[NEWS] Eleven politics links

[rfmcdonald]

• The amount of money that has gone into the Doug Ford Ontario News Now propaganda videos--more than one hundred!--is shocking. Global News reports.


• That Maxime Bernier is finding himself challenged, in his home region of the Beauce, by another Maxine Bernier is charming. Le Devoir has it.


• The Times of London interview with David Cameron, three years after the Brexit referendum and with his new biography, is enlightening. (And shocking.)


• There may well be, finally, a popular groundswell among Europeans to make the European Union more of a classical superpower. Bloomberg has it.


• Shannon Gormley at MacLean's looks at how, come 2047, Hong Kong is bound to see radical change.


• At Bloomberg, David Fickling notes how populism plays a huge role in the economic divergence of Argentina from Australia, here.


• India would lose out, it is argued, if it does not sign onto the China-led RCEP economic grouping. Bloomberg has it.


• Did economic nationalism in central Europe make the region more resistant to the slowdown in Germany? Bloomberg considers.


• VICE reports on how Trump supporters in the US Midwest are unhappy with continued globalization, here.


• Global News reports on new interest in Ontario in diffusing immigration beyond the Greater Toronto Area, here.


• Philippe J. Fournier reports at MacLean's about the latest polling, suggesting the Liberals are on the edge of a majority.