The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a 47-year old Canadian man Feb. 18 at the Woodstock-Houlton border crossing in New Brunswick, according to a recent RCMP press release.

One year after the military coup, Canada, the United Statesand the United Kingdom applied sanctions against several senior Myanmar officials for undermining democracy and violating human rights.

A baby, a teenager and two adults were discovered frozen to death last week in Canada just meters from the U.S. border, apparent victims of human smuggling.

A Canadian said to be ‘The Voice’ behind ISIS pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to support a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Authorities have opened multiple probes, including into Brookfield’s alleged part in floods that deluged the eastern city of Raul Soares.

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OCCRP is expanding editorial operations into the U.S. and Canada and has named award-winning investigative journalist Kevin G. Hall as its first North America editor. Hall will be based in Washington, D.C., and will lead OCCRP investigations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. He will also work with more than 40 editors around the world on cross-border investigations and build collaborations and partnerships with key North American media outlets.

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The High Court of New Zealand approved on Wednesday the country’s largest ever settlement - over US$50 million a wealthy Chinese-Canadian businessman made from a pyramid scheme he operated in China and Canada, according to police.

The transport business is often hijacked by organized crime – in particular the highly lucrative vehicle-towing industry – which gangs infiltrate across the U.S., Canada, Australia and South Africa through violence, intimidation and corruption, the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime warned.

Nearly two weeks after U.S. authorities arrested Vanessa Rondeau, a Canadian national who ran a boutique oddities shop in Montreal, and charged her with smuggling and trafficking of illegal wildlife, her shop’s Facebook site still displays disputed items like black bear and polar bear skulls.

Canada released on Monday its 2021 federal budget in which it announced intentions to create a public registry of corporate beneficial ownership, dedicating CAD2.1 million (US$1.68 million) to the development of the project over the next two years.

Canadian police have seized more than 18 million Canadian dollars (US$14 million) worth of drugs and firearms in “the largest single-day drug and firearm bust” in Toronto.

Armed assailants have killed one man and injured another at a restaurant in British Columbia, with local press identifying the victims as former suspects in a large-scale money laundering investigation.

A Canadian forensic team identified last week the body of a businessman who is believed to have been the third victim this month of attacks against members of a crime family that were inspired by revenge for an old murder.

After defending the deal for over a week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologizedon Monday for participating in discussions to award an important contract to a charity that has ties with his family.

Most criminal groups in Canada are operating in British-Columbia, the province that plays a key role in laundering dirty money coming from all over the country, crime experts said during a public inquiry hearinglast week.

A Canadian court has ruled that extradition proceedings against Chinese tech giant Huawei’s CFO, brought by US authorities, will resume next week.

Canadian police have brought over 200 criminal charges against employees at several tow truck companies allegedly locked in a deadly war across the Greater Toronto area.

As the coronavirus is keeping the world locked down, some governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to crack down on press freedom and access to information. 

Canada’s financial watchdog found that many real-estate companies are violating money laundering rules as they are neither checking the identities of their clients, nor are they reporting large cash deals to the government. 

Money laundering heightened a drug overdose crisis, led to skyrocketing real estate prices and distorted the economy of the Canadian province of British Columbia, officials told a public hearing earlier this week.