Tag: Canada
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Origins of Ripple: From a Canadian Vision in 2004 to Global Banking Partnerships
Ripple and its native cryptocurrency XRP are among the most discussed names in blockchain and cross-border payments today. While many associate the project with founders like Jed McCaleb, Chris Larsen, and David Schwartz, the story actually begins much earlier—with a Vancouver-based developer named Ryan Fugger. The Birth of RipplePay (2004) In 2004—years before Bitcoin’s whitepaper…
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Canada’s Crypto Maturity Moment: Scotiabank’s DXMC ETF and the Rise of Institutional XRP Adoption
On March 4, 2026, Scotiabank’s Dynamic Funds made a decisive move that signals just how far Canada has come in integrating digital assets into mainstream finance. The launch of the Dynamic Active Multi‑Crypto ETF (DXMC)—trading on Cboe Canada and built in partnership with digital‑asset pioneer 3iQ—marks another milestone in a country that has consistently led…
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Canadians Identified Within Released Epstein-Related Court Documents
In the unsealed court records connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, thousands of pages were made public. Those materials include deposition transcripts, flight manifests, contact book entries, email exhibits, and references made during legal proceedings. Within those released document sets, the following Canadian public figures have been identified in document searches and public reporting…
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Kamloops Indian Residential School Report Card and Detection Dogs
Western Standard reports on a Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation survey at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, which used ground-penetrating radar, LiDAR, and detection dogs to rule out burial signatures in some areas while identifying others for further investigation, with no confirmed human remains found to date. This update follows the 2021 announcement of…
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Constitutional Challenge Filed Against BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA)
Pender Harbour, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – February 9, 2026) – The Pender Harbour and Area Residents Association (PHARA) has today filed a Notice of Civil Claim in BC Supreme Court, seeking to have the DRIPA struck down and declared of no force and effect. The constitutional challenge argues, among other things, that the DRIPA: In…
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Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 05:43 PM EST 02.09.26
As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually…
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CCP-affiliated Election Interference in British Columbia
The photo above was taken in February 2018, David Eby and Ding Guo, on the right, attended the Friends of Wenzhou Society banquet with Chinese Consul Tong Xiaoling (yellow jacket turned to podium). Sam Cooper from Vancouver is the bravest reporter in Canada and it’s thanks to his news outlet “The Bureau” that we have…
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China snags Canadian Gold Mining Company in $5.5B Takeover
Media reports a $5.5 billion acquisition of Canadian-listed Allied Gold by China’s Zijin Mining, a partially state-owned firm, announced on January 26, 2026, framing it as rapid fallout from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January 16 announcement of a new Canada-China “strategic partnership” during his Beijing visit. Allied Gold Corporation (a Canadian-listed gold producer, recently acquired…
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Trump isn’t Bullying Canada, He’s Exposing It
Donald Trump’s threat of 100 percent tariffs if Canada deepens trade with China has been dismissed, predictably, as bullying. Mean. Crude. Intimidation over diplomacy. That reaction misses the point, and lets Canada’s political class off the hook yet again. What matters is why Canada is so vulnerable to it, and why Trump is doing exactly…