Kevin Vickers retiring as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, potential bid to become N.B. Liberal leader

Kevin Vickers retiring as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, potential bid to become N.B. Liberal leader

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Canada
Kevin Vickers
New Brunswick Liberal Party
Parliament Hill Attack
Politics
Sergeant-At-Arms
Feb 01, 2019

[ad_1] Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says he is retiring next month as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, potentially setting himself up for a bid to become New Brunswick Liberal leader. Vickers, hailed as a hero for helping to end the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, said in a bilingual Facebook post Friday he’ll[…]

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Court denies bid to speed up hearing into Ron Taverner OPP commissioner appointment

Court denies bid to speed up hearing into Ron Taverner OPP commissioner appointment

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Brad Blair
Canada
Doug Ford
Interim Commissioner
Ontario court
OPP Commissioner
OPP Commissioner Appointment
Politics
Premier
Premier Ford
Ron Taverner
Ron Taverner OPP
Jan 14, 2019

[ad_1] TORONTO – An Ontario court has rejected a request to speed up a hearing into whether it should order the province’s ombudsman to investigate the appointment of a friend of a premier’s to the job of top cop. OPP deputy commissioner Brad Blair is asking Ontario’s Divisional Court to force an investigation into the[…]

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