The federal Liberal cabinet wrapped up a three-day retreat in Prince Edward Island on Wednesday promising to heed calls from Canadians to fix the housing crisis, but without any specific new plans to do so. [TorStar]

As conservative premiers change the rules around pronoun use in schools, members of the federal Conservative grassroots want Pierre Poilievre to wade further into the debate around gender. [CP]

With two new COVID-19 variants emerging just before the fall — a season when respiratory viruses thrive — health experts are warning Canadians to stay vigilant. [Global]

This report presents the results of the evaluation of the Prime Minister Papers (PMP) Project (2017– 2022). The purpose of the project was to acquire, process, preserve and make accessible the private records of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper. No idea what this is and haven't yet had a chance to read through all the docs here. If you get to it before me, flag anything interesting.  [Library and Archives Canada]

A tip-line is running, available in over 200 languages, and an online reporting tool where TFWs can report situations that compromise the health and safety of workers. [Global]

“What we want is for our children to be 100 per cent concentrated in their classes,” says Education Minister Bernard Drainville. [Montreal Gazette]

C’est à Québec « de choisir » le nombre d’étudiants étrangers qui fréquenteront les établissements d’enseignement québécois a prévenu François Legault. Le premier ministre répondait au gouvernement Trudeau qui évalue la possibilité d’en accueillir moins pour alléger la crise du logement. [La Presse]

Le candidat du Parti québécois (PQ) dans la circonscription de Jean-Talon, l’avocat Pascal Paradis, avait entrepris des démarches sérieuses pour porter les couleurs de la Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) aux élections générales de l’an dernier. [La Presse]

Saskatchewan's children's advocate will be reviewing if children's rights have been properly considered in the province's new policy around name and pronoun changes in schools. [Global

The prime minister says the federal government will purchase the MV Fanafjord to replace the MV Holiday Island, which caught fire last summer and was removed from service. [Global]

The Fulton County prosecution is the fourth criminal case against Trump since March, when he became the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted. [Global]

Uptake of agtech tools has been tepid, and even many farmers who do use them struggle with the software and a flood of data from their farms. [WSJ]

Richard Hanania (President, Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology): Dealing with the pure deniers is simple: they don’t know how to use data, and make arguments that are just wrong. Getting any vaccine was clearly a good idea for almost any adult, even if they weren’t at a high risk of dying from covid. It’s a little more complicated to explain what’s wrong with the other two strands of vax skepticism. Even if they are occasionally correct on a small narrow set of empirical and moral arguments, their overall contribution to culture and public policy is overwhelmingly negative. [Hanania Newsletter]