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How to bury a $14B
liability
TORONTO - The
Workplace Safety and Insurance Board - the same
WSIB that Tory MPP
Elizabeth Witmer is now taking
over - is
burdened by an unfunded liability
of $14.2B that requires “radical and rapid steps” to fix, concluded an
independent report prepared for the government. But whether you wade
through the
unwieldy full report (.pdf) or
the condensed version, the message can still be summed up in a
paragraph: The WSIB has only 55% of what it needs to meet its
obligations. (Toronto Star) |
Criminal checks slammed
TORONTO -
A branch of the Ontario government responsible for
ensuring employers act fairly and obey the law has been criticized for
infringing the privacy rights of its employees and violating a
collective agreement. In a landmark decision Tuesday, the
Crown Employees Grievance Settlement Board
found the labour ministry acted unreasonably by conducting secret
criminal background checks on its inspectors. (Toronto Star) |
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Council guarantees loan
WINNIPEG - City council voted to
guarantee a $10M loan to a developer with a plan to build 900 townhouses
and apartments along the Fort Rouge rail yards. But, if the
developer defaults, the city would be responsible for its $10M loan. (CTV) |
Nuclear workers to get jobs back
TORONTO - An arbitrator has given 8 fired Ontario Power
Generation workers their jobs back. (CP) PREVIOUS:
'Drug-related activity'
Ontario Power Generation.
Drugs allegedly behind firings
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Councillor gets bail
CHATHAM -
A city councillor and federal liberal candidate in
Chatham, Ont., is free on bail after being arrested on six charges.
Steve Pickard,
40, is charged with assault, forcible confinement and four counts of
making death threats. (CBC) |
Processing fee is not a tax
CALGARY - A new processing fee imposed by the province
could cost the city an additional $10M in unexpected expenses.
Every time police or the parking authority requests information from
Service Alberta, the city will have to pay a $15 fee. (CTV) |
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Grow-op is not a city hall investment
SLOCAN
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The mayor of a small village in BC's West Kootenay region
says she had no idea her family was allegedly running a marijuana
grow-op, and she won't step down over what she considers a private
affair. (CBC) |
Couple
guilty
OTTAWA - Lise Pouliot,
68, and Emmanuel Feuerwerker, 60, were found guilty of fraud over
$5,000, possessing proceeds of crime worth over $5,000 and laundering
the proceeds of crime. From 2002 to 2005, they made 109 claims to
insurers Sun Life Financial. (QMI) |
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Court rejects pension bid
TORONTO - Ontario's highest court has closed the door on
a pension increase for fired Hydro One executive Eleanor Clitheroe.
Clitheroe sued Hydro One seeking to have her pension raised to
$33,644.21 a month - slightly more than the average Hydro One pensioner
gets annually. (CP) PREVIOUS:
$25K a month pension not enough
Eleanor
Clitheroe
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4 charged
TORONTO - 4 people have been charged with breach of trust
and fraud following a police investigation into cleaning contracts at
Ontario government buildings in downtown Toronto. MORE:
OPP charge provincial officials
Politicians silent on police raid
'Irregular
transactions'
Criminal probe targets Ontario Realty Corp
OPP probes ministry staff |
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$1.5M in false claims
TORONTO -
The Canada Revenue Agency says a Toronto tax preparer has
been jailed for filing returns with more than $1M in false claims.
