A fifth COVID-19 variant has been reported in Quebec. The health department in the Mauricie-et-Centre-du-Quebec region reported Wednesday that the B.1.617 variant, first sequenced in India, has been reported.
According to a survey conducted for the CSQ-affiliated Federation du personnel de soutien scolaire (FPSS-CSQ), 26.8 per cent of the 1,402 support staff who responded to the consultation said they had noticed an increase in violence since the start of the pandemic.
The Montreal police (SPVM) department is asking for the public's help in identifying and locating a suspect in connection with two armed assaults at La Fontaine Park in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough at the end of March.
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube praised the success of the province's vaccination campaign on Thursday reporing on Twitter that Wednesday was "another record-breaking day", with some 85,000 doses of vaccine administered.
While waiting to introduce the much-anticipated Bill 101 reform bill, the Francois Legault CAQ government is releasing $17 million in short-term support for eight projects to promote French.
A year into the pandemic, a new mental health report by Morneau Shepell says that isolation is taking its greatest toll yet on Canadians.
A Montreal veterinarian has been disciplined after removing 19 teeth from a Yorkshire terrier without the consent of its owner.
Two teenage boys, age 14 and 16, were arrested Wednesday in connection with gunshots fired near the Town of Mount Royal. Provincial police found the boys driving down Highway 40 in Anjou.
Longueuil police (SPAL) are asking for the public's assistance in locating 49-year-old Martin Boyer, who is missing.
Before the first COVID-19 case at CHSLD René-Lévesque, staff were told not to 'exaggerate' the risk and to take off their masks -- and then all masks disappeared from the home, an orderly told the coroner's inquest underway.
Josh Anderson proves prophet and hero as the Montreal Canadiens top the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in a crucial late-season game.
Josh Anderson scored twice as the struggling Canadiens survived a late flurry to defeat the Oilers 4-3 on Wednesday night in another physical, playoff-style matchup between the teams.
The English Montreal School Board said Wednesday it can't start hiring teachers who wear religious symbols despite its court victory in a challenge to the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21.
Montreal's transit agency says transit officers followed use-of-force training when they pinned a woman to the ground in a violent incident this weekend. A lawyer has been asked to audit the findings.
The new leader of the Green Party is telling Quebec to scrap a $10-billion pipeline proposed for the Saguenay region. She's hoping opposition to the project will turn some voters green in a potential pandemic election.
Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts has its first full-time Black curator: Eunice Bélidor, age 34. The museum calls her a 'leader' in her field. But for years, Bélidor believed she'd never have a job like this in Canada, she told CTV.
"The vaccine is the way to regain our freedom, but that will only happen when a majority of Quebecers are vaccinated," said Quebec Premier Francois Legault at a Tuesday press conference.
After a nearly 400-day hiatus caused by COVID-19, Cirque du Soleil will relaunch four of its major shows in the coming months.
A Montreal veterinarian has been disciplined after removing 19 teeth from a Yorkshire terrier without the consent of its owner.
Six Montreal restaurants with Asian menus came together to create a special offering for some deserving diners on Monday.
A pregnant Quebec woman is confused that she was refused a COVID-19 vaccine as part of a pilot project, even though the ministry of health says pregnant women "who wish to be vaccinated can be vaccinated at the same time as women of the same age or in their priority group."
Quebec leaders announced last week they had a plan to start vaccinating the most medically vulnerable, but those charged with carrying out the plan say they didn’t get a heads-up, nor is it easily workable.
The McCord Stewart Museum has appointed AFNQL Regional Chief Ghislain Picard as chair of its board of trustees, the first time an Indigenous person has been named to the post.
A 24-year-old Quebec woman is in the ICU with COVID-19 and has a message for young people who think the disease isn't serious -- if you think COVID-19 can't affect you, you're wrong.
With a red-wine beak and brown eyes framed by a soft white profile above a fiery orange neck, a rare and beautiful mandarin duck has been spotted in Laval.
Among those who have defied the curfew since it was reinstated to 8 p.m. are young people, even some minors, on their second, third and even fourth ticket for breaking the rules.
