🎉🎉🎉 Great way to end the week! We’re proud to say that our reporter Zak Vescera is a finalist for the prestigious CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism in the Small Media category for his work with Adrian Ghobrial of CTV to uncover a global fraud scheme.

Saw a guy playing bongos the other day, we're definitely in a recession

someone told me last night that if I were a pokemon my final evolution would be Jeff Goldblum and honestly that's all I need to keep going

NDP-era changes let municipalities opt out of placing civic notices in local papers, ending a "silent subsidy" that helped sustain the industry. And giving local gov't power to defund media challenges their ability to report on council without fear of repercussion, publishers say

.Zak Vescera breaks down everything you need to know about the court battle that’s happening now. #binance #crypto #cdnpoli

Canada's financial intelligence agency is in court trying to get the world's largest crypto exchange to pay a fine Filings say Binance failed to report more than $550 million in transactions -- including nearly $300 mill that went to just three accounts theijf.org/binance-fintra…

The anti-Christ but all he does is turn wine into water and absolutely ruin the function

From this week: A Vancouver man accused of helping orchestrate multiple "pump-and-dump" schemes now faces new charges that carry potential jail time. More of our coverage on the Core Capital hearing theijf.org/yazan-al-homsi…

I've decided Calgary is for lovers (I'm in Calgary)

Here's an interesting one: federal officials considered whether AI chatbots that train themselves using news content might be subject to the Online News Act, which requires tech platforms to pay news publishers for use of their content theijf.org/ai-regulation-…

When I say I was born in the wrong generation what I mean is that I was meant to hunt packs of animals over a period of weeks to months, just me and the boys, not a screen in sight

Small scoop: Canada's financial intelligence agency reviewed programs at 50 small and medium-sized banks. It found 18 had gaps, including some with “vulnerabilities to money laundering and terrorist financing risks," especially around mortgages theijf.org/fintrac-small-…

Three separate people (strangers on the street) have threatened/tried to fight me in the past month and I'm starting to think I just have bad vibes

little scoop: an internal Canadian intelligence briefing note talks about an "emerging" pattern of criminals laundering money from mainland China through Canadian real estate via fraudulent mortgages theijf.org/fintrac-mortga…

Murray is an ace columnist, a lifelong critic of power and a very good person who helped me when I was going through some tough times in Saskatchewan — congratulations Murray and godspeed

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"Criminals laundering Chinese money through Canadian real estate, agency report says" as told by Zak Vescera via Investigative Journalism Foundation #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre theijf.org/fintrac-mortga…

A major Canadian oil and gas company broke a deal it pitched to BC's energy regulator to clean up thousands of pipelines across the province, but faced no financial penalty for doing so. Our latest collaboration with the team at The Narwhal theijf.org/cnrl-broke-dea…

BC securities regulators are investigating a company that used to operate a network of Ontario ketamine clinics and researched therapeutic applications of magic mushrooms. The firm was accused of misleading investors in an unrelated lawsuit, since settled theijf.org/bcsc-champigno…

A public servant's battle with the CRA exposes cracks in how the federal system hires, fires and rehires.