Fingers crossed for Johnson & Johnson Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here to get it delivered weekday mornings. When are more vaccine doses coming to Canada? That's the question on millions of minds as provinces (hello, Jason Kenney) continue to claim their supplies are running low and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweets reassurances to premiers, including Ontario's Doug Ford, that more is on the way. Patricia Treble crunches the numbers on how many doses have arrived in Canada, how many have been injected into arms so far, and what's coming over the next several months. Conditional good news: Early data on the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine looks promising. Reuters reports the company is targeting March for its own rollout. Canada has secured 38 million doses of the J&J vaccine, should Health Canada regulators give their stamp of approval. A promise to Michael: Two years after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou and China detained Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the frustrating stalemate has no clear end in sight. Meng is fighting an extradition hearing, and the "two Michaels" remain in Chinese prisons. Shannon Proudfoot explored the humanity behind the geopolitics, introducing readers to the tireless efforts of Kovrig's wife, Vina Nadjibulla, to see him set free. “I kind of feel like I am wearing glasses that have a telescope and a microscope,” she says. “It’s hard, but it’s also probably the most profound mission of my life, the one that actually gives me such a sense of . . . ” She pauses here to search for the right word before continuing. “Purpose. I feel like I’m learning things every day.” Nadjibulla comes across as exceptionally deliberate and cautious, weighing each word and thought before dispatching them into a world where inflaming tensions between global superpowers could make her husband’s everyday life even more difficult. “It has been a heart-expanding experience , hands-down. I feel like my heart keeps growing every day,” she says, for one brief moment losing her composure, before returning to her usual meditative mode. An olive branch? CTV News reported that Meng's husband, Liu Xiaozong, and two kids were granted rare travel exemptions to be with her in Vancouver, where the foursome remains today. Meanwhile, the South China Morning Post reported on a Tuesday hearing in which Liu described having "booked out an entire restaurant" for Christmas dinner "in apparent defiance of local pandemic rules, as well as shopping trips and gatherings at a home rented by Huawei employees." A day after Liberal MP Omar Alghabra was promoted to the federal cabinet, the Bloc Québécois mongered some fear about the new transport minister's past. Alghabra once served as president of the Canadian Arab Federation. Three years after he was elected, then-immigration minister Jason Kenney accused the organization of making anti-semitic remarks. Now, the Bloc isn't making any particular claims—but apparently sounding a hypothetical alarm of some sort. "We don’t want to raise any accusations, because I don’t think there’s that much," a party spokesman told the Canadian Press. Okay, then. The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa sent out a note announcing that Katherine Brucker, the Chargé d’Affaires who's top dog during the prolonged absence of an ambassador, signed a new bilateral radio frequency spectrum agreement. The press release says the new deal "modernizes the existing coordination framework" that was last updated on Oct. 24, 1962—right smack-dab in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Telecommunications have evolved somewhat in the interim. Congrats! Dozens of you submitted your best guesses at our significant reader milestone, but only one of you was exactly correct. Antoinette T., from Toronto, gets the honour of writing a one-word sentence for your consideration. Here's your wisdom of the day: "To my fellow readers, remember knowledge is power but actions create change. Stay safe during these uncertain times!" In case you missed it: The U.S. House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump for the second time. A handful of Republicans sided with Democrats, producing 232 votes in favour of impeachment—the same number of electoral votes Trump received last November. Afterwards, and as he faces possible conviction in the U.S. Senate in the months ahead, the president posted perhaps the least vitriolic five-minute video of his presidency. Trump said he'd authorized a massive law enforcement presence in D.C., which helps explain the stunning photos of thousands of troops resting in the halls of the Capitol. —Nick Taylor-Vaisey | 