CTVNews.ca has everything you need to know about getting COVID-19 vaccines in Montreal, including locations, how to register, and who is next in line.
It's been a confusing few days for Quebecers, and especially Montrealers, who live with chronic health conditions. After a series of contradictory statements, the province's health ministry clarified Friday what the progression will be.
Quebec could be in for a mini-baby boom it seems, following a period at the beginning of the pandemic when many women put new pregnancies on pause. Doctors now know better how to manage pregnancies in a COVID world, what to expect and how to advise their patients.
Levels of both employment and savings are strong, yet 36 per cent of non-homeowners under the age of 40 have given up on owning a home. And what is worse: 62 per cent of Canadians say that most people will be priced out of the housing market in the next decade, according to the RBC Spring Housing Poll. CTV News' Chief Financial Commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid takes a closer look in her column on CTVNews.ca.
Lost in this current outbreak of vaccine vacillation is the slowly-dawning political realization that the wrong people are being prioritized for the shot, writes Don Martin in his exclusive political column for CTVNews.ca.
Quebec's response to the COVID-19 crisis should serve as am example for all those who will study public health and epidemiology on how not to handle a pandemic, writes Michael Levy.
Since the start of the pandemic, 12 women have been murdered in the context of domestic violence. Of these women, eight lost their lives in the past eight weeks.
The unwritten conclusion of that scathing auditor general's report into how the Public Health Agency botched early pandemic detection in Canada is obvious: Replace Dr. Theresa Tam, writes Don Martin in his exclusive political column for CTVNews.ca.
Many of us are proud of our pandemic projects, all the things we wouldn't normally have been able to do without some extra time on our hands.
A Montreal veterinarian has been disciplined after removing 19 teeth from a Yorkshire terrier without the consent of its owner.
Ginette is preparing to share what she never expected to tell: her husband AJ’s story.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed former cabinet minister and longtime Regina MP Ralph Goodale to serve as Canada’s next high commissioner in the United Kingdom.
The 2021 Women’s World Hockey Championship, scheduled to begin May 6 in Halifax and Truro, N.S., has been cancelled by the Nova Scotia government.
A Vancouver Island man has kept himself busy during the pandemic by designing and building a luxury treehouse.
It's been 40 years since well-known meteorologist David Spence broadcast his first weather forecast from the CTV News Calgary station.
Amanda Stubbs was walking on a U.K. beach when she was forced to run from a huge landslide.
There will be no public celebration as Queen Elizabeth II marks her 95th birthday just days after the funeral for her husband Prince Philip.
U.S. traffic-safety officials are investigating after two men died in a Tesla with no one sitting in the driver's seat.
Justin Trudeau says they are currently working out the details for him to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy.
As India grapples with soaring COVID-19 infection rates, the Canadian government is considering additional measures to prevent further spread of the virus from international travel.
India reported a global record of more than 314,000 new infections Thursday as a grim coronavirus surge in the world's second-most populous country sends more and more sick people into a fragile health care system critically short of hospital beds and oxygen.
The world's fastest pace of spreading infections and the highest daily increase in coronavirus cases are pushing India further into a deepening and deadly health care crisis.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising Canada will slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 per cent within the next decade. The cut applies to 2005 emission levels.
U.S. President Joe Biden will open a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the U.S. pumps out, a commitment he hopes will spur China and other big polluters to speed up efforts of their own.
An emergency parliamentary debate that was supposed to be a forum for cross-party collaboration on better ways to combat the COVID-19 pandemic devolved Wednesday into another round of partisan finger-pointing.
Hospitals in the province are required to halt all non-emergent and non-urgent surgeries immediately as people with COVID-19 continue to fill up hospitals and put the healthcare system under strain amid the third wave.
Fake doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine were being sold in Mexico and Poland for as much as US$2,500 a shot, the drugmaker and an official confirmed.
NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully converted some of the plentiful carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen.
A essential worker from Toronto is expressing frustration after experiencing bus overcrowding during his morning commutes.
With case numbers still relatively low in the Maritimes, some doctors are questioning whether we have the vaccine capacity to give doses to other provinces.
