Global National: Feb. 15

The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) is warning the entire business model of family medicine is failing, with many physicians resorting to own bank accounts to keep their practices afloat. Why some family doctors are giving up, and what one advocate says needs to be done to fix the worsening problem. Ontario-based BTNX received a significant federal contract to supply COVID-19 rapid tests at the beginning of the pandemic. How BTNX’s supply chains stretched far beyond Canada’s borders, and how other Canadian companies that answered the plea to produce pandemic products are collapsing. A New York judge has set the date for former U.S. president Donald Trump’s first criminal trial regarding alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Jackson Proskow reports from New York on what a conviction could mean for the Republican presidential candidate, and how the impending verdict in a civil fraud case could upend Trump’s business empire. Trump is also doubling down on his threat that if he returns to the White House, he would not protect NATO members from a potential Russian attack unless those allies increase their defence spending. How this could affect countries, like Canada, that don’t meet their military spending targets. And a bear’s eye view: what scientists are hoping to understand by attaching cameras to the collars of polar bears.