Five stories in the news today, Feb. 20
Five stories in the news for Monday, Feb. 20:
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FEDERAL PROGRAM ADMIN COSTS OUTSTRIP GRANT PAYMENTS:
A federal fund set up to give financial help to parents whose children have been murdered or gone missing has spent more than 14 times as much on administration costs as it has on grants. Internal government documents obtained by The Canadian Press show the fund doled out $170,000 in grants as of March of 2015. But it spent more than $2.4 million on costs, not including employee benefits. The documents outlining the gaping disparity between administrative costs and grants underline how stringent criteria has made many parents ineligible for the fund.