Daily Digest July 9, 2008

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

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Devil's advocate
Our fishing policies, like those of almost all maritime nations, are a perfect parable of commercial stupidity and short-termism, helping an industry to destroy its long-term prospects for the sake of immediate profit." http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=151049&sc=80

CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Another reminder that seatbelts save
There's a good reason seatbelts have become an accepted - and essential - feature in our motor vehicles.
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=151067&sc=103

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
G8 gets spine on Mugabe
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1066500.html

Fossil cliffs fame
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1066581.html

AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
Hard work over, harder work begins
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sc=61

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
DIY in the courtroom
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=e9b8c18d-7d38-4f3d-8cad-60c9d841a022

The price of justice
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=635f2e2d-c0a9-41ea-88f5-6d8b3d84f891

OTTAWA SUN -
A good use for the Order of Canada?
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/Editorial/2008/07/08/6103746-sun.html

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
Mining Act is the culprit
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1106130

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Faceoff between economy and ecology has already begun
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1105893

TORONTO STAR -
Harper and G8 fail climate test
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/456802

Housing as a right
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/456803

TORONTO SUN -
Court gets it right on Creba
http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Commentary/2008/07/09/6104391-sun.html

ST. CATHARINES STANDARD -
Sensible ideas to help rebuild local farming
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1106600

NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
Canada's West needs senate reform
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1106239

WINDSOR STAR -
Drug driving
Use invasive law judiciously
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=1a32d713-35e2-4740-8c6c-84a05e7f1ec0

SUDBURY STAR -
Jail didn't work; now what?
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1106641

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Strike down ruling
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4196542p-4787894c.html

REGINA LEADER-POST -
Balancing justice in a difficult case
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=109b765e-8ed1-4a18-bd8e-eda4024c165d

CALGARY HERALD -
Alberta election needs investigating
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=4f083210-4fa6-486c-9ba1-1af6cd6a98b3

CALGARY SUN -
Love affair with cars takes its toll
http://calsun.canoe.ca/Comment/POV/2008/07/09/6106966-sun.html

GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
Our love affair with vehicles
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1107258

Carbon tax irrelevance
Market conditions show notion is outdated thinking
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1103650

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
$30K a small price to pay if project works
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/article_11315.php

PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN -
Tightened mortgage rules in store for home buyers
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080709140141/local/news/tightened-mortgage-rules-in-store-for-home-buyers.html

VANCOUVER SUN -
Overtaxed consumers need relief to keep the economy from stalling 
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=2e459399-da7b-47ce-ba53-304e33778c0e

VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
Market should decide text fee
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=66b401f5-b9c6-4165-8608-cb02699c3ab4

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
It's a crime to let war's lessons fade
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=bc76c213-0b6b-4c36-98f3-d27ea1334222

NANAIMO DAILY NEWS -
Harmac workers may take their mill back
Premier Gordon Campbell sure picked a bad day to proclaim that B.C.'s forest industry has a bright future despite the tough times we are now seeing.
http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/opinion/section.html?section=Opinion


ISSUES

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -          
Quebec youth bill has shades of residential-school attitude
Permanently removing children from reserves could be a disaster
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=a7490274-67c5-45ee-a07e-af3c3c56e7ba

Saskatchewan Indian federation calls for aboriginal peacekeepers to work with RCMP
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080709/national/aboriginal_shootings

Recent deal aimed at ending clashes between mining industry, aboriginals
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080709/national/aboriginal_mining_deal


AFGHANISTAN -
PM too bullish on Afghan challenge, critics warn
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080709.wafghan10/BNStory/Afghanistan/home

Myths in Al Qaeda's 'home'
The Christian Science Monitor (07/09/2008)

MPs calls for sacking top security officials
Makia Munir (07/09/2008)

Karzai urged to quit over civilian deaths
Pajhwok (07/09/2008)

250 Afghan civilians killed, injured last week: Red Cross
AFP (07/09/2008)

Rife corruption allows rag-tag Taliban to win
The Sydney Morning Herald (07/09/2008)

