The Washington Post today looks back at more than a 100 years of Bisphenol A, the chemical recently labelled as a a possible problem by Health Canada (a big victory for environmental activists; a bitter defeat for industry types).... My government, which, above all else seems to want to be prudent, says: "The scientists concluded in this assessment that bisphenol A exposure to newborns and infants is below levels that may pose a risk, however, the gap between exposure and effect is not large enough."
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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 |
Sunday, April 27
Harper's a "control freak", former Tory PM says ...
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DavidAkin
on Sun 27 Apr 2008 10:40 PM EDT
Still, she's a pretty smart cookie if politically, er, unlucky. And she tells Canwest's man in Paris that Harper is "very controlling" but "competent": PARIS - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is running a competent government but should curb his "control freak" tendencies and make clear to Canadians his government won't impose a socially conservative agenda if he wins a majority, according to former prime minister Kim Campbell... more »
PR, journalism, ethics and Joe Thornley
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DavidAkin
on Sun 27 Apr 2008 11:55 AM EDT
They not only know stuff about the clients they represent but they know a lot of stuff about their competitors and about the industry they're in. If I'm looking to sniff out a rumour, let's say, about an airline company, the PR folks at that airline company are unlikely to tell me much.... The good ones know that relationships they establish with a journalist should outlast whatever client they're representating or whatever project their office is involved in. Which brings me to Joe Thornley of the public relations firm Thornley Fallis. more »
Must read: A reporter is jailed in Zimbabwe
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DavidAkin
on Sun 27 Apr 2008 07:27 AM EDT
Barry Bearak has been reporting for The New York Times from Zimbabwe's capital Harare.... His account of the arrest is fascinating: One of my captors, Detective Inspector Dani Rangwani, described the offense to me as something despicable, almost hissing the words: “You’ve been gathering, processing and disseminating the news.” more »
Iggy, Campaign Finance, and Obama
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DavidAkin
on Sun 27 Apr 2008 07:03 AM EDT
This line in his speech jumped out: In 2006, we ran a national leadership campaign in the world’s second largest democracy—by geographic size—for a little over 2 million dollars, and we did it with a wider base of donors than any other candidate.... The campaign finance reforms initiated first by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and then improved upon by Prime Minister Stephen Harper prove that it is possible to have a vibrant and democratic political culture, in which free speech rights are preserved, without the distorting effects of "Big Money" in the life of the state. more »
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