[NEWS] Five Ontario politics links: media, Doug Ford, Kathleen Wynne, progressives, real estate

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• What should Ontario's media take from the rise of Donald Trump in the United States? How should it deal with populists? The Toronto Star reports.


• Enzo DiMatteo at NOW Toronto looks at the plausibility of Doug Ford's eventual election as premier of Ontario. Full circle, indeed.


• Éric Grenier makes the point that the odds in favour of Kathleen Wynne pulling off a Liberal victory are substantially worse now than in 2014, over at CBC.


• Bob Hepburn makes the argument that, faced with splitting the progressive vote and allowing a PC victory, the Liberals and NDP and Greens should start thinking hard. Metro Toronto has it.


• MacLean's notes how Doug Ford's plans for taxation and real estate could unleash a housing bubble in Ontario, here.