Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Daily Digest November 26, 2008


The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
ARCHIVED at http://cdndailydigest.blogspot.com/

EDITORIAL PAGEs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Running scared

CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Do we have a project for them

CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
We need the info, not the names
The decision by the QEH not to inform the public if a staff member is found to be the source of this bacteria is puzzling.

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
Drinking and driving: One more deterrent

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
At last, common sense on free speech

 George W. Bush leaves a last-minute legacy

 So tell me again: How did bad housing loans get us into this mess?

 Our reality check comes tomorrow

 Questions for the parties about English schooling in Quebec

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Resisting the censors

 Nothing like a good trade

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
Big Three Must Have A Plan

Running A Deficit May Be Necessary

So You Think You're Hurting?

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Common sense diet best way to improve over-all health

TORONTO STAR -
Chill the debate over wind energy

Free speech, and hate

GLOBE & MAIL -
Mind the gap in Washington
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.weTransition26/BNStory/specialComment/home

Canadian economy: Down, but not out
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.weEconomy26/BNStory/specialComment/home

NATIONAL POST -
Stack the Senate
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=995117

NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
Cartoon helps illuminate a difficult subject

K-W RECORD -
Harper must take action -- and fast

WINDSOR STAR -
The Internet

 A worthy prescription

 Liberals must build West

 Beyond auto sector, save ailing communities

SUDBURY STAR -
Protection for spouses welcome -- Editorial (add your comment)

Sharing layoffs - Editorial (add your comment)

Ban on younger drivers goes too far

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Tories missing chance to invest in productivity

 Testimony proves trial's worth

REGINA LEADER-POST -
Ahenakew case trying for us all

CALGARY HERALD -
Common sense on free speech

Wasted votes

CALGARY SUN -
No need to hate free speech

GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
Banking blues - Hard to sympathize with RBC making $12M a day

RED DEER ADVOCATE -
APEC offers some welcome economic news

Start saving or start paying

PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN -
Capitalism isn't dead, just free market system

VANCOUVER SUN -
A technical recession is still a recession, but a debt is not a deficit

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Editorial: Forest workers deserve support


ISSUES

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -          
B.C. First Nations say federal government delays holding up treaties


AFGHANISTAN -
Unheard voices from Afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/26/afghanistan-islam

Afghan security at a seven-year low
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=997532

Karzai slams Afghan war strategy
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/389671_afghan27.html

Germany to support SLTC in Afghanistan
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/11/26/germany_to_support_sltc_in_afghanistan/412c/

Qaeda Focusing on Pakistan, Top Marine Says
http://blog.wired.com/defense/agony_of_astan/index.html

 BRITAIN 'BRIBES AFGHANS TO FIGHT TALIBAN'


CANADIAN FORCES
Ottawa to send armed helicopters to Afghanistan


CANUSA/USACAN
REPORT: NORAD-STYLE BORDER AGENCY NEEDED

NAFTA must stay intact, outgoing U.S. ambassador warns against protectionism

Canada says stimulus may come sooner than in U.S.


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Value of Harper's Financial Advice Questionable 

Develop our own industry, not branch plants
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/2008/11/26/7538176-sun.html


HEALTH CARE RELATED
MSGTruth.org

POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Public has little presence in BC PharmaCare talks

David Emerson to head B.C. power corporation

Ontario considers 'symbolic' cost cutting amid sagging economy and deficit

McGuinty hints Ontario may back off new passenger restrictions for teen drivers

McGuinty buoyed by prospect of more MPs


PARTY POLITICS
Canada Liberals demand emergency debate on auto aid

NDP accuses Tory MP of Wheat Board interference

Tories slammed for lack of stimulus package

NDP asks auditor-general to probe 2007 government-buildings deal

Ex-PM Martin says Canada can't afford to put off economic crisis plan

  No major economic stimulus this week: Harper aide

MP wants sub repairs done in N.S., not in B.C.


POLITICAL OPINION -
Fiscal update now a declaration of war
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/26/john-ivison-fiscal-update-now-a-declaration-of-war.aspx

A test of Harper's deficit nerve

Tories to trim pay, perks
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=137dbac4-5eea-43e6-806a-07512a0f9841

PM's thinking shifts with times

Iggy readies "Raedays" attack website?

Top Liberal bloggers and former Dion supporters lining up behind Iggy

Canada urged to get pro-active with economy '

Why are they making Canadians wait for a real plan?'

