iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Jan 28, 2021 6:31am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
PROCEDURE AND HOUSE AFFAIRS members host a panel discussion with a trio of academics: Dalhousie University associate professor Lori Turnbull, Université du Québec à Montréal professor Hugo Cyr and
University of Calgary associate professor Ian Brodie, who also served as former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff. (11 AM – 1 PM)
Over at
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, MPs are set to take a closer look at the auditor general’s latest report on “respect in the workplace” at the
Canada Border Services Agency and the
Correctional Service of Canada, with the respective agency heads
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Auditor General Karen Hogan makes her first but almost certainly by no means her last appearance before
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, where she’ll join senior officials from the Department of Finance and Treasury Board Secretariat to field questions on the latest public accounts, which include, among other things, billions of dollars in pandemic-related spending. (11 AM – 1 PM)
TRANSPORT members continue to explore the impact of the pandemic on the aviation sector with testimony from Unifor national president Jerry Dias, as well as representatives from the unions representing Canada’s pilots, flight staff and other aviation workers, including the
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Calling Metis an “interest group,” as Premier Brian Pallister did Wednesday after touring the Brandon vaccination site, does not sit well with Manitoba Metis Federation David Chartrand.
“It’s insulting,” said Chartrand.
When The Brandon Sun asked Pallister to explain the lack of a COVID-19 data sharing agreement with the federation, including the lack of a partnership to ensure Metis are prioritized for vaccines as First Nations have been, he was quick to bristle.
But instead of answering the question, the premier spoke about Indigenous people generally, First Nations and reconciliation.
“Well, Metis representatives have been at the table and have been part of this. But, of course, Metis people live integrated, for the most part, with the rest of us in the province, as opposed to a lot of the Northern Indigenous communities that do not. And, so, the considerations are not identical, as you would recognize,” he said, when press
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Somalia Seasonal Monitor: December 24, 2020
Format
FEWS NET publishes a Seasonal Monitor for Somalia every 10 days (dekad) through the end of the current October to December deyr rainy season.
The purpose of this document is to provide updated information on the progress of the deyrseason to facilitate contingency and response planning.
This Somalia Seasonal Monitor is valid through December 31, 2020, and is produced in collaboration with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) Somalia, the Somali Water and Land Information System (SWALIM), a number of other agencies, and several Somali nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Deyr rainfall season ends, with most of Somalia receiving little to no rainfall in mid-December During the December 11-20 period, most of Somalia received little to no rainfall. According to both field information and preliminary Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) imagery, only