[NEWS] Eighteen #cdnpoli and #exln43 links

• 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.

[NEWS] Five links about politics: pro-Bernier billboard, elx2019, Alberta, #mayorpete, Andrew Yang

• The way this pro-Maxine Bernier anti-immigrant billboard campaign ended up collapsing so completely pleases me. Global News reports.
• The CBC polls different experts to see if the unpopularity of Doug Ford in Ontario will undermine the Conservatives across Canada.
• I will be interested to see if separatism in Alberta will take off. The National Post reports.
• The proposal of Pete Buttigieg to get mental health care funded by insurance makes sense to me. VICE has it.
• Michael Kruse writes at POLITICO about the growing appeal of Andrew Yang to many voters in the US.

[NEWS] Twelve LGBTQ links (#lgbtq, #queer)

• Daily Xtra looks at 50 years of fighting for LGBTQ rights in Canada, here.
• Them links to a variety of classic documentaries about LGBTQ life before Stonewall, here.
• Atlas Obscura explains why lesbians and potluck dinners are so closely associated with each other, here.
• Them looks at the controversies surrounding the construction of monuments to LGBTQ heroes of the past, here.
• VICE explains how venerable magazine Out was nearly ended by poor management, here.
• Wired looks at queer history in TV movies, here.
• Connor Garel at NOW Toronto writes, inspired by Paris Is Burning and the drag scene, about the importance of maintaining queer spaces, here.
• Enzo DiMatteo writes at NOW Toronto about the long history of homophobia of Doug Ford, here.
• Claire Provost writes at Open Democracy about the frighteningly well-coordinated global campaign by groups on the right against LGBTQ superheroes, here.
• Michael Waters at Daily Xtra explains the key role of young users of social media in keeping even obscure corners of LGBTQ history alive, here.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: buses, 592 Sherbourne, Parkdale, planning, Doug Ford

• Transit Toronto reports on the first electric bus in the TTC, now running the 35 Jane route.
• Toronto Life takes a look at the history of 592 Sherbourne Street, now the restaurant Maison Selby.
• NOW Toronto interviews people in Parkdale protesting against the cuts of Doug Ford.
• John Lorinc at Spacing looks at the many problems with the Doug Ford alteration of city and provincial planning.
• blogTO observes that this year’s iteration of Ford Fest is going, inevitably, to be very political.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC fare, Bathurst Street, express buses, murder, #FordNation

• The TTC would like to increase fares by 10 cents a ride in the coming year, to help finance basic repairs and services. CityNews reports.
• Facing public furor, Metrolinx has decided not to try to close off Bathurst Street at Eglinton for seven months to try to speed Eglinton Crosstown construction. Global News reports.
• Steve Munro is critical of the TTC’s new express buses running on many major arteries, seeing them as mainly cosmetic in effect.
• Wendy Gillis at the Toronto Star writes about the reactions, one year later, to the murders committed by the Church and Wellesley killer.
• Richard Florida at CityLab summarizes the factors leading to the success of populist Ford Nation, first in Toronto and then in Ontario.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Doug Ford, Ontario Place, rent control, 650 Parliament, cannabis

• This Toronto Life profile examines how Doug Ford managed to get elected premier of Ontario.
• blogTO looks at how the province of Ontario has just taken over Ontario Place, preparing to redevelop this waterfront site in what we fear will be a bad direction.
• blogTO notes how the scrapping of rent control for new units risks making housing still more unaffordable in Toronto.
• Refugees from the 650 Parliament Street disasters are now being billed for their hotel stays, Global News reports.
• NOW Toronto has this first-person essay from Pete Young talking how his cannabis business took him to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: John Tory, planetarium, condos, Liberty Village, Edward VIII

• Toronto has been unified around John Tory, May Warren argues at the Toronto Star, largely because of Doug Ford.
• Urban Toronto notes an exciting University of Toronto proposal for a new planetarium downtown. I would definitely go for that!
• Urban Toronto notes</u. that excavation has begun for Panda Condominiums, at the former site of the World’s Biggest Book Store.
• blgoTO notes a Liberty Village intersection with massive new projects on every corner.
• Jamie Bradburn looks at the scant traces of King Edward VIII in Toronto, at Yonge and Eglinton and at Exhibition Place.