Ottawa Observations: Friday, November 20, 2020

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Federal scene for  Friday, November 20, 2020


Canadians held in China / China tensions

Ex-Mountie refusing to testify in Huawei extradition hearing is working at Macau casino

Good on ya: Australia is bravely showing Canada the pain and promise of a principled approach to Beijing

Border officer denies RCMP asked for Meng Wanzhou's phone codes, court hears

Ambassador visits detained Canadians Kovrig and Spavor in China

The Global Coronavirus (COVID-19)

What Quebec's COVID-19 experiment can teach us about the second wave

Toronto and Peel go to lockdown, retail goes to curbside-only

Trudeau urges Canadian to do everything in their power to reverse COVID-19 trajectory

Alberta risks losing support on COVID-19 restrictions by withholding reasoning on decisions: opposition

Our governments have failed to protect us - and now we are paying the price

BC theatre companies say they feel 'targeted' by province's orders to close

Vancouver COVID-19 drug developer AbCellera looks to raise US$200 million in Nasdaq public listing

Trudeau turns to the bully pulpit as the pandemic surges - because that's what he has left

Trudeau urges vigilance on public health measures to contain deadly spike in COVID-19 cases

Canadian military looking to conduct its own coronavirus testing

Doug Ford imposes 28 day lockdown in Toronto and Peel Region

Toronto is under a 28 day COVID-19 lockdown starting Monday. Here's what that means

Lockdown for Toronto is a brutal necessity, given rapid spread of COVID-19: Tory

People 60 and older make up 96% of COVID-19 deaths in Ontario. Here's why one advocate calls it 'ageism in action'

Locked Down: Pandemic deja-vu for Toronto, Peel

Does Ontario government think COVID-19 respects borders and can tell time?

Toronto and Peel shut down for another 28 days

Toronto officials praise new COVID lockdown

Health officials botched COVID-19 response

A Very Merry shot in the arm

Canadians seem happy to tolerate government ineptitude as COVID restrictions get worse

Ontario moving COVID-19 hotspots Toronto and Peel Region into lockdown starting Monday

Trudeau pleads with Canadians to limit contacts as country hurtles towards 20,000 COVID cases per day

Breaking down BC's new public health restrictions

Canada braces itself for the latest federal COVID projections

BC reports 516 new COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths and rising hospitalizations

Vancouver Coastal Health declares new COVID-19 outbreak at Lions Gate Hospital

How will British Columbia's new mask requirement be enforced?

'Normal Christmas' off the table, Trudeau says amid coronavirus spike

'All it takes is one case': How coronavirus cases suddenly spiked across Nunavut

32 schools with new exposures, 10 deaths, new Richmond testing site

Active COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations hit record highs in BC

Globe and Mail

Deceit of engineering: It turns out Canada's top natural wonder, Niagara Falls, isn't so natural after all

O'Toole treads carefully as he seeks to build winning coalition

CBC
    

MP Yasmin Ratansi denies claims of abusive, inappropriate behaviour in social media post

Opposition warns there's not enough time to vet UK trade deal

19 public servants are working part-time on Morneau's OECD bid

Organizations can apply for federal emergency rent subsidy starting Monday

The Liberals' net-zero plan isn't quite a strategy - but it might be the start of one

Ex-health minister Philpott says federal government should back drug decriminalization in Vancouver

Indigenous services minister overrules senior bureaucrat on Neskantaga water probe

Supreme Court rules sex offender registry unfair to mentally ill

RCMP tolerates 'misogynistic, racist and homophobic attitudes': former Supreme Court justice

Toronto Star

'This is catastrophic': Toronto's second COVID-19 lockdown presents a worst-case scenario for already battered businesses

A Conservative MP warns that Justin Trudeau wants a 'Great Reset' Conspiracy theorists are worried, too

Why the CBC needs to heed Barack O'bama's warning about the blurring of news and entertainment - and the threat to democracy

Trudeau's efforts to bring rivals onside falters in face of new COVID-19 modelling

Toronto Sun

Memo shows Trudeau knew Nova Scotia gunman used smuggled guns

MPs reportedly abused taxpayer funded free lunch privileges

Sorry, Trudeau: No way are we all in this together

Trudeau needs real solutions to fight gun crime

Our scientists must be more humble, and we must think more

Politicians can't blame the pandemic for their spending problem

National Post

Trudeau's reset aims to revisit failed policies of yesteryear

Canada's backing of UN's 'anti-Israel' vote condemned by Jewish organizations

Canada formalizes net-zero emissions plans after decades of failure to meet climate targets

It's time for a better COVID strategy

The case for deep sixing Bill C6

Canadians need more pallative care, not same-day death on demand

Maclean's

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Global

BC's small businesses fear cold Christmas amid surging COVID-19 cases

BC club youth sports grapple with new COVID-19 restrictions

Controversial Chilliwack school trustee calls local journalists R-word in online post

Norm Lipinski announced as chief of new Surrey municipal police force

City of Vancouver hires Karen Fry as fire chief, first woman to hold the job

Cod Stock off South NL coast is at critical levels, says Fisheries Department

Miscellaneous                            

Vancouver names Karen Fry as city's new fire chief

For artists and authors, the latest provincial health order has the ear marks of a double standard

Researchers call for plan to keep ICU patients from ending up back in hospital

Two years ago, a racist video rocked a Vancouver School. Here's what happened since

BC's northerners warned to stay home as COVID-19 cases rise

Surrey names former RCMP officer as inaugural police chief