In this week's lobbying newsletter, Carly looks at the decades-long fight to regulate psychotherapy and counselling in B.C.

Come join me at Investigative Journalism Foundation this summer! We're hiring *PAID* intern reporters and other positions, working anywhere in Canada. theijf.org/careers

In 2017, Karl Haase made what he thought was a savvy investment in a BC telemedicine company.

Securities regulators now believe it was part of a 'pump-and-dump' scheme that netted masterminds millions while leaving investors like Haase out in the cold.

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My first name-drop in B.C. Law Society proceedings.

14 minutes after a customer deposited bitcoin on B.C.'s ezBtc cryptocurrency exchange, someone at the company transferred it to an online casino. Founder David Smillie is accused of gambling away $13M in client funds.

My latest on his BCSC hearing: theijf.org/cryptocurrency…

Last Friday, Gerald Paulin made his first appearance in court as one of only six lobbyists ever charged with breaking federal laws governing the practice.

Some believe that number vastly underestimates the amount of shadowy lobbying in the country. theijf.org/lobbyists-char…

Last year, SFU hired private investigators to secretly watch striking workers, most of them teaching assistants. We got hundreds of pages of documents showing why they did it, and revealing the extent of the surveillance.

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Canada’s first convicted insider trading criminal believes the crime is more common than people believe. And research appears to back up that impression.

Read Bethany Lindsay’s latest: theijf.org/insider-tradin…

Just when Shein is opening a pop-up store on Granville Street...

This is excellent reporting -- on an increasingly familiar tale. Read the whole thing!

A hearing into allegations of fraud by a B.C.-based cryptocurrency platform began Tuesday, but the man behind the scheme is nowhere to be found.

Our latest: theijf.org/where-is-david…

Former customers are out millions of dollars after the collapse of the B.C.-based cryptocurrency exchange ezBtc.

The founder, David Smillie, is still nowhere to be found — although he did respond to my interview request, forwarded to him by his mom. theijf.org/where-is-david…

Last year, the owners of Skeena Sawmills petitioned the Terrace business into receivership

Now they want to buy it again in a controversial process the provincial government and First Nations are trying to stop #bcpoli #canpoli

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The B.C. Conservative Party dropped a Denman Island doctor as a candidate just hours after announcing him on Wednesday. Dr. Stephen Malthouse has stirred controversy over his views on COVID-19 and is suspended from practicing in B.C.
READ MORE: trib.al/Zc69Pab

From Colin Dacre story on Dr. Malthouse making false claims about COVID-19 in Kelowna:
'On Monday in Kelowna, he made false claims that the COVID-19 vaccine can cause people to become magnetized.
“'We have seen things like magnetism, things sticking to people. It's well proven.''

Stephen Malthouse is still suspended from practising medicine.

This new article by the Investigative Journalism Foundation was an accurate recounting of my conviction (and its repercussions) for insider trading in over one hundred separate deals spanning more than a decade:

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#InsiderTrading #UnusualWhales

Joseph Grmovsek made nearly $10 million through insider trading and received a 39-month sentence for doing so.

Research suggests there may be a lot more people in Canada trading on inside information. theijf.org/insider-tradin…

Only one person has ever been sent to prison for insider trading in Canada. I talked to Joseph Grmovsek for this story about a crime he says is 'more common than the public believes and than regulators will admit.'

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Shades of 'Catch Me if You Can.' An insider trading veteran explains how easy it was (still is?) to profit from inside information. Until you get caught, that is. Story by Bethany Lindsay for Investigative Journalism Foundation