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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 9

To debate or not debate

by DavidAkin on Wed 09 Mar 2005 02:11 PM EST

Organizers of the first-ever Conservative Party of Canada policy convention have flip-flopped on a controversial proposal that would have had the effect of shutting down debate at the convention on so-called “issues of conscience”, preventing the party from taking a position on such hot-button issues as abortion, euthanasia and same-sex ... more »

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Loyalist to launch annual online magazine

by DavidAkin on Wed 09 Mar 2005 08:52 AM EST

Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario runs an e-journalism program, a program that tries to go beyond Web publishing and explore new ways of incorporating new communications and computer technologies into daily newsgathering and journalism storytelling.

I’m on the advisory board for the program.

Later this week, the students in ... more »

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