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SUSPENDED SENATOR DUFFY FACES 31 CHARGES
The RCMP has charged Mike Duffy with fraud, breach of trust and bribery. The charges involve the suspended senator’s claims for living expenses, claims for travel expenses not connected with official...
View ArticleTHORNHILL MP GOES TO BAT FOR CUBAN DETAINEE
Thornhill’s Member of Parliament is asking the Cuban government to send an imprisoned local businessman back to Canada. Peter Kent says Cy Tokmakjian could be expelled from Cuba or transferred to a...
View ArticleSENATE’S EX-LAW CLERK TESTIFIES AT DUFFY TRIAL
The first witness at Mike Duffy’s bribery and fraud trial was the recently retired law clerk of the Senate. Mark Audcent told the Ottawa court about residency requirements for senators. He said in his...
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BLATTER UNDER FIRE AS FIFA VOTES
The 209 members of FIFA are voting in Zurich today for president of the embattled body that runs world soccer. President Sepp Blatter, who has headed FIFA for 17 years is running for another term....
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SENATOR DUFFY’S FATE IN JUDGE’S HANDS
The arguments in the landmark trial of Senator Mike Duffy are over. Justice Charles Vaillancourt says the earliest he’ll deliver his verdict is April 21. Over 60 days of testimony spread over ten...
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CROWN: ENERGY MINISTER THIBEAULT `SOUGHT CERTAIN BENEFITS` TO BE MPP
The court case against former Ontario Liberal re-election campaign director Pat Sorbara and fundraiser Gerry Lougheed has begun. (Antonella Artuso / John Lappa / Postmedia Network) Neither was in court...
View ArticleSAMSUNG HEIR ARRESTED
The biilionaire heir to the Samsung fortune has been arrested on charges of bribary and other white collar crimes. Forty-eight year-old Lee Jae-yong is a vice chairman at South Korea’s giant Samsung...
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PREMIER TO TESTIFY AT BYELECTION BRIBERY TRIAL
There will be a star witness at the trial of two Liberals facing bribery charges after Sudbury’s 2015 byelection. (David Chidley / Canadian Press) Premier Kathleen Wynne says she will take the stand....
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INTERNAL LIBERAL POLITICS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The spotlight turns to internal Liberal Party politics when the bribery trial of the Premier’s campaign director opens in Sudbury today. It will be further examined next week when two of former...
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PREMIER TESTIFIES AT BRIBERY TRIAL, THREATENS P-C LEADER WITH LEGAL ACTION
Kathleen Wynne took the stand at the bribery trial in Sudbury of two former Liberal staffers and denied she promised Glenn Thibeault a cabinet position to get him to leave the federal NDP and run for...
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SORBARA, LOUGHEED FOUND NOT GUILTY OF BRIBERY CHARGES
The bribery case against Premier Kathleen Wynne’s former deputy chief of staff and a local party fundraiser has been dismissed. Pat Sorbara and Gerry Lougheed had been accused of offering would-be...
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