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Who pays for this blog? 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. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Wednesday, December 20
Tuesday, December 19
Strahl swings the axe
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DavidAkin
on Tue 19 Dec 2006 03:30 PM EST
Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl did what he’d said he’d do: He fired the CEO of the Canadian Wheat Board. The Conservative government wants to let Western grain farmers sell their wheat and barley to whomever they please. Right now, wheat farmers in the West must sell all their stuff only to ... more »
Politicians failing soldiers in Afghanistan, Senlis Council says
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DavidAkin
on Tue 19 Dec 2006 12:07 PM EST
The U.K.-based think tank The Senlis Council is relatively unique among the “think tank” crowd who have had pronouncements on ... more »
TD says economy will slow in 07
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DavidAkin
on Tue 19 Dec 2006 09:31 AM EST
The Economics department at the Toronto Dominion Bank believes borrowing costs are likely to to fall in 2007, as central banks in Canada and the U.S. are forced to drop their key lending rate in response to slowing economies. Here’s the highlights from the bank’s quarterly economic forecast:
Sunday, December 17
Rankings
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DavidAkin
on Sun 17 Dec 2006 09:26 PM EST
Gregory Morrow runs the DemocraticSpace.com blog and he loves numbers. I do, too, which means I'm one of those regular visitors who have made his site the 865,092nd most popular spot on the Web. That's the ranking -- don't you know? -- given to Mr. Morrow's site by the robot-ware ... more »
In Ontario, voters like "average" McGuinty, says SES
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DavidAkin
on Sun 17 Dec 2006 09:21 AM EST
Pollster SES Research releases a survey this morning about voter preferences in Ontario. In that province, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals ... more » Saturday, December 16
The Internet's real shame
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DavidAkin
on Sat 16 Dec 2006 07:15 AM EST
For my money, the best consumer technology writer is (and has been for a very long time) David Pogue, now found mostly in the pages and Web home of The New York Times. In a recent post, he complains about the viscious tenor of online discourse at forums like this ... more » Friday, December 15
U.S. State Department on Arar
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DavidAkin
on Fri 15 Dec 2006 05:13 PM EST
The U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins said today that the U.S. still considers Maher Arar a threat. Here’s ... more »
Top 10 Moments on [U.S] TV
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DavidAkin
on Fri 15 Dec 2006 04:56 PM EST
The folks who make the TiVo personal video recorder commissioned a poll to find out what the biggest ‘moments’ were on U.S. television in the last year. TiVo hired a firm to survey 1,000 Americans and here’s what they said were their top 10 favourite moments from 2006:
Wednesday, December 13
Canada Post gets its marching orders ...
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DavidAkin
on Wed 13 Dec 2006 04:16 PM EST
And this just in on this busy last day of the Parliamentary calendar: Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon has just ordered ... more » |
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