The provincial government has discovered another case of financial irregularities, this one worth about $100,000 and involving a SaskPower employee.
John Nilson, minister responsible for SaskPower, said the employee — a manager — is on leave with pay, a situation that is being evaluated on a day-to-day basis.
[…]
Last month, the government announced 43 incidents of financial irregularities, adding up to nearly $2 million, that have occurred in the last three years within provincial departments, agencies and Crown corporations.
Then, there’s this little tidbit;
A few high-profile cases, which had been previously disclosed, accounted for the lion’s share of the $2 million, including a Saskatchewan Environment employee and another person being charged with fraud in a case involving up to $513,000. Another case involving the misappropriation of about $1 million of welfare money led to the dismissal of a Community Resources employee, but no charges so far.
Steal a million and it could cost you your job. So there.
In another get-tough move, the Saskatchewan NDP government (aka the SGEU, as the two bodies are pretty much interchangable) has given current employees enough time to have any criminal record expunged by way of a pardon.
SDA Flashback – September 19, 2005
| Criminal record checks in the Saskatchewan Public Service New employees and current employees moving into criminal record check-required positions must complete a check prior to commencement; Employees currently occupying positions designated as requiring a criminal record check will be encouraged to provide one on a voluntary basis on the understanding that they must do so on a mandatory basis within five years. |
Frequently Asked Questions about Pardons 3. When can I apply for a pardon? To apply for a pardon, you must have completely served your sentence and a waiting period of either three years for summary convictions or five years for indictable convictions (criminal offences). |
Emphasis mine. By way of comparison, if you want to serve your local volunteer fire department, you’ll have to agree to that criminal record check before you’re issued the boots and hat.
…hey where can I sign up for a job to get fired…after I get my mil that is.
Oooh I found it:
http://www.careers.gov.sk.ca/
Meat Processing Development Specialist
…is that the one where you go around saying “where’s the beef?”
“…Another case involving the misappropriation of about $1 million of welfare money led to the dismissal of a Community Resources employee, but no charges so far…”
And I wonder how long this employee was also put on leave-with-pay before management finally figured out that stealing $1M probably warrants firing.
Nov 2005
Act now to get back missing million: Opposition to government
“…Crofford says Hynes’ husband is back at work. He had been on leave with pay after his wife was fired from the same department he worked in. Crofford says there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by him…”
http://www.cbc.ca/sask/story/missingmoney051122.html
Investigate the Sask. Wheat Board & the CWB.
Tommy Douglas and Hazen Argue are on the take $
BTW, Hazen Argue’s mug shot does not hang on the leader’s wall of shame at CCF/NDP national headquarters;the only one not to. Argue was an apostate; he crossed the “floor” to the Liberals, apparently seduced by Trudeau; Argue sat as a Lib senator along with ex-PM PM’s father.
Some pigs, some trough.
AWB = Australian Wheat Board. +
Australian PM to appear before royal inquiry
http://www.chinaview.cn 2006-04-12 14:37:48
CANBERRA, April 12 (Xinhua) — Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday he is happy to appear before an inquiry into Australia’s wheat exporter AWB’s role in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal after being called to appear on Thursday.
Howard on Tuesday handed a written statement to the inquiry, headed by Commissioner Terence Cole, Australia’s former Supreme Court judge.
The inquiry is investigating claims that the AWB paid 220 million U.S. dollars of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s government in order to obtain contracts through the oil-for-food program, in breach of UN sanctions. +
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/12/content_4415535.htm
Saskatchewan NDP gov’t (aka the SGEU as the two bodies are pretty much interchangable)
Can someone explain this to me?
Did the SGEU / NDP gov’t decide to give itself a 0 – 1 – 1 mandated contract?
I am confused?
Was SGEU and NDP bargaining against itself?
Can someone help me out with this?
Thought it was only Devines govt that was corrupt in Sask.
Taxpayers of Sask. unite. Become an “insurgent”, a “militant”. Aksa does it. You are entitled to your “stipend”*. Thas what Rev. Lorne had while he was a “minister” of the Lawd; & Rev. Toomy Dooglas, too.
More free advice: Be a taxi-driver (run booze, drugs, snex, gums, wheat, & etc. Black market $$$, don’tya know.) +
Aksa Brigades gunmen storm PA offices in Ramallah–stipends and taxi licenses
Posted by SJackson
On 04/13/2006 5:48:38 AM PDT
Jerusalem Post ^ | 4-13-06
PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s office surrounded; gunmen demand taxi licenses, stipends from Hamas gov’t. JPost.com � Middle East � Article Apr. 13, 2006 12:43 | Updated Apr. 13, 2006 14:03 Aksa Brigades gunmen storm PA offices in Ramallah By JPOST.COM STAFF Dozens of armed members of the Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades surrounded the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister’s Office in Ramallah on Thursday morning, according to Palestinian media reports. Al-Jazeera, meanwhile, reported that the gunmen had already taken over Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh’s office. According to the satellite television network, the Aksa activists had previously raided the offices of the PA’s… +
freerepublic.com
*stipend: Always paid to clergy, monthly, in advance.
A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance