The Sir Robert Bond Papers

A check of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) website reveals there are currently 389 family foundations in Canada with charitable status. Th...

On the growing ethical issue of politicians and charities, check these online commentaries: 1. Dubious donations by C-SPAN corporate vice ...

Did anyone else find it strange that the Premier's Office was taking questions about the operation of a private charitable foundation? T...

Answering a question from Night Line host Linda Swain on Thursday, Health minister Tom Osborne let slip another little bit of the House of A...

Voice mail has an odd quirk. Every now and then, it sends an old message along with a new one. The message could be days old, or on rare occ...

So Danny Williams hired Navigant Consulting to "audit" the books for the Hibernia Project. Here's the type of audit Navigant ...

As The Telegram pointed out earlier today, Premier Danny Williams crapped on the idea of Max Ruelokke as chairman and chief executive offi...

According to a story in Thursday's Telegram , the introduction of a new claims form is not linked to the Auditor General's report on...

The Telegram editorial today focused on the legal ifght being mounted by Max Ruelokke to compel the provincial government to abide by the l...

According to a great story in today's Telegram , veteran political scribe Rob Antle reports that the House of Assembly has put in place ...

Check out Offal news . You'll find two things. First is this picture, under the title "After the next election...". Second is ...

Kathy Dunderdale, currently collecting a paycheque as the minister of natural resources, likes the phrase "due dilligence". In he...

In the spending scandal at the House of Assembly, the frame placed on the issue by the members of the House of Assembly - and by cabinet - h...

It will be interesting to see if The Independent can actually piece together and describe accurately the salaries, allowances and other bene...

Harvey Hodder carried on his act as the Scarlet Pumpernickel crusading in defence of members of the House of Assembly on Thursday. He did a...

Updated: 15:30 hrs 05 Jul 06 Danny Williams increased the size of his cabinet today in the wake of a growing scandal over spending within...

Paul Oram, first elected to the legislature in 2003, has one of the gold rings everyone is wondering about. Paul called one of the local cal...

Auditor General John Noseworthy said on Tuesday that the process he followed in auditing the House of Assembly was fine and didn't need ...

For those still seeking a good name for the House of Assembly scandal, consider this one: The Lard of the Rings. The $69, 000-worth of gold ...

The seek him here. They seek him there. But Harvey Hodder - otherwise known as the Speaker of the House of Assembly - only seems to turn up...

Auditor General John Noseworthy finished his work on the House of Assembly scandal by filing three reports on two current and one former me...

Consider this situation. You are meeting with a provincial Auditor General who is interviewing you about some expense claims from three year...

Check out the Imperial War Museum site dedicated to the Somme. This is a stunning site with solid introductory information and a balanced, ...

vocm.com has left its public inquiry question up now for about three days. That's long enough for some people who didn't vote to c...

Public support is growing for a public inquiry into the operations of the House of Assembly. At vocm.com the Question of the Day results sh...

Some time ago, I planted Forget-me- nots on my front lawn. Each June, they sprout and spread wildly. They get cut when the lawn is mowed ...

Not surprisingly a lawyer representing one of the five people named thus far in the House of Assembly spending scandal has taken issue wi...

Speaker Harvey Hodder claims he was shocked by revelations of the Auditor General. At this point, the only people who should be genuinely s...

According to CBC television's Here & Now supper-hour news show, Bill Murray - the former financial operations director at the House ...

Speaker of the House of Assembly Harvey Hodder commented today for the first time on the scandal in his office. Hodder chairs the Internal E...