The majority of Canadians named in the Panama Papers tax evasion scandal in 2016 had paid their owed taxes, according to an official with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Cathy Hawara, assistant revenue commissioner of the Compliance Programs Branch of CRA, provided testimony on potential tax revenue loss resulting from non-compliance and tax evasion before…

News analysis Zhang Gaoli, the former vice premier of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) State Council, was recently accused of sexual assault against Peng Shuai, a professional tennis star who is 40 years younger than Zhang. Although Chinese authorities have been scrambling to block all related posts, more and more of Zhang’s alleged scandals are…

On Oct. 3, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its affiliates began publishing stories about the Pandora Papers—a trove of 2.94 terabytes of data comprising some 11.9 million records, reportedly exposing the finances of the world’s wealthy elite. The Pandora Papers follow the ICIJ’s 2016 Panama Papers and 2017 Paradise Papers investigations. The…