The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
A question of getting a grip
HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
CRTC hearings: Should the Internet be regulated?
N.S. steering steady course during financial crisis
AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
Questions long on good opposition
MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Sarkozy's message bad for sovereignists
OTTAWA CITIZEN -
The MRI is no magic box
Energy greed and good
KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
CUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING
It's time Canadians reined in our culture of waste
SMALL ADVANCES FOR TORIES
The sun appears to be setting on imperial America
Where are the role models for Canada's young women?
WHY SO MANY DON'T VOTE
BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Tories vs. the media? It works for me
TORONTO STAR -
Windmills vs. NIMBYism
Why water costs more
MPPs and the economy
GLOBE & MAIL -
A long road to justice
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081020.wesoldier20/BNStory/specialComment/home
Silencing critics
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081020.werussia20/BNStory/specialComment/home
Invest in trains
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081020.werail20/BNStory/specialComment/home
HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Hope for reform
K-W RECORD -
The Green party has to evolve
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Fight the recession or fight global warming?
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4240195p-4883318c.html
WINNIPEG SUN -
Harper's only scary in Quebec
SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Canada needs to stress value of voting booth
Reliable diesel supply vital to Canada
REGINA LEADER-POST -
A good idea goes down with Dion's defeat
CALGARY HERALD -
Canadians are a censored people
GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
No quick fix for Liberals - McKenna likely best bet to lead party - if he wants to
EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Will Harper resist urge to employ tribal politics?
Apes are people, too
An environmental opportunity squandered
LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
This baby is long overdue
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=556&Itemid=56
VANCOUVER SUN -
Cool heads must prevail during these trying economic times
In defence of 'Greed'
VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
Ban phoning while driving
VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Green should be the colour of money for Canadians
Dion was determined to show us the way
ISSUES
ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -
Judge at head of residential school investigation resigns
AFGHANISTAN -
US eyes a 'grand' Afghan bargain
U.K. Tory MP: We are losing Taliban battle
Nato's Afghan effort 'disjointed'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7681166.stm
Taliban kill Christian aid worker in Afghanistan
Previous USA Commander in AFG Didn't Like Airstrikes - More
"Afghan NGOs are teaching human rights and Islamic law along with calls to end the war with a national peace jirga."
Taliban Propaganda Watch: Showing Off Captured French Kit, Weapon
Opinion: "Now, with all that pesky democracy out of the way, is it safe to talk about Afghanistan again?"
"We are losing Taliban battle"
The Independent (10/20/2008)
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Security developments in Afghanistan
Reuters (10/20/2008)
Fighting In A "Hornet's Nest"
CBS, 60 Minutes (10/20/2008)
NATO's political will "wavering" in Afghanistan
Reuters (10/20/2008)
British aid worker killed as Afghan violence spreads
Reuters (10/20/2008)
Debating Rubin and Rashid
Registan.net (10/20/2008)
Moving Towards a 'Grand Bargain'
Inter Press Service (10/20/2008)
Afghanistan's emerging antiwar movement
The Christian Science Monitor (10/20/2008)
Minister fails to answer corruption allegations
Qoqnoos (10/20/2008)
From Great Game to Grand Bargain
Foreign Affairs (10/20/2008)
Winter hardship in Afghanistan
BBC (10/20/2008)
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the decline of American power
Reuters Blogs (10/20/2008)
TV's Koran Idol keeps Afghan clerics at bay
The Sunday Times, UK (10/20/2008)
The Mission Possible in Afghanistan
The Sunday Times, UK (10/20/2008)
CANADIAN FORCES
Military to spend $100M to detect roadside bombs
CANUSA/USACAN
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Possible deficit a better option than spending cuts, tax hikes: economists
Financial system reform: Harper's position frustrates Charest
Ottawa poised to bolster bank lending
Financial crisis spurs premiers
Flaherty won't rule out federal deficits
Flaherty expects 'modest' surplus this year
Financial turmoil forces PM to reconsider campaign pledges
Economists warn Harper government...
Bank of Canada expected to trim rate
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Kurd attacks reveal hypocrisy
NATO reaches into the Indian Ocean
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JJ21Df03.html
Adapt now, or lose
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/20/nato-afghanistan
HEALTH CARE RELATED
JUSTICE SYSTEM
Opening arguments in Ont. HIV murder case
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081020/HIV_trial_081020/20081020?hub=Canada
MIGRATION
POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Premiers want federal-provincial talks on economy
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081020/Premiers_meeting_081020/20081020?hub=Canada
Harper needs to hold federal-provincial meeting as soon as possible: premiers
McGuinty sends strong warning of deficit
Ontario's enhanced ID cards will be 'privacy nightmare': critics
Economy top of agenda at premiers' meeting
Williams congratulates Harper, tries to bury hatchet
PARTY POLITICS
Dion to step down as Liberal leader once successor is found all 1,109 news articles »
POLITICAL OPINION -
Dion quits, but to remain at the helm until May. MORE...
