iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on May 25, 2021 6:01am Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pictured in April, 2019. (Wikimedia Commons)
Today’s Morning Brief is brought to you by GCT’s #BetterDeltaport campaign. The Port of Vancouver’s business case for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 is falling apart. Why keep pushing ahead with a flawed plan instead of considering a better option for Canada, taxpayers, and the environment? Learn more about the better option.
Facebook launches trial to pay Canadian media: Facebook is launching a trial of a new initiative to pay Canadian publishers to link to selected articles on their websites. It is partnering with 14 Canadian outlets, which it will pay an undisclosed amount. As The Globe reports, “It’s the first time the News Innovation Test is being introduced anywhere, though Facebook is testing another feature known as Facebook News in other countries.”
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Evening Brief: A one-dose summer and two-dose fall By iPolitics. Published on May 11, 2021 5:52pm Sophie Grégoire Trudeau received her first COVID-19 jab at an Ottawa pharmacy on April 23, 2021. Photo: Adam Scotti / PMO
Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by GCT’s #BetterDeltaport campaign. The Port of Vancouver’s business case for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 is falling apart. Why keep pushing ahead with a flawed plan instead of considering a better option for Canada, taxpayers, and the environment? Learn more about the better option.
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We begin, as we do most days, with COVID-19, and word that a national system to manage and track vaccines is hardly being used by the provinces. That’s despite the fact that nearly half of eligible Canadians have received at least one dose of a vaccine already.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on May 10, 2021 5:54pm Finnegan and Maxwell became a viral sensation when their hug on a New York street was caught on video in 2019.
Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by GCT’s #BetterDeltaport campaign. The Port of Vancouver’s business case for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 is falling apart. Why keep pushing ahead with a flawed plan instead of considering a better option for Canada, taxpayers, and the environment? Learn more about the better option.
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We begin on the Hill, with the government’s much-troubled attempt to modernize the Broadcasting Act. There was word today the House’s Canadian Heritage committee will stall its clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-10 while it awaits a new Charter statement. The move follows weeks of controversy stirred up by Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Québécois MPs on the Heritage committee when they voted to remove the bill’s exclusion of social media and user-generated
Field studies continue for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project May 6, 2021, by Zlatan Hrvacevic
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is continuing field studies in May 2021 as part of ongoing environmental and technical work for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project.
The project team is working to collect additional information requested by the federal minister of environment and climate change, conduct ongoing field studies, and consult with Indigenous groups and federal agencies, the port officials announced.
“We remain focused on providing our response to the information request by summer 2021, following which the Impact Assessment Agency will hold a public comment period on the response and draft conditions for the project, should it be approved,” the port said.
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