[NEWS] Five Canadian politics links: Ontario, western Canada, the North

[rfmcdonald]

• iPolitics notes that Ontario may come out ahead with a federal carbon tax, here.


• Last month's essay of Stephen Maher at MacLean's suggesting the Doug Ford government's approach to energy and the carbon tax will cost Ontario more than it might save looks positively prescient.


• I agree entirely with the argument of Karl Nerenberg at Rabble.ca that CBC should cover the municipal elections in Ontario: Local democracy matters, too.


• Global News reports that a recent Ipsos poll suggests western Canadians tend to identify more closely with their province than with their wider country. (Is this not the case generally in Canada, I wonder?)


• The Canadian program aiming to make food affordable in the north is, as minister Dominic Leblanc admits, in desperate need of reform. CBC reports.