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 »
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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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Saturday, September 30
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 »
Wednesday, September 27
Tuesday, September 19
You're appointed! New directors for bridges, trains, and coins!
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DavidAkin
on Tue 19 Sep 2006 09:29 PM EDT
Canada’s New Government, as it likes to call itself, was busy today putting people on boards of directors and what-not:
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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