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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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Government credit card fraud
OTTAWA - Veronica Rose Topic, 26, admitted
using a fraudulently obtained corporate credit card to buy thousands of
dollars worth of commemorative coins, personal data assistants and
office supplies, which she would then deposit into her own bank account
or sell over the Internet. (Ottawa Citizen) |
$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) MORE:
$200 for ethics breach
Conflict of interest |
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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
Court rules judges can double dip |
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Party defends hefty salaries
REGINA - The
Saskatchewan Party government defended the hefty compensation paid out
to the heads of the province's major Crown corporations as the
government released the 2008 Crowns payee list. (Saskatoon Star
Phoenix) MORE:
Cities $100K club growing
What's the deal with union benefits?
Union agreements across Canada
Sick day abuse |
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Cauchon denies allegations
OTTAWA -
Martin Cauchon, the former Liberal
justice minister, denies allegations of influence-peddling contained in
court documents filed with the Supreme Court of Canada. (Vancouver
Sun) MORE: Ex-justice
minister 'offered contracts'
Follow the garbage money |
Fender-bender links ex-loans boss
HAMILTON - A city
official was driving a truck with a plate registered to a prominent
Hamilton developer's company when he was in a drunk driving
fender-bender - the same developer from whom he is accused of illegally
accepting $5,000. (Hamilton Spectator) |
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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 |
Justice Canada has been good for me
OTTAWA -
After resigning under threat of
being fired by the federal government, Ontario Superior Court Judge
Paul Cosgrove
will collect close to his full
pension, worth about $170,000 a year. During the five-year legal battle
that surrounded the inquiry into his competence as a judge, Cosgrove has
also been collecting his regular annual salary of $260,000. (Ottawa
Citizen) PREVIOUS:
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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)
City
told to hand over documents
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Lansdowne Park redevelopment
Accusations of cronyism
Prof speaks out against Lansdowne Live
Lansdowne Live
Manager denies Lansdowne Live is a sole source sham
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Union says
'Jobs for life' at risk
TORONTO - Mayor Rob
Ford's administration wants to kill "jobs for life" and is setting the
stage for a lockout next year in Toronto, CUPE Local 416 president Mark
Ferguson charged. (QMI)
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
Ombudsman slams health networks
Spotlight on another secret deal
Ombudsman to probe eco taxes
Stewardship Ontario
Protest
Eco-tax overcharging ripped
New
eco fees catching consumers by surprise
There
is an eco fee for that
Recycling agency boss has eHealth links
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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
Feeling heat over
outsourcing taxes
Tax should be buried in product
price
Foolishness
of allowing appointed to set taxes
Outrage building over new tax
Recycling/eco-taxes the new way to hose
New green tax illegal
Arbitrator gives 17,000 rises
Magic words
Eco rules a hazard
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$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
Cancer
Care audit raises flag
Cancer Care Ontario
OGL awards millions in untendered contracts
9 MPPs to monitor Ontario's spending
Ontario runs a record $24.7B deficit
As deficit soars restraint looms |
Fired lottery boss wants $9M
Disgraced exec strikes back
Fired head suing
Agencies are horror story
Quiet eHealth resignations
Ontario
public sector salary disclosure
Crown
agencies serve the public
Ontario
announces spending rules
Expenses to be online
Team
jackpot axed
'Culture of entitlement' deep rooted
Entitlement double standards
Crack down on expenses
Toronto set to slash $343M
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Scramble to control scandal
Billions in profits
Expenses cloud
Rules alone won't fix mess
eHealth squandered $1B
Damning report on eHealth spending scandal
eHealth: the story so far
Health minister resigns
Is
eHealth a Canadian norm?
Examining eHealth
New details
'Best & brightest' often disappoint
Ethics of expenses
eHealth
scandal reaches inner circle
eHealth probe could force strict rules |
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
Health's board
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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. (CanWest)
No rules broken
Past expenses questioned
Toronto Port Authority
Why were board minutes
altered? |
Lisa Raitt
Publication ban lifted
The radioactive tape
Nothing sexy in feeding frenzy
Real issues left behind
Liberals want Harper to call audit
Injunction sought
Aide resigns after leaving documents behind
Documents left behind |
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'Incompetent management'
OTTAWA - The August
2006 spill of almost a billion litres of sewage into the Ottawa River
and the subsequent non-reporting of the event was the result of
"incompetent management" that treated the spill and several others as
routine, the city's auditor general has found. (Ottawa Citizen)
REPORT:
Audit of the 2006 Sewage Spill
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Ex-minister failed to meet ethics standard
REGINA - A "veil of secrecy and deception" was cast over
a theft from the NDP caucus in the early 1990s, mainly by former caucus
chief of staff Jim Fodey but also former NDP MLA and cabinet minister
Glenn Hagel,
according to the report from an unprecedented investigation by the
province's conflict-of-interest commissioner made public Monday.
