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Police looking for 1st degree murder suspect

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From Edmonton Police Service: Canada-wide warrants issued for arrest of homicide suspect

The Edmonton Police Service has issued Canada-wide warrants for the arrest of homicide suspect Amin Yussuf, 29, in connection to the shooting death of 26-year-old Abubeker Gemechu Abduraman, on March 24, 2019. 

On March 24, 2019, the Edmonton Police Service responded to a weapons complaint at a south-side lounge. Upon arrival, investigators located Abduraman deceased inside the lounge. Two other individuals also sustained non-life threatening injuries and were transported to hospitals.

Yussuf is wanted for first degree murder, attempted murder using a firearm(x2) and unauthorized possession of a firearm. 

He is also known by aliases including Abdirizak Yussuf, Craig Yussuf, Mohemed Yussuf, Mohemed Mohamed and Mohammed Farrah. 

Yussuf has connections to Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and the North West Territories. He is described as a black male, with brown eyes and black hair. He is six feet tall and weighs approximately 180 pounds. 

Yussuf is considered armed and dangerous, and therefore should not be approached. Investigators are urging anyone with information regarding Yussuf’s whereabouts to contact the EPS directly at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com/start.htm.

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After 15 years as a TV reporter with Global and CBC and as news director of RDTV in Red Deer, Duane set out on his own 2008 as a visual storyteller. During this period, he became fascinated with a burgeoning online world and how it could better serve local communities. This fascination led to Todayville, launched in 2016.

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Why is Trump threatening Canada? The situation is far worse than you think!

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By Frank Wright

Multiple reports are proving that Donald Trump’s claims that Canada’s lax approach to fentanyl poses a grave threat is even worse than the U.S. president has stated.

(LifeSiteNews) — A report from the Dana Cambole Show gives a sensational explanation on why U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have Canada in his sights. Her guest on the ITM Trading Channel is the Canadian investigative journalist Samuel Cooper, who says: “Canada has become a node of Chinese infiltration and organized crime activity – especially in Vancouver.”

His bold claim buttresses the accusations made by Trump that the U.S. faces a crisis on its northern border. On February 1, Trump issued an executive order titled, “Imposing Duties to Arrest the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border” 

In it, Trump said his measures to impose punishing trade tariffs were to address the “challenges” presented by the “Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers, and illicit drugs of all kinds [which] have poured across our borders and into our communities.” 

He said the Canadian government had failed in its duty to address these issues. 

“Canada has played a central role in these challenges, including by failing to devote sufficient attention and resources or meaningfully coordinate with United States law enforcement partners to effectively stem the tide of illicit drugs.” 

Is Trump ‘invading’ Canada?

These bold claims have been interpreted as a means of dictating to – or even “annexing” Canada. This has “soured relations” with Canadians, as the Chinese Toronto-based journalist Kevin Jiang reports. 

Some critics argue Trump is not serious about fentanyl or crime, and is simply undermining Canadian sovereignty and even threatening to “invade” Canada.   

So, is what Trump says about Canada’s crime and border problem true?

Canada has become a Chinese drug production hub

Called “Wilful blindness: how a network of narcos tycoons and CCP agents have infiltrated the West,” its cover illustrates what Cooper sees as the center of a network of Chinese corruption and crime.   

“The cover shows a graphic photo of Vancouver on a world map with fentanyl pills exploding out of Vancouver going around the world.”  

“Vancouver has become a production hub for China and a trans-shipment hub for fentanyl precursors.”

Cooper says that whilst he is “not pleased with Donald Trump’s rhetoric,” he maintains, “This gets to what Donald Trump is saying.”

“It’s hard for many people to believe that Canada could be put in the same category as Mexico in terms of endangering the United States with fentanyl, illegal immigration and human trafficking,” Cooper says, before adding “…but my research has showed that indeed this is the fear and concern of the U.S. intelligence Community, military and law enforcement.”

Decades of Canadian weakness

How has this happened? Cooper says the problem has been brewing for years.  

