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iPolitics By Kady O'Malley. Published on May 5, 2021 6:31am Parliament's West Block in Ottawa is reflected in an adjacent building. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians during a briefing session with committee chair David McGuinty and operations director Sean Jorgensen. After that wraps up, they’re set to consider a bid by its four Liberal members to launch a new probe into “ideologically motivated violent extremism in Canada,” whose sponsor, Pam Damoff, has already issued a pre-emptive Twitter challenge calling on her o...

Why Canada’s Vaccine Rollout Slowed Down The government did not promise mass inoculations during the first few months, but reductions and suspensions of shipments have created vaccine anxiety. Published Feb. 19, 2021Updated Feb. 21, 2021 The large batches of Pfizer vaccines that landed in Canada this week from a plant in Belgium may represent a turning point in the country’s vaccination roll out, even as winter storms delayed the shipments’ arrival. Image Last month, Anita Quidangen became the first person in Ontario to receive both doses of a coronavirus vaccine.Credit...Carlo...

Article content Drawing on the advice of its vaccine task force last September, the federal government pre-ordered 72 million doses of a product developed jointly by GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi. It was the second largest of Ottawa’s vaccine procurement deals, likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Federal task force co-chair advised on COVID vaccine despite possible conflict of interest Back to video But unknown at the time was what came before the purchase. As the 12-member task force met to decide whe...

Article content OTTAWA – Members of the government’s vaccine task force said secrecy surrounding their deliberations was necessary as they defended their efforts to opposition MPs Thursday. The task force, formed early last summer, was responsible for making recommendations on which vaccines to purchase and which Canadian companies to back with funding for research and development of COVID vaccines. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Federal COVID vaccine task force defends secrecy as necessary to do its work Back to video Earlier this week,...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Feb 19, 2021 5:58am Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault pictured in July 2019. (Bruce Campion-Smith/Toronto Star) ____________________ — Making Big Tech pay: Canada vowed to be the next country to go after Facebook to pay for the news. Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault condemned Facebook’s action in Australia — where it blocked all Australian news content over proposed legislation requiring it, and Google, to pay for news links. He said it would not deter Ottawa from crafting similar legislation. —  Tory council rejects Slo...