Ad agencies charged hefty fees for no work, sponsorship inquiry told
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OTTAWA (CP) - Four ad agencies that charged taxpayers more than &#36;350,000 in commissions for a controversial TV series about hockey legend Maurice Richard actually did no work on the series, a public inquiry was told Monday.
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The Salt Manufacturers Association has lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority over the use of a cartoon slug to front a new Â£4 million salt restriction campaign.
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Retailers and their customers face unduly high fees when using MasterCards, the Office of Fair Trading said yesterday in its latest provisional findings into the way card charges are set.
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Two major insurance companies named in the New York attorney general&#39;s investigation into questionable sales practices have discontinued the use of incentive fees, which are at the center of the probe.
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Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a leading government Alzheimer's researcher with engaging in a criminal conflict of interest by earning $285,000 in private consulting fees from a pharmaceutical giant.
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OTTAWA -- The public inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal expects Prime Minister Paul Martin to testify at its hearings. And one thing he may be asked about is whether he intervened -when he was finance minister - in a 1995 advertising contract.
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A public relations company billed the city&#39;s Department of Water and Power for more than $4 million in questionable costs that it should repay, according to an audit released Tuesday.
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Minister solicited most of the 17 donations totalling Â£103,155 that his campaign had failed to register
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Participants in 401(k) plans may be losing thousands of dollars in retirement savings because of sponsor fees, a report said Thursday, in urging investors be given a clearer picture of the fees they pay.
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Some say the $16-a-day charge aimed at alleviating traffic will hurt businesses.
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Companies are accused of billing small businesses and nonprofits for "free" trials of Web site services.
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Two sponsors of the nation's campaign finance law sued the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday for failing to block the spending of unlimited donations in the presidential race, the second lawsuit the FEC has faced over the issue this month.
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Lawyers say a new regulation threatens to make advertising account shifts prohibitively expensive or simply counterproductive.
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MONTREAL - The public 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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NEW YORK -- Two major insurance companies named in the New York attorney general's investigation into questionable sales practices have discontinued the use of incentive fees, which are at the center of the probe.
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Body that paid thousands to minister's campaign 'has never held meeting'
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OTTAWA (CP) - The head of the sponsorship inquiry accused a top accounting firm Wednesday of watering down a 1996 report on federal advertising projects.