“For decades Canada’s weak enforcement against transnational crime weak, and control of borders has allowed international organized crime with linkages to hostile States – most specifically China but also Iran.”

His claims seem astonishing, and yet recent news reports all support his – and Trump’s – conclusions. 

The biggest fentanyl superlab in the world

The top story on the Vancouver Sun today is the discovery of the biggest fentanyl factory in Canadian history. The owner, who is Canadian, did not name the tenants who used his property to build “Canada’s largest ever fentanyl superlab.”

“The Abbotsford man who owns the Falkland property where Canada’s largest-ever fentanyl superlab was discovered in October says he was just the landlord and unaware of what was going on there.”  

David Asher, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said it was in fact the largest fentanyl production site in the world, and was certainly linked to “Chinese organized crime.”

Speaking to Rosemary Barton on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Asher explained on February 9, “I think they are sitting on a big scandal here. How many other labs do you think they have going?” 

Asher, who has advised the U.S. State department on countering money laundering and terrorism financing, claimed “there’s very little border enforcement going on” in Canada, dismissing claims by the Canadian media that Canada’s cross-border drug trafficking into the U.S. was insignificant compared to that of Mexican cartels on the U.S. southern border. 

Asher further claims that Mexican cartels are in fact transporting drugs by ship to Canada to be trafficked into the U.S., because “you have almost no port enforcement with police.”

In response to allegations made by the Trump administration that there is a security crisis on the northern border of the U.S., Canada has appointed a “fentanyl Czar,” promised to share more intelligence with the U.S., and said it is stepping up police checks and border controls.  

These measures led to the 30 day “pause” of the threatened tariffs on Canadian trade with the U.S. 

Canadian law is ‘crazy’

So what’s the U.S. government’s problem with Canada?  

Asher praises the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) but says the problem is Canadian law. Specifically, “The Stinchcombe Law” – a landmark ruling which Asher says means the Canadian police have to inform criminals they are watching them.  

“Basically every time we try to go up on a phone number in Canada almost all the money laundering network is tied to China – and 90% percent of all the money laundering in the United States is tied to Canada.”

“So when we try to go up on those numbers with your police they have to inform the person that we are targeting that we are targeting their number. That’s crazy. How can we run an undercover police operation with your country?”  

Asher explains why claims in the media that low seizure rates of fentanyl from Canada do not give the real story. 

“Which is why we don’t run them. Which is why the seizure statistics are so low. We don’t even try to work with Canada because your laws are distorted.” 

Asher recommends the passing of a RICO act – which he says “I think you’re going to do,” adding this will “solve these problems” in permitting law enforcement to correctly designate these networks as “criminal and racketeering operations” – and as a form of “terrorism.” Asher, together with Cooper, says Iran is also involved in drug trafficking in Canada. 

When asked whether fentanyl and money laundering are the “real reason” for Trump’s threats, Asher said, “yes,” concluding: “Our countries are getting killed by fentanyl. We gotta protect ourselves.”

The Supreme Court of Canada appears to agree, ruling last December that constitutional privacy can be violated to address the national “opioid crisis.”

Massive money laundering operation

Is there any basis in reality for Asher’s claims on the scale of money laundering from Canada? Reports on the actions of the second biggest bank in Canada would suggest there is.  

Last May Canada’s Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank was hit with the largest fine in history for money laundering, initially being ordered to pay around 9 million dollars. 

In October 2024, following an investigation of its U.S. operations, TD Bank agreed to pay 3 billion dollars in fines. It had been found in one case to have “…facilitated over $400 million in transactions to launder funds on behalf of people selling fentanyl and other deadly drugs.”

Reuters reported the bank had “…failed to monitor over $18 trillion in customer activity for about a decade, enabling three money laundering networks to transfer illicit funds through accounts at the bank.” Employees had “openly joked” about the “lack of compliance “on multiple occasions.” 

