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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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Thursday, January 25
That Taylor fella again ...
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DavidAkin
on Thu 25 Jan 2007 05:23 PM EST
Conservative blogger Stephen Taylor has some sources in the Prime Minister’s Office that many of us in the Parliamentary Press Gallery could only wish we had. Taylor’s sources were dead right on Wajid Khan’s crossing and were also pretty good on the cabinet shuffle. So with that preface, I point ... more » Saturday, January 20
Harper pays Liberals the ultimate compliment -- and copies their Wind Power program
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DavidAkin
on Sat 20 Jan 2007 03:21 PM EST
Yesterday on the West Coast, Prime Minister Harper announced a 10–year, $1.48–billion plan to support projects using renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass, and tidal. The Prime Minister was asked by my colleague in Vancouver Todd Battis and other reporters if his announcement was a lot like the programs the Liberals ... more » Thursday, January 18
Tree huggers of the right!
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DavidAkin
on Thu 18 Jan 2007 06:19 PM EST
Who says Tories don’t love trees?
Monday, January 8
Kinsella says I'm sorry - or not
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DavidAkin
on Mon 08 Jan 2007 07:37 AM EST
With update!
For Ottawa insiders, a meeting held in April 2005 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts was a must-see affair. That Committee was looking into allegations surrounding the sponsorship scandal. On April 18, the committee heard from a witness list that included Chretien loyalist Warren Kinsella as well as two ... more » Friday, January 5
Khan does the Liberals a favour
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DavidAkin
on Fri 05 Jan 2007 04:27 PM EST
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion issued a statement and that’s all the press he’s doing today on the Wajid Khan defection. ... more »
Why I'm a Conservative: Wajid Khan
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DavidAkin
on Fri 05 Jan 2007 12:26 PM EST
Thursday, January 4
More cabinet intrigue: The Committees
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DavidAkin
on Thu 04 Jan 2007 02:48 PM EST
The headline news today, of course, is the cabinet shuffle. But among the new jobs for seven ministers and the elevation of five MPs, the Prime Minister has re-tooled cabinet committee structure. Committees of cabinet are important institutions. It is at committee, for example, that legislation or new initatiatives is ... more » |
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Here’s our transcript of 
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion (right) just issued this statement:
