UNRWA About to Collapse?

With so much news—especially Middle East news—it was easy to miss this.

According to the outgoing CEO of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian People, Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA is on the verge of collapse.


Of course the Liberal Party lavishes our cash on them … Since fully restoring funding in 2016 (after a temporary cut), total pledges have exceeded $200 million CAD

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Perennial laggard Canada now the equal of Albania after clearing NATO’s 2% bar

Canada crossed the politically significant threshold of meeting NATO’s defence spending benchmark of two per cent of gross domestic product, according to the Western alliance’s annual secretary general’s report and compilation of statistics released on Thursday.

It is the first time since the late 1980s — toward the end of the Cold War — that the country has met the target, which has in recent years taken on enormous political and symbolic significance.

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GOLDSTEIN: Wishful thinking by the Liberals damaged our economy

When it comes to energy policy, Canada is under duress from two decades of Liberal governments that — to reverse the popular phrase from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech — treated the world “as they wished it to be, not as it is.”

The Liberals wished for the world to run on wind, solar power and biomass, while in the real world it runs on oil, natural gas and coal.

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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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‘We’re taking back control’: Carney defends his record on immigration after damning auditor report

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.

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Amy Hamm: Oh great, Carney is giving the Anti-Hate Network a say over what speech to restrict

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.

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CHARLEBOIS: Taxing food Is immoral — Manitoba just proved it doesn’t have to be

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.

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LILLEY: Numbers show Canada’s immigration system failing on all fronts

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?

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Mark Carney invokes Christian values as top court told religious beliefs don’t belong in government

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.

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Jesse Kline: Anita Anand’s delusions

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.

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Minister pressed why just 1 Iranian official deported after 24 deemed part of terror group

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.

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Canadian Senator’s Advocacy Group Classified as Chinese Communist Party United Front-Linked

China’s Senate mole

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.

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CHARLEBOIS: How Canadians are coping with food costs should be concerning

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.

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