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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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Monday, January 30

McKenna is out - won't lead Liberals

by DavidAkin on Mon 30 Jan 2006 11:34 AM EST

My colleague Robert Fife is reporting that Frank McKenna will not run to lead the Liberal Party of Canada. McKenna had announced last week that he would resign his post as Canada’s Ambassador to the United States. McKenna had been appointed, of course, by the Paul Martin government and, with ... more »

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