A mother with two children at home, offering to work on evenings and weekends. A senior citizen, hoping to correct misinformation about COVID-19. A newly retired nurse, calling up her hospital and offering to come back.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault asked people returning from abroad to self-isolate for 14 days and cancelled large indoor gatherings on Thursday, March 12, 2020, as he called on the population to join the fight against the spread of COVID-19.

Minutes after scaling the snowy wooden staircase that leads into the Alfred-Kelly nature reserve, the air grows fresh and still as the sounds of the city give way to those of chirping birds. The trail is lined with birch and maple trees, as snowshoers and hikers wind their way up the path that soon turns down again, towards snowed-covered Lake Paradis.

Manitoba's premier would be better off spending money on French-language services or retaining NHL players than trying to woo Quebec civil servants to the Prairies, Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Thursday, November 28, 2019, as he shot back at his counterpart's latest criticism of his province's secularism law.