Nites Ov De Rod
Days after this story broke in Quebec, there’s still no coverage to be found in English language news media. (Translated)
To better understand the trade in Quebec’s fake driver’s license, our Investigation Bureau commissioned it on the Chinese website IDCACA.
The operation was disconcertingly easy.
We created two fictional identities, generated two identity photos using artificial intelligence, and provided the address of a P.O. box for delivery.
A few minutes later, the order was placed for the small sum of $120 per permit.
For the purposes of the survey, we paid in bitcoin. But the site also accepts more common payment methods, such as PayPal, Apple Pay and credit cards.
Over the course of the exchange with the seller, we asked him to add to the licenses the classes 1, 2, 3, 4A and 4B required to drive trucks, rather than the only class 5 normally intended for passenger vehicles. The change was made without any verification.
Then, radio silence.
Four weeks later, the package arrived at a Montreal sorting center, where we went to pick it up in person.
I found it on Facebook.
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We went from muscle cars to torture cars in one generation.
Commons industry committee was told May 4 that Chinese autos retailing for $35,000 are manufactured by autoworkers paid as little as $3 an hour. A 2024 Human Rights Watch report said aluminum processed by Muslim Uyghur slave labour in China’s Xinjiang Province was used by automakers.
— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) October 26, 2026
Flashback:LET’S REVISIT THE WAR ON THE WORKING POOR THAT WAS CASH FOR CLUNKERS
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Missing a "When" at the front.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 19, 2026
“China went ‘from 11, 12 million barrels a day to less than 6 million barrels a day’…”
Interesting: This is one of the biggest geopolitical mysteries of the year: why did China just save the world economy?
Who Exactly Does Mark Carney Work For?
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
50 years after his death, the father of Communist China still inspires” was recently published by the French-language arm of the CBC.
It documents Chinese Mao fanatics who gathered in Shaoshan (Mao’s hometown) to publicly revere and remember the architect of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, which combined claimed the lives of between 40 and 80 million people.
Given the adoration of the people who are the focus of the coverage, the story strikes an undeniably nostalgic, positive tone — which has left many upset — and Conservative MPs were quick to pick up on the story, condemning the state broadcaster for such flagrant pro-Mao/pro-China propaganda.
They know which side their bread is buttered on.
It’s Probably Nothing
Sensitive F-35 fighter jet technology was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong this summer, sparking an inquiry on Capitol Hill and raising the possibility that China could have access to key components of the highly classified weapon system.
A shipment of F-35 parts bound for the United States for repairs was rerouted as it transited the Pacific Ocean from Australia, according to three people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. The Pentagon confirmed the disappearance of some components.
The parts, which an intermediary was transporting on behalf of F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin, instead wound up in Hong Kong. It’s not clear why the equipment was rerouted or who has possession of it now.
The incident, which has not been previously reported, triggered an ongoing series of briefings for congressional staff on key national security committees. State Department and Pentagon officials first briefed staff in June, according to the people, and multiple additional briefings are expected in the coming weeks.
The shipment included one of the jet’s canopies, which covers the cockpit and contains stealth technology that only the U.S. and its allies have access to, according to two of the people. An adversary could study the parts and potentially reverse-engineer the prized technology if it had one of the canopies.
Somebody out there has a life sentence in their future.
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Art Of Coincidence: The only one of the first three filings in Canada’s new foreign-influence registry involving a Chinese principal has disappeared from public view, with officials blaming an unresolved technical failure that has prevented the record from being restored.
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A former senior Canadian defence official suing the federal government over a dismissal her lawyer links to Mark Carney’s pivot toward China is pointing to the government’s newly disclosed military engagement with Beijing — and to what she calls growing public recognition that Canada’s partnership with China has impeded trade talks with Washington.
Raquel Garbers was the principal architect of the small team that drafted Canada’s 2024 defence policy, Our North, Strong and Free. On Oct. 15, 2025, she published an opinion piece warning that Ottawa’s increasingly anti-American rhetoric was dividing the Western alliance and benefiting Beijing and Moscow.
Those hostile states — principally China — had been waging a covert war against Canada and the United States for about a decade, Garbers wrote. Two days later, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand was in Beijing describing China as a strategic partner. Four weeks after that, Garbers was told her position was being eliminated.
Reward your friends: A Year Later, No One Has Been Charged With Running the Superlab
Let’s Check In On Our New Strategic Partners
US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro just stunned the nation, announcing a massive fraud-scam center bust run by Chinese and southeast Asian criminal enterprises EXTRACTING American dollars on a major scale.The earnings are around $12 BILLION PER YEAR from “unwitting victims” in America 🤯
“The people doing the looting are creating FACTORIES to facilitate their con…primary in Southeast Asia. THEY KNOW we’re coming for them. They’re staffed with human trafficked labor.”