(CBC) |
Mayor censured
LANGLEY
- A suburban Vancouver council has lost
confidence in its mayor and has voted to censure Rick Green and oust him
from two high profile public committees. (CP) |
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WSIB has been good for me
TORONTO -
WSIB
chair
Steve Mahoney,
a former Liberal cabinet minister, is paid $550 a day for the part-time
job, and billed taxpayers $141,000 last year. Mahoney is also collecting
pensions from his time as an MPP and MP. (CP) MORE:
WSIB head not sorry
Part time chair's claims 'outrageous'
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Husband refuses to pay for 'substandard' care
TRAIL - An elderly BC man is upset after
a provincial health authority stripped him and his wife of their legal
and financial rights when he complained repeatedly about his wife's care
in the local hospital. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
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Tax workers' perks
OTTAWA - Dozens of workers at Canada’s tax agency have
been caught snooping on their ex-spouses, mothers-in-law, creditors and
others by reading confidential tax files. (CP) |
NS AG to investigate
HALIFAX -
Nova Scotia's auditor general has been called in to investigate MLA
Trevor Zinck’s
alleged expense irregularities. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
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Quebec sues
Quebec is
suing former Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault for $92,000, in a bid to
recoup public funds she spent without justification during her
decade-long term. (CBC) MORE:
Lise Thibault
Trial begins
Auditors challenge spending |
$200 fine
OTTAWA -
The
federal ethics commissioner has fined Defence Minister
Peter MacKay
$200 because he violated the
federal ethics code by serving as an officer in two of his father's
companies while he was a cabinet minister. (CBC) |
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Travel tab catches MPs' eyes
OTTAWA -
Lorraine (Lori) Ridgeway,
director general for international policy and integration for the
fisheries and oceans department, came to the attention of MPs after a
Sun Media report on her expenses. (Sun Media) PREVIOUS:
Good life all part of the job
Around
the world on $400G
Probe of pipeline expense claims ordered
Transport Canada 'fictitiously' expensing |
Legal aid lawyers cut and run
TORONTO - In the last
20 years, legal aid lawyers - who receive between $77 and $98 an hour -
have had their pay increased by 15%, compared with an 83% increase for
judges and a 57% increase for Crown attorneys over just the last 10
years (Toronto Star) MORE:
Ontario legal aid boycott, nobody cares
Judges deserved raise
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Canada Post
spending
OTTAWA -
Canada Post has written "return to
sender" on a plan to have the Crown corporation cover the cost of
sending union bosses and activists to Brazilian and Cuban resorts
for political conferences. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)
has already sent a pair of six-person delegations to two sunny
destinations: the World Social Forum's "Free Palestine" conference
in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a confab in Holguin, Cuba. (QMI)
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wins pay equity case
Back to work
Changing the culture of the entitled
Canada Post goes postal
Strikes highlight Canada's pension problems
Unions fighting rearguard action
NDP counts on big labour support
Canada Post drives thousands to online billing
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Goods shipped by Canada Post found on eBay |
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Premier denounces allegations
CHARLOTTETOWN - PEI Premier Robert Ghiz is fending off allegations of
corruption and bribery within his government with just two weeks to go
before a provincial election. Several witnesses have come forward with
allegations that senior immigration officials in the province accepted
bribes in exchange for the province's sponsorship of immigration bids.
(CTV) |
Premier dismisses probe request
Immigration program has concerned Ottawa
Bribery allegations
Robert Ghiz
Auditor investigated
for potential conflict
PNP companies file audited statements
Agents earn millions
Super
sized scandal
Immigrant
investor program
PNP
companies should remain private
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City ordered to open books
OTTAWA -
Friends of Lansdowne said the courts ruled the city must
disclose financial details of the partnership plan with Ottawa Sports
and Entertainment Group. Both the city and developers were refusing to
produce these documents. (CBC)
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Lansdowne Park redevelopment
Prof speaks out against Lansdowne Live
Less shops if taxpayers pay more |
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Ethics commissioner clears MP
OTTAWA - Labour Minister Lisa Raitt
did not violate federal conflict-of-interest
guidelines when her local riding association held a fundraising
event involving lobbyists, Parliament's conflict-of-interest and
ethics commissioner said.
No rules broken
Past expenses questioned
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Liberals want Harper to call audit
Injunction sought
Aide resigns after leaving documents behind
Documents left behind
Toronto Port Authority
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Authorities should probe nanny allegations
OTTAWA - A
parliamentary committee looking into accusations that Liberal MP
Ruby Dhalla
and her family
mistreated live-in caregivers has recommended that provincial and
federal authorities look into the allegations. (CBC)
Canadian politician at work |
Plan to curb nanny abuse presented to
Parliament
Dhalla off the hook in Nannygate
Dhalla case not closed
Image takes a beating
Political agendas everywhere |
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Province to probe man's death
TORONTO -
The city of Toronto has asked the ministry of
health to investigate how Toronto Emergency Medical Services handled
the response to a 911 call that family members believe led to a
man's death. (Toronto Star)
Strike not behind man's death |
Delay due to threat, EMS says
EMS delay
Strike blamed for death
Union leader charged with mischief
Threat of violence works
Threat of violence, a new bargaining tool
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Bureaucrats' wireless costs
OTTAWA -
Cellphone and BlackBerry use at a major federal department has been out
of control, with costs skyrocketing in a chaotic atmosphere, says a new
audit.
Natural Resources Canada
failed to
lay down any rules, lost track of the number of such devices, and let
workers cut their own expensive service deals at a cost to taxpayers of
up to $500,000 a year in wasted wireless spending. (CP) |
Who's on the payroll?
