The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
It's not a done deal
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=202213&sc=80
CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Expropriation was the proper action
http://www.thewesternstar.com/index.cfm?sid=202042&sc=30
CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
The importance of physical activity
Expanding a fitness program is an idea all Islanders should undertake
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=202266&sc=103
CAPE BRETON POST -
Williams strikes everyman chord
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=202029&sc=151
HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
Federal bucks needed for infrastructure projects
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1096472.html
Bush rides to Canada's rescue. Who knew?
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1096553.html
AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
Footware fiasco sends message of defiance
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=202017&sc=61
OTTAWA CITIZEN -
The soldiers still suffer
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/soldiers+still+suffer/1088936/story.html
No number games
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/todays-paper/number+games/1088937/story.html
KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
THIS ISN'T SENATE REFORM
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1351481
TORONTO STAR -
Is Harper finally Ontario's friend?
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/555571
GLOBE & MAIL -
The paradoxical peril of thrift
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081217.webanks18/BNStory/specialComment/home
Paper tiger pounces
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081217.weNfld18/BNStory/politics/home
NATIONAL POST -
In search of fiscal sobriety
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1088480
HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Don't pity the big banks
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/483824
NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW -
Stack the Senate, but Tories musn't give up on reform
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1351565
K-W RECORD -
Detroit Three need a different strategy
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/460527
THUNDER BAY CHRONICLE JOURNAL -
New seats, just not here
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories.php?id=153900
REGINA LEADER-POST -
Shoveling a nation out of recession
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=e246f18e-b810-4eda-8792-3da30d45594b
GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
How the West was lost - Coalition threatens national unity with slight of Alberta
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1352468
EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Danny boy takes on The Man
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/Danny+takes/1089380/story.html
VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Time to demand RCMP oversight
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=8ae4bf95-9634-4f6f-ac24-aaeb56a92c8a
ISSUES
AFGHANISTAN -
Nato supplies face Pakistan hurdle
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/12/200812186275608701.html
Gunmen attack new Afghan supply route
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5361455.ece
Is Bush gambling Afghanistan's future?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/18/afghanistan-karzai-brown-taliban
10,000 urge Pakistan to cut US-NATO supply lineRead the original story
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-33/1229608149234150.xml&storylist=topstories
Afghan leader sends demands to U.S. on troop conduct
http://www.e-ariana.com/ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/20EF6150A0A3B7188725752300580C09?OpenDocument
CANADIAN FORCES
DND mulls sole-source contract worth $3B
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/todays-paper/mulls+sole+source+contract+worth/1088892/story.html
Canadian Forces buy laser 'dazzlers' for Afghanistan
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Canadian+Forces+laser+dazzlers+Afghanistan/1092613/story.html
Forces failing its 'stressed' members, report says
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1088438
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Carney to banks: lend, don't hoard
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081218.wrcarneybanks18/BNStory/Business/home
Feds told smaller better for recession
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/12/18/7786821-sun.html
Bankruptcy option for auto plan: White House
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1090890
The best stimulus for Canada? Lower taxes
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1088548
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Canada to seek Security Council seat
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/todays-paper/Canada+seek+Security+Council+seat/1088919/story.html
Russia appeased at Ukraine's expense, again
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/russia_appeased_at_ukraines_expense_again.html
HEALTH CARE RELATED
Don't give kids under 6 cold meds: Health Canada
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081218/cough_medicine_081218/20081218?hub=TopStories
JUSTICE SYSTEM
Charter doesn't protect Afghan prisoners: courtComment4
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081218.wdetainee1218/BNStory/National/home
POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES
Ottawa told to talk less, help more
Ontario's Duncan 'frustrated' by delays in repairing economy.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/555718
$3.4 billion bailout just 'bit of a lifeline'
McGuinty admits cash will keep industry alive only in the short term.
