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.
On Thursday, Quebec passed a law that makes it illegal to protest within 50 metres of schools, daycares, hospitals, medical clinics, mobile clinics, COVID-19 vaccination sites and testing centres.
Law 105 was fast-tracked and adopted several hours after being tabled by Quebec Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault.
The law is a direct response to several anti-vaccine protests that have taken place outside primary and secondary schools in Montreal in recent weeks. Other such protests have been held outside hospitals.
"We're taking action to protect our children, protect our nurses [and] protect our patients," Premier François Legault said on Thursday morning.
The Quebec government unveiled its plan to help curb staffing shortages in health care today, offering bonuses to full-time nurses and nurses willing to make the jump to full-time work, as well as to nurses who would come back to the public system.
Bonuses of $15,000 will go to full-time nurses and part-time nurses in the public system who are willing to work full-time, and nurses who have quit will get $12,000 if they come back, Premier François Legault announced Thursday afternoon.
The Rachel Notley government's consumer carbon tax wound up becoming a weapon the UCP wielded to drum the Alberta NDP out of office. But that levy-and-repayment program, and the wide-ranging "climate leadership plan" around it, also stood as the NDP's boldest, provincial-reputation-altering move in their single-term tenure.