OTTAWA - The mayor and
Stittsville-Kanata West Councillor Shad Qadri want city bureaucrats to
clean up the municipality's organizational chart after discovering
several shortcomings. They found the chart lists 19,000 jobs when the
budget calls for 12,100 full-time jobs, there is no indication whether
jobs are full or part time, and there are no definitions of full-time
work. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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Firms funding campaigns
TORONTO - Robert
MacDermid says the sheer amount of cash flowing from developers to
incumbents - as opposed to coming from citizens who believe in a
candidate's platform - erodes the concept of democratic representation.
(Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
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'Mr. X' wins right to argue PS case
OTTAWA - The mystery bureaucrat who is fighting the Public Service
Commission to keep his name and other personal details of his life off
the Internet won the right to argue his case under the name of Mr. X.
(Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS:
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$460,000 = 15 months in jail
REGINA - Brenda Oates
- once a high-ranking government employee, devoted volunteer and
well-respected member of the community - was led out of a Regina
courtroom in handcuffs after being sentenced to more than a year in jail
for fraud. (Regina Leader-Post) |
Even the taxman needs to go
OTTAWA - William
Baker, commissioner of the federal revenue-collecting department, laid
out between $40,000 and $45,000 on the project last year, according to
documents obtained under access-to-information legislation. (Toronto
Star) PREVIOUS:
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Worker paid under
table
OTTAWA -
A third foreign worker illegally hired by Ruby Dhalla's family has
stepped forward with complaints of being severely overworked and
underpaid. Lyle Alvarez, 32, says the MP for Brampton-Springdale
promised she would try to help her stay in Canada as a live-in caregiver
if she passed a tryout as a housekeeper at the family's Mississauga
home. (Toronto Star) |
Mother a world traveller
Dhalla
quits critic's role
'Slavegate'
Nanny
troubles
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Taxpayers lose
MIRAMICHI
- New Brunswick taxpayers are finally getting a little money back in
the wake of the 2010
collapse of Atcon, after the
province had loaned it close to $70M. The
Atcon group of companies filed
for bankruptcy in early 2010. In 2009, the Liberal government of
Shawn Graham
extended 3 different loan guarantees to Atcon worth a combined $50M,
plus an additional undetermined amount coming from the
Deh Cho bridge fallout.
Those were on top of earlier loan guarantees and loans. In April
2011,
Business New Brunswick, the
province’s economic development department,
refused to turn over documents
related to the controversial loans to the public accounts committee
of the legislature, saying the information was subject to cabinet
confidentiality and exempt from release under the Right to
Information Act. (CBC)
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RCMP probe
Provincial Nominee Program
MLA pensions to be reduced
Retroactive pension reforms difficult: Judge
Salaries jump for execs
NBSO
Agency refuses to disclose salaries
Outside consultants drew ire of bureaucrats
Business New Brunswick
NB finances not sustainable
2009
report of the auditor general
Premier's ties to Atcon questioned
Politics have been
good for us
New Brunswick MLAs
Questions about managers bonuses
No problem
Shawn Graham
NB Liquor CEO cleared
NB Liquor CEO faces conflict-of-interest hearing
Roc Consulting Group
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Municipalities want more
money
OTTAWA - Canada’s
leaky municipal infrastructure faces an increasingly grim future unless
the federal government sinks an estimated $171.8B into repairing or
replacing aging roads and water systems, a new report says. With the
Conservatives’ infrastructure funding plan set to
expire in 2014, the Federation of Canadian
Municipalities’
first-ever national infrastructure report card
called for a commitment from Ottawa to support cash-strapped
municipalities. (Toronto Star)
'Least co-operative' city council
12-page report
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Mayors ask for cash
Some municipalities 'shockingly secretive'
2011-2012 OMLET Annual Report
Councils should face fines for meeting in
secret
How powerful are BC's municipal 'super PACs'
BC municipalities want carbon-tax revenue
BC municipal spending watch
Municipal spending climbs 80% since 2000
Municipalities need to be reigned in
BC cities spend too much
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Hospital probes ER death
WINNIPEG -
The death of an 82-year-old
woman in the emergency department of Winnipeg's St. Boniface General
Hospital in June is under investigation, hospital officials say. (CBC)
PREVIOUS:
WHSC victim identified
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Mint adviser's payment excessive
OTTAWA -
Carpedia International
of Oakville will get $2.09 million for a 50-week contract to find
$7,635,705 in annual savings at the Crown corporation, which makes
coins in Ottawa and Winnipeg. (Toronto Star)
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Hospital confession sparks lawsuit
TORONTO - A former patient is suing a Toronto hospital that published a
study describing how sinks were responsible for the spread of a
drug-resistant bacteria in its intensive care unit. (Toronto Star)
RELATED:
Doctors skip hand washing
Humber hospital reveals death rate
Hospital mortality info published
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Fage found guilty
HALIFAX - Former
NS human resources minister
Ernie Fage
was expelled from caucus, just 90 minutes after
being found guilty of leaving the scene of a minor accident. (CBC)
PREVIOUS:
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NS
cabinet minister accused of leaving scene of accident resigns
'Glitch' behind delay in
accident probe, police say |
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Vaughan mess
VAUGHAN
- Former Vaughan mayor Michael Di
Biase faces 27 charges involving alleged election finance
irregularities in connection with the city's 2006 municipal
election, in which he lost to Linda Jackson by just 90 votes.
