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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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Friday, August 4

Canada's multi-billion dollar military aircraft purchases -- someone wants to steal Boeing's pie

by DavidAkin on Fri 04 Aug 2006 10:09 PM EDT

C-17 Globemaster The Government of Canada wants to buy some new aircraft for its military and is using a novel procurement process to do so. It wants, for instance, to buy strategic airlift — planes that can carry four or five tanks, for example, halfway around the world. The military looked at ... more »

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Canada's King of Wikipedia

by DavidAkin on Fri 04 Aug 2006 09:34 PM EDT

As Wikimaniacs gather at, well, Wikimania, an annual conference held this year in Cambridge, Mass., The Globe and Mail publishes a nice profile of Ottawa native Simon Pulsifer, whom the Globe crowns “King of Wikipedia.” Three cheers for Simon!

Prolific Canadian is king of Wikipedia
With more than 80,000 ... more »

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Digital voice recorders

by DavidAkin on Fri 04 Aug 2006 04:14 PM EDT

One of the basic must-have tools for any reporter is a machine you can use to record interviews and press conferences. I’ve been using a digital voice recorder from Sony for the last several years but it recently disappeared so I went on the hunt for a new one.

My ... more »

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