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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, February 25
Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko
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DavidAkin
on Fri 25 Feb 2005 03:19 PM EST
I posted a new photo to Broll.
 . Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko was at the NATO Summit in Brussels, a historic occasion given the nature of the peaceful "Orange Revolution" at Christmas time that saw Yushchenko emerge victorious and given the fact that it was, after all, NATO.
Yushchenko ... more »
This message brought to you by the ACLU
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DavidAkin
on Fri 25 Feb 2005 10:02 AM EST
The American Civil Liberties Union and many other groups in the United States are campaigning hard to shoot down proposals to build One Big Database which its enthusiasts say would help improve U.S. national security. To make its point about the kind of privacy and civil liberties risks associated with ... more »
There are 6.5 billion of us
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DavidAkin
on Fri 25 Feb 2005 08:24 AM EST
The United Nations says there will be 6.5 billion human beings on the planet this July but that population growth rates are slowing. Still, the UN says that by 2050, there will be 9 billion on this Earth.
"The world has added nearly 500 million people since 1999 – just ... more »
CIBC is getting sued over fax fiasco
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DavidAkin
on Fri 25 Feb 2005 07:23 AM EST
A Toronto lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce over the fax fiasco. Last year, we reported that CIBC had been faxing the confidential information of hundreds of customers to a West Virginia scrapyard operator. Later we learned that similar faxes were being transmitted ... more »
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