Because Di Biase is no longer on council, the city did not issue a
news release detailing the charges, as it did when rival Jackson and
Councillor Bernie DiVona were similarly charged. (Toronto Star) |
Bloated campaign costs
Troubles Continue
Charges against husband and campaign manager
Auditor says Jackson should pay
Election probe
Mayor's critics joined her at the trough
Michael Di Biase
Bernie Divona
Linda Jackson |
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City tops up pension
OTTAWA - "I don't know how it became public because I said it was an
issue that was discussed in-camera and the information that you received
should never have been received by you," Alain Lalonde told CTV. (CTV)
Surge in city business
Mayor acquitted
Court is not a level playing field
Back to patronage as usual
Cunningham decision
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The O'Brien trial
Larry O'Brien
Trial done
Dispute over criminal code continues
$1,200 a day
Mayor ready
to fight allegations in court
OPP denies politics influenced O'Brien case
O'Brien
booked
4
months of advice cost city $80,454
Gordon J. Hunter |
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Growing culture of secrecy
TORONTO - Andre Marin says over the past six years
there's been a common thread of closed government -
whether dealing with municipal property assessment, the
provincial lottery system or the police watchdog Special
Investigations Unit. (CP)
Government bureaucracy
maddening
School board fraudster
Ombudsman calls for more powers
Watchdog pushes for oversight
Criminal Injuries
Compensation Board |
Annual
report 2011
Ontario's vulnerable not getting help
Ombudsman slams province
Hospitals still running deficits
Ontario commits $20M to clear backlog
Bureaucrats add to crime
victims' pain
Victims' board 'colossal
failure'
Tories announced $52M to
help victims of crime
Crime victims pay price
Ottawa city hall snubs
Ontario ombud's offer
Ombudsman can
now hear complaints about BCH
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Guess who's running your city
The taxpayers of Vancouver held hostage. The City of
Toronto forced into budget crisis. Calgary teetering on the brink of
municipal labour unrest. Montreal headed for a major metro-wide
service-destroying city workers' strike later this year. For all this
and more we can thank the
Canadian Union of Public Employees,
the all-powerful radical labour group that uses strike threats and
political power to hold real control over most government services
across the country. (National Post)
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BC municipal election donations
Unions didn't so much bargain as put the city under siege
PS unions lose $30B pension case
Unions step up civic election support
Auto union boss carries a big stick and isn't afraid to use it
Sacrifice in face of global financial meltdown
PSAC
Tale of 2 contracts
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Inquiry win for lawyers
IQALUIT
- Nunavut Premier
Eva Aariak
asked the Integrity Commissioner, Norman
Pickell,
to look into allegations of conflict of interest involving South Baffin
MLA
Fred Schell
last spring. The
investigation
cost the legislative assembly more than $275,000. (CBC)
Minister stripped of
portfolios
Eva Aariak
MLA guilty
Fred Schell
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Court spares Nunavut government
Nunavut government
Nunavut
unveils changes
Decentralization under fire
Minister linked to loans
Nunavut finance
minister linked to companies
Audit unearths chaos at Nunavut lending agency
Ex-minister kept in touch
David Simailak
E-mails not
improper - commissioner
Norman
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$3.6M sent
offshore
TORONTO - Members of a
Toronto-area family who allegedly stole a $12.5M lottery ticket rushed
to transfer millions of dollars in winnings to offshore accounts after
an ombudsman’s report on "insider wins" highlighted their case. (CBC)
Insider win
Western clerks claiming high number of prizes
Insider wins
almost double earlier estimate
Lottery 'winner' cuts a deal
Lottery
'winners'
More
'winners' come forward
Class action planned
More retailers won
lotteries
Accountants hit the jackpot in re-review
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'Insider'
jackpots hit $198M
Clean up the
system
Lucky
$3.5B lawsuit filed
Lottery winners get a cheque
Bilked lotto
winners investigated their own
Gaming body to probe suspicious wins
BC Lottery Corp to send $31M to reduce fraud
Fraud claimed
Loto-Que. to protect identities of jackpot winners
Police foil plot to kill lotto winners
Police find conflict of interest
Fired lotto chief 'in shock'
Western
Canada Lottery beefs up security checks
Officer resigns amid
conflict questions at OLG
OLG recalling Bingo tickets
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Ex-lotto boss gets $603,000
Gambling creates windfall for government
Interim BC lottery
CEO
BC's 'luckiest' lotto
retailers
Atlantic
provinces to review lottery operations
Class-action suit launched against lotto agency
Ontario
lottery executive on leave
Another
Ontario senior claims lottery fraud
