[NEWS] Seven notes about changing climes: winter, men, zoos, childcare minimum wage, Sears, NAFTA

[rfmcdonald]

• Global News reports on how Canadian zoos protect their animals from the unexpected cold of our country's winters.


• Emma Teitel wonders over at the Toronto Star why men underdress in winter. Is it some effort to prove a suitability for mating? (Me, I just tend to be warm, honestly.)


• Laurie Monsebraaten notes over at the Star that affordable childcare has become still more impossible in Toronto with the minimum wage increase. (The previous sentence reflects two structural issues with the Ontario economy.)
  
• CBC notes lessons Ontario can take, on minimum-wage increases, from Alberta and Seattle.


• Ian Hussey of the National Observer takes issue with five major claims against minimum wage increases.


• This account, of shoppers saying goodbye to a closing Toronto Sears store, is sad. The Toronto Star has it.


• Chantal Hébert notes at the Star that Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party are best served by a, well, conservative policy, of waiting to see what happens with NAFTA.