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Canada will ship 4 of its German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine “within the coming weeks” to assist the nation counter the Russian invasion.
Protection Minister Anita Anand introduced the dedication on Thursday.
“These closely armoured and extremely protected automobiles present troopers with a tactical benefit on the battlefield because of their glorious mobility, their firepower and their survivability,” Ms. Anand instructed a information convention on Parliament Hill.
The Leopards are the principle battle tank of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Ms. Anand stated the tanks are fight prepared, and might be deployed in coming weeks with a lot of Canadian Armed Forces members additionally deployed to coach Ukrainian troopers with the abilities they should function the tools in co-ordination with allies. Canada can also be offering spare elements and ammunition.
Ms. Anand, who left open the potential for sending extra Leopards sooner or later, stated the variety of Leopards that Canada is donating has been thought of to make sure the Canadian army has the tanks wanted to keep up its personal readiness, prepare and meet NATO commitments.
Ukraine has implored Western allies to ship such weapons for weeks as its forces battle to make beneficial properties in opposition to Russia.
However Canada was unable to reply till Germany agreed on Wednesday that nations may re-export their Leopards. Germany will set up the cargo of 62 Leopard 2s, a few of which might be supplied by Berlin instantly and a few from different European nations. The USA additionally stated it’s going to purchase 31 M1 Abrams tanks for Ukraine.
The Leopards that Canada is donating are among the many 112 at the moment owned by the Canadian Military, which incorporates 82 designed particularly for fight.
Alexandra Chyczij, nationwide president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, praised the Canadian announcement.
“The tanks that Canada and allies are offering might be a sport changer within the battle for the liberation of Ukrainian territories from brutal Russian occupation,” she stated in a press release.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
VIA EMBRACING RESPONSIBILITIES AFTER HOLIDAY CHAOS – The CEO of By way of Rail says the Crown company “is not going to draw back from our duties” after passengers discovered themselves stranded on trains for hours over the vacations. Story right here.
MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES IN COURT SPOTLIGHT – The usage of imaginary folks committing made-up crimes might be on the coronary heart of a Supreme Courtroom ruling this week on the constitutionality of necessary minimal sentences in sure gun crimes. Story right here.
WHAT THE CONVOYS LEFT BEHIND – Within the winter of 2022, Ottawa’s downtown core was a loud scene of offended protest. Now it’s quiet, however the silence speaks volumes in regards to the points unresolved. Ottawa reporter Shannon Proudfoot explains right here. In the meantime, a 12 months after the so-called Freedom Convoy protest shut down Wellington Avenue in entrance of Parliament Hill, a Metropolis of Ottawa committee has voted to reopen it to vehicles for now. Story right here from CTV.
FORMER LIBERAL CABINET MINISTER FINDS TRUDEAU COMMENTS `DISAPPOINTING’ – Veteran Ontario Liberal MP Judy Sgro says Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s lately introduced well being care modifications involving extra of a task for revenue health-care suppliers are “horrible” and he or she finds it “disappointing” that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has described these modifications as “innovation.” Story right here from The Hill Instances.
OTTAWA MAKING THE CASE FOR HAITI SANCTIONS: RAE – Ottawa is sharing confidential dossiers in a bid to persuade nations like France to hitch its efforts to sanction Haiti’s elites, says Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations. Story right here.
DON’T BILL TAXPAYERS FOR HOME INTERNET, MPs TOLD – Each the Conservatives and the Liberals have instructed their MPs to cease charging taxpayers for web at their houses, after the Nationwide Submit reported earlier this week that many MPs had been doing so. Story right here from The Nationwide Submit.
LONG WAIT LIKELY FOR PROSECUTION OF RUSSIANS IN UKRAINE ATROCITIES: BIDEN ENVOY – President Joe Biden’s envoy for the prevention and prosecution of struggle crimes says it’s possible going to take years earlier than key Russian politicians and army leaders are dropped at justice for atrocities dedicated in opposition to Ukraine. Story right here.
FIRST NATIONS ARTIFACTS TO BE RETURNED – 1000’s of artifacts are to be returned to First Nations after years boxed away in an Ottawa constructing. Archaeologists and Indigenous youth are fastidiously cataloguing about 300,000 pots, instruments and different objects so the descendants of their historical Algonquin homeowners can determine what to do with them. Story right here.
