Daily Digest July 21, 2008

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

CAPE BRETON POST -
Khadr sympathy misses the point
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=154452&sc=151

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
N.S.'s own PET scanner
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1068734.html

AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
Always that silver lining
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=154543&sc=61

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Police should pay up and mend their ways
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=57b88295-2ed0-45b5-b80a-f89911f201dc  

Bank of Canada must keep the inflation beast in its cage
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=413fe373-290c-47af-ad9e-a45f64ecea8a

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Why we diet
Anew study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests dieting alone will not result in significant weight loss in the long term.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=dca187d7-1aa0-4383-ac0a-456569d556c2

Display gallery business
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=182c77ba-7fa7-4a5c-9e6e-14e5d3320ec3

TORONTO STAR -
Helping towns cope with sprawl
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/463485

GLOBE & MAIL -
High time to keep promises
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wefontaine21/BNStory/specialComment/home

Consumer revisionism
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wepope21/BNStory/specialComment/home

NATIONAL POST -
Free trade, from sea to sea
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=668474

HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Quebec C. diff system works
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/406150

K-W RECORD -
Caution is needed on national economy
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/386347

WINDSOR STAR -
Mexico rises
Oil prices fuel trading shift
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=da39414e-8a81-4d96-b665-78a08c1b71fa

SUDBURY STAR -
Election seems far off yet
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1122941

New bill will protect fetus, and women
Liberal Brent St. Denis sponsors women-friendly law
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1122937

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Through a glass...
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4201823p-4793617c.html

Court of no resort
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4201825p-4793655c.html

WINNIPEG SUN -
More than one way to reduce crime
http://www.winnipegsun.com/Comment/Editorial/2008/07/21/6215521.html

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Leaders in Africa quickly squander Mandela's legacy
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=92eb25e6-363c-413f-a970-2921f53b82aa

CALGARY HERALD -
Recipe for trouble with food safety
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=f1c914db-83e6-4957-9c17-0b275cac8fd5

GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
Bay sale a big deal?
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1123358

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Our goal in Geneva? Undermine the feds
Alberta agriculture industry should work against federal government's position during World Trade Organization meeting
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=dddcf7f8-42ff-4021-8515-49ff6695eb40

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
How many calories are in one Big Apple?
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/article_11432.php

VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
Child care plan needs rethink
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=d19186d9-22c7-46b8-af13-6626b44070d7

More study needed
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=b6d96f18-c389-4075-a40a-6987d34bc8a7


ISSUES

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -
Call me Buffalo Woman
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4201854p-4793656c.html

Respect voting rights off reserve
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=c4e21222-0025-4c1d-a8de-3333e05b549c

AFGHANISTAN -
Afghanistan's 'pristine jihad' draws in outsiders
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4368820.ece

Afghan violence rising, top soldier concedes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080720.wcasualty21/BNStory/Afghanistan/home


CANADIAN FORCES
Firms battle to build future warrior
$310M program seeks to integrate key equipment into a package straight out of sci-fi
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=5dc3a143-2e5b-487a-97c3-f9934dfdd247

CTV's Question Period: Gen. Natynczyk on mission 8:49
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/Redirect/?ClipId=67898


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Crunch's next round nears
Ottawa's perfectly bad timing will only make things worse
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=668484

Lowered tariffs won't hurt Canada's food supply: Fortier
http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wrwto21/BNStory/Business/home

IMF ripe for shakeup, Paul Martin says
Former PM says credit crisis shows richer nations lack moral authority to guide world economy unchallenged
http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wrimf21/BNStory/Business/home

Canada confident WTO deal to spare poultry, dairy
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080721/canada/canada_trade_wto_canada_col


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Russia may station combat aircraft in Cuba
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/384720/cs/1/

Russian military scoffs at Cuba refuelling report
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e38fd04d-8ac2-4979-8049-fd9c2bf78a9f

Turkey in the throes of revolution?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG22Ak02.html


JUSTICE SYSTEM
A man defending his castle
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=3c6df254-7a1b-4aae-8f18-ca3406b96e4f

The criminals among us
http://www.thestar.com/SpecialSections/article/460764

Give Fantino lot of credit
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Warmington_Joe/2008/07/21/6217421-sun.php

Why the difference for 'non-whites'?
http://www.thestar.com/SpecialSections/Crime/article/460755

Crime is down, so why don't we feel safer?
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1068708.html


MIGRATION
Better ways to select immigrants
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=4784045c-8b05-47da-91b9-19a63c89aca1


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Interest group pushes for accountability
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.whospitals21/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080721.whospitals21

Absence of provincial malice
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/463505


PARTY POLITICS
House strategy and election readiness tops for Tory retreat
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/july/21/retreat/&c=2

