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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 |
Thursday, August 26
Journalism ethics: Toronto police shoot a hostage taker. What do you show on TV?
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DavidAkin
on Thu 26 Aug 2004 10:53 AM EDT
If you live in Toronto, the big news event of the day (and I'm sure
this made several national newscasts), was the police shooting of an
armed hostage taker. Our cameras and cameras from ... more »
[What they said] So Weirdly Wrong
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DavidAkin
on Thu 26 Aug 2004 07:19 AM EDT
[Hilarious report from AKMA, vacationing in Maine] A few minutes ago, a police officer passed the bench where I was sitting outside the [edit: Nantucket] Athenaeum, enjoying the mild temperature and the wifi signal, and he said, “Sir, you can’t use the Internet outside the library.&rdquo. I said, ... more »
Canada gets a new $20 bill
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DavidAkin
on Thu 26 Aug 2004 06:01 AM EDT
There are 600 million twenty dollar bills in circulation in Canada -- more than any other denomination. Starting on Sept. 29, the Bank of Canada will start replacing every single one of them with a new bill. The new bill has a ... more » |
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