Sam_Cooper_(journalist)

Sam Cooper (journalist)

Sam Cooper (journalist)

Canadian investigative journalist

Sam Cooper is a Canadian investigative journalist and best-selling author, best known for his coverage of Canada–China relations and tensions.[1]

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Career

Cooper has been an investigative journalist for a number of years, first establishing himself for his anti-corruption reporting at Vancouver-based newspaper The Province.[2]

He left the Postmedia newspapers to work for Global News, where his coverage on money laundering in Canada, alleging a relationship between foreign states colluding with organized crime.[3]

Cooper turned his reporting into the controversial best-seller Willful Blindness, which alleges Canadian officials intentionally ignored money laundering linked to organized crime based out of China.[4] His work builds on allegations made in the Canadian-intelligence report Project Sidewinder, which argues spies have infiltrated the country's institutions.[5]

Controversy

Cooper alleges Canadian senator Yuen Pau Woo lobbied on behalf of Beijing, as well as organized an attack on the credibility of Andy Yan, an academic at Simon Fraser University. Woo has publicly accused Cooper of failing to fact check the allegations, nor seeking his response before making said allegations.[6]

In May 2020, the official WeChat group for Canadian Liberal Party of Canada politician Joyce Murray began fundraising to sue Cooper after he made allegations a Chinese-government group had begun to stockpile Canadian personal protective equipment at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Murray condemned the group's actions, and distanced herself for an organized attack against a journalist.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Douglas Todd: Sam Cooper's exposé of corruption in Canada tops bestseller list". vancouversun. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
  2. [2]
    "BCLC whistleblower admits leak; rips 'hypocritical' Attorney General David Eby". Business in Vancouver. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  3. [3]
    "Douglas Todd: Will Canada crack down on property-buying oligarchs and their dirty money?". vancouversun. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  4. [4]
    "Glavin: Trudeau is making slow progress on cleaning up Canada's money laundering mess". ottawacitizen. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  5. [5]
    "What's really behind the Winnipeg lab incident? | Watch News Videos Online". Global News. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  6. [6]
    "Chinese Canadian leaders say journalist Sam Cooper did "not check his facts" about them". The Georgia Straight. 2021-05-30. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  7. [7]
    Chase, Steven; Fife, Robert (2020-05-26). "Digital Government Minister distances herself from online account that promoted fundraiser to sue journalist". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-06-12.


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