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Oda Gets Lifetime Achievement Award For Government Waste

Is This Politician Insulting War Vets?

Harper Announces 3 Byelections Set For November


Top 5 Political Spending Scandals

Top 5 Political Spending Scandals

04.24.2012
Canadian International Development Minister Bev Oda's $16 bottle of orange juice becomes the latest example of a public figure getting...
Minister Declines 5-Star Hotel For Another At Twice The Cost

Minister Declines 5-Star Hotel For Another At Twice The Cost

Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press  04.23.2012
OTTAWA - International Development Minister Bev Oda repaid taxpayers Monday for the cost of rejecting one five-star hotel in London, England...
Feds Pledge Tens Of Millions To Fight African Drought

Feds Pledge Tens Of Millions To Fight African Drought

The Canadian Press  10. 5.2011
MONTREAL - The federal government says Canadians have donated $70 million to help fight the drought in Africa and that it will keep its...
Trouble Brewing In Tory Caucus Over Funding For Group That Provides Abortions

Trouble Brewing In Tory Caucus Over Funding For Group That Provides Abortions

Althia Raj  09.28.2011
There's trouble brewing in the Tory caucus over a government decision to continue funding the International Planned Parenthood Federation...
African Famine:

African Famine: "I See You"

08. 9.2011
One of Bev Oda's enduring memories was the leathery and cracked feet of the children who had walked for kilometres and the stunned look...
Africa Needs Our Help to Overcome its Latest Famine

Africa Needs Our Help to Overcome its Latest Famine

08. 2.2011
Those in the Horn of Africa who are in the midst of a famine are facing hunger and malnutrition on a scale few of us can comprehend. Even...
Somalia's Image Deficit: Helping or Hurting Aid?

Somalia's Image Deficit: Helping or Hurting Aid?

07.25.2011
Once again the pictures of little children starving in Somalia break your heart. But this time there are other pictures that come to mind...
No Vacancy in Somalia

No Vacancy in Somalia

07.25.2011
The Dadaab refugee camp is an ongoing saga of desperate human need. And with the $50 million Canada recently pledged being only a beginning...
Famine In East Africa A Tragic Case Of Deja Vu

Famine In East Africa A Tragic Case Of Deja Vu

07.20.2011
THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - As she sees images coming out of drought-stricken Africa this week, Rosemary McCarney is struck by a single...

Canada Could Punch Above its Weight in Multilateral Policy Shift

06.29.2011
Prime Minister Harper's new government has indicated that Canada would not increase its bilateral assistance to the current governments...
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