Ottawa

Politics Insider for Dec. 4: The newest Liberal bill shifts to reconciliation, federal officials outline their initial COVID-19 vaccine distribution plans and does Erin O’Toole have an opening in Quebec?

Singh and Wells will sit down again to discuss the strangest Parliament ever and the NDP’s plan for the months ahead

Politics Insider for Dec. 3: Marc Miller admits his mandate letter’s top priority won’t get done, the House wants more health funding for the provinces and Speaker Anthony Rota celebrates an anniversary

Politics Insider for Dec. 2: The procurement minister shows off the country’s pandemic purchases, the Department of Finance loses its top bureaucrat and watch out for salmonella-spreading hedgehogs

Politics Insider for Dec. 3: The finance minister tables her first fiscal update, the feds defer controversial firearms regulations and Canada’s pandas are back in China

Shannon Proudfoot: Enormous quantities of money will be spilled to try and get Canada through the coming months and, maybe, into a shiny spring

The Liberal update is rife with uncertainty and debt, while the ’fiscal anchor’ has been replaced by ’guardrails’. Fingers are crossed for happier times.

Paul Wells: When will the spending stop? What is ’building back better’? How will the gender impact of the crisis be fixed? The answers will come later.

Politics Insider, Nov. 26: Ontario’s auditor general drops a special report on Queen’s Park, Health Canada has some deets on Canada’s vaccine plan and should Canada colonize the moon?

Politics Insider for Nov. 25: The PM says there is no domestic capacity to produce COVID-19 vaccines, Chrystia Freeland makes a date with fiscal destiny and just how much sanitizer has Canada purchased?