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, June 19
View Article  240 cars ran the border in the last six months
by DavidAkin on Mon 19 Jun 2006 10:55 AM EDT

Alain JolicoeurAlain Jolicoeur, (right) head of the Canada Border Services Agency, is in front of the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence and he is getting an A-1 grilling. Jolicoeur told committee members that, in the last six months, 240 cars ran a border crossing and the CBSA could do ...   more »

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View Article  A busy day ---
by DavidAkin on Mon 19 Jun 2006 06:56 AM EDT

MPs have a week left on the Hill before heading back to their ridings for the rest of the summer. Whenever I had a week of school left, it was time to gear down and coast to the end. Not so for our MPs. Today is one of the  busiest I’ve ...   more »

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