Earlier this week, RCMP commissioner Giuliano (Zack) Zaccardelli got thrust into the unenviable position of seeing his RCMP investigators are indeed conducting an investigation in the midst of an election campaign into the possibility that senior government officials may have inappropriately disclosed some market-moving financial information. This has come to ... more »
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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 |
Friday, December 30
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on Fri 30 Dec 2005 07:57 PM EST
Thursday, December 29
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on Thu 29 Dec 2005 11:51 AM EST
The Canadian Arts Coalition, which bills itself as the largest consortium of artists and artists' organization to ever come to together in Canada, has launched a new Web site at www.votearts2006.ca . The group has praise for the current Liberal government's pre-election commitment to invest $306-million over the next ... more » Wednesday, December 28
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on Wed 28 Dec 2005 09:03 PM EST
If you’re running Mac OS X, the odds are probably pretty good that your Web browser is the one Apple makes — Safari. Or you might be having a little fun with Mozilla’s Firefox on OS X (a very credible alternative to Safari). But you’re probably not using ... more »
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on Wed 28 Dec 2005 12:24 AM EST
Tuesday, December 27
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on Tue 27 Dec 2005 11:29 PM EST
A Toronto company — Tucows — recently bought a big chunk of a former Silicon Valley high flier — Critical Path — which once upon a time bought up another Toronto company — DocSpace Co. — in what was, at the the time, the biggest ever dot-come windfall to date ... more » Monday, December 26
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on Mon 26 Dec 2005 11:38 PM EST
But if you think Anne McLellan is trying to tone down the fact that ... more »
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on Mon 26 Dec 2005 08:52 PM EST
Gomery garnered more than half of the votes cast in the poll. Karla Homolka was a distant number two.... more » Thursday, December 22
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on Thu 22 Dec 2005 01:00 PM EST
Stephen Taylor (left) is having a very good campaign. He's not running for election; he's blogging about it. And, so far, he's had at least three good 'gets', as we say in the mainstream media business, on his blog. Today, Taylor puts up a post in which he claims to ... more » Tuesday, December 20
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on Tue 20 Dec 2005 09:43 PM EST
If so -- and you're using a recent version of iTunes -- you'll want to start subscribing to his podcasts. Like most of his Canadian fans, I first discovered Ricky (left)in The Office where he played -- hilariously so -- boss David Brent. Gervais has his own Web site... more »
Monday, December 19
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on Mon 19 Dec 2005 08:51 PM EST
Got a press release today from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, in which UBC's PR people claim that theirs is the first university in Canada to offer podcasts to "that gives alumni, students, faculty and others global audio access to UBC-related content such as the popular ... more »
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