Roundup: Remembrance Day 2024

In case anyone was wondering, there was a prayer offered by the rabbi who spoke at the National Remembrance Day ceremony, and that the Conservatives have been shamelessly peddling the lie that prayer has been banned.

Here is a look at ceremonies around the country, and photos from the national ceremony in Ottawa. Veterans who were victims of the LGBT purge from the military laid a wreath at the War Memorial this year.

I popped into Twitter to see that yet again, the royal family’s feed is using an image of the King and Queen taken on Remembrance Day in Ottawa during their 2009 tour. Their poppies are Canadian, Queen Camilla is wearing the Maple Leaf brooch, and King Charles is wearing a Canadian uniform

Patricia Treble (@patriciatreble.bsky.social) 2024-11-09T21:26:39.849Z

This year’s Ottawa Citizen “We Are the Dead” feature, the final before the programme shuts down, profiles Arthur Reid, whose plane never made it back from a mission delivering an agent and supplies to the French resistance.

Ukraine Dispatch

Russian glide bombs, drones and missiles all struck southern and eastern Ukraine on Monday, killing six and injuring at least 30 others. It also appears that an attack on the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed three and injured at least 19. Ukrainian forces are currently hard-pressed fighting not only 50,000 troops in the Kursk region of Russia, but the escalating fighting along the front lines in the east and south of the country.

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau and the Governor General attended a national memorial service for Senator Murray Sinclair on Sunday.
  • Trudeau set the date for the Cloverdale—Langley City by-election for December 16th, which is another Liberal seat that was vacated.
  • Steven Guilbeault is hoping for progress at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan.
  • A lockout has been ordered at the Port of Montreal, while Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is telling both sides in the ongoing BC Ports labour strike to work it out.
  • GTA mayors want the federal government to give them the rest of the Housing Accelerator funds now to insure against Poilievre cuts. (What accountability?)
  • The Star attempts to find lessons for Canadian parties from the US election results.
  • Kevin Carmichael counsels people to take a deep breath about Trump, and not lose sight of issues in this country, like the productivity crisis which US trade won’t solve.
  • Susan Delacourt tries to delve into the growing support for Trumpism in this country, where it used to be fairly muted.

Odds and ends:

For National Magazine, I took a deeper dive into Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada decision on the standard of review to apply when challenging regulations.

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