Ottawa Observations: Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Federal scene for  Tuesday,  April 20, 2021

 

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The Global Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Ontario urged to hold lottery for key drug used on COVID-19 patients

Manitoba signs deal with North Dakota to vaccinate the province's truckers across the border

New Delhi running out of medical oxygen as India grapples with coronavirus 'storm' 

Should you hold off on vaccination if you live in a hot spot but aren't at high risk of getting COVID-19

Why are Gen X'ers embracing the AstraZeneca vaccine? It's practical, they say

Ontario records 3,469 new COVID-19 cases, 22 deaths

'It's kind of depressing': Exasperated Canadians watch Americans get vaccinate faster

BC reports 849 new COVID-19 cases as hospitalization numbers continue to break records

Hospitalized cases exceed 450, Fraser Health vaccinations in high risk areas

Globe and Mail

Ontario mulls changes to sick pay, as Toronto, Peel to shutter workplaces with COVID-19 outbreaks

Trudeau defends Canada's travel restrictions, but says government open to imposing more

BC projects record deficit as budget builds on COVID-19 pandemic recovery plan

BC budget steers clear of trying to cool hot housing market in short-term

Rogers outage thrusts network reliability into spotlight amid 5G rollout

CN Rail launches US$20 billion rival bid for Kansas City Southern, topping Canadian Pacific offer

Quebec court upholds law banning religious dress, with exceptions for English schools, MNAs

By trying to lead on every file, Doug Ford has created a leadership vacuum

The Conservatives' carbon pricing plan: a tax that wouldn't even reduce carbon consumption 

National child care: How can we afford not to?

Ottawa will tailor child-care funding to each province, Freeland says

Survivors, experts ask Ottawa to set up independent mechanism for military sexual misconduct

Bloc tables budget amendment to boost health transfers

The Federal budget tells us what the Liberals care about, but also what they don't

Ottawa's budget marks the definitive break with the Washington consensus

CBC

MPs hear harrowing account of sexual assault in the military

Trudeau says he wants an AstraZeneca shot, but a supply crunch could be coming

Budget puts abortion access on the table in the future health funding talks with provinces

Humanitarian groups call new federal budget a 'missed opportunity'

With one budget, Freeland overturned 3 decades of political orthodoxy

Some provinces not ready to embrace Liberal pledge to build a national child care system

Canada-US border restrictions extended as US congressman pushes for reopening plan

Opposition leaders criticize federal budget over pharmacare , old age security

Federal Budget resurrects 'economic harm' warning as fighter jet contract nears 

On carbon capture, federal budget delivers promise, if not funds

Toronto Star

 

Doug Ford in isolation after aide tests positive for COVID-19

Ontario Premier Doug Ford tests negative after staff member tests positive for COVID

'It's like a mutiny': Toronto, Peel Region to order businesses with five or more COVID-19 cases to close

Under pressure, Ontario government scrambles to launch a provincial sick leave program

Ontario School Boards encourage families to keep special needs students home

Young Canadians have always had it rough when it comes to finding work - is the new $5.7 billion fede4al youth employment plan enough?

A sick-leave move just might be a sign the Ford government has stopped banging its head against the science table

Sexual misconduct is treated as a joke in the Canadian Armed Forces, women tells MPs

Feds pressed to define 'free, prior and informed consent' in UNDRIP bill

Experts, advocates say federal budget is hit-and-miss on housing

Female service members blast military police over sexual misconduct investigations

Toronto Sun

Trudeau still won't act on flights from India and other hotspots 

Trudeau to blame for Canada's vaccine debacle

Toronto and Peel to shut down businesses with 5 more more COVID cases

Ontario Premier Doug Ford tests negative after staff member tests positive for COVID

Why Ontario is in panic mode and Alberta is not

India shuts down, we keep taking flights

Conservative climate plan falls flat

The budget speech Chrystia Freeland's didn't deliver

Memo to Freeland -- it's our money

National Post

Budget criticism but no election calls, though O'Toole seeks change on economic growth

Universal daycare bad for women, children and the economy

Five ways the federal budget could affect your taxes

The Liberals deliver a budget with a shrewd election plan written inside

Here's what to expect as federal government negotiates massive new child care deal with provinces

Everything is infrastructure: A guide to the more overlooked parts of Budget 2021

Canada rolling the dice on big-spending federal budget as debt total set to climb beyond $1.4 trillion

Maclean's

How Ontario's health advisors handles the 'darkest day' of the pandemic

The Afghan women Canada failed

Global

Ex-Premier Christy Clark says she wasn't warned of 'spike' in money laundering until 2015

What is essential travel? Questions around BC's COVID-19 travel crackdown

BC budget sets aside nearly $6 billion for COVID support, forecasts $8.1 billion deficit

BC budget earmarks $120M to help tourism sector recover

BC boosts welfare rates, makes transit free for kids in 2021 budget

$500 for mental health and opioid crisis, as BC budget boosts health spending by $2.6B

BC budget expands $10 a day childcare, boosts pay for early childhood educators 

YVR study suggests rapid testing contributes to safer travel 

Alberta 'respects' BC's decision to restrict travel as legalities of measure questioned

British Columbia will not conduct random individual stops in COVID travel crackdown

BC budget to focus on COVID-19 support while tabling massive deficit

Quebec court upholds most of province's secularism law, exempts English school boards 

Miscellaneous            

 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford goes MIA as calls for his resignation grow louder

Vancouver's 'flawed' definition of social housing haunts city hall plan to discard public hearings on projects

RBC economics notes 'half hearted' response by 2021 federal budget to 'blazing hot housing market'

New money for old growth protection in BC's budget

BC's pandemic budget increases spending and forecasts big deficits

BC's health spending breakdown: What's in the budget and what's missing

What's in BC's budget for Homelessness? Not Much new

To ease housing crisis, BC is largely looking to developers as partners

Historic bargaining finally begins for SFU Research assistants 

Parking problems eat into Food Delivery Drivers' earnings