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Back at the podium: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Nov. 24, 2020, has restarted his near-daily press briefings as Canada is in the grips of beating back the second wave of the pandemic, which could bring an average of 10,000 new infections a day by December.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

November 27, 2020

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resumption of the near-daily briefings that were a feature of the pandemic’s first wave symbolically telegraphs the severity of the situation, say political communication experts, even as they say the government needs to flex its cre...

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