"Kenneth Jackson, a former Ottawa Sun crime reporter, broke the biggest political story of the year. The Bruce Carson affair consumed the House of Commons in the two weeks leading up to the election. Jackson was the one who obtained emails written by Bruce Carson and a contract Carson witnessed giving his fiancee, an Ottawa escort named Michele McPherson, a cut of profits from the sale of water filters to First Nations suffering from dirty water."
Here are some more links to stories Jackson covered on the Bruce Carson affair:
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2011/03/16/harper-asks-rcmp-to-former-advisor/
http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2011/09/22/rcmp-about-face-on-status-of-bruce-carson-file/
And an article by Ruane Remy of the Ryerson Review of Journalism about the affair: http://www.rrj.ca/m14881/