"...Macquarie, Orion, Yorkton. Know the history of Yorkton? Management was fined heavily and censured by Canadian authorities for unbelievably shady activities. So they became Orion who ended up with Macquarie. One of the patterns was to promote the heck out of something, sell out at the top and then drive it into the ground. When it was all the way down then of course it had to be sold to some other company who conveniently walked away with most of the value."

Check out the "Crime of the Century" audio series (last installment this weekend) on Financialsense.com. The Canadian banks have a crooked history going way back. It is even odds (or greater) that if your gold junior is financed by a Canadian Bank that they will short it's shares ahead of the financing. I have absolutely no idea whether we have been a victim of this. Certainly we are in the right neighborhood. If one had the time, expertise and inclination...you could follow the money and find out whether we have been played or not.