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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 30
Harper and Obama: The Phone Call
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DavidAkin
on Mon 30 Mar 2009 10:22 PM EDT
 While in New York City today, where he gave interviews to the Financial Times and CNN, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a telephone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama. The photo of Harper talking to Obama (left) was taken by the PM's Official Photographer Jason Ransom and distributed to members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.Dimitri Soudas, the prime minister's press secretary, sent the following 'read-out' to reporters: more » Friday, March 27
Conservatives give grant to conservative magazine
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DavidAkin
on Fri 27 Mar 2009 10:51 PM EDT
REPORT Magazine is proud to bill itself as "Western Canada's Conservative Voice" and today, Canada's government, on behalf of all taxpayers, were pleased to give "Canada's Conservative Voice" a grant of $27,124. This, of course, was the day after CBC announced about 800 layoffs. For better or worse, CBC is not "Western Canada's Conservative Voice."... more »Wednesday, March 25
The List: The U.S. takes a PMO invention and improves it!
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DavidAkin
on Wed 25 Mar 2009 02:56 PM EDT
WaPo media columnist Howard Kurtz writes: "Breaking with tradition and using a prepared list, Obama did not recognize journalists with The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal or USA Today -- the last four of which were not picked at last month's news conference, either. Instead, he called on reporters for Ebony magazine, Stars and Stripes, Univision, and Agence France-Presse . . ." more »Thursday, March 19
Ah, to be a senior in Beauval!
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DavidAkin
on Thu 19 Mar 2009 08:42 PM EDT
On Wednesday this week, Sen. Marjory LeBreton announced that the federal government was spending $11 million for 900 projects across the country aimed to improving the lives of seniors. Who's going to quarrel with that? No one in Beauval, Saskatchewan, that's for sure. Beauval (pop 806) just got $20,000 for one of these projects ...
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Grassroots Tory annoyed at plea for cash from Tory war room
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DavidAkin
on Thu 19 Mar 2009 07:02 PM EDT
From the inbox today (names removed). Noteworthy because I tend not to get many like this. But I can tell you I have had an increasing number of complaints from grassroots Tories about giving money to their party: "This annoys me. I have been giving to the Conservative Party for years, but it seems like the guys running the show there has just been waiting for an excuse to ask for more cash, to play more ads, and so on. Wash, rinse, repeat. more »Tuesday, March 17
Goodyear now tells Globe he believes in evolution.
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DavidAkin
on Tue 17 Mar 2009 07:22 PM EDT
Asked by Globe and Mail journalist Anne McIlroy if he believed in evolution, Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear refused to answer. McIlroy reported his answer. Less than 24 hours after McIlroy reported Goodyear's non-answer, Goodyear gets asked the same question by another Globe and Mail journalist, Jane Taber, and this time he answers the question. more »
Goodyear gives millions to - gasp! - evolutionists!
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DavidAkin
on Tue 17 Mar 2009 05:16 PM EDT
On the day that Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technolgy, is getting the gears in some quarters for his inability to say that he believes in evolution, he and his department announced the award of $23 million in new or renewed Canada Research Chairs. The academic community is pretty much unanimous that the the Chairs program has been a big hit, helping to attract some top international research talent to move to and work in Canada and keep some of Canada's top talent from going elsewhere. So, given that there is the implicit suggestion in today's criticism of Goodyear that his government might not fund folks who are estabishing ever stronger evidence that evolution is as much a fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun, let's look at some of the researchers celebrating today's funding:
Gary won't say if he believes in evolution. He should talk to Steve.
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DavidAkin
on Tue 17 Mar 2009 11:10 AM EDT
Gary Goodyear, Canada's science minister, refuses to answer Globe and Mail science report Anne McIlroy when Anne asks Gary if he believes in evolution. Gary might want to ask Steve about evolution. That is to say, any one of the 700 Steves on this list. They're all scientists. And I'll bet many of them are Christians. And they all say evolution is an undisputed scientific fact. more »Friday, March 13
Conservative Vs. Conservative
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DavidAkin
on Fri 13 Mar 2009 05:35 PM EDT
This afternoon, there was this panel: "A conservative response to economic downturn with Gwyn Morgan, Bill Robson, Ken Boessenkool, Andrew Coyne. I've been stuck in the office chronicling the Conservative (Government) response to economic downturn but I've been keeping an eye on #mnce09 Twitter feed. Here's some of the content as at 1715 Ottawa time ... more » |
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