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Robocalls: Elections Canada Wants More Power To Punish

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.27.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Tough penalties for elections-official impersonators, beefier investigative powers and more voter privacy were among the ideas floated Wednes...

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Calling All Rogers Complainants

CBC | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Politics
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An investigation into allegedly misleading live and robocalls in the last federal election has turned to complainants who are Rogers customers, newly ...

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Grits To Release Phone Records. Tories, Not So Much

CBC | Posted 05.05.2012 | Canada Politics
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Unexplained harassing election phone calls continued to dominate Parliament Monday, with interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae saying his party ...

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Good News For Harper On Robocalls

The Huffington Post Canada | Eric Grenier | Posted 03.05.2012 | Canada Politics
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If allegations over voter suppression tactics are going to stick, it has yet to happen. Conservative support in Canada remains unchanged. These are...

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The Media's Pre-Programmed Response to Robocalls

J.J. McCullough | Posted 05.02.2012 | Canada
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J.J. McCullough

We don't know much about the scandal right now, which means it's an incredibly exciting time for the nation's political commentators, who will never again enjoy such a vacuum of ambiguity just begging to be filled with their wildest partisan fantasies.

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Elections Canada Fields 31,000 Robocalls Complaints

CP | Posted 05.02.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - More than 31,000 reports about robocalls during the May federal election campaign are under review by Elections Canada.The agency says compla...

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Tories Reviewing Call Centre Tapes Before Elections Canada Arrives

CBC | Posted 05.01.2012 | Canada Politics
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The Conservative Party is reviewing tapes of every call made by the Responsive Marketing Group call centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., in the l...

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Who Is 'Pierre Poutine'?

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.29.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Court documents show a cellphone in the robocalls affair was registered to Pierre Poutine of Separatist Street in Joliette, Que.Elections Can...

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Tories Accused Of Republican Tactics In Robocalls Scandal

CBC | Posted 04.29.2012 | Canada Politics
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Even as MPs unanimously passed a motion calling on politicians of all stripes to give Elections Canada and the RCMP any information on fr...

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Harper Will Keep Playing Dirty, So Long as we Let Him

Zach Paikin | Posted 04.29.2012 | Canada
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Zach Paikin

Robocalls are just the latest example of what Canadians have let the Tories get away with. The tragic lesson of modern Canadian politics is clear: Parliamentary crime pays. The Conservative party won its majority by gambling that Canadians didn't care about what goes on the Ottawa bubble. Harper's gamble paid off.

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