{"id":11433,"date":"2023-04-24T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2023-04-24T00:58:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:58:25","slug":"roundup-few-details-on-the-canadian-coronation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2023\/04\/24\/roundup-few-details-on-the-canadian-coronation\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Few details on the Canadian coronation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronation fast approaches, we\u2019re still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/coronation-details-canada-queen-consort-1.6818109\">waiting for details<\/a> in Canada about what we\u2019re doing here, or what the events happening in Ottawa will be, or who is part of the delegation going to London for the event itself. The level of secrecy is a bit weird, but I have my suspicions that this is trying to be downplayed from the top, meaning PMO.<\/p>\n<p>As for King Charles III himself, the early signs are that he\u2019s looking to be a bit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/04\/23\/first-months-on-throne-show-king-charles-wants-to-engage-but-canadians-skeptical\/\">more involved and less removed<\/a> than his mother tended to be, in part because that was the generation she came from. And what does that mean for Canada? Well, that\u2019s dependent entirely upon the prime minister, because the King can only act on the advice of the PM. And this PM, well, doesn\u2019t like it when the spotlight is away from him. He likes the \u201cceremonial\u201d aspects of the job, and a lot of that stuff is what the Crown and the Governor General does. So while we\u2019ve just had some incredibly important events in our country as a constitutional monarchy\u2014the loss of the Queen who had been our sovereign for seventy years, and now the installation of the new King\u2014it\u2019s being downplayed in ways that are not healthy for us as a country, but our civic literacy about this is at terrible lows, and there is an organised campaign of misinformation about the role and nature of the Crown in this country, and Trudeau could do something about that, but he won\u2019t, and it erodes the nature of our democracy even more.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine Dispatch:<\/p>\n<p>Russian Forces are yet again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-says-it-has-gained-more-ground-battle-bakhmut-2023-04-23\/\">claiming<\/a> to have achieved more of a foothold in Bakhmut, while Ukrainian forces continue to insist they\u2019re holding the line. There are also a bunch of denials as to whether or not the Ukrainians have established a foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnipro river in the south of the country. Russian forces are also claiming to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/black-sea-fleet-repels-drone-attack-sevastopol-russian-backed-governor-2023-04-24\/\">repelled<\/a> a drone attack against their Black Sea fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zelenskyyua\/status\/1650111231196536832<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/defencehq\/status\/1650012022371753984<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukrainian soldiers take cover high up in a building as Russian troops shell Bakhmut.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like hell <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QaCxlAQtqH\">pic.twitter.com\/QaCxlAQtqH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— Visegr\u00e1d 24 (@visegrad24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visegrad24\/status\/1649797326616031235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Good reads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The civil service strike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/04\/23\/public-service-strike-union-stepping-up-picketing-efforts-starting-monday-2\/\">continues<\/a>, as there was a weekend of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/04\/22\/public-service-strike-union-fed-up-with-pace-of-talks-asks-trudeau-for-help-2\/\">shenanigans<\/a> and game-playing (largely on the part of the union) while negotiations are ongoing.<\/li>\n<li>Canada is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/04\/23\/canada-suspends-sudan-consular-services-as-diplomats-evacuated-2\/\">suspending<\/a> consular affairs in Sudan due to the fighting, and is trying to evacuate diplomatic staff (but the airport is destroyed so it can\u2019t be by air).<\/li>\n<li>Here is a look at the work the RCMP are doing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/04\/23\/rcmp-sifting-fairly-large-volume-of-information-in-ukraine-war-crimes-probe-2\/\">assist<\/a> the Ukrainians in investigating war crimes.<\/li>\n<li>There have been calls for the RCMP to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/04\/22\/updating-rcmp-militaristic-training-is-long-overdue-experts-say\/\">reform<\/a> their militaristic training methods, which are a direct contributor to their toxic culture. (Or, you could disband them\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>A Russian race car driver\u2014and the son of oligarchs\u2014is going to Federal Court to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/04\/22\/russian-race-car-driver-heads-to-federal-court-over-canadian-sanctions\/\">challenge<\/a> the sanctions against him, citing harm to his career.<\/li>\n<li>Chantal H\u00e9bert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/political-opinion\/2023\/04\/23\/pierre-poilievre-is-in-trouble-in-quebec-and-he-has-himself-to-blame.html\">outlines<\/a> the problems Pierre Poilievre has created for himself in Quebec, while Fran\u00e7ois Legault and Justin Trudeau mend fences.<\/li>\n<li>Susan Delacourt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/political-opinion\/2023\/04\/22\/in-the-justin-trudeau-era-trashing-the-rich-has-become-a-political-obsession-whats-going-on.html\">notes<\/a> the amount of wealth-bashing that is coming from all sides in the House of Commons, and how different this is from years past.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Odds and ends:<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Gr\u00e9goire Trudeau and Jill Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/sophie-gregoire-trudeau-home-life\">appeared<\/a> on a YouTube channel during the Biden visit, and talked about making Rideau Cottage \u201chome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more Routine Proceedings?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/journo_dale\">Become a patron<\/a>\u00a0and get exclusive new content. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronation fast approaches, we\u2019re still waiting for details in Canada about what we\u2019re doing here, or what the events happening in Ottawa will be, or who is part of the delegation going to London for the event itself. … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2023\/04\/24\/roundup-few-details-on-the-canadian-coronation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[27,115,317,136,57,205,640,114,359],"class_list":["post-11433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roundup","tag-labour","tag-maple-crown","tag-pierre-poilievre","tag-public-service","tag-rcmp","tag-russia","tag-the-king","tag-the-monarchy","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jJFQ-2Yp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11434,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions\/11434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}