What’s open and closed in Montreal during Christmas, New Year’s holidays | Montreal Gazette

Société des alcools du Québec outlets will close at 5 p.m. Many Montreal arenas, swimming pools, sports centres, libraries and cultural venues will be closed Dec. They will open every day for the rest of the holiday period, with a later opening at 1 p.m. Société de transport de Montréal bus lines will operate on […]

Make proof of vaccination mandatory for on-campus classes: McGill law profs – Montreal Gazette

Last month, Ontario’s Seneca College became the country’s first post-secondary institution to require vaccinations for those on campus this fall. Universities such as McGill “were only concentrating on whether they could be sued for bringing this mandate in, but we wanted to make them aware that they could be sued for not bringing it in,” […]

As COVID-19 cases have dropped, so have Quebecers’ use of tobacco and alcohol: survey

Quebecers have been smoking and drinking a lot less in the past month than during the second peak of the pandemic at the beginning of the year, indicates the latest survey by the province’s public health institute. 9 survey, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec reported that 22 per cent of respondents had […]

Delta variant a concern as Montreal pushes to get younger people vaccinated

Drouin said she suspects the number of outbreaks in the city will continue to drop with the end of the school year. Meanwhile, health officials are continuing their efforts to get as many Montrealers vaccinated as possible. Specifically, Montreal public health hopes to vaccinate another 13,454 people in the 12-17 age group; nearly 25,000 people […]

Can cannabis mitigate the anxiety and pain of lobsters about to be cooked?

Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Maine, gained notoriety for hotboxing a lobster named Roscoe that was later released back into the ocean for his service. Unfortunately for the lobsters, getting baked did little to reduce the misery of being boiled. “Vapor exposure of lobsters… produces dose-dependent THC levels in all tissues […]