The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
Make healthy eating a habit
http://www.thewesternstar.com/index.cfm?sid=224372&sc=30
CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN -
Truly universal health care View comments1
Equal access to drug treatment is a necessary component of medicare
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=224941&sc=103
CAPE BRETON POST -
100 years later, it's still amazing
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=224584&sc=151
HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
An inquiry needed into Indian Brook Fisheries
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1107993.html
Canada can't just blindly follow U.S. lead in Afghanistan
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1107957.html
AMHERST DAILY NEWS -
An ingredient sorely in need
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=224963&sc=61
SAINT JOHN TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL -
Seniors get hit where it hurts
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/581070
OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Thinning the ranks
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Thinning+ranks/1319036/story.html
Economics and politics collide
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Economics+politics+collide/1320929/story.html
The right way to spread freedom
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/right+spread+freedom/1319040/story.html
How 100 years of flight transformed a nation
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/years+flight+transformed+nation/1319042/story.html
OTTAWA SUN -
Obama wants more from us than dessert
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/Editorial/2009/02/23/8492606-sun.html
KINGSTON WHIG STANDARD-
About-face on environment
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1446889
WISE WORDS ON AFGHANISTAN
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1446886
TORONTO STAR -
Breaking down health care silos
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/591475
Put Al Jazeera on air
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/591473
Welfare's lousy diet
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/591470
GLOBE & MAIL -
The way out of the quandary
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090222.weterror23/BNStory/specialComment/home
NATIONAL POST -
GM's lost decades
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1318545
HAMILTON SPECTATOR -
Set targets for ER wait times
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/518546
K-W RECORD -
Willingness to adapt will resolve economic crisis
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/492526
WINDSOR STAR -
The Internet: Questions of privacy
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/editorials/Internet/1318312/story.html
SUDBURY STAR -
Auto bailouts at what price?
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1447384
Endless bullying can ruin a student's life
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1447353
Not in harmony
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1447396
Will Canada subsidize developing world?
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1447358
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
The world is changing Canada's politics
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/the_world_is_changing_canadas_politics-40073622.html
GRANDE PRAIRIE DAILY HERALD TRIBUNE -
Obama shows smarts on Afghanistan file - U.S. president opts for kinder, gentler approach
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1447672
LETHBRIDGE HERALD -
Recession cushion should have been bigger
http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/content/view/34366/56/
VICTORIA TIMES-COLONIST -
Pour out the bottled water
http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=d8679977-1776-4698-a4d9-91ad72f9bfd5
ISSUES
AF-PAK PROBLEM -
Afghan Mission Murky As Troop Deployment Looms
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100940337
AEI and Afghanistan: Listen to Petraeus!
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/?p=69110
U.S. Troop Surge in Afghanistan
http://www.newsy.com/videos/u_s_troop_surge_in_afghanistan/
VIDEO Can militias contain the Taleban?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7902093.stm
Treat U.S.-held prisoners like Gitmo detainees, Afghans urge
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090222.wafghan23/BNStory/Front
CANADIAN FORCES -
Boys' deaths spur outrage in Kandahar
Military launches probe after Canadians blamed for explosion that injured children
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090223.wafghan0223/BNStory/International/home
Angry villagers blame Canadians for explosion that killed two Afghan children
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090223/national/afghan_cda_children_killed
CANUSA/USACAN -
No U.S. financial fix, no recession end: Harper
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090223/canada/canada_us_harper
Cannon and Clinton break the ice over the Arctic
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/23/john-ivison-clinton-and-cannon-likely-to-break-the-ice-over-thye-arctic.aspx
Afghanistan tops agenda in key talks with U.S.
