It’s now day one-hundred-and-fifty-six of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and they have started shelling the Kyiv area once again for the first time in weeks. Russians are also pounding the northern Chernihiv region, which observers are linking to the Day of Statehood celebrations—something that president Volodymyr Zelenskyy instituted last year to remind the country of their history as an independent state, and was celebrated for the first time earlier this week. Meanwhile, Ukrainian counter-attacks in the south have virtually cut-off the Russian forces in Kherson and have left their forces near the Dnipro River “highly vulnerable,” as Russians shift forces from the east to the south, putting them from an attack posture to a defensive one.
As Ukrainians celebrate the continuity of more than a thousand years of statehood, Canada stands with them in the continued fight against the Kremlin's invasion and false narrative that Ukraine is a “fake state.”#StandWithUkraine #UkrainianStatehoodDay pic.twitter.com/fX3bhPl1mP
— Foreign Policy CAN (@CanadaFP) July 28, 2022
New postage stamp "Good evening, we are from Ukraine" is already on sale
As Ukrposhta previously reported, the stamp is dedicated to the Ukrainian "tractor troops".
The stamp has been issued with a circulation of 5 million copies, and there are restrictions on its sale. pic.twitter.com/C7hqzMXIsC
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 28, 2022
Closer to home, the Parliamentary Budget Officer has declared that Canada’s fiscal outlook is sustainable in the long term, even if some of the provinces’ outlooks are not. This amidst weeks and months of wailing and gnashing of teeth that the current government has spent us into oblivion (they haven’t) and that they have saddled future generations with so much debt (again, they haven’t, and that’s not how government debt works), and that this is fuelling inflation (it’s not). Anyway, here is economist Kevin Milligan to walk us through the report:
https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1552671459797090306
https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1552672685326491649
https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1552674017588510727
https://twitter.com/kevinmilligan/status/1552693987399667713
Programming Note: I am taking the next week-ish off while I have the chance. Loonie Politics columns will continue in the interim, but otherwise expect to see me back in the second week of August. Thanks everyone!