Ending Harper's Parliamentary Dictatorship


PROGRAMMES
Opposition parties renew calls to bring Khadr home

Tories to slash all party funds, MP perks in update all 36 news articles »

The heritage minister made unhappy
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberpresse.ca%2Farts%2F200811%2F26%2F01-804666-le-ministre-du-patrimoine-fait-des-mecontents.php&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en


PRESSURE POINTS
Water Export Ban Law will not Tackle NAFTA: Prentice

UN talks chance for Canada to restore climate-change cred: environmentalists

Lower emissions the upside of downturn

Water, water, not quite everywhere


OPINION AND INFORMATION
Bankruptcy better than bailout in long term
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/35120944.html

UN can stop pirates
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/UN_can_stop_pirates.html

Quebec's child care huge success
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/Quebecs_child_care_huge_success.html

After the anger and the worry, what's next?

Supervised injections help heroin addicts who can't use methadone

Will data flow restrictions lead to further Net barriers?

Marketing the oilsands

 Secret police on campus

Friends in hard times

Hunting for a cure for obesity

No aid for little guy

Automakers need real leader

Distorted trading system works against auto industry

Fishing the fish stocks to extinction
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wcosimp26/BNStory/specialComment/home

When speech becomes dangerous
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wcospeech26/BNStory/specialComment/home

Building a nation demands more than steel
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wcochina26/BNStory/specialComment/home

Digital devotees won't settle for the old rules
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081125.wconet26/BNStory/specialComment/home

Wait for spring. Don't do it now
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/26/william-watson-wait-for-spring-don-t-do-it-now.aspx

BCE's procyclical crash
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/26/terence-corcoran-bce-s-procyclical-crash.aspx

Disease apartheid already exists in Canada, but don't worry, it doesn't affect people we care about
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/26/john-ivison-fiscal-update-now-a-declaration-of-war.aspx

University of Calgary singles out abortion for censorship
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/26/charles-lewis-q-amp-a-on-abortion.aspx


INFOS 
Les conservateurs vont couper les subventions des partis
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200811/26/01-804680-les-conservateurs-vont-couper-les-subventions-des-partis.php

Flaherty annoncerait l'abolition de la subvention de 1,95 $ par an par électeur
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081126/N1126171AU.html

Le ministre du Patrimoine fait des mécontents
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/200811/26/01-804666-le-ministre-du-patrimoine-fait-des-mecontents.php

Flaherty tente des diversions, dit l'opposition
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200811/26/01-804673-flaherty-tente-des-diversions-dit-lopposition.php

Les partis d'opposition exigent de Harper qu'il rapatrie Omar Khadr
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200811/26/01-804390-les-partis-dopposition-exigent-de-harper-quil-rapatrie-omar-khadr.php

Ottawa prêchera par l'exemple
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200811/26/01-804391-ottawa-prechera-par-lexemple.php

Nouvel assaut des partis d'opposition
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2008/11/26/001-khadr_opposition.shtml

Diplomatie canadienne
Pris au Soudan
Des documents secrets obtenus par le Globe and Mail révèlent...»
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2008/11/25/001-soudan-canada.shtml

Femmes canadiennes
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2008/11/24/003-conditions-femmes-onu.shtml

L'aviation canadienne aura ses propres hélicoptères de combat en Afghanistan
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081126/N1126159AU.html

Un expert australien critique la loi canadienne sur l'accès à l'information
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081126/N1126141AU.html

Les régimes de retraite déficitaires font mal aux entreprises canadiennes
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081126/N1126161AU.html

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A Western Canada issue

Generally my focus is on high level politics or far distant places.  The continuing efforts of the ideologically based Harper Conservatives attacking the Canadian Wheat Board (the CWB) as government intrusion into democratic free enterprise is an exception.

Whilst I was an M.P. one of my fellows called me "Joltin' Joe" though I could never figure out why I was rather taken with the term.

It was used in a COMMENT on a C.P. story as posted below. Which party do you think the other commentator voted for?

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From: Ron Thornton
Subject: Re: Daily Digest November 25, 2008

*Hi Joe:

In regards to the Nov. 25 Digest, the Globe & Mail is once again pushing for Ontario to get its full share of the Commons seats it deserves. It will never happen. As long as seven provinces and all three territories have more than their share based on population, simple logic implies that Ontario, BC, and Alberta can not.

Columnist Greg Weston writes that our banks are seeing profit margins fall. Hell, some are only making about $12-million in profit per day, according to the article, which helps explain why they need a bailout package. Big outfits like me and you don't. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy what the banks and governments are doing to me. I just wish they would send me flowers, or at least remember my name, when they are done.

