Unexplained wealth orders will make life harder for B.C. criminals: compliance expert

VANCOUVER – Plans by the British Columbia government to confiscate suspected proceeds of crime with “unexplained wealth orders” are drawing praise from an expert in financial compliance as a way to make life harder from criminals.

Alexandra Wrage, CEO of Trace International, a global business association focused on commercial transparency and good governance, said unexplained wealth orders would help to redress and deter financial crime in the province, including money laundering.

I see a well intended idea abused by corrupt law enforcement. Asset seizures in the US have been nothing less than state sanctioned theft.

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Carlson: There Is a Tolerance for Pedophilia Among the Most Powerful in Our Society

Carlson: There Is a Tolerance for Pedophilia Among the Most Powerful in Our Society

Wednesday, FNC host Tucker Carlson criticized the media for ignoring what he deemed to be the sexual exploitation of children, referring to Balenciaga’s child “bondage” ad.

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Police task force busts Los Angeles train cargo theft rings

One year after gangs of thieves looted Western Pacific trains leaving Los Angeles, a police task force has brought down two cartels that stole $18 million in high-priced goods and sold them through online marketplaces.

It was a familiar sight to see tracks leaving the Port of Los Angeles littered with boxes and debris during late 2021, the result of burglars who rifled through slow-moving trains loaded with goods. The items were destined for stores across the nation that had been decimated by the pandemic and awaited new goods.

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Alberta justice minister calls for firing of RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki

Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro is calling on the federal government to fire RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, saying her continued tenure is damaging to the national police force.

In a statement Wednesday, Shandro calls on Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino to immediately rescind Lucki’s appointment.

“Alberta has lost confidence” in Lucki, Shandro said in the statement.

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Senators alarmed over potential Chinese drone spy threat

Hundreds of Chinese-manufactured drones have been detected in restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., in recent months, a trend that national security agencies fear could become a new means for foreign espionage.

The recreational drones made by Chinese company DJI, which are designed with “geofencing” restrictions to keep them out of sensitive locations, are being manipulated by users with simple workarounds to fly over no-go zones around the nation’s capital.

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WARMINGTON: Don’t look now but mask mandates are coming back to at least one Ontario city

People wondering if mask mandates will return will note that one major Ontario city is about to implement mandatory face coverings for city workers starting next week.

Trying to protect staff and the public, Burlington is the first large Ontario city re-instating mask mandates. Starting Monday, city employees must wear a mask while at work.

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UK Prison Service slammed for telling staff that phrases ‘actual woman’ and ‘adult human female’ are transphobic and ‘dehumanise’ transgender people

A Ministry of Justice pro-transgender document has been slammed and branded ‘insidious bullying’ by a member of the House of Lords.

Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne condemned a paper called ‘Recognising Transphobic Coded Language’, describing it as ‘hostile, intimidating and probably unlawful’ in letters to ministers.

The document, published on the HMP Prison and Probationary Service (HMPPS) internal website, outlines a glossary of phrases deemed to be transphobic, including ‘actual/real woman’ and ‘adult human female.’

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Inquiry commissioner dismisses requests by Freedom Convoy lawyer for executive to testify

OTTAWA – “A fishing expedition”, “little foundation in evidence”, “purely speculative” and a “very significant distraction”.

Those are some of the words used by Emergency Act inquiry commissioner Paul Rouleau in a ruling that sternly dismissed a series of requests by a lawyer for Freedom Convoy organizers relating to government document redactions, a truck license plate and suggestions that a public affairs firm executive was a Liberal “provocateur” who carrried a Nazi flag at the protests in Ottawa.

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ISIS Slag Shamima Begum was NOT a ‘child trafficking victim’

ISIS Slag Shamima Begum

Shamima Begum was at ‘low risk’ of being trafficked to Syria where she joined ISIS and there is no evidence the authorities failed her before she fled the UK, a court has heard.

Ms Begum, 23, who is living in a Syrian camp, is challenging the Home Office’s decision to remove her British citizenship, with her lawyers arguing that the department had a legal duty to investigate whether she was a victim of trafficking when the decision was made.

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Trudeau says he hasn’t been briefed on election interference from Beijing, but what might that mean?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim over the weekend that he does “not have any information,” nor has he “been briefed on any federal candidates receiving any money from China,” raises a few deeply troubling possibilities.

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Twin blasts shake Jerusalem, killing Canadian-Israeli teen and wounding 18

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two blasts went off near bus stops in Jerusalem at the height of morning rush hour on Wednesday, killing a Canadian-Israeli teenager and injuring at least 18, in what police said were suspected attacks by Palestinians.

The first explosion occurred near a typically crowded bus stop on the edge of the city. The second went off about half an hour later in Ramot, a settlement in the city’s north. Police said one person died from their wounds and at least three were seriously wounded in the blasts.

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