Daily Digest November 5, 2008

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

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
To have and to have not

CAPE BRETON POST -
U.S. elects world president
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=187219&sc=151

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Obama must deliver on hope and change

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
The rise of Barack Obama

Occupational requirements

KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
ONTARIO STILL GETS SHORT END

TOO LONG A WAIT

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER -
Next president entering new world of phantom financing

Uploading means council responsible now

TORONTO STAR -
Barack Obama's triumph of hope
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/530788

GLOBE & MAIL -
The race factor's symbolic
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081105.werace06/BNStory/specialComment/home

Backward steps
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081105.wegayrights06/BNStory/specialComment/home

A threat that wasn't
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081105.wesatire06/BNStory/specialComment/home

HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
We're have-not -- now what?

NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
American history in the making

K-W RECORD -
The rebirth of a nation

WINDSOR STAR -
Juvenile political partisanship has to go

SUDBURY STAR -
Some perspective on 'have not'

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Bands must cede control
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/editorial/story/4245946p-4888990c.html

Pray Obama's up to it
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/westview/story/4245896p-4889009c.html

WINNIPEG SUN -
Voting tough slogging for Americans

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Keep perspective on Ont. joining club of have-nots

REGINA LEADER-POST -
The Power of Equality

When it's time to pass the torch

CALGARY HERALD -
Barack Obama and the world

President needs support from all

Fundamentals really are strong

GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
Canada in Obama's world - Will left president and right-wing PM get along?

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
A new morning in America

VANCOUVER SUN -
History in the making: Now Barack Obama must live up to his promise

Long-delayed justice for aboriginals delayed yet again

Is Obama the new FDR?

VANCOUVER PROVINCE -
Governments must help our forest industry rebound

VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
A 'have-not' Ontario shows goofy equalization process

Obama's success critical for world


ISSUES

ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS -          
First Nations group calls for inquiry into police shootings

Former top court judge to the rescue of derailed truth commission


AFGHANISTAN -
US says it killed militants at civilian death site

Afghan President: Air Strikes Killed About 40 Civilians

Afghan: US strike kills 23 children, 10 women

U.S. strike kills wedding party goers: Afghan officials

Botched US bombing kills 40 at Afghan wedding
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5092346.ece

Alleged US air raid 'kills 37' at Afghan nuptials
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/afghanistan-wedding-air-raid-kandahar

US Afghan air strike 'killed 40' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7710566.stm

US accused of killing civilians at wedding party
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1959&Itemid=48


CANADIAN FORCES
Air force needs double the number search and rescue choppers

Criteria for Sacrifice Medal reviewed after public outcry
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081105/national/sacrifice_medal_review

New memorial honours Canada's Great War casualties

Afghan veterans more likely to suffer from mental illness


FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Canada seeks answers on torture 'allegations'

US Cuts Combat Brigades in Iraq Early

Pakistan Plan to Arm Tribal Militias Poses Risks


HEALTH CARE RELATED
Maple Leaf appoints chief food safety officer

Winnipeg scientists offer explanation for sporadic nature of Ebola outbreaks


JUSTICE SYSTEM
Police chief slams RCMP in new book

Questions arise over RCMP actions in McKendy slaying

Mounties ordered to testify in B.C. Taser inquiry

Man who murdered Calgary 5-year-old granted day parole


POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Quebecers head to polls in election over economy
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081105/Charest_quebec_081105/20081105?hub=Canada

Quebec premier seeks 'clear mandate' in calling Dec. 8 election

Finger pointing kicks off first day of Quebec election campaign

Quebec promises balanced budgets

Pauline Marois getting her first crack at premier's job

Jean Charest no stranger to the roller-coaster of political life

ADQ's Mario Dumont clinging to job as Quebec Opposition leader .

N.L. plans 'have' party

MPs neglecting Ontario, Duncan says
 
Opposition denounces Ontario's have-not status as 'bombshell'

'Have not' status is likely to linger

Ontario needs auto aid: Duncan

Ottawa 'clued out' on Ontario's challenges: Duncan

Time to own up, Mr. Premier


POLITICAL OPINION -
Won't back crime bills, MPs say

Flaherty driving up limo tab

New security adviser signals shift in key role

Leadership convention plans gaining steam

Rae urges cap on spending; Manley decides not to run

Manley's decision is a loss for Canada

Liberal bank account even smaller after election rebates

Alignment of stars doesn't favour Rae


PROGRAMMES
Feds confirm plan to seek climate deal with Obama
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081105/USelection_CDA_reaction_081105/20081105?s_name=uselection2008

Canada won't rethink 2011 Afghanistan pullout after Obama win: Cannon MORE...

