The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
ARCHIVED at http://cdndailydigest.blogspot.com/
EDITORIALs ARCHIVED at http://cdndailydigest.blogspot.com/
HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
The bear is back and bad
MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Cancellation of new ships is bad news for our navy
SUDBURY STAR -
Harper ready to snap: quick election represents his best chance to win
WINNIPEG SUN -
Give me money, I'm 'uncertain'
EDMONTON SUN -
Panic over meat is foolish
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/Commentary/2008/08/31/6622871-sun.html
VANCOUVER SUN -
Dealing with the cause of criminal behaviour is new court's mission
VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
We must tackle binge drinking
VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Superbugs pose health-care threat
EMBASSY MAGAZINE
Stephen Harper's Vision for the North
http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2008/august/27/editorial/
ISSUES
AFGHANISTAN -
Obama to push for more EU troops in Afghanistan
Five killed in al Qaeda safe house strike in South Waziristan
Two Canadian Arabs were reported killed in the attack, the third such attack in South Waziristan and eight in Pakistan's tribal areas this year.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/five_killed_after_al.php
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Pipsqueak creates crisis
Georgian Conflict Reveals NATO Divides
UK WARNS OVER 'RUSSIA AGGRESSION'
Russia will not hold us to ransom - Brown
Russia: Moscow calls for more observers in Georgia
Russia remains a Black Sea power
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH30Ag02.html
Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as 'cold war' escalates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2651516/Russia-threatens-to-supply-Iran-with-top-new-missile-system-as-cold-war-escalates.html
Russia-Syria weapons deal alarms US
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2604284/Russia-Syria-weapons-deal-alarms-US.html
PARTY POLITICS
Steady Conservatives Lead Liberals in Canada
Federal Liberals and Conservatives gripped in a tie
Nanos Research/Sun Media Poll 29.08.08 [ PDF]
Dion to meet Harper Monday
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Greens claim TV debate spot
POLITICAL OPINION -
Harper ready to snap
PM slammed for 'quitting job' as Tories say election likely
Harper must marry leadership and trust
The next election is about leadership and trust.
In Ottawa, a week of heavy jockeying
Ignoring cherished Tory values
The Canadian Parliament can Function if the Power is Tranfered to the Opposition Parties
Outlook less bleak, poll finds
PROGRAMMES
Should we have been told sooner about listeria?
CRTC tells new TV porn channel to use homegrown talent
OPINION AND INFORMATION
The Tories as suave internationalists? Don't bet your cowboy boots
Feds fund culture giants, while ignoring wealth of homegrown talent
Islam's reformists should give westerners hopeINFOS
Politique fédérale
Si la tendance se maintient...
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2008/08/31/001-dion-layton-harper.shtml
Listériose
Une 10e victime confirmée
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2008/08/30/001-listeriose-samedi.shtml
Le NPD prêt pour la bataille
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080831/CPACTUALITES/80830004/1025/CPACTUALITES
Élections partielles: voter avant de voter
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080831/CPACTUALITES/808310464/1025/CPACTUALITES
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APPLYING A P.I.T. TEST
The P.M.O. ia in the process of developing a Personal Integrity Test, a "P.I.T.", for potential borrowers"APPLYING A P.I.T. TEST
Dimitri Soudas, spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, said in an e-mail to the Canadian Press on Saturday that "Alfonso Gagliano receiving a loan from Farm Credit Canada was disturbing."
Soudas said the Tories are in the process of tightening the guidelines that Crown corporations must take into account when loaning money.
He said that means all federal Crown corporations engaged in commercial lending will have to take into account "the personal integrity" of an individual during the review of that person's loan application. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/08/30/gagliano-farm.html
Another test for which P.I.T. can serve as an acronym is Political Integrity Test.
Here's "un défi", a challenge: what argument(s) would you present before a body of undecided voters for and/or against Stephen Harper deserving to pass a Political Integrity Test?
The Digest is posted to 3500 + addresses directly. How many more through it being passed on I've no idea.
Beyond doubt some reading it are among the undecided who may choose to express questions.
Any one up to thechallenge?
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From: "Rebecca Gingrich" <r.gingrich@sympatico.ca>Subject: [On-Guard] DD
Joe--David Bell has hit the nail on the head! Our governments can make all
the rules they want to, it accomplishes nothing. Governments have, over the
years, demanded more and more power over every facet of our lives.
Incompetence always follows. As with any organization, the organization
becomes of prime importance, and their reason for being falls by the
wayside. We are taught to believe that our governments are all knowing, all
powerful, and all seeing. Time and time again we see the fact that the
Emperor has no clothes, and yet the game still keeps being played. The
taxpayer funds porn http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jun/040618b.html
while we are dying from contaminated food, drugs and other products. Now
Canadians know what is important to our government!
I don't know the practice in the ROC, but in Alberta they already have
veterinarians in abattoirs. At least they did 20 years ago in private
abattoirs.
Words on paper are written regularily but nothing changes. No one follows
them, but it covers the government's collective ass. That is the only real
purpose of the rules. We have people and products bringing disease into
Canada and no one cares. The governments don't even follow their own rules.
Political correctness is the ultimate law. The government will throw more
of our money at the issue, but nothing will change. We are past the point
of no return.
becky
My response, though granted at times far back is beyond our ken : -
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
Say not the Struggle nought Availeth
2The labour and the wounds are vain,
3The enemy faints not nor faileth,
4And as things have been, things remain;
5If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
6It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
7Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers--
8And, but for you, possess the field.
9For while the tired waves vainly breaking
10Seem here no painful inch to gain,
11Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
12Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
13And not by eastern windows only,
14When daylight comes, comes in the light,
15In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
16But westward, look! the land is bright.
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