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The best way to promote human rights in Asia
(December 8, 2011) The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada held an online conversation on the question: is there a "best way" for Canada to promote human rights in Asia? Patricia Adams of Probe...
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Geology expert Yang Yong on the challenges facing China’s most controversial...
(January 5, 2012) Yang Yong on the future of river management in China and the issues currently facing the country's more controversial dam projects. Continue reading →
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A respite for Patagonia
(July 4, 2012) Chile’s HidroAysén mega-dam scheme is suddenly on hold as one of the owners of the controversial dam scheme suspends its support for the risky project. Continue reading →
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Immunity from scrutiny: Canada’s Access to Information Act hobbles democracy
(January 7, 2012) Canada’s Access to Information Act perversely gives Export Development Canada (EDC) the legal power to keep records of its operations secret, charges Probe International. In its...
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SNC-Lavalin corruption case: new court date set but plea for speedy trial...
(January 28, 2013) India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told its special court last month that two of the accused in the notorious SNC-Lavalin hydro-dam graft case were “interfering” with the...
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Corruption, bribery, baksheesh! Rooted in government
(February 6, 2013) Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has announced get-tough-on-corruption amendments to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA). Pat Adams, head of Probe International...
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Press Release: Export Development Canada bound by no rules on the environment...
(February 13, 2013) EDC environmental decisions virtually immune from judicial review. Crown corporation sets standards and can exempt projects on its own say so. Continue reading →
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SNC-Lavalin executive reveals illegal political donations before corruption...
(March 15, 2013) A vice-president from SNC-Lavalin, Canada’s largest engineering company, admitted yesterday before Quebec’s Charbonneau inquiry into corruption in public-works contracts, that it...
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Deadly earthquake in China may be aftershock of 2008 Wenchuan quake
(April 21, 2013) The strong earthquake that struck China's mountainous Sichuan province Saturday morning may have been an aftershock, says prominent Chinese geologist. The accumulation of stress had...
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Indian high court splits trial charge sheet in SNC-Lavalin graft case
(June 27, 2013) The Kerala High Court has directed India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to divide the SNC-Lavalin trial charge sheet so the trial can begin. Two of the nine accused,...
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SNC-Lavalin corruption allegations abound — so why’s Canada promoting the...
(August 3, 2013) A little-known Crown corporation is doing what it can to help corruption-plagued SNC-Lavalin get a lucrative contract in Trinidad and Tobago. Continue reading →
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Trinidad and Tobago questioning involvement with SNC-Lavalin
Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are reconsidering the country’s involvement with corruption-plagued engineering firm SNC-Lavalin. By Brady Yauch for Probe International Officials in Trinidad and...
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Ottawa falls short in attempt to rein in EDC
(August 28, 2013) Proposed changes to regulations governing Export Development Canada don’t go far enough. By Patricia Adams for Probe International Ottawa’s proposed changes to the regulations...
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SNC-Lavalin corruption trial: Bangladesh wants the diary
(September 7, 2013) Bangladesh plans to have a anti-corruption official attend the Canadian pre-trial for two former SNC-Lavalin employees charged with corruption in relation to a $1.2-billion...
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SNC-Lavalin corruption case in India rages on
(September 16, 2013) SNC-Lavalin's decade-long scandal in India goes to trial. Continue reading →
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SNC-Lavalin discredited by Canada’s Probe International
(September 25, 2013) Canadian economist Patricia Adams questions why the Canadian Commercial Corporation has been trying to get the Trinidad and Tobago government to sign a deal with SNC-Lavalin....
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Trinidad and Tobago taught Canada an anti-corruption lesson
(September 25, 2013) Lawmakers in Trinidad and Tobago tell the Canadian government SNC-Lavalin is a company too tainted by corruption to risk awarding a multi-million-dollar hospital contract to....
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Impressive reporting in Trinidad and Tobago exposes SNC-Lavalin
(September 26, 2013) In the Trinidad Express, reporter Sheila Rampersad explains how a relentless T&T media exposed the SNC-Lavalin/T&T/Canadian Government Penal Hospital deal in the worldwide...
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Canada’s taxpayers are giving billions to a national embarrassment
(October 23, 2013) Don't count on any government in Canada to hold SNC-Lavalin's feet to the fire. Blinders on and taxpayers' cash in hand, they're willing to reward allegations of corruption with big,...
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How Canada encourages corrupt companies
(November 5, 2013) The alleged “culture of corruption” by SNC-Lavalin and others was encouraged by the government’s willingness to turn a blind eye. Continue reading →
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