[NEWS] Five links about populations: Franco-Ontarians, Acadians, American whites, Brexit, Belgium

[rfmcdonald]

• CBC reports from a Franco-Ontarian youth gathering, in Ontario's easternmost and Francophone-majority Prescott-Russell, where young Francophones are responding with defiance.


• This Acadie Nouvelle opinion piece suggests that, to deal with the problems of the Acadians of the Maritimes, they should collectively seek some sort of autonomy across provincial frontiers.


• This New York Times article noting the questionable nature of the census estimate that white Americans were bound to be a minority soon, and this projection's political consequences, is worth reading.


• Brexit is incompatible with a liberalized immigration policy in the United Kingdom; left-wing Brexiters should know better. Politics.co.uk has it.


• CBC notes how Belgium, dealing with the election of its first black mayor and a revamping of a museum devoted to Central Africa, is starting to deal with its racist past.