Reopening to (vaccinated) Americans Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here to get it delivered weekday mornings. The feds announced Monday that as of Aug. 9 fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents living in that country will be able to visit Canada without having to quarantine for two weeks, CBC reports. Also, children under 12—who can't yet be jabbed—will be exempt from quarantine requirement. Vaccinated travellers from the rest of world can visit beginning Sept. 7. It's not clear yet when the land border will opened, because the Americans have not yet responded, CP reports. Political observers in both countries have pointed to the onset of the Delta variant in the U.S., stubborn vaccination rates and the ever-present challenge of the U.S.-Mexico border as some of the factors at play in the apparent American reticence. Not long after Canada's plan was announced Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki tried to play down any suggestion that the U.S. should feel obliged to follow suit. In the Globe, Campbell Clark writes that the Trudeau team could have done a better job of planning for this moment, and a number of other moments. In the Star, Heather Scofield praises a cautious approach. Green discord continues: Green leader Annamie Paul is no longer facing an immediate non-confidence vote but there was still obviously uncertainty and discord in the party as she met journalists in Toronto on Monday, the Star reports. A new party council could revive the battle after it is elected, by which point we may be in an election campaign. The party announced Monday morning that the vote was cancelled, and said in a statement that the current federal council—most members of which are being replaced in elections that run until Aug. 11—can’t hold a new confidence vote before the next Green party general meeting. That means it’s possible for the threat of a confidence vote to be revived in August, when a widely expected federal election campaign could already be underway. Enough: Manitoba Indigenous leaders called Monday for Brian Pallister to change his approach to First Nations issues or resign, CP reports. On the steps of the legislature, Garrison Settee, Grand Chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, condemned Pallister: "Today, we are not here to topple any statues. We are here to topple a government that is racist, a government that has no place in this legislature." Grand Chief Arlen Dumas of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs said he is tired of dealing with Pallister. "I give him every opportunity to have meaningful dialogue. We bring forward meaningful solutions ... but he'd rather talk at me," Dumas said. Bluenose votes: Nova Scotia's party leaders made their pitches on the third day of an election campaign, CBC reports. Experts say that it will have to be handled delicately, given that we are still in a pandemic, Global notes. Terrifying truth: Writing in Maclean's Adnan R. Khan has a thoughtful meditation on Canada's past, informed by grim travels through countries scarred by war. What I’m waking up to after the discovery of hundreds of dead and buried children—and the knowledge that there are thousands more waiting to be unearthed—is the attempted erasure that has occurred since those crimes were committed. For me, this is the terrifying truth: As a child in elementary school in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s, I was taught all the wonderful ways in which the “Indians” cooperated with European fur traders to help create what is our glorious Canada. It was, of course, mostly lies, but what is even worse is that at the same time, First Nations children were still being subjected to the cruelties of residential schools. While I was being told that Canada is unique in this world because of its multiculturalism, Indigenous culture and identity were being systematically erased. — Stephen Maher | 