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Alexandra Posadzki

@alexposadzki.bsky.social
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Financial and cybercrime reporter for The Globe and Mail. Author of national bestseller Rogers v. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada's Telecom Empire.

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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 1h
Digital-asset tracing will be key priority for new financial-crimes agency, deputy minister says www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Digital-asset tracing will be key priority for new financial-crimes agency, deputy minister says
Finding workers skilled in forensic accounting, digital forensics and blockchain analysis will be essential to the agency’s success, Rob Stewart says
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 17h
Rogue AI behaviour creates a legal quandary www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Rogue AI behaviour creates a legal quandary
Courts must wrestle with question of whether AI creators should be held responsible for damage caused by rogue agents
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Supreme Court to test legal system’s limits for Canadian victims of cryptocurrency fraud www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Supreme Court to test legal system’s limits for Canadian victims of cryptocurrency fraud
Top court agrees to hear appeal of 2025 decision involving Binance cryptocurrency exchange
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Financial-crime regulations governing lawyers require ‘considerable improvements,’ watchdog says www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Financial-crime regulations governing lawyers require ‘considerable improvements,’ watchdog says
Financial Action Task Force recommends Canada beef up the effectiveness of its risk-based supervision of lawyers
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI agents tried to hack divorce records from a Canadian government website, report says www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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AI agents tried to hack divorce records from a Canadian government website, report says
Failed hack on Library and Archives Canada database is latest example of the lengths to which semi-autonomous AI agents will go to fulfill human commands
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canada urged to improve prosecution of complex financial-crime cases, global review says www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Canada urged to improve prosecution of complex financial-crime cases, global review says
The FATF found that Canada faces ‘persistent challenges’ in prosecuting professional money laundering
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bell, Cohere release AI model designed to aid cybersecurity investigations www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Bell, Cohere release AI model designed to aid cybersecurity investigations
Organizations around the world have raced to integrate AI into their defences in response to growing concerns about hackers using the technology
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Canada’s Big Six banks working on tokenized deposits in latest digital money push www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Canada’s Big Six banks working on tokenized deposits in latest digital money push
Joint project will begin with moving tokens denominated in Canadian dollars between financial institutions
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How AI agents repurposed a University of Toronto link-shortening tool to communicate with each other www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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AI agents repurposed a University of Toronto link-sharing tool to communicate with each other
No data was compromised, and U of T’s digital properties were not affected, the university says
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yoshua Bengio’s non-profit to get up to $300-million from Canada, Germany to expand safe AI development www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Yoshua Bengio’s non-profit to get up to $300-million from Canada, Germany to expand safe AI development
Montreal group aims to build a system called Scientist AI that would prioritize safety and monitor other models
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josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Scotiabank paid music funder FACTOR $11-million in their settlement over the heist of $9.8-million from FACTOR's account Neither would reveal the value when I broke the settlement story in June. But it was buried in FACTOR's just-published annual report www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...
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Scotiabank paid music funder FACTOR $11-million to settle heist case, documents show
Scotiabank, FACTOR had previously declined to reveal value of settlement stemming from $9.8-million theft from music funder’s account in 2014
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Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society @torontosri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What do new AI capabilities mean for Canada's critical digital infrastructure, economy, & national security? Join @nicolaspapernot.bsky.social, @alexposadzki.bsky.social, Avi Goldfarb (@utoronto.ca), Kathryn Hume (@vectorinstitute.ai ), & Samir Chhabra (ISED) to find out! Register: shorturl.at/RSOhK
Join Samir Chhabra (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada), Kathryn Hume (Vector Institute), Alexandra Posadzki (The Globe and Mail), and University of Toronto's Avi Goldfarb and Nicolas Papernot in-person on 10 September for a discussion on AI-powered threats and Canada's future.
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Very excited to moderate this discussion!
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canadian securities regulators decline to oversee sports, entertainment contracts for prediction markets www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ar...
