Daily Digest September 2, 2008

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

EDITORIALs

CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Poor decision on arts funding

CAPE BRETON POST -
May pulls off technical coup print this article
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=167445&sc=151

AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
It would be a beginning

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Putin is learning it's easier to win a war than a peace

GLOBE & MAIL -
The reading habit forms in childhood
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080902.wereading02/BNStory/specialComment/home

How not to procure
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080902.wenavy02/BNStory/specialComment/home

HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Election could hamper Harper

K-W RECORD -
Native dispute requires clarity

WINDSOR STAR -
Harper's fixed date

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Cold Arctic realities

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Greens get MP through backdoor


ISSUES

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -          
Native protesters charged in Caledonia


AFGHANISTAN -
Afghanistan 'viable state' by 2011: Canada's outgoing envoy
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080902.wlalani0902/BNStory/International/home
Comments ( 83)

Ways forward in Afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/02/afghanistan.pakistan

One man has put himself at the centre of a country's battle against corruption
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/afghanistan

US probe finds fewer Afghan dead

Goncharov: NATO repeating Soviet mistake in Afghanistan
The Salt Lake Tribune (09/02/2008)

5 Afghan children killed in raids
The Associated Press (09/02/2008)

Ways forward in Afghanistan
The Guardian (09/02/2008)

Selling the Taliban
Wall Street Journal (09/02/2008)

Afghan children killed by Nato fire
Agencies (09/02/2008)

3 Afghan children killed in Western artillery strike
Los Angeles Times (09/02/2008)


CANADIAN FORCES
Ottawa to compensate soldiers who took part in atomic tests
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080902.wmackayatomic0902/BNStory/National/home


CANUSA/USACAN
Zaccardelli faults U.S. government for Arar's deportation


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
800 jobs lost in Welland


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Georgia shows Canada was rash on Kosovo

Russia rushed in


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Federal Resources minister slams B.C. carbon tax
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080902.wbclunn0902/BNStory/National/home


PARTY POLITICS
Caucus pressure drives Dion to make concessions in green plan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080902.wtaberdion0902/BNStory/National/home

Conservative pre-election ad focuses on Harper, stresses leadership


POLITICAL OPINION -
Polls differ on parties' popularity as election call draws near
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/02/polls-differ-on-parties-popularity-as-election-call-draws-near.aspx

Tories unveil $60 million of pre-election goodies

Ritz: Listeriosis not election issue

Tory cuts awaken a sleeping Quebec giant

Step One for Dion is to get his own MPs on side
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/02/don-martin-step-one-for-dion-is-to-get-his-own-mps-on-side.aspx

Harper is willing to risk it all on the outside chance of a majority
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/408145

Fiscal record proves Tory weakness


PROGRAMMES
Canada at grave risk if national disaster strikes: Senate report


OPINION AND INFORMATION
The oilsands are an asset that strengthen the bonds of Confederation
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/02/crude-future-the-oilsands-are-an-asset-that-strengthen-the-bonds-of-confederation.aspx

Economics dictates that we'll never run out of oil
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/02/crude-future-economics-dictates-that-we-ll-never-run-out-of-oil.aspx

Policing the rights police
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/02/lorne-gunter-ontario-s-human-rights-police-seek-to-slap-the-cuffs-on-doctors.aspx

Who will lead Team Canada to polar glory?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080829.wcoarctic02/BNStory/specialComment/home

Can Western Canada avoid economic checkmate?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080902.wcohirsch02/BNStory/specialComment/home

Cities in need of federal help

The altar of ideology  


INFOS 
Affaire Maher Arar: Giuliano Zaccardelli blâme les Etats-Unis
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080902/N0902189AU.html

Dion annoncera des ajouts à son "tournant vert" pour répondre aux inquiétudes
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080902/N0902135AU.html

Harper annoncerait une aide financière pour rouvir une usine en Ontario
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080902/N0902153AU.html

Ottawa compensera des militaires ayant pris part à des tests de radioactivité
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080902/N0902155AU.html

Dépenses électorales 2006: un délai pourrait avantager les conservateurs
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080902/N0902173AU.html

