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.
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.
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.
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.
Although COVID-19 cases are climbing to astronomical new heights, the death rate in Canada is not rising at the same rate, something experts explain is due to a combination of younger patients, public health measures and the lessons doctors have learned from a year of battling the virus.
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.
Canada has been seeing its highest COVID-19 numbers since January this past week, in what experts suggest is due to a combination of the spreading of variants, provinces reopening too early, and hospitals that are still recovering from the second wave.
The country's chief public health officer says given COVID-19 variants are no longer unique to specific countries and are spreading quickly across the globe, Canada is sticking by its universal approach to travel restrictions.
An increasing number of doctors and scientists believe COVID-19 is primarily spread through the air and that public health measures need adjusting to reflect the new evidence.
