Daily Digest June 28, 2008

The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
ARCHIVED at http://cdndailydigest.blogspot.com/

EDITORIALs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
By the numbers
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=148126&sc=80

CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Level playing ground for our airports
Ottawa should drop customs fees charged to small airports like Charlottetown.
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=148144&sc=103

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Clampdown on green ads is just so much hot air
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=5ab3bb9d-5309-4273-9961-574a5e37b89e

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Obscene prosecutions 
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=99d9d4cc-e3bb-4078-bc2f-7621381ca352

A hole in the roof 
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=010c6ca6-4b4f-45c6-a498-03746f901b11

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
State power reined in
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1093074

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
With soaring prices, starvation we need to rethink GM foods
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1092781&auth=MICHAEL+DEN+TANDT

TORONTO STAR -
Don't put up For Sale sign
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/450886

NATIONAL POST -
Finally, good news on 'human rights'
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=619144

Liberals are still kicking the West
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=619145

WINDSOR STAR -
Canada Post: A rural perspective
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=9737828e-6e88-4f41-b743-ed068fd1a3a9

SUDBURY STAR -
Is young offenders law really broken?
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1093717

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Waiting, waiting
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4192402p-4783405c.html

WINNIPEG SUN -
Chretien, Martin still at it
http://www.winnipegsun.com/Comment/Editorial/2008/06/28/6011056.html

CALGARY HERALD -
What's up with voter apathy?
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=99550604-0350-40a6-aef3-7286cfbf10e7

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Gomery's double bogey
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=ca78850d-a1c7-4e28-8e73-44404bd2e2a7

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Chilling scenario for soldiers, yet again
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/article_11217.php

PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN -
Knock, knock, knocking on China's door
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080627138436/opinion/editorials/knock-knock-knocking-on-china-146s-door.html

VANCOUVER SUN -
Celebrations remind us that Canada is bound by ties greater than politics 
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=e1c1dd4f-c7cb-44c7-92c7-5636fbce012d

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
High-tech sector still a bright light
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=21a06e6e-dc3b-476d-9492-6a94bd2ade5c

NANAIMO DAILY NEWS -
Educators must have willingness to change
http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/opinion/story.html?id=1bc450b2-2dd3-4ec7-ae0a-f1a837c308c5


ISSUES

AFGHANISTAN -
Pakistan strikes at Taliban in Khyber agency
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/06/pakistan_strikes_at_1.php

Pakistan forces in Khyber offensive
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/06/2008628841648797.html

Pakistan launches offensive against Taliban
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/28/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Operation.php

Pakistan goes on anti-Taliban offensive
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=621642

Ambush began Afghan battle
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/451161


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Ripe for profit
http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080627.wcover211/BNStory/Business/home

Brain drain in reverse
After years of leaving for greener pastures, Canada's wayward financial talent is coming home
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=619175


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
International experts warn of no-holds-barred" Arctic resource race
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080628/national/arctic_resource_conflict

Obama's team mostly made of people who supported Clinton's policies towards Iraq(1 of 2)
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1748

EU Constitution Kingpin: We Will Ignore Referendums
Admits Lisbon Treaty was intended to confuse public into acceptance
http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2008/270608EU.htm

Iraq: Safe for Big Oil
Weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq, but the country is safe for the oil industry -- at the cost of U.S. lives
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/374959

Democracy isn't a sure answer to tyranny
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/374957

The South must stand on its own
The tragedy of Zimbabwe makes as clear a case as any that the global South must step out from the shadow of colonialism and solve its own problems
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=a3df71a4-6139-4bfe-af3a-6af085973f9e

International court off to 'shaky start'
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=619384

Caught between feuding enemies
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080627.abkhazia28/BNStory/International/home

Kosovo Serbs to form own parliament
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/451141


HEALTH CARE RELATED
Fake pills for kids stir controversy
Doctors raise fears Obecalp, a new children's placebo, will condition them to look for cures in pills
http://healthzone.ca/health/article/451022

Promoting breastfeeding
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=f5e3958d-a076-4445-845e-042163401815


JUSTICE SYSTEM
Local cop preys on predators
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1064761.html

"I have always proceeded on the footing," he declared once, "that the communications between the legal advisers and their employer (who is their client) are the subject of legal professional privilege; and I have never known it questioned."
This week in B.C., we had cause to wonder whether this cosy, gentlemanly arrangement should be questioned. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=4de45627-4cd2-4cb4-b7c0-32602de109ab

