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  OTTAWA -- If you’re holding on to an Air Canada voucher because of a flight cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you may be one step closer to getting a refund. But the prospects of a refund are still up in the air. Unifor president Jerry Dias says Air Canada has agreed to refund passengers for cancelled or delayed flights during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for a federal government bailout.   Unifor also represents airline workers. "The airline industry today is in very, very bad shape," Dias told CTV’s Newschannel Thursday, "The federal government was talking about o...

Quebec could see amounts of new daily cases of COVID-19 that dwarf previous records due to the spread of highly-contagious variants of the virus, experts warn.

  MONTREAL -- Epidemiologists have gotten to work predicting the future if highly contagious COVID-19 variants spread through Quebec, and their findings are alarming – especially combined with news that variant cases do continue to climb. As of Tuesday there are 86 people probably infected with COVID-19 variants in the province, with their viral samples being sequenced to identify the variants, said Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé. Nonetheless, the province is easing some restrictions and says it has variant surveillance under control. Quebec has come up with its own new modeli...

“If a variant is more transmissible, it has an advantage and there’s a good chance it will take over the other strains,” says the INSPQ’s Marc Brisson.

The latest developments on the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada (all times eastern): 11:15 a.m. New COVID-19 modelling in Quebec suggests a more contagious