David Akin
Chief Political Correspondent
Award-winning journalist David Akin is the Chief Political Correspondent for Global News where he leads coverage of Canadian federal and provincial electoral politics. Akin has covered seven federal elections and more than two dozen provincial elections. He has reported from several G7, G20, NATO and other international summits of heads of government. He has been his news organization’s lead reporter on every federal budget tabled since 2006.
His work is featured on Global National, on Global News programs across the country, on Corus Radio stations and at Globalnews.ca.
Akin is the recepient of both a National Newspaper Award and a Gemini Award (now known as the Canadian Screen Awards) for his political reporting.
Akin was born in Montreal and studied history at the University of Guelph. He lives near Ottawa where he enjoys cross-country skiing, canoeing, and collecting Canadian stamps.
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Canadian MP says Israeli soldiers shoved her as delegation denied entryIn interviews with Global News, members of the 30-person delegation said they were not given an official reason for being denied entry into Israel and the West Bank.WorldDec 16
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Carney protegé eyed to succeed Hillman as Canada’s U.S. ambassador: sourcesKirsten Hillman, who became ambassador in 2020, has helped lead the on-and-off, sometimes tense negotiations for a new trade deal with the Trump administration this year.PoliticsDec 9
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ANALYSIS: NDP leadership hopefuls reckon with oil and gas workers – and their votesThe federal NDP will select its new leader on March 29 and a key issue as they decide who to pick is how to develop -- or not develop -- the country's oil and gas resources.PoliticsDec 7
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Carney government survives first confidence vote over budgetThe NDP, Bloc Quebecois and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May voted with the minority Liberals to defeat a Conservative sub-amendment to the budget in the House of Commons.PoliticsNov 6
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Foreign minister ‘looking into’ how Canadian firearms got to RussiaAnita Anand responded after Global News reported that Russian snipers were using Canadian-made rifles.CanadaOct 30
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Development agencies welcome new ministers with defence of their budgetsBureaucrats who run federal economic development agencies seem keen to defend their ability to hand out more than $1.3 billion a year to small and medium-sized businesses.CanadaSep 21
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Elections Canada: 2025 election went smoothly — with 2 Quebec hiccupsCanada's chief electoral officer says overall voter turnout in the spring election was 69 per cent, higher than 2021, and that advance voter turnout hit an all-time high.PoliticsSep 15
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Ipsos poll: With MPs returning, Carney government has decade-high approvalCanadians appear ready to give the Carney government the benefit of the doubt. But new polling shows the Liberals have some vulnerabilities on affordability and cost of housing.PoliticsSep 13
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Internal PMO polls show huge support for major hydro, road, port projectsEven a majority of Quebecers support new oil and gas pipelines while most Canadians say environmental reviews simply take too long.PoliticsSep 4
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A look at Mark Carney’s priorities as he visits Poland, Germany and LatviaPoland is Europe's fastest-growing economy and while Prime Minister Mark Carney is there, he is expected to sign a strategic partnership on energy and security.CanadaAug 23
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Threats of political violence rose rapidly through the Trudeau years, new data showsTwo-thirds of death threats were aimed at Justin Trudeau -- but Catherine McKenna, Chrystia Freeland and Steven Guilbeault also received multiple death threats from 2019 to 2024.PoliticsJul 18
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Carney arrives in Alberta for G7 summit with Trump meeting 1st on agendaThe sit-down, expected to focus on a new Canada-U.S. trade and security deal, comes after Carney met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Ottawa ahead of the summit.PoliticsJun 15
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Carney says record trade deficit shows his plan is the ‘right strategy’Statistics Canada reports the trade deficit in April hit a record high at $7.1 billion, following a $2.3 billion reading in March, amid U.S. tariffs and a drop in exports.EconomyJun 5
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Just before the election, Liberals handed out 411 cheques worth $3.86BDuring the last Parliament Global News tracked more than 20,000 spending announcements worth $110 billion combined, some of which appeared to support the Liberals' political goals.PoliticsJun 2
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Carney government tables $486 billion spending plan with few detailsThe government's spending plan for the current fiscal year does not yet include $24 billion in spending commitments the Liberals promised during the election campaign.PoliticsMay 29
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In briefing to minister, RCMP warns of 488% jump in terrorism chargesPartly due to youth radicalization, violent extremism remains 'a prominent national security threat,' RCMP says.CanadaMay 23
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Trudeau advised to focus on the economy ahead of 2024 Trump Mar-a-Lago dinnerSenior bureaucrats hastily began assembling talking points for Justin Trudeau just hours before his Nov. 29, 2024, meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Global News has learned.PoliticsMay 5
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Conservative MP threatened with eviction notice from taxpayer-subsidized apartmentDocument suggests that Larry Brock, who has harried Liberals over alleged ethics violations, did not notify the ethics commissioner of his financial liabilities.CanadaApr 22
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ANALYSIS: Voters surge to advance polls for a most ‘consequential’ electionConservatives tend to outperform in advance polls versus election day. But in this "consequential" election, those in NDP and Liberal strongholds endured long lineups to vote.PoliticsApr 20
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Can’t do ‘CSIS background checks’ on donors, Poilievre responds to ‘friends’ of Modi reportA Global News report shows the founders of an organization set up to elect Prime Minister Narendra Modi had helped finance Poilievre's leadership bid.CanadaApr 9
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Liberals have ‘ways to go’ in Alberta as Carney vows ‘positive change’Prime Minister Mark Carney will make the federal election call to avoid facing the required return of a prorogued Parliament on Monday.CanadaMar 20
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Then there were five: Liberal race narrows with Carney the choice of caucusThe only Indigenous candidate in the Liberal leadership race, Jaime Battiste, has exited, in support of Mark Carney who will face reporters in Halifax Friday.PoliticsJan 30
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Canadians overwhelmingly support retaliation to Trump tariffs: pollNew polling provided exclusively to Global News says 82 per cent of Canadians believe Trump's tariffs should be met with Canadian tariffs on American goods.PoliticsJan 20
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Karina Gould set to enter Liberal leadership race: sourceThe 37-year-old MP has served in government since 2015 when she was one of the many newly-elected Liberals when the party was swept into power with a majority.CanadaJan 14
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Mark Carney makes his leadership pitch to a skeptical Liberal caucusLiberal MPs speak admiringly of the former central bank governor but many wonder if Mark Carney has the political chops to reverse their fortunes.PoliticsJan 5