Canadian ‘mastermind’ in Panama Papers is still a free man despite criminal charges

Canadian ‘mastermind’ in Panama Papers is still a free man despite criminal charges

One by one, the pins have been knocked out from under West Vancouver businessman Fred Sharp. He was ordered to pay the equivalent of more than $70 million to the U.S. government and $2 million to Quebec’s securities regulator for his role in schemes to manipulate share prices. He’s banned from stock markets in Canada. His bank and brokerage accounts were frozen and ordered to be seized. Known as the Canadian mastermind in the Panama Papers, Sharp has lost case after case in court.

But Sharp still has his freedom: Despite a push within the Canada Revenue Agency years ago to criminally investigate him, he’s never been charged in Canada. And while the U.S. Justice Department indicted him two years ago for securities fraud and conspiracy, there is no public evidence of an effort to extradite him.

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Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean… It Was Traced to a Cartel controlled mine in Columbia

Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean… It Was Traced to a Cartel controlled mine in Columbia

In the shadowy global gold industry, where terrorists, drug dealers and dictators launder illegally mined gold into the mainstream market, one major supplier says buyers can count on its product to be clean and ethically sourced.

The Royal Canadian Mint says it can trace all of its gold back to its origins, with cutting-edge technologies including a Bitcoin-like software it calls Bullion Genesis. The Mint, which is backed by the Canadian government, assures buyers that it does not refine gold linked to “illegitimate nonstate armed groups.”

“It’s all North American, predominantly Canada,” the Mint’s refining chief, Rob Sargent, said in an interview.

But what the Canadians call North American includes gold from a swirl of faraway sources — including Colombian mines controlled by the Clan del Golfo drug cartel.

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Crazy Old Racist Joy Reid slams Trump administration over ‘absolutely insane’ indictment of Racist Hate Group SPLC

Crazy Old Racist Joy Reid slams Trump administration over ‘absolutely insane’ indictment of Racist Hate Group SPLC

Joy Reid blasted President Donald Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) as ‘absolutely insane’ after it brought a sweeping federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The DOJ accused the group of secretly funneling millions of dollars to extremist organizations including the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC said the payments were to informants embedded with the groups.

Former MSNBC star Reid used her show to sharply criticize the case unveiled by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, which alleges the civil rights nonprofit defrauded donors by paying informants.

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Kari Simpson, Culture Guard face 18 human rights complaints over gender identity commentary from Canada’s most esteemed authority on Transgenderism

Kari Simpson, Culture Guard face 18 human rights complaints over gender identity commentary from Canada’s most esteemed authority on Transgenderism

Veteran Canadian activist Kari Simpson and her organization Culture Guard are facing a wave of human rights complaints in British Columbia tied to public commentary on gender identity, with legal support being provided by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms says its lawyers are representing Simpson and Culture Guard before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in response to at least 18 complaints filed by Jessica Simpson, a self-described transgender activist formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv.

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Barbara Kay: Trans activist files human rights complaints against media for failing to deny reality

Barbara Kay: Trans activist files human rights complaints against media for failing to deny reality

In Jonathan Swift’s satirical 18th century masterpiece, “Gulliver’s Travels,” his sea-faring protagonist visits various fictional lands, whose inhabitants represent facets of human nature that range from the merely irksome to the grimly repulsive. In the final chapter, we meet the noble race of Houyhnhnms — clean, attractive, kind, intelligent horses who are capable of conversing with Gulliver.

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WTF?

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WTF?

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