Daily Digest August 27, 2007

The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN’S to VICTORIA.

N.S. coalition say Quebec undercover cops create 'chill' on public demonstrations
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/08/27/4449936-cp.html

Thugs with placards a threat to rights
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=09e3eb3c-d8cc-43e1-a443-793ff2ff5293

Jelly-bean diplomacy: Bush, Harper parry suspicions
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/96461.html

EDITORIALs

CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN - Energetic debate about value of wind print this article Government has to get the most it can from the Island's only power source.
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=57470&sc=103

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD - High-speed slow to come
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/855659.html

MONTREAL GAZETTE - The stupidity of agents' provocation
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=504c84bc-a51b-402c-b7b9-911a82438ee2
Foreign investment is healthy
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=56f54359-ea05-4b1a-b1e7-30b34241a4a5

OTTAWA CITIZEN - Compensation at any cost
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=e613ab2d-dbde-4c95-bcd3-e01c26c2fe25

TORONTO STAR - Urgent need to fix funding formula
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/249638
CIA's terror blunders http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/249636

NATIONAL POST - Harper has nothing to fear
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=fe06269d-7f79-45c2-ae3e-ef8379a93824

TORONTO SUN - No toying around with China
http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Commentary/2007/08/26/4448909.html

K-W RECORD - Tories are weak on Kyoto plans
http://www.therecord.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=dd40742c3dbf58b6&pagename=record/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1188198946060&call_pageid=1024321927354&col=1024322198380

WINDSOR STAR - Truth in public accounting
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=c24f7756-fb1c-4aba-97d3-94b123d9b282

SUDBURY STAR - Web of propaganda; McGuinty's website breaches his pledge not to use public funds for promotion
http://www.thesudburystar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=669120&catname=Editorial&classif=
Pharmacists can do more
http://www.thesudburystar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=669117&catname=Editorial&classif=

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - Dispensing power
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4029079p-4640166c.html
A skilled army
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4029075p-4640111c.html

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX - Charest shows true leadership on Afghan role
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=4fb779f2-9fca-45df-85ad-fccd195814cd

CALGARY HERALD - Hebron deal oils the future Danny Williams, consortium both get want they want
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=3bbabb60-a1e4-49cf-9bb5-023b05c84e9d

GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE - A Tory free-fall But will poll numbers translate to the ballot?
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/Editorial/333849.html

VANCOUVER SUN - Corporate culture runs up against the reality of work-life balance
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=8f5a44e3-5b74-4b56-8be8-0d30efbfb574

VANCOUVER PROVINCE - Education with real purpose in life is a welcome trend
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=21f8b015-4563-424c-ae26-63b80e205285

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST - Campaign should pass on pot
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=c3fb5a13-8ccc-4000-8ae0-7e62cabc4a85

ISSUES ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS Skepticism greets land-claims tribunal Focus groups question whether gov't promises will result in real progress
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=af5a7059-54bc-487f-b302-d43241fda4b6

CANADIAN FORCES Canadian military focuses on handover to Afghans
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=6f9ad032-e7e4-44bd-9a7e-29728bd3a25f
Journalists must now wear dogtags in Afghanistan
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070827/journalists_afghanistan_070827/20070827?hub=Canada
Afghan opium production explodes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070827.wpoppy0827/BNStory/International/home

CANUSA/USACAN

U.S. Steel agrees to buy Stelco
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070827/stelco_deal_070827/20070827?hub=Canada

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

Alter CPP to penalize early retirees: experts
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4fb768b9-26c9-4d69-8339-a6cd2cb11c9c
Alberta boom puts new pressure on ranchers
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/08/27/bse-alberta.html

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

China says U.S. also to blame for toy safety scares
http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=92352627-f01c-4236-aadb-aa23389ddaac&k=60079

The KGB mentality is back The Russian bear has returned wearing a snarl and designer sunglasses
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=6522d65c-5a05-4783-ae67-c73988d8e83f

HEALTH CARE RELATED

Self-testing could identify marginalized women with high-risk HPV: study
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/08/27/4450415-cp.html

JUSTICE SYSTEM

Special Section

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=7e84c675-1db1-450b-ac55-f7c35fd64a6d >Court system becoming open to boost public learning, trust

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=4f99f88a-77cb-4330-9c06-da8e3f7519e4 >Day in the life of a judge is anything but average

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=901e2d61-18b9-4c01-9084-6d6dd849b0fb >Buggies and canoes brought justice north

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=e565ff7d-2ef2-4fea-8d84-48ec7c9bb607 >Calgary enters QB's second century with eye-catching courthouse

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=5067d05a-e8e5-4d36-a2d8-4af42b5b8f6d >Landmark Alberta Charter case requires all vital evidence be shared with defence

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=83991575-615a-402e-a182-f65b68025e39 >Judge has well-stocked toolkit for deciding sentences

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=0de7cb53-e43d-4ec6-ba8e-7e2515387d9d >Common sense judicial dispute resolution process saves time, money

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=722d0ec3-9d17-4e39-8120-4804b66f8fc6 >Tooth fairy vs. dose of reality

