The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Waiting for net results
CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Smokers running out of space
CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Affordable housing for Canadians
A national strategy is needed to help Canadians reach the reasonable objective of finding decent affordable housing.
CAPE BRETON POST -
Dion interview refuses to die
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=184516&sc=151
MONTREAL GAZETTE -
A former slave strikes a blow for liberty in Africa
KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
How to survive the province's economic downturn
BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Financial meltdown may lead to beginning of new Dark Ages
TORONTO STAR -
Harper should ease up
GLOBE & MAIL -
A reign of error's ramifications
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081029.wewilliams29/BNStory/specialComment/home
Flash in the pan
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081029.wedumont29/BNStory/specialComment/home
NATIONAL POST -
Stop harassing medical pot users
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=916373
HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Recognize Ontario shift
NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
Feeling frustrated by stalled Senate reform? Blame democracy
Governments should still spend -but do it wisely, please
K-W RECORD -
Drivers shouldn't be using cellphones
Stop using crime for political games
LONDON FREE PRESS -
Are Canadian hospitals skipping the basics?
WINDSOR STAR -
Health records online
SUDBURY STAR -
Driving with distraction -- (Editorial, comment on this story)
Income gap misleading
Mining companies need watching abroad
SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Ban on cellphone use behind wheel worth adopting
GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
Hypocrisy rules the day
EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Used syringes undermine health trust
LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Drastic measures
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2526&Itemid=56
VANCOUVER SUN -
Important differences between now and 1929
VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
Let's get on with unravelling Dziekanski's death
VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Liberals, NDP on same economic page
Starving orcas a symptom of much deeper woes
New pension plan a welcome idea
Behind closed recount doors
ISSUES
AFGHANISTAN -
'We're not going to win this war'
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JJ30Df02.html
Piece by piece, talking peace
Time to talk with the Taliban, governments say
Afghans losing faith in West's reconstruction efforts
Afghan Corruption Fight Hurt by Lack of Focus
Pakistan calls in US ambassador over raids
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5040353.ece
US Defends Anti-Terrorist Strategy After Pakistani Protest
Deafness is the new scourge of British troops in Afghanistan
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5042891.ece
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No role for Taliban chief in Afghan talks: Pentagon
Reuters (10/29/2008)
Military relying on Afghan contractors for security
Globe and Mail (10/29/2008)
Afghan women decry Taleban talks
BBC (10/29/2008)
Urgent need to pre-position food aid
IRIN (10/29/2008)
U.S. Generals Want 20,000 New Troops
The Washington Post (10/29/2008)
Karzai admits failure in securing Afghanistan
AFP (10/29/2008)
In strikes on US in Afghanistan, Taliban reveals new potency
The Christian Science Monitor (10/29/2008)
America's unlikely Afghan allies
BBC (10/28/2008)
CANUSA/USACAN
Ottawa won't demand Khadr's return, court told
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Time to get tough
'Disaster' unless Ottawa offers pension relief MORE...
Immigrants sought to fill vacancies in food industry
Manufacturing sector on the brink of collapse: CME president
GM deal may cost 25,000 jobs
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Iraq seeks to ban US attacks on neighbors
Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24568137-2862,00.html
New FBI Powers: A Necessary Step for Counterterrorism
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2951
HEALTH CARE RELATED
Canada slips in health ranking
JUSTICE SYSTEM
Judge to issue verdict today in Khawaja case
The first person charged under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act will hear his fate today.
Justice officials in war of words over crime laws
Human trafficking a growing problem in Canada, B.C. expert says
Khawaja guilty on some but not all terror charges
POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Charest had best be careful in calling early election MORE...
Nothing certain in Quebec politics.. MORE...
PQ offers not to topple Quebec's Liberal minority
A statement on the values of Quebecers for immigrants
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Finfo.branchez-vous.com%2FNationales%2F081029%2FN102954AU.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en
Ontario cellphone ban hits iPods
Motorists who change tunes on their hand-held iPods or MP3 players at the wheel face fines of up to $500 under Ontario's proposed new "distracted driving" law.
