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China and the Asian Triads |
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Brian McAdam |
Robert Read |
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Remember when the RCMP and CSIS accused the Chinese government of purchasing real estate in Canadian urban centers as a method of threatening Canada? No? That's because the recommendations from a former classified program called Sidewinder was abandoned. All documents were ordered destroyed, and buried in 1997 by the Liberal government. Turns out we were as anxious to build ties with China then as we are now. (Better dwelling)
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named an 11-member panel to oversee the secretive activities of Canada's national security and intelligence agencies. Ontario Liberal MP David McGuinty will chair the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians. (CBC) MORE: Secrecy oaths signed
SDYNEY - Australia's government has
preliminarily blocked Chinese and Hong Kong bidders from taking a
controlling stake in the country's largest electricity network,
citing worries over national security.
China's
State Grid Corporation and Hong
Kong's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings (CKI)
were attempting to buy a 50.4% controlling stake in
Ausgrid
- the largest in the country.
CKI, owned by HK billionaire
Li
Ka-shing, has distanced itself
from this rejection.
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OTTAWA - A former Canadian diplomat has blown the lid off the Chinese government's use of sex to ensnare business people and others, and then pump them to divulge secrets. "The big thing that China is after is technology and information and military secrets," Brian McAdam told a corporate espionage conference in Gatineau, Que. "They are really targeting foreign scientists and engineers in a major way." (QMI) |
Chinese plans in Iceland a water hazard for Canada? |
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Politics overshadowing threat PARLIAMENT HILL - CSIS Director Richard Fadden unleashed a political firestorm with allegations Canadian politicians were under the influence of the Chinese and other foreign regimes, but we still haven’t learned the lesson. |
Andre Desmarais, Hu & Harper Chinese bank now playing in Canada |
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TORONTO - 3 Las Vegas casino corporations that are interested in expanding into Toronto have been the subject of allegations of corruption and bribery involving their dealings in Macau, China - issues that will be weighed by OLG deciding who can operate in the province. (Globe & Mail) Premier warns against special treatment No special deal, OLG chair says Triad kingpin may not be in Canada I-892 backer fights loan-sharking allegations |
Chinese criminal organizations Fired executive levels new charges Relations between US & Macau owners Stanley Ho posts 85% rise in net profit Stanley Ho sues mistresses and children |
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SAN FRANCISCO - Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow, 56, was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and murder as the leader of a Chinatown community organization. (San Francisco Chronicle) |
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Norman Hsu sentenced to 3 years REDWOOD CITY - A judge sentenced disgraced political donor Norman Hsu to three years in state prison after rejecting the one-time Democratic rainmaker's bid to throw out a 16-year-old fraud conviction. (AP) |
Clinton donor fails to appear, again |
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Canadian powerbrokers are the biggest western players in contemporary Chinese affairs. Engaged in the Peoples' Republic of China are Maurice Strong, AWOL since his alleged ties to the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal put him on the suspect list and former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien who faded not into the sunset but into the Orient. (Canada Free Press) |
Public unrest increasing in China Chinese ownership of Port causing worry Port control more worrisome than Dubai deal Bush Family: Middle Kingdom rainmakers |
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Li banking on goodwill CALGARY - If you are a Hong Kong billionaire with notoriously strong ties to the Beijing government, and are eager to build up your energy holdings in Canada just as the country is planning to toughen up rules governing foreign takeovers of resource companies, it helps to enjoy goodwill in the right places. And so just hours after Li Ka-Shing-controlled Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. announced the takeover of Calgary-based TransAlta Power LP for $629-million, Jim Prentice, the Minister of Industry, singled out for praise an institute at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto that was established through a $25-million donation from Mr. Li. |
China veto stops $7B asset sale HONG KONG - A senior Chinese official intervened to block the $7bn sale of PCCW telecommunications group's assets to foreign investors in the most flagrant breach of the territory's commercial autonomy since Beijing resumed sovereignty in 1997. |
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Chinese Vice-Consul General leaves Canada after failing to pay court judgment TORONTO - An official at Foreign Affairs Canada has confirmed that Pan Xinchun, the former Vice-Consul General of the People’s Republic of China at Toronto, who was found liable in a Canadian court for defaming Joel Chipkar, a Toronto spokesperson for Falun Gong practitioners, is no longer in Canada after failing to satisfy the judgment against him. |
Former Homeland Security Boss new job Big trouble for Law of the Sea
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Court lets immigration cover-up go unpunished OTTAWA - Those who have followed the story of Corporal Robert Read were dismayed when the Supreme Court of Canada refused on May 10 to hear his appeal. A former Mountie, Cpl. Read was fired for speaking out about corruption and cover-up in the force. In making this decision, our highest court tacitly endorsed the practice of persecuting the messenger and suppressing the truth. This is clearly wrong in the known circumstances. |
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Jean Chretien and the Sidewinder Report The Sidewinder Report, as readers recall, examined links of Chinese-triads and the Chinese government to Canadian-based corporations. (The WatchDog) |
CSIS and the RCMP have already investigated the family of the Air Canada saviour |
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'A breach of national security' The core allegations are: That certain people paid locally engaged staff of the Canadian commission (now the consulate-general) to delete their backgrounds in the computer system to hide their links with triads -- the Chinese Mafia. - That the visa forms have been used by possibly hundreds of people, including criminals, to enter Canada illegally. The original article that broke the story. By Fabian Dawson of The Vancouver Province) |
One man's China crusade OTTAWA - For Canadian diplomat Brian McAdam, it wasn't that he had uncovered the lucrative sale of Canadian visas during his posting at Canada's Hong Kong consulate. Both Canadian and Chinese consular staff, he says, were selling visas to members of the Chinese mafia and Communist China's intelligence service. The price, he heard, ranged from $10,000 to $100,000 per visa. |
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OTTAWA - The Liberal government rebuffed calls yesterday for a public inquiry into allegations the RCMP was pressured to drop an investigation into alleged corruption at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong. (National Post) PREVIOUS: Libs pressured cops to shut investigation: Opposition A Canadian scandal made in Hong Kong |
'This is a scandal that is enormous in scope' : Brian McAdam OTTAWA - After years of trying in vain to raise the alarm about alleged corruption involving Hong Kong mobsters and Canada, Brian McAdam found a little bit of vindication this week. (National Post) PREVIOUS: RCMP boss to review whistleblower report RCMP failed Asian probe: board |
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Asian Organized Crime and Terrorist Activity in Canada, 1999-2002 .pdf |
Transnational Activities of Chinese Crime Organizations .pdf |
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A Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress July 2003 |
A Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress April 2003 |
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Sidewinder Report .pdf |
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Curt Weldon’s charts for the Cox Report: |
CNN: Cox Report | |
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