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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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.
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View Article  Americans oppose Afghanistan mission: Poll

Pollster Angus Reid finds that, for the first time, a majority of Americans oppose the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.

Polling Data

Do you favour or oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan?

Jan. 2007

Sept. 2006

Favour

44%

50%

Oppose

52%

48%

Unsure

4%

2%

Source: Opinion Research Corporation / CNN...   more »

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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 »

View Article  If you're in Ottawa and you're a Guelph alumnus ...

You are invited to breakfast next week:

Wednesday, February 7th: Ottawa Alumni Breakfast and Speaker Series
"Covering the Federal Government - a Newcomer's View"
The University of Guelph Ottawa Alumni Chapter invites you to the 2nd installment of the Alumni Breakfast and Speaker Series at Malone's Lakeside Grill, Dow's ...   more »

View Article  Harper: "We will go to the wall to stop" Kyoto

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:

 
Dear Friend,


We're on a roll, ...   more »