It’s day one-hundred-and-eight of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the fighting continues around Severodonetsk. For the people of the city, they can see what happens when they fall under Russian control—in Mariupol, which has fallen, the remaining residents are dealing with the fact that sanitation has broken down, and corpses are being left to rot, which means there has been an outbreak of dysentery and cholera. Meanwhile, it looks like Russia’s move is to attempt to keep the fighting going on for long enough for the West to lose interest, at which point they can push for Ukraine to make territorial concessions, which Ukraine has no interest in doing.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1535149890950643712

Closer to home, some of the official counts from the Ontario election have been released, and it’s disrupted a whole lot of narratives, particularly around the notion that it was vote-splitting that sunk the NDP’s chances. Nope—in the vast majority of ridings, the Conservatives won by a margin larger than both the Liberals and NDP votes combined. And yes, I know it’s easier to blame the other guy than looking at your own abysmal performance, but come on. Full thread from Mike Moffatt here, and some additional commentary from Hunter Knifton on the Liberal loss here.

https://twitter.com/MikePMoffatt/status/1535296477202993154

https://twitter.com/MikePMoffatt/status/1535307246028087297

https://twitter.com/hunterknifton/status/1535323152963837953

Meanwhile, Scott Reid (not the MP, the other one) calls out the Toronto Star editorial board’s assumptions that Pierre Poilievre is just putting on a show that he’ll moderate once he wins the leadership. Reid doesn’t believe he will, and I suspect he’s right. Full thread here, but some highlights. As to whether the Liberals can let go of their happy-clappy pabulum and take this threat seriously, I have some serious doubts, which should worry everyone.

https://twitter.com/_scottreid/status/1535267527139418113

https://twitter.com/_scottreid/status/1535267532449501184

https://twitter.com/_scottreid/status/1535267544935845889

Good reads:

• Justin Trudeau announced that our Summit of the Americas commitments are $27 million on slowing irregular migration, and will welcome 4000 more migrants.
• There are now 112 cases of monkeypox in Canada, including the first in Ottawa, and all of them are among men.
• The federal government is “pausing” random arrival testing at airports until they can move it to an off-site system, while the US lifts their testing requirement.
• The government will be mandating warning labels on every single cigarette and an expanded list of warnings on packages.
• Canada and Denmark have come to a settlement around Hans Island.
• Here is a look at the state of the federal Green Party as they gear up to launch their next leadership campaign.
• Kevin Carmichael puts yesterday’s record job numbers into context, particularly for what this will mean for the next round of interest rate hikes.
• Susan Delacourt remarks on Trudeau’s trip to the Summit of the Americas, and how the reception he receives there is different to what he gets at home.
• Chantal Hébert points out that 90 days can be an eternity in politics, and time enough for Poilievre to lose his lead in the leadership race.
• Matt Gurney makes the case that Marco Mendicino has not been honest with the public on the gun control bill, or the Emergencies Act invocation.
• Justin Ling looks at the right-wing information ecosystem in the US, and how the active disinformation played out with the televised hearings on the insurrection.

Odds and ends:

Having déjà vu as the government is time allocating the broadcasting bill at committee a year after they did this the previous time. (That bill died in the Senate).
Of note, there is language about this committee getting priority, as others are cancelled for lack of interpreters https://t.co/7vVTvTt4n0

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) June 10, 2022

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