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  • NOW Toronto looks at the Pickering nuclear plant and its role in providing fuel for space travel.

  • In some places like California, traffic is so bad that airlines actually play a role for high-end commuters. CBC reports.

  • Goldfish released into the wild are a major issue for the environment in Québec, too. CTV News reports.

  • China's investments in Jamaica have good sides and bad sides. CBC reports.

  • A potato museum in Peru might help solve world hunger. The Guardian reports.

  • Is the Alberta-Saskatchewan alliance going to be a lasting one? Maclean's considers.

  • Is the fossil fuel industry collapsing? The Tyee makes the case.

  • Should Japan and Europe co-finance a EUrasia trade initiative to rival China's? Bloomberg argues.

  • Should websites receive protection as historically significant? VICE reports.

  • Food tourism in the Maritimes is a very good idea. Global News reports.

  • Atlantic Canada lobster exports to China thrive as New England gets hit by the trade war. CBC reports.

  • The Bloc Québécois experienced its revival by drawing on the same demographics as the provincial CAQ. Maclean's reports.

  • Population density is a factor that, in Canada, determines political issues, splitting urban and rural voters. The National Observer observes.

  • US border policies aimed against migration from Mexico have been harming businesses on the border with Canada. The National Post reports.

  • The warming of the ocean is changing the relationship of coastal communities with their seas. The Conversation looks.

  • Archival research in the digital age differs from what occurred in previous eras. The Conversation explains.

  • The Persian-language Wikipedia is an actively contested space. Open Democracy reports.

  • Vox notes how the US labour shortage has been driven partly by workers quitting the labour force, here.

  • Laurie Penny at WIRED has a stirring essay about hope, about the belief in some sort of future.

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  • Bad Astronomy notes a new detailed study suggesting that asteroid Hygeia is round. Does this mean it is a dwarf planet?

  • The Buzz notes that the Toronto Public Library has a free booklet on the birds of Toronto available at its branches.

  • Crooked Timber looks forward to a future, thanks to Trump, without the World Trade Organization.

  • D-Brief notes how the kelp forests off California were hurt by unseasonal heat and disease.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes an impending collision of supergalactic clusters.

  • Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how judgement can complicate collective action.

  • Language Hat looks at the different definitions of the word "mobile".

  • Language Log looks at the deep influence of the Persian language upon Marathi.
    https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44807
  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how, if anything, climate scientists make conservative claims about their predictions.

  • Marginal Revolution wonders if planned power outages are a good way to deal with the threat of wildfires in California.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the ethnic cleansing being enabled by Turkey in Kurdish Syria.

  • Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews archeologist Arthur Lin about his use of space-based technologies to discovery traces of the past.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the staggering inequality in Chile, driver of the recent protests.

  • At Roads and Kingdoms, Anthony Elghossain reports from the scene of the mass protests in Lebanon.

  • Drew Rowsome tells how his balcony garden fared this year.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at stellar generations in the universe. (Our sun is a third-generation star.)

  • Strange Company looks at the murder of a girl five years old in Indiana in 1898. Was the neighbor boy twelve years old accused of the crime the culprit?

  • Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine takes a look at social mobility in France.

  • Understanding Society's Daniel Little considers economic historians and their study of capitalism.

  • Window on Eurasia looks at the pro-Russian policies of the Moldova enclave of Gagauzia, and draws recommendations for Ukraine re: the Donbas.

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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.

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  • The affordability of rent was an election issue in British Columbia. CBC reports.

  • Philippe Fournier notes at Maclean's that the sheer solidity of the Conservative vote in Alberta means that province will not get that much attention.

  • The Bloc Québécois has good reason to be exacerbating the clash between Québec and Alberta in the federal campaign. The National Post reports.

  • CBC reports on the growing unpopularity of the Liberals in Québec outside of Montréal, here.

  • That the Liberals had a campaign song that was initially translated very badly into French is a big gaffe. CTV News reports.

  • Philippe Fournier at Maclean's noted the legendary volatility of Québec politics, here.

  • Will the Orange Line extension in Montréal be guaranteed funding, no matter who gets elected? CBC reports.

  • The fate of NDP Berthier-Maskonge MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau, elected in the 2011 Orange Wave, may determine the fate of the NDP in Québec. CTV News reports.

  • Atlantic Canada is likely to see substantial losses for the Liberals, as reported here.

