I found a pretty informative blog about the Canadian situation and the Daily Show website.

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/25/hey-canadians-no-daily-show-for-you/ 

 Why can’t you watch The Daily Show clips? The same reason you can’t watch an episode of Heroes on the website the day after it plays on TV, and the same reason you can’t download TV episodes from iTunes: Canadian networks like Global and CTV have paid for the right to broadcast those shows, and would no doubt raise a hue and cry if they were suddenly available for free on the Internet. That might destabilize the entire Canadian broadcasting business model, which relies on access to U.S. hits.

 

I watch TDS on CTV when its aired, It's sad to know that because of CTV we Canadians can't take advantage of the online archive and all the nifty search features.

On a happier note related to the TDS website, they have been featuring my blog in their "Daily Show in the news" column, I've had no less then three of my blog postings linked to their website since they came back, it's probably the coolest place thats ever linked to me...next to videosift of course.