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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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Tuesday, April 6
Award-winning photojournalism
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DavidAkin
on Tue 06 Apr 2004 10:52 PM EDT
The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded this week. The Pulitzers are the top prize in American journalism. Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer in this year's competition for a series of photos she took in Liberia during the Civil War there. Sit down, take a deep breath, ... more »
New terminal at Canada's busiest airport opens today
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DavidAkin
on Tue 06 Apr 2004 07:40 AM EDT
The first passenger went through the new $4-billion Moshe Safdie-designed terminal at Pearson International Airport in Toronto today. The celebration to mark the terminal's opening will likely be a bit muted as its biggest tenant, Air Canada, is on the financial ropes. I had a story on CTV National News... more »
Sun Micro's Microsoft deal renews hopes
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DavidAkin
on Tue 06 Apr 2004 07:35 AM EDT
[From today's Globe and Mail]
Facing a future in which it could have ended up as a niche player hoarding a technology no one else wanted to buy, Sun Microsystems Inc. surrendered to its long-time rival Microsoft Corp. last week, to the delight of its own investors. Before the markets ... more »
Arrest key win for NSA hackers
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DavidAkin
on Tue 06 Apr 2004 07:30 AM EDT
[From today's Globe and Mail]
A computer hacker who allowed himself to be publicly identified only as "Mudhen" once boasted at a Las Vegas conference that he could disable a Chinese satellite with nothing but his laptop computer and a cellphone. The others took him at his word, because Mudhen ... more » |
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