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Frostbite and fear: Inside a journey into Canada with human smugglers
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 scarred, in the custody of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee and he now faces deportation to Nigeria.
New arrest in human smuggling deaths on the St. Lawrence River
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.
CBC Investigates
High-tech housing project to share site with controversial First Nation grow-op
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 cannabis production under its own laws.
CBC Investigates
How police uncovered the smuggling ring behind 9 deaths on the St. Lawrence River
In March 2023, nine people died in the St. Lawrence River near Akwesasne. A sprawling police investigation looked into the human smuggling network that ferried people through these turbulent waters to and from the U.S.
Canadian Forces corporal acquitted of sexual assault, forcible confinement charges
A Canadian Forces corporal on Wednesday was found not guilty of forcible confinement and sexual assault following a judge-alone trial before the Ontario Court of Justice in Barrie, Ont.
CBC Investigates
Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family
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 Mast, born James Cardinal, was detained by tribal police on the U.S. side of Akwesasne on April 14 and turned over to U.S. Border Patrol.
Toronto criminal lawyer acquitted of all charges stemming from sex assault allegations
Toronto criminal lawyer Mitchell Worsoff was acquitted in early May of all charges stemming from sex assault allegations involving a minor following a judge-alone trial. Ontario Court of Justice Judge Robert Wadden said that testimony by the alleged victim at the centre of this case “had numerous shortcomings.”
CBC Investigates
Turned away, then jailed, family makes third attempt to enter Canada
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.
CBC Investigates
Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away
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 themselves jailed for weeks in a U.S. holding cell, stuck in a shadowy limbo advocates say is becoming a worrying trend along the northern border and raising renewed questions about the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the U.S.
Rebel News owner Ezra Levant was 'mentor' to Poilievre, says author
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 Commission.