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The B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch suddenly banned cash transactions over $5,000, four days after hosting the annual high-end spirits promotion where products were going for as much as $200,000.(BCLDB)

In a Nov. 17 memo, Blain Lawson, CEO of the Crown agency, announced the change applicable to both retail and hospitality industry customers.

No reason was given, although employees at one of the highest-revenue stores were concerned about money laundering in 2015.

“Effective immediately, BC Liquor Stores will no longer accept any cash transactions of $5,000. Transactions over $5,000 must be made using credit or debit card only,” said Lawson’s memo, which was leaked to theBreaker.news.

Neither Lawson nor director of retail operations Jonathan Castaneto responded to theBreaker.news. The Ministry of Finance, which oversees liquor sales, forwarded theBreaker.news query to the LDB communications department, which said management was too busy handling supply chain issues related to the Nov. 18-declared provincial state of emergency.

The $200,000 featured product at the LDB’s 2021 Premium Sales promotion on Nov. 13. (BCLDB)

The memo stated the $5,000-and-up cash ban was an interim measure while LDB reviews its current large cash transaction policy. There was no previous cash limit, only steps to take if an employee believed a transaction of more than $10,000 was suspicious.

“Please note, if a customer asks for their purchases to be divided into multiple transactions but the total cash received for their transactions exceeds $5,000 Canadian (or equivalent), this group of transactions is collectively a Large Cash Transaction and this policy still applies,” said the Nov. 17 policy note.

LDB hosted its annual Premium Release promotion on Nov. 13, targeted to well-heeled collectors of rare, high-end whiskeys. It held an online draw for the privilege to purchase scarce products, including a $200,000 Dalmore Decades No. 4 Collection Set 19 and $38,000 bottle of GlenDronach 50-year-old.

Draw winners were told to pick-up and pay for purchases only at the Cambie and 39th Avenue store in Vancouver’s Oakridge neighbourhood.

A manager at that location in May 2015 contacted head office after workers became concerned about suspicious large transactions over $10,000. An LDB senior investigator told the workers to report concerns to management, not to police or FINTRAC, the federal financial intelligence unit, according to email leaked to the then-opposition NDP.

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For the week of Nov. 14, 2021:

Four years ago this month, theBreaker.news Podcast launched.

On this special anniversary edition, hear highlights from the first four editions, featuring four people known for speaking truth to power:

  • Nov. 5, 2017: the reporter who introduced the world to whistleblower Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald;
  • Nov. 12, 2017: journalism professor and access to information historian Sean Holman on whether Canadians truly live in a democracy;
  • Nov. 19, 2017: the late government watchdog Dermod Travis on B.C.’s campaign finance reform;
  • Nov. 26, 2017: the law student arrested in 1997 for protesting the leader of China’s visit to UBC for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit, Craig Jones.

Plus commentary and Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines.

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A human rights activist calls a B.C. NDP cabinet minister a hypocrite for posing with a Chinese diplomat at a Remembrance Day ceremony.

Tourism Minister and Vancouver East MLA Melanie Mark Tweeted four photos from the Chinatown Memorial Monument and wrote that she was “honouring and recognizing veterans of the Chinese community who fought/served for justice, for our freedom, to protect our shared values.”

NDP cabinet minister Melanie Mark with People’s Republic of China consul general Tong Xiaoling on Remembrance Day 2021 (Melanie Mark/Twitter)

In one photograph, Mark is side-by-side with Tong Xiaoling, the Consul General for the People’s Republic of China in Vancouver.

Ivy Li of the Canadian Friends of Hong Kong said it was a “huge insult” to Canadian veterans of all ethnicities who fought to protect Canadians’ rights, freedoms and sovereignty.

“Does Minister Mark consider the Chinese consulate to represent the Chinese community in Canada? Does the B.C. government forget that the Chinese consulates in Canada are here to represent the government of the People’s Republic of China, not our Chinese-Canadian community?” Li said.

Tong laid a wreath at the monument during the ceremony, which was featured on a pro-CCP Phoenix TV newscast. The consulate’s ornate wreath was placed on an easel, elevated above all the others, including one from City of Vancouver. Tong ultimately represents the Chinese Communist Party, which Li said is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims, has decimated Tibetan culture, took away Hong Kongers’ basic liberties and is now threatening to invade Taiwan.

“This not only makes [Mark’s] claim disingenuous and hypocritical, but it is also totally inappropriate,” Li said. “Why a genocidal and civil rights and freedom-suppressing regime has anything to do with honouring our veterans who died for our freedom? Why an aggressive, dictatorial regime who is threatening an invasion of a democratic country has anything to do with honouring our veterans who died in defending our sovereignty?”

