Save for later Good morning, There will be no large parades and no mass gatherings at cenotaphs to commemorate Remembrance Day this year. COVID-19 is preventing Canadians from participating

in these traditional moments of honouring our veterans. “We’re asking people, no matter where you are, if you are in a store or in your car, at 11 o’clock, pull over, stop what you’re doing

and think about it for two minutes,” says Tom Irvine, the Dominion President of the Royal Canadian Legion. The Globe and Mail talked to veterans across Canada about their plans for

Remembrance Day, and what they will be reflecting on this year. _More coverage:_ Nathan Greenfield: Even during the pandemic, Ypres residents find ways to commemorate Canada’s war dead _This

vaccine emerges as the leading candidate to halt the pandemic, a top North American health care distributor is warning Canada’s existing public and private vaccination delivery systems

aren’t ready for a successful and widespread vaccination program. McKesson Corp. says the special handling and storage required for the most promising vaccines and the sheer volume of doses

to be distributed threaten to “overwhelm existing infrastructure” in Canada. “The existing public and private vaccine supply chains in Canada are not equipped to support frozen and/or

ultra-frozen COVID-19 vaccines at scale,” Dimitris Polygenis, president of McKesson Canada Pharmaceutical Solutions and Specialty Health, said in a report. _More coverage:_ Pfizer, BioNTech

COVID-19 vaccine trials raise hopes for ‘early’ 2021 delivery André Picard: There’s new hope for a coronavirus vaccine, but let’s not celebrate too quickly Manitoba locks down, Toronto to

impose new restrictions as COVID-19 infections surge TRUMP CAMPAIGN FILES LAWSUIT ALLEGING PENNSYLVANIA MAIL-IN BALLOTS VIOLATE U.S. CONSTITUTION In a bid to block the Pennsylvania results

that gave Joe Biden the votes he needed to win the presidency, the Trump campaign yesterday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania alleging that the state allowed an illegal,

“two-tiered” system of voting, in which mail-in ballots received less scrutiny of voter identification than in-person voting. Most of the dozen or more lawsuits filed so far by Republican

lawyers have been quickly tossed out of court, but the new lawsuit alleges that the very system of mail-in ballots, as overseen by Pennsylvania election authorities, violates the United

States Constitution. The mail-in ballots are critical because 2.65 million were cast, out of a total of 6.75 million ballots in the state, according to the Trump campaign’s filing.

Registered Democrats requested a majority of the mail-in ballots. _More coverage:_ John Ibbitson: Trudeau’s fast congratulations to Biden could represent hope for restoring shaken relations

with U.S. Andrew Coyne: There is no limit to what Trump might do, and we have to stop pretending there is _Got a news tip that you’d like us to look into? E-mail us at

[email protected]__ Need to share documents securely? Reach out via __SecureDrop_ ------------------------- ALSO ON OUR RADAR PEEL SCHOOL BOARD CHANGING SPECIALTY PROGRAM CRITERIA TO

INCREASE ACCESS FOR BLACK, INDIGENOUS STUDENTS: Faced with continuing criticism of its failure to address issues of equity and systemic anti-Black racism in its schools, the Peel District

School Board will automatically accept Black and Indigenous students into specialty programs as long as they meet the admission criteria. AIRLINE INDUSTRY FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN BAILOUT

TALKS WITH OTTAWA: As financial aid negotiations begin this week between Canada’s airline industry and the federal government, Ottawa is making it clear that one of the industry’s requests

is completely off the table – cuts in passenger fees collected for airports and Nav Canada. OTTAWA URGED TO SET UP HOTLINE FOR REPORTING CHINESE STATE-SPONSORED HARASSMENT: Chinese Canadian

groups are calling on the federal government to set up a national hotline where they can report intimidation or harassment by agents of the Chinese government. This follows a Globe and Mail

story earlier this week that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is warning that undercover Chinese state security officials and “trusted agents” are targeting critics of Xi Jinping

in Canada. SPEAKERS' AGENCY PURGED SOME RECORDS OF TRUDEAU FAMILY EVENTS: Some of the documents requested in Parliament’s probe of the WE Charity controversy were purged as part of the

“normal course of business” and well before the issue was making headlines, according to the speaking agency that represents members of the Trudeau family. ------------------------- MORNING

MARKETS WORLD STOCKS GAIN AS VACCINE-INSPIRED ROTATION CONTINUES: Global stocks gained on Wednesday as hopes for a working COVID-19 vaccine outweighed worries over surging infections. Just

before 6 a.m. ET, Britain’s FTSE 100 was up 0.58 per cent. Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 rose 0.48 per cent and 0.57 per cent, respectively. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei closed up 1.78 per

cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slid 0.28 per cent. New York futures were higher. The Canadian dollar was trading at 76.71 US cents. ------------------------- WHAT EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT

Editorial Board: “By the end of March, as the virus was ramping up in Ontario and Quebec, new cases in B.C. had already peaked, and at a low level. In late May, B.C. had fewer than 10 cases

a day. Quebec at the time was recording 540 a day and Ontario 340. B.C. Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry was lionized. The economy reopened. In June, some children were back in school.

That first-round victory forged a sense of exceptionalism. But the confidence has shattered." David Rosenberg: “So here’s the deal. If the transition is a smooth one and the Pfizer

news has validity, there is no reason why the economy doesn’t then start to turn normal again. Or as close as possible. ... But if the markets have jumped the gun this week, the value trade

will quickly morph into a value trap. Which is why some continued diversification in the ‘stay-at-home’ theme – including U.S. Treasuries and gold – is prudent, even if you buy into this

latest hope-based market move.” ------------------------- TODAY’S EDITORIAL CARTOON ------------------------- LIVING BETTER President-elect Joe Biden’s climate plan includes a plan to cancel

the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a pledge to rejoin the Paris agreement, a carbon tariff, and ambitions to boost clean-tech through stimulus measures and regulatory changes. What

will a Biden presidency mean for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate agenda? Adam Radwanski and climate policy adviser Sarah Petrevan will take your questions this Thursday at 1:30 p.m.

ET on Facebook. ------------------------- MOMENT IN TIME: NOV. 11, 1918 A CANADIAN SOLDIER IS FATALLY SHOT TWO MINUTES BEFORE ARMISTICE On this day in 1918, the Great War had been raging for

more than four years and artillery, small arms, poison gas or illness had killed more than 20 million combatants and civilians. Then at 10:58 a.m., just two minutes before the Armistice of

Compiègne came into force, effectively ending the conflict, a sniper’s bullet took one final life in the Belgian village of Ville-sur-Haine. The last soldier of the British Empire to die in

battle during the First World War, as we now call it, was 25-year-old Private George Lawrence Price of Falmouth, N.S. Pvt. Price had enlisted 13 months earlier and served with the 28th

Battalion of the Canadian Infantry’s Saskatchewan Regiment. Arthur Goodmurphy, who fought alongside Pvt. Price, once told the CBC he was present when the fatal shot was fired. “We never even

thought about the war being over then, you know,” he said. “Poor old Price. He never even knew that it was over.” In 1991, Ville-sur-Haine erected a new footbridge across a canal and named

it the George Price Footbridge in his honour. _Danielle Adams_ _If you’d like to receive this newsletter by e-mail every weekday morning, __go here__ to sign up. If you have any feedback,

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