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Conflict Of Interest And Ethics Commissioner
The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner of Canada is an entity of the Parliament of Canada. The commissioner is an independent officer of Parliament, who administers the ''Conflict of Interest Act'' and the ''Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons'' and is supported in this role by the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. The position came into effect on July 9, 2007, with the coming into force of the ''Conflict of Interest Act''. This act, in turn, was enacted as part of the ''Federal Accountability Act''. The current commissioner is Konrad von Finckenstein having served since August 30, 2023. The previous commissioner was Martine Richard having served for several weeks in the spring 2023, before resigning. Mary Dawson (civil servant), Mary Dawson (2007-2018) and Mario Dion (2018-2023) both previously held the role. Overview of the Office The Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner is an entity of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Von Finckenstein
Konrad Winrich Graf Finck von Finckenstein, (born April 4, 1945) is a Canadian public servant who has worked in the areas of trade, commercial, competition and communications law. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022. He has served since August 2023 as Canada's Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. Early life Von Finckenstein was born in Germany and immigrated to Canada when he was 17. He received a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) from Carleton University in 1967, and a Bachelor of Laws from Queen's University in 1971. Career In 1973, von Finckenstein entered into the federal public service as a Legal Advisor in the Department of Justice. He would go on to occupy senior roles within the Departments of Justice, Industry and External Affairs. Trade negotiator As Senior General Counsel in the Trade Negotiations Office, he was the chief legal advisor to Simon Reisman during the negotiations that led to the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement. He p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strippergate (Canada)
Strippergate was a 2004-2005 political scandal in Canada in which federal immigration minister Judy Sgro was accused of providing favours to people who helped with her political campaigning during the 2004 Canadian federal election. Sgro was accused of giving favourable immigration processing to Romanian immigrant, stripper, and campaign volunteer Alina Balaican, and Harjit Singh, a campaign donor and pizza shop owner. Sgro was later partially cleared of wrongdoing by the federal ethics commissioner, although his report highlighted that her staff were aware of the immigration situation of Balaican. Background Since 1998, Canada has issued work permits to immigrant-strippers, issuing 660 in 2001. Public awareness of the government's immigration program was low until the events of 2004 brought them into the media's spotlight. Strippergate In November 2004, controversy began to surround immigration minister Judy Sgro as questions arose surrounding her activities during the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WE Charity
WE Charity (), formerly known as Free the Children (), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. The organization implemented development programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, focusing on education, water, health, food and economic opportunity. It also runs domestic programming for young people in Canada, the US and UK, promoting corporate-sponsored service learning and active citizenship. Charity Intelligence, a registered Canadian charity that rates over 750 Canadian charities, rates the "demonstrated impact" per dollar of We Charity as "Low" and has issued a "Donor Advisory" due to We Charity replacing most of its board of directors in 2020. WE Charity is related to other ventures from the Kielburgers, including the for-profit Me to We, which was the title of a 2004 book by Craig and Marc Kielburger, and We Day, a series of large-scale motivational events held in 17 cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WE Charity Controversy
A political scandal took place in Canada in 2020 regarding the awarding of a federal contract to WE Charity to administer the $912 million Canada Student Service Grant program (CSSG). The controversy arose when it was revealed that the WE charity had previously paid close family of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to appear at its events, despite making claims to the contrary. In total, Craig Kielburger confirmed at a parliamentary committee, WE Charity paid approximately $425,000 to Trudeau's family including expenses. WE Charity also used pictures of Trudeau's family members as celebrity endorsements in their application. Trudeau stated that WE Charity had been uniquely capable of administering the program as "the only possible option", and that it was the civil service, not him, who decided that WE Charity was the best option. It was noted that not only had the charity employed a daughter of former Finance Minister Bill Morneau but a close relationship existed between the minist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary Herald
The ''Calgary Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Publication began in 1883 as ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate, and General Advertiser''. It is owned by the Postmedia Network. History ''The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser'' started publication on 31 August 1883 in a tent at the junction of the Bow and Elbow by Thomas Braden, a school teacher, and his friend, Andrew Armour, a printer, and financed by "a five-hundred- dollar interest-free loan from a Toronto milliner, Miss Frances Ann Chandler." It started as a weekly paper with 150 copies of only four pages created on a handpress that arrived 11 days earlier on the first train to Calgary. A year's subscription cost $3. When Hugh St. Quentin Cayley became editor 26 November 1884 the Herald moved out of the tent and into a shack. Cayley quickly became partner and editor. Eventually, the publisher's name was changed to Herald Publishing Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jody Wilson-Raybould
