Senate scandal

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 22, 2016 OTTAWA - Today, given Justice Charles Vaillancourt’s conclusions that Nigel Wright and others in Prime Minister... more
Mike Duffy
Senate scandal
PMO
Nigel Wright
Conservative Party of Canada
Steven Harper
Senate reform
Canadian law
Canada
Now that the trial is over and we can debate about whether all the time and money spent was worth it, whether justice was served, or even whether it was all a... more
Senate scandal
Mike Duffy
Canadian Senate
cdnpoli
Canadian politics
Senate reform
Ethics
Reform
Canada
The Senate has moved the final vote on the controversial anti-terror bill to Tuesday at 5:30pm EST. Coincidentally that will be hours after the Auditor General... more
Bill C-51
Canadian Senate
Senate reform
Senate scandal
NDP
Read about Rob Ford's Former rival, a political candidate, accusing him of sexual assault, then the unfortunate #AskTrudeau event where politics was sold as a... more
I tweeted last night that Andrew Coyne had the best line of the day. In his Post Media column he called the senate events “edifying” and went on to describe... more
 
October 23, 2013
Senate
Senate scandal
Stephen Harper
Mike Duffy
Federal Government
governance
Canada
Dear Canadians, I write this letter in the hope that the Senate will choose an option other than suspending Senators Duffy, Brazeau and Wallin. I hope they... more
Senate scandal
Political abuses
governance
Due process
Stephen Harper
Mike Duffy
Pamala Wallin
Patrick Brazeau
Senate
Federal Government
Canada
Canadian Parliament
Dear Canadians, The headlines covered some of what happened: scandals, Senate fraud, a $90,000 cheque from the prime minister’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, (... more
Federal Government
Senate scandal
governance
Elizabeth May
Green Party of Canada
Conservative Party of Canada
Brent Rathgeber
NDP
Liberal Party of Canada
Parliamentary Committees
During the last several months, critics have increased the interminable attacks concerning the legitimacy of the Senate with unctuous anger over alleged... more
Senate scandal
Senate reform
House of Commons
Federal Government
Canada
governance
Ian Lee
Sprott School of Business
Carleton University