Travel Expenses

• Travel rewards help cut costs on summer vacations amid rising prices

  Canadians are changing their travel plans this summer due to rising costs of flights and hotels, according to a new Leger poll.

  Consumer

  Jul 19, 2023
  
• Saskatchewan senator fourth in country for highest travel expenses

  A review done between Oct. 1, and Dec. 31, 2022, added up the air, bus and train travel expenses paid by each senator attending Canadian senate sittings.

  Canada

  May 23, 2023
  
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• Frequent fliers: Nova Scotia cabinet ministers visited 17 countries in 19 months

  The premier and 12 cabinet ministers have expensed more than $204,000 in international travel in that 19-month period, spending a collective 268 days in 17 countries.

  Canada

  Dec 11, 2019
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• Wilson-Raybould claimed $125K in spousal travel expenses during Trudeau mandate

  Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan also claimed more than $45,000 in spousal travel expenses over Trudeau mandate — although his husband worked in Ottawa for part of that.

  Canada

  Sep 10, 2019
• B.C. Speaker’s office under fire for spending $13,000 on 10-city tour to discuss security

  Questions still linger as to why Darryl Plecas' chief of staff Alan Mullen spent thousands in taxpayer money to travel to 10 different provincial capitals and state legislatures.

  Politics

  Aug 15, 2019
• Frequent Flyers: McNeil says not announcing 30 per cent of trips in advance doesn’t show ‘secrecy’

  Critics say that the lack of disclosure from Nova Scotia's premier can lead to speculation around misuse of taxpayers money.

  Canada

  Feb 28, 2018
• ‘Culture of entitlement’: Alberta Crown corporation board let go after review of executive expenses

  The board of directors of Alberta's Agriculture Financial Services Corporation has been let go following an investigation into the expenses of senior executives and the corporation's procurement practices.

  Money

  Jun 13, 2016
• Controversy over Christy Clark’s travel expenses highlights lack of transparency: critics

  After a legislative committee passed a motion making all elected officials post their receipts online, there's been nothing from the premier and cabinet ministers.

  Feb 29, 2016
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• More questions from NDP on premier’s overseas ‘travel scouts’

  The opposition described the Premier's response to travel expenses in advance of overseas trade missions as “inaccurate” and “inappropriate.”

  May 5, 2015
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• ‘Travel scouts’ not needed ahead of Saskatchewan trade missions to Asia: NDP

  Saskatchewan New Democrats are criticizing the government for travel expenses from trips in advance of Premier Brad Wall's trade missions to Asia.

  Canada

  May 4, 2015