(Melanie Mark/Twitter)

theBreaker.news wanted Mark’s comment on the optics of posing with Western Canada’s highest-ranking representative of Xi Jinping. Instead of responding, Mark referred theBreaker.news to a tourism ministry representative’s prepared statement.

“China has maintained a long-standing consular presence in Vancouver. It is a normal courtesy to acknowledge accredited foreign diplomats,” the statement read. “Canada-China relations are the responsibility of the federal government.”

In February, the House of Commons, including the entire NDP caucus, voted unanimously to declare China is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims, and called on the International Olympic Committee to move the February 2022 Winter Olympics out of Beijing. 

Last month, the Esquimalt-based, Royal Canadian Navy vessel HMCS Winnipeg sailed through the Taiwan Strait. The mission was part of an allied operation to deter China from invading Taiwan, one of the few democracies led by a woman. Xi considers it a rebel province and has not ruled out a military takeover. On the consulate’s website, Tong opposes Vancouver city hall’s potential twinning with Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and calls the island a “region [that] is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory.”

NDP cabinet ministers George Chow (left) and Melanie Mark flanking China’s consul general Tong Xiaoling at the Nov. 5 opening of the Chinatown Story Centre. (Twitter/Melanie Mark)

Li wonders why the NDP has not learned from the events of the last three years, including China’s 2018 kidnapping of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and the failure in late 2019 to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan. Beijing targets western politicians, who are prime targets of the CCP’s United Front foreign influence program, which includes currying favour with indigenous leaders in order to gain access to their natural resources. Li noted that Mark is a member of the Nisga’a nation.

Mark’s friendly pose with Tong is part of a pattern by B.C. NDP politicians of engagement with CCP interests. Minister of State for Trade George Chow recently appeared with officials from the consulate and the Canadian Alliance of Chinese Associations at Golden Week events in early October marking 72 years of Communist rule. One of them was a Beijing Olympics countdown promotion on Jack Poole Plaza.

Chow and Mark appeared together with Tong at the Nov. 5 opening of the Chinatown Story Centre.

In 2019, Mark’s predecessor, Lisa Beare, posed in a group photo with accused money launderer Paul King Jin at a Richmond gym he operated. In 2020, the NDP government briefly gave Jin’s son a licence to operate a security company out of the same address.

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What did FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani know about a coach’s misconduct? When did he know it?

FIFA VP Montagliani and president Infantino (Twitter)

Those are questions that players from the 2008 W-League Vancouver Whitecaps and national women’s soccer teams want answered.

Montagliani was on the Canadian Soccer Association board when Bob Birarda was the Whitecaps’ women’s team coach and an assistant with Canada’s entry in the Beijing 2008 Olympics tournament. When Birarda was fired from both jobs in fall 2008, both organizations called it a mutual parting of ways. The reasons were kept secret until former player Ciara McCormack blew the whistle in early 2019.

Birarda was charged in late 2020 with sexual exploitation, sexual assault and child luring from 1998 to 2008.

Since then, another former player, Malloree Enoch, blew the whistle on former Whitecaps’ coach Hubert Busby Jr., for allegedly soliciting her for sex while recruiting her for the team in 2011. Busby departed the Whitecaps in similar fashion as Birarda in 2012.

The Professional Footballers of Canada (PFCan) published a statement Nov. 8 on behalf of players from the 2008 and 2011 Whitecaps’ women’s teams. Among the seven demands are for Montagliani, the president of FIFA’s North and Central American and Caribbean zone (Concacaf), to “fully co-operate” with an investigation of the Birarda coverup.

Major League Soccer hired lawyers Janice Rubin and Melody Jahanzadeh of the law firm Rubin Thomlinson to investigate in the wake of the allegations about Busby. Whitecaps CEO Axel Schuster said executives still with the club were placed on administrative leave, but he did not identify them.

Bob Birarda in 2005 (CSA)

A statement from Concacaf said Montagliani “welcomes and supports” the CSA review of the 2008 circumstances, but the statement does not say whether Montagliani will co-operate. Concacaf said Montagliani and the CSA board took the allegations seriously in summer 2008 and unanimously agreed to fire Birarda.

“Mr. Montagliani believes that he and his fellow Board members at the time followed the appropriate steps to support the CSA with this very serious matter,” the statement said.

