Author: Bruce Livesey
Canadian Banks’ Expansion into America Has Not Gone Well. Here’s Why
Written by: Bruce Livesey
Anyone living on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. would be hard-pressed not to notice the ubiquitous TD Bank branches, with their aqua-green signs and matching …
Glamorous Revenge: How a Kristallnacht Survivor Got Retribution Through Comics
Written by: Bruce Livesey
How did a young Jewish woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria in the late 1930s end up in New York and emerge as one of the …
The “Media Apocalypse” is Leaving Canadian Advertisers Facing an Uncertain Landscape
Written by: Bruce Livesey
If you’re living in Canada, it’s probably no surprise to you that 2024 has been labeled the year of the “Media Apocalypse.” There’s been a dramatic …
How COVID-19 is causing an epidemic of fraud in the U.S. & Canada
Written by: Bruce Livesey
Although much of the world’s population is sitting idle at home binge-watching Netflix, fraudsters are hard at work taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nowadays everyone …
Is fraud getting worse in Canada?
Written by: Bruce Livesey
I spent my childhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, a jewel of a port city on Canada’s west coast. We lived in a middle class neighborhood overlooking …
Why white-collar crime is ‘legal’ in Canada
Written by: Bruce Livesey
As the SNC-Lavalin case was breaking this past winter, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) asked me do a television interview about the emerging scandal. At one …
Can people go to jail for committing white-collar crime?
Written by: Bruce Livesey
The short answer is yes. But not very often. In the early 2000s, after the collapse of Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, the CEOs of these three …
What is white-collar crime?
Written by: Bruce Livesey
We all recognize so-called street crime: it’s someone breaking and entering and robbing your home, or stealing your car or other possessions. It’s murder, physical and …
