agreeing with my stomach, maybe a dead weasel, or a flopping sucker fish, who knows? Maybe my mom was a pelican 🦤 😁 Well, here it is 10:20 in the morning, and just getting started. I will be keeping it brief today; I can only pray that someone finds some morsel in today's Tree House News to take home with them. Put it under your pillow and save it for a rainy day, eh? 🥹⛈️

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Lockheed Martin and MAS formalized partnership to build F-35 depot

- April 23, 2026 -

The twenty-third day of the fourth month of 2026

Like the medical Care, WATCH THE MONEY! Too many tiefs and pirates hereabouts, especially in Ontario.

Lockheed Martin and L3Harris MAS formalized a strategic partnership on April 21, 2026, to establish an F-35 Air Vehicle Depot in Mirabel, Quebec. This agreement creates a framework for collaboration and information sharing to support the long-term sustainment of Canada's future fleet of F-35 fighter jets.

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Key Partnership Details

Signatories: The agreement was signed by MAS General Manager Ugo Paniconi and Lockheed Martin F-35 Customer Programs Vice President Marshall Shepard.

Infrastructure: The depot will be located at the existing L3Harris facilities in Mirabel, which currently maintain Canada's CF-18 fleet.

Investment: L3Harris estimates that retooling the infrastructure to handle advanced F-35 maintenance will cost at least $200 million, primarily for enhanced security measures.

Regional Hub Ambitions: While the primary focus is on Canada's planned fleet, MAS aims to transform the facility into a regional hub that could eventually service U.S. and other international F-35 aircraft.

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Economic and Strategic Impact

Sovereign Capability: The partnership enables Canada to independently operate and maintain its F-35 fleet, reducing reliance on overseas logistics.

Job Creation: The project is expected to support approximately 1,500 direct and 3,500 indirect jobs, contributing to the aerospace ecosystem in Quebec.

Supply Chain: The depot will anchor a framework of roughly 30 Canadian suppliers, potentially contributing $3.2 million per jet across the global F-35 fleet.

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This formalization follows Canada's earlier identification of L3Harris MAS as a "Strategic Partner" in late 2024 to investigate depot requirements.

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April 23, 2026

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OTHER BREAKING NEWS:

Jeanine Pirro drops criminal probe of Jerome Powell

Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, said Friday she is closing the criminal probe of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

That would clear the way for Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick to succeed Powell, to get confirmed for the role. Powell’s term helming the central bank is set to expire on May 15, and Warsh appeared before the Senate Banking Committee for a confirmation hearing earlier this week. However, one key senator on the committee vowed to block the vote unless the DOJ dropped the investigation into Powell.

The Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into the Fed chair in January after Trump spent months railing against Powell for not lowering interest rates faster. Trump’s complaints included accusations of impropriety and incompetence in cost overruns at the central bank’s ongoing multibillion-dollar renovation project at its Washington, DC, headquarters...

The move to abandon the investigation comes after weeks of private pleas from Senate Republicans that grew increasingly public

‘Then I’ll have to fire him’:

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Updated Apr 24, 2026, 10:51 AM ET

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Americans are asking if the president is OK

His always-erratic behavior is raising new questions amid the Iran war.

Is the president OK?

I asked that question on TV this week. Not as a throwaway line or a partisan jab, but as a serious question about the capacity of the person holding the most powerful office in the world.

Since Donald Trump announced his first campaign for the White House in 2015, critics have wondered about his frequent digressions, anecdotes that never happened and seemingly dwindling vocabulary.

But in his second term, especially over the past few weeks, Trump has seemed more erratic than ever, making bizarre claims and accusations about the Iran war on social media and ratcheting up his already inflammatory rhetoric.

Americans are noticing.

• For years,“sanewashing” has helped normalize Trump’s words and actions.

Listen to the latest episode here ⤵️

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Apr. 23, 2026, 6:36 PM EDT

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Ottawa approves Enbridge's $4B Sunrise natural gas pipeline expansion project

Project includes 139 km of new pipeline in B.C.

Ottawa has approved Enbridge Inc.'s $4-billion Sunrise natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia, bolstering a West Coast liquefied natural gas project in which the company has a stake, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said Friday. "Our commitment to Canadians was to get projects approved and built — and with today's approval of the Sunrise Expansion Program, we're doing just that," Hodgson said in a news release.

"This project will enable us to heat more homes, businesses, hospitals and schools while bolstering British Columbian industry, including for LNG, and creating thousands of jobs. It is proof that, in partnership with industry and Indigenous partners, we can strengthen energy security and price stability and create new international trade opportunities while meeting rigorous environmental and safety standards.

• Enbridge sells stake in Westcoast pipeline to First Nations group

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Posted: Apr 24, 2026 8:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

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