Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Daily Digest September 17, 2008


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

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"We should expect acrimony at NATO over the situation in Pakistan. War by committee is always difficult, but these strikes into Pakistan have caused discomfort in Europe because there doesn't appear to be a clear strategy behind it – or certainly not a strategy that has been discussed seriously by America's allies," said Etienne de Durand, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies at the French Institute for International Relations in Paris.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/500507

Too late for much tonight/this morning and though Afghanistan aside from the cost is not an issue with the exception of the cost of the Mission at the NATO meeting where will Canada be situation in differenes of opinion others have with US actions and proposed actions?

         Joe
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EDITORIALs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Gambling in court

CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Let's get moving

CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Unique factors at play in P.E.I. campaign

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Bring Abdelrazik home

A step in the right direction

Protecting Canadians

OTTAWA SUN -
Health care needs radical surgery

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
Will fear of a Liberal carbon tax shift votes to the NDP?

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Deploy DART before it's too late

GLOBE & MAIL -
When warning, don't speak softly
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.wedodge17/BNStory/specialComment/home

An election, not a soap
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.weliberals17/BNStory/politics/home

Citizens' right to return
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.weabdelrazik17/BNStory/specialComment/home

NATIONAL POST -
Big Brother's unlikely critic
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=794956

HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
The elephant has sneezed

WINDSOR STAR -
Afghanistan 

Canada must finish the job

SUDBURY STAR -
In the line of duty

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Finally, a yardstick
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4227047p-4865262c.html

REGINA LEADER-POST -
Wall's Green Shift intervention could focus heat on Tory plan

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Nomination vote leaves many out

VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
Under-achieving B-team players fumbling on climate change too

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Strange bedfellows attack carbon taxes


ISSUES

AFGHANISTAN -
 More on USA Wanting Sole Command (And Some Allies Worry?)

US pushes Pakistan towards the brink

UK DefMin:  NATO Must Transform to Win

U.S. Confirms Drone Attack in Pakistani Tribal Region 

US strikes Taliban camp in South Waziristan
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/09/us_strikes_taliban_c.php

Pakistani army threatens U.S. with retaliation
New President says he has British support in condemning unilateral U.S. attacks in tribal territory
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080916.wpakistan17/BNStory/International/home

Pakistani backlash feared
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/500507

 Pakistan's havens

Call to stop war in Pashtun heartland
Pajhwok (09/17/2008)
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Taliban 'receiving arms from Iran'
AKI (09/17/2008)
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Taliban leader welcomes Canadian pullout date
Military-world.net (09/17/2008)
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Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2009 - US President
The White House (09/17/2008)
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Afghanistan's kidnapping industry
BBC (09/17/2008)
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Afghanistan in Backward Slide, Analysts Say
Voice of America (09/17/2008)
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Afghan bomb kills four US-led coalition soldiers
AFP (09/17/2008)
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Gates regret over Afghan civilians killed in air strike
AFP (09/17/2008)


CANUSA/USACAN
U.S. Investor Threatens First Ever Health Care Suit
Successive governments both Liberal and Tory have long insisted that Canadian trade negotiators succeeded in "grandfathering" medicare under NAFTA


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Ottawa provokes diplomatic flap

Crisis in Caucasus to be the hot topic at Toronto summit

Crisis curdles China's booming dairy market
HEALTH CARE RELATED
A $13B question for health czars


JUSTICE SYSTEM
Where's Canada's oversight to protect human rights?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.wcoarar218/BNStory/specialComment/home


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
The winner takes on the provinces


PARTY POLITICS
Harper wins delay of hearing on Cadman tape

Tories defend interests of Quebec nationalists: PM

A majority is not to be feared, Harper says

The Conservative leader Stephen Harper continued his charm company in Quebec yesterday
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledevoir.com%2F2008%2F09%2F18%2F206195.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en


POLITICAL OPINION -
Harper dances around the 'M' word
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/17/david-akin-stephen-harper-dances-around-the-m-word.aspx

 Grin and bear it

Dion's like a Tory after all

Stephane Dion to Bob Rae: No more help please; it's killing me
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/17/dion-to-rae-no-more-help-please-it-s-killing-me.aspx

Dion's feel-good aboriginal-rights gambit: Nice optics, but how many billions would this cost us?
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/17/jonathan-kay-on-dion-s-feel-good-aboriginal-rights-gambit-nice-optics-but-how-many-billions-would-this-cost-us.aspx

A big-team approach may turn the game around for Dion
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080917.wcomartin18/BNStory/politics/home


PROGRAMMES
Editorial accuses Ottawa in outbreak
The editorial takes aim at the Conservative government's decision to transfer inspection duties for ready-to-eat meats to the meat industry itself, while allowing listeria standards to remain lower than they are in most countries and reducing the Public Health Agency of Canada's political clout.

