[NEWS] 15 links about Canada and Canadian politics (#cdnpoli)

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• Scott Gilmore at MacLean's notes how, in the United States, Canada as a model is a common idea among Democrats.


• David Camfield argues at The Conversation that the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike offers lessons for Canadians now.


• Le Devoir notes the recent argument of now-Québec premier François Legault that a Québec that was, like Ontario, a relatively wealthy province would be a Québec that would have fewer tensions with the rest of Canada. Is this plausible?


• Éric Grenier notes at CBC that, in Ontario, Andrew Scheer's federal conservatives will need to draw voters from beyond Ford Nation.


• MacLean's hosts the arguments of Frank Graves and Michael Valpy that Canadian politicians are not paying nearly the amount of attention to economic inequality that Canadians think they should.


• MacLean's makes the point that Conrad Black seems to see much to like in Donald Trump.


• Ontario and the Canadian government are fighting over funding for the proposed Ontario Line, the Canadian government insisting it needs more information about the route. The Toronto Star reports.


• Facebook, it turns out, chose not to pay proper attention to sending officials to testify at a Canada government inquiry into fake news. Maclean's reports.


• Justin Trudeau, speaking recently in Toronto, credited immigration for the success of the tech sector of Canada. CBC reports.


• Foreign workers turn out to play a critical role in staffing the lobster plants in the Acadian fishing village of Meteghan, in Nova Scotia. CBC reports.


• Canada and the United States are again disputing the claims of Canada to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage. Global News reports.


• MacLean's interviews Northwest Territories premier Bob McLeod, who dreams of a massive development of Arctic Canada, including a goal of a million residents for his territory.


• Enzo DiMatteo suggests at NOW Toronto that the growing unpopularity of Doing Ford in Ontario might hurt the federal Conservatives badly.


• Could the Green Party go mainstream across Canada? The Conversation considers.


• The Conversation reports on what the national fervour over the Toronto Raptors represents, including the growing diversity of the population of Canada and the global spread of basketball.