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

CTV News Channel (December 12, 2013)
Television Piece
Federal political parties make good move of imposing ethics rules on political staff, but bad move of gagging them forever

Democracy Watch (December 11, 2013)
News Release
Democracy Watch calls on Ethics Commissioner to initiate inquiry into Nigel Wright, Patrick Rogers, Chris Woodcock and Benjamin Perrin intervening in Senate committee’s audit of Senator Mike Duffy

Democracy Watch (December 10, 2013)
News Release
Democracy Watch calls on Senate Ethics Officer to initiate inquiries into Senator Duffy’s acceptance of payment from Arthur Hamilton, and into interventions by senators Gerstein and LeBreton in Duffy’s audit

Democracy Watch (December 4, 2013)
News Release
Based on evidence available and opinion of the law, Democracy Watch sends letter to RCMP suggesting that Senate scandal investigation should be expanded to cover more people

CTV News Channel (December 3, 2013)
Television Piece
A new system is needed to suspend mayors who do things like Rob Ford has, but proposal to empower MPs to remove party leaders go too far, although other empowerment changes are positive — CTV News Channel

CTV News Channel (December 2, 2013)
Television Piece
Disclosure to the RCMP of emails from the Prime Minister’s lawyer will likely lead to the investigation broadening to include other people — CTV News Channel

Macleans.ca (November 26, 2013)
Website Article
Nigel Wright and others involved in negotiations to pay off Senator Mike Duffy all likely violated anti-bribery measure in Criminal Code