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July 01, 2018 00:25:19
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theBreaker.news Podcast: How dirty money flooded Metro Vancouver casinos

Anti-money laundering expert Peter German's watershed report on money laundering in Metro Vancouver casinos was finally published on June 27. In Dirty Money, former...

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June 24, 2018 00:21:24
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theBreaker.news Podcast: People, animals and scenes the keys to photojournalist Ralph Bower's enduring images

On this edition of theBreaker.news Podcast, more than a thousand words with the North Vancouver photojournalist who captured some of the greatest British Columbia...

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June 17, 2018 00:23:37
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theBreaker.news Podcast: AggregateIQ co-founder threatened with contempt of Parliament

The House of Commons Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee recalled AggregateIQ's co-founders Jeff Silvester and Zack Massingham to Ottawa on June 12....

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June 09, 2018 00:23:27
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theBreaker.news Podcast: New documentary commemorates the biggest industrial accident in Vancouver history

Except for Stompin’ Tom Connors’ "The Bridge Came Tumblin’ Down," there has been relatively little to commemorate the mass-tragedy of June 17, 1958 in...

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June 03, 2018 00:22:24
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theBreaker.news Podcast: Datamining whistleblower shares ideas with Canadian lawmakers on stopping digital deterioration of democracy

For Christopher Wylie, the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, it was a sort of homecoming. The data scientist who hails from Victoria made headlines around the...

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May 27, 2018 00:24:06
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theBreaker.news Podcast: On the Tiananmen tragedy, 29 years later

The 29th anniversary of a turning point in history is coming June 4.  On that day, in 1989, soldiers violently regained Tiananmen Square from...

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