Canada’s Public Safety Minister is telling Apple, Meta, and Signal that they don’t understand his own surveillance bill. They understand it fine. That’s the problem.
Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, would force telecoms, internet companies, and social media platforms to rebuild their systems so police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) can access user data more easily during investigations.
h/t patthedog
On May 8, Pentagon officials began releasing previously classified material related to unidentified flying objects. The UFO files may not prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. But their publication is nonetheless a significant event. By creating a government-sanctioned repository of content that can be consulted for the truth about unknown intelligence, the U.S. government has offered support and recognition to a new kind of religion: belief in UFOs.
UFO belief is not a religion in the traditional sense. There are no centralized leaders: no popes, no universally recognized doctrines, no sacred text and no institution capable of enforcing orthodoxy. Yet it increasingly performs many of the functions historically attributed to religion. It organizes communities of belief, creates narratives of revelation, offers cosmological meaning and establishes interpretive frameworks through which people understand mysterious experiences and humanity’s place in the universe.
Talia Klein Leighton compares being a Canadian Jew since October 7 to a frog in a pot of boiling water.
“Every time I wake up and I realize that the water’s getting hotter, somebody greases the bowl,” Leighton, president of Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, told National Post. “The level of tolerance that this country seems to have adopted in terms of antisemitism is breathtaking.”
Not to minimize your concerns but welcome to my world.
A recent study conducted on behalf of the city of Vienna highlights a concerning trend among young Muslims regarding their religious and political views. This follows the recent announcement that Muslim children now comprise nearly 41 percent of the population in Vienna’s compulsory schools, making them the largest religious group.
TORONTO – A Ukrainian seller of a toxic chemical used in suicide kits who was exposed in a British investigative report years ago appears to still be in business, claiming he’s “regularly” selling to Canada, a W5 investigation has found.
The man, identified by the BBC in 2024 as Leonid Zakutenko, was using the same website and even the same phone number, years after police in both the United Kingdom and Ukraine were alerted to the trade.
An unexpected film is screened outside of competition at the Cannes Film Festival this Wednesday, May 13th. Called L’Abandon (The Abandonment), it recounts the days leading up to the death of Samuel Paty, the history teacher who was beheaded on October 16, 2020, for showing his pupils cartoons of Muhammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression.
Canada is one of history’s most successful countries. Here’s a look at who’s trying to destroy it, and how
The recorded history of Canada stretches back more than 500 years; the unrecorded history, many thousands.
It is one of the world’s oldest continuously existing democracies, with a Constitution whose principal features – monarchical, federal, parliamentary, with an independent judiciary and (ahem) an unelected Senate – have remained unchanged since 1867.
Your kids can’t get a decent job or afford a home.
You can’t find a doctor and the waiting list seems longer every day.
Taxes are through the roof yet our so called government dumps truckloads of tax payer dollars into sinkholes foreign and domestic while you worry about whether to eat or heat.
And your hometown is overrun by migrants who hate you and the Canada you helped build.
Who couldn’t want more of that Mr. Coyne?
The driver of this green pickup who was most likely under the influence and speeding on the streets of Melbourne, FL, ended up slamming into a stopped vehicle while going approximately 80+ mph.
It’s unsure what happened after the collision. pic.twitter.com/kXjO4t7Sop
— Viral Videos™️ (@ViralVideos) May 15, 2026
The BBC’s tracking-down of Kardo Ranya as a people-smuggling mastermind is a triumph of investigative journalism. But anyone who thinks this will seriously help ‘smash the gangs’ is deluded. As the drugs trade illustrates, where there is demand there will be supply.
What’s to be done? Imagine you were the party leader of a mainstream British political party. Daydreaming, you see a vision – pouffe! A bang and a flash, and there stands the Fairy Queen herself. ‘What, oh party leader,’ she demands, ‘is your heart’s desire?’
Why are we tolerating this nonsense? pic.twitter.com/Qx9m0Rz4iT
— Viral Videos™️ (@ViralVideos) May 11, 2026
An Alberta court decision this week derailed a proposed referendum question on the province’s separation from Canada. The ruling focused on the issue of Indigenous consultation. Legal experts say the long-term impact of the ruling is unclear, with a planned appeal to the higher courts, and other open questions about previous Supreme Court of Canada decisions on secession and Indigenous consultation.
Outlook mail is under some sort of attack – see here
And also here. (Scroll down for the comments)
As a result I am not receiving all emails sent to my Outlook account.
Not everyone seems affected. Hopefully things will return to normal soon
Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has sought to transform its massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom has placed a moratorium on all executions, transferred condemned prisoners to facilities across the state, dismantled San Quentin State Prison’s death row, and turned the notorious prison into a therapeutic center, with art, classrooms, a café, and podcast studios.
Two women say they were targeted by a CBC- and APTN-produced comedy series that conducted prank interviews with people who have expressed controversial opinions about Canada’s residential schools.
Frances Widdowson and Lindsay Shepherd, two public figures who have been critical of the coverage of possible unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site in B.C., shared social media posts this week detailing how they say they were tricked into prank interviews.
It was only a prank says the CBC which has forgiven itself.
In truth it was a government attempt to smear people for having the “wrong views”.
Japan, in the 1980s, was supposed to be the future. Its industrial groups, protected by dense networks of banks, suppliers and friendly shareholders, were praised as more patient, more loyal and more strategic than America’s purportedly short-term capitalism. Germany, meanwhile, was sold as the humane alternative to Anglo-Saxon brutality: strong unions, worker participation, industrial discipline, export prowess and a “social market economy” that allegedly reconciled capitalism with solidarity.
