• Our lawyers authored the 2023 Canada Q&A Chapter in the International Comparative Legal Guide on Cybersecurity. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • If we are in debt over $340,000.00 due to a ponzi scheme from five years ago and our house is worth around $600,000.00 can we declare bankruptcy and keep our house? (bankruptcy-canada.ca)
  • Bernard 'Bernie' Madoff, who was convicted for running the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, died on Wednesday in federal prison where he was serving a 150-year sentence, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said. (cbc.ca)
  • In a typical Ponzi scheme, money from newer investors is used to pay sums owed to earlier investors. (cbc.ca)
  • An entertaining and informative history of Ponzi schemes and of extraordinary relief available to victims. (bennettjones.com)
  • Runner and his co-conspirators obtained the names of elderly and vulnerable victims by renting and trading mailing lists with other mail fraud schemes. (postalnews.com)
  • This case exemplifies the commitment of the Department of Justice's Consumer Protection Branch and its partners in the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to investigating and prosecuting fraud schemes targeting Americans, no matter where in the world those schemes originate," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division. (postalnews.com)
  • As a founder and leader of OneCoin, Karl Sebastian Greenwood operated one of the largest fraud schemes ever perpetrated," said Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. (investmentexecutive.com)
  • Since operation, the project has won several environmental and social responsibility and engineering awards, including the 2019 Clean Energy BC Environmental Stewardship Award, as well as the 2015 Social Responsibility Award from the Canadian Electricity Association and the 2015 Award of Excellence of the Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards. (hydropower.org)
  • We help defined contribution (DC) pension schemes improve communication, governance and investment to enhance outcomes for your members, manage risk and build your members' confidence in their DC pension scheme. (mercer.com)
  • In a recent sentencing decision, R v Raza, 2016 BCSC 1030 , the British Columbia Supreme Court sentenced two brothers, Fareed Raza and Saheem Raza, to over four (4) years for their roles in orchestrating a charitable donation scheme. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • Mercer SmartPath is a defined contribution investment strategy that helps your pension scheme members cut through complexity to help achieve a retirement outcome that suits their lifestyle and needs. (mercer.com)
  • An innovative environmental stewardship scheme from Brookfield Renewable and Canada's First Nation 'Namgis community is helping to safeguard local fish species in British Columbia. (hydropower.org)
  • Marine Harvest Canada's salmon processing plant in Port Hardy, B.C. The company is among several named in an alleged price-fixing scheme. (timescolonist.com)
  • Canada's Largest Group of Indo-Canadian Publications "The Voice" Publisher of Voice Newspaper (English), Awaaz (in Punjabi) and Indo-Canadian print media Business Pages. (voiceonline.com)
  • He added: "We will be asking Canadian residents what they will now be doing to seek peace of mind from the scheme that received the pension transfer from the UK registered pension scheme. (internationalinvestment.net)
  • CRCD rehabilitation classification scheme = [CCRH système de classification sur la réadaptation] / revised and compiled by Patricia Fortin. (who.int)
  • To provide a classification scheme for tuberculosis that is based on pathogenesis, is consistent with current chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive recommendations, and is applicable to all in whom the diagnosis is or should be considered. (cdc.gov)
  • Unlike in Canada, where the federal government is the only agency that can legally enhance wild salmon, Alaska has private non-profit hatcheries that release these salmon to boost the state's commercial, sport, subsistence and personal-use fisheries. (outdoorcanada.ca)
  • According to Davies and other pension transfer specialists who have expressed concern over the unexplained disappearance of Canadian ROPS from the HMRC list, the problem is that under Canadian law, Canadians, unlike Britons, are able to take their pensions before the age of 55 without a problem. (internationalinvestment.net)
  • And while consumers are not being compensated directly, a $250,000 donation to the Canada Food Bank at a time when many people are finding food pricing unaffordable - that's definitely a benefit for Canadians. (timescolonist.com)
