{"id":11642,"date":"2023-07-01T05:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/?p=11642"},"modified":"2023-07-01T02:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T06:06:43","slug":"roundup-a-canada-day-fail-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2023\/07\/01\/roundup-a-canada-day-fail-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: A Canada Day fail in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Canada Day, and we are having festivities again this year, and included in them will be astronaut Jeremy Hansen, whom <em>The Canadian Press<\/em> has interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/06\/30\/imagine-what-we-can-do-astronaut-jeremy-hansen-sees-great-potential-for-canada\/\">here<\/a>. There will be an Indigenous ceremony ahead of the main show at noon, so the attempt to balance things carries on.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the City of Ottawa continues to embarrass itself by deciding that the brand new LRT station they built near LeBreton Flats, where the festivities are being held (because there is no room on Parliament Hill with the construction), is suddenly deemed to be too small to handle the crowd, so they\u2019re telling people to get off at the station before and walk a kilometre to the site. Absolutely ridiculous, but that\u2019s been the story of everything with this LRT.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephanieCarvin\/status\/1674860701804814346<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programming note:<\/strong> I\u2019m going to try to make this a quasi-long weekend, so no roundup post on Monday. See you Tuesday and enjoy Canada Day!<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine Dispatch:<\/p>\n<p>A Russian missile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/donetsk-region-school-suffers-direct-hit-two-dead-say-ukraine-police-2023-06-30\/\">struck a school<\/a> in a village near the front lines in Donetsk region, killing two and injuring six, and only because students were not in school at the time. Defence officials say they continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-says-its-forces-advance-all-directions-counteroffensive-2023-06-30\/\">advance<\/a> in all directions along the front lines both in the east and the south, including around the flanks of Bakhmut. Here is another look at how the Ukrainian army is trying to wear down and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/europe\/2023\/06\/30\/ukraine-aims-to-wear-down-and-outsmart-a-russian-army-distracted-by-infighting.html\">outsmart<\/a> Russian occupiers. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraines-zelenskiy-orders-moves-strengthen-northern-military-sector-2023-06-30\/\">ordered<\/a> the northern border to be strengthened given that Wagner Group forces are moving into Belarus, while it sounds like Russia is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-reducing-personnel-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-ukrainian-intelligence-2023-06-30\/\">reducing<\/a> the number of their personnel at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which increases fears that they could be attempting sabotage of the plant.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukraine_world\/status\/1674798244579221504<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0fRussian forces shell 9 communities in Sumy Oblast, injuring 1.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces shelled nine communities in Sumy Oblast on June 30, injuring a 17-year-old boy, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported on Telegram. At least 94 explosions were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyivIndependent\/status\/1674944992073207811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 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>M\u00e9lanie Joly joined with allies in calling on Israel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-israel-west-bank-reverse-1.6894361\">rescind<\/a> its approval of 5700 settlement units in the occupied West Bank.<\/li>\n<li>The CRA has <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/cra-fires-20-employees-investigating-580-others-for-claiming-cerb-while-employed-at-tax-agency\/\">fired 20 employees<\/a> and is investigating 580 more for claiming CERB benefits <em>while they worked at the CRA<\/em>! Unbelievable!<\/li>\n<li>The CRA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/france-australia-join-canada-in-seeking-information-from-cra-on-shopify-clients-as-part-of-tax-audits\">request<\/a> for client data from Shopify is part of an international tax avoidance investigation that includes Australia and France.<\/li>\n<li>In light of the stabbing attack at Waterloo targeting a gender studies class, there are calls that we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/06\/30\/universities-must-safeguard-spaces-for-free-discussion-expert-says-after-stabbing\/\">need to preserve<\/a> free discussion on campuses.<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court of Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scc-csc.ca\/case-dossier\/cb\/2023\/39997-eng.aspx\">ruled<\/a> that someone\u2019s license suspension pre-trial should count toward her impaired driving conviction, essentially nullifying it.<\/li>\n<li>Dan Levy of <em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em> has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/06\/30\/masai-ujiri-kent-monkman-appointed-to-order-of-canada\/\">named<\/a> to the Order of Canada.<\/li>\n<li>Riding associations in New Brunswick are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalnewswatch.com\/2023\/06\/30\/new-brunswick-progressive-conservative-party-takes-1st-step-to-remove-higgs-as-leader\/\">starting the process<\/a> to oust Blaine Higgs as the Progressive Conservative party leader (and by extension premier).<\/li>\n<li>Senator Paula Simons <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/columnists\/paula-simons-100-years-after-the-chinese-exclusion-act-lets-learn-from-history\/\">reflects<\/a> on today being the 100th anniversary of the <em>Chinese Exclusion Act,<\/em> and the warning of that history on what we\u2019re seeing currently.<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Wherry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/access-information-trudeau-transparency-analysis-wherry-1.6893488\">takes stock<\/a> of this government\u2019s promises of more transparent government nearly eight years ago, and we\u2019re still waiting.<\/li>\n<li>Sandy Garossino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalobserver.com\/2023\/06\/30\/opinion\/mobsters-google-meta-online-news-canada\">calls out<\/a> the mobster behaviour of Google and Facebook over their reaction to Bill C-18 versus the amount of money they extract from Canada in a year.<\/li>\n<li>My <a href=\"https:\/\/looniepolitics.com\/the-government-needs-to-stop-letting-the-opposition-rebrand-their-policies\/\">weekend column<\/a> points out that the government keeps letting the opposition rebrand policies like the Clean Fuel Standard, because they refuse to push back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Odds and ends:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In London, I sat down for an interview with\u2026 Anita Anand, of the BBC!<\/p>\n<p>After many years of being mistaken for one another, we\u2019ve joined forces to prove that there are two of us \u2013 in the same place at the same time.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBC<\/a> \u2013 always happy to step in when your Anita is on holiday! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQa9pFrSjZ\">pic.twitter.com\/wQa9pFrSjZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anita Anand (@AnitaAnandMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnitaAnandMP\/status\/1674806855753760768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>It\u2019s Canada Day, and we are having festivities again this year, and included in them will be astronaut Jeremy Hansen, whom The Canadian Press has interviewed here. There will be an Indigenous ceremony ahead of the main show at noon, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/2023\/07\/01\/roundup-a-canada-day-fail-in-ottawa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[569,290,184,32,39,392,59,359],"class_list":["post-11642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roundup","tag-blaine-higgs","tag-canadian-history","tag-cra","tag-environment","tag-foreign-policy","tag-honours","tag-supreme-court","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jJFQ-31M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642","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=11642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11643,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions\/11643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.routineproceedings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}