Daily Digest July 12, 2008

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

EDITORIALs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Guess who has the winning hand
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=152227&sc=80

CAPE BRETON POST -
Market speaks on values
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=152084&sc=151

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
No way to negotiate
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1067226.html

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
There really is a 'nous,' and it includes us
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=944871c7-aa9d-4a38-b870-23235ad3ccec

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Information immersion
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=2e7d7a3d-6b77-4b23-aafc-1989117e6066

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
Hung out to dry: Where are the clotheslines?
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1111555

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
In order to succeed, kids need to fail sometimes
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1111269

TORONTO STAR -
Put focus on jobs
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/459007

HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Help this case, for Nick's sake
http://www.thespec.com/News/Discover/article/401524

NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
The unnecessary tragedy of fetal alcohol syndrome;
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1111603

K-W RECORD -
Mortgage move is sensible
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/382326

This salamander has a message
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/382328

WINDSOR STAR -
Another tax
Liberals target electronics
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=11c44782-8c7c-41ab-995d-5569c6b12e94

SUDBURY STAR -
Competition, not regulation
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1112110

Get on with rewriting the Mining Act
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1112075

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
A blue wall of deceit
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4197959p-4789482c.html
WINNIPEG SUN -
Phone firms putting con in text
http://www.winnipegsun.com/Comment/Editorial/2008/07/12/6135561.html

REGINA LEADER-POST -
Keeping drunks off the road
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=28454d20-9774-48bc-8fe3-6cce2c060748

CALGARY HERALD -
Mental health cuts insane
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=5996bee5-9784-4dc1-beda-06251f8684c6

Skating past stereotypes
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=20f4273e-65a5-41aa-b3a8-477c98c12115

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Harper let us down at G8
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=a1483b23-6a8a-4d40-a9a3-a23f31d37756

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Tangled up in wireless
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/article_11357.php

VANCOUVER SUN -
Alberta's carbon capture plan puts it ahead of the pack
The plan has the possibility of satisfying energy demands while reducing greenhouse gas emissions
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=0c24d49b-572a-4c77-b746-1512720dc06b

Financial wakeup call for kids is good for grownups, too 
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=3e6aa0d4-5126-4a79-b431-23e520d76874

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Gouging on texts and competition
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=f00d8de3-3b3d-4e71-a619-bcd3501999a8


ISSUES

AFGHANISTAN -
Canada takes notes from failed Soviet war
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080712.wafghanlessons12/BNStory/Afghanistan/home

Making peace in Afghanistan
A lasting reconciliation will only come with the support of every Afghan faction
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/382295

'It's impossible to conquer the Afghans'
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080712.wafghansoviets14/BNStory/Front

U.K. warns Afghanistan struggle will last a 'generation'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/frontline/2287412/Des-Browne-warns-Afghanistan-struggle-will-last-a-%27generation%27.html

Afghan Warlords, Formerly Backed By the CIA, Now Turn Their Guns On U.S. Troops
They defeated the Soviets with Washington's help, but now they attack Americans as the new occupiers
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/07/11/afghan-warlords-formerly-backed-by-the-cia-now-turn-their-guns-on-us-troops.html

Armchair pilots striking Afghanistan by remote control
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/09/remote.fighters/?iref=mpstoryview

Prophet's cloak can't shelter Kandahar from terror
The Globe and Mail (07/12/2008)

"We're not going to win the Afghan war because the its government is so weak, incompetent and, corrupt" - Richard Holbrooke
Bloomberg (07/12/2008)

Tracking Taliban funding key to their defeat, say journalists
AKI (07/12/2008)

Afghanistan's 'sons of the soil' rise up
Asia Times, Hong Kong (07/12/2008)

Dangerous Ground
TIME (07/12/2008)

'No elections if security worsens'
Qoqnoos (07/12/2008)

U.S. Blames Pakistan as Afghanistan Incursions Rise
Wall Street Journal (07/12/2008)

The Taliban's Rising Tide
The New York Times, Editorial (07/12/2008)

Afghans say US bombs hit civilians
The Associated Press (07/12/2008)


CANADIAN FORCES
Military expects green light for laser dazzlers 
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4454b085-2e95-4e65-b9e2-429eeba49943


CANUSA/USACAN
Khadr interrogation raises troubling questions
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/459096

Canada blindly accepts torture because it was done by Americans
If Khadr had been abused by Third-World nation, we'd be protesting from the rooftops
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=346682d8-d204-4051-addc-994c5616e220


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
'Reality' may hit Canada
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/12/6136216-sun.html

Mandated withdrawal hits retirees
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/458982


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Weighing a strike on Iran
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=f80f2cf2-6290-4f49-a629-db186fc9d683

War drums
Temperatures are heating Up in the Mideast over suspicions that Iran is developing nuclear weapons
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=12c0756b-acb3-4dc6-96fb-d71885c7f432

An expensive solution to an imaginary threat
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=6c99a4aa-d8d8-4480-8ee6-57e5a8f6dd88

Despite push by Iraqis, U.S. isn't willing to leave
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/382262

