Errata, observations and working notes
from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  My thoughts about "The Changing Landscape of Canadian Media"

The folks at Canada Newswire have asked me to make a presentation that looks at how communications and public relations professionals can mesh with today’s newsrooms, where writers, editors, reporters, and producers have more deadlines and there is a greater emphasis on delivering content across multiple platforms (to use the ...   more »

View Article  At International Trade, paperwork makes the world go around

Every federal minister has a group of bureaucrats that work to produce and co-ordinate the paperwork that the Minister must deal with and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is no different. When David Emerson was sworn in as Minister of International Trade, he was given the lowdown on ...   more »

View Article  I'm on a panel: Reporting on Parliament Hill

Later this month, I and two of my esteemed Parliamentary Press Gallery colleagues, will be participating on a panel discussion here in Ottawa. Here’s the blurb from the panel organizers:

News gathering on Parliament Hill has undergone a revolution over the last decade. The explosion of the internet and wireless communications ...   more »

View Article  The Afghanistan motion: "There are things to talk about here", says Ignatieff
"..it is my view that there are things to talk about here. Canadians I think have said this for weeks. They don't want an election on Afghanistan. We don't either because I feel, as a patriotic Canadian, very uneasy about going to the country while we've got troops in the field. And I implore the government to reflect and understand that."   more »
View Article  Therefore, we should stay in Afghanistan
"Therefore, the House supports the continuation of Canada's current responsibility for security in Kandahar beyond February 2009, to the end of 2011, in a manner fully consistent with the UN mandate on Afghanistan, but with increasing emphasis on training the Afghan National Security Forces expeditiously to take increasing responsibility for security in Kandahar and Afghanistan as a whole ...."   more »
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