COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Wednesday
CBC
Note: Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccine doses administered over the weekend.
The Quebec government has launched a project to get construction workers vaccinated in its latest push to curb outbreaks of COVID-19 at job sites.
Mobile vaccination units will be deployed to construction sites across Quebec to give workers the opportunity to get a shot on the job.
The group representing Quebec general contractors, the Corporation des entrepreneurs généraux du Québec (CEGQ), is partnering with the Health Ministry to make it happen.
The group doesn't know how many construction workers are unvaccinated, but the province says construction sites are linked to a high number of outbreaks — about 1,200 since the start of the pandemic. About 4,000 workers have been infected, according to CEGQ president Éric Côté.
"The average age of the workers is around 40, so we know that's the group of vaccinated people that's under the average," he said. "If you make [vaccines] available for them, they will show up, and they are showing up."
Health Minister Christian Dubé says paramedics will soon be given the power to provide urgent and primary care inside hospitals, long term care homes and clinics, as part of the ongoing effort to ease staffing shortages in the province's health care system.
A claim by New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt that petroleum refiners will be paying the $1 million per week cost of a gasoline price cut that her government orchestrated last weekend does not appear to be unfolding that way.
Sonia Bélanger, junior health minister and the minister responsible for senior and social services, is expected to be sworn in as early as Friday as Quebec's new health minister, according to sources at Radio-Canada.
A growing number of Manitoba's MRI machines now use artificial intelligence, with a plan to have more than half using the technology by spring.
A mobile unit the Saskatchewan government bought in 2002 for providing mammograms to Saskatchewan women will soon retire.
The Prince Edward Island government is rolling out the province’s first-ever policing standards, which officials say will make police services more consistent, transparent and better supported.
Residents in Niagara Falls, Ont., continue to wait for news on the future of Marineland’s property and dozens of animals, including up to 30 belugas and four dolphins — nearly two months after the federal government turned down the theme park's request to export the mammals.
Canadian travellers hoping for a new year without having to worry about a labour dispute may be out of luck, as 2026 will see most major airlines from this country facing off with unions across the bargaining table.
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Water in two more schools in the N.W.T. show lead levels above Health Canada's guidelines for drinking water, according to the territorial government.
Ontario's ethics watchdog says it will investigate whether the province's labour minister contravened any laws in his handling of a controversial training fund.