Ottawa prefers skills development to social development
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Finfo.branchez-vous.com%2FNationales%2F081105%2FN1105254AU.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en

Canada shy of big overhaul of capitalism


PRESSURE POINTS
Climate change climbing corporate priority list, report says

Terror, mentally ill threaten Games .


OPINION AND INFORMATION
The world has changed


INFOS 
Un vent démocrate balaie les États-Unis
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/11/05/214238.html

Une participation impressionnante - Un vote massif, sans chaos

Les spécialistes circonspects - Les swing states penchent vers Obama

Une difficile transition attend le nouveau président

Bush s'est fait invisible

En bref - Obama a joué au basket en attendant les résultats

En bref - McCain dit au revoir aux journalistes qui l'ont suivi

Les primeurs d'Obama
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/11/05/214243.html

Lawrence Cannon voit d'un bon oeil l'élection d'Obama
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200811/05/01-36601-lawrence-cannon-voit-dun-bon-oeil-lelection-dobama.php

Le PQ accuse les libéraux de vouloir cacher un déficit
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/elections-provinciales/200811/05/01-36533-le-pq-accuse-les-liberaux-de-vouloir-cacher-un-deficit.php

Ottawa demande à la Syrie et à l'Egypte d'examiner le rapport sur la torture
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/national/200811/05/01-36639-ottawa-demande-a-la-syrie-et-a-legypte-dexaminer-le-rapport-sur-la-torture.php

Les hélicoptères Cormorant trop souvent immobilisés

Le PLC perd jusqu'à 250 000 $ en remboursements de dépenses d'élections
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081105/N1105268AU.html

Ottawa préfère le développement des compétences au développement social
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081105/N1105254AU.html

Céline Hervieux-Payette restera lieutenante politique de Dion au Québec
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081105/N1105230AU.html

Le PQ accuse les libéraux de vouloir cacher un déficit budgétaire
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081105/N1105278AU.html

Le fédéral lance des messages confus au sujet de documents trouvés sur la rue
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/081105/N1105180AU.html

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From: "Jacob Rempel"
Subject: On election night, The Real News speaks with Independent Presidential candidate, Ralph Nader

The REAL NEWS interviews Ralph Nader.
Ralph Nader warns us to lower our expectations.
The corporate establishment remains of full control.
…JakeRempel

Ralph Nader speaks on an Obama presidency

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From: Ray Strachan
Subject: Obama

Joe

When I was a kid in Saskatchewan we used to get a nickel for a rabbit skin.My
chum's uncle was a trapper, so he showed us how to set a snare on a Rabbit
path. You had to arrange willows so the Rabbit had to pass under them and
your snare was set to be unavoidable by the poor rabbit. Our Republican
neighbors to the south have caught themselves a Brown Rabbit.   He has stuck
his neck in the snare and he will not choke quickly.  He will try and try to
escape but alas, all effort will be in vain.   He is dealing with the scum of
the earth. He just overdid the use of the words  HOPE and CHANGE. Every time
he used them, he was tightening the snare around his own neck.  Universal
Healthcare. Funds for Education, Funds for Infrastructure. Funds,Funds,Funds
for all the NEGLECT.  Two or more Wars to FUND.  God has never been able to
do all these things.

As A Canadian,I feel as though I have been living on a dark street and fate has
arranged it, so that an old run-down rooming house was moved on the empty lot
next to myself and my family, and it houses many, many, many homicidal maniacs.
No locks on the doors,no fences, all the armament they want, and a superiority
complex that is sick. Oh yes,The Mighty Americans.

Ray Strachan   Alberta

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Obama Takes Centre Stage

Today, newspapers across the world will be clipped and stored in shoeboxes and drawers for generations to come, the faces of millions of crying, ecstatic Americans standing as evidence of a nation forever transformed. The front pages of all the major newspapers today have played heavily upon the epic proportions of yesterday's American election ­ one glance is enough to know that yesterday's win for Barack Obama represented history in the making. It was a night of many firsts, most notably, the first African-American man to be elected as president of the United States. As polling booths closed across America yesterday, there was a palpable sense that the once little-known senator from Illinois would become the forty-fourth president of the United States. When Obama took to the stage for his victory speech at a field in Chicago's Grant Park at midnight, he had already netted 333 electoral college votes, easily sailing past the 270 he needed to win; the Democratic party, meanwhile, expanded its dominance of the House and Senate. It was a decisive victory in which Obama captured 53 percent of the popular vote, the first time that any Democratic president has secured a popular majority since Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976.

Today's media coverage blows the lid off what until now had been hushed whispers about what this win means ­ or perhaps doesn't mean ­ for race relations in America. In the Post, Robert Fulford exclaims that "a divide has been crossed," and that America has taken "a giant step in healing the self-inflicted wound of racism." Andrew Cohen of the Post (not available online) interprets Obama as being "'known more for the colour of his skin than the content of his character." Most of the pundits agree that Obama's win will not immediately bring an end to the deeply-rooted racism in America. For a country that, one hundred years earlier, would not let Booker T. Washington dine at the White House because he was black, there is no question that America has come along way in its race relations.

