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Canadian Tire exec to become Harper's chief spokesman
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top spokesman is resigning to go back to the private sector, in another major shakeup of the prime minister’s inner circle just months before a federal election. Jason...
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PMO flooded with angry emails over employment insurance changes
Almost three years after its sweeping reforms to the employment insurance system and Old Age Security, the federal government has released public correspondence sent to the Prime Minister’s Office on...
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Letter: Geography question still dogs Mike Duffy
Re: Old Duff or old fraud, March 28. The Citizen’s lengthy article on the how Sen. Mike Duffy got in this mess answered every question one might have, except perhaps the most basic one: Why was someone...
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Senators tried to 'kill' internal housing audit, court documents suggest
A group of senators worked behind the scenes to “kill” an internal audit of senators’ housing claims, but were stopped only when two officials from the red chamber threatened to take legal action if...
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Name of Langevin Block under scrutiny for residential schools connection
The federal government should consider renaming the building that houses the Prime Minister’s Office because it’s named for a key architect of the oppressive residential school system, says a professor...
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Vetting Senate candidates a minefield, say those who have done it
Identifying and vetting candidates for the Senate is a months-long process that includes extensive background checks and interviews – but as a growing list of senators in trouble seems to indicate, it...
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Don't blame workers for problems at pay centre, Donald Savoie says
The furor over the federal pay centre in Miramichi, N.B. shows how the far-reaching power of prime ministers’ offices has hollowed out public service planning and management skills over the past 40...
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A third of public service executives have mentally 'checked out,' study suggests
Almost one-third of Canada’s federal executives, who are expected to lead the modernization of the public service, are actively disengaged or have “mentally checked out,” says a report by the...
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Duffy wanted promise his case wouldn't go to RCMP: emails
Nigel Wright and other officials in the Prime Minister’s Office refused Mike Duffy’s request for an “internal agreement” that the government would not refer his $90,000 in ineligible Senate expenses to...
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The Gargoyle: Finance Canada and minister's office scrambled to preempt PBO...
No caption, leave this text or replace image Officials in the Finance Department and Minister Joe Oliver’s office scrambled behind the scenes to pre-empt a parliamentary budget office report projecting...
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Details On National Day Of Honour To Be Released Monday Morning
News release from the DND: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Director of Communications, Jason MacDonald, along with a senior government official from the Department of National Defence and Canadian...
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Rosemary McCarney: A stunningly straightforward solution to a global problem
Rosemary McCarney, President and CEO of Plan Canada Here’s a good news-bad news story with a twist. The good news is that a concerted global effort has lowered the number of children around the world...
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THE GARGOYLE – Former Kingston editor to land in PMO
Derek Shelly Though the Harper Administration functions in an often testy relationship with the Parliamentary Press Gallery, the prime minister isn’t above staffing his own ranks with former...
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The Gargoyle – Anniversaries marked by the Prime Minister's Office
This week’s statement from the Prime Minister’s Office marking the 72nd anniversary of Canada’s participation in the ill-fated raid on Dieppe had me wondering which other anniversaries his office felt...
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The Gargoyle – Rumours of PMO shuffle in play
Listed below, for posterity, is the telephone directory from the Prime Minister’s Office as it appears today. It’s worth noting because, if persistent rumours circulating Parliament Hill are to be...
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The Gargoyle: PM's greeting to Muslims goes missing
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s continued appeal to ethnic communities hit a snag last week when he apparently left out Muslims in his greetings to religious communities. Eid al-Adha began last Friday,...
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