Ottawa Observations: Saturday/Sunday, May 29 & 30, 2021

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Federal scene for     Saturday/Sunday, May 29 & 30, 2021

 

Kamloops Residential School Graves

"It's our truths': Indigenous leaders call for 'thorough' probe to identify remains of children found at Kamloops residential school site

Discovery of children's remains at Kamloops residential school 'stark example of violence' inflicted upon Indigenous peoples

The discovery of a mass grave at a former residential school is just the tip of the iceberg

Flags on federal buildings lowered in memory of Kamloops residential school victims

BC teacher says students could be triggered by residential school discovery

Work underway for forensics experts to identify and repatriate BC School remains  

Calls for identifying unmarked graves and a national day of mourning to honour children who died at residential schools

We grew up hearing horror stories of residential schools The Kamloops children's remains show - yet again - the truth of our people's nightmare

Why so many children died at Indian Residential schools

Trudeau asks flags be lowered to honour 215 dead Indigenous children found at former BC Residential school 

Flags at half mast in BC amid calls for accountability on residential school mass grave

BC teachers to wear orange to honour kids found buried at Kamloops residential school 

Okanagan First Nations call for accountability after remains found at BC residential school

Kamloops discovery prompts call for formal framework to investigate mass graves

Flags at federal buildings fly at half mast to honour 215 deceased Indigenous children at BC Residential School

'It Shook Me to the Core"

Remains found at Kamloops residential school 'not an isolated incident,' Indigenous experts warn 

Flags on federal buildings lowered in memory of residential school victims

Teachers in BC to wear orange, hold special ceremonies over discovery of children's remains

Residential school survivors society calls for action following discovery of children's remains

Call to examine St. Paul's Indian Residential School site after children's graves found in Kamloops

Island flags being lowered to honour dead children found at former Kamloops residential school

Flags at Federal buildings, BC Legislature lowered to honour residential school victims

BC teachers to wear orange shirts to honour children found dead at residential school

Canadians held in China / China tensions                 

We could face another pandemic if origins of COVID-19 not fully uncovered, expert warns

The Global Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Meet Ontario's incoming top doctor Kieran Moore, a disease surveillance guru

Who in Canada hasn't been vaccinated yet, and what's the plan going forward?

UK vaccine passport plans to be scrapped, Daily Telegraph reports

UK PM Boris Johnson says he wants a deal with G7 on vaccine passports

Nearly 75% of federal prisoners have been vaccinated against  COVID-19

Health Canada extends expiry date for twwehousands of AstraZeneca-Oxford doses

Why experts say 2nd vaccine doses should be rolled out now

Ontario is replacing Dr. David Williams, it's chief medical officer of health. Meet Dr. Kieran Moore

RNAO chief praises new top doc in Ontario

Dr. Williams is leaving. It might not matter

Kingston's medical officer of health named Ontario's next top doctor

Seven patients die in outbreak at North Vancouver's Lions Gate Hospital

Globe and Mail

Francois Legault wants to dig a tunnel to the 1950's. And it'll only cost $10 billion

Canada's ballooning mortgage debts could put a dangerous dent in entrepreneurship

Manulife offers higher out of country medical coverage for vaccinated travellers who get COVID-19

CBC

RCMP is losing Indigenous officers - and some former Mounties blame racism in the ranks

'Too much British cheese'? UK PM Boris Johnson on trade, climate co-operation

NHL working on Canadian quarantine exemption for Stanley Cup playoffs: reports

Provincial imputa still needed before border changes: Hajdu

Violence in Gaza has left behind a changed political landscape in Canada

The Liberals' path to a possible majority government runs through Quebec

Garneau predicts sanctions will weaken and isolate Belarusian strongman Lukashenko

Justice Minister accidentally tweets that one of his campaign donors will become a judge

MPs pass bill creating national day for truth and reconcilliation

Arnold Chacon to serve as US charge d'affairs 

Toronto Star

 

Indigenous self-government is now a reality - one that will test the courage and creativity of Canadian and Indigenous leaders everywhere

The surprising bonds that link Palestinian, Black and Indigenous liberation movements

With Doug Ford and Jason Kenney plummeting in the polls, it's time to ask: Is there something wrong with Canada's right?

Doug Ford's misstep turned golfers into radical activists for public space. Toronto's golf courses should now open up to the public

Parents calling on Canada to evacuate children stuck in the Gaza Strip

Conversion therapy and mandatory minimum sentences

Military's diversity, inclusion efforts plagued by shortcomings: internal review

A Trudeau cabinet minister's secret back channel to Doug Ford: Texting- especially on weekends

On school reopening, Doug Ford is not so much paralyzed as he is exposed

Toronto Sun

Federal report points to  problems with COVID border measures

Pay proper respect to soldiers who died fighting Louis Riel

COVID. flip flops erode public support

Ford isn't ready to open the schools at this point

Let kids go back to normal now

National Post

We bought into the vision of a bilingual Canada, but Quebec's cultural elite betrayed us

Doug Ford loses ground in Ontario's third wave, but opposition popularity is down too: poll

Maclean's

Global

'Pretty frustrated" Teal Jones says it wants to get back to work amid old growth protests

'This is our family': In-person services resume at BC houses of worship

Who's policing the police?

Story of UBC researcher who found how trees 'talk' to each other headed to Hollywood

Major Penticton landfill inferno produces heavy, black smoke visible across city

2 Royal Military College bosses downplayed need to combat sexual misconduct: ex training head

Miscellaneous            

 

NDP's environmental street credit fades as Sierra Club BC disputes government claim about giant spruce tree

Chinese Canadian leaders say journalist Sam Cooper did 'not check his facts' about them

Luxury property increases in value by 1,000 percent to 22 million in 10 years 

Still more mystery surrounds that giant log