Daily Digest December 29, 2011

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

_____CANADA

• Harper's commitment to writing is no joke
• 2011 Ayear of unfulfilled promise in Québec politics
• A realignment or a reshuffle?
• he federalist victory that wasn't
• The Biggest Story of 2011 for Me? Weather Gone Wild
• Russia pulling ahead in the Arctic
• Time to saddle up
• The scary reality of health care spending
• Pension system punishes the rest of us
• Make political bullying backfire
• Canada needs to look beyond the U.S. for trade
• Privacy rights and a thinning Canada-U.S. border
• Chiquita's backtracking is too little, too late
• Obama needs heave-ho
• Gingrich starts to badmouth GOP opponents
•   Topp drops his gloves to take shot at NDP rival Mulcair
• Harper gave plant tax breaks
• RCMP spending hundreds of thousands to send officers to Arizona training workshops
• B.C. Premier Christy Clark shares Harper handicap with Alberta counterpart
• Politics as a tour of duty, not a career
• Delacourt responds: Term limits for MPs: A reply to a reply
• Paul Wells responds to Stronach: Term limits for MPs: Hello, I must be going
• A columnist's very bad day
• Ottawa's health-care role about measurement, not money, Aglukkaq says
• NDP leadership contender Nathan Cullen calls for united front against Conservatives
• Rae rejects a Liberal-NDP merger Google Translation...
• Is the Liberal Party dead and buried?
• Fist-pumping PM watches Canada slam Czechs
• Tories to enter 2012 with financial headache
• All about the economy, says Harper
• Millions planned for Parliament Hill barriers, documents show
• Who sizzled and who fizzled: A year in Canadian politics
• Ottawa cautiously calculating when and how to dive into social media
• Retrospectica: True test of Clement and open government yet to come
• Tories want more cash from parks
• In Ontario, ominous warnings of tough times ahead
• Dexter reflects on a challenging year
• Alberta sees oilsands tours as way to educate skeptics
• Evergreen Party rises from ashes of Alberta Greens
• Debris from Japan tsunami washes up on B.C. shores
• When rating their countries, Canadians and Americans happy, Brits downbeat
• Theft of late husband's ashes leaves widow shaking with anger
• Retired general unearths story of Canada's real-life war horse
• Ottawa's health-care role about measurement, not money, Aglukkaq says
• Canadian Forces seeks fresh underwear for chemical-warfare training The Canadian Press - 6 hours ago
• Canadian jailed in Congo over links to opposition candidate, family says The Canadian Press - 3 hours ago
• That 'clean' paper washroom towel you're using could be carrying bacteria: study The Canadian Press - 4 hours ago
• A look at tech trends of 2012 including mobile commerce, web TV, tablets The Canadian Press - 3 hours ago
• Crashes reported all over Saskatchewan CBC - 4 hours ago
• Hallucinogenic 'bath salts' entering Canada CBC - 14 hours ago
• If cats eat your hamburger, don't call 911 like one woman did, police say The Canadian Press - 9 hours ago
• Aging baby boomers helping change face of Canada's housing market: CMHC The Canadian Press - 5 hours ago
• After life-changing year pre-teen crooner Heather Russell to drop new tunes in 2012 The Canadian Press - 3 hours ago
• Alberta to review pathology testing after questions at three different hospitals The Canadian Press - 3 hours ago
• CNN MISTAKES CANADIAN DESTROYER FOR IRANIAN WARSHIP ?
• WHAT CONTRACTING OUT SECURITY SAYS ABOUT CANADIAN FOREIGN SERVICE
• Feds fret slow pace of Northern Gateway hearings
• KEYSTONE PIPELINE STRATEGY UP IN SMOKE
• WINNING AND LOSING ON KEYSTONE XL
• Byers : Russia pulling ahead in the Arctic
• Delacourt : Canadian pollsters facing greater scrutiny
• Fingas : Make political bullying backfire
• Harris : Will U.S. mistakes in Iraq be repeated in Iran ?
• Heartfield : Harper's commitment to writing is no joke
• Kastner: Canada needs to look beyond US for trade
• Kheiriddin : A realignment or a reshuffle ?
• May : Weather gone wild
• McKenna: Privacy rights and a thinning Canada-US border
• Stronach : Politics as a tour of duty, not a career
• Despite RIM Takeover Talk, Hurdles Would Be High New York Times - 13 hours ago
• Canada's Become a Home for Record Fracking Read the Article

