[BLOG] Five Marginal Revolution links (@margrev)

• Marginal Revolution features a critical if friendly review of the new Emmanuel Todd book, Lineages of Modernity.
• Marginal Revolution considers the problems of excessive consumer activism, here.
• Marginal Revolution notes a new book looking at natural gas economics in Europe, here.
• Marginal Revolution notes new evidence that YouTube algorithms do not tend to radicalize users, here.
• Marginal Revolution notes the few countries where the average person was richer in 2009 than in 2019, notably Greece and Venezuela.

[NEWS] Twenty news links

• 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.

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

• 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.

[NEWS] Ten #cdnpoli links

• CBC looks at the internal splits within British Columbia, between the Liberal-leaning coast and the Alberta-leaning interior, here.
• The legal departure of oil company EnCana from its Alberta headquarters is the cause of great upset. CBC reports.
• Will Andrew Scheer survive as leader of the Conservative Party, with challengers like Peter MacKay? The National Observer reports.
• People in Lloydminister, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, reflect the frustrations of the populations of the two provinces. CBC reports.
• Philippe Fournier at MacLean’s writes about the sharp rural-urban political split in Canada.
• Green Party Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin is interviewed by the National Observer about her goals, here.
• The Treaty 8 chiefs have united in opposition to the separation of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Global News reports.
• CBC reported on the multiple MP candidates who, genealogist Darryl Leroux found, falsely claimed indigenous ancestry.
• Jessica Deer reported for CBC about the near-universal boycott by the Haudenosaunee of #elxn43, and the reasons for this boycott.
• Scott Gilmore recently a href=”https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-u-s-is-sinking-maybe-its-time-for-canada-to-jump-ship/”>suggested at MacLean’s that, noting American instability, Canada might do well to secure itself and promote its multilateralism by seeking to join the EU.

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[NEWS] Ten #cdnpoli and #lexn43 links

• Terry Glavin at the National Post suggests that #elxn43 saw Canada unusually and unhelpfully uncaring about the wider world, here.
• Paul Wells at MacLean’s suggests that the collapse of Conservative votes in many Liberal-held areas, along other things, might mean the second Liberal government will pay less attention to Alberta.
• An independent senator says that Trudeau appointing a senator from Alberta to his cabinet, for representation, would be a poor idea. CBC reports.
• Matt Gurney at the National Post urges Albertan Conservatives to realize they are not alone in Canada.
• Andrew Scheer seems safe as leader of the Conservatives for now. CBC has it.
• The People’s Party and Maxime Bernier underperformed, but populism may yet have a future. Global News reports.
• Maxime Héroux-Legault at The Conversation suggests Liberal electoral strategies inspired the revival of the Bloc Québécois, here.
• Trudeau has promised to build the pipeline that Alberta wants. CBC has it.
• David Frum at The Atlantic shares his own critical take on #elxn43, here.

[NEWS] #cdnpoli and #elxn41 items from across Canada: BC, Alberta, Québec, PEI

• 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.

[NEWS] Five #indigenous links: Nunavut, Haisla, Ken Hill, McGill Redmen, New Richmond

• This MacLean’s feature examines how, twenty years after the formation of Nunavut, some Inuit are considering new ways to make governance work in their interests.
• This National Observer article looks at how one Haisla band government sees hope in the construction of a pipeline, one that would provide the community with needed revenue.
• This Toronto Life feature by Michael Lista looks at the struggle by Six Nations-based businessman Ken Hill to avoid paying child support, using Indigenous sovereignty as a barrier.
• This National Observer article looks at the successful campaign, led by student Tomas Jirousek, to get McGill University to drop the name McGill Redmen for their sports team.
• CBC Montreal looks at the efforts to improve Indigenous representation on school curricula in the Gaspésie community of New Richmond.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, Cumbrae’s, Vegandale, environment, Peter Harris

• Edward Keenan notes at the Toronto Star, drawing from an analysis of TTC budgets by Steve Munro, that things are not likely to get better for riders on the Bloor-Danforth line for at least another decade.
• blogTO notes a protest of vegans outside of Queen Street West butcher shop Cumbrae’s, the protesters pretending to sell dog meat.
• Gilbert Ngabo writes at the Toronto Star about the mystery regarding the ownership of two Parkdale restaurants which loudly claim not to be part of the unpopular Vegandale.
• Priyanka Vittal writes at NOW Toronto about how it might make sense for Toronto to sue oil companies for the costs of global warming-related environmental disasters.
• Toronto Life notes the hyperrealistic city scenes of oil painter Peter Harris.

[NEWS] Five Canadian politics links: Ontario, Québec, Alberta

• This CBC article looks at how participants in the guaranteed minimum income experiment in Toronto, who had thought they had been guaranteed a certain measure of stability, are desperately trying to prepare for the program’s unexpected end.
• HuffPostQuebec notes the relative disinterest of most people in Québec towards independence and federalism.
• La Presse notes a new think-tank, the Observatoire québécois des inégalités, that wants to inspire people in Québec to look towards Scandinavian models of society.
• Jason Kenney, the man who may well be the next premier of Alberta, seems to be encouraging talk of separatism in Alberta over discontent with the problems of that province’s oil industry. Global News reports.
• MacLean’s shares an overheated fantasy from David J Bercuson and David Cooper imagining how discontent in Alberta ends up catalyzing a western Canadian separatist state, one even justified in occupying the Lower Mainland over its opposition to Albertan plans.

[NEWS] Seven politics links: childcare, China in Canada, drugs, Venezuela, Brexit, Finland

• CBC reports on childcare costs across Canada, noting how exceptionally low and affordable they are in Québec.
• If China withdraws its students studying in Canadian universities from the country in the way Saudi Arabia did its students, the financial impact on many centres of higher education would be significant. Global News reports.
• NOW Toronto notes how Doug Ford, surprisingly, has managed to make a mess of the nascent legal cannabis sector of retail.
• VICE explains how Europe has largely managed to avoid a fentanyl crisis–Europe’s drug dealers have much more of a vested interest in the survival of their clients.
• This Open Democracy essay notes how, in the light of the breakdown of Venezuela, this central alliance of China in Latin America is looking increasingly problematic.
• This essay at Open Democracy by an anonymous anti-Brexit activist from northern England notes that, in the end, an already vulnerable North is going to have to take responsibility for the Brexit it voted for when catastrophe hits.
• DW reports the results of Finland’s guaranteed minimum income experiment: Although well-being was improved, recipients did not increase their participation in the labour market.