Progressive (i.e. liberal) online-only outlets Talking Points Memo, Salon and Ebony are joining the White House Press Pool. The Huffington Post will soon join as well. It wasn't the Obama administration that approved their application to join this group; it was other reporters, through the White House Correspondents Association.
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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, October 31
Progressive blogger join White House press pool; Republicans raise eyebrows
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DavidAkin
on Sat 31 Oct 2009 07:55 PM EDT
Friday, October 30
Tories continue to dominate political financing
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DavidAkin
on Fri 30 Oct 2009 08:19 PM EDT
Canadians are putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to political preferences. Data published late Friday by Elections Canada show the Conservative Party of Canada continues to dominate its political rivals when it comes to fundraising, just as the party dominates its rivals in opinion polls. For the three-month period ending September 30 — a period when it appeared the country was headed for yet another general election — nearly 40,000 Canadians wrote a cheque for the Tories. The total value of their contributions was about $3.8 million. more »
Mike Weir, Buzz, Mansbridge and yer full list of Order of Canada recipients, ceremony next week
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DavidAkin
on Fri 30 Oct 2009 10:53 AM EDT
Governor General Michaelle Jean announced the list this morning of those who will receive next Thursday Canada's highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada. The order was created in 1967 and, since then more than 5,000 noteworthy Canadians have received it. This time around, Jean is lifting three exceptional types from the Officer class up to the top spot -- the Companion. The ceremony honouring the 3 new companions, 11 new officers, and 21 new members will be held at Rideau Hall in Ottawa next Thursday morning. more »
Top Headlines for Fri Oct 30 plus Parliamentary Datebook
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DavidAkin
on Fri 30 Oct 2009 08:59 AM EDT
N1, the Olympic Torch, and 58-year-old politician who fights off carjackers: Listen to my three-minute audio summary of leading front page headlines plus highlights from Friday's Parliamentary daybook by clicking on the link below. more »Thursday, October 29
Khadr, H1N1 top front pages + Parliamentary daybook for Thursday
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DavidAkin
on Thu 29 Oct 2009 07:02 AM EDT
An exclusive on the Omar Khadr story and lots of H1N1 news: Listen to my three audio summary of leading front page headlines plus highlights from Thursday's Parliamentary daybook by clicking on the link below. You can also get these audio summaries via podcast from iTunes or via an RSS feed by subscribing to my AudioBoo stream. Both the iTunes link and the RSS link are at my profile at AudioBoo.fm. more »Wednesday, October 28
Jack Layton decries "sexist" heckling from Conservatives in the Commons
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DavidAkin
on Wed 28 Oct 2009 04:47 PM EDT
As a parliamentarian, as a man, a father, a grandfather, I call on the government's leadership to really get a grip on its members and set a higher standard. more »
Integrity of lobbying watchdog threatened by PMO: Opposition
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DavidAkin
on Wed 28 Oct 2009 07:32 AM EDT
Opposition politicians accused officials in the Prime Minister's Office of threatening the integrity of the independent Commissioner of Lobbying, in the wake of revelations that the watchdog was investigating a lobbyist firm with close connections to senior Ottawa Conservatives. more »
Top newspaper headlines and your Parliamentary daybook for Wednesday
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DavidAkin
on Wed 28 Oct 2009 07:29 AM EDT
A Canadian terrorism suspect and lots of H1N1 concerns -- Get my three-and-a-half-minute audio summary of leading front page headlines plus highlights from Wednesday's Parliamentary daybook by clicking on the link below. You can get these summaries via podcast from iTunes incidentally by subscribing to my AudioBoo stream. You can also get an RSS feed for my audio updates. Both the iTunes link and the RSS link are at my profile at AudioBoo.fm. Look under my picture on the left hand side of the page.
Tuesday, October 27
Happy birthday National Post - from a day-oner back on page C13
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DavidAkin
on Tue 27 Oct 2009 11:17 PM EDT
I was a day-oner at National Post, which celebrated its 11th anniversary today. Actually I wasn't so much a day-oner as a day-minus-121'er. My first day in the only newsroom the Post has ever known, in Don Mills in Toronto's northeast end, was in mid-summer four months or so ... more »
The Colours of (Stephen Harper's) Canada: That would be Pantone #333399
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DavidAkin
on Tue 27 Oct 2009 01:43 PM EDT
Liberal researches are distributing the following images, which I pass along without comment, other than to say the top image compares covers of the printed copy of the Governor General's Throne Speech to the cover of the Conservative Party platform document from the last election. The bottom compares colour schemes ... more »
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