Investigators believe an illegal campfire sparked the wildfire that tore through West Kelowna’s Kalamoir Regional Park earlier this week, forcing hundreds of residents from their homes and scorching more than nine hectares of land. “RCMP come up to me and he said, ‘You have one minute sir to leave and the fire is 500 yards…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two Hamilton men are facing charges after police dismantled an alleged contraband tobacco manufacturing operation and seized more than $10 million worth of products. The development is the result of an Ontario Provincial Police investigation dubbed Project Track. It began in April in relation to a manufacturing…
“The tax loss to the Alberta government would have been nearly $781,000, including the cigarettes seized incident to arrest. The federal tobacco tax loss was about $452,000. While not particularized as a fraud against the federal government, the total tax loss to taxpayers would have been $1,232,516.13.”