NS to probe Atlantic Lottery ticket
retailers
Police open probe of
fraudulent Ontario lottery
Report
reveals fraud in lottery corporation
Report reveals fraud in lottery corporation |
Retailers luckier than expected
OLG suspected more clerks stole winning tickets
Lotto
6/49 to probe boosted jackpot claims
Lottery numbers online ahead of draw
BC to probe lotto corp
BC lottery clerks
win big, often
Lottery scratch tickets also a fraud
concern
Lottery instant scratch tickets under
scrutiny
Gamblers deserve proof that insiders are
clean
Ontario plans
crackdown on online gambling
Ontario to boost
spending
Luck of the draw
BC man
fined for engineering lottery scam
Lottery agency's close ties to retailers 'fatal flaw'
Police open probe of
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Another success for the entitled
CALGARY - As it cuts
teacher jobs and squeezes more students into classrooms, top
officials and trustees with Calgary's public school board are
preparing to move into new headquarters that will cost more than
$11M a year to rent and run. A deal that two real estate experts
say was at least 25% higher than the prevailing market.
City shells out millions
Bridge over budget
Fiscal update includes GST, tax cuts
It's nice, but it's only a start
Ottawa blamed for $125B in waste
DND projects overbudget, overdue
Aurora $132M over budget
There's no satisfying governments' greed
City
Hall salaries raise value debate
Calgary
city hall boss gets raise to $332,000
Calgary
property taxes to increase by 4.4%
Skyrocketing
taxes squeeze out homeowners |
More Money
How huge severance came to be
New system sees MLAs paid for no work
Perks top up raises
Complaint filed
Stephen Duckett
Leaders get
hefty pay hikes
Public sector pay better than private
Premier defends payout
Premier stands by payout to trade rep
Council salaries up 15% in year
A legislative committee
that rarely meets misses a deadline
Poor oversight costs city millions: auditor
Auditor's findings on fraud not shared
Managers tried to identify whistleblowers
How many city workers does it take to fill a pothole?
Many
hands in till
Corrections
worker fired
Hiring
spree boosts city staff
Consulting Services Review 2009
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Libel suit dismissed
TORONTO - A
$6M libel lawsuit against Mayor Rob Ford has been dismissed. (Toronto
Sun)
Rob Ford
Corruption is a dangerous word
Libel trial
Canadian defamation law
Defamation: Libel and slander
Defamation law can apply to emails to your
friends
Jail for libel
Ford to
remain mayor
Ford to remain mayor for now
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Follow the money on Eco fees
Paying top dollar for incompetence
Public service wage freeze would lead to strikes
CAW
warns strikes are likely
Too goofy
Province's wage-freeze talks go off the rails
Ontario scraps eco cash grab
So many taxes we can't keep track of them
Death by a thousand tax hikes
Retooling tax
More increases
BC Product Stewardship
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What's next?
Mayor found guilty
Text of decision
Timeline: Ford's conflict-of-interest case
Conflict of interest case
Mayor testifies
Mayor goes to court
Mayor never read the conflict of interest
act
Union says
'Jobs for life' at risk
Toronto document outlines demands
Union vows to protect 'jobs for life'
Sold without tender
TCHC
Health money on lobbyists ok
ON apologizes for consultant hiring
Jim McCarter
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Little to celebrate
Lawfare
Tax should be buried in product
price
Foolishness
of allowing appointed to set taxes
Outrage building over new tax
Poor service means nothing
Granite Claims Solutions
How the City
Handles Your Claims
Spotlight on another secret deal
Ombudsman to probe eco taxes
Stewardship Ontario
Spotlight on 'Jobs for life'
Toronto bid committee
Council wants money back
Giorgio Mammoliti Adrian
Heaps
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Protest
Recycling/eco-taxes the new way to hose
Eco-tax overcharging ripped
New
eco fees catching consumers by surprise
There
is an eco fee for that
Recycling agency boss has eHealth links
$340M, few strings attached
Campaign by advocacy groups
Another health resignation
Policy expert quits board
83,000 health records missing
Report not released
Settlement has been good for me
Former OLG chief settles suit
McKinsey & Co
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New green tax illegal
Magic words
Eco rules a hazard
Fired lottery boss wants $9M
Fired head suing
Agencies are horror story
Quiet eHealth resignations
Ontario
public sector salary disclosure
Crown
agencies serve the public
Expenses to be online
Team
jackpot axed
Entitlement double standards
Crack down on expenses
Toronto set to slash $343M
McGunity says gov't takes responsibility |
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Cancer
Care audit raises flag
9 MPPs to monitor Ontario's spending
Ontario runs a record $24.7B deficit
As deficit soars restraint looms
Scramble to control scandal
Billions in profits
Rules alone won't fix mess
eHealth squandered $1B
eHealth: the story so far
Health minister resigns
Is
eHealth a Canadian norm?