Débats des chefs: le Parti vert embauche un avocat pour faire inclure May
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/080902/N090269AU.html

Winnipeg
Les libéraux se préparent
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2008/09/02/007-Caucus-Winnipeg.shtml

Situations d'urgence
Le Canada n'est pas prêt
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/ottawa/2008/09/02/002-canada-urgence_n.shtml

Les ministres Emerson et Hearn ne tenteront pas de se faire réélire
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080902/CPACTUALITES/80902407/1025/CPACTUALITES

Dion annoncera des ajouts à son «tournant vert»
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080902/CPACTUALITES/80902272/1025/CPACTUALITES

L'obstacle Dion est levé
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/09/02/203667.html


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Harper to announce cash for Ford plant

Tories unveil $60 million of pre-election goodies

Palin understands Canadian issues, Conservative MP says

Federal Resources minister slams B.C. carbon tax

'Anything but Conservative' campaign hurting N.L. Tories: source

N.S. government attacks Ottawa's arts cuts

Dion dismisses gloomy poll

Greens hire lawyer to fight for debate spot

John Deere factory in Ontario to close, 800 jobs lost

Dion pushes economy at Sask. meeting

Canada's economy will slow to a crawl: OECD

TSX plunges amid energy sell-off

Tory MP Batters announces he will not seek re-election

Liberals MPs gather to draw up election strategy

Canada not ready to respond to emergencies: report

Bureaucratic bafflegab hobbles disaster readiness, report says

Even Liberals don't get carbon tax plan: Kenney

Poll shows public against private mail delivery

Harper Tories on the brink of majority, poll finds

Stage set for October election

Call to polls Oct. 14

Economy framed as opening election battleground

'Huge risks' in campaign for 3 leaders

Ritz: Listeriosis not election issue

LISTERIOSIS OUTBREAK: A 'MEAT-AND-POTATOES' ELECTION ISSUE?

Health chief defends wait to warn public of listeria

12 deaths confirmed from listeriosis outbreak

Critics slam changes to aircraft safety inspection system

Green Shift support declining, poll shows

Tories quiet as questions surround Emerson's political future

Grits talk shop with potential Baird rivals

Election 'stock' traders: Prepare your picks

Flaherty won't budge on mortgage bonds

PM stands in shadow cast by world poverty

Ottawa pulls $100,000 from B.C. Sierra Club's climate-change initiative

Arctic icemelt a rising danger

Australia reports unusual reaction to HPV shots

Aussie soldiers admit Taliban held in dog cages

Stephen Harper needs an election. But what about the rest of us? MORE...

With an election looming, what's the Big Question?  MORE...

No reason for an election other than opportunism MORE...

Election cam-pain? MORE...

Harper knows the score  MORE...

Slogging through an election  MORE...

Taking a tactical cue from the Republicans
Armchair politicians who are perplexed by why the federal Tories sometimes play up divisive social conservative issues such
as opposition to same-sex marriage need look no further than today's poll. It's all about shoring up the party's core vote. MORE...

Liberals gather in city with battle ahead MORE...

A handmaid's tale
Will Ontario doctors be forced to ignore personal beliefs just to please a pompous human rights commission?  MORE...

Protect Canadians or save a few cents on the GST?  MORE...

Georgia shows Canada was rash on Kosovon
Harper announced that Canada would recognize Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence
many decried  this decision as a violation of the United Nations charter. MORE...

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Just how many commercials is the Conservative Party running on Canadian airwaves this week, taking advantage of the fact that the official Election Spending Meter only starts clicking once Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes that long walk across the street to the Governor General's house to ask her to dissolve Parliament.

A few minutes ago, I walked into our family room to pry my 9-year-old daughter away from the television set for bedtime only to find her watching a Conservative pre-election ad on YTV during the SpongeBob SquarePants show. "What did the ad say," I asked. "Oh, that Stephen Harper is a good leader and he is on the right path," my 9-year-old replied matter of factly.

Too bad for Stephen Harper that she and many of SpongeBob's other underage fans are several years away from actually being able to vote for him.

http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/onthehill/archive/2008/09/02/sponge-bob-squarepants-for-harper.aspx

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