Germ of a brilliant idea
Sarkozy seeks to create 'Club Med' stretching from Morroco to Turkey
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4198004p-4789471c.html


HEALTH CARE RELATED
Health ministers should lead, not microwaves
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080710.wlpicard10/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home

London team detects Alzheimer's with brain scans
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/12/6136156-sun.html

Devices fail allergy sufferers: Health Canada
http://www.thestar.com/HealthZone/News&Features/article/459089

Of fish, oolichan and small miracles
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=e698ac16-bf4c-432f-a267-a17f54407991


JUSTICE SYSTEM
Recalcitrant government can be sued
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=0ff96d9c-3e0a-44b5-8660-a5675b82d09a


MIGRATION
Advocates to appeal anti-refugee court ruling
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/459097


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Home heating policies: prescription for a bad cold
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1067254.html

Nova Scotia has won offshore war
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1067176.html

Why we deserve our billion bucks
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1067177.html

Broken heartland
Ontarians have long considered their province synonymous with Canada. 'Nobody ever said, 'I'm an Ontarian,' ' one former premier says. But as the country's premiers meet this week, the backdrop is a wrenching economic transformation that heralds dramatic changes for Confederation. As Don Butler reports, Ontario is ready to start putting 'Ontario first.' http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=281a29df-4731-4933-9a5e-bc244ab35c83

Time to see if we're selling our resources too cheaply
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=fee90a1c-d82e-473e-b58b-6e1fd92d74ea

Sask. may rue day suit dropped
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=fba8cb00-f3ac-4d53-a23f-c432cc55b617


PARTY POLITICS
Canadians' political leanings not influenced by Green Shift, yet: pollster
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=c5130d96-83a9-4184-9108-d155eb60f99e

Green Shift will 'transfer' Alberta's oil wealth, boasts Ont. MP
Carbon tax would tap Alberta resources to fund Liberal social programs
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=ab176d3b-aa45-4b0a-b71d-7ce7e11e1280

Green shift all about hitting Alberta, MP blogs
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=db8050eb-1488-491a-b9e0-9e6dfef09b40


POLITICAL OPINION -
Will the offshore deal mean Casey's return?
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1067188.html

What's next for irrelevant interventions from the federal cabinet?
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=96d77e73-8021-469a-8963-0f9574f65ddb

The political calculus of human rights
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/458990

Tax cuts key to `green shift' sell
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/459088http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1111582

Stephen Harper, or the art of growing secrecy
http://translate.google.ca/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledevoir.com%2F2008%2F07%2F12%2F197471.html&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Stephen Harper is a hit when viewed from afar
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=806ee80a-c865-45ae-a413-67c86f108f13

Liberals shifted too soon
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1111582

Wild Rose Country open to 'Green Shift'
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4198005p-4789500c.html


PROGRAMMES
Allowing food industry to police itself a risky recipe, experts say
Canadian Food Inspection Agency is also ending funding to test for mad cow disease
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=02ecf636-f0a4-438e-af52-0a2fd63c0ff2

Ottawa unveils the broad guidelines of its agricultural policy
http://translate.google.ca/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Finfo.branchez-vous.com%2FNationales%2F080711%2FN0711145AU.html&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


PRESSURE POINTS
Is sewage fertilizer safe?
Worries grow over 'stew' of chemicals spread on farmland
http://healthzone.ca/health/article/459085

Years of delays, and now a speedy trial
Crown says it has only one more witness to call; judge could begin considering verdicts next week
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=eb44ba3b-f5ea-4dd2-85f4-9896f7128374

Terrorism is hard
... and terrorists are extremely unlikely to ever kill us. So why are we afraid of them?
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=b327c240-1b26-4825-b4ce-ded51b38f1e6

Battling global warming leads to fewer mental health beds
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=2ac8bcae-0b6e-495c-91ec-44954a0b2b39


OPINION AND INFORMATION
In the end, will the price we pay in Afghanistan be worth it?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080712.BLATCH12/TPStory/National/columnists

Sharia law thin edge of wedge
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2008/07/12/6135696.php

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080711.WBwbradwanski20080711131635/WBStory/WBwbradwanski

Why the world needs more Canada
In a new book, the Aga Khan argues that this country is a beacon of peace to others
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=8a696532-2247-4c54-8e6f-3787cc89dbc3

China's memory keeper
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=649302

Opening the door to the death of species
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=691929b2-0931-4769-852e-2466d7f820f5

Birds deserve our respect, fair and fowl alike
Spare a kind thought for the less loved among our feathered friends
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=8b19a6e4-8aec-4955-ae83-569f6f7085c3

Boomers age like fine whines
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=5f636c66-55cd-4266-bef3-d0fdf3037498


INFOS 
Le taux de chômage a atteint 6,2 pour cent en juin au Canada
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080711/N071198AU.html

L'opposition exhorte le gouvernement à rapatrier Khadr
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080711/CPACTUALITES/807110785/1025/CPACTUALITES

Stephen Harper, ou l'art de cultiver le secret
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/07/12/197471.html


La Teoria Conspiratoria

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Afghanistan struggle will last a 'generation'

"Let us acknowledge that this is a long term and challenging enterprise." He added: "We know that in Afghanistan we are engaged in a generational struggle."

