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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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Thursday, March 30
Ignatieff speech in Ottawa
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DavidAkin
on Thu 30 Mar 2006 04:12 PM EST
When Michael Ignatieff spoke last year at the Liberal policy convention, I was impressed enough with the delivery and content that I posted the speech here at this blog.
Ignatieff spoke today at the University of Ottawa and while I wasn't there, several sources in Ottawqa have messagesd me here ... more »
A hot morning in Cancun
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DavidAkin
on Thu 30 Mar 2006 09:58 AM EST
CANCUN, Mexico - Was at work this morning at 0430 local time here doing hits on the hour with CTV Newsnet and Canada AM. It´s now just 10 am local time and stinking hot. I´m not complaining ...
Prime Minister Harper is in a helicopter heading for Chichen Itza where ... more » Wednesday, March 29
Ambassadors on board
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DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Mar 2006 09:56 PM EST
ON BOARD CFC01 - We have just touched down in Cancun with Prime Minister
Stephen Harper. Harper travelled here from Ottawa this evening.
And while Harper's wife Laureen stayed home, the Prime Minister enjoyed the
company of the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson and the
American Ambassador to ... more »
Off to Cancun with Harper ...
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DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Mar 2006 01:30 PM EST
Harper ... more » Sunday, March 26
What are Canadians doing with enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan?
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DavidAkin
on Sun 26 Mar 2006 04:51 PM EST
A couple of weeks ago, I’d asked Department of National Defence officials what were the rules so far as enemy combatants captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Here’s the response I received last week from a DND media affairs officer.
Saturday, March 25
Canada's Internet authority suspends relationship with global Internet authority
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DavidAkin
on Sat 25 Mar 2006 03:20 PM EST
I realize that the politics of Internet governance can be a real tough slog for most people but, as a reporter who spent years covering the in and outs of these issues, let me assure you that this is huge news: The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has essentially said ... more » Friday, March 24
We've been bought: Multinationals in Canada
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DavidAkin
on Fri 24 Mar 2006 07:32 PM EST
A paper released this week by a trio of Statistics Canada researchers suggests that levels of foreign ownership in Canada of non-financial industries is at its highest level since the 1960s.
Canada's dairy and poultry producers - under the gun?
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DavidAkin
on Fri 24 Mar 2006 07:05 PM EST
Mike Gifford, who once represented Canada in international agricultural trade negotiations, argues that Canada’s poultry and dairy producers could be in for some disruptive shocks as the next round of international trade talks concludes.
Softwood lumber: Hart and Dymond perspective
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DavidAkin
on Fri 24 Mar 2006 06:48 PM EST
Some notes from Michael Hart and Bill Dymond, “The Cul-de-Sac of Softwood Lumber” in Policy Options, November 2005.
Bored of the Rings
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DavidAkin
on Fri 24 Mar 2006 11:41 AM EST
The mega-bucks musical adaptation of The Lord of the Rings opened last night in Toronto and the critcs weren’t very kind. The New York Times’ critic Ben Brantley went north to discover that “the musical numbers are often solemn, incantatory affairs, suggesting Enya at an ashram” and labels the ... more » |
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I’m travelling this afternoon to Cancun, Mexico as part of the media group accompanying the 
