Jorge Barrera
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Journo @ CBC Investigates.
'We're in a war zone;' On patrol with the 'last line of defence'
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"Is this you?" said Montour as he pulled out his cellphone to show the man a security camera image taken from inside a local daycare.
"Yes sir, that's me," said the man.
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"Is this you?" said Montour as he pulled out his cellphone to show the man a security camera image taken from inside a local daycare.
"Yes sir, that's me," said the man.
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On patrol with the 'last line of defence' in Kanehsatà:ke, a First Nation with no law enforcement | CBC News
CBC News accompanied Kanesatake Perimeter Security (KPS) during two patrols to get a closer look at a team some in Kanehsatà:ke refer to as the “last line of defence” in a First Nation territory west ...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
'We're in a war zone;' On patrol with the 'last line of defence'
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"Is this you?" said Montour as he pulled out his cellphone to show the man a security camera image taken from inside a local daycare.
"Yes sir, that's me," said the man.
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"Is this you?" said Montour as he pulled out his cellphone to show the man a security camera image taken from inside a local daycare.
"Yes sir, that's me," said the man.
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Afghan Canadian fears mother may be sent back into Taliban's hands after they nearly killed her, @jorgebarrera.bsky.social reports
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Afghan Canadian fears mother may be sent back into Taliban's hands after they nearly killed her | CBC News
An Afghan Canadian man is calling on the federal government to speed up the refugee sponsorship process for his mother, who fled Afghanistan after she was beaten by the Taliban and is now hiding in Ta...
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August 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Afghan Canadian fears mother may be sent back into Taliban's hands after they nearly killed her, @jorgebarrera.bsky.social reports
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First Nation at centre of Oka Crisis gripped by environmental battles linked to cannabis megastores
Local political leaders say organized crime has infiltrated some cannabis operations on the territory.
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Local political leaders say organized crime has infiltrated some cannabis operations on the territory.
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Kanehsatà:ke gripped by environmental, political battles as cannabis megastores expand | CBC News
Kanehsatà:ke is currently facing a cannabis-cash-fuelled construction boom reshaping the territory's land and the coastline, which runs along Lake of Two Mountains.
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August 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
First Nation at centre of Oka Crisis gripped by environmental battles linked to cannabis megastores
Local political leaders say organized crime has infiltrated some cannabis operations on the territory.
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Local political leaders say organized crime has infiltrated some cannabis operations on the territory.
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A woman from Guinea kept losing her shoes in the snow until finally, she left them and continued in her socks. Two women from Haiti struggled behind them, one carrying an 11-month-old boy.
Frostbite and fear: inside a human smuggling journey to Canada
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Frostbite and fear: inside a human smuggling journey to Canada
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Frostbite and fear: Inside a journey into Canada with human smugglers | CBC News
Chidi Nwagbo says he made a “stupid” decision to pay human smugglers to get him into Canada from the U.S. to avoid sweeping immigration crackdowns. The freezing February journey left him permanently s...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A woman from Guinea kept losing her shoes in the snow until finally, she left them and continued in her socks. Two women from Haiti struggled behind them, one carrying an 11-month-old boy.
Frostbite and fear: inside a human smuggling journey to Canada
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Frostbite and fear: inside a human smuggling journey to Canada
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U.S. authorities on Sunday arrested the brother of the boat pilot who drowned along with eight members of two families during a March 2023 human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River.
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New arrest in human smuggling deaths on the St. Lawrence River | CBC News
U.S. authorities on Sunday arrested the brother of the boat pilot who drowned along with eight members of two families during a March 2023 human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River.
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June 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
U.S. authorities on Sunday arrested the brother of the boat pilot who drowned along with eight members of two families during a March 2023 human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River.
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Concersn in Six Nations over industrial-scale marijuana grow-op that's using foreign workers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUzH...
June 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Concersn in Six Nations over industrial-scale marijuana grow-op that's using foreign workers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUzH...
A federal government agency is funding an experimental housing project on the site of a controversial, large-scale marijuana grow-op in the Haudenosaunee community of Six Nations in southwest Ontario.
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High-tech housing project to share site with controversial First Nation grow-op | CBC News
A federal government agency is funding an experimental housing project at the site of a controversial, large-scale marijuana grow-op in Six Nations, a Haudenosaunee community that regulates the cannab...
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June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A federal government agency is funding an experimental housing project on the site of a controversial, large-scale marijuana grow-op in the Haudenosaunee community of Six Nations in southwest Ontario.
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Inside the police investigation into the human smuggling network behind the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in 2023.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Inside the police investigation into the human smuggling network behind the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in 2023.
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Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family
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Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family | CBC News
A Cree Sixties Scoop Survivor is in U.S. immigration custody waiting on the Alberta government to provide adoption records to prove he is First Nations and it's something that could take months. James...
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May 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family
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The trio walked past the stone walls of the U.S. port of entry, beneath the bulbous eyes of the surveillance cameras and through the metal turnstiles below the sign that read, "Entry to Canada."
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Turned away, then jailed, family makes third attempt to enter Canada | CBC News
A mother and her two daughters from El Salvador make a final attempt to enter Canada after spending two weeks locked in holding cells at the U.S. port of entry in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
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May 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The trio walked past the stone walls of the U.S. port of entry, beneath the bulbous eyes of the surveillance cameras and through the metal turnstiles below the sign that read, "Entry to Canada."
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After Canada turned them away, this family of four (with 4 year-old daughter) was jailed by the U.S.
