From FT, with crude now close to $100 a barrel, politicians fear killing Alberta's cash cow with global-warming, water-pollution and species-protection legislation. Promoting democracy abroad: Is it the right time for Canada to take on this file? You've got to hand it to the folks at the Literary Review of Canada: Despite a tiny circulation, they keep coming up with ideas that get them into the news. Quebec's language hawks are back: Sovereignists are cannily shelving their dreams of separation in favour of a newly muscular brand of linguistic and cultural nationalism. Outgunned in the culture wars: An article on how intellectual life in Australia is dominated by the left wing. From Quadrant, a look at how conservatives are no longer losing the Culture Wars; and a review of the Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. A review of The Vietnam Years: From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs by Michael Caulfield; Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham; and War and Words: The Australian Press and the Vietnam War by Trish Payne.
