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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, May 23
Olberman: Why Sen. Clinton was wrong, a remarkable rant
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DavidAkin
on Fri 23 May 2008 11:11 PM EDT
 Earlier today, Senator Hillary Clinton referenced Bobby Kennedy's assassination in June 1968 -- and it wasn't the first time she's brought this up in the campaign ... This time, though, reporters asked her, considering the death threats made against her and her opponent in the race to win the Democratic primary, if she thought it appropriate to reference that event: MSNBC's Keith Olberman, in a remarkable 10-minute long rant, tells Sen. Clinton that she was most definitely wrong .. more »
Dialing up Washington ...
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DavidAkin
on Fri 23 May 2008 03:37 PM EDT
Here's a summary of that call, as provided by the Prime Minister's Office: The call lasted roughly 15 minutes.... Prime Minister Harper also discussed his upcoming trip to Europe with the President and that he would be meeting with the G8 European leaders - President Sarkozy, Chancellor Merkel, Prime Minister Berlusconi and Prime Minister Brown - in advance of the G8 summit to discuss key issues. Leaders also discussed the latest developments Middle East in advance of the Prime Minister's upcoming trip. more »
So tell me again: Why did we spend $3.4-billion on these things?
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DavidAkin
on Fri 23 May 2008 10:08 AM EDT
 Not that I'm taking a triumphalist turn or anything, but I note this morning that, despite the press release from the federal government trumpeting the fact that Canada's fresh new C-17 fleet was just the tool we needed to help in places like Burma, our fresh new C-17 fleet was not able to do so.... As a result, we turned to the Russians, as we often have in the past, to get our aid where it had to go on time and they were able to respond, as they often have in the past, as fast as if we owned the plane ourselves.... more »
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