Thursday, May 28, 2009
Recently Vaughan councilors came together and demanded that Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson to resign over many issues including lavish spending on the taxpayers account. It was recently discovered that those same councilors (along with Jackson) went out for a lavish dinner that included six bottles of wine and totaled $1,222.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that the deficit for 2009-2010 is $50 billion.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Taxpayers are on the hook for $2 million of Brian Mulroney's legal costs at the inquiry into his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Taxpayers spent more than $4.424 million to play host to U.S. President Barack Obama during his whirlwind one-day visit to the city in February.
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Canadian Forces’ decision to sell a rare Second World War Spitfire to a private foundation in Gatineau for $1 has upset a group of volunteers who worked thousands of hours rebuilding the plane funded by tax dollars and donations.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
An electronic sweep of a major federal department has found hundreds of copies of what appears to be pirated software. This puts the department “at risk of legal liability with associated financial damages”.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The federal government does not know how much intellectual property it owns, how well that is managed, or which of its projects will likely generate intellectual property.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Natural Resources Canada paid $3.2 million to an organization involved in a serious conflict of interest that the department did not notice, even though the organization was insolvent and the payments were contrary to an agreement with the department
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Department of National Defence didn't know until the end of 2007-08 that it had not spent $300 million of its funding that couldn't be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Corporations collecting interest of up to seven per cent on tax overpayments have cost the government more than $90 million over the past three years, the federal auditor general has found.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Donna Routliffe worked in the Senate for over thirty years as a secretary and assistant. Qualifying for a full pension she asked Colin Kenny to fire her (so that she would receive a severance package) and she planned to rejoin the Senate on a contract basis. The Senate’s administrative office overturned her termination and she has since filed a grievance with the Public Service Labour Relations Board.
Monday, May 11, 2009
A Canadian Medial Association survey showed that 24% of Canadian doctors have had a patient die while on a waiting list.
Friday, May 08, 2009
Canada’s federal government and other bodies subject to the Official Languages Act spend up to $1.8 billion annually providing French-language services
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Senior managers at Radio-Canada expensed more than $1,400 in booze during a two-day retreat in 2006.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
The federal government has spent more than $1 million over the last three years to support a public appointments commission that doesn't exist.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
The top eight executives at the Business Development Bank of Canada racked up more than $435,000 in expenses in 2008 on travel, meals and memberships
Monday, May 04, 2009
The federal government has spent $15.7 million on bottled water in the last five years.
