Jorge Barrera
@jorgebarrera.bsky.social
Journo @ CBC Investigates.
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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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
April 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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
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...
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.
April 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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.
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.
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...
www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...
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)
www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...
www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...
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.
March 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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.
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...
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.
February 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.
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.
February 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.
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."
February 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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."
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.
February 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.
Born in 1983 from community demands in the wake of internal troubles, Akwesasne's Indian Time newspaper published its final edition Thursday as tensions returned to this Indigenous territory that is severed by the Canada-U.S. border.
December 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Born in 1983 from community demands in the wake of internal troubles, Akwesasne's Indian Time newspaper published its final edition Thursday as tensions returned to this Indigenous territory that is severed by the Canada-U.S. border.
December 9, 2024 at 12:49 PM
NDP leader @jagmeetsingh.ca snubbing and ignoring First Nation chiefs: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
December 5, 2024 at 10:43 PM
NDP leader @jagmeetsingh.ca snubbing and ignoring First Nation chiefs: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y.
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November 28, 2024 at 11:59 AM
On a late Saturday afternoon, two days before U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods over migrants and fentanyl, the RCMP alerted U.S. Border Patrol about a group of people crossing illegally from Quebec into an area near Chateaugay, N.Y.
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Border talk reminder.
Most illegal guns in Canada come from the U.S.
The one pictured below began its journey north in the hands of a sheriff's deputy in Texas: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
Most illegal guns in Canada come from the U.S.
The one pictured below began its journey north in the hands of a sheriff's deputy in Texas: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
November 26, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Border talk reminder.
Most illegal guns in Canada come from the U.S.
The one pictured below began its journey north in the hands of a sheriff's deputy in Texas: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
Most illegal guns in Canada come from the U.S.
The one pictured below began its journey north in the hands of a sheriff's deputy in Texas: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
[Time capsule opened]
At Sun Media parl bureau in 2007 when I first reported on residential school document destruction and missing children.
Also - evidence of Con-NDP alliance!
And Trudeau campaigns.
At Sun Media parl bureau in 2007 when I first reported on residential school document destruction and missing children.
Also - evidence of Con-NDP alliance!
And Trudeau campaigns.
November 26, 2024 at 1:15 PM
[Time capsule opened]
At Sun Media parl bureau in 2007 when I first reported on residential school document destruction and missing children.
Also - evidence of Con-NDP alliance!
And Trudeau campaigns.
At Sun Media parl bureau in 2007 when I first reported on residential school document destruction and missing children.
Also - evidence of Con-NDP alliance!
And Trudeau campaigns.
November 21, 2024 at 11:47 AM
The Anne Michaels line “because the dead can read” comes from a poem called, To Write
November 21, 2024 at 2:19 AM
The Anne Michaels line “because the dead can read” comes from a poem called, To Write
