WINNIPEG - Canada's western premiers say bullying is a serious issue and all provinces and territories need to find ways to tackle the new dimension that the Internet brings to the torment. Following a brief meeting of Canada's western leaders in Winnipeg, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said they are putting bullying on the agenda when the country's premiers meet in Ontario next month. "There are real serious incidents occurring out there, including through the social media ... with very negative and tragic consequences," Selinger said Monday.

OTTAWA - Call it the Rathgeber clause: Liberals in the Senate say a Conservative bill that would force unions to disclose their expenses should match another Tory bill on disclosure of public sector salaries. Conservative backbencher Brent Rathgeber quit the party caucus earlier this month after his private members' bill on public sector salary disclosure was effectively gutted by the government. Rathgeber wanted the publication of all federal salaries of more than $188,000 a year, including employees at Crown corporations such as CBC.

OTTAWA - A witness who is helping Elections Canada unravel a Conservative MP's 2008 campaign expenses says he has been publicly bullied, discredited and intimidated. Frank Hall, who ran an Ottawa-based polling firm that did work for Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, has written to both the Speaker of the House of Commons and the prime minister saying Del Mastro has abused the concept of parliamentary immunity.

DUBLIN - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has no reservations — in principle — to a G8 proposal to combat tax havens. But Harper says any measures would need the approval of Canada's provinces and territories. Among the items on the agenda at the annual meeting of leaders of the world's eight richest countries is a British proposal aimed at tackling hidden company ownership. British Prime Minister David Cameron told Sky News every member of the G8 supports a plan to identify who actually owns companies.