David Akin  Verified account

@davidakin

Chief Political Correspondent. Global News. My office is in Ottawa, Canada but I work wherever.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Joined January 2008
Born May 10

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    How the COVID-19 app works: Fed govt explains: Privacy fighter & law prof explains: Privacy Commissioners give it 👍

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  2. in Ottawa: Immigration Min and Women and Gender Equality Min speak about the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot program.

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  3. in Carp, ON: Infrastructure Min and MP make an infrastructure funding announcement.

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  4. in Ottawa: International Trade Min speaks to the Economic Club of Canada.

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  5. My clippings newsletter for Dec 14

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  6. Lots of MPs , including , on my IG feed has posted up up this shot with near identical messaging.

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  7. Probably want that list right next to the names of the several hundred Torontonians that died since the start of the pandemic.

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  8. Wow. We did not lose! (In terms that means we won!)

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  9. 10 hours ago
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  10. 13 hours ago

    Our officers welcomed a special delivery this evening. The Pfizer vaccine will soon be ready for frontline workers & those most vulnerable to this virus.

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  12. Ah: there’s the clarification from the minister.

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  13. Kinda got to agree with Jacqui here . Other ministers tweeted the same pics with the same misleading info. Pfizer vaccines, Pfizer says, are coming to Canada on UPS planes.

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  14. Unless this jackwagon is Aboriginal, he’s a generation or two away from a being ‘foreigner’ himself. An irony of which he and folks who think like this seem blissfully unaware. His comments are unworthy of the place in which he is lucky to live.

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  15. 12 hours ago

    Indefensible shit. Completely and utterly indefensible. Selfish, out of touch, amoral.

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  16. And here I was worried about the Buffalo defence. Defence: keep it up. And someone want to wake up the offence?

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  17. Welcoming the 1st to 🇨🇦 tonight! The 1st 30K doses of are arriving across the country tonight & tomorrow ➡️ initial deliveries of 🇨🇦’s 20M doses of this vaccine. While we have a long way to go, this marks the beginning of our bridge to recovery.

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  18. No disrespect to Thérèse but this question is one every national news network has been addressing every day fir the last week. Canada: your legacy media has these answers. Please pay attention and help save lives.

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  19. This is good news. But our fight against COVID-19 is not over. Now more than ever, let’s keep up our vigilance. Keep wearing your masks, washing your hands, avoiding gatherings, and using . Download it here:

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  20. The first batch of doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada.

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  21. Right then ..

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