Data from the Canada Revenue Agency shows its recent efforts to combat tax evasion by the super-rich have resulted in zero prosecutions or convictions.

Smithers RCMP responded to a total of 370 new files from the May 20 to June 16 period. The files during this period included break and enter and fraud.

A Northern Saskatchewan woman lost her court appeal to avoid extradition to the United States to face wire fraud and money laundering charges.

Markham woman charged with defrauding the Canadian government of over $1 million in Employment Insurance (EI) benefits.

Securities misconduct in Canada has risen sharply as perpetrators attempted to capitalize on pandemic-driven uncertainties, while social media frenzy surrounding certain stocks and cryptocurrencies also opened the door to more wrongdoing, regulators said on Tuesday.

Fraud charges have been laid against CannTrust Holdings Inc.’s former chief executive Peter Aceto and two former directors, all of whom face possible jail time of up to five years if found guilty in a sweeping quasi-criminal case led by the Ontario Securities Commission.

She applied for a job advertised on Facebook. The Cornwall woman, who’s returning to school this fall, was searching for part-time work opportunities to help pay for tuition.

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published results of a new survey that found nearly 29 per cent of Canadians know a victim of financial elder abuse, while 42 per cent said they could not recognize the signs of financial abuse and only 47 per cent knew where to report cases of abuse.

The justices unanimously upheld his conviction— but they couldn’t agree on why. The majority judgment held that the accused’s condom sabotage constituted fraud and the woman’s consent was nullified by that deception.

Scam calls and bogus emails, whether from people impersonating a Canada Revenue Agency staffer, other federal government employees or other sources, continue to happen far too often.