The Wall Street Journal reported on May 3, 2024 that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was conducting an “investigation into TD Bank’s internal controls” which “focuses on how Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers used the Canadian lender to launder money from U.S. fentanyl sales.”

Reuters added how TD Bank’s “internal controls” had came under investigation, “since agents discovered a Chinese criminal operation bribed employees and brought large bags of cash into branches to launder millions of dollars in fentanyl sales through TD branches in New York and New Jersey.”  

The charges against Canada are supported by facts presented by people who support and do not support Donald Trump, and the actions of Chinese billionaires and their comfortable relationship with Canadian law have been reported for years.   

Though Trump’s habit of making headline-grabbing threats to secure agreement may be shocking, what is perhaps most shocking of all is to find out the facts behind the headlines are more damning than his description of the problem. Trump’s solution, as Asher outlines, appears not to be “annexation” but the restoration of law and order and the exposure of corruption.

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Alberta calls for tough-on-crime approach from feds

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Premier Danielle Smith and Minister of Justice and Attorney General Mickey Amery are demanding Ottawa get serious about drug crimes in Canada.

Premier Smith and Minister Amery have demanded Bill C-5 be repealed in its entirety and the federal government reintroduce mandatory minimum jail sentences for Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) offences. Alberta also calls on the federal government to rescind guidelines prepared by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada that direct federal prosecutors to divert drug cases away from the criminal justice system to pursue alternative measures and leave criminal prosecutions for only the most serious cases.

If the federal government does not immediately undertake these actions, Premier Smith and Minister Amery have asked for federal funding to enable the province to permanently take over all CDSA prosecutions.

“For years, Alberta’s government has urged the federal government to reverse their soft-on-crime policies which have allowed illegal drugs to flood our streets and for repeat offenders to prey on our most vulnerable. The federal government must act now and put an end to their insane policies. And if they refuse to, then they must allow the Province of Alberta to take over all prosecutions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Let there be no mistake, Alberta’s government will find these dangerous criminals, prosecute them and keep them in jail where they belong.”

Danielle Smith, Premier

When the federal government passed Bill C-5, they further weakened the Canadian justice system and increased potential harm for Canadians by:

  • Eliminating all mandatory minimum sentences of imprisonment for CDSA offences;
  • Eliminating many mandatory minimum sentences for serious weapons and substance-related offences under the Criminal Code of Canada;
  • Removing limitations placed on the use of conditional sentences;
  • Forcing both police and prosecutors to first consider referring people to treatment and support programs rather than charging or prosecuting drug possession offences; and
  • Continuing to emphasize an approach to drug possession that fails to address the death, disorder and victimization caused by the drug-crime nexus, by focusing narrowly on diversionary measures.

Under Bill C-5, law enforcement has lost the ability to effectively deal with serious crimes, lessening meaningful and impactful enforcement and prosecution. Drug dealers often face very limited consequences, with their charges dismissed or conditional sentences imposed. This allows these criminals to continue profiting from illegal activity while preying on vulnerable populations and worsening the drug crisis in Canada.

“Alberta is deeply concerned about the federal government’s failure to address the growing drug crisis in Canada. Federal prosecution directives and Bill C-5 have significantly weakened our justice system, allowing criminals and drug dealers to exploit loopholes while putting public safety and Canadian lives at risk. We demand immediate action to reverse these disastrous policies, prioritize the safety and well-being of Canadians, and restore Canada’s reputation on an international level.”

Mickey Amery, Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Issues with drugs and drug-related crimes continue to worsen in Canada, with drug trafficking often linked to other serious offences such as human trafficking, gun trafficking and money laundering. These concerns have also been underscored by the Trump Administration, which has called for Canada to secure the border to illegal migrant and drug activity. Alberta responded to that request by introducing a $29-million border plan to combat drug smuggling, gun trafficking and other illegal activities. The plan includes a new Sheriffs unit, a 51-officer Interdiction Patrol Team, four K-9 patrol teams, 10 weather surveillance drones and four narcotics analyzers to test for illicit drugs.

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