A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: cÃ rn [ËkÊ°aËrË nÌªË ] (plural cÃ irn [ËkÊ°aËrË É²]). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present.
Duffy, who is at the end of his third week of a lengthy criminal trial, is facing 31 charges in total, all but one of them for fraud and breach of trust. He also faces a bribery charge for accepting $90,000 from former chief of staff Nigel Wright to pay off his living expenses. Duffy also charged the Senateâs standard $50 fee for private accommodation to stay with âfriends,â totalling $150 over three nights. 2  According to his diary, Duffy stayed at least one night with his son Gavin in Vancouver.
Senate contracts for services that included a makeup artist, a personal trainer and even an enlarged picture of Barbara Bush would likely not have been awarded because none of those services are considered parliamentary work, a Senate human resources official has told the Mike Duffy trial.he RCMP have said that $65,000 was paid to Donohue for little or no apparent work.. The Crown is attempting to show that payments earmarked for those contracts were expensed by Duffy for non-Senate business.