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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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Thursday, May 10
McGuinty on green leaker
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 04:45 PM EDT
Green plan leaker says government is a "bully"
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 04:31 PM EDT
Remarkable development in the “Green leak” story this afternoon. The Environment Canada employee that was arrested by the RCMP was not charged with any crime and, this afternoon on Parliament Hill, held a press conference. Here’s the report from The Canadian Press:
Julian tries to oust Benoit -- again
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 04:15 PM EDT
I’m in Chicago covering Conrad Black’s trials but some political staffers have sent me messages to say that the Conservatives today are filibustering and putting up procedural roadblocks at various House of Commons committees meeting today. Then, on Facebook, Liberal MP Mark Holland publishes the following account of today’s meeting ... more »
The cost of wars through the ages
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 10:38 AM EDT
Together, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have just become the second costliest in US history (as absolute dollars, not percentage of GDP). Taylor Owen » Blog Archive » Wanna buy a war?. more »
The Green leak
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 07:48 AM EDT
You may have heard yesterday that the RCMP arrested and charged a federal government employee of Environment Canada for allegedly leaking drafts of what would be the government’s clean air plan. Here’s a roundup of reaction from various politicians after Question Period yesterday. The questions are being put to ... more »
A Liberal's anti-abortion bill
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DavidAkin
on Thu 10 May 2007 07:21 AM EDT
In the last election campaign, Prime Minister Paul Martin spent the last few days of the campaign suggesting that a Harper government would move to restrict abortion access rights. Harper, for his part, said the grassroots ofhis party had voted in March, 2005 to preserve the status quo ... more » |
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Here’s Liberal Environment Critic David McGuinty (left) responding to today’s developments in the “Green Leak” affair. He is being questioned by several different reporters from different news organizations in a scrum in the House of Commons lobby after Question Period today:
