"Canada's cold new dawn

Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper
is our version of George W Bush, minus the warmth
and intellect" The Guardian:

"The triumph of Harper's Conservatives is a revolution in Canada. Grumpy old men are happy but modernists, women, young people, immigrants, people fond of evidence-based policy will be much less so. It's the beginning of a kind of war, conducted in a dull, quietly agonising way."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/03/canada-stephen-harper-american-politics

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Canada: Down one more large notch in world opinion

"Canada's cold new dawn

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