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B.C. crypto company lands record $176-million fine from FINTRAC

OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency has imposed its largest penalty ever on a Vancouver cryptocurrency company for failing to report suspicious financial transactions suspected of being connected to laundering money from trafficking in child sexual abuse material, fraud, ransomware payments and evading sanctions. Read More
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Colby Cosh: Alberta wants election candidates who ‘are serious.’ Oh, the horror!

On Monday, Alberta Conservative House Leader Joseph Schow mentioned to reporters that the province’s government has legislation in the works to protect the Alberta electoral system from the shenanigans of the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC). That’s the protest group that has been flooding some federal election ballots with spurious candidates — most recently in the federal riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, where Elections Canada had to desperately improvise an all-new write-in system after the LBC persuaded more than 200 people to contest an August by-election. Read More
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