Paul Champ, an Ottawa human rights lawyer who represents PFCan, said he is hopeful the Rubin Thomlinson investigation will lead to transparency, accountability and increased safety for athletes at risk of exploitation and abuse by coaches.

He is disappointed that Canadian national team and club officials have moved slower than their counterparts in the U.S., where the National Women’s Soccer League’s North Carolina Courage fired coach Paul Riley in late September over allegations he coerced players to have sex with him.

“When you see the strong action the NWSL has taken with different clubs and executives related to those incidents, I think it’s fair to ask why hasn’t there been more accountability at the Whitecaps?” Champ said. “The MLS has recognized this moment, and full credit to the Canadian women’s national team, many of whom play in the NWSL.”

theBreaker.news reported in 2018 that Montagliani bought a $6.6 million West Vancouver mansion in 2017, mortgaged by Concacaf sponsor Scotiabank. Montagliani was paid $2.6 million that year, $500,000 more than FIFA president Gianni Infantino. 

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A volunteer with the Surrey Police Vote petition campaign says Surrey city hall breached his constitutional rights.

A May 2019 photo of Mayor Doug McCallum and council members. (City of Surrey)

A bylaw officer fined Paul Daynes $100 on Sept. 11 for unlawful advertising as he removed a sign promoting the petition from his car. Daynes had just arrived at the Dogwood Park parking lot to help set-up the kiosk in the drive to gain enough signatures to force a referendum over whether to replace the RCMP with the Surrey Police Service.

In an interview, Daynes, who is also the campaign director for Keep the RCMP in Surrey, said he told the bylaw officer his name and address. He refused to take the ticket, but said he encouraged the bylaw officer to mail a copy to him.

On Oct. 29, Daynes finally received a letter in the mail from Acting Public Safety Operations Manager Kim Marosevich, demanding he pay $200 by Nov. 29 or city hall would take further, unspecified action against him.

The letter said Daynes did not respond or dispute the ticket within 14 days of the alleged violation, so he is “deemed to have not disputed the charge and to have pleaded guilty to the offence.”

Daynes said he was peacefully exercising his democratic rights in a public place in accordance with the freedom of expression clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Courts across Canada have upheld the right of citizens to post notices on utility poles, hand out leaflets and erect signs and billboards.

“These are the very same freedoms that generations of Canadians are remembering this week, that they fought and died for,” Daynes said. “It’s an absolute outrage.”

Daynes called it a “gross violation” of his rights while participating in an Elections BC-approved campaign and believes it stems from Mayor Doug McCallum’s obsession with stifling debate unfavourable to his leadership. 

“He’s a little tinpot fascist dictator,” Daynes said.

The Elections BC-approved petition deadline is Nov. 15. It won’t meet the province-wide threshold of 10% of registered voters in all 87 districts to automatically trigger a vote. Campaigners have focused on the nine Surrey ridings, hoping to gather enough support to force the NDP cabinet to order a local referendum.

“[Mayor Doug McCallum is] a little tinpot fascist dictator”

In September, McCallum used his Safe Surrey Coalition majority on council to ban seven members of Keep the RCMP in Surrey from attending city council meetings.

That was the week after McCallum allegedly suffered a foot injury in a strip mall parking lot. He accused a KTRIS member of running over his foot, but the RCMP and a special prosecutor are investigating whether McCallum lied about the incident.

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For the week of Nov. 7, 2021:

Under Mike Harcourt’s NDP government in 1993, British Columbia got a North America-leading freedom of information and protection of privacy law.

BC FIPA’s Jason Woywada (Twitter)

Now it’s 2021 and John Horgan’s NDP government is trying to take the free out of freedom of information with Bill 22.

Jason Woywada, executive director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, said British Columbians need more transparency not less. The plan to charge a $25 fee is only the tip of the iceberg, more than four years after the NDP promised to rejuvenate the FOI system that suffered under 16 years of BC Liberal rule.

“The system, as bad as it was, and as it was falling behind, was a problem,” Woywada told theBreaker.news Podcast host Bob Mackin. “The steps that they are taking are increasing the power distance from people to their government and are increasing the friction that people will have to gain basic access to information from the government.” 

On this edition of theBreaker.news Podcast, Woywada discusses the Transparency Matters campaign to oppose Bill 22. Environmental protection charities and construction industry associations that are normally at odds with each other have even united under the BC FIPA-led coalition. 

“Transparency matters to everyone,” Woywada said. “This isn’t just a matter for journalists and media, that access to information allows us in a democracy to make informed decisions, and that it’s important for all of us to gain access to information to make those informed decisions at the ballot box and to trust the decisions that government is making.”