LIMIT TO MESSAGES CAUGHT IN ALBERTA REVIEW – The inner evaluation into whether or not one in all Premier Danielle Smith’s workers members e-mailed the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service difficult its strategy to instances associated to COVID-19 protests wouldn’t have captured messages deleted greater than 30 days prior. Story right here.
THIS AND THAT
HOUSE ON A BREAK – The Home of Commons is on a break till Jan. 30.
LIBERAL RETREAT – Members of the federal Liberal caucus are holding a retreat in Ottawa, on Parliament Hill, beginning Thursday and operating by way of to Saturday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the retreat on Friday. Story right here.
REPRESENTATIVE ON COMBATTING ISLAMOPHOBIA APPOINTED – Amira Elghawaby has been appointed Canada’s first Particular Consultant on Combatting Islamophobia. Ms. Elghawaby, at the moment the director of strategic communications and campaigns on the Canadian Race Relations Basis, is, in accordance with a press release from the Prime Minister’s workplace, to function a champion, adviser, knowledgeable, and consultant to assist and improve the federal authorities’s efforts within the battle in opposition to Islamophobia, systemic racism, racial discrimination, and spiritual intolerance. The assertion is right here. Ms. Elghawaby feedback on her appointment right here.
DUNCAN ON LEAVE – Etobicoke North MP Kirsty Duncan, a former federal cupboard minister, says here that she is, on the recommendation of her medical doctors, taking a direct medical go away to take care of a well being problem.
FINANCE MINISTERS MEETING NEXT MONTH – Chrystia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, will host a gathering with provincial and territorial finance ministers in Toronto on Feb. 3.
MINISTERS ON THE ROAD – Setting Minister Steven Guilbeault in addition to Households Minister Karina Gould, in Toronto, introduced greater than $8-million to guard and improve three important pure areas in Ontario. Housing and Range Minister Ahmed Hussen and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, in Toronto, make an announcement on combatting Islamophobia.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL – Governor-Common Mary Simon, in Ottawa, holds the Tutorial All-Canadian Commendation for the 2021-2022 season, recognizing college college students who obtain excessive grades, give again to their communities and are spectacular athletes.
NEW JOB FOR FORMER VICTORIA MAYOR – Lisa Helps, the previous mayor of Victoria has been appointed a housing options adviser to B.C. Premier David Eby. Ms. Helps, mayor of the B.C. capital from 2014 to 2022, is to work with Ravi Kahlon, the province’s Housing Minister, stakeholders and companions to develop the NDP authorities’s BC Builds program to construct housing for middle-income households, people and seniors.
PRIME MINISTER’S DAY
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, within the Ottawa area, held personal conferences, attended a retreat of the federal Liberal caucus, and hosted a dinner for visiting King Abdullah II of Jordan.
LEADERS
NDP Chief Jagmeet Singh and Alistair MacGregor, the NDP MP for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford hosted a roundtable dialogue on well being care in Duncan, B.C., then took media questions, and visited Belmont Secondary Faculty. They then met with the town council in Langford, B.C., and, within the night, Mr. Singh was to host a meet-and-greet in Victoria with the town’s MP, Laurel Collins.
No schedules launched for different social gathering leaders.
THE DECIBEL
Thursday’s version of The Globe and Mail podcast seems at how, to deal with rising rates of interest and higher-than-normal inflation within the economic system, many tech firms are altering how they do enterprise, specializing in turning a revenue over rising income or market share. Expertise reporter Sean Silcoff explains why for a few years, forgoing revenue was an excellent guess for startups, why that focus has led to mass layoffs in in the present day’s shakier financial actuality, and the way some firms are thriving in these powerful instances. The Decibel is right here.
TRIBUTE
DAVID ONLEY FUNERAL – The Ontario authorities has introduced {that a} funeral for former provincial lieutenant-governor David Onley might be held at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church in Toronto at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 30. The ceremony may even be livestreamed at Authorities of Ontario YouTube. Forward of the funeral, Mr. Onley will lie in state, for public visitation, on the Ontario Legislature from Jan. 28 to Jan. 29. Mr. Onley, the primary particular person with a visual incapacity to carry the lieutenant-governor’s submit, died on Jan. 14. He was 72. Story right here.
