Canada's Cartel Crisis: Assassinations, Extortion & the Bishnoi Gang's Reach (with Kim Bolan)
Borderland: Narcosis with Vincent 'Rocco' VargasShow Notes
Today's guest is Kim Bolan. Kim is an award-winning investigative reporter for the Vancouver Sun, where she has covered gangs and organized crime for over four decades, including the Air India bombing, the Robert Pickton case, and the Surrey Six gangland slaying. She runs the anti-gang blog The Real Scoop and is the author of Loss of Faith: How the Air India Bombers Got Away with Murder. She recently reported on the FBI's Operation Hardball investigation into transnational gangs operating out of Canada.
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Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:40) Operation Hardball the Bishnoi gang investigation (00:02:16) The assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar (00:05:11) The extortion campaign targeting the South Asian community (00:12:48) Ryan Wedding: Olympian turned major trafficker (00:20:10) Rural drug labs, BC Bud, and the meth/fentanyl economy (00:26:41) Why Canada isn't the "Next Mexico" yet (00:30:11) Port corruption and Hells Angels on the docks (00:34:21) Creative smuggling border crossings and hidden compartments (00:40:11) Closing thoughts
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