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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
'We're in a war zone;' On patrol with the 'last line of defence' ... "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. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 10/08/2025
Afghan Canadian fears mother may be sent back into Taliban's hands after they nearly killed her, @jorgebarrera.bsky.social reports www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Cannabis mega stores put Oka Crisis First Nation on edge www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYd...
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Cannabis mega stores put Oka Crisis First Nation on edge
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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 www.cbc.ca/news/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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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.  www.cbc.ca/news/arrest-...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Concersn in Six Nations over industrial-scale marijuana grow-op that's using foreign workers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUzH...
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Neighbours fight to get rid of massive marijuana grow-op
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
But the whole operation depended on a small group of people who lived within these borderlands, in Akwesasne. And that group came to depend on the business Rasiah allegedly offered as their primary source of income.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
All this machinery was focused on smuggling humans through a roughly 17-kilometre stretch of water and marshland along the Canada-U.S. border.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Police connected Rasiah to more than 50 different phone numbers and individuals, some overseas, some in the U.S. others in the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal and Akwesasne. All were allegedly involved as brokers, organizers, drivers and boat pilots.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Inside the police investigation into the human smuggling network behind the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in 2023. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Mast was initially charged with unlawful "re-entry by a deported alien," but the charge was dropped by the assistant U.S. attorney because Mast is Cree, said Gabrielle DiBella, his appointed federal public defender.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Mast has so far spent six weeks in custody while U.S. immigration authorities determine whether to deport him to Canada.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
James Mast, a Cree Sixties Scoop survivor, says he was making his way to Oklahoma so he could care for his ailing adoptive father when tribal police on the U.S. side of the Akwesasne reservation arrested him and turned him over to U.S. Border Patrol.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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." www.cbc.ca/news/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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is Aracely’s drawing of the cell they were placed in for 2 weeks at the US port of entry in Niagara Falls, NY
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
They would be fed frozen chicken sandwiches thawed by CBP officers in a microwave. Sometimes, she said, the meat would still be frozen at its centre, so they would eat around the edges. Water would come in a pitcher and sometimes they drank from the sink.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
They had no access to shower facilities, but Aracely said they were provided use of a camping-style shower bag and each person got to use one bag of water.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
They were then moved to a windowless cell with four cots and a half wall that hid the toilet and sink at one end of the room. Aracely said she and her husband would wait until their daughters fell asleep before allowing themselves to cry.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
After Canada turned them away, this family of four (with 4 year-old daughter) was jailed by the U.S. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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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mlarsenault @mlarsenault.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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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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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Bethany Lindsay @bethanylindsay.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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-...
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Residential Schools
Search our collection of records about Canada’s residential school system.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Agnes Benn's death and the hidden history of Birtle residential school's predatory principal www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school | CBC News
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard very little about Agnes Benn, a teen girl who died near a Manitoba residential school in 1930, and the multiple sex abuse charges faced by the school's pr...
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Currie, with the help of Indian agent Lazenby began a pressure campaign through the girls' relatives to get them to change their stories. In one case, Currie used money and a sack of flour to convince the sister of one of the victims to sign a note with the victim's name rescinding her allegations.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In her statement, Lucy McKay said Currie first started to fondle her when she was 16, and that it continued every month for the next two years. He would tell her not to worry, that she wasn't going to have a baby. She said he gave her cream and powder for her face.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ashlee Shingoose from St. Theresa Point First Nation is Mashkode Bizihiki’ Ikwe or Buffalo Woman, APTN News has learned. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is an extraordinary piece by Nahum Barnea ,with some fly-on-the-wall Woodward-style scenes. (I read this through Google translate) www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The contact, using the alias Kampeya Sederd and a phone number with a Gambian country code, said they had "visa approval insiders" in Canadian, U.S., French and Mexican embassies. The contact also said that for $1,000 they could provide "airport clearance" for Cuba.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Human smugglers trafficked in Canadian passports, posed security threat, RCMP records allege www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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...
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is a beautiful story www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
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The Girl on Fire
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The news tonight
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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.  www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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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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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Most important news today www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Possible human remains found at landfill where searchers are looking for slain First Nations women | CBC News
Potential human remains have been found at the Prairie Green landfill, according to experts on site, the province of Manitoba said in a news release Wednesday.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The network then moved these two Sri Lankan nationals through Istanbul, Panama City, Panama, Georgetown, Bahamas and into Mexico from where they crossed into the U.S. illegally. They were released by U.S. immigration authorities before being smuggled into Canada.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I couldn't detail this in the latest story (cbc.ca/news/canada/... ) but, this Montreal-based human smuggling network moved people internationally using visas and residency permits from countries like India and the UAE through the use of suspected front companies.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Investigators say they discovered that Rasiah was plugged into a wider, international human smuggling web that allowed him to bring people into Canada from overseas by first moving them into the U.S. through Mexico.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The Romanian family — father Florin Iordache, mother Cristina, and their two Canadian children, daughter Evelin, 2, and son Elyen, 16 months — paid between $10,000 to $15,000 to someone named Babuchi, an "Indian guy" who lived in Canada and "brings a lot of people into the U.S."
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
RCMP investigators realized in the aftermath of the river deaths that their surveillance had spotted the two families while they were in the hands of the smuggling network.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
RCMP surveillance units picked up the grey Dodge Caravan carrying the family after it took a westbound Highway 401 exit and stopped at an Esso gas station in South Lancaster, Ont. Police watched the family members "briefly enter the store."
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
After the Chaudhari family landed in Montreal on a flight from Winnipeg they walked out the airport doors to a waiting grey minivan allegedly driven by a key player in a human smuggling network that would eventually lead the four Indian nationals to their deaths.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Human smugglers sent 2 families to their deaths as RCMP closed in, court records show Records reveal Montreal-based human smuggling network tried to move over 100 people across Canada-US border -- at least 45 succesfully. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Human smugglers sent 2 families to their deaths as RCMP closed in, court records show | CBC News
The Romanian and Indian families who drowned during a human smuggling run into the U.S. in 2023 were transported close to the Canadian-U.S. border by an organized crime network the RCMP was already bu...
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