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VANCOUVER Great Canadian Gaming Corp. CEO Rod Baker has resigned, the company said on Monday, after he and his wife were charged with traveling to northern Canada and misleading authorities in order to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
The North York, Ontario-based company said in a statement that it received the chief executive officer’s resignation on Sunday but offered no details, stating that it did not comment on personnel matters.
Mr. Baker did not immediately return a request for comment.
Great Canadian Gaming Corp. is in the process of being bought by Apollo Global Management, Inc. for C$2.52 billion ($1.98 billion).
"I can’t believe I’ve ever seen or heard of such a despicable, disgusting sense of entitlement and lack of a moral compass,” British Columbia Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said Monday, according to the Vancouver Sun.
Great Canadian Gaming CEO Resigns After Travel to Yukon, Accused of Vaccine Queue-Jumping
TORONTO Officials with the Yukon government have confirmed the identities of a couple from Vancouver who allegedly travelled to a remote community last week to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccine amid media reports that the former president of the Great Canadian Gaming Corp. was one of those charged with breaching the territory’s Civil Emergency Measures Act.
Tickets filed with a court registry in Whitehorse last Thursday show 55-year-old Rodney Baker and Ekaterina Baker, who is 32, were each charged with one count of failing to self-isolate for 14 days and one count of failing to act in a manner consistent with their declarations upon arriving in Yukon.
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. The distance between Vancouver and Beaver Creek, the journey that Rodney and Ekaterina Baker are said to have made to get vaccinated. Google Maps/Business Insider
Two rich Canadians travelled to remote Yukon province to cut in line for a vaccine, officials said.
Rodney and Ekaterina Baker flew more than 1,000 miles in a private plane, Yukon News reported.
They received a vaccine there, where doses are meant to be for vulnerable indigenous people.
A wealthy Canadian couple was fined after officials said they flew to Canada s remote north to access vaccines meant for vulnerable indigenous people who live there.
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Casino Mogul Charged After Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Meant For Indigenous Locals
Rodney Baker and his wife, Ekaterina Baker, allegedly flew to a rural Canadian community and posed as local motel workers in order to get vaccinated.
A Canadian casino mogul and his aspiring actor wife have been charged after they allegedly posed as motel workers to receive COVID-19 vaccine doses intended for Indigenous residents.
Rodney Baker, 55, resigned as CEO of the Great Canadian Gaming Corp. on Sunday after being accused with his wife, Ekaterina Baker, 32, of violating Yukon’s Civil Emergency Measures Act.
This followed the Vancouver couple allegedly breaking a mandatory 14-day self-isolation that they agreed to upon flying into the Whitehorse airport on Jan. 19. Just two days later, on Jan. 21, they chartered a plane to the small community of Beaver Creek, which is roughly 270 miles northwest along the Alaska border. There, they allegedly identified themselves at a mob