COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Friday
CBC
Note: Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccine doses administered over the weekend.
Four weeks remain before health-care workers who are not adequately vaccinated are subject to suspensions without pay, which could lead to hospitals and clinics being even more shorthanded.
The public sector is missing about 4,000 nurses, according to Premier François Legault.
In recent weeks, the shortage has led to to a number of emergency rooms limiting their hours or even closing their doors in hospitals across the province.
On Thursday, Christian Dubé said there would be no extra shutdowns of ERs or hospital service interruptions after Oct. 15 — the deadline for health-care workers to be adequately vaccinated.
"I promise that people won't have [to deal with] service interruptions," Dubé said. "But we will have to reorganize [things] because mandatory vaccination in the health-care sector, I won't budge on that."
Hospitals have also been dealing with an increase in coronavirus patients. The number of people in hospital due to COVID-19 is the highest it's been since June 9.
More than five dozen items belonging to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis are one step closer to returning home.
Wild boars have been declared "a pest in all circumstances" by the Alberta government effective Dec. 1, meaning new restrictions have been placed on keeping them in captivity and hunting them in the wild.
Health Canada has issued a public advisory after a convenience store in Toronto sold fake erectile dysfunction drugs to customers.
More details are now available about how a farmer's field in south London will be transformed to shelter up to 60 homeless people starting in January.
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after an officer involved shooting at Danforth Go station early Saturday morning, said Toronto police.
Thousands are without power across Newfoundland this morning due to severe weather conditions, including high winds and cold temperatures.
The federal government says roughly half of the workers expected to be laid off at Algoma Steel will be eligible to be rehired by the end of next year.
Almost a year and a half after pieces of the Mont-Blanc were discovered during dredging in Halifax harbour, plans are taking shape for what to do with some of the wreckage from the famed ship involved in the Halifax Explosion.
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after an officer involved shooting at Danforth Go station early Saturday morning, said Toronto police.
Montreal officials will hold a ceremony to mark the 36th anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre today.
The City of Regina's proposal to build a roadway through the McKell Wascana Conservation Park should be discarded, local conservationists say.
A holiday event that began in 2020 during the pandemic with three floats on pickup trucks has now become one of Kelowna’s big winter events, drawing thousands to the city’s downtown core.
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