That link I posted earlier with a million shares shorted on OTC, has been covered as of Aug 30th.
Makes me happy to think the guy got totally throttled if he covered that fast, price was never higher than it was late August.

https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/PIRGF/short-sales

Anyway, TSX is heavily shorted on gold stocks right now.
https://www.tmx.com/en/pdf/short_positions/Aug31-2013.pdf