The Democratic Party’s America: California hearing aids. Chinese spy scandal.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Francis Widdowson speaks out.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Paul Joseph Watson – The worst one I’ve seen. Muslim values. Feminism is subversive. More Muslim values.
Your morning meme.
Here’s the Best of Get Smart – Season One (1965 – 1966).
Your best news tips mid-month are very welcome!
Keir Starmer has told close friends he intends to stand down as Prime Minister and set out an orderly timetable for his departure.
A member of the Cabinet told me late yesterday afternoon: ‘Keir understands the political reality.
‘He realises the current chaos is unsustainable. He simply wants to be able to do it in a dignified way and in a manner of his own choosing. He will set out a timetable.’
According to another Cabinet source, it is still unclear precisely when that announcement will be made. Some senior Starmer allies have been urging him to hold off making any statement until the first polls and canvassing data is returned from the Makerfield by-election.
The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history.
And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into.
🚨 🚨 🚨 KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS… pic.twitter.com/foaKixfE4T
— 🇺🇸 Thomas A. Whitaker (@WhitakerTA_) May 16, 2026
More: “Yale’s use of race resulted in a Black applicant being as much as 29 times higher odds of getting an interview for admission than an equally strong Asian applicant with similar academic credentials.”
Until I see this published in the precolonial Mississauga Nishnaabe alphabet, I’m calling prank.
The author uses her “intersecting lenses of being a chronically ill neurodivergent Two-Spirit Mississauga Nishnaabe Lucbanin artist and scholar” to convey the importance of “ancestral knowledge encodements” through beadwork.
Zuby shares his experiences of visiting Northern California’s once golden city.
Conman Carney’s Canada: More homes needed for migrants. Media bribes. Muslim teachers.
The Democratic Party’s America: Graham Platner. Destroy democracy to save it. A horrific lie.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: The Green Councillor. You are racist. This is frightening..
Your morning meme. Another meme.
You see, caring about your family, your ancestors, your lineage, your children, is “actually absurd,” apparently. And by implication, some kinds of context – where you came from, say – are to be scorned as worthless.
From 1965, here’s Salzburg Sight and Sound.
We always appreciate your great news tips!
I receive updates from Numbeo.com. Here’s the latest about my hometown of Vancouver:
Here’s how prices in Vancouver, BC have changed over the roughly past 5 years:
Rent (1BR city centre) : C$2,087 → C$2,644 (+27%)
Meal (inexpensive restaurant) : C$21.04 → C$30.00 (+43%)
Cappuccino: C$4.95 → C$5.77 (+17%)
Eggs (12) : C$4.71 → C$5.64 (+20%)
White rice (1kg) : C$4.28 → C$6.17 (+44%)
The first thing a business run by sane people would do when faced with torrents of red ink would be to identify the sectors with the highest costs and highest losses and cut them loose. But when you’re Canada Post, for some reason you do exactly the opposite.
“For now, people who already receive their mail via rural mailboxes will see no change,” the statement said. “These addresses are not part of the initial announcement targeting the four million addresses that still receive home delivery and will eventually be converted to community mailboxes.”
300, but instead of Gerard Butler, it’s Elliot Page. pic.twitter.com/HaPDf4x0iq
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) May 14, 2026
At 8:15am PDT, Glenn Beck is interviewing Ezra Levant on his radio program. They’re talking about what’s happening in London, England tomorrow. Ezra speculated that Keir Starmer may be setting up a false flag operation in order to prosecute Tommy Robinson and other so-called right-wing influencers.
Honda Canada released a statement on Thursday, citing evolving business conditions, a change in strategy and shifting customer demand, as the reasons for the indefinite suspension of the project. The company intends to refocus its efforts on hybrid models.
On Thursday, it was reported the company had recorded its first ever annual loss of $2.7 billion, due to heavy costs for its electric vehicle plants and U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
News of the carmaker pulling out of the EV project was first reported by the Japanese publication Nikkei Asia last week.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and it must be stressed that these stabbings are strictly ceremonial.
Jonathan Kay: that CBC-funded “prank” didn’t just target pundits. In @Quillette, I report on their efforts to mock a humble 82-yr-old Brockville granddad who enjoys 19th-c historical re-enanctments. Producers repeatedly lied to him for months, then exploited his trust
Conman Carney’s Canada: Indigenous outrage. Terry Teegee. Told China of mass grave.
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The Newsom nightmare. Good vs evil. Covid origins.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Paul Joseph Watson – The right decision. Muslim values.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
Including the sound of relief; an exercise in truck alignment; a taxi ride to remember; and some artefacts from the era of nut and gum vending.
All this and more.