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=4cb7cc8d-da3b-4285-8866-bb477bd23017 >From lonely perch to equal presence: Women take their place on the bench

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a93f446d-712f-43f9-9b10-81fccd8e72c5 >Alberta the national leader in innovative family law judgments and programs

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a1ba5e7f-4016-4f6b-92ee-d108cb1fc762 >The court of Queen's bench at 100

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=990091bb-4a01-44ef-b730-b53e8cbaa32f >Judges happy to throw the book at students

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=38c080a0-961e-4124-b317-5bcaaaf37707 >Electronic revolution reaches the courtroom

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=5a5b12e4-1e41-488d-9dc9-2429fb307f99 >The Court of Queen's Bench at 100

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=18fc42b1-0394-4aa9-9ee6-dc2157ece171 >Role of the chief justice has changed dramatically over the last 100 years

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=7868acdd-5616-41ea-a7b7-752283a4c3b8 >Independence crucial to a democratic society

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=07c8b024-abdb-41bf-af6a-a42122b712f9 >Seriousness, category of offence determine jurisdiction

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=653c6b5e-c3a7-4508-9207-a78e50b26f95 >So sayeth 'The Chief'

POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES

Tory bristles at comparisons to Mike Harris
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/250277

Quebec's accommodation commission faces a bumpy ride
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=1a52248c-5fcb-48bd-a8b1-92371863753a

Veronica Lacey . Public education for all
While the current debate is over funding for faith-based schools, Ontario's public education system itself should be meeting the needs of our growing urban ethnic enclaves
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=b647434a-3d16-4301-8438-0249245fa505

POLITICS

Tories could capitalize on soft Liberal vote: poll
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070827/strategic_counsel_070827/20070827?hub=Canada

Dion forced to defend previous opposition to offshore deals for N.L. and N.S.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/08/27/4450146-cp.html

Dion down East to shake Tory votes free
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070827.wdionwill0827/BNStory/National/home

Harper speech avoids mention of mission Address in Quebec portrays Tories as champions of unity
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=73e1f1e9-174a-4547-8324-7ded93777376 <http://news.google.com/news?ned=ca&ncl=1119813996&hl=en&topic=n>all 44 news articles »

NDP will make blue-green algae problem a top priority, Layton says
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3493c159-f837-43af-8bcb-6ada175c933f

Tories say Conservative Party delay in recall avoids Question Period
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/08/27/01725.html

PROGRAMMES

Government will decide this week future of Wheat Board challenge: Minister
http://www.recorder.ca/cp/National/070827/n082767A.html

DND relents, releases once-public information it kept secret Equipment costs withheld for a year; critic says situation is worse under Tories
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=d14f2432-4a7a-4fff-962c-987d7cbe6e11

PRESSURE POINTS

Poor nations lose
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=2659c415-a2b5-4a5e-bab7-965eb6da0dbc

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Development_Mechanism

Energy Alberta seeks OK for nuclear power plant OPINION AND INFORMATION Minorities avoid the fight
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Worthington_Peter/2007/08/27/4449633-sun.php

Partisanship can't be regulated
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=49de3e34-3504-44e1-a461-6e1a2892ea84

Liberal policies are taking their toll
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=42330da9-038e-42c4-9d6f-bf96bc48efe8

P.E.I. can teach Ontario about electoral reform
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/250100

Poll results can prove whatever we want them to
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=18a07974-807f-47bb-86e1-a79dcd734504

The problem with prostitution
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=d52f1b6c-3839-42a6-b2ee-f77ca462de6f

The path to school success is paved with partnership
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=9f4314e8-548d-4d52-9626-69813677701d

Just say 'No' to panhandling for the benefit of everyone
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=86cc577b-4bde-457d-9e5d-3dd9c0a3ae74

Ingestion of lead threatens waterfowl, birds of prey
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=2a544d50-ee83-4808-8430-71a11f8b2eda

Article bordered on hatred
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=4eee2df4-a827-4a0d-909f-50ac5de455cc

Afghanistan debate not helped by ludicrous analogies
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/855717.html

INFOS

Dion promet de respecter l'entente
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2007/08/27/002-dion-accord-atlantique.shtml

Québec s'adressera à la Cour d'appel
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2007/08/27/002-Loi-104-Cour-appel.shtml

Stelco passe à l'étranger
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Economie-Affaires/2007/08/27/001-stelco-us-steel-achat.shtml

Une marche pour honorer la loi 101
http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/08/27/154745.html

Voir aussi * <
http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/08/27/154695.html

Libre-Opinion: Les trente ans de la loi 101: entre fierté et colère *
http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/08/27/154701.html

Où est le problème? *
http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/08/27/154738.html

La Loi 101 a été un instrument primordial, affirme la ministre St-Pierre Assemblée partisane conservatrice à Victoriaville - Harper ne fait aucune mention des plus récentes victimes du 22e Régiment
http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/08/27/154721.html

Layton veut que le surplus budgétaire soit investi dans les infrastructures
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/070827/N0827128U.html

Les producteurs laitiers veulent la souveraineté alimentaire du Québec
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/070827/N082798U.html

Projet de loi du NPD pour contrer les algues bleues
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070827/CPACTUALITES/70827006/1025/FRONTPAGE

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SHARING THE FRUITS OF LABOUR

Not often, indeed almost never, does a Letter to the Editor get published with rapidity in two journals the same day. No article has appeared in any of the sites visited in constructing the Digest about the proceedings, either the contract or negotiations.