  • According to Statistics Canada , 84% of Canadians aged 15 and over, or just under 24 million people, reported making at least one financial donation to a charitable or non-profit organization when the last survey on gift giving was conducted in 2010. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • The Canadian Revenue Agency estimated that the brothers issued donation receipts totalling $11 million, which resulted in $4.9 million in tax refunds. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • Michael Nowina's litigation practice focuses on a broad range of commercial disputes including advising on the recovery from fraudulent investment schemes, mortgage fraud and credit fraud. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • Michael's fraud-related and investigations experience includes representing victims of a Canada-wide investment fraud and ultimately securing recovery of a majority of the proceeds from the fraud, advising numerous creditors in proceedings commenced to recover fraudulent conveyances and preferential payments in multi-jurisdictional litigation, and representing financial institutions in identity fraud cases and in proceedings to recover funds from fraudulent borrowers. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • Is your pension scheme cyber risk ready? (mercer.com)
  • It's a matter of time before a UK pension scheme suffers a major cyber incident. (mercer.com)
  • Learn more about other pension scheme risks - cyber and climate . (mercer.com)
  • Read more up-to-date news and information about multi-level marketing schemes. (pyramidschemealert.org)
  • So it's good news that it's expanded the provision of repair services by extending its Independent Repair Provider Program to more shops in the U.S., Canada and Europe. (computerworld.com)
  • A CBC News Investigation reveals Atlantic Canada is an easy target for immigration fraud. (blic.ca)
  • CBC News hired Lu Xu, who is fluent in Mandarin, to interpret and research Chinese websites that tout the job offer scheme. (blic.ca)
  • Local news reports claim that the two new state universities on the list will require their state governments to provide some of the additional funding that is promised through the scheme - or the institutions will lose their status. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • The proposed Canadian settlement follows a US$85-million compensation deal reached in the U.S. in 2022 after the European Commission released results of an investigation that made some of the initial price-fixing allegations. (timescolonist.com)
  • Our lawyers authored the 2022 Canada Chapter in the Guide on White-Collar Crime, published by Chambers and Partners (UK). (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • Our lawyers authored the 2022 Canada Chapter in the Country Comparative Guides (Bribery and Corruption), published by the Legal 500. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • The world of defined contribution (DC) pension schemes never stands still as regulation increases, markets shift and opportunities open up. (mercer.com)
  • In a separate and parallel investigation, the Canadian authorities today also announced cybercrime charges against Philbert. (finchannel.com)
  • Assistant Attorney General Polite and Acting U.S. Attorney Wilson thanked the Canadian and Dutch authorities for their assistance. (finchannel.com)
  • However, neither the Canadian authorities nor HMRC have ever provided ROPS providers with specific guidance on this matter, Davies and others say. (internationalinvestment.net)
  • Singer told Abdelaziz in another call that his foundation was being audited by the IRS - a ruse authorities instructed Singer to use in the hopes of getting the parents to admit to the scheme on tape. (latimes.com)
  • According to U.S. authorities, the OneCoin scheme, which was based in Bulgaria, involved the sale of crypto through a multi-level marketing scheme that purportedly took in more than US$4 billion from millions of investors around the world. (investmentexecutive.com)
  • Madoff's crimes were revealed to authorities in 2008 by his two sons, who were not part of the scheme. (cbc.ca)
  • Although the scheme's letters frequently stated that a psychic had seen a personalized vision regarding the recipient of the letter, in fact, the scheme sent nearly identical form letters to tens of thousands of victims each week. (postalnews.com)
  • Mercer's pension risk transfer team works with trustees and sponsors of DB schemes to help assess their own scheme's circumstances. (mercer.com)
  • ANCHORAGE - A federal indictment unsealed today charges a Canadian national with committing cyberattacks. (finchannel.com)
  • The U.K government has come to the defence of the security measures for their UK $5.6 billion ID cards scheme as the result of the data loss crisis at the U.K government's HM Revenue and Customs . (itworldcanada.com)
  • According to court documents, Matthew Philbert, 31, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, conspired with others known and unknown to the United States to damage computers, and in the course of that conspiracy did damage a computer belonging to the State of Alaska in April 2018. (finchannel.com)
  • The investigation was led by the Integrated Proceeds of Crime unit, in cooperation with RCMP investigators from Ontario and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). (gc.ca)
  • When fatal and nonfatal injury data from Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin, USA were reclassified according to our simplified scheme for casual factors, there were few important differences between adults and working children and adolescents in rankings or proportionate weights. (cdc.gov)
  • PARTICIPANTS: Participants were recruited from four Canadian provinces, physicians (medical doctors, MDs) in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and healthcare aides (HCAs) in Alberta and personal support workers (PSWs) in Ontario. (bvsalud.org)
