Ukrainian charged in Germany over Nord Stream blasts

Ukrainian charged in Germany over Nord Stream blasts

German prosecutors have filed charges against a Ukrainian national over the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea in 2022.

The suspect, named only as Serhii K under German privacy laws, is alleged to have led and co-ordinated the attack on the pipelines that transported natural gas from Russia to Germany, German media reports say.

They say he is the same person arrested in Italy last summer and extradited to Germany in November. He has denied involvement.


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Germany: Ukrainian national charged over Nord Stream blasts

German federal ‌prosecutors ⁠have filed ⁠charges ​against a ​Ukrainian ​national ‌over a series of Nord ‌Stream pipeline blasts in September 2022, ‌German ​media reported on Wednesday.

Public broadcaster ARD and newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung and Zeit named the accused as Serhii K. , who was detained in Italy on a German arrest warrant in August 2025 and extradited to Germany.

The 50-year-old Ukrainian soldier from Kyiv is accused of leading a team of seven accomplices in the operation which destroyed three of four key Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

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Invasive wild pigs in Ontario are being tracked down by drones with thermal cameras. Here’s why

Invasive wild pigs in Ontario are being tracked down by drones with thermal cameras. Here’s why

Ontario is bringing home the bacon, or at least trying to by deploying drones with thermal cameras to track down invasive wild pigs before they wreak havoc to the local ecosystem.

The province uses Remotely Piloted Aircrafts Systems (RPAS) equipped with thermal imaging to ease their search on reported wild pig sightings, as these drones can detect feral hogs in thick brush.


There’s good reason to make wild pigs a protected species in the war against invasive species.

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Canada to compete in Eurovision for first time in 2027

Canada to compete in Eurovision for first time in 2027

CALGARY — Canada will officially join the world’s biggest televised music competition in 2027, marking the country’s first appearance in the Eurovision Song Contest and making it the first new participant since Australia joined more than a decade ago.

The announcement was made Tuesday by CBC/Radio-Canada and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), just days after CBC secured full membership in the organization that oversees the annual event.

Ugh.

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UN Special Rapporteur for HEALTH leaves role after angering with accusations of being pro-Hamas and pro-prostitution

UN Special Rapporteur for HEALTH leaves role after angering with accusations of being pro-Hamas and pro-prostitution

A South African doctor who served as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health left her role after a tenure riddled with controversy.

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in July 2020 and completed the maximum term of six years in the role.

On June 17, Mofokeng delivered her final report and called on countries to adopt ‘anti-racist’ and ‘anti-colonial’ health policies.

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Bloated federal civil service costing Canadian taxpayers billions: CTF

Bloated federal civil service costing Canadian taxpayers billions: CTF

OTTAWA — The Mark Carney Liberals may be giving Canada’s morbidly obese federal bureaucracy a much-needed shot of Ozempic, but recently released data show the problem could easily have been avoided.

Released this week, a new analysis by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation suggests that Canada could have saved $ 7 billion over the past decade if growth within Canada’s public service had been constrained to population growth.

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Vancouver Condo Bailout: A Short-Seller’s Offer To Testify On Private Real Estate Discussions with David Eby

Vancouver Condo Bailout: A Short-Seller’s Offer To Testify On Private Real Estate Discussions with David Eby

OTTAWA — The legendary American short-seller Marc Cohodes says he does not invest a dollar in Canada. What Cohodes brings to this conversation is not a financial position but a memory — more than a decade of it, beginning in 2014, when he started traveling to Vancouver and meeting with a young opposition politician named David Eby.

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Renewable Energy Will Impoverish Humanity

Renewable Energy Will Impoverish Humanity

The modern world and the rich, free lives it brought are both dying in Britain. Energy consumption has fallen by about 30% since 2005 and electricity consumption by about 23%, both due to climate policy costs, and particularly that of renewable energy, subsidies to which amount to £25 billion a year, 40% of the total cost of electricity supply. Insofar as we are maintaining our standard of living, we do so by borrowing and importing the goods of fossil- and nuclear-fuelled Asia. That borrowing cannot continue indefinitely, and an abrupt reversal in distressed circumstances is all but certain, with the consequence that wind and solar are not only a threat to British prosperity, but to any realistic hope of reducing emissions.

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