Ron Thornton

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject: DD

Joe--first of all--anything spouted by Kazai is suspect. He is nothing but
a US puppet, installed by them and dancing to their tune.
How soon we forget that the US armed the Taliban and fought alongside them
to remove the Russians from Afghanistan. It was wrong for the Russians to
be there and it is doubly wrong for us to be there. We talk the talk and
bomb anyone for not dancing to our tune. I remember when Russia invaded
Afghanistan Canada got so many refugees from Afghanistan. Many of them were
educated women but we are supposed to forget that and blame the Taliban for
everything. Remind you of bin Laden????? Hey, that worked so well why not
just set up another boogeyman to tilt at? I know the Taliban was not in
power in Afghanistan then but the US made it possible for them--whoever has
the biggest guns wins? And the US made sure the Taliban had the biggest
guns!
As far as I am concerned, the deadline for this war was two weeks before we
started it!
Who is aiding Gaza when they have over 1500 children held in israeli jails,
not allowed any contact with their families? Who is bringing medicine, food
and fuel to Gaza? But that is ok? We want the Afghani girls and women to
be allowed to go to school? Anyone who believes that garbage is insane.
Since when has any army cared for the average person? It is all about power
and greed. I found it interesting that the number of 'insurgents' (how can
they be insurgents in their own country) have been killed but no mention of
all the innocents killed? The truth is they don't matter to us. They are
of no more importance to our leaders than we are. That is why the term
'collateral damage' was dreamed up. Much more civilized than telling the
truth about war and it's ipact on the innocent. The end justifies the
means?
War is a prehistoric method of 'settling disputes'. We have learned nothing
in the centuries since, other than how to invent more devastating weapons to
kill on a grander scale. It is us that must be stopped, not others. We are
a hollow shell of what we could and should be. We condone the starvation
and killing done by a favoured group but those that do not bow to our
dictates must be murdered? Remember Saddam Hussein--he was installed by the
US and was their puppet also--but then he started to take control and that
is not allowed. He had to be killed along with millions of the people he
supposedly harmed. I guess being killed in a US instigated war means you
are not dead? I imagine being maimed and dying from DU along with the next
few generations of Iraqis is not as bad as having a 'dictator'?
Actually, the Taliban wanting the foreign killers off the soil of
Afghanistan makes sense to me--they must have noticed by now what happens to
any country that the US 'supports'? Check it out. First an installed
puppet, then US control and devastation. Same story, different countries.
Sadly we are playing along with the 'war' in Afghanistan. We should all
hang our heads in shame.
Becky

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From: "Brian D. Marlatt"
Subject: fyi Neoconservatism : causation factor of financial crisis
Tuesday
November 25, 2008
by: Brian Marlatt
White Rock B.C.: A thing like the melt down of the American financial system doesn't just happen. There are causes and consequences to the way government and government policy is enacted. In this short explanation we discover that at the roots to the financial woes are ideological positions that are having an impact and we are in serious trouble here in Canada.
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From: "Robert Ede"
To: nationalpost <letters@nationalpost.com>
Subject: re:Stack the Senate -- Nat Post LTE - Laddered-terms

Dear NatPost Editor,
 
re Stack the Senate Nov 26/2008
 
Let the Rt Hon PM recommend the appointment of 19 new Senators - and feel good about it!!
 
Just insist that this bunch be appointed for "laddered" terms - perhaps 7 of the 19 will resign at the call of the next election and perhaps 4/yr would resign every year thereafter, until permanent Senators could be found -  "qualified" not only by Mr Harper's personally-promised (a la fixed election dates?) selection process, but also "21st century" BNA/Constitution qualified as per ss 23 & 31(with the $4000 property & net-worth aspects seasonally-adjusted from 1867 to 2008 --that would be 60 -80 times the current $4000)

Perhaps after all the existing 'old way' Senators were compelled to meet the 'new' 2008 qualification standards (-it's the ONLY Dollar Value in Canada that has never been adjusted-for inflation), Canadians could see the Upper Chamber's original purpose ... to represent the propertied class ... equally from all regions.

rce
background
Plain Language BNA/Constitution (rce edition)
 
Robert (Rob) Ede,
Thornhill ON

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From: "Suan H.Booiman"
Subject:  please watch and listen - re Islam

PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO and forward it to ALL your friends.  We need to become aware of the danger.
 
Click below please!!!
http://multimedia.heritage.org/content/wm/Lehrman-092706a.wvx

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