Envoy: Bomber aimed to destroy embassy in Kabul
The Associated Press (07/09/2008)

Alarm over Afghan civilian deaths
BBC (07/09/2008)

Afghan Bombing Sends Stark Message to India
The New York Times (07/09/2008)

India caught in the Taliban myth
Asia Times (07/09/2008)

UN Says $400M Needed to Feed Afghans
The Associated Press (07/09/2008)

U.N. envoy denounces hidden abuse of Afghan boys
Reuters (07/09/2008)

NATO commander: Attacks from Pakistan up, but 'We do return fire'
The Associated Press (07/08/2008)

435 HIV cases detected in Afghanistan
Xinhua (07/08/2008)

Taliban roam freely in large portions of Pakistan's border area
The Sacramento Bee, California (07/08/2008)

Warnings for the Future
Global Voices (07/08/2008)

Iron mine worth $60bn to open next year - minister
Qoqnoos (07/08/2008)

"Corruption is the mother of all problems"
ARGO's Interviews (07/08/2008)

Violence against Afghan Children Rises, Worries UN
VOA (07/08/2008)

A vicious attack on India's crucial role in Afghanistan
The Times (07/08/2008)


CANADIAN FORCES
Engine failure forces aging B.C. rescue plane to land
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080709.wbcbuffaloatl09/BNStory/National/home


CANUSA/USACAN
Grasshoppers or ants?
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1106647

Canada was aware of the treatment of Khadr in Cuba
http://translate.google.ca/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Finfo.branchez-vous.com%2FNationales%2F080709%2FN0709132AU.html&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Canada knew Khadr mistreated, documents reveal
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/457600

Canada upset by tax grab
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/07/09/6104771-sun.html


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
U.S., Israel enraged by Iran missile test
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=643438

A last throw of the dice ...?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG10Ak01.html

India-U.S. nuclear deal brought back from the dead
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=9ecbb9ec-b3c9-4b53-9999-c1321dace06f

Developing nations balk at G8 targets on greenhouse gas emissions
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080709/national/g8_cda_climate

West must show Africa's leaders that tolerating bully like Mugabe will make enemies, not friends
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Worthington_Peter/2008/07/09/6106311-sun.php


HEALTH CARE RELATED
Families suing Ontario hospital over C. difficile outbreak
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080709.wcdif0709/BNStory/National/home


JUSTICE SYSTEM
Alberta to cap interest rates that payday loan companies can charge customers
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080709/national/alta_payday_loans

Simon Fraser launches cyber crime research centre, aims to fight child porn
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080708/national/cybercrime_centre


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Politics of provincial selfishness hurts Canada
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4196412p-4787825c.html

The chicane protocol of the 400th continues
http://translate.google.ca/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledevoir.com%2F2008%2F07%2F09%2F197011.html&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Source: offshore dispute over print this article
N.S. to receive more than $800 million
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=150932&sc=508

Campbell's big challenge in selling the carbon tax
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=6cb262e6-43ea-41a0-a4c4-f82a515f26d4

The tax and beyond: B.C.'s new carbon reality 
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=7e49500d-c89c-4c70-a626-575a47e3d5a2

McGuinty to lead 'green' trade delegation to China
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080709/McGuinty_China_080709/20080709?hub=Canada

We've seen massive layoffs in the private sector, but McGuinty government keeps on hiring
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Blizzard_Christina/2008/07/09/6106101-sun.php

Stop hiring public servants, Tory says
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/09/6105716-sun.html


PARTY POLITICS
Company seeks $8.5 million from Liberals for use of Green Shift name
OTTAWA - The owner of an environmental firm who is suing the Liberal party for $8.7 million over its use of the company's name says she's received offers of financial support for her legal battle from Conservatives. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080709/national/green_shift

Dion calls 'Green Shift' lawsuit 'deplorable'
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080709/green_shift_080709/20080709?hub=Canada

