A few days ago I signed up at Facebook and wondered here how I might find it useful. Well, here’s one useful reason to be there: Many of the people I cover are there. Here’s Liberal MP Mark Holland, for example, writing on Facebook live from the C-30 (Clean Air Act) committee ... more »
|
|||||
|
Info/Contact for David Akin
Search this blog:
Login
Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Monday, March 26
Thursday, March 22
Biz mag names its Top 10 'green' giants
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 22 Mar 2007 04:17 PM EDT
Fortune wrote: “In a survey of ... more » Wednesday, March 21
Northern Manitoba town will ban plastic bags
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 21 Mar 2007 01:58 PM EDT
Wednesday, March 7
Conservatives' secret meeting with Calgary's oil and gas sector
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 07 Mar 2007 06:10 PM EST
On September 28, Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn, and then Environment Minister Rona Ambrose held a secret closed-door meeting with the country’s most powerful oil-and-gas executives. The next day, I filed an Access to Information request with the appropriate federal government departments to get “memos, ... more » Monday, March 5
The Sixth Priority?
by
DavidAkin
on Mon 05 Mar 2007 05:32 PM EST
Anyone look at the Prime Minister’s Web site recently? At the top, underneath the banner with Harper’s picture, there has always been five ‘tabs’ representing the government’s five priorities: Accountability, Lower Taxes, Crime, Child Care, and Health Care. But today, we noticed, there’s a new sixth tab: Environment. ... more » |
Recent Comments
This Month
Month Archive
|
|||
|
|||||
Suncor Energy, one of the biggest operators in Canada’s oil sands (and, as a result, one of the country’s biggest generators of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming) has been named as one of the 
The northern Manitoba town of Leaf Rapids will prohibit retailers from using single-use plastic bags. The ban will go into effect on April 2. Here’s part of the press release being issued by 
