Elections elation, plus other letters, Oct. 5: 'Not a bad week at all for the half-full cupsters'

Open this photo in gallery: Premier-Elect Wab Kinew speaks at a press conference the morning after winning the Manitoba provincial election at the Manitoba legislative building on Oct. 4.David Lipnowski/The Globe and Mail O Canada Unlike Americans, we Canadians tend not to sing our collective praises. A sense of national pride is not part of our DNA, and the politics of grievance often overtakes our sense of achievement. So, perhaps two current events merit reflection. One hundred and thirty-eight years after the hanging of Louis Riel, Manitoba has an Indigenous premier who will lead a majority government ("NDP wins Manitoba…