MPs took donations from firm in RCMP deal
Developers tied to move of national police headquarters contributed to Baird, Poilievre
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/457108

NDP slams Colombia deal's 'kill-unionist-pay-fine' clause
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/456896

Liberals unapologetic about linking environment, social programs
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080709.wcarbon09/BNStory/National/home

Harper resists, but leaders stick to promise on aid
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/456920


POLITICAL OPINION -
G8 leaders can't get beyond self-interest
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=7a9de55b-2c7b-48bf-9627-df8dd195b2d8

Trashing appointment of police to the parole board is so bush-league
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=7e86af48-d8a9-4953-a6db-f104e2371217

Liberal war chest on credit
Tight finances a legacy of Chretien reforms.
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=641307

PM pushed softer deal on climate
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/456919

Harper resists, but leaders stick to promise on aid
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/456920

NDP climate strategy comes up short
http://www.thestar.com/Canada/Columnist/article/456918

The G8 is all talk on emissions, which suits Ottawa fine
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080709.COSIMP09/TPStory/National/columnists

We already pay a vast carbon tax
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080709.COCARBON09/TPStory/specialComment/columnists


online version here (English)

PM Stirs Debate By Cozying Up to Moderate Muslims
http://embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2008/july/9/islam/


PROGRAMMES
Ottawa changes rules for government guaranteed mortgages
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080709/national/mortgage_rule_changes

Prentice calls Bell, Telus to task for decision to charge clients without bundle
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080709/national/text_messaging_prentice

MDS files $1.6B suit against AECL and government
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080709/MDS_AECL_080709/20080709?hub=Canada

Food inspection worker fired for what he found on shared computer, union says
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080709.FOOD09/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/


PRESSURE POINTS
Road to 35 million BC
Global-warming expert believes Earth has passed safe CO2 level
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4196472p-4787895c.html

Global warming may cut severity of storms
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says wind shear will literally chop the tops off them
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3fe0f567-26a7-4881-bd6e-3150f8abc58b


OPINION AND INFORMATION
A deadly taste of China's dark side
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=598ac7fd-049e-4437-8e59-f51f020fd57d

Political correctness the order of the day
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=f0e0369d-1f17-4045-9efc-38eb28d39a86

They came for the sushi
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=3291ef4f-5655-4692-8dab-5b712631a35a

This is gonna hurt
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=0c604625-23ef-47fd-b387-fa72994e4b78

ID works in mysterious ways
It is possible to believe in both God and science, but you can't mix the two, as proponents of 'intelligent design' attempt to do
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=711a0b47-29d5-426d-a273-a270817b000e

Tory bills aim below women's belts
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/456721

Pushing back against the bullies
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/456804

A carbon tax is a good tax
Layton plays politics while Dion proposes a necessary ingredient to fight global warming
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/456822

Fired public servant says he's a scapegoat for bosses' errors
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/07/09/food-labelling.html


INFOS 
Les pays émergents accueillent froidement les objectifs du G-8
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080709/N0709136AU.html

S. Dion estime que les déclarations de S. Harper sur les GES sont trop vagues
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080709/N070952AU.html

La firme Green Shift poursuit le PLC pour usage de son nom
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080709/N0709134AU.html

Le Canada était au courant du traitement réservé à Khadr à Cuba
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080709/N0709132AU.html

La famille d'un Canadien détenu en Chine presse Ottawa d'intervenir
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080709/N0709152AU.html

Prêt hypothécaire
Ottawa resserre les règles
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Economie-Affaires/2008/07/09/003-Pret-Hypotheque.shtml

Afghanistan
Charge contre Islamabad
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2008/07/09/009-afghanistan-pakistan-accusatio.shtml

États-Unis
Les écoutes antiterroristes encadrées
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2008/07/09/007-USA-ecoutes-antiterroristes.shtml

Agriculture
Vers une nouvelle politique canadienne
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2008/07/09/002-agriculture-canada.shtml

Production d'isotopes
Énergie atomique Canada poursuivie
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2008/07/09/001-MDS-EAC.shtml