  • Stu Neatby reports that advance poll turnout on PEI rose by 13% compared to 2015.

  • Will the PEI riding of Egmont go Conservative? CBC considers.

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  • Enzo DiMatteo suggests at NOW Toronto that Ford wants Scheer to lose, so Ford will have a chance with the federal Conservatives, here.

  • Jonathan Montpetit writes at CBC Montreal about the conservative nationalism that has become mainstream in Québec under the CAQ, here.

  • Robyn Urback writes at the CBC about the failure of the NDP under Jagmeet Singh to capitalize on the weakness of the two dominant parties, here.

  • I do think that the rumoured connections of Prince Andrew to the Epstein network could easily become a huge unexpected crisis for the British royal family. VICE reports.

  • Max Fawcett at MacLean's is probably right to note that, to be taken seriously, Alberta should stop voting Conservative. His arguments are here.

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  • The LeBreton Flats in Ottawa are now planned to experience a phased development. Global News reports.

  • Kingston has recently celebrated the 175th anniversary of its brief history as capital of Canada (the Province of Canada, to be precise). Global News reports.

  • The Independent reports on the comeback story of Winnipeg.

  • Guardian Cities shares some of the different unfulfilled proposals for the development of the English city of Bristol.

  • CityLab reports from Dessau, the eastern German city literally made by the Bauhaus school.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait writes about the ephemeral nature and historically recent formation of the rings of Saturn.

  • Centauri Dreams hosts an essay looking at the controversies surrounding the arguments of Avi Loeb around SETI and 'Oumuamua.

  • D-Brief links to a new analysis of hot Jupiters suggesting that they form close to their stars, suggesting further that they are a separate population from outer-system worlds like our Jupiter and Saturn.

  • Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the sociology of the online world, using the critical work of Zeynep Tufekci as a lens.

  • L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes a great point about the seemingly transparent online world: We might, like a protagonist in a Hawthorne story, confine ourselves falsely that we know everything, so becoming jaded.

  • JSTOR Daily notes how, in the early 20th century, US Park Rangers were actually quite rough and tumble, an irregular police force.

  • Language Hat looks at the overlooked modernist fiction of Dorothy Richardson.

  • Language Log examines the origins of the phrase "Listen up".

  • The LRB Blog visits a Berlin cemetery to note the annual commemoration there of the lives of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.

  • Marginal Revolution considers the proportion of centenarians on Okinawa, and considers if a carbohydrate-heavy diet featuring sweet potatoes is key.Tim Parks at the NYR Daily engages with the idea of a translation being an accomplishment of its own.

  • Roads and Kingdoms has a fascinating interview with Tanja Fox about the history and development of the Copenhagen enclave of Christiania.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that early returns from New Horizons suggest Ultima Thule is a typical "future comet".

  • Strange Company shares the story of the haunting of 18th century Gael Donald Bán.

  • Towleroad shares the account by Nichelle Nichols of how her chance encounter with Martin Luther King helped save Star Trek.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the different quasi-embassies of different Russian republics in Moscow, and their potential import.

  • Arnold Zwicky, looking at penguins around the world, notices the CIBC mascot Percy the Penguin.

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  • The scale of the cuts by the Ontario government to the Ontario Arts Council, including those directed towards Indigenous artists, is appalling. Global News reports.

  • The provinces of Alberta and Québec are feuding over the latter province's opposition to new pipeline construction, Albertans trying to lead a boycott. CTV News reports.

  • Quartz notes, with reference to Brexit, that if the Oui had won the 1995 referendum on Québec independence Jean Chrétien would have held a second referendum to confirm the result.

  • CBC hosts an opinion piece by Monte Solberg talking about western Canadian alienation.

  • China-based social app WeChat has been limiting the articles its Canadian users can access on the Huawei crisis. The Toronto Star reports.

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  • iPolitics notes that Ontario may come out ahead with a federal carbon tax, here.

  • Last month's essay of Stephen Maher at MacLean's suggesting the Doug Ford government's approach to energy and the carbon tax will cost Ontario more than it might save looks positively prescient.

  • I agree entirely with the argument of Karl Nerenberg at Rabble.ca that CBC should cover the municipal elections in Ontario: Local democracy matters, too.

  • Global News reports that a recent Ipsos poll suggests western Canadians tend to identify more closely with their province than with their wider country. (Is this not the case generally in Canada, I wonder?)

