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Bill Curry

Bill Curry

Parliamentary Correspondent at The Globe and Mail Online

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Bill Curry
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Indigenous contracting program went years with no 'after-the-fact' audits despite calls for more ...

Ottawa went years without single after-the-fact review of businesses that benefited from practice
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Time to overhaul how Ottawa hires contractors, procurement watchdog...

Alexander Jeglic, the Procurement Ombud, said that after years of expressing concern through various reports, he is now deliberately using stronger language to underscore the importance of the issue
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Beneath ArriveCan, questions swirl about Ottawa's Indigenous procur...

MPs want to know how a mobile app’s costs grew out of control. An abandoned house on an Ontario First Nation is an important stop in the search for answers
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Procurement review finds nearly $5-million in fraudulent billing ti...

The government says the fraudulent billing, which was referred to the RCMP, was uncovered through a mix of tips and advanced data analytics
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ArriveCan fallout should be catalyst for change to Indigenous procu...

Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business president Tabatha Bull says any list of companies approved for the program should be thoroughly reviewed
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Anand 'extremely surprised' to learn ArriveCan contractor was also ...

David Yeo was working as a public servant at the same time his company, Dalian Enterprises, received $7.9-million to work on the ArriveCan app
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ArriveCan probes show Ottawa must fix error-filled public contract ...

Public Services and Procurement Canada said in a statement Friday that GCStrategies is no longer eligible to participate in government tenders

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ArriveCan bids regularly listed subcontractors who never did work, ...

The report is the first of what is expected to be several findings into how the cost to build and maintain the app for cross-border travellers came to exceed $54-million
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Canada's chief technology officer accused of manipulating, destroyi...

Minh Doan denies any wrongdoing. He claims his Outlook file was corrupted while transferring files to a new laptop, but agency e-mails are backed up on a server and can be accessed through other methods
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Auditor-General's report on ArriveCan to be released Feb. 12 - The ...

The House requested the Auditor-General’s ArriveCan audit in a 174 to 149 vote that occurred in Nov. 2022, just weeks after The Globe and Mail first reported that spending on the app for international travellers was on pace to exceed $54-million
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IT staffing firm invited federal officials to virtual whisky tastin...

Head of GCStrategies asked border agency employees to a virtual event in celebration of ArriveCan app’s one-year anniversary and meetings at breweries and restaurants, e-mails indicate
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Two federal officials suspended without pay over contract misconduc...

Public servants’ names appear on contract documents related to ArriveCan app outsourcing work, but both say move intended to silence criticism
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Canada Post sells IT services division to Deloitte - The Globe and ...

A Canada Post spokesperson said further details will be released in public financial statements once the sale is finalized
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Non-prime lenders warn thousands of borrowers they could be cut off...

‘While on the surface, reducing the maximum allowable interest rate may sound helpful, this change in fact means many borrowers may no longer be able to access a loan in the future,’ letters state
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Ottawa, Honda to hold talks on potential EV factory in Canada - The...

If Honda’s investment is near the reported $18.5-billion figure, it would be by far the biggest by an automaker in Canadian electric-vehicle production to date
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Ottawa didn't audit IT firms' compliance with Indigenous procuremen...

Dalian and Coradix worked on ArriveCan app and have received more than $400-million over past decade, they are under review after question from The Globe
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GCStrategies defies committee summons to reappear, citing mental .....

MPs opt not to escalate the issue after the IT firm’s leaders were to answer questions about contracting and their role on the ArriveCan app
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Procurement review examining prevalence of inflated résumés after ....

Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says his department is taking steps to review CVs in the contracting process and improve procurement training
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Ambassador David Cohen says U.S. 'disappointed' with Ottawa's ... -...

Justin Trudeau says Canada is not looking for conflict with the U.S. a day after Chrystia Freeland tabled a package of tax measures that includes provisions for a DST
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Freeland to deliver $15-billion in rental housing loans in slimmed ...

Ottawa’s economic statement, to be released Tuesday afternoon, is expected to take into account the spike in borrowing costs and a slowdown in economic growth
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National Defence receives largest cut in first wave of federal ... ...

Of a $500-million reduction this fiscal year from previous spending plans, cuts to Anita Anand’s former department account for $211.1-million