Sincere advice for the Liberal Party of Canada.. MORE...
Why not recruit May for the Liberals? MORE...
The Liberal Party needs more than a new leader MORE...
Not too late for Harper in Quebec MORE...
Dion was determined to show us the way. MORE...
A budgetary high-wire act for the Tories. MORE...
Tories prove they're no turkeys.. MORE...
Skeptics, unite!. MORE...
Look out, here comes the government MORE...
Tories a hit among latte-drinking elite, despite popular myth MORE...
Many reasons for low turnout.. MORE...
Campbell qualifies for special consideration in PM's books MORE...
Political parties stick with obsolete campaign strategy in a Web 2.0 world. MORE...
Deficits okay, PM told
Newly-elected vulnerable MPs to take advantage of Grit troubles
All parties see drop in votes, drop in dollars
Election result distorted by 'dysfunctional' system: May
PROGRAMMES
Lax RevCan security alarms auditors
Day 'in contempt' on prison transfer ruling: lawyer
Ottawa eyes selling stake in AECL
Postal workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of strike
CRTC may alter do-not-call list
PRESSURE POINTS
Gas pipelines vulnerable to terrorism: expert
Group loses showdown with Ottawa over Kyoto law
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081020/national/kyoto_court_feds
Climate skeptics unite!
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/lorne-gunter-thirty-years-of-warmer-temperatures-go-poof.aspx
OPINION AND INFORMATION
Stéphane Dion owes his party no apologies
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/20/jonathan-kay-st-233-phane-dion-owes-his-party-no-apologies.aspx
Old economics for today's crisis
INFOS
Stéphane Dion veut démissionner en mai lorsque le PLC lui trouvera un remplaçant
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081020/N1020143AU.html
La carrière politique de Dion aura été marquée par son combat pour l'unité
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081020/N1020129AU.html
Voici une liste des successeurs potentiels à la succession de Stéphane Dion
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081020/N1020103AU.html
Conseil de la Fédération
Un déficit si nécessaire
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2008/10/20/004-Conseilfederationdeficit.shtml
Stéphane Dion rend son tablier
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/dossiers/elections-2008/200810/20/01-31050-stephane-dion-rend-son-tablier.php
Économie: les provinces misent sur la prudence
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200810/20/01-31203-economie-les-provinces-misent-sur-la-prudence.php
Le CRTC veut exempter les candidats indépendants de la liste de télémarketing
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081020/N102052AU.html
Flaherty anticipe un surplus cette année mais est moins certain pour l'avenir
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081019/N1019106AU.html
Énergie nucléaire - Ottawa songe à céder au secteur privé une participation dans EACL
La SSJB accuse Sarkozy d'ignorer la réalité québécoise
Unité canadienne - L'ancien premier ministre Raffarin avait prédit le virage de Sarkozy
Harper plaide pour plus de discipline sur les marchés financiers
Le fédéral a pris trop de place à Québec, selon Marois
En bref - Un membre présumé de l'ETA est extradé
Les verts ont-ils contribué à la déroute des libéraux?
Harper dévoilerait son cabinet la semaine prochaine
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Canada ready to help Afghan negotiation talks: Ambassador
Interesting shift. Eh what?Canada ready to help Afghan negotiation talks: Ambassador
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From: "Anne Dickinson"
Hi -
Whoever wrote the" I Should be President" email forwarded to Mr Ede would no doubt be just as happy to have a moat full of alligators protecting both US borders.
To keep out the terrorist, of course, as well as those illegal immigrants from Mexico..
Anne Dickinson
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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject: Should we trust the Conservatives?
Totalitarian 'democracy'--no truer words have ever been written!
becky
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From: "Michael Watkins"
Subject: Election 08 Party Platforms
(Joe: Ok to publish to DD too if you feel it relevant. The images are
quite interesting and revealing, I think.)
Election 08 Party Platforms
The following are word maps which provide an interesting graphical view of
the election 2008 policy platforms for each of the four national parties.
The abundance of blank space in the Conservative platform word map is in
fact indicative of the nature of their policy offering.
Attached to this post are the platform documents themselves. Only the
Liberal Party has, so far, taken their platform document off-line.
If I were to editorialize I'd say the Conservative Party ought to have
been first to withdraw theirs, as compared to the other parties' efforts,
it's devoid of detail and includes a speciously worded section on "costing
the plan" (page 43) which all will soon recognize as having been a larger
fantasy even than Harper's dreams of a majority government.
http://mikewatkins.ca/2008/10/20/election-08-party-platforms/
(Follow link for graphics)
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From: "Glenn Harewood"
Subject: Remember Harper's Suggestion that Canada follow the Belgian Model of Federal Government???
Joe:
Here is a very interesting story on Belgian Federation or DE-federation.
Do you recall that soon after Harper won a minority in January 2006, he floated the idea that Canada might want to model its federation after the Belgian Federation?
