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    COVID-19 vaccine mandates for travel to be lifted

    Tracing app reportedly also coming to an end; Canada-Denmark border dispute settled ; Trudeau tests positive; Canadians are feeling the debt crunch

    Truckers stuck at the border due to a demonstration over COVID-19 travel restrictions on highway 104 in Nova Scotia, June 23, 2021. (Riley Smith/The Canadian Press)

    After flip-flopping, Ottawa says truckers need to get vaccinated

    Politics Insider for Jan. 14: Francois Legault says he will table Quebec’s unvaxxed tax in February; Erin O’Toole speaks out against the tax; and Harper asks Tories to bail out Peter MacKay

    Legault leaves a news conference in Montreal, on Dec. 30, 2021 (Graham Hughes/CP)

    I have questions about le unvax tax

    Paul Wells: There’s at least a decent case to be made for François Legault’s plan to tax unvaccinated Quebecers. But don’t be surprised if he drops the idea.

    A grocery store worker clean a work space and plexiglass divider in downtown Vancouver on April 29, 2020 (Jonathan Hayward/CP)

    The plexiglass barrier problem

    Justin Ling: Vaccines, masks and ventilation are working. So why do governments keep doubling-down on the measures that don’t effectively stop COVID?

    Erin O’Toole at press conference in downtown St. John's, N.L. on Jul. 26, 2021. (Paul Daly/CP)

    Conservatives have a vaccine problem

    Andrew MacDougall: If Erin O’Toole can’t get his caucus to the right place on vaccines he doesn’t deserve to lead the country

    (Zhang Wenzong/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)

    How Canada’s CanSino COVID-19 vaccine deal with China collapsed

    Politics Insider for Oct. 15, 2021: The made-in-Canada vaccine breakdown; cabinet talk; and a CPC suspension

    Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube in Montreal on October 13, 2021. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)

    Quebec delays its vaccine mandate for health-care workers

    Politics Insider for Oct. 14, 2021: Quebec’s health plan hits a bump; another military investigation; unpopular premiers

    The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit on Oct. 4, 2021. (Carlos Osorio/Associated Press)

    U.S. to open the border to vaccinated Canadians in November

    Politics Insider for Oct. 13, 2021: America relents; Chrystia Freeland’s possible moves; and Michael Wernick’s best advice

    A COVID-19 vaccination sign is shown in Montreal, on Aug. 1, 2021 (Graham Hughes/CP)

    Vaccinations: No more carrot—bring out the stick

    Scott Gilmore: Rewards and bribes aren’t working. It’s increasingly clear there’s only one way out of this pandemic and the approaching fourth wave. 

    Three generations of the Nunnikhoven family including those who live in Aldergrove, B.C. (left) and those who live in Lynden, Wash. (right) spend Mother's Day together separated by a ditch along the Canada-U.S. border on May 10, 2020 (Darryl Dyck/CP)

    The extraordinarily slow plan to reopen the border

    Justin Ling: The public is distrustful of a reopening and the Liberals are ill-prepared. It doesn’t bode well for a return to normal anytime soon.

    People line up to get their COVID-19 vaccines in Montreal (Ryan Remiorz/CP)

    Canada is slowing down on first doses, but that could be a good thing

    The plain truth is we’re running out of arms that haven’t already had needles jabbed into them, and Round 2 is full swing

    Conservative Party leader Erin O'Toole walks to the podium at a news conference in Ottawa, on April 29, 2021 (Adrian Wyld/CP)

    Canada, where vaccine acceptance isn’t political

    Philippe J. Fournier: Unlike in the U.S, where vaccine eagerness shifts along party lines, a new poll shows Canadians of all stripes broadly support getting the shot

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