David Akin's On the Hill

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, October 1

Should telcos be allowed to sell directories to marketers?

by DavidAkin on Fri 01 Oct 2004 03:31 PM EDT

Mathew Englander says they can --- but only if they get informed consent from all of their customers. And he is certain that Telus Communications, the phone company in his city of Vancouver, never got informed consent from its customers before it started selling names and numbers of Telus ... more »

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Conrad Black fires up mega-sized libel suit

by DavidAkin on Fri 01 Oct 2004 02:05 PM EDT

Lord Conrad Black (pictured at left) is suing all those at his New York-based operating company, Hollinger International, who authored or help to author the 600-page report which detail alleged abuses by him, his longtime associate David Radler and others. This report, you'll remember, was presented to the U.S. ... more »

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Is the Post trimming its columnists' roster?

by DavidAkin on Fri 01 Oct 2004 12:03 AM EDT

Colby Cosh, an Alberta-based editorial page columnist for the National Post, says he got the call today that "contained the last words any human being wants to hear". He'd been canned, "effective immediately." more »

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