My favourite unofficial pipeline to the Prime Minister’s Office — and I write that with tongue firmly-in-cheek — reports that Facebook has been banned by someone — the reporter here does not say who — within senior federal Conservative ranks. As a result, if you are an “exempt staff” for ... 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 |
Thursday, May 24
Drugs were promised. None were delivered.
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DavidAkin
on Thu 24 May 2007 10:50 PM EDT
In 2005, Canada fiddled with its patent laws so that developing countries — the reform initiative was called the “Jean Chretien Pledge To Africa Act” — could get cheap access to drugs that could help fight AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases. Since the passage of the “Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime” ... more »
Harper tops burger poll
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DavidAkin
on Thu 24 May 2007 03:18 PM EDT
Apparently it is or was National Hamburger Day and, to celebrate, the pollsters at Ipsos-Reid have found that more Canadians would like to sit down and have a burger with Stephen Harper than any other federal political leader: Ipsos asked 1,000 Canadians “Which of the following would you be most ... more »
Dion thanks his Facebook friends
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DavidAkin
on Thu 24 May 2007 02:53 PM EDT
Those of you on Facebook — I’m one! — likely know that the Prime Minister, Stephane Dion, Jack Layton, and Gilles Duceppe are all Facebook users. And, for those who are counting, Dion leads the way with 7,819 Facebook friends, Layton has 3,082, and Harper has 2,390. Duceppe is the last federal ... more »
Dear Donald ...
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DavidAkin
on Thu 24 May 2007 02:24 PM EDT
For those of you following along at the Conrad Black fraud trial in Chicago, here is some evidence put on the record yesterday by the prosecution. It’s an e-mail from Black to his friend Donald Trump:
UK government adopts climate change policy rules
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DavidAkin
on Thu 24 May 2007 10:29 AM EDT
The British government today announced some guidelines and recommendations it believes will help the UK government as it embarks on new regulatory regimes to address issues of climate change. The government was moved to do this in response to a report submitted to it by the Better Regulation Commission (BRC)... more » |
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