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Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Best Of Maclean’s. Each Saturday, we place a spotlight on the top story from Macleans.ca from the past week, showcasing the most interesting people, places and stories from across Canada.

The Swindler Sisters of Cape Breton

This past Tuesday our feature on one of the most wild, brazen fraud attempts in memory was published online. By the end of the week, the four women at the centre of the story—three sisters and their mother—who had claimed $56 million in sales across ten companies were officially sentenced to between two and four years of prison for their crimes.

The Saker sisters did it all: cooking, baking, waiting tables, managing the books and paying the bills as they grew their culinary empire on Cape Breton Island. But when a routine audit unravelled an elaborate, years-long tax fraud, the web of lies intensified in this unbelievable story of the family that nearly swindled the CRA out of millions.

Full story here

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Cottage Industry: Tales from the national cottage market frenzy

Vacation properties have never been in such high demand. In this sweeping cross-country survey, Maclean’s looks at 10 of the most popular regions to buy a cottage. The July issue identifies what makes these spots so attractive and tells the stories of Canadians who bought cottages and cabins over the last few years, battling through a landscape of frenzied bidding wars and buying properties without even setting foot in the province.

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