Examining eHealth
New details
Ethics of expenses
eHealth
scandal reaches inner circle
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OGL awards millions in untendered contracts
Contract
scandal
eHealth contract cancelled
Mountain of paper
eHealth has been good for us
Chair latest to resign
Another head rolls
Consultant at eHealth given more work
The story so far
Another untendered eHealth contract
Consultant steps down
Entitlement has been good for me
Consultants making millions
No
'rules' broken
Ontario's eHealth records initiative
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eHealth probe could force strict rules
Council pays for ignoring legal advice
Hotline uncovers waste
Toronto fraud and waste hotline
Secret parking ticket rules probed
Civic corruption wins again
No charges in MFP scandal
City councillors' tax free perks, aren't
Taxpayers hit with high mileage bills
City paid for trip
Exhibition Place
HK Hotels
Contract goes to insider
Value of being mayor
Mayor David done
David Miller
City hides the numbers
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City's AG uncovers waste & fraud
Tipline success
Poverty group protests at city hall
Taxman wants back taxes
OPP closes books
TTC
exec fired
TTC
launches conflict probe
TTC has been good for me
Double dipping
Councillors sued
Taxpayers pay councillor's legal bill
City considers new fees to cover budget shortfall
Can't
stop fare hikes TTC says
'Sheltered' public servants on the radar
City Halls respond in typical Canadian fashion
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$200M accounting 'error'
Defeat a city council incumbent?
How to cut down on bad headlines
Ethics reports toothless
Scoundrels, rogues and socialists
Unseen hand behind developments
Toronto
Computer Leasing Inquiry
Taxpayer's hero
reprimanded
City's executive committee
Council's big spenders
Councillors
Rescue plan for ailing Toronto
City decays as debt climbs
4 depart
council with $140,000
Let
police board levy taxes
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City Hall feels your pain
4%
hike is 10% with hidden fees
What meltdown
City unveils hard-times budget
Dec consumer bankruptcies jump 50%
Toronto City Council passes 4% tax hike
$10M parking meter 'deal'
Council needs to toughen up
Council sidesteps TTC debate
CUPE promises labour unrest
Union bosses split
Councillors ignore
TTC
Toronto awakes to strike
TTC workers on strike
TTC strike
Travel ban doesn't apply to politicians
Dysfunctional city hall
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Drinks, movies among tax targets
City needs ethics guide, auditor says
Province
to probe expenses
Audit city councillors
Parsimony not a virtue at city hall
Toronto firefighters' deal affects
other talks
$700K meltdown rocks city hall on eve of cuts
Premier promises cash for cities
Libraries agree to cuts, but police
defy mayor
Do responsible thing: tax
Wage rollbacks not in the cards
City about to go broke, staff says
Toronto City Council
Councillor to have expenses
investigated
Hydro One boss admits family travels |
Attack of the entitled
Mammoliti still spending
Auditor General of
Ontario: 2007 Report
TO mulls menu of
8 new taxes
Mayor's move ignites war of words
City cuts quality of life
Cutbacks to the Future
2007 local government performance index
Tracking
city slackers
Highest
paid officials seek piece of pay hike pie
Liberals
On Defensive Over Auditor's Report
Auditor General of
Ontario: 2006 report
Improper spending at Ontario children's aid
OACAS members
Toronto $7.8B budget passes, free golf and all |
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'Do-nothing' head quits
EDMONTON - Ponoka-Lacombe MLA
Ray Prins, who headed the so-called 'do-nothing' nothing
committee, announced he is not seeking re-election. (CBC)
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'Wage freeze' contract
WCB staffer gets prison
Contractor skimmed Alberta Transportation
Leaked AHS documents
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Another AHS compensation
Lobbyist registry
Cookie boss is toast
Stephen Duckett
More board members flee
Cookie CEO 'I apologize'
'I'm eating a cookie'
Cookie exchange
AHS board members
AB Health has been good for us
Not enough cash to cover wage increases
Appointment system has been good for me
Early retirement plan for health staff
2010 report of the AG of Alberta
Severance has been good for us
