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  MONTREAL -- The reinstatement of a Coalition Avenir Quebec MNA who was expelled from the caucus after being caught violating public health rules sends the wrong message to the public, opposition parties said on Tuesday. Denis Tardif was kicked out of the CAQ caucus in mid-December after video surfaced of him eating in a brewery without respecting social distancing. “I made a big error in judgement,” the Riviere-du-Loup-Temiscouata MNA said in a press release on Monday, in which he as...

Premier Francois Legaults approach to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic is once again under fire by his political rivals, this time for “forgetting” to explain some public health measures during his press conferences.

In its text, the CAQ answered its own question, stating that "according to the majority of the population and most analysts" another team could not have done better. The text caused a lot of reaction, in particular because it was written alongside "the commemoration of the 10,500 deaths," according to the Parti Quebecois (PQ). PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon criticized the CAQs arrogance, given that Quebec has half of the victims of COVID-19 in Canada, while it represents 23 per cent of i...

With 15 races on the Sunday (March 14) card at Rideau Carleton Raceway, driver Guy Gagnon snagged seven—three of which came from his stable and another three of which came from trainer Mandy Archer, who scored a grand slam. Gagnon’s evening began with a wire-to-wire job in the opener to win with his pupil Wild River Coyotee ($4.10) in 2:00.1. Two races later, Gagnon bagged an open-length victory with Windsong Quincy ($2.10)—the first of Mandy Archer’s four winners. Gagnon later drove Sa...

A day after a meeting between the province’s public health director and opposition parties, Quebec Liberal Party Leader Dominique Anglade said Premier Francois Legault was not made aware of the gravity of COVID-19 before March 9.