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Carney's China Journalist Deal: A Catastrophic Betrayal of Canadian Security
OpEd: Carney’s plan to facilitate “two-way” media access with Beijing demands public safeguards—or it endangers sovereignty.
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China's Top General Falls: Inside Xi Jinping's Hollow Military Purge
OTTAWA/LOS ANGELES — The weekend delivered a jolt from Beijing that underscores a theme Chris Meyer and I have explored across multiple podcast…
Jan 26 • Sam Cooper
40:13
The Saipan Casino That Connected Triads, Former CIA and FBI Bosses and China's Belt and Road Networks
ICE's arrest of businesswoman Cui Lijie on a remote Pacific island has resurfaced a case linking Macau's organized-crime gambling ecosystem and…
Jan 26 • Sam Cooper
Canada’s Charter Must Protect the Innocent—Not Narco Cartels
Former Mountie argues Canada’s outdated justice system has let sophisticated criminal networks weaponize disclosure burdens—leaving public at mercy of…
Jan 24
The Reality Behind a “U.S. Invasion” War-Planning Story That Landed Amid Heated Arctic Defence Negotiations as Carney Went to Davos
OpEd: Treating Trump’s provocations as literal invasion warnings risks turning transient political noise into bad policy.
Jan 24
Pro-China Networks Amplified Carney’s Beijing Messaging to Attack U.S. Policy, Echoing a 2025 Election Pattern, Analyst Finds
OTTAWA — A social network analysis firm says Chinese state and pro-China accounts amplified Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statements …
Jan 23
UPDATE: Ryan Wedding Arrested in Mexico, Transported to U.S. Under FBI “Foreign Terrorist Organization Coordination” Process
WASHINGTON — Ryan James Wedding, accused of being a Sinaloa Cartel operative who became “the largest narco trafficker in modern times,” was arrested…
Jan 23 • Sam Cooper
Ryan Wedding Arrested, NBC Says, as U.S. Authorities Prepare Update on Alleged Drug-and-Murder Network
LOS ANGELES — Ryan James Wedding, the Canadian former Olympic snowboarder accused by U.S.
Jan 23 • Sam Cooper
I Fled Beijing’s AIIB Alleging CCP Influence. The Bank’s Appointment of a United Front Veteran Proves My Case: Bob Pickard
Canadian exec says Zou Jiayi’s appointment shows the CCP is overtly extending control, and notes that a relative of China’s Minister of Public Security…
Jan 23
Surrey Mayor Presses Carney to Appoint an “Extortion Czar” as Canada’s Mafia Shooting Wave Spreads
Call follows The Bureau’s reporting that transnational networks are exploiting international students and immigration loopholes.
Jan 22 • Sam Cooper
BREAKING: Linda Sun Signals Settlement Negotiations as Defense Warns of Lawyer Withdrawal
BROOKLYN — Defense counsel for Linda Sun and her husband, Chris Hu—accused of laundering millions through Beijing-linked proxies in exchange for Sun…
Jan 21 • Sam Cooper
Carney’s Beijing Bet, the Arctic Squeeze, and the Race for Rare Earths
OTTAWA — In this podcast interview with Jason James of BNN, taped shortly before Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Beijing trip, I lay out why I expected the…
Jan 21 • Sam Cooper
1:03:17
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