Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society

NANAIMO COMMONWEALTH HOLDING SOCIETY was a non-profit organization at the centre of a political scandal that surfaced in 1992. At that time the VANCOUVER SUN began publishing stories alleging that the society, founded in the 1950s to raise money for socialist causes, was taking funds raised for charities and using them to support the provincial NDP. In 1994 the society and 3 related organizations, all with links to the NDP, were convicted of gambling-related offences but "Bingogate," as it came...

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