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No Voting System Fixes Without Money And Help: Elections Canada

CBC | Posted 05.03.2013 | Canada Politics

Elections Canada wants to avoid the procedural errors that plagued the last election, but the changes will likely cost money and require political wil...

Will Election Robocalls Ever Be Punished?

CBC | Posted 04.04.2013 | Canada Politics

Now that a charge has been laid against Michael Sona in the case of misleading automated robocalls in Guelph, Ont., in the 2011 federal election, what...

Two Companies Slapped With Robocalls Fines

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Business

GATINEAU, Que. - Canada's telecommunications regulator has fined two companies over their telemarketing practices.The Canadian Radio-television and Te...

Robocalls Repeat For 2015?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.28.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The chief electoral officer is warning of another wave of false or misleading telephone calls in the next election if tough new rules and pun...

Robocalls: Elections Canada Wants More Power To Punish

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Tough penalties for elections-official impersonators, beefier investigative powers and more voter privacy were among the ideas floated Wednes...

NDP Target Former MP With Robocalls

CBC | Posted 05.05.2013 | Canada Politics

The NDP is putting pressure on Claude Patry, who crossed the floor of the House of Commons to the Bloc Québécois last week, with a robocall to his c...

Calling All Rogers Complainants

CBC | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Politics

An investigation into allegedly misleading live and robocalls in the last federal election has turned to complainants who are Rogers customers, newly ...

Will Judge Toss 6 Tory MPs From Office?

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.16.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The electoral fates of six Conservative MPs, once strictly the purview of Canadian voters, landed in the hands of a judge Monday as lawyers o...

People Reported Robocalls For Cash, Tory Lawyer Suggests

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.12.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - A key piece of evidence in the robocalls legal saga is deeply flawed and should be tossed out, says a lawyer representing Conservative MPs wh...

Robocall Ruling Could Cause Chaos, Tory Lawyer Warns

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.12.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - It speaks volumes that no Canadian voters have come forward to swear out an affidavit saying their trips to the federal ballot box were thwar...

Democracy, Not Dollars, Behind Robocalls Court Case: Lawyer

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.10.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The pattern of misleading or harassing phone calls in the 2011 election campaign is a more compelling reason to overturn the results than the...

Robocalls Inquiry Begins

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.08.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The credibility of a key witness in a legal bid to overturn Conservative victories in six closely contested ridings came under fire Monday as...

Robocall Complaints Were Coast To Coast

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.30.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Rude calls, calls in the middle of the night, swearing and even a mysterious message from North Dakota are among the robocall stories collect...

Robocalls Complainant: 'I Thought We Were Canada The Good'

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Sandra McEwing is mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore.The Winnipeg mom is one of eight private citizens challenging the May 2011 f...

'What If You Can't Trust The Election?'

CBC | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Politics

The Council of Canadians and two voters who say they received misleading calls directing them to the wrong polling station just before the last federa...

Officials Scrambling Over Robocalls 3 Days Before Election

CBC | Posted 01.19.2013 | Canada Politics

Elections Canada officials scrambled to correct apparent misinformation going to voters through robocalls in the three days leading up to the May 2, 2...

Althia Raj

Ex-Tory Staffer Fingered In Robocalls Speaks Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Politics

Michael Sona was working in MP Eve Adams' Parliament Hill office on the afternoon of Feb. 23, 2012, when a one-source Sun News Network report caught h...

Close, Yet So Far

CBC | Posted 12.23.2012 | Canada Politics

A woman who had been fighting to overturn the election of Conservative MP Joe Daniel is dropping her case after the party's lawyer found she doesn't l...

Robocalls Court Challenge Clears Another Hurdle

CBC | Posted 12.05.2012 | Canada Politics

A group of Canadians challenging the election wins of seven Conservative MPs has scored a victory along the road to getting the main case heard in Fed...

Tory MPs Demand $250,000 In Robocall Legal Fees

CBC | Posted 11.18.2012 | Canada Politics

Conservative Party lawyer Arthur Hamilton says a challenge of the 2011 federal election results in seven Conservative ridings is a "zero-sum game" bei...

Liberals Complain Of Robocalls Ahead Of Quebec Vote

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 09.03.2012 | Canada Politics

Quebec's Liberal Party issued a statement Monday saying forged robocalls have targeted French-speaking voters in the Quebec City area. The calls alleg...

Robocall Complaints Have DOUBLED

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The number of complaints about fraudulent or misleading telephone calls in last year's federal election has almost doubled, according to cour...

Pierre Poutine's Newest Enemy

CBC | Posted 10.15.2012 | Canada Politics

The RCMP has been called on by Elections Canada to help it get to the bottom of who was behind illicit phone calls that aimed to misdirect voters duri...

See You In December

CBC | Posted 10.15.2012 | Canada Politics

The legal challenge seeking to overturn last year's federal election result in seven ridings won by Conservatives will be heard in court in mid-Decemb...

Pierre Poutine Trail Runs Cold

www.ottawacitizen.com | Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher | Posted 08.11.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA — Elections Canada investigators tracking “Pierre Poutine” hit a dead end when the Internet address behind misleading robocalls in the la...