Sponsorship inquiry promises to reopen old wounds for Martin Liberals
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OTTAWA (CP) - The sponsorship scandal that did so much to reduce the federal Liberals to minority government is back to haunt them - just as Prime Minister Paul Martin prepares for the fall parliamentary session.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Jean Chretien delivered a pointed reminder to his Liberal heir Paul Martin during a carefully scripted opening monologue at the Gomery commission: We're in this together.
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Former Senator Fred D. Thompson hopes that his role as an investigator of government wrongdoing will propel him to the presidency.
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OTTAWA  (CP) - Liberal cabinet ministers are coming to the defence of Prime  Minister Paul Martin over revelations from a book written by Sheila Copps.
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OTTAWA (CP) - It will cost taxpayers more than &#36;20 million to get to the bottom of the sponsorship scandal, according to a budget estimate drawn up by the commission of inquiry into the affair.
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Independent experts are to re-examine evidence from Northern Ireland's worst atrocity after the acquittal last month of the main suspect, the British-run province's police watchdog said Thursday.
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The Liberals want a broader investigation of contracts given to Kelly Charlebois, a former adviser to Alberta Health Minister Gary Mar. Liberal Leader Kevin Taft says the Auditor General needs to focus on
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OTTAWA -- Ad agencies were set up with federally financed slush funds to cut through red tape and speed up the awarding of grants, says the former head of the federal sponsorship program.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin is refusing to get involved in a dispute over the sponsorship inquiry he set up, saying he can't comment on a challenge against the judge he appointed to lead it.
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HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, Nfld. (CP) - Lawrence O'Brien, a Liberal MP who died last week at age 53, was a champion of Labrador, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Monday.
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The political fundraiser who found himself at the centre of cash-for-honours allegations has called for a change in the way political parties are funded.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin gambled his political future on a health-care deal with the provinces and that gamble appears to have paid off - at least for now.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Jean Chretien will attempt to rescue the reputation of the scandal-ridden sponsorship program by casting it as only one element of his broad-based plan to save the country.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin told his Liberal troops Wednesday it is time to start implementing what he described as the party's progressive election platform.
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If the left is to have any hope of undermining President Bushâs second term, it must continue its previous efforts to destroy the reputation of every worthwhile conservative in his cabinet.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin used his testimony at the Gomery inquiry Thursday to distance himself from the sponsorship scandal, saying that as finance minister he had nothing to do with how government departments spent money.
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Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has repaid business friends more than $100,000 in hopes of defusing a scandal that is threatening to force him from power, officials said Sunday.Comment