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View More NewsUK Liberal Democrats have urged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to investigate Nigel Farage’s ties to Bitcoin treasury company Stack BTC after it disclosed a 37 Bitcoin purchase and published promotional material featuring the Reform UK leader, who is also a shareholder.In a letter to the FCA, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper asked the regulator to investigate whether Farage breached market rules by appearing in a promotional video for Stack BTC while holding a financial stake in the company.“The FCA must investigate whether Farage’s plans to cash in on Crypto could potentially amount to market abuse and a conflict…
The worst serial killer in Canadian history was a British Columbia pig farmer named Robert Pickton. During the 1990s, he preyed on impoverished women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside—primarily sex workers whom he lured to his farm in the suburban municipality of Port Coquitlam. In 2007, he was convicted of the murder of six women and sent to prison (he died after being stabbed by a fellow inmate two years ago). But DNA from 33 other presumed victims was found on his farm, and Pickton himself claims to have killed 49 women. While the death toll is indeterminate, we know that…
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There’s a certain kind of book that doesn’t excite my interest in newly published form, but which I will hungrily snatch up when a beaten-in paperback edition gets tossed to the curb. My Toronto neighbourhood, being well-populated by empty nesters with a view toward downsizing, regularly surrenders such treasures by the boxload—alongside old puzzles, CD holders, underused exercise equipment, and half-collapsed street-hockey nets.My favourite specimens are non-fiction blockbusters from the Cold War period, when these greying neighbours were still starry-eyed undergraduates, eager for the mind-expanding revelations of new-age prophets and ancient mystics. My latest haul included Understanding Media by Marshall…
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