
News analysis from Brian Stewart of CBC News, 28-Sep-2012:<div><br></div><div><div><div class="headline" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">

<h1 id="yui_3_4_1_6_1349093436944_60" style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-size:33px;line-height:39px">The growing cabal of English-speaking nations</h1>

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<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.899999618530273px">The week's flap over proposed new Canada-Britain embassy sharing seemed to read both far too much into the agreement, and too little.</p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.899999618530273px">It is most unlikely this arrangement will eclipse our own foreign policy in any way, as the opposition warns. But nor is it quite the small housekeeping matter — akin to sharing printers and a supplies cupboard — that the Conservatives seek to portray it as.</p>

<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.899999618530273px">What it may well portend, though, is yet another incremental step by this particular Canadian government (and Britain) towards what academics call "the Anglosphere," a concept that has fascinated its advocates across the English-speaking world for the past 20 years or so.</p>

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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.899999618530273px">[The article continues here: </span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/27/f-vp-stewart-anglo-nations.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/27/f-vp-stewart-anglo-nations.html</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18.899999618530273px">]</span></p>

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