Stewart Prest returns to discuss the evolving pandemic, how BC is adapting to omicron and why is it so hard for governments to articulate what the covid response goals are.

Links

• All travellers will once again need a molecular COVID-19 test before arriving in Canada | CBC News 
• Province strengthens COVID-19 measures for safer holiday season | BC Gov News
• B.C.’s contact tracing and testing at maximum capacity, health officials say
• Rapid tests not counted in official covid numbers
• The Case of BC’s Missing COVID-19 Data | The Tyee
• Stewart’s twitter thread on governments not articulating covid response goals
• Opinion: The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare – The Globe and Mail

COVID forever

Another potpourri episode

Flood responses, FOI fees and a more unanimous House.