The Staton Jones Report

Finally, some good election news . The Liberal party of Canada (think Democrats who actually enact legislation for the working class) has survived a very close call against the Conservative party (one really sensible thing about Canada is that the good guys and the bad guys actually give themselves obvious names like "Dr. Evil") in a national election that was rocked by the Sponsorship Scandal and the new health care premium in Ontario. The Conservative leader, Stephen Harper, made some spectacular mistakes by not keeping his minions at bay (they accused the Liberal leader Paul Martin of "supporting child porn" at one point), and his Bush-esque platform is repellent to many Canadians (he wants to take Canada into Iraq, for instance).