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Daniel Leblanc Ottawa, Globe and Mail

 

The company that former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer is alleged to have promoted to the government in his wife’s parliamentary office last year is a U.S.-Canadian firm that is developing technology to reduce mercury emissions in coal plants, sources say.

 

The office of Environment Minister Jim Prentice forwarded documents Tuesday to a parliamentary committee that is looking into allegations of unregistered lobbying by Mr. Jaffer and Patrick Glémaud, the co-owners of Green Power Generation.

 

The new documents relate to Mr. Prentice’s statement last Friday that Mr. Jaffer had discussions with one of his ministerial aides, Scott Wenger, on behalf of an unspecified company last year. Read more »

By Brent Mazerolle, Times & Transcript

 

City council is upset it has little say in its contract to have RCMP police the city, and wonders why it's not even at the table when provincial and federal bureaucrats work out this critical issue. It even has some councillors looking at a municipal police force instead for their mid-sized city and regional centre. Meanwhile, they're worrying about the need for a bigger police station in the next couple years as the number of RCMP officers in the city keeps growing.

 

The surprise in all this? We're talking about Kelowna, B.C., not Moncton.

 

It's a tale of two cities, or perhaps more accurately, it's a tale of two ends of the country sharing similar concerns.

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