The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Crisis or no crisis?
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=211975&sc=80
CAPE BRETON POST -
Law shines light on elder abuse View comments7
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=211828&sc=151
HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
No right to spew toxic gas in public
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1101327.html
MONTREAL GAZETTE -
After the Second World War and the Korean War, Canada offered what seemed then like fairly generous support to veterans who came home injured. But attitudes toward the mental injuries combat can inflict were not so advanced.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/another+thing/1188430/story.html
OTTAWA SUN -
The feds' orgy better stimulate
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/Editorial/2009/01/16/8053151-sun.html
TORONTO STAR -
Our leaders find common ground
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/572647
GLOBE & MAIL -
Principles for economic revival
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.weBudget17/BNStory/specialComment/home
Deterring the reckless
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.wehiv17/BNStory/specialComment/home
Why books are taught
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.weatwood17/BNStory/specialComment/home
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
If the atheists can't speak freely, who can?
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/if_the_atheists_cant_speak_freely_who_can.html
SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Unwise to slam door
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=5caf725a-086a-4a38-8266-82550c4f1bad
Quickly adopt simple measure in patient safety
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=5caf725a-086a-4a38-8266-82550c4f1bad
REGINA LEADER-POST -
Honesty the best Policy
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=cbe75f5c-f0da-4394-b10e-be4d4164dddb
Olympics puts skids under taxpayers
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=6ce52a9e-0d1e-42ac-8f5f-58a8a8f4b86ehttp://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=cbe75f5c-f0da-4394-b10e-be4d4164dddb
CALGARY HERALD -
Delay in pulling tasers stunning
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=fdad8771-4caf-4e50-8d7c-d4972eff9b19
Don't follow Oregon's lead--say no to assisted suicide
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=6590ed8e-cfa1-48bb-8a5c-17a253a52816
Shift in 'honour' killings
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=e6256f9e-e8e4-4f58-af6f-46c19bcc6423
The blessing and the curse of our social safety net
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=c97085d5-9304-406b-9fb1-226e3e2859e2
GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
Stelmach sends message to PM
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1391432
EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Heavy rain, flimsy umbrella
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/editorials/Heavy+rain+flimsy+umbrella/1187777/story.html
LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Public information is far from 'free'
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/content/view/23501/56/
RED DEER ADVOCATE -
Don't take sides, but do take a stand
http://www.albertalocalnews.com/reddeeradvocate/opinion/Dont_take_sides_but_do_take_a_stand.html
VANCOUVER SUN -
Canadians still in the dark about listeriosis outbreak
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=3719f5f7-d382-4a1f-a9b9-9fea0a40d93b
ISSUES
CANUSA/USACAN -
U. S. needs Alberta's oil sands
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=5e29c37c-8820-4644-9379-03d1feb8f6ec
U.S. and Canada must handle oil sands with kid gloves
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1101269.html
U.S. interior secretary signs off on NDakota water project challenged by Manitoba
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090116/national/nd__naws_study
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS -
Canadian innovation
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.wcover17/BNStory/Technology/home
Tight credit starts to bite consumers
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.wconsumer17/BNStory/crashandrecovery/home
Labour-mobility deal fails to quell skeptics
Premiers say amended pact eliminates interprovincial barriers that frustrated trades and professionals for decades
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.wPOLlabour0116/BNStory/politics/home
We have become a nation of beggars
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1187120
FOREIGN AFFAIRS -
Israel declares unilateral ceasefire in Gaza
Israeli PM Olmert apologizes to Gazans 'unjustly affected' in 22-day military offensive
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/17/gaza.html
Israel to cease fire in Gaza
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090117.wpalwrap0117/BNStory/International/home
Hamas vows to fight on despite Israel's cease-fire
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/572975
Who started the war?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/534.html
UK minister attacks 'war on terror'
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/01/200911591023820441.html
Credit card companies face major changes as job losses climb, bills go unpaid
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090117/national/20090117_consumer_credit
Harper agrees to premiers' demands for richer EI, massive infrastructure infusion
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090116/national/20090116_first_ministers
JUSTICE SYSTEM -
Ontario judge declares secrecy law unconstitutional
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.wsecrecy0116/BNStory/National/home
Quebec Crown seeks rare dangerous offender status for repeat drunk driver
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090117/national/20090117_drunk_dangerous_offender
POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES -
Premiers call for 'stability'
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/572737
FEDERAL POLITICS -
Tories launch new campaign against coalition