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Lobbying is good for us
James
Blanchard
Millions cut out of AB budget
MLAs net hefty pay hikes on top
of their salary
Wealth shifts to public servants' wallets
AHS code of silence
Hospital Report Card Alberta 2009
MLAs net hefty pay hikes on top
of their salary
Probe launched
Alberta, teachers reach $2.1B deal
CHR sounds $115 alarm
Hospital crisis brewing for years
Health region $85M in red
CHR
agrees to simplify 'eye-glazer' reports
Extra pay puts health boss in $1M
club
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Call for resignations of Health
Region CEO
8 health execs fired
8 health
bosses sacked
Super health board replaces 9 boards
New board
$550K paycheque
Liberals criticize lucrative contract
Public sell-off, public buyback
Lawsuit filed against Alberta hospital
CEO, other health region execs may
go
Ambulances idled 31,000 hours
Top AB civil servants get 25% raises
CHR starting to feel the heat
'Bearers of bad news often become
targets’
Rural health regions ailing |
CHR executive a bargain
Being appointed has been good for us
Health CEO payouts top $6M
$4M retirement plan
Head of government-owned bank earns
$1.2M
Health region's board comes to
defence of CEO
Judge faults hospital in death
Health care not in crisis
Albertans condemn ER waits
Foul-up costs Alberta $11M
Province takes over hospital
Hazards
abound in rural hospitals
Suing Vegreville hospital difficult
Duckett settlement agreement
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Advisory panel
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Inquiry
report
MISSISSAUGA - In the
386-page report (.pdf) Justice J. Douglas
Cunningham rejected Mayor Hazel McCallion’s testimony during a $7M probe
that lasted almost two years that she was never in a conflict of
interest because she was acting only in the best interests of her city.
(Toronto Star)
Fixer' in the middle
Mayor wouldn't resign
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Conflict of interest
Mayor in conflict of interest
Mississauga's reputation thrown under the bus
Mayor faces judge’s audit
Mayor
has only herself to blame
Video contradicts McCallion
Backroom dealers for Hazel's job
Hazel McCallion'
Mayor to review pay package |
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Ex-MLA out of jail
HALIFAX - Dave Wilson was
sentenced in April after admitting to defrauding the public purse of
nearly $61,000. (CTV)
House arrest
Sentenced to house arrest
Appointed given term limits
Strategy
doesn't exist
NL AG annual report 2011
.pdf
RCMP investigating school board
Little oversight of
charitable lotteries
Sentence for fraud
Politician gets full parole
Full parole
Randy Collins
Government has been good to
me
Civil servant sentenced
Politician eager to put conviction behind him
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Hurlburt pleads guilty
9 months for Wilson
Branch pleads guilty
Frank Branch
David Wilson
Guilty plea to fraud
House arrest
Plea deal
'Obscene' patronage
NL Housing Corporation
Len Simms
Shortfall
worse than predicted
Lucrative legal contract
Guilty plea
4 charged
Politicians charged
Trevor Zinck
Politician out of jail
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Richard Hurlburt
Politician sentenced
Politician agrees to repay $300K
Another guilty plea expected
Guilty of fraud
Audit scandal
Another guilty plea
Wally Andersen
Guilty plea
Reduce pay
report
Taxman fired
Collins pleads guilty to fraud, bribery
Former
MHA charged
3 face fraud charges in expense scandal
Newfoundland and Labrador audit
scandal |
Russell MacKinnon
Taxman pleads guilty
MLA quitting politics
Former cabinet minister out of jail
Ed Byrne
Out of jail
Politician gets 2 years
Former NL cabinet minister pleads guilty
Byrne pleads
guilty to fraud
Newfoundland and Labrador audit scandal
Newfoundland AG uncovers more misspending
Labrador
politician charged with fraud, forgery
Andersen charged
Another politician named in audit reports
NF AG to check books going back to 1989 |
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ON to freeze PS pay
TORONTO
- Ontario's Liberal government is unveiling legislation to freeze
wages for nearly half-a-million public sector workers at hospitals,
colleges, hydro companies and long-term care homes, but not police
or firefighter. (CP)
Unions vow to fight bill
How many cops does Toronto need?
Public sector wage freeze
Freezing, capping top bureaucrats'
salaries
PSAC
Public Service Modernization Act
5-year review
Report calls for cuts to bloated
staffing
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Cuts will be a hard sell
Report lays out plan to save $1B
Audit
exposes woes
Ottawa's $19B reversal of fortune
Audit
finds fault with top appointments
Public
Service Employment in Canada 2007
BC government work has been good for us
BC public sector salaries
PS boss wants to end 'jobs for life'
Treasury Board reviews how PS fills top jobs
Renaming corrects 'historical mistake'
Normal Canadian organization
DND
Andrew Leslie
Hard time over
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18 months for immigration judge
Immigration judge guilty
Judge found guilty
Sex-for-favours exchange
Judge sought sex
Trained
officers told not to apply for jobs
Ottawa
rescinds ban on able-bodied white men
Finance
Minister admits Canadians overtaxed
Refugee judge charged with breach of trust
Immigration judge accused of misconduct
More frauds surface
in immigration
The anarchist and the leak
Alleged leaker of green plan a political
activist
Civil servant arrested
over Green plan leak
Fair pensions for all |
Immigration judge caught on video
Judge's pleas for sex caught on tape
3rd chance for the gold
That's
what friends are for
Dosanjh's
bigge$st donors run medical firms
Gun
control kickback? Tone deaf Sarmite 'Sam' Bulte
Excuse for $460K fraud
Ex-city treasurer under fire
MFP follies' little epilogue
Bad habits
Wanda's big payday
Feds troubled by reports of waste at
Kanesatake
Correctional
Service disqualifying whites
Entitled to their entitlements
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White
males need not apply
Questions raised about native band's spending
James Gabriel
AG
blasts criticism of legal meeting at resorts
Court documents official 'enriched himself'
Sentence raised for SK chief
Former chief quits real estate board
Bureaucrat profited in trust case
RCMP charge
finance official
Passport officer admits to document scam
Hospital administrator jailed
7 years for $100M
fraud
DND fraudster gets 7 years
Operation
invoice: Part 1
Operation
invoice: Part 2
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Charges considered
Convicted bureaucrat implicates 8 officials in fraud
Immigration board judge gets six years
Tailor,
73, jailed in refugee scam
Military contracts awarded without competition
2 year sentence for DND fraudster
Second guilty plea in DND fraud
Fraud sentences well shy of maximum
How an
ex-DND employee blew $100M
Guilty
plea
Man charged in DND fraud invested millions
Tracking
DND's missing millions
Charges
laid in DND computer billing case
Defence construction consistently over
budget
No bang for the buck
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MP pushes
back
OTTAWA - Pierre
Poilievre, who represents thousands of federal workers in the riding of
Nepean-Carleton, claims he is pushing back after "political threats" by
the
USW and the
CLC. (QMI)Ready
to rumble
PSAC
RCMP, union clash
Unions decline in private sector
Labour leaders on the state of unions
What about the 20%
Pension gap
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Officials violated own rules
Fanatical students don't see racism
Academic boycott of Israel takes off in Canada
Israel: Universities helping IDF to be boycotted
CUPE members vote to boycott Israeli universities
Jewish groups slam boycott
Ryan rebuked
Sid Ryan
Thorny world of Ryan and Semrau
CUPE
chief apologizes
CUPE, Ontario
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CUPE suggesting members reject
offer
Union wage demands put pressure on
Labour force survey, July 2012
Demonstrators clash
Sid Ryan, you have disgraced our union
Global debt clock
Pierre Poilievre
Rights complaint
Government work has
been good for us
Hostility between politicians and PS
Advisory panel
Cost of Public Service skyrockets
Review of Federal Public
Sector compensation
Public
sector pay better than private: report
Ottawa's driven minority
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Ottawa slams CUPE
OFL
Conference Board of Canada
Industrial relations outlook 2012
Executive pay kept secret
Union mounts
legal battle
CUPW
Something is wrong with the labour code
PS execs need fixed terms
PS
'phantom jobs' inquiry targets 20
Public hiring binge will exposing
soft job market
Feds to probe phantom jobs
Appetite for taxes proving insatiable
PS ordered to hire more visible minorities
Public-sector and private-sector wages .pdf |
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CBC
Indepth: Shawinigan
The
controversy surrounding Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's
involvement in two properties in his riding is rooted in
events that are more than a decade old. But the
details were only made public after a series of media
reports, a lawsuit and a barrage of questions raised by a
united opposition in the House of Commons. (CBC) |
Airbus
affair
10
scandals in Canadian political history
The Dagenais decision
The
Great Wall of Canada
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