Global National: Dec. 22

After days of delays, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a watered-down resolution on Friday, calling for an immediate speed-up of the flow of humanitarian aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza. Also, there’s been plenty of reaction to a Global News investigation into COVID-19 rapid tests procured by the Canadian government during the height of the pandemic. The kits in the lime-green box became ubiquitous all over the country, but after digging into this story for over a year, our journalists found evidence that the test’s supplier, Toronto-based BTNX, gave Health Canada incomplete data about the test’s accuracy. And while the federal government has released its timeline for driving toward a future with zero-emission vehicles, there are unanswered questions about how a larger number of electric vehicles on the road can be charged up.