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, September 4
    View Article  From the family of WO Mellish
    by DavidAkin on Mon 04 Sep 2006 06:21 PM EDT

    [Just out on the various newswires, distributed by the Department of National Defence]

    WO MellishCFB GAGETOWN, NEW BRUNSWICK--(CCNMatthews - Sept. 4, 2006) - Warrant Officer Frank Robert Mellish (LEFT), age 38, an 18-year veteran of the Canadian Forces was killed Sunday while deployed to Afghanistan.

    Frank was the son of ...   more »

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    View Article  Amicicide - U.S. planes kill Canadian
    by DavidAkin on Mon 04 Sep 2006 02:37 PM EDT

    Amicicide is a term coined by U.S. Army LCol Charles Shrader for a reference book he wrote chronicling incidents in which U.S. forces killed their own or allies. Shrader’s book is one of the documents that Canadian military officers at CFB Kingston consulted as they prepared a document published last October ...   more »

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