Nucléaire iranien
Le message de Téhéran
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2008/07/09/001-iran_shahab.shtml

Réchauffement climatique
Les grands pollueurs demeurent vagues
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2008/07/09/002-G8-climat-mercredi.shtml

Sommet du G8: des avancées considérables, selon Harper
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080709/CPACTUALITES/80709103/1025/CPACTUALITES

Le G8 balaie les GES sous le tapis
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/07/09/197013.html


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From: alan heisey <hize@earthlink.net>
To: Joe Hueglin <joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca>
Subject: Re: Daily Digest July 7, 2008
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:11:15 -0400

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Personal phone 416 923 5381, fax 416 944 0133, south 239 513 0444  
This issue emailed from Honey Harbour.
I welcome comments, always, on contents and how to improve presentation.

Map breaks 106 Ontario edas into five regions of nearly equal 
population. They are labelled East; North; South West; West Lake; and 
Centre Lake. Electing regionally of party’s national councillors from 
four provinces with two or more councillors is said to get serious 
attention from Constitution Committee.

Will reproduce three drawings showing similar districtings as done by 
Doug Hawkins following Whitby-Oshawa/Ajax committee wishes, but only 
when I am  more comfortable with how to re-scale pdfs!

Publisher comments
(A shortened edition so I can enjoy Georgian Bay in early July!)
46 Toronto men and women we need to introduce

The late Hon. Dalton Bales “take” on our public party

Nine other St. Paul’s delegates’ names, please

Canvassing with federal candidate Heather Jewell

Finally (?) “Conservative News”, no less!

Websites are generally dreary!

Letter from Peggy Merritt

To be removed from this mailing list:

Publisher comments
(A not much shortened edition so I can enjoy Georgian Bay in early 
July!)

46 Toronto men and women we need to introduce

Your correspondent has been mulling over in his fevered brain just 
what could even yet be the objective of the upcoming promotional 
campaign especially for the GTA, as has been planned by party 
headquarters in Ottawa.

I consider the campaign theme, methodology and all that to be top 
secret and I will not reveal what I understand to be the details. 
Suffice it to say, it is appears to be the same old, (yawn), campaign 
rhetoric we read about in the national media.

Because I think there are substantial. different, needs for the city 
of Toronto “political desert” I have dared to dream up a local, 
alternate, campaign concept which the 23 Toronto ridings could pull 
together to possibly backstop the brilliant concepts of the Ottawa 
drive, or possibly even to move in on the (obeissance noted here, 
please, of the) national “song sheet.”

I suggest that our 23 city ridings produce “x” hundred thousand 
copies of a 4 page newaprint tabloid featuring both the candidates and 
the presidents of each of the 23 ridings in our town. The content 
would be very friendly, personal, introductions of candidate and 
president photographed together, approximately seven pairs to each 
page to allow the national president and national leader, again 
photographed togtether, on page one to introduce the theme of the 
tabloid. I use 59 coloumn inches to my tab pages so each team would 
have to be ruthlessly fitted into a module - possibly by using 6 point 
text, if they so chose to!,

I think, no, I know, such a tabloid could be created and printed in 
the next six weeks, so that it would be ready for distribution after 
Labour Day weekend in September. And the distribution would be no 
charge, since it would be built around YOU, yes, you, member of our 
party association, board of directors, or even local executive, 
massively swarming every subway station - and some key bus and tram 
stops over a two weeks period. You, again, the person reading this 
scribble,  should be phoned by your board’s election readyness 
officer and asked how many hours and on which days you will be 
prepared to offer to public transit users a copy of a fresh city 
pamphlet talking all about our local party’s neighbourhood leaders 
and how to join the associations and how to join the campaigns and how 
to matter, more than you ever did before, in strengthening the 
Conservative Party option for residents and workers in Toronto! Whew!

Please understand I know this could happen between now and Labour Day, 
but I am darn near positive it will not. First of all, I don’t think 
our riding associations and campaign teams are working as closely 
together as they would need to be to have 23 photos of pairs of their 
top local party leaders taken, and copy cranked together by each pair 
and approved by their association and campaign boards!

