For too many years, Vancouver and the rest of British Columbia have felt like a province adrift. Open drug use on downtown streets, record-breaking emergency room closures, and a growing sense that everyday safety is no longer guaranteed—these have become grim fixtures of daily life. Families worry about walking their neighbourhoods at night. Businesses struggle … Read more
U.S. Treasury sanctions announced on March 20, 2026, against Vancouver-based Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics, a firm alleged to be part of a Hezbollah-linked network that funnelled over $100 million since 2020 through global companies including in Canada, Lebanon, and Qatar. The sanctioned firm, Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics, is alleged … Read more
U.S. officials believe Canada’s prime minister has minimized Canada’s role in global fentanyl markets as China shifts precursor and pill flows from Mexico. BRITISH COLUMBIA — Chinese and Mexican cartel networks have increasingly routed container shipments of fentanyl pills and precursor chemicals through Vancouver as a production and export hub into the western United States … Read more
Ripple and its native cryptocurrency XRP are among the most discussed names in blockchain and cross-border payments today. While many associate the project with founders like Jed McCaleb, Chris Larsen, and David Schwartz, the story actually begins much earlier—with a Vancouver-based developer named Ryan Fugger. The Birth of RipplePay (2004) In 2004—years before Bitcoin’s whitepaper … Read more
TPL Media’s Mike Wixson and Brian Isted as they sit down with Sam Cooper to discuss the current state of Canada. Sam Cooper is a prominent Canadian investigative journalist, formerly with Global News and Postmedia, renowned for his exposés on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence operations in Canada, particularly through alliances with triad-organized crime … Read more