_____FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro Sign Free Travel Agreement
• Iran Rejects US Warning Against Closing Strait Of Hormuz
• China Unveils Five-Year Space Plan
• Gaza Lives: Reflecting On 'Operation Cast Lead' – OpEd
• China: Armed Clashes In Xinjiang
• 'Robin Hood Hackers' Rob Military Retailer
• US Republicans Campaign Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses
• Muslim Brotherhood Organizations In America: Goals, Ideologies And Strategies – Analysis
• French Women Groups Protest FIFA Decision To Endorse Hijab – Analysis
• White House Still Playing Saleh's Game – OpEd
• The Sad, Sad World Of Israel's Big-time Liars – OpEd
• Lebanese MP Claims Assad Brother "Disappeared"
• Spain shifts to the right in landslide vote
• Euro crisis hangs over Spanish vote
• Spain 'absolutely not' at risk of bailout
• Several killed in South Sudan 'airstrikes'
• Two aid workers shot dead in Somalia
• Tight race expected as Jamaica opens polls
• Read more: Libya celebrates independence day
• Read more: North Korea names new 'supreme leader'
• Read more: No verdict in trial of Chinese land activists
• Read more: Spanish royal charged in fraud case
• Read more: Kurds protest over deadly Turkey air raid
• Read more: Bosnian parties end political impasse
• Read more: Russia court rejects ban of Hindu text
• Read more: Turkey admits mistake in deadly air strike
• Read more: Italy's Monti expects more market turbulence
• Read more: Saudi buys nearly $30bn in US warplanes
• Read more: US warns Iran against closing oil route
• Read more: US pushes ahead with arms deal to Iraq
• Read more: Egypt security forces storm NGO offices
• Read more: Egypt court adjourns Mubarak trial
• Read more: Israel approves East Jerusalem settlements
• Read more: Violence and doubts mar Syria monitor mission
• Read more: US mulls visa request for Yemen's Saleh
• Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11 Read the Article
• Capitalism and Loneliness: Why Pornography Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry Read the Article
• ALEC-Linked Group Revealed as Major Secret Donor in Referendum on Maine Voting Rights Read the Article
• Why Are American Citizens Getting Locked Up and Even Deported by Immigration Authorities? Read the Article
• TV Analysts' Collusion With the Military: Disgraceful but Legal? Read the Article
• Justice Department to Bring Charges Against BP Over 2010 Oil Spill, Watch the Video and Read the Transcript
• Carelessly Mistaking Theater for Policy Read the Article
• Notable Death of the Year: RIP Austerity Economics, 1921-2011 Read the Article
• Weapons Sales to Iraq Move Ahead Despite US Worries Read the Article
• Strategic Frames of the Occupy Movement Read the Article
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• Half of Americans Do Indeed Live in Poverty: It's a National Shame Read the Article at BuzzFlash
• DOJ Aggressively Investigating Police Brutality Read the Article at Crooks & Liars
• Electing People Who Will Govern on Foolish Assumptions Won't Work Read the Article at BuzzFlash
• Has a Harvard Professor Mapped Out the Next Step for Occupy Wall Street? Read the Article at The Atlantic
• Founder of American Family Association Endorses Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich. Say What? Read the Article at BuzzFlash
• Ron Paul Campaign Scrubs Radical Anti-Gay Pastor From Website Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
• 2011: A Year in the NRA's "Insane Paranoid" Conspiracy Theories Read the Article at Media Matters for America
• Click here for more BuzzFlash headlines
• Slip-Sliding to War with Iran Read more »
• On Occupying the New Year Read more »
• Shifting Ground for Vital Resources Read more »
• Bush's Grim Vision Read more »
• Shame on Us All Read more »
• Civil Liberties for Christmas? Read more »
• America's Debt to Bradley Manning Read more »
• The GOP History of Hostage-Taking Read more »
• What Christmas Owes to Abolitionists Read more »
• Surrendering More American Rights Read more »
• U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30098.htm
• Mossad chief: Nuclear Iran not Necessarily Existential Threat to Israel http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30101.htm
• Neither the U.S. Nor Israel Have Any Defense Capabilities Whatsoever . .And everyone in Iran is insane.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30102.htm
• Obama Secretly Preparing Options for Aiding the Syrian Opposition http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30099.htm