As I understand the rigid discipline of our national party there is no 
way that 23 teams of local people could be tolerated to write their 
own local perspectives on what they might choose, so very differently, 
to write in this, “the first subway series newsletter” founded by 
the vital, dynamic Conservative party and tradition in our great town!

Still, if we used our own $ in the ridings which got money back, and 
they could help the poorer ridings, with signed commitments from each 
worker as to how many copies they undertake to deliver, who knows how 
dyspeptic this would make the campaign executives in the nation’s 
capital!

Please understand that I would be pleased to help any such effort, 
because I personally witnessed the effectiveness of the NOMMP city- wide flyers delivered at the St. Clair subway station.

The late Hon. Dalton Bales “take” on our public party

Dalton Bales was M.P.P. for York Mills when I lived there many years 
ago. He thrilled me with his insight that we were members “of a 
public party working in a public way, for the public purpose”!

I have never heard it put so well, but followers of this diatribe will 
know how little respect I have for the private way we treat most 
innocent communications within our party about it and its public 
purposes. So I suggest for our party in Toronto, especially, thinking 
long and hard about “the public way” as a new approach to building  
awareness and then endorsements among the good, but unpersuaded 
burghers of our town!

I think of the recent speech at the Albany Club of the Hon. Jim 
Prentice as just one of literally hundreds of occasions which we keep 
ruthlessly off the record and members only, while nearby, open-minded 
voters wait to hear more, and from more, local as well as national 
voices.

Nine other St. Paul’s delegates’ names, please

The all-pervasive secrecy of my own riding could not be better 
illustrated than in “the affair” of the elected delegates to the 
national convention in Winnipeg. The delgates were photographed, 
charmingly, with their candidate and president, and the photos were 
apparently forwarded without names to local papers for possible 
insertion. The delegate selection meeting was a major event in the St. 
Paul’s web site and newsletter, but not a word about who was elected 
appears in the website since, and since we do not send out emails 
about any such event, nuthin’ there, either!

Having been rejected in my last two attempts to be elected to the St. 
Paul’s board I was pleased to be chosen as one of the ten delegates 
to Winnipeg. For purely vanity reasons I would like to have my name 
and the other nine delegates listed in a communication to the 
membership because frankly I do no have a clue who some of the other 
delegates are though I do have a copy of the photo which was taken.

I’ll go further. I would like to have their email addresses and even 
their phone nubers since I can imagine reasons to meet before hand to 
see what issues are of special concern. But getting that kind of basic 
communication information is hard, very hard, really impossible in our 
association, overwhelmed as it is with Privacy Act fears, mostly 
misplaced!

Canvassing with federal candidate Heather Jewell

Following the pleasant half afternon pattern I spent in the provincial 
campaign knocking on doors in my own condo building with Lillyann 
Goldstein we repeated the exercise recently with Heather Jewell who 
got a good reception at the doors though one or two wondered why 
before the election. Heather had a voter’s list with her which we 
marked up as we went and it will prove helpful for my (later) 
canvassing during the campaign.

By the way nobody has told me that I am the steward for this building 
but I assume so until otherwise advised. I understand that members of 
the board are now introducing our candidate into their own buildings 
or neighourhoods. She also advised me that we now have a membership 
convenor on the board and when I get his name I intend challenging all 
others in the association for biggest paid up me,mbership increase in 
my own poll!

Because I have no restrictions on other use of the delegates photo 
except in my newsletter I posted it prominently on our bulletin board 
the day previously with the following mention - also sent it to those 
fellow residents whose email address I know:
To residents of Avoca Vale,
Friends,
Tomorrow, late afternoon, Tuesday, June 24th from 4:30 p.m. I will 
call at your door to briefly introduce the Conservative Party 
candidate for St. Paul’s, Heather Jewell. Heather has been 
purposefully canvassing homes and apartments across our local 
neighbourhoods for some months and looks forward to having an 
opportunity to say hello.