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledevoir.com%2F2009%2F01%2F17%2F227903.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0 =
Harper appoints female to organize Tory party in Quebec
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledevoir.com%2F2009%2F01%2F17%2F227904.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0 =
Harper appoints female to organize Tory party in Quebec
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/01/17/227904.html
Harper edges ahead of Ignatieff in poll
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/572739
Harper eyes tax breaks for middle-class families
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/572738
Despite warnings, PM touts fixes for short term
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.wecon17/BNStory/politics/home
Nothing To Envy In Pm's Latest Task
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1187125
Harper, Charest square off over change to equalization
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1187129
Harper 'broke his word' on federal transfer payments: Charest
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1186458
Harper has one more shot, Ignatieff
http://www.canada.com/surreynow/news/story.html?id=117a9b94-feeb-4e30-b707-8a6d38d25f57
Ignatieff takes aim at Harper's tax-cut plan
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1187126
Ignatieff doesn't want middle-class tax cuts, or an election either
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/17/john-ivision-ignatieff-doesn-t-want-middle-class-tax-cuts-or-an-election-either.aspx
Ignatieff to discuss economy, coalition at Liberals' meeting
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1189545
PROGRAMMES -
Tax breaks for Canadians inconsistent: audit
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090117.wtaxbreaks0117/BNStory/National/home
Feds may inject cash into employment insurance
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/01/17/8053761-sun.html
PRESSURE POINTS -
Exxon CEO's endorsement should prompt politicians to take a fresh look at the idea
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=16b1952b-17df-45c4-9195-441686d3a37f
Rare breeds seen by some as small-scale farming's answer to big agribusiness
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090117/national/20090117_livestock_diversity
OPINION AND INFORMATION -
Mideast coverage: We can't win
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/572646
Dangerous scramble to do something
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/572627
What will drive future economy?
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/572624
Hope as a commodity
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/572626
Dodging war: Who's the hero?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090116.wcorichler17/BNStory/specialComment/home
Robert Fulford on the disproportionate criticism of Israel's self-defence
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/17/robert-fulford-on-proportionality.aspx
Should we talk to Hamas?
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1187144
Israeli apartheid and the Albanian-speaking bears
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/17/george-jonas-israeli-apartheid-and-the-albanian-speaking-bears.aspx
Big spending needs to go to right places
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Editorials/2009/01/17/8054036-sun.html
Even crisis can't kill bickering
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/572740
Stephen Harper's $40-billion romance
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/9010343.html
Ignatieff doing a swell job of not being Dion
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=2be4db67-1949-470e-8016-fe37f7fcc841
Broad stripes and bright stars
A new history of America reminds DD Guttenplan that the UK and the US are still oceans apart
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/17/history-america-david-reynolds-liberty
INFOS -
Offensive contre la coalition
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2009/01/17/001-pcc-pubs-coalition.shtml
Charest attaque Harper... en solitaire
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200901/17/01-818470-charest-attaque-harper-en-solitaire.php
Les Canadiens doivent s'attendre à des déficits «très importants»
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200901/17/01-818473-les-canadiens-doivent-sattendre-a-des-deficits-tres-importants.php
Harper-Charest: le grand froid
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/chroniqueurs/vincent-marissal/200901/17/01-818475-harper-charest-le-grand-froid.php
Péréquation - Charest se heurte à un mur
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/01/17/227939.html
Le sommet fédéral-provincial dégage des consensus; Québec hausse le ton
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090116/N0116133AU.html
Québec et Ottawa inaugurent un nouveau chapitre d'affrontement
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090116/N0116145AU.html
Un pas de plus est franchi vers la mobilité de la main-d'oeuvre au pays
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090116/N0116115AU.html
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Right, Truth, Justice or Politics?
Actions directed at gaining, maintaining and using power is the definition of politics that best commends itself to my understanding. Right, Truth, Justice or Politics?
Canada's representative on the United Nations human rights council had three options: to vote for, to vote against or to abstain on voting on a motion condemning actions that have occurred during the Israeli military offensive in Gaza.
Among the 13 countries that abstained were Britain, France, Japan and South Korea. Canada alone voted against the motion.
Why?
A former Canadian ambassador to the UN said that "until recently Ottawa's representatives at the UN voted on Middle East issues on the basis of "principle" and "fair-mindedness." Of Canada's current approach, he said, "It's not a middle-of-the-road position. It is a frankly supportive position of Israel." A "supportive position of Israel" not motivated by "fair-mindedness" but for political reasons both internal and external.
