In interview, term-limited California governor said running against former VP would ‘waste everybody’s time’

Gavin Newsom, the California governor, will not run for president if former vice-president Kamala Harris does, he said in a forthcoming interview with CNN.

Newsom and Harris, both from California, are widely viewed as two of the top establishment frontrunners in the coming Democratic presidential primary. Newsom, who terms out this year as governor, has increasingly portrayed himself as a foil to Trump and is widely viewed as positioning himself for a 2028 presidential bid.

Le CH veut tabler sur l'expérience acquise. L'ajout de Chris Kreider et Derek Lalonde lui en fournit en plus.

Le président voulait restreindre le vote par la poste à l'approche des élections de mi-mandat.

Le TIFF a accueilli lundi la première mondiale de Zjili: A Story of Sisterhood and The Burdens of Excess.

Decision allows states to send ballots under process followed for years even as president tried to limit system

The supreme court on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting in the midterm elections already underway.

The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they have used for years.

Grâce à sa filière d’anciens membres des Rangers, le CH vient de recevoir tout un cadeau avec Chris Kreider.

The Globe and Mail led nominations for British Columbia’s prestigious Jack Webster Awards, with judges noting work on the Tumbler Ridge school shooting and on the impact of the B.C. Supreme Court’s decision in the Cowichan case, among other work.

Trump administration undermining rule of law at home and worldwide, according to intergovernmental report

Key indicators of democracy in the US have fallen to their lowest levels in 50 years, with the global rule of law significantly undermined by the Trump administration’s “threats and actions”, data from a leading thinktank shows.

Around the world, judicial independence, credible elections and freedom of expression, press freedom and access to justice are all at their lowest levels for at least 30 years, according to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International Idea).

Republican Greg Abbott says datacenters must help ‘protect’ drought-prone state and disclose water use

Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, has directed state regulators to penalize datacenters that fail to comply with state laws requiring them to disclose their water use.

“Data centers must share the duty to protect Texas water,” the Republican governor said on Monday. “The Texas Water Code requires a complete and accurate water use survey. I direct the Texas Water Development Board to use its enforcement authority to penalize past failures and to impose legal consequences for any future failure to comply,” he added.

Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday. DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said.

The Trump administration has ramped up its investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare and the effort has only turned up a handful of cases so far.