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Federal elections watchdog looking into WE Charity, researcher says
Marc Kielburger, screen left, and Craig Kielburger, screen right, appear as witnesses via video conference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The committee is looking into Government Spending, WE Charity and the Canada Student Service Grant. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Opposition shuts WE hearing as Liberals again refuse to let staffer testify
Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance Mona Fortier holds a press conference in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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The Liberals remember a principle at a convenient time
Campbell Clark
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Liberals to instruct staffers to not appear if summoned to testify before parliamentary committees: Rodriguez
The Peace Tower is pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, as lawmakers return to the House of Commons following the winter break. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Conservatives say senior Liberal staffers should appear as witnesses in WE Charity review
Co-founders of WE Craig Kielburger (L) and Mark Kielburger (R) speak on stage during WE Day California at the Forum in Inglewood, California on April 25, 2019. - WE Day is the worlds largest youth empowerment event bringing together world-renowned speakers and award-winning performers. (Photo by Valerie MACON / AFP)VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images
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The Kielburgers need to grow up
Konrad Yakabuski
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Morning Update: Rogers deal for Shaw likely to face heavy scrutiny from Ottawa
The Rogers Communications building at 333 Bloor Street East in Toronto on March 15, 2021. (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)
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Politics led to WE Charity’s fall, Kielburgers say
Marc Kielburger, screen left, and Craig Kielburger, screen right, appear as witnesses via videoconference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The committee is looking into Government Spending, WE Charity and the Canada Student Service Grant. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Morning Update: U.S. drug maker in talks to expand Winnipeg vaccine plant
The headquarters of Emergent BioSolutions in Gaithersburg, Md., Oct. 23, 2020. Connections in Washington have helped Emergent secure billions in anthrax vaccine sales to the Strategic National Stockpile. More than half of the firm’s board served in government, and its lobbying ranks include former members of Congress. (Samuel Corum/The New York Times)
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WE Charity’s Windsong: What went wrong at a sprawling Arizona ranch
WE Charity's big ranch in Arizona acquired two horses Smokey and Lakita's Moon. (one died and the other one vanished). Pics are courtesy of Susan Ballard who donated them to the charity in 2010. Courtesy of Susan Ballard
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Kielburgers to attend hearing after committee summons them to testify
Marc Kielburger, screen left, and Craig Kielburger, screen right, appear as witnesses via video conference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building, in Ottawa, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Marc and Craig Kielburger's appearance before the federal ethics committee next week remains uncertain after the WE Charity co-founders laid out a list of conditions before testifying. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Kielburgers say they will only testify at ethics committee with lawyer
Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger, co-founders of the WE movement
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Kielburger brothers decline request to testify before ‘partisan’ Commons committee on WE Charity
Marc Kielburger, screen left, and Craig Kielburger, screen right, appear as witnesses via videoconference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building in Ottawa on July 28, 2020.
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Donor calls for investigations of WE Charity’s finances in Canada and U.S.
Craig and Marc Kielburger address the audience during the We Day event in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. A man who helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for WE Charity says he believes two different groups of donors were told they'd raised the money for a school building in Kenya. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Top public servant says few redactions of cabinet confidences made to WE documents
Clerk of the Privy Council Ian Shugart waits to appear before the House of Commons Ethics committee in Ottawa on Aug. 11, 2020. The top federal public servant says only one per cent of the 5,000-plus pages of documents the government has released on the WE Charity affair were blacked out to protect cabinet confidences.
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Liberals agree to back off delay tactics on WE Charity affair
Government House leader Pablo Rodriguez speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Oct. 20, 2020.
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Speakers' agency purged some records of Trudeau family events related to WE Charity controversy
Co-founders Craig (left) and Marc Kielburger introduce Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau as they appear at the WE Day celebrations in Ottawa, Tuesday November 10, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Wikipedia probe finds illicit editing of WE Charity pages
WE co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger are seen on stage during WE Day California in Inglewood, Calif., on April 25, 2019.
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WE Charity projecting $25-million from sale of assets, documents reveal
Craig and Marc Kielburger address the audience during a WE Day event in Toronto on Sept. 20, 2018.
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Ethics Commissioner clears Bill Morneau for his travel with WE Charity
FILE PHOTO: Canada's Minister of Finance Bill Morneau waits to do a television interview about the Economic and Fiscal Snapshot on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle/File Photo
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What, exactly, is a non-confidence vote? Parliament should get to decide
Andrew Coyne
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Top public servant Ian Shugart offers to explain controversial redactions to WE Charity documents
Clerk of the Privy Council Ian Shugart attends a swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Among the Trudeaus, sonny’s ways are more akin to ruthless Pierre’s after all
John Ibbitson
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Liberals quash Conservative bid for ethics probe with help of NDP, Greens
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Five crises the minority Liberal government has had to contend with since 2019 election
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a news conference in Ottawa, on Oct. 20, 2020.
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Asking the Liberal government questions, at a time like this? Who does the Opposition think it is?
Andrew Coyne
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Charity coalition says it has concerns about secrecy at WE Charity
Marc Kielburger, left, and Craig Kielburger speak at WE Day California at The Forum on Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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WE Charity affiliate under scrutiny in Kenya over 'regulatory and governance’ issues
Nelly Furtado, second from left, hugs a Kenyan girl named Susan, while on stage with Canadian co-founders of Free the Children, Marc and Craig Kielburger during WE Day at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Furtado, who was inspired by the relationship forged with the young girl while visiting the Kenya, announced she has donated the $1-million she was paid to perform for then Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's clan to the Free the Children charity. Darren Calabrese for The Globe and Mail
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Conservatives move to bring proposal for special committee on WE scandal to House
A crowd gathers before the We Day red carpet in Toronto, on Thursday, September 20, 2018. Thousands of pages of newly released documents back up the Trudeau government's contention that it was federal public servants who recommended a student service grant program be administered by WE Charity. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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WE Charity: Marathon committee meetings as Liberals continue filibusters over documents
Fans get their sings autographed before a WE Day event in Toronto, on Sept. 20, 2018.
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The Liberals have moved on from the WE scandal and hope you have, too
Robyn Urback
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Conservatives propose creating anti-corruption committee to investigate WE Charity contract
Marc Kielburger, screen left, and Craig Kielburger, screen right, appear as witnesses via videoconference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. WE Charity is closing its Canadian operations. The Toronto-based youth organization dropped the bombshell news to its staff this afternoon, with co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger blaming COVID-19 and the controversy surrounding plans to have it run a federal student-volunteer program. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Liberals, NDP block Conservative effort to have prorogation study include WE Charity affair
Fans get their sings autographed before a WE Day event in Toronto, on Sept. 20, 2018.
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WE Charity controversy prompts examination of group’s overseas footprint
Fans get their sings autographed before a We Day event in Toronto, on Sept. 20, 2018.