iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 6, 2021 5:41pm (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by News Media Canada. It’s time to level the digital playing field. Google and Facebook are using their monopoly to threaten and undermine local news. Other countries are taking action. It’s time for Canada to stand up to the web giants – and step up for local news. Learn more. “We must all speed up.” That was the word today from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, commenting on Canada’s vaccination rollout. He said the provinces have been “very clear” that they feel vaccination is “something that they’re able to handle on their own.” But if they need help, it is there for the taking — a message he planned to relay to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, whose government’s pace of administering COVID shots has fallen behind Ottawa’s rate of delivery, when they spoke this afternoon.