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Is Canada becoming a "jingoistic petro-state"? It's hard to argue with a widely-read Slate Magazine essay published last week, one that skewers Stephen "Dubya" Harper, Ezra "O'Reilly" Levant, and our steamrolling, "Dutch Disease" of an oil sands industry. "It seems," the author posits, "anti-Canadianism could be the new anti-Americanism." And then the very next day, as if to proudly verify each one of that essay's claims, came this National Post column, framing the international fight against global warming as a stealth attack on Canadian democracy, waged on behalf of "Big Philanthropy" and its puppets. Read the latest on these wild days in the Harper petro-state and more this week on The Hook. --Geoff Dembicki