Variants on the rise as Quebec reaches grim anniversary of COVID-19's arrival Isaac Olson © Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press Quebec Premier François Legault watches a woman get her COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Montreal's Olympic Stadium last week. It's now been more than a year since the very first case of COVID-19 was detected in Montreal on Feb. 27, 2020 — a tiny spark that quickly became a wildfire as March break travellers began returning home with fresh tans and a highly contagious virus. Over the past year, more than 10,300 Quebec residents have died of the ill...