• MSM News, 6 Months Late: "Obama Secretly Preparing for Syria Intervention" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30105.htm
• Spoiling for a Fight with Syria and Iran http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30107.htm
• Israel Rejects Palestinians Offer to Renew Peace Talks http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30100.htm
• Global Power Relationships Shift as Competition for Resources Intensifies ttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30108.htm
• Obama's Global Murder, Inc.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30103.htm
• Mark the First Signs of an Indian Spring  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30106.htm
• The Future of Growing Old in America  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30104.htm
• Turkish attack kills 35 civilians in northern Iraq:  http://bit.ly/vjUw4O
• Red flags ahead of US weapons sales to Iraq: http://on.msnbc.com/tSQESJ
• Arab observers visit more Syrian protest hubs: http://bit.ly/sfsIJ8
• US press undermining Arab League observer mission :  http://bit.ly/vVPDHl
• 10 Afghan Policemen Killed in Helmand Blast:  http://bit.ly/sT4rx6
• Two French soldiers were killed by "deliberate" shots from a member of the Afghan National Army http://buswk.co/sdp3Ut
• Afghan fact-finding team says NATO killed civilians "for no reason":   http://bit.ly/uwCcJg
• Afghan media centre: US cuts support after criticism of troops:  http://bit.ly/vNeT3i
• Afghanistan Blasts US for Striking Off Taliban Leader from Terror List: http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007279394
• Pakistani death squads go after informants to U.S. drone program:   http://lat.ms/uy9CML
• Doctor who exposed extra-judicial killing shot dead in Pak:  http://bit.ly/uGD4C2
• 'US to export all NATO cargo out of Pakistan'  http://bit.ly/usa8LB
• Engineering Consent For Attack On Iran? Official:  http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/12/28/official-gulf-states-ready-to-offset-iran-oil/
• 'Offsetting Iran oil, political bluff': http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218332.html
• War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a Barrel Oil?:  http://bit.ly/txvRJt
• '9/11 verdict on Iran mockery of justice':   http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218248.html
• British Government's appalling decision:  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/218303.html
• Iran's battle for TV influence takes shape on Press TV:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16317282
• Hamas forces ordered to cease attacks on Israeli targets, http://bit.ly/v0RRy1
• Israel: Exercising the Right to Torture: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106311
• Israel must choose between settlements and peace:  http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=251329
• Envoys worldwide feel brunt of Israel's worsening image:  http://bit.ly/tl2iDR
• Irael's useful idiot: Iran on 'tour of tyrants': -  http://bit.ly/sSebac
• Egypt police raid NGOs in foreign funds probe:  http://yhoo.it/sSgIJ6
• Libyan society falling apart without anti-Gaddafi glue:  http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-militia-society-unity-893/
• Russia Slams U.S. for Its Human Rights Record in 90-Page Report: http://fxn.ws/v6ocog
• Moscow anti-government protest avoids crackdown:  http://bit.ly/urtO11
• Venezuela's Chavez: did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?:  http://yhoo.it/ss2f18
• Weekly U.S. jobless claims rise : http://bit.ly/swn71i

>>>>>>>>>>INFOS <<<<<<<<<<
JEUDI 29 DÉCEMBRE 2011

21h43 - République démocratique du Congo · Un résidant d'Ottawa en prison
19h54 - Aviation · Un militaire retraité à la tête de l'ACSTA
19h24 - Vague de froid · Plan d'urgence déployé pour les sans-abri
18h48 - Loi 35 · Transports Québec résilie trois contrats
17h06 - En 2012 · Des hausses de taxes salées pour les Québécois
17h06 - Jeunes en difficulté · Une sortie au resto pour le temps des Fêtes
16h31 - La période des fêtes · Un moment propice au décrochage
14h30 - Transports · Les sièges d'auto pour enfant devront être plus robustes
12h52 - Aide juridique · Les seuils d'admissibilité seront indexés
12h40 - État des routes · Conditions routières difficiles dans plusieurs régions
12h10 - Transport · Le port de Valleyfield, pourvoyeur du Plan Nord
10h21 - Mars-avril · La revue de 2011
10h15 - Janvier-février · La revue de 2011
09h50 - Assurance-emploi · La hausse des cotisations est décriée
09h49 - Mai-juin · La revue de 2011

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