Has Kimberley jr hockey team been duped in $7.5 million donation??
Anyone else been following this? A Calgary man that supposedly made his fortune in a Euro lotto pledged $7.5 million to a Kimberley junior hockey team over a month ago. The money has yet to be delivered and it is starting to look like this will not have a happy ending. Gould is now claiming his accounts have been frozen due to child support legal issues, but he will eventually continue in his $1.2 billion donation campaign.
Plenty of articles out there on this, but the NP one seems to summarize things well-
The Civic Centre in Kimberley is a great old barn. The banner for 1937 is hanging.
Nothing to add other than I agree, it's an awesome barn. Just got back from a tournament there. Love looking at all the old pictures and stuff they have hanging on the walls. Crazy bounces and angles off the boards because the corners have a very small radius.
Not a shocker, this goofball has been charged with fraud
And a funny addition to the story-
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Gould told them he was in talks with the Calgary Flames to acquire an ownership stake in the team. At one point, while touring the property in Oberle’s car, Gould got a call on his cell phone purportedly from someone from the Flames organization.
Gould told the person he understood what it took to buy a hockey team, repeated that he had $9.1 billion, and expressed interest in wanting to build a new arena, Oberle recalled.
I guess the first hint should have been with him using not one, but two Chequers to pay a dinner bill. Who uses Chequers to pay for stuff at the point of sale
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I know a guy who isn't that far removed from being another Gould. He likes to play the big-shot, drive a fancy car, live in a big house, own all the toys, etc. He's now declared bankruptcy twice and can't keep a steady job. After stiffing his creditors he has moved his family to Mexico where his wife still travels back to Canada to work for weeks at a time in order to feed their family, while he sits at home working on his new career of being a website developer, despite having no experience or education in the field.
Gould is an extreme example of an attitude that is almost pervasive in North America: what people think you are is more important that who you are. The huge amount of consumer debt in Canada, and especially Alberta, is tangible evidence of too many people living beyond their means. One day the bubble will burst for these folks and they'll take the rest of us down with them.
I know a guy who isn't that far removed from being another Gould. He likes to play the big-shot, drive a fancy car, live in a big house, own all the toys, etc. He's now declared bankruptcy twice and can't keep a steady job. After stiffing his creditors he has moved his family to Mexico where his wife still travels back to Canada to work for weeks at a time in order to feed their family, while he sits at home working on his new career of being a website developer, despite having no experience or education in the field.
Gould is an extreme example of an attitude that is almost pervasive in North America: what people think you are is more important that who you are. The huge amount of consumer debt in Canada, and especially Alberta, is tangible evidence of too many people living beyond their means. One day the bubble will burst for these folks and they'll take the rest of us down with them.
I'd really like to debate this in detail, but my butler is polishing my solid gold keyboard with diamond keys, so it will have to wait.
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