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Brian McAdam |
Robert Read |
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Foreign interference continues TORONTO - CSIS Director Richard Fadden will appear before a parliamentary committee over the controversy he sparked last week with revelations that some Canadian officials are under the influence of foreign regimes. In the blow-out that has followed, disturbingly little has been said about the vital security issues Fadden raised, said David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for CSIS. He’s uneasy that some of the outrage directed at Fadden over remarks he made in a CBC interview is masking the very real threat foreign influence poses to Canada’s national sovereignty. (Epoch Times) Fadden will name names in private Why other countries pay for our politicians to visit Denial is a bad security policy Preoccupation with Chinese spying |
Andre Desmarais, Hu & Harper Seduction of China's red carpet 'Interference' and our push for trade Chinese bank now playing in Canada MPs moonlight, run businesses, have extra income |
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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. (Ottawa Citizen) |
Personal financial interest behind attack Chrétien and the power of China |
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Alliance of rich, powerful & suspicious What does a powerful Asian family linked to the Chinese Mafia, a former Canadian prime minister and a Vancouver-based resort developer have in common? Called the Ho Tram project, the $4.2B plan brings together ex-prime minister Jean Chretien, the Vancouver-based Asian Coast Development Ltd (ACDL) group and Pansy Ho, the daughter of Asia’s gambling czar, Stanley Ho, who has been the subject of intelligence reports from Canada, Australia and the US linking him to Chinese organized crime. (Mata Press Service) Residency via property investment scheme |
MGM puts its chips on Macau casino Spotlight on MGM Mirage's 'wild card' I-892 backer fights loan-sharking allegations The dark side of China's Las Vegas MGM casino probe could ripple in Atlantic City |
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Norman Hsu sentenced to 3 years REDWOOD CITY - A judge on Friday 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) |
Fugitive fundraiser Hsu captured in Colorado 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) China torture 'still widespread' UN press release Held hostage in China |
Public unrest increasing in China Chinese ownership of Port causing worry China attains global control of ports Port control more worrisome than Dubai deal The Bush Family: Middle Kingdom rainmakers Court approves takeover by China China National Petroleum Corp., Who can stop the rise and rise of China? Slave trade and repression in China |
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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. (Financial Post) |
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. (Financial Times) Li Ka-Shing firm snaps up TransAlta Power Billionaire to sell bank stake for charity fund |
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Hong Kong marks Tiananmen deaths Tens of thousands in Hong Kong have held a vigil on the 16th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. (BBC) MORE: Tiananmen Square, 1989 The Gate of Heavenly Peace China silences Tiannanmen critics Suicide bombing in China China labor camp reports China Democracy Advocate Jailed 12 Years |
VANCOUVER - A three-decade-old manhunt for one of the most notorious figures of the Hong Kong underworld - a man who pumped millions of dollars of his ill-gotten gains into BC - ended Thursday in a Metro Vancouver cemetery. Staff-Sgt. Lui Lok was part of a cabal of five powerful station sergeants who ruled Hong Kong’s police jurisdictions during the early 1970s, collecting graft while allowing the triads to conduct their criminal activities. (Vancouver Province) |
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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. (FDI) |
Former Homeland Security Boss new job Former Chinese President sued in Canada |
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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. (Embassy Magazine) |
Editorial: One cop's sacrifice to save Canada The Honourable Sean J. Harrington Fired Mountie takes corruption fight to Federal Cour RCMP rejects recommendation to reinstate whistleblower Case summary of RCMP External Review Committee's decision on Corporal Robert Read |
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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) Corruption and cover up - Canadian shame |
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) |
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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: The China Connection .pdf |
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