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Harper’s chief of staff facing formal conflict of interest probe over ties to...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, is now the subject of a formal conflict of interest examination by the federal ethics watchdog. Mary Dawson’s office confirmed...
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Stephen Harper’s chief of staff wrote personal cheque to cover Mike Duffy’s...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff wrote a personal cheque to cover the nearly $90,000 Conservative Sen. Mike Duffy owed the government after incorrectly claiming living expenses, the PMO...
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‘If I had $90,000′: Twitter users lambaste Mike Duffy in the tune of a...
After revelations Wednesday that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff wrote a $90,000 personal cheque to pay back Conservative Sen. Mike Duffy’s senate expenses, Canadians — some outraged,...
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Wealthy chief of staff, who gave Senator $90,000, is well known for his...
Nigel Wright is bright, savvy, unbelievably fit, and when he ditched his job as a Bay Street deal-maker to take a hefty pay cut as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Tories pegged him as...
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Duffy’s $132,300 public salary and benefits certainly don’t paint a picture...
The Conservatives say Nigel Wright’s controversial gift of $90,000 to Sen. Mike Duffy was an act of compassion by the prime minister’s chief of staff, intended to help a man under financial pressure...
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Former Tory Senator Mike Duffy allegedly tried to influence SUN news bid, new...
Senator Mike Duffy left the conservative caucus Thursday minutes before a television news story raised new allegations that Duffy tried to influence the CRTC to approve a Sun News request. According to...
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Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, resigns after Mike Duffy $90,000...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has lost his most senior and trusted aide in a growing Senate expense scandal that has reached right into the upper echelons of the prime minister’s office. On...
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Longtime aide Ray Novak, 36, named Harper’s new chief of staff
OTTAWA — He is the quiet young man who most famously lived in a small loft above the garage at Stornoway, the official residence of the Opposition leader where Stephen Harper was then residing. At the...
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Senate scandal may further weaken Harper’s hold on Tory caucus
Emerging from a dramatic week that has seen him lose two senators and his chief of staff, Stephen Harper will focus now on calming down his anxious caucus and righting a listing Conservative ship. Tory...
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Opposition NDP calls for RCMP investigation into $90,000 cheque from Harper’s...
OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats have asked the Mounties to determine whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former right-hand man broke any laws by cutting a personal cheque to cover an embattled...
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‘Leave this room’: Harper warns caucus amid promise to tighten Senate expense...
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian WyldHarper's chief of staff Ray Novak stands watches the Prime Minister speak Tuesday. OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday he is “not happy” with the actions...
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Harper leaves behind political storm in Ottawa, heads to South America for...
OTTAWA — The prime minister is jetting out of Ottawa today, leaving behind one of the worst political storms ever faced by his Conservative government, to contemplate a trade alliance membership in...
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Harper’s office in contempt of Parliament over $90K cheque to Mike Duffy:...
OTTAWA — The Liberals in the Senate are trying to trigger special parliamentary hearings in the hopes of forcing the Prime Minister’s former top aide and other Conservatives to testify. Liberal Senate...
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‘When the going gets tough, the tough go to Peru’: NDP slams PM for trip in...
OTTAWA — The fact that Prime Minister Stephen Harper wasn’t in question period Tuesday did little to deflect the opposition attack over the Senate expense scandal. Earlier in the day, Harper held a...
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Harper admits that ‘perhaps’ he should have responded to Nigel Wright’s...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged for the first time Thursday that “perhaps” he could have responded more quickly to the news that his trusted chief of staff had footed the $90,000...
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Mike Duffy wants to give Canadians ‘the whole story,’ calls for open public...
OTTAWA — Sen. Mike Duffy insisted there should be an open, public inquiry into his expenses as controversy swirled Thursday around how impartial a fresh review of his spending is likely to be. The...
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Considering the scandals plaguing multiple levels of government, it seems...
Uncharitable mockery befell Conservative MP Joan Crockatt earlier this week when she welcomed the resignation of Stephen Harper’s chief of staff Nigel Wright, plus the removal from caucus of senators...
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Most Canadians want Duffy and Wallin to resign from the Senate over spending...
Ongoing probes into the questionable expense claims of a handful of Canadian senators have taken a serious toll on public perceptions of the red chamber, according to a new study. Polling more than...
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It’s time to kill the Canadian Senate if we can’t fix it, top Tory says
The leader of the Conservative government in the Senate says if problems in the upper chamber can’t be remedied, it’s time for the institution to go. Marjory LeBreton, a longtime Tory, made the...
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Mike Duffy invited to attend Senate committee reviewing his expenses, but...
Senator Mike Duffy has been offered his first chance to meet with the Senate committee that is re-examining an audit of his living expenses, but he may not have a chance to speak just yet. Duffy, a...
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