Who is Hamdi Lataj, the Balkan ex-bank burglar living large among Canada’s A-listers?

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.

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Britain Adopts a ‘Back-Door’ Blasphemy Law

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned blasphemy debate to get the blood pumping and temperature rising.

After all, you got the incendiary mix of religion, politics, and free speech all rolled into one messy debate. In Great Britain, the debate revolves around whether the nation can be made safe for “Mohammedans,” as Winston Churchill charmingly referred to Muslims. (Referring to Muslims as “Mohammedans” is not a slur. It’s an adjective. And if I can’t use an adjective as a “charming” descriptor for Muslims, I will turn myself in for violating America’s blasphemy laws. Just as soon as Congress passes one.)

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Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan may have been found

More than three-and-a-half centuries after a musket ball to the throat put an end to decades of exemplary swashbuckling, the French soldier who inspired Alexandre Dumas and went on to be immortalised on the stage and screen – not to mention as a plucky cartoon dog – may rise again.

Workers repairing a church in the Dutch city of Maastricht have discovered a skeleton that could belong to the 17th-century Gascon nobleman Charles de Batz-Castelmore – better known as d’Artagnan – whose exploits led Dumas to make him the hero of the Three Musketeers.

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Air Canada CEO summoned to Ottawa over English-only condolence message after plane crash

Air Canada’s chief executive officer was summoned on Tuesday to explain himself before the Committee on Official Languages regarding his English-only message of condolence to the families of the pilots, including one from Quebec, who died on Sunday evening in the plane collision at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.

The statement provoked the committee’s “strong indignation” and is “incompatible with the obligations set out in the Official Languages Act and the expectations of the Canadian public,” according to the motion tabled in the House and adopted almost immediately by a unanimous vote of MPs.

Get a life people!

h/t Mauser

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Cross dressing “men” in training to be “girls” told to leave Girlguiding groups by September

The organisation that oversees girl guide groups in the UK has said transgender girls must leave the organisation by September.

It follows an announcement in December by Girlguiding that it would no longer accept biological boys who identify as girls from joining.

It said the action was being taken in response to the Supreme Court ruling in 2025 that said sex meant biological sex in equality law.

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