A Markham Mailbox and a Spoofed Construction Firm: How a B.C. Coal Terminal Traced an Alleged $6.2 Million Fraud Into an Apparent Chinese Money Laundering Network Spanning Canada’s Biggest Banks

A Markham Mailbox and a Spoofed Construction Firm: How a B.C. Coal Terminal Traced an Alleged $6.2 Million Fraud Into an Apparent Chinese Money Laundering Network Spanning Canada’s Biggest Banks

VANCOUVER — For weeks this winter, the company that operates a coal terminal in the Port of Vancouver believed it was paying millions to the contractor building its new potash export facility. Like many elderly victims across North America taken in by spoofed emails and phantom investment deals, Westshore Terminals had been scammed.

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Clash of the Money Giants: China Lays the Groundwork to Rival the Dollar

Clash of the Money Giants: China Lays the Groundwork to Rival the Dollar

The arithmetic of money is incorruptible: when it comes to international settlement systems, the pricing of commodities and energy, and access to the credit system, the U.S. dollar still reigns unchallenged. Eighty-nine percent of all foreign exchange transactions are conducted in greenbacks — central banks, commercial banks, and other capital pools hold roughly 57 percent of global currency reserves in U.S. dollars.

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Within 10 days, two pedophile child killers were given temporary passes to leave prison

Within 10 days, two pedophile child killers were given temporary passes to leave prison

In just a little more than a week, the Parole Board of Canada granted to two B.C. men jailed for murdering children temporary passes to leave prison.

Both men are pedophiles who committed their crimes in the early 2000s, and whose victims would now be in their 30s. Both men are believed to have been freed into the Victoria area, but their releases were not accompanied by public warnings.

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American Voters, Beware an Islamist Takeover in America

American Voters, Beware an Islamist Takeover in America

A dangerous trend is unfolding in America: please do not let what happened in my home country happen here. Many people refuse to see the gradual creep of Islamist ideology into nearly every sector of American society: media, politics, community organizing, education, and public discourse. These are what the stages of an Islamic revolution look like. It advances quietly and methodically — an ideology that prioritizes its religious doctrine over national identity, Sharia constitutions over non-Islamic ones that are made by made by man, not by Allah.


Of Course the CBC just gave Mamdani a Blow Job.

Mamdani’s populist style is all over the Toronto election race

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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

For more than seven decades, residents of Alberta have shared something in common with Antarctica and the high Arctic: all locations are officially free of rats.

But on Thursday the Canadian province’s reputation as a firewall against rodent infestation took a hit when the town of Bowden announced the discovery of a dead rat and called on the province’s “rat patrol” to investigate.

“If you’ve noticed rat droppings or any signs of rats, please contact Rat Patrol Alberta so they can follow up,” the town said in a statement. “Please stay alert and report any sightings.”

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Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged

Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged

A third person has been arrested in the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune in Mississippi’s capital city, while investigators said they had determined the scene where her body was found hanging had been staged.

Eric Clark, 45, surrendered to authorities on Friday and was charged with murder, according to the Jackson police department (JPD). Clark was scheduled to make a court appearance on Monday.

Police disclosed Friday that an autopsy investigation concluded “the scene and the hanging were staged”.

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Mark Carney says privatizing Canada’s busiest airports will lower costs for consumers. Evidence shows the opposite

Mark Carney says privatizing Canada’s busiest airports will lower costs for consumers. Evidence shows the opposite

It’s easy to understand why the day-to-day operations of Canada’s four busiest airports are on the federal auction block.

Ottawa would retain the land and infrastructure, but sell the businesses that run them, which handled 115 million passengers last year.

When he announced the sale on Sept. 15, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that the feds would reap “tens of billions of dollars” from the sale.

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Majority of Muslim Voters Backed Far-Left Die Linke in Berlin Elections

Majority of Muslim Voters Backed Far-Left Die Linke in Berlin Elections

Muslim voters were a major contributing factor to the far-left Die Linke party’s victory in the Berlin elections last week, an analysis of religious affiliation exit polling has revealed.

According to data collected by the Wahlen research group and obtained by the Catholic News Agency (KNA), Die Linke (The Left) won 51 per cent of Muslim voters in last Sunday’s Berlin elections, meaning that if only Muslims voted, the radical leftist party would have won an absolute governing majority in the Berlin state parliament.


I think that’s Hans Gruber !

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Details of how Tumbler Ridge shooter used ChatGPT ‘far more disturbing’ than previously known

Details of how Tumbler Ridge shooter used ChatGPT ‘far more disturbing’ than previously known

Mother Jones magazine has published new details outlining how the shooter in the Tumbler Ridge tragedy allegedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT program to both plan the attack, and evade OpenAI’s own security protocols.

The report was written by the magazine’s national affairs editor Mark Follman, who has been investigating the connection between AI chatbots and violent attacks both in the United States and elsewhere.

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Inside the plot to attack Trump’s birthday UFC fight

Inside the plot to attack Trump’s birthday UFC fight

By the time the police cruisers rolled up to the teenager’s home in Ohio one night in June, he and his alleged co-conspirators already had amassed guns, bullets and body armor.

He told officers he had never met the others in person. He did not appear to know their real names. They had converged online a few months earlier and, according to court affidavits, soon were developing plans for bloodshed. They arranged car pools to the nation’s capital. They mapped where to launch drones laden with explosives and where to station snipers.

Then the teenager’s mother overheard him on the phone.

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ISIS terror suspect arrested in Montreal was in Canada illegally: RCMP

ISIS terror suspect arrested in Montreal was in Canada illegally: RCMP

A man arrested in Montreal after he allegedly planned a terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State was in the country illegally, according to police.

Louay Angoud “has no legal status in Canada,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told The Gazette.

Angoud was arrested Wednesday at Place Ville Marie by the RCMP and faces three terrorism charges in relation to a planned attack with a chemical weapon.

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Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After Midterms

Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After Midterms

President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said.

Tehran’s proposal would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz and resumed nuclear talks in return for the U.S. lifting its blockade of Iranian ports, which is causing deep damage to the country’s economy. Trump says openly that Tehran is begging for a deal after the midterms that dismantles its nuclear program.

But privately Trump is skeptical Iran would meet his demands and has told his staff that he sees a renewed bombing campaign as likely, the officials said.

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Trump has done ‘more than anyone’ to protect Canada, White House says

Trump has done ‘more than anyone’ to protect Canada, White House says

The White House says U.S. President Donald Trump has done “more than anyone” to protect Canada from threats, after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent comments that he has prepared for the unlikely risk of U.S. military action against Canada.

When asked by The Globe and Mail on Thursday about Mr. Carney’s comments, Anna Kelly, principal deputy press secretary at the White House, said he should be grateful for Mr. Trump’s assistance in defending Canada.

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Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful and angry after ‘dangerous’ data breach

Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful and angry after ‘dangerous’ data breach

Current and former FBI agents have spoken to BBC News of their shock, fear and anger following a hack that appears to have exposed the private and personal information of the agency’s entire workforce.

“This is really bad for our undercover agents,” says one former FBI agent, who fears for the safety of his colleagues.

The former cyber investigator is in a group chat with current agents who are worried their personal information could soon be freely available online to criminals and hostile nation-state hackers.

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