Listen to the full interview with Woywada and find out how you can tell the NDP to scrap Bill 22. Plus commentary and Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines.

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Surrey taxpayers received a $14,500 bill from the spokesman for the fledgling municipal police force for the month of July.

Surrey Police Chief Norm Lipinski.

Chief Norm Lipinski approved the July 30 invoice from MacDonald Media 360 for the period beginning July 3. A copy of the invoice, released under the freedom of information law, shows Lipinski signed-off on the payment on Aug. 4.

Lipinski ignored a request for comment from theBreaker.news. Contracted spokesman Ian MacDonald retired in 2019 from a 22-year career at the Abbotsford Police Department, where he was public information officer for eight years. Based on the invoice, MacDonald’s contract would be worth more than $165,000-a-year, plus GST.

Meanwhile, mixed signals from the Surrey Police Service freedom of information office.

A supporter of the Keep the RCMP in Surrey campaign was told that one senior officer had no email in her outbox after two months, but she received an invoice after asking for email from another senior officer’s inbox.

The supporter, who asked not to be identified, had applied for all email sent by Deputy Chief Jennifer Hyland between July 1 and Aug. 31, but SPS said there was none.

MacDonald denied Hyland had deleted any email and claimed that her messages were transferred to a shared drive for document management purposes. He did not explain why SPS did not simply search that drive and provide the emails that Hyland had sent during the summer.

The RCMP supporter asked separately for all email in Supt. Allison Good’s inbox box for the same two month period, but received a $300 invoice. SPS claimed it would take 13 hours to locate, retrieve, produce and prepare the records.

The RCMP supporter had previously received email from the accounts of Lipinski and other senior officers without any hassle. 

If the NDP passes Bill 22, the SPS could charge $25 per FOI request in addition to search fees for larger, more complex files. The Surrey RCMP is under the federal Access to Information Act, which requires a flat $5 application fee. No additional fees are charged.

Fifty SPS officers are scheduled to begin ride-alongs wth Surrey RCMP officers at the end of this month, the first phase of Mayor Doug McCallum’s plan to replace the Mounties with a municipal force. The cop swap may take until 2023 or 2024 to complete, unless a campaign to derail the transition succeeds.

The Surrey Police Vote petition aimed at forcing a referendum is nearing its Nov. 15 signature drive deadline. It won’t meet the province-wide threshold, but organizers hope to gain enough support in each of the Surrey provincial ridings to prompt the NDP cabinet to order a vote anyway.

McCallum is under investigation for allegedly lying about an RCMP supporter running over his foot in a strip mall parking lot in September. The Attorney General’s ministry appointed Richard Fowler as special prosecutor. 

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Former B.C. Lions wide receiver Josh Boden killed his ex-girlfriend because he blamed her for ending his Canadian Football League career, a B.C. Supreme Court judge concluded on Nov. 4.

Ex-B.C. Lion Josh Boden: guilty of second degree murder

Justice Barry Davies found Josh Boden, a 2006 and 2007 member of the Lions, guilty of second degree murder in the March 15, 2009 beating and choking of 33-year-old Kimberly Hallgarth in her Burnaby home.

“The root is the loss of the football career, that he blamed her for that loss,” Davies said. “There is also convincing evidence that he sought monetary recompense from her because of that loss. Although Mr. Boden submits that the career of a Canadian Football League player is not particularly lucrative, the fact that his continued assertion and pursuit of a debt owed to him by Ms. Hallgarth over the loss speaks volumes of his continued resentment.”

Former BC Lions coach Wally Buono testified in February that Hallgarth had contacted him in 2008 and showed photographs of her injuries inflicted by Boden and the damage he did to her vehicle. That prompted Buono to cut Boden, a product of Carson Graham secondary in North Vancouver, from the team. Boden attempted a comeback later that year with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, but did not see action.

The only witness to the killing was Heidi Nissen, the mother of two of Boden’s children. Nissen testified that she had a tumultuous relationship with Boden that she described as that of a “pimp and ho,” due to her dabbling in street prostitution to provide Boden money.

Kimberly Hallgarth

After one of many beatings by Boden, Nissen finally sought refuge in a safe house. On March 15, 2009, she spoke with Hallgarth and traveled to her house to tell her about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Boden. But Boden was there when she arrived. A dispute ensued and Boden tried to strangle Nissen, who testified that she regained consciousness only to find Boden stomping on Hallgarth.

