Ottawa Observations: Saturday/Sunday, February 6 & 7, 2021

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Federal scene for   Saturday/Sunday,  February 5 & 7, 2021

Canadians held in China / China tensions

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The Global Coronavirus (COVID-19)

AstraZeneca vaccine fails to stop moderate illness from new variant, trial finds

Nursing job vacancies are soaring across Canada

Thousands of BC Frontline workers still awaiting pandemic pay

Temporary Pfizer vaccine delays are 'largely behind us,' procurement minister says

Toronto's first reported cases of new COVID-19 variants were 'inevitable' but raise concern, experts say

Quebec passes 10,000 COVID-19 deaths as Ontario reports case of Brazil variant

Ontario records first case of Brazil COVID-19 variant

Britain's vaccine success the path Canada should have followed

Ontario reports less than 1,500 new COVID cases two days in a row

Here's what an effective rapid testing campaign would look like - if our health officials made it happen

Brazilian COVID-19 variant, believed to be more transmissible, found in Toronto

UK coronavirus vaccine gambles paid. off, while EU caution left the bloc falling behind

China widens approval for coronavirus Sinovac vaccine use beyond high-risk groups

Poorer countries unable to wait for UN's COVAX program seek other coronavirus vaccines

Globe and Mail

Retailers urge Ontario to let stores reopen amid 'economic carnage' created by COVID-19 lockdowns

IRB hearings to deport Helmut Oberlander, Canada's last Nazi-era suspect, delayed

Out with Payette, in with Youppi? Some options for Rideau Hall

Over 33,000 vote in Newfoundland and Labrador advance poll, up slightly from 2019

Federal funding to help former governor-generals set up charitable foundations is discretionary

CBC
  

Why Ontario will ease province-wide COVID019 lockdown regionally

Canada might have too much party discipline, but that's at least better than too little

MPs call to relocate 2022 Beijing Games over China's reported abuses of Uighur minority

Iain Rankin will be next premier of Nova Scotia

Justin Trudeau has too many vaccines and not enough - the question is how we got here

As vaccine deliveries lag, opposition MPs demand more than shots in the dark

Louise Bernice Halfe named Canada's new parliamentary poet laureate

Toronto Star

       

Will March Break be cancelled? More uncertainty looms for families as schools reopen

MPP calls on province to take over Kapuskasing nursing home with COVID-19 outbreak

The long-term care system has been failing patients and families for decades. COVID-19 is shining light on the tragedies brought on by inaction

Toronto's connections across the Canada-US border go back a long way. During the COVID-19 lockdown, it's hard not to miss America

Here's why we aren't making COVID-19 vaccines in Canada

Ontario school boards have hired 3,435 teachers since September, survey shows

Toronto Sun

Magnitude of Trudeau's incompetence now seen by all thanks to vaccine foibles

Canadians could still be frightened into voting Liberal

Canada made pandemic playbooks -- and we're not folllowing them

Trudeau government has become the things it despised

National Post

'This is truly my dream': Canadian health agency manager who blogged about trip to Caribbean resigns to become social media influencer

Canada must retaliate over Biden's ill-considered Keystone decision

Maclean's

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Global

ATV activity near critical Fraser River fish habitat alarms conservationists

'No evidence' to support social media rumours about missing BC women, say police

Cold weather ahead: Arctic air in BC forecast, southbound blast expected to blanket province

BC bars warned of inspection blitz amid fears of super spreader Super Bowl

'Not a safe situation': Staff working overtime to end Strathcona Park camp, Eby says

Patients must transfer at health authority takes over BC hospice

A lunar new year like no other: BC's annual festivities go online amid COVID-19 

Toronto Police Service to issue thousands of body-worn cameras to officers by October

Canada's Defence Minister won't say if he told PM, cabinet about Vance allegations in 2018

Caesar-Chavannes says Liberals' stance on Vance, Payette echoes her time as MP

Senior Liberal staffers discussed withholding details about COVID-19 response: Internal emails

Miscellaneous

The cases for labelling Proud Boys a terrorist organization

Demand for detached homes puts the wack in Chilliwack, where buyers pay highest premiums in Lower Mainland

Just another Sunday in BC restaurants, pubs and bars as no Super Bowl promotions are permitted

Mayor Doug McCallum's refusal to issue Indigenous land acknowledgement is shameful