OPINION AND INFORMATION
'Crooked' EI needs fixing

The view from the graveyard of empires

Harper economics


INFOS 
Québec remet les pendules à l'heure
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/09/18/206195.html

Les promesses des libéraux et du NPD alimentent les attaques de Harper
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080917/N0917176AU.html

Le ministre Ritz a fait des blagues déplacées sur la crise de listériose
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080917/N0917190AU.html

Harper accueilli par des manifestants en colère; des rumeurs assaillent Dion
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080916/N0916138AU.html

Guerre en Afghanistan
Débat sur le coût
http://elections.radio-canada.ca/elections/federales2008/2008/09/16/023-guerre-afghanistan-cout.shtml

Campagne électorale
La bataille de l'Ontario
http://elections.radio-canada.ca/elections/federales2008/2008/09/16/010-Ontario-bataille-election.shtml

 Dion multiplie les promesses électorales coûteuses

Des candidates bloquistes mettent en garde contre la droite

Affrontement Dion-Harper sur les finances publiques

La bataille électorale sur le front de l'Afghanistan


Ritz in hot water over wisecracks during listeria outbreak MORE...

For Liberals, it should be 'the economy, stupid MORE...

Mounties doing Harper's dirty work MORE...

An election, not a soap MORE...

Strange bedfellows attack carbon taxes MORE...

If warming threat is real, why are leaders so timid?. MORE...

Harper's unnerving confidence. MORE...

'Nation' resolution marks the beginning of the Bloc's decline MORE...

An economics lesson for Stephen Harper. MORE...

Warm and fuzzy Harper is an election tactic MORE...

Debate decision puts Green Party on a roll. MORE...

In election 2008, as in 2006, the world just doesn't exist MORE...

'Crooked' EI needs fixing. MORE...

There's no life like it? Tell us more, Mr. Harper. MORE...

Nationwide shift away from tax MORE...

Squeezing gas gougers not easy. MORE...

The land the election forgot MORE...

Close the immigrant success gap MORE...

Shoving abortion down doctors' throats MORE...

Cadman tape silenced by court delay

 CRTC chairmanship to switch between French, English: Harper

 B.C. NDP candidate resigns

 Harper OKs release of Afghan cost report

Latest CPAC-Nanos Tracking
CP 38, LP 31, NDP 17, GP 7, BQ 7

Shorter delivery delay of choppers possible: MacKay

DND seeks armed drones by 2012

Tories Well Placed to Take Military Votes

Dion refuses to categorically rule out deficit
 Dion promises massive funding boost for universities, students

Harper dismisses spending promises as 'mind-boggling'

CBC accused of breaking election polling policy

 Layton proposes 150,000 new child-care spaces

 Lung association pleased with Tory tobacco promise

Green Party platform promises tax cuts, GST hike

Tory majority still in reach, poll suggests

 A majority is not to be feared, Harper says

 Strong government needed: Harper

Do something about rising fuel costs, feds told

 No Issues, It's About Choosing a Leader

 The Test: Ethnic Voters Could Make or Break Tories

 Minority faiths tend to go liberal

Liberals turn to Rae to rescue campaign

Liberal President disputes campaign friction

 Campaign Buzz: 'Herbert Hoover in a blue sweater'

 Liberals hold slim lead among young voters, poll suggests

 Tory lead shrinking, new poll suggests

 Cabinet minister confident of Tory breakthrough on P.E.I.

 Does Layton have a chance of overtaking Dion?

 Canada's Liberals headed for third-place finish: poll

Tough-on-crime laws will go through: Harper

 Liberals unveil B.C. election platform

Tories admit disputed campaign ads were national

Tory dissenters 'idiots, turds'

Desperate Bloc playing on Quebec's anxieties: Tory minister

 Diesel fuel tax cut will only help oil companies: Duceppe

 Yahoo? Who's there? NDP leading in name game
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