The government has verbal assurances only that the European Union (where all the German cars come from) won’t use its new power to stop all vaccine shipments to Canada. Nonetheless, the fed remains optimistic that we will indeed get shipments as scheduled after early production issues are resolved. As the same time, efforts are being made to persuade big vaccine makers to set up shop in a planned government factory here. CTV
Bell closes newsroom, fires reporters at venerable CJAD
Bell Media has laid off all of the reporters at Montreal’s CJAD on Monday, two union sources told the Montreal Gazette. Bell Media would only confirm it has made “a limited number of staff reductions, many of them changes in on-air broadcast roles due to programming decisions” at CJAD. Radio and television reporters across the country at Bell Media are uneasy as the big multi-business firm faces a changing information world. Montreal Gazette
Council to vote Tuesday on narrowing Yonge St
Toronto City Council will decide on Tuesday whether to keep Yonge St. between College and Queen the way it is or rebuild it to make way for — guess what — condominiums. The vote itself revolves around a new watermain construction project between College/ Carleton St. and Queen St. and a far more important accompanying endeavor that will see the number of traffic lanes reduced from four to two in order to expand sidewalk space. They’ll be no need for cars of course because at Yonge and Queen you’re about as far downtown as you can get. Toronto Sun
