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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 extent of transmission in the neighbourhood and dig into what caused such a severe spread in the communit...

  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 characteristics, in combination with individual behaviours, affect COVID-19 infection rates. The aim is...

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 Analysis: Despite lockdowns, COVID cases are rising in Quebec schools Back to video Nearly three wee...

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 provision of full wages to all workers and families so they can shelter at home, to an attentive online au...

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’s own chief medical officer acknowledges that a third wave of the pandemic is rapidly developing, fu...