A court has struck down one Alberta independence petition,” says Keith Wilson, the St. Albert lawyer and advocate for Alberta’s separation from Canada. “This does not mean the referendum is over.”
“The legal path to an Alberta independence referendum remains open,” he declares on his YouTube channel, “and Alberta’s cabinet still has the authority to put the question to voters in October.”
JUST IN: Two jets crash into each other at the Gunfighter Skies air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
The Air Force base is on lockdown following the midair collision.
Both crews reportedly ejected safely. Four parachutes could be seen floating to the ground. pic.twitter.com/UkwkaLLp1P
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 17, 2026
Whether in Congressional hearings or in media “fact checks”, arguments against local cooperation with ICE are often accompanied by the claim that illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate compared to the general population (aside from immigration offenses). The claim itself is dubious — see the addendum below — but the more important point is how little it should matter when deciding whether to turn arrested suspects over to ICE.
Alberta’s separatist sentiment has borrowed heavily on what you might call Quebec envy. But make no mistake, the direction it is taking now veers far from the well-worn Quebec separatist path.
Though Alberta’s discontent in the federation goes back a long way, it was only in the past decade or so that it sharpened into a focus on getting Alberta the same kind of leverage that Quebec has used in Canada.
You started to see it with demands for Alberta to have more control over immigration, or its own pension plan, as Quebec does, or for the province to have more say on judicial appointments, including to the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON — President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining that they were not the most plausible outcomes.
The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had quietly adjusted its modeling frameworkof a 4–5°C warming by 2100 last month. That framework had underpinned a myriad of other analyses predicting terrifying consequences for greenhouse gas emissions.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump takes huge VICTORY LAP after the climate change "experts" at the United Nations announce they were WRONG
"GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate… pic.twitter.com/CPqZQ7JhWA
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 16, 2026
On Friday morning in Calgary, Mark Carney and Danielle Smith shook hands, then signed and posed with official copies of an “implementation agreement for the Canada-Alberta memorandum of understanding,” an eight-page document bound up in profound questions of climate change, resource development, economic sovereignty and national unity.
“Today is a good day for Alberta,” the Alberta premier said. “And it’s a good day for Canada.”
“Today,” the prime minister said, was about “building trust in a Canada that works” — a country “rooted in co-operative federalism, where we build together, pragmatically and ambitiously, to achieve our shared ambitions.”
Founder and former executive director of Feeding Our Future, Aimee Bock, finds herself sitting in custody as one of the central figures in one of the ugliest COVID-era fraud scandals in America. A federal jury convicted Bock in March 2025 on seven counts tied to wire fraud, conspiracy, bribery, and federal program fraud.
An Iraqi national charged in the United States with terrorism offences has been linked by prosecutors to the March shooting outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto back in March.
U.S. prosecutors allege Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi and others were behind the Toronto attack, as well as a second attack targeting a synagogue in Canada, while also coordinating nearly 20 attacks across Europe tied to an Iranian-backed militant network.
Another instance of the US informing Canadians of Muslim terror activity in our country.
Residents in Havana, Cuba, who had been sitting in darkness for the better part of a day, poured into the streets on Wednesday night. They blocked roads with burning rubbish, erected barricades, and shouted at the government to turn the lights back on. By Thursday, the blackouts had encompassed the island in the latest round of nationwide shutdowns. Some areas are reporting power losses lasting 24 hours a day, with the capital enduring outages stretching beyond 22 hours.
Cuba is facing growing protests as its strained power grid leads to blackouts of up to 22 hours, while the U.S. increases pressure on the government to make “fundamental changes.” pic.twitter.com/mR8FZmMFgS
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 17, 2026
No sooner were the words out of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mouth than one French news magazine dubbed them “a breath of fresh air from Canada.”
“It is my strong personal view,” the Canadian leader said, “that as the international order (is) rebuilt … it will be rebuilt out of Europe.”
Carney was speaking in Armenia earlier this month at a meeting of the European Political Community. A leader who has dubbed his country “the most European of non-European nations” flubbed his lines slightly but got his point across, enchanting his all-European audience.
Carney smells profit from a decaying corrupt continent. There’s a reason his kind likes “Free Trade” and hates tariffs.
Tony Scales was playing cards below deck with three friends — a game of Sergeant Major — when the announcement came over the loudspeaker: “Take cover!” He barely had time to react before the explosion ripped through the ship.
“It was like being inside a big flame,” he said, standing on a wind-blasted hillside looking over the bay where the RFA Sir Galahad was hit by Argentine jets on June 8, 1982. A total of 48 people were killed, including 32 Welsh Guardsmen, in one of the deadliest single incidents for British forces in the Falklands conflict.
The CBC "prank show" deception scandal is getting so much worse.
The producers (operating under fake identities/fake company names with fake websites) told a number of RCMP veterans – people who dedicated their lives to serving on the frontlines – that they were invited to film…
— Lindsay Shepherd (@NewWorldHominin) May 17, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Jews targets of 82% of religion-motivated hate crimes in Toronto in 2025: police data
Some 82% of religion-motivated hate crimes in Toronto in 2025 targeted Jews, compared to 14 per cent that were anti-Muslim, according to annual hate crime statistics that the Toronto Police Service released on Thursday.
The department said that there was a 50 per cent decrease in reported hate crimes in 2025 (231) compared to 2024 (443) but that reported hate crimes are up 40 per cent so far in 2026 compared to this period last year. In 2023, there were 372 reported hate crimes, the department said.
Bulgaria wins 70th Eurovision contest with Dara and Bangaranga
Bulgaria has won the 2026 Eurovision song contest after singer Dara swept to victory with the song Bangaranga.
The 27-year-old singer’s triumph is a first victory in the 70-year history of the song contest for Bulgaria, which only joined Eurovision in 2005 and sat out the last three editions.
A former colleague of mine recently sold his home in Montreal and made “aliyah” by moving to Israel with his wife. Aliyah, a Hebrew word, literally means “rise” or “ascent,” but Jewish people define it as immigrating to Israel.
My former colleague isn’t alone. More and more Jews are leaving Canada for Israel. According to the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, Canadian aliyah rose a record 51 per cent in 2025 from 2023. They are leaving this country at record rates and many are relocating to the United States, as well.
