During a photo op at the G8 Summit here, U.S. President George Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair are caught chatting away. Neither men, it seems, were aware that a microphone was also recording their conversation. And so, as a result, we caught this quote from Bush, which we’e ... more »
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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 |
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Sunday, July 16
Lots of pics from St. Petersburg
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DavidAkin
on Sun 16 Jul 2006 09:45 AM EDT
Lots of pics posted in the photoblog here today of our time so far here in St. Petersburg, Russia. You should find some pictures of the Constantine (Konstantinovsky) Palace here, the building where many of the major meetings are being held; as well as pictures of other scenes from Russia’s ... more » Saturday, July 15
Rocket to Russia
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DavidAkin
on Sat 15 Jul 2006 06:52 AM EDT
We are on our final approach into St. Petersburg, Russia as I peck out this
post on my BlackBerry. We land at about 3 pm local time (7 am Ottawa time).
Harper, as usual is up front. I'm with the journalists in the back of Airbus
001.
On deck today: ... more »
Friday, July 14
Harper meets Thatcher
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DavidAkin
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 12:49 PM EDT
As blogger Stephen Taylor correctly reported today — scooping all of us in the MSM — former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher met this afternoon in London with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The meeting took place in the hotel where I am typing this right now — the Renaissance ... more » Thursday, July 13
Harper on Israel
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DavidAkin
on Thu 13 Jul 2006 03:32 PM EDT
Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke to reporters while travelling from
Ottawa to London today.
Harper made a statement about the situation in Israel.
The following is my transcript of the English-language portion of the press
scrum. The Prime Minister spoke at about 12:15 pm EDT for about four
minutes.
Harper: ... more »
Harper meets G8 heads of state
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DavidAkin
on Thu 13 Jul 2006 03:32 PM EDT
Since taking office in February, Prime Minister Harper has already met
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and has twice met with U.S.
President George Bush.
Tomorrow, he will have his first private meeting with UK Prime Minister Tony
Blair at 10 Downing Street.
Then, on Saturday, it's off to the ... more »
On board the PM's plane
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 13 Jul 2006 03:32 PM EDT
Flying over the St. Lawrence river right now, on board Airbus 001, the
military jet carrying Prime Minister Harper, his wife, political aides,
diplomats and journalists to London, England where Harper will meet Tony
Blair and the Queen tomorrow.
Cdn Forces staff are serving us breakfast. This morning's in-flight movie ... more »
Wednesday, July 12
Putin takes the hard line in CTV exclusive
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DavidAkin
on Wed 12 Jul 2006 07:08 AM EDT
My colleague Ellen Pinchuk, CTV's Moscow Bureau Chief, scored a rare interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a CTV exclusive. Packaged excerpts of this interview ran last night on our national newscast but the entire 28-minute interview, in three segments is available online.
Putin gave this interview in advance ... more » Monday, July 10
Remember the Wood Nymph?
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DavidAkin
on Mon 10 Jul 2006 08:20 AM EDT
 in 1988, I edited the University of Guelph’s student newspaper The Ontarion and, while I was at that school and writing for the paper, I wrote a column called “Dance of the Wood Nymph”. The headline writers at The Portico, the University of Guelph alumni magazine, picked up on that ... more » Thursday, July 6
June's greatest hits
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DavidAkin
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 07:47 PM EDT
A little more than 49,000 people dropped in here to look at something during the month of June and the odds are — as they have been for the last two years or so — that those folks weren’t so much interested in Canadian federal politics as they were in sports cars... more » |
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