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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 |
Wednesday, January 31
Americans oppose Afghanistan mission: Poll
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DavidAkin
on Wed 31 Jan 2007 01:46 PM EST
Pollster Angus Reid finds that, for the first time, a majority of Americans oppose the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
A book for the troops
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DavidAkin
on Wed 31 Jan 2007 01:34 PM EST
MCpl Rene Groves may soon come to your town and if she does, she’ll be asking you to sign a ‘best wishes’ book she’s created for Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Groves, from St. John’s, was in Ottawa today with her book and she presented to the national Conservative caucus. The ... more »
If you're in Ottawa and you're a Guelph alumnus ...
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DavidAkin
on Wed 31 Jan 2007 10:51 AM EST
You are invited to breakfast next week:
Harper: "We will go to the wall to stop" Kyoto
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DavidAkin
on Wed 31 Jan 2007 10:28 AM EST
The Liberals are distributing a 2002 letter by Stephen Harper to members of his Canadian Alliance party denouncing the Kyoto Protocol. This letter is sure to be basis of some political fireworks in the House of Commons today. Here’s the text of that letter:
Tuesday, January 30
Fraser fired Gelinas -- and Gelinas never knew
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DavidAkin
on Tue 30 Jan 2007 09:29 PM EST
Fired Environment Commissioner Johanne Gelinas just released a statement. It’s a doozy. In it, she admits that she and here boss, Auditor General Sheila Fraser, were not seeing eye-to-eye on the nature of her job but Gelinas certainly didn’t expect to be dumped. Fraser will get a grilling tomorrow on ... more » Monday, January 29
World's glaciers melting at an accelerating rate, says UN
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Jan 2007 09:08 PM EST
A new United Nations-backed report says that the world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate because of global warming caused by human activity. Between 2000 and 2006, the world’s glaciers melted at a rate that was 1.6 times faster than the rate at which they melted during the 1990s and ... more »
QP's best line of the day goes to ..
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DavidAkin
on Mon 29 Jan 2007 08:52 PM EST
Sunday, January 28
Auroras over land
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DavidAkin
on Sun 28 Jan 2007 09:02 AM EST
“The CP140 Aurora patrol aircraft were acquired by Canada in 1980 and are used primarily for maritime surveillance. When the ... more » Friday, January 26
Environment Poll: Mindshare
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DavidAkin
on Fri 26 Jan 2007 04:45 PM EST
The rapidity with which the environment has climbed to the top of the list as the most important issue facing the country has astounded pollsters. A year ago, just 4 in 100 Canadians would said “the environment”, if you asked them what is the top public policy issue. This ... more »
Environment Poll: Kyoto
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DavidAkin
on Fri 26 Jan 2007 07:36 AM EST
Last night on our newscast and today in The Globe and Mail, our news organizations kicked off what we hope will be a special year-long (or longer) project on climate change. We decided to start this project by asking our pollster, The Strategic Counsel, to survey Canadians about a ... more » |
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