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
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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.
Imagine finding out that your loved one has leukemia. Then imagine finding out that the cost of treating that cancer is so enormous that you could end up drowning in debt just to pay the medical bills.
Many readers might think this is a scenario only to be found in the United States. But this is a scenario currently facing Chris Sluman and his family in North Bay, and it is all because of an obscure government agency that no one really knows about.
British nationalist Tommy Robinson held his first ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally on September 25, 2025. Official figures place the number of people at a smidge over 100,000, but the aerial street views look like so much more.
The throngs were just stunning.
Grade inflation is real, and it’s coming for your children.
The good news is your children will have beautiful transcripts. The bad news is those transcripts will have about as much value as a participation trophy. The worse news is this can be true even at the university level. And the worst news: inflated grades are effectively mandated from the top. To fix the problem, you’d have to alter the mindsets of institutional bureaucrats — that is, move immovable objects.
I recall an instructor discussing this very thing in class before he bit his own tongue.
Investigators in the Maldives are trying to work out how five experienced divers died in the same spot at the same time.
The five Italian divers became trapped in a sea cave at a depth of about 50-60m off the island of Alimathaa in an atoll called Vaavu.
They had arrived at the dive site on board a boat called the Duke of York, which runs dive trips in the Maldives.
