A new visual guide charts elite influence and Beijing’s political incursions in Canada in an effort to help voters make sense of an increasingly murky landscape.
Beijing-backed WeChat operation found to be favoring Carney
Canada’s electoral interference watchdog has identified the Chinese government as the source of recent campaigns on China’s largest social media network, aimed at influencing opinions about Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
Liberal MP Paul Chiang steps down over “bounty” remarks
Paul Chiang announced his departure hours after Canada’s federal police confirmed it was “looking into” allegations Chiang had endorsed turning a political rival over to China for a bounty reward.
The CCP’s use of DeekSeek to monitor and surveil citizens
By integrating DeepSeek into a range of governmental functions, the Chinese government is refining how it surveils and controls its citizens.
‘Endemic’ CCP corruption, organized crime, and graft
An unclassified report offers American citizens a transparent view of key fault lines within China’s ruling party.
Canadians executed on drug charges in China
This development further strains bilateral relations, already tense amid ongoing concerns about China’s judicial practices and its role in the North American fentanyl crisis.
State Department guidance distinguishes CCP from Chinese people
A language shift signals a departure in tone between the Trump and Biden administrations towards China.
Canada allegedly gutted a report calling for a border strike force
Recommendations and findings from the 1997 Sidewinder report return to the spotlight in the wake of Washington’s call for action over border security.
How the RCMP, CBSA, and Trudeau government lost U.S. trust in the fentanyl fight
Surveillance operations have raised alarms after placing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a former cabinet minister in proximity to Asian organized crime suspects.
Bipartisan call for action
In 2023, Antony Blinken and Vancouver-area mayor Brad West warned of Beijing’s role in the fentanyl crisis and Canada’s failure to stop the drug trade and money laundering.
Chinese Conservative leader voiced concern as O’Toole pulled ahead of Trudeau in polls
Another blockbuster from Canadian investigative journalist Sam Cooper: Erin O’Toole, former leader of the Conservatives, was sabotaged from within his own party, emails reveal.
CCP masking intelligence operations behind corporate entities: security expert
A Vancouver security summit is warned corporate entities and research programs are vulnerable to CCP intelligence operations.
Former Hong Kong activist speaks out
A former activist who relocated to the United States to escape transnational repression urges Ottawa MPs to do more: The Bureau.
Dozens sentenced in case that crushed Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp
The defendants, including politicians and activists, aimed to gain control of the legislature, a strategy that Beijing deemed subversive.
Not your useful idiot
The Bureau talks to Bob Pickard—whistleblower on Beijing’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank—and what he learned about PRC elite capture, global influence, and Hogue Commission evidence.