  • The Canadian program aiming to make food affordable in the north is, as minister Dominic Leblanc admits, in desperate need of reform. CBC reports.

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  • Despite strong economic growth recently, it is unlikely that the CAQ will be able to fulfill its promise to make Québec no longer a net receiver of equalization payments. The National Post reports.

  • Canadians may well be relieved that NAFTA has been superseded smoothly enough by the USMCA, but Canadians are also not forgetting their country's treatment by the Trump Administration. The Canadian Press, via CTV News, reports.

  • MacLean's explains the NAFTA/USMCA situation from the perspective of Mexicans, who seem to have felt their country simply did not have many good choices.

  • Do the wage increases given to workers by Amazon promise higher wages for American workers more generally and a strong economy? Maybe, maybe not. CBC's Don Pittis reports.

  • So far, Poland has not benefited as much as it might hope from Chinese investments in the country. Transitions Online reports.

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  • Wayne Roberts at NOW Toronto makes the point that, in the wake of the Doug Ford government, cities in Canada need to get solid grounds for autonomy.

  • Toronto and Vancouver rank alongside world cities including Hong Kong, London, Amsterdam, and Munich as being at risk of housing bubbles. CBC reports.

  • Guardian Cities takes a look at what cities around the world are doing with regards to contentious public monuments, here.

  • CityLab has an interesting roundup of recent online fiction about cities, here.

  • Justin Fox at Bloomberg View makes the case that Brooklyn is setting a general good standard for the atmosphere of American cities generally, notwithstanding issues. (I'd add that the influence of the Brooklyn model is not limited to the United States.)

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the question of how far, exactly, the Pleiades star cluster is from Earth. It turns out this question breaks down into a lot of interesting secondary issues.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly starts an interesting discussion around the observation that so many people are uncomfortable with the details of their body.

  • Centauri Dreams reports on the exciting evidence of cryovolcanism at Ceres.

  • The Crux reports on new suggestions that, although Neanderthals had bigger brains than Homo sapiens, Neanderthal brains were not thereby better brains.

  • D-Brief notes evidence that the ability of bats and dolphins to echolocate may ultimate derive from a shared gene governing their muscles.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have used data on the trajectory of 'Oumuamua to suggest it may have come from one of four stars.

  • Far Outliers explores the Appalachian timber boom of the 1870s that created the economic preconditions for the famed feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.

  • Language Hat notes the unique whistling language prevailing among the Khasi people living in some isolated villages in the Indian state of Meghalaya.

  • Lingua Franca, at the Chronicles, notes that the fastest-growing language in the United States is the Indian language of Telugu.

  • Jeremy Harding at the LRB Blog writes about the import of the recognition, by Macron, of the French state's involvement in the murder of pro-Algerian independence activist Maurice Audin in 1958.

  • Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution praises the diaries of Mihail Sebastian, a Romanian Jewish intellectual alive during the Second World War

  • The New APPS Blog takes a look at the concept of the carnival from Bakhtin.

  • Gabrielle Bellot at NYR Daily considers the life of Elizabeth Bishop and Bishop's relationship to loneliness.

  • Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog describes how CubeSats were paired with solar sails to create a Mars probe, Mars Cube One.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers some possible responses from the left to a conservative Supreme Court in the US.

  • Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the challenges facing the street food of Xi'an.

  • Rocky Planet examines why, for decades, geologists mistakenly believed that the California ground was bulging pre-earthquake in Palmdale.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how some objects called stars, like neutron stars and white dwarfs and brown dwarfs, actually are not stars.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how China and Europe stand out as being particularly irreligious on a world map of atheism.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the instability that might be created in the North Caucasus by a border change between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

  • Arnold Zwicky shares some beautiful pictures of flowers from a garden in Palo Alto.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait confirms the discovery of water ice on the Moon.

  • Centauri Dreams reports on the latest discoveries regarding Beta Pictoris b, notably new evidence that it is a superjovian massing between 9 and 13 Jupiters.

  • D-Brief notes how oil rigs can support coral reefs.

  • Far Outliers takes a grim look at the Chinese market in servants and serfs and slaves.

  • Hornet Stories looks at opinion polling on minorities in Germany. (Gay people do much better than Muslims.)

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how makeup, at the start of the 20th century highly stigmatized, ended up going mainstream.

  • Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca considers if Crazy Rich Asians, and other like pop culture successes, might get more Westerners to learn Chinese.

  • The Map Room Blog shares pictures from space of the smoke produced by the British Columbia wildfires.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer takes a look at the way, in federal Mexico, state-level political machines continue to work.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how, in the very early universe, the first elements formed.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that in Bashkortostan, two-thirds of students opted for Russian-medium education, a proportion considerably above the proportion of ethnic Russians in that republic.

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  • Amanda Connelly at Global News last month took a look at the reasons why the Canadian common market has been, and will remain, so fragmented.

  • Robert Alexander Innes at The Conversation makes the perfectly defensible argument, in relation to statues of John A. MacDonald, that while MacDonald should not be forgotten his anti-First Nations racism should likewise not be celebrated. History matters.

  • VICE takes a look at the life and prospects of Louis Alphonse, Duc of Anjou and one of the claimants to the defunct French throne.

  • The Local Italy notes that many of the populists of that country are outraged by comparisons between current immigrants to Italy and past emigrants from Italy. Those emigrants are different, you see.

  • Michael Hauser at Open Democracy suggests that, if the Prague Spring in late 1960s Czechoslovakia been allowed to unfold, it might well have inspired many in West and East with a vision of a different model.

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  • Jamie Bradburn wrote earlier this week about a stroll he and his took down the Danforth.

  • Edward Keenan is entirely right to note that Ford's slashing of city council's size is all but a declaration of war by his government against Toronto. The Toronto Star has it.

  • Toronto MP Adam Vaughan has stated openly that, if need be, the federal government will bypass Ontario in working with Toronto. Global News reports.

  • Widely-respected former Toronto city planner Jennifer Keesmaat is running as mayor in the upcoming election. I'm inclined to vote for her already. The Toronto Star reports.

  • The resurgence of talk of a separate Province of Toronto is unsurprising, but frankly I think the proposal fundamentally unworkable. blogTO reports.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares the latest images of asteroid Ryugu.

  • Centauri Dreams reports on the equal-mass near-Earth asteroid binary 2017 YE5.

  • Far Outliers notes how corrosive fake news and propaganda can be, by looking at Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War.

  • The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas looks at swarms versus networks, in the light of Bauman's thinking on freedom/security.

  • Joe. My. God. reports on how American pharmacy chain PVS fired a man--a Log Cabin Republican, no less--for calling the police on a black customer over a coupon.

  • JSTOR Daily links to a paper making the case that national service plays a useful role in modern countries.

  • Language Hat quotes from a beautiful Perry Anderson essay at the LRB about Proust.

  • Jeffey Herlihy-Mera writes/u> at Lingua Franca about his first-hand experiences of the multilingualism of Ecuador.

  • The NYR Daily takes a look at the art created by the prominent members of the Romanov dynasty.

  • The Power and Money's Noel Maurer has reposted a blog post from 2016 considering the question of just how much money the United States could extract, via military basing, from Germany and Japan and South Korea

  • Window on Eurasia <>suggests a new Russian language law that would marginalize non-Russian languages is provoking a renaissance of Tatar nationalism.

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  • Nathan Burgoine at Apostrophen argues compellingly that stories featuring queer protagonists should also have other queer characters (among other things).

  • James Bow talks about the origins and the progress of his new novel, The Sun Runners.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at the recent hopeful analysis of Ross 128b, still a strong candidate for a relatively Earth-like world.

  • Crooked Timber starts a discussion on having elections in the European Parliament being based on transnational lists.

  • D-Brief notes a hauntingly musical study of the plasma of Saturn's ring system.

  • Hornet Stories reports on N.K. Jemisin's article that bigots are not good writers of fiction. I'm inclined to agree: People who cannot imagine the lives of others as legitimate have issues with plausible characterization.

  • Joe. My. God. notes that Nicola Sturgeon opened Pride in Glasgow on the same day as Trump's visit, saying there was where she wanted to be regardless.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the winding history of New York State's Adirondacks, as a protected area.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the evidence for the unwitting involvement of Glenn Greenwald and Wikileaks as agents of Russia in support of Trump.

  • Lingua Franca, at the Chronicle, considers the genesis of the phrase "Sherpas of the Beltway." How problematic is it?

  • Marginal Revolution suggests that Canadian public opinion in support of open immigration rests on borders being controlled.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that the strange behaviour of Boyajian's Star can be explained by dust alone.

