Ottawa Observations: Saturday-Monday, August 20-22, 2022

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Federal scene for Saturday-Monday, August 20-22, 2022

Ukraine/Russia War

 

Ukraine calls on Canada to cancel gas turbine sanctions waiver as German Chancellor set to visit 

Dear Canada: here in Ukraine, we've suffered losses and we're enduring burdens, but life goes on and we expect to win the war

Ukrainian spies, Russian dissidents or an inside job: Who killed Daria Dugong, daughter of Putin's ally?

Russia accuses Ukraine of killing ultra-nationalist's daughter Darya Dugina

Globe and Mail

Trudeau casts doubt on idea os shipping natural gas from East Coast to Germany

Trudeau and Scholz need to face up to hard truths on energy security 

BC First Nation visits totem pole taken 100 years ago in bid to get it back

Why Newfoundland is betting bi on wind and hydrogen

Politicians and police organizations aren't giving officers the training they actually need to succeed

Western University mandating booster dose, masks in return to campus 

The private-public debate ia a distraction from health care's real problems

Canada buys up millions more doses of Moderna'a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

Former Top Nova Scotia Mountie defends RCMP response to mass shooting

Ottawa cuts funding for anti-racism project over 'ville' tweets 

Like the two Michaels, Xiao Kianhua deserves Canada's support

Michelle O'Bonsawin's nomination to Canada's Supreme Court is good for Canadians 

Alberta government's plans for a provincial police force remain muddled

CBC

Premiers call for more federal cash, discuss private sector delivery after health care summit

UK cut off thousands of pensioners in Canada for failure to provide 'proof of life'

Canada agreed to 'forever discharge' Catholic entities from raising $25M for residential school survivors

Toronto's Pearson airport now 2nd worst in world for delays. Ottawa says travel woes on the mend

Liberal government cuts funding, suspends anti racism group's project after tweets

Would more privatization in Canadian health care solve the current crisis?

Trudeau, Germany's Scholz cool to the idea of exporting Canadian natural gas to Europe

Moderna to supply 12M doses of Omicron targeted COVID shot to Canada 

Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting

Military law experts surprised by form of internal investigation into 4 cadets' deaths 

Toronto/Vancouver Star

At least 40 people displaced by explosion and fire in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Four arrested after Vancouver Police say guns found in encampment tent 

Emergency rooms close in BC, paramedics union says ambulances unstaffed 

BC union imposes overtime ban in latest job action to back wage demands

MLA John Rustad says he has 'no animosity' toward BC Liberal Party after ouster 

Surrey South candidate nomination period closed ahead of September 10th by-election

'Reprehensible and vile': Anti-racism group loses federal funding over antisemitic tweets

No, hundreds of Canadians have not died from COVID-19 vaccines. Where does this myth come from?

Pierre Poilievre's looming ascension to Tory leader has Liberals - and some Conservatives - wary about what comes next 

Bidding wars and soaring prices: Toronto renters face a 'perfect storm' in tight market 

Canadians deserve high-quality care, but non-profit hiring crisis is standing in the way

There needs to be a balance for users of High Park

The loss of experienced nurses will affect care and training of new nurses 

Whether its Pierre Poilievre or Jean Charest, climate change policy could sink the next Conservative leader 

Internationally educated nurses could help home care relieve strain on hospitals 

Toronto Sun

CUPE Ontario education workers to take strike vote in September 

Firing anti-racism group took too long given trainer's racist comments 

Right-wing anti-Semitism condemned while left-wing version gets a pass

The patient needs surgery, not bandages

Trudeau government cuts ties with anti-racism trainer 

Trudeau hires anti-racism trainer who makes lots of racist comments par for the course

How hatred of Israel promotes anti-semitism in Canada  

Canada not immune to division and diversity that grips US

Political interference should cost commissioner her job 

ArriveCAN? Heck no, It's ArriveCAN'T 

Transport Minister has the blues

National Post

'A total act of bastardly': Australian police say country's biggest fentanyl load came from Vancouver 

Danielle Smith: Alberta sovereignty is a constitutional right

Western University mandating booster dose, masks in return to campus 

Federal help needed to reform health care, say premiers 

Trudeau government claim outrage at 'anti-racism' consultant they were praising as recently as April 

Trudeau says government willing to ease relations to get LNG to Europe 

US lawmakers, business group pushing Ottawa to eliminate ArriveCan 

The Liberals' unserious, unfeasible fertilizer emissions plan 

Natural gas is the elephant in the room that Trudeau and Scholz are ignoring

Moderna to supply 12 million doses of Omicron-targeted COVID shot to Canada 

A tale of two papal visits to Canada, two decades apart 

'Euthanasia's a real cost-save': Inside the thoughts of the Canadian health care system 

Canada must slow down and reform transgender treatments for minors 

The mystery of COVID's origin may never be solved. China might like that 

The uniquely Canadian fear of private health care: No other  universal system bans it like we do 

Macleans                           

 

Global          

Kamloops' outgoing top cop says police face 'limitations' in handling chronic offenders 

Man dies after 'interaction' with Vancouver Police downtown

Surrey man questions park and ride security after catalytic converter stolen 

'Substantial changes' to COVID-19 protocols in schools unlikely, says Dix

Some Cowichan Tribes homes get clean drinking water for the first time 

3 building fire in downtown Vancouver displaces 58 people

Vancouver Police arrest 4 after guns found din tent un Hastings Street encampment 

BC General Employee's Union bans overtime as job action continues

Emergency department in Clearwater hit by more staffing shortages and overnight closures 

Hospital in Merritt limits emergency hours amid staff shortage 

BC Indigenous family brings home ashes of unvaccinated loved one 

BC paramedics union voice concern over lack of ambulance staff 

MLA John Rustad responds after removal from BC Liberal caucus

Saskatchewan government demands explanation of feds' trespassing on farmer's private property 

Will Canada boost LNG exports amid German concerns? 'Business case' is key: Trudeau

Trudeau, Scholz aim to boost business as German Chancellor visits Canada

Summit on health care scheduled for Monday between leaders of Ontario, NS, NB, PEI

New federal electoral districts proposed in Ontario would cut seats in Toronto, north 

Miscellaneous            

Vancouver police say four arrested as guns seized from Hastings Street tent city

Forum Research poll suggests Kennedy Stewart's reelection chances may be in jeopardy 

The LDB's booze-rationing 'crisis' - a sober look at the BC GEU's COLA boilermaker 

Online petition to reinstate Lisa LaFlamme as chief news anchor inches closer to its goal of 150,00 signatures 

Vancouver City Council candidate defines how Colleen Hardwick's TEAM in 'not anti-development' 

Kenney brags about higher wages. After fighting them

When reporting about race, searching for the right words 

Nuclear Disaster is no Accident