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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
New allegations
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
Workers threaten to blow up factory
Threat of violence, a new bargaining tool
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Living the good life
WINDSOR - For Windsor West MPP
Sandra Pupatello,
the revelation that she burned through more than $100,000 in travel
expenses over 12 months couldn't have come at a worse
time. (Windsor Star) |
Suspect in SIN scam
TORONTO - When police
arrested a man for fraud and found nine different social insurance
numbers in his possession two years ago, they traced those cards back to
one government office. (Toronto Star) |
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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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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
Patient's demise raises
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Bureaucrats' wireless costs out of control
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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Program 'tailor-made'
OTTAWA - Finance Minister
Jim Flaherty
is in an apparent conflict of interest because his wife and his
executive assistant sit on the board of a project in his riding that is
applying for federal funds. (CanWest) |
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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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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$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) |
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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)Ruby Dhalla |
'Care and compassion'
Public good truly lost
Mother a world traveller
'High-maintenance' MP
Dhalla seeks parliamentary ethics probe
Dhalla
quits critic's role
Multiple investigations
'Slavegate'
Nanny
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RCMP probe
FREDERICTON - The
provincial attorney-general has asked the RCMP to investigate parts
of the New Brunswick government's immigration program. (CBC)
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
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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 NBIMC
No problem
Shawn Graham
NB Liquor CEO cleared
NB Liquor CEO faces conflict-of-interest hearing
Roc Consulting Group
Federal salaries key to Atlantic region |
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How Riverside Park plays ball
WINNIPEG - Why
does a professional baseball team sublet city land from a non-profit
corporation? To allow underprivileged kids to watch baseball games,
says the man who owns the team, runs the city and co-founded the
corporation. (Free Press) |
'Oversight'
Katz
denies conflict
Sam Katz
CanWest
Park
Winnipeg
Goldeyes |
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Municipalities need to be reigned in
TORONTO -
Compared to the other two levels of government, Canadian municipalities
probably out and out waste more money than the feds and the provinces.
The waste may not be as much in absolute terms but the local yokels can
spend the taxpayers’ money on extremely silly things that would never
cross the minds of more mature politicians. (Free Press) |
BC cities spend too much
BC Municipal spending watch
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Civic spending 'out of control'
Toward more efficient municipal government
City Halls sent out property taxes |
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Political parties are the most corrupt institutions
A new
survey says almost two-thirds of Canadians believe the government is
doing an "ineffective" job of keeping graft in check, and almost half
say it's on the rise. (CanWest) PREVIOUS:
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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) RELATED:
One big happy family, thanks to
others' taxes |
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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
HSMR |
Fage found guilty
HALIFAX - Former
Nova Scotia 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 her 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
'This is not a crime'
Mayor acquitted
Political lessons
Court is not a level playing field
Back to patronage as usual
Drawing a legal line on the business of
politics
Cunningham decision
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The O'Brien trial
Larry O'Brien
Trial done
Dispute over criminal code continues
Defence gets into 'the stuff of politics'
Patronage nation
$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 - Ontario's ombudsman is warning against a
growing culture of secrecy in the provincial
government. 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
Ontario squandering cash
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 criminal
injuries backlog
Bureaucrats add to crime
victims' pain
Victims' board 'colossal
failure'
Tories announced $52M to
help victims of crime
Crime victims pay price
Study: Impacts and
consequences of criminal victimization 2004
Ottawa city hall snubs
Ontario ombud's offer
Ontario's Ombudsman can
now hear complaints about BCH
Adding
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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)
Sacrifice in face of global financial meltdown
PSAC
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Who is funding your local council?