Bar owner, Ontario square off in medical pot dispute
Man's right to smoke pot jeopardizes bar owner's liquor licence
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=95b032bb-4804-4ee7-8eb4-b4a05e391482

Human Rights Commission drops Maclean's complaint
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080628/steyn_commission_080628/20080628?hub=Canada


MIGRATION
Our part-time home and native land
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080627.wcandayvalpyone0628/BNStory/CanadaDay2008/home

Canada's nuances and expectations must be explained to newcomers
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/374268


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
If MacDonald really didn't know, then why didn't he?
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1064685.html

Climate plan gives big costs short shrift
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=5a4e7613-9e5c-4a0a-807e-155f141adb99

Environmental coalition gallops to the defence of the carbon tax 
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6d65469d-8fb7-4dec-90f1-329fe7b54c55

Privacy concerns quashes 'chronic offender' program
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=619071

Carbon tax could be reversed, special adviser to Campbell fears
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080628.BCCARBON28/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/


PARTY POLITICS
Energy crisis supplants environment as top concern
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080627.wpoll-economy28/BNStory/Front/home

A plan riddled with questions
The Post's Terence Corcoran interviews Liberal leader Stéphane Dion on his carbon tax
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=619074

Dion smoothing his faux pas English
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/451013


POLITICAL OPINION -
Stephane's cool but Stephen has gas
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1064676.html

Harper's minor realignment
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=9f391c35-6258-4d98-ad0a-15a2190cd090

Regulation vs. Taxes
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/06/27/jack-mintz-regulation-vs-taxes.aspx

Bernier, keep daddy out of it
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080627.wltimson27/BNStory/lifeMain/home

Will Emerson re-enter the fray in a new riding?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080628.BCMASON28/TPStory/TPComment/Politics/

From minister of multiculturalism to minister of multitasking
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080628.NOTEBOOK28/TPStory/TPComment/Politics/

Loyalty flows uphill to the PM
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/450895

Dion plays king of pain
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Business/News/2008/06/28/6013261-sun.html


PROGRAMMES
A leader of the coal industry will advise the Government Harper
http://translate.google.ca/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberpresse.ca%2Farticle%2F20080628%2FCPACTUALITES%2F806281088%2F1025%2FCPACTUALITES&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


PRESSURE POINTS
Research and development, not cap and trade
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/374956

A changing Canada seems receptive to carbon tax
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/374263

A zealous woodcutter, but a terrorist?
http://www.thestar.com/Canada/Columnist/article/450893


OPINION AND INFORMATION
Canada's a centre for Islamic reform
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/392889

Citizen spy fights to uphold our rights
A professor from Vancouver says what was once an open global space is now being carved up, colonized and militarized
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=08a6bee6-2f5d-42ed-bcdd-8626211a3198

Supersizing the ballot box leads to unhealthy, fat governments
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=a9bbb695-0b04-4e37-9879-ff60e594e8bf

No good for Tiger, no good for U.S.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=8fca169f-f6fe-473e-bad2-de8a3358f2d4

Just when you thought things in Quebec couldn't get any sillier ...
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=f5894349-f3f3-4cb7-90ec-06a5e235cc75

Geez Louise
Last week in Parliament, Conservative MP Vic Toews said what he really thought when he called Louise Arbour a "disgrace."
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=9567f1a2-0930-48f9-a42d-1cac39478b8a

The resistance must continue 
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=6376c17a-4228-4e04-a2fd-802012bb410b

Leadership in bad times
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=fb6670ce-a720-4ed8-bdfb-44ab94897ba9&p=2

Mars is within our grasp
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=6f6c10e8-ed72-46c6-a986-1d621917b0a6

Breaking the bonds of communion
Formal arrangements have yet to be made, but it now appears that the critical decisions have already been taken for a dissolution of the Anglican Communion. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=614403

Peter Kuitenbrouwer on Canada's national anthem
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/default.aspx

Hungry for answers
A single grain of rice symbolizes the breakdown of the global food system. In recent months, prices of staples have jumped and millions have joined the ranks of the marginally fed. http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/451023

Why can't we protect ourselves?
http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Columnists/Quesnel_Joseph/2008/06/28/6011151.html


INFOS 
La résidence de la gouverneure générale est ouverte au public samedi
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080628/N062804AU.html

Les conducteurs sous l'effet de stupéfiants feront face à des peines plus sévères
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080627/N0627139AU.html

Un dirigeant de l'industrie du charbon conseillera le gouvernement Harper
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080628/CPACTUALITES/806281088/1025/CPACTUALITES

Le CRTC compte trois nouveaux membres permanents
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080628/CPACTUALITES/80628014/1025/CPACTUALITES


La Teoria Conspiratoria

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The Afghan insurgency

Which choice do you prefer for Canada, Peacemaker or Powder Monkey?

