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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, April 29
Must've been a slow news day
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 29 Apr 2004 11:04 PM EDT
It's been a long week already and this was too funny not to pass around . . ..
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Lycos on the block
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DavidAkin
on Thu 29 Apr 2004 10:39 AM EDT
Tip o' the hat to super-searcher Tara Calishain who points out in her latest newsletter that Lycos -- which once battled AltaVista for search engine supremacy a million years ago -- is being shopped around. C|Net says Lycos' owner Terra Lycos has hired investment bankers Lehman Brothers to see if anyone ... more »
Nortel: The Day After
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DavidAkin
on Thu 29 Apr 2004 09:10 AM EDT
 Nortel fired CEO Frank Dunn [pictured] yesterday. We had two pieces on CTV National News last night. [Look for the Video links at this page where you'll also find some additional information]
My colleagues at the Globe and Mail have a pile on this as well, as do most of ... more » Wednesday, April 28
Comcast won't converge with Disney
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DavidAkin
on Wed 28 Apr 2004 08:02 AM EDT
Comcast, the giant U.S. cable company outfit, said this morning that it will not merge with the Walt Disney Co.
"It has become clear that there is no interest on the part of Disney's management and Board in putting Comcast and Disney together," Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in a ... more » Monday, April 26
Web stats a la Blogware
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DavidAkin
on Mon 26 Apr 2004 09:06 PM EDT
One of the neat things about the publishing platform this blog uses is that there is always some neat cool feature being added. Sometimes these features seem added in just because the good people at Tucows could. (Hello Address Book. Good to see you, not sure why you're here.) Others ... more »
Saturday, April 24
High oil prices -- a good thing?
by
DavidAkin
on Sat 24 Apr 2004 08:40 AM EDT
I'm a commuter, doing about 100 km round-trip each workday. And that means that gasoline is one of our family's big expense items. So, naturally, I'm not thrilled with various predictions that the price of oil is going to go higher and remain high. Oil prices were somewhere around $37 ... more »
Wednesday, April 21
[Annual meeting] Imperial Oil - Tim Hearn presentation -
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DavidAkin
on Wed 21 Apr 2004 01:36 PM EDT
Tim Hearn is Imperial Oil's CEO. His presentation:
"It was a record year on several fronts, including financial performance."
The company posted earnings of $1.68-billion or $4.52 a share. (All prices CDN $) Return on average capital employed was 24 per cent.
Imperial is the only Canadian industrial corporation with ... more »
[Annual meeting] Imperial Oil - Sheelagh Whitaker presentation on environment - 1043
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 21 Apr 2004 01:28 PM EDT
Audit committee recommends that PriceWaterhouseCoopers be re-appointed as auditors. PWC does not do any consulting work for PWC.
Sheelagh Whittaker, who used to run EDS Canada and now runs EDS businesses in Australia, is an Imperial Oil board member. She gave a presentation about the company's environmental and safety record. ... more »
[Annual meeting] Imperial Oil - 1035
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 21 Apr 2004 01:28 PM EDT
Blogging from the floor right now at the annual shareholders meeting of Imperial Oil Inc. held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto. Some Greenpeace protesters are outside the building handing out some material. I came in through a parking garage interest and missed them.
Inside the meeting, security ... more » Tuesday, April 20
Because there's not enough business news ...
by
DavidAkin
on Tue 20 Apr 2004 01:32 PM EDT
The Associated Press said
today it will launch a new service, AP Financial News, which will go
beyond the top stories of the day to include more earnings announcements,
regulatory actions, acquisitions and other data. more »
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