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ILLUSTRATION BY KIT RUSSELL As WikiLeaks was riding to global fame a decade ago by publishing archives of leaked American military and diplomatic files, its founder, Julian Assange, liked to call his organization an “intelligence agency of the people.” The slogan conjured an ideal of gathering and disseminating information solely to improve public understanding of the world and to enable democracy to better function, without the presumed machinations of a nation-state spy agency. But by 2016, WikiLeaks had famously been co-opted by Russia’s GRU. Through a front entity, the Russian intel...

Exposing Shady Gold Traders, Illegal Gun Traffickers and Government Lies Credit...John Gall WE ARE BELLINGCAT By Eliot Higgins Image Higgins, a college dropout in Leicester, in the heart of Middle England, was working a dead-end office job when he became obsessed with unearthing the truth in war zones using little more than YouTube and geolocation. Rejecting what he terms “cyber-miserabilism” and critics who argue the internet has obliterated civil society and destroyed journalism, he saw cyberspace as a bottomless well of open-source material available to anyone who cared to look. He be...

Gemma Karstens-Smith Harshaan Alamwala, 15, practices on one of the basketball courts at a training centre opened by the Canadian Elite Basketball League's Fraser Valley Bandits, in Abbotsford, B.C., on Thursday, February 25, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck March 02, 2021 - 1:51 PM ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Baseballs cracking off bats. Basketballs dribbling on hardwood. The metal clang of free weights. The sounds are unique for a suburban strip mall, but they're the usual soundtrack at a former Future Shop in central Abbotsford, B.C. Here, sandwiched between a Michae...