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Jorge Barrera

@JorgeBarrera

Caracas-born journalist/periodista with the CBC Investigative Unit. Email: jorge.barrera(at) https://t.co/vfLGZGlRb2 DM (open) me for Signal/cell

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Good story - this is the first former CF interpreter that’s been taken by the Taliban as far as I can tell ….

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“You have no business coming here. Get the fuck off our land.”

We were gun-to-gun.

sharing-our-stories.com/stories/gun-to…

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New piece by CBC's Brett Forester on a sordid tale about how a 'White Rights' activist founded the so-called Metis Nation of Canada. Lots of tawdry turns in this story of with comment from Will Goodon ∞ on these fake metis.
cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

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Great update from Jorge Barrera:

A glimpse inside the ongoing cross-border smuggling operations near Akwesasne

Dozens of human smuggling attempts have been uncovered since 8 deaths in the St. Lawrence River last March

cbc.ca/news/canada/ak…

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How misinfo works. This screen shot, retweeted by Norman Spector , appears to be from CTV alerts likely in MT. The media was alerted that the jury had reached an Ortis verdict -- and they dashed to the court house -- at about 4 p.m. ET. This has the verdict rendered at 2:48 p.m.

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At 1:53 p.m. Fox News reporter X-posted sources said it was a terror attack.
At about 2:25 p.m. Poilievre said to start QP 'we just heard media reports about a terrorist attack.'
At 2:50 p.m. CTV X-posted that Canada 'operating under assumption... terror-related.'

At 1:53 p.m. Fox News reporter X-posted sources said it was a terror attack. At about 2:25 p.m. Poilievre said to start QP 'we just heard media reports about a terrorist attack.' At 2:50 p.m. CTV X-posted that Canada 'operating under assumption... terror-related.'
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A law enforcement official briefed on the incident said investigators believed the explosion resulted from the impact of the collision. A suitcase was found near the car but did not contain explosives, the official added.

nytimes.com/live/2023/11/2…

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