  • We could multiply our catch of wild salmon by a huge factor, boost our export earnings forever and put healthy, tasty fish on our own plates-all without costing Canadian taxpayers a thing. (outdoorcanada.ca)
  • This wouldn't cost Canadian taxpayers, and we'd start getting a vastly larger share of beautiful wild salmon. (outdoorcanada.ca)
  • The Court refused to make a restitution order to reimburse taxpayers for their cash contributions, instead finding that "they were willing participants to the scheme and not victims. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • At their sentencing hearing, the brothers argued that their culpability and sentence should be less because many of the taxpayers who participated in the scheme had some level of knowledge about the fraud. (canadianfraudlaw.com)
  • The alleged farmed-salmon price-fixing settlement comes within months of a $50-million fine handed to bakery giant Canada Bread Co. after it pleaded guilty to four counts of criminal price-fixing in a scheme that inflated the price of bread in Canada for years. (timescolonist.com)
  • Since 2006, over 1.3million people have arrived in Canada - the highest level of immigration in Canadian history. (workpermit.com)
  • Streamers with C$10 million or more in Canadian revenue subject to Bill. (itworldcanada.com)
  • A federal jury in the Eastern District of New York convicted a Canadian man today for perpetrating a decades-long mass-mailing fraud scheme that stole more than $175 million from victims in the United States. (postalnews.com)
  • Korea and Canada jointly account for the remainder-a mere few hundred million. (outdoorcanada.ca)
  • The average catch over the last two decades, meanwhile, has been roughly 180 million fish for the U.S., 175 million for Russia, 70 million for Japan and only around 12 million each for Korea and Canada, according to data from the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (see "Salmon watch"below). (outdoorcanada.ca)
  • Firms agree on $5.2-million settlement for Canadian consumers. (timescolonist.com)
  • Seven fish farm companies involved in an alleged conspiracy to fix the price of Atlantic farm-raised salmon have agreed to a $5.2-million proposed settlement for Canadian customers most affected by the scheme. (timescolonist.com)
  • The $5.2-million settlement requires approval from a Canadian federal court. (timescolonist.com)
  • GUJRAT: The Punjab government has approved a sum of Rs200 million for water supply and drainage scheme in Dinga city, the second major town of Kharian Tehsil. (dawn.com)
  • Bank accounts and money in Canadian and foreign currencies was also seized, for a value of $8.7 million. (gc.ca)
  • A U.S. district court judge ordered that Karl Sebastian Greenwood - a citizen of the U.K. and Sweden who was allegedly behind the OneCoin scheme alongside the elusive "cryptoqueen," Ruja Ignatova - must spend 20 years in prison and pay US$300 million in restitution for his role in the scheme. (investmentexecutive.com)
  • The Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) is a land surface parametrization scheme for use in large scale climate models. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many questions need answering, including what UK advisers have been doing in terms of due diligence on behalf of those clients whose pensions they have transferred into Canadian schemes. (internationalinvestment.net)
  • It was last April when HMRC stunned the UK and international pensions transfer industry by ruling that that all but one Australian scheme failed to meet the new 'Pension Age' standard. (internationalinvestment.net)
  • But then, evidently concerned that some people might be looking to move their pensions to jurisdictions that permitted such early withdrawals on purpose, with the intention of gaining early access to their money, HMRC last year moved quickly to implement the new standard, which resulted in the de-listing of those 1,653 Australian schemes. (internationalinvestment.net)
  • Today, the United States, in coordination with the U.K. and Canada, is designating the former governor of Lebanon's central bank, Riad Salameh, and four of his close associates who enriched themselves at the expense of the Lebanese people. (state.gov)
  • As governor of the Banque du Liban (BdL), Riad Salameh used his office to engage in a variety of unlawful self-enrichment schemes with the help of close family members and associates, ignoring Lebanese law and taking privileges not afforded to average citizens, even as the country sank deeper into financial chaos. (state.gov)
  • The alleged price-fixing scheme, however, casts a wider net, and allegedly includes farmed fish imported to Canada from Norway and Chile, Visser said. (timescolonist.com)
  • The co-founder of a massive crypto fraud scheme has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a scam that allegedly took more than US$4 billion from investors. (investmentexecutive.com)
  • In reality, the so-called "psychics" identified in the letters sent by the scheme had no role in sending the letters, did not receive responses from the victims, and did not send the additional letters after victims paid money. (postalnews.com)
