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How money laundering is making rents go up in Halifax

Morning File, Friday, June 7, 2019

June 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Cornwallis “There was little support for Halifax’s controversial founder at the first public meeting to help determine the future of the statue, park and street bearing his name,” reports Zane Woodford for Star Halifax: Multiple speakers connected Edward Cornwallis to this week’s finding that Canada has enabled a genocide against Indigenous women and girls. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: act quaint, Chris Shannon, construction boom, cruise ship tourism, dead minke whale, Denise Pictou-Maloney, disaster tourism, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Edward Cornwallis, Marine Animal Response Society, Melanie Colpitts, money laundering, road rage, school bus contract, Stephen Archibald and three churches, Stock Transportation, Task Force on the Commemoration of Edward Cornwallis, Zane Woodford

John Risley’s South African adventure

How did a Nova Scotia billionaire end up as the cash and clout behind an international court battle claiming a South African government-owned arms company owes hundreds of millions of dollars to an international arms dealer who claims he lost money after Nelson Mandela’s new democratically elected government refused to honour the arms dealer’s deal with the apartheid regime? How indeed?

February 20, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 22 Comments

On December 26, Boxing Day, I received an email with the subject line “JOHN CARTER RISLEY given his outrageous behaviour and bringing others to book in a huge scandal.” I quickly scanned the text of the email, and saw that, like the subject line, it contained lots of all caps, run-on sentences, and nonlinear thoughts. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation Tagged With: Aérospatiale, Andrew Feinstein, arms deal, Armscor, Av Andrade, Beverly Securities Inc, Beverly Securities Ltd, Billy Masetlha, CIEX, Corruption Watch UK, Daniel Loubser, David Lawson, District Judge Katherine Forrest, Establissement Europeen de Financement, Eurocopter S.A., F.W. de Klerk, Gen. Brochado Miranda, Gen. Casimiro Proenca, Gen. Rui Espadinha, Gen. Shares Carneiro, Gilbert Samberg, Hennie van Vuuren, John Risley, Jorge Pinhol, Jose Vegar, Kredietbank (KBC), Kredietbank Luxembourg (KBL), Liesl Göttert, Mandela government, Mark Pieth, Martin Steynberg, Michael Marchant, Michael Oatley, Mintz Levin, money laundering, Open Secrets, Open Society Foundation for South Africa, Oryx, Paul Holder, President Jacob Zuma, Project Adenia, Puma helicopters, South Africa, SuperPuma helicopters, William Humphreys, Working Group

Quadriga’s Magic Ride

A journey into a labyrinth of money and lies

February 12, 2019 By Andrew D. Wright

Cover photo: Quadriga cofounder Lovie Horner The QuadrigaCX story has fast dissolved from a tale of a locked laptop holding hundreds of millions of dollars to what may very well be the biggest case of corporate wrongdoing to ever hit Nova Scotian shores. Named for Apollo’s four-horsed chariot of the gods carrying sunlight to the Earth, Quadriga presented itself...

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Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: 0984750 BC Ltd, Ancetera Networks Ltd, Anti Money Laundering (AML), Bitcoin, Bitcoin Co-Op, Bitcoin Embassy, Blockchain R&D Lab, CAVIRTEX, Connect Development Ltd, Crypto Consulting Group Ltd, cryptocurrency, Dianna Burns, Ernst & Young, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), Gerald Cotten, Jacques/Jack Martel, Jennifer Robertson, Know Your Customer (KYC), Lloyds of London, Lovie Horner, Malaspina Consultants, Mike Patryn, money laundering, MPD Advertising Inc, Mt Gox Bitcoin, Natasha Tsai, Nazmin Dhanani, Omar Dhanani, Omar Patryn, Quadriga Fintech Solutions Corporation, QuadrigaCX, Shadowcrew, Thomas Beazley, Whiteside Capital Corporation, William Filtness

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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