The assessment echoes that of Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British ambassador to Kabul, who has suggested the UK will have to retain a presence in Afghanistan for 30 years

'It's impossible to conquer the Afghans'

"If a society sees a war as a good thing … then that's a form of therapy that helps," he said at his clinic. Soldiers readjust to society after all the horrors and stresses of battle.
"But if a war is unpopular or is seen as lost or pointless, then the situation is reversed and returning soldiers are forced to try and find some justification for what they have done," he added. The Americans suffered it in Vietnam, the Soviets faced it after Afghanistan and Canadians may have to deal with the problem if the public stops backing the current war, he said. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080712.wafghansoviets14/BNStory/Front

36 per cent support keeping troops in Afghanistan through 2011: poll
Firm finds limited enthusiasm for mission among 1,004 Canadians
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/07/afghanistan-poll.html

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject: a ludicrous appointment

What does Manning know about science? Wonder how long it will take for him
to destroy this board? Gives junk science a whole new meaning! Wonder if
he knows more about science than he does 'democracy'?
becky

New gig for Manning
Reform Party founder appointed to science advisory panel
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/07/12/6135856-sun.html

(Not likely)
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From: Lorimer Rutty
Subject: boring

Frankly, BELOW (30) is getting boring and my aim
is to liven it up so there's something to reduce the
ennui of going through fifty sites every day.        
 

Boring because you have allowed it to become an iChat symposium. It airs petty gripes and old political hates.
I have suggested countless times that it must be in 12 point, it must be in black, each submission must be submitted to some 500 words or less.
It takes me about 15 seconds to scan the below 30.

Those that do not meet my criteria are either ignored or deleted.

regards

Lorimer

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Lorimer,

Pick a topic and send in what you hold to be the desirable
format. I'll be most pleased should it be replicated by others.

Regards,

Joe

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 Rubie Britton

Hello Joe, Wasn't the US at war when Khadr threw the handgrenade over the wall,and 'happened to kill an American Marine?' How do they known that the handgrenade killed the Marine,-and wasn't it "War?" 

As ever,
Rubie

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Derek Skinner

Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?
Corporate media colludes with democracy's demise
http://www.inthesetimes.com/about/author/1883

Without a free and independent press, this 250-year-old experiment in self-government will not make it. As journalism goes, so goes democracy

I heard this story a long time ago, growing up in Choctaw County in Oklahoma before my family moved to Texas. A tribal elder was telling his grandson about the battle the old man was waging within himself. He said, "It is between two wolves, my son. One is an evil wolf: anger, envy, sorrow, greed, self-pity, guilt, resentment, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is the good wolf: joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The boy took this in for a few minutes and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf won?"

The old Cherokee replied simply, "The one I feed."

Democracy is that way. The wolf that wins is the one we feed. And in our society, media provides the fodder.

Our media institutions, deeply embedded in the power structures of society, are not providing the information that we need to make our democracy work. To put it another way, corporate media consolidation is a corrosive social force. It robs people of their voice in public affairs and pollutes the political culture. And it turns the debates about profound issues into a shouting match of polarized views promulgated by partisan apologists who trivialize democracy while refusing to speak the truth about how our country is being plundered. . . .

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject:  DD

Joe--frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! Khadr killed a man. He must
pay the consequences, and we know that wouldn't happen in Canada! How many
killers are already walking free in this country? The Air India bomber was
just released on 'strict bail' conditions. Yeah, right! What Canada
doesn't need is another killer on our streets.

We deport law abiding people and have thousands of illegals hiding out. We
know too well that only criminals have rights in Canada.

You know I am not an American supporter, but better they keep this killer
than we get him back. We see the farce of the msm showing his picture as a
young child. What better way to get people drooling to get the poor boy
back 'home'.

As for 'sleep deprivation' etc.--how many Canadians are losing their jobs
etc. Do you not think they suffer sleep deprivation? Do you not think the
families of victims of 'poor' murderers are suffering sleep deprivation?
Our Courts don't take that into consideration when they free the murderers.
Yes, torture is wrong but lets get real. We do not all live comfortable
lives either. We are facing economic and moral collapse and we fret about a
murderer?

William Sampson was left in Saudi Arabia to be tortured and condemned to
death, and he was innocent. It took England to free him. Where was the
uproar about that? This is just more brainwashing from the msm. Let Khadr
rot in Guantanamo.

As for our men and women in Afghanistan--GET OUT! We are supposed to save
Khadr and yet we shed no tears for all the innocent lives being taken in a
war that is for oil and greed and nothing more. Maybe we should send all
our politicians to Guantanamo and see if they pass the 'litmus test'? None
of them pass it here. Afghanistan is nothing more than a Guantanamo with
guns and bombs.

becky

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At this juncture no comment from me. Others most welcome.

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