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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. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. 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 |
Tuesday, March 13
Flaherty to be locked up
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DavidAkin
on Tue 13 Mar 2007 08:09 AM EDT
For the first time, a federal Finance Minister will join the hundreds of journalists in the budget lock-up next week. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will table his government’s second budget on Monday March 19 shortly after 4 pm Ottawa time. But around 2 p.m., Flaherty will take questions from journalists ... more » Thursday, March 8
Meetings were not 'secret' says PMO
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DavidAkin
on Thu 08 Mar 2007 08:07 PM EST
Earlier this week, I posted some of the results of government records I received as the result of an Access to Information request. After a September meeting in Calgary between three top cabinet ministers and more than two dozen oil and gas executives, I asked three governnment departments for the ... more » Tuesday, March 6
The ties that bind: Conservatives and the ADQ
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DavidAkin
on Tue 06 Mar 2007 07:56 AM EST
Canadian Press reporter Alex Panetta does a nice job sketching out the links between the federal Conservative Party and the Action démocratique du Québec .
NDP distances itself from Blogging Dipper leader
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DavidAkin
on Tue 06 Mar 2007 12:22 AM EST
Who says the blogosophere doesn’t matter? The president of the NDP, Anne McGrath, wrote a letter today to the president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in which the NDP disavowed any connection to blogger Robert McClelland, a frequent commenter at this blog and one of the organizers of the ... more » Friday, March 2
Parliamentary Press Gallery Proceedings
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DavidAkin
on Fri 02 Mar 2007 03:23 PM EST
So you’ve probably heard that Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn’t like the press very much. And you may have been told that the media hate Harper. Whether or not this is true — perception has, by and large, become reality on Parliament Hill. This chill has manifested itself most obviously ... more » Thursday, March 1
Polls: Conservatives widen lead, Greens surge
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DavidAkin
on Thu 01 Mar 2007 10:32 PM EST
Pollster Decima has tongues in Ottawa wagging tonight and rightfully so. The Conservatives widen their lead over the Liberals and the Green Party is in a tie with and may even be more popular than the NDP. Here's the national numbers according to Decima:
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