Volkswagen admitted last fall that it used defeat devices on nearly 500,000 diesel cars sold…
Financial abuse of elderly population remains a problem in Canada
The first sign that Gus O’Brien’s finances were in trouble was when a sheriff delivered a notice that the bank was about to begin foreclosure proceedings on his house in Toronto’s west end. O’Brien had entrusted the management of his mortgage, his bank accounts and...
Judge goes easy on depressed fraudster
Elderly fraud victims in Barrie, Ont. were irate after a sympathetic judge cut a serial fraudster’s jail sentence in half Friday because he suffers from depression. “I am not unsympathetic to your diagnosis of depression,” Justice Simon Armstrong said in his...