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Financial aid deadline extended, Schools and daycares receive more funding, Workers split on returning to work, STM to hand out masks to staff

May 8 2020 // Shanellie Marie // News
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Stories: Luca Caruso Moro

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Financial aid deadline extended

Ottawa has extended their wage subsidy program. 

The original deadline was for June 6th, with the Prime Minister saying a new deadline will be revealed in the coming days. 

Quebec's first COVID-19 outbreak in a daycare, Quebec schools reopening, Quebec teenager youngest published author in a prestigious medical journal

May 7 2020 // News
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Hadassah Alencar

 

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COVID-19 outbreak at Mascouche daycare 

Quebec has recorded the first outbreak at a daycare centre.

The daycare in Mascouche was open for essential workers in need of emergency child care services.

Verdun bus testing, Swamped hospitals send patients off-island, Alouettes strong through the pandemic

May 6 2020 // News
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New COVID-19 public transport testing units

City buses in Verdun are being outfitted to do COVID-19 mobile testing.

Half a million COVID cases estimated in Canada, Trudeau bans assault-style guns, Female Genital Mutilation banned in Sudan

May 2 2020 // Shanellie Marie // News
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Stories: Luca Caruso-Moro

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Half a million COVID cases estimated in Canada.

Researchers say COVID-19 cases could be close to half a million in Canada. 

That’s about 14 times higher than reported. 

Travel restrictions lifted, Private seniors home evacuated, Alberta meat-processing plant to reopen

April 30 2020 // News
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Hadassah Alencar

 

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Travel restrictions lifted

Quebec is expected to ease lockdown travel restrictions within the province beginning May 4th. 

The province set up roadblocks in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus. They will be removed in three phases throughout the month of May.

Quebec reopening schools and daycares, Legault's economic plan, wearing your masks

April 29 2020 // News
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Voice Luca Caruso-Moro

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Quebec reopening schools and daycares

Quebec is reopening elementary schools and daycares starting on May 11th.

French exam suspended during pandemic, New symptoms for COVID appear, Help for seniors home

April 25 2020 // Shanellie Marie // News
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French exam suspended during pandemic

Quebec will allow nurses and doctors to work in the province even if they don’t speak French. 

Jewish Hospital backtracks, Quebec requests military help, STM hand sanitizers

April 23 2020 // News
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Anchor: Hadassah Alencar 

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Jewish Hospital backtracks on banning spouses during labour

The Jewish General hospital will again allow partners to attend births with their loved one. 

COVID-19 High financial cost, Canadian Rangers to help remote communities, Fines for the homeless called discriminatory

April 16 2020 // News
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Hadassah Alencar

 

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COVID-19 High financial cost for Montreal

Montreal is facing an unprecedented economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The chairman of Montreal’s executive committee Benoit Dorais (ben-noire Door-ay) said they didn’t know how much the crisis has cost the city so far, or how much it will cost.

MTL Business, Property price drop, Legault asks for help from public

April 16 2020 // News
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Montreal “Relaunch Program”

“What we need absolutely to do, is to save the largest number of businesses possible”

Canada was slow to action to COVID-19, Phone companies launch corona-tracking project, Canada joins UN calls for ceasefire

April 11 2020 // Shanellie marie // News
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Canada was slow to action on COVID-19

Briefing notes sourced by CBC News show that the government was slow to act on COVID-19 as the first cases began to spread in Canada. 

COVID-19 Update, 4M applications for financial aid, Nurses overwhelmed at Laval long-term care home

April 9 2020 // News
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Anchor Hadassah Alencar

 

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COVID-19 Update

As of Wednesday morning, confirmed COVID- 19 cases in Montreal have reached almost 4 thousand five hundred. An increase of 430 cases from the previous day.

British Columbia is showing early signs of  “flattening the curve.” Provincial officials are hopeful the trend will continue.

COVID-19 Update, Wu-Tang Clan Chips in for Food Bank

April 3 2020 // Shanellie Marie // News
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COVID Update

“If they want cash, we’ll pay cash.”

 

COVID-19 Updates, April Rent, Extended COVID-19 response

April 2 2020 // News
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Anchor: Hadassah Alencar 

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COVID-19 Updates

Mayor Valérie Plante is warning Montrealers that parks will close if social distancing rules are not respected. 

COVID-19 Update, -N.D.G. Mayor Sue Montgomery Charged with Ethics Violation, Northwest Territories and Indigenous Services Canada Deal

April 1 2020 // News
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Anchor Luca Caruso-Moro

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COVID-19 Update

Ottawa will spend $2 billion dollars on protective personal equipment to cope with the health crisis.

The critical medical supplies will be made in Canada. 

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