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Canadian securities regulators decline to oversee sports, entertainment contracts for prediction markets
Regulators say the bets don’t belong under securities law and won’t be offered through regulated investment platforms
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ontario considers introducing unexplained wealth orders to seize assets believed to have been obtained through crime www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Ontario considers introducing unexplained wealth orders to seize assets obtained through crime
Controversial legal tool used in other provinces places onus on individuals to prove assets were obtained legally
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Canadian banks implement prediction market rules for employees as the platforms’ arrival sparks concerns www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Canadian banks implement prediction market rules for employees as the platforms’ arrival sparks concerns
Newly launched exchanges allow users to wager on events such as Bank of Canada interest rate decisions or corporate earnings metrics
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My story in today's Globe and Mail explores how Canada's insider trading laws are not fit for purpose when it comes to insider trading on prediction markets:
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This FTX claims broker is now courting victims of a $155-million hack of a Canadian bitcoin firm www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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This FTX claims broker is now courting victims of a $155-million hack of a Canadian bitcoin firm
Thomas Braziel, whose firm brokered close to US$1-billion of FTX bankruptcy claims, is bringing together victims of the Coinkite Inc. hack for a potential lawsuit against the crypto wallet maker
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Film financier Jason Cloth ran ‘Ponzi-like’ fraud scheme, OSC alleges www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Film financier Jason Cloth ran ‘Ponzi-like’ fraud scheme, OSC alleges
He allegedly misappropriated more than $70-million of investors’ funds, concealed his wrongdoing
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Out of the fog: How St. John’s became an unlikely hub for tech startups /via @globeandmail with @seansilcoff.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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How St. John’s has become an unlikely hub for tech startups
As stemming the outflow of top Canadian talent to the U.S. becomes a larger priority, Newfoundland’s success story holds lessons for the rest of Canada
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Experts call for greater oversight after OpenAI models go rogue and hack startup www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Experts call for greater oversight after OpenAI models go rogue and hack startup
AI tech giant says it expects this type of attack to become more common with new cyber-capable models
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Think tank’s website cloned by hostile foreign intelligence agency, founder says www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Think tank’s website cloned by hostile foreign intelligence agency, founder says
Macdonald-Laurier Institute says spoofed site was discovered during a Five Eyes investigation
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Canada’s securities regulators bolster cybersecurity guidance www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Canada’s securities regulators bolster cybersecurity guidance
New AI models pose increasing threats to firms, which need to tighten security measures, report says
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Canadian hacker Aubrey Cottle sentenced to 18 months custody after pleading guilty to cyberattack charges www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Canadian hacker Aubrey Cottle sentenced to 18 months custody after pleading guilty to cyberattack charges
Mr. Cottle pleaded guilty last week to charges related to a hack of a Texas Republican Party website
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm thrilled to share that my second book is on the way, and will be published by Doug Pepper at Signal Books! 🎉
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Canadian hacker pleads guilty to charges for cyberattack on Texas Republican website www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Canadian hacker pleads guilty to charges for cyberattack on Texas Republican website
Ontario resident Aubrey Cottle also charged in U.S. over 2021 incident
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
St. John’s-based Nasdaq Verafin launches AI agents to help combat financial crime www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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St. John’s-based Nasdaq Verafin launches AI agents to help combat financial crime
Company is harnessing AI to support financial institutions and allow human investigators to tackle more complex tasks
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The scam industry: Four ways sophisticated swindlers are doing Canadians - and what you can do to protect yourself www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Four ways sophisticated swindlers are duping Canadians – and how to protect yourself
With AI and other online tools making it harder to spot scams, experts explain what to look out for and what can be done to address the problem
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 05/06/2026
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Business Brief: The ‘scampocalypse’
How swindlers are duping Canadians – and how to protect yourself
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
U of T researchers discover method of using AI to create more dangerous computer worms www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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U of T researchers discover method of using AI to create more dangerous computer worms
Any device connected to the internet is at risk, researchers say
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Minister Solomon confirms Canada now part of Anthropic’s Mythos AI preview program www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Minister Solomon confirms Canada now part of Anthropic’s Mythos AI preview program
The program aims to protect companies from hackers by granting them access to Mythos before its wide release
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
FinTRAC warns companies about potential human trafficking ahead of FIFA World Cup www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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FinTRAC warns companies about potential human trafficking linked to FIFA World Cup
Anti-money-laundering watchdog issues guidance on identifying transactions linked to human trafficking, either for forced labour or sexual exploitation
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