Illegal campaign contributions
Red tape, low-tech and council belligerence
BC municipal election donations
Unions didn't so much bargain as put the city under siege
PS unions lose $30B pension case
$138K 'work-free zone'
Anger over 'work free zone'
Unions step up civic election support
Auto union boss carries a big stick and isn't afraid to use it
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Compensation
bill
OTTAWA - Today, the
government pays about $42B a year in total compensation for all federal
workers, from the public service to the military, RCMP and ministers’
exempt staff. That total was $23B only a decade ago. (PostMedia)
Public sector strikes more likely in 2012
Conference Board of Canada
Industrial relations outlook 2012
Make unions open their books
Executive pay kept secret
Canada's bloated public sector
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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Number of
public servants
Union mounts
legal battle
CUPW
Something is wrong with the labour code
Political garbage
Strike shines spotlight
Public sector employment
Bureaucrats' pay robs
front lines
PS execs need fixed terms
PS
'phantom jobs' inquiry targets 20
Public sector employment
Public hiring binge will end exposing
soft job market
Feds to probe phantom jobs
PS Commission annual report 2006-2007
Appetite for taxes proving insatiable
PS ordered to hire more visible minorities
Employment trends in the federal
public service
Public Service in the 21st century
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Cabinet minister striped
IQALUIT - Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak announced Sunday that she has
stripped member of the legislative assembly Fred Schell of all
ministerial portfolios after being told that the Baffin South
representative has “acted in conflict of interest and abused his
authority as minister.” (Nunatsiaq News)
Minister stripped of
portfolios
Eva Aariak
MLA guilty
Fred Schell
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Court spares Nunavut government
Nunavut government
Tunngavik Inc.
Nunavut
unveils changes
Nunavut Business Credit Corp.
Decentralization under fire
Minister linked to loans
Nunavut finance
minister linked to companies
Audit unearths chaos at Nunavut lending agency
Reports to the Legislative Assembly
Ex-minister kept in touch
David Simailak
E-mails not
improper - commissioner |
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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
Booze, gambling worth more
Western clerks claiming high number of prizes
Insider wins
suspiciously high
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
BC
Lottery Corp. hits $2.4B in revenue
Outrage over payout has a familiar ring
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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
Retailers luckier than expected
Ex-lotto boss gets $603,000
Gambling creates windfall for government |
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Measures
announced to prevent lotto ripoffs
Interim BC lottery
CEO
BC's 'luckiest' lotto
retailers
BC Ombudsman
Atlantic
provinces to review lottery operations
Class-action suit launched against lotto agency
Ontario
lottery executive on leave
Another
Ontario senior claims lottery fraud
Blind eye to
fraud
NS to probe Atlantic Lottery ticket
retailers
Police open probe of
fraudulent Ontario lottery
Report
reveals fraud in lottery corporation
Scratch and steal
Associates cited for contempt
Report reveals fraud in lottery corporation |
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
Those big winnings
may have been yours
BC man
fined for engineering lottery scam
Lottery agency's close ties to retailers 'fatal flaw'
Police open probe of
fraudulent Ontario lottery win |
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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. (Calgary
Herald)
Hiring 'complete mismanaged'
Audit raises 'red flags'
City shells out millions
Auditor scrutinizes contract tenders
Footbridge bids millions over budget
Bridge over budget
Fiscal update includes GST, tax cuts
It's nice, but it's only a start
Government failure in Canada, 2007 report
Ottawa blamed for $125B in waste
DND projects overbudget, overdue
Aurora $132M over budget
Tracking your wasted money
Tax freedom? Yeah, sure
Tax money wasted
Government finance: $29B surplus
Wondering where the money went?
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%
Taxes
just keep going up and up
Consulting Services Review 2009
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As deficit grows, so does bureaucracy
Entitled to keep most of wage hikes
More Money
How huge severance came to be
New system sees MLAs paid for no work
Perks top up raises
Calgary auditor's reports
City halls fight proposed watchdog
Unions reject wage freeze
How to repair a shattered image
Complaint filed
Stephen Duckett
Sneaky new salary move
Leaders get
hefty pay hikes
Public sector pay better than private
Premier defends payout
Premier stands by payout to trade rep
Washington's
800 pound gorilla
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?
