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After Don Jennison died in April 2005, his wife of 50 years, Joyce, wanted to honor him in a special way: Instead of a tombstone, she put $4,000 toward building a school in Kenya to better honor her husband, a former principal.
Sales of fair-trade coffee at the Jennisonsâ church helped raise enough money to fund a schoolhouse, a teacherâs salary for two years, and a latrine. Two years after construction, WE Charity, then known as Free The Children, sent pictures of âDonâs School Houseâ â a tidy cinderblock building with a white plaque embedded in a shield-like concrete mount. âThis school has been built in memory of Don Jennison,â it read, âthrough the generous donation of Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church Toronto, Canad
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A U.S. donor to Canada’s WE Charity said he has asked the Internal Revenue Service to open a fraud investigation into the organization after testifying that it took down a plaque on a Kenya school built to honor his dead son and replaced it with that of another donor.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s family vacation to Costa Rica in 2019 cost taxpayers nearly $200,000, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
According to one of the federation’s blog posts, the PM billed $196,137 for the trip that began on Dec. 20, 2019 and lasted 16 days. The majority of costs are attributed to multiple Canadian Forces business jet flights.
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“Prime ministers are entitled to take vacations like anyone else, but they’re not entitled to stick taxpayers with a six-figure flight bill so they can sip Mai Tais on the beach,” said Canadian Taxpayers Association federal director Aaron Wudrick.