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Why was Canada’s vaccine task force kept secret for most of last summer?

Politics Insider for March 9: Ottawa pulled back on a June plan to announce the vaccine task force days after it got down to work, the Commons votes electronically for the first time and the Kielburgers are summoned

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The House of Commons takes a stand on the G-word

Politics Insider for Feb. 22: The House votes on whether to call China’s treatment of Uighurs ’genocide,’ François Legault appears to have vanquished the decades-old political order in Quebec, and Justin Trudeau gears up for his first meeting with Joe Biden

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Canada is planning for a literal moonshot as soon as 2023

Politics Insider for Dec. 17: A Canadian will join a mission to orbit the moon, Carla Qualtrough admits the government’s mistakes and Santa Claus is declared an essential worker

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Working from home thanks to COVID-19? The CRA has a new deduction for you.

Politics Insider for Dec. 16: The feds secure more vaccine as Ontario hospitals brace for the worst, Erin O’Toole fights the culture wars and what is Canada planning to do in outer space?

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Canada slowly enters the era of COVID vaccines

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?

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The return of a grand federal-provincial tradition of long-term health funding negotiations

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

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Ottawa hopes to immunize every willing Canadian by the end of 2021

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

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The legacy of Romeo Saganash, UNDRIP’s first parliamentary champion

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?

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The Liberals miss their deadline on ending every boil-water advisory

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

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Anita Anand talks up Ottawa’s pandemic purchasing plans

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