Thursday, April 30, 2009

Documents obtained through Access to Information show board members of the taxpayer-founded CBC regularly spending thousands of dollars on executive class flights that could cost hundreds.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Quebec was approved to receive $3.2 million out of a total $3.8 million available across the country last year for Canada day celebrations.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

 As CBC prepares to lay off 800 employees this year, managers are still eligible for bonuses. The 553 managers -- or 5% of CBC's overall workforce -- are eligible for "incentive pay," but only if they achieve targets, CBC president Hubert Lacroix told a committee of MPs studying the future of Canadian television.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Canadian Food Inspection Agency with a budget of over $500 million for 2007-2008 admits it missed 3 of 4 audits at tainted Maple Leaf plant.

Friday, April 24, 2009 

From Kathleen Harris, the Ottawa Sun - The controversial RCMP investigation into the Liberal governments income trust decision cost taxpayers more than $445,000.

Thursday, April 23, 2009 

The CBC received $1,096,036,000 from the government in the 2007-2008 financial year

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

CBC's top executives spent more than $60,000 over six months holding meetings in luxury hotels and resorts and expensing such items as sparkling wine and limousine rides

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

According to the Globe and Mail Federal and Provincial governments will be running deficits totaling about $57-billion in 2009. That's the largest combined deficit ever.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Despite leader Michael Ignatieff's vow that his party would no longer sit on its hands during votes in Parliament, Liberal MPs have missed three times as many votes in the House of Commons so far this year as Conservative members

Friday, April 17, 2009

The President of the CBC, Hubert Lacroix, has a maximum annual pay of $514,560.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Thirty-nine executives and senior managers from Export Development Canada spent $2.2 million on travel and car expenses in two years.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Canadian Department of National Defense has spent $422,203.55 for the transfer of power between the Countess Mountbatten of Burma and the former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to the post of honorary colonel in chief of the regiment of Princess Patricia Light Infantry.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Courtesy of the Toronto Star: Councilors on the city's executive committee agreed to eliminate cost-of-living and merit increases for non-union city staff this year. An hour later, they voted to keep their 2.24 per cent raise.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson paid $3,000 to have her city hall office swept for listening devises and charged the taxpayers.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Greenpeace has launched a campaign saying that Alberta's $2 billion carbon capture project is unproven and a waste of money.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Ontario harmonized sales tax will increase the price of many products including gas, professional services, new homes and electricity.

Monday, April 06, 2009

Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt spent nearly $80,000 on travel and hospitality during her last two years as head of the Toronto Port Authority.

Friday, April 03, 2009

Courtesy of the Toronto Star: The Smart Systems agency was created in 2002 to set up electronic health records for Ontario residents at a cost of $647 million. In September 2008, it was dissolved and eHealth Ontario created

Thursday, April 02, 2009 

The Toronto Sun reported on April 2, 2009 that the Speaker of the Senate took his wife, chief of staff and a colleague to Mexico this January to “enhance parliamentary relations”. The trip cost taxpayers nearly $30,000.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 

The “Sunshine” list was released yesterday and showed 53,572 people made more than $100,000 on the public dime last year.