Children’s welfare will be added to an inquiry that hopes to learn lessons from the British government’s response to COVID 19. On Thursday, Baroness Hallett, a former High Court judge and the Chair of the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry, wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with her proposed changes for an Inquiry that will play…
Impact on Children in Lockdown to Be Included in Official UK COVID-19 Pandemic Inquiry
Tasmanian Child Abuse Inquiry to Examine School System
An inquiry into child sexual abuse in Tasmanian public institutions will turn its focus to the island’s education system and examine a prior investigation that found perpetrators were being shielded. The commission of inquiry, which is scrutinising how successive state governments have handled the abuse allegations, is holding its second week of public hearings in…
Oversight Committee Raises Questions About Biden Donors, Government Contracts
House oversight Republicans have launched an inquiry into whether President Joe Biden rewarded political donors with contracts and government positions, the latest allegation of misconduct against the administration as it fends off ties to Hunter Biden’s activities. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget raising concerns…
Mass Shooting Inquiry: COVID 19 Has Undermined the Grieving Process in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX—The inquiry investigating the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia heard today from a panel of community leaders who talked about what life is like in the rural communities affected by the tragedy. Mary Teed, a local resident and head of the Colchester Adult Learning Association, told the inquiry that the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled…
Alberta Inquiry Says it Has Confirmed ‘Significant’ Foreign Funding of Anti-Energy Campaign
The final report of an Alberta government-commissioned inquiry into campaigns against the province’s energy industry says it confirms the existence of “well-funded foreign interests” spreading “misinformation” to landlock Alberta’s oil and gas sector. The report, compiled by forensic and restructuring accountant Steve Allan, was submitted to the provincial government in July, and was made public on Oct….
Care Home Children Let Down by Police and the State, Janner Abuse Inquiry Finds
Children who reported being sexually abused by the late Labour grandee Lord Janner were “let down by institutional failings,” a damning inquiry into police, prosecution, and social services responses to their allegations has concluded. Leicestershire Police officers investigating decades of abuse claims against Lord Janner regularly “did not look beyond the often troubled backgrounds” of…
Ex-BC Premier Christy Clark Denies Delay in Taking Action to Combat Money Laundering
Former B.C. Liberal premier Christy Clark, one of the high-profile witnesses to appear before the Cullen Commission this week, denied in her testimony that there were substantial delays in acting to investigate money laundering in the province when she was premier. During Clark’s time as premier, from 2011 to 2017, there was a significant rise…
Victoria Bracing for the Economic Impact After Second Coal Plant Announces Closure
March 19, 2021
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The Victorian government will launch an inquiry into the early closure of the Yallourn coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley after state MP Melina Bath called for a report (pdf) into the economic impact of the power station’s shutdown. EnergyAustralia, the owner of Yallourn Power Station, originally announced the facility would close in 2032—but on…
Inquiry Into Alleged Foreign Funding of ‘Anti-Oilsands Campaigns’ Will Soon Deliver Report
Alberta’s public inquiry into the role foreign money may be playing in undermining the energy sector will deliver its report at the end of January. Accountant Steve Allan has been tasked with the inquiry’s mandate to examine “whether any foreign organization that has evinced an intent harmful or injurious to the Alberta oil and gas…
Infiltration, Money Laundering: The Worrisome Allegations From the Ortis Case
With new developments coming to light in the case of former senior RCMP intelligence official Cameron Ortis, an expert on money laundering says efforts to infiltrate various organizations in both the public and private sectors is a common practice among professional money laundering operators. “They’re always looking for ways to infiltrate government services, such as…
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