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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, September 29
If we told you, we'd have to kill you ...
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DavidAkin
on Sat 29 Sep 2007 05:28 PM EDT
I don't think we have anything like this in Canada but, of course, I'm in the The Media so no one would be allowed to tell me anyway. We're talking about the Council for National Policy, which is meeting this weekend in Utah. Our very own Stephen Harper was a ... more »
The goalie is Dennis Kemp
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DavidAkin
on Sat 29 Sep 2007 09:06 AM EDT
 Artist Ken Danby, as you may have heard, died this past week of an apparent heart attack while canoeing in Algonquin Park. As soon as I learned of his death, I thought of his son, Sean. The Danbys, at the time, lived just outside of Guelph, Ont., where I grew ... more » Thursday, September 27
Tories slash debt; Liberals would have slashed taxes ...
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DavidAkin
on Thu 27 Sep 2007 03:40 PM EDT
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today that his government is using the giant-sized fiscal surplus to pay down the national debt. In turn, Canada will not need as much money from taxpayers to pay the interest on the debt that's being retired. And, as his Finance Minister promised last fall... more »
There are 33 million of us!
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DavidAkin
on Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:25 AM EDT
Statscan this morning published the latest population estimates for the country. The agency believes that, at July 1 of this year, Canada could count 32,967,000 citizens, which is about one per cent more than the same point last year.
Alberta's population is growing fastest at 3.1 per cent year-over-year while ... more » Wednesday, September 26
$10B for Facebook?
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 09:40 PM EDT
News item: Microsoft take a stake in Facebook. Microsoft's rumoured investment -- the companies aren't talking -- would value the social networking site at $10-billion US. (Or, come to think of it, $10-billion Canadian ... hey, I'm takin' the loonie out for a walk while I can! ... more »
BC towns say they'll be 'carbon neutral' in five years
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:29 PM EDT
 Gosh, don't these yokels in B.C. know they're liable to bankrupt themselves???!! B.C. COMMUNITIES COMMIT TO CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2012
"And don’t even get me started on Facebook, the last circle of hell..."
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:05 PM EDT
Andrew O'Hagan -- whose books I keep meaning to read ... has a delightful (and short!) essay in the London Review of Books:
My name’s Andrew, and I’m a reachaholic . . .
Media Cherry Picking
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 05:15 PM EDT
Substitute "PMO" for "White House" and "Prime Minister Harper" for "President Bush" and you have, in Dan Froomkin's Washington Post column, a pretty interesting column for Canadian readers:
How much control should the White House have over who gets to interview President Bush? Specifically, should Bush be able to ... more »
More data on the dollar and jobs
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DavidAkin
on Wed 26 Sep 2007 11:03 AM EDT
Just because I'm one of those geeks that likes to fool around with a spreadsheet, here's some more data on job creation in Canada during the last five years, a period in which the loonie's value has soared compared to the currency of our biggest trading partner, the U.S.
Tuesday, September 25
Flanagan: Would PM get fair treatment from G-G?
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DavidAkin
on Tue 25 Sep 2007 02:23 PM EDT
 Hot on the heels of his new book, Harper's Team, the former chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper says that not only are the courts and the bureaucracy stacked with Liberals who would work against an aggressive Conservative agenda, but the Queen's representative in Canada is also ... more »
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