GUEST: Yvette Blackburn, Educator, Social Activist, Global Jamaica Diaspora Council representative

As if there isn’t enough worry over international travel and emerging variants of COVID-19, European police are warning that fraudulent test certificates are being sold to international travellers to skirt pandemic restrictions.

Illicit sales of fake certificates declaring passengers have tested negative for COVID-19 have been uncovered in Britain, France, Spain and the Netherlands, resulting in arrests, including some inside airports.

GUEST: David Perry, CEO of Investigative Solutions Network Inc., Global News Crime and Security Analyst

Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters “like a loaded cannon” at the U.S Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most detailed case yet for why the former president should be convicted and permanently barred from office. Trump denied the allegations through his lawyers and called the trial unconstitutional.

GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor with the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a tentative deal Tuesday with U.S. vaccine-maker Novavax to produce its product in Canada if the COVID-19 vaccine gets approved for use here.

“This is a major step forward to get vaccines made in Canada, for Canadians,” Trudeau said.

But the agreement won’t ease pressure on the government to get vaccines into Canada because it won’t start delivering until late next fall.

GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University

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Vaccine supply delays mean Ontario won’t meet its goal of giving all nursing-home residents the first dose of a COVID-19 shot by Friday.

The government said Tuesday that all long-term care, high-risk retirement and First Nations elder care home residents will now receive their first dose by Feb. 10. It also said the shortage of shots mean some vaccination sites are sitting idle.

GUEST:  Richard Brennan, retired journalist with the Toronto Star. Covered Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill

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Who is an essential worker in the GTA? Millions of us, data shows. This is life — outside lockdown — in five graphs

Ontario’s Dec. 26 lockdown, and stay-at-home orders issued in mid-January, are working. COVID-19 case counts have begun declining steadily, including case counts among essential workers, according to the latest modelling data from the province’s Science Advisory Table.

But essential work is still “strongly associated with risk of infection,” the same modelling shows — raising crucial questions about the scope of lockdown, and the support available to those who fall outside it.

GUEST: David Macdonald, Senior Economist for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives