The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Bully-boy tactics
CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Help, don't hinder the process
CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Dion does the deed his own way
Liberals should curb their criticism of Mr. Dion for his sake and theirs.
CAPE BRETON POST -
Low voter turnout to be expected
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=182281&sc=151
HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
Powell to the people
Election aftermath: Dion's departure
AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
Casey takes high road with Tories
MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Quebec must act quickly to prevent a new biker war
OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Parental anxieties
Reluctantly, a budget deficit
OTTAWA SUN -
Like it or not, feds face deficit
KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
WE REALLY ARE WHAT WE EAT
BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Ensuring environment's future preserves the human economy
Unable to relate to cost of war
TORONTO STAR -
Canada failed three citizens
Stephen Harper, broker
Greening government
NATIONAL POST -
The case for selling asbestos
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=899326
Touching up Quebec's Cabinet contingent
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=899327
Quebec's grand illusion
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=899328
K-W RECORD -
Is capitalism dead?
Forfeiting their right to complain
LONDON FREE PRESS -
Deficit could allow investment in country
WINDSOR STAR -
The economy
Conservatives growing as a national party
Dion shouldn't stay on
SUDBURY STAR -
Heavy lifting ahead for Grits -- (Editorial, comment on this story)
When the knives come out
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Mr. Dion vanishes
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4240728p-4883792c.html
SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Free trade worth pursuing
REGINA LEADER-POST -
An historic sharing of the wealth
Elections Canada won't get my vote
CALGARY HERALD -
Who leads Liberals matters -- a lot
Make room for the vulnerable
Federal Court decisions seem to show crime does pay
Russia's Cuban dealings hit at soft U.S. underbelly
EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Burning with shame over asbestos
Disservice to kids
LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Safeguards not being used
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=585&Itemid=56
RED DEER ADVOCATE -
Why not recruit May for the Liberals?
VANCOUVER SUN -
Opiate trial results are encouraging
Free trade with Europe a goal worth pursuing
VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
This truly is irreplaceable
Low election turnout not bad if ignorant don't vote
VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Creative, small steps on homeless
Rebuilding the Liberal party
Court brought action on city shelters
Harper must manage rising anti-Quebec backlash
ISSUES
ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -
Ex-panel chair blamed for strife
AFGHANISTAN -
Truth as collateral damage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/22/afghanistan-nato
US air strike blunder kills nine Afghan soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/22/afghanistan-air-strike-us
US strikes kill Taliban commander, Afghan soldiers
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/us_strikes_kill_tali.php
Suspected U.S. drone fires missile into Pakistan area
Media groups decry Afghan ruling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7684197.stm
Afghans to Karzai: You failed us
Will next US president rethink Afghanistan?
CANUSA/USACAN
Ban on pesticides may face NAFTA test
\ U.S. Chemical Company Challenges Pesticide Ban
Psychological assessment of Omar Khadr critical to defence, lawyers say
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Canadian retail sales show more trouble in store for domestic economy
Canadian dollar's plunge could help Canada weather economic slowdown
Prices won't rise because of loonie drop: retailers
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081022/loonie_consumers_081022/20081022?hub=Canada
Central bank holds its firepower
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=899269
Wheat Board touts prairie 'pasta bowl'
CWB ballot lineups finalized all 24 news articles »
POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Charest upset as PQ, ADQ team up to elect speaker
B.C. well-placed to avoid deficit
Saskatchewan lays out tax-cut plan
POLITICAL OPINION -
Harper's Quebec woes leave him with empty chairs ...
POLITICAL OPINION -
Tories brace for deficit, plan to share blame
MORE...
Dion should quit whining: His loss was his own fault.. MORE...
Dion's expensive goodbye. MORE...
Canadian-style 'deal' could be in the making.. MORE...
Here's what Grits must do. MORE...
Lester Pearson's lessons for today's defeated Liberals MORE...
The need for a saviour.. MORE...
Tories teeming with cabinet-calibre women. MORE...
Touching up Quebec's Cabinet contingent MORE...
Quebec's grand illusion. MORE...
Harper must manage rising anti-Quebec backlash.. MORE...
Like it or not, feds face deficit. MORE...
When all's said and done, the carbon tax is toast.. MORE...
A new U.S. chief, a new Harper mandate - and a new big idea.. MORE...
We must do better than 59.1%. MORE...
Voting system can cause mayhem.. MORE...
Canada failed three citizens.. MORE...
Harper to attend 'Meltdown' summit
Will Frank McKenna run for federal Liberals?
Rae, Ignatieff work together to avoid leadership clash
Dion departure may help party, may hinder
Bill Casey a Tory again?
Lawyer in Maple Leaf suit says listeriosis death toll could be higher
Listeria agony described
Ontario to delay big plans
Delegation heads to U.K. for Grand Prix discussions
Quebec willing to support Grand Prix, if it makes sense
B.C. Premier slams Pound's 'savages' remark
Ottawa a top generator of toxic junk, report says
So Many Foreign Ministers, So Little Time
And the big loser is Stephen Harper
Just like RB Bennett, Harper will be seen as responsible for the economic downturn.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature8.cfm?REF=553
PROGRAMMES
Findings kept secret until last minute
Canada aided torture
Torture victims demand apology
Tortured trio say report 'vindicates us'
PRESSURE POINTS
Biofuels: From hope to husk
Investors suffer as US ethanol boom dries upOPINION AND INFORMATION
Man ordered to pay $50,000 for threats
CBC stars protest as 'icons' lose jobs
'We are among the worst water-wasters in the world'
PRESSURE POINTS
Biofuels: From hope to husk
Investors suffer as US ethanol boom dries upOPINION AND INFORMATION
The perils of intelligence sharing
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081022.wcoiacobucci23/BNStory/specialComment/home
Economics for troubled times
Plug leaks in our water infrastructure
Lester Pearson's lessons for today's ...
RCMP watchdog still in the works after five years
Gliding towards nuclear war
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JJ23Aa01.html
INFOS
Harper pourrait rater une partie du congrès du PC pour être à la réunion du G20
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081022/N1022168AU.html
Le premier ministre de Terre-Neuve met fin à sa querelle avec Stephen Harper
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081022/N102271AU.html
Parti conservateur
Ryan Sparrow retrouve son travail
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2008/10/22/001-sparrow-retour.shtml
Croissance «anémique» en vue au Canada
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/10/22/211874.html
Québec n'obligera pas les candidats immigrants à apprendre le français
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081022/N102297AU.html
Le successeur de Dion pourrait être élu avant mai
Ottawa produit des tonnes de déchets électroniques
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From: "Ian Berg" Subject: The Progressive Canadian Party
The Progressive Canadian Party ran less than half as many candidates in Election 2008 than Election 2006 and won 8, 231 fewer votes for a total of 5,920 (which is less than Christian Heritage, Marxist-Leninist or Liberatarian parties). The PCP's star candidate was an Elvis impersonator. It's leader Sinclair Stevens was invisible during the 2008 campaign. When is the PCP going to fold and just encourage its supporters to vote ABC strategically?
Ian Berg
Calgary, Alberta
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You have initiated a discussion that may prove interesting. I'll remain mute for now and see if others choose to react in favour of the PC Party folding or continuing?
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From: "Peter Robertson" Subject: Afghanistan
Joe,
I have lived in the Middle East. I married my wife in Beirut. I have also spent the past thirty years studying the politics, culture, and conflicts of the area. However, with respect to both Afghanistan and 'Iraq, I think that my wife got it right when she opined, upon hearing of the invasion of 'Iraq by the Americans, that, "They will let them come in, and then chew them until they can take no more." That is precisely what has happened in 'Iraq, and it is what will eventually happen in Afghanistan.
Anyone who thinks that conflicts in the Middle East can be won by large, conventional armies, should read Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, John Bagot Glubb's memoirs about the R.A.F. occupation of 'Iraq, 1918 – 1922, and of course, the works of Gertrude Bell. Whenever I hear of another unfortunate Canadian soldier being killed or wounded by an "I.E.D.", I remember the one-line letter sent by a Bedouin chieftain to British Army Headquarters in 1917 or 1918. It said simply, "Send us a Lurens and we will blow up a train with it." It is not the rather whimsical fact that the writer confused Lawrence with a mine; it is the mentality of the writer which is important. Guerilla warfare has been an integral part of the culture of the entire region for thousands of years, and a few well-intentioned conventional forces comprised of kids who have undergone a few weeks' training by way of introduction to the area will change nothing. We should also not expect that in a few short years we, as outsiders and foreigners, can transform Afghan society into anything approaching a modern democratic state. It is a very long leap from the 11th century to the 21st,and the best we can hope to achieve is a modest amelioration of conditions in Afghanistan.
Are the Taliban ready to talk? The answer is irrelevant. If we are to achieve anything in Afghanistan, we must engage all factions, and that means talking to the Taliban, or to their representatives. Otherwise, we ultimately risk the fate of Lord Elphinstone, the tragic commander of the British expeditionary force during the First Afghan War. His army was cut to pieces in the Khyber Pass. We may be luckier, and merely have to leave with our tails between our legs.
Peter Robertson.
