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155 media appearances in 2024 (including 28 national appearances)
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DeSmog Blog (January 13, 2014)
Website Article
Federal Ethics Commissioner should investigate former Conservative Cabinet minister’s work for tar sands pipeline company

NOW Magazine (Toronto weekly) (January 12, 2014)
Magazine article
Rob Ford and other city cases shows need for stronger, province-wide code of conduct law and penalties for all municipalities, and provincial watchdog

Toronto Star (January 10, 2014)
Letter to the Editor by Duff Conacher
Politicians will govern better when they change key laws so they are required to govern better

Yahoo! News Blog (January 7, 2014)
Blog Article
Federal Ethics Commissioner should investigate whether former Conservative Cabinet minister has shared secret information with clients, which would violate the Conflict of Interest Act

Vancouver Observer (January 6, 2014)
Website Article
Federal Ethics Commissioner claims there is no conflict when former Cabinet minister who chairs federal spying watchdog committee also lobbies for company seeking approval of pipeline from federal government

Vancouver Observer (January 6, 2014)
Website Article
Federal Ethics Commissioner should investigate whether former Conservative Cabinet minister has shared secret information with clients, which would violate the Conflict of Interest Act

iPolitics.ca (December 30, 2013)
Website Article
Increasing discretionary powers of Cabinet ministers to make legal rulings is dangerously undemocratic

Democracy Watch (December 17, 2013)
News Release
Ethics Commissioner’s quick ruling based on very questionable claim that law does not allow her to investigate any of the interventions by PMO staff in the Senate audit of Senator Duffy while the RCMP is investigating Nigel Wright’s payment to Duffy

Hill Times (December 16, 2013)
Website Article
Federal Conservatives could try to create one ethics code and enforcement agency for the House of Commons and Senate

Democracy Watch (December 16, 2013)
News Release
Democracy Watch calls again on Toronto Integrity Commissioner to investigate and rule on whether Rob Ford has violated standards of conduct in council code