Time is corrosive—it wears away everything: coastlines change, mountains erode, whole continents drift, stars go nova. Anything human is particularly temporary. Our bodies age, our socks get holes, our computers become obsolete, customs change. Things we used to do, we don’t do any more. What man wears Brylcreem in his hair nowadays? What child tends to her Tamagotchi or Chia Pet?
In recent years, Americans have become increasingly conscious of the extent to which foreign governments cultivate influence inside the United States. Public debate has focused heavily on Qatar’s funding of elite universities and even the burgeoning influence of the South Korean lobby. China, despite being recognized as America’s primary geopolitical rival, has often been discussed in narrower terms: trade wars, Taiwan, semiconductors, military expansion, and industrial espionage. Far less attention has been paid to the depth of China’s institutional presence inside the United States and other Western democracies. China’s approach differs because the Chinese Communist Party does not view economics, agriculture, education, media, culture, and politics as separate spheres. Each is treated as part of national power.
OTTAWA — The RCMP wants one more Black Hawk helicopter to help it patrol the Canada-U.S. border — but the federal government’s own regulations are preventing one of its suppliers from bringing another one into the country.
Canada’s federal police force is currently chartering three Black Hawks and has said it wants a fourth, according to court filings and parliamentary testimony reviewed by the Star.
When certain prominent Jewish community leaders in the diaspora denounce Israel’s coalition government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as an “existential threat” to the nation, which then, in their view, risks becoming “incompatible with Jewish values”, it says more about those speakers than about Israel.
Some individuals — even Jews, such as Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy — who claim that criticism of Israel’s government is a “Jewish obligation,” which, from their perspective, does not amount to “an act of disloyalty.” No one, of course, ever criticizes Israel; they must find that so disappointing.
Canadian real estate went from a speculative asset with global demand to a glut in just a few years. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) data shows completed and unabsorbed inventory rose in April.
Builders are now sitting on the most completed and unsold new homes in the country’s history—and there’s a lot more supply in the pipeline.
A former BBC News boss has claimed she was driven out of the top job by trans activists.
Fran Unsworth, the director of BBC News from 2018-2022, said she had been bullied out of the role by gender ideologues employed by the corporation.
Speaking for the first time since leaving the BBC, Ms Unsworth said: “I would actually say it drove me out, just dealing with the progressive editorial issues and the bullying around them all. It was incredibly difficult.”
Update – 2 arrested with possible 3rd at large.
AUSTIN, Texas — Two suspects have been arrested and the search continues for a third in connection with multiple shootings across Austin on Saturday and Sunday. A shelter-in-place that had been issued for a large area of South Austin has now been lifted.
Austin police search for suspect in multiple ‘random’ Saturday shootings
AUSTIN – Police are searching for a suspect or suspects driving a damaged vehicle in connection with a series of apparently random shootings that happened across the city Saturday.
Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a remarkable combination of Homeric epic and Egyptian ritual: a 2,000-year-old mummy with a papyrus fragment of the “Iliad” sealed in a clay packet outside its wrappings.
It is the first time a literary work has been found playing a functional, spiritual role in the mummification process. And it suggests that for a Roman-era Egyptian, the “Iliad” — specifically some lines from Book 2’s “Catalogue of Ships” — was perhaps as crucial for navigating the afterlife as a magical spell.
Big library fine I bet.
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.
