Roundup: More Canadian vigilance needed

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It is now on or about day sixty-nine of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and civilians that the UN has evacuated from Mariupol have made their way to safety, and are relaying their tales of their experiences. There are still hundreds of people trapped under the steel plant, and Russians resumed their shelling, so when more will be evacuated remains an open question. Here is a look at the state of the deaths in Kharkiv, which is currently under attack by Russians. Elsewhere, Ukrainian prosecutors are looking into at least ten cases of collusion with Russian forces in Bucha, where mass atrocities occurred.

We also learned that Canadian trainers who were shifted from Ukraine to Poland have indeed been training Ukrainian forces on the big guns they’ve been getting from other countries, including Canada. This puts our contributions into perspective that shows that we’re doing more than just those four big guns and eight armoured vehicles, not that this should be too much of a surprise.

South of the border, a leaked draft majority ruling of the US Supreme Court indicates that they are set to overturn Roe v. Wade, their primary abortion jurisprudence, and I just can’t. America just took a bunch more steps on the road to Gilead, and it calls for even more caution in Canada. It’s unlikely happen like it is down there, given that this is the culmination of decades of their institutions being eroded and dismantled, but we can’t take for granted that things won’t follow their pattern, because there are too many people in this country who are personally invested in America’s culture wars and are trying to import them here at all costs.

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau announced retooling for an auto plant to produce EVs, alongside Doug Ford, just days before he goes into an election.
  • The government passed Motion 11, which will allow for late-night sittings on short notice, with the support of the NDP and the Greens.
  • There are questions as to why it’s taken the military twenty-five years to get serious about white supremacists in their ranks.
  • The military ombudsman wants military families who have special needs to be get more flexibility and support, given their frequent pace of relocations.
  • Federal and provincial privacy commissioners are asking for legislation to make it illegal for police to use facial recognition to monitor peaceful protesters.
  • The Ukrainian ambassador-designate to Canada met MPs at a House of Commons committee to talk about Russia’s use of sexual violence in Ukraine.
  • The Conservative Party confirms that there will be six candidates on the ballot, and those who didn’t make the cut are alleging a conspiracy against them.
  • Patrick Brown is under fire for suggesting the government do as much for Palestinian refugees as they are for Ukrainians (who aren’t actually refugees).
  • The “bike rally” in Ottawa over the weekend cost between $2.5 million and $3 million for policing, and the city’s police board wants “sustainable funding.”
  • Some $6 million has been captured from the occupation in Ottawa, whose fate will be determined by the class action lawsuit getting underway.
  • Crown prosecutors in Alberta have avoided a strike as the province is willing to meet their demands to negotiate for salary increases.

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  1. Roe is the first step on the road to turning back the clock to the 18th century. The whole crux of Alito’s judgment was that anything not explicitly, verbatim, written into the constitution isn’t a “right” and is thus subject to the capricious whims of the states. Which means birth control, same-sex relationships or marriage, anybody getting a divorce, or even the real holy grail that the religious fanatics have been chasing after for 60 years: racial integration in all its forms. I get so infuriated with the “pundits” making a bigger deal about the leak than what was in it, and I’m especially infuriated by the equivalent bubbleheads in Canada tut-tutting that “it can’t happen here.” They should all be fired immediately and every outlet reclaimed by and for women only. The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

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