This evening, on another network’s national newscast, the contents of a British documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle” were reported. Many readers of this blog have brought this film to my attention and, as it has been widely available from time to time on YouTube and elsewhere on the Web, I often open my mail client ... more »
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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 |
Saturday, April 28
YouTube yanks my Vimy video
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DavidAkin
on Sat 28 Apr 2007 03:37 PM EDT
Well this is kinda funny. Now I’ve heard of people being overzealous in their protection of copyright but this is nutty: A 30–second video I shot myself with my 15–frames-per-second digital still camera — and narrated myself! — as I walked through the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in Vimy, France ... more »
NDP seeks help for C-30 vote
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DavidAkin
on Sat 28 Apr 2007 10:07 AM EDT
NDP Leader Jack Layton makes public a letter he sent to Opposition Leader Stephane Dion and Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe asking each one to consider using some of the procedural options available to opposition parties to try to force the government to bring C-30, the re-named Clean Air and ... more »
"Torture in Afghanistan: The Liberals knew"
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DavidAkin
on Sat 28 Apr 2007 09:43 AM EDT
My friend and former colleague Joel-Denis Bellavance reports in this morning’s La Presse that the Liberal governments of 2002 and later knew that Afghanistan authorities were likely to torture or abuse those they captured as suspected Taliban operatives or sympathizers. The Liberals, of course, have spent all week accusing the ... more »
What can I say about leadership?
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DavidAkin
on Sat 28 Apr 2007 08:22 AM EDT
The University of Guelph’s Centre for the Study of Leadership holds a conference next week for civil servants, academics and other experts in the field of leadership in the public service. I’ll be speaking to that group on Friday May 4. I’m spending the weekend trying to figure out what ... more »
Howard Dean would ban the press
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DavidAkin
on Sat 28 Apr 2007 08:03 AM EDT
The Associated Press reports that Howard Dean, the president of the Democratic Party, believes voters would be better off if reporters were banned from all-candidates meetings and unable, as result, to tell voters what candidates actually said.
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