Just touched down in Toronto for the media lockup with Environment Minister John Baird. At that lockup Baird will detail the industrial regulations his government will ring in in order to lower Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 and halve emissions of other pollutants. This is ... 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 |
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Chretien for Yeltsin
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DavidAkin
on Wed 25 Apr 2007 08:00 AM EDT
Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien will lead the official Canadian group at former Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s funeral. This was put out by the Prime Minister’s Office last yesterday:
Tory Green plan leaked
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DavidAkin
on Wed 25 Apr 2007 07:53 AM EDT
Yesterday afternoon, at about 4:30, someone in Environment Minister John Baird’s office went to a fax machine, looked up the fax number for one of Baird’s offices, punched the number into the machine, and sent off some confidential documents containing elements of the Government’s green plan. But there was a ... more » Monday, April 23
Canada maintains G7 lead in broadband penetration
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on Mon 23 Apr 2007 09:33 PM EDT
Canada continues to be tops among the G7 group of industrialized nations when it comes to relative number of high-speed Internet connections in the country, according to the most recent stats released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD measured 23.8 broadband subscribers in Canada per ... more »
Roll up the Rim, Kandahar-style
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DavidAkin
on Mon 23 Apr 2007 04:28 PM EDT
Inside the OLO, at the new Globe and Mail
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DavidAkin
on Mon 23 Apr 2007 07:31 AM EDT
Our friends at The Globe and Mail — CTV and The Globe are owned by the same company — have a new look today for their print edition and their Web site has been expanded and tweaked. Over there, you’ll find Jane Taber’s look inside Stephane Dion’s Opposition Leader’s Office ... more »
Google accused of aiding "cultural genocide" in Tibet
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DavidAkin
on Mon 23 Apr 2007 05:53 AM EDT
My good friend Oxblood Ruffin, the top Canuck in that famous hacker outfit The Cult of the Dead Cow, posts an essay accusing search engine giant Google Inc. of aiding in the cultural genocide of Tibet and asking the Silicon Valley-based company to stand up to the ... more » Sunday, April 22
Baird on CTV's Question Period
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DavidAkin
on Sun 22 Apr 2007 08:40 PM EDT
On CTV's Question Period today, co-host Craig Oliver asked Environment Minister John Baird about his doom-and-gloom forecast if Canada commits to meeting its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol:
Oliver: Canadians can be forgiven if they don't know exactly who to believe on this issue. Disaster, if we do, disaster ... more » Saturday, April 21
A Conservative show of force
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DavidAkin
on Sat 21 Apr 2007 08:29 AM EDT
Earlier this week, Conservatives in Ottawa staged what I’d call a show of force — letting Ottawa know that, after 15 months of their minority government, that they’ve taken over the joint. On the same night at Ottawa landmark hotel, the Chateau Laurier, two dinners were held in banquet rooms ... more »
Montreal paper asks if it's green enough
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DavidAkin
on Sat 21 Apr 2007 07:50 AM EDT
Neat idea in The Montreal Gazette this morning. The newspaper looks at its own operation and grades itself on its own sustainability footprint. Reporter Marian Scott has a long piece inside the paper about her own paper and the newspaper business generally:
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The Tim Horton’s coffee shop on Kandahar Airfield is running its own version of the popular “Roll Up the Rim” contest. Here in Canada, the top prize is a Toyota Camry hybrid but for the troops in Afghanistan, the top prize is $1,000. There are five of those top prizes ... 
