Jan 12 2021 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — The first known cases in Canada of the U.K. variant of the coronavirus were discovered only by fluke, and the couple who fell ill are now facing public-health charges, CBC News has learned. The woman and man, from Durham Region east of Toronto, had contact with a traveller from the U.K. prior to falling ill, […]
May 4 2018 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — An Alberta businessman who has quietly been teeing up hundreds of millions of dollars in deals for Chinese investors to buy oilpatch assets is the first person known to be targeted by the Canada Revenue Agency’s criminal investigations into the Panama Papers, court records reveal. Wentao Yang’s million-dollar Calgary home, a West Vancouver mansion used […]
Feb 14 2018 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — Canada Revenue Agency officers, backed up by police, raided locations in three provinces Wednesday as part of a criminal tax-evasion probe stemming from the Panama Papers, the agency said. About 30 criminal investigators from the CRA executed three search warrants in the Toronto area, Calgary and West Vancouver, with assistance from the RCMP and the […]
Nov 30 2017 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — A new $60-million university institute in Nova Scotia celebrating former prime minister Brian Mulroney — and being built with money he personally solicited — got a good chunk of that financing from donors embroiled in international controversy, a joint investigation by the Toronto Star, CBC/Radio-Canada and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found. From […]
Nov 24 2017 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — The Canada Revenue Agency is taking a recently retired Liberal-appointed senator to court to force her to answer questions and turn over documents as part of a multi-year audit of her tax returns. The dispute centres on $1.35 million in business losses that Pana Merchant claimed but the CRA disallowed, and comes as the tax […]
Nov 17 2017 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — The public will get a glimpse at the tens of thousands of names — including those of more than 3,000 Canadians and Canadian companies — in the Paradise Papers starting today. Key information from the huge leak of tax-haven financial records, including the names of offshore companies and the people behind them, is being made […]
Nov 6 2017 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien lobbied for an East African oil venture whose business involved money flowing to tax havens, a notorious Australian fraudster and the lure of billions of barrels of crude, according to the latest major leak of offshore financial documents. But in a twist befitting the often murky world of tax […]
Sep 22 2016 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — A Conservative senator is taking the unusual step of reporting herself to a parliamentary ethics czar after a joint CBC/Radio-Canada/Toronto Star investigation into leaked tax-haven records found she was a director of an offshore corporation for 12 years — without, she says, ever knowing about it. As a result, Senator Nicole Eaton failed to disclose […]
Sep 21 2016 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — Three of Canada’s big banks provided services to nearly 2,000 offshore corporations since 1990 in the Bahamas, one of the world’s premier tax havens, leaked records show. The revelation has elicited concerns from a leading governance expert that they may be inadvertently aiding illicit activities. Subsidiaries of CIBC, Royal Bank and Scotiabank helped administer Bahamas […]
Sep 21 2016 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — Records on tens of thousands of largely secrecy-clad companies registered in the Bahamas, including thousands with ties to Canada, have been divulged en masse as one of the world’s premier tax havens becomes the first to suffer a mass data leak since the Panama Papers. The leaked data exposes the holdings of a number of […]
Jun 18 2016 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — On a cold December afternoon in 1980, with MPs’ voices echoing in the mostly empty chamber, the House of Commons debated a piece of legislation that has altered Canada’s economy profoundly. Bill S-2 aimed to ratify a series of taxation treaties between Canada and countries like Spain, Korea, Austria and Italy. Also on the list: […]
Jun 17 2016 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — Montreal-based clothing maker Gildan earned $396 million in profit last year, but paid just over $6 million in cash taxes — a rate of about two per cent. Drug maker Valeant, based in nearby Laval, Que., booked $1.1 billion in profit in 2014 but paid only $110 million in tax. It seems like a fiscal […]
May 10 2016 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — The federal government won’t say exactly how it got its hands on the Panama Papers, but investigators are already scouring the leaked files for tax dodging, and criminal charges will eventually be laid if at all possible, Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier says. The minister confirmed Monday following question period in the House of Commons that […]
May 8 2016 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — They hoped to keep their business private, but some of the world’s richest citizens will instead have their finances opened to prying eyes. Confidential details of more than 200,000 offshore accounts in the Panama Papers — including the names of at least 625 Canadians — will be revealed tomorrow, in the hope that public scrutiny […]
Sep 1 2015 — Zach Dubinsky — CBC — When a Republican candidate for U.S. president said over the weekend that he would be open to looking at building a wall along the Canadian border, he sparked international headlines. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, pressed twice by an interviewer, made the comment as an aside during an interchange about migration from the U.S’s southern neighbour, […]