Daily Digest November 25, 2008

The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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EDITORIAL PAGEs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Changing tunes

CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Sales taxes: keeping them transparent
Stickers featuring only the final price would make consumers less aware of what they're paying in taxes.

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
Cheap drinks a myth for public purse

Tories treating drinking symptoms, not problem

AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
Health trend raises questions

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Arguments you're unlikely to hear tonight

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Let the trading begin

Brother's keeper

Teachers should take the deal

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
Do today's children have time to be children?

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Loss of plant will ripple through region

TORONTO STAR -
Prime Minister discovers Keynes

Putting children first

A rushed Colombia pact

GLOBE & MAIL -
Stimulus, when consumers are wary
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081124.weStimulus25/BNStory/specialComment/home

Common sense on offence
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081124.wefreespeech25/BNStory/specialComment/home

NATIONAL POST -
Kill section 13
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=990982

HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Tories need to act now

NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
Is this a plan to save lives or control government spending?

K-W RECORD -
Public health must be a leading priority

WINDSOR STAR -
Snooping at Queen's

Is there an automotive nightmare unfolding?

Native free trade

SUDBURY STAR - Prostate test must be covered

All governments should be concerned about wait times in health care

Big 3 must show they know how to recover

CBC accuses competitor of 'distorted attacks'

Privatizing home care led to hospital crowding

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Harper lacks real commitment to reform Senate

REGINA LEADER-POST -
Liberals need grit way out West

CALGARY HERALD -
U of C Should say what it really fears from pro-life

University errs in attempt to censor pro-life group

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Massive auto bailout inevitable

Canada shouldn't be seduced by Obama's 'soft power'

LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
When will message get through?
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/content/view/10057/56/

RED DEER ADVOCATE -
If it takes deficits to get us through, so be it

VANCOUVER SUN -
Folks: We live in an age of abundance

VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
Aga Khan's message of plurality a lesson for us all

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Too many delays on fish farm rules

Comment: If the boomers don't retire

Both sides need to rethink the economy

Act now, or this financial crisis could get much worse

Kids work in B.C. with no government oversight


ISSUES

AFGHANISTAN -

• Karzai sees 'dim hope' for peace in Afghanistan
• http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=0b359d91-c4b5-4a36-95d3-7856a1bd966a
  
  
• Karzai calls for timeline to end Afghan war
  
  
• Karzai demands timeline for withdrawal
• http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=991613
• Karzai urges Afghan war timeline
• Karzai urges withdrawal 'timeline'
• Eide supports Taliban peace-talks
  
  
• Why NATO Allies May Not Be the Answer to the Military Challenges in Afghanistan
  
  
• New realism in Afghanistan rhetoric
  
  
  
  

• Pakistan can stop drone raids: air force chief

  
  
  
  
  
• U.S. could OK Afghan "surge" before Obama takes office
• ' 10 Taliban arrested in school girl acid attack',
  
  
• Afghan-Pak border traffic plummets

CANUSA/USACAN
Ambassador lauds Canadian soldiers


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

• Global outlook worst since 1980s, OECD says
  
  
• EI claims skyrocket in Oshawa, Windsor
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.weiclaims1125/BNStory/National/home
• New car sales push overall retail sales higher
• http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081125/retail_sales_081125/20081125?hub=TopStories
• Canadian automakers face $1.7-billion loss
• http://www.financialpost.com/news/story.html?id=991951
  
  
• 'This will be the end of capitalism'

FOREIGN AFFAIRS
UN paralyzed by own rules at sea


HEALTH CARE RELATED
Competition Bureau eyes $800-million savings on generic drugs


JUSTICE SYSTEM
Canadians at high risk of online bank theft:


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES

• Province of Ontario counts its pennies rather than support families
  
  
• Ont. rejects call to harmonize GST with provincial tax, cut corporate taxes
  
  
• Ontario MPPs urge detour on teen driver plan
  
  
• B.C. faces not-too-tough times
• Saskatchewan government sued over same-sex marriage rites
• http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=991705

PARTY POLITICS

• Climate change makes economic meltdown look like picnic: May
• PM monitoring ailing forest sector, Harris says
• http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20081124162931/local/news/pm-monitoring-ailing-forest-sector-harris-says.html
• The opposition outraged by the gesture of Harper
• http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberpresse.ca%2Factualites%2Fquebec-canada%2Fpolitique-canadienne%2F200811%2F25%2F01-804043-lopposition-revoltee-par-le-geste-de-harper.php&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en

POLITICAL OPINION -

• PM Harper Then And Now: Recession
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.WBwblogolitics20081125094242/WBStory/WBwblogolitics/
• Dion: PM got it wrong on deficit, recession
• After saying a recession is imminent, Stephen Harper's team appears content to put off any financial stimulus until budget time
• http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wreconcanada25/BNStory/Business/home 84 reader comments
  
