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 »
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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 |
Friday, February 8
My thoughts about "The Changing Landscape of Canadian Media"
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DavidAkin
on Fri 08 Feb 2008 05:07 PM EST
At International Trade, paperwork makes the world go around
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DavidAkin
on Fri 08 Feb 2008 04:15 PM EST
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 »
I'm on a panel: Reporting on Parliament Hill
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DavidAkin
on Fri 08 Feb 2008 03:10 PM EST
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:
The Afghanistan motion: "There are things to talk about here", says Ignatieff
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DavidAkin
on Fri 08 Feb 2008 02:24 PM EST
"..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 »
Therefore, we should stay in Afghanistan
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DavidAkin
on Fri 08 Feb 2008 10:25 AM EST
"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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