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Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away | CBC News
As the family of four from El Salvador walked over the Rainbow Bridge in March, hoping to cross into Canada to flee immigration uncertainty in the U.S., they had no idea they would instead find themse...
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April 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
After Canada turned them away, this family of four (with 4 year-old daughter) was jailed by the U.S.
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Image from Ezra Levant campaign TV ad featuring Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and his campaign manager Jenni Byrne mentioned in this story: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
April 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Image from Ezra Levant campaign TV ad featuring Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and his campaign manager Jenni Byrne mentioned in this story: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Les liens entre le chef conservateur Pierre Poilièvre et Ezra Levant, de Rebel News, remontent à loin. À lire, le texte de notre collègue @jorgebarrera.bsky.social 👇
Rebel News owner Ezra Levant was 'mentor' to Poilievre, says author | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the right-wing media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates C...
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April 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Les liens entre le chef conservateur Pierre Poilièvre et Ezra Levant, de Rebel News, remontent à loin. À lire, le texte de notre collègue @jorgebarrera.bsky.social 👇
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Yesterday, @theijf.org launched an important new database. It's a searchable trove of documents about residential schools, including 1,000s of pages that weren't previously public.
These records show just how many problems were known at the time the "schools" were open.
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These records show just how many problems were known at the time the "schools" were open.
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Residential Schools
Search our collection of records about Canada’s residential school system.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Yesterday, @theijf.org launched an important new database. It's a searchable trove of documents about residential schools, including 1,000s of pages that weren't previously public.
These records show just how many problems were known at the time the "schools" were open.
theijf.org/residential-...
These records show just how many problems were known at the time the "schools" were open.
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The night was mild and the March moon bright when Agnes Benn fled the Birtle Indian Residential School through the playroom window, a few weeks after she told a friend that the principal, Henry Currie, put his hand over her mouth so she wouldn't scream in his office.
April 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The night was mild and the March moon bright when Agnes Benn fled the Birtle Indian Residential School through the playroom window, a few weeks after she told a friend that the principal, Henry Currie, put his hand over her mouth so she wouldn't scream in his office.
Ashlee Shingoose from St. Theresa Point First Nation is Mashkode Bizihiki’ Ikwe or Buffalo Woman, APTN News has learned.
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Ashlee Shingoose identified as Buffalo Woman
The Winnipeg police are set to announce that they've identified Buffalo Woman as Ashlee Shingoose APTN News has learned.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ashlee Shingoose from St. Theresa Point First Nation is Mashkode Bizihiki’ Ikwe or Buffalo Woman, APTN News has learned.
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This is an extraordinary piece by Nahum Barnea ,with some fly-on-the-wall Woodward-style scenes. (I read this through Google translate)
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March 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is an extraordinary piece by Nahum Barnea ,with some fly-on-the-wall Woodward-style scenes. (I read this through Google translate)
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Human smugglers trafficked in Canadian passports, posed security threat, RCMP records allege
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Human smugglers trafficked in Canadian passports, posed security threat, RCMP records allege | CBC News
A “sophisticated” human smuggling organization run from Montreal posed a threat to national security through its connections to an international network that trafficked in forged Canadian passports, a...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Human smugglers trafficked in Canadian passports, posed security threat, RCMP records allege
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Video captured two families in the hands of human smugglers days before their deaths on the St. Lawrence River.
Full story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuZ...
Full story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuZ...
March 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Video captured two families in the hands of human smugglers days before their deaths on the St. Lawrence River.
Full story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuZ...
Full story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuZ...
Believe families.
Police have identified a second set of remains found at a Winnipeg-area landfill as those of Marcedes Myran, one of four Indigenous women who were victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said.
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Police have identified a second set of remains found at a Winnipeg-area landfill as those of Marcedes Myran, one of four Indigenous women who were victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said.
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2nd set of remains found at Manitoba landfill confirmed to be Marcedes Myran | CBC News
A second set of remains found at a Winnipeg-area landfill have been identified by police as those of Marcedes Myran, one of the victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said.
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March 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Believe families.
Police have identified a second set of remains found at a Winnipeg-area landfill as those of Marcedes Myran, one of four Indigenous women who were victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said.
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Police have identified a second set of remains found at a Winnipeg-area landfill as those of Marcedes Myran, one of four Indigenous women who were victims of a serial killer in 2022, the province said.
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A woman captured on the parking lot camera of the Super 8 motel in Cornwall, Ont., picking up a Romanian-Canadian family days before their deaths on a human smuggling run pleaded guilty Thursday before a U.S. Federal Court to five counts of alien smuggling.
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Woman caught on video with Romanian-Canadian family who died on smuggling run pleads guilty in U.S. | CBC News
A woman captured on the parking lot camera of a Super 8 motel in Cornwall, Ont., picking up a Romanian-Canadian family days before their deaths on a human smuggling run pleaded guilty Thursday before ...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
A woman captured on the parking lot camera of the Super 8 motel in Cornwall, Ont., picking up a Romanian-Canadian family days before their deaths on a human smuggling run pleaded guilty Thursday before a U.S. Federal Court to five counts of alien smuggling.
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A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled two people from Akwesasne should face extradition to the U.S., where they face charges related to a human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River that ended in the drowning deaths of nine people on March 29, 2023.
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Quebec judge rules 2 should face U.S. extradition in human smuggling river deaths | CBC News
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled two people from Akwesasne should face extradition to the U.S., where they face charges related to a human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River that ended in ...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled two people from Akwesasne should face extradition to the U.S., where they face charges related to a human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River that ended in the drowning deaths of nine people on March 29, 2023.
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