Daily Digest October 2, 2008

The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN�S to VICTORIA.
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Totally irrelevant to the election but there's a movement to negotiations, aside from the American's who are into widening conflict into Pakistan on the one hand and renting tribesmen with the other. Wonder which the Government of Canada supports as the best means of getting out at the end of 2011?

New head of ISI; Karzai calls for Taliban talks
Eric Margolis: Political stability is unattainable in Afghanistan without dialog with the Taliban
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2455&updaterx=2008-10-02+12%3A18%3A45

AFGHANISTAN -
Kabul and the coming chaos
The Guardian (10/02/2008)

A Surge of Will in Afghanistan
Council on Foreign Relations (10/02/2008)

Petraeus's next war
The Economist (10/02/2008)

Talking to the Taliban
The Economist (10/02/2008)

"The Afghan Plight - Why the West is on the verge of failing at the Hindukush"
United Press International (10/02/2008)

Afghanistan's Very Careful Tour Guides
TIME (10/02/2008)

Afghan dictator a better bet: envoy
The Age (10/02/2008)

British ambassador warns against Afghan surge
The Independent, UK (10/02/2008)

NATO Aims at Afghans Whose Drugs Aid Militants
The New York Times (10/02/2008)

Chorus of failure grows ever louder over Afghanistan
The Sydney Morning Herald (10/02/2008)

Election Coverage

CTV Coverage
CBC Coverage
G&M Coverage
Maclean's Coverage
Nat-Post Coverage
Canada.com
Sun Media
Canoe


How they played in Quebec
A special post-debate edition of our regular look at what the francophone press is saying about the federal campaign
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081002.WFrancais02/BNStory/Front

French-language debate breakdown
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081002.WStrategists02/BNStory/politics/home

Welcome to Harper's bubble
Nothing unexpected, no one uninvited, everything in its place
http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/art icle.jsp?content=20081001_11108_11108

Dion the Clear Winner: Ipsos Reid Poll
An Ipsos Reid poll for Canwest News Service and Global National late Wednesday night found Liberal Leader Stephane Dion emerged as the clear winner of the French debate. MORE...

• Ipsos-Reid poll: Dion the clear winner (MS Word)
  
  
• Duceppe and Dion, the big winners
  
  
• Leaders attack Harper's economic policies
  
  
• Harper gang-tackled in French debate
• Harper misrepresented climate change in French debate: Pembina
• http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2008/10/01/HarperClimateFrenchDebate/
• French Debate: Stephen Harper does the Rope-a-Dope
• http://www.jameslaxer.com/2008/10/french-debate-stephen-harper-does-rope.html
• Only Harper, Duceppe mattered.. MORE...
  
  
• Few answers from opposition.. MORE...
  
  
• Dion finds the passion he's been hiding since election called. MORE...
  
  
• Debate format, linguistic disadvantage hobbles Harper.. MORE...
• Harper? Dion? No matter who wins, all Canadians will lose.. MORE...
• Liberals, the blame is all yours.. MORE...
• The contradictory life of a controversial woman.. MORE...
  
  
• So much for Mad Max Bernier and Bikergate. MORE...
  
  
• Bernier is no Bouchard. MORE...
  
  
• The twisted politics of Nova Scotia... MORE...
  
  
• Scandals abound but voters just don't seem to care. MORE...
  
  
• The wreckage of Harper-Bush policies
• Siddiqui: Stephen Harper may not have known that his 2003 speech urging Canada to join the war on Iraq had been plagiarized from then-Aussie Prime Minister John Howard. But he did wholeheartedly agree with its contents. MORE...
  
  
• What's it all mean?. MORE...
  
  
• Liberal hopes bellwether has tolled for last time. MORE...
  
  
• Faith in justice on the ropes. MORE...
• Majority government will likely elude Conservative grasp
• Dion has the most to gain in English leaders' debate, poll says
  
  
• B.C. Tory candidate won $578,590 contract
• The Harper government gave a $578,590 contract to a small consulting company run by a Vancouver sociologist after she became a Conservative party candidate.
  
  
• Layton big carbon offender
  
  
• Another stunning loss of Arctic ice: report
  
  
• Student visa fraud rampant
  
  
• Liberals, NDP, Greens want fall session for fiscal update
  
  
• No more troops says NDP
  
  
• Most voters support public funding for CBC, poll finds
  
  
• Williams rips Tories' 'ugly head'
  
  
• Author blasts Harper's 'dismissal' of arts community
  
  
• Tory candidates avoiding debates
  
  
• `This is an enraged woman'
  
  
• Bernier 'totally destroyed my life'
  
  
• Public inquiry needed in Bernier case: opposition
  
  
• Bernier dismisses Couillard allegations as 'marketing strategy'
  
  
• NDP candidate lashes out at courts
  
  
• Liberal MP looks for wedge in tight race
  
  
• Anders' absence angers seniors
  
  
• Ontario needs $11.8 billion in federal cash: McGuinty
  
  
• Provincial minister blasts Harper
  
  
• Listeriosis toll reaches 20 with new death in T.O.

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