Anne Dickinson sent an article I commend to your reading which in its final paragraph sums up the position Canada should be working toward as the international standard :
"What this is really about is international law. It's about accountability. It's about justice – something the Palestinians have never received – and it's about bringing criminals to trial. Arab war criminals, Israeli war criminals – the whole lot. And don't say it cannot be done. Wasn't that the message behind the Yugoslav tribunal? Didn't some of the murderers get their just deserts? Just leave the Second World War out of it." http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-when-it-comes-to-gaza-leave-the-second-world-war-out-of-it-1418270.html
INFORMATION ON UN MOTION FROM: Canada votes alone for Israel
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:x2F1mJ_8H2IJ:www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/569872+canada+UN+vote+on+israel+13+abstain&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=ca&client=firefox-a
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From: Rubie Britton Subject: Fw: Brasscheck TV: Know your weapons - white phospheros
Rubie
It's been around since WW I when it was a horror in the trenches.
It causes a kind of fire you can't put out with a fire extinguisher and if it gets on human flesh, it will burn straight down the the
bone - and keep burning.
Now the Israeli military is dropping it from time to time on Gaza neighborhoods.
Of course, that's just a rumor...unless you see the video.
Who are you going to believe?
The Israeli war party PR department or your own eyes?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/532.html
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From: Larry Kazdan
To: Star Phoenix <spnews@sp.canwest.com>
Subject: Letter to Editor re: Unions their own worst enemy, Gwyn Morgan,
January 16
Re: Unions their own worst enemy, Gwyn Morgan, January 16
- Do we have to endure another CEO lecturing unions on the subject of greed? A recent CCPA study indicates that the average compensation of Canada's 100 top-paid CEOs in 2005 was $9 million whereas the average worker made $38,010. The whole thrust of corporate-friendly economics is to keep working wages low while at the same time maintaining high consumer demand by persuading people to borrow. (There's money to be made on the lending side too!) Unfortunately when people borrow more and more, but have less and less to pay back, the system eventually hits a wall. Welcome to the financial crisis. Of course, CEO's have a simple answer: blame the unions.
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From: "John Halonen"
Seems like the days of Canadian Independence have vanished.
The Israeli Conflict shows the true direction of our government.
Next step will be the formation of a North American Union where
viewpoints will always be the same.
John Halonen
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From: Larry Kazdan \
To: provletters@theprovince.com
Subject: Letter to Editor re: Mann private-financing woes embolden NDP, Michael Smyth, January 16
- Re: Mann private-financing woes embolden NDP, Michael Smyth, January 16
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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject: [On-Guard] Our tax dollars at work?
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Ford_starts_making_Fiesta_in_China_01152009.html
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From: Bob Taubman
Hi Joe,
A couple of things today. First, thanks for the newspaper item by Sen. Colin Kenny. He quotes from Peter H. Russell's new offering "Two Cheers for Minority Government, The Evolution of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy", which I would recommend to all to read. I happen to share Professor Russell's opinion that minority governments serve us better.
The second item is the submission from Ron Thornton, specifically his assertion that the cause that started the American Civil War was not slavery . If it wasn't about slavery, what was it about? State's rights is often trotted out as the cause of the civil war and that the North only fought to preserve the Union.
The North did fight to keep the Union in tact, but had there been no slavery, there would have been no civil war.
Even Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural speech March 4, 1865, is quoted as saying; "One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the casue of the war."
The comprimomises Mr. Thornton mentions were in fact about slavery, and where and in what states slavery would or would not be permitted. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 "had outlawed slavery everywhere in the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern border (except for Missouri itself)". This legislation was repealed and replace by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854, which "was meant to quiet the furious national argument over slavery by letting the Western territories decide whether to accept this practice or not without the intrusion of the federal government." (Smithsonian Collector's Edition, Winter 2009, LINCOLN) Also quoted in this article is George B. Forgie, University of Texas, who says "Whatever the chances of avoiding disunion before Kansas-Nebraska, they fell dramatically as a result of it."
"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutionAfrican slavery as it exists amongst usthe proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution." Hon. A. H. Stephens, Vice- President, Confederate States of America, March 21, 1861, Savannah, Georgia.
These states rights and the power of the states influenced our founding fathers. Sir John A. Macdonald said: "Ever since the [American] union was formed the difficulty of what is called 'states rights' has existed, and this had much to do in bringing on the present unhappy war in the United States. They commenced, in fact, in the wrong end. They declared by their Constitution that each state was a sovereignty in itself....We have strengthened the General Government." (Canadians In The Civil War, Claire Hoy, 2004, published by McArthur & Company, Toronto, ON)
States rights = preserving slavery in the seceding states = American Civil War
Bob Taubman
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. . . weakening our "General Government"
is # 1 on S.H.'s To be Done list.
Joe
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From: "Efstratios Psarianos"
PM times his fight for national regulator
Stephen Harper has driven a wedge between Quebec and rest of Canada
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/496482
Uuuummm ... no. What he's done is make himself and his gang look like space aliens from Pluto.
