thePodcast: Canada's week of foreign interference

October 20, 2024 00:20:37
thePodcast: Canada's week of foreign interference
theBreaker.news Podcast
thePodcast: Canada's week of foreign interference

Oct 20 2024 | 00:20:37

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Show Notes

For the week of  Oct. 20, 2024: Foreign interference — with multiple B.C. angles — dominated national headlines as the provincial election approached.  Thanksgiving Monday: Indian diplomats expelled for not cooperating with an RCMP investigation into a spree of murders and extortions.  Tuesday: Anti-Israel not-for-profit Samidoun declared a terrorist entity by Canada and the U.S. Wednesday: the Hogue Commission public hearings climaxed with testimony from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about election meddling by China and other governments.  Bob Mackin’s guest is investigative reporter Sam Cooper of TheBureau.news and author of “Wilful Blindness, How a Network of narcos, tycoons and CCP […]

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