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Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff When the British infantry first advanced on the area known as Pilckem Ridge at 3:50 a.m., it followed days of artillery bombing that had the German [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, KAREN HOWLETT A former senior executive at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital and the former president of a once prominent Ontario construction company have been criminally charged as [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff The receiver for Paramount Equity Financial Corp., a mortgage investment company found to have defrauded investors, has escalated its legal battle with a Toronto real estate [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff R.C. Morris Capital Management Ltd., a Vancouver-based private lender that backed Gary Ng's failed spate of wealthmanager acquisitions, has taken extraordinary legal and strategic steps to [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff Gary Ng, the Winnipeg-based entrepreneur who was briefly a force in Canada's wealth-management sector, had less than $500,000 in his personal accounts when he borrowed more [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff The prosecution of three former highranking officials of CannTrust Holdings Inc. has collapsed after a key government witness conceded that the fundamental allegation against the trio [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff Canada's securities regulators are considering whether the identity of short sellers, as well as the details of their trades, should be publicly disclosed when they take [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff The Ontario government has tapped Kevan Cowan to serve as chair of the province's securities regulator after the unexpected departure of its last chair, Heather Zordel. [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS, GREG McARTHUR, JAMES BRADSHAW The Ontario government is down to a short list of candidates to chair the provincial securities regulator, with two veteran financial executives among [...]

Byline: GREG MCARTHUR, DAVID MILSTEAD Cormark Securities, a Toronto mid-market investment bank, facilitated an allegedly 'illegal and abusive shortselling scheme' where it misrepresented to one client, Canopy Growth Corp., the [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have launched a criminal investigation into Bridging Finance Inc., the private lender that was placed into receivership in 2021 and [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, ANDREW WILLIS Heather Zordel, the new chair of the recently restructured Ontario Securities Commission has resigned, just seven months after she was appointed to lead the board [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Natasha Sharpe, the former chief executive of Bridging Finance Inc., was a part-owner of a luxury condo development known as The One when the troubled [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, GREG McARTHUR The Ontario Securities Commission is placing sanctions on cannabis company Cronos Group Inc. and a former executive for failing to file accurate financial statements after [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, KAREN HOWLETT Donna Quan, the former executive director of the Toronto District School Board, was part owner of a private school while she was running Canada's largest [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, KAREN HOWLETT TORONTO -- A key figure in several public-sector scandals in Ontario who has touted his ability to influence the awarding of multimilliondollar government contracts has [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff Heather Zordel, whose appointment this year as chair of the Ontario Securities Commission prompted two high-profile resignations and an outcry from some investor protection advocates, was [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff Two employees of one of the world's largest newswire services, who allegedly made more than 1,500 stock trades just before various pieces of marketmoving news were [...]

Byline: SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON, GREG McARTHUR Mohamad Fakih, the founder and executive chair of Paramount Fine Foods, is locked in a legal battle with the restaurant chain's biggest investors, who [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE The partnership behind the tallest and most ambitious luxury condominium development in Canadian history has disintegrated, sparking a court fight and raising doubts about the [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, ANDREW WILLIS The Ford government's appointment of a Bay Street lawyer and Tory fundraiser to chair Ontario's securities regulator has prompted two high-profile resignations, as well as [...]

Byline: GREG M C ARTHUR; Staff The co-founders of the failed Fortress Real Developments Inc., one of the first Canadian companies to offer higher risk, syndicated mortgage products to retail [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG MCARTHUR Five months into its liquidity crunch, Toronto-based asset manager Ninepoint Partners LP has proposed a restructuring to unfreeze redemptions from its signature private debt fund [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG MCARTHUR Bridging Finance Inc.'s majority owner, Jenny Coco, allegedly used investor funds to secure a large construction loan for her luxury condo project with developer Sam [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff The founder of what was once one of Canada's largest financial planning companies has been sentenced to 31/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, IRENE GALEA The Canadian banks that financed the troubled redevelopment of Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital are suing the hospital, as well as the provincial agency in charge [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff The principals of Paramount Group, which sold pooled mortgage products until it was shut down in 2017, defrauded investors by directing their funds into speculative real [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG McARTHUR British private equity firm BC Partners is no longer the lead investor in a deal to co-purchase Coco Paving Group alongside Canadian waste management company [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff Two Toronto-area programmers for GlobeNewswire, one of the largest wire services in the world, are under investigation as part of an insider-trading probe launched by the [...]

Byline: GREG MCARTHUR, TIM KILADZE David and Natasha Sharpe, the husband-and-wife executive team that ran Bridging Finance Inc. until its 2021 receivership, defrauded investors out of millions of dollars through [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE An Ontario court has authorized Bridging Finance Inc.'s receiver to reject the two final bids it received during an unsuccessful, five-month effort to sell the [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, RACHELLE YOUNGLAI Technology giant Apple Inc. is suing Sam Mizrahi's company to terminate its lease at the developer's long-planned 85-storey skyscraper in downtown Toronto, saying it is [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff Grant Vingoe, the acting chair of the Ontario Securities Commission, has been named the organization's first chief executive officer under a new structure the province is [...]

Byline: GREG MCARTHUR, TIM KILADZE A mysterious and anonymous group claiming to be investors in Bridging Finance Inc. has threatened to derail a proposal by the troubled lender's court-appointed receiver [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR; Staff Creditors to the Bondfield Construction group have won a major victory at the Ontario Court of Appeal, which upheld a ruling that Bondfield's former president and [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Gary Ng, the entrepreneur who took Canada's asset management industry by storm with a highly publicized acquisition spree that came crashing down amid allegations of [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG McARTHUR A design flaw in some of Canada's most popular private debt funds has sparked a reckoning for the sector, with retail investors realizing the promises [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Asset manager Ninepoint Partners LP has suspended redemptions on four of its private credit funds, citing a spike in payout requests related to the collapse [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG McARTHUR Bridging Finance Inc.'s investors will lose an estimated $1.3-billion under a final proposal to scrap selling the private lender in favour of winding down its [...]

Byline: GREG MCARTHUR; Staff A man from Barrie, Ont., who lured in more than 500 people to invest in a point-of-sale device that he claimed was used in stores across [...]

Byline: GREG MCARTHUR, RACHELLE YOUNGLAI Apple Inc. has threatened to pull out of Sam Mizrahi's massive retail and condo project in downtown Toronto, dealing a blow to the development of [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE One of Bridging Finance Inc.'s worstperforming loans was advanced to a business partner of Jenny Coco, the private lender's majority owner, and the debt has [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG McARTHUR Lead British private equity firm BC Partners and Canadian waste management company GFL Environmental Inc. are teaming up to buy Coco Paving Group, the family [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG McARTHUR Lead The controlling shareholders of troubled Bridging Finance Inc., Jenny and Rock-Anthony Coco, are in talks to sell their family road-paving business, The Globe and [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, KAREN HOWLETT Lead The corruption investigation into Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd., once one of the largest builders of public sector projects in Ontario, has widened to include [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG McARTHUR Lead Bridging Finance Inc.'s investors are expected to lose at least $580-million, according to the lender's court-appointed receiver, marking the first official writeoff estimate for [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Lead Bridging Finance Inc.'s largest borrower used fabricated documents when posting collateral, falsely suggesting to the private lender he had nearly $180-million in investments, The [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Lead After more than a decade as a financial consultant and money manager, Alejandro Cardot had a knack for spotting the flaws in investment pitches. [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, GREG McARTHUR Lead Ontario's Finance Minister is calling on the province's securities watchdog to review a move by several of Canada's largest banks to stop the sale [...]