  • For over 20 years, Patrice Runner managed a predatory scheme that targeted older American by mailing personalized letters to millions of victims purporting to be from a world renown psychic. (postalnews.com)
  • Lawyers for the pair have painted their clients as victims of a con man: the admissions consultant at the center of the scheme - William "Rick" Singer - who never took the stand. (latimes.com)
  • And the scheme has become enormous: there were 4,452 applications for PST refunds on cars in 2018, compared to fewer than 100 per year in 2013. (scmp.com)
  • In October 2018, I visited York University, Canada to meet Dr Anne F. MacLennan, Associate Professor & Chair, York University, Canada, under the Bournemouth University's Acorn Funds scheme for Early Career Researchers. (lu.se)
  • In the final calling sequence, scheme is the name of a predefined color scheme, such as 'xgradient' , or a custom procedure. (maplesoft.com)
  • The parameter schemeargs is a sequence of arguments that is passed to the procedure implementing the color scheme. (maplesoft.com)
  • When using the first calling sequence, the 'linear' color scheme is the default scheme for curves and collections of points, and the 'zgradient' color scheme is the default for surfaces. (maplesoft.com)
  • You can use the second calling sequence to write a custom color scheme. (maplesoft.com)
  • That's what many tech companies across Canada are saying, and research shows. (itworldcanada.com)
  • Runner used a series of shell companies registered in Canada and Hong Kong to hide his involvement in the scheme while living in multiple foreign countries, including Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and Spain. (postalnews.com)
  • Provision should have improved, at least on paper, as more than 140 independent repair companies in the U.S. have joined the scheme, with more than 700 new repair shops now offering approved Apple repairs. (computerworld.com)
  • In the scheme, known as 'cum-ex' or dividend stripping, banks and investors would swiftly trade shares of companies around their dividend payout day, blurring stock ownership and allowing multiple parties to falsely reclaim tax rebates on dividends. (yahoo.com)
  • DEI is spreading inevitably from the corporate agenda to companies' pension schemes. (mercer.com)
  • CCCma - CLASS is used in CGCM3.1 D. L. Verseghy, "The Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS): its history and future," Atmosphere-Ocean, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-13, 2000. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wilson faces multiple fraud charges for his alleged involvement in the college admissions cheating scheme. (latimes.com)
  • A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Amway in Canada. (pyramidschemealert.org)
  • Though unconnected to the recently released book by Eric Scheibeler, the new lawsuit asserts the very same charges against Amway in Canada that are detailed in the book: false income claims and a pyramid selling structure based upon transferring new investors' funds to earlier ones, causing massive losses to virtually all who are induced to invest. (pyramidschemealert.org)
  • Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is rising up pension schemes' agenda. (mercer.com)
  • Directive'), provides for the inclusion of civil aviation in the Emissions Trading Scheme starting in 2012. (lu.se)
  • Interviews with immigration experts, lawyers and licensed consultants - along with extensive correspondence and conversations between CBC and a recruiting agency that boasted it breaks the rules - shows how widespread this type of scheme appears to be in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. (blic.ca)
  • Meanwhile, the Gujrat DCO along with Assistant Commissioners of Kharian and Sara-i-Alamgir Dr Afshan Rubab and Shoaib Nisoana also visited the Dinga city on Sunday to review the site areas of the water supply scheme and directed the executing agency to start work on the project within a week. (dawn.com)
  • Today's action occurs in coordination with similar actions by the United Kingdom and Canada, close partners who share our vision of a Lebanon governed in the interest of its people and free from the corruption and unethical practices perpetuated by elites who abuse positions of privilege. (state.gov)
  • Around 150,000 people have arrived in Canada this year so far, from over 200 countries. (workpermit.com)
  • While the people of Canada may own the fish, including Pacific salmon, the fisheries are managed for us by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to the tune of about $2 billion a year. (outdoorcanada.ca)
  • Cash-based programmes in Syria have been expanded to include a social protection scheme targeting children with disabilities and their families (coupling cash transfers with case management) and seed funding programmes targeting young people. (unicef.ca)
  • Last year, the House of Commons Business Economic and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee found that the number of people committed to the scheme had reduced notably since British Coal was privatised in 1994. (mining-technology.com)
  • Outsourcing your workplace pension scheme to the Mercer DC Master Trust can deliver cost and time savings for your business and opportunities to improve outcomes for your people. (mercer.com)
