Unbowed Chretien admits 'mistakes' but defends sponsorship program
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OTTAWA (CP) - It made for superb political theatre, but Jean Chretien's extraordinary appearance at the Gomery commission did little to shed new light on just how the scandal-plagued sponsorship program went so awfully wrong.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Andre Ouellet claimed to have government support - and sometimes the personal backing of Jean Chretien - for some of the projects he championed as board chairman at Canada Post, the federal sponsorship inquiry was told Monday.
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France's Segolene Royal stood accused of a fresh campaign blunder Wednesday after one of her top advisers disowned a text in which she harshly attacks President Jacques Chirac's Africa policy.Comment
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A French newspaper claimed Friday that Lance Armstrong admitted to doping three years before the first of his seven Tour de France wins in 1999.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The lawyer for former prime minister Jean Chretien is thinking of launching a legal effort to have the judge heading the federal sponsorship inquiry removed from his post.
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PARIS -- Tour de France chief Patrice Clerc said he considers Floyd Landis a cheater who has discredited cycling's showcase race.
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MONTREAL - The civil servant who ran the federal sponsorship program and two top advertising executives will face fraud charges in Quebec Superior Court next May.
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OTTAWA (CP) - There was nothing wrong with the Prime Minister's Office having a say in who should get federal sponsorship money and how much, says the lawyer for Jean Chretien's chief of staff.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers came to the defence of Paul Martin Friday against suggestions by ex-minister Alfonso Gagliano that the prime minister made a grave error in abolishing the sponsorship program.
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MONTREAL - Former federal minister and ambassador Alphonso Gagliano fiercely defended Ottawa&#39;s sponsorship program Friday, saying without it, Canadian unity would have been put in jeopardy.
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Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, issued an unprecedented mea culpa yesterday, admitting that he had made mistakes and promising to rectify them.
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In the book, Floyd Landis, last yearâs Tour de France winner, appears to contradict some of the testimony he gave at an arbitration hearing on charges of doping last month.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The political interference in the federal sponsorship program was so pervasive that it even prompted complaints from Alfonso Gagliano's former right-hand man, a public inquiry was told Monday.
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Former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, once viewed as a future president of France, began the appeal of his conviction in a political funding scandal, saying on Wednesday that he did not intend to break the law.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The bureaucrat who ran the federal sponsorship program is standing by his contention that Paul Martin&#39;s office tried to interfere in a 1994 advertising contract.
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Juan Antonio Samaranch has refuted suggestions from World Anti-Doping chief Dick Pound that he was soft on doping during his tenure as IOC president and said the criticism was a result of frustrated ambition.
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Irish PM Bertie Ahern tells parliament he regrets "misjudgements" over loans and event money.