Daily Digest December 16-17, 2011

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The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN�S to VICTORIA.
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OPINION AND INFORMATION

_____CANADA

DECEMBER 17th

Speaker needs to step down over �dirty tricks� decision
Kinsella: In our system of government, the prime minister and his cabinet
 have an extraordinary amount of power
MORE...

• Why Canada's nuclear cleanup will cost billions and take decades
• http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canada%20nuclear%20cleanup%20will%20cost%20billions%20dollars%20take%20decades%20complete/5874209/story.html

wheat-board-makeover-or-takeover-questions-in-the-wake-of-government-decision/
http://smallprint.ca/2011/10/18/wheat-board-makeover-or-takeover-questions-in-the-wake-of-government-decision/

• Tory pollster in Cotler affair faces misconduct probe by industry watchdog
•          Shift in federal funding for on-reserve housing confounds First Nations planning
• Lessons in civility - and hypocrisy - from the Liberals
•          Chretien believes all politicians lie like him
• Out with the old
•          Bob Rae lacks a grain of sense
• Canada�s message: The world and its climate be damned
•          Canada's best Immigration minister
• Gender equality trumps apparel
•          Kenney�s new policy of unveiling is eminently reasonable
• Minister Kenney, can I become a citizen in these shoes?
•          Don�t pay any attention to that Suzuki man
• Harper heading for trouble on native issues
•          Cure for Ontario�s credit woes worse than disease
• Newt's unpopular truth: Palestine wasn�t even a country 100 years ago
•          The German moment
• A snapshot of the fall sitting
•          Rae apologizes for geographic gaffe
• Liberals visit troubled Attawapiskat
•          �This is our Third World,� Rae says at Attawapiskat
• NDP's Quebec support eroding
•          Ottawa warns current health transfers unsustainable
• U.S. bill requires decision on XL pipeline
•          Media failed to do their job covering Layton�s health
• Rae calls on election watchdog to probe Tory polling
•          Do Conservatives now think they have carte blanche on dirty tricks?
• Rae travels to troubled northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat
•          Taking the measure of Parliament's health
• House of Commons is getting cozy
•          Pulling back the curtains for a look inside the House
• Justine's story offers hope for female inmates
•          Be very afraid: Stephen Harper is inventing a new Canada
• Trudeau fighting fit as he hits his 40s
•          Social media loves Justin Trudeau�s �shiddle-diddle� but hates his beard
• I met Justin Trudeau once and the scene was farcical
•          Dewar's not a man to be ruffled by polls
• Manitoba court denies initial challenge to wheat board law
•          Why Canada�s nuclear cleanup will cost billions of dollars and take decades to complete
• Sovereignty on its death bed in Quebec
•          Kudos for Kenney in immigration portfolio
• Tories� �most-wanted� list thwarts efforts to deport alleged war criminals
•          Veiled threat: Niqab ban has some fearing a less tolerant Canada
• Canadian schools struggle with what to do about Christmas
•          Harper says oilsands critics spreading 'misinformation'
• Alberta lags on emissions: think-tank
•          Feds to tighten rules on medical marijuana
• B.C. Premier Christy Clark shares year-end views
•          Federal agency accused of intimidation over salmon disease
• Ban on right to die 'discriminatory'
•          Safe-injection sites planned for Montreal
• More Canadian couples going 'marriage optional'

DECEMBER 16TH

• Canada court won't suspend Wheat Board law for now
•          Draconian to suspend Canada Wheat Board law: judge
• Supply of doctors at an all time high and a glut may be on the horizon
•          When Tories get behind closed doors
• Parliament means never having to say sorry
•          They give politics a good name
• Canadian politics somehow got worse
•          The Tories' 'reprehensible' politics
• Lessons from l'affaire Cotler
•          Harper�s unlikely social breakthrough
• Lies, damned lies and spinmasters
•          Please don�t change my country for the niqab
• How first nations can own their future
•          Oh, those lucky poor people
• It's our party: Fix is in as CBC scoops rights to taxpayer-funded Canada Day celebrations
•          City folk never fathomed the insult of the gun registry
• Flaherty's health spending limit is the easy first step
•          Welcome to Hotel Kyoto
• Watch your back, Santa, the Grinches are out to get you
•          For Dwight Duncan, grim warning is a blessing in disguise
• Taking the measure of Parliament's health
•          Be very afraid: Stephen Harper is inventing a new Canada
• Sovereignty on its death bed in Quebec
•          Focus is on reducing Canada's deficit: Harper
• Trudeau fighting fit as he hits his 40s
•          Do Conservatives now think they have carte blanche on dirty tricks?
• Liberals press elections watchdog to rule on 'reprehensible' Cotler calls ing firm faces potential reprimand
•          Top Conservative avoids being called to House committee after Grit MP Cotler's point of privilege dismissed
• Minister Kenney, can I become a citizen in these shoes?
•          Peter MacKay Spending Scandal: Minister Spent $5,925 On Grey Cup Trip
• CTF Uncovers Details of Mackay�s $5,925 Grey Cup Trip, $3,167 for Boston Seafood Show
•          Tory ban on political loans a barrier to women and immigrants, Dion warns
• Festering EI backlog prompts pre-Christmas violence
•          Harper names new chief justice of Federal Court
• Even with a majority, the bullying goes on.
•          Wheat board directors out as new law passes
• Senate passes bill to add new MPs
•          CAW working on biggest union merger ever
• 11 moves the Conservatives made this fall
•          Without Layton, �Orange Wave� receding in Quebec
• Turmel optimistic NDP can oust Conservatives
•          Big dreams for NDP in the new year
• Despite troubling trend line, Tories close book on banner year
•          Clement tweets his way into Canadian history with Twitter town hall
• No-veil rule has support of Canadians
•          Van Loan unapologetic about using majority to pass bills
• Defence Minister under fire again for alleged high-spending
•          Politician-turned-lobbyist performs 'a necessary function'
• Ottawa asks RCMP to investigate Gaddafi son's Toronto condo
•          Federal judge overturns minister�s attempt to bar convicts jailed in U.S. from serving sentences in Canada
• Bill to kill Wheat Board clears Senate, receives royal assent
•          Delaying Keystone pipeline 'utterly irrational,' says GOP front-runner Gingrich
• Immigration minister says foreign caregivers can work elsewhere when contract ends
•          Military Police Clear Canadian Special Forces But Details About JTF2 Murder Allegations Still A Mystery
• Senator seeks action for detained Canadian farmer
•          GM set to announce investment in Oshawa assembly plant
• Facing a troubled economy, Clark hedges on balanced-budget law
•          Quebec adopts cap-and-trade system to fight climate change
• CAQ still leads in most recent online survey PQ preys on rising cultural insecurity
•          With the fishery in tatters, Newfoundlanders fight over the scraps
• No change to abortion funding on P.E.I.: minister
•          Ottawa sinks Norwegian plan to raise the Maud
• Greg Weston | Justine's story offers hope for female inmates video
•          Harper says oilsands critics spreading 'misinformation'