The Taliban are mostly based in Afghanistan, Pakistan bases not the issue
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday voiced his concern about
a sharp rise in attacks by insurgent forces in eastern Afghanistan, blaming
 the spike on Pakistan's failure to put pressure on insurgents there. Not so  
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1804

A new, blessed-by-Washington natural gas pipeline to supply India and Pakistan with      
energy from Turkmenistan will be routed straight through, of all places,  Kandahar          
province. With the utterly corrupt Karzi government laughably promising to clear  the       
route of landmines and Taliban, Canadian soldiers will now be security guards in a U.S.    
 geopolitical gambit aimed at keeping Russia and Iran out of the region's energy trade.        
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Harris_Michael/2008/06/20/5931046.html


Subject: Which choice in Afghanistan: "real politik" or not?

That  Top Canadian officials agreed to Afghanistan 'energy bridge'  in November 2006 only became information generally known outside the government with the publishing of A Pipeline Through A Troubled Land: Afghanistan, Canada, and the New Great Energy Game this month.

The writer, "Mr. Foster said he does not see the TAPI pipeline project as viable until there is peace in the South of Afghanistan, where the insurgency is strongest, as well as on the Pakistan border. He said he believes all parties must be included in the discussions on the pipeline, and that the Pashtun in the South, who are now alienated, as well as the Taliban, must feel part of the process. "

In the view of Simon Jenkins in his article "Stop killing the Taliban – http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article4187504.ece "The British expedition to Afghanistan is on the brink of something worse than defeat: a long, low-intensity war from which no government will dare to extricate itself. That may not be the grand strategy beloved of western think tanks, but it is the realpolitik of Afghanistan."

Canadian Forces are in the same situation as the British. The question is whether their role as protectors of the energy bridge will be based on recognition of  "realpolitik of Afghanistan" as seen by both Foster and Simon or not?

Joe Hueglin

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
TheStar.com | comment | Let the green debate begin
 
Jun 28, 2008 04:30 AM

Re:Dion gung-ho on carbon tax
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/450933

Stéphane Dion has taken the fight for humanity's environmental future to Stephen Harper. Dion proposes a tax-neutral green shift: taxing things we don't want – pollution – and reducing taxes on things we want – income and investment.

Harper counters and accuses Dion of trying to "screw" Canadians. So, what do the facts say about the government's approach to tax shifting and environmental management?

The Harper government enacted a tax shift in its first year. The Conservatives shifted tax reduction from the GST to tax increases for lower income tax brackets.

The Harper government also enacted major tax spending shifts. All federal climate initiatives were cancelled and savings principally shifted to the military.

Under Environment Minister John Baird, Kyoto was cancelled in fact though not in spin, Environment Canada scientists were eliminated, and intensity targets were introduced that allow unlimited burning of carbon resources.

Under Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn, nuclear environment safety was ignored until a worldwide medical crisis erupted.

Dion is directly challenging Harper and demanding debate. Dion is proposing a constructive, mature alternative to character assassination and the denuding of sound environmental management.

Let the debate begin.

Eugene Parks, Victoria, B.C.

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject:: EU Constitution Kingpin: We Will Ignore Referendums...
http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2008/270608EU.htm

Is this shades of things to come for Canadians with the SPP and the NAU?????
becky

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From: Suan H.Booiman
To: VS. Editor
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:49 AM
Subject: editorial

June 28, 2008
 
Editors,
 
Celebrations remind us that Canada is bound by ties greater than politics  
 
The one you presented today is very clever just make us feel like
Ottawa licking the heels of the French. All previous historical events
have just been wiped out to please the glorification of Quebec City.
There was a certain Cabot if you do remember, did not build a City
but was here first according to the years quoted. But than like
Quebec City always claims "we want more".
 
Regards,
Suan H.Booiman
204-1220 Fir Street
White Rock BC V4B 4B1
Canada

ST.JOHN'S Tradition declares that the city earned its name when explorer John Cabot became the first European to sail into its harbour, on June 24, 1497 - the feast day of St. John the Baptist. http://relocatecanada.com/stjohns/index.html

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