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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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Tuesday, February 21
Himmelfarb out, Lynch In
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DavidAkin
on Tue 21 Feb 2006 02:07 PM EST
The Prime Minister’s Office has just announced that Kevin Lynch, a former deputy minister at Finance and at Industry and currently executive director for Canada at the International Monetary Fund, will replace Alex Himmelfarb as Clerk of the Privy Council. More later … more »
Conservative advantage evaporates
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DavidAkin
on Tue 21 Feb 2006 08:48 AM EST
(Here's a release from pollster Nik Nanos)
The recent national survey of Canadians conducted by SES Research found that
the federal Liberals and Conservatives were statistically tied (Liberals
34%, Conservative 33%) on the national ballot. NDP support is at 18%
followed by the Bloc Quebecois at 9% and the Green ... more »
PMO fires and hires top communications aide
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DavidAkin
on Tue 21 Feb 2006 06:10 AM EST
William Stairs, the subject of a nice profile in his hometown paper just yesterday, has departed the Prime Minister's Office as its Director of Communications. He is to be replaced -- immediately -- by Sandra Buckler, who, until yesterday, worked one floor down from CTV's Ottawa bureau at GPC Public ... more »
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