http://www.thestar.com/SpecialSections/article/591555
FOREIGN AFFAIRS -
Canada limits main aid recipients to 20 countries
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/591996
Tories eye China as PM blitzes U.S. media
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/02/23/8502981.html
Cannon urges aid to rebuild Gaza in wake of war
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1321201
JUSTICE SYSTEM -
Canadians worried about immigrant criminals: Poll
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/2009/02/23/8499916.html
POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES -
Wake up, Alberta – Obama's going for the hard cap on emissions
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090223.wcosimp24/BNStory/specialComment/home
Green energy push could cost consumers but set the stage for big investments
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090223/national/ont_green_energy_act
FEDERAL POLITICS -
Flaherty warns delay in passing budget will hurt economy
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090223/national/flaherty_economy
Flaherty urges MPs to pass budget
http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Canadian+economic+recovery+depends+Flaherty/1320820/story.html
U.S. recovery 'essential' to Canada, says Flaherty
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1320775
CUPE `intolerant' of Israel, Tories charge
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/591889
Parliament to pass budget at 'lightning speed': MPs
http://www.hilltimes.com/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2009/february/23/budget_speed/&c=1
NDP MP Comartin looks at ways to help author Zytaruk sue Conservatives
http://www.hilltimes.com/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2009/february/23/comartin/&c=1
House to post MPs' voting records
http://www.hilltimes.com/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2009/february/23/voting_records/&c=1
In Western Canada, Libs say Ignatieff should target only six to eight unheld ridings
http://www.hilltimes.com/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2009/february/23/unheld_ridings/&c=1
Government's first-ever budget progress reports should be permanent
http://www.hilltimes.com/html/cover_index.php?display=story&full_path=/2009/february/23/progress_reports/&c=1
Kenney calls for CUPE Ontario president's ouster
Sid Ryan's comments dangerous for Jewish students, immigration minister alleges
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/02/23/8502781.html
Harper's Quebec problem
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Harper+Quebec+problem/1319039/story.html
Stockwell Day's star shining bright
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1318531
New senators break gridlock in Upper House
18 Appointments; Parties may reach parity by 2010
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1318542
Shovels at ready, but nowhere to dig
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/23/don-martin-shovels-at-the-ready-but-nowhere-to-dig.aspx
Flaherty urges MPs to pass budget as markets slide
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1321242
Flaherty says economic data to worsen
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090223/canada/canada_us_economy_flaherty
Opposition slams Tories over listeriosis secrecy
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/591918
PROGRAMMES -
Canada's built-in deficits
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/590916
Another bad idea: equal pay for work of equal value
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090223.wcoflanagan24/BNStory/specialComment/home
Canada begins review of private pension plans
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090223/canada/canada_us_financial_pensions
PRESSURE POINTS -
Global warming effects coming sooner, experts say
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/591969
The dirty truth
Barack Obama and Stephen Harper are all for carbon capture technology. Too bad it's not as green as it seems
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/02/21/lawrence-solomon-the-dirty-truth.aspx
OPINION AND INFORMATION -
"Chrysler could be on hook for back taxes if Ottawa wins fight"
Chrysler Canada Inc. could be on the hook for as much as $1-billion in back taxes if the federal government wins its battle to reassess taxes owed by the cash-strapped auto maker.
< http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090220.CHRYSLER20/EmailTPStory/Business >
Chrysler Canada hit with C$500 million lien: paper - Investing Reuters Breaking News - Sympatico / MSN Finance:
http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/investing/news/breakingnews/article.aspx?cp-documentid=17947580
Land to the tiller, forests to the communities – Part 1 – "We did it their way"
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/12151/7/land+to+the+tiller,+forests+to+the+communities+%96+part+1+%96+%93we+did+it+their+way%94
Why battle with Quebec's malcontents?
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columnists/Hanon_Andrew/2009/02/23/8490836.html
Anti-Semitism and its enablers
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/23/george-burger-anti-semitism-and-its-enablers.aspx
For bureaucrats, a recession is the time of their lives
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/02/23/kelly-mcparland-for-bureaucrats-a-recession-is-the-time-of-their-lives.aspx
INFOS -
Harper veut s'allier à Obama pour combattre le protectionnisme
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200902/23/01-830354-harper-veut-sallier-a-obama-pour-combattre-le-protectionnisme.php
L'armée canadienne accusée de négligence mortelle en Afghanistan
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/national/200902/23/01-830232-larmee-canadienne-accusee-de-negligence-mortelle-en-afghanistan.php
David Ahenakew acquitté d'incitation à la haine
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/national/200902/23/01-830236-david-ahenakew-acquitte-dincitation-a-la-haine.php
L'Afghanistan, principal sujet de discussion entre Cannon et Clinton
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200902/23/01-830181-lafghanistan-principal-sujet-de-discussion-entre-cannon-et-clinton.php
Le NPD joue sa dernière carte
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200902/23/01-830074-le-npd-joue-sa-derniere-carte.php
Ottawa se dit prêt à discuter de la propriété du terrain de l'Assemblée
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090223/N0223156AU.html
Listériose: Ottawa aurait enfreint ses propres lois en matière d'information
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090222/N0222112AU.html
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"A plague on both your houses",
Meaning: A frustrated curse on both sides of an argument.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/14450.html
It is upon the House of Harper and the House of Ignatieff I lay "A frustrated curse", not for their being on differing sides of an issue or argument but for whatever the reasons are acting in collusion: both Conservatives and Liberal MPs say the federal budget ought to become law as soon as possible in order to stimulate the economy, via new spending and tax relief. http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Canadian+economic+recovery+depends+Flaherty/1320820/story.html"A plague on both your houses",
Meaning: A frustrated curse on both sides of an argument.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/14450.html
Theirs is an excellent argument were the Budget Bill C-10 composed solely of measures "to stimulate the economy, via new spending and tax relief". Most unfortunately such is not the case.
