As the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine make their way to Canada, grim modelling shows the country could see 1700 more deaths by Christmas. We hear directly from the man in charge of rolling out the vaccine across the country. Plus, how the pandemic is affecting ocean and climate research.

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