David Akin is a Canadian reporter, currently the chief political correspondent for

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. Akin's career began in 1993 with ''The Packet and Times'' in Orillia,

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, as the paper's city hall reporter. In 1995, he moved to ''The Chronicle Journal'' in

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, where he worked as a senior reporter and joined ''

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'' and then the ''

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'', followed by ''

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''. From 2001 to 2008, Akin was a parliamentary correspondent for

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before joining

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(now known as

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) as a national affairs correspondent. At CTV, Akin won a Gemini Award for his reporting. ''

'' reported that he resigned from Canwest on June 10, 2010, to become the first reporter for Sun Media's new all news cable service. From 2011 to 2015, he was the national bureau chief for Sun Media and the

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and hosted ''The Daily Brief'' and later, the hour-long show ''Battleground''. He was briefly a freelance reporter after the demise of the channel before returning to the Sun chain, following its acquisition by

, as parliamentary bureau chief and sole member of the chain's Parliamentary bureau. In February 2010, Akin reported, as fact, a rumor that

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had died. On September 13, 2022, Akin heckled newly-elected leader of the Official Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, with profanity, as he attempted to hold his first press conference.

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