The House of Harper tacking on not just one but a number of significant changes in how our country is governed and the House of Ignatieff not ever raising what is transpiring but rather urging rapid its acceptance is collusion, a noun, a synonym of conspiracy, intrigue, deceit, complicity, connivance, secret understanding http://www.thefreedictionary.com/collusion .
On February 15th views on the changes to the Competition Act and the Investment Canada Act were presented to you. What follows is a third example of what will become law without debate, without input from those negatively affected, a fait accompli.
I've taken action by posting what follows to the National Media.
You may be able to contact Members of Parliament you know and inform them you are aware of what is transpiring.
As in all things political we make decisions as individual.
Challenging the directions of the Liberal and Conservative Parties of Canada is engaging (as Richard Neumann wrote in his post on the Digest yesterday ) in "debate on substantive issues".
Phil Green' and myself have done so.
Hopefully you will consider doing so as well.
Joe
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To: NATIONAL MEDIA
From: Joe Hueglin
Subject: F.Y.I.: Negating of Common Law and Roman Law by Bill C-10
Parliament is to pass the budget at 'lightning speed': MPs for the Opposition is accepting without question the Government's inclusion of amendments to a number of unrelated Acts in Bill C-!0.
The post Subject: F.Y.I.: Will "far-reaching amendments" in the Budget Act be passed "with limited, if any, meaningful debate." led to the nature of the alterations to the NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT being brought forward.
The post that was received and quotations from researched sources provide a view of what is transpiring: change from a process where interference with navigation must be shown as being needed and necessary to that of ministerial discretion.
Is such change, change to what effectively has always been, justified by speeding up programmes of the moment? Apparently so to those with the power to shape the future of those navigating our waterways.
Joe Hueglin
905-356-3901
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NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT
317–340. Amendments to the Act
Summary Click here for the entire document (6241Kb)
"Throughout Canadian history, and affirmed countless times in the courts, a river was navigable if you could navigate on it. It's an ancient and fundamental right that originates in British Common Law and Roman Law before that. Now the minister decides. "NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT
317–340. Amendments to the Act
Summary Click here for the entire document (6241Kb)
The proposed new NWPA also gives the Minister of Transport sole discretion to determine whether or not any proposed project on a Canadian waterway will have an impact on navigation.
So my question is this: why has this been jammed through quietly and quickly? Why has there not been any public input and why have the special interest groups that utilize and protect these waterways not been invited to speak?
http://www.tbsource.com/tbLIFE/index.asp?cid=116095
The proposed new NWPA grants the Minister of Transport the authority to change, at any time, the criteria used to assess whether a waterway is navigable, or whether a work or type of work may interfere with navigation.
The four named works (bridges, booms, dams, and causeways), added to the NWPA in 1883 because these structures, by their very nature, interfere with navigation…have been removed.
http://www.fish-hawk.net/hawktalk/viewtopic.php?t=33239&sid=94a28b5f1115af1921620c5a92401e2e
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From: Phil Green <phil@philgreen.ca>
To: Joe Hueglin <joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca>
Subject: Re: Will "far-reaching amendments" in the Budget Act be passed "with limited, if any, meaningful debate."
Joe--Thank you for this. This is not the only far-reaching amendment though. The govt has also put in far-reaching changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act. This is one of Canada's oldest pieces of legislation. The reason is that they want to reduce protection of navigable waterways so that they can build more infrastructure over such waters.
Here is some background on it:
My article in the Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/08/09/giving-us-the-oar.aspx
My blog
http://blogs.mississauga.com/blogs/phil-green/2009/02/12/federal-budget-creates-low-class-rivers
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1167127
-- Phil Green 905-271-6262 land/cell http://www.philgreen.ca phil@philgreen.ca
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From: "Jacob Rempel" Subject: I strongly suggest that you subscribe to the REAL NEWS for daily clarification of the news of the day.
Friends --
You may already be doing so, but if you still are not,
I strongly suggest that you subscribe to The REAL NEWS
for daily clarification of the mass media news of the day.
As well, I suggest that you alert contacts in your address book
So they can get more context for daily headlines news.
-- Jacob Rempel Vancouver
Russia postpones Iran missile deal
Russia Today TV reports Russia keeps missile sale on table as it holds cards in Afghanistan Pt.2 view
The Promise '09
To reach an audience in the millions view
The Pakistan puzzle
The unraveling situation in Pakistan confounds US policy in Afghanistan Pt. 3 view
Israel and Hamas reject global arms embargo
Guardian: Report claims warring parties used rockets and hellfire missiles during civilian attacks view
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I strongly second Jake's opinion.
