The Quebec Institute of Public Health (INSPQ) analyzed a number of studies in order to draw up a portrait of the impacts of densification on health. It looked at levels of physical activity and walking, noise and air quality, the risk of injury from vehicles, and social interactions.
Opposition parties in Quebec City are urging the government to react to reports that Glencore is considering closing the Horne smelter if investments to meet air quality targets are too high.
Contamination from pollutants emitted by the Horne smelter could reach areas larger than the expropriation perimeter, according to the group Meres au front, which presented the results of a new study on Friday in Montreal.
Between six and 10 per cent of health-care workers in Quebec have suffered from the long COVID since the start of the pandemic, preliminary data released on Thursday revealed at the first Canadian Symposium on long COVID, in Montreal.
The Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube announced his intention to table regulation that would prohibit the sale of flavoured vaping products (other than tobacco flavour) in the coming weeks.