ABOVE THE FOLD
RECEIPTS REVEALED — The latest Public Accounts reveal just how much of your taxpayer dollars are flowing through the quasi-partisan Caucus Services Bureaus — a.k.a. the piggy bank for government and opposition consultants.
The Liberals and Greens are MIA — no recognized status, no cash receipts — but the PCs and NDP were writing some pretty hefty cheques last year. Highlights:
NICK KOUVALIS’s twin outfits, Campaign Research and Campaign Support, cleaned up with a combined $1,655,450 haul
DIMITRI PANTAZOPOULOS and RICHARD CIANO’s Yorkville Strategies raked in $201,173
Geppetto Technologies — which the PC Party previously used to deploy campaign canvassers — scored $252,657
WARREN KINSELLA’s Daisy Consulting snagged $67,000
Unilogic Solutions banked $395,500
MacPhie & Co.: $185,970
Snapstream: $101,600
Testerdigital: $74,580
Blue Labs Analytics: $67,000
Plus: another $1.14M spread across firms that fell under the $50K disclosure threshold (read: plenty of mystery players still poc…