Roundup: Reheating old rage-bait

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If the rage-bait works, then why not try again? This is apparently the thinking of the Conservatives, who are once again falsely claiming that the federal government has “banned prayer” by military chaplains at Remembrance Day ceremonies, after claiming this last year and it’s no more true now than it was then. Nevertheless, this is exactly the sort of thing that gets their base all hot and bothered, and who will open their wallets over it.

There has been a policy decision made by the Chaplain General, independent of government, that encourages more inclusive language by chaplains in order to respect the greater diversity within the Forces, but again, not a prayer ban, and not ordered by the government. But for Andrew Scheer to claim that it’s the government that’s lying about it and not him, serial liar who lies about everything under the sun, and to then try and clap back at Marc Miller was…something. I can’t even.

Ukraine Dispatch

Overnight attacks by Russian drones killed one civilian and injured more than thirty in Odesa, with other attacks on the Kyiv region. Military bloggers say that Russian forces are closing in on Kurakhove and Pokrovsk in the east. Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery in Saratov in Russia, but damage was said to be insignificant.

Good reads:

  • Chrystia Freeland chaired the first meeting of the reconstituted Canada-US Relations Cabinet Committee yesterday.
  • Cabinet ministers met with Inuit leaders to finalize decisions around Arctic foreign policy in a way to avoid excluding Inuit outside of the North.
  • Following talks with Labour minister Steve MacKinnon, both sides in the BC ports labour dispute are getting back to the bargaining table.
  • An internal report shows shocking levels of racism within the civil service, and the Clerk of the Privy Council is vowing to take action.
  • Critics are suggesting that banning TikTok’s corporate presence in Canada won’t do much about any national security concerns they may have around it.
  • The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously in two cases (Auer and TransAlta) about the standard of review to apply for challenging government regulations.
  • Following a dispute over translating pre-1970 decisions, the Supreme Court says that they will translate “significant” decisions, but take down unilingual decisions.
  • A senior government official told a committee that the government is consulting with like-minded allies on recognition of a Palestinian state.
  • My weekend column points to the ways in which Poilievre is trying to replicate the rage and resentment that Trump rode in the US, especially around inflation.

Odds and ends:

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