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From: "Serge Crespy"
Subject: GREAT SEAL OF THE U.S. TIMELINE
From: "Serge Crespy" <crespy@rogers.com>
To: "Joe Hueglin" <joe.hueglin@bellnet.ca>
Subject: Re: GREAT AMERICAN SEAL TIMELINE
Hi, Joe:
The website that you should refer to is: http://members.xoom.com/Ramses2/USTline.htm
also: www.greatseal.com/symbols/stars . html
The original design for The Great Seal of The United States of America incorporated the random stars pattern above the Great Eagle; the existing pattern became the official design ...... 2010 is the renewal date for the existing design of The Great Seal to renew. We may be too busy with the economy to really take notice that this is presently on the U.S. Congress /Whitehouse plate.
Best Regards,
Serge Crespy
Collingwood, ON
Hi, Joe:
This is the Timeline graph as suggested from the Pyramid found on the Great Seal of the United States, which I made reference to, in previous email ....... Text re: same to follow on next email.
Finally retrieved text for same / click below .....
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/masonic_timeline.htm
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Take a look - next year is the apex of the timeline - (not that I buy in mind)
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From: Ray Strachan
Subject: Yesterdays emails
Joe
Yesterday I received an email in regards to the protest marches being held in
England by the Muslims. There was a note on it that read " Can you imagine
what would happen if we Christians tried to hold a protest march in a muslim
country". What I see in my mind is this, When we,The West and Israel go into
a muslim country, we do not intend on holding protest marches, we go there to
kill people. All too often we kill way to many small children, but we just
keep doing it over and over again. I would defend my country but I am almost
100% sure it wont be against a Muslim invasion.(When I use the word WE I
realize Canada is a small part of it, but any part is too much for me).
Ray
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From: "E E Hollingsworth"
To Robert Ede:
What a pessimistic wet blanket. He's a true ol' Canadian
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Subject: The greening of Canada?
From: "Efstratios Psarianos"
The greening of Canada?
Feb 23rd 2009
From Economist.com
Stephen Harper looks to Washington, not Alberta
DESPITE being two of the most profligate energy users on the planet, the United States and Canada have spent little time over the last eight years discussing what they might do together to combat climate change and protect the environment. That changed on February 19th, when President Barack Obama made his first post-inauguration trip abroad to meet Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister. The environment was one of just three topics on their official agenda. http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/greenview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13167651&fsrc=nwl
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From: Real Gagne
Subject: DD
Joe:
"/The very best and most engaged of our citizenry are today so focused on the mechanisms to achieve influence, we no longer concern ourselves with what we want to accomplish should we ever succeed." /Richard Neumann, (catch-up Feb. 17th-21st DD)
/In other words, we are so engrossed in acquiring political power that we neglect to consider what we would do with it should we get it. That is a prescription for roguery, it not worse.
Unfortunately, Richard Neumann is bang on on this one. When will we ever learn?
Real
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From: "Suan H.Booiman"
Subject: speaking out
Joe,
Reading Mr.Neumann's comments on what we should do has
been there and gone. So many like him have good suggestions
but when facing reality you can not find them. B.C. has 22
CPC MPs living in a shadow, silence, dead in the water so to speak.
Try to get an answer on any issue, you will fail. The Harper
government like all previous governments has been Ottawashed.
Good try for a candidate.
Suan
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To: "Prime Minister Harper, Stephen AB" <pm@pm.gc.ca>
Cc: <correspondance_scm@pch.gc.ca>, <hiebert.r@parl.gc.ca>
Subject: battlefield
Suan H.Booiman C.C.D.H.
204-1220 Fir Street
British Columbia White Rock V4B 4B1 Western Canada
February 23, 2009
Mr L.A. Lavell
Executive Correspondence Officer
for the Prime Minister's Office
Dear Mr.Lavell,
Was very kind of you to reply to my friend, Mrs.Dot Fuhrman, in regard of my e.mail about
the celebration and re-enactment of the victory by British Gen.Wolfe over the French..
Your recommendation to contact the Hon. Mr.J.Moore, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
concerning this matter is no different than asking the Pope to support abortion.
The Hon.Mr.Moore, like all his democratic elected, have tape over their mouth, so placed by the
Prime Minister who fears to have communications with anyone, especially the media and stand
up for an issue, particular when it deals with Quebec.
What a redressing tone to hear President Obahma nearly daily speaking to the country and the
world about all the events that are facing not only the USA but many in the Western World.
The overpowering dictatorial attitude to what once was my party has done no good for the country
other than for the forever whining Francophone minority dominating the bureaucracy.
OUR Prime Minister, OUR in capital letters, will not change the plans for the remembrance..the
reason that is if it takes place Monsieur John (Jean) Charest Premier (President) of the State
of Quebec will not attend.
-- bowing to the gang indicated violence --
Mulroney's friend Lucien Bouchard said "Canada is not a country", he was and is so right. The
country, with Obahma's popularity, has an invisible man collecting tax-payers money for Quebec.
A British Columbian,
Suan H.Booiman
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