OTTAWA — Days before Prime Minister Mark Carney traded lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles for relief on Canadian canola, a Toronto-area Chinese business association reportedly urged his office to remove Canada’s 100 percent surtax on those vehicles, citing support for Canadian farm exports.
OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s government’s own Public Safety assessment of the controversial BC Ferries contract with a Chinese state-owned shipyard identified potential risks to Canadian supply chains and flagged the proximity of ferry routes to sensitive military and intelligence infrastructure — including a Signals Intelligence facility in Haida Gwaii and the country’s main naval base in Victoria.
Several Chinese state-backed investors are taking part in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, another sign of warming relations with Beijing after years of Ottawa publicly spurning money from China.
The Prime Minister’s Office said Monday that, like everyone else, Chinese investors will be subject to federal rules governing foreign investment in this country.
Both China International Capital Corp. (CICC) and China Investment Corp. − China’s sovereign wealth fund − are attending Mr. Carney’s summit. CICC is roughly 40-per-cent owned by Central Huijin Investment, a subsidiary of China Investment Corp.
The most alarming aspect of Canada’s strategic partnership with China is how sneaky it has become.
It was considered a great coup in January when, as part of his circumnavigation of the globe culminating in his now famous Davos speech, Prime Minister Mark Carney travelled to Beijing to announce a “new strategic partnership” with Chinese leader Xi’s regime.
BROOKLYN, New York — Federal prosecutors are fighting to show Huawei’s jury internal bank records citing alleged links to China’s military and intelligence services, and to play videotaped testimony in which they asked a veteran banking compliance executive about “general concerns about Huawei’s ties to the Iranian military.”
OTTAWA — Canada’s military reopened a formal channel to China’s People’s Liberation Army last Friday for the first time in eight years, and Canadians have learned of it only from Beijing.
China’s defence ministry says Canada and China revived their formal Defence Coordination Dialogue on September 4.
Canadians have learned of the meeting not from their own government, but from a terse statement issued by Beijing.
h/t handy n handsome
For a raft of businesses north of the U.S. border, the punishing 50-per-cent tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump represent an existential threat.
For many south of the 49th parallel, the Canadian countertariffs expected to take effect next week look very different. Some expect pain, but not suffering.
“Am I happy about what’s going on? Absolutely not,” said Daroll Frewing, owner of US Bowling, a family-run maker of pinsetters, bumpers and bowling lanes based in Nevada. “But is it something that I would fight for, for our company? No, it’s not worth it. Because it’s not that big a percentage of our business.
Several Western intelligence agencies were sent scrambling this summer to figure out what — if anything — of value an accused Canadian spy managed to access during internships at multiple agencies and government departments.
Biwei Zhang, a Canadian intern at NATO military’s headquarters in Mons, Belgium, was arrested by Belgian authorities in July on suspicion of espionage and communicating with a foreign crime entity. She has been held in pretrial detention since being taken into custody and was this week denied an appeal for release.
How does someone caught lying fail upwards?
There has been no greater gift to the Liberal Party’s powerful pro-Beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s Uyghur slave camps, its “hostage diplomacy,” mass espionage, intellectual property theft, forced corporate co-ventures and clandestine election-interference operations, by this summer the Pew Research Centre found that Canadians had come to view China more favorably than the United States.
You could say the American president can be thanked for that.
OTTAWA — Beijing is shelling out big bucks to spread its message deep inside the Ottawa bubble, buying ad space to publish editorials in a niche Parliament Hill newspaper directly targeting Canada’s top policymakers.
Since 2022, China’s embassy in Ottawa has published 37 editorials in The Hill Times, a twice-weekly newspaper distributed on Parliament Hill with content often of interest to federal political insiders
OTTAWA — While the case of Biwei Zhang moves through the courts in Brussels, where an appeals court has extended the detention of the Canadian intern from China accused of espionage inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military high command, a second file involving a Chinese national living and studying in Ontario — whose phone, United States officials found, held photographs of himself and others in tactical formations holding rifle-styled firearms, after he was caught photographing American aircraft in Chicago and admitted to a similar operation at Toronto’s airport — is opening in federal court in Michigan.
Seems the LPC is a ChiCom subsidiary.
In Belgium, Claire Biwei Zhang, the Canadian woman allegedly spying on NATO has launched an appeal to be released from pre-trial detention, while the Canadian government is scrambling to investigate its screening protocols to find out how it may have been infiltrated by a foreign power.
Global Affairs has acknowledged that Zhang’s security clearance for her NATO internship was approved by the Government of Canada after she was vetted by CSIS. According to its 2025 annual report, CSIS completed 129,740 screenings for the federal government last year.
OTTAWA — The Canadian woman of Chinese origin held in Belgium on suspicion of spying inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) military command for a third country, and of membership in a criminal organization, was vetted by CSIS and the RCMP and cleared for the posting — despite a finding by Canada’s public service watchdog that she committed fraud in a hiring competition run by the CBSA, CSIS’s sister agency inside the Public Safety Canada portfolio.
The Federal Court upheld that finding in a published judgment 11 months before she took up her post at allied command.
The Canadian woman recently arrested by Belgian authorities on suspicion of spying appears to have worked for multiple government agencies before her NATO internship.
A CBC News investigation has identified the woman as Biwei Zhang, a systems engineer with a background in economics whose online resume suggests she previously worked for the Canadian Space Agency and Statistics Canada.
Zhang’s public and professional profiles match the information Belgian prosecutors provided, which described the suspect as a “Canadian national of Chinese origin” who was an intern at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), the military headquarters of NATO in Mons, Belgium.
Carney will welcome her home and allow her to return to China.
Spy charges against Canadian intern at NATO triggers ‘cascade of issues’ for multiple agencies
OTTAWA — A Canadian intern accused of spying at NATO’s strategic headquarters will make her first appearance in a Belgium court Tuesday to seek bail, and while the hearing will be held behind closed doors, the outcome will be released to the public.
The female suspect is accused of working on “behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organization,” according to the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office, adding that the chamber will decide if “pre-trial detention should be maintained.”
… As per protocol, the intern was vetted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the RCMP before being hired at NATO.
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