Montreal restaurants stage symbolic re-opening while waiting for permission to re-open for real
MONTREAL -- Restaurants and bars staged a symbolic re-opening Saturday, seeking to remind patrons and politicians alike of the dining experience after 14 months dominated by COVID-19 shutdowns. The faux re-opening -- no food was served on site -- came after Quebec bar owners called on the government last month to allow them to unlock their doors for patrons who have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. "The goal is to make the government aware that eventually we will die if we continue to close," Pierre Leveque, owner of Chez Leveque in Outremont, said of the staged reopenin...
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