The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) will investigate allegations that the Montreal Police (SPVM) Internal Affairs division falsified evidence and reports in an effort to discredit […]
Tag: corruption
Quebec Lagging Behind on Charbonneau Recommendations Says Follow-up Report
“The government’s response to the recommendations of the commission is, thus far, unsatisfactory,” concluded the first report of the public monitoring committee on the Charbonneau Commission. […]
Payback Time: Corruption, Collusion, and Compensation in the Aftermath of the Charbonneau Commission
Corruption is something as intrinsic to the City of Montreal as the Jazz Festival, fine cuisine, and frivolous disputes over the language of commercial signage. […]
Granite Tree Stumps: Denis Coderre Can’t Even Do Corruption Right
I think Montrealers owe Gerald Tremblay and even Jean Drapeau an apology. Sure, they may have been corrupt, but at least they had the basic […]
The Wire On Fire: Baltimore Rebels Against Police Brutality and Corruption
On April 12, 25-year-old Freddie Gray “made eye contact” with a Baltimore police officer. Within minutes, Gray was brutalized, “twisted into a pretzel,“which caused his […]
Portugal: Golden visas and casino capitalism
On the March 5, 2013 Paulo Portas, the vice prime-minister of Portugal, and leader of the Partido Popular (the right-wing neo-liberal member of the austerity governing coalition) visited India […]
Harper’s “epic” Senate problems
Last week’s RCMP bombshell dump revealed a few things about the private e-mails of PMO staff and their counterparts in the Senate. For the dozen […]
The Montreal Mafia’s new tactic
Forget The Sopranos, The Godfather even Goodfellas. Forget guns and sleeping with the fishes. The Montreal mob has a new weapon in their arsenal. It’s […]
Charbonneau Commission begins inquiry without participation of the Liberal Party of Quebec
When the Charbonneau commission opens this week dozens of witnesses will testify and be cross examined by representatives from groups as diverse as Hydro Québec to hard core provincial lefties Québec Solidaire. The only oddity with the proceedings will be the conspicuous absence of a single representative from Liberal Party of Quebec. This is rather like having the O.J. Simpson trial without ‘The Juice’ (as he’s sometimes called), testifying before the court. After all, the whole purpose of this inquiry is to establish whether there is any connection between the awarding of juicy pork barrel government construction contracts (corruption never tasted so good!) and the financing of political parties in Quebec…