SCOOP: Sarah Paquet exiting as director of Canada’s anti-money-laundering watchdog www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Sarah Paquet exiting as director of Canada’s anti-money-laundering watchdog
Stéphane Sirard, FinTRAC’s deputy director of intelligence, will serve as director until a replacement is named
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
B.C Securities Commission identifies more than 100 suspected money mules in investment fraud cases www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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B.C. Securities Commission identifies more than 100 money mules in investment fraud cases
‘Knock and talk’ program aims to dissuade individuals from moving dirty money on behalf of fraudsters
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Finance Minister pitches digital trade mission to showcase Canada’s fintech capabilities (with @stefaniemarotta.bsky.social) www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Finance Minister pitches digital trade mission to showcase Canada’s fintech capabilities
Champagne proposes leveraging Canada’s reputation as a trustworthy partner to bring innovations abroad
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
FinTRAC penalizes three organizations for alleged failures in financial crime controls www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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FinTRAC penalizes three organizations for alleged failures in financial crime controls
Canada’s financial crime watchdog levied the fines against VersaBank, RE/MAX Twin City Realty and Birks Group
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New financial crime agency aims to improve Canada’s enforcement regime www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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New financial crime agency aims to improve Canada’s enforcement regime
Federal policing agency to focus on bolstering anti-money-laundering actions
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Patchapalooza: Canadian companies brace for wave of software fixes from Mythos AI threat www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Patchapalooza: Canadian companies brace for software fixes from Mythos AI threat
Anthropic’s new AI model is expected to reveal an exponential surge in system vulnerabilities that bad actors could exploit
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
With scams on the rise, international students are targets on the black market for bank accounts www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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With scams on the rise, international students are targets on the black market for bank accounts
Canadian banks are using technology to push back on criminals funnelling money with sophisticated fraud schemes
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Toronto police charge three in ‘SMS Blaster’ scam-text operation www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Toronto police charge three in ‘SMS Blaster’ scam-text operation
Police say it’s the first time the portable devices used to mimic cellphone towers have been detected in Canada
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Extortion-linked transactions on the rise, FinTRAC says www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Extortion-linked transactions on the rise, FinTRAC says
Agency reports 100 extortion-related disclosures to law enforcement since the start of the year, more than the past two years combined
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Macklem says Canada must move quickly to address AI-related cybersecurity risks www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Macklem says Canada must move quickly to address AI-related cybersecurity risks
Bank of Canada Governor says he spoke with U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell this week about Anthropic’s AI model Mythos
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Social media seen contributing to high level of securities frauds www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Social media seen contributing to high level of securities frauds
Regulators issue warning after more than $704-million in fraud was reported in 2025
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Anthropic’s AI model sparks rush from industry, government to batten down defence hatches www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Anthropic’s AI model sparks rush from industry, government to batten down defence hatches
Financial and tech sectors and national governments brace for security threat posed by latest iteration of Mythos
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Canadian bank execs, regulators meet to discuss risks raised by Anthropic’s new AI model www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Canadian bank execs, regulators meet to discuss risks raised by Anthropic’s new AI model
Anthropic has said its Mythos model has already found thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, raising concerns about its use by threat actors
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Canada, U.S. and Britain seize more than $12-million in crypto scam proceeds during Operation Atlantic www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Canada, U.S. and Britain seize more than $12-million in crypto scam proceeds during Operation Atlantic
Law enforcement agencies plan to probe additional $33-million potentially linked to fraud schemes
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
SCOOP: Ottawa launches consultations for national anti-fraud strategy www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Ottawa launches consultations for national anti-fraud strategy
Latest data indicates victims reported more than $704-million in losses in 2025
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Good news for anyone who missed the stage adaptation of Rogers v. Rogers (or just really loved it and wants to see it again) - it'll be back in Toronto Nov. 8 to Dec. 13, at the Berkeley Street Theatre! www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
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Canadian Stage 2026-27 season to include Cabaret and Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Lineup will feature performances from Tom Rooney, Paul Gross, Ann-Marie MacDonald and more
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Canada, U.S., Britain team up to tackle crypto scams www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
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Canada, U.S., Britain team up to tackle crypto scams
Law enforcement agencies launch co-ordinated effort to identify fraud victims, perpetrators
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Alexandra Posadzki @alexposadzki.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Telus investigating hack of its digital services arm (with @irenegalea.bsky.social) www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Telus investigating hack of its digital services arm
Group claims it has stolen customer data from Telus Digital
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