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Showing posts with label Senate. Show all posts
Liberal convention sets stage for 2015
The four-day Liberal convention closed yesterday setting the stage for 2015. Despite a leaked Conservative memo suggesting attempts to dis...
Dismantling Senate Liberals "about doing the right thing”
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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau turned the Senate and pundits on their heads this week following his announcement that Liberal Senators woul...
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The Duffy Affair: Doing the right thing?
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Robocall Scandal |
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The Wallin Affair
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The senate voted to suspend senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, and Patrick Brazeau without pay yesterday, an unprecedented move that has ...
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Duffy drops another bombshell on the Harper government
Within six days of Duffy's bombshell allegation implicating Harper in the Duffy affair, Duffy released documents today which implicate...
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The Duffy Affair: Explosive new details summarized
The Conservatives have desperately tried to dodge the scandals floating in the senate but as time progresses, the situation appears to be ...
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The Wallin Affair: Stephen Harper's Nightmare come to life?
Disgraced former Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin is on the hook for $121,348 in inappropriate travel expenses since her appointment in ...
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Poilievre: Conservative proposed senate changes can be done
Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre announced the government can reform the senate without opening the constitution.
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Document: Conservative Party wanted to repay Duffy's expenses
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A new document reveals the Conservative party wanted to pay disgraced senator Mike Duffy's owing in a bid to cover up his scandal. The...
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Conservative Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton resigns
Amid an upcoming cabinet shuffle, Conservative Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton has resigned the cabinet and a few other Conservative MPs ha...
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Conservative Senator was paid for his charity work too...
The Conservatives are one to talk about ethics when Senators from their party committed the same acts as they claim were wrong for Liberal...
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MPs increase their travel budgets and salaries
On March 25, the Commons Board of Internal Economy decided to give MPs a pay increase and larger travel allowance. MPs will be getting a 1...
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The Duffy Affair: Tkachuk resigns committee citing cancer
Conservative senator David Tkachuk is stepping down as head of the Internal Economy Committee as of Thursday citing "preventative tre...
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The Duffy Affair: LeBreton to ask AG to look into senate spending
Government Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton will ask the auditor general to conduct a "comprehensive" audit over senate expenses. ...
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Liberal leader Trudeau on accountability, senate reform, constitution
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told the Federation of Canadian Municipalities yesterday in Vancouver, the only way to restore public trust ...
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The Duffy Affair: 2009 email reveals requests for more perks
An email from 2009 shows former Conservative senator Mike Duffy asked the Conservative party for more perks just six months after Prime Mi...
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The Duffy Affair: Harper attacks opposition in Question Period
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The barrage of opposition questions came again today but rather than stutter and be caught off guard , Prime Minister Stephen Harper fough...
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The Duffy Affair: Senate committee sends case to RCMP
The Senate's Internal Economy committee has unanimously sent senator Mike Duffy's expense claims to the RCMP for investigation las...
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The Duffy Affair: Harper takes a beating in Question Period
For the first time since the scandal broke, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appeared in Question Period to answer the many question oppositi...
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The Duffy Affair: Harper absent, Question Period chaotic
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper was expected to be in Question Period yesterday but decided not to show up. The opposition has many question...
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