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Will Denis Coderre enter race to be mayor of Montreal?
Quebec :: Canada | 6 months ago
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Story I am beyond reproach, Mr. Coderre said in an interview Sunday morning on the CBC's French-language radio. I have been elected and re-elected six times, including after the sponsorship scandal...Mr. Coderre, who is topping polls to lead the city
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Senior counsel leading questioning in Quebec corruption inquiry quits
Montreal :: Canada | 7 months ago
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The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Oct. 16 2012, 3:55 PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Oct. 16 2012, 3:55 PM EDT The senior counsel leading questioning in Quebec's corruption inquiry has abruptly resigned. Sylvain Lussier quit the commission Tuesday,
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Misconduct among other problems alleged at Canada's embassy in Copenhagen
Ottawa :: Canada | 9 months ago
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Mistrust and flagging morale have afflicted staff at Canada's embassy in Copenhagen for at least a decade, a hidden government audit suggests. The findings of an October 2003 inspection of embassy operations surfaced this week as the Department of
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Sponsorship scandal exec sells house, possessions
Montreal :: Canada | 1 year ago
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Jean Brault, 60, who was sentenced in 2006 to 2 1/2 years in prison for defrauding taxpayers of over $1.2 million, sent a flyer to his neighbours that read: "Everything must go!" Furniture, mirrors even some of his shirts and ties are for sale on
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Quebec construction inquiry mired in construction flap
Vancouver :: Canada | 1 year ago
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QMI Agency has learned that Commissioner France Charbonneau and 40 colleagues will be housed in a downtown building that will be completely refurbished...Quebec's real estate arm, the SIQ, will oversee construction of a headquarters that will take up
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Ottawa's ethical low ground is well-trodden
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 1 year ago
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From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2012 4:30AM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2012 4:34AM EDT Federal politics wasn't always morally challenged. If you want to pin a date on when the ethical decline began in earnest, you
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Ottawa nixes out-of-court settlement in sponsorship civil suit
Ottawa :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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More related to this story There are two parallel tracks one is civil and one is criminal and I think it is important that both do their job, Ms...Sources said a complex deal was put in place last summer in which Luc Lemay, one of the people who
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Chrétien wins $200,000 in compensation for sponsorship battle
Ottawa :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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The Federal Court has ordered the government to pay $200,000 each to former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien and his late chief of staff compensation for some of the legal costs they racked up fighting the findings of an inquiry into the
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Tories need same openness on G8 fund as Libs showed on sponsorship: McCallum
Ottawa :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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The Liberals are challenging Stephen Harper's Conservative government to show the same degree of accountability on G8 spending that a previous Liberal government displayed in the wake of the sponsorship scandal. John McCallum, the Liberal Treasury
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Key figure in sponsorship scandal set to become witness
Ottawa :: Canada | almost 2 years ago
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Liberal operative after a decade-long probe into the sponsorship program, as it nears cutting a deal with another player in the scandal to become a state witness and testify about millions in alleged political kickbacks, government sources said. It
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