Gagliano letter bashes PM on sponsorship file
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OTTAWA - The federal sponsorship program was essential to ensuring the survival of Canada, and Paul Martin&#39;s government has made a serious mistake abolishing it, former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano said in an open letter.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The head of a public inquiry is appealing to Parliament to help him get to the bottom of the federal sponsorship scandal.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin's staff contacted the office of former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano in 1999 to inquire about &#36;600,000 in sponsorship money for a Montreal sports group, documents provided to a public inquiry indicate.
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The case of Rocco Buttiglione, the EU commissioner-designate under fire for making disparaging remarks about homosexuals and single mothers, is back on Italy&#39;s front pages.
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A letter from recently-elected Labour MPs is demanding that Tony Blair stand down as prime minister.
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Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today defended two of his under-fire team. Euro MPs questioned the appointment of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as a Commissioner after he said homosexuality was a sin.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi takes legal action over what he called damaging allegations made against him.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Former Liberal cabinet minister Alfonso Gagliano is flatly denying allegations that he had links during the 1990s to the notorious Bonanno organized crime family in New York.
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Mandelson claims detectives created 'false impression' of PM.
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The Italian government on Wednesday sped up parliamentary approval of a law that could overturn the corruption convictions of a close friend of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sparking fury among opposition politicians.
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An Italian comedian&#39;s campaign using a rude word to tell off politicians has won the support of more than 300,000 Italians who signed petitions to sweep away a generation of lawmakers they say are corrupt and ineffective.
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin was the target again at the sponsorship inquiry Wednesday, as more evidence was dredged up about a 1994-95 dispute over advertising contracts during his term as finance minister.
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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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Almost 500 letters from friends, family, corporate leaders and celebrity sportsmen were sent in defence of convicted internet banker Frank Quattrone, it emerged yesterday.
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Italy's prime minister blames "leftist propaganda" after MEPs reject his nominee for EU justice commissioner.
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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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Silvio Berlusconi's wife demanded in an open letter published Wednesday that the former prime minister publicly apologize to her after he reportedly made flirtatious comments to other women at a party last ...Comment