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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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Monday, January 8

Kinsella says I'm sorry - or not

by DavidAkin on Mon 08 Jan 2007 07:37 AM EST

With update!

For Ottawa insiders, a meeting held in April 2005 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts was a must-see affair. That Committee was looking into allegations surrounding the sponsorship scandal.

On April 18, the committee heard from a witness list that included Chretien loyalist Warren Kinsella as well as two ... more »

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Jane Jacobs

by DavidAkin on Mon 08 Jan 2007 06:55 AM EST

Expansion depends on capturing and using transient energy. The more different means a system possesses for recapturing, using, and passing around energy before its discharge from the system, the larger are the cumulative consequences of the energy it receives.

– The Nature of Economies, p. 47

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