Friday, 22 May 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Well, it is a nice, bright, sunny morning, so far, I just wish the air was a tad warmer, at least warm enough so I don't have to wear that dumb jacket anymore to go out in my Green Space. I seem to have dodged the bullet on the morning sickness this morning. I wasn't sure, but it felt nice waking up this morning and feeling nothing. I was so comfortable I drifted off for a while longer, later than usual. That's all the personal news I have from the Newsroom for today. Sometimes, I like a slow news day.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Corporate Theft

BREAKING NEWS:

Canadian steel companies pay US$19 million to settle allegations they lied about their steel shipments

*U.S. steel companies have long complained that Canada has acted as a backdoor for cheaper, unfairly subsidized steel*

Two Canadian steel companies and one of their part owners agreed to pay US$19 million as part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) that they illegally circumvented duties on steel from China, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, and Vietnam.

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Brampton, Ont.-based Royal Canadian Steel Inc., Farjess Inc., and Feroz Jessani, president and part-owner of the two companies, allegedly misrepresented the steel as being from Canada or the U.S., according to the DOJ.

Between May 2019 and January 2025, Royal Canadian Steel, Farjess, and Jessani avoided duties by "knowingly misrepresenting … the country of origin of certain flat-rolled steel," the DOJ said. ...

Canadian steel magnate offers $1,000 reward to whistleblowers who report foreign steel in public projects

Zekelman, a supporter of Trump's steel tariffs, says Canada's been lax in allowing foreign-made steel to enter North America

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Energy markets: pricing the shock—or missing the strain?

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Published May 21, 2026

- Financialpost - com -

JUST HOW MANY NO GOOD FOR NOTHING GREEDY IDIOT BUBBLE HEADED NINCOMPOOPS DO WE HAVE RUNNING THINGS, STEALING OUR MONEY AND SENDING THE DEFECTIVE PARTS BACK TO YOU in a nice NEW, well-wrapped box.

Talk about 💩 in your own 👖 WELL!

THERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF CORPORATE THIEVES,

I pray that the Carney Government become even more stringent on corporate theft

Then on the other side of the border, we have a demented orange JABBA the HUTT. If that wasn't enough, then the saints came marchin' in, the fakees, the fake news, spammers, coo-coo demented individuals, the Jabba the Hutt's arse kissers, who think they're above the law and holier than thou. FAKES, the whole lot of them! Like, how about some cornflakes and raisins? Ever take a close look at the picture on the box? That's flies, not raisins. See, they lied to you again. You're lucky they didn't charge you for the meat.

Oh, yeah... then Paranoia Time! sets in, and you're looking around the room for a hidden camera lens. THE MEN IN BLACK ARE COMING! Hey ma! Put on the tea, we have company.

Money, power, and greed, that's all that matters today. If you don't have a $, it's tough luck, better hope you at least have a tent to sleep in, and do THEY care?

I'M REALLY GOING TO MISS STEPHEN COLBERT

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

‘We were lucky’: Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ bids farewell in final broadcast on CBS

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Stephen Colbert put on an emotional and existential final episode of “The Late Show” Thursday night, thanking his staff, studio audience, and viewers for eleven years of laughs. Colbert walked on stage to deafening cheers at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where longtime friends and VIPs filled the rows of seats.

“If you’re just tuning into ‘The Late Show,’ you missed a lot,” he quipped, alluding to CBS parent company Paramount’s controversial and politically charged decision to cancel the show. Paramount cited financial pressures, but many Colbert fans blamed political pressures, namely President Donald Trump’s contempt for Colbert’s frequent criticism of him. Paramount was urgently seeking the Trump administration’s approval of a media merger at the time Colbert was given marching orders last summer.

• Paul McCartney appeared as Stephen Colbert's final guest on "The Late Show" Thursday.

• Stephen Colbert hosts the final episode of "The Late Show" on Thursday

STREAMING NOW: “The Last Laugh: Stephen Colbert,” examining the legacy of one of America’s most influential satirists.*

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Updated May 22, 2026, 7:37 AM ET - 2 hr ago

- CNN -

I can't stop crying every time I read this article. It's all in the past, The Last of the Mohicans, possibly an era lost somewhere on the fabric of time and space.

Republicans revolt over Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

The Trump administration’s push for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund derailed Senate Republicans’ plans to pass the president’s priority immigration enforcement package Thursday. Senators left Washington for their Memorial Day recess with Republicans saying they were blindsided by the Justice Department’s announcement of the fund and at odds over how to rein it in.

The issue had become so toxic for the Senate GOP that there were doubts they could muster 50 votes needed to pass the broader bill that would provide tens of billions of dollars to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border patrol. President Donald Trump had demanded the package land on his desk by June 1, but GOP lawmakers will now almost certainly miss that deadline...

It was just the latest example of the party’s revolt against Trump, whose separate request for $1 billion in US Secret Service funding and East Wing ballroom security also seemed likely to be stripped from the package in part because of GOP opposition.

‘A galactic blunder’:

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Updated May 22, 2026, 8:29 AM ET - 1 hr 45 min ago

- CNN -

The DNC achieved the worst of all worlds with its 2024 autopsy

DNC Chair Ken Martin’s incompetence is matched only by his fear of accountability.

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In a surprising turn of events, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin on Thursday released an unfinished, error-laden draft of the 2024 election autopsy report he had commissioned last year but then refused to release in December on the grounds that it would be a “distraction.”

Martin wrote a peculiar note announcing the unexpected release of the 192-page report, which read, in part:

I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards. I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on it. But transparency is paramount. So, today I am releasing the report as I received it – in its entirety, unedited and unabridged – with annotations for claims that couldn’t be verified

The report is also striking for what it doesn’t include.

The DNC report itself is at once both boring and a mess. And the drama surrounding its release distills how utterly disastrous Martin’s handling of the autopsy has been from start to finish.

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May. 22, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Foreign affairs minister condemns 'appalling abuse' of Canadian flotilla activists detained in Israel

Activists say they were beaten and subject to mistreatment, which Israel denies

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is calling for Israeli officials responsible for "appalling abuse" of Canadian activists to be held accountable, after its forces intercepted a Gaza-bound flotilla earlier this week and detained hundreds of participants in the aid effort.

"I have just received information from my officials which details the appalling abuse of Canadians who were detained in Israel," the minister said in a post on X on Friday. "Canada unequivocally condemns the grave mistreatment of Canadians in Israel."

According to Global Sumud Canada, 12 Canadian citizens were among the participants on the latest flotilla effort aiming to break Israel's blockade of Gaza by delivering humanitarian assistance. Anand said they arrived in Turkey after being deported from Israel on Thursday...

WATCH | Activists say they were beaten, subject to 'systemically dehumanizing treatment:

WATCH | Israeli ambassador summoned over incident:

Activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla are carried on wheel stretchers upon their arrival at Istanbul Airport on Thursday. Emrah Gurel The Associated - Press

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Posted: May 22, 2026 9:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

- CBC -