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New World Order: How our new strategic partner – China – behaves, ladies and gentlemen. So happy to hear we’re reopening defense collaboration with them.
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Settle yourselves, peasants. You’re on a need-to-know basis.
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.
Update, from @RealAndyLeeShow;
Do read this piece from Global Times on our latest defence meeting with China. “Realizing the reunification of the motherland at an early date is the true way out for Taiwan.” Is that our official position?
Strategic Partnership
This is the time at SDA when those things that never made sense, start making sense.
Who benefits most from a destabilized, quasi-communist basket case on America's northern border?
China. https://t.co/Z6g2c6zEps
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 3, 2026
More on this: Why Would Carney Be Selling Out Canada to the Chi-Coms? (h/t roaddog)
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Carney announced Monday that Dominic Barton, the former Canadian ambassador to China and a well-known name in corporate Canada, will chair the board of directors for Invest in Canada.
Much of Barton’s career was spent at McKinsey and Co., a global consultancy firm. Barton is also the chair of mining giant Rio Tinto and LeapFrog Investments.
@scoopercooper – Hopefully the Conservatives that probed Barton’s links to PRC state owned enterprises consider the implications on this appointment. Doesn’t dispel the notion I’ve been following on where the influence lies in Carneyland. Barton’s colleague over in UK is already investigated in PRC influence allegations.
"It was under his watch at McKinsey that so many of the problems… festered." — @PekingMike (@nytimes) on former Canadian ambassador to China, Dominic Barton. At 8/11pm with @ae_clarke (@CarletonSPPA), @jaimanchin (@StrategyCorp) & @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/XFmRLrO9cK
— The Rundown (@therundowntvo) December 1, 2022
“Their sudden downfall left the country’s top military command with only two members”
The PLA is in deep disarray.
Xi has purged virtually all senior generals, particularly from the rocket forces. A report by US intelligence indicated that corruption was so bad that some missiles were filled with water instead of rocket fuel
https://t.co/W9vFvSHRcH— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) August 28, 2026
The link to Reuters is paywalled, but South China News has more.
“I want half a million dollars.”
“Ms. Christine Li (National Executive, Chinese Canadian National Council): I’m Christine Li, and I will be presenting on behalf of the Chinese Canadian National Council.”
@scoopercooper: Public records on Apollo Chung (also known as Paul Chung) contain no detailed information about his childhood, family background, schooling, or early adulthood. Available reporting and official listings begin with his work as a political staffer in the early 2020s.
More on the mess.
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What he meant to say is that his top donors at the Canada China Business Council already own him https://t.co/DXE4prMEPM pic.twitter.com/wslGvJKeCX
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) August 23, 2026
Fang Bang
If I ever wrote a spy novel about a Chinese agent who sleeps her way into California’s top political circles, I’d totally name her ‘Fang Fang’.
The Swalwell affair just got awkwarder.
The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially compromised a Democratic congressman from California with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations while she was being recruited to become a bureau informant a decade ago, according to bombshell memos that expose another threat to America’s political system from Beijing.
The files chronicling the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national Fang Fang – also known by her English name Christine Fang – were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.
They show the FBI opened a predicated investigation, which is a formal law enforcement inquiry backed by a factual basis or allegation that indicates a crime or national security threat already exists.
Unlike unpredicated “assessments,” a predicated investigation allows agents to use advanced and intrusive methods like electronic surveillance or informants.
The files provide significant new details about the long-rumored relationship between Fang and Swalwell […]
The FBI assessment, which later became a full-fledged investigation, centered on allegations that Swalwell awarded internships at his offices in exchange for campaign contributions. The FBI identified Fang “Christine” Fang, a Chinese national, as the alleged facilitator of this exchange and alleged she employed conduits to route illegal donations.
Update: Sam Cooper has a summary up
Strange Happenings in London, Ontario
From Sam Cooper:
Four former Western University students at the center of a sprawling firearms and explosives investigation now face 19 new charges alleging possession of TNT and three other explosive substances, prohibited magazines and silencers, while one of the accused allegedly accessed data that could be used with computerized systems to make and traffic guns.
The allegations are contained in an amended list of charges filed Tuesday, August 11, with the Ontario Court of Justice and reported by CBC News and the London Free Press, adding charges to an already unusual case that began with an overnight break-in call inside Western University’s engineering complex in January.
The four accused—Jerry Tong, 27; Zekun “Alex” Wang, 26; Fei “Frank” Han, 25; and Feiyang “Astrid” Ji, 21—now face 31 separate counts, some jointly and others individually.