Should a paper you read make comment I'd appreciate a link.

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Have Canadian Forces in Afghanistan been pawns?
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/08/27/01727.html
by Joe Hueglin, Independent Editorialist

While Canadians are agonizing over our war dead, events are unfolding that suggest the purpose behind military action in Afghanistan differs greatly from the humanitarian reasons given, it is to secure a route for an oil pipeline: an idea once dismissed as a “conspiracy theory.”

Last week a Pakistan Daily Times article, "Govt awards TAP pipeline contract to US company" reported: "The Pakistan government has awarded the contract of laying the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) gas pipeline project to the United States International Oil Company (IOC) with an estimated cost of $10 billion." According to sources in the International Oil Company, “the matters of security and insurance in Afghanistan during the laying of the pipeline have been finalised between the oil company and authorities, and a signing ceremony confirming the mega-project Agreement would be held shortly."

Emacs!

Last week as well articles in the Asia Times reported "Taliban, US in new round of peace talks" and "Talks with the Taliban gain ground." According to these sources: "Specifically, the deals aim to stop violence in selected areas and give the Taliban limited control of government pending the conclusion of a broader peace deal for the country and the Taliban's inclusion in some form of national administration." Included in the "selected areas" is the Panjwai District in Kandahar Province, where Canadian lives have been lost.

It is suggested the conclusion of negotiations will come with the arrival in Pakistan of Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on September 10th and that "The outcome of the talks will to a large extent decide the agenda of Negroponte's visit and the course of the US-led ‘war on terror’ in the region."

If Syed Saleem Shahzad's reporting is accurate, negotiations to end armed conflict in limited areas of Afghanistan are taking place and Canadian Forces may be playing the role of pawns in the international competition for control over petroleum resources.

Should such be the case Canadians will have been sorely misled by our leaders ignorance or complicity.

About the author:

Joe Hueglin is a former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament who is the communications co-ordinator for an independent progressive tory communications initiative.

Make comments about this article in <http://www.blog.agoracosmopolitan.com/?p=399>The Canadian Blog.

________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have Canadian Forces in Afghanistan been pawns?

Emacs!

http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/editorials/LTE/hueglin/hueglinList/100/hueglin116/pipeline.html

Niagara Falls, Ontario,
Monday, August 27, 2007
by: Joe Hueglin

While Canadians agonize over our war dead, events are unfolding that suggest the purpose behind military action in Afghanistan is to secure a route for an oil pipeline: an idea once dismissed as a “conspiracy theory.”

Last week a Pakistan Daily Times article, "Govt awards TAP pipeline contract to US company" reported: "The Pakistan government has awarded the contract of laying the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) gas pipeline project to the United States International Oil Company (IOC) with an estimated cost of $10 billion." According to sources in the International Oil Company, “the matters of security and insurance in Afghanistan during the laying of the pipeline have been finalised between the oil company and authorities, and a signing ceremony confirming the mega-project agreement would be held shortly.

"Last week as well articles in the Asia Times reported "Taliban, US in new round of peace talks" and "Talks with the Taliban gain ground." According to these sources: "Specifically, the deals aim to stop violence in selected areas and give the Taliban limited control of government pending the conclusion of a broader peace deal for the country and the Taliban's inclusion in some form of national administration." Included in the "selected areas" is the Panjwai District in Kandahar Province, where Canadian lives have been lost.

It is suggested the conclusion of negotiations will come with the arrival in Pakistan of Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on September 10th and that "The outcome of the talks will to a large extent decide the agenda of Negroponte's visit and the course of the US-led ‘war on terror’ in the region."

If Syed Saleem Shahzad's reporting is accurate, negotiations to end armed conflict in limited areas of Afghanistan are taking place and Canadian Forces may be playing the role of pawns in the international competition for control over petroleum resources.

<mailto:joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca>Joe Hueglin

Reference:

1. Daily Times,
http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/editorials/LTE/hueglin/hueglinList/100/hueglin116/TAP_pipeline.html
Govt awards TAP pipeline contract to US company, August 20, 2007, Pakistan's Daily Times

2. Syed Saleem Shahzad,
http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/editorials/LTE/hueglin/hueglinList/100/hueglin116/peaceTalks.html
Taliban, US in new round of peace talks, August 21, 2007, Asia Times

3. Syed Saleem Shahzad,
http://ensign.ftlcomm.com/editorials/LTE/hueglin/hueglinList/100/hueglin116/talks_gain_ground.html
Talks with the Taliban gain ground, August 24, 2007, Asia Times

4. Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Saleem_Shahzad
Syed Saleem Shahzad

Photo credit:

The Canadian soldier in the scene is Corporal Gordon Bivin of the Royal 22 and it was taken on August 19 in the Panjwayl area by Corporal Simon Dushesne