Sharon Yonan-Renold

Yousra Andre is nearly one week into a 14-day quarantine after a border agent in Quebec told her she would need to isolate because she had forgotten to submit her vaccination information on ArriveCAN. That’s despite her being fully vaccinated and having proof.

The Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) moved to its current location in downtown Montreal in 2017. According to the hospital’s president, they’ve been working to address the bike path on Viger Avenue ever since.

Organizers say they’re happy to be back this year, and they are monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely. Quebec public health officials have asked people to stay vigilant as case numbers and hospitalizations rise amid the emergence of new, more easily transmissible variants in the province.

Quebecers waiting for a transplant increased by 86 people in 2021, up by more than 10 per cent, according to Transplant Québec.

An Inuk artist has designed, made and donated more than 200 orange shirts to schools in Montreal’s West Island in an effort to start a dialogue and help strengthen Indigenous history education.