[Bobblehead]

Interesting seeing the world (and national) views.

http://news.google.ca/news?ie=UTF-8&...77800484&hl=en


China

Canadian are deeply divided in their opinions about the political storm that has waged over the past week, with new polls showing deepening regional tension especially between the west and the east.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10463597.htm

Scotland

Opposition parties have vowed to oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government next month after he shut down parliament to avoid almost certain defeat in an imminent confidence vote.

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Canad...ver.4765513.jp

Australia

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has averted the fall of his conservative minority Government by engineering the suspension of Parliament.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/canad...1205-6sii.html

CNN.com International

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that Canada's governor general has allowed him to suspend Parliament, postponing a no-confidence vote from his opponents that he was likely to lose.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/am...f=mpstoryemail

Seattle Times

The normally placid halls of Canada's Parliament were buzzing Thursday after Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down the lawmaking body until Jan. 26, seeking to forestall a no-confidence vote he was sure to lose and, possibly, provoking a constitutional crisis.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._canada05.html

LA Times

Reporting from New York -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday secured permission for a rare suspension of Parliament, a move that allows him to avoid an imminent vote that would have toppled his Conservative government, elected just two months ago.

But the narrow escape from a crisis that was largely self- inflicted has badly scarred a prime minister already widely regarded as a bully, and reawakened a national unity crisis in a country where regional grievances are sometimes dormant but easily stirred.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,3038908.story

Jamaica

Canadians, and Stephen Harper's Conservatives in particular, have to be careful that they do not talk their country into a genuine, and deep, political crisis that leads to long-term instability. What is being faced now is really uncertainty, that is being frothed into something else.

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...cleisure1.html

India

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday managed to buy time for his government which faces ouster by a combined opposition in a vote of confidence.

Harper managed to convince Governor-General Michaelle Jean to prorogue parliament till Jan 26, enabling his Conservative Party government to avoid a defeat in a vote of confidence next week.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus...0812050923.htm

Britain (The Guardian)

Canada's prime minister managed to head off the fall of his conservative minority government and cling to power yesterday after engineering the suspension of parliament.

The extraordinary decision by Canada's governor general, Michaëlle Jean, to grant Stephen Harper's request to suspend parliament saved him from a confidence vote set for Monday that he was almost certain to lose. It also spares Canadians from going to the polls again, just weeks after elections in October.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...spended-canada

BBC

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won a bid to suspend parliament, blocking an opposition attempt to topple his minority government.

The governor general agreed to Mr Harper's request, unprecedented in the country, after talks.

If the request had been rejected, he would have had to step down or face a confidence vote he was sure to lose.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7765206.stm

Just kind of interesting seeing the story through a different lens.