Libs have 'information job to do' on carbon tax plan
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/july/21/carbon_tax/&c=2

Giorno's PMO appoints three new Cabinet chiefs of staff
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/july/21/giorno/&c=2

Bob Rae hits the road in his latest role
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/463997


POLITICAL OPINION -
Voters park it
http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/2008/07/21/6216796-sun.html

Political climate akin to Monday morning gridlock
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/386344

Together, again: Harper and Charest
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=566c2f1e-2f79-4433-8f3a-fe14402dbc8b

The politics of destruction has run its course
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080721.COMARTIN21/TPStory/TPComment/Politics/

Green Shift doesn't discriminate
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=668475

Dion fans separatist sentiment in West
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=9e226791-ffd3-48d0-bab2-d3b95fbdbab9

Liberal record of Tory spending
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=b5bde7e1-dd9c-472e-a506-171965853dfa


PROGRAMMES
Canada's spectrum auction ends with $4.25 billion raised
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080721/canada/canada_wireless_col

Billions needed to fix electric grid
'Time running out' on aging infrastructure
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=518cfe0a-deb7-4443-ae3e-975e29de4bec

New law puts green screen on government decisions
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wenvironment21/BNStory/National/home

Report exposes AECL's communication meltdown
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e1cad74d-0179-4f4a-82dd-c1aadf431875


PRESSURE POINTS
You say crisis. I say opportunity
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wrmorgan0721/BNStory/Business/columnists

Do as Al says, not as Al does
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=2489e0b8-3e57-40eb-9748-6c250d63c40d

World warned over killer flu pandemic
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/world-warned-over-killer-flu-pandemic-872809.html

On the farm, a back-end solution to an energy crisis
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wfarms21/BNStory/National/home

Whenever there's doubt, a ban is best
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=5ba95011-2266-415e-9cdd-6a50304bca41

Scientist warn about wetlands 'carbon bomb'
Destroying environment could speed up global warming
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=0b16edd3-98b2-4723-bea1-dafab930ff08


OPINION AND INFORMATION
Will Khadr backers sway public?
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Worthington_Peter/2008/07/21/6215531.php

Omar Khadr deserves a fair trial, but where?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wcokhadr21/BNStory/specialComment/home

NGO works to restore basics in dangerous region
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1068740.html

Big Oil Owes Alberta
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=668503&p=2

Don't blame speculation for rising food prices
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=668501

Above the law
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=668502

Rethinking Iranian nukes
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/463503

Silencing the Hum
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=a72a6950-ff3c-4935-93c8-02dce3720397

Boards should make social responsibility a key issue
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=71a175f4-23ec-4558-91b8-b89d4478f1df

Why plague people with trash talk when they've got worries enough?
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=9d05e9db-e2fb-4988-abc7-083467ed04e0


INFOS 
Stephen Harper accusé d'indifférence en raison de la "peau brune" d'Omar Khadr
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080721/N072123AU.html

Un organisme de lutte contre les délits informatiques voit le jour au Canada
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080721/N072118AU.html

Le chef de l'armée canadienne admet que la sécurité en Afghanistan s'effrite
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080720/N0720137AU.html

Paul Martin demande le rapatriement de Khadr
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Ontario/2008/07/21/008-martin-khadr_n.shtml

Forces canadiennes
Un soldat accusé d'avoir tué un frère d'armes
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2008/07/21/003-Forces-Wilcox-Megeney.shtml

Commerce international
Réunion de la dernière chance à Genève
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2008/07/21/001-omc-reunion-lundi.shtml

L'huile de phoque à la rescousse
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/atlantique/2008/07/21/003-medicament_phoque_n.shtml

Des experts l'affirment - Khadr ne serait jamais condamné au Canada
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/07/21/198601.html


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FACTS or FIGHTING WORDS?

To continue to use the NEP as an all purpose cudgel is disingenuous at best, but as a means of denouncing Stephane Dion's new Green Shift carbon tax it is a desperate and false argument. Mind you, who wouldn't be desperate to perpetuate the status quo in Alberta? Oil is pushing $150 a barrel. Major international corporations are devastating great swaths of land, using up energy and fresh water to produce crude that is shipped to foreign lands to be refined. They dump their waste tailings into open ponds, flout contractual obligations to restore the tundra and produce massive amounts of greenhouse gases. Alberta collects royalties other oil-producing nations consider laughable and yet this month the provincial government announced that taxpayers would pay $2-billion to filthy rich companies to help them clean up some of their own mess.

Canada is a stable democratic country with a finite resource that is in soaring demand. The oil industry isn't going to bet on Venezuela and Nigeria, nor is it going to tap into a wellspring of new crude in New Hampshire. The expectation that big oil has a responsibility to Albertans and to all Canadians is neither a challenge to Alberta's prosperity nor an insidious plot to undermine the province's sovereignty. It's just common sense. - John Moore is an eastern bastard broadcasting on Toronto's NewsTalk 1010 CFRB. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=668503&p=2

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IS THIS HOW YOU VIEW CRISIS?

