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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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Wednesday, May 30
Liberals fight attack ads on the cheap
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DavidAkin
on Wed 30 May 2007 10:47 AM EDT
On Tuesday, the Conservative Party launched a new series of advertisements, which will air on mainstream television and radio stations, which attack Liberal leader Stephane Dion. Today, the Young Liberals of Canada announced a plan to hit back but do not have the money to buy TV and radio ... more » Thursday, May 24
Drugs were promised. None were delivered.
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DavidAkin
on Thu 24 May 2007 10:50 PM EDT
In 2005, Canada fiddled with its patent laws so that developing countries — the reform initiative was called the “Jean Chretien Pledge To Africa Act” — could get cheap access to drugs that could help fight AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases. Since the passage of the “Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime” ... more » Wednesday, May 23
Minister expresses "deep dismay" about committee behaviour
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DavidAkin
on Wed 23 May 2007 11:43 AM EDT
Immigration Minister Diane Finley was mighty unhappy at the grilling bureaucrats in her department received recently at the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. A letter from Finley to the committee members was sent at the end of last week, on May 16. Some opposition MPs say it represents interference by ... more » Saturday, May 19
Hill to Coderre: You're an idiot
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DavidAkin
on Sat 19 May 2007 07:50 AM EDT
Toews to Jennings: Take a pill
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DavidAkin
on Sat 19 May 2007 07:28 AM EDT
Saturday, May 12
"Gord Brown" says sorry
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DavidAkin
on Sat 12 May 2007 04:24 PM EDT
The political staffer who recently impersonated his boss, Ontario Conservative MP Gord Brown, in an e-mail exchange with a constituent says sorry:
Attention Reformers: This might be for you ...
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DavidAkin
on Sat 12 May 2007 02:32 PM EDT
Are you a conservative? Do you feel the current federal government is too left wing? Well, there may be a party forming up just for you: Thursday, May 10
McGuinty on green leaker
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 04:45 PM EDT
Julian tries to oust Benoit -- again
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 04:15 PM EDT
I’m in Chicago covering Conrad Black’s trials but some political staffers have sent me messages to say that the Conservatives today are filibustering and putting up procedural roadblocks at various House of Commons committees meeting today. Then, on Facebook, Liberal MP Mark Holland publishes the following account of today’s meeting ... more »
The Green leak
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 07:48 AM EDT
You may have heard yesterday that the RCMP arrested and charged a federal government employee of Environment Canada for allegedly leaking drafts of what would be the government’s clean air plan. Here’s a roundup of reaction from various politicians after Question Period yesterday. The questions are being put to ... more » |
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The House of Commons is in recess until May 28 and MPs are back in their ridings. That’s probably a good thing. Last week in Parliament, 
If you ever get the chance to visit the House of Commons during Question Period, you will almost certainly hear the heckling of 
Here’s Liberal Environment Critic David McGuinty (left) responding to today’s developments in the “Green Leak” affair. He is being questioned by several different reporters from different news organizations in a scrum in the House of Commons lobby after Question Period today:
