[NEWS] Five Canadian politics links: Ontario, Québec, Alberta

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• This CBC article looks at how participants in the guaranteed minimum income experiment in Toronto, who had thought they had been guaranteed a certain measure of stability, are desperately trying to prepare for the program's unexpected end.


• HuffPostQuebec notes the relative disinterest of most people in Québec towards independence and federalism.


• La Presse notes a new think-tank, the Observatoire québécois des inégalités, that wants to inspire people in Québec to look towards Scandinavian models of society.


• Jason Kenney, the man who may well be the next premier of Alberta, seems to be encouraging talk of separatism in Alberta over discontent with the problems of that province's oil industry. Global News reports.


• MacLean's shares an overheated fantasy from David J Bercuson and David Cooper imagining how discontent in Alberta ends up catalyzing a western Canadian separatist state, one even justified in occupying the Lower Mainland over its opposition to Albertan plans.