{"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":"

As the coronation fast approaches, we\u2019re still 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

As for King Charles III himself, the early signs are that he\u2019s looking to be a bit 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

Ukraine Dispatch:<\/p>\n

Russian Forces are yet again 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 repelled<\/a> a drone attack against their Black Sea fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/zelenskyyua\/status\/1650111231196536832<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/defencehq\/status\/1650012022371753984<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian soldiers take cover high up in a building as Russian troops shell Bakhmut.<\/p>\n

Looks like hell pic.twitter.com\/QaCxlAQtqH<\/a><\/p>\n

— Visegr\u00e1d 24 (@visegrad24) April 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n