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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 [...] The post Beleaguered Harper-appointed Sen. Mike Duffy Quits Conservative Caucus appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. 
 Abolish The Senate, Canada, Canada Politics, Canadian Figures, Conservative caucus, Conservatives, Featured, Government, Inside Ottawa, mike duffy, Nigel Wright, OBERT MADONDO, opinion., parliament, Politics News, resignation, Senate, Senate Expenses Scandal, Senator Mike Duffy, Senators, The Ugly Canadian 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 [...] The post Harper’s chief of staff paid off Mike Duffy’s Senate expenses appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. 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 [...] The post Sen. Patrick Brazeau defies Senate order to return housing allowance appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Yet another warning of the disasters Canadians and Americans would be forced to endure regularly if President Obama approves TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. On Friday, the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, which ships Canadian tar sands oil to Texas, ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, and spilled more than 80,000 [...] The post Exxon pipeline breaks, spills 84,000 gallons of Canadian tar sands oil in Arkansas (VIDEO) appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | January 01, 2013 “Economic impacts are imminent if there is no response.” APTN National News is reporting that First Nations leaders are contemplating Canada-wide “economic disruptions by the middle of January if Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn’t agree to hunger-striking Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s demand for a treaty meeting”. READ MORE
Activism News, APTN National News, Breaking News, Canad, Canada, Canada Politics, Chief Theresa Spence, Chief Theresa Spence Hunger Strike, Conservatives, economic disruptions, Featured, First Nations, First Nations Chiefs, HUNGER STRIKE, Joe Clark, Liberal Party of Canada, Media Coverage, Members of Parliament fromNew Democratic Party, Parti québécois, prime minister, rights, Senators, stephen harper, Tyendinaga Mohawks In the press release below, issued on Friday, December 28, hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence invites MPs and Senators to visit her at her teepee on Victoria Island, a short walking distance from Parliament Hill, on Sunday, December 30th, 2012. Chief Spence, who is now on Day 19 of her hunger strike, also urges supporters READ MORE A Zimbabwean senator has recommended cutting back on prisoners’ food budget and providing “sex gadgets” instead as a strategy to reduce homosexuality from spreading throughout the country. Speaking before a parliamentary committee this month, Ms. Sithembile Mlotshwa explained her, uh, logic: “Considering that some of the same-sex orientation—homosexuality—come from prisons and when those people are out they then spread that orientation, what measures are you putting in place to make sure that vice is stopped?” “In other countries,” she continued, “they provide sex gadgets.” “[The prisoners] can stay without food, but they want their sexual desires to be . . . → Read More: Slap Upside The Head: Zimbabwean Senator Suggests “Sex Gadgets” To Curb Homosexuality |
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