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Article content Launching this week, the year-long study will be led by researchers from the Université de Montréal and the Association for Canadian Studies, and will involve several local community groups. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or What made Montreal North a COVID hot spot? A new study looks for answers Back to video For Simona Bignami, a demographer and associate professor at the university, it will be a chance to grasp the full exten...

  MONTREAL -- Montreal North was more severely affected by COVID-19 than any other neighbourhood in the city, and is one of the hardest-hit communities in the country — and a new research study is trying to figure out why. Led by the Association of Canadian Studies and the Université de Montréal (U de M), the study will survey 4,000 Montreal North residents and 4,000 residents from other Montreal boroughs over the course of a year. Researchers hope to determine how community-level char...

Article content Since April 1, schools and non-essential businesses have remained closed in three Quebec regions where the more contagious variants have driven the third wave: Capitale-Nationale, Chaudière-Appalaches and Outaouais. On April 12, Montreal high school seniors returned to hybrid learning as the provincial government reimposed the 8 p.m. curfew in much of Quebec, and ramped up COVID-19 vaccinations. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or A...

At inaugural public meeting, Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls for working class action to stop the third COVID-19 wave The Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (CERSC) held its first public meeting on Sunday to discuss a working class-led strategy to stop the third wave of the pandemic. The meeting featured an international panel of speakers, who explained the committee’s demands for the closure of schools and nonessential production, and the provis...

Canada’s schools are not “safe!” Build rank-and-file committees to shut down all in-person classes and save lives! organized Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee. We have formed the Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee to fight for the immediate closure of all schools across the country. Such action is urgently required to protect the lives of school staff, students and their families from the raging COVID-19 pandemic. Even the federal government’...

Biden falsely downplays dangers of COVID-19 in schools Speaking at a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden made a series of patently false statements about the threat posed by COVID-19 to children and their parents. Biden’s false claims were aimed at convincing educators, students and parents to resume in-person learning, even though schools are major vectors for the spread of COVID-19. In a chilling exchange with a second grade student rightly concerned that she...

Montreal COVID-19 school cases now rising nearly 1.5 times faster than last fall Elementary school students returned to class on Jan. 11 and those in high school on Jan. 18. During this period, a little over five weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases reached 3,989 as of Monday. Author of the article: Aaron Derfel  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021  •  February 17, 2021  •  4 minute read  •  The EMSB showed off newly installed air purifiers at Pierre Elliot...

10,000 lives lost: A closer look at the people behind Quebecs staggering pandemic death toll Benjamin Shingler, Jonathan Montpetit A selfless long-term care worker. A teenager. A young father. Thousands upon thousands of wives, husbands, grandparents, lovers, partners, friends. On Sunday, Quebec recorded 32 more deaths from COVID-19, making it the first province to cross the grim threshold of 10,000 deaths from the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Its a staggering number...

Newfoundland and Labrador officials concerned about St. Johns case spike. Quebec passes 10,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Read more: The federal governments minister in charge of procurement of vaccines says supply delays are largely behind us; data so far on suicides during the pandemic affirms that it is a complex phenomenon. People pick flowers ahead of Lunar new year at a flower market in Taipei, Taiwan, (Ann Wang/Reuters) Ontario begins allowing more businesses to reopen ...

What the science really says: Closing schools is vital to containing COVID-19 As over 10,000 Chicago teachers and staff are engaged in a struggle to oppose the city’s effort to reopen public schools, the entire US media is waging a campaign to pressure educators to resume in-person schooling. Every major national newspaper in the US, regardless of its political affiliation, has over the past week published statements falsely claiming that schools are safe to reopen. These reports incorrectly ...