Now that Harper has a numerically stronger minority government, might he not continue to divolve power to the provinces and territories, and DIVIDE our country along the Belgian model -- a model which is showing growing signs of separation between French-speaking Walloonians and the Dutch-speaking Flemish?
With Harper continuing to govern in a cloud of secrecy, who knows what he will secretly do to quietly and neatly pick-apart, bit-by-bit, the Canadian Constitution, and destroy the Canadian federation in the next two(?), or four years??
The scary part is that the damage Harper and his Neo-cons will do, may be irreversible!!!
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7678777.stm
Glenn Harewood
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: "Anne Dickinson"STRATOS
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Hi Joe-
I thought Susan Riley had a very interesting take on Mr Dion's forced march off stage:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=ebb1d928-c412-4f26-99eb-4fab46408391&p=1
Prior to the last couple of elections, the Liberal Party had stayed in power too long and rot had set in. One reason they stayed in so long was fear of Harper and the neo conservatives and social conservatives who surrounded. him. They were eventually tossed out because the anti-Harper vote no longer coalesced around the Liberal Party.
In this past election there are a number of reasons why the Liberals lost support.including Mr Dion's lack of leadership and communications skills and fear of the carbon tax/green shift. That these perceptions were exaggerated by the Tories relentless and in some case, truly despicable attack ads is clear, however Mr. Dion was really hung out to dry by his own party.
Iron Law no. 27 of politics:
27a. Politician who advocates idea, no matter how good, stakes his future on it, and can't explain it to voters = doofus.
27b. Politician who advocates reasonable idea that may be implemented in the future = visionary, ahead of his time.
27c. 27a + 27b = Visionary doofus ahead of his time. Doofus is the noun.
Reading the insiders report in MacLean's last issue just served to increase my admiration for Mr Dion; however you can sense the puzzlement on the part of the Liberal apparatchiks that he had come up with the Green Shift himself and did not want to ditch it even though they believed it would lose them an election.
Their amazement that someone would actually stand on principle and not kowtow to the party insiders, and Mr Dion's mistaken conviction that his stand would win out as it had in his fierce battle for the Clarity Act resulted in the leader and his party pulling in opposite directions.
Reports from the ghastly Mr. LeDrew and equally ghastly David Smith show men who actively hoped for Mr Dion to fail and worked toward that cause by an unending series of leaks to their preferred media mouthpieces.
If the thinking in the Liberal party is that Stephan Dion is their sacrificial lamb and that they can go back to business as usual with the same old gang pulling the strings, they may have a surprise in store.
Although to be fair, Mr. Dion DID choose on his own to run for the Party leadership. When a sheep in sheep's clothing becomes leader, especially if he's a third-place pox-on-the-first-two compromise candidate, he's got to be careful not to wander in the neighbourhood of Butchers'R'Us. After all, one has to remember that the latters' motto is "We dressed you, we eat you".
But...if Frank McKenna decides to make a run at the leadership, then the cat will be among the pigeons for both the Liberals and the Conservatives...
Then again, Mr. McKenna's been an incipient threat since the early 90s. Just how long CAN a scent waft in the air before it goes stale?
.Anne Dickinson
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From: "Robert Ede"
Subject: FW: Hell, I should be president
Subject: Hell, I should be president
Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida ...
Not me. I concentrate on solutions for the problems. It's a win-win situation.
+ Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
+ Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.
+ Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.
Any other problems you would like for me to solve today ?
Yes!
I'll buy THAT for a dollar! Given the US Congress' propensity for "practical" yet corrupt and nonsensical solutions, the above is in the spirit of US-style politics. Now, the trick is to train said alligators to go only after Mexicans trying to ENTER the States, not those leaving it. Then again, maybe something like one-way drawbridges could serve for that.
Think about this one:
1. Cows
2..The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments
C O W S
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
Either that, or give us all uniquely-coded, government-issue ear-tags. No ear-tag, no job, hombre ...
T H E U S 2nd C O N S T I T U T I O N
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore. (ed. same in Canada ...)
Actually, the whole problem is that the State still USE the damn thing instead of something modern. Then again, in a politically-confused country, it may be just the right instrument to institutionalize the local reality. Now, country-namewise, how DOES one translate State of Chaos into Arabic?
T H E T E N CO M M A N D M E N T S
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:
You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...It creates a hostile work environment.
It wouldn't be politically correct in our incorrect political world
(ed. ... regardless of the fact that the Laws of Moses (these 10 plus the 603 others) were only EVER intended for The Hebrews/ Israelis/ Jews.
That, plus the fact engraving each law on a brick or stone block would mean that said laws would be written too small to read in most cases. On the other hand, it could be a good way to make people stick to the straight and narrow. If courts were to be used as confessionals Catholic-style, operations could REALLY be streamlined ... imagine "Forgive, O Magistrate, for I have sinned. The Court Wall tells me that I did a 239 and I 313ed TWICE this week". ("Three Hail Obamas for you, my son. And give unto Caesar $57.50 if paid within the next ten days, or $75.00 after that".)
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