I start today with a great blog posting by a U.S. sister organization to Canadian for Accountability, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). It tells how the U.S. Inspector General for the Department of the Interior tried to warn Congress that the department wasn’t doing its job regulating the oil industry – or doing much [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/05/10/media-update-for-may-10-2010/
The big stories today are from B.C. and Quebec. In B.C., former B.C. solicitor general Kash Heed – who was cleared of election wrongdoing involving some fraudulent Chinese-language pamphlets – was reinstated. Then, the next day, he resigned again. Why? It turns out that the special prosecutor, one Terrence L. Robertson, who cleared him was [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/05/06/media-update-for-may-6-2010/
The accountability news is thin today as negotiations for the release of Afghan detainee documents continues and no big new stories have hit the airwaves. One story of interest: apparently, the government slipped a clause into its 2007 omnibus budget which gave it the power to borrow money without asking Parliament. Now, if you know [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/05/03/media-update-for-may-3-2010/