Jacob Serebrin

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Reporter with The Canadian Press

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Maggie Quart Robitaille, front right, who recently died of COVID-19, is pictured with her husband, Pierre Robitaille, front left, and her sister, Percylla Battista, along with her brother-in-law, Mario Battista. Handout photo by Percylla Battista

Quebec still has dozens of daily COVID deaths

While vaccination and improved treatment have made COVID-19 less deadly, Quebec reported Saturday that there have been 15,000 deaths attributed to the pandemic in the province — the most in Canada.

News, Politics | May 2nd 2022

Justin Trudeau, Bruno Johnson, Catherine Pilote, Alexe Vigneault-Pinard, Simon Vervaet,

Trudeau says budget will help Canadians offset interest rate hike

Measures in the recently tabled federal budget will help Canadians weather higher interest rates, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, as he acknowledged there are no easy solutions to the country's housing affordability crisis.

News, Politics | April 14th 2022

A doctor draws out vaccine during a drive-through COVID-19 vaccine clinic at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ont., on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Lars Hagberg

Public has less COVID data just as people are asked to self-manage the disease

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, retired teacher Lois Armstrong said local health officials where she lives in Kingston, Ont., provided daily updates about outbreaks, cases and deaths in the community.

News, Politics | April 12th 2022

Liberal MP for Louis-Hébert Joël Lightbound speaks about COVID-19 restrictions during a news conference, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Ottawa. Photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Some provinces ease restrictions, leaving it up to individuals to assess COVID risk

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec announced on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions.

News, Politics | February 9th 2022

A health-care worker looks out of a window at Maison Herron, a long-term care home in the Montreal suburb of Dorval, on Saturday, April 11, 2020. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Isolating seniors to protect them from COVID can do great harm

News | January 20th 2022

Quebec Premier François Legault responds to a question during a news conference in Montreal, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson

Quebec curfew lifts Monday, but vaccine passport extended to big box retail

Quebec Premier François Legault says the number of daily COVID-19 cases in Quebec appears to have peaked, allowing him to lift the curfew on Monday, January 17, 2022, that he imposed to protect hospitals from a record surge in infections.

News, Politics | January 14th 2022

Quebec's proposed tax on the un-vaxxed could be trial balloon

Quebec's announcement that it would tax unvaccinated residents sparked strong reaction and pushed Canadian premiers to take a position on it, but the province's official Opposition says it's unconvinced the government will go ahead with its threat.

News, Politics | January 13th 2022

People walk by a sign at a restaurant advising customers of Quebec’s COVID-19 vaccine passport in Montreal, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Health experts add heft to call for tighter rules for unvaccinated

As Quebec officials consider tightening the rules for the unvaccinated, health experts in the province say expanding the vaccine passport system is justified because of the high number of COVID-19 patients in hospital who have refused to be jabbed.

News, Politics | January 11th 2022

32-year-old Canadian shot and killed in a "brutal" and "criminal" attack

A journalist working for a Montreal-based online radio station was killed on Thursday, January 7, 2022, near the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as he prepared to interview a member of an armed group about the murder of a police inspector.

State of Journalism

News | January 8th 2022

A Sunwing Airlines jet prepares to take off at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport, on Friday, March 20, 2020. File photo by The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Investigation called for raucous Sunwing party flight to Mexico

Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra has asked Transport Canada to investigate reports of "unacceptable" behaviour on a recent Sunwing Airlines flight from Montreal to Cancun, Mexico.

Coronavirus in Canada

News, Politics | January 5th 2022