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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Friday, October 24
Cabinet speculation: Gerry Ritz
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DavidAkin
on Fri 24 Oct 2008 09:43 PM EDT
... Harper will also conclude that, by and large, Ritz has been a relatively competent agriculture minister. Harper will note that voters in Ritz's Saskatchewan riding handily returned him to the House. And Harper will be damned if some bureaucrat can get the idea that a minister can be felled if they reveal confidential information. And if he sacks Ritz or demotes him, it will look like he gave in to demands from the likes of Liberal agriculture critic Wayne Easter, who Conservatives have a particular dislike for ... more »
Tuesday, October 14
Tory minister did not voter for her party: BQ
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DavidAkin
on Tue 14 Oct 2008 02:48 PM EDT
Josée Verner is the Conservative Heritage Minister. She is her party's candidate in the Quebec City riding of Louis St. Laurent. But Verner lives in the riding of Portneuf-Jacques Cartier, the only riding in the country where there is no Conservative candidate and that is where, according to the BQ, ... more »
Sunday, October 5
Saturday in Atlantic Canada in pictures
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DavidAkin
on Sun 05 Oct 2008 08:27 AM EDT
 And here's some stuff I wrote about it: MONCTON, N.B. - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper reminded enthusiastic supporters here of his family's New Brunswick roots and cheered the region's "confidence" and "vibrant entrepreneurial economy" hours after Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, also campaigning near here, reminded Atlantic Canada voters that Harper once characterized the region as having "a culture of defeat."... A few days before the election, for example, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, who is the minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, announced ACOA would provide $50,000 for a three-day curling tournament to be held next month in his riding in New Glasgow, N.S., where he is now facing Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. more »Saturday, October 4
Harper unplugged: The back-of-the-plane chat
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DavidAkin
on Sat 04 Oct 2008 08:27 PM EDT
Unable to sleep after Thursday's English-language debates, Prime Minister Stephen Harper got up at 3 a.m. and tried to unwind by watching the U.S. vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.
He would not say if it helped him sleep. In an informal chat with reporters Saturday at the ... more » Wednesday, October 1
The Beauce's Bernier is "un grand benêt", Couillard says
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DavidAkin
on Wed 01 Oct 2008 10:55 AM EDT
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