Jody Wilson-Raybould (born March 23, 1971), also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas, is a Canadian lawyer, author, and former politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver Granville from 2015 to 2021. She was initially elected as a member of the Liberal Party – serving as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019, and briefly as veterans affairs minister and associate national defence minister in 2019 – until she resigned in response to statements from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the SNC-Lavalin affair. After she was expelled from the Liberal caucus, she continued to sit in Parliament as an independent and was reelected in 2019, but did not run in 2021. Before entering federal politics, she was a BC provincial Crown attorney, a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations. Early life and education Wilson-Raybould's mother is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SNC-Lavalin Affair
The SNC-Lavalin affair () is a political scandal involving attempted political interference with the justice system by the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The Parliament of Canada's Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion found that Trudeau improperly influenced then Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene in an ongoing criminal case against Quebec-based construction company SNC-Lavalin (subsequently rebranded AtkinsRéalis in 2023) by offering a deferred prosecution agreement. The affair became public when ''The Globe and Mail'' published an article uncovering the allegations on 7 February 2019, shortly after Wilson-Raybould had been shuffled to another cabinet position as Minister of Veterans Affairs. On 11 February, Ethics Commissioner Dion announced he would investigate the allegations. Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet the next day. This was followed by the resignation of Gerald Butts, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aga Khan
Aga Khan (; ; also transliterated as ''Aqa Khan'' and ''Agha Khan'') is a title held by the Imamate in Nizari doctrine, Imām of the Nizari Isma'ilism, Nizari Isma'ilism, Ismāʿīli Shia Islam, Shias. The current holder of the title is the 50th hereditary Imām, Prince Shah Rahim al-Hussaini, Aga Khan V since 4 February 2025, who acceded to the Imamat upon the death of his father, Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV. Title The title is made up of the titles "Agha (title), agha" and "Khan (title), khan". The Turkish "agha" is "aqa" (Āqā) in Persian language, Persian. The word "agha (title), agha" comes from the Old Turkic language, Old Turkic and Mongolian language, Mongolian "aqa", meaning "elder men", and means something like "master" or "lord". "Khan (title), Khan" means king or ruler in Turkish and Mongolian languages. Combining the terms together the title means commanding chief, lord, or master. According to Farhad Daftary, a scholar at the Institute of Ismail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He led the Liberal Party from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was the member of Parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025. Trudeau was born in Ottawa, Ontario, as the eldest son of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from McGill University and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia. After graduating, he taught at the secondary school level in Vancouver before returning to Montreal in 2002 to further his studies. He was chair for the youth charity Katimavik and director of the not-for-profit Canadian Avalanche Association. In 2006, he was appointed as chair of the Liberal Party's Task Force on Youth Renewal. In the 2008 federal election, he was elected to represent the riding of Papineau in the House of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of International Prime Ministerial Trips Made By Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau, the List of prime ministers of Canada, 23rd prime minister of Canada, had made 96 trips to 50 countries during Premiership of Justin Trudeau, his premiership from November 4, 2015 to March 14, 2025. Trudeau did not make any international trips between February 2020 and June 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, COVID-19 pandemic. Summary The number of visits per country where Prime Minister Trudeau travelled are: * One visit to Armenia, Bermuda, Brazil, Cambodia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, Israel, Kuwait, Laos, Liberia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, the Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Senegal, Spain, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Vatican City, and Vietnam * Two visits to Argentina, the Bahamas, China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, the Philippines, and Singapore * Three visits to Italy, Japan, Latvia, Peru, and Switzerland * Four visits to Ukraine and Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Broadbent
John Edward Broadbent (March 21, 1936 – January 11, 2024) was a Canadian social democracy, social-democratic politician and political scientist. He was leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 1975 to 1989, and a Member of Parliament (Canada), member of Parliament from 1968 to 1990 and from 2004 to 2006. He led the NDP through four federal elections. He oversaw a period of growth for the party with its parliamentary representation rising from 17 to 43 seats as of the 1988 Canadian federal election, 1988 federal election. Broadbent also served as a vice-president of Socialist International from 1979 to 1989 and director of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development from 1990 to 1996. Returning to politics in the 2004 Canadian federal election, 2004 federal election, he was elected to represent Ottawa Centre (federal electoral district), Ottawa Centre. He later chaired the Broadbent Institute, a policy think tank founded in 2011. Early life John E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
