Quebec ready to vaccinate against monkeypox as soon as Friday, with 25 confirmed cases
Quebec says it is ready to vaccinate people who have come into close contact with monkeypox as soon as Friday.

Quebec says it is ready to vaccinate people who have come into close contact with monkeypox as soon as Friday.
The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) announced late Thursday it has hired a legal firm to start a legal action to contest the validity of Bill 96, An Act Respecting French.
Quebec Premier François Legault may not have expected quite this type of fallout from Bill 96, but he found himself hammered by questions on Thursday -- about Quebec independence.
The Montreal police officer at the centre of the wrongful arrest of Mamadi Camara in January 2021 was targeted in a BB gun attack Thursday while on duty doing a speed enforcement blitz.
A federal government chartered plane carrying Ukrainian refugees is expected to arrive in Montreal on Sunday as the community is ready with open arms.
Projet Montreal announced 41 projects to improve the bicycle network on the island — a plan that includes 36 kilometres of bike paths costing $17 million.
Around 500 people led a protest Thursday against Bill 96 — the province's new language reform law that brings sweeping new changes that some say it not reflective of an inclusive Quebec.
Closing arguments began Thursday in a civil lawsuit launched against police from four survivors who claim there wasn't enough security the night of the election-night shooting at Montreal's Metropolis nightclub in 2012.
Kahnawake says it will suspend all political engagement with the Quebec government until the province can provide a "substantive solution" on its controversial overhaul to the French language charter passed earlier this week.
Fourth-grade teacher Irma Garcia was killed in her Texas classroom on Tuesday, massacred along with her co-teacher and 19 students. Two days later, a family member says her brokenhearted husband died.
The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school was inside for more than an hour before he was killed in a shootout, law enforcement authorities said Thursday amid mounting public anger and scrutiny over their response to the rampage.
One man is dead after being shot by police near a Toronto elementary school on Thursday afternoon. The incident sent hundreds of students into lockdown.
The Edmonton Oilers defeated their Alberta rival Calgary Flames 5-4 in overtime in Game 5 of their second-round NHL playoff series Thursday night to advance to the Western Conference final.
A 10-year-old boy in a classroom just down the hallway from the room where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday said the experience of hiding during the shooting was 'terrifying.'
As families and friends mourn those killed in the Texas school shooting, there is growing scrutiny of the police response to the rampage.
Actor Ray Liotta, best known for 'Goodfellas' and 'Field of Dreams,' has died at the age of 67. John Vennavally-Rao reports.