Winnipeg Lab

• Feds drop quest to have court stop release of documents on scientists’ firing

  The government applied to the Federal Court in June to prevent release of the documents, which it maintained would be injurious to international relations or national security.

  Canada

  Aug 17
• Want emails? Wait five years, Public Health Agency of Canada tells access requestor

  The Access to Information request was prompted by curiosity about Iain Stewart's refusal to provide a committee with unredacted documents about the firing of two scientists.

  Canada

  Jul 28
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• Ottawa asks court to prohibit release of documents related to fired scientists

  Court records say PHAC head Iain Stewart advised the attorney general Sunday that the documents should not be given to the Canada-China relations committee.

  Canada

  Jun 23
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• House of Commons issues first formal rebuke to non-MP in nearly 110 years over Winnipeg lab docs

  The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada became the first non-MP in more than 100 years to be summoned to the bar of the House of Commons for a rare formal reprimand

  Canada

  Jun 21
• The House of Commons is about to use a power it hasn’t invoked on non-MPs in more than a century

  The Conservative motion to find the Public Health Agency of Canada in contempt of Parliament also invoked a rarely used power to reprimand a private citizen.

  Canada

  Jun 17
• Coronavirus: Two employees at National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg test positive for COVID-19

  Two employees at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg are in self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.

  Apr 9, 2020