[NEWS] Five politics links: Patrick Brown and Ontario, TPP, Canada, Brazil evangelicals, US tourism

[rfmcdonald]

• Enzo DiMatteo at NOW Toronto looks at the stunning speed with which the political career of Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown has ended. Among other things, this could easily win the stronger Liberals reelection.


• Chantal Hébert notes that the new TPP deal could put the NDP and allies in a stronger position relative to the Liberals, over at the Toronto Star.


• Matt Peterson at The Atlantic notes the effect that Canadian negotiations in the US-less TPP have had on the deal, slightly improving it by softening intellectual property provisions.


• The rise of evangelical political power in Brazil, led by the reactionary populist Jair Messias Bolsanaro, is the subject of this frightening article from The Atlantic.


• Justin Fox at Bloomberg View notes the extent to which falling tourist numbers in the US seem, role of the strong dollar aside, to be the consequence of Trump. People from non-rich countries are just not coming as they once were--Canada versus Mexico is instructive.

Comments

Patrick Brown

[dewline]

The look on his face, the sound of his voice...he truly did not understand what he'd fallen into nor how fast the fall had been, did he?