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Podcast: Shaun Newman Podcast
Episode: #943 - Sam Cooper
Description: Sam Cooper is a Canadian investigative journalist and bestselling author best known for exposing Chinese Communist Party influence operations, fentanyl trafficking, and money laundering in North America. A University of Toronto graduate with a journalism degree from Langara College, he rose from local Vancouver papers to senior correspondent at Global News, where his 2019 casino laundering series triggered the Cullen Commission. His 2021 book Wilful Blindness detailed elite capture and transnational crime, drawing on RCMP, CSIS, and DEA sources. He founded The Bureau on Substack, now a leading independent outlet on corruption and national security.<...