[NEWS] Seven links about politics in Canada and around the world

[rfmcdonald]

• The immigration fiasco in Québec shows the tension between different strains of local nationalism. The Conversation reports.


• The Québec labour market, Le Devoir notes, actually bears up well to a comparison with Ontario. Gaps in employment have been closed, and then some.


• Barry Saxifrage at the National Observer notes how, in terms of climate pollution, Alberta and Saskatchewan are heading in the opposite direction from the rest of Canada.


• Many Canadians, displaced by the collapse of the oil economy, have gone south to Texas. Global News reports.


• Will the divisions in the United States only get deeper? How bad will it get? MacLean's considers.


• The chaos in Iran, and the terrible death toll, deserve to be noted. Is the Islamic Republic nearing, if not its end, some other transition? Open Democracy theorizes.


• Terry Glavin at MacLean's notes how governments around the world are facing crises of legitimacy, here.