The importance of Obama's win was undeniable, and yet Canadians wishing to view the monumental race on either CBC or CTV were shut out of the incoming results until CBC ran its flagship newscast, The National, at 10 p.m., as neither network broadcast the early results live. Canadian coverage of the election by the Big Seven very closely mirrored one another ­ there was a great deal to be said about the issue of race and the record voter turnout, and yet only small rumblings about the challenges that Obama will face in office or the gay marriage and abortion bans that resurfaced in California, Florida and elsewhere. At this point in the game, there is only room on the stage for Obama.

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THE LEADS:
THE NATIONAL: "A Campaign Like No Other: From high drama to low blows"
CTV NEWS: "America has voted: Obama the next US president"
GLOBE AND MAIL: "Obama overcomes"
TORONTO STAR: "A dream fulfilled"
NATIONAL POST: "History: US elects Barack Obama"
LA PRESSE: "Mr. President"
OTTAWA CITIZEN: "Obama: Americans elect their first black president"

WHAT IT ALL MEANS FOR US
The Post, the Citizen, CTV News, and the Globe all weigh in on what an Obama win could mean for the people north of the forty-ninth parallel. The most common issues to top out in this discussion of this are the economy and trade, the Afghanistan war, and border security. The Citizen is wary of how the economic crisis will draw the US president's focus inward and highlights stiffer border security laws as preventing the free flow of Canadian exports south of the border. But the Post is forthright in stating (in its headline) that Canada's "privileged position with the US remains safe," and that the reconfiguration of NAFTA, if it does in fact occur, should be not be conflated with protectionism. What Obama wants to address with NAFTA, says Derek Burney, former Canadian Ambassador to Washington, is labour and environmental standards ­ both of which have nothing to do with Canada, he says, and everything to do with Mexico. The National mentions that, because of Obama, Canada may be pressured into using a cap-and-trade system to control climate change, and that Canada may be talked into remaining in Afghanistan beyond its promised pull-out date of 2011.

While Canadians across the country watched the results of the election roll in, it was on the minds of many in the media that this election had been better able to capture the hearts and minds of Canadians than our own recent election. Indeed, CTV news stated that Canadians supported Obama six to one in the election and the Post prophesies that with the increased surge of popularity for an Obama-led America, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government will be compelled to get cozy with this administration, even though past experience shows Canadians being wary of a too-close relationship with Washington. If Canada wants to make itself heard by the US, however, the Citizen and the Globe suggest, it will need to make contact as soon as possible. And that it did ­ the Star reported that Harper had already telephoned President-elect Obama yesterday evening to extend his congratulations. The fact that Obama and Harper rest on different sides of the political spectrum is no problem, say all the Big Seven today ­ the analysis as to why, however, seems to have slipped through the cracks.

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Obama picks chief of staff
Harper welcomes Obama victory
Harper looks forward to meeting Obama
Tories can at least rid themselves of the bashing-by-Bush-association
Canada quietly adjusts to Obama's agenda
Ottawa set to make clear its priorities
Obama could lose his lustre with Canadians
Obama win restores world's hope in U.S.: expert
Afghanistan welcomes Obama win, wants new strategy
U.S. voters hit the polls in record numbers
Is Obama's election good for Stephen Harper? Spector: MORE...
Building the Stephen-Barack bond L. Ian Macdonald: . MORE...
Obama's win signals a larger role for Canada in managing North America Yaffe: . MORE...
A dawn to savour, but a tough tomorrow Ibbitson: . MORE...
Privileged position with U.S. remains safe Ivison:  MORE...
Some elections worth the wait Walkom: MORE...
A divide has been crossed Fulford: . MORE...
This was about more than Barack . MORE...
Obama's a true inspiration, but road ahead holds perils Todd:  MORE...
'Obama scares me' McRae: MORE...
Political junkies will need a new fix Madawo:  MORE...
A new path for the GOP Frum: MORE...
Inheriting a mess
Harper won't push Obama to visit Canada first
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081105/harper_obama-081105/20081105?hub=Canada
Obama victory bodes well for battered Ont. economy, say ministers
Obama no threat to NAFTA: experts
Observers divided over what Obama presidency means for Canadian economy
Picking priorities will be crucial in Obama's early days
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/11/05/peter-goodspeed-picking-priorities-will-be-crucial-in-obama-s-early-days.aspx
Ottawa swoops in with climate-change offer
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081105.wclimate1106/BNStory/National/home
Exit the ugly American, enter a new Can-Am era
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081105.wcomartin06/BNStory/specialComment/home