Ottawa Observations: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Federal scene for  Tuesday,  January 19, 2021


Canadians held in China / China tensions

Trudeau warns Canadian companies in China to avoid using forced labour

Pompeo says China's policies on Uyghurs constitute a 'genocide'

China, WHO should have acted quicker to stop pandemic: expert panel

The Global Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Pfizer to stop all vaccine shipments to Canada for one week

Rapid testing will help us turn the corner on COVID-19

Trudeau insists vaccination effort is on track despite Pfizer-BioNTech supply disruption

Canada will not receive any of its promised COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer next week

New Toronto COVID-19 vaccination clinic ordered immediately shut over vaccine shortage

Toronto ordered to close MTCC COVID Vaccine clinic

Those vaccinated will have to wait 42 days for a second shot

Pfizer to halt COVID Vaccine deliveries to Canada next week, making worse already slow rollout

BC records another 465 COVID-19 cases, 12 deaths and 70 in ICU

Pfizer vaccine delay deals 'blow' to BC but province still on track: health minister

Youth cases increase, six more foreigners test positive, health violations and more

Globe and Mail

Pfizer pushes for tax breaks in 2021 federal budget

Ontario vaccine task force member resigns after holiday travel

Royal BC Museum seen by insiders as a 'racist, anti-Indigenous' space: survey

WestJet urges Ottawa to reject Air Canada's takeover of Transat  or impose conditions

'Enough is enough': Saskatchewan Premier wants tougher COVID-19 enforcement

Joe Biden, are you ever a sight for sore Canadian eyes

The scrapping of Keystone XL is devastating for Alberta - and Jason Kenney

The Conservatives have a hypocrisy problem that goes beyond Derek Sloan

Why Trudeau won't push Biden on Keystone

Ombudsman slams new restrictions on mental health support for veterans' families

Erin O'Toole moves to boot an MP nobody wants, shrugging at his hypocrisy to embrace the discipline of seeking power

Trudeau pledges to keep up fight for Keystone pipeline 

Teachers voice concerns over parents interfering during online classes

CBC
  

Conservative MP Derek Sloan defiant ahead of removal vote over campaign donation

Trudeau says he'll make sure 'Canada's views are heard' on Keystone XL

Mental health access for families of veterans still lacking, says new ombudsman

Erin O'Toole moves to shake off the Trumpian taint

Federal government looking to settle lawsuit over $165 million error in veterans benefits

RCMP union warns of officer burnout after pandemic delays training

CRTC hearings continue on CBC's program licensing renewal

How Canada can leverage Biden's agenda as part of government relations reset

Kenney faces headache and humiliation as Biden prepares to kill Keystone XL

Ottawa needs to fight more effectively for the carbon tax

Toronto Star

        

Derek Sloan rejects 'trumped up charges' over white supremacist donor as Conservatives consider his expulsion

'I'd be up that guy's yin-yang so far with a firecracker': Doug Ford has advice for Justin Trudeau as Pfizer cuts vaccine shipments

Ban non-essential travel and beef up surveillance of COVID-19 quarantines, Quebec tells Ottawa

Against the odds, Justin Trudeau calls on Joe Biden to break a campaign promise

Erin O'Toole's dumping of Derek Sloan over $131 donation sidesteps an existential reckoning the Conservative party really needs

It's no surprise that Derek Sloan found a home in the Conservative party

What is the look you want, Mr. O'Toole?

The province once again takes a wrecking ball to Toronto

Toronto Sun

Trudeau's failure means no Pfizer doses next week for Canada

Why is Canada screwing this up, Trudeau?

Stay home unless your making a TV series

Seniors living independently not a priority for COVID Vaccine

Keystone a captive of US Democratic politics

Tories unsettled over whether ends justifies the means in ouster of Derek Sloan

The news media is failing Canadians with its pandemic coverage

Capital gains tax hike would hurt many Canadians - not just the rich

National Post

In test of O'Toole's leadership, Conservatives to vote Wednesday on whether to eject Derek Sloan

Jettisoning Sloan would be a good step for O'Toole. But how far dare he go?

With 'pragmatic' label Erin O'Toole sheds true blue image

The Liberals went hostile against Big Pharma. Now we're facing vaccine shortages

How to remove a rogue PM - it's more complicated that Canadians might think

Maclean's

How to tax the wealthy without a 'wealth tax'

Global

Rio Theatre set to re-open as sports bar as movie theatres remain closed in British Columbia

Inventive proposal could transform part of Granville Street in downtown Vancouver

Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers receives 500 plus tips amid heightened gang violence

Indigenous filmmaker is calling for fines and jail time for those falsely claiming to be Indigenous

BC is 'duty-bound' to deploy COVID-19 rapid tests in long-term care, industry says

Involuntary mental health treatment for BC youth up 162% over 10 years: report

Visitation restrictions in BC long-term care homes could ease by mid-March: province

Tory caucus to meet Wednesday to determine fate of MP Derek Sloan: sources 

Action plan to advance economic development of African Nova Scotians launched

Miscellaneous

2021 off to roaring start as January sales so far look headed for record high

West Vancouver gathering at business results in $2,300 COVID-19 fine

Vancouver to provide over $8.4 million in grants for arts and culture recovery from COVID-19 financial impact

Alberta's Cancelled Coal Leases called a 'trick'

PPE littering is worsening plastic pollution. And More Science Journal News      

If O'Toole wants to save his party from Extremists

Why Black communities are wary of a vaccine, and what they're doing about it

Isolation RVs fill a need for homeless people during a pandemic