What's needed is the combined vision of both federal and provincial governments to work with business in achieving our potential. Adjusting to a global energy crisis won't be easy, but we would be wise to remember that little sign on Jim Gray's desk.

Crisis means opportunity. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080721.wrmorgan0721/BNStory/Business/columnists

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich" \
Subject: DD

Joe--the very fact that this is a question that has to be asked is more than
enough to tell us how far Political Correctness is defeating common sense in
this country.

We did not let British cattle into Canada when the Mad Cow outbreak was in
full swing. We do not let people who have been in Britain give blood for a
stipulated period, and yet we let this plague into Canada? Did we not learn
anything from the contaminated blood fiasco? Did we not see how easily and
rapidly this disease is spread? As you mentioned, we do not have healthcare
in Canada but see nothing wrong with allowing this disease and infected
people into Canada?

When my kids were in school in Alberta, the school and the parents were
denied any information if there were any HIV infected kids in our school.
The teachers refused to clean up blood from kids with bloody noses or cuts.
Other kids were forced to do that. So the teachers knew the dangers but did
not protect the kids.

The pdf file makes me ill. Yes, this is a human rights issue--the rights of
Canadians are the ones that are being ignored here. There is no concern for
the citizen, only the infected. Not the Canadian, but the immigrant. Why
would disclosure be a 'difficult issue'? Kids with measles are not allowed
to go to school, but HIV is treated like a pimple? And we, the taxpayer,
funded this abomination???

To answer your first question--NO IMMIGRANT WITH HIV (or who test HIV
positive) SHOULD BE ALLOWED INTO CANADA! That should make the second
question moot--but I have no belief that Health Canada or any government
would dare stand up and state the obvious. We have fallen down the hole of
complete denial of reality, and our children and grandchildren will pay the
price. The power of a word--'notifiable' as opposed to 'reportable'. Again
with the word games while Canada rots.

We tag all livestock to 'protect the consumer' but see nothing wrong with
letting these diseased humans into Canada, people who can infect the rest of
us with impunity? If HIV immigrants are 'special status' already you can
bet they will be protected by our politically correct laws against any legal
or moral argument. The very fact that they are allowed into Canada has
assured their protection from the law.

Joe--thanks for asking these questions. It makes my head hurt to even try
to comprehend the 'thinking' of those in charge of this benighted country.

Becky

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From: "Suan H.Booiman"
Subject: the question

Joe,
 
That is a very good question, of course politicians fear those as it may
cost them some votes. Particular the group votes we have today.
 
To me, HIV in any form or place should be a reported sickness and the
responsibility should be that it is made public. New Immigrants should be
denied as our health system is not geared well enough financially to
deal with the extra cost. Much of that is already leaning on our system
with the import of seniors or family that have not contributed in any form
to the system but lean on it heavily. There was a time that imported
members were the sole responsibility of the importer, even that the
doors were left open for many, in my view, to misuse  the system.
 
Suan

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From: "Jacob Rempel"
To: "DAILY DIGEST"
Subject: Real News interviews Muhammad Sahimi
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1893

BACK
 
Iran and the US: Beyond the war of rhetoric
Prof. Sahimi: Both sides are playing to their domestic audience (6 of 6)  July 21, 2008

Would Iran give nuclear technology to Hezbollah?
Prof. Sahimi: Iran provides aid, but it's against their interest to provide advanced weapons (5 of 6)  July 20, 08

Is Iran a "threat to peace and security?"
Sahimi: No evidence that Iran's nuclear program poses a threat (4 of 6)  July 15, 2008

Are sanctions against Iran legal?
Muhammad Sahimi: The legal grounds for UN sanctions and Res. 362 have not been established (3 of 6)  July 14, 2008

What did A. Q. Khan sell to Iran?
Muhammad Sahimi: Has Iran answered the IAEA's questions about Pakistan's 'merchant of menace"? (2 of 6)  July 12, 2008

What are Iran's nuclear rights?
Professor Muhammad Sahimi challenges assumptions about Iran's nuclear program  July 11, 2008

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From: Charles Tupper
Subject: PREDICTION: Similar bureaucracy to infest North America  eventually.

EU bans Peking Duck forcing council snoopers to shut down restaurant ovens in Chinatown
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1036578/EU-bans-Peking-Duck-forcing-council-snoopers-shut-restaurant-ovens-Chinatown.html #

Not a PREDICTION but REALITY A building permit needed for a tree house
Vancouver family loses tree house battle http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080718/BC_tree_fort_080718/20080718/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

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