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Aaron Swartz’s Last Gift: Site Launches Whistleblower Safe House

Posted By Admin CP On May 20, 2013 · Add Comment
Aaron Swartz
In era of “most aggressive government assaults on press freedom,” new open source dropbox provides “secure route” for leaks By: Lauren McCauley | Published by Common Dreams on May 17, 2013 One month before his January 11th suicide, web pioneer and creative commons architect Aaron Swartz completed one last project—an “opensource drop box for leaked documents along the [...]
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Sen. Mike Duffy’s Scandal Torpedoes Nigel Wright: Canadians React

Posted By Obert Madondo On May 19, 2013 · Add Comment
Canadians expect answers from PM Harper. Photo: Remy Steinegger
PM Stephen Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright resigned early Sunday following last week’s revelation that he cut a $90,000 personal cheque to cover Sen. Mike Duffy’s fraudulent Senate expense claims. The announcement has set the Twitterverse on fire. “Mr Wright’s resignation doesn’t end the matter – how and why was this deal done,” tweeted former Liberal leader [...]
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Statements: Resignation of Harper’s Chief of Staff Nigel Wright

Posted By Obert Madondo On May 19, 2013 · Add Comment
Canadians expect answers from PM Harper. Photo: Remy Steinegger
From the day it emerged that Stephen Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright cut a $90,000 personal cheque to cover Sen. Mike Duffy’s fraudulent Senate expense claims, the Conservatives tried desperately to kill the scandal. On Thursday, they tossed Duffy overboard, and on Friday, Sen. Pamela Wallin.  Also on Friday, the PMO vowed  that Wright [...]
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Conservative Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal

Posted By Obert Madondo On May 17, 2013 · Add Comment
Rob Ford Smikes Crack
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  New York news blog Gawker yesterday revealed the existence of a video showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. The video was taken within the last six months, allegedly by the city’s Somali drug dealers. Gawker editor John Cook reported that he received a tip from a source in possession of [...]
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Beleaguered Harper-appointed Sen. Mike Duffy Quits Conservative Caucus

Posted By Obert Madondo On May 17, 2013 · Add Comment
Sen. Mike Duffy
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  Scandal-plagued Sen. Mike Duffy quit the Conservative caucus Thursday after his fraudulent Senate expense claims threatened to engulf the Harper government. Duffy, appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2009, now sits as an independent. “It is clear the public controversy surrounding me and the repayment of my Senate expenses has become a [...]
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Harper’s chief of staff paid off Mike Duffy’s Senate expenses

Posted By Admin CP On May 16, 2013 · Add Comment
Sen. Mike Duffy
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright wrote a personal cheque worth more than $90,000 to pay back Senator Mike Duffy‘s living expenses, Harper’s office confirmed Wednesday. “Mr. Duffy agreed to repay the expenses because it was the right thing to do,” Harper’s spokesman Andrew MacDougall said in a statement. “However, Mr. [...]
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Sen. Patrick Brazeau defies Senate order to return housing allowance

Posted By Obert Madondo On May 15, 2013 · Add Comment
Tory Senator Patrick Brazeau
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive:  Our Senatorial soap opera entered a new chapter on Tuesday. Independent Sen. Patrick Brazeau informed the media that he’ll defy the Senate’s order to repay the $48,744 in living and travel expenses he fraudulently claimed from Canadian taxpayers. “Senator Brazeau has fulfilled his obligations in forwarding all relevant documentation requested by the committee [...]
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Toronto Police and black educator resolve racial profiling case

Posted By Guest Blog On May 15, 2013 · Add Comment
Dr. Clem Marshall
By: Human Rights Legal Support Centre | Press Release: TORONTO, May 14, 2013 – The Toronto Police Service (TPS), the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB), and educator Dr. Clem Marshall have reached an agreement to settle his Human Rights Application. The terms of the settlement are confidential and neither the TPS nor the TPSB has admitted any liability. Dr. Marshall and a friend were driving [...]
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Enbridge asks NEB to keep pipeline safety issues secret

Posted By Guest Blog On May 14, 2013 · Add Comment
Enbridge Tower Alberta
By: Council of Canadians | Press Release: Eighteen months after being ordered to correct important safety issues with its oil and gas pipelines, Enbridge has finally filed a plan with the National Energy Board (NEB) as to how and when it will come into compliance with the NEB’s regulations. The company doesn’t want its plan made [...]
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The Humanitarian Coalition Launches Joint Appeal for Syrian Refugees

Posted By Guest Blog On May 14, 2013 · Add Comment
Humanitarian Coalition
By: Humanitarian Coalition | Press Release: OTTAWA, May 14, 2013 – Today, the Humanitarian Coalition and its member agencies are launching a national joint appeal to raise funds to assist the 6.8 million Syrian civilians affected by the ongoing conflict in their country. Almost five million civilians have been forced to leave their home and many have had [...]
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