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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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Monday, July 25

The Conservatives are Podcasting!

by DavidAkin on Mon 25 Jul 2005 08:58 PM EDT

Those with Apple's iTunes loaded on their machines can now subscribe to 'podcasts' of Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's speeches. This is something new that the Tories were not doing when I went on holiday two weeks ago. So far as I know, the federal Tories are the first major Canadian ... more »

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Sunday, July 24

PJ Radio

by DavidAkin on Sun 24 Jul 2005 02:56 PM EDT

Billy Bryans turned me on to this and now I just can't turn it off. It's called PJ Radio - an Internet-based radio station programmed by, presumably, a guy named PJ out of Toronto. PJ Radio is streamed through Apple's iTunes, the first time I've come across such a ... more »

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