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NEWS] Eighteen #cdnpoli and #exln43 links

• MacLean's looks at how Justin Trudeau and the Liberals survived #elxn43, here.


• Ajay Parasram at The Conversation looks at the new complications faced by Justin Trudeau.


• Daily Xtra looks at the record of the Liberals on LGBTQ2 issues, here.


• Daily Xtra looks at the four out LGBTQ2 MPs elected to Parliament, here.


• Philippe Fournier at MacLean's argues that 338Canada stands vindicated in its predictions, with some 90% of the people it predicted would be elected being elected.


• What will become of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer? The National Post considers.


• Strategic voting and Doug Ford, Mark Gollom notes, kept the Conservatives from making a breakthrough in Ontario.


• Robyn Urback at CBC notes that the narrow conservatism of Scheer kept the Conservatives from victory in a wary Canada.


• Stephen Maher at MacLean's questions if the Bloc Québécois victory has much to do with separatism, per se.


• Voters in Québec seem to be fine with election results, with a strong Bloc presence to keep the Liberals on notice. CBC has it.


• Talk of separatism has taken off in Alberta following the #elxn43 results. Global News has it.


• The premier of Saskatchewan has also talked of his province's alienation after #elxn43, here in the National Post.


• CBC's As It Happens carries an interview with former Conservative MP Jay Hill, now an advocate for western Canadian separatism.


• Atlantic Canada may provide new members for the cabinet of Justin Trudeau. The Toronto Star reports.


• Jaime Battiste, Liberal, has been elected as the first Mi'kmaq MP from Nova Scotia. Global News has it.


• The Green Party did not make its hoped-for breakthrough on Vancouver Island, but it will struggle on. Global News has it.


• Did, as Politico suggested, Canada sleepwalk into the future with #elxn43?


• We should be glad, Scott Gilmore argues in MacLean's, that given the global challenges to democracy #elxn43 in Canada was relatively boring.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the dusty spiral of galaxy M81, here.


• Crooked Timber reacts positively to the Astra Taylor short film What Is Democracy?


• D-Brief notes that, in the South Atlantic, one humpback whale population has grown from 440 individuals to 25 thousand, nearly completing its recovery from whaling-era lows.


• Dangerous Minds looks at The Iguanas, first band of Iggy Pop.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at consideration in South Korea at building an aircraft carrier.


• Todd Schoepflin at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the division of labour within his family.


• Far Outliers looks at 17th century clashes between England and Barbary Pirates.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how antibiotics are getting everywhere, contaminating food chains worldwide.


• Victor Mair at Language Log looks at the evidence not only for an ancient Greek presence in Central Asia, but for these Greeks' contact with China.


• Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that the attempt by Trump to get Ukraine to spy on his enemies was driven by what Russia and Hungary alleged about corruption in Ukraine.


• The LRB Blog looks at the transnational criminal network of the Hernandez brothers in Honduras, a source of a refugee diaspora.


• Marginal Revolution shares an argument suggesting that marriage is useful for, among other things, encouraging integration between genders.


• Sean Marshall looks at how the death of the Shoppers World in Brampton heralds a new urbanist push in that city.


• At the NYR Daily, Helen Joyce talks of her therapeutic experiences with psychedelic drugs.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the Toronto play The Particulars.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers if inflation came before, or after, the Big Bang.


• John Scalzi at Whatever has a short discussion about Marvel films that concludes they are perfectly valid.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that central Ukraine has emerged as a political force in post-1914 Ukraine.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the Indian pickle.