COVID-19 variants rising in Quebec as province announces pharmacy vaccination plan
Accompanying people must be at least 60 years old to qualify. They also need to spend at least three days per week with the priority group member.

Accompanying people must be at least 60 years old to qualify. They also need to spend at least three days per week with the priority group member.
Tenants in Quebec have until the end of this month to advise their landlord if they don't want to renew their lease, as the majority of them end on July 1. But the City of Montreal is hoping people will stay put.
Even the tightly controlled system for handling precious COVID-19 vaccines can’t avoid it completely, at the end of the day: wasting some doses.
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Our pharmaceutical industry has deteriorated too much in the last few years to the benefit of other producers. Canada can only follow the others, confirming our international powerlessness in this field.
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A new poll has found that the desire among Canadians to drop the monarchy is at its highest level recorded in the past 12 years.
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Dr. Ronald St. John says people aged 65 and up were not included in the initial vaccine trials.
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