POLITICAL OPINION -
PM's the truth fairy .. MORE...
Can Harper find us a visionary?. MORE...
Stronger minority a qualified victory.. MORE...
Canada's unlikely champion of federalism.. MORE...
Ottawa should hit the restart button on relations with Chinan.. MORE...
Finley to step down as Tory campaign director
McKenna refusal starts the race
Liberal party in need of renewal: Dominic LeBlanc
Canadians want Trudeau as next Liberal leader
Cabinet Shuffle
'Smart guy' a cabinet candidate
More women likely to get cabinet posts
Hands off transfer payments, Wall warns feds
The path to Conservative dominance
Many Canadians Chose Party Before Campaign
Government-funded transcripts used to write ex-PM Martin's memoir
Liberals, NDP to Cash In on Election Results in Quebec
Loss eats up Grit cash
Cotler denies floor-crossing rumours
Government creates own version of Wikipedia
Economy to top agenda when Parliament returns Nov. 18
Flaherty to Remain Finance Minister, Harper Aide Says
Ongoing deficits unacceptable but surpluses at any price not the goal: Flaherty
Former Liberal MP helps election losers move on
Tory insiders expect significant cabinet overhaul
L. Ian MacDonald: Some continuity, considerable change likely in new Cabinet
Sweeping cabinet overhaul coming
PROGRAMMES
Feds look at ways to aid troubled pension plans
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'Disaster' unless Ottawa offers pension relief
Safety complaint lost in 'limbo': report
Chrysotile asbestos not a dangerous substance
PRESSURE POINTS
Earth on course for eco 'crunch'
OPINION AND INFORMATION
The scariest precedent of them all
Walkom: Nineteen twenty-nine is the year no one wants to mention. MORE...
Advice for Ontario: Play hardball
INFOS
Stephen Harper dévoilera jeudi un nouveau cabinet fort en économie
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081029/N1029217AU.html
Jim Flaherty qualifie les budgets déficitaires d'"inacceptables"
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081029/N102998AU.html
Khawaja est coupable d'avoir collaboré à la perpétration d'un attentat
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081029/N102972AU.html
Canadiens et talibans se battent aussi sur le terrain de l'information
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081029/N1029195AU.html
Les députés retournent aux Communes le 18 novembre et parleront d'économie
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081029/N1029151AU.html
Première réunion du caucus NPD: Layton réclame des mesures économiques
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081029/N102950AU.html
Une déclaration sur les valeurs des Québécois pour les immigrants
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081029/N102954AU.html
À la défense des droits des francophones
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/ottawa/2008/10/29/003-faucher-jean-robert_n.shtml
Exclusif: Harper confiera les Affaires étrangères à Cannon
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200810/29/01-34157-exclusif-harper-confiera-les-affaires-etrangeres-a-cannon.php
Québec - L'opposition tente encore d'éviter des élections
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/10/29/213076.html
Des blogueurs invités au congrès du PC
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/10/29/21307 4.html
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From: "Suan H.Booiman" Subject: A Salute To Canada
Give Thanks for their Service for you & me.
A British news paper salutes Canada . . . this is a good read.
It's amazing how it took someone in England to put it into words...
Sunday Telegraph Article From today's UK wires:
Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' LONDON:
Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan,probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region.
And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored.
Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped Glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts.
For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada 's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, it's unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the 'British.'
The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone.
Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time.
Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British.
It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces.
Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.
Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan?
Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
Lest we forget.
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It's amazing how it took someone in England to put it into words...
Sunday Telegraph Article From today's UK wires:
Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' LONDON:
Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan,probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region.
And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored.
Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped Glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts.
For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada 's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, it's unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the 'British.'
The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone.
Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time.
Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British.
It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces.
Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.
Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan?
Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
Lest we forget.
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