Category Archives: Ontario/Quebec
Quebec hospital plan could see ‘harm-reduction’ approach taken to COVID-19
MONTREAL — The latest surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations is showing signs of subsiding, Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said Tuesday, shortly before officials outlined a contingency plan to keep overwhelmed hospitals operating. That plan could se...
Quebec looks abroad to solve nursing shortage, but experts say it’s not a quick fix
MONTREAL — From her Spanish-language Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok accounts, Colombian-born nurse Johana Botero makes her pitch to other South American health workers to come join her in Quebec. Some 10 years after arriving in Canada and well...
Facing staff shortages, Quebec asks public sector workers to help in health system
MONTREAL — A major union representing public sector workers says it's open to temporarily transferring members to help out in the overburdened health system, but it says it wasn't given enough notice and is facing labour shortages of its own. The
Students to return to in-person learning in Quebec, nighttime curfew set to end
MONTREAL — Two major public health measures are set to ease across Quebec today as residents prepare to resume life without a nighttime curfew and send their children back to classes held in-person. The provincewide curfew requiring residents to stay h...
Ontario reports 3,595 hospitalized with COVID-19, 579 in intensive care
TORONTO — Ontario is reporting 3,595 patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, including 579 in intensive care units. The new figures represent a decrease from the 3,957 patients in hospital on Saturday, but Health Minister Christine Elliott n...
Quebec reports 96 more deaths from COVID-19 as hospitalizations rise, ICU stabilizes
MONTREAL — Quebec hospitals continued to struggle under the burden of rising numbers of COVID-19 patients on Saturday, as the number of deaths reported in the previous 24 hours skyrocketed by 96. Health officials said the number of people hospitalized ...
High-profile cabinet minister Rod Phillips to resign seat, won’t seek re-election
High-profile Ontario cabinet minister Rod Phillips announced Friday that he is resigning at the end of next month and won't be seeking re-election. The long-term care minister said the timing of his announcement will allow Premier Doug Ford to appoint ...
Ontario drivers, instructors concerned about lack of information on changes to G test
TORONTO — Muneeb Khatana has been waiting to take his final driving test for so long, he no longer knows what he's getting into. When the person administering his test climbs into the Toronto resident's car next month, he said,
Ontario tries to fight court ruling striking down new teachers’ mandatory math test
TORONTO — The Ontario government is trying to fight a court ruling that found its mandatory math test for new teachers is unconstitutional. Ontario's Divisional Court last month struck down the math proficiency test as infringing equality provisions in...
Quebec doctors anxious, tired as number of COVID-19 patients continues to rise
MONTREAL — While Quebec Premier François Legault says he's hopeful about the COVID-19 situation in the province, doctors at Montreal-area hospitals are preparing for the number of patients in their care with the disease to keep rising. Dr. Joseph Dahin...