Not only did Boden kill his ex-girlfriend, Davies said, he “also tried to cover up his acts by attempting to stage the crime scene to look like Ms. Hallgarth died accidentally after ingesting drugs.” Boden also lied to police, claiming he was in Surrey. But cell phone records showed he was in Burnaby and his fingerprints were found at the crime scene.

Boden’s defence lawyer Kevin Westell raised questions about the credibility of Nissen, who had recanted in 2009. He also suggested that Nissen was responsible for Hallgarth’s death out of jealousy or a desire to hurt Boden for hurting her.

Davies rejected those theories as “at best speculative.” He noted that Nissen first implicated Boden in the crime six weeks after the murder. 

Ultimately, Davies was satisfied with Nissen’s testimony because elements were supported by other witnesses and evidence from the police and coroner.

“I can safely rely upon her eyewitness testimony. She saw Mr. Boden kill Ms. Hallgarth in her home on March 15, 2009, at first stomping on her neck and chest, and then strangling her with his thumbs on her throat and his fingers on the back of her neck,” Davies said.

A date will be set for sentencing Boden. A second degree murder conviction means life in prison, but parole could come in a decade.

Boden turns 35 in December. The conviction came one day shy of the third anniversary of his arrest.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s entourage to the United Nations climate party in Glasgow included a videographer, photographer, speechwriter and an Instagrammer/Tweeter.

Justin Trudeau and billionaire Mike Bloomberg (PMO)

Trudeau returns to Ottawa Nov. 3, after a trip that included a state visit to Netherlands, Italy for the G20 leaders’ summit and Scotland for the UN’s 26th climate change conference.

The UN’s official registration list, released Nov. 1, shows 18 people from the Prime Minister’s Office in the 280-person delegation of federal and provincial government officials, non-government organizations and representatives of private industry.

Joining Trudeau are cabinet ministers Steven Guilbeault (environment), Chrystia Freeland (finance) and Jonathan Wilkinson (natural resources).

Chief of staff Katie Telford and Senior advisor Ben Chin are both listed, along with a videographer (Akshay Shawn Grover); lead speechwriter (Astrid Krizus); senior manager of digital and creative communications (Johanna Mae Robinson); and official photographer (Adam Scotti).

Trudeau is also traveling with a physician, Dr. Sandra Marie Lynne Rainbow.

The federal government has not released the approved travel budget for the event.

Former Trudeau Liberal cabinet minister Ralph Goodale leads Canada’s High Commission sub-delegation of 28, which is mainly responsible for logistics. They include an airport, aircrew and aircraft coordinator (Albert Price); vehicle dispatcher (Giles Boden-Wilson); and transportation coordinator (Katherine Last).

Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden (PMO)

Representing opposition parties are: Conservative MP Dan Albas, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and both Green MPs, Elizabeth May and Mike Morrice.

Top provincial officials include Quebec Premier Francois Legault and Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey.

Representing B.C. are environment minister George Heyman, his senior aide Kelly Anne Sather, and assistant deputy minister Jeremy Hewitt.

Canada’s politicians and bureaucrats are accompanied by 14 RCMP officers.

The UN’s Provisional List of Participants (PLOP) for COP 26 shows a total 39,509 registered from 4,972 organizations — a substantial increase from the 2019 figures of 26,706 and 2,440, respectively.

Rather than meet via web conference in 2020 due to the pandemic, the UN postponed the 26th meeting until 2021. Scotland’s Sunday Mail reported 400 private jets have carried elite political and business leaders to the conference.

Meanwhile, Scotland’s health secretary Humza Yousaf admitted to the BBC that the 25,000 delegates visiting Glasgow could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases, despite daily testing for participants and mask requirements at the central venue, which was used in 2014 for the Commonwealth Games.

The conference runs through Nov. 12.

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They came dressed as Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, Department of Corrections prisoners, even Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.

Masks were few and far between — both of the pandemic protection kind and the Halloween kind.

Some shotgunned cans of Sole Vodka at the Langley company’s bash on the night before Halloween.

Some left in ambulances.

Vancouver Police and B.C. Emergency Health Services were called to the $33 million mansion on Point Grey’s “Billionaires’ Row” for multiple calls of overdoses at one of Vancouver’s biggest house parties of the pandemic.

The venue? Stock market player David Sidoo’s mansion.

A year ago, the former pro football player spent Halloween in a U.S. jail during a three-month sentence, after pleading guilty to paying bribes to get his sons Jordan and Dylan Sidoo into prestigious California universities. (Jordan Sidoo told theBreaker.news that his father was not at home during the party.)

Click and watch the exclusive video below for highlights of the Halloween bash that went awry.

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