  
• Budget advanced to deal with deteriorating economy
  
  
• Flaherty to tighten spending of politicians, bureacrats
  
  
• Clerk, like PM, keeps options open
• Ageing Senate trouble for PM: Will Vacancies Force Appointments?
• http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=990930
  
  
• Rae always ready for his close-up
  
  
• Tories caught 'at trough,' taxpayers group says
• Times much rosier during election
• http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=8d21adcc-e36c-4145-ab11-9ef0de6cd883
• How big a deficit are we talking about?
• http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=8a729c50-71a1-462a-a372-7eff97a80aaf

PROGRAMMES

• Transformation' needed for auto bailout:Clement
• http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=990972
• Ottawa denied Abdelrazik diplomatic assistance
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wabdelrazik25/BNStory/International/home
• Feds seek 64% increase in funding for Afghan mission
• http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Afghan/2008/11/25/7523891-sun.html
  
  
• Half of watchdog's red flags over air safety not addressed

PRESSURE POINTS

• Offshore wind farm stirs up a tempest
• Who could object to wind power?
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081124.wcowent25/BNStory/specialComment/home
  
  
• A Contribution to the Climate Debate

OPINION AND INFORMATION

• Banking blues
• Hard to sympathize with RBC when it makes $12M a day
• http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Weston_Greg/2008/11/25/7523656.html
• Local conservatives confront the pothole business
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wbarber25/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081125.wbarber25
• An unholy zeal for tolerance
• http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/542710
• Another chance to give Ontario the rep its pop deserves
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081124.wcospector25/BNStory/politics/home
• Try the catch quota – and save the fisheries
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081124.wcosimp25/BNStory/specialComment/home
• Now for the real Shock Doctrine
• http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/24/terence-corcoran-now-for-the-real-shock-doctrine.aspx
• Six steps to retool GM
• http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=7e9a4ecd-b809-4d49-8bc5-7f7b870c74ac
• Resource use and abuse
  
  
• Farmers need better CWB accountability
  
  
• The other side of the crisis
  
  
• OK, so how big a deficit?
  
  
• After Guantanamo
  
  
• Ho-hum; another report blames crime on racism
• Roots of Youth Violence, Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling, Blame it on anyone but those responsible.
  
  
• Introducing a new and powerful way for you to turn the largest debt of your lifetime into annual tax refunds, knock years off your mortgage, and build a larger retirement portfolio at the same time, using legal tools from Revenue Canada (the CRA).
• http://www.smithman.net/home.html

INFOS 

• L'automobile perdra 15 000 emplois d'ici la fin 2009
• http://lapresseaffaires.cyberpresse.ca/article/20081125/LAINFORMER/81125024/5891/LAINFORMER01
  
  
• L'opposition révoltée par le geste de Harper
• http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200811/25/01-804043-lopposition-revoltee-par-le-geste-de-harper.php
• La sécurité en Afghanistan ne s'améliore pas selon Walter Natynczyk
• http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081125/N112508AU.html
• Les problèmes économiques tempèrent les demandes salariales du secteur public
• http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081124/N1124156AU.html
  
  
• Le coût de l'intervention canadienne en Afghanistan devrait augmenter
• http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081124/N1124176AU.html

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"If there is no deadline, we have the right to find another solution for peace and security, which is negotiations,"
Karzai calls for timeline to end Afghan war
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/543006

In my view there can be no deadline "to end the war in Afghanistan." set by the United Nations or the U.S. and its allied countries acting under the U.N. mandate. Neither can there be an end to "air strikes by international military forces" because the air strikes which are a tactical necessity.

Negotiations without there being preconditions from the U.N. U.S. and Afghan Government side are necessary. This would hive off the insurgents prepared to talk from those demanding foreigners leave first.

Two choices: negotiating as above or continuing conflict. The Pashtuns will continue fighting, as they have throughout history.

         Joe

A brief history of pathans / pashtoons since 1839.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAFniGYWLJA&NR=1

Afghanistans History British War 1839-1919 Brave Pashtun(Afghan)" Documentation "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzNnJo8BTo&NR=1

Obama's vision for Pakistan
Tariq Amin-Khan: Obama's new Pakistan adviser calls for deal in Kashmir to free up Pak military  November 12, 2008

It's time to deal with Taliban
Tariq Amin-Khan: Taliban is now a social-political force and must be approached as such Pt 2/2  November 24, 2008

TorStar MacKay , Gates out of touch on Afghanistan ...

Ensign Gates and MacKay statements disingenuous


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