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Who’s really to blame for the QuadrigaCX scandal?

Many blame Jennifer Robertson, the widow of the company's founder, for not realizing Gerald Cotten was a scam artist or, worse, for being a party to his crimes. But Stephen Kimber, who helped Robertson write her memoir, wonders why journalists aren't asking investors the kind of tough questions they're putting to her.

January 23, 2022 By Stephen Kimber 7 Comments

“Where did that money go?” Andrew Chang, the CBC’s National News anchor, was polite. But he was persistent. “You thought at the time that this was just the way a legitimate business operated?” he queried his subject with eye-raise-of-doubt insistence in a feature interview last week. Then, circling back, obviously unsatisfied. “But did it, though […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Bitcoin Widow, Jennifer Robertson, QuadrigaCX, scams

“Bad actors”: a Halifax landlord says a cryptocurrency firm is skipping out on its rent and might hide its assets where no court can find them

Morning File, Monday, December 16, 2019

December 16, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

1. McNeil government Writes Stephen Kimber: I had been hoping to say something positive about Stephen McNeil’s government — it is, after all, the season of speaking positively — but as soon as I began to put electronic keyboard to computer-screen praise, his government inevitably did one more something that was so bone-headed, so egregious, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell, Blockchain Dynamics, blueberries, Brad McGowan, child pornography, Christopher McGarrigle, cryptocurrency, Don Tremaine, Gerald Cotten, GNF, Hal-Con, Hyperblock, Internet Child Exploitation Unit, Jean Laroche, Jennifer Murray, Michael Quigley, National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC), Navid Saberi, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Phillip Travers Milo, Prince Andrew, QuadrigaCX, Richard Starr, sulphur dioxide, Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia

Feds invest in Sable Island cleanup

Morning File, Tuesday, February 12, 2019

February 12, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. Quadriga Halifax Examiner contributor Andrew D. Wright took a deep dive into the corporate history of the Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange, and found much of it was based on false promises and lies. Click here to read “Quadriga’s Magic Ride: A journey into a labyrinth of money and lies.” This article is for subscribers. Click […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adsum for Women and Children, Alexander Quon, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Christine Saulnier, Citadel Hill clock, Co-operators Insurance, Community Council Sector of Nova Scotia, Corey Beals, David Buffett, Halifax fire department, Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency, Halifax Taxi Association, Hara Associates, Jean Laroche, Jeffrey Lansing, Karen Foster, LaHave River ferry, living wage, Mairin Prentiss, Old Town Clock, QuadrigaCX, Sable Island, Sheri Lecker, Sherri Borden Colley, taxi industry, taxi licences, The Offshore Alliance, Vehicle for Hire Licensing Program Review, Walid Ali, Zane Woodford

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

Report on Shambhala sexual misconduct released

Morning File, Monday, February 4, 2019

February 4, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. QuadrigaCX The biggest tech story of the year so far happened right here in Nova Scotia, and it’s amazing. When 30-year-old Fall River resident Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly, the location of some $260 million in cash and cryptocurrency went to the grave with him. Writer Andrew Wright tells us: A 25-year-old Gerald Cotten and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A.J. Liebling, Aaron Matthews, Acadia Axemen hockey brawl, bike bridge, Bill Burr, Blair Rhodes, Canada Games Centre, Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic Society, Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly, Dave Stewart, Extinction Rebellion, Gerald Cotten, Jacob Boon, Lee Anna Osei, Leo MacPherson, Macdonald Bridge bike ramp, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway, Mary Campbell, Michael McNutt, QuadrigaCX, Scott Messervey, Selina Bath, Shambhala sex abuse scandal, St. Francis Xavier University women’s basketball, St. FX hockey brawl

The $260 million QuadrigaCX mystery

When 30-year-old Fall River resident Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly, the location of some $260 million in cash and cryptocurrency went to the grave with him.

February 3, 2019 By Andrew D. Wright

The first clue something was wrong to users of QuadrigaCX, Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was when its website was suddenly replaced by a website maintenance notice last week. What QuadrigaCX’s 363,000 clients, 115,000 of them carrying balances in their accounts, would soon learn was the only person who knew where some $260 million of their money was and how...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Aaron Matthews, Billerfy Labs, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Gerald Cotten, Jack Martel, Jennifer Robertson, Litecoin, Quadriga Fintech Solutions Group, QuadrigaCX, Thomas Beazley, WB21

PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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