The Bishnoi gang may not be the only criminal organization involved in extortion crimes in Canada, according to a new federal report.
The report, from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), also states that international students from India facing financial pressure are being used as “money mules” in extortion crimes.
I bet LPC fingers are to be found in this criminal pie. The LPC have turned immigration into a crime syndicate.
Andrew Carandang and Jonathan Pan have been coming to Markham’s Pacific Mall for as long as they can remember — but there are still surprises to be had.
“They sell tools here?” Pan said, walking through the mall’s glass-box maze of more than 350 stores and stalls.
Three years ago the lifelong friends brought their online vintage clothing business Legacy Toronto into a physical store here, in what a sign inside brags is the largest indoor Asian mall in North America: “You must see it.”
The Star celebrates counterfeit goods.
Mark Carney arrived on Canada’s political scene last year as an Ivy League and Oxford educated economist and a former central banker for two countries.
He had an impressive resume and ambitions to be prime minister but had never run for public office until replacing Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader.
There was concern his lack of political experience would be a liability, but under his leadership, the Liberals won a minority government, which in a year had solidified into a narrow majority following the defection of five opposition members of parliament to his party.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney will be under pressure to show results from his economic agenda when his government tables an update to its fiscal outlook on Tuesday.
The spring economic statement comes one year to the day after the party secured a minority mandate in the federal election, a fourth win for the Liberals in a row, but the first under Carney.
It also comes the same week three new Liberal MPs are expected to be sworn into office, officially giving Carney’s government majority status.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce plans to create a sovereign wealth fund Monday, a day ahead of the spring economic statement, according to a senior government official.
The fund will be used to invest alongside the private sector in major projects that the Carney government has committed to building over the coming years, and the government also plans to create a way for individual Canadians to contribute, the official said.
Canada’s auto sector is warning that a federal decision to ease tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles could undermine domestic manufacturing and weaken North American supply chains, as executives say the policy puts Canadian jobs at risk.
The concerns were raised at a Commons science committee hearing after cabinet approved a quota allowing up to 49,000 Chinese-made battery electric vehicles into the Canadian market this year at reduced tariff levels, with the cap set to increase by 6.5% annually.
With thanks to whoever retweeted this story from 2024. Seems relevant. @MarkJCarney @cafreeland @ISED_CA @environmentca #ElectricVehicles https://t.co/Flir0E3081
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) April 25, 2026
OTTAWA — A landmark parliamentary ethics report recommends that Prime Minister Mark Carney — and all future prime ministers — be required to sell their investments within 60 days of taking office, while citing this reporter’s testimony on The Bureau‘s reporting into Carney’s China-linked business exposure and high-level Chinese Communist Party official visits.
A family relies on a rusty sedan to get around. It’s slow and breaks down often. But the family, instead of opting for a practical replacement, puts in an order for a flashy, new model not yet in showrooms.
Sure, the luxury vehicle is significantly more expensive, and it will take years to arrive. But it is sleek and fast, and the family figures the time they will save commuting makes the higher price worth it (despite the loan they will need that will add to their already considerable debts). Besides, many of their neighbours have luxury cars – it’s about time they had one, too.
This in a nutshell is the faulty logic the Liberal government is using to create a high-speed rail line between Quebec City and Toronto.
Halto Alto!
We sometimes forget that the bad economic policy choices of U.S. politicians often pale in comparison to those of their counterparts in other countries. The result is that, despite the government’s best efforts, Americans are growing more prosperous at a faster rate than their peers elsewhere. The divergence is happening so rapidly, the U.K.’s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) recently pointed out, that Britons (among others) lose track of how quickly they’re falling behind Americans’ wealth and living standards. A return to free-market principles could help to once again even the score.
You have to wonder what the Elbow people were voting for.
Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is cautioning the prime minister that despite the need to diversify trade, China is not a substitute for the United States.
O’Toole has been tapped to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 24-member Canada-U.S. Advisory Committee, unveiled this week as a formal review of the countries’ trilateral trade deal with Mexico fast approaches.
More than a year into a protracted trade war with the United States, meanwhile, Carney is once again emphasizing a shift in the relationship with Canada’s closest neighbour, describing Canada’s ties to the U.S. as a “weakness” in a social media video last Sunday.
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is warning that U.S. tariffs threaten to drive Canada closer to China in the auto sector.
Speaking at a CNBC event in Singapore on Thursday, Trudeau said “economic pressures and coercion” nearly drove Canadian aerospace company Bombardier “into China’s arms” almost a decade ago.
‼️NEW: Trudeau goes on American TV and says that Canadian aluminum WON'T be available
"when the US finally wakes up" ….. "its not your aluminum anymore"
and that Trump drove Canada to China. pic.twitter.com/Loe7aeYXEr
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) April 23, 2026
Canada’s Kamala Harris.
OTTAWA — Lots of ink has been spilled this past year about the quandary of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sprawling past business dealings, significant investments and his many potential conflicts of interest, and a parliamentary committee unveiled some possible solutions this week.
Yet, most of these solutions are very unlikely to see the light of day.
Bad news if you recently decided to eat more greens because meat is so expensive.
It’s the produce section of your local grocery store that may trigger a double-take these days. Fresh veggies cost 7.8 per cent more year over year in March, according to Statistics Canada’s most recent inflation numbers. After prices increased 0.5 per cent in February, March’s increase is the largest since August 2023.
Electric cars made by a best-selling Chinese brand are recording drivers’ every journey and storing them forever, it has emerged.
Security researchers were able to extract the entire location history of a BYD Seal car sold in the UK, from its production in China to its eventual dismantling.
While the company said it was not transmitting location data overseas, experts said the ease with which location history could be obtained represented a security risk.
BYD is moving into the Canadian market.
While the federal Liberals smugly refer to themselves as Canada’s natural governing party, the historical record suggests that may be true, despite the danger it poses to democracy.
They’ve been in charge of the country 70% of the time since 1900.
