Two Canadians detained in China, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, will go on trial for espionage within days. Inside the race to get COVID-19 vaccines to Canadians. Plus, why palm oil may not be what’s making butter harder.

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00:00 The National for March 17, 2021
01:05 China to hold trials for Kovrig, Spavor
03:41 Vina Nadjibulla | Micheal Kovrig's wife
05:53 Anger over job notice for 'white women only'
08:18 Atlanta spa shootings
10:36 High-ranking military resignation fallout
13:32 Concerns about COVID-19 variants
14:49 COVID-19 variants take hold in Western Canada
16:11 COVID-19 vaccine rollout ramps up
17:10 Iran report on downing of Flight PS752
17:47 Canadian children in Syrian detention camps
18:30 Expanding access to MAID program
18:51 O’Toole faces 1st Conservative convention as leader
22:04 Getting to the bottom of Buttergate
24:39 The race to get COVID-19 vaccines to Canadians
29:39 Suicide crisis hiding behind India's farmer protests
34:02 Boris Johnson Sarah Everard murder
34:43 Russian domestic violence survivor hosts TV show
39:58 Solving cold cases with genetic genealogy
42:56 The Moment

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