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iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 8, 2021 5:55pm 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. Good evening to you. They’re after per-dose prices, more precise delivery schedules, any mentions of the possibility of Canadian manufacturing and anything else that might shine a light on the Liberal government’s intensely scrutinized vaccine-procurement process. But Procurement Minister Anita Anand has refused to publish the contracts, citing the confidentiality clauses that apply to them. ....
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 7, 2021 5:49pm (Bob Tymczyszyn/St. Catharines Standard) 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. Good evening to you. We begin in Ontario, where pandemic restrictions are tightening for the second time in a week. This afternoon, Premier Doug Ford announced a state of emergency and a four-week stay-at-home order. Thanks to a third wave of infections, intensive-care units are the busiest they’ve been so far during the pandemic. Things lock down at midnight. ....
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. ....
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