  • Window on Eurasia speculates that Russia might be on the verge of another wave of regional reorganizations, amalgamating some provinces and other territories into others.

  • Arnold Zwicky points out the achievements of Samantha Allen, a journalist writing for The Daily Beast.

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  • Anthrodendum recommends design researcher Jan Chipchase's Field Study Handbook for anthropologists interested in field practice.

  • Architectuul investigates strange similarities between buildings built in far-removed parts of the world.

  • Centauri Dreams takes a look at TESS, the next generation of exoplanet-hunting satellite.

  • Crooked Timber investigates the connections between the spiritualism of the 19th century and the fiction of the uncanny.

  • D-Brief notes the many names, often delightful, that newly-discovered locations on Mercury and Charon have received.

  • Cody Delistraty investigates two exhibitions of French satirists, including Charlie Hedo's Georges Wolinski, to examine the nature of satire.

  • The Dragon's Tales considers the possibility of cryomagna leaving marks on the surface of Europa.

  • Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the strangely alien skies of TRAPPIST-1e. What would its sun look like? How would the other planets appear?

  • The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the new prominence of multigenerational households in the United States. While a response to economic strains, it also looks back to past traditions.

  • Hornet Stories notes how, on RuPaul's Drag Race, Monet X Change gave a decent explanation behind the surprisingly recent birth of the modern British accent.

  • Imageo notes how a massive blob of warm water is rising to the surface of the Pacific.

  • At In A State of Migration, Lyman Stone explores the unique population history of Maine, to my eyes easily the most Atlantic Canadian of the fifty American states.

  • JSTOR Daily links to a paper exploring why modern video games can produce such rewarding experiences for players. (We can get meaning from many places.)

  • Language Log takes a look at the complexity of Chinese language classifications with a song by Yishi Band. What exactly is Yibin Sichuanese?

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at an interesting question: When did Jews in the United States become white?

  • The LRB Blog takes a look at the baffling reasons behind the poisoning of the Skribins with Novichok, and the science behind it.

  • Marginal Revolution notes that this year, GDP per capita measured at PPP in Spain is higher than in Italy. (This probably says more about the disarray in Italy.)

  • The NYR Daily shares an interesting interview with cartoonist Art Spiegelman.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw tells of his experiences on a trip to the small Australian city of Armidale, in the region of New England.

  • Justin Petrone reflects on the tidy and clean, minimalist even, rural landscape of Estonia.

  • Progressive Download's John Farrell notes brain scans that provide evidence of consciousness even in very young infants.

  • Drew Rowsome praises the Toronto production of the musical Fun Home, based on the Alison Bechdel graphic novel. I, for one, can't wait to see it.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, although Proxima Centauri is far too active a star for Proxima Centauri b to be Earth-like, that world could still plausibly host life-supporting environments.

  • Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy suggests a recent deal at the federal level in the US between Trump and Cory Gardner has created space for states to legalize marijuana without fear of federal intervention.

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  • CBC notes a Supreme Court of Canada ruling stating a New Brunswick law limiting the import of alcohol beverages from other provinces is constitutional.

  • Alberta is exceptionally unhappy that British Columbia is not permitting the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline across its territory, to the point of making threats. Global News reports.

  • David Climenhaga at Rabble notes that the Albertan desire for federal intervention against British Columbia will likely work against the Albertans' traditional interest in maximizing their autonomy.

  • Québec, though uninvolved in the Trans Mountain pipeline controversy, is starting to get involved on grounds of preserving provincial autonomy. CBC reports.

  • Jen Gerson at CBC notes that the fierceness of the interprovincial rivalry and the relative disengagement of the federal government suggests almost a weakening of the unity of Canada in the west.

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  • Despite being relatively unpopular himself, the Ontario PCs under Doug Ford could conceivably form a majority government. Global News reports.

  • Could Doug Ford become a populist hero for Canadians within and without Ontario? One wonders. MacLean's considers.

  • Chris Selley notes that taking on Doug Ford represents a big risk for the Ontario PCs, over at the National Post.

  • Doug Ford as premier of Ontario, Chantal Hébert notes at the Toronto Star, would destabilize politics Canada-wide.

  • The NDP government of Rachel Notley is running increasingly long odds of being re-elected, it seems. MacLean's reports.

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