Hamdi Lataj is a convicted bank burglar who police suspected once trafficked drugs with Mexican kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and who was targeted in an illegal gambling and money-laundering case involving alleged members of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia.
Today, he lists his address as being in one of Toronto’s most exclusive condo towers. He sits courtside at Raptors games, poses online with luxury cars and has appeared in a music video with one of Canada’s most famous musicians.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his government’s record on immigration on Wednesday, following a report from the auditor general this week that showed the international student program lacked proper controls.
“We’re taking back control on immigration,” said Carney, on his way into a cabinet meeting.
He’s lying. Lying is all he ever does.
Not a day goes by that Prime Minister Mark Carney doesn’t further prove that he is cut from the same cloth as his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
This was made evident last week when the federal government appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to contest the decisions of two lower courts, which ruled that Trudeau’s 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act was unlawful.
Bullshit.
Taxing food disproportionately punishes those with the least flexibility. It’s not just inefficient—it’s fundamentally wrong
Manitoba’s decision to remove the provincial sales tax (PST) from all groceries is a sound policy move — though perhaps not for the reasons many assume. What makes this announcement even more remarkable is who is making it: an NDP government choosing to reduce taxes at the grocery store. In today’s policy environment, that is both unexpected and noteworthy.
Google translate – https://t.co/1rlLT0T2YJ pic.twitter.com/EjGZqf0uBP
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) March 25, 2026
h/t Mauser
Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.
Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.
WTF?
For everyone but Canadian students. 😡 https://t.co/PS4Rxi0fzN pic.twitter.com/OJ4xTGzawz
— wastedcanadian (@melissacare01) March 25, 2026
OTTAWA — Right before Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in public services, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood at a national prayer breakfast and declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.
Carney’s display of his Catholic faith Tuesday stood in stark contrast with a heated debate about the value of state secularism that played out an hour later at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Where Carney quoted from the Gospel of Matthew and from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to talk about the grace and generosity that politicians should channel, Quebec’s lawyers argued religious beliefs should not be on display by public officials, saying the state should be neutral, and public services delivered without signs of any religious belief.
Carney a Christian? Please.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand delivered a clear message at the Chatham House Global Trade Conference in London last week: “This is (Canada’s) moment to lead.” The only question is: who exactly is following?
Anand’s speech was billed as a means to “underscore Canada’s trade diversification efforts to strengthen economic security and resilience.” But it more closely resembled a marketing campaign to hype the speech Prime Minister Mark Carney gave at the World Economic Forum in January.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree faced pointed questions Tuesday about why the federal government has deported one Iranian official, despite longstanding concerns about how the regime operates in Canada and abroad.
Finding himself in the hot seat before a parliamentary committee, Anandasangaree said Canada is “aggressively trying to remove” members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a branch of Iran’s military that Canada listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code in 2024 — but said due process has to be followed.
VANCOUVER — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a global network of 16 individuals and entities, including a company in Canada, accused of laundering and diverting more than $100 million to Hezbollah since 2020.
OTTAWA — Yuen Pau Woo, a Canadian senator who denounced a landmark American think tank report on Chinese Communist Party influence networks in Canada as disinformation, has himself been found to head an advocacy group that the report’s researcher now classifies as a United Front Work Department-linked organization — the 576th identified in Canada.
We are seeing a gradual erosion of quality, choice and dietary diversity. A quieter form of food insecurity, unfolding in real time.
Surveys after surveys tell the same story: Canadians are struggling at the grocery store. And yet, despite the mounting evidence, the situation is not improving.
Our lab has been tracking consumer sentiment on food affordability for years. The latest results, based on a national survey of more than 3,000 Canadians conducted earlier this month, in partnership with Caddle, confirm what many already feel at the checkout: The pressure is not easing.
To listen to a senior Government of Canada bureaucrat speaking before a parliamentary committee is to gain a fresh appreciation for the phrase: “The triumph of hope over experience.”
Wendy Hadwen is the assistant deputy minister of policy-industry at the Department of National Defence, and Isabella Chan is senior assistant deputy minister, lands and minerals, at the Department of Natural Resources. They both testified on Monday before the defence committee on the “nexus between national defence, national security and Canada’s critical minerals sector.”
As Can Force One moved toward Chinese airspace, the delegation’s electronic devices were powered down and secured in signal-blocking bags. Burner phones were passed out: the only machines the public servants, staff and journalists would be allowed to use for the duration of their stay. The Canadian Prime Minister’s security team was taking no risks.
But Mark Carney himself was on his way to do something many back home would consider very risky indeed: signing agreements with Chinese President Xi Jinping on trade, global governance, energy, media access and law enforcement. The country Carney had called, only one year ago, Canada’s “biggest security threat,” was about to accomplish a magical transformation from frog to prince, from interfering foreign power to “strategic partner” in the “new world order.”
On the same day that Statistics Canada revealed a higher unemployment rate of 6.7% and a youth unemployment rate of 14.1%, the Carney government made it easier for some employers to hire temporary foreign workers. On March 13, the latest Labour Force Survey showed that Canada had lost 108,000 full-time jobs and that over the past year had added more than 30,000 people to the unemployment line.
They found about 150,000 cases of foreign student permit fraud.
The Libs only investigated about 2,000, with few consequences.
Immigration is worse now in Canada than ever before.
And…watch this, the dismissive laugh off from @LenaMetlegeDiab.
Complete dumpster fire. https://t.co/WpuAL7ZaYy pic.twitter.com/gDcX8zzfQv
— Michelle Rempel Garner (@MichelleRempel) March 23, 2026
