[NEWS] Five links about Canada and the future: Olympics, politics, demographics, Elizabeth II

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• The Conversation suggests that blaming the 1976 Montréal Olympics for the reluctance of Canada to host an Olympics should stop.


• Is it possible that a Conservative majority government could be plausibly achieved by a breakthrough in Québec? Phiippe J. Fournier at MacLean's considers.


• A Conservative majority government, again, is perfectly imaginable. MacLean's reports.


• Don Pittis at CBC notes how worker shortages in Canada are leading to rising wages, in at least some areas.


• What will happen, in Canada and elsewhere, when Queen Elizabeth II dies? MacLean's speculates.