Sixth Estate’s Patronage List V2 Launches with 600+ Names
As promised, the Sixth Estate Patronage List Project is coming back online, with 600 names up so far. Contrary to its name, this list is not intended as “proof” of…
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Sixth Estate Patronage List Poised to Return
A couple of years ago now, I decided to start a list that tracked all the various times that people receiving government appointments were noted in the press as being…
Harper Regime’s Senate Doublespeak Continues; So Does Sixth Estate Patronage List
The Conservative regime’s continued hypocrisy on the matter of Senate reform continued today when Stephen Harper, an avowed advocate of elections for Senators and a former critic of governments appointing…
Sixth Estate Patronage List Rises to 1135 Names; Scrutiny Turned On Judicial Advisory Committees
I’ve never found it any more egregious than the government’s other hiring practices, but one of the hot button issues when it comes to Harper government patronage is alleged loading…
Sixth Estate Patronage List Expands to 1111 Conservative Appointments
A new round of additions has been made to the Sixth Estate Patronage List, reflecting appointment orders made in June 2012. The Patronage List tracks Crown appointments given to apparent…
Minister Turned Aerospace Lobbyist Chuck Strahl Receives Patronage Appointment; Sixth Estate Patronage List Rises to 1098 Appointments
The Sixth Estate Patronage List has received another regular update to mark former Harper minister Chuck Strahl’s appointment to the Security Intelligence Review Committee, which reviews espionage activities by the…
Sixth Estate Patronage List Update Marks Yet Another Harper Minister-Turned-Ambassador
In Harper’s Canada, losing your seat in a general election is just the first step towards a happy and lucrative career in public service, usually as an ambassador. The most…
Scrapping the Public Appointments Commission is Not “Good News”
The media is finally sitting down to do the hard work of its actual job, i.e. reading the budget bill for the year. Parliament won’t be doing that job, incidentally;…
Sixth Estate Patronage List Updated
The Harper regime’s latest round of Crown appointments have been posted online, and the Sixth Estate Patronage List has been updated accordingly. Around 37% of new appointments outside the existing…
Budget 2012 vs Sixth Estate Patronage List
After wasting millions of dollars languishing in the government equivalement of development hell, under Budget 2012 the Public Appointments Secretariat is finally being abolished. This was an office which the…
Patronage List Updated as Harper Hires Chinese Government Financial Advisor to Conduct Canadian Economic Review
David Emerson has been many things. A forestry executive. A Liberal MP. A Conservative minister. An advisor to the Chinese government on foreign investments. And now, despite still being listed…
Sixth Estate Patronage List Expands to 841 Names
There has been quite a lull recently in govermnent appointments, presumably because there have been no more to give out, so I’ve devoted the time I would normally use adding…
Best Line on a Resume: Member of Jim Flaherty’s Riding Association
The Globe & Mail reports that the Oshawa Port Authority is going to be set up by the boss of finance minister Jim Flaherty’s Oshawa-Whitby riding association, Gary Valcour. This…
24 Losing Candidates in 2011 Receive Government Jobs Anyways: Sixth Estate Patronage List Updated
Another update has been made to the Sixth Estate Patronage List, which tracks Crown appointments (theoretically impartial and non-partisan) given to Conservative Party insiders, retired politicians, and donors. While in…
More Jobs for the Boys: Sixth Estate Patronage List Updated
The Harper regime’s announcement that more friends and insiders are on their way to plush jobs in the upper chamber makes this weekend a prime time to announce an update…
Harper Regime Doles Out Jobs to Former Candidates, Minister: Sixth Estate Patronage List Expanded to 785 Names
I’ve completed some more updates to my ongoing Patronage List, which now stands at 788 names. The Patronage List is a list of apparent Conservative insiders and donors appointed to…
Harper Sending Ex-Minister to Europe? Sixth Estate Patronage List Updated
After the May 2011 election, I began keeping the Patronage List: a list of Harper government political appointees who appear to be Conservative Party ex-politicos, donors, and insiders. I’ve made…
Did Conservative Appointee Break Election Donation Limit? Patronage List Updatedd
One of the longstanding projects at this blog is the Patronage List, which lists all of the new government appointments made by Cabinet ministers apparently given to Conservative Party donors,…
Patronage List Update: Nearly Half of New Government Appointments Going to Conservatives
Prior to the last election, Sixth Estate began tracking government appointments to Conservative Party insiders and donors on the Patronage List, which now stands at 750 names. The Patronage List…