Roundup: A deal to ship grain?

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We’re now in day one-hundred-and-fifty of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and an agreement has been signed that will allegedly allow Ukrainian grain to flow again from their Black Sea ports. Allegedly. No one really trusts Russia to actually live up to their end of the bargain, but we’ll see. Apparently one of the conditions to this agreement is that Ukraine doesn’t raise the issue of the grain that Russia stole from them, so we’ll see what happens from here. Meanwhile, CBC has a video package of the past week in the war.

https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1550434643094249472

https://twitter.com/AlexGabuev/status/1550537176592822272

https://twitter.com/ThreshedThought/status/1550450333545123841

Good reads:

  • During an event on PEI, Justin Trudeau says that he has no confidence that Russia will actually uphold their end of the deal to see grain shipped from Ukraine.
  • The government admits that the ArriveCan app had a glitch that told several people to quarantine unnecessarily, and that it’ll be fixed shortly.
  • The immigration department will be revamping their anti-racism strategy, but there are questions about their consultations and if it will actually change anything.
  • Backlogs at Transport Canada is also affecting the medical certification of air traffic controllers, as well as pilots.
  • Nexus application centres are closed in Canada, because American border guards insist on carrying their sidearms on Canadian soil.
  • The Royal Canadian Air Force has created a new Space division, which is mostly moving people under a new letterhead, and not what the US did with Space Force.
  • A 5-4 decision at the Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new murder trial after the previous decision relied on a confession without allowing a lawyer to be present.
  • The Conservatives have released other allegations of misdeeds from Patrick Brown’s campaign, including using money orders for non-compliant memberships.
  • The party is planning to go ahead with a debate on August 3rd, format to be determined, even if Poilievre decides not to attend.
  • Parts four and five of Matt Gurney’s look into Ontario’s collapsing healthcare system focus on home care and social workers.

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