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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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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. Blogware users typically pay a monthly fee for using this platform but I do not as Tucows has kindly provided me with this platform. I may report on Tucows, its associated operations and executives, and on industry issues that may affect Tucows. I am grateful for Tucows' assistance but that's it. No favours were promised for their generosity nor do Tucows executives expect any. I hold no direct equity or stock in any company, Tucows included. 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 Login
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Saturday, September 30
Day 1 - Iggy, then Dion
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DavidAkin
on Sat 30 Sep 2006 07:49 AM EDT
Political junkie alert: The Liberal has a very cool real-time delegate selection results ticker. With the first of three days of voting over, Michael Ignatieff is, as advertised, leading the way with 239 delegates who will vote for him on the first ballot of December's leadership convention. That the ... more » Friday, September 29
Volpe fined but gets to stay in the race
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DavidAkin
on Fri 29 Sep 2006 04:39 PM EDT
Minutes ago, the Liberal Party of Canada announced that it had levied a fine of $20,000 against the Joe Volpe ... more »
The Liberal's Super Weekend approaches
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DavidAkin
on Fri 29 Sep 2006 06:00 AM EDT
It's a big weekend if you're a Liberal -- (a big weekend for us Ottawa journalists, too, for tomorrow is the annual Canadian Press golf tournament and the weather forecast looks promising. But I digress ...) for this is the weekend that, at riding associations across the country, card-carrying members ... more »
Tuesday, September 19
Liberal leadership predictions
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DavidAkin
on Tue 19 Sep 2006 06:24 AM EDT
Two amateur pundits — and I use amateur in its best sense (think Olympian) — have applied common sense with a little bit of their own gut instinct to come up with some predictions of first-ballot voting results when the Liberals gather in Montreal in December. Each prediction would be ... more » |
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