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China/Canada:Spying

 

Writer Mark Bourrie pose for a photograph in Ottawa's chinatown Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 in Ottawa. Bourrie, who is also a contributing editor at Ottawa Magazine and author who recently worked for Xinhua, the Chinese state0run news agency. He is speaking out now about the innerworings of an agency he said is at least partially devoted to espionage for the Chinese government.PHOTO: KATHRYN BLAZE CARLSON

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…The federal government and the Parliamentary Press Gallery are both struggling to figure out what to do about a Chinese state-owned news agency Xinhua, who both suspect could be abusing their position in the media world to spy on Canada and gather information on Chinese dissidents for the communist government.