GeneralMPs spend $500k extending Parliament Hill bus routeHoC committee memos show taxpayers also on the hook for MPs’ legal fees, settlements
GeneralMPs, Senators spend more than $250k on foreign travelDocuments tabled report $277,160 spent on 15 trips abroad
GeneralPolice not looking into three wrongful MP expense claimsSpending in violation of rules not referred to RCMP
OttawaWe have only ourselves to blameThe Prime Minister’s Office was very nearly a $10 million operation last year, but only because the Prime Minister is so committed...
OttawaYour tax dollars at workThe Board of Internal Economy has tabled its latest report of MP expenses . The second biggest expenditure line: ten percenters...
OttawaCompromise TuesdayMeanwhile, MPs have agreed to let Auditor General Sheila Fraser have a look at the books. Below, Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch...
OttawaThere’s no place like homeThe Citizen and Chronicle-Herald delve into the exciting world of Ottawa real estate (also here and here ) and question the living...
OttawaThe contentious case of Russ HiebertLast week, as part of a series of posts on MP expenses, Canwest’s David Akin noted that Conservative Russ Hiebert had spent more...
OttawaWhat kind of transparency?As Parliament moves slowly , but probably surely , towards some kind of public audit of Parliamentary expenses, the London Free...
OttawaThe new consensusLast week, Michael Ignatieff said the auditor general and the Board of Internal Economy should discuss their differences over an...