David Suzuki is 90 years old, and he still has a lot to say.
The Vancouver native became a household name when he began hosting the CBC documentary series The Nature of Things in 1979, a job he held for 44 years. During that tenure, the award-winning geneticist became one of the world’s most recognizable defenders of the environment. It’s a position he still holds today.
The line is crackly. But the voice of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh is clear and, given the circumstances, surprisingly steady.
He’s on death row in western Iran. He speaks quickly – as if time is running out. And his message is desperate.
“You are hearing my voice from Oromiyeh Central Prison, and this may be the last time you hear it,” he says in a voice note obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network.
Confusion over best before dates is causing billions of dollars-worth of safe, edible food to be wasted every year in Canada, according to a recent report.
The report from food rescue organization Second Harvest shows $12.3 billion worth of food doesn’t make it to the grocery store shelves or is pulled prematurely due to “arbitrary best before dates.”
“Nobody produces food or makes food or buys food to throw it away, so let’s stop doing that,” said Second Harvest CEO Lori Nikkel.
Does seem more scam than sense.
A billionaire tycoon accused of being a “bag man” for Nicolás Maduro, the deposed Venezuelan dictator, has been deported in the United States.
Alex Saab faces trial and another spell in a United States prison less than three years after he was pardoned and freed by Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap.
His deportation continues Delcy Rodríguez’s ongoing purge of senior apparatchiks in the Maduro regime.
Salim El Koudri, the terrorist who committed an atrocity in Modena had sent a job application in 2021 to the university he had graduated in Business Economics from:
"You have to hire me as an employee. Fucking Christian bastards.
You and your Jesus Christ on the cross, I'll… pic.twitter.com/BwEllEj8OQ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 18, 2026
The B.C. NDP wants to reopen an infamously mismanaged Vancouver-based supervised consumption site despite opposition from the local mayor and city council. Not only is the province acting undemocratically, such sites have been shown to fuel crime and do not actually save lives.
This controversy began earlier this month, when Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), a provincial health authority, announced that it had acquired a new permanent downtown location for its Thomas Donaghy Overdose Prevention Site (TDOPS), which is expected to resume operations within the coming weeks.
Children are being taught that black people cannot be racist towards white people as part of an education initiative aimed at countering racism.
Teenage pupils are told that black people can be racially prejudiced towards white people but that this is not racism because that can be exhibited only by those who hold cultural power, such as white people over black people.
Children as young as seven are also being taught that white people are likely to be privileged because of the colour of their skin.
If there has been an observable trend in recent decades, it is surely that of excessive intervention and a growing willingness of governments to try to replace markets. We have another fine example of this with the latest fashionable idea from the world of municipal politics, notably in Toronto and New York and taken up by the federal NDP: The creation of public grocery stores.
The battle between Ukraine and Russia has long come down to drone warfare, but now, drone warfare is even replacing highly-trained snipers on the battlefield, as proven by Ukrainian special forces soldier Vyacheslav Kovalsky.
“I used to be the sniper and everyone danced around me. Now everyone dances around the drone pilot, including me,” Kovalsky told the Wall Street Journal, as cited by Mandiner:
Kovalsky is known for his world-record shot back in 2023, when he shot a Russian officer from a distance of almost four kilometers. However, nowadays, he mainly assists drone operators.
Public Safety Canada is under fire after a social media post trying to downplay its new lawful-access legislation was slapped with a community note on X. Critics and privacy advocates are accusing the federal government of misleading the public about the true scope of Bill C-22.
The backlash started when the official Public Safety Canada account posted on Friday that Part 2 of the bill would not create new authorities for police and CSIS, but would simply ensure electronic service providers have the technical capabilities to respond to court orders.
Part 2 of Bill C-22 would not create new authorities for police and CSIS. It would ensure electronic service providers have the technical capabilities to respond to court orders or warrants to get specific info to help an investigation. https://t.co/f66jEnOw93 pic.twitter.com/yPgFaIae7t
— Public Safety Canada (@Safety_Canada) May 15, 2026
As prime minister, Mark Carney claims to be guided by pragmatism, albeit “principled pragmatism.” But his enthusiastic pursuit of deeper alignment with the European Union risks selling out Canadian sovereignty for romantic symbolism and a mountain of red tape.
In his now-famous speech in Davos, Carney said that “nostalgia isn’t a strategy.” Yet his approach to the EU reveals a deeply nostalgic view of Europe as a vibrant counterweight to North American realities. But the numbers say Europe’s economy, far from being vibrant, is in decline. Forecasts for this year project growth of one per cent or less. The EU is beset by stagnation, demographic decline, high energy costs and chronically poor competitiveness. Why would Canada seek even tighter alignment with a bloc that’s in decline when it already enjoys comprehensive trade access through the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and other multilateral channels?
Islam is not a religion in the sense that Western Civilization understands the word. Islam is a fusion of social, political, and theological authority. It is antithetical to our constitution and, in practice, has been militarily hostile to America since our nation’s inception.
ISLAM is an aggressively proselytising religion. It seeks to expand with a view to ultimate dominance in the form of a global caliphate.
When it is strong, it expands by waging open war on ‘the infidel’. When it is weak, it wages its war of expansion by stealth. As Muhammad said: ‘War is deceit’.
Something truly callous happened in London on Saturday. Shortly before the grieving mother of a young woman who was murdered by an illegal immigrant was about to go on stage and share her heartbreak, activists flashed the slogan ‘Immigration makes Britain brilliant’ on a huge screen. As the mum was no doubt going over her notes, steeling herself for her nervous speech about the horrors inflicted on her daughter, ‘progressives’ decided to remind her and her dumb admirers that actually immigration is fab. And there it was: the iron fist of cruelty in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’.
The Telegraph splashed last week that Sinn Féin intends to work with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to “break up the UK”. Cue the usual outbreak of pearl-clutching from Westminster, where people who cannot run a railway timetable suddenly speak as if they are Metternich preserving the Congress of Vienna.
But perhaps we should all calm down and ask an awkward question.
What if they’re right? Not morally right. Not romantically right. Not Braveheart right. But economically, culturally and politically right.