Also, note that I've yet to hear that The Hamilton Spectator (or the lady who wrote it, who lives in my for-a-few-years hometown of Burlington, ON) is particularly expert at knowing what's up in Quebec. Sorry, folks, but like for any region and province, you have to live here to get a sense of what's really goping on.
Sir John A. Macdonald's lessons for Michael Ignatieff
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/16/thomas-axworthy-how-to-revive-the-liberals.aspx
112-3 years and still fresh!
In tough economic times, Obama can learn from FDR
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/571855
Prepare for war?
The article below is an decent expose of the differences between the US (presidential, republican) and Canadian (parliamentary) political systems. Some of the arguments are developed only superficially, but it all had to fit in a newspaper article so we can forgive that.
I MUST say that I've never envisioned the Senate as a 'think tank'. I'll have to give that one some thought, but it IS an interesting way to think of it.
And, of course, one of my potshots at rhetorical jibber-jabber: 'it only cost each of us $2.42 a year' is an example of what's called a 'funny money' tactic. The idea is to make sum oif money seem small by cutting them up ('for the price of just a cup of coffee a day' sounds smaller than $500 a year) or big by bunching sums up ('if you win, you'll get ONE MILLION DOLLARS over the next 40 years' sounds bigger than $25,000 a year for that time .. and that's without considering inflation, too!). What can I say, these kinds of things are cheap, throwaway ways to persuade people without their realizing it .. and people have wised up to it a lot over the past 20 years.
Look who's talking
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Look+talking/1181645/story.html
By Colin Kenny , The Ottawa CitizenJanuary 15, 2009
On the issue of Senate reform, the sleazy senators are the villains. They're unelected, they're often old, and every now and then one of them sneaks off to Mexico instead of attending committee meetings. The Upper Chamber has been a boon for cartoonists for many decades, so why wouldn't it serve as a target for Stephen Harper?
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Offensive contre la coalition
The minority government of Conservative Stephen Harper and opposition parties in the House of Commons returning with a vengeance in a battle of public relations.The Conservative Party of Canada (PCC) is launching this weekend a series of messages on the radio attacking the coalition of Liberal and NDP, supported by the Bloc Quebecois.
According to Le Devoir, advertisements will be broadcast in English and French. Last fall, the Conservative Party had chosen to turn the messages in English only.
According to the spokesman for the Conservative Party Ryan Sparrow, the messages focused on the federal budget to be unveiled January 27. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the coalition should not overthrow the government in the vote on the budget.
In the middle of political crisis in Ottawa last November, the Conservative Party had launched advertisements in which the Conservatives claimed that the coalition, then led by Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, was illegitimate.
The unions, which support the coalition, had responded by organizing demonstrations in several cities and disseminating messages on the radio. Meanwhile, the Liberal Party and the NDP had not launched any ads to defend their coalition.
The new radio conservatives were not available from the PCC at the time of our article online.
A conservative in Quebec
Moreover, the Conservative Party of Canada has chosen a chief organizer for restart training in Quebec. Claude Durand is a candidate defeat of the CCP during the last general election in Trois-Rivieres.
In an email sent to the Conservatives in Quebec, the Minister Christian Paradis announced that Ms. Durand, who will bear the official title of Director of Operations, will take office on 1 February.
The appointment of Claude Durand is a return to the old formula for the Conservatives in Quebec.
A year ago, the leadership of the CPC in Ottawa dismissed its chief organizer in the province, Pierre Coulombe, and replaced him with Doug Finley, the main organizer for all of Canada. Since then, the troops were headed to Quebec from Ottawa.
Ignatieff and Quebec
For his part, Michael Ignatieff, the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, would not give preferential treatment in Quebec if it were to lead a coalition government.
In Calgary, Friday, as part of a tour, Mr. Ignatieff has minimized the impact that could have the block on a coalition government if the Conservatives were defeated on the budget on 27 January.
In an interview to a radio station Alberta, Michael Ignatieff said that when he became chief, he first wanted to know if, in negotiations surrounding the formation of the coalition in November, it had Bloc promises that could undermine the unity of Canada.
According to what was learned La Presse, the Bloc Quebecois has tried to get a coalition government amends the Official Languages Act and the Canada Labor Code to make Bill 101 to the federal jurisdiction, including banks. But the Bloc has been rejected.
Michael Ignatieff said the Liberal Party under his leadership will not compromise the country's unity by giving preferential treatment or special agreements in Quebec, under pressure from the Bloc.
The leader of the Liberal caucus meeting Sunday and Monday in anticipation of the opening of Parliament on 26 January.
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