A senior official with the PMO’s office says Richard Diamond, newly-elected president of the Young Liberals of Canada, is “the best young Liberal president in a generation.” Diamond is likely to be in the middle of the news this weekend at the first-ever convention of the Conservative party of ... more »
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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Wednesday, March 16
The race for party president
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DavidAkin
on Wed 16 Mar 2005 03:19 PM EST
Earlier this week, I reported on what was largely seen as a two-man race [link to video on the right of the page you’ll be taken to] to become the first-ever president of the Conservative Party of Canada. As the Vancouver Sun’s Peter O’Neill first reported, the ... more »
Conservatives battle over party's direction
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DavidAkin
on Wed 16 Mar 2005 02:51 PM EST
The first-ever policy convention of the Conservative Party of Canada gets underway later this week in Montreal. In the run-up to this event, there seems to be significant debate within the party about its direction. The Conservative Party, of course, is new political party that grew out of the merger ... more »
Trackback sp*m
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DavidAkin
on Wed 16 Mar 2005 01:47 PM EST
I’ve been encountering a chunk of trackback spam recently [Learn about trackbacks], all coming from the same source. Now the blog publishing platform I’m using — Blogware from Tucows — has a nice little feature to block comment spam after the fact. Essentially, Blogware blog administrators can ‘ban’ any ... more » |
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