  • Chinese wealth and demand for luxury cars is fuelling a vast money laundering and tax avoidance scheme in Canada, involving thousands of fake local buyers of vehicles that are actually destined for China. (scmp.com)
  • Rob Short/CBC)On some foreign immigration websites, the Atlantic provinces are touted as having the "lowest bar" for permanent residency in Canada - all you need is $170,000 and a willingness to work a few months for no pay. (blic.ca)
  • Originally presented at the 2010 Legal Education Society of Alberta/Canadian Bar Association Alberta Law Conference. (bennettjones.com)
  • Trade association Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has said the scheme, which is supported by the Automotive Council and the government, provides a mechanism for automotive businesses to engage with their customers, lenders, creditors and other stakeholders to find ways to minimise the risk of insolvencies. (yahoo.com)
  • by Canadian Rehabilitation Council for the Disabled. (who.int)
  • The scheme is mainly aimed at provision of clean drinking water to around 100,000 inhabitants of this far-flung town of Gujrat district. (dawn.com)
  • Citizenship and immigration minister Chris Alexander has urged employers to make sure they are ready for the new Express Entry scheme. (workpermit.com)
  • They will also have to meet the requirements of one of the Canadian immigration programs for skilled immigrants. (workpermit.com)
  • Mr Alexander says that the large number of immigrants who have become Canadian citizens this year confirms that there have been significant improvements in the immigration system. (workpermit.com)
  • The Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander has welcomed the first immigrant to come to Canada under the Start-Up visa for entrepreneurs. (workpermit.com)
  • The new Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander has announced a new stream of the Start-Up visa program. (workpermit.com)
  • However, the government pushed back, arguing that the scheme was "fair and beneficial" to workers. (mining-technology.com)
  • The main point of contention is that the government receives half of any surplus from the miners' scheme under the agreement. (mining-technology.com)
  • So far, the UK Government has made £4.4bn from the scheme, in return for guaranteeing its cash value. (mining-technology.com)
  • India's scheme to promote a select number of universities to "institutes of eminence" status has been labelled "a huge farce" after the government finally reached its target of bestowing 20 campuses with the award. (timeshighereducation.com)
  • The government on Friday raised the interest rate on five-year recurring deposit scheme to 6.7 per cent from 6.5 per cent for the December quarter and retained the rates for all other small savings schemes. (tribuneindia.com)
  • The government notifies the interest rate on small savings schemes, majorly operated by post offices, every quarter. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Meetings are currently being held across the country with stakeholders and business leaders, to ensure the transition to the new scheme runs smoothly when it is launched in the new year. (workpermit.com)
  • A bill came into force on 1st August this year aimed at reducing waiting times for Canadian citizenship by streamlining the process. (workpermit.com)
  • Runner directed the scheme for the entirety of its 20-year operation, providing instructions to co-conspirators who ran the day-to-day operations through a Canadian company. (postalnews.com)
  • Every year since the late 1980s, hatcheries in Canada, Japan, Korea, Russia and the U.S. have collectively released some five billion young salmon into the North Pacific. (outdoorcanada.ca)
  • Earlier this year, major retailers were the ones facing increased scrutiny after an annual scorecard found most major grocery chains in Canada fail to label their salmon products as "farmed. (timescolonist.com)
  • Observational Personal Finance essays, stories, case studies and how to articles with a distinctly Canadian Point of View, from the Chief Kibitzer of Personal Finance. (canajunfinances.com)
  • Vehicles from Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari and Lamborghini were included in the scheme, as well as less exotic makes, finance staff said. (scmp.com)
  • Robert L. FitzPatrick, the publisher, is the co-author of the book, False Profits , the first book-length analysis of pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing ever published. (pyramidschemealert.org)
  • BONN (Reuters) - A top German banker went on trial on Monday accused of playing a role in a multibillion-euro German tax fraud scheme that has ensnared scores of domestic and global banks and hundreds of individuals. (yahoo.com)
  • We are thrilled to expand our independent repair program to more locations across the U.S. and to businesses across Europe and Canada," said Jeff Williams, Apple's chief operating officer in a statement. (computerworld.com)
  • La mise en oeuvre de programmes de traitement de la toxicomanie reposant sur des données factuelles est rare en milieu carcéral, alors que traiter la toxicomanie en prison permet de réduire la transmission d'infections, la récidive et l'overdose fatale à la sortie. (who.int)