Here is a photo of Heather taken earlier this month when the local 
Conservative association elected delegates for their biennial 
convention in Winnipeg next November. Heather is fifth person from the 
right, your correspondent is the old geezer on the far left.
Cordially

Finally (?) “Conservative News”, no less!

Huzzahs to whomever is the anonymous editor of Conservative News, 
(membership news). The apparent first edition arrived in my email in 
tray without fanfare, and looks to be inclined to help build awareness 
of the Winnipeg convention, which is a good thing. It carries only one 
item about what a great job our government is doing and then gets down 
to three aspects of party operations which will be of general interest 
so I reproduce them here, to encourage the faceless one.Will be 
intereste3d to see how often  the publication appears and some details 
on just how many of the party’s membership get it:

Conservative Party Makes the Move to a Revolving Membership Year

This summer the Conservative Party of Canada membership program will 
make the change to a revolving membership year. Currently, memberships 
in the Conservative Party expire on the last day of the calendar year, 
regardless of the date of purchase. On July 1st we will be moving to a 
revolving membership year where memberships will expire throughout the 
calendar year, depending on the start date of the membership. This 
means that as a current member of the Conservative Party, your 
membership expiry date may be changing. Read More... Tell a Friend...

It's Official! Convention 08 to be held November 13-15 in Winnipeg, MB

It's official! The Conservative Party of Canada's Convention 08 will 
be held from November 13-15 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a member of the 
party, this is your chance to have a say in the future of our Party by 
voting for delegates who will attend the convention or running for a 
delegate spot yourself at your local Delegate Selection Meeting (DSM). 
Read More... Tell a Friend...

2008 Maple Leafs Awards - Get your Nominations in Today!

The first-ever Maple Leafs Awards will be awarded at the Conservative 
Party's Convention 08 this November. There will be 6 awards handed out 
to EDAs and individuals for their outstanding contributions. If you 
know of a volunteer who is deserving, please consider nominating them. 
For more information and for the nomination form, please visit the 
Convention 08 Website and follow the link to the 2008 Maple Leafs 
Awards. Read More... Tell a Friend...


Websites are generally dreary!

Doug Hawkins, reliable correspondent from Whitby-Oshawa, made my day 
when he told me that following my concerns about their web site they 
did check and find that one person listed had been dead for some time 
and the president was not, as I understood it, not listed at all!
I have decided that while I think web sites are greatly over-rated 
because they are so often edited by people who want to spend the 
smallest amount of time on them, they have possibilities. So rather 
than try to monitor the 40 + web sites in the GTA I am going to look 
up regularly both the riding and the Member’s web site for Whitby-
Oshawa since they should be the best of the bunch! Am too tired to 
review them again this evening but promise regular attention. Also 
look forward to seeing the Minister of Finance on his web site say 
something about the Conservative party and why his constituents should 
consider it! Last time I scanned it, it, like most other M.P.’s 
sites, never mentions the local chaps and ladies what brung ‘em.

Letter from Peggy Merritt

Hi Al:  Thanks for fwding you earthworm.  The print was tiny but I
have now learned how to enlarge it! Keep up the good work I think
the chances of improving communications in this city are just about
nil and until this happens I cannot see any chance of WINNING SEATS.
In my opinion Ottawa are terrified that with the large concentration
of seats in TO we may take over the ship. I question why we are
asked to spend $650 plus to go to freezing Winnipeg as token
followers when the so called national executive do not ask for any
input from us peasants. We have four elected (count 'em) V.P's from
the Metro area who represent all of Ontario, do you know who they
are? One of the purposes of this big Winnipeg meeting is to elect a
new national president and the delegates in Ontario elect Ontario
V.P.'s As for policy issues who knows, this is another big mystery.
One thing that is good about being a volunteer political junkie is
that they can't fire you.  I think our leader has done a magnificent
job and we do need to have a majority government but I don't hold
much hope for TO.  All the best Peggy

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