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REPOST: The Prescient Warning Behind Ottawa’s China Influence File—and Carney’s Beijing Electric Vehicle Gamble
A Canadian immigration control official who warned of influence from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s Beijing–Montreal business networks, predicted the…
Jan 17 • Sam Cooper
Exclusive: Inside Canada’s Diaspora Extortion Pipeline—How Organized Crime Fraud in Student Visas, International Schools, and Mass Migration…
A Bureau investigation traces how designated learning institutions and immigration consultant networks are allegedly being exploited.
Jan 16 • Sam Cooper
Greenland Is the Flashpoint: China and Russia Test NATO, Canada, and Indigenous Arctic Jurisdictions
Op-Ed: Security consultant Ian Bradbury argues NATO’s Arctic posture is performative, while Russia operates below the ice and China probes the…
Jan 15
Carney’s China Reset Needs a Red Line: Free Jimmy Lai
A human-rights NGO leader and former senior U.S. correspondent in China argues Carney should make any Canada–China reset conditional on release of Jimmy…
Jan 14
200 Foreign Guards, Hezbollah Links, and the Risk a “Major Foreign Power” Could Step In: Inside the U.S. Legal Memo Behind the Maduro…
A newly disclosed legal opinion argues President Trump could deploy military force to back an extraterritorial arrest, while warning of escalation…
Jan 14 • Sam Cooper
Analysis: Havana’s Playbook or Conspiracy Theory? Testing Washington’s Claim That Cuban Intelligence Helped Fuel U.S. Unrest Since George…
Heritage argues hemispheric coordination, from conferences to a political belt stretching from Cuba-friendly activists in New York to heads of state in…
Jan 13 • Sam Cooper
12,000 Dead in Two Nights: Iran International Estimates Mass Killings Under Khamenei as the Internet Blackout Began
A London-based Persian-language outlet long critical of Tehran says its multi-source review points to a coordinated crackdown—an explosive estimate that…
Jan 13 • Sam Cooper
Human Rights Coalition and Former Diplomatic Hostage Sound Alarm as PM Carney Heads to Beijing — Questions Swirl Around Chrétien’s China…
BEIJING / OTTAWA — On the eve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first official visit to China, a coalition of nine human-rights organizations is elevating…
Jan 12 • Sam Cooper
I Once Believed Canadians Would Demand Better. Fifty Years On, I’m Not So Sure: Clement
Former Mountie Garry Clement says he’s speaking more candidly than before, as Ottawa remains inactive and legal threats to journalism loom.
Jan 10
BREAKING Iranian Revolt Update: The “Trump Factor,” a Revolt Spreading Beyond Iran’s Traditional Fault Lines, and Exposing Iranian Guard…
VANCOUVER-OTTAWA
Jan 9 • Sam Cooper
58:13
From Maduro’s Extraction to a North Atlantic Showdown: The West’s New Hybrid War Front
OTTAWA — In this episode, I speak with Canada’s top political columnist Brian Lilley to unpack the fast-moving opening days of 2026 — a week that has…
Jan 7 • Sam Cooper
44:32
Breaking: U.S. Forces Seize Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker, Escalating Clash Over Post-Maduro Venezuela
NORTH ATLANTIC — U.S.
Jan 7 • Sam Cooper
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