The National Hockey League has become the first professional sports outfit in North America to cancel an entire season because of a labour disruption.

We’re carrying NHL commissioner Gary Bettman’s news conference live on Newsnet right now. (You can watch on the Web – video links on the right — for those ...   more »

Confidential information about millions of Canadians is not properly secured on federal government computer systems, the Auditor General of Canada said in a report tabled today in the House of Commons.

Senior federal government managers do not understand the risks to information technology security and do not understand how security ...   more »

Before a business trip there, I once asked, "Where would you eat in Vancouver?" and got a tremendous response. What about Brussels, Belgium? Any Walloons who could recommend a decent meal in Brussels?   more »

My favourite Newfoundland radical Greg Locke -- who apparently also takes a heckuva photograph -- has a link to this blog on the blogroll at his blog. He has that linked titled "David Akin - On the Hill" (and I don't think he meant Signal Hill).
It struck me that ...   more »

It’s not exactly the same kind of trophy that conservative bloggers bagged when they skewered some reports by Dan Rather and CBS News, but liberal bloggers in the U.S. have forced the resignation of a conservative online reporter.

Washington Post media reporter/critic Howard Kurtz writes:

The conservative reporter who ...   more »

Look out Mapquest and Yahoo! because Google has just taken the wraps off of a Maps product. GoogleMaps is still in a beta testing phase and Google guru Tara Calishain says it looks like Google right now just has maps and driving directions for the U.S. and Canada.

Still, the Google ...   more »

A little later than normal with the monthly round-up of what’s been hot here at the blog, but the statistics from which the following list is culled sit patiently on a server back at davidakin.com world headquarters until required. The most widely read post here was one suggested to me ...   more »

Mississauga Liberal MP Paul Szabo (left) wants to make it the law in Canada that all beer, wine and whisky bottles have a label affixed to each warning consumers of the dangers of fetal alcohol syndrom and other side effects from excessive alcohol abuse. Szabo has been trying to get ...   more »

Environmental activists say they believe the federal Liberal government is on the verge of delivering on the promise of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"I think we're going to see one of the greenest, if not the greenest, budgets we've ever seen in ...   more »

Bell Globemedia, the company I work for, whose big media properties include CTV, The Sports Network and The Globe and Mail, just won the broadcasting rights for the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Calgary Vancouver and the 2012 Summer Olympics — location still to be announced ...   more »