|
|||||
|
Info/Contact for David Akin
Search this blog:
Login
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, July 5
A Conservative spending spree?
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 05 Jul 2007 07:50 PM EDT
When Parliament officially broke for the summer on June 21, I had a hunch that the government’s game plan would include a summer where various ministers made themselves as visible as possible in order to shore up some flagging political support in certain regions of the country. And indeed, in ... more »
Another Liberal calls it a day
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 05 Jul 2007 07:28 PM EDT
Vancouver-Quadra MP Stephen Owen has decided to leave politics. Here’s the announcement from his party’s leader:
Following the money: Party financial returns
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 05 Jul 2007 05:13 PM EDT
The once mighty Liberal machine looked mighty ordinary from a financial standpoint in 2006. Elections Canada just released the 2006 annual financial returns for the major parties and, according to those returns, just 24,967 Canadians donated any money to Liberal party last year. By comparison, more than 25,000 Canadians kicked ... more »
It's allowance time
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 05 Jul 2007 03:49 PM EDT
Canada’s federal political parties will soon get their quarterly allowance from the Canadian taxpayer. Elections Canada announced today that cheques have been drawn up for the second quarter. Each federal political party that garners at least two per cent of all votes cast in a general election or at least five ... more » |
Recent Comments
This Month
Month Archive
|
|||
|
|||||