OPINION
The Globe and Mail Editorial Board on how B.C. can win the struggle on drug habit: “B.C. is getting into territory that few have explored. Twenty years in the past, Portugal decriminalized medicine. Outcomes there confirmed a decline in deaths and extra folks in therapy. However in Oregon, which made the change in 2021, an audit this month discovered ‘scant proof’ on the purpose of improved entry to therapy within the state. Decriminalization is a obligatory, however not ample, coverage to avoid wasting lives. It’s obligatory as a result of the size of the issue calls for all helpful insurance policies be deployed. However the change within the legislation performs solely a supporting position in serving to folks to the purpose of in search of therapy and succeeding in restoration. That’s the true end line: extra folks in an expanded system of habit therapy and restoration, with extra beds and higher providers. Decriminalization will fail if it isn’t paired with a push to create extra therapy areas.”
Campbell Clark (The Globe and Mail) on how a well being deal is shut and what follows issues extra: “If the premiers and the PM make a deal, it doesn’t simply imply that the feds will switch billions extra to fund well being care. It implies that Canadians can have a possibility to maneuver past the funding squabble and demand their governments take care of the true query – what are you going to do about well being care? And that’s the necessary half. The historical past of federal-provincial well being care agreements exhibits that they have a tendency to enhance issues a little bit bit for a short while, however don’t really spark the large, lasting transformations that had been marketed.”
Kelly Cryderman (The Globe and Mail) on how there are kids’s medicines on cabinets, however a scarcity persists: “What’s like on the market now? It’s nonetheless not plentiful. On the Safeway within the Beltline in Calgary, there are 10 bottles of youngsters’s Advil on show, with a notice that the acquisition restrict is one per family. A number of suburban pharmacists inform me over the telephone they’ve some in inventory. At Lukes Drug Mart – the town’s oldest pharmacy, nonetheless family-owned – a 100-millilitre bottle is $10, cheaper than lots of the chains, or Amazon. And even with the federal authorities’s importation of two million items two months in the past, the potential for brand spanking new waves of sickness and the remedy crunch south of the border means Canadian mother and father can’t exhale but.”
Lawrence Martin (The Globe and Mail) on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s toughness may make him keep: “I don’t suppose Canadians wish to see us plunge again into an election,” Justin Trudeau stated at his cupboard’s retreat in Hamilton final weekend. We should always consider him on that. There’s not a lot sense in one other election, which might make it three in the middle of 4 years. It’s not like there may be some matter of monumental significance confronting the nation. Or, verify that. For multitudes of Canadians, there may be one. It’s eliminating Justin Trudeau. An pressing precedence. However from what I’m listening to from the Prime Minister’s cohort, he’s not all that troubled by the torrents of abuse and derision. He’s been round lengthy sufficient to comprehend it comes with the territory.”
Konrad Yakabuski (The Globe and Mail) on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ‘tyranny of the bulk’ swipe at Quebec nationalists has election-call written throughout it: “Liberal assist is concentrated within the Montreal area, residence to many of the province’s anglophones, minorities and progressive voters, in addition to in western Quebec. The remainder of the province, exterior Tory strongholds within the Quebec Metropolis area, has seen a number of tight races in latest elections. The Conservatives and Bloc compete for a similar small-c conservative voters. Something that helps the Bloc hurts the Tories. Mr. Trudeau’s “tyranny” remark was a present to bloquistes that had the supposed impact of unleashing an avalanche of nationalist outrage. If one didn’t know higher, one may say we had been on the verge of a federal election marketing campaign.”
Naomi Buck (Contributed to The Globe and Mail) on why Canada’s corporal punishment legislation misses the mark: “My teenage sons nonetheless keep in mind the day when their elementary college was put into lockdown as a result of a fellow scholar was rampaging by way of the halls. No grownup within the constructing dared to cease him, and so the police had been referred to as. Tons of of scholars crouched underneath their desks till their peer had been apprehended. It appeared like such an extreme response. Absolutely, a accountable grownup must be allowed to bodily restrain a toddler experiencing a meltdown. And by the letter of the legislation, they will: Part 43 of Canada’s Felony Code condones using drive in opposition to kids by academics, mother and father and guardians. However in in the present day’s world, the sorts of adults who must be exercising that proper don’t dare to – and people who are utilizing it are sometimes dishonouring the spirit of the legislation. Part 43 is a throwback to a time when kids had been thought of inferior, wayward creatures, in want of bodily chastisement.”
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