Jail for corporate crooks
No wonder floodway work costs soar
Many
hands in till
Corrections
worker fired
Hiring
spree boosts city staff
Skyrocketing
taxes squeeze out homeowners
Municipal money mayhem
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Salaries the big culprit
WINDSOR - Police spending is the biggest item on the
city's budget, making up more than one-fifth. While everyone else at city hall was
asked to cut their budgets by 10% last year, the police spent $1M
more. The culprit? Salaries. (Windsor Star)
Battle-lines drawn
CUPE suggesting members reject
offer
Union wage demands put pressure on
Demonstrators clash
Sid Ryan, you have disgraced our union
Ottawa slams CUPE
Statement from CUPE
National president
CUPE, Ontario |
Officials violated own rules
City broke rules
Fanatical students don't see racism
Taxpayers funding CAF
Academic boycott of Israel takes off in Canada
Israel: Universities helping IDF to be boycotted
Ryan and Israel
CUPE members vote to boycott Israeli universities
Jewish groups slam boycott
CUPE boss admits anti-Israel went too far
Ryan rebuked
Political lobbying doesn't help CUPE
Sid Ryan
I'm not a bigot
Ryan
keeps digging
Thorny world of Ryan and Semrau
CUPE
chief apologizes
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Spotlight on 'Jobs for life'
TORONTO -
City of Toronto negotiators will push hard to strip
city workers of “jobs for life” contract guarantees, says Councillor
Doug Ford, setting his brother’s administration on a collision
course with the city’s unions. (Toronto Star)
Council wants money back
Giorgio Mammoliti Adrian
Heaps
Council pays for ignoring legal advice
Hotline uncovers waste
Toronto fraud and waste hotline
Secret parking ticket rules probed
Civic corruption wins again
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Poor service means nothing
Granite Claims Solutions
Potholes, Floods and Broken Branches: How the City
Handles Your Claims
Toronto bid committee
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
Agitator named to TTC panel
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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
$200M is more than an 'error'
City hides the numbers
$200M accounting 'error'
Defeat a city council incumbent?
How to cut down on bad headlines
Ethics reports toothless
Scoundrels, rogues and socialists |
Double dipping
Councillors sued
Taxpayers pay councillor's legal bill
Adrian Heaps
City
hall want more
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
City Hall feels your pain
4%
hike is 10% with hidden fees
What meltdown
City unveils hard-times budget
Dec consumer bankruptcies jump 50%
'Irresponsible
legislation'
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Unseen hand behind developments
Toronto
Computer Leasing Inquiry
Taxpayer's hero
reprimanded
Rob Ford
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
Allow municipalities to tax everything
Drinks, movies among tax targets
City needs ethics guide, auditor says
Toronto debt $1.97B |
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
Attack of the entitled
Councillor calls off trip too zoo
conference
Mammoliti still spending
Auditor General of
Ontario: 2007 Report
TO mulls menu of
8 new taxes |
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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
Who's minding the store?
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
Councillors wrong to hang onto perks
Hydro One boss admits family travels |
Bloated payroll rules at City Hall
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
Grits
kill $1.6B surplus
Ivory
towers cast costly spell
Liberals
On Defensive Over Auditor's Report
Auditor General of
Ontario: 2006 report
Improper spending at Ontario children's aid
Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies
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)
Another AHS compensation
Holes in the AB lobbyist registry
Lobbyist registry
AB lobby registry a who's who
Lobbying is good for us
James
Blanchard
Duckett settlement agreement
.pdf
Advisory panel
.pdf
Superboard forgot operating
costs
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'Wage freeze' contract
WCB staffer gets prison
Mayor dumbfounded
Contractor skimmed Alberta Transportation
More doctors come forward
AMA wouldn't take sides
Doctor backs up claims
Province ordered doctor to stop crusading
Leaked AHS documents
AHS lowers wait targets
Worsening ER waits
Health brass, minister study long ER waits
Health care problems are system wide
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Cookie boss is toast
Stephen Duckett
Cookie crumbles
More board members flee
Cookie CEO 'I apologize'
'I'm eating a cookie'
Cookie exchange
Cost effective health care at risk
AHS board members
AB Health has been good for us
Stricter legal aid rules
Not enough cash to cover wage increases
Disabled agencies just say no
Plan dropped overnight
No more freebies
Few beds for Calgary's mentally ill seniors
Appointment system has been good for me |
Public service has been good for us
Early retirement plan for health staff
Health workers asked to retire
Millions cut out of AB budget
MLAs net hefty pay hikes on top
of their salary
Secrecy pays for MLAs
MLA rejects private meeting pay
MLA salaries frozen
Wealth shifts to public servants' wallets
AB's deficit expected to balloon
AHS code of silence
Hospital Report Card Alberta 2009
Alberta government hides performance
Secrecy decried
MLAs net hefty pay hikes on top
of their salary |
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2010 report of the AG of Alberta
$900M in spending omissions defy reason
Non-disclosure agreement
Province defends health contracts
AG picked $100M figure 'out
of the air'
$100M energy miscalculation
Auditor targets 'gold-plated' payouts
Execs handed $300,000 gift
'Achievement bonuses'
AB forecasting a $6.9B deficit
U of C hands out pink
slips
U of C's top pay soars
U of C to pay Weingarten $4.75M pension
Severance has been good for us
Superboard asked to accept rollback |
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
CHR executive a bargain
Call for resignations of Health
Region CEO
Pay hike for health board is sick
Board blasted over 25% raise
Board sheds executives
Health board spent $22.5M in severance
Being appointed has been good for us
Auditor General of Alberta Oct. 2009
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8 health execs fired
8 health
bosses sacked
$700M in the hole
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 |
Board shakeup pricey
Health CEO payouts top $6M
$4M retirement plan
Where's the money gone?
