NEWS] Eighteen #cdnpoli and #exln43 links

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• MacLean's looks at how Justin Trudeau and the Liberals survived #elxn43, here.


• Ajay Parasram at The Conversation looks at the new complications faced by Justin Trudeau.


• Daily Xtra looks at the record of the Liberals on LGBTQ2 issues, here.


• Daily Xtra looks at the four out LGBTQ2 MPs elected to Parliament, here.


• Philippe Fournier at MacLean's argues that 338Canada stands vindicated in its predictions, with some 90% of the people it predicted would be elected being elected.


• What will become of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer? The National Post considers.


• Strategic voting and Doug Ford, Mark Gollom notes, kept the Conservatives from making a breakthrough in Ontario.


• Robyn Urback at CBC notes that the narrow conservatism of Scheer kept the Conservatives from victory in a wary Canada.


• Stephen Maher at MacLean's questions if the Bloc Québécois victory has much to do with separatism, per se.


• Voters in Québec seem to be fine with election results, with a strong Bloc presence to keep the Liberals on notice. CBC has it.


• Talk of separatism has taken off in Alberta following the #elxn43 results. Global News has it.


• The premier of Saskatchewan has also talked of his province's alienation after #elxn43, here in the National Post.


• CBC's As It Happens carries an interview with former Conservative MP Jay Hill, now an advocate for western Canadian separatism.


• Atlantic Canada may provide new members for the cabinet of Justin Trudeau. The Toronto Star reports.


• Jaime Battiste, Liberal, has been elected as the first Mi'kmaq MP from Nova Scotia. Global News has it.


• The Green Party did not make its hoped-for breakthrough on Vancouver Island, but it will struggle on. Global News has it.


• Did, as Politico suggested, Canada sleepwalk into the future with #elxn43?


• We should be glad, Scott Gilmore argues in MacLean's, that given the global challenges to democracy #elxn43 in Canada was relatively boring.