Also in the news today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls Ontario’s proposed use of notwithstanding clause to ban CUPE strike ‘wrong’
The federal government and the three main opposition partiesa special committee of MPs that will have unfettered access to all national security documents related to the firing of two infectious disease scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
Government House Leader Mark Holland says his Conservative, Bloc Québécois and NDP counterparts have signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow MPs on an ad hoc committee to learn why Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were dismissed in January, 2021. They will also see all secret documents involving the transfer of Ebola and Henipah viruses, overseen by Qiu, to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in March, 2019.
Russia had previously ordered civilians out of a pocket it controls on the west bank of the river, where Ukrainian forces have been advancing to capture the city of Kherson. Ukraine says the evacuations include forced deportations from occupied territory, a war crime. Russia, which claims to have annexed the area, says it is taking civilians to safety.A waiter at Kyiv’s Mimosa pizzeria delivers one of the few remaining hot pizzas during one of the city’s regular blackouts.
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