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Richard Madan can also claim up to $51K in expenses. A former CTV and CBC reporter hired to serve as Manitoba’s trade envoy to the United States is taking home more than $480,000 Cdn a year in consulting fees, according to his contract with the province.
Marni Larkin met officials about daycare project that paid company she co-owns, contrary to earlier claims. The manager for the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party's 2023 election campaign took part in a meeting about a daycare project that resulted in a $2.8-million payday for a company she co-owns — contrary to earlier claims she had nothing to do with the project.
Recently appointed federal cabinet minister Rebecca Chartrand harassed a former employee at Winnipeg's Red River College Polytechnic over a period of several months in 2019, according to an external investigation commissioned by the college and conducted by a Winnipeg law firm. Chartrand, elected in April as the Liberal member of Parliament for the northern Manitoba riding of Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, was...
Comment by Churchill tour operator called unfunny by party member who volunteers to feed homeless. Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Wally Daudrich joked to a group of party members this week he could reduce homelessness in Winnipeg by letting polar bears loose downtown.
When a federal byelection was held in 2023 in the southern Manitoba riding of Portage-Lisgar, there was no question the Conservative Party of Canada would hold on to the profoundly conservative seat. Nonetheless, the Conservatives poured money and resources into that race in a concerted effort to extinguish any political spark remaining in the hearth of Maxime Bernier and his...
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs wants Canada's governor general and prime minister to rescind the senate appointment of Charles Adler over what the assembly calls "grossly offensive" comments about Indigenous communities made by the broadcaster 25 years ago. On Saturday, the prime minister's office announced the senate appointments of Adler and Saskatchewan health-care executive Tracy Muggli. The governor general makes...
Premier Wab Kinew claims the former Progressive Conservative government tried to approve an Alberta mining company's proposal to drill for sand in southeastern Manitoba days after the Tories lost the provincial election in October. Former PC cabinet minister Kevin Klein corroborates Kinew's allegation of an attempted breach of the caretaker convention, where outgoing governments are supposed to only engage in...