The accounting firm investigating the unseemly demise of Canada’s QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange is accusing the company’s late founder of transferring customer funds into his personal accounts, where the money was used for high-risk margin trading. The bombshell allegation, contained in a report from Ernst and Young, draws into sharp focus several questionable business practices that […]
A row in the US state of Maryland over the location of a 40ft-high cross will be resolved by the country’s top court, and has sparked a vigorous debate about religious icons in public life. You may not have heard much about the tussle over the Peace Cross, the 40-foot (12-metre) granite Latin Cross plonked […]
The palace intrigue at the National Rifle Association deepened late Wednesday night as the gun group filed court papers accusing its second-in-command and top lobbyist of complicity in the recent failed coup against its chief executive, Wayne LaPierre. The accusation came in a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court against Oliver North, the N.R.A.’s […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The sweeping climate plan that New York lawmakers have agreed to pass sets the country’s most ambitious goals for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions: getting planet-warming carbon emissions almost down to zero by 2050. The law would transform the way […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Hope Hicks, a once close aide to President Donald Trump, told the House Judiciary Committee that Trump was serious in saying there was nothing wrong in accepting derogatory information about political opponents from a foreign government, panel chairman Jerrold Nadler said on Thursday (June 20). “Ms Hicks made clear that she understood […]
Canada could reach an oversupply of legal pot as soon as the end of this year, depending on how the rollout of edibles and other next-generation products impacts supply, a U.S. cannabis research analyst says. BDS Analytics’ managing director and principal analyst Tom Adams given the pattern in other markets, as well as the ability […]
The Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM), Quebec’s largest school board, says it will not be applying Bill 21 for at least one academic year as it wants to conduct consultations of its various internal departments until spring 2020. Catherine Harel-Bourdon, president of the CSDM, argued she opposes the bill and wants to speak with the […]
Keith Raniere, a self-help guru accused of leading a sex cult that enslaved women, has been found guilty of all charges against him. Raniere, 58, was convicted by a jury after a six-week trial in Brooklyn, New York. He allegedly oversaw a “slave and master” system in his group, called Nxivm. He was convicted of […]
With their sheer size, wall murals bring a significance and a heft that a canvas can struggle to muster — sometimes big ideas need to be delivered with large dimensions. Murals were a staple of life in ancient India, Greece and Rome, used to highlight stories of civic and religious import. The Renaissance may have […]
The BC Coroner’s Service has confirmed a teenage boy has died after a tree fell at a camp on Vancouver Island. The tree fell at Camp Barnard close to Sooke on Wednesday, shortly after 3 p.m. A second person was transported to hospital by ground ambulance in critical but stable condition, said the BC Ambulance […]