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rfmcdonald) wrote2019-01-16 09:18 pm
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[NEWS] Five Canada links: populism, Greenbelt, Kim's Convenience, China, the left
- Is the income coming in from Alberta oil the main factor preventing populism from seeing an upsurge in Canada? The National Post reports.
- Michelle Adelman at NOW Toronto notes the threat that the new Bill 66 poses to the Ontario Greenbelt and local agricultural production.
- NPR takes a look at the CBC sitcom Kim's Convenience, entering its third season.
- Paul Wells at MacLean's looks at how the advice lent by old China experts to the Canadian government over the Huawei crisis cannot work now.
- Terry Glavin argues at MacLean's that the left, in Canada and elsewhere, is becoming indistinguishable from the populist right for want of a coherent message.