COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know this weekend
CBC
Note: Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccines administered on weekends and public holidays.
Scheduling staff at Montreal's Jean-Talon hospital say they're concerned that delaying the deadline for mandatory vaccination of health-care workers to Nov. 15 has only pushed the problem down the road.
The chief of services for the CIUSSS du Nord-De-L'île-De-Montréal says he's still short about 15 nurses this weekend and ensuring the hospital has the staff it needs to care for patients and offer services has been a constant juggling act throughout the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the province's largest nurse's union, the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), says more than 30-thousand of its members in a dozen regions are refusing to work mandatory overtime until Monday.
The union says it sent formal notices to local and provincial health authorities informing them of this weekend's plans and giving them a Nov. 15 deadline to eliminate the practice or face action from the FIQ.
On Friday, Health Minister Christian Dubé he and the Health Ministry are working on several new measures to improve working conditions throughout Quebec's health network that should be announced next week.
After offering new bonuses to nurses in September, Dubé says the province is looking at alternatives to mandatory overtime and planning to offer scheduling priority to public employees — all part of an additional effort to attract new workers, encourage former nurses to come out of retirement and convince part-time staff to move to full-time work.
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When Piper sends her son to school every morning, she calls out a similar refrain: "I love you, try your best, I'll be here to pick you up when school is done," hoping he will be safe and supported.
A downtown Edmonton business advocacy group is worried about how a series of planned bridge closures due to construction could impact the city.
Vancouver resident Tara Garofano says she made a dinner reservation on Valentine's Day — not for romance, but to take advantage of the final hours of the federal government's temporary Goods and Services Tax (GST) holiday.
Students at McMaster University in Hamilton are questioning the institution's commitment to the prevention of sexual violence after staffing changes at the office responsible for that work on campus.
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Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Services (FWES) is looking into reports of two young cougars that were spotted alone near Canmore this week.
All crew members of the MSC Baltic III have been rescued after their vessel ran aground close to the Lark Harbour shoreline off Newfoundland and Labrador's west coast.
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