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Laundering the Dragon: a developer's truthful novel about Canada's seeming indifference to money laundering
Veteran developer turned crime writer John D'Eathe worries that the ethics of Canada's business elites are "slipping badly."
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Geoff Meggs
Guy Felicella's fight for the truth: debunking Adam Zivo's war on "safer supply"
Guy Felicella is conducting a stubborn underdog campaign to defend BC's harm reduction programs from destruction by BC Conservatives
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Geoff Meggs
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Who benefits from runaway money-laundering in Canada?
With TD Bank facing multi-billion dollar fines in the US, Canada's minimal anti-money laundering efforts come into sharp relief. Do we really care?
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Geoff Meggs
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Did opioid overprescribing trigger BC's overdose crisis?
Despite Purdue's $150 million payment, BC's provincial health officials say our system avoided the catastrophe seen in the US
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Geoff Meggs

August 2024

BC's underground economy likely worth $7 billion annually, similar to mining or tourism
The Silver International saga suggests BC's money-launderers, with turnover of billions a year, have little to fear from police. It's their customers…
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Geoff Meggs
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Avocados, limes and mangos: how Mexico’s cartels generate profits from our groceries
As fentanyl replaced opium, the cartels accelerated their takeover of agribusiness, triggering violent land grabs, forced dislocation of small farmers…
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Geoff Meggs
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July 2024

Bonnie Henry’s defiant challenge: “If not prescribed safer supply, then what?”
BC’s Provincial Health Officer, repudiated by the politicians, insists on going where the evidence leads her, urging consideration of non-prescribed…
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Tales of addiction: a "creature awake on its wet paws"
BC's long history of widespread addiction has generated a rich literature by writers like Patrick Lane and Evelyn Lau, who have shared their experiences…
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Trafficking charges against Drug Users Liberation Front founders lay bare contradictions in drug policy
Harm reduction under fire: an illicit drug "compassion club" is shut down while dispensaries selling controlled pyschedelics operate with city business…
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It's time for a global strategy against organized crime 'before it's too late'
Difficult as it may be to implement, says BC criminologist Yvon Dandurand, an international strategy against organized crime is needed now more than…
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Geoff Meggs
Why fentanyl is producing an overdose crisis unlike anything we've ever seen before
Jonathan Caulkins, former advisor to Barack Obama and author of a confidential report to the BC government, says the fentanyl crisis will require a…
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June 2024

Dirty money getting cleaned? Vancouver players are prominent in US stock fraud cases
Two stockbrokers, a disgraced football star, and a full-patch Hells Angel are among the BC residents indicted in US stock fraud cases that cost…
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