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By the end of next week, Moderna is expected to have shipped 171,600 doses of its vaccines to Canada, a figure that will then jump to 250,000 in mid-February and 1.24 million by mid-March, says a federal official.

Three inmates have died from COVID-19 and of the 1,149 positive cases recorded in Canada’s prisons, 167 remain active in the midst of outbreaks in three federal institutions.

‘Some of these MPs said that they were going to visit an elderly and infirm relative. That’s wrong,’ says NDP commentator Tom Parkin, likening it to ‘going 110 in the 100 km/hour zone, but not 180 like some others.’

Canada is ‘deeply shocked’ by the mob that stormed Capitol Hill, says Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau notes his ‘concern.’

Some experts say it’s an open question whether having political leaders or other high-profile figures get their shots first will actually be effective at shoring up confidence in the safety of the vaccine.

It’s ‘completely unacceptable’ that some Canadians have used a work sickness benefit to pay for post-vacation mandatory quarantine, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Ottawa is now ‘in a better position to predict with confidence’ what it will receive in January, and what is expected for February, says Maj. Gen. Dany Fortin.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains’s name was attached to 17 communications reports for November, according to lobbying figures posted last month.

Unique in its depth of analysis and insight into elections and electioneering, former public servant and current legal scholar Gregory Tardi’s voluminous new work provides a day-by-day account of the 2019 contest.

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