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From: "Beverley Smith"
I met with Stephane Dion a few years ago briefly in a parking lot in Calgary and we had a good chat about issues I care about- children, care of the elderly and sick. His first tactic was to say what he was already doing and what he would do more, which was fair, and then he got super animated to justify his views for universal daycare to be funded preferentially.
It seems to me that he is a smart man, and he knows the political game very well and is open to listening. I saw him a few weeks ago at a Calgary event and he actually took unprompted questions from the audience. I admire that.
But what he does with such questions is again, what he did with mine- he justifies his current view and is not really open to changing it.
This is a problem but it is not uncommon for some who take issues personally. His current leadership dilemma is not personal. He should not be assigning blame and reflecting on who failed him. He should just move on, doing what he can for the party from the backbench or even a ministry one day but not as leader. Yet he has that same personality trait to get angry and continue a kind of tunnel-vision.
Maybe it would help him if he understood that in my view he is not wrong. He is just not completely correct yet and if he stays closed to expanding his view, he is wrong.
Beverley Smith
Calgary
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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject: Afghanistan 'talks'
Joe--what a concept--talk instead of mass murders in war! A step that
should have been taken before the first killing on either side was
committed. The Taliban were US allies when Russia was in Afghanistan--now
they are the 'terrorists'? What would you class us as? We are killing them
on their land which, in my eyes, makes us the terrorists. We are there
supposedly so female children can go to school. But we 'stand with israel'
when they kill and maim children on their way to school, or have thousands
of children locked up in their jails. Are not all children equal??? India
burns women alive and kills female newborns. But we have no problem with
India.
I remember some of the propaganda that was spun to get us to accept this
heinous 'war'. The dastardly Taliban were destroying ancient statues. But
not a complaint when the US invades the Cradle of Civilization and loots
ancient articles from an unguarded museum in Iraq and bombs the country back
to the stone age.
We are a schizophrenic country. We see nothing wrong with Afghanis and our
people being killed for an oil pipeline. It is called progress when a hated
police force in Afghanistan is made stronger. We are bringing them
democracy--while we have none. What is wrong with this picture? And now,
because we have decided the Taliban is weakened we may consider talking? We
have no concept of the destruction of war. We have no concept of what we
have allowed to be done in our name. And then we wonder why others hate us.
In reality it is us that have been weakened. Weakened because all of our
warm and fuzzy words are blown away with one bombing of the innocent. Our
faux concerns mean nothing if we can justify killing. This 'war' has shown
us what we have become--vultures who shout the mantra of freedom and
democracy. We are led by evil and it is evil we have become. God help us
all.
Becky
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From: "Rene Moreau" <rene.a.moreau@gmail.com>
Subject: A Coming New Currency!
What can we say?
We are experiencing the most severe financial crisis since 1929. It hurts. There appears to be no relief in site. What began with mortgage defaults has now spread to the derivative markets.
You will hear the term "credit default swaps" by the hour as this mess deepens and worsens. What are credit default swaps? http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/vaughn/2008/1014.html
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From: "Edward C. Corrigan"
Subject: For Publication: "Time for a Political Solution in Afghanistan?,"
By Edward C. Corrigan, Media Monitors Network (MMN), October 19, 2008
Here is my article " Time for a Political Solution in Afghanistan?" A
shorter version of this article was presented as a speech on "A Day of
Action Against the War in Afghanistan," event held in London, Ontario on
Sunday October 19, 2008 at Victoria Park in London, Ontario, Canada.
Ed Corrigan
Time for a Political Solution in Afghanistan?
http://canada.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/55938
by Edward C. Corrigan
Media Monitors Network, Sunday, October 19, 2008)
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"Canada once had the respect of the World as peace loving and
fair-minded country. Gone is the legacy of Lester B. Pearson, Pierre
Elliot Trudeau and Jean Chretien when Canada's soldiers were almost
universally welcomed as peace keepers and Canada was respected
internationally."
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that he will end
Canada's military participation in the Occupation of Afghanistan in
2011. The fact that we had an election and that the majority of
Canadians are opposed to the War no doubt had some bearing on this
election promise.
We have been told that we are bringing "democracy and freedom" to
Afghanistan and fighting "a war on terror." However, if a fair and
democratic election was held in Afghanistan those opposed to the
American and NATO occupation of their country would win a landslide
victory. Afghans are like any other people on Earth they do not like
being bombed, shot at and militarily occupied by foreigners who have
little or no understanding or respect for their culture, history and
religion. From the Afghan perspective they are resisting foreign
invaders and fighting for their independence and freedom.
CONTINUED http://canada.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/55938
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