Public relations firm Edelman says it’s suspending its consulting arrangement with former B.C. premier and former high commissioner to the U.K. Gordon Campbell pending a British police investigation.
Did SNC-Lavalin play a role in the last cabinet shuffle? ‘Wide range of factors’ did, Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opened the door to more questions this morning about his conversations with former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould about the SNC-Lavalin fraud case and his reasons for then shuffling her out of that role.
U.K. report says former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell under investigation for alleged assault
A British newspaper is reporting that Former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell is being investigated by Scotland Yard for an alleged sexual assault while he was Canada’s High Commissioner to the U.K.
Liberal MP Joyce Murray’s son critically hurt on Mexican honeymoon
Liberal MP for Vancouver-Quadra says her son fell from a height while on vacation in Cancun and is awaiting medical evacuation to Vancouver.
PCO lawyer asked prosecutor if there was a way to ‘engineer issues’ in Norman case, court hears
The top lawyer at the Privy Council Office asked federal prosecutors if it was possible to “engineer the issues at stake” in the criminal case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman.
Former SNC-Lavalin exec, accused in Libyan bribery case, has obstruction of justice charge stayed
A judge has cited unreasonable delays in the case against Sami Bebawi, who still faces fraud and corruption charges in connection with contracts negotiated with the former regime of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Critics call for ‘robust’ oversight of CBSA following CBC reports on staff misconduct
Advocacy groups are again calling for “robust, independent and external oversight” of the country’s border service following reporting by CBC News on misconduct at the Canada Border Services Agency.
MP Brosseau says she rejected Liberal overture because NDP is family
Quebec New Democrat MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau says she rejected an overture from the Liberals and will run for the NDP in the next general election.
The 9 faces at the centre of the Jody Wilson-Raybould, PMO affair
This week the House of Commons Justice and Human Rights committee held an emergency meeting to probe allegations suggesting the Prime Minister’s Office applied pressure to the minister of Justice to help Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution in a bribery case.
Veterans get new option on pensions — and Veterans Affairs gets out of a cash crunch
Wounded and injured soldiers — both serving and retired — have been given the option of postponing the filing of disability claims until after the Liberal government’s pension-for-life plan is implemented on April 1, CBC News has learned.