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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 |
Tuesday, April 4
Get yer Throne Speech here ...
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DavidAkin
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 04:13 PM EDT
“In support of building a stronger Canada, the Government’s agenda will be clear and focussed. It will clean up government, provide real support to ordinary working families and strengthen our federation as well as our role in the world.” That’s from this afternoon’s Throne Speech, as read by Governor General ... more »  1 Attachments
What Garth Turner wants
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DavidAkin
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 03:29 PM EDT
Garth Turner, the Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Halton, decided to help Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with his budget preparations. So Turner held a series of town hall-style meetings in his riding and prepared a thick report for Flaherty to read.
He recently delivered that report and has ... more » 1 Attachments
May to leave Sierra Club of Canada
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DavidAkin
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 12:26 PM EDT
The House of Commons Seating Plan
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DavidAkin
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 11:16 AM EDT
Party whips are responsible for assigning seats in the House of Commons, in consultation, of course, with their party’s leadership. Their work is completed, now, and, as a result, the seating plan for the 39th Parliament was released yesterday. Sitting in the Commons’ press gallery (the press gallery in both the ... more »
Media life in Baghdad
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DavidAkin
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 06:50 AM EDT
Colleagues of mine have spent time working in and reporting from Baghdad. The descriptions of that work provided by Orville Schell in his recently published essay “Baghdad: The Besieged Press” seem to dovetail with many of the accounts I have heard from reporters and ENG technicians who have worked there.
New to the book list
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DavidAkin
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 06:43 AM EDT
New additions to my “books-to-read” list: Non-fiction:
Britannica vs Wikipedia
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DavidAkin
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 06:09 AM EDT
The publishers of the science journal Nature had a good idea. Take sections of the Encyclopedia Britannica — long regarded by many in just the way the encyclopedia’s publisher believes it ought to be regarded, i.e. as the ultimate reference tool — and take sections of the online-only reference source, Wikipedia, ... more » |
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Elizabeth May, (right) who received the Order of Canada recently for her work as an environmental advocate, is leaving her post as executive director of the 