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/555666
Quebec, Fed liberals separate: Charest
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/Quebec+liberals+separate+Charest/1088757/story.html
FEDERAL POLITICS
Uncertainty, risk, recklessness end 2008 political calendar
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iYYzb_XajcjitxSd92dy6uJpKhKg
Ottawa predicts 4 years of deficits
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/555872
Flaherty to create economic council
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/555806
Flaherty cleared of conflict of interest allegations: Report
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/12/flaherty-cleare.html
Jobs Will Be Lost: Flaherty
http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=1090379
Flaherty puts faith in astoundingly accomplished group of uberachievers
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/12/18/kelly-mcparland-flaherty-announces-council-of-astoundingly-accomplished-uberachievers-to-advise-on-the-economy.aspx
Why Iggy plays well in Quebec
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1088546
Ignatieff begins wooing Quebec
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/555700
PROGRAMMES
Flaherty warns banks on lending
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081218.wflahertybank1218/BNStory/Business/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
PRESSURE POINTS
CSIS taping conversations between lawyers, terrorism suspects, judge says
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081218.wcsis1218/BNStory/National/home
OPINION AND INFORMATION
Getting government out of housing management
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7036
Alarmism
http://adognamedkyoto.blogspot.com/2008/12/alarmism.html
Big brains better than big names
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/555601
Why Iraqi journalist has become a hero
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/555571
The blind leading the broke
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/12/17/terence-corcoran-bernanke-s-radical-inflation-plan.aspx
Canadian PM Faces Test Of Conservatism With 'Big Three' Bailout
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29967
Tories rule Ontario
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/2008/12/18/7786776-sun.html
What is 'responsible government' anyway?
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1088481
A Senate lottery: What are the odds it would be worse?
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1096625.html
Stack it, reform it, abolish it?
http://www.vancouversun.com/columnists/Stack+reform+abolish/1089162/story.html
The Senate needs a shot of star power – here's the list
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081217.wcomartin18/BNStory/politics/home
No Virginia, we're not all Keynesians now
http://josephbenami.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=34
INFOS
Les conservateurs planifient des déficits de 30 milliard $
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200812/18/01-811697-les-conservateurs-planifient-des-deficits-de-30-milliard-.php
Une majorité de Canadiens est opposée à un déficit au fédéral
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200812/18/01-811679-une-majorite-de-canadiens-est-opposee-a-un-deficit-au-federal.php
Des déficits pendant au moins quatre ans
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200812/18/01-811633-des-deficits-pendant-au-moins-quatre-ans.php
Pertes de 25 millions pour les compagnies culturelles
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/12/18/223891.html
Spécialistes recherchés pour soldats en détresse
http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/12/18/223889.html
Flaherty en quête d'idées
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Economie-Affaires/2008/12/18/003-Flahertyconsultecomite.shtml
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From: "The Natroses" Subject: Re: Daily Digest December 17, 2008
Hi Joe,
"These trade deals are the "economic constitutions" responsible for creating today's global economic crisis. Why? Because they hollow out economies and abolish stable employment and lifestyles for people around the planet."
Frances Russell is a Winnipeg-based freelance journalist and author.
This is also occurring in other resources - non or renewable resources. I have seen the same things occurring in the fishery industry, where the big guys are eating the little fish processors/harvesters for breakfast. Ditto for industries in mining and forestry products.
As always, if someone should have the fortitude to fight back - the big guys go running to government and the courts that govern so-called free trade disputes, crying foul! The latest, being Abitibi-Botwater, who brought the mill in Grand-Falls Windsor, long before the free trade agreement was put in place. They brought the mill, knowing that they had free use of our water and forests, in exchange for operation of the paper mill. The agreement took place 100 years ago, when Newfoundland was its own nation, and not as an British colony as has been stated in the newspaper.
It is time for governments to wake up or we will have another economic crisis in another 30 years, caused again by the greed of the big guys.
From the Natroses
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From: "John Dowson"
Subject: Harpers end game
Joe Stephen Harpers End game is to have a Conservative majority and he will use every means available to achieve this objective and nothing will stop him. He has momentum on his side. He has gained seats in every election since 2002 and all he needs are 12 seats to get a majority.
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Why did he give Ontario 21 new seats, most which are in rural Ontario?.
* He has written off Quebec except for the five Quebec city seats.
The game is to gain 12, seats plus the five he'll lose in Quebec, that's 17.
Where will he get the seats?
Retain the 139 in the Rest of Canada, pick up seats in rural Ontario, BC, Alberta, who will also get new seats, and rural Manitoba.
How do you engineer an election without it looking like you planned it.
Meet with the Liberals and split the coalition
Let the Bloq and the NDP vote a piece of legislation down.
Caution he cannot let the Liberals gain strength an momentum he must strike before the May Liberal conference.
Watch for it. Mr. Harper is a chess player and he never makes a move unless he knows the next five moves. The whole political process is a political chess game. John Dowson
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From: Gary Scherbain
Joe
Not quite sure how to read things here in Winnipeg.
When economic signals are positive, we have a long debate on a new stadium and for a proposed private takeover of the so-called community owned Winnipeg Football club.
In negative times, we now see there may be a rush to sign on to a new stadium by three levels of government. All in the name of infrastructure initiatives being a remedy to what ails the economy.
Gary Scherbain
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