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Third-party advertisers are spending millions to influence voters. THIS STORY A Toronto billionaire bought full-page newspaper ads endorsing Pierre Poilievre. A right-wing activist spent nearly a quarter of a million dollars in donations at his own media company.
At least seven Conservative MPs held stock in Liberal leader’s former company, IJF analysis finds. Multiple Conservative MPs personally invested in Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s former company, a business their party has spent weeks attacking in the lead-up to this month’s election, according to an IJF analysis.
For years, Vancouver lawyer Ronald Pelletier helped fraudsters hide dirty money, according to the B.C. Law Society. Between 2014 and 2018, the Vancouver lawyer moved more than $31 million through his trust account from clients he knew were being investigated by American authorities for stock manipulation, the law society tribunal determined.
Newly obtained internal data shows the Saskatchewan government knew COVID-19 was spreading at an "exponential" rate in the fall of 2021, providing new insight into what officials knew before a devastating COVID-19 wave hit the province. The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) and the CBC have obtained a six-page briefing presented to top officials at Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health in September...