Canada

Politics Insider for Dec. 15: The first Canadian receives her first inoculation, the Speaker of the House reflects on a frantic year and where in the world will Trump escape prosecution?

Image of the Week: A personal support worker gets Ontario’s first anti-COVID inoculation as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrives in locations across Canada

Welcome to Vaxx Populi, Maclean’s ongoing series tackling the most pressing questions related to the COVID-19 vaccines.

Politics Insider for Dec. 11: The PM and the premiers meet (virtually) to talk health transfers, the PBO says billions in stimulus could be mistimed and Doug Ford’s lead keeps growing

Politics Insider for Dec. 10: As Canada sets COVID hospitalization records, the feds approve the Pfizer vaccine; Robert Lighthizer gets his last kick at Canada; and Navdeep Bains wins the Bureaucratic Jargon of the Day Award

On May 6, 3,083 people were hospitalized, with caseloads going down. On Dec. 8, 3,093 were in hospital, with infection rates on a steady rise across the country.

Paul Wells: Commissioned by one of the country’s largest long-term care home operators, the report takes a hard look at what went wrong and how to fix it

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine—on track to be the first delivered to Canada—must be kept below -70° C, which will require dry ice, and lots of it

But the general running the rollout says the distribution of up to seven different vaccines—each with its own storage and handling requirements—poses a logistics challenge

A homecoming for the Michaels seems possible. But offers like the reported one to Meng are standard U.S. practice, and China does not look kindly on co-operating with American prosecutors.