After hearing his "professionalism" questioned by former subordinate Richard Colvin last week, David Mulroney sent a letter to the House of Commons Special Committee on the Mission in Afghanistan offering to testify to "set the record straight." That's no light offer from Mulroney as his current job is Ambassador to China. Mulroney, in fact, was en route, my sources tell me, from...
The Prime Minister's relations (or lack thereof) with the Ottawa press gallery has once again got the gallery worked up. The Toronto Star got all exercised after Mr. Harper gave a speech on Saturday extolling press freedom, then failed to take questions from reporters. (Note to Star: "Freedom of the press" isn't synonymous with having regular press conferences with the prime minister. Freedom...
Apparently, we -- the Canadian media travelling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week -- ruffled a few feathers during our three days here. Here is a review of our coverage written by Sarabjit Jagirdar and distributed by the Indo-Asian News Service: Even as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resolved to deepen bilateral ties, the Canadian media says...
James Bezan, the Conservative MP for the Manitoba riding of Selkirk Interlake, put up an online poll at his Web site . He wanted his Web site visitors to sound off on the record of his government, asking them: "Do you think Stephen Harper and the Conservative Government should be commended for doing a great job at managing our economy through the current fiscal crisis?" Something tells me...
Thousands of Twitter messages a day, hundreds of blog posts in Google Reader, folders full of research reports. Sound familiar? Being active in social media usually means being a glutton for information, regardless of the medium. If you’re a dyed-in-the wool knowledge addict, then I’ve got an event for you. Ignite – an event consisting of [...]
On the whole pretty well done. A delightfully succinct summary by Canwest News' David Akin at his blog: Soldiers got tanks but paperwork wasn’t filled out More from the Globe and Mail --the headline is misleading in their sensationalist fashion: Forces stumbled on purchasing National Defence moved quickly on several big deals for military trucks and vehicles, but at least one major purchase was...
An Ontario judge has approved a proposal by CanWest Global Communications Corp. (CGS-T0.24----%) to shift its flagship National Post newspaper to a subsidiary that contains the company's other newsprint assets, such as the Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen. Had this not gone through, the paper that budgies won't crap on, that dead fish refuse to be wrapped in, would have folded at the end of today....
Jamie Carroll, former Liberal party national director, today in National Post: While the party’s national director, Rocco Rossi, did a fantastic job of converting high poll numbers into big revenue, I’m willing to bet that as the polls have fallen, so has the revenue. David Akin tweet Friday afternoon: LPC Q3 Financials out: Raised $2.011m in 3 mos ending Sept 30. DOWN 50% Q/Q DOWN 3.2%...
Much-loved CTV journalist Rosemary Thompson leaves the Hill to join the National Arts Centre as their communications director. She held a farewell bash at Ottawa’s watering hole Brixton’s. Below is Thompson with her daughter Jasmine. Transport minister John Baird. NDP MP Peter Stoffer. Thompson with Canwest’s David Akin.
The other day, Canwest released a study of infrastructure spending that came with the "fairness" headline, no evidence that Conservative ridings were given favoritism. In reaction to that claim, I penned a post challenging the most basic of premise in that Canwest post. Besides David Akin (who I do respect, just disagree on this point) calling me a "dink", I thought my criticism...
The National Post newspaper will cease operations unless a Toronto court approves a new ownership structure for the paper by Friday, the paper's owners say. Hopefully David Akin lands on his feet.
As David Akin mentions here , Liberal researchers are distributing images which compare the colour schemes from Conservative Party web sites to current government Web sites. Guess what, they're the same! This apparently proves something, though I'm not sure what. Stephen Taylor, on his web sit e, notes this shocking coincidence and produced the photoshopped images below, complete with commentary....
David Akin bears witness to the bloodshed. I was the only reporter standing in the basement of the Centre Block when Custer and the rest were frogmarched into an interrogation room with their hands handcuffed behind their backs. I saw Custer myself with a line of blood running out of his mouth while he was in [...]
In case you were wondering what it’s like to be a true shoe-leather reporter on the Hill, David Akin has uploaded audio of the protest as heard from the press gallery, him running up a stairwell after the protesters and then the RCMP politely asking him to go elsewhere. [...]
Many, many weeks (months, really) after the Liberal opposition began hammering on the partisan distribution by the Conservatives of stimulus funding, and many weeks after several media organizations did their own studies which largely supported the Liberal contention, we've finally started to see some organized response from the government. The response comes in a CP story today , which reports Transport...
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