For Remembrance Day, here is a look at the national ceremony in Ottawa, which was cold and snowy this year, and facing a dwindling number of veterans from the Second World War and Korea. As well, here are reports from ceremonies in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and across BC.

Here is a look at the problem of digital asbestos fakes that are tainting remembrance across the internet, and glorifying Nazis in the process. Here is a look at the phenomenon of Unknown Soldiers in the era of DNA testing. Former MP and current MPP Karen McCrimmon, the first female air navigator in the Canadian Forces, talks about the importance of Remembrance Day.

As well, here is the tale of Wiliam Baldwin, who served, and whose calligraphy wrote down the names of the dead in the Book of Remembrance for the First World War. He enlisted in the Second World War, and signed up for a second tour when he was killed in action, and his name is in the Book of Remembrance for that war.

Ukraine Dispatch

There was a drone attack on Odesa’s energy and transport infrastructure. Russians are entering into Pokrovsk and Kupiansk “Mad Max-style,” while the situation in Zaporizhzhia is worsening. President Zelenskyy paid a visit to the front-line city of Kherson, while seven people have been charged in the energy kickback scheme.

Good reads:

• We have more hints as to the projects that Carney will be announcing on Thursday.
• Here is a look at the budget signals around future transfers to provinces.
• There remains a great deal of confusion about what plans the government plans to make as they walk back greenwashing legislation, because it’s still illegal.
• Anita Anand opened the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting with a continued push for multilateral solutions to issues like the war in Ukraine.
• Canada is opening a new consulate in Greenland.
• One economist worries that scaling back immigration targets (because of scapegoating) is going to hamper future economic growth. (You bet it will).
• Conservative Whip Chris Warkentin continues to insist that Liberals are “harassing” Conservatives to try to get them to cross the floor, and that everyone is “united.”
• Ontario secured a one-year extension to their child care funding agreement with the federal government, during which they will continue to do the bare minimum.
• Paul Wells recounts Carney’s speech on Friday, and finds himself concerned that Carney doesn’t seem to appreciate the time scale that big projects actually take.
• My column points out that the budget will prove useless if Carney and his ministers can’t give corporate Canada a kick in the ass to reform their US payday culture.

Odds and ends:

This is your occasional reminder that provinces have the ability to raise their own revenues to fund the services in their fucking jurisdictions, but we have normalized letting them cry poor and blaming the federal government.

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2025-11-12T02:48:39.441Z

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