Campbell MacDiarmid

While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Campbell MacDiarmid.

Deputy minister broke rules by hiring unqualified acquaintance: ethics watchdog

Deputy minister broke rules by hiring unqualified acquaintance: ethics watchdog

Deputy minister of national defence Christiane Fox broke conflict of interest rules by hiring an old acquaintance when she was the deputy immigration minister, the federal ethics watchdog has found. Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein published an investigation on Wednesday finding that Fox improperly influenced her department to hire Björn Charles in March 2023. Fox sent...

Ottawa medical manufacturer giving up nuclear licence after defying regulator

Ottawa medical manufacturer giving up nuclear licence after defying regulator

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission ordered Best Theratronics to comply over a year ago. A storied Kanata medical manufacturer is in the process of relinquishing its nuclear licence, more than a year after Canada's nuclear regulator placed it under orders for violating the terms of that certificate. On Friday, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) confirmed that Best Theratronics is in...

Government demanding public servants reimburse years-old Phoenix overpayments

Government demanding public servants reimburse years-old Phoenix overpayments

Legal action threatened over money mistakenly paid during payroll system's error-plagued rollout in 2016. Federal public servants are being threatened with legal action if they don’t repay money they were overpaid during the error-plagued rollout of the Phoenix pay system nearly a decade ago, Radio-Canada has learned. The government has authorized private debt collection companies to pursue repayment from those...

Public service union calls for investigation into return-to-office mandate

Public service union calls for investigation into return-to-office mandate

A union representing some 27,000 federal public servants is calling for a parliamentary committee to hold an inquiry into the three-day-a-week return to office mandate. The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) believes the return-to-office policy has been "surrounded by catastrophic failures" and says the standing committee on government operations and estimates should investigate.