Head of government-owned bank earns
$1.2M
City
boasts of dubious 'wins'
Health region's board comes to
defence of CEO
Paying more, getting less 2006
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 |
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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
City legal bills
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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Strategy
doesn't exist
ST JOHN’S - The province doesn’t have a formal $5B
infrastructure strategy, and departments are claiming cabinet secrecy
prevents the release of details about how their infrastructure projects
are assessed. (St John’s Telegram)
NL AG annual report 2011
.pdf
RCMP investigating school board
Little oversight of
charitable lotteries
Sentence for fraud
Expense scandal
Politician gets full parole
Full parole
Randy Collins
Government has been good to
me
Civil servant sentenced
Politician out of jail
Politician eager to put conviction behind him
Politician sentenced
Politician agrees to repay $300K
Another guilty plea expected
Guilty of fraud
Audit scandal
Another guilty plea
Wally Andersen
Former politician pleas guilty
Guilty plea
Reduce pay
report
Taxman fired
Collins pleads guilty to fraud, bribery
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Plea deal
'Obscene' patronage
NL Housing Corporation
Len Simms
Shortfall
worse than predicted
Lucrative legal contract
Guilty plea
4 charged
Politicians charged
Trevor Zinck
Richard Hurlburt
Russell MacKinnon
Taxman pleads guilty
MLA quitting politics
David Wilson
Former cabinet minister out of jail
Ed Byrne
Out of jail
Politician gets 2 years
Ex-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
Newfoundland and Labrador audit
scandal
Former
minister second to fact fraud charges
Former
MHA charged
3 face fraud charges in expense scandal
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Laws backfired
OTTAWA -
PSAC, one of Canada's
largest labour unions, undertook a review of the
Public Service Modernization Act because although government
launched a
5-year review in 2009, it has missed its "early 2011" deadline
for publishing the results. (PostMedia)
Report calls for cuts to bloated
staffing
Renaming corrects 'historical mistake'
Normal Canadian organization
DND
Andrew Leslie
Hard time over
18 months for immigration judge
Immigration judge guilty
Judge found guilty
Immigration judge caught on video
Judge's pleas for sex caught on tape
Half
Billion-dollar film policy a failure
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Bureaucratic skirmish
Cuts will be a hard sell
Report lays out plan to save $1B
Stimulus Watch Canada
Audit
exposes woes
Appointees received 'preferential treatment'
Canadians need more details says watchdog
Ottawa's $19B reversal of fortune
Party has been good for us
Lack of
data
Tories target bonuses pay
40% salary reduction not a topic for judges
Audit
finds fault with top bureaucratic appointments
Public
Service Employment in Canada 2007
BC government work has been good for us
BC public sector salaries
Patronage speeds up in 2008
PS boss wants to end 'jobs for life'
Treasury Board reviews how PS fills top jobs
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Sex-for-favours exchange
Judge sought sex
Trained
officers told not to apply for jobs
Ottawa
rescinds ban on able-bodied white men
Finance
Minister admits Canadians overtaxed
Refugee judge charged with breach of trust
Immigration judge accused of misconduct
More frauds surface
in immigration
The anarchist and the leak
Revealing the obvious doesn't count
Alleged leaker of green plan a political
activist
Civil servant arrested
over Green plan leak
Fair pensions for all
Reverse
racism continues
White
males need not apply
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That's
what friends are for
Dosanjh's
bigge$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
Legacy money for lawyers and bureaucracy
Feds troubled by reports of waste at
Kanesatake
Correctional
Service disqualifying whites
Entitled to their entitlements
Historian
calls Liberal MP's fundraiser a worry
Charges considered |
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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
Toronto 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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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
Ex-DND
employee being sued over billing
Defence construction consistently over
budget
No bang for the buck
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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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Public
Service Employment in Canada 2007 |
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