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Showing posts with label election finance reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election finance reform. Show all posts
16 February 2015

Money and Politics – the Chronic Enforcement Problem #nlpoli

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We can have all the rules in the world about how political parties and political candidates receive and spend money in Newfoundland and Labr...
27 September 2013

Ban corporate political donations: Dumaresque #nlpoli

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Liberal leadership candidate Danny Dumaresque wants to reform the provincial election laws to ban corporate donations, as the Telegram repo...
17 February 2012

The Joy of Political Giving, By-Elections edition #nlpoli

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Official election finance returns for two by-elections in 2010 and 2011 show an interesting pattern of political contributions. The most in...
14 September 2011

Dipper candidate screwed by Tory election law mess #nlpoli

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New Democrat candidate George Murphy is being accused of breaking the province’s election finance laws Murphy’s chief financial officer s...
21 July 2011

Nurturing a democratic revolution

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Public life in Newfoundland and Labrador remains as fundamentally undemocratic as it ever was. Paternalism remains the order of the day. ...
19 May 2011

Dunderdale opts for mid-level bureaucrat as CEO

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Not so long ago the province’s chief electoral officer was a career public servant usually of deputy minister rank. Then Danny Williams de...
08 November 2010

My own electoral grandpa: vote in an election that isn’t happening yet

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Danny Williams is worried that local politics is being more like the American system. Much like the more benighted souls in some parts of ...
25 February 2010

Illegal Dipper campaign donations in NS

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Elections Nova Scotia is fining the provincial New Democratic Party over $10,00 in illegal campaign contributions. Meanwhile, as BP told y...
21 June 2009

‘Ethics and accountability’ report card

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More than half not done despite 2003 commitment “to deal with them and begin to restore the public's confidence” Of the 23 commitmen...
10 February 2009

Ontario Dippers made illegal donation to NL Dipper in 2003

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Unless “Ontario NDP” is someone’s really odd name, the New Democratic Party in Ontario made a donation to a Labrador New Democrat’s re-elect...
02 February 2009

It is better to give than receive…

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but when you both can give and receive, it’s even nicer. $10,000 for the group, and a couple of hundred for the candidate of the party ...