Roundup: National Remembrance ceremonies in Canada as Kherson is liberated in Ukraine

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National Remembrance Day ceremonies were held in Ottawa, with some particular attention paid to it being the 80thanniversary of the raid on Dieppe, as well as some particular attention to the memory of the Queen, who was herself a veteran of the Second World War.

Of course, someone had to be churlish and parochial today, so the Conservatives put out a press release denouncing the fact that Justin Trudeau was absent, because he’s on his way to an important summit in Asia. And he met with troops in New Brunswick yesterday, and during his refuelling stop in Alaska. And yes, Stephen Harper also missed several Remembrance Day events because of foreign travel, so the complaints about Trudeau are not only weird and hypocritical, but they’re indicative of the fact that the Pierre Poilievre has just hired an avowed shitposter as his director of communications, and this level of juvenile partisan sniping is what we can expect more of in the coming days because this is exactly what he thinks is going to speak to Canadians.

Ukraine Dispatch, Day 262:

Ukrainian special forces arrived in Kherson to a hero’s welcome, but the real work begins now of trying to deal with the landmines the Russians left behind in the city. There are also concerns about “sabotage operations” by Russian troops in civilian clothes. Kherson is strategic because it allows Ukraine to control fresh water flowing to occupied Crimea, and keeps Russian control out of the southern part of the country in an attempt to keep the land bridge to Crimea.

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Good reads:

  • Here is a preview of Justin Trudeau’s stop at the ASEAN summit in Cambodia.
  • Emergency shipments of children’s Tylenol from the US and Australia are arriving to supply hospitals, but apparently not pharmacies yet because of supply chains.
  • Steven Guilbeault says he is optimistic about emission reductions in Canada as they rebound post-pandemic, but the oil and gas cap won’t be released until next year.
  • Census data shows that Veterans Affairs may have been over-estimating the number of veterans in the country, but there are differences in how they count them.
  • Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas Cromwell has been appointed to mediate the claims by diplomats’ families around “Havana Syndrome.”
  • The Ford government has withdrawn their claim with the Ontario Labour Board to declare the CUPE walkout an illegal strike.
  • Kevin Carmichael looks at the Bank of Canada’s new dual mandate, and how it is being (wilfully) misrepresented to score political points.
  • My Xtra column delves into Doug Ford’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause, and why it’s his apologists and abettors who should have minority communities concerned.
  • My weekend column looks through the items on Danielle Smith’s mandate letter to her justice minister, and finds a whole lot of losing court battles therein.

Odds and ends:

This year’s “We Are the Dead” project from the Ottawa Citizen focuses on Canadian bomber pilot Earl Erickson, who died on a bombing mission over Hanover.

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