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Byline: ERIC ANDREW-GEE, Staff Lead Anthony Gagné loved being a doorman. Between the gleaming twin columns of the Queen Elizabeth hotel, next to Montreal's Gare Centrale train station, he could [...]

Byline: Andrew Jeong Quebec will require people to show proof of coronavirus vaccination when entering government-run stores selling cannabis or alcohol, the region's health minister, Christian Dubé, said Thursday, as [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI, Staff Lead New Year's Eve has long been a big night for TV watching in Quebec. For more than 50 years, the annual Bye Bye sketch-comedy retrospective [...]

Byline: KELLY GRANT, TU THANH HA Lead The Quebec government is floating the idea of asking asymptomatic health care workers to stay on the job if they test positive for [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, Staff Lead Quebec is implementing new capacity restrictions for businesses because of a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant, while Ontario [...]

Recap As of February 28, 2022, bars, casinos and taverns were permitted to reopen with capacity limits. Capacity limits also remained for certain businesses, including restaurants, very large cinemas, performing [...]

As of 5 p.m. December 31, 2021, Québec will impose further restrictions on business and the general public which include the following: closure of restaurant dining rooms; take-out, drive-thru and [...]

The Québec Government has decided to reimpose certain restrictions on business because of the sharp increase in COVID-19 cases associated with the Omicron variant. The restrictions on business include the [...]

Byline: ADRIAN MORROW, Staff POMPANO BEACH, FLA. -- Lead Édine and Michel Rivest were sitting on the veranda of their trailer in the Breezy Hill RV Resort one morning this [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta TORONTO - Amid worrying new outbreaks of covid-19 and pressure from advocates, Montreal this month began vaccinating some of the city's homeless, members of a group that [...]

Byline: TU THANH HA, MARIEKE WALSH Lead Quebec won't begin administering the second shot of the COVID-19 vaccines until mid-March, a move designed to give the initial shot to more [...]

Byline: JACOB SEREBRIN, MICHEL SABA, THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Lead Dozens of Quebec residents are facing fines for violating the province's newly enacted curfew on Sunday as the COVID-19 [...]

Byline: TU THANH HA, LES PERREAUX, ERIC ANDREW-GEE TORONTO, MONTREAL, TORONTO -- Lead As it unveiled more details about its curfew, the Quebec government acknowledged that its latest pandemic measure [...]

Lead The mayor of Washington, D.C., declared an overnight curfew on Wednesday after Donald Trump supporters forced their way into Capitol Hill and spent a few hours looting offices, undermining [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Lead MONTREAL Quebec urged the federal government Tuesday to increase surveillance of returning travellers as the province confirmed its first case of a more [...]

Byline: ROBYN URBACK, Staff Lead The only way to make sense of Quebec's now-defunct plan to allow for a Christmas gathering free-for-all is to think that perhaps it was conceived [...]

Byline: ERIC ANDREW-GEE, Staff MONTREAL -- Lead It was a Sunday night in September and about one million Quebeckers were looking at the Health Minister's forehead. Appearing on Tout le [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC -- Lead The commissioner of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is moving ahead with plans to play a 60-game season, despite delays and obstacles [...]

Byline: STEFANIE MAROTTA, Staff Lead COVID-19 infections in workplaces have been surging for six weeks in Quebec, according to new data from the province's public-health institute, a troubling trend that [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has suspended play in both of its Quebec-based divisions until at least Oct. 28 because of COVID-19. The league [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead Major junior hockey players operate in an environment where the risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus is greater than in the professional leagues, a health [...]

Politicians in Quebec and neighboring Ontario, Canada's two most populous provinces, are blaming a rise in cases on people dropping their guard. MONTREAL -- There has been a veneer of [...]

Byline: ERIC ANDREW-GEE, LAURA STONE Lead Quebec is imposing strict new measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in its biggest cities, ordering bars and restaurants in Montreal and Quebec [...]

Byline: LES PERREAUX, JEFF GRAY MONTREAL, TORONTO -- Lead Quebec has launched into a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and is responding with new restrictions to try once again [...]

Byline: Silken Chan Lead When the borders between provinces started to be restricted in March, I decided to stay put in Quebec, my adopted home. Originally from Ontario, I am [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, NICOLAS VAN PRAET Lead The Quebec government says it will not adopt Ottawa's COVID-19 tracking app for now, arguing the pandemic is currently under control in the [...]

Byline: ANDRÉ PICARD, Staff Lead They call them the 'guardian angels,' the thousands of personal-support workers (PSWs), orderlies, cooks and janitors who have been toiling for months in Quebec's beleaguered [...]

Byline: MORGAN LOWRIE, THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Lead Eager shoppers lined up outside some stores in downtown Montreal on Monday as retailers in the city were allowed to reopen [...]

Lead Respirologist and ICU doctor at Charles-Le Moyne Hospital in Longueuil, Que. Saving lives during the pandemic will be a family business for Antoine Delage. His wife, Dominik Cyr, is [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL -- Lead MONTREAL A mother with two children at home, offering to work on evenings and weekends. A senior citizen, hoping to correct misinformation about [...]

In response to the continued improvement in Québec's COVID-19 numbers, all regions have become 'Green' as of Monday, June 28, 2021 with considerably fewer restrictions on open activities and increased [...]

Quebec has unveiled its staged re-opening plan which aims to see things almost 'back to normal' by the end of the summer. Some of the main points are set out [...]

Restrictions have been further loosened in Côte-Nord, Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine and Nord-du-Québec (now Yellow); Nunavik and Terres-cries-de-la-Baie-James (now Green) and all other regions (now Orange) except Montréal, Laval, Laurentides, Lanaudière and Montérégie [...]

Since our last publication, order-in-council no. 2-2021 made on January 8, 2021, (Order in Council 2-2021) has been published by the Quebec government. This order-in-council, which came into force on [...]

On January 7, 2021, we published a communiqué regarding the new measures in effect to control the community spread of COVID-19 in Québec, which included the implementation of a province-wide [...]

Note: The government order which brings into effect certain new restrictions and extends closures on retail businesses until February 8, 2021 is not yet available. Therefore, what is set out [...]

On January 6, Premier Legault announced that beginning on Saturday, January 9, Quebec would be imposing more restrictive measures to curb the community spread of COVID-19. The new measures were [...]

The epidemiological situation having recently worsened in Quebec at the beginning of 2021, the province's premier announced additional measures yesterday to 'break the second wave' of the pandemic. These measures [...]

On January 6, 2021, the Quebec government announced extended shutdowns and tightened restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including a curfew. The measures will be in effect from January [...]

On December 15, 2020 in Montreal, Premier François Legault, Minister of Health and Social Services Christian Dubé and National Director of Public Health Dr. Horacio Arruda held a press conference [...]