Reporters strike war-footing with PMO, but Harper won't be dictated by national media

Steely-eyed Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't seem to care that the honeymoon is so over with the media.

Members of the national media may already be on a war-footing with Stephen Harper and his staff over regular access to the centre of Canadian political power, but the new Prime Minister doesn't care.

Some newspaper columnists and reporters are flummoxed by the steely-eyed Prime Minister Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) who is holding imperial pressers in the Commons foyer, who fired his director of communications in a snap last...