CBC Radio s The House: Breaking the third wave
On this week’s show: Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin discusses his province’s efforts to fight its third wave of COVID-19. Plus hear a panel of political strategists take on the Trudeau ethics probe, Bill C-10 and Quebec language laws; a dive into why some Indigenous groups support the shutdown of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline; a report on the rise of politician-hosted podcasts; and a look at the fate of summer camps during the pandemic.
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Posted: May 15, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 15
Premier Iain Rankin and Nova Scotia s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang during a COVID-19 briefing in March.(Communications Nova Scotia)
OTTAWA With 2020 a year like no other now in the rearview mirror, CTV’s Question Period convened a series of guests to dive into the political year ahead and offer their forecasts for 2021. From high-profile partisans to a former leader and those with their finger on the pulse of the ongoing health and economic crises, here’s CTV Question Period’s panelists’ assessments of the challenges ahead, and advice to the parties and their leaders. The vaccine rollout “I think there s many challenges. I think the first challenge that is pretty obvious is the logistical challenge. The front-runner vaccines right now are still dual dose vaccines, so we re going to require people to be vaccinated at 21 or 28 day intervals. Being able to manage that and having some sort of a tracking system or a registry of some sort I think is a big task when we re looking at potentially millions of Canadians who are going to be getting this vaccine. The other is in clearing up all of th