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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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.
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Wednesday, March 2
View Article  The Rice snub: What the State Department is saying
by DavidAkin on Wed 02 Mar 2005 10:11 PM EST

On Monday night, my colleague and Washington Bureau Chief Tom Clark reported that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice had cancelled a planned visit to Canada as a means of registering official Washington’s disappointment with Canada’s decision, announced last week, not to participate in a U.S.-led ballistic missille defence (BMD) ...   more »

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View Article  Half-empty or half-full: An alternative view of the tech sector
by DavidAkin on Wed 02 Mar 2005 10:30 AM EST

Like the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in every part of the world, the Canadian tech industry has gone through a dramatic boom-and-bust period over the last decade. And while economic output in that sector in Canada was flat or negative during the last few years, Statistics Canada reports ...   more »

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