[NEWS] Five politics links: Canada, John A. MacDonald, France, Italy, Prague Spring

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• Amanda Connelly at Global News last month took a look at the reasons why the Canadian common market has been, and will remain, so fragmented.


• Robert Alexander Innes at The Conversation makes the perfectly defensible argument, in relation to statues of John A. MacDonald, that while MacDonald should not be forgotten his anti-First Nations racism should likewise not be celebrated. History matters.


• VICE takes a look at the life and prospects of Louis Alphonse, Duc of Anjou and one of the claimants to the defunct French throne.


• The Local Italy notes that many of the populists of that country are outraged by comparisons between current immigrants to Italy and past emigrants from Italy. Those emigrants are different, you see.


• Michael Hauser at Open Democracy suggests that, if the Prague Spring in late 1960s Czechoslovakia been allowed to unfold, it might well have inspired many in West and East with a vision of a different model.