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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, November 3

Flaherty's Income Trust announcement: A textbook case of good PR?

by DavidAkin on Fri 03 Nov 2006 02:21 PM EST

Whatever you might think of the federal government’s announcement this week on income trusts, one professional communicator labels the way the announcement was made a “touchdown.” Bob Reid, a principal of the communications firm Veritas Canada, writes the following in his firm’s weekly newsletter “Touchdowns and Fumbles”:

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Same-sex marriage: Here we go again!

by DavidAkin on Fri 03 Nov 2006 01:37 PM EST

My colleague Robert Fife reported yesterday that the same-sex marriage debate will be back on the table in early December. ... more »

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