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Article content In an effort to help them be ready to reopen once allowed, Montreal is giving $4 million in financial aid to bars and restaurants around the city’s downtown core. The money could be used for restaurants looking to add a terrasse in time for summer, to help with costs tied to respecting public health measures or to improve their online services. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Montreal bars and restaurants to receive $4M from ci...

A new independent ombudsman, lawyer Marie Christine Kirouack, will oversee any complaints against members of the church. Author of the article: Jesse Feith  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: May 05, 2021  •  9 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  The previous process "just didn’t work. Whatever was happening was not sufficiently tight and there were no controls,” says Pepita G. Capriolo, retired Quebec Superior Court judge, who wrote a report on the handling of complai...

Article content Lynne McVey, executive director of the West Island CIUSSS, said the health authority has been working on finding ways of vaccinating the most people possible while using the smallest number of personnel. The drive-thru site is in line with that idea, she said, and the CIUSSS will share what it learns from the site with other health boards to help them develop their own. Dubé said discussions about other potential drive-thru vaccination sites have already started and could be an...

Article content A planned protest against public health measures has forced authorities to reschedule dozens of COVID-19 vaccination appointments at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday. In an interview Friday on the TVA news network, Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé denounced the protest and said the decision was taken to avoid any possible confrontations. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Vaccinations at Big O Saturday rescheduled to avoid anti...

Article content Quebec will gradually open up COVID-19 vaccination registration to the rest of the adult population starting Friday, and all adults will be eligible to book an appointment within the next two weeks. The last phase of Quebec’s vaccination campaign, detailed on Thursday, will start with registration opening for people in their 50s before quickly moving through age groups until mid-May. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Quebec to gr...

Article content In the Quebec City region, one of the province’s hardest-hit areas during the pandemic’s third wave, all residents in long-term care centres have now received their second COVID-19 vaccine dose. In Montreal, that number is hovering around 20 per cent, but authorities are confident it will climb over the next 10 days until each resident is fully vaccinated. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Quebec on track to give second dose to...

Article content A woman whose husband died after contracting COVID-19 in a long-term care centre last spring still questions exactly what caused his death and whether it could have been avoided, a coroner’s inquest heard on Thursday. The public coroner’s inquest into the impact the pandemic had on Quebec’s long-term care centres and seniors’ residences concluded its hearings on Longueuil’s CHSLD René-Lévesque Thursday. We apologize, but this video has failed to lo...

Article content A police detective asked to investigate what happened at a Longueuil long-term care centre, where dozens of residents died during the pandemic’s first wave, says there were several missteps that led to the virus spreading among residents. But Longueuil police Det.-Sgt. Richard Parenteau doesn’t believe those responsible for the centre are to blame for what went wrong, recalling the confusion that reigned during the early stages of the pandemic. We apologize, but this video h...

Symptoms include intense abdominal pains, persistent fever, rash and red eyes. Author of the article: Jesse Feith  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Apr 15, 2021  •  3 hours ago  •  4 minute read  •  Stephanie Peillon with her daughter Rebecca Marchand outside the Montreal Childrens Hospital in Montreal. Rebecca has been hospitalized for weeks with what doctors believe could be Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare, post-COVID-19 syndrome in ch...

Article content A private seniors’ residence in Lévis was already dealing with high personnel turnover before the pandemic began, but once the first COVID-19 cases were suspected, staff left in droves. According to Micheline Beaupré, who worked in administration at Manoir Liverpool at the time, a widespread panic immediately set in once it was announced three residents were being tested for the disease. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or When s...