The Bureau (Newsletter)

2 days ago | thebureau.news | Sam Cooper

VANCOUVER — As the United States Secretary of Defense warns that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may be “imminent” and as elaborate military drills encircle the island, Canadian politicians—including Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim—have been pressured and upbraided by Chinese diplomats to block meetings with Taiwanese officials on Canadian soil, according to documents exclusively obtained by The Bureau.

3 days ago | thebureau.news | Sam Cooper

In this episode, Sam Cooper sits down with Jason James of BNN to examine The Bureau's months-long investigation into the convergence of Chinese state-backed fentanyl networks, Mexican cartels, and Iranian proxy groups. The conversation revisits key findings from Wilful Blindness (2021), which first exposed how Vancouver’s port and economy were exploited as gateways for China’s transnational narcotics and money laundering operations.

3 days ago | thebureau.news | Sam Cooper

MICHIGAN — In a chilling insider threat case bearing striking similarities to China’s covert use of a married couple to develop an Ebola bioweapon and bat coronavirus research using Canada’s highest-security lab in Winnipeg, a Chinese researcher in Michigan and her boyfriend have been charged with smuggling a biological pathogen described as a potential “agroterrorism weapon” into the United States, according to federal charging documents unsealed Tuesday.

4 days ago | thebureau.news | Sam Cooper

OTTAWA — “Project Panda,” a major Ontario gang taskforce takedown in May targeting a counterfeit tobacco factory on the Six Nations Reserve near Hamilton and Buffalo, exposes a long-ignored reality: Mexican cartel networks have deeply embedded themselves in Canadian territory near the U.S. border—and are expanding in tandem with Chinese state-linked crime partners, using Indigenous land for counterfeit production and cross-border smuggling. This is no longer just a policing matter.

5 days ago | thebureau.news | Sam Cooper

Sam welcomes back Chris Meyer from Wide Fountain to break down The Bureau’s explosive reporting with retired DEA agent Don Im—and the chilling implications of what Im and other U.S. experts describe as a “reverse Opium War.”They trace the roots of Beijing’s alleged silent role in a vast narcotics-finance system: a web of Triads, Communist Party actors, and Western enablers laundering drug proceeds through legitimate trade.