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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 4
Will the budget have tax cuts? Goodale says "wait and see"
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DavidAkin
on Fri 04 Feb 2005 09:59 PM EST
> Question: How much has the rise in the Canadian dollar changed your planning for the budget that you plan to do on [Feb] 23rd? ... more »
Solberg on the federal budget
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DavidAkin
on Fri 04 Feb 2005 09:49 PM EST
On Thursday, after Question Period in the House of Commons, Conservative Finance Critic was asked about his party’s positions going into the federal budget planning process. The budget is to be tabled by the Liberal government on Feb. 23. Here’s an edited transcript of his exchange outside the Commons. The ... more »
Growing the blogoshere: Tory finance critic Solberg is in
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DavidAkin
on Fri 04 Feb 2005 09:05 PM EST
Monte Solberg, the Conservative MP for Medicine Hat, Alberta and his party’s finance critic, jumped into the blogosphere yesterday. He’s got a Blogger-powered blog where he promises to do a little real-time politicking. The blog is an exciting technology that will enable me to keep in touch with people ... more »
A really, really, really bad idea: Licensing journalists
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DavidAkin
on Fri 04 Feb 2005 08:44 PM EST
The National Union of Journalists, a trade union for journalists in Britain and Ireland and which as 35,000 members, is apparently calling for state regulation of journalists as a means to improve pay, working conditions and the general esteem with which the public holds journalist. If you think a ... more » |
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On Thursday, outside the House of Commons, Federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale took questions from journalists on the federal budget. Here is an edited transcript of his discussions.
